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Our Truths	By : Strailo Category: Naruto > Yaoi - Male/Male Views: 12541 -:- Recommendations : 1 -:- Currently Reading : 0
Disclaimer: I do not own Naruto or its characters in any way or form. I make no money from this piece of fiction and will continue to make no profit from this fiction. I do this for pleasure.

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Title: Our Truth
Fandom: Naruto
Part: 2
Characters: Naruto, Raidou, some Kurama
Word count: 2,141
Warnings: Nothing as of yet
AN: Whoo, what a positive response to this story so far. :D I can only hope that you guys keep enjoying as the story goes up.

Take a moment to check out my newest Bits and Pieces submission (Naruto) for information on the openings I have with them if you want.

To note: There are a few terms here that are used. Mental-scape just means the inner mind area of a person. Their mental safe place. That sort of thing.

For now I hope you enjoy this chapter.
Review: Aww, ANON, thank you. I'm glad that you're looking forward to it and I'm glad that I could get them down. We just see so little of them in the grand scheme of things. But seriously. :D
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Naruto was the baby of the group. He could admit that to himself while staring at a picture of all of them together as he organized another room in his mental-scape. He was learning all of the tips and tricks of their position, the time that he wasn’t training or working was spent reading and studying. It had been a long eight months since he had been placed under Iruka’s care and he had spent most of it studying the profiles of the shinobi that he worked with. He also went over past mission reports and the true history of Konoha as written by the Hokages.

He had learned that when they wrote the history, they sat in a seal array that forced them to tell nothing but the truth as recorded by the chakra of the land. And that had been something amazing to learn.

Naruto had another shock a few months after he had started working with Iruka. He had been warned by the older nin that his mental-scape would change with everything. It was so that he could retain information that much better. He had known that his mind had been shifting even before he had taken his place, but the new mental-scape was a whole different level.

When he had first fallen into his mental-scape so long ago, it had been a sewer with a jail cell for Kurama. But while he had been training, he had found it turning into something more. Something almost like the Hokage Tower but smaller to start with. When he had started to work with Iruka, he had found that it grew, the basement had dried out and things had become neater. Though that was helped along with all of the meditation that he did so he could organize his own thoughts and mind. There were still various rooms that he had in his mental-scape that needed to be organized, but he wasn’t very surprised.

He had never thought of his mind as a place to truly store all of his information after all.

Naruto found himself often meditating when he wasn’t working, or learning the intricate web that was the Archives, or hanging out with friends and co-workers. But when he wasn’t doing any of that, he was filing reports, grading papers or trying not to kill one of his fellow shinobi for an unfinished report. One thing though that sometimes made him stop and think was who he hung out with. It wasn’t his friends from the rest of the Rookie Nine but rather, more often than not, his co-workers. His fellow desk Chunin.

It wasn’t because he and the rest of the Rookie Nine didn’t see each other or have the opportunities to gather though. It was mostly because they didn’t understand his willingness to actually be a desk Chunin. They didn’t know all of the details of his day and rarely wanted to know, thinking that it wasn’t worth their time. Not that he blamed them.

The desk Chunins like it that way after all. It made it easier to work under the radar.

He had found himself making friends with his new co-workers though. Kamizuki Izumo, not so surprisingly, was cool at first but a true friend once he got used to a person. He was also the one that filed all of the ANBU reports as they were handed over by Ibiki during one of his once a week visits. While most, including Naruto, found the interrogation expert annoying since he tended to be condescending, especially after a long night, Izumo said that he had a dry sense of humor when he was in a good mood.

When the other Chunin had told him, eyes gleaming, even with one hidden under the fringe of hair, Naruto had laughed himself sick. Izumo had chuckled and told him just to wait for it and enjoy it when it happened. Naruto had proceeded to fall off of his chair.

They all knew who was top dog though. One Umino Iruka was the one who worked the hardest out of all of them. He somehow knew, even before the rest of the Chunins who worked with them, when someone entered the tower or was coming within ten feet of the door. He was also the hardest on those who turned in their reports, drilling it into people’s heads that they needed to write them correctly. But he was also the one with the huge soft spot for those who tried and who respected him. He was always willing to give an extra day to write their reports to those who needed it.

Now, the true surprise came in one Hagane Kotetsu. For all that he looked much like a porcupine with the way his hair stuck up and out, he was probably as sharp as a Nara. He never showed what the knew though, making it easy for those who didn’t know him to underestimate him. It was highly amusing to see him go up against some new Chunin and toss their cocky ass around.

The only one who worked the desk as often as they did but wasn’t a Chunin was Shiranui Genma. The desk Chunin all knew that he was one of the elite guards of their Hokage, but to everyone else he was simply a tokubetsu Jounin who worked the desks sometimes. When he was relaxed, he tended to make some rather raunchy jokes depending on who was around him. But he was also calm and collected, always watching without actually seeming as if he was.

Naruto had asked Iruka about him one day and he had been told that Genma had been on the same team as Might Gai and Ebisu. He had perfected his relaxed exterior during the time he had worked with them, which was a good cover for him.

It still amazed Naruto just how much he had actually come to care for his fellow desk Chunin, making him realize what he had been missing with the original Team Seven. To watch the four men interact, he found that he had missed out on an easy companionship that didn’t come with insults or painful chakra filled hits. He had missed out on friendships that didn’t always need to be filled with chatter but could also bask in the silence. He had missed out on the mutual respect.

But now, working as a desk Chunin, he had found all that he had missed and more in his co-workers. Iruka was once more his sensei, but he was also his equal and friend. Something that not even Kakashi had become when they had become a Chunin team instead of just Genin. Izumo and Kotetsu had long before become good friends and sparring partners while Genma had become a wonderful person to go to for advice.

Coming back from his musings with a shake of his head, Naruto tucked the picture away with a smile into an album before putting it onto a shelf. He could feel the tingle of a migraine start up, something that he was warned about since he was changing the way his brain made connections. He was also making it so that his mind was tighter than Ibiki’s ass. He was still lucky in the fact that most of the time the migraines were easy to shake off with a short power nap and some food. But he had found out that if he wasn’t careful, he would end up with one that stuck around and required medication if he didn’t want it to incapacitate him.

He had had one big surprise even though knowing that his mental-scape had changed in new ways the first time he had actually explored. It had been Kurama’s cage, which had gone from a dank, wet cage with bars held shut by a seal to the seal turning into a collar around his neck. He could go where he wanted but that didn’t mean that he could do anything, nor did he want to do anything to his host. He had found the anger that he had harbored had started to wear away along with whatever had been controlling him in the first place.

When Naruto had gone exploring after discovering Kurama as a normal sized fox with nine tails, he had found several rooms. Each room had shelves that were filled with bins marked with what they contained within. Opening each bin, he had discovered that they were memories in various forms. Memories tended to be pictures and journals, while anything that he learned tended to be tomes, scrolls, and bits of paper that he had to go through.

That had been a week after he had started his training but after a month, his small tower had grown to be as big as the real one. His reading and writing skills took up their own rooms which helped since he had so much to go through and the speed that came with the skills was put to good work.

But after eight months of training and learning, his mental-scape wasn’t just the inside of the Hokage Tower, but was a huge maze with all sorts of tricks and traps. Hidden doors, passageways and levels that no one could get to unless they were him or Kurama scattered the tower. Every room that was under the top three levels were stuffed full of well-organized information, the layout much like the Archives that they protected. Each room had seals on it to prevent anyone from entering without him knowing it too.

He had to laugh as he remembered the first time that he had had Inoichi check out his mental-scape out. The Yamanaka had met Kurama with his sealing necklace and had promptly sat there staring for a good hour. He had been told that if anything, anyone coming across a bored looking Kyuubi would stop dead in their tracks.

To say that he and the fox had gotten past the past was an understatement. They had come to an agreement that Naruto wouldn’t put Kurama back into his cage forcibly via the collar, and the fox would try to work out his anger. The psychology books that Naruto started to read helped in that aspect. It was working out rather well for them and he would often find the fox reading some book that Naruto had read in his past.

Shaking his head to clear it, Naruto smiled and placed the files that he had just organized into their proper boxes and slid the box onto its spot. Pulling out of his mental-scape, he yawned and slowly stood, stretching his muscles. He groaned and picked up the box that he had physically gone over and tucked those files away before walking to where the box was to sit. Sealing the lid with a bit of chakra, he placed the box down and smiled when a seal glowed on the shelf and the side of the box before it dimmed once more.

With that done, he left the archive room, resetting the various traps the he had disabled earlier, closing the door behind and activating the seals around it. Checking the lock and finding it fully engaged, he headed towards the break room and the checkout clock. He punched out and smiled at the dozing Raidou, shaking his head at the scarred man. He had to admit that he was good looking with brown eyes and matching hair that liked to fuzz around his head, with or without the scars.

Huffing, he reached over to the dozing man and poked him in the shoulder, watching him jerk. “Why aren’t you at home by now? Isn’t Genma waiting for you?” he asked when he got a sleepy blink aimed at him.

“Was waiting for you,” Raidou said, stretching his arms over his head as he stood up. He adjusted his hiate and smoothed his hair out somewhat as Naruto stared at him.

“Again?” Naruto asked as he gathered his things from his locker. The two continued to talk as they walked down the hallway for the stairs and back exit. “That’s the fourth time in two months.”

“Yeah, yeah. Apparently Kakashi-san ran across some information on his last mission. Someone is offering some heavy amounts of money to get their hands on you guys,” Raidou said. “I guess that’s why Iruka was the only one in that particular meeting and why the actual report was so damn flimsy, as I heard you bitch about it.”

“It could also be why he can’t do any missions near Cloud for a while now. He’s usually the one who goes if he can,” Naruto mused, his eyes hazy as he lost himself to thought. Raidou made a thoughtful noise as they left the Tower and headed to their apartment building.
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