Chapter 22: The Symbol of Unity

I woke up as the village siren's blaring all over the place.

"Oh come on! Its 2am!", I complained. Can't our enemies invade us at like 9am or some shit? I shake my head I lie on my bed, contemplating whether or not I get out or pretend to myself that I heard nothing and just go back to sleep. It's not like I will contribute anything to the village defense anyway.

When this insane ninjaverse finally agree to a form of Geneva's Concention, I'm gonna add no wars should be conducted outside office hours to the treaty. Making people work outside of working hours without OT should be illegal.

Anyway, Makoto Hotaru here. It's January and I am 12 years old now. Finally, we got into the canon content. Yay.

I do not look forward for the Wave arc. I read that shit so many times in fanfic that I just want to vomit for just thinking about it. Its like just eating a variety of boiled potatoes for weeks. No matter how you slice it, its still boiled potato.

"Hotaru!", Sasuke barged into my cabin. Man, I should really buy a lock for this damn thing. Everyone just barge into my home whenever they want.

"Hotaru is sleeping. Zzz zzz.", I puntuate the zzz especially.

"You idiot! Get up! They say Naruto went full traitor and stole the Forbidden Scroll!", Sasuke exclaimed.

Damn it, so Naruto still get tricked by Mizuki? I thought since he graduated properly this time we shut down that part of the plot.

"Eh, let Iruka handle that crap. He's like his dad or something", I wave off to Sasuke, just wanting to get back to sleep. That's how the plot always goes anyway.

Why did you think Naruto Talk no Jutsu'd everyone so much? Coz he was the first victim of it. Iruka was the one that Talk no Jutsu'd Naruto first, changing him from a stupid little shit to a weaponized motivational speaker.

"What did you mean let Iruka handle it?! Don't you remember that Iruka is currently studying in Suna to learn the Pyramid Scheme business model?!"

Ah.

Goddamnit, The Plot once again begin another pitcher match against me.

And here I thought I have my break till Wave arc at least.

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Now, after my Hyuuga Plot debacle, I had finally refined the emergency communication system so that these 2 doofus can save my ass the next time I got into the trouble.

The downside of having a lifeline to your friends is that it goes both ways. They have a lifeline to me. Meaning I am obligated to help. Urghh.

I yawned as we walked toward Naruto location. Now, all three of us carry a walkie-talkie to communicate around, using myself as the signal tower. The range is the entirety of Konoha if I am standing right in the middle of it. Being the signal tower, I can track down the wal.. dammit that such a pain to type., Being the signal tower, I can track down the Talkie device as long as it's in range.

So here I am with Sasuke, chasing after Naruto outside the walls. How the fuck he get away with stealing the scroll from the Hokage Tower at the center of the village to outside the walls without getting caught by the ANBU is beyond me. Some people just had the luck, I guess.

"We're close.", I informed Sasuke.

THUNK

We heard the sound of a big shuriken deeply embedded into a tree trunk and raised our speed further. We come to arrive to a clearing in the forest, and found Naruto's arm pierced and pinned to a tree by Mizuki's big ass shuriken.

"Well well, if it wasn't my favourite former students!", Mizuki gingerly greeted us.

"Mizuki! What are you doing?!!", Sasuke demanded answers.

"What else? Chasing down this demon brat and nsndkotnn……

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"Hotaru! What are you doing?!! Wake up!", Sasuke shakes me awake. Man, I had worked an 18 hour sewer cleaning shift today and I really had no energy to deal with this bullshit.

"Yea, you guys done with the epic reveal whatever?", I drowsily asked.

"okay, I'll explain it again. Naruto is the Kyuubi incarnate! Makoto Hotaru, he is the one who killed your parents!"

Sasuke was totally shocked. Oh wow, my pretty okay friend was a demon incarnate this whole time? What a scandal. Naruto looked all sad and shocked and fear whatever.

Man, I just want to sleep. Let's get this over with. I just want to skip this stupid prologue man. Fucking Iruka with his stupid MLM business course. This is supposed to be your job. Now don't complain me ruining the plot because of you.

"The fuck you're talking about, Mizuki. Naruto isn't the Kyuubi incarnate.", I pause for dramatic effect.

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Sasuke shakes me awake again

"what now?", I asked.

"You're about to do an epic reveal.", Sasuke remind me.

"about?"

"about the truth of Naruto's relation to Kyuubi, you idiot.", Mizuki explained.

"Oh right. That. Naruto is the Kyuubi's grandson. Now, let me go back to sleep and you guys go do epic prologue fight whatever.", I close my eyes once again.

"You can't just leave us with just that, asshole! Explain.", Sasuke demanded

Naruto even looked at me expectantly, wanting for answers. Even Mizuki doesn't even bother to attack us. He too, is a curious cat.

Fine.

In the original one shot, prototype Naruto is actually the son of Kyuubi that the prototype Hiruzen spared. Originally, Naruto was a youkai. It was honestly a so much interesting backstory than the canon. Naruto was the son of a monster. A Youkai.

"Naruto is Yondaime's son.", everyone gasped in shock. Dude, he literally looks like him. How did no one see this coming? "Back then during the war, before Namikaze Minato become the Hokage, he met a youkai woman named Kushina. A full on big tiddy fox girl. Fox girl is great. Fox girl is awesome. Badabing badaboom, they got married. However, Kyuubi no Kitsune, the Dai-Youkai of the East, who is the father of Kushina, does not agree to this marriage. How dare my daughter married a mere mortal, he probably said. So he came to Konoha to kill Yondaime and take back his daughter. And that's how the Kyuubi Incident happened."

Everyone was shocked! So this is the truth! The fanon of this fanfic. Nay, its canon event. Trust me, this is totally the real plot of Naruto. Trust me bro.

"Naruto.", I look at him in the eyes. "Your parents believe that one day, human and youkai can live together in peace. You are a Hanyo, half-human, half-youkai. You are the symbol of love between two species, born of a forbidden, yet pure union. They believe you are the Symbol of Unity, and one day, you will lead to the co-existence of humanity and youkainity, and give your best bros hot big tiddy youkai waifues. And I too, believe in Uzumaki Naruto, coz I totally want my big tiddy fox girl too. Artic Fox, to be precise.", I nod sagely.

Naruto is probably crying over how touched he is for believing in him or whatever. Eh, I just want to sleep. So I lie down on the grass.

"Now, you guys go duke it off or something. I have an important matter to attend to.", I close my eyes and snooze off.

Sasuke probably had an insane prologue fight or whatever, but I'm not gonna write it. Its Mizuki. He's irrelevant. Until that filler arc where he become a weretiger or something.

Zzzz zzzz

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"Hotaru!", Naruto barge into my cabin. I really should invest to make a trapdoor right under the front door.

"I… I….", he hesitates. "Hotaru, do you really believe that I can unite human and youkai and we will all live in peace, just like my mom and dad wanted?"

I think about it as I'm polishing my violin. "It will be hard, but I believe you can do it. And remember, when you found an arctic fox girl, introduce her to me. I too want to contribute to the message of unity by marrying a fox girl.", I give Naruto my support.

Naruto cries in happiness for me to believe in him. Man, I hope that bullshit I came up with comes true. Since Shisui said that Kyuubi being controlled by the Sharingan was a a gaslit plot he came up with, I had to assume canon is mostly out of the window now and reality is what I decide.

"Hotaru, I will become the Hokage and bring peace to humanity and youkainity! And introduce you and Sasuke to a fox girl! Believe it!", Naruto gives me a Kakashi Thumbs Up pose.

Good. Good. "Well actually, just ask Sasuke what kind of youkai girl he wants. We believe in the freedom of waifues choices here the Youkai Waifues fanclub."

"Hmm, I bet a Yuki-Onna will really suit Sasuke. He's a Fire affinity, so maybe an Ice affinity is well matched with him!", Naruto exclaimed, already having his neurons firing up for his matchmaking ideas.

Wow gee, Yuki-Onna and the incoming Wave plot? If that's not foreshadowing, I dunno what is.

(((Author's Note)))

Just want to get this brainworm to get out of my head. I'm still in hiatus to work on my own project. Come to Corvid's Éclair pixiv if you want to see some of my cancelled original works' snippets.