Father, My Father

 

SORRY FOR MAKING EVERYONE WAIT FOR UPDATES! Things went kinda hectic in my life a couple of years ago but now I’m back! So hopefully (as long as nothing else goes wrong) I should have more frequent updates. Wish me luck.

To Cole-Hyuuga: You are so very close to it. However Naruto and Neji are not dating. Their parents might be but they are not. It’ll be revealed in this chapter (I think) who Neji is dating (it’s someone close to Naruto’s personality though).

Ch. 3

“So where exactly are we going?” Naruto asked.

Deidara grimaced as he and Itachi led Naruto to the meeting room. It hadn’t even been two hours since they left the boy in his room and came back to get him. Did he have to talk so much?

“To see the leaders.” Itachi answered simply.

“But why?”

“They want to see you.”

“Why?”

“I don’t know.”

“Is it because of the fox?”

“Maybe.” Deidara spoke up.

Itachi glared over at Deidara as Naruto opened his mouth yet again, “Why?”

Deidara suddenly felt the urge to slam his head into one of the stone walls of the hideout.

(I am a line. Please ignore me. I am a line. Please ignore me. I am a line. Please ignore me. )

Unlike their partners, Kisame and Sasori weren’t having much trouble. In fact, they actually made it to the meeting room before Itachi, Deidara and Naruto. It might’ve helped that they got Neji before Itachi and Deidara got Naruto.

“These leaders of yours… do you know what they want with me?” Neji asked as he looked around the room.

For being the meeting room of a criminal organization it wasn’t exactly opulent. There was just a long table with chairs around it. Neji believed that the Elders meeting room was more opulent and all they had was decorative carvings in their table.

“I don’t know exactly.” Kisame said.

“What do you know?”

“Not much.” Sasori replied.

“Hey, I know plenty.”

“Things that involve Icha Icha is not considered ‘plenty.” Sasori said emotionlessly.

Neji resisted the urge to roll his eyes. He thought back to the time they had tried to kidnap Gaara. If Lee hadn’t been there, they might have succeeded. His thought then turned to his own lover.

He hoped he wasn’t too worried. Then again, knowing Kiba, he would more than likely want to rush in and help him. Neji suppressed a smile, the Inuzuka clan were all headstrong.

Thinking of Kiba just made Neji want to rush back to Konoha. His uncle finally gave him permission to ask Kiba to marry him. Well, after they turned eighteen anyway.

“Listen all we know is that they want to talk to you.” Kisame said turning away from Sasori.

Neji was about to reply when the door opened revealing Itachi, Deidara and Naruto. Deidara was shaking slightly as Naruto was still asking why. Apparently he knew that it annoyed the older blond.

“Neji!” Naruto said cheerfully spotting the other Leaf nin.

Naruto bounded over to him and started talking rapidly. Neji wondered where he got his energy. If this was how he acted, Neji would hate to see how his kids, if he had any, would behave.

“Good work, Itachi, Kisame, Sasori and Deidara.” said the leader as he and a shadowy figure entered.

Neji looked at the leader and his companion. There didn’t seem to be anything remarkable about the two. They were just two shadowy figures that fazed slightly.

“Hn.” Itachi said as he grabbed Deidara’s and left.

Sasori and Kisame left as well. The two figures walked to the other side of the table from the two boys. The leader smiled.

“I suppose you want to know why you are here.”

“That would be nice, yes.” Neji stated.

“Be nice, Neji.” said the figure.

Neji frowned. He knew he recognized that voice but he just could not place it. Maybe he really didn’t know it.

“Do either of you know of the night that Kyuubi was sealed?” asked the leader.

“Yeah, the Fourth Hokage sealed the demon into a newborn baby. He died in the process and the whole village mourned him.” Neji stated simply.

“Right, but what no one knows is that the Fourth Hokage survived and has been traveling around the Hidden World.”

The two boys stared at the leader with widened eyes. Neither could see how the Fourth would have survived. It was impossible, right?

“Allow me to show you.” the leader stood up and held up his hands. A few moments later the haziness dropped and before the two stood a blond haired man.

“No way!” Naruto shouted.

Neji instinctively held up his hands and whispered, “Kai.”

The last shadowy figure chuckled slightly as the release didn’t work. Neji dropped his hands and glared towards the figure. The recently revealed Fourth Hokage just smiled towards the two.

“Maybe you should reveal yourself, as well.” the Hokage said.

“Very well.” the figure dropped the haziness.

Neji gasped in shock. Naruto’s eyes widened even more. The Fourth Hokage just kept smiling. Hizashi Hyuuga was revealed.