Author's Notes: Now I don't usually do this, however, because of the popularity of the story Naruto's Emperor's Dawn by ChrisM2011, and its two alternate retellings, I was in the lab working on an approach to bring the popular story into the current Naruto canon. This is a crude attempt in my labors.
Your reviews, as always, will help this fic move along to completion, but because I like the basic outline of the story so much, I may just complete it anyways.
DO NOT SUGGEST PAIRINGS FOR THIS STORY! I always plan out my stories and that includes any pairings between characters. The only hint that I will drop now about pairings is that any girl(s) that will be with Naruto will be politically connected, and that will not stop the use of OCs as part of the pairing if I choose to do so.
One more thing, Jitsus and names will be in combination of Japanese and English, but mostly English. The reason for that is that most of us speak English and I am pretty loose about techniques.
Anyways, enough talk. On with the story.
Sanji Himura Presents
A Naruto Fan Work
Rise of the Namikaze Empire
The ground was soaked with the blood of the alliance troops of the elemental Nations as Madara Uchiha and his new six paths of pain made their move, capturing the damiyo and locking them up in a cage over a gorge. Naruto Uzmazaki, hearing about the capture, went right away to rescue them, fighting the six paths one at a time. After he defeated one, he would say a little prayer for them as they were his brothers and sisters, his fellow human sacrifices of the Biju.
Finally he reached the gorge, what would be later called the Valley of the True End, where the final battle of the Fourth Ninja War would begin.
It has been four years later that a hungover Naruto woke up from his bed in the new palace grounds in the central capital of Edo-sei near the edge of the land of fire. The Kyuubi in him was finally silent, consumed by the death god seal while leaving his taken power behind. Naruto stumbled from his bed to the vanity where his hangover cure, imported from the former country of Hot Water, lied waiting. Ten minutes later, he was dressed in his typical orange monstrosity and ready to face his busy schedule.
An old servant met him at his door. The man, named Kenshin Saikon, was of typical Samurai heritage. He grew too old to fight so he prefered administrative duties of his clan. When the newly crowned Emperor Naruto came calling asking for a personal assistant to help organize his day, Kenshin was too happy to help the young emperor.
"What does the day look like," Naruto asked him. Kenshin opened up a scroll that looked important.
"Sir," Kenshin started reading from the scroll, "seeing as it is quarter day, you have to approve census numbers that you ordered last year from each of the 33 providences of the empire. At mid day, after mid meal, you have a council meeting with the retired damiyo. The agenda of the day is the discovery of minerals in Water country. Finally, after the meeting, you are to be dressed in formal attire for your courtship with princess Koyuki Kazahana at Ichiraku. restaurant off the palace grounds."
Naruto knows that it isn't easy to get some time alone with the actress and princess of Spring country. She intentionally keeps herself booked after the incident last year that found the pair and the priestess Shion in bed together after a wild night of parting to celebrate the one year victory over Madara. Luckily for the three of them, they still had clothes on, or at least he thought they did.
Two days later, Naruto was publicly crowned Emperor of the Elemental countries.
Entering his grand office, the emperor began going over the census data for each of the 33 providences of his empire. Why was one of Naruto's first orders was to take a census? One was to know how many people there were in his empire, but the other reason was to help give civilians a voice in the new government that he was putting in.
Three years ago, after Naruto killed Madara, he indecently lifted the genjitsu that was placed on the Biju by Madara and the pair begin talking about the types of governments in the world. Eventually, the pair settled on a constutional monarchy.
After a light lunch as the sun shown brightly on his paperwork, Naruto prepared to dress in his regal robes to meet the former damiyo. The Imperial Cabinet only met once every three weeks, however, emergency matters, such as the discovery of minerals in water country, that require the emperor's immediate attention could be called at any time.
A messenger running to the still dressing emperor stopped all hope of getting to the meeting on time by saying, "Your Imperial Majesty, there is an envoy from the Northern Alliance seeking an audience with you. They bear gifts."
Naruto finished dressing quickly, putting on the overcoat that denoted his Imperial status forgetting his undershirt. Normally, when dealing with foreign relations, gold is the gift of choice, however, since word slipped that he was still single and would be for quite some time, gifts slowly became a code word for women to secure the dynasty, something that, quite honestly, he didn't want right now.
The Imperial throne room is one of simple tastes. The cherry planks that is from Fire Country, but the simple stain that covered the wood is from Water country. The construction is so simple, one could construe that Naruto transferred his clan house to be his Imperial palace. In reality, however, he did get the blueprints to his clan house back in Konoha to use a base for his palace.
Sitting on the only gold chair in the room, Naruto looked at his uninvited guests and said a little too calmly, "Welcome to the Namikaze Empire, envoy. I trust that your trip wasn't too rough?"
The Northern Alliance envoy regained his bearings at the youth of the emperor and said, "Your Imperial Highness, I am Liu Chan acting as an envoy from my father, Liu Bei, in good faith in seeking an alliance between the Northern Alliance and the Namikaze Empire. I come bearing the best that the Alliance has to offer."
Naruto got up from his throne to approach the offerings. As he got to the first item, Liu Chan explained that it was a container of their finest wine out of the Shu territory. However, Naruto knew that the land in question bordered Iwa providence, and it has had problems with that territory blocking well water that the citizens needed badly. As it was, he had to pump in water from Takigakure just to keep the Hidden Village in Rock from being like Suna.
Naruto approached the next chest. It contained gold bars, and a lot of them. Naruto picked up one side of the chest and realized that this was the secondary offering for the alliance. "Liu Chan-san," Naruto spoke up for the first time since entering the throne room, "Who is the bride that I am to wed if this alliance goes forward?"
"My cousin on my father's side, Xing Cai, daughter of general Zhang Fei," Liu Chan said as the coach was waiting outside.
"Bring her to me," Naruto proclaimed as the coach door opened and the lady in question walked out, "Liu Chan, how old did you say she was?"
"A season short of 23 years, your Imperial Majesty."
As Xing Cai walked up to the pair, Naruto started to walk around the blushing bride to be. "I will need some time to meditate on this decision," Naruto said as he took his place at his throne, "You will have my answer by mid-day on the third sunrise. Feel free to deposit the gold in the Imperial Vault for safe keeping as you stay in one of the best hotels in town."
Summoning a messenger, Naruto directed the pair to the Fukutowa Hot Springs Hotel not far from the imperial palace.
Naruto, freed from foreign relations for now, decided to let the Damiyo fight over the mineral rights in Water country. In the end, it was his to control after all.
Author Notes and Statistics
This is my Emperor Naruto project. As you can see, I'm taking this in a new direction than my predecessors who had a go with the story.
As I said at the top, the pairings are already set, so don't go bugging me about the pairings. One thing I can say though, it will NOT be a Naruto/Hinata fic. We have enough of those to last a life time.
Statistics
Total Content Word Count: 1209