Chapter 2:
Weights and a pet…
The following morning Naruto found himself in trouble. Little Yana needed a diaper change and Naruto had no idea how to do it, and the fact that Kyuubi was laughing her pants off wasn't helpful at all.
Naruto sighed as he took the book Tsunade gave him and started passing through pages trying to find the right one where it explains how to change and babies diaper. He looked at Yana who instead of crying that she needed the diaper change was just staring at the boy and squealing and making sounds like a little baby would do.
Naruto focused on the book again, he found the page and read it once. He was about to get started when he felt like he needed to read it again so he did, after finishing to read the second time he read it a third time and only then he started to change the diaper.
He took out the new diaper and the powder and everything else he needed. He took the dirty diaper off holding his nose and throwing it in the trash can. He cleaned the girl up and powdered her and finally put the clean diaper on her.
Finishing the task he ran to the bathroom and started washing his hands desperately. He sighed as he stopped using the soap of the fifth time and washed his hands one last time and went back into the kitchen where little Yana was waiting.
He took her in his arms and sat on the chair and gave her the bottle full of milk and started feeding her. He closed his eyes to relax a little.
Suddenly he opened his eyes and found himself not in his apartment but in the sewers. He looked around and recognized it as his own mind, Kyuubi wanted to talk, maybe that's why she brought him down.
Naruto sighed and started walking towards the direction of the cave, when he arrived the place was empty. He scratched the back of his head in confusion and looked around. No, it didn't seem like Kyuubi attempted to escape and the gates where still intact.
"Hello kit." said a powerful voice from behind the gates
Naruto looked at the gate and saw the fox coming into view. The massive fox stopped in front of the gate and seemed like she was smiling.
"Why did you call me here and now?" asked Naruto getting to the point
"Why I wanted to talk…" she said calmly
"Talk? Well this is new for the great Kyuubi no kitsune." mocked Naruto
"Twerp…" she retailed "I only wanted to tell you that you need to get more powerful to protect your daughter."
"And how do you want me to do that?"
"Simple, we can start with your lack of speed, frankly you suck when it comes to speed, so I have a surprise for you." she said smirking. Naruto looked even more confused, then all of a sudden he fell on the ground and found it hard to get up.
"What the hell did you do to me?" he yelled
"Stop yelling you twerp!" she yelled back fuming "And what I did was to give you gravity seals, we start with 10 pounds on each leg, 10 on each arm, 20 on the chest."
"And how am I suppose to move like this?" complained the blonde boy
"You figure it out, you need speed, you lack it too much…"
"Like you would know about this stuff." said Naruto crossing his arms and turning his head away
"Listen, you want to protect your daughter?" asked Kyuubi trying a more different approach
Naruto turned and looked back at the fox and nodded. "You want to be able to keep her away from that pink banshee?"
"Hey Sakura-chan is not a banshee!" yelled Naruto pointing fingers at the fox
The fox sighed. "I have no idea what you see in her."
"What I see is my own opinion not yours."
"Anyway back to the point before I need to break something because of your stupidity." said the fox rolling her eyes. "The think is you want to protect her right?" the boy nodded "Well you have enough chakra and stamina to do it but you need speed also, so using weights like that Rock Lee guy will give you the boost of speed you need." finished the fox
"Oh now I get it…" responded Naruto grinning
"Good…now off with you." said the fox and Naruto disappeared from his mindscape and found himself in the kitchen on the chair again with his daughter sleeping in his hands.
"Man she sleeps a lot." thought the blonde boy as he got up and put the bottle on the table. He took his daughter in his room and put her on the bed letting her rest for the moment. He found it hard to walk towards his room with the weights, he was stumbling back and forth, left and right not able to contain his movement properly.
After he put his daughter on the bed he suggested himself to walk around the apartment to get used to the weights and then to do some pushups and sit-ups. At first it was hard for him to do, but then he felt lighter, he was accommodating to the weights.
Looking up to the watch he saw it was about 7AM. He had a team meeting in about an hour or so, depending on how late Kakashi was. He sighed and went to his bedroom, took a pair of clean clothes and went to take a shower. Once that was done he returned into his room and saw his adopted daughter Yana looking around the room stretching her arms in different angles like she would want to grab a hold of something.
He smiled and picked the girl up and walked into the kitchen and gazed at the watch one more time. Only thirty minutes have passed, he sighed as he knew that Kakashi would want him to continue training no matter what. He took out a piece of paper and started writing the names of people he knew and trusted. Once that was done he looked over the paper.
"Lets see…" he said to himself "Shikamaru…no he would say it's too troublesome." he scratched his name off. "Chouji? Hmm….really doubt he would be able too." he scratched the name "Ino…maybe not…" he scratched again and sighed. Team 10 was down for the count, he would ask Asuma but surely he was busy, as could Kurenai and Gai was out of the question. He scratched Neji and Lee, he didn't want to think what they would do if he let Yana with them just for a few hours. "TenTen…I wonder…" he shook his head, scratching the name he decided to try granny Tsunade, Shizune or Iruka.
He took his daughter in his hands and ran towards the academy jumping out the window. As he was running down the streets he could feel the glares starting to intensify, he then remembered that Yana wasn't covered by her blanket, he mentally cursed himself for his stupidity and jumped on a roof top shaking the villagers away.
He arrived at the academy a little slower than usual because of his new weights. He saw Iruka outside the gates waiting for the students to come. Landing in front of him he grinned and saluted him.
"Hi Iruka-sensei!"
"Hello Naruto, what are you doing here? Do you need to learn something new or have you forgotten something I already taught you?" teased Iruka
"Nope, I wanted to ask you a favor." asked Naruto
"Depends on what favor it is, if it's a treat to ramen I can't, my wallet is still to empty since the last time I treated you." scowled Iruka the boy
Naruto started laughing nervously. "Yeah, sorry about that, but I loved the food."
"I bet you do, you ate about 30 bowls, I can't understand where all that food is going…"
"You know me, I can eat a lot with no problems." said Naruto proudly
"You can eat a lot of ramen with no problems but if you try something else you just make a face and say you can't eat anymore."
"Well, yeah…" said Naruto "It's not my fault that ramen tastes so good." he said
"It's not my fault either but you need to learn to eat more different food." responded Iruka
"Yes but you know I can't afford normal food." scowled this time Naruto and Iruka sighed
"What about the food that I brought you?" Naruto started to laugh nervously
"Well you see…" said Naruto
"Yes I see, you didn't eat those fruits, you threw them away." scowled Iruka
"Umm…sorry?"
"You should be Naruto, you know that it costs money."
"Hehe…I promise I won't do it again." said Naruto
"Good, now what did you want to talk to me about?" asked Iruka returning to the main subject
"Well I wanted to see if you could take care of my daughter till I get back from training."
Iruka raised an eyebrow. "Daughter?" it was then he noticed Yana in Naruto's arms that was studying him. Iruka knew that he must have adopted her, he wasn't stupid, but he decided to have fun with the boy.
"So tell me Naruto…who is the lucky lady?"
"Huh?" asked Naruto looking confused
"When is the wedding or did you already get wed and you didn't invite me? I'm so ashamed." said Iruka pretending to be sad
"What?!" yelled Naruto "I didn't do anything!! No I'm not married…"
"Oh so which girlfriend did you leave pregnant?" asked Iruka grinning
"What?" yelled Naruto turning a red to match Hinata's "I don't have a girlfriend and I didn't leave anyone pregnant!" protested the boy
Iruka started laughing. "Sorry Naruto, I just wanted to do that. Now what's your daughters name and why did you adopt a child?"
"Well yesterday when I was returning from a mission I found Yana-chan here with her mother. Her mother was dying and begged me to take care of Yana-chan and well you know what happened after that."
Iruka nodded. "It's sad to see someone die."
"Umm…Iruka-sensei can you take care of her?" he asked again
"Sorry Naruto but I can't, I have to look after the academy students, I don't have time." he responded sadly
"Oh…ok…" said Naruto turning around. "I'll see you later Iruka-sensei." and with that he ran off towards the Hokage's tower.
It didn't take long for Naruto to reach the tower, when he got there he found out that Shizune was busy at the hospital so he couldn't let Yana with her, he then went in Tsunade's office and found her preparing to drink some sake.
"Naruto?" she asked "What are you doing here?"
"Baa-chan can you take care of Yana-chan while I'm training?" he asked and received a smack on the head, not to hard to be blown away and hurt the little girl
"I told you to stop calling me that!" yelled the Hokage "And no, I can't, I have important work."
"Yeah like drinking sake and sleeping." said Naruto pouting
"No, like signing documents and doing paperwork."
"Yeah right, did I forget to mention that you where getting ready to gamble?" he asked grinning
"Naruto!" said Tsunade dangerously
Naruto started to sweat. "Oh would you look at the time, I need to go." and he jumped out the window and ran towards Team 7's training spot.
When he arrived Sasuke and Sakura where there too.
"Your late like Kakashi-sensei!" yelled Sakura
"But Sakura-chan I have a explanation." he said
"Oh yeah, let me hear it." she demanded giving him a death glare
"I was looking for someone to look after Yana-chan while we train." he defended himself
"And this is the example you set to her?" she asked "You are going to turn her into a lazy person and a moron just by being around you."
"Hey it's not true…I'm not a moron." said Naruto with his head down
"You are the biggest moron that ever exited, I can't understand why Hokage-sama let you keep the baby, you are just ruining her life." he yelled at him
Naruto was starting to boil.
"Hey dobe, why don't you just let me handle her?" asked Sasuke and Naruto looked at him wondering what he meant "I mean, she would make a good Uchiha even if she wasn't born an Uchiha." said Sasuke smirking and Naruto continued to boil
"That's right, Sasuke-kun could take care of her much better than you Naruto." said Sakura
"Hmph, like I care, I just need people for my clan." said Sasuke looking away
Sakura had stars in her eyes. "Sasuke-kun, could I be in your clan?" she asked
"No…" responded Sasuke coldly
Sakura's world crashed around her again, she was enraged and she knew on who to throw her rage.
"This is your entire fault Naruto-no-baka!" yelled Sakura at the poor blonde boy whose anger was reaching dangerous levels.
"B-but S-sakura-chan." he tried to say "I didn't do anything." he continued shaking in anger
"It's your fault that I can't go on a date with Sasuke-kun, why where you even born? To ruin my life?" asked Sakura
Kyuubi was roaring in her cage, who was the banshee to treat her container that way, who was she to say that things. Naruto was about to lose himself and Kyuubi was waiting for the moment for Naruto to lose it so she could take over him and jump on the pink girl and rip her to shreds. But it was at that time that Kakashi decided to make himself present and stop anything wrong that might happen.
"Alright Sakura that's enough." said Kakashi, he then looked at Naruto, he overheard everything. "Hey Naruto, I think I could look after you daughter while you train."
Naruto looked at his sensei. "You sure Kakashi-sensei?"
Kakashi's visible eye turned to a 'U' "I'm sure Naruto."
Naruto handed Yana to Kakashi who took her gently. "Alright team I want Naruto to spar with Sasuke, you Sakura work on tree climbing. Now go." Sakura gave a glare to Naruto before moving away, Sasuke moved to the open field to get ready and Naruto was about to move when he heard Kakashi chuckling. He turned around hoping he wasn't reading that book in Yana's presence. He was amazed at what he saw
"Oh who's a cute girl?" asked Kakashi playing with his finger around the girls' stomach "You're a cute girl." he said chuckling as Yana giggled.
"Kakashi-sensei?" asked Naruto stunned
"Yes Naruto?" asked the silver haired Jounin not even turning to him.
"What are you doing?" he asked
"What? Can't uncle Kakashi play with his favorite niece?" asked Kakashi making a bottle of milk appear and feeding it to Yana.
Naruto sweat dropped, that little girl could change almost anyone who came in contact with her. He turned around and went to where Sasuke was to spar.
For the next couple of hours Team 7 sparred, climbed trees and in the end they where completely exhausted, the only person that wasn't tired was Kakashi who was playing with little Yana. The girl in question was giggling at the silver haired Jounin. Sakura approached Kakashi "I will take the girl from Kakashi and take care of herself myself, Naruto isn't capable." she thought. She was about to take her when Kakashi looked at her.
"Sorry Sakura but fun is over." he got up and gave Yana back to her father who greeted her happily. "Alright Team 7, tomorrow missions."
Naruto looked at him scared. "Kakashi-sensei, who will I have to look after Yana then?"
"I don't know, find someone till tomorrow." said Kakashi before disappearing in a puff of smoke
Naruto started to ponder, he started walking towards Ichiraku's. His team left before he did, Sasuke to brood about his loss and Sakura after Sasuke trying to ask him out on a date.
As Naruto arrived at Ichiraku's he was greeted by none other than Team 8 who where eating lunch. When they saw Naruto with the baby everyone was wondering where the child came from but more than that the first reactions that he got where 3 squeals, one from Kurenai, another from Hinata and the last one from Old man Ichiraku's daughter. As they asked him Naruto sighed and retold them the story.
Once the story was finished Kurenai smiled at him and wished him best of luck in taking care of Yana and left. Shino just nodded at him and took off without a word like usual.
"So, what will you do when you have mission Naruto?" asked Kiba
"I don't know…" he said "I have a mission tomorrow and I don't know who to leave Yana-chan with."
"You miso ramen is here Naruto." said Teuchi
Naruto was about to grab the chopsticks when he remembered Yana was still in his arms. He looked at Hinata who looked back at him, she blushed at the eye contact and turned her face around.
"Hey Hinata, can you hold Yana-chan while I eat?" he asked
"S-sure N-naruto-kun." she said taking the girl in her arms blushing.
Naruto broke the chopsticks and started eating. "This is good." he said
"Hey Naruto…" started Kiba
"Yeah?" he asked as he took the second bowl in his hands.
"I know what would be good for your daughter."
Naruto raised an eyebrow and looked at him. "What would it?"
"You should get her a pet." he responded grinning
Naruto thought for a second, he could hear Kyuubi nodding inside her cage and saying it was a good idea for a child to have pets.
"Well what you have in mind?" asked Naruto
"We have a lot of dogs in our compound." said Kiba "All of them can become good nin dogs but they are also good as pets, we could find a puppy for Yana and you."
Naruto nodded. It seemed like a fair deal. "Alright then." he paid for his 5 bowls and left with Kiba and Hinata to the dog boys house, Naruto was walking right next to Kiba talking to him and Hinata was behind them carrying Yana who seemed to get used to her really fast.
Naruto turned back and saw Yana playing with Hinata. The Kuniochi was smiling at her and talking gently to her. The little baby was giggling and saying words that a little baby would say. Naruto smiled at the sight, he could have sworn that he heard Kyuubi give a 'aww' at the sight.
As they arrived at Kiba's house they where greeted by a woman that looked only a bit older than Kiba.
"Kiba where have you been?" she asked
"Sorry Hana, I was training with Team 8 when we met Naruto and his daughter."
The woman named Hana looked at Naruto, she then looked at the girl in Hinata's hands and squealed. She jumped and started talking to Hinata and the little baby. Naruto and Kiba just sweat dropped.
"Does this happen every time?" whispered Kiba
"Every time." said Naruto
When the two girls where done Kiba explained to his sister, which Naruto found out, that they planned on getting a puppy for little Yana. Hana was more than happy to give her a pet, she led them through the compound and then they arrived in the backyard where they let the dogs out to train and stretch their legs.
"Wait here, I know the perfect pet." said Hana as she ran through the yard
They waited for about ten minutes when she came back carrying a puppy no bigger than Akamaru, the dog had white fur that almost resembled the snow and black eyes.
"This little pup is only a year younger than Akamaru, she is loyal and I am sure she will become best friends with Yana." said Hana handing the pup to Naruto.
"What's her name?" asked the blonde boy
"Fuyubi, because of her fur." said Hana (A/N: Fuyubi means winter sun in Japanese, don't know why I wanted to name the dog like that but I did lol)
The dog jumped from Naruto's hands and made his way to Yana. They started at each other for a second till Yana stretched her hands towards the little pup wanting to take the pup in her arms. Hinata sat down and the pup climbed onto her lap and started smelling Yana, then he licked her once and started waving her tale.
"Well it looks like Fuyubi likes little Yana." said Hana smiling
Naruto nodded.
"Now Naruto a dog is a big responsibility." said Kiba "You think you can handle it?" Naruto nodded
"Good, come with me." said Hana dragging them back into the house. She went into their private library and came back with a large book. "This book tells you how to take care of dogs, it will help you." Naruto took the book and thanked her
"Now all you need is to get dog food and two bowls for her." said Kiba grinning
"And you will help." said Hana to his brother
"What?" the dog boy yelled
"Yes Kiba, you need to help him, now we have a large bag of food in the storage which you can give to Naruto and two bowls there, go bring them and carry them to his place."
Kiba mumbles something unintelligible and goes to the storage.
"S-so N-naruto-kun d-do y-you k-know w-who you're g-going t-to let Yana w-with w-while y-you a-are a-away?" asked Hinata stuttering (A/N: It's hard to write stutter so I will only make 1 letter at a time lol)
"Hmm…" thought Naruto "I don't know…."
"W-what a-about I-ino o-or S-shikamaru?" she asked
"Ino is too Ino, I'm afraid what will happen if I leave Yana-chan with her, Shikamaru is too lazy and I don't think he will bother with anything." said Naruto
"W-what a-a-about th-the se-sensei's?"
"They might be busy, I mean they are Jounin, even granny Tsunade is busy…I already tried Iruka-sensei and he is busy at the academy." the blonde boy said
"Oh…"
"I would try Ero-sennin but I am sure he will try to turn Yana in a pervert so it's completely out of the question."
"W-who is E-ero-sennin?" asked Hinata
"Oh you don't know, I call Jiraiya that because he is the greatest pervert ever!" responded Naruto firmly
"He is?" asked Hana
"Yes, always peeking on bath houses and writing that orange book of his."
"So he's the one who keeps peeking on the bathhouses?" yelled Hana
"Umm…yes." responded Naruto starting to shake because of the girls reaction
"Oh when I get my hands on him…I will…I will…" she didn't finish the sentence, she just mumbled something and began to laugh to herself.
"You know…" started Naruto "Some girls are scary." and Hinata nodded
"Hey I know." said Naruto "I can let Yana-chan with you Hinata, that is if you can."
"M-me?" asked Hinata blushing
"Yes, I mean look at her, she likes you." Hinata looked at the girl she was carrying and saw that she was holding her jacket and saying baby words that people don't understand.
"B-but I d-don't t-think father w-will allow it." said Hinata sadly
"Nah, don't worry, I will have a talk with him and he will agreed." said Naruto grinning
Hinata smiled at him. "Are y-you sure?"
"Positive! If I come at 7 in the morning tomorrow will it be alright?" he asked
"Ano…sure…" responded the girl
Just then Kiba came back with a big bag in his hands on top of which where two bowls, one for water and one for food.
"Alright lets go." said Kiba walking towards the door.
Naruto turned to the puppy. "Come here Fuyubi, come on." the dog in question ran towards Naruto and jumped in his arms and started smelling him.
"He smells like foxes, but he has that little girls scent too, he must be her father but why does he smell like foxes?" the dog thought. "Well he is her father so he can't be bad." the dog licked Naruto and started waving her tale. Hana smiled and bid them farewell.
When they arrived at Naruto's place Kiba dropped the bag and bowls in the kitchen, Naruto put the pup down who ran through the house to get used to the place. Then Naruto took his daughter from Hinata who blushed furiously when he made contact with her arms, Naruto took Yana and put her in her basket that was on the couch in the living room. He bid his friends farewell and told Hinata that he will talk to her father in the morning.
That night Naruto prepared a bed for the pup made out of his old clothes in the corner of his bed, but the dog decided to sleep on his bed no matter what so he dropped the idea of making a new bed for the dog. Fuyubi slept close to Yana who seemed happier when the dog was near her, but not as happy when she was with Naruto.
While they where sleeping Naruto was reading the two books he got from Tsunade and Hana.
The next morning came fast, Naruto prepared some food for the dog that ate happily, then he fed Yana some milk and when he was done he looked at the watched that showed it was 6:50.
He put Yana in her basket and took the dog in his hands thinking it would be a good idea for Fuyubi to be near Yana. He jumped out the window carrying the basket and the dog speeding towards the Hyuuga compound.
As he arrived he was greeted by both Hinata and her father, Hiashi. (A/N: Hiashi is good in this fic)
"H-hello N-naruto-kun." said Hinata
"Hi Hinata, hello Hinata's father." said Naruto happily and making Hiashi twitch at his name
"So, Naruto, my daughter told me that you wanted her to take care of your daughter?" he asked coolly
"Yes." responded Naruto showing the basket to Hiashi.
The Hyuuga looked in the basket and saw the girl who was giggling at him. His eyes softened and took her in his arms and started playing with her.
Naruto seeing this sweat dropped. "Just like Kakashi-sensei, I wonder what charms Yana-chan put on these people." he said to himself
Hinata on the other hand had hey eyes wide open staring at her father thinking the apocalypse was coming. Hiashi sensing the stares turned and saw the two genin with their mouths hanging open at him. He coughed and put the girl back in the basket.
"She can stay." he said trying to at cool again
"Oh…and before I forget." said Naruto waking from his shock. "Could her pet Fuyubi stay too? She won't be any problem I can assure you."
Hiashi looked at the pup in Naruto's hand and nodded. Naruto smiled and handed the basket to Hinata and pup Fuyubi down. He looked in the dogs eyes.
"Now Fuyubi you are to listen to what Hinata says alright?" the dog barked and waved her tale. Naruto then approached Hinata and looked at his daughter "You be nice Yana-chan, don't give Hinata a hard time." he said kissing her forehead.
"D-don't w-worry N-naruto-kun, s-she w-will b-be safe." said Hinata stuttering and blushing.
Naruto grinned and bid his farewell and jumped off towards Team's 7 meeting spot.
The two Hyuuga's entered the compound with Yana and Fuyubi.
