Future and Present Clash

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Her head felt like it was being hammered. Darkness surrounded her; she tried to open her eyes and the faint ray of the afternoon sun hit her face. She tried getting up but the memories flooded back into her mind and she let herself fall back down; tears instantly forming. She knew that being a shinobi was dangerous, especially if you were the Hokage and the ANBU Commander. She had lost many people in her life, many friends and those she considered family. But to her, her parents were like heroes and no one likes it when they are faced with their heroes' mortality. They had fought so many battles that she truly believed they would get through it somehow. But when she heard from her own brother's lips that Uchiha Naruto and Uchiha Sasuke were no longer in this world, her heart sank into despair. The fact that Hinata-sama died as well and her own child had been in danger only worsened her mood. She remembered what Kyuubi had said; that emotions can cloud judgement. She came back in time to change the evil in the future; if she let it get to her she would lose the one chance she had to change anything. She forced herself to put her feelings aside; she had ninjas to train. She felt that Kyuubi was absent inside her which could only mean that he had taken her place. Knowing his training habits, her students could very well be shaking in their sandals with fear and nervous due to his intimidating personality. Not everyone had the temperament to handle the Nine-Tailed Demon Fox.

She tried to get up, her legs shook and her stomach protested. Kyuubi had forcefully made her body close down only once before and she hated it. She couldn't get drunk but from the symptoms, others had told her that it was a similar feeling to a hangover. Plus having Kyuubi out of her body for extended periods of time put a strain on her, that being the reason he did not come out as often as he liked. She made it to the main door and saw the others at their training. Kyuubi was in the middle of the field and the others spread out around him in a circle and in pairs.

"You call that chakra control?" he barked "My gran could do better. If I had one"

"Slave driver" Kiba murmured.

"What did you say dog boy? You think I can't hear you? I can hear the bounce of Tsunade's boobs as she walks towards her office as we speak. Think you can beat that?"

"Che. Stupid old fox" Naruto said, Kiba nodded in agreement.

"I would shut it too kit. I know the real deep stuff going on inside your mind; especially the kinky stuff. So have some common sense, control your chakra and shut up with your complaining"

"Hn"

"What was that Uchiha?"

"Enough Kyuubi. Go back inside before you cause your own death. You've been outside for too long" Sasunara said. Her voice was weak and dry and her legs could hardly hold her up.

"Che" but he nonetheless began to fade and the red chakra zoomed back into Sasunara. As soon as the demon was back inside she instantly felt better. She straightened up and walked outside.

"You can relax now guys. His gone" she said softly.

"Kami-sama! How can you stand him inside your head all the time?" Kiba asked.

"He grows on you. He turned out to be my best friend. It's been a while since he came out so he was trying to recover his ego by being a bad ass" she answered but her voice had lost its old spark and energy "Umm I need to talk to you guys so if you could please gather around" they wondered why but they did it anyway "Umm I just want to tell you that I won't let this come in between my duties as your leader anymore. The Akatsuki invasion is in a week and we must be prepared, so I am upping our training. I want you guys to rotate, to help each other in anything you can, in any area you can. Umm that's all for now, I… can I speak to you Naruto-otousan?" She asked "In private?"

"Sure sure" he said and the two ushered inside.

"What is it?" he asked.

"You know how I summoned Sasuke-otousan's parents? Well the only reason I can do that is because of my contract with the Death God. Once I complete my mission that power will be gone and in the future you always wanted to meet your parents and I left before I could summon them for you. And now you…you are gone and you never got to see them. So I will summon them now if you wish and then even when the future changes you will still have met them"

"Really? You will do that?" he asked excitedly.

"Yes" she gave him a soft smile and did the necessary hand seals "Ghost Summoning Technique"

And so the figures of Namikaze Minato and Uzumaki Kushina appeared, gradually getting less transparent but still see through.

"Mum… Dad" he said, he tried to hug them but his hands went through "Oh I guess that's what happens when you try to hug a ghost. There's so much I've always wanted to ask you"

"Naruto is that you? Oh look Minato, he grew so much" Kushina said

"How do you know who we are? Saratobi-sensei promised not to say anything" Minato said.

"Huh? But we already met. You know when I transformed into the Nine-Tails" Naruto said confused.

"You transformed into the Nine-Tails? Did the seal fail?" Minato asked immediately.

"Huh you don't remember? The old fox gave me control over his power. I don't lose my mind anymore" Naruto said.

"You must be very powerful for the fox to give you control like that" Naruto blushed and scratched the back of his head, Minato continued "But I do understand what you were saying; you must have met the imprints we left. I'm sorry son but those were only that, our imprints, we left them there as a back-door into rebuilding the seal in case it weakened. But please do tell us the story, you see, we can see everything that happens in the realm of the living however your encounter with Kyuubi was inside your mind which is every human's sanctuary and so we cannot see into it"

Naruto nodded with a smile and told them how Sasunara had persuaded the fox. He was a bit embarrassed that his parents knew he was in a relationship with another man but nonetheless was happy that they hadn't said anything about it; meaning they didn't really mind. Right? He looked at his mum's face. He had seen his father before but this had been the first time he had seen her. She was beautiful.

"Wow my mum's a babe" he said when he was finished. Minato laughed and Kushina blushed.

"I was hoping that you didn't take after me" she said "But I guess it was too late"

"Why? If my mum's a babe and I take after you, that makes me a hunk"

Both Kushina and Minato laughed. Naruto grinned and scratched the back of his head.

"Naruto we have something to tell you" Kushina said. She began explaining about the night of his birth and how their deaths came by at the hand of Uchiha Madara. Naruto's hand turned into a fist and anger rushed in his veins. But nevertheless he remained quiet as his parents told their story. They were talking for a while but Kushina finally said, "I always wanted to tell you to eat right, study your Ninjutsu and have true friends, even if not many"

"And watch out for Jiraya-sensei!" Minato added.

Naruto's previous smile faded "Ero-Sennin died"

"Well he hasn't entered the realm of the dead. We saw him being killed by Pein but he has not come to us yet" Minato said. Confusion covered Naruto's face. He looked over towards Sasunara for a possible explanation but her eyes were staring off into space. Naruto being Naruto had to brighten the mood.

"Mum as friends go I have many but don't worry they are all awesome. I have mostly only eaten ramen in my life but I promise I will start eating vegetables. As for Ninjutsu I'm not very good at it but I promise to keep trying"

Kushina smiled "I also wanted to tell you to marry a woman like your mother, however I see saying that is pointless now" her comment sparked an idea in Naruto's head.

"Neee I want you guys to meet someone" Naruto said enthusiastically. Before they could say anything Naruto ran off back towards the house. The ghosts turned towards Sasunara, who had broken out of her trance and was looking calmly at them.

"So you are our granddaughter?" Minato asked.

"Yes" Sasunara answered, giving him a smile.

"I see the blond hair is here to stay" Kushina said.

"Not really, besides dad, I'm the only one in the family with blonde hair. However Kushina does have red hair; that's one of the reasons why she was named after you actually" Sasunara explained. Kushina blushed and Minato, being taller than her, smiled down at her lovingly.

The sound of running feet broke their attention, "Here I am thinking that he would want a moment alone with you. Those two are really glued to each other even now" Sasunara added just before Naruto reached them, dragging Sasuke by the hand.

"Dad! Mum! This is Sasuke! He's my boyfriend!" Naruto said. Kushina and Minato sweat dropped.

"Nice to meet you Sasuke" Minato said. Kushina floated towards Sasuke and went to stand right in front of the Uchiha.

An evil gleam entered her eyes, taking the shape of a four pointed star as her red hair began to float around her "Nehh Sasuke-kun I remember when you were still in your mother's womb however if you ever hurt my boy ever again I will come back and hunt you for the rest of your life. Got it?"

"Oka-san that's-" Naruto began. Her dark, evil eyes turned towards him.

"Quiet Naruto" Naruto shrank back at her menacing tone. She turned her attention back to Sasuke.

"So?" she asked.

"I want to marry him" Sasuke said flat out. Although normally the groom would bow down to the father and ask permission an Uchiha never bowed down to anyone and all of them knew Sasuke was no exception and Kushina clearly wore the pants in the relationship. Even in death.

Naruto protested "What?"

Kushina lost her evil aura and blinked a few times "Excuse me?" she asked quietly, touching her hand to her cheek.

Sasuke was obviously not going to repeat himself.

"Hey don't I have a say in this?" Naruto asked.

"I'm going to marry him. If you don't like it I don't really see what you can do about it since your dead but your blessing would be appreciated. I would be troublesome for us after our passing into the death realm to have our ancestors fighting over our marriage"

"Troublesome? Hey! Don't I have a say in this?" Naruto asked again.

"No" Kushina and Sasuke answered simultaneously, never taking their eyes off each other.

"You must promise to be loyal to him" she said. Sasuke nodded slightly.

"You must promise to be faithful to him"

Nod.

"You must promise to support him"

Nod.

"You must promise to protect him"

Nod.

"You must promise not to hurt him"

"Does that include not pounding into him too hard?" Sasuke asked without missing a beat.

Both of Naruto's and Minato's face became as red as Kushina's hair.

"As I father I didn't need to hear that" Minato said quietly to himself.

"Oka-san!" Naruto shouted.

She ignored him and kept staring at Sasuke "No. That's your business. But I would appreciate you didn't hurt him too much. Unless he wants it of course"

"Deal" Sasuke said and the both of them shook hands.

"Hey! My sex life is not a business deal!" Naruto protested. Kushina and Minato began to slowly fade away. Naruto who was huffing and puffing immediately stopped.

"Oh it seems time is running out. Sasunara-chan must be getting tired" Kushina said.

"Bye son, you've made us proud. I'm sure you will be successful in bringing peace to the world" Minato said. Tears began to fall down Naruto's face.

"Before we go, tell me Naruto. What exactly is the result of Konoha's Yellow Flash and Red Hot-Blooded Habanero?" Kushina asked.

Naruto wiped his tears away smiling, "Konoha's Orange Hokage of course!" the ghost smiled as they became nearly invisible. Minato put his arm around Kushina's shoulders.

"Be happy my son. We love you" Kushina's voice sounded before the both of them disappeared.

Naruto wiped his tears away and turned towards Sasuke.

"You and I need to have a serious talk! Marriage? What the fuck? What happened to proposing? We've been together for like three weeks!" Naruto said.

"I've known you for years. I've been on a loveless path ever since Itachi killed our clan. I finally have a chance at happiness and you're complaining! Do you want me to get down on one knee? Is that it?" Sasuke asked.

Naruto thought really hard about what Sasuke was saying. Did he really want to get married? Sure, after all his parents seemed really happy and he already knew that they would be together anyway. But…did he want to humiliate Sasuke, his one true soul mate? The man that he has been chasing for years? Did he really want to embarrass the Uchiha by making him kneel down in front of him knowing full well that an Uchiha never even bowed down to anybody? Absolutely…YES! This was payback for making him chase him for three years. Naruto planned to get back at his boyfriend when he finally pushed Sasuke down with his amazing display of semeness. But having Sasuke on one knee just to please him would do just fine.

"Yes that's exactly what I want" Naruto finally said with determination.

"Well forget it then" Sasuke said as he turned around and began walking back to the camp. Naruto's mouth fell open.

'You mean after all the thinking I had to do he says no?' His thoughts were interrupted by a movement from Sasuke. The duck-butt teenager took something out of his pocket and threw it back so quickly that it hit Naruto in the centre of his forehead; making him fall back, smack into the ground. It was small and after Naruto regained his focus he picked up the golden object from the ground.

A ring. Sasuke had given him a ring! It was a simple golden band but a golden band nonetheless!

'Hold on if he already had this then that means he had already been thinking about a way to give it to me! But when did he get it? He couldn't have carried it with him for three years could he?'

Naruto examined the ring more closely, there seemed to be something written on the inside.

'Property of Uchiha Sasuke' was written in perfect calligraphy, along with a symbol that he didn't recognise.

Naruto was going to kill Sasuke. The Uchiha was so dead.