**AN: I have two stories that need to catch up to ANL...so until both are on their third chapter, I will be writing for Amegakure's Jinchuriki for just a few more chapters before alternately switching between the two and then returning back to ANL.**
**BTW...fan fiction isn't letting me update my freaking hit counts...damn...So anyone knows why that is, let me in on the joke, eh?**
**Disclaimer: If Naruto were mine do you think he'd be an idiot with no skills what-so-ever? Yeah, didn't think so...**
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**Chapter Two: The Prince of Ame**
**Time skip: 9 Years Later**
Sarutobi Hiruzen smiled as he looked into his crystal ball.
_It's been nearly a decade...let's see if he'll return to Konoha._
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A 14-year-old blond walked through the streets of Konoha. To think he actually lived in this excuse for a shinobi village made him sick. And what upset him more were the looks he was getting from the females his age; Attraction, lust, intrigued, and confused. The looks he was getting from adults downright pissed him off. Getting looks of shock, as if he had actually died and come back to destroy them.
"**Well, maybe that last part wasn't entirely inaccurate..."**
He shook his head to rid himself of the dark thought from his tenant.
Back on the subject of the girls near his age, he knew he should have listened to his friend Homozu. The kid wasn't the smartest genin in all of Ame for no reason. He cursed himself for his choice in wearing just his orange overcoat with blue flames adorning the edgings at the bottom and the sleeves that barely covered his upper arm. Add the blue image of a smiling face of a fox with nine swirling rings around it and he looked like a character from a television show. Below the image of the fox were the Kanji for Prince of Ame and above it was the Kanji for 'Awesome'. He stopped and looked at himself in a mirrored window of a store.
Blonde spikey hair similar to his adoptive tou-san and his Ero-jiji that reached passed his shoulders, his Ame headband holding his bangs out of his face. A toned upper body revealed due to his lack of a shirt. He instead chose to just wear his black bandana that loosely hung around his neck with the small red clouds that were connected to his family's stance in Ame. He had navy blue cargo pants on with the bottoms taped around his ankle, giving them a billowed look. Aside from the tape around the soles of his feet, they were bare as the day he was born.
He sighed as he tightened the strap of his kunai holster on his left leg. He turned to look up at the shadow he noticed in the corner of the mirror.
"You know, Ryu," he said, "Following me is not what I had in mind. You could have just asked to come with me when I told Uncle I was going out to see the village."
A boy with combed silver hair jumped down next to him. The boy locked his brown eyes on the blond. In return, the blond looked his friend over.
Ryu Howaito, or just Ryu (as he doesn't go by anything other than his Clan name), comes from an assassination clan. They once shared a rivalry with the Hatake clan of Konoha, and they shared a heritage. Hatake Ryu left the Hatake clan and started his own clan in the Land of Rain.
Ryu looked like the second coming of his clan originator. He had his long silver hair combed back and from his hetai-ite a black cloth with red clouds hung over his left ear. His unnaturally chiseled jaw had a scar running along it from one of their missions. Ryu wore a black sleeveless shirt with a white sash going across his chest and right shoulder. The sash hid seals that contained various weapons including his prized shinai. His choice in pants were very similar to the blonde's, the only difference is that he didn't have custom scroll slips sewn in them. And he wore the traditional covered sandals on his feet.
"You know, Uzumaki," he said, "If you'd have listened to Homozu earlier..."
"I know, I know," Naruto replied waving him off, "It's not like I haven't seen enough looks from the girls in Ame."
"I told you that you should've taken the Ame Daimyo up on his offer to marry his sister," Ryu said. Naruto grinned.
"And actually become the 'Prince of Ame'? Screw that," he replied, "I wouldn't be able to continue being a shinobi. And you know how much I hate being waited on."
"Amen to that," Ryu said, "You up for some ramen? I saw a stand a while back and it looks like it could use a good customer."
"Did you seriously just ask me, Uzumaki-Ame Naruto, if I was up for some ramen?" Naruto asked his friend. Ryu smacked himself in the face.
"Let's just go," he said turning to leave, "You're buying!"
"Yeah, yeah, whatever," Naruto replied, following his friend. As they walked they noticed the ANBU following them doubled, despite their attempts to hide.
"Should we even tell them that we know they're there?" Naruto asked quietly. Ryu smirked.
"Are you talking about the ANBU, or the girls?" he retorted. Naruto scrunched his eyebrows together in confusion.
"What do you mean?" he asked his friend. The silver haired genin sighed and pointed over his shoulder.
"Three behind us. One's a platinum blonde, Kumo Nin, the other two are Konoha," he explained. They bumped into a tall jonin reading an orange book. Naruto gained a tick mark.
"Oi! You reading the Icha Icha!" he cried at the jonin, "Freakin watch where you're going!"
"You can't talk to Kakashi-sensei like that!" A pink haired girl shrieked. Naruto settled a glare on her and the raven-haired boy next to her before looking back at the silver haired man that was reading the book.
The silver haired man in question looked down from his book at the two he bumped into. His eye widened as he saw the reincarnation of his sensei and of his traitorous ancestor.
Ryu's eyes also widened before returning to their neutral state.
"Uzumaki," he said under his breath, "Let it be. He's a Hatake."
Naruto froze and looked at his friend. He looked between the two and then nodded his head at the jonin.
"Our apologies, Hatake-san," Naruto said, "Pardon us."
Naruto and Ryu walked pass the stunned jonin. The raven haired boy and pink haired girl looked up at their sensei.
"Sensei?" the girl asked. Kakashi turned around to face her.
"I'm ok, Sakura. You two need to watch out for them in the exam," he said. The two genin looked up at their sensei in confusion before following him to their training ground.
"Hello and welcome to Ichiraku's," a brown haired girl said with her back turned to the two boys, "I'll be with you in a minute!"
Naruto and Ryu sat down in the seats near the stand and Naruto drummed his fingers in impatience.
"Come on, come on," he muttered. Ryu sighed.
"Give her a second, Naruto," he said. The brown haired girl froze. She turned and locked her eyes on the blonde and stared at him. She had to resist the urge to go "Kawaii" and hug the poor boy tightly when he cocked his head in confusion.
"Y-your n-name is N-Naruto?" she asked. The blond grinned and nudged his friend.
"Told ya I could get older girls' attention, Ryu," he said before turning to face her, "Yeah. Uzumaki Naruto. What's yours?"
The girl's jaw dropped and she ran into the back room. She left Naruto completely lost and Ryu laughing at his friend's expense.
"Dude! You should see your face!" Ryu laughed out. Naruto grumbled under his breath. They both stopped when they heard a "HE'S BACK?" from the room where the girl ran to.
An elderly man ran out to the kitchen and grabbed Naruto's face. Turning him left and right he released the very confused boy.
"It is him," he muttered before grinning, "NARUTO! Welcome home!"
Naruto raised an eyebrow, "Do I know you?"
The old man's smile fell, "You don't remember me?"
Naruto shook his head, "Am I supposed to?"
The old man sighed, "I remember when you and the Hokage came here every day for a year straight. You couldn't have been more than three years old."
Ryu looked at Naruto in shock, "You used to live in Konoha? I thought you said you were Ame born."
"Because Ame is more of my home then _Konoha_ will ever be," Naruto said darkly. The old man's frown increased and the brown haired girl returned from the back room rested her head in her hands while looking at the blonde.
"So you're the ramen guzzling boy my dad won't shut up about," the girl said looking him over, again resisting the urge to go "Kawaii" and hug him when he tilted his head in confusion.
Ryu snorted, "I don't doubt it! If it weren't for Konan-sama, he'd probably only eat ramen for the rest of his days."
Naruto sniffled, "Kaa-san only lets me eat ramen once a week..."
Ryu smirked, "Well think about it this way, if you only ate ramen you'd be shorter than Homozu."
Naruto snickered, "That's true."
The girl held her hand out, "My name is Ichiraku Ayame. Until today, I thought you were a delusion of my tou-san."
The old man huffed and got to work making Naruto's ramen.
Naruto grinned and took her hand in his own and placed a kiss on it making Ayame blush, "Pleasure. Uzumaki-Ame Naruto. My friend is Ryu Howaito, he prefers only Ryu though."
The blushing Ayame smiled at Ryu who nodded in response. Their food came after a few minutes, Naruto easily eating about three bowls by the time Ryu finished one. Both boys froze as a presence behind them alerted them to danger.
"Get off Sasuke-kun, Ino-pig!" a familiar, and annoying in Ryu's opinion, pink haired voice shrieked. Both boys reluctantly turned around to see the raven-haired boy being hugged on by a platinum blonde girl and the pink haired girl shouted at her.
As the two shouted at each other, Ryu turned to the eating blond boy next to him and said, "Geez. Harpy much?"
Naruto nodded and swallowed the noodles in his mouth, "Girl should have her vocal cords ripped out."
"Mean like that dog in Grass?"
"I thought that was a turkey."
"No it was a dog. Homozu told you it was a turkey to mess with you. Nagato-sama didn't say anything because he thought it was funny."
"I am so going to kill Uncle."
Ayame decided to interject, "Wait...who now?"
Naruto smiled, "It's nothing Ayame-chan. Just a mission we're reminiscing about."
Ayame blushed at the name and muttered a reply that went unheard by both boys. Naruto simply kept his 'dense' façade up, a defense he decided was better than acknowledging a girl. He learned it from his tou-san, who for some reason was flocked by girls when his kaa-san wasn't around.
"You, fox boy," a voice said from behind them. Naruto and Ryu turned to see the raven-haired boy looking at Naruto.
"Yes, erm..." Naruto started, "I'm sorry, I don't know your name."
"Uchiha. Sasuke," the boy said in an overly dramatic manner. Ryu nudged Naruto and flicked a thumb over at him.
"'Uchiha. Sasuke,'" he said, mocking the boy, "Making it sound like he's the best thing since sliced bread."
"HEY! SASUKE-KUN IS THE BEST MAN IN THE WORLD!" both girls shrieked at him. Naruto rolled his eyes and looked at the skinny pineapple boy and the fat kid next to him that was eating chips.
"You two look like you know shit," Naruto said pointing at them, "What's their deal?"
"Fan girls," was all they replied. Naruto nodded his head and turned back to Sasuke and gave him a silent request to wait a moment. After pulling a scroll out and concentraiting chakra through it, Naruto tossed him a book.
Sasuke looked at the book and read the title, "'How to avoid fan girls without killing them'. What is this? Some kind of sick joke?"
Ryu grinned, "He rejected the book."
Naruto whistled, "Never seen anyone do that..."
Sasuke tossed the book back at Ryu and glared at Naruto, "Fight me."
Naruto blinked and looked at Ryu. They exchanged a look before bursting out in laughter. Sasuke fumed and a tick appeared on his head, causing him to lose his cool.
"What's so funny?" he demanded, "Fight me, dammit!"
Naruto's smiling demeanor suddenly turned cold and he narrowed his eyes, "If we fought, I would destroy you."
Sasuke smirked and activated his Sharingan, "You can't stop me. I am an Uchiha. The strongest-"
"Clan in existence," Naruto finished, "Yeah, yeah. I've heard it all before. In fact, I heard it from this guy here before I kicked him off his high stool."
Ryu scowled, "Hey, I remember you being in the hospital with me!"
Naruto sighed, "That was because I had food poisoning. I've told you five times already, you were unconscious for two weeks."
Ryu crossed his arms and frowned, "Don't remind me."
"I don't care if you beat that loser," Sasuke continued, "I want you to fight me."
Naruto grinned when an idea came to mind, "Ok, I'll make you a deal. If you can beat Ryu here, _then_ I'll fight you."
Sasuke grinned, "That'll be easy-"
He couldn't finish his statement as he suddenly found himself embedded in the wall of the building across the street. He groaned and looked at the silver haired man who was smirking as he held his fist out and was standing. Sasuke groaned as he tried to get out of the wall he was stuck in.
He froze when he felt the wind of someone appearing in front of him. Before him, his sensei stood in front of the silver haired boy.
"Now, that wasn't nice, _Ryu_," he said, hissing the name. Ryu smirked as he dusted his hand off.
"Oh I'm sorry _Hatake_," he said, mocking the jonin, "But you know as well as I do that not even a Sharingan can stand up to Doragon-ken. I believe you're the one called Sharingan Kakashi, ne? Where's White Fang? Retired?"
"Dead," Kakashi growled out, "And you listen here, _genin_. I don't know how you're here when Ame is in the midst of a civil war."
"Wow people actually still think the war is going on!" Naruto said from his spot, eating ramen. Kakashi froze as he saw his sensei's ghost again._ He even eats ramen like sensei did_, he thought.
"The...the Ame war is over?" The pink haired girl said from Sasuke's side. Naruto laughed.
"If it wasn't over I wouldn't even be an Ame nin," he replied, "I'd probably be dead in fact."
"What do you mean?" the platinum blonde asked. Naruto waved them off as he closed his eyes.
"Sorry," he said, "Secret. I take it Uncle wants us back at the hotel ne, Homozu?"
A black haired boy with his hair a mess and wearing a jacket that was black and had red clouds covering it appeared between Ryu and Naruto. He looked over at Naruto with his green eyes and nodded. Naruto stood and left some money on the counter before taking Ayame's hand again and kissing it.
"Thank you for the ramen, Ayame-chan," he said with a smile, "I'll be sure to come by again for as long as I'm here. If you do ever want good business though, I suggest moving to Ame."
Naruto hopped down and exited the slightly darkened stand, allowing all the genin to get a good look of his features. The two girls' jaws dropped and drool started to appear. Naruto turned to Kakashi.
"I apologize, Hatake-san," he said, "Not only have we bumped into you, but we have harmed your student before the exams. I will personally pay for the damages to the wall. Being the son of the Amekage has its perks, you know."
Kakashi's eye widened, "Son of..."
"Yes. I am the son of the Amekage," Naruto repeated, "And I would appreciate it if you taught the Uchiha manners. Charging in on someone and demanding that they fight while they are eating...I don't know about you, but that seems rude to me."
"I apologize..." Kakashi started.
"Naruto," Naruto provided.
"Naruto," Kakashi repeated, "Sasuke will not attack you again...until the exams of course."
"But of course," Naruto said with a smile. Ryu shook his head.
"Uzumaki," Ryu said, "Let's go before you two begin discussing the glories of Jiraiya-sensei's work."
Naruto scoffed as he started to walk away, "As if I'd give Ero-jiji that pleasure."
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Homozu remained quiet as he followed his friends. A smirk appeared when Ryu started shouting to the sky Naruto is single because Naruto made fun of the fact that Ryu's women troubles were his own fault. He shook his head and then paused mid step. Something was wrong. He hadn't felt this presence in the air since.
"Oh fuck us," he muttered, getting his teammates attention. Naruto and Ryu turned to ask him what was wrong when they saw a redheaded dark skinned girl glomp onto Homozu.
"Homo-kun!" She cried. Homozu sighed.
"Hello Karui-chan," he said. Naruto and Ryu grinned and jumped apart when a blade appeared between them and a boy eating a sucker sitting on it grinned at them.
"Naruto, Ryu," he said darkly. Ryu smirked.
"Hello Omoi," He said, "Where's Samui-chan?"
"Samui is at the hotel along with our sensei and his personal chunin/student," Omoi replied. He turned to the dark skinned girl that was hugging Homozu to death.
"Geez, flat-chest, you'd never guess that you'd have it so bad for the quiet type," he said gaining their attention. Karui threw a kunai at him.
"Shut up, Omoi!" she shouted, blushing heavily and glaring at the man. Naruto and Ryu laughed as Omoi continued to antagonize Karui and dodge her attacks. Naruto stopped them before serious damage could be done.
"So is Kirabi-sensei here?" Naruto asked, holding Karui by her right arm while Ryu held her by her left. Omoi spat his sucker stub out and replaced it before nodding.
"Who do you think is our jonin-sensei?" he asked the Ame Prince. Naruto grinned and released Karui's right side as she twisted and punched Ryu square in the nose. Ryu cupped his nose and howled in pain.
"SON OF A BITCH!" He cried out. Naruto was laughing aloud and pointing at his friend's misfortune. The Kumo nins were also enjoying seeing the overly hostile Ame genin put in his place. Even if it was an accident.
The five of them kept walking along the streets, Ryu casting glares at Karui while she stood on the left of Homozu, to the irritation of both boys. Ryu because he couldn't throttle her and Homozu because he regretted gaining the Kumo kunoichi as a fan girl ever since her beat her in a fair fight. Naruto and Omoi weren't ignorant to this, but they ignored it entirely as they talked about missions they were on.
"...And then the clone flipped the Kiri off while I gave him Ero-jiji's Thousand Years of Death," Naruto said finishing his story of one of their missions. The normally calculative Omoi laughed aloud at this, as he was familiar to the so-called 'jutsu'.
"Are you telling me he didn't even sense you coming?" Omoi asked. Naruto nodded, causing Omoi to laugh again. Omoi shook his head and tossed a sucker to Naruto, who unwrapped it and put it in his mouth.
"Hey! How come Naruto-san gets a sucker when I don't get any?" Karui asked with a glare. Omoi sighed.
"Because it will give you a toothache that will rival Samui's back pains," he replied. Karui fumed but didn't leave from her spot next to Homozu. Ryu grinned.
"So...Samui-chan has a stronger back pain from the last time we saw her?" he asked. Omoi nodded, not seeing the significance of the question. Naruto groaned.
"Oh here we go," The blonde said while Ryu grinned pervertedly.
"What?" the silver haired teen asked his friend, "I can't enjoy the finer things about Kumo's finest kunoichi?"
A blade suddenly found itself at Ryu's neck and the whole group stopped. Omoi and Karui sighed. Naruto turned to look at the blonde girl holding a katana at his perverted friend's neck. Ryu grinned.
"I take that back," he said, "_this_ girl is the _FINEST_ kunochi I have ever met!"
Homozu rolled his eyes and muttered, "Yes, because nothing is sexier than a woman that can kill you."
"You're damn right!" Ryu said before the blade was pushed further into his throat. He grinned at the girl.
"Omoi, Karui," the girl said, "Why are you with enemy nin?"
"It's ok, Yugito-san," Omoi said waving her off, "They're ok. However, by killing that boy you could start a war with three of the strongest elemental nations."
"I don't care," Yugito said, "He insulted my neechan and the status of kunoichi."
"More like one," Naruto said putting a hand on his forehead, "Please don't kill him. He may be an idiot..."
"I am NOT an idiot, Uzumaki!" Ryu shouted, offended. Homozu snorted. He obviously disagreed.
"...Noted. Like I was saying," Naruto continued, "He may be an perverted idiot, but he's my teammate and I need him in order to make chunin."
Yugito's head turned to look at the blonde boy that was ahead of her. She narrowed her eyes and then released the silver-haired boy and turned around to face him.
"Fine," she said, walking closer to Naruto. Yugito looked in Naruto's eyes and they held gazes for a moment. After said moment, Naruto cocked his head in confusion.
"**KAWAII!"** A voice in Yugito's head cried out, **"Oh, Kitten! He's so cute! Can we keep him?"**
_No Nibi!_ Yugito thought as she tried to steer away from following the two-tailed cat's urges to glomp the poor boy to death. She wanted to see if this really was the boy her sensei and uncle trained in using the Nine-Tailed Fox. The silver haired perv did say that his name was Uzumaki...and as far as she knew, the boy certainly matched her uncle's description.
"**Please? Please? Please? Please?" **Nibi asked in her head, **"I just wanna take him back to the hotel, tie him down, and ride him until-"**
_SHUT UP NIBI!_ Yugito mentally screamed as she fought the blush back from her biju's dirty insinuation. The cat's only flaw was that she was constantly horny, turned on by almost anything.
"Uh, hi?" Naruto said, gaining her attention.
"Is your name Uzumaki Naruto?" Yugito asked. Naruto grinned.
"Yup! Uzumaki-Ame Naruto," he asked, "What's your name?"
"Nii Yugito," Yugito replied. Naruto nodded and his eye glanced behind her for a fraction of a second. He frowned and turned to his friends.
"Homozu. Ryu," he said, "Uncle wants us back at the hotel now. So sorry Yugito-chan. I'm afraid we must leave. I'll see you around."
He took his hand in hers and kissed it, causing her to blush heavily, before releasing it and vanishing in a small tornado. Looking around, Yugito saw that he had taken his friends with him. Omoi was sitting down in concentration while Karui was pouting that she lost her 'Cuddle Bear' she had so often heard about.
"**She can have him! I say next time you see the Uzumaki you take him all the way back to Kumo and tie him to your bed and"**
_NIBI!_
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AN: YAY! Chapter two is done! Whooo!
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