Naruto Sarutobi
AN: Thank you for the support on the previous chapter. I hope you all like this chapter as much as the first one and I will say this story will not follow cannon except for a few certain arcs that I think are good like the chunin exams.
Chapter 2: The trouble as a father.
Timeskip 6 months
Asuma was in his bed sleeping peacefully. This peace did not last as a certain blond started crying loudly enough reach the entire household that Asuma was staying. Asuma tried his hardest to use his pillows to cover his ears but to no avail Naruto kept crying.
Asuma was thankful for the silencing seals on his house that Hiruzen had put as Naruto's cries could be heard through the entire compound. Asuma reluctantly had to rock Naruto and give him milk in a bottle.
As the months went by Asuma had gotten into the routine of taking care of this child and going on missions. He was thankful that his father was there to take care of the blond while he was gone and he was really growing attached to his 'son'.
"When did I ever start liking you?" The father asked his son rhetorically as he rocked the baby back and forth soothing it to sleep. Asuma watched happily as the baby went back to sleep. He still didn't like the fact he had to take care of a child but he was trying his best to take care of his son.
Asuma slowly got back to his bed after giving Naruto his milk in an orange bottle. Orange was the blonds favorite colour and by looking around his room you could see that nearly everything had atleast some orange.
Asuma tried getting Naruto to like a different colour but all he did was cry when there was anything else but orange.
The chainsmoker's life had changed and it could be said it changed for the better. He stopped smoking every second of his life, he grew more responsible from the teenager that tried to revolt against his father. Hiruzen had gotten a lot closer towards his younger son in the past few months thanks to Naruto.
One could say the blond was the glue that put the family back together. Asuma's sister Fuuka, had recently gotten engaged to her husband from the Kurama clan, Sanzae. These two people lent a hand to Asuma and showed him the footsteps of being a father and molded him into a working father for the child.
Many times Asuma was caught by Fuuka smoking while Naruto was in the same room and she took his entire collection of rare ciggaretes and burnt them all to ash with a Katon(Fire) jutsu.
Overall the Sarutobi family was coming together thanks to a certain blond. In a sense Naruto was a blessing for Asuma since his life took a 180 from what it was going to be if not for this child. He still could not believe he took on a child over the opportunity to rejoin the guardian shinobi 12 with Chiriku his best friend and everyone else.
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4 years later
Naruto was seen running around the Sarutobi compound ahead of his father Asuma. The father was infuriated that some of the clan were glaring at Naruto because of what was in him. He did what he could and just shot back glares at those who shot glares at his child.
Naruto was ecstatic since he was going to see his aunt Fuuka and her newborn child Konohamaru. He heard his jiji(Grandfather) had given the name and he was really excited to meet his cousin. He hoped he could become friends with Konohamaru since he never had any friends his age.
He had acquaintance's like this Choji kid and Shikamaru guy he met one time in the park but he would never call them friends since he only met them once or twice. Heck he didn't even now who they were or what their last names were.
Soon after a slow walk by Asuma and his son they reached the steps of the Sarutobi clan home. Naruto instantly burst through the door and ran straight for his aunt and hugged her deeply.
She was the closest thing he had to a mother since she always visited their home atleast once a month so he really cared deeply for her but he knew she wasn't his now since she had Konohamaru.
After the blond got his embrace done with he asked "Where is Konohamaru?" in a excited tone. Fuuka just got up and gestured for him to follow which he gladly did. Asuma and Sanzae were left in the living room to chat.
"So how is the kid?" Asuma asked with a knowing smirk
"Why is life so hard?" Sanzae replied
"Yea it really is hard when those babies just got 'waaah I want my bottle'" he said the last part imitating a baby and pretending to bawl his eyes out. Sanzae chuckled just nodding at his brother.
"So what have you train him in? In two years he is going to enter the academy." Sanzae stated with truth in his words. If Asuma didn't prepare his son it would ruin the child.
"I've started his training on knowledge first but it seems he is more of a person who does things rather than reads on them" he said chuckling slightly. "He has immense amounts of chakra so I ended up just giving him books to study and whenever im free I try to teach him how to grasp his chakra. So far nothing has happened but he his training so don't worry" Sanzae nodded as he realised Asuma was now fully taking care of this child and didn't need anymore help.
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Konohamaru's room
In the middle of the room was a little one year old Konohamaru crawling around playing with his toy blocks. The child turned his gaze over and saw that his mother and a blond child were walking to him.
Fuuka picked up her child and started rocking him which made him smile and make cute noises only a baby could do. Naruto was watching the entire seen with a huge smile.
"Do you want to hold him?" Fuuka asked breaking Naruto out of his stupor
"Can I?" he asked like it was the most craziest thing in the world. She responded by handing him the child.
The child started crying but Fuuka told the blond what to do and he started rocking the baby and it stopped crying and he looked at his aunt like what he did was the best thing in the world to which she could only smile at his innocence.
"Alright Naruto I will leave you be. Call me if he starts crying randomly." She said as she walked out of the room leaving the blond and his cousin alone.
For a while Naruto just stood there rocking Konohamaru back and forth until the infant started struggling to get out of the blonds grip. Naruto set the boy on the floor and he started crawling towards his blocks and started playing with them until he stopped and gave Naruto a block.
Naruto started playing with the child until he got an idea. He grabbed Konohamaru and made the child face him. He started playing Peek-a-boo with the child and made funny faces making the child giggle cutely.
They just kept on playing together and for the first time in a while. Naruto met someone precious to him again.
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Asuma's home
"Dad did you know Konohamaru is actually really smart since I told him to spell bed and he actually did it." He stated excitedly as he ran through the house as his dad locked the doors.
"Wow that's really amazing Naruto" Asuma said as he smiled at his son. "Naruto go clean your room then come to the dining hall I'll make you food." He said as his son ran off.
'How does he have so much energy' Asuma wondered.
Soon Asuma went to the kitchen and started preparing rice with curry for his son but made it not to spicy so that it wouldn't hurt his son but made it slightly spicy so it had some flavor. The blond came rushing in waiting for his meal and saw it was rice and curry and frowned slightly since it wasn't ramen but still thankful for the meal.
Asuma served both of them plates filled with rice albeit Naruto abit more rice since he had a bottomless pit for a belly.
"Itadakimasu" they said in unison as they dove in for their meal. They exchanged conversations about the day and how Naruto and Konohamaru spent their time. Asuma would tell the blond about his 'kickass missions' when in reality they were exaggerated beyond belief.
As Naruto finished he went to the kitchen and started washing his dish. The blond remembered what his father did when he didn't wash the dish one time and he still remembered the feeling of burping bubbles of soap.
Asuma mentally nodded and was proud that his son was doing his chores properly. "Naruto go brush your teeth then change into your night clothes and go to bed. I'll come in a while and I promise I will read 'Fox and Boar' to you again" Naruto grinned widely as the 'Fox and Boar' story was his favorite story of all time.
It was about this boar that found a baby fox and took it into its cares. The fox cared for the boar as it's own mother and when the real mother actually came it tried to kill the boar but the fox came in and saved its mother. Naruto said it was a 'true work of art' which made Asuma chuckle as his 3 year old son said that.
Asuma then came and told Naruto his story after he did the things told and read the story twice then the blond slept peacefully in his bed.
Asuma now couldn't imagine a life without his blond child and was glad that Naruto was contempt with his life. He did feel regret when Naruto never had any friends his age but hoped he would get friends when he entered the academy.
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That's the end of this chapter. So Konohamaru's parents, they will act as one of the very close people Naruto has that he cares about. Naruto will not be completely friendless until he goes to the Academy but for now he wont really have any. I hope you all enjoy this chapter and if you have any complaints please share them by reviewing and I hope you enjoy Sanzae being part of the Kurama clan. Thank you for reading and for now bye.
