Naruto: Konoha's King
Hello there everyone! I am happy that I got 8 reviews in the first day when I publish this fanfic, I am grateful. Right, this is the second chapter and I hope this will please you all
Phase 2: Family Matters
It's been 2 months since that fateful day, the day where the life of Naruto Namikaze changes forever and right now our hero is currently…helping an old man selling his merchandise. Now our hero is doing this to get money since the old man agreed that he will get 20% of the money they got, Naruto is collecting money is to pay Inori's rented apartment, what he never imagine is that Naruto had Inori with him to sing a song to gain many peoples attention, most of them just buy their product just to listen to Inori's song
"Thank you for your time, please come again" Naruto sold another of the old man's merchandise
"Well, I have to thank you kid, I'm getting a profit! Say, if both of you keep helping me I'll add another 10% to your pay" The old man is very pleased
"We really appreciate it" Naruto answered before handling another customer, there was a crowd in front of the store and Inori's singing doesn't help calm the matter
Naruto is working up a sweat, there was just no end to them, luckily they started to disperse when Inori stopped singing, Naruto is really tired by then heck some of them is still around asking for an encore which Inori just ignore and went up to Naruto
"Are you okay?" Inori asked, with these past 2 months they had become best friends, well to be more precise they really had no other friends
"Yeah I'm fine, by the way old man, can we have our pay?" Naruto asked the old man in which he laugh happily
"Of course, here you go kids" The old man handed them 60,000 ryo
"Isn't this a bit much? Our agreement was that I would get only 20% of our income" Naruto hesitated, he is a man who followed his promises
"Well, to tell you the truth this is 20% of our income" the old man laugh again, he never would have imagined that 2 kids would bring him so much money
"Well then, thank you very much" Naruto bowed to the old man, Inori also followed
"No, I should be the one to thank you" the old man said, "now hurry along now, I know you have somewhere else to be"
"Thank you again" and with that Naruto and Inori left
"How are you doing?" Inori ask, Naruto just turn to her with confusion
"With your family" Inori added, now Naruto understand
"Well, they're still training Hitomi right now, but I understand their concerns now" Naruto said, this causes for Inori to be confuse
"Well, you see I accidentally heard my father talked with Jiraya about Hitomi's training, and apparently they think Hitomi is the child of prophecy that was said to bring peace to the entire elemental nation" Naruto explain, "If that's their reason for neglecting me then I don't mind, in fact I encourage it. Right now we live a life of peace that could be shattered at any moment, if Hitomi can bring a much better way of peace then I certainly won't mind"
"You're really kind" Inori compliment him
"Heh, not really" Naruto scratches his head, both of them never realized that a certain red-haired was listening to them
'Nii-san' Hitomi looked at him sadly, 'Is that the reason why you barely talk to us anymore?'
Meanwhile in the Hokage tower, Minato was reflecting on the past thinking about his family, he finally noticed that his son was distancing himself from them, and when he thought of all those time that he neglected him it made his heart ache
'What kind of father am I? I barely talk to Naruto, heck I don't even know what his hobby is' Minato thought solemnly, 'Maybe I should start his training, yeah that would cheer him up'
And now he went back to his most hated enemy and probably one of the cruelest enemy, paperwork that somehow tripled while he was away in his thoughts, oh how he hate paperwork, when he died and went to the afterlife he was going to choke whoever it was that invented paperwork
Kushina was also thinking about Naruto, she hadn't spend much time with her son as she would like to, well she was training Hitomi so that she could handle the Kyubi but it still pain her that Naruto is being more distant to them
'Maybe I should make ramen for him, yeah I'm sure it'll make him happy' Kushina started to make ramen, she hope they'll be one big happy family again
"I'm home" Hitomi came to the living room, " Kaa-san, are you making ramen?"
"Yes, I am" Kushina expected her to scream in happiness but what came out from her mouth surprise her and yet it made her happy
"Can you make a lot then? For Nii-san?" Hitomi ask hoping her mother would say yes
"Of course" Kushina answered
When Naruto got home there was something wrong, that was for sure. For one thing the atmosphere seems different, and for one thing his family seems to smile at him, now that made him wary of them, are they imposters, no there was no way they were imposters. Well then, he'll just have to wait and see, for now it's dinner…
"So Nii-san how was your day?" Hitomi ask, Naruto raised his eyebrow
"Fine" Naruto said, he just focus on eating, normally this is the part where everything is about Hitomi
"So Naruto, what exactly did you did today?" Kushina ask hoping to get something out of her son
"Nothing special" Naruto answered, okay now he was suspicious, he never noticed that his family frowns
When Naruto finishes he put his bowl on the sink and was about to wash it when Kushina stopped him
"Naruto, it's fine I'll handle the dishes" Kushina said
"Okay then, I'm going to my room" when Naruto began walking Minato called him
"Naruto wait, we're having a family meeting at 8, okay?"
"Alright" Naruto came to his room before thought, 'what is wrong with them?'
When Naruto got back down, he saw that his family was waiting for him, so he sat down next to Hitomi who smiled at Naruto although he didn't notice it
"So what's this about?" Naruto ask his parents
"Well, I think it's about time we train you" Minato said with a smile
"Really! Does that mean Nii-san will train with me?!" Hitomi is now excited, "Isn't that great Nii-san!"
"Why?" Naruto ask them resulting them to look at him
"Why what?" Minato pondered, why was he not happy with this
"Why would you train me now of all times? There's only a month left before the academy, I can wait" Naruto said
"B-but, Nii-san you can be stronger this way" Hitomi tried to persuade his brother
"Y-yeah, that's right why would you not want training?" Minato ask, he was hoping this would make him happy
"Well, for one I would only be a hindrance in Hitomi's training" Naruto said
"Nii-san it's fine, you won't slow me down" Hitomi was happy that he is thinking about her but this way they can spend more time together
"No, it's best to focus everything on Hitomi's training, after all she is the child of prophecy" this made Minato gasp, "If you're wondering where I heard that then it was a month ago when you were talking with Jiraya"
"Nii-san" Hitomi has tears in her eyes, was it her fault that he was distancing himself?
"Don't cry, shinobi don't cry" Naruto patted her head which seems to calm her down somewhat, "If that's it, I'm going back to my room"
When Naruto left, they felt many emotions in them, mostly guilt and regret. Hitomi finally broke down crying thinking it was her fault that Naruto was like this, Minato and Kushina were thinking on what kind of parents they were
The next morning when Naruto woke up, he went outside to get breakfast with Inori, but was stopped on the doorway
"Nii-san, where are you going?" Naruto turned to see Hitomi
"I was just about to go out" Naruto answered
"Do that after breakfast" Hitomi pouted
"But I was, I was just about to go out and get breakfast" Naruto said
"She mean have breakfast with us" Kushina came with a frown, she was hoping for her family to go back how it once was
Before they can do anything, Naruto suddenly made a run for it out of the compound surprising both Kushina and Hitomi, but before they were about to chase him there was a note. They picked it up and it read 'Hell hath no wrath like a woman scorned' and with that note their eyebrows twitch, but they understand the message it seems that someone was waiting for Naruto and it was female, they didn't even think that Naruto have a girlfriend, when Minato came down and saw the note he had a thought
'Good choice son, I just hope your mother can calm down, after all hell hath no wrath like a woman scorned'
Meanwhile with Naruto, he was heading towards one of Inori's favorite restaurant where he can already see Inori waiting for him
"Hey! Inori!
"Naruto"
And that's it, I'm hoping to get more reviews this time so please people review my work and comment on what you think, if any of you have any tips for me then I greatly appreciate it. Oh yeah, also I might not be able to post this all the time, after all I still have school so if I haven't posted for a long time, please don't blame me