Cherry Blossoms | A Naruto FanFic

Chapter Two: The Raven Anbu

Naurto and Natsumi entered their small house, Natsumi had a smirk since after cleaning the hokage's head her older brother took her to eat ramen.

Natsumi laid on the couch, " Ni~chan…how are you strong? " Natsumi asked, Naruto sighed and rubbed his temple.

" You've been saying this for the one thousandth time in the last month, " Naruto said. Natsumi stood up and stretched.

" You give me the same answer every time, 'I met somebody in the forest and we had a productive conversation about life', Jeez, come up with a better lie " Natsumi replied, perfectly matching Naruto's deep voice.

" I believe you're stronger than I am, '' Naruto replied, catching Natsumi off guard. " In terms of strength, I easily beat you for now. However, you underestimate the power you have to change yourself, and the people around you, " Naruto explained.

" Now get your ass to bed or I'll knock you out and have you miss the graduation test " Naruto said while Natsumi nodded and headed off to bed.

Naruto made a few shadow clones, which he learned from the scrolls he took from the Uzumaki-Namikaze estate.

Naruto went outside to their backyard, he sighed and looked up into the midnight sky with a smile.

" I wonder where you're at now, Izumi Uchiha " Naruto thought while smirking at the thought.

— Flashback - Seven Years Ago —

In the deep forest of Konohagakure, one Uzumaki Naruto could be seen in the clearing. He was a lot different than he is now, he wore a white shelfless kimono widened to view his muscular body for a six year old.

He wore dark blue kimono pants with a black obi holding it all together, in his arms is his blade he received from literally birth.

His hair was tied into a ponytail with short bangs covering most of his left side of his forehead. Around him were dozens of wooden posts.

He's only six years old right now, but he could pass as a ten to thirteen year old with an extreme above average height and somehow deeply considered regarding his age body.

Naruto sighed once again, he wiped the sweat off his forehead. He turned around and to his surprise there was standing an anbu.

She was about his height which was 165cm, she had long raven black hair with equally dark eyes. He couldn't see her face, but considering her figure it's safe to assume she's beautiful.

She had the basic anbu attire however she also had a white cloth wrapped around her neck signifying that she was an anbu captain in one of the five divisions.

However, her figure was one not to scoff at. Her body had light scars all around and her stance remained Nurto of that weird green spandex wearing jounin fighting seriously against some screw crowds looking jounin. In terms of assets, she has that in folds with her breast size being about D-cup.

" Could I help you, Anbu~san? Naruto asked stoically, "I was watching you train, care for a spar?" The anbu captain said, her voice seemed so beautiful to Naruto's eyes.

Naruto nodded and got into his kenjutsu stance, she unleashed some of her killing intent. However, to her surprise, Naruto didn't flinch a bit.

Naruto made the first move, using around fifty percent of his current speed. He rushed towards the anbu captain, and delivered a vertical slash.

Fortunately, she managed to dodge the attack. "He moves as fast as Gai~san with his weights on, I might need to use my sharingan!" The anbu captain thought.

She unsheathed her blade that was strapped to her waist, and entered a kenjutsu battle. Every slash Naruto made she easily dodged, blocked, or redirected.

Naruto was easily the most skilled one in swordsmanship, however the anbu captain has more experience than Naruto so they cancel each other out.

Thru jumped away from each other before the anbu captain sighed, " You're pretty good for a thirteen year old " she said, completely getting his age off by nearly eight years.

However Naruto didn't react to this at all which made her believe that, " I'll have to use my Kekkei Genkai, unlike others in my clan, I do not believe we're invincible once using our Kekkei Genkai " she explained.

She closed her eyes dramatically, then suddenly she opened her eyes to reveal a three tomoe sharingan in each eye.

She placed Naruto in a genjutsu once they made eye contact, " You fought good, I'll recommend Hokage~sama to have you enter the anbu selection if you chose so " said the female anbu captain.

Before she could even blink, she felt the sharp mental touch of her cold skin. " I thought you didn't have the aggressiveness and arrogance of your clan, " Naruto said from behind her.

" Damn, he caught me off guard. He managed to complete out speed my sharingan when I'm caught off guard. I might actually need to try " said thought.

Suddenly her field of version widened, she was confused by this sudden increase of version. However, Naruto smirked at this.

Naruto pulled out a weasel mask from his pocket, he smiled actually seeing the face of his temporary opponent.

The raven haired Anbu captain's eyes widened at this revelation. She stretched her hands and touched her face.

" I have seen you before, your Izumi Uchiha, the first born daughter of the Uchiha clan and the supposedly the greatest Uchiha prodigy since Madara Uchiha " Naruto said while she nodded.

" Don't worry, I have no reason to reveal your identity as an Anbu captain to others, " Naruto said while she took a grateful sigh.

" Thank you, " Izumi said while Naruto nodded, without a word Naruto threw her mask to her while grabbing it.

"What's been hacking at your mind, Izumi~chan?" Naruto said while laying down on the grassy ground. Izumi absent-mindedly blushed with the 'chan' added to her name.

" I have no idea what you're talking about " Izumi replied, to all she had a perfect stoic face and tone to her words to reveal nothing to her motivates.

However, to Naruto she was as open as a book. "I could tell you are suffering under difficult times. However, difficult times have helped me to understand myself better than before. How infinitely rich and beautiful life is in every way, and that so many that one goes worrying about are of no importance whatsoever " Naruto explained, Izumi just stood there in silence listening to the boy's explanation.

" Tell me Izumi~chan. Why do you fight? " Naruto asked, " I fight for my family, I fight to create a better world for my brother, I fight to end war and have eternal peace in the world. That's what I fight for, " Izumi replied confidently.

" I fight for my little sister, I fight to make my little sister's dream a reality, I hate fighting and I fight for peace, most importantly, I fight for others not myself " Naruto answered his own question.

At this point the sun started to set giving both of them a golden outline. " I should get going, my little sister will burn down the house if left unsupervised. See you around, Izumi~chan " Naruto said while disappearing in a cloud of smoke.

— End Flashback —

" Those were the days huh…Izumi~chan " Naruto thought while closing the door to the backyard. Leaving the stars to infinitely shine in the glory of the dark sky.