used_friendship | 001 [Video!]

[The video feed switches on to provide a blurred close up on someone's face. The user moves back slowly, allowing the image to come into focus as it shows a blond teenager sat on the ground, eying the device suspiciously.]

Hey- This thing even on? [A tap on the screen, the teen sighs, exasperated, before looking over to the Poliwag sat beside him.]

You know how to make this work?

[Silence.]

....Didn't think so. Maybe we just...

[Grumbling again as he shuffles in his spot, Naruto holds out the Pokegear a little further as he puts on one of his biggest, brightest smiles.]

Uzumaki Naruto, reporting for duty! Hehe. So, I really need to get home, everyone is counting on me, but the weird lady who thinks she's my Mom said I can't, so since I'm here I'm going to get all the badges and have everyone acknowledge me as the greatest Pokemon trainer there is, you'd better believe it!

[He hops up to his feet, facing the Poliwag once again.] C'mon Gama-chan! Training starts now!

[His speech is interrupted by the loud growling of an empty stomach.] Er... after we eat, that is. Does this place have ramen?

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Good luck doing that without chakra. None of us have it here.

Why is that anyway? Kurama ain't even inside me anymore either.

A side effect of this wo--

Kurama?

Yeah. Oh! Heh, you don't know it.

That's the kyuubi's name.

... The kyuubi.

And you know that how, dobe?

What do you mean how do I know?

How do you know that's the Kyuubi's name, Naruto.

Because it was sealed inside of me.

[Are you liking that look of surprise of his, Naruto?]

Sorry. I guess I forgot, that was something you didn't know until after you left. It was all so long ago for me.

[The monstrous chakra he had during the exams makes sense now. How Naruto was so much stronger makes sense. Without even realizing it there's a sense of relief, but at the same time just a hint of admiration; for Naruto to be able to so effectively control the monster that nearly destroyed the village thirteen years ago now...]

... How?

[Unfortunately Naruto has no idea what he meant by that question.]

How what?

How did it end up inside of you? And why?

If I tell you thins, you're not gonna cry like your cousin are you.

Why would I cry.

[Wut.]

I told him about the Fourth dying and he started crying.

...

If what I know about him is true, he would have been alive to see the Fourth Hokage, or possibly know him personally.

The Fourth was his sensei! He was on Kaka-sensei's team.

[Sigh. Looks like he's not figuring out how the hell Naruto got a monster inside him today.]

... Do you know why I left.

[A pause for a moment.]

You said you wanted to become stronger. That the only bond that mattered to you was the one you had with your brother.

[He shakes his head, frowning down at the ground in front of him and not at the camera as he thinks it over.]

... I was getting stronger in Konoha.

I know that. You're the one that didn't!

Something else had to have happened.

[Shaking his head because this is frustrating to try and figure out.]

[Thinking. It was just after Tsunade came back, Naruto had gone with Jiraiya because-

oh.]

Itachi was in the village. You and Kakashi-sensei were in a coma.

Itachi.

[He feels cold just repeating the name, staring at him as the implications get to him.]

Why?

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