Chapter 2 - Clothes, Training and Family.

Naruto woke up at 7:30 in the morning and looked over to his clock only to realise that he slept in so he decided to forego his morning 'Warm up' that would put Guy to shame for today so he can finish what he started yesterday and train in the afternoon.

Getting out of bed he decided since he had a fully working bathroom to take a shower and get ready for the day but in the end he thought of an even better idea; he teleported down to the ground via the seal he placed yesterday and stripped down only to jump under the waterfall and take a shower, obviously what is the point in having a waterfall in your garden if you never have fun with it?

After half an hour just having fun in the waterfall he went hunting to find some breakfast and found some rabbits. Hurriedly finishing breakfast he geared up in his ANBU gear because the god-awful jumpsuit needed burned more than the green spandex monster and set of out of the forest with his mask on.

Walking through town he noticed that no one recognised him, even the Jonin which was a surprise because to quote Kakashi's favourite saying they had to look underneath the underneath and they obviously weren't. Some villagers even waved to him or bowed because of his status of ANBU to which he just snorted inwardly thinking how ironic this was.

'Damn if they knew who was under this mask it would be so goddamn funny.'

Eventually arriving at the Hokage tower he walked into the old man's office and shouted "Oi Old man" only for everyone in the room to look at him which consisted of every Jonin in the village. Some tried to hold in their laughs at this ANBU who just called the Hokage old in front of everyone and some just sent him death glares while the rest just stood there dumb founded.

"Ahhh urm, don't mind me I didn't realise that there was a Jonin meeting going on right now. I take it that it's that time of year again for the academy graduates? Well I'll just wait in the corner over there; carry on."

He walked over to the corner and sat down with everyone still looking at him, the Hokage having enough of this decided to intervene by clearing his throat loudly for everyone to pay attention which they did not wanting to make the 'Professor' mad.

"Thank you for the interruption Hydra... for those of you that don't know Hydra here; he is the newest member of ANBU and can come off a bit brash since he is still rather young."

Everyone just seemed to accept his statement and carried on with the meeting, Naruto heard that Kakashi was taking a team this year and thought 'Those sorry bastards are screwed'. The meeting just continued with Naruto not really paying attention until all the Jonin were dismissed by the Hokage who just sat in his chair with a raised eyebrow thinking about what Naruto is doing this time to cause him a headache.

"Naruto before you say anything I can already tell that you are going to give me such a goddamn headache today that it's not even funny. Now what can I do for you today?"

Naruto took off his mask and put his hand to his forehead and just stared mock hurt, "Oh my Jiji, you wound me so." with fake anime tears coming from his eyes only for Sarutobi to sweat drop.

"Even so get on with it, I have this goddamn paper work to do..."

"Well it's what I'm going to do for you Jiji, I know that there is another Mokuton user in ANBU. Name Tenzo and his codename is Yamato; I want him taken off the active duty list for 2 months so I can train his ass in wood release since I know all of the Senju wood techniques not to mention I created most of them in the library from my time."

The Hokage seemed to be contemplating the idea of having this 8 year old boy train someone almost 3x his age and decided in the end that the pro's outweigh the con's of the idea so he agreed to it. "Alright Naruto but you will have to explain some of your unique situation to him; don't worry it's an SS-Class secret and him being ANBU will understand."

"Ok Jiji, tell him to pack up for 2 months and come here for midday and I'll be back for him. After he and I disappear you won't see either of us for 2 months except when I come back to report about how we are doing etc also this gives me a good chance to see if the ANBU level compares to what it was when I was older; when he comes back if it doesn't compare to what it was when I was older then he will be at said level."

"Fine fine, now what are you going to do?"

"Me? That's simple I'm going to buy some clothes that don't shout 'Hey over here, I'm wearing bright orange so you better come and kill me!'. Oh and whilst I'm doing that I'm going to purchase some sealing supplies to replenish my stocks and then make some weight/restriction seals for me and Tenzo. See you later Jiji."

With that said he disappeared in a Shunshin leaving the Hokage to his thoughts. He pushed down on the intercom, "Mai-San, could you please get me the ANBU agent known as Hawk and tell him to report here in the next half hour."

"Ok Hokage-Sama."

Naruto walked down the street towards where the weapon shop was in his time but the issue was that the village had been rebuilt after the 'Pain Incident' and he couldn't remember where the shop was anymore. Sighing in defeat he decided to ask a passing Shinobi which happened to be Sarutobi Asuma; the third Hokage's son.

"Excuse me Asuma-San"

The bearded Jonin took out a cigarette from his pack and just lit it taking him time and took a long drag of the cigarette before blowing it out. "Ah ANBU-San, what can I do for you." Naruto just scratched the back of his head reminding Asuma of someone. "Well you see it's kind of embarrassing you see. You could say that I've been out of the village a long time on a mission for the Hokage but I came back to restock on supplies before taking another mission and now I can't seem to remember for the life of me where the weapons store is that I used to use."

Asuma just gave a small hearty laugh at the ANBU's misfortune and told him, "Well that is embarrassing like you said but luckily you're not too far from a Ninja store that sells everything Ninja want. Just walk down the street till you pass the 3rd alley and turn right and it should be in front of you."

"Hai, thank you Asuma-San." Naruto just turned and started to walk towards the store and when he reached it he was surprised to see that it was indeed the store he was looking for, the one owned by Tenten's family. Walking into the Modest size store still with his ANBU mask on so that no one would recognise him he walked up to the counter to see an 8 year old version of Tenten complete with her little Chinese style outfit and hair buns.

"Hello ANBU-San, how can I help you today?"

"Urm very simple to be honest, I'm looking for some normal ninja clothes and sealing supplies such as ink, plain tags and brushes etc you know?"

"Well that is simple enough, why don't you go pick out some clothes and I'll get the supplies ready for you."

"Urm I've been told I have horrible fashion sense so when I come back can you tell me your honest opinion? I'm a dude after all and I don't exactly care what I wear as long as it does the job."

"Urm... Ok"

Walking off to the clothes isle of the store he started looking around for what could be considered normal ninja ware and for his needs.

He found a normal set of Navy blue ANBU cargo pants with a Navy blue T-shirt with pieces that covered the arms reaching just passed the elbows, he decided to take a note out of his father's book and tied a small piece of white rope round the top of his elbows and Picked up a Navy blue holster that matched the rest of the outfit; deciding that he liked his outfit but it needed something to keep it original to him and only him so he walked back to the desk and saw an older gentlemen standing there.

"Oh hi, you must be Tenten's father. I was just trying on some clothes and I found some I like but I find that they are very stereotypical of a ninja and would like something that make them unique to me so do you sell some kind of necklaces here?"

"Ye we do, go past the clothes section and near the back you will find some jewellery."

"Cheers."

Walking back to the clothes section he was at before he found the jewellery section that he hadn't noticed before and started looking for a unique necklace that he could wear and maybe one day it would be recognised by many.

Out of the corner of his eye a necklace caught his eye, it wasn't a necklace that was made for both genders; this necklace appeared to be made for just males and it seemed to be calling to him for some reason.

Walking over to the necklace he picked it up and noticed that it seemed rather heavy, the necklace was a standard rope necklace made from very durable rope considering it was made for ninja; it had 5 long pieces of metal hanging from it each of them set at a certain angle and pointed at the end of each piece.

Deciding this was the necklace that he wanted he put it on and stared into the mirror to find that he like his outfit very much and decided to get 7 copies of them and another 2 copies of his necklace in case some asshole stole it or he lost it in the middle of a fight.

Walking up to the desk he found Tenten back with the supplies he asked for and he placed his clothes on the counter and decided to get her opinion. "So Tenten, what do you think?" He asked as he took his mask off to reveal a boy no older than her with 3 whisker marks on each side. She blushed.

"So that good eh? Not too bad looking yourself." He said as kept his mask off and asked her how much it came to?

"Urm should come to 2300 Ryo."

"That's fine, charge it to this account please."

"Urm are you sure?"

"Yes, it's my family account that I've never touched and trust me when I say it won't run dry anytime soon..."

"Ok then."

"Say, do you have the time?"

"Ye it's ten too twelve."

"Ahh shit, I'm going to be late." He quickly sealed up the clothes, ANBU gear and sealing supplies into his storage scroll that he brought with him and ran away as fast as he could to the Hokage tower.

Reaching the tower with a couple seconds to spare he decided to bypass the bitch of a secretary and Shunshin into the old man's office. Appearing in a puff of smoke he heard a gasp from the old man and a small almost inaudible "Minato?"

"Close Jiji but not close enough."

"Naruto! You look so much like him it's not even funny right now I mean even your clothes have a similar style to them and that necklace you're wearing is almost exactly like his that was lost."

"Hmm? Well great minds think alike right? Also for some reason it seemed like the necklace was calling to me when I was looking for one in the store."

"Damn, can't wait to see people faces at some point in the future."

"Ye it's going to be funny anyway where is Tenzo?"

He heard a small cough coming from behind him to see an ANBU standing at attention and Naruto just said "At ease." With that said the ANBU just relaxed his shoulders and responded with a quick "Hai Taichou"

"Remove your mask please, this office is secured."

"Hai" He removed his bird like mask and stood there with a rather emotionless face waiting for orders.

"Tenzo" Naruto started, "Do you know why you're here?"

"No sir, I was called here for midday and told to pack for two months."

"Well that is correct Tenzo, you see I've chosen you for a two month training trip for multiple reasons; now I'm not saying you need the trip but you're going to take it anyway whether you like it or not because I need you to be on the top of your game. So you and me are going to leave the village for two months and then return. One reason for this is because I want to see if ANBU levels have slipped since I was Captain and there's another reason but I'll tell you that later."

Tenzo gave him a weird look that said 'When were you an ANBU captain', Naruto noticing this looked explained further; "It will be explained when we reach our destination, you and I are on ANBU reserves until the trip is over. Basically for the next two months Tenzo, your ass is mine." He seemed to smirk evilly as he said this.

Tenzo looked rather scared at this point, no one knew anything about this ANBU except that he was to have his own team in two months and would be allowed to pick them. "Jiji, it's time for us to go; Tenzo am I right in saying that you have your stuff in a scroll?"

"Yes."

"Let's go then, see you in two months Jiji or whenever I can be arsed reporting our progress which will most likely be every two weeks; if ero-sennin turns up then don't let him leave until I come back I need my contract back, if you need to tell him I know about my heritage including my grandmother and tell him I want to sign the contract, oh and Jiji; this is for you." He said handing the Hokage a scroll.

With a wave of his hand he grabbed hold of Tenzo's shoulder and shunshin'd out of the room and into the street below. "Now I know you have questions but it will wait till we reach our base for two months at which point we shall have a nice discussion about your questions and everything will be explained."

Tenzo nodded and they started walking at a leisurely pace towards the gate to find Kotetsu and Izumo, the legendary 'Eternal Chunins' as they were came to be known throughout the village due to having the skills to advance to Jonin but being too lazy to actually take the test.

"Sup guys." The pair looked up to find an 8 year old Naruto with a new set of clothes and a small smile on his face.

"Naruto! We could use one of your pranks, it is boring as hell at the moment."

"Sorry, I'm going to be gone for 2 months will Yamato behind me so if I could just fill out the paper work and we will be off."

"Fine fine, sign here."

He signed and waved them off before hearing a scream from the Hokage's tower, Naruto just smirked and said "Looks like he finally opened my scroll."

"What was in it?"

Flash back - a couple of minutes ago

Inside the office the Hokage just looked at the scroll and opened it to find a small note and a storage seal, he checked the note first and it read.

'Dear Jiji,

I felt quite bad about everything that has happened this week including me etc so I felt like I owed you one so I decided how to repay the debt; in the storage scroll below is the answer. The one answer. The only answer to the question that you have been asking yourself since my father died or maybe since before that, I don't know.

Please wait 5 minutes before opening the seal and just to tease you I'm going to write the question here.

Question: How do I beat the Kage's worst enemy?

Anyway enjoy.

Naruto Uzumaki Namikaze Senju'

5 minutes later

Sarutobi was jittery, he couldn't wait to find out the answer; he sat in his chair staring at the picture of the fourth Hokage on the wall. "*Sigh*, You knew the answer didn't you? That's how you always got it done so quickly." The picture seemed to smirk at him. "STOP MOCKING ME!"

He noticed that the time was up and hurriedly poured chakra into the seal and open the piece of paper to find two words that he knew very well: "Kage Bushin" at the bottom of the paper was a crudely drawn chibi version of Naruto doing the piece sign.

Sarutobi just sat there for a minute before screaming at the top of his voice.

Flash back End

All 3 of the people with Naruto just looked at him with smirks, they all knew how much the Hokage hated the paper work and how much he wanted to find a way around it.

"That should do for a prank for a while, I'm sure when he sees me again he is going to be crying tears of joy haha. Well come on Yamato, we need to get a move on; see you guys in two months or when I report in whichever comes first."

Waving them off the two ANBU ran about half a mile away from the village and stopped at the forest of death. "Urm Naruto-Taichou, you know this is training ground 44? No one lives here."

"Really? Then it's a perfect place for us for 2 months isn't it?" He just smirked evilly again and jumped the fence waiting for Tenzo to follow him, they kept running until they arrived at an open area with a waterfall and river.

"Here we are, home base."

"I don't see anything."

"That's because its hidden unless you are of my blood."

Tenzo just thought about this and seemed to accept it. Looking up at the sky he found that it was about 1:30 in the afternoon and had plenty of time before nightfall.

"Right rules.

1. None of that Taichou crap when we are off duty; either Naruto, Naruto-Sensei, Naruto-Sempai or just simply 'Ruto as some of my friends called me.

2. What I train you in does not leave this place because people have been after my training methods for years." As he said years Tenzo looked at him as if he was crazy again.

"3. You never show anyone where this base is because I will consider it a safe house for a last resort if something happens and one of the team needs a rest.

4. You don't bitch about everything, honestly I will make you stronger than most of the ANBU but you mustn't moan about it.

Those are the rules, any questions?"

He thought for a moment and came up with a few.

"Actually yes, you said you chose me for this trip? Why? Any you say people have been after your training methods for years but you can't be that old?"

"Good questions, they are both related to each other. Be warned what I tell you now is an SS-Class secret so if you repeat it I will kill you myself." He nodded in consent and Naruto flashed some hand signs and placed a sound barrier up.

"Don't interrupt until I'm finished. My full name is Naruto Uzumaki Namikaze Senju; now with that being said you can probably guess why I picked you for this training session right? It's because of our blood lines. Yours may be fake and implanted by a mad man but because of this we are related in a way and family must stick together. I will be teaching you how to utilize your Mokuton to a higher degree than you can at the moment and where yours male pale in comparison to mine or my great grandfathers it will still be a force to be reckoned with." Naruto just went through some hand signs as a quick demonstration and planted his hands on the ground, suddenly a tree sprouted from the ground leaving Tenzo gaping.

"See? It also helps that I have access to the Senju library for Mokuton unlike you."

He nodded dumbly and just let him continue.

"Now for the second part it's a bit harder for me to explain, I am from the future and was sent back in time by the Kyuubi because I was about to die defending the leaf as its 6th Hokage. He sent me back in time to stop these actions before they started which I intend to do. Now as to the reason I am ANBU, well that is rather simple. In the future before I make Hokage I run ANBU for a total of 7 years and under my time fatalities were down 60% and mission success was up by 20%, my code name is/was Hydra because I was famous for my use of the Kage Bushin no Jutsu, when one was destroyed two more popped up in their place. I was classified as an SS-Class Shinobi just like my father and I mastered all of his Jutsu as well but that's a story for another time."

Tenzo just sat there for a couple of minutes trying to take in all of the information that he just collected from Naruto. "Are you telling me you wanted to train me to be a part of your new team because of the Mokuton?"

"Essentially yes."

"You have officially just mind fucked me into oblivion."

Naruto smirked at him and just continued, "Our team will be first response and we will be the best of the best in our respective fields; after we are finished with the two months our team will train together and help each other before we go hunting. Now let's get you to our new home for two months. Follow me."

Naruto just walked behind the waterfall with Tenzo following him and Tenzo started to notice a seal on the wall. "Oh so you've noticed, the house is hidden by seals and is actually made up in the trees via my Mokuton blood line with working utilities such as a kitchen, bathroom and electricity via Fuinjutsu that I've made. This seal is the only way to actually get up there unless you have my blood which means the Genjutsu doesn't affect you, now I'm going to alter the seal to allow anyone with the Mokuton blood line to activate it."

5 minutes later the seal alterations were done and Naruto explained how to work the seal. "It's rather simple; bite your thumb, run your blood over it and then pump chakra into the seal with your hand on it and it teleports you to the house."

He followed the orders and felt strange for a second before the scenery suddenly changed to that of Naruto's living room. "Damn, to make this in trees you must be good."

"You have no idea, before I came back in time I had the chakra levels of around 20 Kage level ninja, anyway there is a second bedroom down the corridor. I will let you settle we start your training tomorrow, we will take turns to hunt food in the forest since we don't have any here and we will cook it down stairs and eat it there so no one gets suspicious of our home if they see us."

Naruto let him get situated and decided to work on some seals for the rest of the day before eventually retiring for the evening.