Future Pokekage Uzumaki Naruto! (![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
used_friendship) wrote2013-08-14 08:28 pm
used_friendship) wrote2013-08-14 08:28 pm
006- Video; Action for Blackthorn
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[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.]
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[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.
[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.]
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[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.
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But... that's impossible. You wouldn't do something like that. I know you wouldn't. Maybe I should ask Tsunade to check on you, make sure you're not ill. Or that Rin's disappearance hasn't been too stressful on you. Maybe you should go lie down.
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[He scrubbed at his eyes, attempting to draw deep breaths and failing because they quavered.]
And now Naruto too. He said I insulted sensei. [Because none of the rest had been news but that hadn't been fair.]
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[Do you see the look on her face? All sorts of disbelief and pain as her heart breaks. Maybe he can feel her arms sliding away too. See her pull back a few inches.]
Obito, are you trying to make me hate you or something? Are you even listening to what you're saying? Maybe... Maybe someone stole your name in the future and they're confusing you with someone else. It's not like they would've met you before this place. I don't think a lot of them were born yet or more than a year or two when you... when we thought you died.
[One by one she digs around, trying to find a reason that makes sense. Something that would pardon Obito without calling the kids liars. But even though the theories felt flimsy, she held onto hope that he would say "just kidding Kushina-nee!" and laugh until she punched him for worrying her sick. It was a better alternative than the solidifying stories Obito was placing before her. Killing the shinobi of the village he had once sworn to protect. Insulting his sensei. Starting a war even. No, it was too insane. But the more he backed up his ludicrous statements, the harder it was getting to refute.]
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I- there was a day, a couple months before you got here. And... people don't remember most of it. I... I remember seeing Kakashi grown up, which was... was weird. And I remember part of a conversation.
I think- I think I get why I said the one line of dialogue I even remember.
I didn't... want to think about what it could mean, but then I was stuck in a cave for weeks and there were just... hours and hours of pitch black or being attacked or or, all kinds of things, and it was something distracting.
But I think- I think that friend might have met him, because he- he left me a message. It was confusing-more I mean, before Neji told me. [He moved his hands up, tangling them in his hair as he pressed his face against his knees, practically shaking with how hard he was holding back tears.]
So I- I couldn't just deny it right off, and that- then he- and what he described- and I didn't understand- but with Rin- it's still! Still so stupid and horrible and he-
I would have had to have hurt you to do what he said and I couldn't do that!
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[She's trying to piece together everything he's said already with what he's babbling about now. But the picture's still broken, pieces scattered everywhere. She can't see it entirely. Only small parts here and there, but not enough to get a firm grasp.]
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He said- He said I'd turned into someone who- who was after all the jinchuuriki for this- this stupid plan and had killed over fifty thousand people to do it. Only reason people didn't find out sooner was a mask that- that horror was wearing.
I guess it came off or something, he didn't say, but apparently everyone is supposed to know it was me by name or something now.
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This masked man... does he know how to extract a bijuu on his own? But more importantly... [deeeeep breath] did anyone ever tell you about the night me and Minato died?
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He'd rather be stupid than forever suffocating himself with this heartbreak.
His words were almost too strangled to be heard.]
No one- no one told me about that. Either.
You- Did he- You.
[And then his composure broke, what little he'd gathered, and a new sob came through.]
Tell me?
holy balls so many teal deer
It was the night Naruto was born. Sandaime was worried about my seal, so I had to give birth in some... place outside the village. It was all top-secret, so very very few people actually knew. Some Black-Ops ANBU under Sandaime's direct control were in charge of maintaining the barrier. His wife, Biwako, and Taju were with me while Minato held the Kyuubi in. Soon after Naruto was born, Minato was going to fix the seal, but... a masked man had gotten in. He had done something to Biwako and Taju and was threatening to kill Naruto unless Minato stopped trying to reseal the Kyuubi.
He forced Minato to fly off with Naruto and leave me behind. So he was able to take me to some remote lake where he bound me up to some boulders. When I asked him what he was after, he said he was going to extract the Kyuubi and use it to destroy Konoha. Somehow he knew when my seal would be weakest. I don't even know how... I sure never told anyone. [Until now... sort of.] And then he did. I thought childbirth was painful, but this was something else. Being an Uzumaki, I managed to survive the extraction, but I was exhausted and dying anyway. I knew I didn't have a lot of time left. But I guess he wasn't taking any chances and ordered the Kyuubi to kill me. Minato finally found me and took me to Naruto while he went to stop the masked man. The whole time he was gone, I could feel the tremors shaking the house while the Kyuubi attacked Konoha. For a brief moment they stopped, and I found out why when Minato appeared and took me and Naruto to where he had transported the Kyuubi.
[As if on cue, or perhaps from just saying Kyuubi too many times, her Vulpix walked into the room and settled down at her side as she was talking about the tremors. She ignored him the whole time minus one fist unconsciously relaxing and coming down to rest on his side as she continued.]
I used my chakra chain barrier to keep it grounded. I was ready to pull it back in me and die with it, just so Minato and Naruto could live. But Minato had another idea. He wanted to use the Eight Trigrams Seal to put the Kyuubi in Naruto with some of our chakra so we could see him in the future. So he used the Reaper Death Seal to take half the Kyuubi's chakra with him and sealed the other half to make our son a jinchuuriki. I argued so hard for him to change his mind. Minato could have lived. Naruto could have lived without the burden of being a jinchuuriki. But he won that argument, the first one I ever lost. The Kyuubi shrunk and my condition was starting to worsen. So while Minato was distracted by me, the Kyuubi took advantage of it to try and kill Naruto with one of his claws.
[ Kushina paused to wipe away the bitter tears that were forcing their way out.]
We acted out of pure instinct and threw ourselves in the way, getting impaled on his claw ourselves. We lived long enough for Minato to seal some of our chakra in and to finish sealing the remainder of the Kyuubi's chakra in Naruto.
But do you know why Minato was dead set on making our son a jinchuuriki? He remembered some prophecy Jiraiya-sensei had been told about the world undergoing a revolution and a great disaster. He recognized the masked man as the one who would bring the disaster. So he wanted to leave our son with the power to stop him. I don't know if the masked man Neji and Sakura and Naruto say you'll be in the future is the same one that attacked me and the village. But if it turns out that was you, you won't be able to run far enough, Obito Uchiha.
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Everything that he'd believed in had apparently been crushed and tattered and strewn about and he couldn't see how here and now connected to then and would be, but there were patches of understanding, moments of maybe and he could sort of see it.
It hurt him so very much but he- was going to become a terrible person. He'd tried to make peace with it, to reject that that was him but-
But he didn't have a choice, did he?
It was going to happen no matter what he said, had already happened to everyone he cared about. Everyone had died. Even Kakashi had said so, that day, but he'd gotten better. He'd never met Naruto before here, but he could tell that something in their relationship had staggered, and it wouldn't be the same anymore.
Nothing would be the same anymore.
Everything was ruined and horrible, and he'd been so happy knowing he died a good person, knowing that he'd followed his beliefs to the end.
But that was gone now, pulled forcefully out of his hands one finger at a time, and he couldn't find a grip on that sort of peace anymore, couldn't breathe anymore.
It was suffocating him because why would there be two? What would be the point? There would be no point, because all bad things in the world, in the future, were leading back to him, and he hated it. Hated that he apparently had something like that inside him to turn loose on the world.
He hurt his family.
Sensei, Kushina-nee, their little boy he'd never met before this place. Worse still, he'd caused his blood family to suffer, had brought the wrath of the village quietly down on them with the Kyuubi and he clearly hadn't cared what would happen, what that would do.
And everyone had died. He was-
He should have died.
Heshould have died.
Because the world would have been better.
His words, when spoken, were so soft, and horribly empty, completely blank of any emotion at all.]
It's okay Kushina-nee.
I wouldn't run.
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[He wouldn't run? Damn, he really was crazy. But the look on his face and the tone of his voice was incredibly eerie. Despite whatever anger she was feeling, the sight and sounds before her that she had never seen or heard from Obito ever, concern was still fighting to escape and reach out to him. Even with all the information she had known and had just been told, it was hard to imagine the Obito she thought she knew and remembered and fit him with the masked man who had caused so much devastation and ruined so many lives. Maybe that's what made her grab his shoulders again to shake him.]
Have you seriously lost your mind?! What is going on inside that head of yours?!
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The tone didn't change.]
If that's who I become, it's okay, because I really shouldn't have lived, and it's better I don't if I become that person.
[And then he tried to smile, to show her that no, really, it's okay.]
See?
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[He definitely earned a few more shakes before she stopped. A tiny shudder ran through her as she forced back as much of her pain and sadness as she could. The staggering amount of emotions she had flipped between combined with all the Shocking RevelationsTM in such a short span of time were whittling down her energy levels.]
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I meant. It's okay if you did something about it Kushina-nee, I understand.
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Then it's a promise. [She stood up and walked to the door, Kyuubi following right at her heels. Her hand rested on the doorjamb as she stopped and looked at him over her shoulder.] So long as you stay the way you are here, the way I know you to be, I think we'll be alright. [Maybe.] But if you take one step in the wrong direction...
[She leaves it unfinished. He knows. Unspoken threats of ripping him limb from limb, throwing him off the inn rooftop, stuffing him full of kitchen knives, siccing her entire team on him... When she imagined doing these things, it was to the masked man, not the broken boy here with her. She sighed and left the room. She'd hold herself together until she could return to the room she shared with Minato and lock the door, then break down completely.]
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He couldn't.]
Wait!
[He stumbled to his feet, but stalled out without trying to grab her, and his voice broke.]
Please.
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His voice was very small, with a quaver. He... He kept needing to ask things like this and it was horrible, but every single time he expected the answer he didn't want.]
Do you- Do you hate me now?
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I... I don't know. Right now... You're not the masked man that destroyed my life. Him, I can say I hate and may never forgive. He is a monster, a murderer, and the worst person I have ever met. You... You are Obito Uchiha: a fellow Konoha shinobi, one of my husband's beloved students, and someone I care about like my own family.
[Holding back tears was getting harder and harder with every word. Every word that echoed her broken heart as she did her best to keep her voice from breaking too. She inhaled deep as if she was going to say something else, but shook her head. There was nothing more she could say. So she took her leave, stepping carefully over Kyuubi, who trotted off in her wake after sparing Obito a sympathetic glance.]
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Finally, after struggling just to breathe, he went looking for his sensei.]