Within Naruto's Soul


Naruto stood across from Sakura, taking in everything she said to him. "So we have to get to my memories so we can find out what happened the night of my birth," Naruto asked her as she nodded.

"That's right, and we need to find out what that Uchiha that attacked the village looks like," Sakura said as Naruto narrowed his eyes.

"Alright then," Naruto said as he walked out of the cave and into the forest with Sakura following behind him, where rain was falling around them.

"So why do you push me away," Sakura asked him as Naruto looked at her.

"What makes you say that," He asked her as they walked past trees.

"When we were going to save Hokage-sama, I was pulled into here, and I spoke with your sword and the Kyūbi and found out some things," Sakura said as they walked past trees that looked ready to bloom flowers.

But the rain was not letting them.

"And they are," Naruto asked as they reached a massive lake with what looked like screens floating below the water's surface.

"That I'm your soul mate," Sakura said as Naruto stopped walking and turned to her.

"What? That's not possible?" Naruto muttered as Sakura put a hand on her hip.

"And why is that," She asked him.

"Because if that is true then the fates are being nice, and they are hardly nice, let along to people like me," Naruto told the pink-haired girl, who looked confused.

"What's that suppose to mean," Sakura asked him.

"He means me," a woman's voice said behind them. Sakura turned around to see a young girl dressed in a silver parka, silver camo pants, and combat boots. She had an olive skin tone, long crimson hair, and violet eyes.

"Who are you," Sakura asked as she reached for a weapon.

But found that she had none.

"She is my mother, Artemis, Goddess of wild, wilderness, forests, the hunt, the moon, maiden girls, and child birth," Naruto said as Sakura looked between mother and son.

"Oh, this is going to be good," Artemis said with a smile as Sakura looked like her head would pop.

"But why are you? How come? Why did you?" Sakura asked but could not get the words out.

"But why am I here? How come I did not raise my son? Why did I say away?" Artemis asked the girl, who nodded while Naruto walked over to the lake and started to look through his memories.

"Yes," Sakura asked with a nod.

"The reason I am here is to speak with my son to arrange our yearly hunts. No god or goddess can raise their child, no matter if they have only one," Artemis told Sakura, who looked shocked. "And who said I stayed away from my son? " she said with a cheeky smile.

"Oh," Sakura said as she looked away.

"But what I want to know is if what you said about being my son's soul mate is the truth," Artemis said, her violet eyes cold as she looked into Sakura's soul.

Artemis moved her hand out, and just as it was going to touch Sakura, she flicked her fingers; a tiny red string formed around the pink-haired girl, and when the goddess followed the string, it reached her son.

"So it seems that you were telling the truth," Artemis said to Sakura, who nodded.

"But why does Nartuo push me away if we're soul mates?" Sakura asked the goddess, who looked at the girl with a sad smile.

"Naruto has things that could make Konoha ten to one hundred times stronger when he has children, and when the council find out that only he can bring them, they are going to be forced just to impregnate women so that Konoha as a clan within it's walls that can do everything that Naruto can do," Artemis said as she looked at her son sadly, "They will have his power to change from human to any animal in the wild, all animals will like them, even if they do not show it, no animal will try to hurt him, put a bow in his hand, and he will hit targets with perfect accuracy, bring back two of every animal he hunts so that the wildlife does not dissipate, under the moon he is twice as strong, twice as fast, and he heals faster, and finally from the abilities that he gets from me, he can always make sure that when a woman goes into birth, the baby will be alive along with the mother," The goddess explained to Sakura who was shocked about the list of abilitys that Naruto had.

"But that is not all," Naruto said from where he was as Sakura looked over. "From my mother's human bloodline going back and being given a gift from someone, I now have this dōjutsu, and it is the most powerful, the Rinnegan. From my father, I have Zanpakutō that can be brought to Konoha," he told her as Sakura looked at him.

"So the reason you push me away is to save me," She said as Naruto looked over to her and nodded.

"Yes, and I know that our teammate is going to moan to the council to have me hand over Ōjo Ōkami Senshi, and when he fails to summon her Shikai, they are going to realise only I can bring the Zanpakutō to Konoha, and when their brains turn on with how I have the Rinnegan they will go, oh who is the girl he loves, oh its Sakura Haruno," Naruto explained to her as Artemis nodded at him.

"They will then force you to marry Naruto, if you say no, you are dubbed a traitor to Konoha," Artemis added as Sakura's eyes widened.

"That's a little far, isn't it," She asked the goddess, who nodded.

"It is, but that is how people are; power and influence means that they can do what they want with nothing coming for them," Artemis explained before Naruto cut them off.

"I found it," Naruto said as Sakura walked with Artemis.

The screen floating in the water was dark, but the sound came through, and it looked like when Naruto opened his eyes for the first time, he saw a black hood and cloak. Under his hood, he saw short black hair and a mask adorned his face.

It had one eyehole on the right side; he could see that his eye was that of the Sharingan. "Yondaime Hokage, Minato." As one was raised over Naruto, a dark voice seemed out of the mask.

"Step away from the Jinchūriki," the voice said once more as Sharingan began to change to three stretched triangles evenly spaced around the pupil. Each triangle curled at the top around the eye to form a circle, similar to a pinwheel.

"Or else your child will die of the grand old age of a minute," The voice said once more.

Sakura took in the man's look as the memory played repeatedly before she stood up.

"I'll tell the Hokage," she said as Naruto looked at her. "How do I get out of here?" Sakura asked Naruto with a small smile.

Naruto lifted his hand until two fingers touched Sakura's forehead. "I meant what I said that day," Naruto said to her as Sakura looked confused. "Your forehead is so big that it makes me want to kiss it," he said. He tapped her forehead before she could say anything, and she fell over and faded away.


Konoha Hospital, Third Floor, Room N9


Everyone in Naruto's hospital room looked at the knocked-out forms of Naruto and Sakura as they waited before Sakura sat up with a deep breath.

She then looked over to the sleeping Naruto. She scowled at him, "When you're out of that bed, you have some explaining to do." She growled at the sleeping boy before she looked at Hiruzen, who smiled at her. "I got the information, Hokage-sama," Sakura told her leader, who nodded.

And so she started to describe the man who attacked Konoha all those years ago.

Kakashi listened before he lifted his headband and willed his eye to change until it looked like the masked man's. "Sensei, where did you get that eye?" Sakura asked the man.

Kakashi's Sharingan turned back to normal before he sat down with a deep sigh, "It belonged to my teammate when I was a fresh Jōnin, his name was Obito Uchiha, and when we were on a mission during the war, I lost my left eye," He told Sakura who nodded along, as he looked at the sleeping form of Naruto, "A rock fell down and hit me, it made me fall, and before a boulder could crush me, Obito saved me, but the boulder crushed him, but the only thing that was not crushed, was the left side of his face, and he told me to take his Sharingan," Kakashi told her.

"What happened after that," Gaara asked from where he was sitting.

"As I was still in charge before Minato, I sent people to try and unearth Obito so that his body could be brought home, but every time, a team would be stopped by something," Hiruzen told the genin, who nodded.

Kakashi steeled his nerve and looked at his leader, "I'll lead a team and head over to Kanabi Bridge and dig up where he was," Kakashi said as Hiruzen closed his eyes.

"Sensei, what if-" "Obito was the one that attacked Konoha," Sakura said before Kakashi cut her off.

"Yes," She said.

"Then I will personally hunt him down and remove him from this world," Kakashi said with a dark look in his eye.

Hiruzen opened his eyes and looked at Kakashi. "Kanabi Bridge is a five-day trek, and Naruto will not be able to move for at least a week, so you have one week. When that week is over, return to Konoha. Am I understood? " The Hokage informed his supergiant.

"You are, and I'll get a team together right away," Kakashi said as he walked out.

Hizruen then turned to the others in the room. "What has been uncovered must not be spoken of until Kakashi and his team get back from their mission," he told them as they nodded.


The Next Day


Naruto was awake as both he and Shikamaru talked. "So, I've been made Chūnin," Naruto said, not opening his eyes because the lights still hurt when he looked around.

"Yep, the same as me and that Temari girl," Shikamaru said as he looked at the blond.

"Oh, that's good," he said as his hospital door opened. The others in their year walked in, with only Sasuke missing.

"Oh dame, what the fuck did you do to yourself," Kiba asked Naruto, who 'look' over to him.

"Ask someone who was there and you'll find out," Naruto said as he hissed in pain.

Shikamaru shook his head at the blond, who moved his head back. "Naruto, your doctor told you not to move anything, as each nerve is like it's in fire," he told the blond, who made a confirmation noise. "And Naruto fought the reanimated body of the Nidaime. He had to pull out all the stops so that he would have a minuscule chance," Shikamaru explained.

"May I ask what you did Naruto-san," Lee asked as they all found a seat, and Sakura started to cut up an apple.

"I used the Hachimon up to the third gate, a technique called Shunkō that is pushed by chakra to its limit, and then it gets released through the natural vents in the body, taijutsu called Kaiōken that pushes my body to its limit before removed them limiters and putting new ones on, and then a taijutsu called Seigen Kowasu that entirely removed all my limiters until I either stop the jutsu or is knocked out, and from all the pain my body was in, it was the latter," Naruto said as Hajime walked in.

"Loipón Naruto pós niótheis símera," he asked Naruto. The others looked confused, while Sakura and Shikamaru said nothing as they watched the two speak.

"Loipón, niótho óti eímai stin pórta tou Ádi, opóte káti eínai aftó," Naruto todl the doctor who nodded and started to check him over before he nodded.

"Loipón, faínetai óti i alepoú se giatrévei ómorfa, kai se mia evdomáda, tha prépei na boreís na fýgeis apó edó," He told Naruto who let out a sigh.

"Thank the gods," Naruto muttered.

"Indeed, now get some rest. A nurse will be in later to change over some of the IVs and try to eat something solid," Hajime told Naruto, who agreed.

Once the doctor was out, Sakura looked at Naruto. "So what did you two say?" she asked him.

"He just said that I should be as right as rain in a weeks time," Naruto told her as she smiled and cut a bit of apple up and asked him to open and she put the apple in his mouth.

Hinata looked at the two of them, and she looked down at her feet.


One Week Later


Naruto was sitting up as Hajime looked him over before he started to discharge the blond as Hiruzen walked in, "Naruto, it seems that the fools of the council would like to have their world fall around them about why the Uchiha are not all that good," He said as Naruto smiled at him.

"Can I get dressed first?" he asked. Sandaime nodded, and the blond was chained into his clothes before the two teleported to the council chamber.

"Well, then, let us discuss what happened during the exam," one of the elders said as they looked at Naruto.