Naruto of the Shinju

Chapter 17: Questions and Lies

As Naruto was constricting Zabuza with his hair, Kakashi took the opportunity and attacked with the Water Release: Great Waterfall Technique, a technique he copied earlier from Zabuza when the latter attempted to use it, leaving Zabuza defeated. Naruto let go of his hold at Zabuza and he was dropped onto the ground.

"I didn't expect that you have tricks up your sleeve", Kakashi said. "Where did you learn it?"

"Not telling you", he replied.

As Kakashi was about to kill Zabuza, a hunter-nin appeared, and threw two needles at Zabuza's neck, killing him.

"Who are you?", Sasuke asked.

"I'm going to take his body away and destroy it. Anyways, sorry for the trouble". He then took Zabuza's body away and disappeared quickly.

As the duo disappeared, Kakashi said, "Now Zabuza's dead, let's head back to Tazuna's home".

As they were walking towards Tazuna's house, everyone was silent, considering the events that took place including signs of Naruto's behavior that he's a bit twisted and has techniques that are highly impossible for a genin to handle. As they walked, Kakashi asked, "Naruto, according to the information given to me by the Third Hokage, you are a hyperactive kid and is an idiot. But the one I've seen earlier is a different Naruto, quite a tactician. Now tell me, was the dead-last kid a façade?"

Naruto didn't answer and made the other three looked at him. He then replied, "Sakura and Shikamaru asked me several times why did I change. Well, to put it simply people do change. I've gone through several troubles throughout my life and that made me grow up this way".

"What are you trying to say?", Kakashi asked suspiciously.

"Let's say, Mizuki-sensei revealed something to me, and that made me snapped. That's all. Asked Iruka-sensei about it, he knows. I don't want to elaborate the details. Just elaborating makes me bring some sort of …bad memories".

"Fine then".

Once they made it into the house, a crying woman hugged Tazuna.

"I'm so glad you're alive father", she said. "Thank you so much for him. I'm Tsunami by the way, his daughter", she introduced.

"I'll prepare dinner for all of you".

As they were sitting on a table, Kakashi was bombarded with several questions that he himself wants to know. Having met Naruto, he has experienced habits that he did not do a long time ago, such as peeping in women's bath or having memory lapses. He was also surprised that Naruto has a space time ninjutsu. Well, his father, Minato Namikaze has one and is called the Flying Thunder God Technique, yet Naruto's technique was extremely advanced and it takes a lot of chakra to open.

As the food was served and they were eating, Kakashi suddenly asked. "Naruto, if you don't mind, could you tell me more about this space time ninjutsu of yours?"

Naruto stared at him and smirked, "And why do you want to know more about it? Don't tell me you're interested."

"According to you, that space time ninjutsu of yours is the ancestor of all space time ninjutsu. Is it true?"

"Yes, and I won't tell anymore about it. If you were to ask where I learned it, I just trained and I was surprised that I could open rifts in space. Yes, it really taxes my chakra reserves and I rarely use it except in life or death situations", he lied.

"Very well".

As they finished eating, everybody slept, except for Naruto who was left awake lying on his bed. He went out and looked at the stars in the night skies. Sensing some movement behind him, he turned and it was Shino.