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Guest Review: I understand most people don't like self-inserts. I don't like them either, unless there is a good reason, when there hardly is. My reason for doing to is to act as the 'exposition character' and provide information that they wouldn't know. FTDS tends reference things that wouldn't make sense unless you know the series. I will stay out of the way otherwise. The reason I made it a self-insert is because it was easier to base his character off of myself, rather than create a new personality. Since it would be a self-insert if I do that, why try and hide it? And your wish that I have my name as Beast rather than TheInnerBeast in the story, that is what I was going to do. TheInnerBeast was basically me saying my whole name, and Beast being my given name. Hope this clears any problems you and others have with the fic.
Guest Review: Where does it say Issei didn't come with them. I don't remember saying Issei didn't go with the rest of the peerage. In fact, I wouldn't say that, because I plan for him to have the funnier reactions to Naruto, especially their little...conversation... in chapter 3.
"Chapter One: Retired?...
Naruto Uzumaki, a tall man who a fair amount over 6 foot tall. Naruto was a man of the age 31 years old, and a handsome man at that. He was well muscled, having fully developed in all of the right areas, and his work outs keeping his body firm and ripped. He had tanned skin, a shade of peach that people found attractive, and bright sunny blond hair that he kept rather short after he grew up.
This got quite a few blushes from the women. Issei, seeing this, started screaming about "Pretty boys" and "Letting others have a chance". Noticing Issei was about to start a rant, had a shadow-hand smack him on the head.
"Continue" was all he said.
He didn't want to keep having longer hair, because he himself didn't want to be seen as a clone of his own father.
"Understandable" Rias mumbled. She herself was in the shadow of her brother, and was known as Rias the Gremory Clan Heiress. Akeno looked to her king with a knowing look, offering a supportive smile. As her queen, she has known of Risa's distaste for not being known as herself, but rather by her standing, and her heritage.
There was no point in having long hair. He had ocean blue eyes, and on each of his cheeks were three whisker marks. Naruto wore an orange jacket with black stripes at the bottom linings of the jacket and the sleeves of the jacket, and he wore black pants with blank combat sandals, armored all the way up to his shins. On his back and over his shoulders was a cloak, white with red flames at the bottom, with the title 7th Hokage, written in Kanji.
"Seventh Hokage, what does that mean?" Sirzechs asked looking at Beast.
"A Kage is the leader of one of the military villages for the Five Great Nations. These five people are collectively referred to as the Gokage, or Five Shadows. There are other villages, but they don't hold the title of Kage. The leader of Konohagakure, or Village Hidden in the Leaves, is called the Hokage. A Kage is chosen by many different means, but the Hokage is usually chosen by the previous Hokage. The only time this does not happen, is when the Hokage dies before they can choose a successor, when this happens, the Daimyo of Hi no Kuni, or The Land of Fire, where Konoha is located, chooses the Hokage. Now, with that said, let's continue, shall we?" Beast inquired.
Like his jacket said, he was the 7th Hokage of Konohagakure, son of the 4th Hokage, student of the 6th Hokage, related to the 1st, 2nd, and 5th Hokage thanks to what his clan was, and surrogate grandson of the 3rd Hokage... in some way he was related to all of the Hokage before him.
"Hm, that would put a lot of pressure on him as a leader," Michael mused. The other faction leader nodded softly.
Standing in front of him was a man in his later twenties, Konohamaru Sarutobi, another rather handsome young man with brown hair, wearing the normal Jonin uniform of the village. A man who was currently the Jonin sensei-
"Jonin?" Issei muttered, "He must be strong, then."
"Hm?" Kiba sounded in a confused tone.
"Jonin are supposed to be, like, really strong, the upper-class or elite shinobi." Issei stated, happy that he knew something that the Prince of Kuoh didn't, even if it was mostly pointless trivia. (1)
-of the current Team Seven, though that wouldn't be lasting much longer. He was related to the Third Hokage by blood, and he was well known throughout the village. His parents had been Anbu serving the Hokage, and his uncle had been a famous ninja from the 12 guardians. He was an Elite Ninja himself, and at one point in time Naruto had taken him as an apprentice himself.
All Hokage seemed to be related to a previous Kage in some way.
"Yes, that does seem to be the case here." Azazel stated.
"You... you can't be serious Seventh." Konohamaru said in shock as he looked at his friend in shock. Almost everyone called him Seventh, only a few of his friends still called him his name, and his family did. It was considered disrespectful, even for friends, to call a Kage by their given or family name. So most people, even closer friends, would call the Hokage by their title. Hokage-Sama, Lord Seventh, Seventh, Lord Hokage... he was used to people calling him that by now.
Rias felt even more sympathetic now, after hearing this.
"I'm dead serious Konohamaru, I'm stepping down as Hokage, and naming you my official successor. Konoha is prospering now, and I wish to watch my children grow up... It has been a good few years, and I have done a great many things in my time as Hokage... there is limit to how long I have to be Hokage." Naruto told his friend with a smile on his face. After the newest threat to the world had been taken care of, and he having been reconnected with his son after the whole ordeal, he realized that his duties as Hokage were only placing untold amounts of stress of his family, not just him.
Sirzechs flinched a little, before looking at his younger sister and wife. Grayfia, sensing him looking, offered a small smile, knowing he had duties to attend to. He then thought of his son, making him feel further guilt.
Sure, they were understanding that the village was important, but they were more important to him.
Sirzechs nodded at this, understanding this man just a little bit more.
"Shikamaru, what do you have to say about this?" Konohamaru asked Shikamaru Nara, a man a little shorter than Naruto with fair skin and black hair pulled back into a ponytail. The man was wearing a full body suit, with a tan jacket over it with his clan symbol, the Nara. This was Naruto's own advisor, who had been with him since he had taken over the Hokage position... well one of his advisors. His other advisor/assistant, had been Shizune, who had been the assistant of the 5th Hokage as well.
"I trust the Seventh, if he thinks it is time for a change, I will support him and help groom you for the position." Shikamaru stated in a laid back tone. If Naruto wanted to retire, there was nothing he could do to stop Naruto from it. Naruto had done great things for the village, for the entire world, as Hokage. The Fire Nation had flourished with him as Hokage, and the alliance between the nations had only grown that much stronger. All of the nations were flourishing.
"He is a very skilled leader, it seems," Michael observed, with the other leaders nodding in agreement, all of them largely impressed.
"Where... what do you plan on doing now... I mean, if you go back to a stay at home, then everyone will hound you... they will demand you take back up the hat. The citizens and ninja of this great nation will despair over this." Konohamaru tried to reason with Naruto, who only shook his head.
"And he is very loved by his people, too," Azazel added.
"Well, I plan on going on a family vacation for a few years until things cool down. I think 6 or 7 years should do it, and it should be nice... I am sure that my family will enjoy it. Anyway, Tsunade and Kakashi-sensei will be the ones giving you the hat in my place. Like you said, people will be unreasonable about this." Naruto admitted. He was the most famous, most desired man in the world. Everyone loved him, and he loved his people. It would break his heart to see them rioting over this, so he would be long gone with his family by the time they even heard about it.
This got a few chuckles from the readers, imagining the scenario in their heads.
Naruto had already asked Sasuke to find a great dimension for them to vacation in until things settled down, yes, a dimension. Not just a different country, but a different dimension. With Sasuke's eye power giving him the ability to take others to different dimensions, it would be an easy thing for them to travel to another dimension for vacation time.
"Wait, is that where we come in?" Kiba asked, with the others curious as well.
"Spoilers," was the response.
"What about my students? Sarada adores you, wouldn't she be devastated that you aren't the person to one day give her the Hokage hat? She wants to be like you, and she has the same wish as you did growing up." Konohamaru tried to say, convincing Naruto with any words he thought would work.
"He is really desperate for Naruto to stay," Akeno observed.
"Just goes to show how loved he is," Rias said
"If I come back, and you want me to take back the hat, I will... and Sarada is only 12. She won't be ready to accept this responsibility until she is much older." Naruto stated clearly. The excuse was kind of weak at best, not one that would work on him. Naruto stood up from his desk, before he placed his hand on Konohamaru's shoulder. "Listen, you have been groomed for this role for a long time now. It was your dream to become Hokage, if you don't accept, I will have to find somebody else. I trust you with this." Naruto said, and that was the straw that broke the camel's back.
Konohmaru rushed forward and hugged Naruto, bro hug, and Naruto smiled for a moment when the hug disconnected.
"Well he gave in rather quickly after that. This Naruto sure does have a way with words." The others nodded to Rias's statement.
"I accept, but what about... he's gone..."-
Another round of chuckles from a classic gag.
-Konohamaru said when his impatient predecessor vanished without a trace at speeds he couldn't track. Naruto had vast chakra reserves, and he had a lot of knowledge of using the Shunshin Jutsu, instant movement technique. He ended up using it a lot to catch Boruto when he pulled his pranks, with the boy shouting it was unfair... no wonder Naruto had the window open.
"Boruto?" Issei asked.
"Maybe it is the son mentioned earlier," Asia said in a shy voice. Issei thought about it and nodded, looking at Asia with a smile, causing her to blush.
-With Naruto-
One second there was nothing standing in front of the Uzumaki home, and the next second Naruto appeared out of nowhere walking towards his house. His home was a large one, two stories and a large yard and even backyard. It was two buildings connected together, and a mix between modern and traditional in style. Naruto opened the nearly never locked door to his home, with Hinata always home and with nobody being stupid enough to break into the house of the Hokage and an Elite Jonin from the Hyuga clan... they didn't need to lock the door. If you were dumb enough to try it, you were dumb enough that you forgot that Hyuga's were trackers and Naruto was the Hokage.
"A rather nice house, I must say," Michael said in an impressed tone.
Naruto took off his coat and hung it on the coat rack, before he walked into the living room... and his family was surprised to see him.
Hinata Uzumaki, at one point in time Hyuga, was sitting on the couch with a slightly surprised look on her face. She could tell that the Naruto in front of her was her real husband, and not a Shadow Clone he sent to them. She was a fair skinned woman, with shorter dark colored hair that she kept cut shorter in the back with the length in the front being shoulder length, and straight bangs. She had white eyes without visible pupils, like little moons, and stood at a rather short height of 163 cm. She wore purple shorts, combined with a baggy lavender jacket that hid her incredible assets, her LARGE breasts.
"Boobs!" Issei shouted, getting an annoyed look from Koneko.
"Hentai," she muttered in a disgusted tone.
She was currently knitting something orange, a blanket or a sweater... nope, she was making a stuffed animal.
"Naruto?" Hinata asked, being one of the few people to actually call him his given name... he would be pretty damn depressed if she called him Seventh.
Sirzechs looked at his wife with a pout, getting tired of her calling him by his title. Grayfia offered no reaction in return.
"Old Man?" His son, Boruto Uzumaki, asked in shock when he looked from the chair he was sitting in and saw his old man walking into the room. Like Hinata, he could tell that this was no Shadow Clone... he could just tell. It was the middle of the day, and Naruto was normally at work in his office, dealing with all of the village's problems... heck, sometimes the world's problems.
"He is really busy, isn't he?" Akeno thought aloud.
Boruto, standing at 145cm, was a 12-year-old boy who seemed at first glance to share amazing resemblance to Naruto. He had tanned skin, though a shade lighter, and bright blue eyes with bright blond hair... and two whisker marks on each cheek. Yet, he bore his mother's face and the shape of her eyes and nose as well. His hair was naturally styled like a leaf, and he had an ahoge shaped like a leaf stem on top of his head. He was currently wearing a black open jacket, red on the inside, with a white shirt and black pants. Around his neck was a bolt on a necklace, a play on his name Boruto.
Asia, Akeno, Rias, and Gabriel giggled a little at that.
"Dad?" Naruto's daughter, Himawari Uzumaki, asked in just as much shock when she looked towards her father. She was colored a lot like her mother. She had fair skin, though a shade darker than her mother, and the same color hair, but like Boruto's it was styled like a leaf. Her hair was shorter, and while straight, it flared out every few inches like leaf spines. She also had a stem ahoge on top of her head... unlike Boruto, who had his mother's face, eye shape, and nose... Himawari inherited more of her looks from Naruto, who got them from his mother Kushina. She had his blue eyes, and the shape of his eyes, and she had the general shape of his face as well. On each of her cheeks she had two whisker marks, like Boruto. She stood at a shorter height of 138cm, which for her age of 10 was pretty good.
She wore a yellow hoodie with a pocket on the front, and sleeves long enough that only her fingers were visible. She wore a yellow flowered white shirt underneath it that had flowered edges sticking out under the jacket, and she wore a pink layered mini-skirt. She had a little bit of thigh showing, before she got to her long black open toed stockings, knee high, and she wore darker pink open toed high edged sandals as well.
"She looks so cute!" Rias exclaimed, with Asia and Gabriel nodding in agreement, smiles on their face.
"I'm home." Naruto said with a smile on his face, and that startled the fireworks. Himawari jumped over the chair she was one, and rushed towards Naruto and gave him a tight hug. Naruto placed a hand on her shoulder, she was always a daddy's girl at heart but he was just always so busy. Boruto was just sitting there, while he loved his father, he wasn't used to Naruto coming home early... only late.
The girls 'aww'ed at Himawari's reaction, and the daddy's girl fact. Every felt a bit sad for the family though, after hearing the reason behind Boruto's lack of a reaction.
"Welcome home." Hinata said, the least shocked of everyone. She was used to Naruto doing unexpected things, it was just so... like him to shock people with his actions. Anyway, they slept together, so she still saw him every day. Today she was just seeing him a little earlier than she had thought she would. Himawari stopped hugging Naruto, and she shot him a Naruto-grin... which he adored seeing on his children's face.
"Naruto…grin?" Rias asked. Issei chuckled at that. When Rias looked at him, he started to read on.
The Naruto-grin, a wide toothy grin that was only complimented by the whisker marks of the user.
Rias gave a nod of understanding, with a small blush.
With bright blue eyes, and slightly larger canines, the Naruto-grin made whoever used it look like a fox or kitsune.
Some of the group got a bit nervous at that, remembering tales of kitsunes being pranksters, recalling that it was stated not too long ago that Boruto himself preformed pranks.
Both of his children had his grin.
The nervous one started to sweat.
Naruto scooped Himawari off the ground and held her up so that she was sitting on his arm, and she wrapped an arm around his head with affection.
Everyone smiled a little at that display of affection.
"Welcome home Dad." Himawari greeted him, while Boruto shook himself.
"Hey, Old Man, what are you doing back so early? It's only a little after lunch." Boruto asked his father, not understanding what was happening. Sure, when he was a kid Naruto was around ALL the time... as in, ALL the time. The only time Boruto didn't see Naruto was when he was on missions, and he finished those super quickly.
"I retired, Naruto Uzumaki is no longer the active Hokage!" Naruto declared to his family, and Hinata actually dropped her knitting needles in shock this time. Himawari was just excited, she finally had her daddy back, while Boruto looked happy at the news.
Everyone gained smiles again, happy for the family of four.
"Naruto, are you... of course you are sure. Well, who did you pick to be the 8th?" Hinata asked with a tilted head.
"Konohamaru, but I want you all to pack your bags. Starting tomorrow, the Uzumaki family is going on a long overdue family vacation." Naruto told his family, and Himawari jumped down from his shoulders and rushed towards her room to pack a bag... bags... plenty of bags. Boruto looked excited as well, and rushed to his own room to do much the same.
The older members of the group chuckled at the excitement of the kids.
Hinata merely raised an eyebrow.
"Escaping the village before a riot starts, are we?" Hinata questioned him, and he looked a little sheepish.
"Well she figured him out quick," Azazel said with an amused grin.
"Caught me, the vacation is going to last for a few years. Sasuke found a nice little dimension for us to go to, and he will be here tomorrow to take us there. I was thinking everything should cool down in 6... maybe 7 years, and we can come back." Naruto admitted to his ever loving wife, and she smiled in and understanding way.
"Okay then, if you think it is for the best, I have faith in you." Hinata said, and this wasn't just because she could never really argue with Naruto... they just didn't argue, they were mostly on the same wavelength, but she had trusted Naruto's choices for years and he had never steered them wrong before. She had total faith in his plans, he would never do something to hurt his family on purpose.
It looks like the Uzumaki family were going on an extended vacation.
"And that's the end of the first chapter. Now, someone else will read a chapter. I want the reader to change every chapter, so wo will take it up this time?" Beast asked. Everyone looked at each other for a bit before Kiba raised his arm. Beast merely took the from Issei and tossed it too him.
"Alright then, Chapter two…"
You guys, sigh. Do you realize the pressure you put on me to make this a great story? I already had enough pressure, with FTDS's name attached to this story. Three days, as of writing this A/N, I gained 105 followers, 87 favorites, 1,845 views, and 1,488 individual visitors in only three days. I have seen authors get excited for 20 followers after 3 chapters in as many weeks. I only had the god damn INTRODUCTORY chapter out. Just remember the first two or three chapters are a bit slow for The Retired Hokage.
Now, I got this one out so fast, because I was already working on it before the introduction chapter. I still have half a year of school left, so chapters should come out about every 2 weeks.
I must say, I am especially excited for chapters 3, 8, and 11-13.
And remember, I am looking for a Beta, so if you meet the requirements, and you want to help make this a great fanfic, please contact me.
(1) Considering Issei is known to read manga and watch anime, I feel he might know shinobi classifications from popular media. Just a guess, don't quote me on that.
