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Chapter 6

Sasuke wanted nothing more than to question and pester Kushina all day about his parents, about the Uchiha that she knew and was friends with. He already knew he had plans for his clan, the first making sure they didn't dissent against Konoha, and second killing off Danzou so that said massacre didn't happen. He had to make sure that Minato and Hiruzen knew to not blame or exclude the Uchiha from the village.

If push came to shove, he'd kill all the dissenters and become clan head instead.

Or maybe clan steward, so that Itachi can still rule, he mused as he woolgathered about his questions. Kushina seemed to be nonchalantly preparing various dishes for dinner that night.

He knew he'd blown her world apart, so he figured he'd give her some time. Maybe if they-

"Hey, I need to go by the market." Kushina's voice was slightly wooden as she turned and looked at them. Sakura and he traded glances and she tilted her head to the side, her pink hair brushing against her shoulder.

Perfect. "Okay, Kushina-san." He said it neutrally.

Kushina had gone about her morning in a daze, followed closely by Sasuke and Sakura, the former who was surprisingly the more talkative of the two. He pestered Kushina for information on his parents and how they were when they were younger. Kushina absentmindedly jabbered on about her friend.

Sasuke and Sakura seemed to soak it in.

Kushina wanted so bad to go speak to her friend and her husband- to convince them not to form a coup against Konoha... but she knew her place. So, she would provide home-cooked meals for her son, bicker with him, help him, criticize him.

Be a mother to him.

So, as a mother now, she dragged her son's teammates with her for shopping, wanting to cook all of his favorite foods.

"They're back." Sakura said absently a few moments later.

"Oh?" Sasuke's voice was a low murmur.

"Heading for the hospital, or rather just a few are." She pointed to a couple of shinobi dancing across rooftops in their efforts to get to their destinations and she could see a shirtless Naruto heading for the apartment.

"Hokage-baka decided that he needed a shirt finally." Sasuke gave a half smirk.

Kushina watched the byplay between the two as Sakura gave a soft "heh." Eyes glinting, Kushina gave each of them a pointed look. "Okay, you two. No more twenty questions. We're playing a new game. One question for you, and another for me -dattebane. I want to know more about Naruto!"

Sasuke blinked. He'd been waiting for this for a while now. "Sure, Kushina-san."

She held up another finger. "And, we're going to see your mother."

Sasuke choked. "What? What part of orphaned future son did you not understand. They won't understand!"

"Bullshit." Kushina countered, a very scary, mad gleam in her eye. "I know my best friend. They will listen to you and if not you, then me!"

"You know, fighting her is useless."

"Yeah -dattebane!" Kushina cheered and Sasuke went paler than his normal Uchiha pale. She whirled around, "Mikoto-chan! Just the woman I was wanting to go see!"

The young woman laughed and bounced Itachi on her hip. "Of course I am. You just wanted to see Itachi-chan."

"No really!" Kushina jerked the twosome to her. " Well, I do want to see him, but we really do have something to tell you that's just as important -dattebane!" She pointed to the young man that was pointedly not looking at Mikoto. "It's about him and his friends."

"The truth on why Hokage-sama kept this Uchiha on a mission for so long? Why an Uchiha Sasuke isn't registered on any Uchiha records, perhaps?" Mikoto mused as Kushina dragged the four of them to the Uchiha district, which wasn't but another block down the road. "Well Kushina-chan, spit it out? Are you pregnant and he guessed it?"

Kushina choked and blushed furiously. "N-No! I'm not pregnant, y'know! Ah, Sasuke-"

"Is honored to meet his past version of his mother." Sasuke said, meeting the woman's eyes.

Mikoto went bloodless. "W-what?" she whispered. She said a little louder, "Kushina, Sasuke-san, that's a mean thing to say! I-I-"

"I am your son. I am five years younger than Itachi is right now." Sasuke whirled around to face the outside of the Uchiha district and started walking toward it.

"Wait! You can't just say that and walk away!"

"Yes, I can." His voice was extremely dead. "You don't understand what I've seen and been through. I don't want you to have to. I will explain it to you, father and the elders of the clan sometime tonight. I will show them what happens to this clan if the future goes the way I knew it." He jerked when he felt Sakura pinch his arm.

The universal sign that he and his teammates ever gave if his eyes had mutated from the regular Sharingan to the Rinnesharingan and the Eternal. He hadn't realized that he'd whirled around to pin his mother with a glare; and thus, with the photographic memory of his eyes, the terrified Sharingan and face of his mother would be forever imprinted. Closing, his eyes he released the build-up of chakra.

He also released a tired sigh. "With these eyes, you will learn, understand, and hope that what happened to me, will not happen to your children or your clan now."

In another daze, this time from Sasuke, the threesome left the stunned Mikoto in the relative safety of the Uchiha district and continued on with their shopping. "So, what does Naruto like to eat? Yaikisoba? Yakinikiku? Udon?"

"Ah- Ramen, Kushina-san." Sakura said. "That's all he ate when he was younger. Old Teuchi and Iruka-sensei used to cover a lot of his meals when he was younger. The Salty, miso and pork ramen was his favorite."

Kushina didn't want to think of the abysmal childhood her child had in her absence. But to hear the Teuchi fed her baby her salty ramen...

Teuchi fed her baby her salty ramen.

"Gods love that man!" Kushina said feverently. "I can do ramen, no sweat. Miso, salt and pork, eh?" She cracked her knuckles. "Lets get shopping. I'm gonna get him clothes too, and food and..."

They arrived home several hours later, feet in pain and backs hurting, but loaded with stuff. And also to hear shouting.

Naruto's voice was loud and his great chakra started to build as if he were getting ready to flee again."You died, dad! You are dead in my time! Dead twenty-five years! And this is what became of me. Of your legacy and of Mom's legacy. The Jinchuuriki of the Kyuubi no Yoko, Kurama.." A moments pause. "Fuck this shit. I can't do this right now."

"No! I won't let my son go." Minato's voice was very firm."I knew. I didn't want to believe. But when I saw that seal when you were sleeping and all the "-dattebayo's" and the ramen addiction... I knew." Kushina's eyes started to water at the pain and love in her husband's voice. "You think I would deny you?"

A choked hiccup answered him. "Why not? Nearly everybody else did." Abruptly the chakra disappeared and Kushina looked around to see Sandaime and ANUB gearing to get into the house. "You... he meant for me to be a hero. He and Mom sacrificed their lives for me when I was a baby. Not even.."

"Naruto..."

Kushina couldn't take it anymore and rushed into the room, halting to the stressed visions of her son and husband. "M-Minato!"

Minato spoke then after pointedly ignoring the interruption. "Naruto, as your a past version of your father, I wouldn't have denied you. The situation, yes. But you?" Kushina could have cried buckets when her husband hugged the life out of their son until she decided to join them and glomped her husband and new found son. "No way in hell is my baby going anywhere -dattebane!" Slowly, Naruto's arms came around his mother and father's back and squeezed them to him.

Hiruzen inched closer to Jiraiya who had finally gotten his composure back. "Jiraiya, what was that?"

Jiraiya, not being the stupid pervert that people always thought he was, had already pieced things together. "He's the future Kyuubi Jinchuuriki and Minato and Kushina-chan's kid. Evidently, Minato and Kushina-chan were killed when Naruto was born when the Kyuubi was forcefully extracted from Kushina-chan. Minato.. sacrificed himself with the Shiki-fuujin and sealed half of the Kyuubi's chakra into Naruto. I'm guessing Kushina died from the extraction."

Naruto's voice came out from the Namikaze-Uzumaki huddle to further pole-ax Hiruzen's and the ANBU's whole outlook on this situation. "Actually, Kurama had went to kill me with one of his claws as he wasn't too keen on being imprisoned again. Mom and Dad saw and jerked themselves in front of where I was laying and were impaled on one of his claws instead. Mom died from her injuries after the sealing."

"Kurama?" Jiraiya inquired.

He stepped back and wiped his face with his shirt and clung his hand to the back of his father's shirt. "The Kyuubi. All of them have names. Sennin-jiji named them when he split the chakra of the Juubi. Shukaku, Matatabi, Isobu, Son Goku, Kokuo, Saiken, Gyuuki and Kurama. Kurama is my partner." He grinned. "We're friends -dattebayo!"

Kushina choked. "Friends? With Kyuubi-baka?"

Naruto nodded, "Yep, that's why my seal looks weird, Kaa-chan. During the war, you and Octo-pops helped me control the Kurama's chakra and then we became friends and now we're the perfect partners!"

"Ah-hem!" Hiruzen finally found his voice and it had everybody looking at him. "This needs to be discussed in Hokage office, you realize?"

"As long as the terrible threesome isn't there, I'm okay with it."

Hiruzen rolled his eyes, "Heaven forbid I ask, but terrible threesome?"

"Homura, the old bat, and Danzou" Sasuke supplied as he and Sakura came from behind to support Naruto. "In fact, I might as well save you the trouble of arresting Danzou and charging him with treason and eventual death by letting me do the job for you. I'll take it as an S-ranked Assassination Mission." Sasuke paused in the loaded silence, "That reason too, can be explained in Hokage office."

A Hiraishin teleport moments later transported them all into the loaded safety of the Hokage's office. A few more quick seals and Hiruzen pinned the Uchiha with a steely glare. "Explain."

"I am the son of Uchiha Mikoto and Uchiha Fugaku. When I was five years old, a certain Uchiha would manipulate the already tight situation with the Uchiha and their place within Konoha. The Uchiha would be blamed and linked with the attack and subsequent death of the Yondaime Hokage and unsealing of Kyuubi." Sasuke gave a slight pause and then a rueful smile. "They would be correct. We have already taken care of the Uchiha that would have caused this situation, but Madara will have a plan. The Eye of the Moon plan will not be on the back-burner-"

"Uchiha Madara? This is the man that planned the death of Yondaime-sama?" Jiraiya couldn't help but be incredulous.

Naruto gave a tired sigh. "Sasuke is correct. If we wouldn't have been here, Obito wouldn't have been saved and would have seen Kakashi kill Rin. He is the one that freed Kurama in our time. Madara twisted his entire outlook on life and made him into the new Madara. We took care of that."

"I fail to see how this has to do with Danzou." Hiruzen's voice was rock hard.

Sasuke leaned on one foot and glared at the Sandaime. "I tell you this, because the blame was put on the entire Uchiha clan. Everybody knew how they Uchiha felt slighted with few actually in the military and how most were placed into the MP. So they, with Obito- Madara's aid, planned a coup to overthrow the Hokage and reign over Konohagakure.

"But two Uchiha were very much loyal to the village over the clan. Uchiha Shisui and Uchiha Itachi. Shisui no Shunshin and heir Itachi were best friends. Shisui informed Sandaime and his council of the plot. Shisui had gotten his Mangekyo Sharingan not long after and had a plan with his very specialized eyes. The Kotoamatsukami can only be used once every ten years and it has total control and can make anybody believe what it wants. He attempted this over the Uchiha, but failed as their beliefs were too strong." Sasuke's eyes grew distant and his Sharingan manifested and began to spin.

"Itachi and Shisui went back to the council. Sandaime wanted to attempt a set of peace talks. Danzou thought otherwise. He used to say that the shinobi of the village were the sun on the leaves.. while he was the roots that grow in the dark."

Hiruzen cursed. "Ne. I had planned to have it decommissioned."

Sasuke, Naruto and Kakashi snorted. "He never did." Sakura said dryly.

Kakashi sighed and finished the story time. "He commanded Itachi to kill the entire clan. And with Obito Madara's help, he successfully carried out the unsanctioned mission. But, he left Sasuke as the lone survivor. Danzou, with help, stole the eyes from the dead Uchiha and implanted one in his own eye and down his arm."

"When Itachi told me of his treachery, I confronted Danzou about it and he admitted bald-faced that he had Itachi kill the Uchiha. And then I killed him." Sasuke's eyes stopped their spinning only to turn into the Eternal Sharingan.

"So!" Kakashi stated pleasantly after the eternal silence waged on after that situation. "It is Naruto's turn to tell you all about Kurama."

Naruto's face brightened which made Kushina and Minato's moods, and everybody in the room's moods better as well. "Hey! Let me show you the end result first. The fuzzball likes to be stretched every once in a while and he hasn't had much chance since I made Hokage." Bright orange-yellow chakra began to lick up Naruto's legs and arms and a cloak with a high collar began to form around him in the same color around him.

"Technically, Naruto, you are only using his chakra, we'd need to be in a much bigger place if we wanted to actually let him stretch his legs." Sakura pointed out, bemusedly staring at everybody's faces as they took in the general warmth of the potent chakra.

Naruto shrugged, thick black lines flowing along his body. "Since we're in Hokage office, Kurama will just have to deal with this."

Naruto. Make a clone and let me have control over it. I will speak to them. Kurama drawled the words.

You sure?

I am always sure, baka!

"Geeze, so mean. Kurama wants to talk to you guys." A shadow clone popped up a second later.

"Maa, Naruto. Such an ungrateful partner." Everybody jolted at the deep growling voice that came out of the clone. The sudden red eyes and jagged cheek scars were a shock to Minato who had suddenly come face to face with Kurama. "Yondaime Hokage. There was a time I wanted desperately to kill you and your family and everybody in this stinking village. Nobody asked me if I wanted to be sealed. Your Shodaime just up and decided to push me and my siblings into people like we were objects." There was silent pause and both Sandaime and Yondaime winced and Kurama glared at both men until that glare slowly slid into a smirk. "However. What you did was the best thing you could have done. I met my best friend and partner. Naruto-baka is Jiji's heir and all my siblings will protect him and what he has done for the world and for us. If there ever was another time that we all had to become the Juubi again, Naruto would be our first choice for a Jinchuuriki." He gave a toothy grin at the gobsmacked blond Yondaime and smacked him across the arm and gave Kushina an equally toothy grin. "Ya done good." The clone popped.

"Ah, man, Kurama! Really?!" Naruto's cheeks were bright red.

I meant every word, baka. Let me sleep until they say we can do Biijuu mode. I really want to run soon.

Y-yeah.. Kurama's large paw came up in a fist-bump. Naruto laughed brightly. Thanks, Kurama!

Keh. The large fox gave a grin.

Sasuke strolled up to the Uchiha grounds. He was alone this time, able to handle the scene this time as most of the Uchiha were in their homes for the night. Knowing that his mother had spoken to his father after their encounter but hoping that maybe she had just brushed her best friends words off, it still didn't stop him from running away from the inevitable.

Sighing through his nose, he mused it had to come to this. His idiot Hokage and best friend really managed to get them all safely to the past and, rather morosely, he thought of course it had to come to him to save his stupid clan. Waiving to random Uchiha that smiled at him, he kept strolling through the streets until the clan head's home was right in front of his face.

Clenching his teeth, he walked up to the doors, fully planning on knocking -it still felt weird to be in the family home considering that the entire Uchiha district was demolished when Pein attacked and he lived in the Jounin apartments- when the door flung open and Mikoto threw herself into his arms. Stumbling for a second, his arms came around the young form of his mother to steady them both.

"Mikoto-san?" Okay...

She sniffed. "Ka-san, Sasuke-chan, right?" She looked up at him with a small smile.

Fuck. There went that hope. Coughing slightly, his eyes widened. "Ah... you.."

"Yes, we believe you. There is no Sasuke ever recorded in any of the Uchiha books. But it was a name Fugaku and I considered for our second son if we had one, named for Sandaime-sama's father." She brushed back his hair. "To suddenly see an Uchiha bearing the name and for that Uchiha to admit that I am his mother?"

"It was feasible." Fugaku's stern voice came from behind them in the mansion. "Plus you look very much like your mother's family."

Sasuke was silent as they led him into the home, his mind whirling. His semi well-thought plans went up in smoke. He had planned to petition his father to gather a meeting of all Uchiha elders and anybody of importance or in high positions in the village for a meeting that would be known throughout the clan and he hoped that one of his teammates could attend to back him up. However, he knew he had to scratch that as they were led further into the clan head's home and into a meeting room. The Uchiha elders and older members of the clan were waiting inside. Dark eyes and a few red eyed him with curiosity and even a few with contempt.

"We told the elders, Sasuke." Mikoto was quiet for a moment. "They deserved to know. Itachi is with a sitter."

His father sat in the clan head chair and motioned for Sasuke to sit. Fucking shit. Sasuke paused to get his bearings before moving in to the room and sitting beside his mother and father.

Feeling the skepticism of the room, he knew his mother must have told him about his unusual eyes on top of being from the future. He let out a long sigh from his nose. "What do you want to know?" He spoke quietly, but powerfully.

"You look like Mikoto-chan's family." An elderly woman mused. "But that could be coincidence."

"What can you prove to us, boy?" An elderly man questioned, his tone very insolent and unagreeable.

"About?" Sasuke purposely kept his tone bored, just to see the old bastards bristle. He so loved to irritate the idiots.

"Are you an Uchiha, or just one that is a look-alike?" The first elderly woman spoke again.

"The guard that assaulted my person when I first arrived must have not reported my eyes when they activated." His tone grew bitter and condescending. "Obviously, other people than the Uchiha can use the Sharingan as evident by Kakashi Hatake, but it will always be active." There was silence in the room, oppressive as they pushed for him to prove the Sharingan was in his blood. "Fine." He muttered and his dark eyes evolved into a mature Sharingan.

"Good, Uchiha Sasuke. Now, tell us how are fair clan is in the future? Are we respected?" Another elder asked, his tone satisfied with the proof that Sasuke had shown him.

"You want the truth?" His tone stated that they may not.

"Sasuke." His father's tone brooked no argument.

"The clan is dead."

The small Namikaze-Uzumaki family sat at the same table as the night before, only this time it was silent. Naruto was being very un-Naruto like with fidgeting while his parents stared at the grown man that was their son.

"I.. I had planned on cooking ramen for supper again. Since, well, it's your favorite food, y'know, and I wanted it to be a special home-cooked version with different versions and lots of it for lots of seconds and thirds and-" Kushina's voice puttered out when she saw Naruto's hands trembling in his lap and droplets on his hands. She rounded the table the same time as Minato and both hugged a side of their son.

"I-I've wa-wanted t-this my en-entire life." Naruto's voice was choked. "And now... I don't k-know -h-how to handle it. I don't know what to do -dattebayo!" His shoulders shook under their embraces.

The two thought back to what Kakashi had said when they were leaving Hokage office.

"Listen, you two. Naruto has been alone since he was four-years-old."

Kushina's voice was livid. "Four-years-old? A baby!"

Kakashi's voice was solemn. "They believed he was the Kyuubi, no matter who said what. They wanted him gone. Sandaime found out that day and set Naruto up with an apartment in a bad part of town with a stipend that barely worked for him as all the vendors over charged him." He gave the both a gimlet stare. "All he wanted was a family. Give him your love and show him what a family really is as he has never had one. He got his acceptance from the village by being the hero of the Fourth Ninja War, but never a family."

"Just show him love."

"We'll show you what to do, Naruto-chan." Kushina whispered, her lips repeatedly kissing her boy's scarred cheek. "We'll just love you."

"I don't know how to love back!"

"Yes you do. You show your love every day." Minato's voice soothed, even as it was choked with emotion as well.

Naruto's arms flew up to grasp tightly at his parents embraces. "I don't want to go back. I don't want you to leave. I don't want to go back to being alone again! I do-don't want y-you-"

"Hush, baby. We aren't going anywhere. I love you, Naruto. Already, with only knowing you a day, I love you."

He should have expected the roar of outrage. Men and women of the clan jumped up to go after Sasuke, all of them with the red, red eyes when his own evolved the second time into the Mangekyo Sharingan.

"S-Sasuke!" Mikoto gasped.

"Silence." Sasuke's voice hissed out, his leashed chakra flaring into Killer Intent that was so broken that all of them were stunned into the silence that was demanded of them. "You killed the clan. All of you did. You pushed the one person who was important to me in this clan to enlist a madman's help and they slaughtered the clan when I was five years old."

"Why would this person do this?" Fugaku's voice was quiet, his own Mangekyo out and flaring.

"Stop trying to get genjutsu on me, Father. My eyes are too evolved for that. You thought that this village owed you something. You thought that the Second's edicts to primary place Uchiha in the MP were ridiculous and when the Yondaime was killed by the Kyuubi-no-Yoko, festering in the village turned the clan rotten." Sasuke's eyes developed into the Eternal, which had all of the elder's knuckles turning white and a gasp from his parents. "This man meant the world to me and the village meant more to him than the clan. He is a true genius and he and Tobi slaughtered the clan when he made ANBU after it was decided to ambush the Jinchuuriki of the Kyuubi and extract him and use it to overthrow the Sandaime and the government."

Finally, when it was silent, he dropped the final bomb and allowed his eyes to turn into the Rinnegan and then the Rinnesharingan. He blinked slowly at the elders and asked a very important question that he knew would either make or break his clan.

"Will you listen?"

When it was quiet and everybody's head had nodded, Sasuke began his quest in earnest. "The Uchiha can be the greatest clan in the elemental countries. We already are strong. Smart. But we are prideful. And pride will be our downfall. In just a few scan years, the Uchiha clan will be down to just three members, then two, then one. Me. All because of our pride. Let me tell you how our once great clan perished under the thoughtless rule of one man..."