"Introducing the Legacy"
Okay, there is a bit of character bashing in this story, but it's where it is well deserved I promise. And also, I hope no one minds the pairings that I came up with. Please enjoy and review!
In the middle of a forest stood a woman with long sunshine blonde hair and had tanned skin with sky blue eyes and had three whisker marks on both cheeks.
She was dressed in an orange skirt that reached to above her knees while she wore black bike shorts underneath and had on a black tank top while her feet were adorned in black high heel sandals.
Hanging from her neck was a beautiful aqua green crystal that shone in the light that broke through the thick foliage of leaves from the trees above.
Resting on her forehead was a black cloth that held a silver plate with a leaf symbol engraved on it.
In her arms was a small girl that looked to be five years old and had mahogany colored hair, tanned skin and large brown eyes.
On her cheeks she had matching whisker marks like her mother and she wore an orange bow in her hair that was styled to look like cat ears.
Her godmother, a beautiful pink haired woman with stunning green eyes, had fashioned the orange ribbon that way because she found it was adorable with her whisker marks and made her look like a kitten or a baby fox.
The little girl was wearing an orange dress with black shorts underneath and she wore a necklace that was in the shape of a spiral and was forged out of red jasper crystal.
The young girl was wearing a pair of black sandals to protect her feet from the rocks on the forest floor.
"Okay, here we are." The woman smiled as she stopped walking.
Curiously, the girl looked around in the area her mother had brought her to and looked around in wonder at the waterfall and the yellow tulips growing around the river.
"Wow, this is so pretty, Mommy!" the girl exclaimed in awe.
Chuckling softly, the woman set her daughter down and watched as she ran over to the flowers, smelling them with a happy smile on her face.
"Mommy, why are we here?" the girl asked.
"Well, honey, I thought this would be the perfect place to start your lessons on being a kunoichi. We'll be starting with the very basics." The woman said.
"Yay!" the girl cheered as she ran over to her mother.
Kneeling down in front of her daughter, the blonde pulled a piece of litmus paper out of her pocket and held it out to the girl.
"Mommy, what's that?" the girl pointed.
"This is how we'll start your training. With a simple little test." The woman said knowing what her daughter's reaction would be.
"A test? But I hate tests! They're boring!" the girl stuck her tongue out making her mother laugh in amusement.
"This is an easy test. This here is called chakra paper. It's use is to find out which elemental affinity you have." The woman explained.
"Ellie metal what?" the girl frowned.
"Elemental affinity. It means which one of the elements you can use. Like for example, my affinity is for wind, meaning I can use wind based jutus with ease." The blonde explained.
The little girl appeared confused, but listened to what her mother was saying anyway.
"Now, this is how this works. I want you to charge a bit of your chakra into this paper. If it gets wet, then that means you have a water affinity. If the paper crinkles, then that means you can use lightening. If the paper burns, then that means you have fire. If it crumbles, then that means your affinity is earth. And finally, if the paper slices in half, then it means that you have wind just like me. Now, are you ready to try?" the woman asked.
Feeling a bit eager now, the girl nodded with a grin and held her hand out for the chakra paper and her mother placed it in the palm of her hand.
Staring at the paper, the brown eyed girl pumped a bit of her chakra into the paper and watched as the paper then sliced in half making her chirp in awe.
"Wind. I'm not exactly surprised. The affinity a person gets can be genetic." The woman smiled.
Her sky blue eyes then narrowed when she saw the two pieces of paper suddenly grew damp and the girl exclaimed in surprise.
"What is this?" the girl asked.
"A delayed reaction. You must have a secondary affinity that's just beginning to surface. That's not uncommon though. Other people do have two affinities or even three or four, but no one has ever had five. I guess we'll have to find you a teacher for your water affinity." The woman said as her daughter shook her hand and peeled the pieces of paper off.
"So, what are we gonna do now, Mommy? Am I gonna learn some ninjutsu now?" the girl asked eagerly.
"No. Not yet. We'll work on conditioning first." The blonde stood up to her full height.
"Condition? You mean like the stuff you put in your hair?" the girl asked.
Laughing at her daughter in amusement, the woman shook her head at that.
"No, this is a different type of conditioning. We'll be working on charka control. Now, come on, we're going to be doing laps." The woman said.
"Huh? But why?" the girl asked.
"To build your stamina. Now, come on. I'll be right beside you. And after this, we'll do some jumping jacks, push ups and some sit ups." The woman said cheerfully making her daughter groan in despair.
"Now, none of that. You're the one who wanted to be a kunoichi, Daisuke." The woman lightly scolded her daughter.
"Oh, this is gonna suck!" the girl, Daisuke, complained.
Shaking her head at her daughter, the woman started jogging off and her daughter chased after her, wanting to be in step with her.
"Don't push yourself, this isn't a race." The blonde told her.
The two females ran out of the forest and made it to the gates of their village hidden in leaves known as Konoha.
Two men were at the gates and smiled at the two females in greeting as they ran inside of the village, lightly jogging so as not to bump into the civilians or other ninjas walking in the streets.
As they ran down the streets they neared a flower shop and a woman with long platinum blonde hair wearing a purple tank top with black pants and white flats walked out holding a pot that had irises.
Looking at the mother and daughter running by, the woman's powder blue eyes lit up at the sight of them.
"Morning, Naruto, good morning Daisuke!" the blonde called.
"Good morning, Ino!" Naruto Uzumaki Namikaze called back to Ino Yamanaka.
"Hi! Bye!" Daisuke waved as she and her mother jogged by Ino.
Ino watched them go, then shook her head at the Uzumaki duo.
"Like mother, like daughter. This village is either very lucky or very doomed." Ino sighed as she set the pot down on the table with the other flowers.
Running around the village, the mother and daughter took in the sights of the people around their home, the civilians and ninjas all smiling at them as they passed.
When Naruto was young she had never gotten this positive attention being the container of the Nine Tailed Fox Demon, but after 16 years of working hard and getting stronger, she proved to everyone that she wasn't a demon herself.
She was now viewed as just an ordinary person and the hero of the village who was in training to become the Rokudaime Hokage.
When Naruto became pregnant with Daisuke, she decided to wait a few more years to become Hokage so that she could spend time raising her daughter and the Godaime, Tsunade Senju, respected that.
Also, they wanted to repopulate the Uzumaki clan since Naruto was the only living member of her clan left since Karin and Nagato both died during the last war.
Tsunade had been surprised when she saw that Daisuke had been born with Mito Uzumaki Senju's hair color, but it made her smile fondly at the little girl who had eyes the color of a deep blue ocean when she was born, but they had darkened over time and became the shade of dark chocolate.
Daisuke had proven to also have her mother's pranking streak when Naruto showered and came out with her blonde hair now the color of scarlet red.
Naruto wasn't upset by having her hair dyed red because she had always wished she had her mother Kushina Uzumaki's beautiful red hair.
She almost didn't want to wash the dye out since she looked almost exactly like her mother with the red hair, but decided to return the scarlet locks to their natural sunshine color she got from her father Minato Namikaze, the Yellow Flash and Yondaime Hokage.
Besides, Naruto got her daughter back by dying her mahogany hair a very bright blonde color and it made her look almost exactly like her mother when she was that age.
Especially when she pouted at having been pranked back by Konoha's number one unpredictable knuckleheaded ninja, but she should have realized that she would have gotten payback from her mother.
Daisuke then skidded to a stop as her mother led her into training ground 3, the little girl panting as Naruto smirked down at her daughter who was lying on her back.
"Come on, honey, it's time to continue the workouts." Naruto sang.
"I hate you!" Daisuke whined loudly.
"Get up, my little kunoichi. We're not done here. Give me twenty push ups." Naruto said.
Giving her mother a glare, the girl rolled over onto her front and placed her hands on the ground and started doing the push ups as her mother counted.
While the girl was working out, a woman with long flowing cherry blossom pink hair and jade colored eyes wearing a red vest over a white shirt with a navy colored skirt and red sandals walked over.
In the center of her forehead was a tiny green diamond, one that was identical to the mark that Tsunade and Mito had.
The woman smiled as she watched her friend train her goddaughter.
"You're putting her through her paces, huh, Naruto?" the pinkette called.
Whirling around, Naruto found the pink haired woman and smiled at her.
"Aunty Sakura!" Daisuke cheered.
Sakura Haruno walked over to stand beside her blonde friend and smiled down at her goddaughter.
"So, how are you liking your training?" Sakura asked.
"I hate it. Mommy's a slave driver." Daisuke pouted making Sakura laugh.
"If you think I'm this bad now, just wait until the real training begins." Naruto smirked.
Shaking her head at this, Sakura looked over at her friend, knowing that she would be training her daughter hard to make sure she knew how to protect herself from harm.
After all, being the granddaughter of the Yellow Flash and Red Hot Blooded Habanero would put the poor girl in danger of the blasted Iwa, Kiri and Kumo ninjas, and Naruto herself had a quite the reputation.
"Now, now. Your mother is nowhere near a slave driver. Tsunade on the other hand…" Sakura trailed off.
When she first asked Tsunade to train her in medical ninjutsu, the Legendary Sucker did not hold back on drilling information into Sakura's pretty pink head.
Because of Tsunade's training Sakura became a famous medic nin and also gained the name Queen of the Fist due to the power she had in her punches.
She could focus enough chakra in her fists to level a field, creating a large crater that looked like a comet had hit the earth.
"Hey, all that training Granny Tsunade gave you did ya good. Especially when you think about how much of an annoying fan brat you used to be." Naruto chuckled.
Sakura growled in anger at this as she turned to her friend and whacked her over the head making the blonde yelp while Daisuke sat on the ground, watching her mother and godmother argue.
"Me?! You were even more of a brat than I was! You were so immature and annoying! You pranked everyone in sight and even defaced the Hokage Monument!" Sakura ranted.
Naruto gave a wide toothy grin as she rubbed the bump she got from the pinkette's fist.
"Yeah, I know. But I changed for the better. After all, do ya think I'd be chosen to become the Rokudaime if I hadn't of matured?" Naruto asked.
Rolling her eyes at this, Sakura placed her fists on her hips as she shook her head in amusement at her friend.
She could never stay mad at her for too long, it was just impossible.
"Whatever. Now, Daisuke, what do you want to do when you get older?" Sakura kneeled in front of the girl.
"What do ya mean, Aunty Sakura?" Daisuke blinked.
"I mean, when you become a ninja, what do you want to use your skills for? Become a medic nin like me, join ANBU or even the I&T division or maybe become Hokage like your mom?" Sakura asked.
Daisuke was confused about this as she thought over her godmother's words.
"You don't have to know right away. After all, Sakura didn't know what she wanted to be when she first started out. If I remember correctly, she was too obsessed with Sasuke back then to care about her reputation as a kunoichi." Naruto smirked.
"I was not!" Sakura yelled.
"You're kidding, right? If I remember our first day as a team, you introduced yourself like this. My name's Sakura Haruno. My likes are Sasuke, my dreams for the future are to be Sasuke's wife and my dislikes are Ino Pig and Naruto." Naruto taunted in a cutesy voice.
Sakura's face turned red as she remembered when they had first started out as gennins on team seven with Kakashi Hatake nine years ago.
Kakashi asked the two girls and Sasuke Uchiha to tell them their likes, dislikes, dreams for the future and hobbies.
The Copycat Ninja had given nothing away about himself to annoy the three 12 year olds, but when Sakura gave her biography, it had been embarrassing for her 21 year old self to even think about it.
When asked about her likes, she looked at Sasuke and squealed and when it came to the dreams for the future, she squealed and giggled and then she had been rude by saying she hated Naruto who never did anything mean to her and her own best friend Ino.
She and Ino had grown apart over the years, but the way the pinkette had acted on that day was very shameful.
"Yeah, well what about you? I'm Naruto Uzumaki. I like ramen and training, but I hate how long it takes ramen to cook. My hobbies are pranking and training. My dream for the future is to be the best Hokage ever, dattabane!" Sakura mimicked.
"Hey, I haven't had that verbal tick in years." Naruto pouted.
"Good thing too, we wouldn't want your daughter to inherit it." Sakura smirked.
The two women glared at each other before they then started giggling at the way they had acted while Daisuke watched them, wondering why they were laughing.
"Grown-ups are weird." She muttered.
"Anyway, I have to get back to the hospital to make my rounds. I'll see you two later." Sakura waved as she walked off.
"See ya, Sakura!" Naruto waved.
"Bye, Aunty!" Daisuke called.
Sighing, Naruto turned her attention to her daughter and smiled at her as she walked over to the girl.
"Sit ups, honey. After that, then we'll go get some ramen." She said.
"And some dango?" Daisuke gave her the puppy dog eyes.
"Of course. Now, get to work!" Naruto clapped her hands and the girl groaned, but did as she was told.
After 15 minutes, Naruto was carrying her daughter off to the ramen stand where they were greeted by Teuchi Ichiraku and his daughter Ayame.
The old man would be retiring soon and Ayame would be taking over the stand since she was the only one who knew her father's recipes by heart.
Lifting the flap, Naruto walked up to the table and smiled at the two people in the village who had been kind to her ever since she was a child.
She didn't love ramen just because it was her favourite food, she loved it because it brought her fond memories of these two wonderful people that treated her like a human being and she wanted her daughter to be around these wonderful people.
"Hey, guys." She greeted.
"Oh, Naruto, Daisuke! Here for lunch?" Ayame, the brown haired woman, asked with a cheerful smile.
"Of course." Naruto nodded.
"Good, you got here before the lunch rush." Teuchi grinned.
Sitting down at one of the chairs in front of the booth, Naruto set Daisuke down on the chair beside her and looked at the menu hanging on the wall.
"So, what'll it be? The usual?" Teuchi asked.
"Sounds good to me." Naruto grinned.
"Yeah!" Daisuke nodded.
"Okay, three bowls of miso ramen and two bowls of ramen with beef and vegies." Ayame said.
It amazed them that the little mahogany haired girl had inherited her mother's appetite, but then again, she seemed to have inherited many things from the beautiful blonde.
She had her mother's personality, similar likes and dislikes, the same spikey hair, the same whisker marks and now even had wind affinity like her too.
Everyone looked for the traits the girl shared with her father, and believed that she had inherited his tanned skin tone and that the brown eyes came from his side of the family.
"Here you are." Teuchi said as he placed the bowls in front of the females.
"Thanks!" they smiled as they broke their chopsticks and started eating.
While they were eating, a boy who was Daisuke's age was sneaking around the corner and smirked as he saw the girl wasn't paying attention to her surroundings.
Charging at her, he knocked the girl out of her stool making her yell and Naruto laughed as she looked down at the two kids.
A boy with gravity defying light brown hair, tanned skin and bright blue eyes who wore a dark gray t-shirt with green pants and black sandals was sitting on Daisuke's waist, a kunai placed near her throat.
"You really need to train more." The boy smirked.
"Ryo! Get off, ya creep!" Daisuke yelled as she punched the boy in the face making him wince at the pain to his nose.
Ayame and Teuchi chuckled at the two little ninjas in training as the boy, Ryo Hatake, got off of the girl and she stood up.
"It's not my fault you're not up to my level, Princess." Ryo teased making the girl glare.
"Now, now. Ryo, you've been training much longer. I only started her training today. Don't worry. She'll catch up to you and give you a run for your money soon enough." Naruto assured the boy.
"I'll believe it when I see it." Ryo smirked.
Turning red in the face from anger, Daisuke turned to the cocky boy with a glare firmly in place.
"I will! I'll be a great kunoichi and kick your butt one day! Dattabane!" she exclaimed.
Hearing the verbal tick, Naruto froze in shock and groaned as she slammed her head onto the counter in disbelief while Ayame leaned on the counter, grinning in amusement.
"Dattabane, huh? Doesn't that sound familiar?" The brunette mused.
"Shut up." Naruto growled in annoyance, her voice muffled by the counter.
It seemed as though the verbal tick was something that ran in the family since Kushina had it as well and it was only a matter of time before the little Uzuamki heir picked it up.
"I'll hold ya to that, Princess." Ryo said with an amused grin.
"Hey, Ryo, why aren't you with your father?" Naruto asked as she picked her head up from the counter.
Right on cue, a puff of smoke appeared in front of the group and a man with gravity defying gray hair appeared and he had his hitate covering his right eyes.
He was dressed in a blue shirt with matching pants and sandals while he wore a green jounin vest.
"Ryo, you really need to stop running off on me. I don't need you causing trouble." The Copycat reprimanded dryly.
Cheeks painted pink, Ryo grinned up at his father.
"Sorry, Dad." He sheepishly rubbed the back of his head.
"Hi, Uncle Kakashi!" Daisuke grinned up at the man.
"Hello, Daisuke." Kakashi patted the little girl's head.
"Kakashi, losing your child again?" Naruto teased her former sensei.
"He knows how to cover his tracks well." Kakashi commented making the Jinchuriki roll her eyes at the man.
Daisuke climbed back onto her chair to resume eating and Ryo sat beside her, sharing the bowl of ramen with her.
It made Ayame smile at them sweetly as she was sure they would become Konoha's next best couple when they were older.
"I think he might actually be a better ninja than you were at his age." Naruto grinned.
"I wonder if I should worry about that." Kakashi folded his arms.
"Granny Tsunade won't let any kids that young become ninja. She banned it unless war was declared, remember?" Naruto reminded.
Kakashi didn't want his son to go through what he did when he was young.
The Copycat was a prodigy and wanted to be a powerful ninja like his father Sakumo Hatake, the White Fang, and so Kakashi became a genin at six years of age.
Minato was then assigned to him to be his teacher until he reached the age of 12 and was given teammates, Rin Nohara an aspiring medic nin who had a crush on him along with Obito Uchiha, a hotheaded and playful boy.
Thinking back on it, Kakashi was sure that his son was more like Obito personality wise than his father which was a relief to the gray haired man.
He didn't want his son to think that emotions made him weak and thought that saving his teammates wasn't more important than a mission.
"Come along, Ryo, we need to get going before your mother worries." Kakashi told the boy.
Ryo nodded as he jumped down and smiled at Daisuke and Naruto as he walked up to his father's side.
Bending down, Kakashi picked his son up and waved at the two females.
"Well, we'll be going now. Good luck." The 35 year old said.
Turning, he then walked off with his son who smiled back at them and waved goodbye to his friend.
"Well, at least he didn't make a dramatic exit this time." Naruto muttered.
Glancing over to her daughter, the blonde smiled lovingly at her as the girl cheerfully slurped her noodles.
Jiraiya, Naruto's godfather and true teacher, had told her that her mother Kushina loved her simply because she was family and existed.
Being an orphan and not knowing her family, Naruto understood her mother perfectly and loved her daughter the second she heard her first cries when she was born.
It had been the most beautiful sound she ever heard and it brought tears to her eyes when she lifted herself off the bed and tried to see her baby, but was gently pushed back by Shizune, saying that the blonde would be weak from childbirth.
But being an Uzumaki, Naruto had high vitality and longevity, so she still had some energy in her, though she was weak.
Tsunade washed off the baby and then carried her over to Naruto, wrapped up in a baby blue blanket and the blonde wouldn't stop crying as she held her daughter, amazed with the life she had created.
For eight months she had been cursing the pregnancy, giving her lover hell for getting her pregnant and wanted the baby to hurry up to be born and had panicked when she went into premature labour, thinking her baby would be hurt or die.
So when Tsunade handed her the baby, she was relieved to see that she was alive and perfectly healthy.
She was the most beautiful thing she had ever seen in her near 17 years of life and Shizune had snapped a picture of Naruto as her lover held her while gazing down at their child in wonderment.
Shaking the memories from her mind, the blonde smiled down at her daughter and then continued eating.
When the two females finished their meal, they walked off down the streets as Naruto talked to Daisuke about the training schedule the girl would have.
"After you've had breakfast, you'll do laps with me around the village. Then we'll work on your chakra control." Naruto listed.
Daisuke as mentally whining at this, but knew she needed to do this to become a powerful kunoichi like the other women in her family.
As she listened to her mother drone on, the little girl then noticed a familiar figure at the gates.
Speaking to the two men at the gates was a 21 year old man with dark brown hair, tanned skin and had two red fang marks on his cheeks and wore his hitai-ate on his forehead while he had on a black shirt with black pants and matching sandals.
He wore a green jounin vest and beside him was a large white dog with brown colored ears.
Smiling excitedly at the sight of the man, Daisuke ran over to him.
"Daddy!" she cheered.
Hearing her daughter yell, Naruto looked over to see her husband had come back from his mission to Wave.
The brunette smiled at the sight of his beautiful daughter running over to him and he walked over, scooping the girl up and hugged her, kissing the side of her head lovingly.
"Hi, honey." The man greeted his daughter.
Shaking her head at her husband, Naruto walked over as she watched the two most precious people in her life hug.
"Kiba, welcome back." Naruto said making the man look over at her.
The large dog, Akamaru, had his tongue lolling out of his mouth happily as he trotted over to the blonde and rubbed his head against Naruto's face making her laugh.
Kiba Inuzuka smiled at his wife and mate happily while he hugged his daughter closely.
"Miss me?" he teased.
"Mm, no." Naruto smirked.
"Oh, that's mean. I'm gone for two weeks taking care of some bandits in Wave and my wife doesn't even miss me." Kiba pouted.
Shaking her head in amusement at her husband, Naruto walked over and cupped her husband's cheeks, pulling him down to plant a kiss on his lips.
Daisuke stuck her tongue out in disgust at seeing her parents kiss while Akamaru seemed to be shaking his head at them.
"I'm glad you're back." Naruto smiled at him.
"Good. I was worried there for a second." Kiba grinned showing off his fanglike teeth.
When Naruto had first come back from her three year training trip with Jiraiya, the Inuzuka was thrilled to see her again and almost glued himself to her side.
Before the war had started, Kiba had decided to start pursuing the blonde after all of the years of knowing her and was pushed by Shikamaru Nara and Choji Akimichi to do it.
After all, she was now a beautiful and powerful kunoichi, one that many men would begin to notice and would try to pursue her.
Also, his sister Hana told him to stop being a baby and just go ask her out, so the Inuzuka heir did as he was told and was thrilled when the blonde agreed to go out with him.
When the war was over, the Akatsuki and Orochimaru being defeated along with Danzo and his ROOT squad, Kiba was stunned to find that Naruto was two weeks pregnant with their child.
He was angered that she put their child at risk, but didn't yell at her when she said she didn't even know she was pregnant until Kurama, the Nine Tails, told her.
More like he was complaining about the fact that the womb would be pressing against the seal in a few more weeks, making it fairly uncomfortable for him.
After months of deciding a name for the child, they decided that Daisuke was a nice name and that the child would have both the Uzumaki and Inuzuka names.
"So, what did you get up to while I was gone?" Kiba asked his daughter.
"Mommy started training me today." Daisuke told him.
"I've also come up with a training schedule for her. We'll be working on her muscle mass and speed first. Afterwards we'll be working on taijutsu and the basics of ninjutsu." Naruto explained.
"Like the leaf on the forehead thing that Iruka made us do at the academy?" Kiba asked as he remembered that.
At the time he, Naruto, Shikamaru and Choji would always skip classes to go have fun and Iruka Umino would have to chase after the children to drag them back to class.
"What leaf thing?" Daisuke asked.
Chuckling, Naruto picked up a stray leaf and pressed it against her daughter's forehead.
"You use your chakra to see how long you can keep the leaf in place. It's a simple exercise for chakra control." Naruto explained.
"And you always thought it was a stupid lesson. You skipped and ran out of class when we did this." Kiba smirked at her.
"Shut up. You followed me. Which reminds me, young lady, you better never skip class when you start the academy. If I hear from Iruka that you skipped even one lesson, you'll be grounded, missy. No ifs, ands or buts about it." Naruto scolded.
"Aw, but Mommy!" Daisuke pouted.
Kiba couldn't help but laugh at this; still amazed with how mature his wife had become and that she was such a good mother.
"Come on, let's get back home. Maybe I can watch you train." Kiba said as he set his daughter of Akamaru's back.
"Okay, Daddy!" Daisuke chirped as she held onto Akamaru's fur.
The dog turned his head and lapped at the girl's face making her laugh.
Rolling her eyes, Naruto then wrapped her arms around her husband's waist and smiled at her child as Kiba hugged his wife close in his strong arms.
The family then walked off towards the Namikaze compound where they lived, the little girl giggling as the dog trotted off.
To be continued...