-=Aftermatch, Konoha's Hero=- rewritten

Gaara woke up feeling confused, but when he saw Naruto standing above him (he is on the ground and Naruto is standing) he thought that he was going to be captured or something.

"You know... you should start talking with that sand racoon a little, he can be really...uh... unique, but he is also a 'person' you know?" Naruto's words surprised Gaara quite a bit

"How do you...?" Gaara questioned, but he didn't know what exactly to question either...

Naruto released some of Kurama's chakra and said

"We are the same but different, while you gave up and choose to just unleash your rage at anything, i supressed it, the difference between you and me is that your mind lost the battle against hate, but mine didn't"

Naruto's words resonated with Gaara, he felt like a child being scolded because he did something wrong, a feeling he didn't feel for a long time.

After some more small talk with Gaara, Naruto finished improving his seal, that by the way was really crappy, it really makes you wonder how Shukaku even got sealed in that... anyway, got off topic here, after Naruto improved Gaara's seal, he gave him to Uglyface and Temari, after some parting words he went in the direction where Sarutobi and Orochimaru were fighting.

Naruto reached the area quickly, with the barrier broken, the sound four had to escape. How did they escape from all of konohas ninjas? your guess is as good as mine.

Aa Naruto saw the fight, Hashirama was restricting ALL of konohas shinobis, so Hiruzen was fighting against Tobirama and Orochimaru.

'He revived tge previous hokages? damn... thats messed up'

/(Uzuryu talking) His soul has accumulated enought bad karma to go to hell at least 10 times... thats impressive in its own way\

'You can see karma?'

/Only when it is so... solid\

'Oh well, i need to help the old monkey, so i will fight the nidaime'

[Just admit that you only want to fight the stronge1 of the two, Kit]

'... Can't you let me have this?'

As Naruto finish his mental conversation, he immediately throws a kunai at Tobirama, who only dodged it.

As soon as Naruto teleported in front of Tobirama, he shot a Byakurai right at his face, destroying it.

(Do remember that tge hokages were only at half of their power and were actively going against Orochimaru's control)

Tobirama soon regenerated, making Naruto grin.

'Oh? that's interesting...'

[here we go again...]

"Twist thy souls, Uzuryu" Naruto again, throws his sword upwards and when he picks it up again, it is a scythe, but this time he is not using it to defend.

"shinigami dance"

Naruto's self created scythe stile, much like Hidan, he uses his scythe in the most agressive way possible, smashing and defending, but diferent from Hidan, who uses his scythe to get his enemies blood, Uzuryu in its shikai form, can actually cut souls.

The souls woud regenerate quite quickly, but against a edo tensei revived enemy, that's super effective.

Tobirama dodged almost all of Naruto's slashes, as he is actually a really fast shinobi, so Naruto had to use his brain to hit him, as one hit would break the edo tensei jutsu.

"Bakudo number 1:Sai" As Naruto uses his bakudo, Tobirama is restrained, only for o mere moment as he breaks the restraints in a second, but this moment is more than enought for Naruto to cut him.

"That was surprisingly easy..."

As Naruto finished the fight he feels a incredible Reiatsu fluctuation behind him, he turns back only to see a shinigami with white clothes, behind Hiruzen.

The shinigami looks back at Naruto, who feels a faint connection with it and questions Uzuryu

'Uzuryu... is this feeling because my father is sealed in him? or because he is the one who sealed Kurama? Maybe it is Kurama's yin half attracting his yang half that is in me?'

/i don't think that is the case...\

Uzuryu's answer only made Naruto even more confused, the people around him thought that he froze seeing Hiruzen dying.

-=-

After the invasion ended, Naruto was immediately surrounded by hypocrites, so he teleported to his house, as he didn't want to deal with that.

After some time, Haku, Ikki, Karin and even Hinata went to check if he was fine, he assured them that he was ok and went to the cave were he trained waterfall walking to get some much needed rest before Hiruzen's funeral.

During this rest Naruro didn't do any serious training, he just trained for a month straight afterall.

But Naruto did notice something interesting that happened, as he absorbed Shukaku's bijuudama, he technically absorbed Shukaku's chakra, and thay same chakra fused with Kurama's own, maybe because they were one being before, and that made Naruto think if he could 'evolve' Kurama to a 10 tailed fox if he absorbed chakra from all of the other bijuus...

Also because of Shukaku's chakra, Naruto now could control sand pretty easily, but he thought that it did not match with his chaotic fighting style, so he didn't train this.

-=-

During Hiruzen's funeral, it was raining

All of the shinobis put a flower on his grave.

After that, Naruto went to his mother's grave, to change the flowers there.

"Hey mom, today was Hiruzen's funeral...

Everyone is sad about the lifes that were lost in this invasion...

I didn't had time nor the mental energy to come here during this time so i will resume what happened to you, okay?

I made some new friends, they are from suna you know?

At the chunnin exams, i found another Uzumaki, She has red hair just like you...

...(Insert resumed events here)

During the invasion, i defeated a lot of enemy ninjas, so now i am kind of a hero in the village... just like dad wanted..."

As Naruto finished recounting the events that happened all this time, he never expected to hear a answer

"That is pretty awesome... we are both proud of you..."

Naruto quickly looked up(he had his head down as he 'talked' with his mom), But he didn't see anyone

'Did you hear that? Kurama? Uzuryu?'

[I heard it Kit... but there is no one around you]

/...Maybe... her soul got attached to something? if her soul was just wandering, she would have turned into a hollow after 12 years, so naybe her soul got attached to a object...\

Naruto frantically searched around, but he found no object that had any reiatsu in it... (When a soul gets attached to a object it emits reiatsu)

"Mother..."

-=-=-=-

During this time all the clones that Naruto sent out of the village completed their missions... A clone got the location of the ruins of Roran, another found the place were Moryo was sealed at and reinforced the seal a bit, to give Naruto some more time so he could plan this out. Another was going to Hoshigakure to get the misteryous peacock method and he not only got it but also got a dragon scale jutsu with incredible defenses. Another clone got some clues of were the remains of the land of sky but this one would require some more time to verify.

All in all he got a lot of important places and techniques that would boost his strenght. A lot of clones did not do anything usefull as they did not find anything worth his time, his last clone though... his last clone found by chance and talked a bit with Itachi and Menma, the memories of the clone made Naruto grin madly as he went and made 100 clones to prepare every bit of information he could get on Sasuke to trade it with Itachi when they meet again.

Naruto 'got over the hokage's death' and returned to his normal self, he went out all around the village to see if any of his friends were hurt or whatnot, to be honest, he did not care about most of them, asides from Hinata and maybe Shikamaru he didn't care about his so called 'friends' so he went to check on Hinata, Shikamaru and Kiba, now don't get me wrong, he did not care about Kiba at all but he needed to check if Akamaru was fine, as only a heartless monster would not be worried about Akamaru... he even saw Tora jumping around some roofs, he gave him some food that he bought in a shop as a form of apology for when his team caught him...

Everything was going back to normal, little by little, so Naruto was not worried. He went to his last stop after checking on everyone that mattered on konoha (he did not check on Teuchi cause anything that could harm him or Ayame would pulverize konoha just in the aftermatch and Lee is at the hospital abd the place is currently crowded so he will go there later).

After he checked everyone, he went around Konoha for a walk, he felt deeply disgusted by the way the villagers acted towards him now but he did not show it on his face.

He went to Ichiraku to eat something, and as he reached there he found that the place didn't have a scrath on it, as expected from the sage of six bowls...

"Naruto! come here!" Ayame immediately pulled Naruto into a hug

"Ayame-nee... what happened? why are you so happy?"

"You got pretty famous you see? I heard a lot of customers talking about how you ' heroically ' defended the village from the enemies, how brave you were and how cool you looked"

Each word that Ayame said made Naruto more and more embarrassed, he knew that the villagers would exaggerate on what happened but he did not expect Ayame to get wind of it so quickly...