Hard Workers

AN: I know I should be working on my other fics and I am, it's just that this got into my head, but don't worry I'm working on them too.

DISC: I don't own Naruto it belongs to its respected owners and author

Prologue

The fight was over. The great demon Kyuubi was defeated and sealed within the baby of the Fourth Hokage. Unfortunately the jutsu the Fourth had used for the seal had depleted nearly his entire chakra stores. He had only a few minutes to live. At the battle ground his two teachers and closest thing to parents were there. Two of the legendary Senin Jiraiya and Tsunade who was desperately trying to save the Fourths life but it was hopeless. As she was about to summon a jutsu that would cut her life span to save him, she was stopped as the fourth grabbed her hands.

"Tsunade, don't do anything more. It is over, my chakra is gone, I will die soon from chakra depletion, and there is nothing that can be done now." She turned her head as she knew he was right and stopped the jutsu, but her head was pushed down by the Hokage's hand. "I need to ask you and Jiraiya one last thing…before…I leave this world…. My son…has the Kyuubi now…thanks to his sacrifice to become the demon vessel, the village is safe and he is a hero.

But…the people of village won't look at it this way. I know how short sighted people can be, he will need you and Jiraiya to look after him, I'm sure that the village will see him as a demon and not a child. I need you to look after him for me…Please…look after him….Look after Naruto." With this the youngest and greatest Hokage died in Tsunade's hands.

Jiraiya and Tsunade both cried as well as the entire village at seeing the Hokage give up his life to save them. After a week everyone in the village mourned for the Hokage and third was now back on the seat as Hokage. Jiraiya as he mourned he clenched his fist 'I swear fourth I will do as you wish, I will look after your child and raise him to be as great as you were.' Jiraiya even cut his palm and let the blood cover his clenched fist to make it a kept promise.

Two Weeks later:

"What do mean you're leaving Tsunade? We have to take care of Naruto!" Jiraiya yelled as he saw his friend with her apprentice leaving the gates.

"Sorry Jiraiya, but I have no intention of fulfilling a young idiot's last will." Tsunade replied coldly after seeing the fourth die she had lost her feelings for people who gave up their lives for the greater good.

"The fourth asked us to take care of him. You can't just leave. The child needs both of us with your medical expertise you can make sure he lives past his first birthday."

"I'm sure Jiraiya you can take good care of him alone, but he's not my problem." Tsunade explained in the same cold voice.

Jiraiya lowered his head as he tried to get at Tsunades medical side. "You know in the hospital the exact problems the fourth had predicted are happening already?"

"What?" Tsunade stopped.

"It's true just come with me to see him and you'll know what I mean."

Thinking about this, Tsunade after a long silence sighed and agreed feeling that this was some sort of trap, but she decided to humor Jiraiya, for now. As they made it to the hospital they decided to do a henge and changed into a simple looking people so they would not draw attention from people in the hospital. When they asked where the baby named Naruto was, the nurse at the front desk told them the third floor, with a rather disgusted look on her face.

Curious Tsunade and Jiraiya went to the third floor and when they saw Naruto the poor baby was crying. The nurse's around him were not even paying attention to him. This caused Tsunade to get angry at what she was seeing. She grabbed one of the nurses arms careful as to not crush her arm from her anger.

"Excuse me, but that baby is crying and I think it needs some milk." Tsunade barely managed not to sound angry.

The nurse scoffed, with the henge hiding Tsunade's form she didn't take her seriously. "What? You mean that demon. Who gives a shit about him? The sooner he dies the sooner we won't have to deal with its presence. Now if you'll excuse me, I have 'real' babies to tend to." The nurse roughly took her arm from the woman.

Hearing this, Tsunade was stunned by the shear disregard of the fourths child that just happened to be a demon vessel. 'How could these people do this to just a little baby?' Tsunade looked at the still crying Naruto and it tore at her heart. After a minute of hearing him cry she dropped her henge changing into her 25 year old looking self. She walked into the area and took hold of Naruto and grabbed some warm milk which he eagerly drank. Jiraiya was silent through this because he already knew about what was happening here, since he had come earlier to see the boy. He needed Tsunade to help take care of the boy. Her maternal instincts were needed to comfort Naruto through this hard battle, a life as a demon vessel.

"Oh Tsunade, I didn't know you were here." A nurse said as she just got into the room Tsunade was feeding Naruto.

Tsunade immediately glared death at her, careful not to crush the baby in her arms from her anger. "Shut up! I want clean blankets for this baby…" Her nose crinkled at a smell coming from Naruto, "…and new diapers, clearly you haven't been taking care of this one."

The nurse that Tsunade grabbed before came in and upon hearing the voice of the woman that grabbed her signed her fate. "Why should we? He's just a little demon." There was an audible 'gulp' as she saw whose voice it was when she got into the room.

(WHAM!) Even Jiraiya winced as the nurse was sent through the roof by Tsunade's super strong punch and kept flying.

"If I ever hear the word 'demon' while describing this baby, I will crush the spine of that person do I make myself clear!" The remaining nurse nodded quickly and ran to tell the others. It was at this time Jiraiya walked in the room. "Jiraiya I see what you were talking about. The Hokid was right; people will treat him like this for the rest of his life. I won't stay forever but I will stay long enough so that these nurses won't try to neglect this baby. When he leaves this hospital your on your own, got it?" Tsunade stated to her friend.

"I understand my friend, I understand." Jiraiya smiled a knowing one.

1 month later:

During the month Tsunade had looked after Naruto at the hospital. Since he wasn't well taken care of before, he had to stay longer than most babies. She examined him for problems and any other kind of disease which should have been done when he was born, but the nurses ignored him before she came in. She could only be thankful that the Kyuubi was inside him as it helped keep Naruto alive, any other child would have died like this. But she found that the baby was very healthy despite the problems so far. Now it was time to hand the baby over to Jiraiya as she promised she would do when he left the hospital.

"Now you got everything Jiraiya?" Tsunade asked tearfully as she looked at the baby in his arms.

"Yeah." Was all he said as he looked at Tsunade while Naruto just giggled at something while playing with Jiraiya's hair.

"So a deals a deal right?" Tsunade tearfully said. "I leave when he's out of the hospital."

"Yup well good bye Tsunade I hope you find what you're looking for in the world." With this Jiraiya started walking away.

"Jiraiya!" Tsunade yelled causing him to stop and Shizune to smile. Tsunade over time taking care of Naruto, the ice that had formed on her heart from the deaths of her loved ones had melted. Holding him, she realized what her little brother and lover had died trying to protect, the next generation of Konoha, they died so that the people who lived would keep their own dreams alive. The fourth had died so that the miracle she had held would live and grow up in peace.

When she held Naruto she felt the dreams of her loved ones in him. It may have taken her a long time to understand, but she realized that what her old sensei Sarutobi had said was right. The people of Konoha were worth fighting for and the same desire to protect them was their village's greatest strength. Now she had found what she was looking for, she found the reason to protect Naruto at all costs. She looked up at Jiraiya with tears in her eyes for the first time in a while. She saw that both people knew what she wanted.

"Jiraiya, if you make me sleep on your coach, I'll make sure you don't feel anything below your waist for a month, got it?" She threatened playfully as she went up and held Naruto.

Behind her Jiraiya gave Shizune the thumbs up that Tsunade would stay. She silently cheered jumping up and down, when Tsunade turned around she acted like nothing was happening. Jiraiya smiled at his own brilliance in his head, he knew Naruto had the power that his father had; the power to calm a person and change their opinions as long as the person was around him enough. He knew that when Tsunade went to the hospital and took care of Naruto, she would be able to feel emotions she had buried. Even as a baby he had this power. He wondered what would happen later in his life as he let Tsunade hold Naruto.

To be continued

AN: For future notice I don't know shit about jutsu names of what they are really called except a few that are used a lot in the manga. Also with that limited knowledge I will be making up jutsu's in the future, so if any die-hard Naruto fan can't take itthen don't flame me for it.