The Hokage, Naruto Uzumaki was up late working on paperwork, it was the one thing that he wasn't prepared for when he became hokage. It wasn't that long ago that the great hero of Konoha and the ninja world was just a helper learning the ways of the hokage from his own teacher, Kakashi. Yet, even with all of that training, he wasn't prepared at all to deal with it. He looked over the paperwork and sighed, he was able to use clones to keep track of his family, but he was sure that this wasn't the same thing as being home to help them out himself as the real deal. He had others things to think about, as he worked to try to balance the importance of his office that he had, and the importance of being a father and husband to a beautiful wife. A woman who thought the world of him and who he thought the world of as well.
Naruto looked at his computer and then at the paperwork and sighed asne found a stopping point looking outside, knowing that he had missed dinner with his family and knowing even though his clone would of eaten it, it didn't mean that he would have had his own dinner. Naruto had to get something to eat, and got up and walked out of his desk, he would get something fast, and then he would head to his home and great his wife and children before he hopefully would be able to put them to bed, that night. He wondered slowly towards the natural place to be able to get food, Ramen Ichiraku, his normal place to get food when he needed something quick and fast.
Walking up to the stand, he sat down and looked to see that old man Teuchi was on duty, working that night, most likely it was a rare event, as he heard Ayame was involved with someone and with that, he was sure in time Teuchi would fully hand down the stand to his daughter. "Good night, how is business doing?" Naruto asked politely as he looked at the older man.
"Good, what is a married man like yourself doing out here this late," Teuchi asked looking at Naruto before seeing the wear in him, "You know, work might be important, but sometimes taking time off and enjoying your family is just as important, it will give you more energy to deal with issues. A tired boss who is out of You can't take it all on your shoulders alone, remember," he said giving him his two cents of advice as he looked at the younger man, "the normal right, don't worry, know you, you will have it finished before you get home."
"Thanks, I will think it over," he replied as he looked at Teuchi and knew that he was right, that he had to really work on balancing his job with his normal life, he knew that he had to spend more time with his kids without having to use clones, and more time around his wife, making sure she was pleased. He would get the memories from the clones, but it wasn't quite the same thing really. He than rested his head on his hand as he waited for his food to be prepared for himself.
"My student here, well, Naruto, how are you doing, working late again, I see," Iruka commented as he sat next to him at the ramen bar. He smiled as the older man looked at him. "I messed up my meal twice and gave up and decided to get some ramen like the olden days," he explained as to answer the first question that he knew that he would get from Naruto.
"Yeah, work is killer lots of paperwork, and such, keeps me busy every day, that and the computer work as well, things just pile up so fast," Naruto reasoned as he looked at his former teacher.
"Well, here, I am retired now, so I have some time on my hands, to much honestly," Iruka commented as he looked at Naruto, "paperwork, I am a master of. Remember I had to do all that paper work and grading when you all were my students and everyone else was my students for years. Tell you what, I will handle the paperwork, and for the next week you go spend time with your family and get to just relax and enjoy your time with them."
Naruto was surprised that he would say this, and he blinked as he looked at him. "What if something big comes up and I am needed, or a meeting of kages happens randomly," Naruto replied somewhat defensively as he looked at his mentor even knowing the low odds of that happening as he said It.
"Well Shikamaru could handle any meeting and if needed we can get Konohamaru to help out too he wants to be hokage after you anyhow. We can find a way to run this town without you, you are not so important that the sun rises with you and the moon sets with you, go home enjoy your family for a week and recharge your batteries. "
Naruto sighed as he then nodded his head, giving into his teacher, he had a good point, a great point really, "Then, I am trusting you,, but I know you can do this," he said tentatively as the food was out for him to eat.
Naruto ate with his former teacher and surrogate father whose food was out soon after. It didn't take that long as he finished and ran home to get there as fast as possible, he had a bit of time before he figured his children would be put to bed that night. He was pretty quick skill though, he did realize his skills were nothing compared to the war when he battled Sasuke for the final time.
Naruto walked in to find that his children in the living room. Himawari was sitting coloring in a coloring book as her brother Boruto was reading what looked like a book on basic jutsu. It would only be a handful of months before he was heading towards the academy. He was growing so fast. Naruto smiled as he looked at them.
The first one to notice him was Himawari who ran over, "Daddy, you home," she called out as she looked at hugged his knee as he picked her up into his arms.
"Hi, Dad," Boruto also commented as he showed some level of disinterest, he knew his son felt the need to have him around, and was annoyed by the fact most of the time he dealt with clones and not the real him.
"So, where is mom, I have some good news," he said as he looked at the his son, as he held his daughter still in his arms.
"Mommy is in the kitchen cleaning up," Himawari commented as she looked at her father. Who put her down, "Okay, well, I will be back to put you two to bed in a moment."
"I can do that myself," Boruto said under his breath, just loud enough for Naruto to hear. Naruto let it slide, he wondered how the hell sometimes Iruka put up with him, if he was nearly as bad as him or worse most likely.
He walked into the kitchen quietly as he saw his wife cleaning up dishes. The blonde ninja moved quietly using those ninja skills of his own to sneak up on her, and grabbed her around her waist causing her to jump just a bit. He smiled as he saw the adorable blush upon her cheeks. "Hey, um sorry that I missed dinner tonight, work got in the way," he said as he knew he would best follow it with some good news. "On the bright side, I am off this week, perhaps we can well send away the kids for a day or two."
"Maybe but not till the end of the week, you need to spend time with them, Naruto," Hinata replied in a serious tone that she normally didn't have. "If perhaps if you do, we can," she said looking innocently at him as he smiled for a moment. After years of being married, this woman knew how to push his buttons in the right ways.
"Now, off with you, I have plates to clean and you ate ramen, I can smell it on you, go read your children a story and tuck at least Himawari in tonight. Though, you needed to spend some one on one time with Boruto too," she added in a voice that told him that she was seirous with her words.
He kissed Hinata and then slipped away from her as he went into the living room, and looked at his two children , "Now, time for bed, so we can be up early tomorrow," he said to them as he motioned them to bed. He saw Himawari was sleepy as he walked over and then picked her up into his arms. He saw his son pout as he put up his book and then head to bed ahead of them.
"Okay, a bedtime story, Himawari, how about the story of how your mother and I fell in love and ended up with each other," he asked as he looked at her.
"No, I have heard it before, something else daddy," Himawari commended as she looked at him.
"Okay little sunflower, how about how your grandparents meet and how your grandfather saved your grandmother?"
"No, I heard that before," Himawari commented as she looked at him, "I want you to read the new book, the one mom got for us today, the cripson nite," she said unable to say crimson knight correctly.
"Oh, that story huh, well um okay," Naruto said remember hearing about the book being released recently and being the largest hit since Jiraiya's books, and didn't have the crudeness or perviness of it. He looked at the book and held it in his hands, it was a big book, a chapter book, it would take more than one night to get through this. He sat down and put the book on his lap, "Now, we will read one chapter tonight, tomorrow we will read the second one and so on," he told Himawari who nodded her head in agreement. Naruto noticed, Boruto in the Boruto of his eye moving closer. He figured the boy wasn't beyond the adventure stories or heroes yet.
"The Adventure and Tales of the Crimson Knight, it began on a..."
A/N- This is a very different type of intro to the story, and yes, there will be a story inside this story, the next chapter will be the first chapter of the Crimson adventure and then chapter three the events in Naruto's life after that. There will be real characters in the story of the Crimson Knight, but the Crimson Knight is an original character. Please review if you have anything positive, and also what you think of this unique start for an rp.
Additional thanks for the correction as it could be noted I do make mistakes from time to time so if anyone wants to be my editor or beta reader I would take you up on that.