I know I said I wouldn't start any new stories, but considering I have deleted all works I knew would be left unfinished anyway, my author page looked really empty. So to fill the void of the old bad works, I will start creating some new ones for people to enjoy. Plus I got this idea and couldn't let it go, no matter how hard I tried to update any other of my stories, this was the idea that I burned for.

As I do in my other stories, I would like to ask a question each chapter at the end, to involve you guys, so if you could take some time to answer it, I would be thrilled!

BLOODLINE WARNING: Naruto will awaken a bloodline.

PAIRING WARNING: The pairing will be someone not supposed to alive. And don't worry I am not going to pair a 13-year-old with a mature woman, he will have to age a little more first. *Wink*.

Pairing: Naruto x Mikoto

REVIEWS ARE VERY MUCH APPRECIATED, IT HELPS KEEPING THE MOTIVATION FOR WRITING UP, EVEN THE SMALLEST COMMENT HELPS A TON, THANKS.

"Lightning Release: Electromagnetic Murder!" - Techniques.

"Naruto..." - Person Talking.

"Naruto..." - Person Thinking.

"Naruto..." - Demonic Voice/Bijuu/Boss Summon/God Talking.

"Naruto..." - Demonic Voice/Bijuu/Boss Summon/God Thinking.

DISCLAIMER: I don't own Naruto, if I did a shit ton of stuff would be different you can count on that.

CHAPTER 1 - Blood

'Please Naruto, bring my lost boy home to me…'

Glaring across the valley, his red and black slitted eyes glaring holes in the skull, of the Sharingan using teammate of his. He extends his clawed hand and started spinning chakra in his palm, soon a purple sphere of chakra formed within his palm. "Rasengan…" Naruto's demonic sounding voice called out.

The curse mark transformed Sasuke, responded by gripping his wrist as a grey silver colored lightning exploded in his palm, taking the form of his Chidori. "Chidori!" Sasuke spat, crouching slightly down about to take off in any second.

The two stared at each other, holding their respective jutsu up for what felt like hours. A small rock fell from the top of one the statues and inched closer and closer to the water surface, and with an audible splash sound it breached the water surface as the two former brothers in all but blood leaped from their respective statue toward the other.

Inside Naruto, the fox's chakra was running through him, like a pump was suddenly supplying his every coil, every nanosecond, of every moment. The chakra bursts around him one last time, the intense glow of his chakra cloak becoming even more crimson red than before, as he felt an unnatural sting behind his eyeballs.

"Don't you dare lose." A demonic voice rung through his mind, confusing him but gave it no thought because of the situation he was in.

And he felt like something inside him was unlocked, he clenched his eyes shut for a moment with an audible groan, only to open them the next second, to find everything a little more clear than before, like the situation was unfolding itself before him, in form of some kind of manual.

He gave a slight gasp, his eyes focused automatically on the two A-Rank jutsu about to collide, even though time seemed to be going in slow motion in the middle of the valley, and he saw an entirely new attack plan, that just require a minimal change of direction.

Leaning his body a little to the left, and lowering his extended arm slightly, he gritted his teeth in pain as Sasuke's lightning covered hand shredded his shoulder open, before passing besides his head, missing any lethal points that the jutsu had been intended to strike.

Something wet hit his face a second later, and he noticed his own jutsu placement. Right in the middle of Sasuke's chest. The chakra from the purple sphere bursts in form of a spiral, making all stone within a ten feet radius crumble to dust from the pressure while sending the demonically transformed Sasuke propelling back into the statue of Madara's feet at insane speeds.

Naruto fell to the ground gripping his bleeding shoulder, as he wiped the wet moisture from his face, realizing it was some kind of purple liquid, 'Ew. where did this come from?' He questioned and glanced down at Sasuke who was laying on his side, covered by his strangely mutated curse mark wings, a purple liquid forming a large puddle under him.

'Could this be... his blood? But, but why is it purple? Could it have something to do with the curse mark transformation?' Naruto questioned horrified, and his expression got even more filled with horror as he realized that if this was blood, then the puddle forming rapidly under Sasuke's body was as well.

The red chakra cloak receded, his whisker grew less feral and returned to normal, his remaining small cuts healed, but his shredded shoulder only managed to heal just enough, so a nice looking scar was covering the skin just beside his throat, matching the one just below in his chest from earlier.

Dropping onto the ground, grabbing his shoulder tightly. His every cell felt like they were burning, they were crying in protest, begging him to stop moving, and let them rest, just for a second. But he couldn't just do that, not with his best friend laying just over there, in what might be a puddle of his own blood.

He crawled over to Sasuke's still form and moved onto his wobbly legs, that felt just about to give in under him. "Yo, asshole, enough is enough as I said, snap out of it." Naruto panted out in between groans, but Sasuke still wasn't moving.

"You listening to me Sasuke?!" He voiced out, nudging Sasuke feet with his own confused.

'Why isn't he moving? Did I knock his selfish ass out or something?' Naruto groaned and leaned down slowly, and pushed the still transformed Uchiha's shoulder roughly, trying to get a response from the Uchiha.

"Enough is enough! I said... SNAP OUT OF IT!" Naruto pushed his rougher than before and watched as Sasuke body turned over to lay on his back, the blonde almost threw up, Sasuke eyes were wide open, with no movement. But that wasn't what made him feel sick, no.

It was the gaping hole in the Uchiha's chest.

There was a huge hole where Sasuke's chest was supposed to be, the wound was so large, it looked like he had swallowed an activated paper bomb. Naruto couldn't hold it any longer, he grabbed his mouth with his hand and threw up as he dropped to his knees.

"Oh my god, no, what have I done?!" Naruto crawls over lifts a shaking hand over Sasuke's body.

"Sasuke, stop playing around! Release the genjutsu! Please… please let this be some cruel genjutsu of yours!" Naruto begged while grabbing Sasuke's collar roughly, shaking the corpse around, only for more blood to pour out of the almost drained veins and onto the ground.

"No…" Naruto releases Sasuke's body getting back on his feet, backing away slowly. This couldn't be happening! He hadn't meant for it to turn out this way! Did he use too much chakra? That asshole Kabuto had survived a Rasengan to the chest before, so Sasuke could too! But that Rasengan wasn't nine-tailed fox chakra powered up like this one…

His body shook as dark grey clouds assembled above his head, soon wet drops of rain hit his forehead. He stared at Sasuke's body, trying desperately with his stare to make the genjutsu disappear. Feeling his heart hurt, he dropped to his knees into a water puddle with closed eyes.

He grabbed his jacket, just in front of where his heart was supposed to be. He slowly opened his eyes, and the next moment they widened in shock, where his usually bright blue irises were located, deep red ones, similar to Sasuke's was placed, with two instead of Sasuke's three black markings.

'No... This is! But how can I?' Naruto's head flew up to stare at Sasuke's body, his head suddenly was filled with a wave of intense pain, that moved rapidly downward until they met his eye sockets,

"Fucking shit!" Naruto grabbed his face and lifted himself out of the puddle. He backed away slowly, rubbing his eyes as he felt a thick liquid escape the corners of his eye sockets, and afterward trailed down his cheeks as he was unable to open his eyes.

He was about to take a step more back when he realized there was no more ground to step on. He fell back over from the edge of the statue's feet, toward the water. His eyes forced themselves open as the sudden rush of adrenaline traveled throughout his body.

His eyes were blood red, a line of red liquid was trailing across his eyes across the eyelids, as his eyes with two markings started to spin slowly, building up speed until they were spinning wildly, and then the third marking in his eyes appeared, just like it had earlier in Sasuke's own eyes earlier in the battle. But it didn't stop there.

He snapped his eyes shut, as his falling body inched closer to the water surface. And just the second before his body went through the water surface, his eyes snapped open for a mere moment revealing a completely new and strange pattern, before his eyes turned back to the usual blue sapphire color, though darker than ever before, as he went through the water surface with a lone thought echoing in his mind.

'Did I just… Did I just kill a family member?'

*Drip Drip* He felt something wet hit his face, making him groan in annoyance as he opened his eyes slightly as he was hit with a drop of water in the eye. "GARH! Son of a bitch!" He shouted in annoyance as he rolled onto his stomach and got onto his knees as he looked around while rubbing his eye.

"What the hell, why am I here?" He looked around in confusion, as a rush of memories played before his eyes. His eyes widened, his eyes were different, he killed Sasuke, and he was fucking drowning right now!

"Wait! This is where that annoying fox is, alright time to get some fucking answers!" He growled getting onto his feet, as he gave into a sprint, noticing that ever since he arrived here every pain he felt the moment before was gone.

He looked up on the wall and noticed two different pipes, one was red and the other blue. He realized that the red one probably had something to do with the red chakra he received from the fox, and decided to follow the pipes through several corridors until he was once again met by the inhuman sized gates.

"Oi! Fox are you awake in there!" Naruto yelled, deciding against calling him a giant oversized ball of fur this time since he did want some answers instead of a discussion. And his prayers were heard, as he gulped when two giant red slitted eyes opened behind the gate.

"You should get stronger so you don't have to keep relying on me to keep bailing you out. It's getting tiring, should you actually need my chakra we can work out a deal." A gruff voice grunted, Naruto kept silent for a few seconds before the big fox sighed.

"Now what do you want brat?" Naruto looked slightly uncomfortable.

"Hey, I know I was kind of an ass earlier when I pretty much demanded your strength… twice… So I'm so sorry about that! Really! But I would really appreciate if you could give me some answers this one time, you know, out of good will…" Naruto asked hopefully, he knew it was kind of odd to ask a favor from a fox demon, but right now nothing made sense to him.

"And why, should I give anything to you brat?" The loud voice rung through the room, and Naruto gulped as he scratched the back of his head looking around frantically, trying to think of something he could offer the fox.

'This boy, he is different than before.' The fox thought amused, apparently, this boy was actually willing to make some kind of deal with him, to get some simple answers. And he had apologized to him of all things he could do when he got here. That hadn't happened before.

"Huuh, huuh, uhmm… wait! This is my mindscape right, so I should be able to change it right?!" Naruto yelled up at the big fox, hoping to get some kind of answer.

"It's your mind, you should be able to do what you want with it? But then again it requires brain cells." The fox grunted, raising an eyebrow at his container that looked deep in thought with an annoyed expression before he put his fingers onto his forehead and looked like he was thinking so hard that he was in pain.

Soon the room started to change, out of the stone floor filled with water grew a grass field, the roof crumbled to dust, revealing a bright blue heaven with a few clouds here and there, and the wall fell down revealing a beautiful horizon to the right, and a deep forest with a lake in it on the left.

The cage started to fall apart and disappear, as a collar looking like a chain with the seal placed on appeared around the fox's neck. Making him grunt in annoyance, he wasn't some pet that could be collared! But, he could let it slide this one time, it wasn't much to live with for the thing he just had received.

"There! I changed the place you stay in from the smelly sewer, could I perhaps gets some answers, or is there something else you want first?" Naruto asked as he opened his eyes panting slightly, only this moron could be exhausted in his own mindscape. But he was different than before, his attitude had changed. But that's probably what happens when you accidentally take the life of your best friend…

"What do you want to know bird-brain?" The fox sighed as it laid down and rested it's head on top of its crossed paws, staring his blonde container in the eyes.

"Okay, I know you have been around for like a super long time, and you have been with me ever since I was born! So you have to at least know something about this, and why I for some reason got it." Naruto said as he pointed to his eyes, that turned into the red irises at the mention of them.

"I really hoped I never had to deal with those cursed eyes again after Madara, but I guess your lineage simply wouldn't allow it." The fox grunted with a snort, as it lifted its head still staring without blinking.

"WAIT! Lineage? Was one of my parents of the same clan as Sasuke?" Naruto asked in pain, if he was of the same clan as Sasuke, then he had truly just killed his only living family member other than the clan killer that was Sasuke's brother.

"It isn't about which clans your parents were from, but which clan one of their parents came from." The fox explained, and Naruto nodded in realization, so his parents weren't from Sasuke's clan, but apparently one of his grandparents were…

"But, why did I first get it now? Sasuke has used it several times already!" Naruto yelled in realization, and the fox looked almost guilty as it glanced up to the side with a snort.

"I just said I hoped to never deal with those eyes again, so in an attempt to get that dream to come true, I blocked them. Just like I did with your mom's! At least she never got to use them." The fox suddenly chuckled, annoying the hell out of the blonde container.

"You.. blocked.. my eyes? How the hell does that even work?! And why did you do that! I could have found out me and Sasuke was somehow related earlier! And this shit would never have happened! All because you so be such an egoistic furball!" Naruto ranted, and the nine-tails got a throbbing tick mark on its forehead as it flicked Naruto's forehead with one of its tails.

"What happened to the almost respectful tone you brat, do you want me to come and claw your empty head off?! And why should it have mattered anyway, the traitor said he already saw you as a brother, it wouldn't have made a difference in the end." He glared at Naruto with a grunt, said blonde tried to counter the fox's answer but gritted his teeth in agony as he sat down on the grass field.

"Wait, you mentioned my mom before, how did you know her?" Naruto looked up hopefully, this had to be the first lead he ever got on his parents, even though it was kind of by accident he got it.

"Do you really think you were the first one containing me bird brain? No, your mother was one of two containers I have ever had, before you that is the third one, I was forced out of her seal on the night of your birth, by a man using those cursed eyes to control me again, just like that time with Madara and Hashirama." He scoffed angrily narrowing his eyes.

'I guess that explains why he hates the Sharingan so much, but that doesn't give him the right to simply take my heritage away from me!' Naruto mentally groaned in annoyance, this fox was so troublesome.

"Fox? I am actually starting to feel kind of bad calling you fox, but anyway...can you... can you tell me about my mother?" Naruto asked hesitantly, refusing to look the fox in the eyes. So he didn't get to see the fox softening his gaze.

"Kurama, brat."

Naruto snapped his gaze up at the fox, his eyes held a lot of confusion in them. "Kurama?" He questioned slowly, with a soft tone.

"That's my name bird brain. But don't go around telling it to anyone, I don't want anyone not worthy of it knowing it. And if you do tell anyone, I will shatter this seal, take your body over slowly and painfully." Kurama warned him dangerously and gave a disgusted growl as he thought back to people like Madara, who definitely wasn't anywhere close to being worthy enough to know him by his real name.

"Well, I am Naruto Uzumaki, nice to meet you, Kurama!" Naruto felt a weird rush of gratitude toward the big fox and extended his hand politely like he had been instructed to by Iruka when meeting someone, but quickly realized that his hand was way too small for that here-

But he was interrupted in the middle of his musings as Kurama stuck one of his claws toward him and flicked his forehead with it, sending him back to land on his butt with a grunt. "Ah, my butt, what the hell was that for?!-

"Now, you had some questions about your mother?" Kurama interrupted while he softened up slightly at the mention of his old container, she hadn't directly been mean to him, but the seal used to keep him restrained hadn't really been that nice either, being changed and nailed to a flying rock didn't really feel that nice.

"What… what was she like?" He asked hesitantly, not really too sure that he wanted to know what the parent he would never meet was like. It would probably make him miss them even later.

An image of his mother rippled into existence in the lake beside them, Naruto stared at his mother in awe, she was so beautiful, and had red hair! Why didn't he have red hair? That's so unfair!

"Kushina Uzumaki was a headstrong, impulsive, eccentric, and stubborn girl growing up. As an adult, Kushina was very level-headed and cheerful with a noticeable sassy side to her. Despite her calm and kind nature, she retained her quick temper from her childhood and occasionally lashed out violently at others if they angered her, something that even she finds off-putting." Kurama chuckled as he played a few memories of his from when he was inside Kushina, and Naruto couldn't help but see himself in her, I guess there wasn't really any doubt about who he got his personality from.

"Mom was awesome…" Naruto awed, he reached down to touch the water surface, making the image blurry so he quickly removed his hand so he could burn this image of her into his memory.

"You should get out now brat. You fell into the water some time ago, if you don't go do something about it you might actually drown and die this time." Kurama laughed loudly at him, and Naruto panicked as he started to run toward the exit.

"Oh, no, no, no! You are right! Thanks, Kurama for it all!" He started running toward the weird exit that was now placed inside a huge oak tree.

'You might try to hide it Naruto, but nobody and nothing can ever hide it because your eyes say it all, it's just a matter of time before you realize how they do so' An image of Naruto's strange eye pattern appeared in Kurama's thoughts as he closed his eyes slowly.

'Indeed, just a matter of time before you realize what those cursed eyes of yours truly mean."

'Damn fox seemed more talkative today.' He snapped his eyes open to see nothing but water, his eyes widened in realization, the fox was right, he might actually drown here! He panicked and started to swim up of the water, his lungs burning and his face going purple as he neared the surface with every muscle and cell in his body burning once again.

His hand just barely managed to get over the water surface as he couldn't hold his breath anymore and let it go, water started to fill his mouth as his muscles were going numb, unable to move an inch more. 'No… I'm so close!' His vision was getting blurry, and his eyelids were getting heavy.

His vision narrowed and blurred, as he barely managed to see one thing before his world went black. A hand that breached through the surface grabbing onto his wrist.

His eyes widened as he suddenly coughed up what felt like a hundred gallons of water onto the ground beside him. Wait a minute, he was on the ground? He wiped his face with his sleeve and looked up to see the masked face he knew so well. "Oh, hey Kakashi-sensei.." Naruto sighed in defeat, how was he going to tell his sensei that he had just killed his teammate?

'Those who break the rules are scum, but those who abandon their friends, are worse than said scum'

That was what this man had taught them and now look at his situation. He had killed one of his teammates, not abandoned him which would be mild in comparison, no he had killed him, blew a hole through the chest of him.

"How are you feeling?" Kakashi asked putting a hand on his shoulder, Naruto flinched from the touch and looked down at his palms. He could practically see this weird purple colored blood stains on his hands.

"Like I just was about to drown…" Naruto spat out some more water from his mouth, and groaned, his body still felt like it had been run over by a thousand bulls.

"Well, at least your humor is still the place where it's supposed to be. Come on, get on my back we got to head back and report to Lady Hokage." Kakashi said crouching down in front of him, and Naruto pretty much swung his tired body on Kakashi's back as he was lifted up from the ground.

"Don't worry, we will get him back," Kakashi reassured with an eye-smile. But the sentence shocked him. Get him back? Did they have some kind of way to bring back the dead? How is that possible?

"Bring- Bring him back?" He stuttered with tired eyes widening as he looked at Kakashi, who glanced sideways up at him with an eye-smile.

"Well, judging from the scene you guys had a really tough fight, Sasuke can't have gotten far so the hunters might be able to get them, Lady Tsunade just sent ten recently returned hunters on the job," Kakashi explained with his eye-smile getting bigger if it was even possible.

But how, didn't they find a body? "Kakashi-sensei? Didn't you find a body?" Kakashi hummed at the sudden words coming out of Naruto's mouth, slightly confused at his student's weird question he raised a brow and dropped the eye-smile.

"I, I killed him… I blew a hole through his chest with my Rasengan I didn't mean to! There was so much blood, how can't you have found a body, I saw it with my own eyes!" Naruto unconsciously channeled chakra to his eyes, revealing his recently awakened heritage.

Kakashi eyes widened, 'No, that's impossible. How can Naruto have the Sharingan? Something is really fishy about this rescue mission…' Kakashi mentally narrowed his eyes as Naruto's eyes faded black to the duller blue color that they had turned into.

"Naruto... There was nobody, Sasuke can't have stood up and walked away if he had died, and there was nothing indicating someone dragging him away from there. No trace of presence belonging to Orochimaru, the only chakra my hounds and I could sense in the entire area were you and Sasuke's. I don't believe he is dead." Kakashi gave him a reassuring thumbs up. And Naruto still couldn't believe it.

"But… I saw his body… His pupils weren't even moving, and his eyes were wide open! How is that even possible!" Naruto shouted in Kakashi's ear, earning him a punch to the head.

"There is a lot we don't know about the curse mark Naruto, who knows if it had some kind of weird fail-safe, you know that Lady Tsunade has an insane healing jutsu able to heal most wounds, think if Orochimaru has created something similar in the curse mark acting as a failsafe for his prized 'test' subjects." Kakashi spat the last word like venom, he hated that sick freak and how he treated human beings like lab rats.

'Sasuke, is alive? My potential family member, is still alive?' Naruto questioned to himself Speaking of family and heritage. He never got around to ask the fox why he had decided to let it unlock instead of keeping it blocked. That had to be a conversation for another time, there were much more important things to think about at the present time

Kakashi watched Naruto out of the corner of his eyes, he still couldn't believe what he had just seen. 'If Naruto has the Sharingan, how come he suddenly awakens it now? Out of all the situations he has been in so far, the Wave Mission, Chunin Exams, his battle with Gaara, and of course his fight where he fought alongside Lord Jiraiya and Lady Tsunade against Orochimaru, why does it decide to awaken now instead of any of the other times?' Kakashi couldn't find an answer that wasn't questionable.

'Could this be the fox's work somehow?' Kakashi questioned quietly to himself, but even this theory was unlikely, the seal should still be holding the fox tightly right? But there was a lot of the intense thick chakra in the air from the battle between his two male students, which probably belonged to said fox, narrowing his eyes, as he watched Naruto pass out on his back.

'No matter, for now, I need to get him to the hospital as fast as possible at the moment, questions can be answered later.' Kakashi made up his mind, as he took off at the highest speeds his legs could carry him, toward their destination. The hospital.

He groaned in annoyance as rays of sunlight hit his eyelids, he slowly narrowed his eyes open only to groan further in annoyance. 'Where am I?' He questioned himself as he sat up, and one of his eyebrows twitched in annoyance. He was in the hospital.

He looked at himself, and noticed he was covered in bandages everywhere, "The hell?" He gritted his teeth as he grabbed a bandage at his face and started tearing it off, god he had to have looked like some kind of mummy.

Staring out of the window he realized Kakashi must have brought him back to the village, he started to wonder how long he has been out, it was raining when his fight with Sasuke ended, and now the sun was shining. Rain periods usually lasted for a long time around here, just like the periods without rain did the same.

He looked down at his shoulder and moved a bandage out of the way to see the scar Sasuke had made on him, just before he himself had thrust a technique into his teammate's chest.

"Naruto... There was nobody, Sasuke can't have stood up and walked away if he had died, and there was nothing indicating someone dragging him away from there. No trace of presence belonging to Orochimaru, the only chakra my hounds and I could sense in the entire area were you and Sasuke's. I don't believe he is dead."

Kakashi's words rung through his head, Sasuke had to be alive somehow. "Well, at least I can look her in the eyes and not feel guilty about killing her son…" Naruto gritted out, he had made a promise, not only to his pink-haired teammate but to her as well. His teammate's mother.

Mikoto Uchiha, former wife of Fugaku Uchiha and the mother of Itachi and Sasuke Uchiha. She had taken care of a few times when he was a kid, when she had noticed how lonely he was as a kid, and could never thank her enough for that. So when she suddenly had come and begged him to bring her lost son back to her, he had promised that he would do just that, he made a promise of a lifetime.

He heard shuffling at the window, and looked up to see the huge man going by the name Jiraiya that had been training him for the past few months, "Yo brat, how are you doing? Not too good I can see, been out cold two weeks in the hospital and you are still all roughed up it seems…" Jiraiya tried to lighten up the mood with a joke, but the mood just fell.

'Two weeks? I have been out cold for two weeks? I wouldn't be so roughed up if I had been stronger than this…' Naruto clenched his bandage covered hands with a scowl, which Jiraiya quickly caught on and sighed at the sight before him as he sat down in the window, and decided that this time was as perfect as any to offer him that.

"You know, you can sit there and feel bad for yourself all you want, or you could do something about it." Jiraiya crossed his arms over his chest and leans against the frame of the window with a raised brow.

"What do you want me to do? I am weak! The only things I can even do is Shadow Clones and the Rasengan! The later which I can't even do correctly yet anyway! I need training, but with you leaving every other week, and Kakashi-sensei always being late all the time for team training there isn't really much help to get around here to get stronger…" Naruto scoffed in annoyance as he sat back against the pillows in his hospital bed with a sigh.

"I know."

Naruto looked at him in confusion, he knew? Then what the hell was this, you can do something about it speech for if he knew there was close to no help to get around here at all!

"I know I am away a lot, and to make up for it I have a deal for you," Jiraiya said with a smirk, and Naruto raised a brow in return, a deal? What deal?

"I am going to leave the next three to four years, and gather intel on the Akatsuki and Orochimaru, even though I would rather have you give up on the Uchiha I know it's pointless because you have already made one of your famous 'promises of a lifetime' to some certain people," Jiraiya said with a shrug, confusing Naruto even further if the perverted sage here was going to leave for four years, what kind of deal could he even make then?!

"So, before you interrupt me, I will now state my deal. You, Naruto Uzumaki, can become the apprentice of me, Jiraiya of The Legendary Sannin's apprentice, and tag along on a four-year-long training trip to make you prepared for the threats known as The Akatsuki and Orochimaru." Jiraiya smirked, and Naruto's jaw dropped onto sheets as his eyes almost fell out of their sockets.

A four-year training trip? With Jiraiya of The Sannin himself? Well, it would probably only be a two year training trip, since the other two years will probably be spend peeping on women in bathhouses and afterward taking a major beating thereafter you have to spend some nights in a nearby hospital, but still, two years with training from one of this village's most legendary shinobi to date!

"Judging from the look on your face, I think we have a deal. So, I know there is a lot we have to work on, so you can start by showing me your newest asset that Kakashi told me about." Jiraiya smirked, but his look also held some kind of need for clarification.

"Newest addition?" Naruto questioned and Jiraiya sighed, and pointed his fingers at his eyes and started to spin them around making some kind of 'whooshing' sound with his mouth, looking like a major child. But Naruto understood nonetheless, he must have accidentally shown Kakashi what he recently learned off when he was being carried home.

Channeling chakra to his eyes, his dull dark blue orbs morphed into a deep crimson shade of red, as three black markings known as tomoes spun to life on the irises around the pupil. "I got to say, I had never seen this coming," Jiraiya admitted as he leaned closer in to study the boy's eyes, there was no doubt about it being a Sharingan alright, but how did he get it, and why now?

Since the boy didn't know his own heritage it would be pointless asking him, and since he himself knew the heritage of the boy, he couldn't find anywhere to put the Uchiha heritage, but then again, it wouldn't be impossible, both his mother and father had been orphans, but neither of them showed any sign of having Uchiha heritage when they were alive…

"Well, it seems like you got more in common with the Uchiha kid than you originally thought," Jiraiya smirked slightly, and Naruto found a smile creeping onto his face, yeah, he was actually closer to Sasuke than he had originally thought, maybe this is the reason they always have had some kind of unnatural bond? Because they always have been related somehow?

"So, what's the plan now pervy sage? When are we leaving for this training trip of yours?" Naruto asked excitedly if Sasuke really was alive out there, he had to get strong and quick to make sure he could bring the bastard back where he belonged!

"Woah, Woah, Woah! Hold your horses, kiddo, get released from the hospital first would ya?" Jiraiya said waving his hands around with a sweatdrop, sheesh, this boy had way too much energy, just like his mother.

"Anyway Naruto, there is a lot of stuff planned on the training trip, we have to get around that Sharingan of yours, so I will request Kakashi tagging along with us on this trip since he is the only one capable of training you in how to use it. We also have to get around your chakra affinity, and of course the basic three, gen- tai- and ninjutsu. And then we have some time reserved for something special concerning your heritage." Jiraiya informed, Sarutobi had told him all about how much this boy wanted to know more about his family, so who was he to deny him that information?

"Kushina Uzumaki… She was my mother right?" Naruto suddenly asked making Jiraiya fall flat on his face on the floor, before he clumsily got up on his knees beside Naruto's, staring him dead seriously in the eyes.

"How, how did you know that?" He asked confused, Sarutobi had said this boy wasn't supposed to know anything about it all before he was strong enough!

"The fox told me, we had some long conversation as I was drowning, he ended up revealing I wasn't the only container he has had, but there had been others and one was my mom! He also described her, and I guess I know where I got my personality from!" Naruto scratched his head with a big grin of his face.

"Indeed you do have your personality from her brat, what about your dad, did the big bad fox tell you about him?" Jiraiya questioned and Naruto shook his head in negative, and Jiraiya let out a relieved sigh. That conversation was something he wanted to have with Naruto personally.

"Well, then I certainly hope that a curious fox inside you will at least keep that from you until I can reveal to you because there is a lot of sub-categories to that topic we have to go through as well," Jiraiya said with narrowed eyes, poking a finger into Naruto's stomach where the seal was placed, as if talking to the fox inside of him. Little did he know that the fox actually heard it all, and responded with a snort filled with annoyance.

Jiraiya got up from the floor, breathing out a deep sigh as he ruffled Naruto's hair with a smile. "We are going to hit the road in a week, and judging from Tsunade's last medical concerned report about you, then you should be free to leave this place in a day or two. So go around say goodbye to who you think deserves to know about this, and meet me at the front gates at six o'clock in the morning in a week. Understood?" Naruto nodded excitedly and started to form a list in his head about who he wanted to say goodbye to before leaving on this awesome trip, and if Kakashi-sensei was coming along to train him in how to use the Sharingan, then this trip was becoming ten times more awesome than before!

"By the way, that pretty Uchiha lady was asking a lot about you, whether you were okay or not. You should probably go say goodbye to that hottie." Jiraiya giggled pervertedly, and Naruto threw a vase at the pervert which he barely managed to dodge.

"Stay away from Mikoto-chan you old perv!" Naruto yelled with twitching eyebrow and a huge throbbing tick mark on his forehead as he glared evilly at the pervert with white demonic like eyes.

"Oh? You want her all to yourself then, didn't know you were all in for the older ladies, Naruto?!" Jiraiya laughed loudly and was about to take a book out from his jacket smirking when he was hit in the head by a roll of bandages thrown by a blushing Naruto before he was chased out of the window by a bandage-covered Naruto.

An hour later they were sitting side by side in their own respective hospital bed, both had their arms crossed over their chest with a twitching eyebrow and a face filled with annoyance. "I would have won if you hadn't summoned a toad to sit on me." Naruto glared at him.

Jiraiya glared back but with a smirk, "Heh, a Shinobi always uses all his options brat, you could learn a lot from me." Jiraiya puffed out his chest with pride as he was hit by a new vase. Where the hell did he even get all those vases from anyway?

"Yeah, like perving on women in hot springs, you dirty old perv!" Naruto screamed at him with such a loud voice making Jiraiya's ears ring as he had to rub it to try and ease the pain just a little bit.

Jiraiya got a mischievous smirk on his face, "Oh well that was part of the plan for the training trip actually, to make you learn how to be stealthy by peeking at bathhouses, but I guess you want to stay true to your feelings for your Mikoto-chaaaan." Jiraiya teased as he was suddenly met with a medium-sized toad landing on top of him, now unable to breathe.

"Ga-Gama-Gamahiro-s-san! Get o-off me, now! C-Can't breathe…!" He grunted out with his face turning blue from lack of air, and he could swear he felt some of his ribs cracking inside of his chest.

Beside him, Naruto was sitting with an evil look and a bleeding thumb. 'I guess there was one thing I could learn from your old perverted ass.' He giggled evilly mentally, unconsciously entertaining a certain fox watching along with him.

"Hello Naruto sir, you summoned me?" The toad said with an unnaturally deep voice, and Naruto could barely hold his laugh in as he waved his hand around.

"Yeah, you are doing your job perfectly Gamahiro!" Unable to hold it in any longer, Naruto roared out laughing at the sight, and Gamahiro looked down confused only to gasp as he noticed the all blue Jiraiya spasming around for air like a fish in need of water under him.

The week went by fast, he was before he even knew around saying goodbye to everyone he knew.

Walking around with his hand buried deep inside his pockets, Naruto released a breath he was holding for a few seconds. He had walked around saying goodbye to his teammate, reassuring her that he would bring Sasuke back, once when he returned from came back stronger than he had ever been before.

He had said goodbye to the rookies, shook hands with Neji in the hospital, finally deciding to let go of their earlier disagreement on fate, since the Hyuuga had changed for the better, and they had actually managed to become quite good friends.

He pulled his hands out of his pockets in front of the Uchiha compound, and was about to knock on the door to tell the woman that took care of him earlier in his life that he was leaving for a few years, but how could he look her in the eye? He had failed his promise to her…

"Please Naruto, bring my lost boy home to me…" The woman all but pleaded in front of him while lowering her head, Naruto smiled and chuckled as he gave her a brief hug before walking back to the gate along with his team.

"Don't worry Mikoto-chan! I will drag his sorry ass back here to apologize to you, even if I have to break every single bone in his body to do so!" He replied seriously with giving a thumb up, making Mikoto chuckle sadly.

"Don't be too rough on him okay? It isn't his fault that he is like this... But that is a story for another time…" She sighed and smiled at him, and Naruto replied with a chuckle and a scratching to the back of his head as he grinned sheepishly.

"I'll try not to, but I and Sasuke just can't help it when we get at each other's throat, that's just who we are!" Naruto laughed and the retrieval team just nodded their head in agreement with a shrug, if anybody could break each other's bones by mistake it was those two.

"I know Naruto-kun, I know, I have watched you two growing up you know." She smiled and walked up and gave him a quick hug, and muttered a silent 'be safe' in his ear before walking back to stand beside the sorrowful pink-haired teammate that wasn't allowed to go on the mission with them.

Failing his promise to Sakura was one thing, but failing it to Mikoto felt so much worse in his head, this was Sasuke mother for kami's sake! He had promised her to save her son from himself, and he had ended up almost killing him in the process, how could he say that to her?

He lifted his hand shakily and stopped only mere inches away from the door. He couldn't do it. He simply couldn't look her in the eye with what he had done.

He lowered his hand, making it swing loosely by his side. 'I'm sorry… I'm so sorry that I'm such a coward!' He gritted his teeth as he sprinted out of the Uchiha compound, and failed to notice a pair of worried onyx eyes staring at his retreating form through a gap in the curtains in the window beside the door.

He raced out through the opening in the compound wall that served to be the entrance and raced around the corner as he sprinted toward his apartment. 'I'm stupid… I'm so utterly stupid!' He groaned and turned another corner and raced up through the stairs to his apartment.

He all but kicked the door open and slammed it shut afterward, and leaned against the back of it. "Damn, why did I decide to run off like that, it isn't like me… Naruto Uzumaki never runs away!" Naruto headbutted the wall and yelped in pain afterward and rubbed his sore forehead.

'Pathetic. You really are stupid.' A certain fox thought to himself, deep within Naruto's mindscape.

Deciding he was finished, and what he didn't have in his bag he could get on the road, he swung his backpack over his shoulder.

He went around shutting off the lights, closing the windows and took the trash out with him, before he stuck his key in the lock and turned it.

Locking the place down for the next three to four years to come.

Sooo, I decided to go with this, hopefully, you liked it and didn't hate it. There is a lot of "unanswered questions" in this chapter, which I will come around to answer as the story progress, no worries there.

As stated at the top, I have a question for y'all: What is your theory on what happened to Sasuke's corps? Did he walk up and leave? Was he taken by someone? Does the curse mark have some secret suicide bomb failsafe? Come with your best shots.

And please save me for your, Naruto is a crybaby crap, would you look someone in the eye that you have failed so hard as he feels he did here? After thinking you have killed someone's last remaining family member? Thought so.