I'm sorry ya'll. I haven't updated in a while...I was actually pretty busy this month with a lot of Piano stuff (competitions and stuff) so I'm sorry ^^;

Edit: So uhh this is edited as well. The comments might not make sense lol.

23/01/2021

***

 "You..."

"Hm?" Teruya looked up to his father. "Minato-san?"

It sounded strange. Unreal. His father, standing right infront of him, alive and well, actually exists- but he couldn't call him 'dad'. He couldn't call him father.

Reality is painful.

It hit like the waves of a stormy sea. Teruya could barely stay afloat. He didn't have a ship did he?

"Correct me if I'm wrong Teruya-san," the blond began, "but I feel very familiar chakra from you."

A small pin pricked his skin. "Familiar chakra as in?" he asked getting a little nervous about the next question.

"This is just my suspicion." Minato repeated again this time a little softer. Teruya gulped.

"Are you...perhaps a Jinchuriki?"

Teruya's heart dropped.

***

Minato was disturbed, very much disturbed by the thoughts in his head. Especially asking such a dumb question to the newcomer! And of course Teruya had to be a clueless eighteen year old! 

"And what is troubling you dear?"

Minato perked up to see his wife standing in front of him. When did she come by?

"Ah, Kushina when did you come back?" he asked, making space for her to sit on the sofa.

"Just five minutes ago. I thought it was strange for you not to come to the door." she answered as she set the groceries on the table. Very strange it was. Minato, her faithful husband would always come to the door and greet her whenever she came back from grocery shopping but this time he did not.

"So, I've heard about the new teammate of yours?" she asked.

Minato nodded his head.

"You should meet him. He's an Uzumaki like you."

Kushina's eyes went wide. "Really?! No way seriously Minato?"

"Yeah,"

Her face brightened. "I never thought a family member would just appear like that'dattebane!" she exclaimed, happy at the thought of meeting another like her.

"So tell me, what's his name? How old is he? Rank? Does he have any other family members? Did he come from the land of Whirlpools like me?" The questions came pouring out her mouth like a waterfall.

"Relax Kushina you'll be able to meet him soon. We'll have a team dinner to welcome him." Minato replied, flustered by her sudden outburst. It's been a while since she's been like that.

"And when is that team dinner?" the red head asked after finally calming down.

"Two days from now."

"Two days from now." she murmured. Two days from now. Two days from now. Two days from now. Two days from—

"Ahhhh but I plans on Wednesday!!" she uttered, disappointed with the bad timing.

"That's not fair. And I'm sure you have a mission tomorrow right?"

Minato smiled. "You know me well, Kushina."

The Uzumaki huffed. "That's not fair!"

"Ah, but what happened to you? You were sighing about something."

Minato's mouth went dry. Why did she have such a sharp mind?

***

"The child of the prophecy has appeared. He tries to save the future, but without time, he will fail."

***

"Jiraiya-chan, head to Konoha immediately. The Great Sage Toad has made a prophecy."

***

"I knew it was going to be Minato! Yosh!"

***

"*sigh* Jiraiya-chan, just go on your way already."

***

An unsuspecting blond sneezed in the distance.

"Someone must be talking about me," the teen said to himself.

'Bless you.' Kurama said sarcastically. Teruya rolled his eyes. "How ironic."

Passersby looked at him strangely. He seemed to be talking to himself. And it was strange. Oh well.

'Must be a lonely kid.'

'He looks like he's possessed.'

"Hey mama is he speaking to a ghost?"

"Shhhh! Touka it's rude to point."

I can hear all of that,  The blond sweat dropped.

And I can't just go into my mindscape and talk to him freely, he thought, arriving at his destination. He sat on the bench and sighed.

"Please don't do that again Kurama."

'Do what?'

"Tsk. You know what I'm talking about."

'...'

"Kurama." Teruya warned. The fox sighed. 'Yeah yeah sure why not Naruto.'

"You know, I still don't believe that any of this is real Kurama. How the hell did you bring us here?"

Kurama chose to stay silent. Teruya closed his eyes. "I have a feeling that you knew about this or something."

The fox gasped internally, Did the kit actually become smarter?

For some reason, Teruya heard that too. 

"Kurama I swear I heard you insulting me right now in your mind!" 

***

"Mission? What sort?" the blond asked cautiously.

"An escort mission."

"B rank huh? I guess it's still not time yet." Teruya muttered under his breath as he eyed the jounin in front of him take the mission scroll.

It's just another day for the great Uzumaki Teruya.

Orrrrrrrr maybe not.

"Is she really a princess?" the Uchiha deadpanned, pointing to the palanquin in front.

"Of course it is Obito. Then why do you this is a B-rank?" Kakashi replied with an 'isn't-it-obvious' tone.

"But she seems so uhh-"

"Ordinary?" Teruya offered. The Uchiha gasped. "Heyyy don't say that out loud!!"

The Uzumaki grinned. "Heh, I've escorted one before."

Black eyes shone under the sun. "Really?!" Teruya nodded.

"Yep. It was real team bonding experience." he said.

"There was an Uchiha in my team who was awfully similar to Kakashi, a medic nin like Rin and a really strong sensei like Minato-san." 

"Were you in team 7 too?" Rin asked jokingly though she did not expect a serious answer.

"Yes actually." the blond replied. Obito gasped.

"Whoaa that's so cool! It's just like us!" he exclaimed, with Rin who was also surprised by the coincidence.

"I think it was fate that you ended up with out Team 7 like this Teruya-san." the Uchiha said with no shame.

"Fate huh?" Teruya repeated softly. Obito nodded.

"Yeah!"

A small smile surface.

"Fate it is."

***

"I'm sorry Teruya-san but we cannot give you any more missions." the tired chunin replied,  giving an apologetic look to the blond in front.

"But why not? There isn't really any daily quota for missions is there?" Teruya asked. The chunin shook his head.

"There isn't, but the amount of missions taken solo and teams are limited to 6 per day."

"Really? No way seriously?" he asked again.

"Hey can't you see that you're disturbing the other people in the room?"

A new voice, yet so familiar. 

Teruya turned around.

"Who is that-" His eyes widened. 

"A-Anko sensei?"

The girl had an irritated expression on her face. "I heard that you were the new jounin in town? But I didn't think you'd have such bad manners."

The Jinchuriki could feel heat rising up to his cheeks as he felt the urge to apologize to everyone in the room. Once a troublemaker, always a troublemaker.

"I-I'm uh sorry mister chunin." he yelped, looking away from the eye daggers he was getting from the purple haired girl.

The brown haired chunin just gave him a smile which meant 'Alright but you better leave this room.' and for some reason, he could feel the same message across the entire lounge.

He didn't think of the many risks of coming across a student of Orochimaru's.

"What are ya'll looking at?" she snapped, causing everyone to go back to what they were doing except poor Teruya-san.

She walked towards him with a small smirk on her face.

"So nice to meet ya mister rude."

Teruya just wanted the earth to split open and swallow him up. 

"Anko-san I assume...?" he guessed, not knowing what to say to the girl. She would be getting a curse mark although he didn't know when.

The girl raised an eyebrow. "You know me already huh?"

"Purple hair, Orochimaru, get it." he chuckled nervously slowly forming seals to shunshin out of the building but it was a little too obvious.

"I can see that you're quite skilled in the art of secrecy?" Anko mocked, taking another step forward with Teruya taking a step back. Why was a 12 year old so intimidating already? Something like Sasuke? More like him. No rather, a mix of Sasuke and Naruto. Sasuke's demeanor which said that he was better than everyone and Naruto's demeanor of seeming sorta stupid but always having a trick up their sleeve.

That sort of vibe. 

"Well I'm not jounin for nothin'" he replied, trying to communicate with the fox in him only to receive a snore.

Where is he when I need him? 

"So you're not going to introduce yourself?"

Teruya snapped out of his thoughts.

"Ah yes. I am Uzumaki Teruya." he said. Wasn't there this one time when he shunshined without hand seals? Couldn't he do that now? But wasn't that just a fluke?

"Uzumaki? Like Kushina-san?" she asked curiously. Teruya nodded, "Yes."

A small grin appeared on her lips. "Nice to meet ya although I still think that you're quite rude."

Teruya froze. What did she say?

"U-Uh nice to meet you too, Anko-san!" His voice broke as he he could feel a lump form in his throat.

The purple haired girl smiled.

"So, you're in Team 7 with the Yellow Flash?" she asked, sitting on one of the seats with the blond following her. Teruya nodded slowly.

"By the way, I was always curious. You seem young yet you just seem to radiate this aura which really sends chills sometimes."

He gulped. "So I was just wondering, how old are you?"

Ahhh, sometimes the world just knew of your problems and sent extra to play with you. What a pain.

"I'm s-"

Teruya could see his old self in the young girl infront of him. Loud, crazy and very stubborn. She even had a favorite.

Just like himself.

       But he wanted to run away from that. It was something he didn't want to see. The world just seemed to fall apart, one by one. His friends, teachers, people who he grew up with. They just seemed to haunt him every time he caught a glimpse of them on the happy streets of Konoha.

"Teruya-san! Teruya-san! Are you alright?!" A voice shattered the mirrors of his world, waking him up from the illusion of what was called 'friends'.

But he couldn't feel himself any more. What was this unsettling feeling? As if, he was drifting away, slowly and silently, waiting for someone to find him.

But he didn't want to be found. Why was it that it always had to be him. Always. He was the savior of Konoha, sealed Kaguya, brought back Sasuke, saved princesses, killed assasins, build trust. Why did it always have to be him.

Why?

"Someone call a medic! Hurry!"

Ahh, this peacefulness.

Now if he could just figure out how to grab a hold of it.

To be continued

25/03/2022

made some edits and stuff