Naruto : Redemption of the Flash by Narutoxsharingaxenthusiast Category: Naruto Genre: Angst, Hurt-Comfort Language: English Status: In-Progress Published: 2016-04-13 18:11:58 Updated: 2016-04-14 20:46:56 Packaged: 2016-04-27 18:39:47 Rating: M Chapters: 3 Words: 18,725 Publisher: www.fanfiction.net Summary: Naruto was born eleven years before the attack and his little sister was made the jinchuriki while his mother survived the extraction. He had to go rogue and join the Akatsuki after certain events but what happens when the village recalls it's two rogue ninjas back and the truths are revealed of their pasts? Is Naruto's love still waiting for him after all these years? 1. Chapter 1 **Naruto : Redemption of the Flash** * * * ><p><em><strong>Summary : AU : Naruto was born eleven years before the Kyuubi attack and Minato and Kushina gave birth to his little sister Minami that night who was turned into a jinchuriki and Kushina survived the extraction. Naruto was tried to be manipulated by Tobi into joining the Akatsuki thinking he didn't know what happened that night and instead Naruto joined the Akatsuki for the safety of his family and had to go rogue for many years. What happens when he returns to the village and to his love that was still waiting for him all those years?<strong>_ * * * ><p><strong>Let the adventures unfold…<strong> * * * ><p><strong>In a small village in the Land of Fire…<strong> * * * ><p>Two people sat in a small teashop with black cloaks and red clouds imprinted over them. Both of them had had straw hats over their heads but the thing that one could see clearly was their eyes. Both had blood red eyes with three tomoe in them and were sitting calmly as one of them read the newspaper.<p> "I never would understand how you could keep so calm Itachi." One of them said as the one now identified as Itachi smirked and pulled off his hat and kept it on the table revealing his raven black hair tied in a low ponytail and his pale skin with two tear troughs on his face and turned to the person in front of him with a raised eyebrow. "You are one to talk, you yourself are too calm Naruto if not a bit too lazy." Said Itachi as the person in front of him took off his hat and kept it on the table. He picked up his tea and let the silky blonde unruly hair that came up to his eyes to be seen by the world. He had a narrow jawline and exotic features that would capture the heart of any women that would just get one glance at him. He kept his cup down after sipping it calmly and smiled a bit at his only and most trustworthy friend. "Yes I am but you have these strangest hobbies. I mean you do the most boring of things like reading the newspaper or eating this…" he said lazily waving a stick of pocky that he took from his box and took a bite as Itachi had an amused smirk on his face. "And lazing around and sleeping are really good hobbies I presume…" he said but turned silent mid-sentence as the temperature around the teashop dropped and Itachi realized his mistake. "I apologize…" but he was cut off as Naruto stood up and put on his hat and buttoned up his collar to his nose hiding his face from the world. "I'll be around, meet me when you are done." He said neutrally and kept the money with a large tip on the table and walked out. "_How long will you be able to live with such great regrets Naruto. You always were too kind-hearted for your own good. We did what we had to for the greater good." _He thought and turned back to the newspaper as Naruto walked out of the shop and he kept reading through the newspaper. He kept reading through the news calmly and then saw a small advertisement from the village hidden in the leaves of a small festival and his eyes narrowed. He saw the secret ANBU code that was written in between words and called up a waitress who came to him with a smile. "Can I get a pen or a pencil please?" he asked politely and she smiled and nodded taking one out from her apron and handed it to him with a smile. He nodded gratefully and turned to the newspaper with the pen but saw her still standing there and turned to her with a raised eyebrow. "Can I help you for anything?" he asked and saw that she was blushing and fiddling with her apron and she nodded and jotted something down on her notepad and tore the page and handed it to him that he took and read that it was an address and a note to meet her there and saw her blush increase and looked at her curiously awaiting an explanation. "Umm could you please give this to your friend that just left?" she asked and he smiled a bit and nodded and she beamed and turned back to her work. He sighed and burned the slip with a small Fire Jutsu in his palm and cleaned his hands with a tissue and turned back to the newspaper. "_I swear it's the same in every village, the girls just throw themselves at him and he doesn't even spare them a glance. His heart still belongs to 'her'. It really is getting annoying." _He thought with a sigh and turned back to the advertisement and started taking down the second character from every third word of the ad and noted it down on a tissue as he read the final decoded message. * * * ><p><em><strong>The leaves are in need of their roots, eliminate the harsh winds and strengthen the leaf again.<strong>_ * * * ><p>He read the coded message and kept the tissue in the sleeve of his cloak and picked up his hat putting it on and stood up keeping his money with a small tip and walked out into the streets of the village walking slowly to the forests in the outskirts of the village. He walked through clearing after clearing for fifteen minutes and then saw a leg with a blue shinobi sandal hanging down from a branch and jumped up to a branch beside him and sat down leaning against the bark. He glanced at Naruto and saw his breathing was calm and his arms crossed behind his head and the hat hiding his face and sat silently for a few moments.<p> "The village has sent a coded message in the newspaper for us." He said breaking the silence and Naruto laid silently for a few moments. "What is it?" he asked lazily and Itachi smirked and took off his hat as Naruto scrunched up his face from the sun rays and sat up rubbing his eyes and yawned. Itachi handed him the message and he read it and channelled lightning chakra to his palm crumbling it into a small pearl like ball and flicked it away. "So it's that time already?" he asked and Itachi nodded. "Indeed it is." Said Itachi and he nodded and stood up putting his hat on and jumped down with Itachi doing the same and fell in step with him. "Let's eliminate the loose ends." Said Naruto calmly walking slowly and Itachi nodded and they walked into the distance towards Grass country. * * * ><p><strong>Akatsuki Base Grass country…<strong> * * * ><p>Naruto and Itachi were walking slowly as they saw a small hill with a huge boulder in front of a cave and walked towards it. The boulder moved and opened a small path for them to enter as soon as they came close and they entered as the cave closed again. The cave was dark and they walked through the narrow path and saw light coming from the end and walked towards it. They came to a large hall and saw a huge statue with its arms crossed and several closed eyes with seven figures standing over it. Five of them were mere projections while two were real standing on the fingers of the statue and they took their places on the statue and the man at the thumb with strange purple eyes and concentric rings spoke up.<p> "The time is coming near for our goals to be fulfilled, let's move on to the next phase of our plan…" he spoke and all of them besides Itachi and Naruto nodded. "…we shall start with the extraction of the youngest jinchuriki Minami Uzumaki, the jinchuriki of the Nine Tails and then we shall go under a three year break to gather further resources to capture the rest of them since they are all trained to use their bijuu's chakra up to a certain level. Deidara and Kisame will go to capture the Nine tails jinchuriki…" he said and both of them nodded as he turned to Naruto and Itachi. "You both will accompany them since you two know all the holes in the village's security defences and will help to bypass them." He said waiting for confirmation and all he got was a blank stare from Itachi and Naruto who had his eyes closed and looked like he wasn't even interested in listening to the man. The man narrowed his purple eyes at the two and his voice got low with a threatening edge to it. "Am I clear or is there a problem?" he asked dangerously and the two held their same postures making the situation get tense and Naruto spoke up. "I'm afraid that won't be possible Pain." Said Naruto lazily and his eyes narrowed further at the blonde who had his eyes closed. "And why is that?" he asked neutrally and Naruto stood silent as Itachi answered this time. "Because we quit the Akatsuki right now." Said the Uchiha and everyone besides Pain and Konan laughed as Pain spoke up with gritted teeth. "You know that once you have joined the Akatsuki you can't leave…" he said through gritted teeth as Naruto cut him off. "It wasn't a request... more of a statement." He said and Pain was barely holding out his anger as the blonde suddenly opened his eyes to reveal the blazing Sharingan in all its glory making them all look at him. "And it's time to cut loose ends." He said holding his hand out and the room was filled with a swirling sound which suddenly turned to a screeching sound and a ball of white glowing ball of chakra with four blades spinning around it were in his palm and pulled his hand back and launched it at the head of the statue making their eyes widen as it made contact and chipped off a huge part of the statue. "**Wind Style : Rasenshuriken!"** he shouted as the jutsu made contact and exploded in a sphere of white chakra and started grinding through the head of the statue as Pain stood in disbelief staring at the blonde and then turned furious. "Kisame, Deidara kill these two for their betrayal and then meet me at the next base in Amegakure!" he shouted and both of them grinned and nodded as the statue puffed into smoke and dispelled along with all the projections and the four of them fell on the ground as Naruto crouched down and looked down on the ground his hair shadowing his eyes and Itachi stared at the two grinning shinobi in front of them impassively. "Oh I've always wanted to have myself a piece of the two last heirs of the Sharingan…" said Kisame chuckling as he took out Samehada and it unwrapped the bandages to reveal the shark like sword and Deidara chuckled. "Oh yes me too. I too have always wanted to cleave that lazy and arrogant bastard Namikaze with my art un." He said and Kisame chuckled and nodded. "Alright then he is yours and I will take down the Uchiha then." He said and Deidara nodded as Naruto stood up and smirked at the two of them making them stop their chuckling. "And what are you smiling at you brat?" asked Kisame annoyed at his smirk and Itachi too smirked making them furious. "You two are so out of your leagues that you don't even realize it." Said Itachi stoically and Naruto flicked out his chokuto that he had on the back of his hip horizontally in one of his hands and got into a battle ready stance as he stared at Deidara emotionlessly. "I'll show you who is outclassed un. Have a taste of my art yeah." Said Deidara as he put his hands in his pouch and the mouths in his palms chewed the clay and he brought them forward as two caterpillars made of clay the size of Naruto rushed at him and he held his sword sideways calmly awaiting them to come to him and Deidara smirked that he fell for it. Naruto sliced through both the caterpillars as they came to him from the front and Deidara laughed as he held a half ram seal. "Katsu!" he shouted with a chuckle and waited for the explosion which never came and his smirk died down as he saw Naruto's emotionless gaze and turned furious. "You bastard what did you do!" he shouted and Naruto didn't answer and instead flicked out a three pronged kunai in his free hand and flicked it at Deidara at blinding speed and just as it reached near him he disappeared in a yellow flash making his eyes widen as Naruto cleaved the 'Deidara' in front of him in half and 'Deidara' smirked and turned to clay as he came out from behind a boulder and again held a half ram seal. "Katsu!" he shouted and again no explosion came and he was furious at the emotionless gaze that Naruto was giving him as if saying he wasn't even worth his time. He hated that Sharingan ever since Itachi beat him and he had hated the Namikaze name ever since birth after that bastard Fourth Hokage killed his father in the war. He took a deep breath and calmed down and thought about the situation at hand. "_Why isn't my jutsu working? What am I doing wrong or what is he doing right?"_ he thought and stared at him and then looked closely at his sword to see little sparks coming out of it and his eyes widened. "_Lightning manipulation? That bastard is channelling lightning chakra through his sword and countering my art which is purely Earth Style and rendering it useless! He has known the weakness to my techniques from the start!"_ he thought furiously and Naruto smirked at his face of realization. "So you finally figured it out huh? It's about time." he said mockingly and Deidara turned furious and glared at his emotionless face and taunts. "I will kill you, you bastard! Even if it's the last thing I do!" he said and Naruto smirked as Deidara's chest was pierced with a lightning charged palm right through his heart and he stared at Naruto wide eyed. "H-How?" he asked as blood leaked from the sides of his mouth and the Naruto in front of him poofed into smoke making his eyes widen. "A Shadow Clone? I was fighting a Shadow Clone the whole time?" he asked as Naruto took his palm out from his chest and flicked it clean off the blood and stepped in front of him. "You aren't the only one who could substitute with a clone. Your overconfidence and one tracked mind lead to your downfall." He said coldly and Deidara glared and coughed out blood. "I haven't lost yet, I'll go out with a…" he was cut off as he screamed in pain and Naruto flicked his sword clean off blood as his sword glowed blue and hummed as he channelled wind chakra through it and both of his arms fell down, now nothing more than stumps. "I'm not stupid enough like you to give an enemy who has already lost a chance to return me the favour. I can see you channelling chakra to your palms and preparing clay in them for your jutsu. You cannot sneak from these eyes." He said impassively as Deidara glared at him and knew he couldn't do anything without his arms. That bastard knew all his weaknesses from the start. "Curse you and those damn eyes of yours, you bastard Namikaze. I curse you to hell, you won't find peace no matter…" he was cut off as Naruto cleaved his head off with a flick of his sword and stopped channelling wind chakra through it flicking it clean of the blood and sheathed it as he stared at the mutilated remains of the Iwa rogue ninja impassively. "I already am living in hell and don't have an ounce of peace. No need for your help in the matter." He said impassively and turned around to the fight behind him. * * * ><p><strong>Meanwhile with Itachi and Kisame…<strong> * * * ><p>"Oh Itachi-san how I've longed for this day for so long. I always knew you and that bastard Namikaze will betray this organization, after all both of you didn't even spare your own clan mates. How Leader-sama believed you two would be loyal to him is beyond me. But I always respected the ruthlessness the both of you held, those eyes that don't care how cruel you are to the enemy be it your friends or family alike. The true eyes of a shinobi." He said and Itachi stared at him blankly not saying anything.<p> "Oh you are no fun Itachi-san, alright then let's get started." He said and charged at him with his sword and Itachi jumped back and went through hand seals and ended on Tiger. "**Fire Style : Phoenix Flower Jutsu!" **he said and launched six huge fireballs at Kisame who smirked seeing the jutsu. "A Fire jutsu against me Itachi-san? You think so low of me." He said mockingly and went through his own hand seals and ended at Tori. "**Water Style : Water Encampment Wall!"** he shouted as he threw out water from his mouth and it circled around him forming a wall and the fireballs extinguished as they came in contact with it but his eyes widened as he saw shurikens reveal themselves through the water wall and barely blocked them with his sword and jumped back laughing. "Yes Itachi-san let's do this right!" he shouted and charged madly at Itachi who tried to keep his distance but failed and took out a kunai and started dodging and blocking his swipes frantically. He was no match for him in strength and was an elegant fighter unlike Naruto who had the reserves and high powered ninjutsu to match Kisame in a true one on one battle. He dodged a vertical swipe by glancing it sideways with his kunai and jumped back and fell to his knee panting as he felt his chakra reserves go down and gazed at his sword that was moving. "Ahh Itachi-san Samehada likes your chakra. I'll be sure to drain you completely before I…" he stopped as he heard Deidara's blood curdling scream and both turned around to see Naruto cleaving his head off and sheathing his sword as he looked at the both of them and walked to them calmly spinning his kunai in his index finger and stood beside Itachi who smirked. "It took you long enough." He said and Naruto nodded as he stood in front of him. "Yes, he was annoying spouting nonsense about his pathetic clay that he called art…" he said and Itachi shook his head with an amused smile at his non-chalant answer as he continued. "And what the hell is taking you so long? I thought you liked to finish it quickly and elegantly." He asked and Itachi sighed. "His sword is trouble, it is providing it with its own chakra that is flickering his chakra each moment making my genjutsu useless and I am a fire style user while he is a specialist in water jutsu…" he was cut off as Naruto spoke up. "So in one word you are useless right?" he asked and Itachi's eye twitched at his insult. "I could finish him off with the Mangekyou…" he was cut off again as Naruto spoke up. "No need to go that far, if that's what it takes then I am better for this fight just stand back and let me handle it." He said and Itachi nodded and stood back knowing he was right as Naruto flicked out a kunai and held both his three pronged kunais in reverse grip by his sides and gazed at the grinning shark man coldly. "Why, aren't you going to engage me in a kenjutsu battle Naruto-san? I always wanted to try out that Uzumaki kenjutsu style of yours that people say could match even the Seven Swordsman of the Mist and trump them." He said and Naruto smirked. "No that would take a lot of time and effort, I want to finish this as soon as possible." He said and flicked a kunai at his feet and charged up a **Rasengan **in his palm and disappeared in a yellow flash appearing in front of him and slammed the jutsu in front of him as Kisame blocked it with his sword. "**Rasengan!"** he shouted and his jutsu made contact with Samehada as it glowed and Kisame grinned when suddenly the ball of swirling chakra disappeared and his eyes widened as he jumped back barely blocking the horizontal swipe with his kunai and stood back at his previous position. He was confused as to what the hell happened just now when Itachi spoke up breaking him out of his musings. "Did I forget to mention that his sword eats up chakra?" Itachi said and his eye twitched as he spoke in an annoyed tone. "Yes I guess you did forget to mention that important fact, Uchiha-san." He said sarcastically and Itachi smirked as he tried to get under his skin. "Oh it must have slipped my mind." He said waving him off and Naruto sighed face palming at his antics and pulled his hand down and turned his head a bit glancing at him in an annoyed manner. "Anything else you might want to add?" he asked and Itachi nodded. "Yes don't engage him in a close battle, your elemental kenjutsu is useless against that sword and he will overpower you even if you are much faster than him and a mere glance with his sword will absorb your chakra, taking off a huge chunk of it so try and keep your distance." He said seriously and Naruto nodded and turned to the grinning Kisame throwing the torn cloak from the last swipe away to show a cut sleeves grey shirt showing his non buffy and athletic build and muscles and his face turned emotionless. "Let's get this started." He said impassively and Kisame nodded grinning enjoying the battle whole heartedly. "With pleasure." He said and tried to charge at Naruto who held his kunais in a cross guard in front of him and charged at him. They dealt with swipes as Naruto glanced each of his swipes away with his superior speed and agility granted by his kunai and natural speed and kept the sword away from his body. His eyes were blazing and spinning wildly calculating his each and every move, and predicting his strikes before he even moved and coupled with his speed he went toe to toe with the man as sparks rang from their clashes and the whole cave echoed with the sounds of metal grinding metal. He crouched down and tried to swipe his legs as Kisame jumped and brought his sword down vertically, grinning the whole time and Naruto back flipped wiping the sweat off his forehead and flexed his muscles cracking his neck and held his cross guard again and Kisame chuckled. "Yes you are a worthy opponent Naruto-san, to think that you managed a close combat with me using my Samehada and didn't even give me one opening, you are worthy indeed. But now let's get serious." He said and started going through a long series of hand seals as Naruto's Sharingan widened when he made his first seal and his hands mimicked his hand seals at blazing fast speeds and both recited the seals at the same time and both ended at Tori in unison. "**Water Style : Exploding Water Colliding Wave!"** both shouted in unison as Kisame spat a huge amount of water from his mouth while Naruto clapped his hands together and concentrated gathering moisture from around him and saved chakra from turning his own chakra into water and matched his jutsu head on as they collided shaking the cave and created a huge tidal wave. Kisame grinned as he was now out of his eyesight and threw his sword upward and went through hand seals as he and the sword merged and he manipulated the huge amounts of water around him for his jutsu. "**Water Style : Water Prison Shark Technique!"** he shouted as the water around them formed a huge sphere in the air trapping Naruto inside it and he laughed as he jumped into the sphere. Naruto held his breath and cursed himself for falling into his jutsu as he saw Kisame jump in the water prison and had mostly turned into a shark as he came to him at blazing speeds in the water and slashed his stomach and he winced in pain trying to hold his breath. Itachi saw this and was about to jump in when he saw Naruto's stern gaze and nodded and stepped back deciding to not interfere as Naruto moulded chakra in his body and released it from all his chakra points at once. "**Chidori Nagashi!"** he thought in his head as lightning coursed out of his body from all parts and electrocuted the whole sphere and Kisame screamed and howled in pain as his body was burned from the intense lightning and undid the water prison as both landed down crouching and Naruto coughed out some water and panted, shaking his head off the water and Kisame glared at him as Samehada unlatched from him and started healing his burns. Naruto stood up dripping wet as he stared at him emotionlessly and Kisame knew he was getting outmatched. He was matching him move for move and Itachi hadn't even joined the fight yet. "Is that all you got? I expected better from the 'Monster of the Bloody Mist'." He taunted mockingly and Kisame seethed and started going through hand seals. "I'll show you, you arrogant brat!" he shouted as he channelled a huge amount of chakra and the water around them took the shape of hundreds of sharks and both Naruto's and Itachi's eyes widened as he laughed maniacally. "Now eat this! **Water Style : Dance of a Hundred Exploding Sharks!"** he shouted as all the huge sharks started converging onto the two of them and Naruto thought of teleporting but then thought of Itachi and knew he didn't have enough chakra for his Mangekyou or the skill to dodge or block an attack of that magnitude as he gazed at the chakra fuelled sharks and knew they would explode on contact and channelled a huge amount of chakra to his eyes as the tomoes spun wildly and started joining together and a purple glow came around him as the ground cracked from the pressure. Itachi saw the chakra build-up in his eyes with his Sharingan and knew what he was planning as he stood close to him and the sharks collided with them and exploded on contact and Kisame ran out laughing as the cave started falling from the pressure of the blasts and caved in upon them. Kisame stood in front of the destroyed cave and after seeing the destruction and the jutsu making contact he knew they were done for and jumped away into the trees and left. A few moments later the rubble of the fallen cave rumbled and out came a purple being of pure chakra with Naruto standing in it. The being had a skull and ribs and a purple rib cage in which Itachi and Naruto stood unscathed as he came out and undid the jutsu and fell to his knees coughing out blood. "_Amazing to think that a Namikaze has such control over the Mangekyou Sharingan. But it is destroying his body from the inside out with each use. I still don't know how he got his Mangekyou but whatever it must have been, must have been really painful if it awakened a Mangekyou Sharingan in one with Namikaze blood." _He thought as he looked at Naruto who was coughing blood and breathing heavily and crouched down beside him as he saw his cerulean blue eyes and rubbed his back in a futile attempt to lessen his pain. "You shouldn't use it so much Naruto. Even if your eyes are now eternal and do not affect your eyesight due to your Namikaze blood and the eyes of a person who wasn't closely related to you, it is destroying your body…" he was cut off as Naruto slapped his hand away and stood up cleaning his mouth of the blood. "Don't tell me what I already know Itachi, I am no fool. I know my limits and the side effects of these eyes all too well, now hand me a new cloak and let's get going." He said coldly and Itachi sighed and nodded as he handed him a new cloak and hat that he put on and Itachi himself changed his own and both started walking to the leaf village silently. "_He is becoming more reckless with each passing day it's almost like he wants to…"_ he thought glancing at Naruto who had his face hidden under the cloak and hat and kept his gaze ahead as both walked silently towards the leaf village. Naruto was himself going through the visions of the past that had been haunting him and a flashback came to his mind. * * * ><p><strong>(Flashback)<strong> * * * ><p>An eleven-year-old Naruto stood in a clearing outside the village as he was followed by the Sandaime and the ANBU behind him. He came up to a clearing to see a barrier and his father standing in front of a bound Kyuubi being held down by his mother's chains and slammed his hands on the barrier that were stopping him from helping as he saw his father being pierced in the chest by a claw of the beast trying to save his new born sister.<p> "TOU-SAN! DAMN THIS BARRIER LET ME IN!" he shouted slamming his fists on the barrier as Minato turned to him with a smile and the Nine tails disappeared from behind Minato and the barrier fell down as he rushed to his father crying and caught him before he fell down.