Naruto : Shadow King

Naruto was sprinting down the street with Jiraiya, both of them trying to escape a group of furious women. Jiraiya, as usual, had gotten himself into trouble with his antics, and Naruto was caught in the mess. Before even Boruto knew it, he had fallen to their tricks and he too ended up running with them to escape from those women.

As they neared him, Naruto skidded to a halt. "Oi! Who are you?"

Boruto blinked, quickly remembering he couldn't reveal who he really was. "Uh, I'm Haruta!" he said, giving a friendly grin. But that was quickly forgotten when he remembered how both Naruto and Jiraiya left him alone back there. 

"That is not important you know, you... you both leave me alone there." Boruto shouted with eyes twitching. 

"Ah, don't sweat the small stuff kid. By the way you run fast, who are you again." Jiraiya said with his usual nonchalant attitude but he when he saw both Naruto and Boruto side by side, his eyes narrowed by a little bit. No one knew what he was wondering.

"Haruta," Boruto said with a little twitch in his eyes but then only he finally realized who he was talking to. This man in front of him was one of the great sannin of the leave.

'He is Jiraiya, the teacher of both Dad and grandpa...' Boruto's eyes for a second shone, he long wanted to meet this guy, more than anything he wanted to know what so amazing about that small book of his that no adult let him read it. Was it a Ninja secret, no matter what he do he can't get his hands on it, now he has an opportunity to ask the maker of the book exactly what was in the book. 

Naruto tilted his head. "Haruta, huh? Never heard of you before. Did you know in here ?" Naruto squinted his eyes like, looking much like while Jiraiya cackled behind them.

"Yeah you must be travellers right, how you like Konoha so far." Jiraiya said that he was more busy comparing both Naruto and Boruto at this point.

The similarities were so staggering that he was starting to get suspicious.

Once they found a safe spot to catch their breath, Naruto introduced himself. "I'm Naruto Uzumaki! Future Dattebayo!... I mean Future Hokag and this is Pervy Sage!"

"Oi oi... who is the Pervy Sage? I am Jiraiya the great Toad Sage of Mayoboku. Kids this day, have no respect..." Jiraiya cried animately making Boruto on the side crackle up but he retrained himself.

Boruto, now "Haruta," smiled, trying to hide his emotions. "AH thank you, I am enjoying myself, just got to Konoha so things are pretty new to me."

Naruto grinned widely. "Oh! then let's go explore Konoha! There's so much to see, come on lets start with Ichiraku Stand!" Naruto was pretty much ready to drag the boy to his favorite Raman stall.

'Again with that ramen stall, what so special about that place ?' Boruto complained internally but went with the boy nonetheless.

Jiraiya also kept up with them, now getting suspicious what was going on with this boy who look so similar to Naruto.

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Adult Sasuke explored Konoha, he realized that much of it was exactly the same as his own past, making him doubt then why certain things are so different, which left him slightly disappointed and confused.

One key difference stood out, though: in this timeline when Orochimaru attacked the village, both he and the Third Hokage had died together. At first he didn't believe it seeing who we are talking about here, its harder to kill that Snake then those Otsutsuki.

But as he gather more info, he realized that that was exactly the case, otherwise, there was no reason for his younger self to stay in the village by this time.

In his world, only the Third Hokage perished, and Orochimaru survived to cause more chaos. This was a nice change, honestly, he felt a little jealous seeing his younger version still in the village, he himself lost too much back then for practically a goal which wasn't worth running after, but...

This subtle change made Sasuke uneasy. It's mean that the history not gonna be the same as he knew. This was good thing in some way but bad in many. But the world still will face trouble in upcoming times and them winning in their times was paid with blood but they were also very lucky.

What would happen to this world if things go differently?

Unsure of what to do next, Sasuke decided to observe his younger self, curious if there were any noticeable differences between him and the kid Sasuke of this timeline.

From a distance, Sasuke watched as his younger self trained alone in the forest, practicing his taijutsu and honing his skills with intense focus. The young Sasuke looked almost identical to how he remembered himself—determined, driven by anger, and desperate to become stronger. Adult Sasuke couldn't help but feel a strange sense of nostalgia, watching his younger self struggle with the same emotions and ambitions.

'Will he believe if I said that Itachi was not what he believed him to be?' Sasuke pondered, wondering whether his interference can save his bother in this word ?

"Some things never change, and maybe that is for the best." Sasuke muttered to himself with sigh, his expression calm but he felt a little sad seeing how he can change the things but even that might not worth much. At least not for himself.

'Maybe I can help him out a little...' He thought and walk up to the boy, not sure himself what he wanted to say....

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Danzo sat in his dark office, going through various reports, when a Root member appeared, bowing before him.

"Lord Danzo, we've received information about an unknown stranger interacting with the Nine-Tails jinchuriki," the Root member said, his voice low and cautious.

Danzo raised an eyebrow. "A stranger, you say? Who exactly is this person?"

"We do not have much information. He goes by the name Haruta, and we believe he arrived recently, he also was with another man. He's been seen with Jiraiya and the jinchuriki."

Danzo's eyes narrowed in suspicion. A stranger, appearing out of nowhere and interacting with the village's most important asset was concerning. But upon hearing that Jiraiya was involved, he decided to take a more measured approach.

"Keep a close watch on them. Gather as much information as you can on this Haruta and that other man."

The Root operative bowed again, acknowledging the command. "Understood, Lord Danzo."

Danzo leaned back in his chair, deep in thought. He thank to right now having no Hokage in position had much power, but this was only temporary, he needed a way get the Hokage's position.

But eve he knew that as long as both Tsunade and Jiraiya are in the village that ain't happening.

Not only both are currently stronger than him, at least when it comes to powers that he can't show to others in open, but they were younger, he was the same age as Hiruzen, even those advisors will not choose him for this matter.

The biggest problem was Tsunade, no matter whether its her reputation, her power or her background. There is indeed no better candidate for Hokage other than her. For the time being Danzo really have no idea who to remove her from this race. But...

'Jiraiya... if something to happen to the Jinchuriki under Jiraiya's watch, then its not impossible to remove him.

And now that this outsider's arrival gave him a chance...

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