Ninja Gamer

Chapter 16: Impending Matrimony

AN: Just a quick note before I start, forgot to mention it last chap, but Roshi is eleven years older than Yuriko, making him twenty nine when she is eighteen

When the procession returned home to Konoha after the treaty signing in Iwa, I had been hoping for things to return to business as usual. That was not what I got.

"Nee-chan, I've been having these weird dreams since Iwa was here," Naruto-kun announced once I had gotten changed out of my shinobi outfit into a simple pair of pants and a t-shirt and relaxed on the couch.

"Oh? What about, Naruto-kun?" I asked him gently, my stomach cramping at my suspicion.

"Well... it's a big orange fox with big ears and nine tails behind a cage," the Jinchuuriki stated, confirming my fears. "And he kept threatening to eat you and Sasuke."

I closed my eyes briefly before letting out a sigh. "I was hoping to wait until you were ten to have this conversation," I told him as I opened my eyes to see the confused looks Naruto-kun and Sasuke-kun were sending me. "Just wait a moment and I'll explain."

I quickly got up from the couch and moved to the door, placing a 'Do Not Disturb Unless We Are Being Invaded' sign and then locked the door and placed a silencing seal on said entry way and moved back to the couch.

"Right... do you remember the story about the night you were born, Naruto-kun?" I asked him, getting a nod from the boy, while I wasn't able to name his parents, I was able to give him an edited version of the events surrounding his birth. "Well, remember how I wasn't able to answer how the Yondaime defeated the Kyuubi?"

Again, Naruto-kun and Sasuke-kun both nodded at me. "Well... that's because Bijuu can't be defeated conventionally," I explained. "Do either of you remember what Bijuu are made up of?"

"Aren't they pure chakra?" Sasuke-kun questioned with a tilted head, his brow furrowing in a cute manner that I unfortunately had to endure because of the serious conversation.

"Correct, Sasuke-kun," I smiled at the boy in confirmation. "As they are pure chakra, they would just end up scattered until reformed later, meaning there is only one way to deal with them long term, fuinjutsu."

"What does that have to do with my dreams?" Naruto-kun questioned, looking very much like a fox with his face scrunched up in concentration. "Did the Yondaime seal away the fox in a jar or something?"

I shook my head in the negative. "No, unfortunately the Kyuubi is too strong to be sealed like that, the only way for a Bijuu like the Kyuubi to be sealed properly is by sealing it, into a baby," I explained realization dawning on the pair. "Naruto-kun, the Yondaime entrusted you with this burden because your mother was the previous host of the Kyuubi, the bad man that attacked when you were born forcibly extracted him and enslaved him with a Sharingan technique created by Madara that was never really passed down."

My little brothers looked shell shocked at the revelation of Naruto-kun's status. "So... the fox that I saw in my dreams, is the Kyuubi?" Naruto-kun asked nervously.

I nodded in confirmation. "It is a terrible burden to bear, but Yondaime-sama and your mother had faith that you would be able to endure," I told him, shuffling closer to him so I could wrap my arms around him. "I waited to tell you because I wanted to make sure you were old enough to understand. Just remember, while the Kyuubi may be sealed inside of you, that does not make you the Kyuubi."

Naruto-kun nodded slowly in response before burrowing himself in my arms sniffling as he held back his tears. Sasuke-kun patted his brother on the back as I hugged the blonde tightly, giving him all the comfort I could provide him with the embrace.