Disclaimer: I do NOT own Naruto, this is another one of my attempts at a new story so keep in mind that I've gotten a little better than before, not that I was BAD anyways but no matter how good you are there IS always room for improvement and the improvement here is noted, so with that ends my short plea for acceptance.

Author Note: This is a new fic that was adapted, adopted and inspired by the RE-reading of 'Grey Goose 74's' 'The Life and Times of N Uzumaki' which you can also read too. He's not updated in a while (a very long one), so me being tired of waiting decided to write something similar in the basis of a this day and age Naruto fanfic with the characters we all know and love even with their various dynamic quirks for this and that with a few twists here and there. Please note that this fic is adopted from that of Grey Goose's but events though may have some similar elements due to his fic having been the inspiration for this does not make them exactly the same because I'm going to be incorporating myself (figuratively and literally) and how I write into this fic and a lot of things are going to be changed, some unexpected and some will be anticipated…just read the darn fic and you'll get what I mean. So with no further ado about nothing (I really like saying that), on with this work of Art. Oh! P.S. this story is an M for obvious reasons of future events. Blame it on Naruto; it's his fault not mine, or actually its Jiraiya's seeing as he's a bad influence on him (…well, and me).

"Talking"

'Thinking'

(Impromptu Author Notes/Deep Inner Thoughts…mine as the writer and character)

[Talking over a cell phone, intercom or whatever technological audio communication device]

Words with emphasis/keyword

Chapter 1: Being A Teenage Uzumaki

(AN: Ok, now the thing is that this story is a harem fic {Yea! For harems!} so it's a Naruto x Any girl I feel like adding since I don't really know and I might add a girl that some of you don't want to be added or I might forget to add someone that you want to be added but whatever. The girls that are guaranteed to be added that I already have ideas for and I won't let anyone change my mind on are Hinata{obviously}, Sakura{I have some plans and I ain't removing her}, Ino, Temari, Tsunade{c'mon, of course}, Kurenai{sexy art teacher…so much potential}, Shizune{I'm sceptical 'bout this and have an idea of what to do but nothing final}, Kushina{I have my reasons}, Anko{hilarity effect}, Hana, Yuugao, Tayuya, Karin, Konan{I have an idea of how to pull this off but would like to get some from y'all} and some more that my brain isn't finalized on processing yet but I'll listen in for any girl you want added anyway and the overall role they play but you can't subtract from my list. I've also got ideas on the other Naruto-verse girls like Samui{for other obvious reasons[eyes straying to her chest]…[clears throat] sori 'bout that, where was I?}, Mei{[gets looked at slyly by Mei, nervously looks away] dude…she scares me but she's hot though} or Shion{one of my more loved characters with finalized ideas} but nothing final{except Shion} so y'all just gonna have to wait and see but then again "I'm too lazy to care". P.S. There is going to be some yuri cos as Grey put it so eloquently "Girl on Girl action is God's gift to mankind" and I'm a guy soo…yeah you get it, moving on swiftly {very swiftly})

"Another day, another crazy thing off my checklist…maa, this is getting a little annoying-ttebayo" – Naruto Uzumaki (while running his hand through his hair)

BEEP! BEEP! BEEP!...

A hand shot out and slammed unto the noisy alarm clock causing the machine to give a groan before it seized its beeping. Turning his head the other way, the male in bed resigned himself back to his peaceful slumber when 10 minutes or so later into it a creaking sound came from his bedroom door even though it went unnoticed by the happily sleeping boy.

A figure stepped in walking soundlessly before it then stood by the side of the boy's bed watching him sleep with a smile on said figure's face. Even in the slightly dark room the figure appeared to be female, older than the boy in bed but not significantly much so.

After about a minute or so of the female figure's watching the boy in bed with a smile, she let out a sigh and shook her head before grabbing the curtains of the boy's bedroom window and flinging it open letting in the blinding (well to the boy anyways) rays of sunlight wash over him, and with the boy's face in the direction of the window…well you can imagine what happened next…

"AHHH! Son of a…," the sentence wasn't completed however when his brain at an accelerated rate quickly deduced for him that there was only one other person who could be in his room at that moment and would dare open up his curtains…well there were two people, one he was staying in the same house with and one other person too but he was probably half way across the world at that point in time doing whatever…

Somewhere in Las Vegas

A tall spiky long white haired man that had said long white hair in a low ponytail sneezed and looked around from the two girls clinging on to him in the casino he was in and the rich men that surrounded the poker table he was sitting, playing and winning a hell lot at, "Hmm…someone must be talking or thinking about me right now," he quietly whispered to himself before he then laughed and said "I hope it's a pretty lady but if I know my luck with these things it's probably going to be that gaki of a godson of mine".

He wore a red fitted jacket over a greyish-green shirt, dark slacks and expensive black shoes. On the red jacket over the left side was an emblem that was a Japanese kanji reading 'Oil'.

One of the girls hanging off him looked at him with cute pout on her face and said "muhh Mr Jiraiya, c'mon you're winning so much and you shouldn't get distracted", the man now known as Jiraiya laughed aloud and gave off a confident demeanour once he laid a hand on the table and said, "ahaha don't you worry dear, this Jiraiya is not losing anything to anyone tonight," and then pushed a substantial amount of money forward as he declared "ALL IN!".

Almost everyone else succumbed to a fold once they saw how the air around the man seemed to ooze the unmatched confidence that he could beat everyone else with his current hand…well almost everyone, a certain business tycoon who had made his money by taking risks and dealing when things seemed to be dire looked at Jiraiya's confidence and thought he smelt a bluff.

He obviously thought wrong as when he tried to call that bluff, well needless to say he ended up being a very disappointed man that night that realized you can't always win them all.

With a loud bellowing laugh at the amount he had won from the man, Jiraiya smirked as the two girls on his side kissed his cheek as in his mind he thanked his gaki of a godson since he knew it had to be the boy thinking about him for him to have that kind of luck, seriously with the kind of luck that boy had, he had to have been touched by Lady Luck at birth.

He hadn't been to see the boy in a long while but he knew the boy was alright and even with the death of his father he had been able to cope with his mother around and him dropping in once in a while to see the boy and assist with the parenting too whenever he could, but the boy would be grown up now and he would be how old?..Probably 17 or 18, ahhh whatever he'd pop in soon to give the boy some pointers and tips plus the much needed training on females.

He perversely chuckled inwardly, yes he was gonna make his godson a certified babe magnet or he'd die trying and with his godson's amazing luck, well the ladies had better watch out.

Uzumaki Naruto was a simple 17/18 yr old teenager who like any other teenager his age liked to party, have fun with friends, cause all round mischief (his personal favourite) and hated school. He wasn't failing at it (school) mind you; he just was an average teenager with the mentality that well…school sucked.

He put up with it anyways because as much as he hated school, he was even more afraid of his mom. He loved her more than anything in the world and she was his world as much as he was hers, heaven knew she was everything to him (Oedipus complex much? We'll just settle for him being a momma's boy) but heaven also knew that his mother had to be one of the more scary women on earth.

She stood at 5ft6', a little shorter than his 5ft10' but not by much with fiery red hair that seemed to only match her temper when ever got her in that fiery mood, amethyst eyes and a slender hourglass figure that would make you refute with your life on the line that she was a mother and the actual age she was.

Standing in the light of the room now with the drapes open where he could see her clearly, even with that all too sweet smile on her face wearing a white turtleneck and dark slim pants, he had to say that his mom was totally beautiful.

His dad had been a rescue worker and the head of his department too but had died on the day of his birth in a plane crash trying to get home to his wife and soon to be born child, the news had devastated his mom when she found out and if not for his godfather and her best friend who had consoled her and advised her to be strong for her newly born son, he didn't even want to think of what would have happened to his mom.

He sometimes blamed himself for his dad's death whenever he'd think back to when he was little and he'd catch his mom crying but when he'd ask why she was crying, she'd either deny that she was or tell him it was nothing and ask about how he was instead, it had been those things that made him vow that he would do everything in his power to make her happy again.

"Any reason why you're still in bed and staring at me like that sochi?" Naruto actually blushed and looked away in embarrassment having been caught staring again, it wasn't the first time (wasn't gonna be the last either) and he had to get a hold on himself before things got out of hand.

His mother's smile hadn't lessened but had changed from that all too sweet one into a knowing soft smile before crossing her arms underneath her bust from where they had been on her hips and saying "Well don't just stay there, get out of bed and get ready for school before you end up being late again," in an annoyed tone as her son had yet to move or get up.

Naruto quickly scrambled out of bed quickly before his mom got even more annoyed, something he didn't want to face that morning and hurried off to the bathroom to get on with his daily chore of getting himself ready for school.

His mother just stood where she was watching him scramble off just shaking her head and then stepping out whispered to herself, "Seriously why does he even have an alarm if he never wakes up when it goes off, and then I have to come up here and wake him up myself," she smiled and thought 'Naruto-kun is such a troublesome boy dattebane…damn it, did it again' (the last part with an annoyed sigh).

Morning was the way it always was at the Uzumaki residence and for the two occupants it was turning out to be just a plain ol' morning if either of them were asked, of course no one ever does…

"Naruto! Hurry up or you'll miss the bus!" Kushina Uzumaki, head of the Uzumaki home screamed up to her son who rushed downstairs in an open orange and black zip up hoodie over a white vertical striped shirt with dark navy blue jeans, he had his bag slung over one shoulder as he quickly grabbed his skateboard from where he dropped it behind the door.

He had a black beanie on his head, not totally covering it at the front showing his blond spiky hair jutting out of it. He whizzed through the kitchen grabbing a cup of instant ramen that his mom had left ready for him which he quickly downed since he was never up early enough to sit down and have a decent breakfast, something Kushina would have actually liked to happen.

As he passed by her, she lifted her hand and took the beanie off his head which made him stop and look at her questioningly but she nonchalantly said, "You shouldn't be covering your hair sochi, it looks better when you don't," Naruto just looked at his mom weird because it wasn't like he wore it all the time but if she didn't want him to he wouldn't, it wasn't like a life or death thing that he wore the beanie…he just felt like it.

Uzumaki Kushina was an independent woman who loved her family because to her it was all she had. The death of her husband (well not really her husband per say since they hadn't gotten married before she became pregnant, Minato had proposed when he found out and they had scheduled the marriage for after she gave birth…Kushina did NOT want to look fat in her wedding dress) had done a number on her and it had taken her best friend Uchiha Mikoto and her husband's friend, a family friend and her son's Godfather Jiraiya to help her when she needed it the most.

She was the head of the Whirlpool Corporation which was a Research and Development Company that dealt in the manufacture of products ranging from fertilizers to research into a cure for diseases like cancer and such with other technological research. It's easy to see and say that with that she wasn't poor by any stretch of the word but even then she preferred to live in a not so overtly lavish home since it was only her and her son there was no need for it, one could call their home was something akin to expensively comfortable (I for some reason don't feel like describing their house but you can think of how expensively comfortable you want your own home to be and apply it to that, I support imagination after all but then again I'm too lazy to care).

Before Naruto could zoom out the door however he heard his mother say "Don't forget you're going to have to be home early from school to pick Karin from the airport," forcing him to let out a groan.

Karin was his cousin and it wasn't that he didn't like her or anything it was just that she was a little tsundere bordering bi-polar and it used to be annoying when they were younger.

Karin had been an orphan since losing her parents in a car accident that she had somehow survived when she was 5 so sometimes Naruto thought that was the reason why she acted the way she did and he could really relate to her on that level but she had known her parents for a little time and he didn't even know his dad at all except from the little stories his mom told him so he knew he really couldn't understand how she felt. Losing a loved one you didn't even know could never compare to actually knowing them for a time and then losing them.

She had stayed with them in her younger years but had then gone to an all girls private school and would come back to visit during the holidays or as she had been doing lately staying over with her friends for any and all school breaks so he hadn't seen much of her lately, 3 years to be exact. But she had been pretty much independent for a long while so his mom never said much about it even though they had still kept in touch.

The reason why she was going to be coming over was because she had dropped out of her school and decided to at least spend her senior year in a mixed school so that she'd have the experience of it, something any logic Naruto had couldn't argue with since truth be told he was kinda looking forward to seeing her again but he wasn't going to tell her or anyone else for that matter, that piece of information was following him to the grave.

He had given his mom a nod and then zoomed out of the house wanting not to be late to the bus, he knew he was forgetting something but he figured if it was really important he wouldn't have forgotten it.

Quickly catching up to the bus and their overtly crazy driver Asuma, he quickly boarded and stumbled into a sit next to his friend Shikamaru who had dosed off in his seat and had opened an eye to see who had dropped in beside him, seeing the blonde he closed the eye and returned to his rest undisturbed by the things going on around him or the crazy driver's driving tendencies.

Once the driver took off at a fast pace like a bat out of hell probably not even halting at stop signs or even running red lights, Naruto looked around to who else had to suffer with him in the bus, he saw quite a few of his classmates and another friend Kiba who was seated opposite him which had him surprised since Kiba usually had his sister, 'His very hot sister' Hana, he thought to himself drive him to school.

Thinking about it now since he was in too much of a hurry to realise it before, no wonder Kiba hadn't been by to pick him up since they didn't live that far from each other his sister usually drove both of them to school to avoid the drive of hell they were currently going through, but if he knew Kiba he had probably done something to piss Hana off.

He turned to Kiba as the bus took a sharp left turned and said in an annoyed tone, "What did you do now?", he knew Kiba understood what he meant by the sheepish look on his face but Kiba being Kiba simply said "I sorta accidentally used some of her stuffed animals to test my new rockets and Akamaru sort of went 'open season' on the rest," hearing this Naruto face palmed "How do you even accidentally do something like that Kiba?", "It's not like she needs them anymore and hey she's like 21, what's she using stuffed animals for anyways" Kiba said as if the matter was not something serious at all. "Kiba you live with two women, I thought you'd have learnt by now that there are some things you don't do and boundaries you don't cross," Naruto said in a chastising tone something a particular girl happened to eavesdrop on but Kiba just said "whatever".

The bus continued picking up speed, swerving a hard right with tires screeching and car horns blowing while Asuma their demon driver just laughed out loud to himself as he weaved in and out of traffic even with the curses thrown at him from the other motorists which even increased his laughter. It was really a wonder how Asuma even kept his license (if he had one that is) and hadn't been caught yet by the police but he used to be a famous street racer so he had to know where they all hung out and patrolled and places to avoid.

The bus finally screeched to a halt upon arriving at its destination which caused a few students to lurch out of their seats and an unlucky few to slam themselves at whatever or whoever was in their lurching path.

Coming down from the bus they heard the bus driver laugh loud even with the cigar in his mouth as a student started puking…probably a newbie. Naruto turned from the puking student to see all the other students and teachers either in their cars parking, skating on boards, biking or just walking but his eyes stayed on one person in particular, Haruno Sakura who pulled up in a pink convertible.

Sakura was the only daughter of a wealthy business man and was very intelligent (bordering genius) for her age being a straight A student and running class Valedictorian ever since he could remember, but the only thing that really mattered to him (and us for the time being) was the crush on her that he had for a very long time and still had but honestly he had begun to question it lately, he still liked her, she was a fun person but when you've been trying to ask someone out for as long he had and been rejected for as long as he had…well even hardheads like him knew when it was time to pack up and go home as it were.

He hadn't given up, but he didn't know, he guessed he just wanted to give her space was all. He didn't like thinking about such things anyway so was happy for it when Kiba literally snapped him out of his daze (By snapping his fingers in front of his face of course). They both turned their attention towards the school 'Konoha High' or 'KHS' for short and both thought the same thing 'Let's get this party started'…

Just finished up with Chapter 1 and I have to say it did take me some time proofreading this since I had to do it at least 5 times, adding some things, changing some things and just totally removing some other things altogether, then proofreading it again, but it's done now so leave a review and tell me what you think and be nice or whatever, I'm too lazy to care.

If you're going to criticize, then make sure it's constructive or don't bother and if you're going to ignore me and just flame, then I'm just gonna use those flames for barbeque and advise you to go French-kiss a crocodile...

Live, Learn, Love

Live living, Live learning, Live loving

Learn to live, Learn to learn, Learn to love

Love living, Love learning, Love loving

And Live Learning to Love (I can just see the '…Da fuq?!' expression on your faces right now lol) but then again…

I'm too lazy to care.

Viva La Vida,

Ja ne (^^) ./,,