An:/ Cyber hug to reader marmend for favoriting/following IP first...not that there was a competition to begin with but kudos anyways. And I have never received as many emails as I had on the night of the update. Like Dayummm. All right, I updated a day later because I wanted all the polls in. I would like to say it was a landslide but on a more personal left it was a close call because I felt that both genders had their possibilities. Anyways. I'm giving you an extra chapter to think it through. As for the rating
Here is the dealio with the rating: I'm going to keep it T rated. Now before you go "Awwww, no lemons? What the hell is this?" I just want to say, I don't think you want me to subjugate you guys to my terrible attempts at any form of lemon. Yeah, it's that bad. So here is what I'm going to do, I do plan on including a few intimate scenes between Naruto and Sakura but it won't entail an M rating. I'm pretty sure you all can handle a little smooch here and then, nothing major. No need to close your eyes and scroll through, unless you're that conscious about it, in which case yes, do close your eyes (shield yourself away from the spit exchange!).
The next "week" for Naruto is just a "filler" with him getting settled and stuff. This is mostly because I need to go rewatch the beginning of Shippuden to get a timeline to follow. Yeah, I know, the things I do for you.
I'll be updating regularly once a week, maybe twice if my brain allows me to.
Also (I know, long authors message "just get to the damn chapter already!") I have seemed to promise a reader by the name of "yayouyo" that I would name Inari's Prayer "Supert" for a week or so after a month it's been out by promise. So, uh, just look forward to that or something.
On the beta, I'm still waiting for a resume from somebody who said they'd get it to me. You know who you are. I'm waiting~!
URgh, new stuff: Flame response. Skip now or forever hold your peace. Now I know you all will probably be like, yo, it's like the first chapter, what the fuck could possibly start a flame? Well let me tell you a little bedtime story, young'un. It all starts with a little shit called fanfan. Now, in the Kingdom of Fanfiction, many young stories and authors lived peacefully and happily without a care in the world. They lived in harmony where people could talk to each other, befriend each other, compliment each other. But everything changed when this little shitstain worm called fanfan came into town.
See, this little fucknut, was a small parasitic worm and was extremely jealous because there were so many awesome people with beautifully written stories and it just wasn't one of them. It became sour and mean because it didn't have the courage nor the ethics/moral to write it's own damn story and so it decided to hate on others and review their stories, often promoting a writer by the name of mr grimjaw. You see, mr grimjaw did absolutely nothing but this little shitfuck decided to act on it's own accord. Aerotyl, a defiant knight of the Kingdom, heard news of this terror and decided to aid. Aerotyl was immune to the spats and shats of the worm and couldn't care less about what it thought of her story.
However, when the son of a fuck insulted one of my friends after he mentioned he is going through a hard time, I couldn't take it. I can personally take your fucking insults but no fucking asshole can get away with insulting my friends. Let me give it to you straight. If I find out that fanfan or anyone else is harassing my readers, they'll have to get through me first. This is ridiculous. I know that no one is that low in real life, so why here? Why be the bane of everyone's existence? Why be a low life from the lowest level of hell when you could be so much better? Go fuck yourself. And grow up.
Anyways, Aerotyl slayed the parasite with her magnificent pensword and trampled that son of a bitch with her noble steed in hopes that the rest of the town will be able to live happily ever after. Let this be a warning to all. Be nice or go fuck yourself with a cactus. The end (hopefully).
Also this asshole poses as people and reviews on stories. Watch out for him, he's easy to identify because he can't spell "story" correctly like any 6 year old can which leads me to believe that he's probably got the mentality of an unborn fetus.
All right, let's get on with the story.
The village was eerily silent as the sun peaked over the surrounding mountains. The shade of the trees turned the normal heat into a chilly breeze. The movement was scarce save for a few guards and the occasional early rising merchants. The training grounds were empty except training grounds 7, occupied by a rather exhausted blond. For all the sweat and blood the blond has put into his training, the grounds were unscathed, an occasional breeze rolling through the rather long grass. Naruto, however, was littered with small cuts and gashes and his breath was heavy.
Naruto collapsed onto the ground with his back sprawled out. It was his first day back and he still couldn't stop training. Hell, he even woke up early, that insinuating that he actually slept in the first place, but let's just humor ourselves for now. The breeze felt colder against his sweat and he couldn't help but shiver.
He looked up just in time to see a chuunin shunshin in front of him with an official scroll.
"Hokage wants too see you, Namikaze-sama"
Naruto looked at the young chuunin, noticing that he had never seen the face before.
"Right. And you are?"
"Hyuuga Hanabi, sir."
Naruto looked shocked for a moment before he smiled.
"Congratulations, Hyuuga-san. You were barely an academy student three years ago and now you're already a chuunin."
The girl felt a tinge of heat rise to her cheeks and she looked down.
"T-Thank you, Namikaze-sama"
Naruto gave a quick smile before he disappeared in a flash.
(an:/that meeting had no purpose btw, like actually.)
"You called?"
Minato slowly looked up at Naruto and rested his papers back down on the table. He leaned back and swirled his chair back to face the windows behind him. Naruto sweat dropped but kept his stance straight.
"Tou-san?"
"Ah, yes, Naruto. I've called you because I have received some very disturbing news about your trip over the course the years. Including riding gigantic summons that could possibly eat you. Now I know since you haven't told your dear old father about these trips, I'm forced to ask you about them...as a hokage."
Naruto facepalmed himself as Minato continued to pose as a formal as possible.
"You see, Tou-san. I would have told you if it wasn't for Kaa-san. She'd lose her head if she heard half of what I've done!"
Minato jumped out his chair wailing at Naruto's feet.
"But there were plenty of times that you and I were alone. You wouldn't tell your poor Tou-chan anything! What happened to the chibi Naruto-chan that told me everything! I miss my little Naruto-chan!"
Naruto looked disturbed at his father groveling at his feet and shook his leg off before coughing.
"Fine, I'll tell you but you can't tell anyone!"
Minato jumped back on his chair like an excited puppy and nodded enthusiastically.
Naruto settled on the visitors chair.
On of the most prominent memories Naruto could vividly remember was when he visited the Temple of Wind roughly six months ago. Settled at the seaside of Kaze no Kuni, the temple was in a rather remote area. Jiraiya had brought Naruto there to help his wind element manipulation improve.
"The shit really started on our way there," Naruto started, "when we were walking through to the cliff sides near the temple; When the desert was slowly transitioning into the deep forests. It was terrible. I think my skin was course and I had a mouth full of sand along with a cracked lip. Ero-sennin thought it would be a marvelous idea to buy sake instead of water for our rations! Yeah, buy alcohol. Good idea, stupid idiot. He ended up hallucinating a lot and getting us off course because he "saw a pretty lady" in the middle of the freaking desert!"
"Wait Naruto, I swear this time! There was a beautiful voluptuous blonde over there behind the tree! I need to see her!"
"THERE IS NO FUCKING TREE YOU ASSHOLE! THERE IS NO FUCKING LADY BEHIND THE IMAGINARY TREE! YOU ARE IMAGINING THINGS NOW QUIT WHINING!"
Naruto felt his lip crack and his vein twitched. He could taste his blood run down the newly formed crack and he slowly grew irritated. After his recent outburst, the slightly red Jiraiya remained quiet until they reached town. After clearing the gates, movement ceased the moment Naruto walked in. All eyes turned to him as his pace slowly died down to a stop as he noticed people looking at him. Incredulous as to what was happening he turned to see Jiraiya nowhere in sight and everyone advancing on him.
"W-wait, what. What do you guys want? No...no...KYAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA~!"
His screams echoed throughout the town before it went silent and a flock of birds escaped the trees.
"Anyways, I was pretty pissed after my travels so when I reached the temple, I was irritated, exhausted, and not in the mood for what they had in store for me. Apparently, nobody has seen a blond haired boy in their life so they all started to gawk at me. I was snatched away and brought to the temple to see if it was a blessing from their deity or if I needed exorcism. Either way, I was taken from my sleep which pissed me off even more."
"I've never seen anything quite like it."
"Do you think it's a sign?"
"Guys. It's just a damn hair color. Will you let me go already?" Naruto grumbled as he crossed his arms. The priests, all a head shorter than him, circled him like a pack of sharks, poking and prodding. There was a group of priestesses giggling in the corner as they took surreptitious glances towards the blond boy.
"They started to get everything ready and the priests kept touching my hair and at one point, I believed they pulled out a knife to cut my hair. I just snapped. Nobody touches my hair, dattebayo. So I just stood up released a shit ton of chakra and stormed out of the temple scowling as everyone just stood there silently."
"The gold. I'm sure of it. The hair is made of gold"
"Wait, guys. It's just hair. Calm yourselves. It's regular hair-"
"Get the sacrificial dagger."
"Wait, that won't be necessary. No sacrificing tonight, boys-"
"Let's just get a lock."
"ENOUGH, DAMN IT! DON'T. TOUCH. THE. HAIR."
The hall went silent as the blast shattered the windows and toppled over the altar. Naruto huffed one more time before storming out of the echoing hall. He slammed the doors open and let out a frustrated scream before leaving again.
"According to Ero-sennin though, that was a wrong move because even though they didn't have ninjas, they knew about chakra and they could read the level of wind chakra in my "blast" so they just went batshit crazy thinking I was their deity of some sort. I couldn't walk down the street without being touched and stuff. The priests bowed at me and apologized profusely for angering me and asked that I didn't curse them. I had to resist laughing but I just scowled and walked away. Anyways, a few bandits heard of this new "deity" and thought if they kidnapped me that the temple would pay a large sum for a ransom. I guess they didn't know who I really was." Naruto scoffed.
"Hey you!"
Naruto slowly turned around, a stick of dango poking out of his mouth and his hands carrying groceries. His sight fell upon a group of bandits with their swords pointing at him.
"You're the deity right? Blond hair, blue eyes?"
Naruto gave them a deadpan look, internally screaming "What the fuck does it look like?"
"No, I'm a brunet with hazel eyes."
One of the head bandit's henchmen leaned over and whispered.
"I think he's lying, boss."
The dango stick snapped in half as Naruto bit hard. The vein on his forehead pulsed as he dropped all the groceries. He gave them a smile that turned out more of a grimace and his eye twitched.
"What can I help you with?" he tried to remain composed but it was slowly slipping away.
"We've come to kidnap you!" The man declared.
Something within Naruto snapped itself and Naruto let out a frustrated high-pitched scream. He had enough of this deity shit, villagers touching him, priests constantly apologizing, Jiraiya constantly skipping out on his problems, him getting kidnapped.
"THAT'S IT! YOU WANT TO KIDNAP ME? YOU WANT SOME OF THIS BLOND HAIRED DEITY, YOU COME AND GET IT!"
Minato looked worried. "Did you get kidnapped? What did they do? Were you safe?"
"Relax, I'm getting to that part."
After an hour or so, the group of 60 bandits were laying on the ground and Naruto growled at the pummeled around him. Naruto turned around and picked up his groceries before turning heel and making his way back to the hotel.
But apparently, this didn't deter the bandits as they regathered and replanned.
"Damn, he's a lot stronger than we thought. Maybe he really is a deity."
"Shut up, Rorichi. He's just a mortal man."
"But he goes us real good. We had swords, he had nothing!"
"He's a ninja, what do you expect?"
"How do you know?"
"He's got a pouch of kunai and a shuriken holder."
"How are we going to get him?"
"With ninja of our own. There is a man in town looking for some jobs. Said he was jounin and a hell of a good swordsman."
"You think he'll take it?"
"Yeah. Definitely."
A day later, Naruto exited out of the temple looking distraught as ever from the supposed training. Jiraiya had actually managed to find a master to help him with his elemental manipulation without the whole deity crap in the way. Regardless, it was hard work and Naruto was quite tired. He began to walk down the street before a voice interrupted him.
"Hey you! Stop right there!"
Naruto slowly turned his head and he immediately scowled.
"You bunch again?"
The bandit group was there again with their swords pointed. The head stepped forward and scoffed.
"We're going to kidnap you and this time we're going to do it right."
Naruto turned around fully and pulled his hands from his pockets.
"It's like you didn't learn the first time around. What more do you want? A black eye?"
The leader scoffed and the crowd began to part until a lone man stood there. Naruto's eyes locked in on his they stood there in silence as the bandits looked on in anticipation. Naruto's eyes twinkled in amusement and the man's brown ones mirrored his. They just stood there looking at each other until the leader stomped on the floor.
"Well do something, damn it!"
That's when both started to crack up and burst out laughing. Naruto fell to the floor, banging his fist on the ground as he tried to calm himself but he kept bursting into fits of laughter just like the other man.
"Man, to think I'd see you here!"
"Same here, brat."
"What-pft-HAHAHAHAHAHA"
The bandits looked on in absolute confusion and unadulterated horror as the two shinobi laughed hysterically.
The two got up and walked up to each other before shaking hands.
"Sheesh, Gaki. I was expecting a real fight for once. My sword is just rusting away."
"You're better than a thug for hire. I thought we went through that. Shouldn't you be on a mission or something?"
"I finished it a day ago. Just resting a bit before going back."
"That's sort of against protocol, isn't it?"
"What isn't said in the report won't be known unless you rat me out. Besides, they said it would take a week. I've been here for four days."
"Leave it up to you to finish an A-rank in three days."
"Well, Gaki. You know me."
"WHAT THE FUCK IS GOING ON HERE? WHY AREN'T YOU KILLING EACH OTHER LIKE I PAID YOU TO!"
The two stopped their conversation to look at the angered bandit before looking back at each other. Naruto just looked at the man and smirked.
"Since you're getting paid for this, why don't we just do the usual way, beat them up and take their money anyways."
"Great minds think alike, gaki."
A few minutes later, the pile of bandits were shoved to the side of the road and Naruto looked back at the man.
"Now go back and get that report in. You know the ANBU pay is based on time as well, right? You're wasting precious time and money."
"Wha-why didn't they say so?!" The man growled.
Naruto chuckled and waved his hand.
"It was nice working with ya, Zabuza. Say "Hi" to Haku for me, will ya?"
"Yeah, whatever, Gaki. See ya 'round"
Naruto smirked and left for the hotel as Zabuza sprinted off back to the direction of Konoha.
"So, Zabuza has been shirking off his duty and time, eh?"
"N-No...Don't tell anyone, please. And don't reprimand him for it! He's just bored!"
"Hmm. Fine. And what happened to those bandits?"
"Got rid of them."
"Oh, really?"
Minato and Naruto's eyes widened at the new voice and their jaws dropped slowly as they craned their necks to the window side. Minato's heart dropped and Naruto sweatdropped while backing away. Minato rushed over to a pregnant Kushina, escorting her out of the window.
"Kushina-chan! You shouldn't be climbing windows with your-"
"With my what?"
"Your...delicate figure..."
"Shut up, Blondie. And it's "Kushina-sama" to you for this week, remember?"
Minato continued to frantically pester her to make sure Kushina was okay while Kushina sent a pointed look to Naruto.
"Bandits? Do I even want to know?"
"Ha-How much did you hear exactly?" Naruto asked nervously.
"Luckily for you, just the part of you confirming what happened to the bandits."
"Well, erm, you see, Konohamaru and his little gang played-uh- bandits with me. I got rid of them." Naruto nervously scratched the back of his head as he sped through his excuse.
"You're a terrible liar, you know. It seems you didn't pick up on my excellent lying skills. I happen to be an excellent pathological liar."
"Oh-er, really? I did not know that...not at all...nuh..."
Naruto slowly backed away as Kushina advanced with Minato at her tail. Naruto's back reached a wall and he looked back just before Kushina yanked at his ear. He gave a yowl of pain before Kushina dragged him out the door. Kushina quickly grabbed Minato's ear as well.
"HEY! Why me, too?" Minato wailed.
"Because you were in the office when you should be at home!"
"Well you should be in the hospital but I don't see you there!"
Naruto looked up to his dad in hope at his defiance but Kushina's ice cold glare made both blondes cringe. Minato shrank away, his courage melted into nothing as Kushina continued to tug them away back home.
AN:/ Okay, so that wasn't really what you were looking for in a secondary chapter but like I said, it's kind of a filler week just so I can catch up on shippuden. The baby will come within this filler week. I'm giving you more time to vote on that poll
CONTINUATION OF LAST WEEK'S POLL:
Should the baby be a girl or a boy?
And what should it's name be?
Lots of you gave me excellent names. For a boy, Menma seems like a cool idea, and for a girl, I don't know yet but Naruko isn't gonna be it because Naruko is Naruto's female persona so that won't work.
ANOTHER POLL THAT I JUST CAME UP WITH:
Should the baby's hair be red or blond?
Anyways. To my friend ixPinkRoses, have a great trip in England. Go visit 221B Baker street for me will ya? And don't talk to strangers who come from strange blue police booths. ANd don't forget to have fun!
Review Response (I've decided to only do a select few reviews because I'm not responding to 84, some of which are just one to two letter words):
Zatheko: Thanky~!
rachcatcool: props to the wonderful name!
ixPinkRoses: lol calm down. No deaths for the baby. No deaths like Nepeta geezus.
Guest: Haha I laughed at your review. OH how I would LOVE mega detailed lemons in every chapter! But I'm not too sure about the rest of my readers XD
ILoveAfricanGiraffe's: God YOU GOT SASUKE UNDER YOUR COMMAND AS WELL! TELL ME WHAT IS THE SECRET! Sasuke why won't you love me too!
Drums4life: Thanks!
THE 7TH DEMON OF RAZGRIZ: Of course there's no such thing as a normal review from you! And yes of course, burning fanfan in a portal of eternal flames ain't so bad of a review either
NatrualGieling: Haha kill Deidara, got it...but I kinda like how he looked...we'll see.
Tigress-of-the-Grove: You are just like me at 4am! Speaking of which...it is 4AM here! *squeals and runs around room for no reason* yes, I have my fans make difficult decisions because I'm just brain fried and can't think for myself, muahahaha the evilness of being an author!
Djflemse: God you're making me blush! I'm glad I partially made your day! That is my goal with writing these stories! To make my readers happy! And it makes me happy when you're happy!
dbzgtfan2004: Thank you! Yes Narusaku forever!
Pricegoku: Oh no! Well, thank god then that you got it! You would have missed the party!
AllForHighspeed0512: Yes, we will get more Kurama convos because Inari's Prayer will be from Kurama! Whoops! Said too much!
Narutofanatic: Looks like I'll have to get an instagram! But not now because it's 4! But you guys will be the first to know and I'll follow you!
: Sorry, gotta do the parenthesis because fanfic thinks your name is website and deleting it when I publish! (those evil peeps) Anyways, Love your enthusiasm! Wow you recommended my stories? God you have me blushing so hard o/o thanky...it will be T rated!
Simple-Name-J: Geezus! One day! Well props to you! I'm impressed! Welcome to the TNL and IP readership!
Marty15: Why thank you! Let me join you in your happy dance!
Guest: Well I'll be diddly darned because a NaruHina fan reading my story and actually liking it? *slowly claps* I'll have you converted in no time *grins evily* haha jkjk but I'm glad you're liking my story despite your normal pairing! Yeah, Naruto is a bit overpowered (I read my first few chapter in TNL and I have to say, wow I was dumb)
vampiregirl2014: Haha, if the girl vote wins, yes, the "I will break your face" will begin
beisenman1892: Wow you're the first (Besides my friend) who noticed that I was gonna kill off someone! Haha, that victim's name will remain in the shadows until it comes around! MWUAHAHAHAHA
Tsuukiyomi: Good suggestions! I will keep them in mind!
If I didn't respond to your review, it's not because I don't love you but for the sake of the rest of the world because answering 84 review wholeheartedly would take forever. I love you all equally, each and every 1,000+ of you who read the first chapter. Better luck this chapter right? And remember, I will always, no matter what, be your friend. Come to me if you need anything (including defending you like a knight from the evil clutches of fanfan) and I'll be there for ya!
Aerotyl over and out!
