Retrace and Fix

Chapter 3: Uzushiogakure

Naruto POV

"That was fun."

Naruto whistled as he skipped down the flat yellow-dirt road, hands swinging.

One would assume he'd recount the tales of his experience within Uzushiogakure, that he'd provide explanation to why the picture and title is what it was, but that was not his job. His job was to make sure that the bastards of this world died and the fewer good people lived.

Of course, that's what it would be, him leaving the audience clueless to what it was like in his clans home, but, he supposed he could spare them.

Quick summary; the buildings were washy blue and dark red, lots of green and flowery plants crowding around shops and houses. The majority of stalls sold fish and sealing material, a selected few provided spices and meat, with the established and concrete stores holding vegetables. The busiest market places were predictably bustling with red-haired citizens, few of brown hair. The occupants of Uzushio also had funny roads, some of them lined with runnels in the ground, while other roads completely cut off by large waterways, flowing with bright blue water and oak-red boats, paddled by red-headed people. There was a bunch of smaller details too, like that one quiet square with a small water well, hung with tags and kunai, or the green and yellow paper lanterns stringed to the tops of doors, or the Uzumaki swirls carved and painted in the many pillars by the roads, but the biggest most important thing to know is Mito.

Mito Uzumaki was alive. Alive and young, around her twenties, two children accompanying her, mixed traits between Senju and Uzumaki, and the Kyuubi's seal still holding strong. Kurama has tricked Naruto it seemed, into getting him to think it was around Kushina's time, when in fact it was just about after Madara's 'death'. Also meaning Naruto had killed a bunch of Kiri nin for no reason.

Not that Naruto had anything against killing, but. . . he still wasn't comfortable with killing without a clear reason. It didn't feel right to kill without knowing the why  behind it, nothing else, just not knowing why  he was doing it. It didn't matter if the reason was wrong or right, Naruto's sense of right and wrong had been warped long ago, mutilated and transformed into something with the smallest tellings of what something bad  was.

As a student at the Academy Naruto had learned to steal and ruin without worry. As a genin he learned to break people without remorse. As a chūnnin he'd learned to kill and sacrifice without guilt. And in war he'd learned to destroy and abandon without thinking, without remembering Sensei's teaching, without noticing the stressed and devastated face of Kakashi, without hearing his endless apologies and mutterings to the graves of the dead. And at the end, when everyone died, Naruto learned how to move without feeling, without feeling anything when he killed, when he hurt, when he left, when he walked over the countless bodies of people he had once felt for, when he turned back time and left that world for this world, to abandon the wrangled and bloody remains of his comrades for this new and untouched world, one he could fix.

But all that time, he had had a purpose. He had done it to survive, to live on, to drag out his miserable and scornful life as far as possible, and now to let those who deserved it drag out their own lives, but ones better than his.

And now that Naruto has realized he had killed a mound of shinobi, because he thought he knew the reason, he doesn't do anything about it. The memory sits deep in his stomach, runs through his mind and weighs down on his feet, but he can't do anything about it now. Those people are long dead now, probably already been cleaned up from that battlefield, given a good burial, and down 6 ft into the ground.

There was also no point in mourning, he never knew those people, and stressing over it wouldn't do anything good, so he kept on walking, back to the memory of the slaughtered men and dead Kiri nin, whistling idly without a care in the world.

Aaaaaaand the chapter is not done!

Right, Naruto's personal summary is not done yet. Yeah, Mito wasn't dead, she had her kids with her, and Naruto tagged along with her to her trip to meet with the leader of Uzushiogakure(whom shall be called the Uzukage). They mainly discussed possible trading routes and new benefits in their alliance, for instance, sharing training techniques or exchanging genin for sake of village relations. The children had been sent out of the office to play with other children, who ended up chasing Naruto for tag. He didn't mind.

After the meeting, Mito and her children(Hanaku and Tazūki, Naruto had later learned) had stopped at an inn, where Naruto had bid farewell and left, to never be seen again, whooooosh.

Now, where was Naruto heading? To sleep for a few more years of course! When something actually happens!