Writers Note:

This is my first submission as a fanfiction writer, I do believe much in the story I am writing here. I think a lot of people will really like it and I hope you do as well. Any criticism is highly appreciated I hope you like it and enjoy.

I do not own Naruto, and never will.

The Protector of the Forest

Naruto Namikaze, who used to be named Naruto Uzumaki, had finally taken up his name and was now at the age of 22. A lot had happened since the end of the 4th great shinobi war, and since he ended both Madara and Obito's life. The final battle had been a long and difficult one. After Naruto took down Obito, and Sasuke had taken down Kabuto with his brothers help of course, they reunited to fight an enemy that was a greater problem than their own feelings at the time. They fought against Madara, in one of the most glorious battles anyone had ever seen. Naruto and Sasuke moved as if they had known each other their whole lives and after a near defeat at the hands of Madara, Naruto and Sasuke drew him into a trap and Sasuke trapped Madara allowing Naruto to detain and seal him. Naruto and Sasuke let go of their hatred for each other that day and ended up laughing together after the battle. Lady Tsunade ended up living through the battle thanks to her outstanding healing ability and the world turned peaceful for many years.

"7 years huh?" Naruto said to Sasuke as they walked to Tsunade's office. The two had grown much in this time. Naruto now looked more and more like his father Minato his hair had grown longer and his smile was a little less childish and a little wiser. Sasuke had grown up a lot since the battle with Madara. He had started a custom of meditation to allow him to keep his cool and his rationality.

"Yea, its hard to believe that we have been at peace for 7 years now. How are things at home?" Sasuke asked. They used to hang out all of the time but recently they have been busy with their own problems.

"Well…I mean she found out that she is pregnant yesterday and im happy about it but truthfully I'm scared." Naruto said. His eyes were in shock, he was thinking about how terribly mean she could be now, what would she be like if she was going crazy because she was pregnant.

Sasuke winced. "That sounds very unpleasant Naruto, you picked Sakura that's all I have to say about that one." Naruto and Sakura had started dating around 5 years ago after Sasuke got back Sakura realized that her feelings toward Sasuke were nothing more than an illusion by her younger self. She found herself intoxicated with Naruto and they dated for a long time. A year ago Naruto had popped the question to her and they had married very happily. However his peace wasn't going to last long, Sakura had started talking about having a child and Naruto could feel his life slipping away from under him.

"Shut up Sasuke, I never expected you to be so uncaring with the wife you have." Naruto pouted as Sasuke sighed.

"Hinata is Hinata and I am me," Sasuke said smiling his devious smile at Naruto. "At least my wife doesn't hit me all the time." Sasuke burst out in laughter at his own comment. No one would ever understand the jokes that Sasuke laughs at but most people were scared of him so not many people commented on it. Sasuke had started dating Hinata 4 years ago, at the end of the war Hinata had confessed to Naruto and they had a huge talk about it, as Naruto explained his feelings for Sakura and how they would never be due to what he wants in his future wife. Hinata reluctantly understood and it took her a very long time to find love again. 4 years ago Hinata and Sasuke had seen each other in a clan meeting and they started talking. Hinata seeing the anger in Sasuke started giving him lessons on how to control his anger by telling him about what she had to deal with before, when the Hyuuga clan was meaner. They talked for around a month straight and they decided to start dating. They hit it off almost instantaneously and they compliment each other perfectly.

"Oh yea Sasuke? Well at least I try to do what I want even if I get hit; at least I'm not whipped like you are. You hear one word of Hinata needs something and your gone in a flash." Naruto smirked at his friend who stopped laughing and gave him an annoyed look.

"What's wrong with helping your pregnant wife, Naruto?" Sasuke said each of them getting in each other's face. Naruto was not having this today Sakura kept him up all night reading to him stuff from her medical book about having a baby, which he replied with, "its like 9 months away Sakura do we have to talk about this now?" to which he was hit multiple times and made to listen to the entire book.

"Even when she wasn't pregnant you still waddled over to her like a little puppy when she called you." Naruto stated. Getting right back in Sasuke's face.

"SO DID YOU!" Sasuke yelled.

"NO I DID NOT!" Naruto yelled back.

"QUIET YOU IDIOTS!" Sakura yelled as she hit them both on the head. Small bumps appeared on their heads as both Naruto and Sasuke held their now pulsing heads. Apparently Sakura had just walked out of Tsunade's office and heard the two idiots fighting and had to put a stop to it.

"Sakuraaaa, why did you do that?" Naruto whined at his wife, while he was rubbing his head and a small tear ran down his right eye. For some reason only Sakura ever hit Naruto, even the best of shinobi couldn't touch Naruto but he let her for some reason. Sasuke was a different story, it seems that whenever he's caught up dealing with Naruto he can't concentrate on anything else leaving him open to the attack that had just happened.

"Urgh, gorilla woman why did you have to do that?" Sasuke stated, instantly regretting what he said seeing Sakura's evil eye come out.

"I am not a gorilla thank you very much Sasuke, but surely Hinata will hear of your very disrespectful comment. Both of you need to stop yelling right now before I decide that you are better left in a body bag underneath 200 feet of Earth is that understood?" Sakura said calmly with a small smile on her face. Thus causing both of the full-grown men, and most powerful of the shinobi in the leaf, to sweat drop.

"Yes ma'am" Naruto and Sasuke both recited on queue as if they were both trained puppies.

"Good, and you better hurry to Tsunade's office she is getting very impatient." Sakura said smiling as she walked up to Naruto and kissed him before walking away smiling and waving. Thus leaving a happily dazed Naruto waving back.

"Ugh Naruto, your wife is a demon I feel sorry for you." Sasuke said as they both turned back to Tsunade's door.

"I know, but I love her and I don't think it will ever stop." Naruto replied smirking like a grade schooler the whole time. Sasuke smirked at Narutos comment.

"I feel the same about Hinata." Sasuke said. Then Naruto opened the door to the Hokage's office. The old familiar building had been built in the exact same way as the one before it down to the last detail, thus Tsunade was sitting at her Mahogany desk with her hands folded on her chin. She raised an eyebrow as they came in.

"Well hello there boys. How is the old ball and chain treating you?" Tsunade said laughing at her own joke. The two were surprised to see that Tsunade seemed undeniably cheerful even though there were 3 mounds of paperwork sitting on the right side of her desk. Naruto slowly realized why she was so happy and his sweat dropped.

"They didn't…. did they?" Naruto asked with a nervous smile. Naruto had been waiting for this day his whole life but he didn't think that she would do this to him, or at least hadn't expected this much paperwork to be involved.

"Yes they did and they said as your first item on your list as they new hokage you get to finish all the paperwork I don't want to do." Lady Tsunade smiled a devilish smile at the new young Hokage. She had been waiting to give away this position to him since the moment she met him however she couldn't help but give him a hard time and give herself some free time because of it. "Come here Naruto you need to sign this one form and then you get the job, the office, and the paperwork." Naruto reluctantly signed his name at the bottom of the form and started to look at the seemingly endless amount of paperwork waiting for him. Sasuke burst into laughter until he remembered that he had been called too, which made him, freeze up and look in disbelief at a devilishly smiling Tsunade, looking at him. "Also Sasuke the board has decided to task you with becoming the leader of the police once more and as such you get to help Naruto with all of his duties as hokage, as such your new desk has been placed to the right of Narutos, have fun you two." Said Tsunade as she made her way to the door and closed it behind her as she walked out. They heard her saying something about getting a drink for the first time in a few days and how she wasn't going to stop. Both of them sweat dropped as they looked at their new paperwork to be done.

"Well we better get this done." Naruto said, sighing as he picked a piece of paper of the top of the mountain. Sasuke nodded and they sat down and slowly started to make a dent on the mountain of paperwork.

However all was not jokes and happiness out in Spirit forest in the country of the land of the Samurai a small baby had been abandoned. It lay in a small basket at the edge of the forest, obviously placed so that some animal would come and eat it. Soon a group of wolves, larger than most wolves, came slowly toward the small child. The biggest of the wolves that lead the pack slowly made its way around the basket to see the small Childs face. The small child was a boy with curly hair as green as the grass and the leaves that spread throughout the forest. The largest wolf turned to the wolf that was sitting to the right of the basket.

"Chesmu, hurry and call a meeting of the elders. We are taking this one in as one of our own." The wolves looked at her as if she were crazy however the Grey wolf Chesmu moved to speak.

"My lady, forgive me for speaking in such a way, but are you crazy? Who would ever take care of this human? We cannot even begin to understand their race and what if it brings destruction to our clan?" Chesmu said imparting his wisdom upon the Large White wolf that stood in front of the basket looking down at the small human child. The white wolf looked over at Chesmu with determination and fire in her eyes.

"I, Lady Hehewuti your Clan Leader, will take care of this child as my own. I from here on out will make sure that this child is trained like our kind and comes to become one with us. He will hunt with us, sleep with us, talk with us, and most of all come to love the forest like his kind should." The other wolves including Chesmu bowed to Hehewuti, acknowledging that her word is their law. Yet Chesmu stood up and asked another question one that Hehewuti was not expecting.

"Well then my lady, you get the honor of naming the young one. What shall he be called?" Chesmu questioned. This stopped Hehewuti in her tracks, she had been so gung-ho about the whole thing that she had forgotten to make a name for the young one. She quickly regained her composure and thought of a suitable name. About 20 seconds later Hehewuti smiled and looked at the child once more.

"We shall train you young one and you will fight with spirit and be strong, thus I have given you the name Hania which means spirit warrior." Thus Hehewuti picked up the basket with her nose and the Wolves retreated the way they came into the woods as the cold night air stung their bodies and the darkness soon swallowed them up until they were out of sight.