Naruto of whirlpool

The next day it was raining when Naruto woke up. He scowled when he looked out the window. "Perfect mood for today. Wet and gloomy." he muttered to himself.

Naruto glanced at the clock and saw that the time was 7:00 and that he had 3 hours to get to the Cemetery. He then got washed and dressed in the funeral clothes that had been waiting for him when he entered his room last night. Once he was finished he headed to the Cafeteria.

Keanu was waiting. "How are you holding up Naruto?" he asked. Naruto scowled at the floor. "Not well. I guess I haven't come to terms with the fact that my home was destroyed and most of my friends are dead." Naruto answered while clenching his fists tightly.

Keanu didn't say anything. He just leaned down and hugged his nephew. Naruto accepted the hug and then stepped back. "Thanks Uncle Keanu." he said. "Come let's get some food. Today is going to be a long day." Keanu said with a slight nod in the direction of the Cafeteria.

He was also dressed in Black funeral clothes as he had been friends with some of the slain ninja of the leaf village. The two then walked the rest of the way in silence. The cafeteria was partially full of people. Most of which were also dressed in black.

Once he had gathered a full plate Naruto found an empty table and sat down facing the entrance of the Cafeteria and started eating. As he ate his food he saw Temari walk in. she was not dressed in black but in a white and red flowered kimono and she also had her hair down.

Naruto stared in semi shock at her for a long moment before averting his eyes to his food. Keanu who had been watching Naruto chuckled quietly as he watched his nephew blush after practically undressing his bride to be. Temari didn't notice this and filled a plate for herself.

When she looked for a table she saw Naruto eating by himself and walked over. "May I sit here?" she asked. Naruto nodded at her while chewing his food. Once he had finished chewing and swallowed he looked at her. "How have you been holding up Temari?" he asked.

"fine." she answered. Naruto nodded then returned to his meal. The two spent the next few minutes eating in silence then Naruto looked up at her. Naruto tried to think of something to say but could not come up with a single thing. Then Temari stood up and walked to the sink with her empty plate and deposited it.

Naruto watched her walk away with various emotions running around in his head. Naruto's eyes never left her until she walked out of the room. He was unaware that his mouth was open or that some of the people in the room were watching him with sly grins. The same thought was running through their minds. "Teenagers."

Once he was done Naruto also deposited his plate then checked himself for any food on his shirt. There was none so he headed to the door. A voice called out that caused him to stop and grimace. "Great just great what is he doing here." Naruto thought with a grimace.

"Hey Naruto How are you doing buddy?" the voice asked as he placed his arm around Naruto's shoulders. Naruto inwardly scowled. "I'm fine Nagato." He answered. "Really? It doesn't sound like you are fine." Naruto rolled his eyes. Then semi turned to Uzumaki Nagato.

"My Village is gone. The Sandaime Hokage is dead. Some of my closest friends are dead. And that includes Jiraya my godfather." he answered with a rising voice which was choked with emotion. Nagato pulled him into a hug.

"It's not your fault Naruto. You did what you could do but if the attack was as large as it was. Then as much as it pains me to say. There was no way for Konoha to survive even with the help of its allies." said Nagato the Amekage of rain. Naruto nodded then pushed away. "I know that. But it still hurts." Nagato said nothing.

Naruto took a deep breath then headed for the front door. He had a few things to take care of before the funeral. As he walked toward the kage tower he kept looking around at the various activities going on at that time of day. Stores were being opened for business. Kids were either playing or heading off to school or the Ninja academy.

"Business as usual in a shinobi village." he thought to himself. He smiled as a couple of 9 year olds ran past playing Anbu. He stopped to watch a couple of former Konoha civilians opening up their shop. The attack had been over 2 months ago and now people were settling in to their new home.

That made Naruto think of the Whirlpool headband that he would soon be wearing. The vote had come in and the Konoha refugees had decided to join with whirlpool and take on their insignia. Which meant that Naruto would only keep Iruka's head band for a few more hours before he donned the Whirlpool headband for the first time and hopefully the last time unless something untoward happened.

He resumed walking through the new Konoha quarter that had been set up by the village council to provide shelter for the former refugees when they had arrived. As he walked he nodded at some of the people he encountered on his tour of the sector. He say multiple other shinobi and civilians also dressed in black.

When he got to the clan quarter where the clans lived he was stopped briefly by a whirlpool Anbu. "State your business in this sector Namikaze?" Naruto just glared. "I am not Namikaze yet. My business is checking on the rest of the former Konoha clans and my friends who are clan Heirs in their own right." He answered.

The Anbu nodded then jumped back into the shadows. Naruto just sighed. Security was tight today because of all the activity during the last few weeks. As he walked he heard someone call out to him. He turned toward the voice and smiled.

From his new stand Teuchi called out to him again with a wave and smile. "Hey Naruto. Where have you been? I can't officially open my new shop without my best customer now can I?" he asked. Naruto smiled and walked over. "Of course not old man." he replied as he sat down.

"I am sorry that I have not visited sooner but I have been busy with other things in and out of the village." he answered as Ayame appeared with a large bowl of ramen. "Here Naruto have this one on the house." she said with a smile. "Thanks Ayame." he replied "itakimasu." he said happily then dug in.

"Hey Naruto!" A voice called out a minute later. He put the bowl down and turned toward the voice to see Ino and Chouji walking up. "Hey you two what's up?" he asked with a grin. "Nothing much we're just walking around the village." Ino answered. "Naruto's smile broadened. "Really wow you guys work fast. Here I was thinking it would take until you were 18 to realize it." Naruto answered.

The two stared at him for a moment before they realized what he was talking about. "What? No! We're just friends Naruto." Ino responded with a blush. Chouji was looking everywhere but at Naruto. Naruto let them stew for a moment before letting out a snicker. "You guys are to easy." he responded with a laugh.

"Hahaha now this is what I like to see early in the day." Teuchi said while placing a couple of ramen bowls down on the counter for Ino and Chouji to eat. Naruto sat back and chuckled as he watched his friends interact. Chouji and Ino were soon sitting at the counter and eating the ramen that Teuchi had set out for them.

As he returned to his own meal his mind wandered back to his own teammates. With Sakura dead and Sasuke a prisoner of sound if he hadn't outright defected by now. He was now down a team and his sensei would be in Hospital for at least 2 months or more.

Naruto had already told Kerala about Sasuke and his issues. Growing up the two had not been friends and had been fighting ever chance they got. Naruto had consistently been at the middle of the class with Sasuke at the top. That hadn't really bothered Naruto but Sasuke had taken every chance he got to rub it in his face. Naruto would respond by utterly beating Sasuke in the spars.

It was well known that Naruto was holding back by the Academy instructors. Sasuke had been so certain of his own superiority that he had never taken the time to really look at his age mates or his teammates. During the fight with Gaara

Sasuke had willingly sacrificed Sakura so that he could get away from one of Gaara's attacks. Naruto had known for some time by that point that Sasuke was unstable. But to see him do that to a teammate all but confirmed his worst suspicions.

But half way into his fight with Gaara Sasuke had disappeared. It hadn't been until Shino's remaining Kikaichu bugs had arrived from the battlefield that anyone had known that Kabuto had kidnapped him and taken him to sound.

Rather than launch a surprise attack on sound the information had instead been sent to Kiri so that they would know to retrieve the missing Uchiha. Naruto had sent the Mizukage a note saying that it would be better if Sasuke was killed and his body incinerated to prevent the accursed Sharingan from causing even more trouble in the world.

Naruto grimaced and cut off that line of thought. "See you later Jiji, Ayame, I have stuff to do." he said as he got up from his seat. "See you later Naruto." they responded. He paid for his meal then shunshined away. A few minutes later he walked into the hospital.

Once inside he checked in and headed upstairs. The first one he visited was Iruka. "Hey Iruka Sensei how have you been?" Naruto asked as he walked in. Iruka looked up from the book he was reading and smiled. "Hello Naruto. I'm fine your godmother Tsunade was just in here a few minutes ago to check on Me." he replied with a smile.

Naruto smiled cheerfully and scratched the back of his head. "I'm glad you're okay. So when did the doctors say you could be out of here?" he asked once he had put his hand down and sat on a nearby chair. "Lady Tsunade said that I could be out of here in a week." he replied with a smile

"and a good thing to I was starting to miss my boy toy." a female voice from behind them said. Both Naruto and Iruka froze then turned their gazes toward the door with matching deer in headlights looks. And there stood Anko Miterashi Iruka's girlfriend and the bane of Naruto's existence. "Ah hello Anko I see your still alive." Iruka answered with a beaming smile.

Naruto promptly dove to the side and barely avoided being knocked on his head by Anko as she ran past. Moments later the two lovebirds were kissing each other so passionately that Naruto grew physically ill. "Ugh right I'm out of here. Bye Iruka sensei, Bye Anko." with that he fled out of the door as if a herd of tigers was on his tail.

Once he was down the hall and out of sight Naruto relaxed than headed off to his next destination a few doors down. When he opened the door he saw Tsunade tending to Kakashi who was sitting up on the bed. "Hey Kakashi Sensei. Hello Tsunade." he called out in greeting. Both turned from what they were doing and smiled at him. "Hello Naruto. How have you been holding up?" Tsunade asked as she walked over.

"I am better now. There are still problems for us to work out but never the less I am okay." he answered. He than looked past Tsunade at Kakashi. "Hey sensei the reason I am here is because I wanted to talk to you about Sasuke." He said with a grim look. Tsunade just nodded silently than pulled up another chair.

"Well Naruto. I read the report from Shino's bugs that made it here and from what I know of Sasuke and his behavior I would say that it will come down to one of us having to kill him. I also read your report on the battle with Gaara.

Especially the part where he replaced himself with Sakura during the latter stages of the battle and essentially killed her after Gaara used shukaku's hand to bind her to a tree and squeeze her to death." he responded. "That's what I came up with as well. Gaara was after blood by that point and he didn't care how he got it.

Switching with Sakura the way he did is murder no matter how much you look at it. Sakura was a weak fan girl and would have been better off staying in the shelters with the Civilians.

But as things were so chaotic at the time she was one of the only other Konoha shinobi that could be reached at the time when you dispatched my team to find and stop Sasuke during the first few minutes of the battle. Shikimaru sacrificed himself to stop the two squads of sound ninja from following us.

I don't know what happened during that fight but somehow Asuma arrived on the scene and was killed alongside Shikimaru. But not before killing the pursuing sound ninja." he replied. Both Kakashi and Tsunade nodded.

"I agree with your conclusions about Shikimaru and Asuma. They both deserve to go onto the Hero stone." Kakashi said with a faraway look. It took Naruto a moment to remember that Kakashi, Gai, Asuma, and Kurenai, had all been in friends for the majority of their lives.

"And they will. Aunt Kerala has already assigned someone to carve their names onto the memorial." Naruto answered with a sad smile. Just than a bell was heard. "Ah that's the bell calling everyone to the funeral. See you later Sensei I have to be there." Naruto replied standing up. Kakashi eye smiled at him.

"Okay Naruto I will see you later than." Naruto nodded and jumped out of the window and was gone from sight. Tsunade shook her head. "That boy when will he ever learn not to use the window like that." she asked rhetorically. Kakashi shrugged than lay back down and tried to fall asleep.

Tsunade checked him over one more time and was gone from the room. A few minutes later Naruto entered the cemetery. He looked around and quickly spotted some of his year mates. He walked over and bowed deeply to the official who would be leading the ceremony.

"Hello I am Namikaze Naruto." he said respectively. The official bowed in response and then turned and walked away without a word. Once the man was out of sight he turned to the others. "Hey guys." he said with a smile. "Hello Naruto" Hinata replied with a big smile.

Neji and Lee just nodded. Tenten grinned but said nothing. Choji and Ino however stepped forward and shook his hand. "I am going to get you for your comment earlier Naruto." Ino promised with a glare. That got everyone's attention "what comment Naruto?" Hinata asked with a raised eyebrow.

Naruto opened his mouth to answer but Ino stopped him by stomping on his foot. Naruto winced and closed his mouth. He then glared at her while rubbing his aching foot. "All right all right I won't say anything. Sheesh I pity the guy who marries you if that's how you will react to every little thing Ino."

he hastily ducked the incoming swing and backed off in a hurry. "Why you. When I get my hands on you." Ino spluttered angrily. Choji chose this moment to act. "That's enough Ino. Naruto is winding you up. Cool down. You know he doesn't mean any of it" that seemed to break the spell and Ino relaxed.

"Sorry Choji." she apologized. Naruto smiled in response but said nothing. "As much as I would like to stand there all day we have a funeral to attend." Neji announced. Naruto and the rest nodded than turned toward the section of the cemetery reserved for the fallen Konoha ninja.

Already there were dozens of people present. All either sitting or standing. The small group headed for the section of chairs reserved for Konoha survivors. A few minutes after they sat down in the row that had been designated for them. Once everyone was sitting the ceremony began.

I spent so long trying to come up with a good funeral scene but I just couldn't do it. Nothing I could write would measure up so I am going to leave it to your imaginations to fill in what happens during the ceremony.

But basically what happens is everyone lays down flowers at a table set aside for just that purpose with the pictures of all the slain Ninja in the background. Once that is done some people will come to the podium and speak the names of all of the slain while a gong rings out in response to the names.

At the end the names of the fallen ninja are engraved onto the stone of hero's and 2 more that had to be brought in as there was not enough room on the stone for all of the names of the fallen. Then the ceremony would end and everyone went home for the day.