006- Video; Action for Blackthorn

[used_friendship]

[Action]

[It is early in the evening when he finally begins to stir. A hand slowly reaches up to rub at tired eyes as they blink into focus, Naruto staring up at the ceiling above him. Immediately he frowns as memories of new and old jumble together. It had felt like a dream, though it couldn't have been. Why didn't he have chakra? Oh yeah- Johto.

Feeling the presence of someone else in the room distracts him as he turns his head to the side, immediately greeted with the sight of long, flowing red hair.]

....So when are we going to Violet? [You hit hard enough to knock him out Mom, he'll concede this time.]

[Video]

[A little time later the Pokegear shows Naruto sat on a bed as an excitable Carnivine is wrapped around his shoulders, happily chewing on his head once again. Some things never change!]

So--yeah. I guess that thing happened to me, y'know, when people fall asleep and have the dreams? But they're not real dreams? [Descriptive as always. On that subject though, there are some people he wants to talk to. He should probably send them some private messages.]

Oi Neji. Sasuke. I wanna talk to you guys.

[...Or just do it that way instead. He has a pretty serious look about him for once, so they should probably get in contact with him.]

[With a huff he moves around and attempts to unwrap the Carnivine from around him. Since he has it on, he may as well ask that question he had before the coma stuff happened.]

I'm still gonna go check out that dragon place up here, the one Tenten told me about. What's the best dragon type out there? I have Ryūka-chan already, she's a Charizard now and she's grown really strong.

Comments

[believeit]

[Aww Mom you're making him blush. He falls back into the hug, though.]

Mom? It feels weird, waking up and remembering all those things that happened.

[ghostpepper]

Those things? Naruto... what happened? What did you dream about?

[Surprised as she is, she's not gonna let him go just yet.]

[believeit]

Just more of the war stuff, the fighting that was going on and-

[Blink blink. Suddenly:] Where's Dad?

[ghostpepper]

Eh? He was just here a minute ago...

[Okay guess she's letting go sooner than she intended to poke her head out of the room.]

Minato? [And back in the room.] Hm... That's weird. You want me to go look for him?

[believeit]

[He watches as she peeks out for him.] Nah, I'll talk to him when he comes back. But Mom. I met him again.

[ghostpepper]

You... But how? I thought the chakra in your seal was only for one visit. [And the last she knew back home he was pretty firmly dead between getting impaled along with her on the Kyuubi's claw and using the Death Reaper Seal. B(]

[believeit]

I dunno what happened but- he was there, 'cause someone used the Edo-Tensei thing on him. But nobody was in control of him, he was just doing what he wanted y'know? And the other Hokages were all there too. Well- Granny wasn't, I dunno where she is.

But I got to fight with Dad it was so cool.

[ghostpepper]

Edo-Tensei? [WHOA WHOA BACK UP A MILE THERE BOY.] I swear I've heard that jutsu name before, but... [Wait a sec...] The other Hokages too?! Tell me the whole story from the beginning, ya know!

[believeit]

There isn't really much else to tell other than that y'know! [If he knew he would explain!]

I don't get it either- and we didn't get to talk much 'cause of the fighting, but it had something to do with Sasuke. Like-- he came back to help, and he brought them with him?

[ghostpepper]

[...Nope. Even more confused than before.]

...What do you mean he came back to help? What did he do? Go back to the village in the middle of a fight and bring back three dead Hokage and an old retired one?

[believeit]

....Uh. Old man Sandaime died. A few years ago. That's why Granny Tsunade became Hokage?

[ghostpepper]

What?! No one tells me anything! Here I was thinking he'd stayed retired or... You can't mean... No. No way. Did they seriously pull him out of retirement after your father died?! And Biwako too! At least, I'm pretty sure she was dead. But still!

[She seemed pretty damn dead from where Kushina was laid out at the time. Sob... Bad night all around. Ugh. Mood successfully flipped from confused to irritated.]

[believeit]

Who's Biwako?

But yeah- Sandaime was Hokage, when I was a kid. Orochimaru killed him a few years back. You know when I said before the Chuunin tests got sorta cancelled? Yeah.

basically this face minus smiles... sob icons...

[ghostpepper]

She is-- or was, I guess-- his wife, and she was there when you were born. She took a bite out of Minato for wincing the whole time I was in labor. Heh...

...Orochimaru killed him? I wouldn't have imagined that happening in a thousand years. But then, a lot of things happen that you don't expect or can't imagine. [She takes a deep breath and runs a hand over her hair. Wow this is a lot to be taking in at once. At least it's mostly coming in at the Uzumaki level. But on the other hand, it's coming in at the Uzumaki level.]

...I can't believe he's actually dead. You know, he was the Hokage when I came to the village. Kinda hard to believe he'd ever die or get killed.

sobs too

[believeit]

[Do we have to talk about labor? Eww gross. But ah. He understands now.]

So she was Asuma-sensei's Mom, huh? Yeah, I don't think I've ever heard her mentioned..

[True, but explaining important things like this at a non-Uzumaki level is hard.]

Yeah. I guess you know Orochimaru 'cause he was Ero-sennin and Granny's team mate and. Well everyone knows the Sannin, don't they? But that's what happened. It felt weird back then too, he'd always been Hokage ever since I found out what it even was, y'know?

[ghostpepper]

[Be glad she left it at that and didn't recount the whole episode. Again.]

Asuma-sensei? That was her son's name, but a jounin sensei now? I guess I keep forgetting everyone I remember as kids and teenagers are all grown up now. Haha...

And you're right, everyone knew about the Sannin. But I know what you mean about the sudden change with the Hokage you remember from when you were a little kid suddenly changing. It was weird when he said he was retiring. [But she sure as hell didn't mind that Minato was named his successor. :3c]

/sneaks in here, tracks thread

[aflashoffaith]

[He's never on time or around when he needs to be, you guys know that.

A guy leaves the room to use the bathroom ONE TIME...

He could hear Kushina chattering away as he made his way back down the hallway, but assumed one of the kids had joined her, didn't give it much thought until he turned, stepping through the door-frame and-]

...Naruto?

[His eyes widened, seeing his son standing and talking and he was okay, he was awake...

Hurried strides carried him across the room, arms lifting and opening and embracing his son, pulling him closer into a firm hug.]

We were so worried... are you okay?

hey papa B)

[believeit]

Yeah it's-

[Naruto never gets to finish that sentence, because Minato steps into the room. He's immediately turning around to face him once he hears that voice.]

Dad!

[He's smiling by the time they fall into the hug. He's really relieved to see his Dad again-- in more ways than one.]

I'm fine y'know! [He'll be fine.] I was just talking to Mom about some.. things.

momma can join us after our *~moment~*

[aflashoffaith]

[Ah, that's right. Naruto would probably remember more things from home now- the reason he'd passed out in the first place.

But they didn't need to delve immediately into that, his hug tightening with a final squeeze before he stepped back, hands moving up to rest on his son's shoulders.]

I see she finished your cloak. It looks good on you.

(◡ ‿ ◡ ✿)

[believeit]

[--The cloak?

Oh!!]

Haha, yeah! [And there's that Uzumaki grin, as he takes a step back to proudly show it off.]

So do I look like a super awesome future-Hokage or what?!

[aflashoffaith]

Absolutely.

[He's just... so relieved to hear Naruto's voice again, to see his son up and moving around, eyes stinging with unshed tears even though a large grin lit up his expression too. He'd had little doubt that Naruto would be fine but...

It had been a long, long week.]

and now mommy's cutting in on you two /thread tracked too

[ghostpepper]

[It really warmed her heart to see her two boys back together again. Are you both ready for a group hug? Because mama's incoming with her arms to drag the pair of them in.]

family ahhh

[believeit]

[Family hug! He shuffles a little to have an arm around each. It's nice to just have this moment, back in the calmness and comfort of his parents.]

kyaaaaa

[aflashoffaith]

[Group family hug! An arm slipped around each of them, his head tilting to rest atop Kushina's as he squeezed them both tight.

For all the weirdness in this world, he could excuse it completely if it meant having the two of them at his side.]

they're adorable

[ghostpepper]

[This was definitely how she could have imagined their life being had everything not gone to complete and utter shit. And this moment? So worth everything that had happened in the last three weeks.

Funny thing about hugging her family though... she usually didn't want to let go.]