Naruto Fan Fiction ❯ Naruto of the Mirage ❯ Chapter 2 ( Chapter 2 )
[ T - Teen: Not suitable for readers under 13 ]
Tsunade, Anko and the Hokage made their way back to Naruto's hospital room. Anko was more than a bit nervous about meeting her son that she didn't know survived the Kyuubi attack, for the first time. She was surprised that the Hokage had allowed her to regain custody of Naruto, since she was a former apprentice of Orochimaru, plus her son was the Kyuubi vessel. She had no doubt, that life would be rough for the two, at least for a while.
As the trio entered the room, they found the blonde asleep in the overly large bed, making his already malnourished frame seem even smaller. Anko let out a sob, seeing her son in his present condition. She quickly rushed to his side and held his sleeping form in her arms. Seeing mother and son reunited in such a fashion made both the Hokage and Tsunade smile. Tsunade went to check on his charts, to see how he was progressing. After reading the clip-board attached to the end of the bed, her face fell into a frown, and she motioned for Sarutobi to follow her into the hallway.
“Sensei, no one has checked up on the boy, since I finished with him, except for me and Shizune. Isn't there one doctor here who doesn't see him as the demon?” She asked her anger showing.
The Sandaime let out a sigh and frowned.
“I was unaware that the staff harbored such a grudge against Naruto, of course this is his first time in the hospital, so I really had no previous knowledge of the staff's reaction.” He said.
Tsunade's scowl deepened as she heard two idiot nurses complaining about the demon brat.
“Tsunade, I have a request for you.” Sarutobi said. “I know that you have lost a lot of faith in this village, but I want you to come back. I would like you to be able to check on Naruto, since you are the only medic Nin, not biased against him. If you don't want to take on the role of a ninja again, would you at least consider running the hospital?”
Tsunade stared at him with a glint of anger in her eyes.
“I'm sorry sensei, but that's not happening anytime soon. I'll stay until Naruto is well enough to leave with his mom, but after that I'm leaving again.” She said. Suddenly a look of compassion washed over her young looking face. “But, I will stop by a couple times a year to check on him and to make sure that his bloodline isn't acting up.”
Sarutobi just nodded, and headed towards the room of Uchiha Sasuke. Sasuke was lying in his bed, depressed after witnessing the brutal murder of his parents at the hands of his older brother, who had then used the genjutsu Tsukiyomi (Moon Reader), which forced the eight year old to relive the murder of his entire clan for three days. Right now the black haired, black eyed boy was laying on his side, staring out the window.
“How are you today, Sasuke-kun?” Asked the old man.
The boy simply looked over at him, but didn't say any thing; he simply rolled back over and resumed moping.
Sarutobi was greatly saddened by this turn of events, as the last remaining Uchiha that was loyal to Konoha, he was important to the survival of the sharingan bloodline. Although, now that Naruto had incorporated it into his own DNA, there were now two people who could pass it on to their children.
“Sasuke,” The Hokage started “There is someone I want you to meet.
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Naruto awoke to find himself in a dark, damp, creepy hallway, with pipes and a faint glow at the end of the hallway. Feeling an irresistible urge to follow, Naruto headed towards the light. When he arrived, he found himself facing a large gate, with a simple piece of paper stuck to the front of it that said `Seal'. Suddenly a large pair of blood red eyes, with black slit pupils leered at the small boy.
The first thing that ran through Naruto's mind was, `What the hell' followed closely by an audible “What the hell, I can see again!”
“Brat, that's because you aren't in the conscious world yet. You're in your mind.” A deep voice echoed through the cavernous hallway.
“Who are you?” Asked Naruto; staring into the red eyes without blinking.
“I am the great Kyuubi!” The voice rang out.
“Eh, but your dead, how can you be in my head? I must be dreaming.” Naruto yelled and then muttered. “Ok, I'll cut back from five bowls of ramen before bed to four.”
“I am most certainly not dead!” The Kyuubi retorted. “I was sealed inside of you by the one you call Yondaime. I am doomed to stay trapped in here until you die, thus taking me with you to the afterlife.”
“Wait, you're sealed inside of me?!” Naruto's voice was full of shock and surprise. If this was the great demon that attacked Konoha, than that would explain why people always said mean things to him. “You! You're the reason that everyone hates me? Aren't you? You're the reason that no one will help me, and no one will let their kids play with me! You're the reason that I don't have any family!” The boy screamed, tears beginning to flow from his eyes.
Upon seeing the boy, who had stood up to more hardships in his short seven years of life, than most people did in a life time, begin to cry the Kyuubi's eyes couldn't help but soften a bit.
“Yeah, kid, I'm the reason that everyone hates you. I'm the reason that they keep their offspring away from you. But I think you'll find that you are mistaken, I had nothing to do with your lack of family.” The deep bass voice of the legendary fox rang out.
“What do you mean, I don't have a family, no one loves me enough to give me one!” Naruto yelled. But suddenly, the cage began to dissolve around him, along with the back ground, and Naruto slowly felt himself wake up.
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Sarutobi and Sasuke entered a room to see a woman who had dark hair that almost looked purple, holding a boy with blonde hair and bandages over his eyes. Both were sleeping, the women holding the blonde to her chin.
“That is Uzumaki Naruto; the bandages are from where your brother attacked him and hacked at his eyes.”
At this, Sasuke looked shocked, he knew that his brother was deranged, but hacking out the eyes of a child was wrong, even for a homicidal maniac.
“To save his life, a student of mine transplanted the eyes of one of your clansmen into Naruto. He'll have the sharingan, and due to his bloodline limit, he will be able to pass it on to his children.” The third explained.
“Hokage-sama, why are you doing this?” Sasuke asked.
The third smiled at the young Uchiha. “Naruto is, or rather, was an orphan. The woman you see with him is his biological mother, since Naruto was born during the Kyuubi attack, records were messed up and they were separated. I thought that since the two of you share the same bloodline, that we should keep you two together, that is, if you would like to.” The third explained.
“Do you mean; live with them?” Sasuke asked, with a hint of joy in his voice.
“If you want to, than yes, Anko is a jounin, so she has many difficult missions that may last a long time. If you were to join them, she wouldn't have to worry about Naruto while she was away.” The third explained.
“I would like that a lot, if they would have me.” Sasuke said, after only a few seconds of thought.
The Sandaime just smiled and walked the boy back to his room. He would talk with Anko and Naruto about this later. If she refused, he could always make it a mission.
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Naruto could feel someone's arm's around his shoulders in an embrace he was unfamiliar with. This wasn't some villager trying to kill him; there wasn't any pressure on his neck. This felt, almost good. But no one loved him, maybe it was the Hokage. Naruto shifted a bit, letting out a quiet groan from his stiff back muscles. He felt the person who was holding him recoil and gasp.
`I knew it, another person who hates me.' Naruto thought.
Suddenly the arms appeared again, this time in a full fledged hug. Naruto heard the mystery person, sobbing on his shoulder, as they hugged him. Naruto normally would have pushed this person away, but something about the hug caught him off guard. He was too stunned to ask a question, although he quickly recuperated and was about to ask one, when he heard the door open, followed by a number of footsteps, and the protective arms of the mystery person retracted.
“Making up for lost time, eh, Anko?” The voice of the Hokage asked.
“Huh? Old man, who is this?” Naruto asked jabbing his thumb to his right, in what he hoped was the direction of the mysterious Anko.
Naruto felt a hand encircle his as the mysterious person spoke.
“Naruto, I…I'm…” Anko choked on her words, and couldn't finish them.
“Naruto, this is your mother, Mitarashi Anko.” The Hokage said.
“Wh-what? I don't have a mom, you said so yourself!” Naruto cried.
“I know, Naruto, but I was wrong. There are a few things I want to talk about, the first being your history.” Said Sarutobi.
“Wait, is this about the Kyuubi?” Naruto asked. This completely shocked the two occupants in the room.
“How do you know about the Kyuubi?” Asked the Hokage.
“I was just talking with the great big fuzz ball. He told me about how the Yondaime sealed him inside of me, and how he was the reason the villagers hate me.” Naruto replied.
“It is true that the Yondaime sealed the Kyuubi in you to save the village, but that's not the only thing I wanted to talk with you about.” Said the Sandaime. “Naruto, while you were unconscious, we ran some blood tests, to try and find your parents, and it turns out that Anko is your mother. We also found out that you have a very unique bloodline limit, it allows you to absorb people's DNA into your own, you see when you were born, you had much darker hair and brown eyes, but some how, some of the Yondaime's DNA got into you, which is why you look almost exactly like him.” The Hokage said.
Naruto just looked shocked, but since his eyes were still held shut, he couldn't stare in the correct direction. The Sandiame continued:
“Tsunade thinks that your bandages can come off in a day, so we will keep you here for the night. Now, I think that you should get to know your mother better.”
Without warning, Sarutobi left the two in the room alone, one just happy to know her child was alive, the other digesting the insane amount of information that was just leveled at him. While the two sat in awkward silence, Anko's hand snaked onto Naruto's head and began to stroke his hair.
“O-okaa-san?” Gasped Naruto at the unfamiliar contact.
“Hai, Naruto-kun, I'm your kaa-san.” Anko said trying to hold back tears.
“I missed you, okaa-san.” Yawned Naruto, snuggling into the unfamiliar warmth of his mother and fell asleep.
Anko didn't say anything. She just hugged her son tighter, her tears falling freely again.
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As the sun crept ever lower in the western sky, Anko moved Naruto into a more comfortable position in his bed and made her way into the hallway. She was hungry and headed towards the vending machine at the end of the hallway. She suddenly felt a presence spying on her from her right and looked over her shoulder at the offending person. She saw the Uchiha survivor looking at her from his room, saying good-bye to the Hokage. As she turned her attention back to her previous task, she felt the old Hokage come up behind her.
“Hokage-sama, I-I want to thank you for allowing me to get my son back, most of the village would like nothing more than for him to be dead, but I can't… I won't let that happen now.” Anko said, in an unusually demure voice.
“Think nothing of it, Anko. I wouldn't have it any other way. If anyone deserves a family it is that boy above all others.” Sarutobi said. “Actually, I have a question to ask of you. I know that mother hood will be a new experience for you, but I would like to keep the sharingan bloodline together as much as possible, Naruto will hopefully brighten Sasuke's disposition, and Sasuke may be able to calm your son down a bit.”
“You're asking me to adopt the Uchiha?” Asked Anko, she was shocked that she was being asked to guard possibly the most important bloodline in the entire village.
“Yes, Sasuke has already expressed his wish to live with the two of you, should you wish to take him in. I'm afraid for him, you see, not only did Itachi murder his parents in front of his eyes, he's done caused the boy some serious mental trauma. I'm afraid of what would happen to him if he was left alone. All he seems to do is brood, but when I mentioned the possibility of a new family, his eyes picked up immediately.” Sarutobi explained.
“I…I'm honored, Hokage-sama, but I'd have to talk with Naruto first.” Anko said.
“Of course.” Said the Sandaime. “Would you at least like to meet him?” He asked.
Anko removed her purchase from the machine and nodded her head.
“Well then, I'll bring him by tomorrow when Naruto gets his bandages off.” Sarutobi said and left the hallway.
Anko simply returned to her son's room to dream about life with a new family.
