The Orange Flash and the White Dog

Disclaimer: I don’t own Naruto, Inuyasha, Yu Yu Hakushou, and King of Hell. Their respective creators do. I do own all the original characters though. If you wish to use them, please ask.

Summary: Naruto is banished by the council after his failing to retrieve Sasuke and return him to the village. On leaving, things happen between him and the Kyuubi and he ends up meeting Taishio Yaone. A powerful Inuyoukai who is the daughter of Taishio Sesshoumaru, the ruler of the Western Lands of the Makai and the Shikon Miko, Kagome. Together they become the legendary Orange Flash and White Dog.

Warnings: This is a yaoi/slash fic. The eventual main pairing will be Shino/Naru with mentions of Shino/Kiba, Majeh/Naru, and Majeh/Naru/Samhuk
If you don’t like slash, don’t read, don’t flame.

Author’s Notes: Any grammatical errors that I may have missed please let me know. Thanks.

Chapter II

Yaone sat down, cross-legged in front of Naruto. "So tell me, Naruto, just how did you get Kyuubi sealed within you?” She questioned.

Naruto smiled sadly at her and took a deep breath and started telling her the beginning of his story. “Twelve years ago he attacked my home village of Konoha. From what I remember from my history classes, the ninja of Konoha fought the kitsune for a number of days, desperately trying to keep him away from Konoha. Meanwhile the Yondaime was desperately trying to finish creating the Shiki Fuujin seal.”

“Yondaime?”

“The fourth hokage, the leader of our village, anyways what the ninja did not know was that they were also buying time by keeping it away until I was born. This is what Ji-chan told me after I found out about Kyuubi being sealed within me.” Naruto’s blue eyes went hazy as he pulled forth his memories of what Jiji had told him. “The Yondaime knew he couldn’t kill the beast but he knew he could possibly seal it away. He quickly realized he couldn’t seal it into an inanimate object or even into an adult human. No inanimate object was strong enough to contain the power of the Kyuubi and an adult chakra coils were already developed and would not be able to contain the power of the bijuu. Its power would overwhelm their coils and kill them soon after it was sealed into them. Kyuubi would then be immediately released into the world again.”

“He quickly realized that he would have to seal the bijuu into a newborn baby with its umbilical cord just cut because the babies’ chakra coils wouldn’t be developed yet. I guess my mother was the closest one ready to give birth.” Naruto paused and looked up at the sky. Tears formed in his eyes as he realized something and then muttered, “It must have killed him to know he had to seal him into me in order to save everyone, including me, from being killed by the Kyuubi.”

Yaone looked at him curiously and asked him, “Why do you think that?”

Naruto sighed and looked at her sadly before saying, “I just recently found out that the fourth was my father.”

“Oh yeah, I can see why it would. It must have been very difficult to know that he had to do that to his own son,” Yaone whispered.

“Yeah, I do know that he lived long enough after performing the sealing to ask that I be regarded as a hero.” Naruto’s lips quirked in a bitter, sad smile and said, “Of course humans being what they are, his last wish was not followed. I was an outcast in my village. I was ignored and belittled by the people in it. I know Ji-chan had to put a law in place that forbid everyone that knew the truth about the sealing to never tell it to anyone who did not know. It did not really help at the beginning though.”

“Interesting,” Yaone murmured and looked at him curiously, “Just what was your life like?”

“I knew that there were a few assassination attempts when I was younger but Ji-chan put a very brutal stop to that crap. I also know that the Anbu corps. Followed my fathers last wish because I do remember them saving me and killing the offenders. After that happened a few times the attempts stopped.”

Naruto sighed and looked down at his hands. Yaone could taste he pain coming off the young teen in front of her. He took a deep breath and continued his story. “Now with the thirds law in place the kids my age didn’t know about the Kyuubi being sealed within me. The law being put into place was to allow me to have some friends growing up. That really did not happen though. The matron of the orphanage kept the other orphans away from me saying that I was a bad influence. The parents of the other children kept hem away with the same excuse and punished them if they disobeyed. It hurt, ya know, to watch the adults yank them away from me, telling the m to stay way form me because I was a bad person. I always wondered what I had done to deserve this treatment. I was so lonely and I just wanted one friend.” Tears clogged his throat and his voice trailed off.

Yaone sat here quietly letting him regain his composure. Anger burning within her as she realized how cruel these humans had been to a child. She was an inuyoukai, pack was everything. No child should ever be treated as he was. Her father was a harsh teacher but she knew he loved her even if he rarely said or showed it.

Naruto soon continued his story. “I quickly developed a mask of false smiles and happiness. When the orphanage kicked me out when I was six, Jiji got me an apartment of my own. What I did not know at the time was that the apartment building was owned by a former Anbu and usually rented only to other former Anbu as well as those still in Anbu. I guess Jiji wanted me in the safest place he could think of.”

“That day, Jiji took me shopping for new clothes and I picked out every bright, cheerful color I could. I needed their warmth to keep me cheerful. Orange quickly became my favorite color. Jiji, also made sure that most of my clothing got this spiral embroidered or printed onto all my clothes,” he said as he pulled the scroll from his parents out of his backpack.

He showed the spiral to Yaone. She arched an elegant, white brow at the name Namikaze. “Namikaze?”

Naruto chuckled and sheepishly rubbed the back of his blonde head. “As I said, I just found out that the Yondaime was my father. My godfather, Jiraiya, or as I call him Ero-sennin, told me that the knowledge who my father was hidden to protect me from my fathers enemies.”

“Why would you need to be his from your fathers’ enemies? I mean he could not have had that many that you could have been protected from them by your villages Anbu?”

“Hehehe, my fathers’ enemies consisted of whole shinobi villages,” Naruto informed her.

“What?”

“The village had just come out of the Second Great Shinobi War. My father had developed a jutsu that he called the Hirashin which allowed him to kill thousands with one move. He became known as the Yellow Flash because the speed of the jutsu was so high that all you saw before people started dying was a yellow flash. In the other villages bingo books he was the only one to ever be rated as a double S class and the shinobi of the other villages were ordered to run at first sight.”

“Wow, ok, I see now why you were hidden. There would be no way you could be protected from all those who would wish to kill you if they knew you existed,” Yaone stated.

“Yeah, so I just found out about my family. I use my mom’s maiden name because only Jiji and ero-sennin knew of my parents’ marriage. He looked down at the scroll in his hand and ran his finger over the name. “One day,” he whispered, “One day I’ll be strong enough to use my father’s name.”

Naruto looked up at Yaone and smiled awkwardly before putting the scroll back into his bag. “Anyways, when I was six, I had been given my own apartment. That year I started going to the Ninja Academy. I think, Jiji, entered me into the Academy in order to help me gain some friends. Everyone one was a few years older then I was and I was pretty much ignored by everyone. The Academy teachers refused to teach me anything. They ignored me and my questions and some how I was always sent to the hall to balance buckets of water on my head when something vitally important was being taught. They even refused to teach me to read and write and that’s where Ayame-chan saved me. She knew about the Kyuubi and she liked me anyway. Her father followed my father’s wishes and saw me as a hero. Ayame-chan, when she found that I could not read and write taught me with her fathers help.” Naruto smiled happily as he remembered the day Ayame-chan volunteered to teach him to read.

“After that, it grew a little bit easier to catch up but I had to start to sneak around the village, spying on genin and other academy students to try to figure out the hand seals and academy jutsus. When I was eight I was with kids my own age and that is when I first met Sasuke. Not long after that the Uchiha massacre happened leaving only Sasuke alive. I reached out to him and even though he seemed to reject my overture, I remember seeing him smile to himself. It made me so happy to be acknowledged by him.”

Naruto paused and then continued, “Soon I started making friends just like Ji-chan hoped I would. They were all members of different clans. I think that is why they became my first friends. The clans of Konoha actually followed the fourths wish and I was a hero and was respected as such. Their children were never told to avoid me as the civilian children were told to. It was just that until the Academy I had never met any. The friendship between Kiba, Chouji, Shikamaru, and me was strong and they rapidly become very precious to me. Kiba and I had a little rivalry going on. We often insulted one another but we did not actually mean anything hurtful about it, it is the way we showed our affection for each other.”

“By this time I had started pranking the village to gain attention as well as using them as distractions for when I snuck around to spy on other ninja. The academy teachers were still not teaching me anything and I knew I had to lean the jutsus on my own. My friends helped a little but I did not really ask them because I did not want to explain what was going on in case they too would turn on me.”

“Then Iruka-sensei became an Academy teacher and I began to learn stuff. Unfortunately he became an Academy teacher to late to teach me the basics and I do not think he ever knew until I was out of the Academy that I was never really taught the basic’s of being a shinobi. I ended up creating the Oiroke no Jutsu in an attempt to figure out the henge. Which I began to use in my various pranks as it helped me to escape my pursuers.”

“I had attempted to graduate a couple of times before but I always failed. Then the time came for my class to do the graduation test. I had hoped that I would be able to pass this time. I did not because I was still unable to produce a passable bunshin. I was broken inside because I knew that that had been my last chance to graduate.”

“That was when Mizuki-sensei approached me with his alternate way to graduate.” Naruto growled angrily, remembering how easily that bastard had tricked him. “He was just using me to steal the Forbidden Scroll, though. He told me I had to steal the scroll from the Hokage’s office and learn one jutsu from it and I would become a genin.” He laughed bitterly and whispered, “I was so stupid. I fell for his lie hook, line and sinker. I did what he told me... I stole the scroll and I learnt the Kage Bunshin which for me was so much simpler then the regular bunshin. That is when Iruka-sensei showed up looking for me.”

“Heh, that is when I found out that I had been used by Mizuki-sensei to steal the scroll. But it was also the day I found out about the Kyuubi being sealed in me. Of course, Mizuki-teme said I was the bijuu but Iruka-sense . . . Iruka-sense said I was not the demon. He said that, yes, the Kyuubi killed his parents but I was not the Kyuubi I was just its prison and jailor. That I was a good person who he hoped would one day become hokage just like I dreamed because he believed in me.”

Tears came to Naruto’s eyes again as he remembered that defining moment in his life. That was the day that Iruka-sensei became someone he would die for, kill for. “When Mizuki tried to kill Iruka-sensei, I stopped him. I kicked the Fuuma Shuriken into the tree and threatened to kill Mizuki if he hurt Iruka-sensei. Mizuki just laughed but he stopped laughing when I used the kage bunshin jutsu to call forth an army of kage bunshin’s which proceeded to beat the crap out of him. After that, Iruka-sensei made me a genin. He gave me his own hitai-ate and it became one of my most treasured possessions.”

Not long after my genin team was formed. Uchiha Sasuke, Haruno Sakura and I became a team with Kakashi-sensei as our Jounin instructor. That first day Kakashi-sensei did not show up till three hours after he was supposed to meet us. That is when we learned we would not become genin unless we passed one more test. Only nine individuals usually passed this test. To say that we were shocked was putting it mildly.”

“He told us not to eat anything or we would be sick. We, of course, did what he told us to. He showed up hours after his appointed time and that was when we learned that he had tricked us. We soon started his test. God, none of us saw the true meaning behind the test. At the end, I was tied to a tee stump because I did something incredibly stupid and selfish. Kakashi-sensei told us we failed. That his test was about teamwork and that we did not deserve to be shinobi. He then said he would give us a second chance after lunch. He then told Sakura and Sasuke that I was not to be fed. That I was being punished for what I had tried to do earlier and if they did he would fail us.”

Yaone did not ask what he had tried to do because she saw how embarrassed he was by his actions. Naruto continued, “They started eating the bentos provided by Kakashi-sense and my stomach growled. Sasuke stopped eating, sighed and then told Sakura to feed me part of his bento. He said that I needed to be fed in order for me to be in top form so we could pass the test. Sakura tried to point out that Kakashi-sensei said to not feed me and Sasuke replied that he was not here and this needed to be done. Sakura agreed reluctantly to this and started to feed me. That is when Kakashi-sensei jumped out of the bushes. He looked at us and said that we had passed. That is when he told us something that has never left my mind. Shinobi who fail there missions are trash but those who abandon their comrades are worse than trash.”

“Then those bastards left me tied to the stump and left. I felt so angry and sad that my own teammates would leave me there like that. It certainly did not fit the speech that Kakashi-sensei had just given. I, unfortunately, had never been able to learn the jutsu that would have let me escape from the stump.” Nauru shook his had and the smirked at Yaone. “When Kakashi-sensei found out he felt so guilty and then he made sure that I learnt it. He began to teach me a lot of the basics that I had missed in the Academy due to the negligence of the Academy instructors. Iruka-sensei soon found out about it and joined him; together they made sure I learned everything I should have learned at the Academy.”

“How did you get untied from the stump?” Yaone inquired.

“Shino,” was the prompt reply. “Aburame Shino showed up and he untied me. I took Shino to Ichakirus in order to thank him. We talked to each other and got to actually know each other. He was so quiet in the Academy that we never actually got to really talk before. We met often after that day. Through sometimes I got a little uncomfortable because Shino was always giving me these weird looks. Of course when I caught him looking at me, he always looked away.” Naruto chuckled softly and said, “His teammate, Hyuga Hinata, gave me those same looks.”

Yaone smirked to herself; it seemed that the brat did not realize that those two people seemed to have crushes on him. “What happened next?” she asked.

“Then we stared our missions as genin. God, I hated those D-rank missions. Weeding other people’s gardens and finding missing pets is not what I had in mind when I became a Shinobi. I finally blew my top one day and demanded a better mission. That day we received our first C-rank mission, of course later it turned out that the Wave mission was a bit higher then C.”

“Tazuna-san had lied to Ji-chan on the mission details. He said it was a simple escort and defense of the bridge he was building against bandit. In fact, it was guarding him against assassination attempts from missing-nin hired by the shipping tycoon, Gato. A man who was rapidly destroying Wave with his tyranny. Our first encounter with missing-nins was the C-class Demon Brothers of the Mist. I froze during their attack. I had never really been in battle before and their attack surprised me.”

“Don’t feel too bad, Naruto. That happens with a lot of first timers,” Yaone reassured him.

“Sasuke and Sakura-chan did not freeze,” Naruto said quietly.

“Sasuke had already seen death first hand. He most likely trained himself to immediately attack anyone that was attacking him after his clan was massacred. Sakura, did she fight?”


“No, she moved in front of Tazuna in order to protect him.”

“Her training in the Academy to defend her client was probably ingrained into her instincts. You already told me that you were never properly trained before Iruka-sensei and Kakashi-sensei and they probably did not have enough time to make sure the first thing you did was to protect your client,” Yaone pointed out logically.

Naruto nodded his head and then continued, “After the Demon Brothers defeat, Kakashi-sensei forced the truth from Tazuna-san and Kakashi-sensei gave us the option of going back or continuing on with the mission. Sasuke and I were all for going on but Sakura hesitated but followed Sasuke’s lead. So we continued on. Later on we ran into our next missing-nin, Zabuza, Demon of the Mist.”

“That fight was intense. I did not freeze this time but Kakashi-sensei got caught in a jutsu that imprisoned him in a sphere of water. Sasuke and I worked together to free him. I came up with a plan at the spur of the moment. I created a ton of kage bunshin and had them attack one of the Zabuza water clones to distract Zabuza from my real plan. I then henged into a Fuuma Shuriken and had one my clones toss me to Sasuke. He could feel the chakra in Shuriken and quickly figured out my plan. He threw me under the cover of another Fuuma Shuriken at the real Zabuza. Zabuza caught the first one and when he saw the second one, he jumped over it. That is when I dismissed the henge and threw my kunai at him. He was forced to release the jutsu that held Kakashi-sensei which then subsequently freed Kakashi-sensei to once again fight Zabuza.”

“Kakashi-sensei congratulated me and Sasuke on our plan and then finished the fight with Zabuza. It was interrupted when a hunter-nin of Krigakure supposedly finished Zabuza off. Later we found out that the hunter-nin was an ally of Zabuza and that his death had been faked. Kakashi had collapsed due to chakra exhaustion and over use of his implanted Sharingan.”

“The next day, Kakashi-sensei began to prepare us for out next encounter with Zabuza and the fake hunter-nin. He taught us the chakra control exercise of tree walking. Sakura-chan completed it first. Sasuke and I competed over who would complete it next. We did finish it together but Sasuke won by a few seconds. He helped me back to Tazuna’s house after I exhausted myself. I think that is when our friendship and rivalry truly began.”

“Later on I got angry at Tazuna’s grandson, Inari. He told us were all going to die, why bother fighting and so forth. I learned why he no longer believed in heroes and I felt some sympathy for him. That is until he raged abut how foolish we were and that nothing we did would make a difference. I exploded, I mean if I did what he said, and I would not be a genin. I wouldn’t even be able to read if I had just given up. I said some harsh things to him and left to do some more training.”

“I exhausted myself in my anger and fell asleep outside. The next morning I met Haku. When I first met him I thought he was a girl because he was so pretty. He told me about his one precious person and his loyalty to him. It is a conversation I never forgot and I took it to heart.”

“The next day I once again exhausted myself in training and slept in. I woke up to find the others had left for the bridge without me. I left quickly to join them and noticed dead animals and slashed trees that headed in the general direction of Tazuna’s house. I knew something was wrong and headed back. I arrived in time to save Inari and his mum, Tsunami. After that I left for the bridge to join my teammates.”

“I arrived to see Sasuke fighting the fake hunter-nin in this dome of ice. I joined him and in the fight it seemed like Sasuke had died to save me. That is when I lost it and inadvertently called upon the Kyuubi’s chakra. I than started thrashing Zabuza’s ally. During the fight his mask shattered just as I was about to kill him, reveling a familiar face. It was Haku-kun and the chakra of the Kyuubi faded away. I asked him why he served someone like Zabuza and he told me his story. I had already felt a kinship with him before but this reinforced how alike we were. Haku felt he had failed Zabuza and that he was useless. He asked me to kill him and just as I was about to he stopped me and said Zabuza had need of him for one last thing.”

“He disappeared into one of is ice mirrors and reappeared in front of Zabuza and took Kakashi-sensei chidori through the chest. He died instantly and just as the battle between him and Kakashi-sensei got going again Gato, appeared. That was when Zabuza learned bout Gato’s plan on betraying him. Gato insulted Haku and I gave a whole little speech to Zabuza. After that speech, Zabuza then asked for my kunai. He then killed Gato and in turn was cut down by Gato’s thugs. Inari arrived soon after with a bunch of villagers and helped scare the thugs away. Wave was now free. Zabuza had still been alive and asked to be laid next to Haku and he wished he could go where ever Haku went. It started to snow then and he died whispering Haku’s name. I realized that Zabuza had cared for Haku just as much as Haku had cared for him. We buried them together and used Zabuza’s sword as a grave marker. We left Wave soon after that with Tazuna saying as soon as the village had the money they would send it to Konoha. We went back to D-rank missions with sporadic C-class missions in between.”

Naruto stopped and took a drink of water from his flask. He then continued his story. “Then the Chunin Exams came and we found out that Kakashi-sensei had entered us into it. We made it past the first exam which I was so sure I was going to fail because I sucked at paper tests but I passed by not answering a single question. All we needed to do was stay in the classroom when threatened to be stuck as genin forever if we failed to answer the tenth question.”

“The second part was more difficult. We were sent into the Forest of Death and we had too go through the forest to the tower at the center and in order to pass we needed to have two scrolls, the heaven scroll and the earth scroll. Each genin teams were given one and we had to get the opposite one from one of the other teams. We got both scrolls in the end but we came very close to failing. I think everything started to go wrong when we ended up facing one of Konoha’s most notorious missing-nin – the snake Sannin Orochimaru.”

“Sasuke and I fought him to the best of our abilities but Orochimaru was too damn powerful and I was forced to start using the Kyuubi’s chakra to do some damage. Then he knocked me out by sealing away my access to the Kyuubi’s chakra by placing the Gogyou Fuuin seal on me. After I fell unconscious, Sasuke continued to fight him but in the end, he gave Sasuke the Cursed Heavens Seal. I did not realize what that seal did until it was to late though. Somehow we finished the second test and immediately after the third test began.”

“The third test was actually the prelims to a tournament that was to be held in a month’s time. Sasuke managed to defeat his opponent and quickly after that, Kakashi-sensei took him away to seal the Cursed Heavens Seal with his Fuuja Houin. Sakura ended up having to fight Ino. Ino tried to use her family mind jutsu but Sakura somehow managed to over power it. They then fought each other using Taijutsu and knocked each other out. My opponent was Kiba and his dog partner Akamaru. Kiba insulted me and I insulted him in return. Kiba truly believed he would beat me and it seemed as if he was correct but I never gave up. I continued to get up and fight every time he knocked me down. I had a dream and I would not let him stop me from achieving it. I eventually managed to defeat him by farting in his face and then creating a Taijutsu technique using my kage bunshins I called it the Uzumaki Rendan. Shino’s turn came up and he easily defeated his opponent using his kekai. Shikamaru opponent was a girl and he said it was so troublesome having to fight a girl. He won though by using his families shadow jutsus. Chouji was knocked out by his opponent who used sound waves to knock him out. Hinata’s opponent was her own cousin, Neji. Even though Neji easily outclassed her, she never gave up. She kept on fighting and almost got killed by Neji. I promised myself that I would avenge her. There was no need for him to go as far as he did in that fight. Neji’s team mate, Rock Lee, ended up fighting Suna’s Jinchuriki, Gaara. He fought well but Gaara came very close to killing him if his sensei, Maito Gai, had not interfered, he would have. Unfortunately his legs were so badly crushed that it was most likely he would never be a ninja again. Soon the prelims came to a close and we were given a month to prepare for the tournament in which the daimyos and their courts would come and watch.”

“After that I was going to go ask Kakashi-sensei to train me for the tournament and I stumbled upon a conversation that I probably should not have heard. I never revealed what I had heard even when I was recently told about it by one of the people involved. Ji-chan, ero-sennin, Kakashi-sensei and Ebisu-san were hatching a plan for ero-sennin to train me. Kakashi-sensei would tell me he had to train Sasuke for the finals and the he had arranged for Ebisu to train me. Ebisu would take me to a hot spring near the women’s baths and then get himself knocked out of commission by ero-sennin. They believed at this point I would demand that ero-sennin train me because he knocked out my teacher. Then after the Tournament he would make me his official apprentice. They told Ebisu to keep his mouth shut. That the council must never knew about this. Ebisu promised to never reveal the truth. Knowing this I behaved exactly as they expected. I ‘forced’ ero-sennin to train me and he taught me the Kuchiyose no Jutsu as well as removed the Gogyou Fuuin using the Gogyou Kaiin technique. He also showed me how to summon the Kyuubi’s chakra so I could use it when ever I wanted. Now that I think about it I do not think that that was a good idea.”

“The day of the tournament came and I faced Neji. During our fight I learned the reason why Neji did what he did to Hinata. He hated the main branch of his clan but at the same time he believed that our lives were bound by fate and we could not change or fight it. I showed him otherwise and forced him to see the truth. I promised him one day I would free him from the Juin Jutsu that kept the branch family members as slaves to the main house. After that battle he changed for the better and started moving towards being a better person.”

“Then the invasion by Sound and Sand began. I ended up fighting Gaara. His father and uncle had fucked him over so bad it was not even funny. They inadvertently taught him that the only person worth fighting for was yourself and no one else. Not only that, he had, Shukaku, the one tailed bijuu, improperly sealed within him. He was able to talk to Gaara and he was slowly driving him insane. I fought him to save Sakura-chan and Sasuke. When I defeated him by summoning the toad boss, Gambuta, I showed him that fighting for those you love gives you a greater strength then just fighting for yourself.” Naruto smirked and said, “This event changed him for the better too. He found out just how much his older siblings loved him and that eased the pain in his life. In the aftermath of the invasion I found out that Ji-chan had died fighting Orochimaru.”

Naruto sighed, remembering the funeral. “After Ji-chan’s funeral, ero-sennin came to me and said we had a mission. We were going to find the last Sanin, the slug princess, Tsunade. She had been chosen to become the Godaime hokage. Or she had been chosen after ero-sennin said he did not want the job. During our journey ero-sennin taught me how to perform one of my father’s jutsus, the Rasengan.”

“During our journey I was attacked by Uchiha Itachi and his partner Hoshigaki Kisame. They wanted me or I should say they were after the bijuu sealed within me. Ero-sennin informed me later that those two were members of an organization called Akatsuki and all he knew about them was that they were after the nine bijuu and it was composed of S-class nukenins. “

“During my confrontation with these two, Sasuke showed up and tried to kill his brother. Itachi ended up using a Sharingan jutsu call Tsukyomi on him and it damaged Sasuke’s mind. That was when ero-sennin showed up and he drove the two of them away. That was when, Gai-sensei, jumped through the window and kicked ero-sennin in the head. He quickly realized just who he had kicked and apologized profusely to ero-sennin. We found out that Itachi and Kisame had shown up in Konoha and that Kakashi-sensei was in the hospital unconscious just like Sasuke was. It seemed Itachi used Tsukyomi on him as well. Gai then threw Sasuke unconscious body over his shoulder and took him back home.”

“We then continued our search for Tsunade and we finally found her. She dissed the Hokage job making me very angry and I attacked her. I tried to use the Rasengan but as I had yet to master it she was able to stop me. We made a bet, if I mastered the Rasengan in a week she would give me this necklace,” Naruto said and pulled out the necklace and showed it to Yaone. “Not only that she would come back with us to Konoha. I pushed my training everyday determined to win the bet. A week later Orochimaru and his assistant, Kabuto, show up and a battle began. In the end I was able to use a mastered Rasengan and I used it against Kabuto but he survived due to his Kekkei Genkai. We finally drove them off and during the battle baa-chan had decided to become the next hokage.”

“We returned home and baa-chan healed Kakashi-sensei, Sasuke and Rock Lee. Later Sasuke confronted me and demanded we fight. I gave in and we fought each other on the hospital roof. Sakura tried to stop us but neither of us was listening. The fight got heated and we both used our new jutsu. Sasuke formed his chidori and I formed my rasengan and we were actually going to use it on each other. I think we came to our senses but it was too late and we could not stop but Kakashi-sensei showed up stopped us from using our respective jutsus on each other. We ended up putting them through the two water towers on the roof of the hospital. Then we received the escort mission for the actress who played Princess Fuin to the country of Snow. She did not want to go for some reason but we found out later that she was actually a real princess. She was in fact the princess of Snow and its legitimate ruler. Once again, we were on a mission that should have been rated above C and once again, we prevailed. The princess invited us to come back and visit Snow any time we felt like it. During this mission I shone brighter then Sasuke. The people of Snow as well as the princess honored me as their hero. Sasuke grew jealous of my rapid advancement in strength. I did not know it but this mission was what led to Sasuke deciding to abandon Konoha for Oto.”

“That night after we returned from Snow was when he decided to leave. He said good-bye to Sakura but not me. I think he knew if he tried he would not be able to go. Baa-chan did not have anyone to send but us genin and one newly made chunin. We ended up facing Jounins from Oto. I do not know how each member of our team survived their battle with their respective Jounin but they did. I fought Sasuke and he actually tried to kill me. He said he wanted to gain eyes like his brother and the only way to do that was to kill his best friend. In the end he was not able to do it.” Naruto rubbed his chest where the scar from the chidori was over his heart. “I ended up using Kyuubi’s chakra again and eventually fell unconscious. Sasuke left me behind and continued his journey to Oto. Kakashi-sensei found me and took me back to Konoha.”

Naruto smiled bitterly and said, “What I did not know was this failure to bring back the last loyal Uchiha.” Sarcasm laced Naruto’s voice when he said loyal and he said, “It was the perfect excuse that a good portion of the council had been looking for. They used it to have me banished from my home.”

“They banished me and I was so angry that they treated me this way and that was what caused the seal to break later on. Those who cared for me got together and gave me a bunch of scrolls filled with jutsu and other things that I could use. They told me to train hard so the council would welcome me back with open arms. That is all I have to say. Now that you have heard my story, will you tell me yours?”