Naruto: Rewritten

Chapter 26

It was raining, heavily as the crowds gathered around for the official funeral of the Third Hokage. Homura stood silently to the side, she was, of course, instructed to speak at the funeral. She was tapped in the shoulder and told to make her speech. This is how it went:

"Today we have gathered to celebrate the life of a father, grandfather, teacher, lover, husband, Hokage and most importantly a friend."

She took a breath and choked back tears.

"Sarutobi was and forever will be a great man! He was kind, gentle and happy. He will, no matter what, always be in our hearts, and his death shouldn't drive us away from each other, but bring us together. I remember him as the man who took me in when my parents where killed 12 years ago. I remember him as the man who saved me and a fellow ninja from his killer. I remember him as the man whose face smiles down at us from Hokage mountain. He is the man that will always be in our hearts, connecting us, bringing us together in our biggest time of need."

She wiped away tears and continued rather shakily.

"Sarutobi will always men one if the greatest men I've ever known! Many people will agree with me, and his believe of the Will of Fire is true! It burns in all of us. It always will, he taught us this much. We should learn as much as we can from this. We now are weak. But we must rise above that! For Sarutobi! And for our pride as a nation!"

Homura finished her speech and walked back to her seat in front of the small crowd. As she walked by many people patted her back and whispered comforting words to her as she passed. She sat down and listened to the rest if the speeches and stood up again for the flower giving bit. She stood behind Sasuke and in front of Kiba, she gave her flower and a thought of the time she, as a child, started a food fight with him. 'It wasn't really a food fight huh. It was more of a 'I will throw whatever is in my hand at you' fight. Heh. That was funny' she thought as a cheeky smile slowly crept to her lips.

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Homura ran to her house and rummaged through all the stuff she and Sarutobi packed away until she came to a music box and a necklace. The necklace simple held a beautiful tiny key and the box was sky blue with little emeralds, rubies and sapphires all over the lid and toads and dragons ion the sides. She placed the key in the keyhole and listened and sang along with her mother. She finally fell asleep with the song still playing.

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The next morning Naruto and Sauke went with Jiariya and Orochimaru to find the olders teammate, and to train. Jūka and Kura left for their villages the day after the funeral and The Kazekage was looking after his village and the leaf at the same time. Sakura had came to visit Homura while they where out. "Homura why are you unpacking all this stuff?" Sakura asked carrying a box of stuff. "I felt like I should stop repressing the fact that my parents actually cared about me, and I felt like I should probably go through some of this stuff" Homura replied as she pulled out a photo album. "Oh... That kinda cute~" she giggled as Sakura looked over her shoulder. Homura's father was wearing cat ears and whiskers, with his hands above his face to look like a cat. Sakura giggled loudly and turned the page. It was basically filled with cute pictures like that. "Your dad is co cool!!!" Sakura said in between laughs. "Yep! I wonder if there are any picture of my mum like that" Homura giggled looking for other photo albums.

"Here!!! Same types of pictures!!!!" She called to the pinkette. "Oh! Lets see!!! Aww~ so cute!!!" She cried as the redhead flicked open to a random page. It was a picture of Homura's mother, with three kids roughly their age all in cat ears, and the woman not heavily pregnant, but the baby bump was still visible. "Wait! Is that Kakashi?" Sakura asked. "Oh! My Kami it is!!! Aw~ doesn't he look adorable?" Homura asked getting a closer look at the picture. "Now that that's out of the way. Burn the picture" a bored voice said. Both girls turned around to see their sensei standing behind them. "AHHHH!!!!!!!" they screamed and slammed the book shut. "Burn it please" he tried again. "NEVER!!!! It's too cute of a picture! Plus my mum is in it and she looks hella cute in it!" Homura cried protecting the book. "Fine. But if I see I see it again I'll burn it" he said crossing his arms.

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Days later Tsunade, the soon to be appointed 5th Hokage, came in with Jiariya and Orochimaru, along with Naruto and Sasuke. "Hey guys!!! Didja get the woman you where looking for?" Homura asked. "Yeah they found us. Little pests" a busty blonde said as she and a woman with short dark hair and a pig walked into the village. "Hello! My name is Homura Nameikaze! It's very nice to meet you! Would you like to follow me to the elders instead if hanging out with this lot. I imagine you are quite tired of men at the moment" Homura said. "Thank you! Someone here is polite! The name is Tsunade and this is Shizune" Tusnade said as the walked down the lane chatting quite happily.