Reunion
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That night, Naruto tried to sleep but found she couldn't. Each time she did, her head became flooded with memories, some of her Konoha, some of her and Kakashi, and others of her and Shisui. None of this was uncommon for the time-traveler, yet these memories never stopped her from sleeping.
After a second hour of trying she decided to talk to Kurama for a bit in her mindscape. When she arrived she was greeted by a familiarly odd sight which made her smack her head. Shukaku, Matatabi, Isobu, Son Goku, Kokuo, Saiken, Chomei, Gyuuki, and Kurama sat in a circle in the meadows of her mind. Matatabi seemed to be playing with Shukaku's tail as he grumbled about it and one of her tails kept wagging on top of Isobu's head.
Son Goku looked sympathetically to Isobu yet did nothing to help. Kokuo looked indifferent as Saiken spoke to him and poor Chomei looked ignored. Gyuuki was having a conversation with Kurama who looked surprisingly cute in a round ball. Clearing her throat, everyone halted what they were doing and looked at her. "The nine of you wouldn't be the cause of my sudden insomnia now would you?" she raised a brow at them and when they all mumbled 'no' she crossed her arms and gave the 'disapproving mum' look. At the look they all muttered a 'yes', causing her to sigh and go up to Kurama in order to lay down on his warm orange fur.
"Shukaku. I'll be fixing your seal tomorrow. Do me a favor, don't be difficult. The world will be a better place with a sane Gaara, I assure you." He grumbled some sort of rap that reminded her of Killer B. she looked to Gyuuki and asked, "How is Killer B? I haven't had the chance to check on Kumo or her people."
"He's doing just fine, Naruto-" he was interrupted by the presence of another person.
Everyone looked to where they felt the presence. No one should be able to just freely enter Naruto's mind. No one could, besides a wielder of the Sharingan. The only people who had one were; Sasuke, Kakashi, Itachi, and Danzo. None of who would willingly enter her mind. scratch that, Kakashi and Itachi would, as they both knew the truth behind her powers. However Kakashi was asleep, Naruto could sense that, and Itachi was with Akatsuki. Her heart rate accelerated as she contemplated who it would be and let out a sigh of who it was before the shock finally registered. He looked around, confused eyes getting angrier as he took in his surroundings, yet when he saw Naruto and the nine tailed beasts his face went blank. A very, very pale blank. "Hello, Gaara." she gave a small smile and wave at the other jinchuriki as she looked discretely at Shukaku.
With Shukaku being here, it did make sense that Gaara would also be able to enter her mind-scape if had been trying to search for the demon. "Naruto Uzumaki. Where am I?" he asked, yet his voice had no underlying malice.
"Uh, my mind-scape?" she asked more than answered. She had never had someone else in her mind-scape suddenly. Minus Sasuke, during that time she and team Kakashi had gone to rescue him from Orochimaru.
He started to glare at her so she continued, "Uh I think you were looking for Shukaku and since he's here, you've come here, he's over there if you want to say something to him." She pointed to the one tails whose tail was still being played with by Matatabi. Gaara looked at Shukaku and turned to look back at Naruto before vanishing out, confusing everyone yet no one focused on that as they all carried on with what they were doing.
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After spending a half hour with the tailed beasts she had asked them to leave her mind-scape and return some other time as she had to have full concentration as she fixed Gaara's seal. Again she found herself unable to fall asleep so she got up with a sigh and quietly made her way out of the bed she was in. All four teammates had their own beds in separate rooms in an apartment-like home. She made it to the front door when a voice called out, "Naruto where are you going?"
She turned around and saw Kakashi looking very confusedly at her. Behind Kakashi were Sasuke and Sakura, the latter two looking bleary-eyed as Kakashi looked as composed as ever.
"I couldn't sleep, so I thought I'd go for a walk." She put her hand on the door handle hoping to make a quick escape.
"Excellent idea. We'll come with you." There was a look in Kakashi's eyes that she couldn't identify. She had seen this look several times yet was unable to find out what it meant.
She opened her mouth to start her protest when Sakura spoke up, "It'd be best if we all stayed together, at least at night. I get a bad vibe from Suna and don't really wanna see what goes bump in the night."
She closed her mouth and weighed her options. She could either allow them to go with her and not keep another secret from her team or use the hiraishin and keep even more secrets. Deciding she didn't want too many secrets between her and her teammates she nodded her head and shortly after they all made their way outside, the Suna ANBU following in the shadows.
They all quietly took in the sight of Suna at night, each of them ignoring the chilly bite in the air produced by the desert at night. They were in a secluded area and the ANBU were far out from the four of them when she stopped, closing her eyes. He was here again. His smell hadn't changed at all, nor had his chakra, yet when she searched more closely she could sense something different, he was happy yet he wasn't at the same time.
She could sense one of her teammates were about to talk so she did first, "Your chakra hasn't changed. It was always the warmest, bright, energetic, and just simply pure chakra I had ever felt. Even now, after all this time nothing has changed. Not even your smell."
Her eyes were still closed yet she could sense the unease coming from her three teammates and made a hand gesture known only to Team 7 that everything was alright. He stepped forwards, still encased in the shadows, yet far enough that only Kurama's vision and perhaps the Sharingan, could see. "Your sensory abilities have gotten better, Hime. As for your chakra, it doesn't seem to be in two parts anymore, it seems what Itachi told me was true. About you and well you know."
She gave his appearance a once over, it hadn't changed one bit, which caused her to stand slightly on edge. She knew she had Shisuis signature weapon at home, yet this man seemed to have it as well. Then Naruto looked him in the eye. Her red silted eyes meeting his own obsidian ones causing her to gulp. It was him, no doubt. Neither of them looked away from the other, neither wanting to. Naruto could feel sand blowing through the sandals on her feet and ankles, wind blowing her hair yet she didn't care.
She couldn't. Not with him here. Distinctively she could feel Kakashi and Sasuke stiffen at hearing the name of one of Konoha's most wanted, which was caused her to finally break the moment between her and dark-eyed male. Sakura didn't have the same level of patience as the other two had as she spoke first, "Naruto what's going on? Who're you talking to?"
"You may as well come on down, Shisui." Team 7 grew stiff at the name, Shisui was, after all, dead from jumping into Naka River.
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Kakashi wasn't sure what to expect when Naruto had started to talk to the person in the shadows, yet from all the possibilities that crossed his mind, this was not one of them. Never had he ever thought he would meet the master of genjutsu himself again after the report he had received.
Shisui Uchiha looked exactly the same as he had five years ago. His hair was still short and spiky, similar to Naruto's in male form. The countenance of his obsidian eyes showed what he was feeling, yet held a regal stiffness that most Uchiha's eyes held. He still wore the high collared black shirt which Kakashi assumed held his clan crest on and a brown harness to hold his tonto on that went across his chest over his shoulders. (A/N praise the lord for Naruto Wikia.)
As he looked back at the male in front of him he noticed Shisui and Naruto were no longer looking at each other but to him. It was when the two shifted that he saw a mark appear on both of their inner right wrists, matching seals. Naruto looked back at Shisui, hand gently going over the seal as she looked at him, tears forming in her eyes yet none came out.
Kakashi felt a pang in his chest as he saw the usually bright girl about to cry but then felt warm when he realized they were tears of happiness and sadness. Happy her fiancé was alive and sad because he couldn't think of a reason.
"Hime do you mind introducing me and everyone here? Even though I know two of them." Came the calm voice of the elder Uchiha, a small smile as he spoke to the blonde whose cheeks dusted a faint pink.
"This is my team, team 7. Kakashi Hatake our jonin instructor, Sasuke rookie of the year, and Sakura Haruno kunoichi of the year." Shisui looked to be holding back laughter yet held himself back as he looked allowed Naruto to finish introductions, "Guys this is Shisui Uchiha, my fiancé."
Sakura gave a weak wave at the male who seemed to no longer be able to withhold his laughter, in fact, he seemed to embrace it, causing Sakura to look dumbfounded. It was not every day you saw an Uchiha laugh even when the clan was alive and thriving. When he calmed down his breathing was irregular yet he spoke, "So you really went with the dead last thing, hime?"
At his words, everyone became confused and looked to the blushing blonde for an answer, "When I entered the academy Shisui, Itachi and I decided to pull a large prank on everyone. I would pretend to be an idiot throughout the academy years and become dead last, being placed with the rookie and kunoichi of the year. After that I would stop pretending and show everyone what I was capable of, making it seem like the academy teachers weren't doing their job properly. Which in all fairness when it came to me was quite true. Only Iruka-sensei took me seriously. Kinda." She shrugged non-committedly and started to sit down before she was suddenly picked up via the waist by the Uchiha.
He swung her round in circles as she laughed, dropping her henge. After several spins, he stopped, yet did not let her go. Simply hugging her to him, her feet off the ground and head in her hair. He mumbled something Kakashi couldn't hear causing her to raise her arms around his neck.
He looked away from the two of them and was about to tell Sasuke and Sakura they ought to leave the two of them alone when he saw their expressions. Sakura looked as if she agreed with Kakashi yet Sasuke seemed torn between going to his formerly late cousin and letting the two have a moment. It was that last thought that made him freeze before he used a speed he hadn't used in years and snatched Naruto out of the Uchiha's arms and into his own, a kunai ready at hand.
He glared at the Uchiha and ignored Naruto's protests and angry cries of what he had done, "Shisui Uchiha is dead. He died jumping into Naka River five years ago, two days before the massacre of the Uchiha clan. So I ask you this, how can a dead man be walking?"
He didn't give an immediate reply and it seemed Naruto wished to know that same answer as she froze and stared at the other boy before his eyes turned into a Sharingan pattern he had only seen on Naruto before.
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One moment they were in the middle of Sunagakure, the next; Naruto, Kakashi, and Shisui were in a blank white room? She was unsure where they were. The only thing she was sure of was that Shisui had taken them there with his mangekyo.
Shisui.
Unbidden, tears came out of her eyes as she looked at her fiancé. It had been too long. Thirteen years had gone by since she had seen the man who was asked to marry her and she was conflicted.
"I believe I will be needing popcorn in order to watch this little love triangle between the Uchiha, Hatake and yourself, brat."
"Not helping Kurama."
"I'm not here to help, well I am, but not like that."
"Go back to sleep."
"No thank-you. I'll stay awake for this."
Kurama, when it came to drama, was like a moth to a flame. Although, in this instance, if she wasn't the one in the middle, she would also find the predicament humoring. Shaking her head she spoke, "So about how you're alive. Not that I'm not happy you're alive or anything. Because I am. Very happy. B-but ya know. It is kinda strange. You haven't even aged a day!"
Instead of answering her he replied, "So you're dating the copy ninja?" he had a small smile on his face yet she could see the sadness in his eyes.
She opened and closed her mouth a few times, trying to find a way to word this without hurting either of their feelings, "Well yes and no. I came from a time where I was dating Kakashi yet here I'm just his student who he gives a lot of leeway to and happens to stay at his apartment a lot, that doesn't mean, however, that I don't still feel the same way about this Kakashi as I do about my Kakashi. Yet the same applies to you; you have always been a constant in my life, even in death." She held up the necklace that symbolized their union to be, "Never once had I taken this off. Even when I was with Kakashi."
Kakashi looked to be very out of place, yet he was the one who put himself in this predicament. "You still haven't answered the question, though." She added.
He sighed and gave a warmer smile, seeming to have forgotten Kakashi was even with them, "The rikudou sennin bought me back to life. I'm not sure why. But I'm sure it has to do with why he bought Itachi and you from the future, hime."
"And your eyes?" blurted Kakashi. She hadn't thought about that.
At Kakashi's words, he looked at the silver-haired male, lightly glaring at him before scratching the back of his head, "Itachi was there when I woke up and when he confirmed I was the real Shisui he gave me the eye I had entrusted him with. As for my other eye, I took it from Danzo."
One beat, two, "WHAT?!" yelled both Kakashi and Naruto.
In return, Shisui simply shrugged, "Itachi placed him under the Tsukuyomi and I took back my eye back. The rikudou sennin said I would need both of them."
Naruto blinked, "If you need your eyes, you could have simply come to me. I still have my eyes sealed in me, Shodaime that sounds wrong."
"Why would I come to you for my eyes?" he cocked his head to the side by a small fraction as he looked at her.
"I have your eyes." She then activated the Sharingan eyes she had and allowed them to turn into the eternal mangekyo.
"I see how did you get them?"
Seats suddenly appeared out of nowhere and Shisui was the first to take a seat one leg over the other sideways as he gestured for them to sit. Naruto is the first to sit down, doing so in a meditating position as Kakashi sat similarly to Shisui. It was going to be a long time in this space, yet to the outside world, no longer than a second.