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Life is short... Most of us never live it to the full.

But that doesn't stop us trying.

I'm lucky because of the sights I've seen and the things I've done.

I controlled what resides in me and fulfilled my greatest dream. And then I made a new dream.

This is my story.

Who am I you ask...

Well my name is Uzumaki Naruto, Rokudaime Hokage, Jailer of the Kyuubi and Konoha's Number One Ninja! Dattebayo!

The Tale of the Utterly Gutsy Ninja

Chronicles of the Rokudaime Hokage

Chapter 1

Konohagakure no Sato, Hi no Kuni

"NARUTO!"

A blonde streak flashed across the rooftops of Konohagakure no Sato in the early afternoon, on a bright summer day. Said blonde streak seemed to be kitted out in an orange and black cloak and a black ANBU uniform with a Jonin vest and what looked like a large black hat with the kanji for Fire inscribed on it.

Not too far behind him a large cloud of dust was moving rapidly through the streets below, with yells and shouts from the local population regularly being heard, as well as many curses being hurled at the blonde.

The dust cloud was formed from the destruction caused by the former apprentice to Tsunade no Densetsu no Sannin, and the best medical nin in the Ninja world, Haruno Sakura, or as she was known now, Uzumaki Sakura, wife of the Rokudaime Hokage and currently ready to kill her husband for once again skipping out on his paperwork,

"Kami, he's almost as bad as Tsunade-shishou! When I get my hands on him..." Sakura growled in her mind. She had enough to deal with in Konoha General Hospital without having to deal with her lazy husband who was probably just going off to mess around with the other male members of the Konoha 11 who weren't off on missions.

"Sakura-channnnn! Don't be angry! It hurts when you're angry!" Naruto called as he tried to outrun his wife. He had left a few shadow clones in the office to make sure some work got done but they had obviously gotten into a fight and had dissipated leaving no one in the Hokage's office when Sakura had come to leave off requisition forms from the hospital.

"Man this really is going to hurt when she catches me. Damn why couldn't this be in a few more weeks when I finally manage to figure out how to work Dad's Hiraishin no Jutsu." Naruto mused. He had found out a few years after taking up the mantle of Hokage that his father had left a sealed scroll that could only be opened by one of his descendants. And of course as soon as Naruto had found out about this he put all his energy into deciphering it. He had learned a few things but nothing that he hadn't already discovered with his own experimentation using the Rasengan. That was until he saw the words Hiraishin no Jutsu. And so this became a passion that took up more and more of his time until he was sneaking out of the Hokage Mansion just to try to practice the seals and chakra control for the Hiraishin.

Unfortunately for Naruto, Sakura thought he was just goofing off and her fist was now on a collision course with his head, pumped with supercharged chakra.

BOOM

The Rokudaime Hokage was sent flying through the air and landed with a thump outside the Ichiraku Ramen Stand.

"Looks like Naruto was goofing off again Ojii-san," Ichiraku Ayame said to her father as Naruto raised himself out of the crater he had formed with his landing and made his way over to the ramen stand.

"Haha, the usual Naruto-kun?" Teuchi boomed as the blonde walked under the awning and placed himself in his usual seat.

"Hai, Teuchi-san. And make it a double portion. I've got a killer headache now thanks to Sakura-chan..." Naruto rubbed the back of his head, for once it wasn't a nervous reflex. Sakura had really put a lot of chakra into that one.

"I'm sure if she did it there was a perfectly good reason, Naruto-kun. It's not like you didn't deserve it now!" Ayame giggled as she prepared the meal.

"Ayame-chan! That's not fair! I wasn't goofing off! I was doing important research!" Naruto tried to claim.

"Oh ho now. Research! Isn't that what Jiraya-sama used to call his perving, Naruto-kun!" A voice uttered from behind the blonde with anger dripping from their words.

Naruto gulped audibly and forced a grin as he turned to face the voice, "Sakura-ch..."

"Don't you dare say that Uzumaki Naruto... You are in big trouble, Mister Rokudaime Hokage. Have you decided to skip meeting up with Shikamaru, Chouji, Kiba, Lee and Sai and decided to pick up where your master began! I bet Kakashi bribed you to start writing those blasted Icha Icha books again didn't you and you needed some time to research the material," Sakura blasted him as he stood stock still. This was worse than normal. Usually she berated him, whacked him over the head and then everything was fine. But this time she didn't let up. Something else was going on but before he could get to the bottom of that he needed to explain.

He placed his hand over her mouth to stop her from talking. She looked at him with her emerald eyes burning with fury, "Sakura, the reason I have not been in the office much is not because I've been off goofing with the guys, and it's not because Kakashi offered to do 10 S-class missions for free if I wrote a sequel to Icha Icha. It's none of those things... although Kakashi did offer that," Naruto chuckled to himself before continuing, "The real reason is I discovered some of Dad's stuff and one thing was a scroll containing some of his techniques," Sakura's eyes widened at this revelation and her jaw dropped. The Yondaime Hokage had created some of the greatest ninjutsu ever seen in the ninja world and Kami knows how many more he created and never showed in public.

Naruto continued, "I started to look through it and there wasn't much I hadn't already discovered with things like the Rasengan and the Toad summons but then I came across something... Hiraishin."

"I've been sneaking off these past few months to try and learn the Hiraishin," Sakura glared at him when he said 'months' but then turned to him and kissed his head.

"I'm sorry Naruto-kun. I just thought you were being an idiot again, and I guess I did go a bit overboard today, but it's just because I feel all messed up these days. I don't know what's wrong with me," Sakura said as she sat down at the ramen stand, "Can I get a double portion of pork ramen please, Teuchi-san?"

Naruto's eyes nearly popped out of his head when he heard Sakura ask for a double portion. She rarely even made it through a single portion before handing it over to her husband to finish. Even Teuchi and Ayame were surprised at Sakura's order but soon got to work preparing it.

Naruto looked up from his ramen and questioned his wife, "Sakura-chan, are you sure you're alright? You usually can't finish a single portion."

"I'm just really hungry today, ok? Chasing your idiot husband halfway across Konoha takes it out of you!" She huffed as she picked up her chopsticks and dove into her food.

Naruto couldn't even begin his food before Sakura had already finished her first and was onto a second. Naruto was about to enquire again if she really felt alright but thought better of it as he remembered the punch she had delivered to his head, and shivered involuntarily.

Hokage Mansion, Konohagakure no Sato

Later that day, Naruto had decided it was better to stay in the Hokage Mansion for the rest of the day at least. He was looking through reports from the still ongoing mission to find Uchiha Sasuke. Hatake Kakashi was the leader of the expedition with Hyuuga Neji, Maito Gai, Mitarashi Anko, Yamato, Aburame Shino and Sarutobi Konohamaru, as well as a company of ANBU's finest. The lead ninjas were all handpicked by Naruto apart from Anko who insisted on trailing the last student of her former master, and if Naruto was honest he wasn't going to say no to the crazy snake lady.

It seemed that they had picked up some sort of trail but it had faded into nothing but the odd encounter with former Otogakure nin or bandits. Kakashi had also put in a side note that Anko was chomping at the bit to find Sasuke just to piss of Orochimaru even though he was dead, Gai was getting on his nerves as usual and he would offer to do 14 S-class missions if Naruto would write a new Icha Icha novel as he was in Kakashi's words 'the only person who could do Jiraya's great literary mind justice'.

Naruto sighed as he looked up at the three pictures he had in his office apart from those of the five previous Hokages, although three of those pictures were some of his favourites. The first was the one he had had since Team 7 was created, the picture of himself along with his teammates and their Sensei. It was well worn but it was rare it didn't bring a smile to the Hokage's face when he looked at it, although at times it had brought nothing but anguish, especially during the last War. The next one was of the Konoha Eleven after the restoration of Konoha following Pein's attack, where even Sai managed to smile like a human being for once. That photograph brought the feeling of pride to the front of his mind as it reminded him of how far all of his friends had came in such a short space of time. And then there was the last one...

Sakura hated it. But Naruto insisted on keeping it, and it had pride of place on his desk. It was of the day Naruto had proposed to Sakura.

###Flashback###

They were on a date in one of the fanciest restaurants in all of Konoha. Somehow Sakura had managed to get Naruto to not wear orange and they were eating a normal meal, i.e. not ramen.

"So do you like your meal Naruto?" Sakura asked as she finished her food, strangely before Naruto had.

"Ne... Ah... I guess it... It's okay?" Naruto stumbled with his words, causing Sakura to furrow her eyebrows in confusion.

"Is everything ok, Naruto?"

"Crap, she's on to me..." "Ne, Sakura. Everything's fine, see," and he dived into his food with rather too much gusto, which led to bolognese sauce going over his girlfriend.

"NARUTO, YOU BAKA!" Naruto panicked as his girlfriend rose from the table and gathered chakra in her fist, ready to plant it upon the side of his head and reacted instinctively, dropping to one knee and pulling out a ring,

"Marry me?"

And with those two words she stopped dead, mouth agape, fist pulled back to hit him.

### Flashback ###

Tsunade had produced the photo at their wedding day. Sakura had insisted that all copies be destroyed but Naruto had secreted one for himself and placed it in his office when he had succeeded Tsunade, by which point Sakura had decided it was easier to leave it than try and destroy the probably millions of copies Naruto had told her about after she destroyed it the first hundred times.

This one just reminded how lucky he was and how much he loved everything about his wife. There was nothing he wouldn't do for her.

There was a knock at the door and Shizune entered the office, "Hokage-sama, the representative from the Civilian Council is here to see you."

Naruto rolled his eyes which earned him a glare from Shizune before waving to let the councillor in.

"This is gonna be a long afternoon"

Uzu no Kuni

Kakashi had had enough. He hated Naruto.

Why had he been stuck on a mission for months now with the crazy snake lady, the even crazier Gai, the silent Aburame, and the hyperactive Konohamaru?

He was just glad that Neji and Yamato were fairly sane albeit both had rather strong senses of duty and how a captain should be addressed. But what was Kakashi complaining about! He was lucky these days for even Naruto to call him sensei so for Neji, Yamato and the ANBU troop to address him properly was heaven in his eyes.

"Kakashi-taicho, it seems like there was a group of Oto-nin that passed through here about two days ago, should we track them?" Neji asked as they surveyed the clearing they were standing in.

"No, I highly doubt Sasuke will have anyone but his closest allies with him and this seems like far too many people. Shino, have your bugs gotten a trace of his chakra yet?" Kakashi asked the Aburame ninja.

Shino turned his head towards the forest canopy and then turned back to Kakashi, "There is a trace of chakra from an Uchiha about 13 miles northwest of here, but I cannot tell if it is Sasuke's or someone else. It is similar to Sasuke's but there is another chakra mixed into it."

Kakashi muttered a curse under his breath and then straightened ready to give an order, but before he could a laugh was choked out by Anko,

"Haha, so it could be that my old master didn't completely fuck up his mind. He still knows what to do with a woman!"

The group all halted in their tracks before they all laughed at the thought. Kakashi had to admit it, he had been thinking the same thing,

"And sure as hell he mustn't have messed with the body too much if he managed it too," Konohamaru added, suppressing his mirth enough to utter his sentence before falling back into a gale of laughter.

This sent the group back into another bout of laughter, although Shino didn't appear to be laughing, Kakashi could tell he appreciated the joke. Anko and Konohamaru were rolling on the floor in fits of giggles, while Neji, Yamato and a fair number of the ANBU were being a bit more restrained with their laughter. Even Gai was chuckling to himself at the joke.

"Well at least this is good for team morale, but if we really want to know if the Uchiha has spawned a brat or not we should get going, eh, my eternal rival?" Gai announced as Anko and Konohamaru picked their selves up off the ground.

"Yeah we should. Shino, you and Neji take point and lead the way. Konohamaru, Anko and Yamato, cover our rear. The rest of you spread out and let's move."

And so Konoha's Sasuke Location Team set out once again to try and discover the location of the last Uchiha male.