Reborn Fox

Encounter

Sasuke's was jumping from the trees they figured that this mode of traveling would get them to the leaf village faster.
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"Yo Sasuke."
Suigetsu called out to his leader.
"What."
Sasuke replied.
"When we get back to your old village what are we gonna do...I don't think they'll accept you with open arms after...ya know."
Suigetsu said referring to the death of Naruto and Sasuke's hand in it.
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"I don't know but I'll do anything just to redeem my self."
Sasuke muttered under his breath as he looked down at the child he was holding.
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Sasuke vision started getting blurry he then saw a familiar figure ahead of him it was Naruto.
"Naruto?"
Sasuke started to jump ahead of teammates to catch up with the apparation in front of him.
"Hey Sasuke where are you going?"
Karin asked.
"Scouting ahead."

Sasuke left his team behind and he caught up with apparation but when he was about to confront the person in front of him the person had turned around to reveal that he was Naruto but his eyes were lifeless and he had a hole in his chest.
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Sasuke heart started pulsating at unsafe levels he started to break out in a cold sweat.
("Hey Dad what's wrong are you sad again.")
The real Naruto babbled as felt Sasuke was having another panic attack.
Sasuke teammates caught up with and they were puzzled by what they saw, their leader was practically white as snow staring at nothing.
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"Hey ya jerk you left us behind!!"
Suigetsu said irritated.
This brought Sasuke out of his illusion.
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Sasuke walked towards Suigetsu.
"Hey wait I was just kidding you're kidding you're not a jerk."
Suigetsu said trying to avoid the consequences of his words.
Sasuke held the child towards Suigetsu.
"Hold him."
Sasuke said.
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Suigetsu took the child from Sasuke he then watched his leader collapse to the ground.
"SASUKE!!!"
Karin knelled besides her crush and she felt his pulse.
"What's wrong with him!"
Suigetsu shouted.
"Dada....Waaaaaaaaaaaaaah!"
"Great now the kids crying!"
Suigetsu said not knowing what to do he handed the child to Jugo.
"It's okay Sasuke will be okay."
Said the orange haired teen.
Karin let Sasuke bite her arm hoping he will feel better.
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Sasuke opened his eyes and he shot up.
"Where's Naruto!"
Sasuke shouted.
"Dada!".
Naruto reached towards Sasuke with tears in his eyes
Suddenly everything came back to Sasuke he remembered what had happened.
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"I think we should rest here for the night."
Said the Uchiha.
"Yeah ya think."
Suigetsu said as he reverted to his liquid form from the pressure of what had transpired.
While the team was busy setting up camp there was another person walking in these very same woods aiming to go nowhere.
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Sakura sat down on a rock she was tired from all of her walking.
"How far am I?"
The kunoichi asked herself as she pulled a map from her bag to check her location.
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"Let I am right next to a river there's a waterfall about thirty feet away from me....okay here I am....I think I might camp out here for the night."
Sakura saw a tree and she started to run up the tree and she  formed her hand into a chakra scapel to cut away the dead branches for her camp fire.
Ten minutes later.
Sakura had came down from the tree with large pile of dead wood perfect for her fire.
"Now time for a camp fire."
Sakura had placed her wood on the ground and she did a basic fire jutsu to light her fire.
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Something about the fire was making her feel at peace...she had missed her friend Naruto had so many hopes and dreams and she was sad to know he is no longer of this world.
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"Naruto."
The kunoichi silently cried.
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Sasuke had lit the camp fire with his Fireball Jutsu.
"Sweet we finally have a fire now we can cook the fish I caught."
Suigetsu hovered the fish he had impaled on his stick above the fire.
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"So what is the kid gonna eat?"
Karin asked.
"I'm gonna give him some fish... he's has enough teeth for eating.
Sasuke placed his fish above the fire and he waited for it to cook.
"Dada num num!"
The toddler whined.
"You're gonna eat in a little bit."
Sasuke said to the child.
"(But I'm hungry now hurry up!)"
The child continued to whine some more.
"Hold on... impatient baby."
Said the Uchiha.
"Ha ha ha ha ha!"
Suigetsu laughed out loud.
"What's so funny?"
Sasuke said.
"Nothing just that kid giving you some trouble."
Suigetsu stifled his laughter but he still giggled.
"I think he's just the cutest."
Karin lifited the child in the air.
"Ha ha ha ha."
The child started laughing.
"(I like you guys Auntie and Uncle know how to have fun.)"
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Sasuke gave off the faintest of a smile.
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"Are you smiling Sasuke."
Jugo asked as he was cooking his fish.
"Just enjoying this moment."
Sasuke said.
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"Have you been alright we all have been worried about you."
Jugo asked his leader.
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"I've losing my mind Jugo the guilt is eating me alive and it's causing me to hallucinations and panic attacks...these are among the long list of things I must suffer as punishment for me killing my friend."
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"I see...we will help you."
Jugo said.
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"Thank you."
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Suigetsu fish caught on fire.
"My dinner!".
Suigetsu quickly took his fish and he put out the flames that it engulfed it which interestingly enough it cooked the fish to perfection.
"Cool".
Right as Suigetsu was about to take a bite out of his food he saw Naruto was staring at him with pleading eyes.
Suigetsu sighed.
"Here have a piece."
The teen tore a small piece of his fish  and he fed it to Naruto.
"Mmmm."
Naruto loved the food.
"Heh heh, I guess he likes it."
Suigetsu said.
Sasuke took his now cooked fish and he at half of it.
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"Dada".
"(Hey give me some of yours Saskue.)"
Naruto reached his hands out towards Sasuke.
"I think the kids wants you."
Suigetsu handed Naruto to Sasuke.
"Here Naruto eat this."
Sasuke fed the child his half of the the fish this was enough to make the toddler full so, Naruto quickly fell asleep his full stomach made him tired.
"Me too kid."
Sasuke had set up his tent and he brought himself and Naruto inside.
"We head out at dawn."
Said the Uchiha as he let the drape down over his tent.
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Sakura had finally finished setting up her tent.
"These instructions do not help at all."
Sakura threw the instruction booklet in her bag and she crawled inside her tent.
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"You know what this tent is kinda comfortable."
Sakura said to herself.
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"But I am kinda lonely."
Sakura said to herself.
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The kunoichi stepped out of her tent and she bit her thumb.
"Summoning Jutsu: Lady Katsuya!!"
Sakura summoned a enormous slug.
"How may I be of service to you Mistress Sakura."
Said the large slug.
"Could shrink down to palm sized Lady Katsuya...I am a little lonely."
Sakura asked the slug.
"Of course."
The summoned beast deconstructed her body into a grey fluid then she reformed into a palm sized version of herself.
Sakura picked up the small slug and she brought her into the tent with her.
"Is there something you would like to talk about?"
Katsuya asked.
"Well yes."
Sakura said.
Sakura told Katsuya about all the events that had transpired with the death of Naruto and the news Itachi gave out about Danzo and the Akatsuki.
"It must not have been an easy past few days milady."
Katsuya said.
"It has not I still think about how I could have saved Naruto, but thinkig won't bring him back.
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(Two Hours Later)
Naruto woke up he felt funny and something smelled.
"(Is that me?)"
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"(Crap that is me I can't believe I crapped myself.)"
Naruto started to tear he then started crying.
"Waaaaaaaah!!!!"
Sasuke quickly woke up with a kunai in his hand.
"Naruto!"
Sasuke took a moment to look for the child in his care and he found Naruto safely besides him Sasuke didn't what was going on until the smell hit him.
"Jeez kid you smell bad."
Sasuke said as he sat down and he grabbed the changing supplies.
"Dada".
"(Finally you woke up can you change me Saskue I think I'm starting to get a wash.)"
Naruto thought to himself.
Sasuke undid the snaps on Naruto's onsie and he undid the diaper it almost caused Sasuke to throw up.
"Okay that smells horrible."
Sasuke quickly changed Naruto's diaper and he threw it out of his tent.
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He still smelt it.
"That isn't enough."
Sasuke got out of his tent he started doing the handsigns for his signature jutsu.
"Fire Style: Fireball Jutsu!"
Sasuke set the diaper on fire turning it to nothing but ash.
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"Good riddance."
Sasuke went back inside his tent and he fell back asleep with Naruto in his grasp.
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(Thirty Minutes Later)
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Naruto woke up again and this time he was hungry.
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The baby got sat himself up and he tried to shake Sasuke awake.
"Dada dada."
"(Hey...hey Dad get up I'm hungry.)"
Naruto kept on trying to shake Sasuke awake.
Sasuke wouldn't wake up.
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Naruto pouted.
"(Fine I'll get my own food.)"
Naruto used Sasuke's sleeping body to push himself into a standing position.
"(Okay I got this.)"
The toddler took one step and he fell on his butt.
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"(Crawling it is then.)"
Naruto crawled out the tent and tried to look for a source of food he then sniffed the air...he smelled something good.
"Fewd."
Naruto started crawling towards the source of smell after a few minutes of following the scent he saw a light coming from the other side of a bush not far from where Sasuke and his group set up camp at.
"Num Num"
"(Finally I can get some food around here.)"
Naruto crawled through the bush and he saw a pink haired woman cooking some fish over a fire.
"(Do...do I know her she looks familiar.)"
Naruto crawled towards the pink haired woman but before he got close the woman noticed him.
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"Is this a baby."
Sakura picked up the child.
"Where did you come from...we're you abandoned."
Sakura said as she sat down with the child.
"Who would abandon such a cutie."
Sakura said as she tickled the child.
"Ha ha ha ha ha ha!!!"
Naruto bellowed with laughter.
"I should probably take you to the authorities tommorow but if you were truly abandoned I have to take you to the orphanage."
Sakura said but then she started getting memories of Naruto.
The teen started to tear up she missed her comrade.
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"(Hey don't cry lady if you cry I might cry too)"
Naruto wiped the tears off of Sakura's face.
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"Thank you....you know now that I get a good look at you...you kinda look like my friend only if he was a baby you even have those weird little whiskers birthmark my late friend has."
Sakura said as she started rocking the child.
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"You know today is his birthday too...for once I was gonna treat him to some food but I'll never get the chance..... tommorow when I take you to the authorities to see if you were really abandoned or if no one can find your parents I'll care for you...in memoriam of my late friend, he was a orphan so it'll feel right to give you the life he never had."
Sakura started to rock the child this comforted the Naruto.
"(Okay then that makes you my new Mom)"
Naruto thought to himself.
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"Naruto I'm sorry...I'm sorry."
Sasuke started tearing up in his sleep but the teen soon shot up.
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"Another nightmare."
Sasuke said as he looked around him.
"Kid?"
Sasuke stepped out of his tent to try to look for the child but he then realized Naruto wasn't at the campsite.
"No no no no I can't lose him... he's the only thing that gives me the will to live."
Sasuke activated his Sharigan to see could he find the small amount of chakra the child had.
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"There."
Sasuke found the small chakra source along side it was a bigger source of chakra that must mean someone has the baby with them.
Sasuke quickly ran to the area his killer intent rising.
(With Sakura)
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Sakura felt someone was coming her direction.
"Lady Katsuya you feel that."
Sakura said.
"Yes I do."
Said the slug.
"Keep the kid safe if I fall in battle take him to the village and tell Lady Tsunade."
Sakura said as she grabbed her kunai.
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Sasuke jumped into Sakura's campsite and he saw the pink haired kunoichi.
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"You."
Sakura said with venom in her voice.
"Sakura I I."
Sasuke was at a lost for words.
"You murderer!"
Sakura shouted at her former crush.
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"Say something after everything you did now you won't speak!"
Sakura said her anger made apparent.
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"I'm sorry."
Sasuke said as tears fell off his face.
"Now you feel sorry is this a joke after everything he went through for you just for him to be killed by your hand you just say sorry!!"
Sakura rushed towards Sasuke and she punched him in his face.
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"I don't deserve any mercy Sakura what I did I can't fix this."
Sasuke started crying.
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"Dada."
Naruto called out to Sasuke.
The Uchiha looked up to see the child he was looking for.
"Naruto stay back.!"
Sasuke said.
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"Answers now!"
Sakura demanded.
Sasuke told his story about how he found the kid and his new life mission with the child.
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"That's my story so far."
Sasuke said.
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"You know Sasuke we all know know that Naruto had accidentally stood in your way right before you were gonna kill Itachi...but I don't forgive you.
Sakura said.
"I do deserve forgiveness but I at least want to give this kid the childhood Naruto never had."
Sasuke declared.
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"So you're coming back to the village then?"
Sakura asked.
"Yeah."
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"The kid...you called him Naruto earlier?"
Sakura asked Saskue.
"He looks just like him."
Sasuke responded.
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"Mommy"
Naruto reached towards Sakura.
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"I guess he likes you too."
Said the Uchiha.
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Gather your friends, you all can travel with me back to the village without alerting the public.
Sakura packed up her tent and she put out her camp fire.
"If you and I have the same goal for this one child then we will achieve it but remember this is your new life mission."