Random Naruto AU musings/fanfic ideas incoming:
OK so, I was listening to Naruto theme songs in my room via speaker to drown out the sounds of my mother/housemate having a private appointment downstairs via zoom. (As you do)
And I started to think of how Asuma's death kind of represented a turning point where the konaha 12 are not kids anymore, things are getting serious, main ensemble members are drying, ect.
And I thought, the other thing like that in the original series was the death of the third homage. Exept even that didn't hit as hard because he was old and stuff. Then I realized one big opportunity lost with his death: the person was likely to maybe someday tell Naruto the truth of his parents, especially since he's the one who made it classified in the first place.
Here's where the AU comes in: I was trying to think of scenarios in which the third would have allowed Naruto to know about his parents during the time before the thirds death, and had a thought: there's a bunch of fics out there of Wave having some connection to hidden Whirlpool village, Uzushio, either neighbors or even that they were protected by/allied with Uzushio before the village destruction.
So what if, during the wave arc, Tazuna and the other villagers reacted when they heard Naruto's last name, being overjoyed to hear that at least one Uzumaki survived. Being hush hush about it because they don't want Gato to know because having an Uzumaki present threatens his standing.
Eventually they get Naruto alone with some of the older villagers who express their relief and exitment that there are still surviving Uzumaki after the destruction of Uzushio.
Naruto is so confused, poor kid. These old people are almost acting like he's some long lost relative or something, something about his last name, the destruction of some place called Uzushio? And what's this about asking about his family? Are all these old people senile and mistaking him for someone else?
The villagers confirm his last name is Uzumaki, and that they are talking about his clans home village of Uzushio, which was destroyed during the last war. What do you mean you've never heard of it? Is your ancestral homeland surely your parents would have mentioned it.
And then they learn that he's an orphan left all alone in the world, nothing of his family save his name and the symbol on his back. He tries so suggest that maybe he's not related to those Uzumaki, only to be rebuffed by a team of geriatrics, each pointing out some innocuous feature they swear is an Uzumaki trait, from his speech pattern and large amount of Chakra, to his ears and his chin.
By the end a group of Wave villagers old enough to remember Uzushio in its prime have mentally adopted Naruto and started telling him stories of Uzushio and the Uzumaki Clan, even trying to determine who he might be related to.
Eventually an old woman remembers a friend of hers, who's daughter was sent away to Konoha years before the attack, to be a Konoha ninja. they figure that must have been his mother, and naruto puts together that he was born around the same time as the nine tails attack of the village and they come to the conclusion that his mother probably died in the attack, weakened from childbirth, maybe even dying to protect her baby, and that he must not have had a dad in the picture for him not to be claimed afterwards.
Maybe they even introduce him to a village elder who's actually an Uzumaki and married into Wave decades ago, even long before the attack, and as she took her husband's name and wasn't a ninja, no one caught on. Maybe it Turns out to be his great aunt or something.
I'm imaging the bridge being named something representing the return of the Uzumaki clan.
Also, when the missions over and is time to return to Konoha, the entire village of Wave tries to fight for custody, especially his Great Aunt, who insists on accompanying them back to Konoha to interrogate the Hokage as to her grand nephew's treatment.
Maybe his newly found great aunt or distant cousin decides to move to Konoha, maybe with a bunch of her kids and grandkids giving Naruto a bunch of cousins. Or maybe he just gains a single elderly Uzumaki refugee from Wave.
I feel like Sasuke would be pretty mad/offended on narutos behalf over having the knowledge of his family hidden from him, since at least Sasuke has his memories and his clans belongings.
It'd be pretty funny if however many Uzumakis end up in the village, they all more or less adopt Sasuke as well as Naruto.
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Kakashi Hatake Mission Report #5 - Concerning guarding the Land of Waves bridge builder Tazuna, and the battle with rogue shinobi Zabuza.
Client: Tazuna - Bridge builder from Land of Waves. Currently constructing a large bridge to connect the Land of Waves with other countries.
Duties: Protection - Guard him from thieves and the like on the road to the Land of Waves until construction is completed.
Mission Rank: C
Report Four: Zabuza appears, battle with Haku:
“As expected, Zabuza and the rogue shinobi boy Haku appeared before us again. Sasuke and Naruto took on Haku, while I took on Zabuza, but the battle was stopped when Zabuza’s employer, Gato, betrayed him. During the battle Sasuke’s sharingan ability appears to have awakened”.
“Key point to remember: strong emotions might open Naruto’s seal. We may need to take precautions”.
Mission Notes:
- Haku used his kekkei genkai to make mirrors of ice.
- Anger weakened Naruto’s seal.
- Haku died saving Zabuza from my lightening blade.
- The citizens of the Land of Waves rallied and saved their country.
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Kakashi Hatake Mission Report #4 - Concerning guarding the Land of Waves bridge builder Tazuna, and the battle with rogue shinobi Zabuza.
Client: Tazuna - Bridge builder from Land of Waves. Currently constructing a large bridge to connect the Land of Waves with other countries.
Duties: Protection - Guard him from thieves and the like on the road to the Land of Waves until construction is completed.
Mission Rank: C
Report Three: Naruto, Sasuke and Sakura train, progress:
“ Aware that Zubuza would attack again, I placed the three genin in intensive training. To improve chakra control, I had them climb trees. This proved effective, and all three improved rapidly”.
Mission Notes:
- Competition between Naruto and Sasuke leads to rapid progress.
- Naruto encouraged others, improving socially as well.
- Now able to hang upside-down from a branch.
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