CHAPTER 2

The next morning everyone is up and about going about their normal activities while tsume is Leading Naruto, Kuromaru and the pups to the Hokage office to talk about the creation of Naruto's clan within the Inuzuka clan and to come up with a symbol for said clan. All the while receiving glares from people as they walk past but quickly turn away as the 4 quiet large wolf pups growl at them.

Entering the hokage tower Tsume asks if the Hokage is busy she says he is probably reading that damable book again while getting some Chunin to do most of the paper work unless it is important and specifically needs him to sign so she waved them through to talk to the Hokage.

Knocking on the door to his office and getting a come in as a response both Tsume and Naruto enter with their respective partners in tow they say "good morning Lord Hokage/Jiji" Tsume being used to Naruto, knows he can call the hokage that so she doesn't say anything, the Hokage with a grandfatherly smile say good morning also "what do I owe the pleasure of you two" in answer Naruto explains what happened yesterday leaving out that his changes will be passed to his children in the very distant future with Tsume continuing on from where they met and what transpired in the Inuzuka compound. Nodding in understanding the Hokage and says "this isn't the only reason is it other than telling me what happened" with both of them shaking their heads Tsume outlines her offer… "he wouldn't be part of the Inuzuka just a clan, with a seat in the council but within the Inuzuka for protection until he finds A wife cause of his instincts he won't take multiple wives just one and it has to be of his choosing" the Hokage nodding in approval of this suggestion "so now all we need to do is come up with a symbol and name hey Naruto-kun" Naruto nodding his head "Yatta I was up a long time last night thinking about this cause wolves are the children of Amaterasu and they are one with nature both good and evil good towards their pack and allies and evil towards enemies and threats I was thinking the Ying and Yang symbol with flame going around the outside with the Kanji for wolf in the middle of it what do you think Tsume-Chan, Ji-chan" completely gobsmacked by the five year old in front of them went into such in-depth thinking behind his new clan symbol they say that is a wonderful idea.

After sarutobi begins saying "now all that we need to do is list you're as a new clan but within the Inuzuka so Tsume takes care of everything until you come of age at 16" he said this while filling out all the necessary paper work and asking Tsume and Naruto to sign the document. He then looks at Naruto and asks "what will the name of this Clan be" Naruto sits there for a minute before saying "hmm, the Hauringu Okami (howling wolf) clan sounds good"

Once done the two take their leave wishing the Hokage a good day.

On the way back to the compound Naruto asks if they can go shopping for new clothes which is fine with Tsume walking into the dragons den Naruto sets about getting his new outfit when he returns from the changing room he is wearing a skin tight black shirt with a jacket that has fake fur collar and back to it and wearing white shinobi ANBU pants tucked into black sandals all in all he has taken the colours of his pups and put them into one outfit which makes him look even more feral looking to Tsume after arriving back to the compound he asks if she can show him how to properly care for the pups but she tells him she can't at the moment and has to take care of clan business but says she will get Hana to show him the ropes and show him his new house which is really just their guest house at the back.

About 5 minutes later Hana comes down stairs (she looks like a kid version of herself in the cannon) to show him the ropes and to his new fully furnished home after spending the afternoon together they become good friends and they both start to develop a crush on each other, unknown to each other that is.

In the afternoon they spent with each other Hana taught Naruto what to feed the wolf pups and general health care of them she also helped him get settled in his new home and then spent time playing with their pups and getting to know each other better.

Council meeting the next day

Walking into the council chamber with Kuromaru Tsume sees all the other clan heads and the annoyingly loud civilian council taking her seat in the middle between the Aburame and Nara clan heads she sees the Hokage arrive followed by his two advisors Homaru and Koharu when he sat down the kage began to speak and said "I would like to start off by saying that yesterday's events have been sorted and do not need to be discussed it turned out one of the Inuzuka pups got out was attacked by a rather large wolverine and killed causing the mother to start howling in distress nothing more nothing less" he finished, Tsume just sat there putting on a sad look playing along with Sarutobi's game and nodded a little when they all looked at her for conformation to what was said. Tsume however was thinking 'well played Hokage-sama, good job in protecting Naruto' the hokage then continued "but Naruto Uzumaki was in the area after being able to slip away from his ANBU and came upon the scene and managed to chase the wolverine away thus recovering the body for cremation Tsume then found out what he did and made him an honorary member of the clan, which I support and have made official I will also not be swayed from my decision on this" when the rest of the council heard this thought it was amazing a mere 5 year old managed to slip away from ANBU and chase off a fully grown Wolverine at the same time that was mainly the shinobi's thoughts including the advisors who unlike what people believe have nothing against the boy and are happy he keeps the demon at bay. The civilians meanwhile now know the demon child is untouchable and will have to call off the first ever fox hunt they were planning on having on the Nine tails anniversary.

With that all said and done they really just talked about different village orientated aspects and concerns, all in all the meeting took about 2 hours.

At the Inuzuka compound

Waking up later than usual Naruto looks to see snuggled up to him are his four surrogate children giggling to himself he gets up and makes himself and them breakfast smelling the food the four pups bound into the kitchen of the small one bed, one bath, one kitchen, small living area house.

Eating breakfast they go outside only to be confronted by the averagely large female wolf hound kami-sora who gives them a wolfish grin and says "ah good your awake Tsume-sama said that every second day until you graduate from the academy your pups' will have to spend the day training and hunting with me, Doroashi, Hikari-kiba and sometimes Kuromaru-sama along with all the other pups around their age"

Smiling Naruto turns to each of them and says "you guys be good and learn from Kami-sora chan here she will have lots to teach you okay" getting nods from each then a lick on the face from each before they took off with Kami-sora who already started trotting off at a sedate pace. When they were gone Naruto went into the main complex of the clan compound and saw Hana tending a herb garden walking over to her he said "hey Hana chan do you need any help" Hana who was in her own little world jumped slightly at Naruto's voice, quickly composed herself and looked up from her kneeling position and said "nope I was just finishing up, hey where are senko-chan, Misutoashi-chan, Odorukage-kun and Shomei-kun" she asked looking round to see if they were close by. Naruto then spoke and said "Nah Tsume-chan told Kami-sori that she and the other wolf hounds had to train them every second day until graduation from the academy" hearing that Hana smiled and said "oh okay…so whatcha want to do", Naruto thought for a second and said "well I was thinking since I'm joining the academy in November I should figure out what type of shinobi I want to be and I decided that I would like to be a medic ninja like Tsunade sama of the sannins that Jiji always tells me stories about, so I was wondering if you wanted to come with me to see Hokage-ojasan to talk to him about it I bet if we ask nicely he will tell us a story as well" Hana was shocked he actually was allowed to call the Hokage an old man, but that was washed away at being able to hear him tell a story about when he was a ninja, she nodded her head "right lets go this is going to be fun" she said as they sped off towards the hokage tower.

When they arrived the secretary a woman from the Yamanaka clan named Nori smiled at seeing the duo and said "Hello Naruto-kun, and this must Tsume's-sama's eldest Hana how are you two today" she asked kindly as she didn't hate Naruto but thought he was a kind, happy and fun to be around kid, Naruto smiled and waved "hello Nori-chan we're here to see the old man is he busy" he asked excitedly

Nori smiled and said "No he's not here at the moment but he will be back in a couple of minutes how about you go in and wait for him I'm sure Inu and Tora will be happy to see you" she said with a smirk picturing the ANBU becoming a mess of laughter and completely the opposite of what ANBU were when Naruto was around that and she remembered the earful the old man gave those two the other night after Naruto left with Tsume. Hearing that his two favourite ANBU were in there Naruto grabbed Hana's hand and rushed to the Hokage's office door and proceeded to kick it open and shout "INU-CHAN, TORA-CHAN I want you to meet a friend of mine" back in the waiting area some of the other ANBU who happened to be females landed besides Nori and said "never did I think I would ever think those two would let anyone get away with calling them that" Nori just giggled evilly and said "yes well Naruto-chan only does it because he can always lose the both of them when they play ninja tag and I swear he has a sensor ability as the hokage always appears after he says something to embarrass the two, stopping them from doing anything" both the kunoichi giggled when they heard the usually calm and lazy Inu yell "GOD DAMMIT NARUTO YOUR NOT SUPPOSED TO ANNOUNCE THAT WE ARE HERE" it was quickly followed by a popping sound signalling Sarutobi arrived.

In the office Hana was giggling when the normally very quiet ANBU started shouting back at Naruto, followed by Naruto making fun of them which ticked them off even more, before they could go any further the hokage arrived via body flicker only to see Naruto on Inu's shoulders and Tora holding his head in his hands mumbling why over and over the two mention looked over at the hokage sheepishly before Naruto jumped of Inu's shoulders back next to Hana and the two ANBU agents went back to their hiding places. The hokage looked at Naruto and said "I do wish you would not mess with my ANBU but then again you won't listen" said an exasperated sarutobi as this wasn't the first time he appeared to something like this happening in his office. Naruto looked at the Hokage and grinned "you bet I won't listen it is way too much fun, but anyway old man I wanted to know if you had anything on medical stuff as I decided I want to be a medic ninja, that and we came for one of your super amazing stories too" said Naruto Hiruzen looked at the boy for a minute before smiling "you know being a medic is hard work and you need really good and I mean exceptional chakra control" said the sarutobi, Naruto gave him a steely look that said bring it "Hey old man I'm going to be better than even your student Tsunade so there" said Naruto getting a chuckle from the elder, Hana meanwhile couldn't believe how casual Naruto was being with the Hokage of all people for goodness sake.

Looking at his desk Hiruzen saw they were sorted into piles of important hokage only, semi important and not important, seeing the hokage only pile was actually very small today called for made two clones and ordered them to take the other two piles to the Chunin archivist downstairs. When that was done he motioned for the two children to follow him to the comfortable chairs in his office and said "I'll tell you a story and then if you wish Naruto I will give you a book on chakra control that has all the exercises from academy to kage level okay" the two children nodded happily at that.

After 45 minutes of sitting listening to the old hokage telling his story about his time as a young boy being trained by the second Hokage, he finished his story. When he finished he got up while listening to Hana and Naruto talk to each other about his story and what they thought were awesome jutsu, walking to a door on the other side of his office he disappeared for a couple of minutes coming out with a scroll that had the leaf balancing, tree walking, water walking, kunai balancing and spinning, shuriken spinning clockwise and anti-clockwise, senbon levitation and spinning, chakra strings control exercises walking over to Naruto he said "now I know you managed to unlock your chakra last year seeing as you pestered Jiro at the dragons den to show you how to so here is a scroll of chakra exercises that I want you to work on one at a time until you mastered them and either myself or Tsume-san is pleased with your progress, the techniques within the scroll are written in order of difficulty so please follow them. Depending on your progress and your behaviour in the academy I will give you a scroll on your birthday with either a medical or non-elemental jutsu within it okay" said sarutobi looking at the happy eyes of Naruto.

"Thanks Jiji I promise to follow what you said and only move on when you or Tsume-chan says so…" he said solemnly, he then looked at Hana "Hey Hana-chan do want to learn these exercises with me as well" asked Naruto with much enthusiasm, Hana who was feeling a little left out quickly perked up and agreed "I would love to learn them with you"

Quickly swiping the scroll from the old man he and Hana dashed out of the office and back to the inuzuka clan grounds.

When they arrived back at the clan grounds they were met by Tsume holding Kiba who looked at them with a raised eyebrow as if to say 'where the heck were you two' being sort of familiar with that look Hana spoke "Hey kaa-chan we were with the hokage and he was telling us stories of when he was a genin under Nidaime sama, he also gave Naruto-kun a scroll on various control exercises so he can become a medic and he asked if I wanted to learn the same things with him" said Hana with much enthusiasm. Tsume smiled and said "well if that's the case we should start straight away lets go" she said as they made their way to the back yard, I say back yard more like the size of a 20 acre block split up with various strands of trees, the odd outcrop of rocks and the couple of rivulets lazily meandering away. Walking to the nearest strand of trees with Kiba holding her hand and Hana and Naruto following close behind she plucks out four leaves and hands them each one and says "Now Naruto if you open your scroll I would assume your first exercise is leaf balancing so what I want you to do is sit down and channel your chakra to point on your forehead and make the leaf stick to it and try and hold it for a long as possible" she said doing it herself to show them what she meant, doing what she asked Kiba couldn't do and tsume said "Kiba we need to unlock your chakra first." Naruto the first time figured that he put in too much chakra as the leaf blew off, the second time it slipped off his face so holding it in place he waited until he thought he had the right amount after 10 minutes of concentration he let go the leaf stayed in place he kept concentrating and was able to hold the leaf for around 5 minutes. Hana meanwhile was struggling to keep the leaf stuck to her forehead for any longer than 1 minute.

Tsume seeing they were progressing said "when you can do this for 30 minutes or longer you can move on to the tree walking"

Two weeks later after practicing every morning on the leaf balancing exercise Naruto was able to hold it for around 35 minutes, Hana could hold it for about 31 minutes and Kiba who unlocked his chakra was able to hold it for 12 minutes only because of his age, Tsume being impressed by each of them said "Kiba I want you to continue with the leaf balancing until you can do it for 30 minutes okay pup" Kiba nodded and ran off with his new pup Akamaru to do the exercise. Tsume then turned to Hana and Naruto and said "right the tree walking exercise, you need to direct your chakra to your feet and try and walk up the tree, too much and you will be blown off and to little you will simply fall. Now when you can run up the tree 10 times without concentrating."

Later that day Naruto was sitting at the table in his little house the five year old Naruto was getting excited as his birthday was in a week but he wasn't thinking really about any of that but was lying on the floor with a scroll and pen with his pup round him Odorukage was opposite him Senko was laying on his right, Shomei was lying on the couch and Misutoashi was on his back with her head resting on top of his looking at what he was writing which happened to be some jutsu that he could do with his partners so far he had two written down wolfs howl where he would mould his chakra and release a supersonic howl along with his wolves hopefully with the target in-between them all for maximum damage, in theory of course, his second was called wolf pack jutsu, where his wolves and himself would create clones of themselves and create a large pack of wolves.

Looking up he spoke to Misutoashi "you got any ideas girl" as he rubbed between her ears, Misuto barked a little causing Naruto to raise an eyebrow and say "genjutsu is that something you learned from Kami-sora" when he said that Senko licked his face and barked and growled a few times "So you and Misutoashi can do genjutsu and Odoru and Shomei are more frontal attackers, interesting, I'll make sure to remember that I'll even get some genjutsu scrolls and some ninjutsu if you wish" this gained grunts of approval from the males and happy yips from the two girls. They conversed with each other long into the night bouncing ideas off one another.

Over the next week Naruto religiously kept at his chakra control like he had been with the goal of surpassing Tsunade of the Sannin, it was then the day of his birthday, on this day he was woken by that of Senko licking his face to wake him up, giggling he pushed her off him and got up walking into his living room he saw that the Hokage, Tsume, Hana and Kiba were there smiling he yawned and smiled at them, the hokage stepped forward and said "good morning Naruto-kun sorry for waking you but I have urgent business today and this was the only time I could see you and as promised here is your birthday present" he said as he handed him a scroll, he then bid a quick goodbye. When he left Hana ran up to Naruto and gave him a quick hug and said happy birthday, Kiba just chimed a quick happy birthday and Tsume she gave Naruto a hug and wished him a happy birthday before handing him another scroll. She then spoke again "tonight we are having a big party with all the clan, like we do with everyone else, anyway why don't we get comfortable and open your scrolls" she said as she sat down on one of the chairs which was emulated by Kiba and Hana who were soon joined by Akamaru, Kuromaru, the Haimaru triplets and the four wolf pups, Naruto sat down on the ground and opened the scroll the Hokage gave him opening it he read the jutsu he was given 'Fukumi Hari [Hidden Needles], Rank: D, Description: Fukumi Hari is a Ninjutsu technique which allows the user to call forth needles into his/her mouth and then spit them at his or her opponent with great accuracy.

He then saw a seal at the bottom with a note 'this is a gift from Jiro' putting a bit of chakra into the seal when he did a katana sword with a blunted attacking edge but a sharpened reverse edge it had a wooden handle and simple square bronze cross guard lying on the floor next to him was a wooden sheathe with a detailed Sakura tree blossoming from the tip half way up the sheathe.

Smiling he put the scroll and sword to one side he opened the scroll tsume gave him opening it he saw a list of jutsu:

Beast to Human Clone: hand signs tora (tiger)

Human to beast Clone: hand signs Tatsu-Tora (dragon-tiger)

Four Legs Technique: hand signs Tora (tiger)

Passing Fang: hand signs Tora-Tatsu (tiger-dragon)

Looking at Tsume he looked shocked and said "Are you sure these are clan techniques", Tsume just smiled and said "just to get you started as I heard from Kuromaru that your pups were trying to make supersonic howl that would destroy an enemies hearing and hit them with enough force to knock them off their feet I say it is a good idea but we are now joined clans so it really doesn't matter as they are your clan secrets as well" she said with a smirk, Naruto and the other two kids just looked at her in wonder.

The rest of the day was spent with the inuzuka family and the other clan members celebrating his birthday.

Naruto age 6

Kiba age 5

Hana age 8

Tsume age 36