Memories

* AMAGAKURE -AKATSUKI BASE

A young man with bright orange hair and gold ringed purple eyeballs, in his nose black metal rods embedded within them, he wore a black overall coat with red cloud design,and he could be seen standing and looking at the raining dark sky with an ever stoic face.

"Pain-sama, when do we begin the plan?" a strange man with half his face black and half white, with fly trapper plant like features on the sides of his head, Zetsu the strange man asked Pain who was pulled out of his thought by Zetsu's questions.

Pain who had an air of superiority around him, looked back and saw five other members of the Akatsuki standing behind him, the members were Itachi, Kisame, Deidera, Zetsu, and Madara who was wearing an orange spiral mask.

He looked at them as he thought in his heart 'Yahiko soon your wish for peace will come true', "I will inform you when I want you to start, in the mean time I have tasks for you. Itac....." He said giving each of them tasks to keep them busy, they all accepted and exited the room, but dissatisfaction and impatience could be seen on Zetsu's face, although the self proclaimed Madara face could not be seen through the mask he also felt impatient.

* KONOHA

-Naruto Mindscape

"Naruto, what are you doing?", Naruto immediately released himself from the blonde man's grip and jumped back creating a sizable distance between them. Minato surprised from his son's behaviour, his placid expression and most of all his now red hair, quickly said "Do you know me Naruto?, I'm your father Minato!".

Expecting his son to show a surprised face, but he just remained wordless and expressionless, Minato was really worried now and asked "What happened Naruto!". As Naruto was about to speak the space rippled a bit and a bright red haired beauty appeared in the white space.

She appeared with her back facing Naruto and first saw Minato from her position, She ran and hugged Minato tightly, Minato returned her hug and after a while she let go to look around, and saw a younger version of Minato but more handsome and with Crimson hair, standing away wearing a unique clothing, looking at them wearily.

"Minato i-is that our son", Minato nodded and said "Yes Kushina, that's Naruto". Kushina immediately ran tearing up wanting to hug him but Naruto just side steped and avoided the hug. Surprised she quickly said "N-naruto I'm your m-mother", "I know" for the first time since entering the 'Whitescape' Naruto spoke.

Stuned by the indifference in his tone and she didn't notice it at first but his face contained sadness, although he tried to hide it by remaining expressionless, she saw through it. "N-naruto, are you not happy to see us?" Kushina asked afraid of getting her hopes up as she forced a smiled on her face expecting his answer.

Naruto moved closer to Minato and signalled kushina to come closer, when they were closer Naruto put his hands on their foreheads and said "Don't resist", they nodded and Naruto started playing the memories he got when he merged with the real soul.

Kushina and Minato were first pulled into darkness, then they traveled in the darkness for a while till they reached their destination. They saw two years old blonde Naruto happily playing in an orphanage, smiling brightly, and running around in his diaper holding a plastic kunai toy, suddenly the door slammed open and the orphanage matron came in.

She saw Naruto playing and looked at him in disgusts as she slapped the you away from his hands, and warned the other children not to play with him because he is the demon fox who took their mummy and daddy away from them, Little Naruto who didn't know what was happening started crying, he cried and cried for hours but no one came to comfort him.

As kushina was watching this she also cried while running trying to carry her baby but her hands went through him, the scenes changed as they saw a little older Naruto wearing dirty clothes and digging through the trash to eat, he looked tiny with sunken cheeks crying as he was eating a rotten fruit.

They also saw Naruto beaten by the villagers on his fourth birthday till he passed out. As the memory montage ended, Kushina couldn't take it anymore as she fell on the floor crying loudly as she looked at Minato who also had tears in his eyes, she said "My baby! Minato see what they did to our Naruto, I TOLD YOU NOT TO DO THAT SEAL, BUT SEE! SEE!!, IS THIS YOUR WILL OF FIRE!!", Kushina shouted at the top of her lungs as her face twisted in anger.

Minato was also not much better as he tears was flowing from his eyes uncontrollably, hiccuping he asked Naruto "What about the third Hokage did he know what happened? What about Jiraiya-sensei?" He asked hoping the two people he trusted the most intervened and fought for his son.

Naruto looked at Minato and said "Third Hokage was aware of what I was going through but didn't stop it, And I do not know who Jiraiya is". As if all his hopes had been shattered Minato also fell to the ground, he felt like a clown, he felt betrayed, disappointed in no one but himself.

Naruto looked at his two parents who were crying miserably on the floor, he felt so sad to see it, because he also wanted parents in his past life, not the ghost ones that hunt him, and since he merged with Naruto he felt sadness looking at his parents like this.

Minato hurriedly got up as he moved to Naruto and slowly raised his arms to touch his son's hair, Naruto didn't avoid it and waited there, he tried to feel something more than sadness, he tried to feel something more but nothing came, he didn't know how to feel any other emotions anymore.

Kushina seeing that Naruto didn't reject Minato's touch also ran forward and hugged Naruto tightly, she felt his cold and dark aura but she didn't care, she just wanted to be with her son and hug him forever.

Seeing that their time was almost up Minato said "Naruto here this are all the jutsu I used in my lifetime, use it as you see fit" he gave Naruto a big scroll, patted his shoulder and said "I love you Son" as he disappeared, Kushina also seeing that she had little time left gave Naruto all her jutsus and Fuinjutsu scroll, "Naruto go to Uzushiogakure and stay there if you ever have a problem in where you are, I'm sorry I couldn't be there for you, but I love you Naruto" she said as she saw a teardrop leave the corner of Naruto's eye, she smiled knowing the happy little kid she saw was still in there as she also disappeared.

As she disappeared Naruto found he was back in front of the Kyuubi cage, he looked at Kurama and said "You can't kill me but, you'll be my meal. Goodbye for now Kurama." he exited his mindscape. Kurama looked at the place Naruto disappeared, feeling all emotions as he laid back down and closed his eyes.

* Hospital

Narito opened his eyes and sat up, he looked around as he saw Kakashi, Sasuke, Sakura, the Hokage, and the Medical-nin looking at him. Uncaring he stood up and took off the hospital gown, his skin was pale white and his body was ripped, Sakura saw this and blushed as she quickly covered her eyes with her hands saying "Y-y-you wh-w-what are you d-doing?" Ignoring her, he wore his trousers and white shirt, and gloves, held his suit and tie in his arm as he exited the room without even acknowledging the Hokage who was sitted there.