Switched

“My name is Namikaze-Uzumaki Naruto!” he pulls down his hood revealing a familiar albeit older face. His long (somehow still spiky) blond hair pulled into a messy low pony tail over his shoulder. His hair and the purple diamond on his forehead being the only things other than age being different from their Naruto. 

“HE KNOWS!?” Jiraiya screams before Tsunade can say anything. 

“I know what?” Naruto asks with a tilted head. 

“About your dad” Jiraiya says. 

“Well yeah why wouldn’t I?” Naruto says. 

“Our version of you doesn’t know about what happened during his birth,” Tsunade solemnly says. 

“WHAT! Dad would have told me about mom! Why hasn’t he said anything?” Naruto yells. 

“Minato can’t tell you because he died sealing the Kyuubi into you in order to stop it from destroying Konoha,” Jiraiya explains. 

“What? Papa’s dead? H-he can’t be, and Dad, why would he want to do that?” Naruto says blankly as he sinks down on the floor, eyes vacant. 

“NARUTO!” The tallest yells, he and the other run to hold Naruto. 

“Naru-chan, we can fix this. Your dad’s still here, I know it.” The now no longer silent one says in a soothing tone, their voice melodious.  

“What the hell is going on!?” Tsunade yells. 

Kakashi sighs, “Does the name Uzumaki Kurama ring any bells?” 

“I- Yes” Jiraiya says sadly. “He was Kushina’s guard and adoptive brother. We didn’t see much of him, but he was always with Minato and Kushina. He died during the Kyuubi attack, we never found his body.” Jiraiya startles when he hears Naruto give out a heavy sob, he’s heartbroken at the sound of his godson falling apart. He watches as the tallest draws a seal on the ground and activate it forming an opaque dome around them.  

“Kushina, Minato, and Kurama were in a relationship; when we were young Kurama and Kushina told us, they were both dating Minato. Naruto calls Kurama dad, while Minato-sensei is papa. Our Kyuubi attack was nothing like yours from what I can understand.” Kakashi says. “Kushina died after the stress of the demon extraction, along with the recent birth of Naruto, and her holding down the Kyuubi for so long became too much for her.” 

“Before she passed they managed to break the genjutsu someone had placed on Kurama; it was a good thing it wasn’t casted by a Uchiha or else that wouldn’t have worked out as easily unless they had another Uchiha with them or sealed him away like they did here. Kurama never disappeared because he wasn’t sealed away, he was in a coma for ten years because that was the only thing Sensei and Kushina could do to save him and Konoha. The third told Naruto about Kurama when he was eight, but before that Naruto knew nothing of his parents,” Obito says, spitting the last part out.  

“Everyone, including the third thought that Naruto was a Jinchuriki and the villagers treated him like crap and isolated him because of it even though he was just a kid, we did our best to protect him, but we couldn’t be there for him 24/7 with us having missions. We and Rin staggered our missions as much as we could so that at least one of us could protect him but that’s all we could do. Rin couldn’t even do anything other than occasionally patch him up, she couldn’t even fucking talk to him!” Obito rages. 

“Before you ask we couldn’t do or say anything, we were banned from interacting with Naruto until he was ten when Kurama threatened the Third with disembowelment for having stupid rules about his son,” Kakashi softly adds.  

Jiraiya winces, “He was always bloodthirsty.” 

“So, what you are implying is that Uzumaki Kurama is the Kyuubi, a giant nine tailed fox?” Tsunade says seriously 

“That is exactly what we’re saying, Kushina would make a shadow clone using only Kurama’s chakra and he would ‘possess’ the clone. Kurama says that Kushina outstubborned him and made him her brother. Kurama likes joking that if Kushina hadn’t reminded him of his siblings he would have eaten her.” Kakashi says..  

“And what about Minato?” Jiraiya asks still looking at the dome in worry. 

“Minato-sensei due the extensive damage done by the jutsu he used the medics couldn’t heal him, so they put him in stasis until we had a healer skilled enough to deal with his injuries. He did not wake up until you came back to the village Tsunade-sama when Naruto was thirteen, but Naruto would visit him and talk with him every day when he found out about sensei.” Obito says. 

“But why did Naruto react the way he did when we told him of his birth,” Tsunade asks. 

“Naruto relied on Kurama a lot, he refused to be separated from him for a long time. He was the one constant he had. He was the one who told Naruto that he had family, that he was loved. For the first month he wouldn’t let Kurama out of his sight. Kurama was the same as well, he woke up years in the future to a dead sister, a husband in a medically induced coma, and his only son separated from his family and treated like dirt. So hearing what he did here-” Kakashi says almost coldly. 

“Of course he would react like this,” Obito finishes not missing a beat. 

Tsunade looks pained. 

“So, what you are saying is that something during our attack was different, causing Minato to seal his own husband- that’s a weird thought, into his son?” Jiraiya asked, thinking. 

“Yes, but we are unsure what or why,” Kakashi says. 

“Regular genjutsu doesn’t affect Kurama so it couldn’t have been that,” Obito continues. 

“But if it had been what we had, Sensei would have been able to remove it without dying or sealing him into Naruto.” Kakashi finishes his sentence.  

Tsunade and Jiraiya look at each other, seeming to talk to each other through looks. They had both noticed the couple’s strange way of talking, switching once in a while who talks without pause or hesitation as if they shared one mind. 

“It pains me to suggest this, but the most likely culprit is an Uchiha, although probably not one from Konoha. Unless the Uchiha here are bigger dickbags than ours,” Obito says. 

Tsunade and Jiraiya stared at them in surprise. Then they looked at each other, realizing something. 

Jiraiya sighs, rubbing his face, “this got a hell of a lot more complicated.” 

Kakashi straightens in alarm, “Why?” 

“There were rumors that the Kyu-Kurama’s eyes looked like sharingan, causing the civilians and a majority of the shinobi to suspect the Uchiha were behind the attack,” Tsunade explains, narrowing her eyes at the couple. 

“Shit. That means the Uchiha are-,” Obito says, beginning to pace. 

“Dead. Except for Sasuke and his brother,” Tsunade says. 

“SHIT! I was suspecting it happened here too, but not this extent,” Obito says, roughly rubbing his eyes. Kakashi lays a hand on his shoulder to stop him and leans to whisper something in his ear, Obito nods determinedly, eyes glassy. 

“What do you mean to this extent? What happened?” Jiraiya asked. 

“We had those rumors too but it was unfounded. Many of our Uchiha were massacred before we managed to stop him,” Kakashi answers. 

“Who?” Tsunade forces out, already suspecting the answer. 

“Itachi. He was forced to kill his family. Before he fled he told us what happened. Someone, we’re still not sure who because for some reason he couldn’t tell us, had threatened to kill everyone including Sasuke, but they made a deal, if Itachi would do the work Sasuke could be spared.” Obito says, with hate in his voice at the choice Itachi was forced to make. 

“Itachi with his endless love for Sasuke, agreed. They agreed on a date but they hadn’t known we were on our way back home from a solo mission, I suspect they were waiting for us to leave to do it, although Itachi himself may have known when we returned, he was after all a part of our team, so he delayed as much as he could for us to be able to stop him but doing that meant that Sasuke was there to see him kill his clan,” Kakashi continued. 

“But that is not our story to tell,” Obito finishes. 

There is a silence as the Sannin process the information.  

“This is what most likely what happened here as well, but because Obito was-” Jiraiya stops. 

“Dead,” Obito says dully. Kakashi wraps his arm around Obito’s waist, in response he grabs Kakashi around the shoulders to pull him closer. 

“And Kakashi was throwing himself into ANBU with a worrying force, neither of you were there to stop him,” Tsunade finishes.  

“So its likely that an Uchiha was behind the attack on the our 10th but not on yours. And the Uchiha massacre is somehow connected, it cannot be a coincidence that the Uchiha situations are eerily the same even with some changes.” Jiraiya says, rubbing his temples. 

“But the only thing that I can see is different is-” Tsunade says before she is interrupted. 

“Me.” Obito says plainly.  

“Your version of me died on the Kannabi Bridge mission, so I wasn’t there for Naruto’s birth, I wasn’t there for Itachi, and-” his voice wavers, “I wasn’t there for Kakashi.” 

In the bubble 

From his place on his teammates laps Naruto raises his head. 

“I think they’re done,” he says. 

“Are you sure, love?” the one combing his hair says, their voice soft. At his nod the other reluctantly releases the seal, making the dome dissolve. 

Tsunade and Jiraiya look up from their whispering. Naruto gives them a small smile. 

“Sorry about that, Ero-sannin, Tsunade-shishou. I didn’t realize how bad this version of me had it,” Naruto says nervously. 

“It’s alright kid,” Jiraiya says with an understanding look. 

“Did you just call me-?” Tsunade says in shock. Jiraiya realizes what Naruto said and looks at him in shock, switching his gaze from Naruto, his forehead, and Tsunade. 

“Shishou? What’s wrong? Do you have a headache? Do you want me to look at it?” Naruto asks, not understanding. His hands glowing a faint green as he steps forward. 

“Sweetheart, I think it’s best if you don’t call this Tsunade that,” Says the taller hooded figure. At the endearment aimed at her adoptive grandson Tsunade turns to glare at the figure . There is audible gulp as the figure backs away from the oblivious blonde. 

“But why?!” Naruto pouts, his hands still glowing. Tsunade laughs. 

“Sorry, kid. I just didn’t expect that from you of all people,” she says. 

“huh? Didn’t expect what?” Naruto says, his hands ceasing to glow. 

“That you would be my student,” Tsunade says. 

“Why wouldn’t I be! You’re awesome! Your my baa-chan! Not only that, you can kick Ero-sannin and Orochimaru’s asses and then heal them just to kick their asses again!” Naruto huffs. Tsunade smiles as Jiraiya protest. 

“It’s not that. My version of you has a enormous amount of chakra making him have terrible control.” 

“I do too! Of course we do! We’re the product of an Uzumaki, Namikaze, and a giant Chakra beast! What else would you expect?” Naruto says, stopping to wince he says, “anyway you beat chakra control on me until I was to an acceptable level. Plus, Sasuke and me made a seal to help me with my control even further, but that wasn’t until we were 17!” The last sentence made both Tsunade and Jiraiya perk up as Naruto pulls up the sleeves of his kimono styled top to his elbows to reveal beautiful but complicated sealwork from his wrists and upwards as they disappear into his sleeves. 

Jiraiya’s eyes widen as he walks forward to study the seals, Tsunade close behind him. He gently grabs one of Naruto’s arms to study the seals closer, bringing it up to his face. 

“Kami, kid! How long did this take? You guys MADE these? This is-,” Jiraiya looks up, “These seals are a work of art! You gotta teach it to me!” 

Naruto giggles at Jiraiya’s amazed face. “We started on these when we were 14-15 but finished and applied them when we were 17. We did make them though Sasuke did most of the work, I took care of the medical aspects of it. And you’ll have to ask Sasuke about that.” 

“How far do these go, Naruto? And how long did it take you to put them on? Who put them on you? Tell me about it, kid!” Tsunade asks as Jiraiya goes to the cloaked figures to beg. 

Naruto blushes, “uh. They’re all over my body and took almost 3 days to apply,” he blushes even harder as he lowly whispers, “Sasuke did the work on me. I can tell you more about the seal later if you want.” 

Tsunade freezes, “You mean he saw you naked for three days.” She says with a deadly voice, ignoring the last part. If it was possible Naruto would have turned into a new shade of red from all the blushing as he gives a little nod. 

“JIRAIYA! Back away, I need to do something. You’ll probably never get the seal because as soon an I figure out which one is the Uchiha I’m going to murder him!” Jiraiya backs off at her tone, Obito watches in amusement, Kakashi has begun to read as he ignores the real world and the possible death of one of his students. 

The smaller figure reaches up to tug the other’s hood, revealing the Uchiha himself. 

“Sakura! You traitor!” He yells. Tsunade sees the red markings on his face, similar to Jiraiya’s. She stands stock-still. 

“It was either you or me, I merely took the choice that guaranteed my survival,” Sakura says, their voice full of amusement. 

“You!” Tsunade says to Sasuke, turning to Jiraiya, “and you! I’ll make sure you never get to turn anyone into a pervert like you!”  

Jiraiya backs off. “What I do?” he says as he backs off further. He looks to Obito and Kakashi for help but to no avail, Kakashi was too busy reading and ignoring everyone and Obito was laughing at everyone from his place draped across his wife. In a last ditch effort her turns to Naruto. No luck, he was too busy being talked to by Sakura. 

“it’s okay. I’m sure we can find someone to replace Sasuke,” Sakura says, “what about Sai? You like him, right? We’ll be fine with him.” Their hand petting a lost looking Naruto. 

“But I don’t wanna replace Sasuke! Why is shishou even doing this?” He whines. 

“Oh my sweet innocent Naruto, you have much to learn about a woman’s wrath,” they say. 

Jiraiya looks around in panic, noticing the lump on the floor and Tsunade marching towards him. 

“What did I do, hime?!” Jiraiya cries. 

“You’re the one who made the Uchiha into one of you!” 

“But that wasn’t me!” 

“It was a version of you though, I can’t let you corrupt another so he could prey on Naruto!” she yells, pouncing on the man. 

“Tsunade-sama? You asked for us?” Kakashi says as he enters the room with a young team seven after being led in by a cloaked figure. He and his team stop at the strange sight he come across. 

Near the Hokage’s desk; a man who looks remarkably like him was sitting on a fancy chair that he’s sure wasn’t there before and reading what looks to be icha-icha, on his lap is another man dying of laughter until he hits the floor with an ‘oof’ as the sitting man pushes him off. He protests at being pushed but proceeds to continue laughing. 

On the right of the room sat the cloaked figure that let them in consoling someone who reminds him strongly of his deceased teacher. In the middle of the room is a groaning lump of hair and cloak. To the left is Tsunade beating Jiraiya. 

“She killed him!” the blond whines.  

“I’m sure he’s fine, lovely,” they say, “after all perverts are like roaches, they’re hard to kill and can be found everywhere. So what do you think of my Sai suggestion?” At this the lump on the floor whines. 

The blond never gets to answer because his student decides to say some thing. 

“Hey! Baa-chan! What’s going on? Who are these weirdos? Why are you beating Ero-sannin?” Naruto yells. 

“Naruto, what the hell did I tell you about entering in here without permission,” Tsunade yells back. “Wait. Who let you in?” 

“I did Tsunade-sama, after all they are the team we requested, are they not?” the cloaked figure says. 

Tsunade sighs but lets it go.  

“To answer your last question, Naruto, I’m making sure that Jiraiya never corrupts someone and turns them into perverts that prey on unsuspecting young blonds.” Naruto stares confused at her, not understanding what’s going on. 

“Tsunade-sama, do we have a mission?” Sakura asks timidly, looking down. 

“You could say that, Sakura-chan.” Says Kakashi. She looks up to see her sensei in front of her with an eye smile. Behind him Tsunade is back in her desk, head in her hands, seeming to give up. 

“Kakashi-sensei? I thought you were-” Sakura says as she turns to see her teacher behind her, “-behind me.” She says slowly looking back towards the Kakashi in front of her. 

“Is this a bushinn?” Sasuke asks angrily at this teacher. The Kakashi behind them shakes his head slowly, wearily watching the other him, who looks back with a serene look. 

Suddenly there is a loud cackle as a man wraps his arms around the Kakashi in front, he rests his head on the still calm Kakashi’s shoulder. 

“You should look at the look on your faces! Especially you, Bakashi! That’s what I  calling YOU by the way.” He says grinning. Kakashi freezes at the words, not believing what is happening. 

“You are not calling this younger me that, Obito. If anything we’ll be calling him Kaka-kun.” Kakashi says, still with a serene smile on his face.  

“what.” Kakashi says, his eye flicking from one face to another. 

“I think you guys broke, Kakashi-sensei!” the blond says from his place next to the cloaked person.