A New Family in Konohana

Chapter 2

Naruto had a Cheshire grin on his face as he and his new mom approached Ichiraku. He couldn't wait to show his new parent to Teuchi and Ayame, who were pretty much his only friends in Konoha. When they entered the noodle stand, they were greeted by a smiling fifteen year old Ayame, who had just started working with her father a few weeks ago.

"Hi Naruto-kun" greeted Ayame, with a warm smile. "Would you like your normal seat at the counter today?" The young ramen trainee then noticed a woman, with long dirty blonde hair tied back in a ponytail and dressed in a black vest which partially covered her breasts, dark green pants with padded knees, long laced black high heel boots, and fingerless black gloves, enter the restaurant behind Naruto. "Oh hello, are you a friend of Naruto's miss?" asked Ayame, while gazing at the woman's beauty.

Naruto smiled excitedly and said "Guess what Ayame-chan. She's going to be my new mom."

This surprised Ayame, but she broke into a smile at hearing the good news, before she heard a yell of pain from her father and turned to see that he had accidently splashed some ramen broth on himself, from being surprised as well. "Dad are you ok?" asked the young ramen waitress as she ran to her father.

"Yeah I'm fine, but congratulations on getting a mother Naruto" exclaimed Teuchi, who still had an ounce of pain in his voice. "What say I get you two some free bowls of ramen to celebrate."

"Really, awesome" yelled Naruto happily, but stopped as he saw his mom walk over to the ramen stall owner and kneel down in front of him.

"You spilled quite a bit of broth on yourself" the woman stated, as she examined Teuchi's burn. "If left alone, this could leave a serious burn for several weeks." Naruto's new mother reached into a pocket on her jacket and pulled out a small cylinder container and twisted the cap off to reveal some pink cream. She scooped some up into her hand and began to rub it into the ramen chef's burnt hand.

"This will stopped the burn from damaging your nerves any further, causing it to not hurt as much but it will still leave the burn mark" informed the woman.

"Oh, thanks" said Teuchi, while passing a look to Naruto that said "She's a keeper."

Once the ointment was rubbed in the woman put the container away, she then walked over and sat next to Naruto, who had taken a seat at the ramen stand's counter. Teuchi got up and feeling better, made the two some of his miso pork ramen. Meanwhile, Ayame proceeded to sit next to the woman who had just helped her father.

"Wow, your new mom is so resourceful Naruto-kun" chimed Ayame gleefully.

"Yeah and you should see my dad to, he can use ice without even having to use hand signs" bragged Naruto, as he began to devour the ramen that Teuchi had placed in front of him.

"Oh, so you have a father to" said Teuchi as he was turning off his equipment, since it was near closing time.

"What's his name?" asked Ayame, who then realized that she didn't know the name of the person that she, was sitting next to. "Oh sorry, I don't even know your name miss."

"My name is Sonya Blade" replied Sonya, who was eating the ramen rather quickly after she tasted how good it was.

"That's an unusual name, so what's your husband's name" asked Teuchi, who had just finished shutting down his kitchen and was leaning up against the counter.

This question made Sonya nearly choke on her ramen. "He's not my husband, I'm not even married" yelled Sonya, who tried to catch her breath after nearly choking on her dinner.

"Oh sorry, I just assumed that he was since you were adopting Naruto with him" explained Teuchi, who sweat dropped from the woman's sudden outburst.

"It's fine, his name is" Sonya stopped for a second to think about whether to use her partner's true name or his persona's and finally decided to play it safe. "His name is Sub-Zero" answered Sonya, after a while of silence.

"Is that really his name?" asked Ayame, who looked confused.

"Well no but, he doesn't like to disclose his real name" informed Sonya, as she finished off her ramen. "Sorry, but we should probably get going since it's getting late. Perhaps we can continue this discussion tomorrow when he's here" suggested Sonya as she picked up a now sleepy Naruto and carried him out of the stall.

"Alright, bye Naruto-kun, bye Sonya-sama" yelled Ayame, she waved goodbye to her friends and walked back into the ramen stand as her father pulled down the metal curtain to close up. "I wonder what Naruto's dad will be like?" Ayame wondered, "Naruto said that he could control ice, and to have a partner like Sonya-sama he must be really handsome." With this thought Ayame's imagination went wild as she tried to picture what Naruto's new dad looked like.

The Sandaime hokage, (Hiruzen Sarutobi) was sitting at his desk and just glared at the paperwork that lay beneath his pen. "Come on Hiruzen, you're the hokage, you can handle a little paper work" thought the third, before he looked up to see the mountains of paper work that was stacked before him and let out a sigh. "Then again, this isn't a little paperwork." Suddenly, Hiruzen felt a cold breeze blow through the room and moved aside a stack of papers that was blocking his view of the door.

There he saw a man who was heavily built, with a blue and black ninja outfit, he had silver bracers and gauntlets strapped to both of his arms, and he wore a mask that covered all but his eyes. The most distinguishing feature about this man; however, was that whenever he exhaled, you could see his breath. "Are you Konoha's leader" asked the stranger

"I am, and who are you" countered the hokage

"My name is Sub-Zero, and I have come from." Sub-Zero stopped to decide on whether or not he should reveal his true origin, or if he should say that he is from this world. He finally decided that it would be best to lie. "I have come from a distant country called China with an ally to adopt a child named Naruto Uzumaki."

The Sandaime flinched at the boy's name as he had tried so hard to keep the boy, as well as the council happy. "I apologize for your long journey here, but I cannot allow you to adopt Naruto" the hokage responded. "He is far too valuable to our village for us to let you take him away."

Hiruzen looked at the man to see that he was unshaken by this as he stated in a calm tone. "You misunderstand sir, we do not wish to take the boy away from here we simply request to adopt him."

This shocked the hokage and he asked, "Why would you wish to adopt him, if you do not want to take him back to your homeland."

"We are simply here to make sure that the young Uzumaki develops into a successful shinobi of your village" answered the cryomancer, who received a suspicious look from Konoha's leader. Thinking quickly the Lin-Kuei said "It is a favour to the boy's late parents that we make sure he grows up properly and hopefully learns to eventually control his demon."

"I see, so you knew the Yondaime and his wife?" asked Hiruzen

"Yes and after I heard how their son was being treated by the people of this village, I decided to make it a personal promise to them to raise him to be as successful as they were" answered Sub-Zero. The hokage glared at Sub-Zero trying to see whether or not the man was lying. Thanks to his training, Sub-Zero was able to maintain a calm person and after about a minute of silence Hiruzen sighed.

"This could work out I suppose," thought the Sandaime, "The council shouldn't complain too much since Naruto is remaining in the village and Naruto would be overjoyed to finally have a family, even if it is adoption." "Very well," Hiruzen stated, "I shall allow you to adopt Naruto Uzumaki. All that you must do is fill out some adoption forms and become a citizen of Konoha, so that you may purchase a house. After all, the boy's current apartment is not big enough for Naruto, your partner, and yourself."

"How does one become a citizen of the village?" asked Sub-Zero, who was relieved to finally be finished with this uncomfortable late night meeting, but kept his nonchalant profile.

"You must live in the Village for a certain number of years before you can obtain a citizenship or you will need to become a Konoha shinobi" answered Hiruzen.

"What must be done to become a village shinobi and what work does it entail?" asked Sub-Zero, who wasn't too psyched about becoming a shinobi for another group.

"There are two ways, first is to attend the academy here for a few years until you graduate. There you will learn how to" Hiruzen stopped suddenly noticing the "get serious" look in the cryomancer's eyes, and decided to jump straight to the second option. "The second option is a method that was created by the village's second hokage as a way to incorporate any willing shinobi quickly into our ranks. It has only been used ten times before and no one has ever fully succeeded in it."

"My companion and I shall strive to be the first one's if it will give Naruto a stable life" stated Sub-Zero. In the back of his mind, the Lin-Kuei was confident that this challenge would be simple for him and Sonya compared to fighting against Shao Kahn's forces.

"I can tell that you have a strong determination in helping Naruto. Let's just hope that you are as powerful as you look, and that your partner is strong as well." Hiruzen couldn't help but smirk, since the warrior in front of him had no idea how difficult the "second option" really was.

The hokage then looked at the clock in his room and saw that it was close to midnight. "It is getting late, for now you should just fill out the adoption papers; I'll prepare the Nidaime's task for you and your friend to attempt tomorrow. One of my anbu spec ops will escort you to the testing ground when it is ready" explained Hiruzen. "Do you have any further questions?" asked the Sandaime, who was glad that this meeting was almost over so that he could go to bed.

"No" stated Sub-Zero.

"Good, now if you'll just follow me then I'll get you those adoption forms, since my secretary has most likely gone home by now. The hokage led the new "father" and possibly new leaf ninja, out of his office and towards the village's archives to retrieve the needed documents.

Sonya arrived at Naruto's apartment and opened the door to find it a complete wreck. The wooden floor was cracked up and splintered; the room's wall paper was coming off, clothes, garbage, and dirty dishes were scattered throughout the room. "This is disgusting even for a hardened military woman like me, and what the hell is that smell." Thought Sonya, while trying to keep herself from gagging thinking that it might wake upset Naruto. The spec ops lieutenant looked down to see a carton of milk that was spilled all over the floor and judging by the large "chunks", she could tell that it has been there a long time.

Sonya felt the young blond that she had been piggy backing shift slightly, as he had fallen asleep on their way to his home after giving her just good enough directions. "Better, put him to bed" thought Sonya, and she weaved her way through the debris that littered the apartment. She eventually made her way to his bed and laid the sleeping child down on his bed before covering him up.

Sonya then turned around to find Sub-Zero sitting on the living room's couch, which he had apparently cleared and looked at her. She then noticed the large stack of papers that lay staked on top of the coffee table which the cryomancer had also cleared off. "What are those" asked Sonya, as she couldn't take her eyes off of the stack of papers.

"The adoption papers" answered Sub-Zero, who sighed at the two and a half foot stack of paper work which lied on the table before him.

"Ah, shit" gloomed Sonya, as she walked over to the couch and sat next to the cryomancer. She pulled out two pens from one of her jacket's pockets and handed one to the Lin-Kuei and they started working on the stack of forms.

Hours later Sonya suddenly awoke to find herself lying in a bed with the covers pulled over her. At first, she thought that it had all been a dream, but then saw a bright yellow blotch through her half opened eyes. When her eyes fully opened and adjusted to being awake, Sonya saw a still fast asleep Naruto next to her. The lieutenant shot up from the bed, but was careful not to wake up the boy. When she did she almost tripped over something and looked down to see her shoes. The blond wondered how her boots ended up next to the bed, but was thankful that she was still fully dressed other wise and put them on, before standing up.

After standing up the military woman noticed her fellow earth realm warrior sleeping on the couch. She then remembered what had happened last night. They had stayed up until nearly three in the morning filling out adoption papers before she had fallen asleep. Sonya couldn't help but smile at the sleeping Lin-Kuei warrior, when she realized that he must have been the one who put her into the bed. "Well, well, the ice master really does have a warm heart. Wait until the others her about this, especially Johnny and Smoke."

Sonya jokingly thought to herself before deciding that doing that would be to cruel to the ice user, since it would probably destroy his reputation if anyone found out that he wasn't the "cold as ice" warrior that everyone had thought he was. Her eyes then drifted over to the coffee table and saw that all of the papers were now in the finished pile that they had made yesterday. "Wow" thought Sonya, "there were still about a third of the papers left when I fell asleep. He must have stayed up all night finishing it up." Looking around, Sonya decided that she might as well make the apartment livable and began to clean it.

Three hours had past, and it was now almost noon. Naruto had left for the shinobi academy about two hours ago. This caused Sonya to become a little distressed at having to tell the still sleeping Lin-Kuei, that he wouldn't be the one training Naruto when he awoke. She knew that training the kid was the whole reason that he was here and after hearing about the academy, then he would probably want out of the mission, as he would feel that he wouldn't be needed.

Sonya smirked at her accomplishment of having finally finished clearing the apartment floor and kitchen counters. "Well, it was a complete pain in the ass, but someone had to do it." Exclaimed Sonya, as she went to go and relax on the couch, but heard someone grunt when she jumped over the couch and plopped down onto it. The spec ops woman turned her head to see a now awake Sub-Zero glaring at her.

"That hurt" stated Sub-Zero, and he covered his legs that Sonya was sitting on with ice.

Sonya sprang up from the couch as her butt suddenly felt like it was frozen. "Dammit" yelled Sonya, "couldn't you have waited for me to get off before giving my ass frostbite."

"Couldn't you have looked before you sat down" countered Sub-Zero calmly, but Sonya could tell that he was smirking beneath his mask. The two shot glares at each other and looked ready to fight when they heard a knock at the apartment door. Sonya slowly walked to the door, as she didn't want to give the cryomancer an opening.

As the door opened, Sonya saw a man dressed in a black over coat and a porcelain cat mask with three green marks painted on either side of its face that resembled cat whiskers. "Are you the one known as Sub-Zero's, partner?" asked the man.

"Yeah, and who are you?" Sonya asked, as she glared at the man out of suspicion.

"He is one of the hokage's anbu, correct?" stated Sub-Zero, and he received a confused glare from his fellow warrior. "I will explain to you on the way" the Lin-Kuei said. He then hefted the now wrapped up, stack of adoption papers and walked towards the anbu. "We are ready" informed Sub-Zero, and the three began down the apartment complex's hall.

They arrived at an open field surrounded by forests a half hour later and Sonya saw the hokage, or she assumed he was, since he matched the description that her ice shinobi companion had given her during his explanation about his meeting with the hokage yesterday. Behind the leaf shadow were six others and each one looked odd to her.

On the far left was man with short, spiky, white hair, he had his leaf ninja headband pulled down over his left eye and wore a dark blue mask that covered up the bottom half of his face. He seemed to be more interested in the orange book that he was reading than her or her companion as they approached the group.

Next, was a man who had thick eye brows and had black hair which was in a bowl cut style haircut this man seemed to be the most excited among the group as her stared at the two warriors, thinking that they looked like they would be strong new rivals. The last person on the left, was a man smoking a cigarette, with short, black, spiky hair and a beard, he also wore a sash near his waist that had the kanji for "fire". He smirked at the newly arriving duo and thought that they both looked pretty strong.

On the far right there was a woman who had long spiky brown hair, slitted pupils, and red markings on her cheeks. She gave the two a very animalistic type grin, similar to what a predator would do when they see a good meal. Her grin revealed elongated canine, which only seemed to increase her feral appearance. Standing next to her was a blue and white wolf looking dog. The dog was missing his/her (though Sonya highly doubted that it was a girl), left ear and wore an eye patch which covered its right eye. The next person on the right was a woman with light brown, pupil-less eyes she had purple hair that was in a spiky pony tail. She wore a tan overcoat with a fish net suit underneath, an orange mini-skirt, and shin guards.

This woman stared at them with a large toothy grin, which somewhat reminded Sonya of Naruto, except the grin also seemed to have a malicious intent behind it, and it caused Sonya to become wary. The final person on the right, as well as of the six was a "large" man who had long red hair, purple curved markings on his checks, he wore samurai type armour, that had a rope tied around his waist, and had the kanji for "food" on his armour 's chest piece. This shinobi seemed to be the only one who was taking the new comers possible power into consideration.

As the two Earthrealm warriors reached the group, the anbu who had escorted them, took his leave and he hefted the bag of papers, which Sub-Zero had been carrying, over his shoulder before disappearing. The hokage looked completely shocked as he saw the huge stack of papers being taken away.

Finally, the hokage shook off his surprise and began to address the two that stood in front of him. "Welcome, today the two of you will partake in a trail which hasn't been attempted since the Nidaime was still in control. Be aware, that this method of becoming a leaf shinobi has only been attempted a few times before and that no one who has attempted it, has ever completed it to its maximum achievement." The Sandaime exclaimed, before taking a breath. "In this challenge each one of you will face off against three of my jounin. The rules are simple, if you can survive against the three of them as they're using an average amount of power for at least three minutes, then you will be given the rank of chunnin. After those three minutes have passed, the three jounin will fight you as if you were a true enemy. If you can withstand them for another two minutes, then you will be given the rank of jounin. If you do not last at least three minutes against them, then you will have failed the trail. Do you both understand this?" asked the hokage.

Both Earthrealm warriors nodded and Hiruzen continued his briefing about their test. "Now, before we begin I shall introduce the jounin that I have selected as your opponents for this endeavour" stated the fire shadow, as he gestured at the ninja behind him.

"Starting from your left is Kakashi Hatake," and the man who had been reading the book looked up and nodded before going back to the book. "Might Guy," and the bowl cut shinobi gave a thumbs up, as his teeth shined and everyone sweat dropped from it. "My son, Asuma Sarutobi," and the smoking guy gave a friendly nod towards the warriors. "Choza Akimichi" and the big guy gave a slight bow to the two contenders. "Anko Mitarashi," the purple haired girl's grin widened as she gave a two fingered salute. "And Tsume Inuzuka, along with her companion Kuromaru," the feral woman licked her upper teeth menacingly, as the wolf glared at them.

"Jesus" thought Sonya, "that wolf looks more tamed than his owner." Sonya then realized, that the woman was actually pointing her predatory intent, past her and was aiming it at Sub-Zero, who failed to notice. "Oh thank god" thought Sonya as she mentally sighed in relief. "She wants to kill the Lin-Kuei and not me."

The Sandaime noticed the look of intimidation that the Inuzuka Clan head was giving off. "Oh, and neither of you need to worry about your lives. I've asked my jounin not to severely damage or kill you." Hiruzen stated, as he looked at Anko and Tsume, they both just looked away from their leader and pouted. "Now, I will allow you two to decide on who you wish to fight." With that the hokage walked over to Anko and Tsume, in order to make sure that neither one of them would "accidently" mortally wound the person that they are chosen to fight.

Sub-Zero walked towards Sonya and said "I will let you pick the three that you wish to fight."

Sonya was a little surprised by the fact that Sub-Zero had given her first pick. Shaking it off, she walked towards the group of Leaf Nin, who were once more lined up. Sonya thought over her possible opponents over. "The white haired guy doesn't seem too bad, but that may just be a cover up. Bowl cut is just plain creepy, so he's a no. The smoker guy looks like he's an up-straight kind of fighter, so possibly. The red head looks sterner than the others, so he's probably going to be prepared, I'll probably leave him to the Lin-Kuei. Overcoat girl, she seems kind of malicious and blood thirsty." Sonya mentally sighed again, before continuing her thoughts. "Unfortunately, I already decided on leaving bowl cut, and food guy to the cryomancer, and seeing as how it's either overcoat or," She shivered at the thought of how aggressive the feral woman would be if she was denied her prey.

"I'll choose Kakashi, Asuma, and Anko" exclaimed Sonya, who was mentally high fiving herself for remembering their names.

"Very-well, that leaves Guy, Choza, and Tsume, to fight against Sub-Zero." The Hokage stated, but felt kind of bad for the ice ninja, when his opponents perked up at hearing that they got their desired opponent. The hokage then continued with a slight cough to take his mind off of it. "Once I reach the observation post nearby, we will set off a flare to let you know to begin your match."

As the hokage finished, he disappeared and the leaf jounin each led their opponent for the next five minutes to a separate half of the field. One minute later, they all saw the flare shoot off into the sky and prepared for battle.

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Hey everyone hope you all enjoyed this chapter I know I haven't changed much but I will with some chapters any way thank you for voting on my poll I haven't made my decision yet I'm going to leave the poll open for at least a few months to give more people enough time to vote.

I must let you know that I will take my time writing this story so I don't make any spelling mistake, make shore the story makes sense and to make it as entertaining as I can so I will not rush this.

I will think about pairing Naruto with someone else other than Hinata if it makes sense I might do a poll to vote for who Naruto should be paired with when I star writing my other MK + Naruto Crossover.

Any way I am open to suggestions if anyone wants me to add anything to this story and please leave as many review as you like.