A/N: Thank you for all your reviews. You obviously liked the chapter so it gave me inspiration to write faster and almost completely ignore my other stories. If there are any fans of my other stories here, I haven't abandoned them. They are just in a temporary hiatus to polish their plots. They will be continued soon.
A/N: I answer your reviews and clear some things now: I noticed that I made a mistake in Chapter One and Chapter Two. In one, I wrote princess... something when i meant to write Fuun. In second, i wrote Akamichi when it was Akimichi. I know they are small mistakes but i cleared them to be safe. I was suggested Kurenai and I'm afraid it won't work. I've already decided her part in this story and it isn't a major one. I'm now dealing with four choices. Yakumo, Tenten, FemHaku or Isaribi. Hana and Koyuki are on the grey area. Tatuya, Temari, Anko and the rest won' work. I just cant see my Naruto being with someone of them. I will STILL take suggestions, but they must be well argumented. Thank you. I didn't know Koyuki's age before but thanks for that. It really chaged my opinion of her. I'm not going to pair him up with anyone special yet (I talk about when you search for a story) because I'm not sure I should. So far, only Naruto is the leading character in this story. I was suggested a 3some of NaruHinaTenten. Can't really say I like those stories. Its just, how are girls going to get fair share of him if there are too many to share of him. Again, all my arguments can be nullified if argumented well enough.
Anyway, enjoy my story. This will be the last update for while. I have this thing which will disconnect me from internet and the compouter so there won't be answers for my reviews or pm answers for at least two weeks. I'm sorry but not really my call. I promise to get back to you soon as i can. See ya then!
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Fixed version updated 05-23-09 Thanks to my beta! Keep up the good work!
Chapter 3: Princess of Ice and Ice Princess
A week went by and life in Konoha started to calm down. Tsunade did her job as the Godaime. Shizune did her best to help her and Naruto… was Naruto.
"Coming in!" He made himself known as he opened the door to his mother's office.
"Learn to knock already!" Tsunade yelled at him. "I can be in a middle of an important meeting, which you interrupted and possibly ruined!"
Office was empty besides them. "Did I?"
"Well… no. But that doesn't mean it won't be next time." Tsunade shook her head. "So, what brings you here?"
"Firstly, I'm bored. Secondly, you sent for me."
"Oh yes, that!" She started searching through his desk. "Firstly, how is Hyuuga Hinatas condition?"
"She is getting better." Naruto admitted with an indifferent face. "Lucky for her to get some life into her eyes while I treat him."
"Yes… your philosophy. How long are you going to hold onto that?" Tsunade asked behind a piles of paperwork.
"How long are you going to keep up drinking sake at noon?"
"… touché." She muttered. "Here… no. Over here…? Where did I put it… Anyway, what you think of her?"
"What you mean?"
"Nothing special." She popped her head from somewhere smiling. "Just thinking stuff. You know, mother stuff. Will he be dating soon… will he bring a girl home… will I find him having sex in his room…" Narutos eye twitched.
"To be honest… she is weak, timid, has a little or no self-confidence, has an over jealous boyfriend and I think she has a crush on me." Naruto rated her quickly. "In short… boring."
"Is there anything good about her?" Tsunade asked.
"She needs to be healed, nice little ass, breasts well developed for a twelve year old-"
"I get it, I get it." Tsunade raised her hand and meanwhile threw a scroll into the garbage. It had a Hyuuga seal on it. 'Another failed attempt to unite our clans you old geezers.' She had been offered an arrange marriage deal between Naruto and Hinata. Her condition had risen considerably since the new doctor and Hyuuga elders considered this as a good chance to unite the clans. Which failed even before the marriage meeting.
Door was knocked. "Tsunade-sama. I'm here with the team you requested." Shizune stepped in followed by a group of nins. First of them was to his greatest displease Neji followed by her team mate Tenten and then by Ino chick and lastly by a young woman unknown to Naruto. "Naruto-kun, what brings you here?"
"Hopefully something that kaa-san doesn't need to regret." Naruto muttered while inspecting the newcomer lady. Inuzuka due her clan markings and the fact that she was followed by three huge dogs. Taller than himself. Glaring, brown eyes.
"Hello, Naruto-kun!" Ino jumped to his side. "It's been so long since I last saw you. Where have you been?"
For a past week Naruto had spent at the hospital avoiding all possible contacts and doing what he did best, healing patients. Tsunade knew him being angry at Jiraiya who had again left him just like that. After all, man was his father figure… unfortunately. No day went by without Tsunade fearing that today she would found out her little and innocent Naru-chan peeking at women's bath. And with that revolutionary jutsu, it would be a peace of cake. Damn that pervert. If only Dan hadn't died. He would have raised him in a proper way.
But even if Jiraiya was Narutos father figure, they couldn't get along. That's what you call 'tough love' but underlining 'cause' didn't help it. Yondaime, the person who had ruined Narutos life was trained by the same man. But even after all their arguments, fights about Yondaime, every time that old pervert left, Naruto acted like a pouting two year old. Drowning himself in either girls, gambling or medicine. It was like a cycle. Last time it had been gambling and now it would be medicine. Next time girls.
"Working at the hospital." Naruto answered after he was done with his 'inspection'. "There are still many victims as patients in the hospital from the time you got your asses kicked by the Sound and Sand."
"Like to see you doing any better." Tenten muttered rolling a kunai in her hand and glaring angrily. Her rage against him hadn't diminished at all during a week.
"Hardly. I don't fight." Naruto answered with a dry voice. "Neji." He nodded to the Hyuuga who nodded back. "I don't know you but I would like to know." He smiled to the Inuzuka woman. "But I have better things to do than talking to hired killers so… what did you want with me?" He turned his attention back to his mother. "And please don't tell me its some ninja mission."
Ino practically jumped from excitement. Possibility of being able to go to mission with Hokage's son… the possibilities what could happen.
Neji frowned slightly. Even if it was a good possibility to get to know heir of the Senju better, he wasn't really sure he wanted that. After all, Naruto had been proven to be Hinata-sama's new doctor but that made him… wary. Hyuuga heiress' shouldn't associate with others. And she should quit the missions too. She is just too weak. She needs to be protected. She should have a Hyuuga doctor. She should be at the Hyuuga compound picking up flowers in that pretty dress and that adorable expression on her face… he stopped that dangerous train of thought. He hated main house, cursed cage seal and Hinata-sama who was weak. That was it. It was obvious. That's why he thought of her every second, even in his sleep.
Tentens eyes widened in shock. A mission with that pervert. She already made plans for an 'accident' that would take place during that mission. Her idol would definitely be sad but it was something that had to be done.
This week doing missions had been amazing for her. Being able to see her idol sitting on a chair where she belonged. Don't get her wrong, she had high respects on the Third but he was old and little too soft if you asked from her. Now the title of Hokage belonged to the person who deserved.
The mission briefings had been so amazing. She had felt so small and useless in front of the Sannin's gaze. Her aura had filled the room making it almost impossible to speak. Even the men in the room felt powerless against her. That was exactly what she wanted to be one day. Respected, powerful kunoichi who didn't have to be afraid of being treated as a weak woman.
There was a moment of silence. Tsunade was currently searching for a file through her pile of papers. "Shizune, where did you put that file I talked you about earlier?"
"It's in a pile next to you." She answered patiently. "Fifty-second sheet from the bottom."
"Hey, answer me you old hag!" Naruto interrupted them. "What am I doing here?"
Everyone in the room went wide-eyes. Especially Hana who had yet to meet the famous son of Hokage. He had just insulted her very rudely.
"Naruto-kun! Language." Shizune scowled. "Your mother isn't an old hag." the others relaxed. "She's just a little cranky because you have been at the hospital so much this week." Everyone felt like falling down.
"Well sorry for actually wanting to keep up my work as a doctor!" Naruto pouted. "To want to treat patients and cure illnesses –"
"Flirt with nurses…" Shizune suggested innocently. "You've not been that discrete about that."
"I'm not denying or admitting anything." Naruto turned away. "But anyway, are you going to answer or should I humiliate you in front of your subordinates?"
"Do that and I will ban you from ramen for life." Tsunade said.
"You still owe me seven days worth of ramen!"
"What you mean by that?"
"You promised to buy me a ramen everyday I wouldn't start a riot!" Naruto declared. Shinobis of the room sweat dropped. They were arguing about… ramen!
"That was not it!" Tsunade jumped up holding a paper and pointing it at him. "The deal was only about the first day!"
"Then you owe me ramen for that day!"
Tsunade shook her head. "Ramen aside, here is your case." She handed him a file. "She is in the town currently and I want you to do a check up now that you have a chance. And don't take anything she offers you or promise her anything." She added with narrowed eyes. "I don't need any more those 'I wont go back on my word' talks. Especially when it's for someone like her.
Naruto browsed through the filed and his eye brow was raised by the name on the paper. "She is here? Why?"
"Her manager requested for a mission." Tsunade answered leaning back. "They stay in the Waking Leaf Hotel."
"These guys?"
"No. They have their own mission." She answered. Ino felt depressed. Neji somewhat pleased. Tenten smiled suddenly. Hana was kind of disappointed. This guy was definitely not boring. "After you are done with them, come back for another case."
"Boring check up huh? Anything better than a suicide mission you're about to give to them." Naruto closed the file. "Tenten-chan, Ino-chan and a girl I haven't yet met."
"Hana. Inuzuka Hana." She finally answered.
"Naruto." He nodded. "See you around. Neji." He nodded towards the boy who nodded back. He wasn't so sure why, but it seemed to piss him off so… mission accomplish. He felt good about himself while he walked out of the room.
"Naruto!" He stopped at the door. "Let's eat lunch here today. Okay?"
They watched at each other for a moment. "Sure. Pork, right?"
"And Shizune has vegetable." She nodded. "Bye!"
"Bye."
Shinobis felt like they were completely forgotten until the door was closed behind him. "Where are you looking at?" She asked with a powerful voice making them all snap.
--
Naruto walked down the street reading the file. "So she is back… they stay in that hotel… so I better look for a bar."
Five minutes later he stepped inside a shabby looking tavern (one of the few inside the village) seeing a woman both beautiful and young pouring sake down her throat. "Princess Fuun. What a pleasure to meet you like this."
"Wha- who- do I know you?" She watched him with blurry eyes.
"Yukie-chan. How have you been?" He asked sitting on a stool next to her.
"Hey brat! We don't serve underage people!" The bartender snarled at him.
"N-naruto? Is that you?" Yukie whispered coming closer. "What are you doing here? I thought you hated ninjas."
"My mom has some business with this place. I'm just hanging around like always."
"Hey brat! Are you listening to me!?" Bartender asked.
"Why don't you shut the fuck up and give me a-another bottle, you bastard!?" Yukie screamed angrily and obviously drunk.
"No need to go to labour on me…" He muttered while walking away.
"Thanks." Naruto smiled to her. "You always know how to order people around."
"Comes naturally I guess." She muttered. "What you want, I thought you were through with me the last time you were around?"
"My mom asked me to check on you." He answered nonchalantly. "How's is your anaemia?"
"Not much of a bother ever since you were there." Yukie answered. "Why did you leave me?"
"I thought it was obvious. Your crew went to that way and my family to the other way." Naruto answered. "How much of a bother? Do you tremor? Loss of consciousness?"
"I would've sent you some letters but didn't know where to sent them." She muttered completely ignoring his question. "I really liked you. You… understood me."
"Then you should've understood me too." Naruto muttered looking away. "I can't handle closeness."
"Give me another chance." She whispered leaning even closer. "I need you. I want you. Let me show you I can do this. You stopped me last time."
"Last time I was ten! And it was my mom who stopped us… to be honest I didn't really know about it when you dragged me to your bedroom."
"I was drunk." She whispered remembering what had happened last time. "And then your mother came through the door."
"And almost killed you. And then healed you. And almost killed you again. Before Shizune had to heal you while it took all your movie staff to restrain her." Naruto reminisced. "Lucky you, mom was wasted back then. Otherwise she wouldn't have fallen so easily."
"I'm always lucky when I'm near you. I can follow you everywhere you go. Just please, let me stay near to you." She whispered with a pleading voice.
"Your producers wouldn't be too happy if you bailed just like that." Naruto pointed out. "And besides… I'm not moving anywhere for a while."
"What you mean?"
Naruto tried to act casual as possible. "My mom is the new Hokage of the village. It seems that I won't be moving for a while."
"That sound like destiny. Let me stay here. It's warm. Nice. You're here." She leaned to his shoulder. "We're obviously connected by a red string (A/N: Japanese way of saying 'destined to be together'). And screw my producers! I'm giving up on my career as an actress! I will be a normal person! No more premiers, celebrity dinners, paparazzo's. Only you… and me."
"You are obviously just drunk." Naruto said with a sad expression. "You're not meaning the half of that."
Before she could argue, the door of the bar was opened revealing all-too-familiar group of people. "Naruto-san! What are you doing here?" Sakura noticed him happily. "Nice to see you again."
"You too." He smiled back and leaned closer. "If you ever get bored with your boyfriend, you can come to me." He whispered.
Sakura blushed and looked away. Yukie noticed this and sink her fingers deeper into Narutos hand and shoulder.
"Naruto-san! Is that you?" An old man walked past his escorts. "It's been a while since we've seen each other."
Kakashi glanced between the two. "You know each other?"
Naruto narrowed his eyes but decided to ignore him.
"Naruto-san and his mother were a great assistance during one of our filmings. What brings you here, Naruto-san?" Yukies' manager, Sandayu Asama answered greeting him in the process.
"My mom asked me to check up on Yukie-chan." He answered ignoring both blank faced Sai and furiously glaring Sasuke. "Now that you're here, you can answer to these questions."
"Of course. Over there?" They walked to a table leaving a movie star with her escorts, who was glaring at Sakura.
"What's your game?" She demanded.
"Excuse me?" Sakura was startled by her sudden explosion.
"Trying to steal my Naruto away from me? Are you?"
"N-no! How can you say that! I have Sasuke-kun!" Sakura yelled back. "No offence, Naruto-san."
"None taken." He answered yelled back not even turning his face. "Has she eaten well?"
"Then what was that now? Do you flirt with every guy who comes along?" Yukie stepped closer to her reeking of sake and had no balance. "Huh? Do you? Listen to me sister, I will not allow you to take my Naruto away by A-N-Y-one! You hear me?"
"Is she still extremely delusional and aggressive while drunk?" Naruto asked making bartender who was watching sweat drop.
"Maa, maa Yukie-san. You must get ready to leave Konoha soon." Kakashi tried his best to calm her down.
"I'm not leaving anywhere! I'm staying with Naruto!" She jumped next to his seat and clinged into him. "Your not forcing me to leave from your side, are you? A-aa-are… y-yu-you…" She started snoring slightly.
"Take her to her room." Naruto instructed Kakashi and his team. "Sakura-san, can you stay for a minute."
"You're not to boss of us!" Sasuke growled. "And what did you do to her?"
"He put her to sleep." Kakashi placed his hand over his shoulder. "And we should really get her into her hotel room and watch her so she won't run away this time. Or do you have any other wishes, Asama-san?"
"Do as he wishes." Manager answered.
Kakashi, Sai and an infuriated Sasuke carried the unconscious actress to her hotel room. Sakura watched after them little worried. "You shouldn't anger Sasuke-kun like that. He only just recovered from a serious condition."
"It was a week ago and it wasn't that serious." Naruto answered siding it quickly. "And that isn't why I asked you here."
"Then why, if I may ask?"
"It has to wait a moment. I have to speak with Asama-san quickly. If you would give us a little privacy?"
"Sure." The pink haired kunoichi nodded and walked to the other side of the bar.
Naruto glanced back to the sweating manager. "Are you okay? You seem a little… hot." He asked casually.
"Do I? It's this village and this season. I always sweat a lot when it gets this hot." He answered swept the sweat away. "I want to thank you for calming her down."
"No problem. Glad to help. Now, tell me what you're thinking?"
"What you mean?"
"Im a doctor. I recognize when someone is lying to me." Naruto narrowed his eyes. "Are you leaving for Snow country?"
"Y-yes. We're filming the new movie there." Asama answered trying to act casual.
"And to start a revolution?"
"Wha-"
"I treated her anemia two years ago. I became very aware of her trauma about Snow country… and her past." Naruto answered. "Maybe you don't know, but we medics are required to be – how to put this… oh yes! Smart. Years you have filmed around the world always avoiding Snow country. I remember how your producers suggested that place when I was treating her. You didn't even consider it. Now suddenly you want to go there, when she is world famous and almost an adult. Too much of a coincidence."
"How did you know?" He asked quietly.
"We visited the Snow country once after we had departed with you. I asked around and found a lot… former magistrate of the Royal Court, Asama-dono." Naruto answered like he was bored. 'It really does pay off when you have that old pervert as your personal gossip teller.' He thought pleased to himself as the old man across to him paled.
"Is there… anyway I can keep you from telling this to Yukie-san." He asked.
"Hardly my concern. If she hasn't yet realized this, she is an idiot." Naruto answered. "And if she won't leave, she will bug me forever."
"She really cares for you."
"Which I can't understand." Naruto answered. "But anyway magistrate-san, you better be sure of what you're going to do. Her uncle has a pretty tight control over there. And your revolution just might be not enough to take him on."
"But we must defeat him!" He smacked his fist to the table. "My master trusted this mission to me! I must free our country. And I can't do it without her majesty."
"What about Yukie? Do you want to risk her life like that? I doubt that her uncle is just going stand aside and offer her the throne."
Asama didn't answer. Silence fell between them.
"Are you going to tell this to her?"
Naruto shook his head. "Her uncle would just try to kill her sooner or later. Better to meet him head on and you just might succeed."
"Is there anyway I could persuade you to accompany us?" Asama asked hopefully. "As her doctor. It would calm her down and…"
"Would grant you another team which would protect me and her on the side?" Naruto asked. "I doubt it. I will give her treatment to my assistant."
"Your assistant?"
Naruto glanced over his shoulder. The pink haired girl was currently correcting her hair in the mirror. "According to my source, she has no abilities other than fainting. This will give her a chance to prove herself."
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Sakura was getting bored. How long was he going to waste her time? Sasuke-kun might feel lonely right now. She glanced to the other side of the bar. Naruto-san was talking to the manager and was taking his sweet time. He had asked her to stay and it seemed to be something important. And besides, he was the son of Hokage. She couldn't actually refuse his requests. Especially since he healed Sai, her hand and Kakashi-sensei. The atmosphere where they had departed had been confusing. Naruto-san was so calm and concentrated at first but when Kakashi-sensei had talked to him, it was like the heater broke out during the ice age. And that glare which Naruto-san had used. It reminded her of Zabuza. For a moment, she was afraid he would attack but the moment passed suddenly as it had appeared. He exited the room, leaving them alone. Kakashi-sensei hadn't explained to her at all what was going on.
Then later that day, she found that Sasuke had dashed of the window chasing after Naruto-san wanting to challenge him to a spar (A/N: he said clearly a fight but she interpreted it as a friendly spar… kind of sad, isn't it?). Naruto-san had refused him without even giving him a chance. She believed it was because he wasn't really as strong as he said he was. Sasuke had sulked anyway.
Then later that day, Ino had found her telling her amazing news. Naruto-san had sent Chouji flying after stopping his most powerful attack. Sasuke had dashed off trying to find him again but no luck. Sakura had met up with Shikamaru who told her how he had felt when the son of Hokage had walked up to them after the clash. She had already redefined him several times and these happenings didn't help.
The following week, Hinata was under his care telling how dreamy he really was. To Sakura it was obvious that the depressed Hyuuga had found something to wait for. To her great surprise, both Kiba and Neji became very agitated about this (what Tenten could tell about her team mate).
What she knew of this new doctor in the hospital was very little. What she did know was that he was the biggest flirt she had ever heard of. That was as much she understood. Why had he asked her to stay? Only reason she could think of was… she blushed. No! She had Sasuke-kun. But he wasn't that bad. Sole heir of a clan. And powerful. And actually talked and not just glared back. And he was a doctor. And kinda cute too… NO!!! Bad Sakura! Think Sasuke-kun! There will be time when he notices you! There's gotta be.
Then she remembered the episode with their new client. What was that sudden outburst? Was there something between him and her? The world famous actress as a girlfriend. There was no way she could compete with that. It was all so complicated. She wanted to leave when the manager finally stood up and left the table. He seemed little paler than before. "He wants to talk with you." He muttered and passed her.
She stood up and realized they were only people inside the tavern beside the bartender. Maybe she should bail. But before that could happen she was already standing next to his table.
"Are you smart?" He asked suddenly while writing something.
"Excuse me?"
"Did I stutter?" Naruto asked.
"No it just…"
"Answer the question."
"Well… I don't mean to brag but I was the smartest in my class… right after Sasuke-kun."
"Of course. Anyway here." He handed her a two pieces of paper. She took them.
"What is this? Your shopping list?" Sakura asked reading them through.
"No, it's your shopping list." Then he pointed the other paper. "That is the instruction to create a drug."
"A drug? For what?"
"Yukie-san suffers from anemia." Naruto explained. "My mother dealt with it back then but it has a habit to rise to the surface from time to time when she suffers from stress. And I have a hunch tha this trip will be extremely stressing."
"Why do you think that?" Sakura asked confused. She looked into his eyes which seemed to have forgotten her completely. Such concentration… it reminded her of how Sasuke-kun while doing his tests but much more… mature and kind. Yet sad. Not like Sasuke-kun. Different kind of sad. She couldn't explain it.
"Do you think she is relaxed?" Naruto snorted. "Anyway, there are instructions how make the medicine, the dose and instructions how you give it to her. And that last note is only when under an attack. Rest is up to you."
"Wait- what?"
Naruto stood up. "She will need a doctor. I'm not going. You're going but you have no speciality."
"What you mean by that?" She glared at him. "That I'm weak?"
"That too. But more importantly, do you have any special skill worth mentioning? Out there on the field?"
Sakura couldn't but stare at him. He had a point. Late chunin exams had proven it. "But why are you giving this to me?"
"For obvious reasons." Naruto walked pass her. "In your team, I can only trust her health with you. And now, you're not just a burden."
"So… you're practically making me your personal assistant?"
"Would you dress in a nurse's outfit with extra short skirt if I would say yes?"
She blushed very brightly. "A-are you a pervert?"
"No! I'm a healthy teenage boy with healthy interest in the opposite sex." He smirked before checking the clock. "Is it already that much already? You better hurry and get those ingredients ready. We wouldn't want her to die on this trip. At least long as she is on your team's responsibility."
Sakura watched his back as he walked out of the bar. "Thank you very much for this chance!" She bowed. Maybe Sasuke-kun would go out with her after she had proven her abilities.
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"N-naruto…" Yukie woke up in a bed. "Where am I?"
"In your hotel room." Answered a plain voice. She sat up and was greeted with a killing headache. Then she saw a boy with a clean hair cut and a polite smile. "How are you feeling?"
"Who are you?"
"My name is Sai. Nice to meet you." He answered. "I'm assigned to guard you."
"By who?"
"Your manager, Asame-san." He answered.
"Thanks but… I don't need any protection… how did I get here? I remember going to a bar and…" She saw a flash of her beloved smiling face. She looked around.
"You were drinking in a bar before you were knocked out." Sai answered. "What are you looking for?"
"Do you happen to know a blond boy… with blue eyes… dressed in a green coat?" She asked carefully. It might have been one of her memories and hallucinations caused by the alcohol.
"Naruto-san?"
"Naruto is here? Where?" She jumped from the bed ignoring her pain.
"He is the one who knocked you out at the bar." Sai answered. "He asked us to bring you here before we leave."
"Leave? Knocked out? Bar? What's going on here?"
"All I know is that you disappeared and when we found you, you were drinking with Naruto-san at a bar. You were aggressive towards us and he had no choice but to knock you out."
"Oh my God!" She screamed. "He saw me as drunk again? Why does this happen to me? Where is he now? Have they left already?"
"Left? Where?"
"So Tsunade and Naruto and his sister haven't yet left this village?" She asked hopefully.
"I… don't think so." Sai answered.
She started running around her hotel room. "Where are my clothes?"
--
"Here." Naruto threw a ramen cup over the room which was caught by Tsunade. "Where's Nee-chan?"
"She is down at the archives." Tsunade answered. "Ninja stuff."
"She should get here soon. Her food is getting cold… and disappearing suddenly." Naruto moved his chopsticks closer.
"Naruto. You have five bowls for yourself." Tsunade pointed her chopsticks at a tower of bowls next to him. "And I bet there's one vegetable inside those." Door was opened letting a mountain of paperwork carrying Shizune inside.
"Is that lunch?" She asked putting the files down. "Thank you."
"Your welcome. So, how are you coping with the change from her carrier of bags to a private secretary working out? Any difference?"
"What do you mean?" Shizune asked confused while opening her bowl.
"Very funny." Tsunade glared at the both of them. "Do you know what else is funny? When a twelve year old boy starts sulking over-"
"Don't say it!" Naruto glared back.
"Calm down the both of you! This a family dinner for the first time in a week! Let's at least try to keep it civil. Naruto, I heard Yukie-chan was in town. Did you go to see her?"
"She told me to." He pointed towards the blond sitting on the other side of the desk.
"How is she?" Tsunade asked while eating. "The child molester."
"Depression and self-destruct plan working perfectly. She was drowning herself in sake in a bar." Naruto answered.
"What about her condition?" She asked.
"Cured as expected. Suffers from a lighter version of the illness – as expected. Jumped on to me – as expected."
"Then you pushed her away – as expected." Shizune pointed out.
"Because there's actually a person who stands your attitude longer than two hours." Tsunade continued. "As expected."
"She started yelling at that pink head from the… team seven about how I was hers and no ones else's." He said with a ridiculed tone. "She's aggressive, clingy, obsessive and has a drinking problem."
"As expected." Both women said at the same moment. Tsunade did break her chopsticks. Luckily, she had spares.
"She wanted to stay in Konoha." He muttered. "To stay by my side. She thinks we are connected by a 'red string'." He snorted. "Like there is one."
"Aaaawww! That's so cuuuute!" Shizune squealed. "And you always dream of her. It just makes it all the more perfect."
"I like the Princess Fuun. Her character." Naruto corrected. "If she were a real person, it would be different case."
"Yeah sure. Tell what ever you want to yourself." Shizune giggled. "Did you hear that, your boy is finally settling down? T-tsunade-sama?"
There was a second sound of snapping and yet again a second pair of chopsticks broke. "Shizune, call out the ANBU. I want her head on my desk in five minutes!" She started yelling.
"Wait, Tsunade-sama! Calm down!" Shizune stood up fearing that someone would actually obey that order. "She is a client and we can't kill clients. It's bad for business."
"We can dump her body in Oto. Let the Snake take the blame."
Naruto calmly ate his ramen while Shizune and Tsunade argued about whether they should or should not not kill his favourite actress when the door was opened.
"Naruto! You're here!" Everyone halted and turned towards the door. Naruto watched over his shoulder to see…
'This isn't good.' He gulped down his mouthful of ramen and smiled. "Yukie-san. Nice to see you."
"I'm so glad I got to see you!" She smiled and rushed to hug him. Behind her, very much bruised Sai was standing in guard. Shizune had to use all her might to hold back the enraged Hokage. "I'm so sorry what I said or did while… I was… you know. Please forgive me."
"Oooh… sure. So, what brings you here? To say your goodbyes?" Naruto suggested with a hopeful tone.
"I'm here to stay with you…" She whispered and leaned closer to kiss him.
"Oh no you don't!" Tsunade broke free from Shizune and pulled her fist back to hit her but before she could react, Naruto stepped between absorbing the power of the punch, protecting shocked actress. He flew directly into the wall creating large cracks around himself. "Naru-chan! I'm sorry!" Tsunade screamed in disbelief for what she had just done. "Are you okay?"
"You shouldn't do that." Naruto muttered while trying to stand up shocking both Sai and Yukie. Sai had never before witnessed Tsunades strength before. By the cracks in her wall, she must have punched hard. But he was already struggling to get up like it was only a small push. "You would have killed her with that punch."
"I'm so sorry my dear little Naru-chan!" Tsunade rushed to his side raising him from the floor like he was a doll and carrying him to the couch. "I'm so sorry. Can you forgive me?"
"Why would you hit him like that? You could have killed him!"
"Me? I think that was better than being molested by you!"
"Molested! That was two years ago and I was wasted!"
"You came on to him today as well! I thought you'd learn your lesson already! What are you doing here anyway? Doesn't your boat leave to Snow soon?"
"I'm not leaving! I'm staying here!"
"No your not." Tsunade suddenly touched her forehead with chakra and she fell to the floor unconscious. "You, get her to the hotel and keep her there. When you're ready, you're going to leave and don't let her out of your sight and nowhere near my son!"
"Yes sir!" Sai yelled and quickly picked her up and took her away.
"That was messy." Naruto muttered. "And now it's going to be even messier."
The rest of the lunch break went by with Tsunade apologizing time after time after time while hugging him.
"Okay, when the torture session is over, can I go now?" He asked while glaring at his mother who was beaming at herself.
"Actually no. I still have another case for you. Shizune." She asked from her assistant who gave her a file. "How can you find it so fast?"
"All these files are organized by a certain method I told you about-"
"There is a girl in cell block A (that's directly below us) who was captured by one of our teams." She started explaining ignoring her. "She had been wandering around with a missing-nin from Kiri who was killed. Team didn't saw her as an immediate threat so they took her under captivity and brought her here after their mission was completed."
"Why are you telling me this?" Naruto asked. "Is she dying?"
"No."
"Then why would you-"
"Because she wants to die." Tsunade smirked cunningly.
"Good bye." Naruto turned around.
"Wait! There is a reason I want you to treat her."
"Not a chance." Naruto glared over his shoulder. "I don't treat those who don't want to live. They don't deserve to be treated. And besides, if she has been flanking with a nin from Kiri, shouldn't you be returning her to them. And if she wants to die, then let her. It's not like she is in your responsibility."
"Good arguments which can be nullified by three points." Tsunade raised three of her fingers. "One, she has a bloodline limit."
"So? Many people have bloodline limits." Naruto reminded her. "Unless…"
"The council wants her bloodline limit." She smiled approvingly. "Good thing you got my brain."
Naruto rolled his eyes only to get disapproving slap from Shizune. "Manners."
"Kaa-san! Nee-chan hit me!" He started screaming.
"Don't think you can distract me so easily." Tsunade snorted. "The girl doesn't only have a bloodline limit, but she is also her bloodlines last living member. Understand?"
"You want me to do a gene transfer!?" Naruto yelled angrily. "You know that is dangerous, unethical and extremely hard and always, always ends up with a dead donor."
"You should know better than anyone that I don't approve that technique any more than you do." Tsunade answered leaning to her hands. "Council did ask me to do it but I refused. Being the Hokage has its merits. And because there isn't anyone else to ask to do it, because there have been only two fully successful transfusions in Konohas history, the idea was abandoned."
"You said there have been two successful transfusions." Shizune gulped. "Whom?"
"First one was done by my shisou when I was still learning medical skills from her so long ago." Tsunade half-closed her eyelids. "During a war, we came across this ability which interested everyone. It was war and Sensei had no choice but to command my shisou to perform the gene transfusion. It was a success but the receiver died during a war. My master's efforts were wasted." She narrowed her eyes. "That technique doesn't only strain donor and the receiver but also to the doctor. Every one of them will go through a great deal of pain and success rate is low. Shisou made me promise never to do that technique."
"But if it's so… dangerous technique, why didn't you get rid of her notes?" Naruto asked confused. "I remember finding her journal of that treatment inside your-"
"Don't reveal that to anyone." She commanded. "It was a mistake to let you find it. Even Shizune doesn't know where I have hidden those. She didn't even know its existence before you stumbled to those papers."
"I understand why you decided to hid those notes, Tsunade-sama." Shizune smiled kindly. "Just by quick glance I could tell it was a horrible technique."
"And both of you should remember that neither of you know nothing of this technique. If council finds a way to overrule my decision sometime in the future… I wouldn't forgive myself if either of you would have to go through that." Tsunade whispered. "Naru-chan, you're the only person in this world who has read those notes other than myself. You must be extra careful. If anyone would find out that my son would know the dangerous but extremely beneficial technique, your bounty would double. Not to mention you're the only person who knows where those notes are beside myself which itself puts you to danger."
"I understand… " Naruto muttered. "Why didn't you destroy those notes and her journal? Why did you keep them?"
Tsunade smiled sadly. "I guess I didn't want my master's greatest achievement disappears from this world just yet."
"I see." Naruto nodded. Then he took a deep breath. "I know I'm going to regret this but…"
"The second successful transfusion was transfusing your great-grandfathers Mokuton ability to a child." Tsunade gulped. "He carried out a gene therapy frighteningly similar to shisous transfusion to 60 children of Konoha. Only one of them survived though."
Naruto paled in shock. "What? Who-"
"It was Orochimaru." Shizune answered with uncharacteristically sad voice. "He wanted to obtain the Shodaimes Bijuu controlling skills to himself but he had to leave before he could see his work 'carry out the fruit'." She added bitterly. "We couldn't do anything to those children. They just… died. One after another until there was just one left."
"What happened to him?" Naruto whispered not believing his ears. This was unbelievable. Even what he knew of Orochimaru.
"He's currently in ANBU." Tsunade answered. "And that ends of that. We are forgetting our original talk. The first point of nullifying your arguments, why you shouldn't treat this girl was that she has a bloodline which could be useful to the village. But because she is a female, only way to obtain the ability is to make her to continue her line."
"You mean having sex with a guy, then carry a child which would be taken away from her soon as it breaths air." Naruto narrowed his eyes. "I didn't know you were into breeding programs."
"But we can't do that until she wants to live. Pregnancy creates a great deal of both mental and physical stress and she couldn't handle it in that cell she is now. The foetus would die before the 20th week. The second point is that because she doesn't want to live."
Naruto stared her for a moment. "You want me to treat her… because she wants to die."
"Huh?" Shizune blinked. "Come again?"
"Naruto, you have a reason in your life. And you're alive." Tsunade smiled. "Why is that?"
"You're my mother." He simply answered to it. "You gave me a life."
"Exactly. I gave you a chance to live." She smiled. "Don't you think you should give her a chance too? After all, you two aren't that different, are you?"
Naruto gulped. "What's the third reason?" He asked tightening his jaw.
"Because your mother commands you to do it." She smiled. "Now go. Give her a chance. Give her a reason to live."
Naruto seemed extremely angry but didn't say anything. Her mothers' eyes were so sympathetic. So forgiving and encouraging. He couldn't refuse her. And that made him angry. He stormed out of the office not facing anyone outside. Just running directly to the cell block.
"Do you think this will work? Do you think she can be brought to the Leaf by him?" Shizune asked.
"To be honest, I couldn't care less about her or about her kekkei genkai." Tsunade answered shocking her assistant. "I did this because of him. He has to get over his past."
"Why?"
"Not to force him to become a shinobi, if that's what you think. But the way he is now… the reason he hates people with no will to live is because he hasn't yet forgiven himself giving up back then. If he can't forgive himself I doubt he can forgive others. If he can't forgive he can't find happiness. Isn't that what every mother wants for their child?"
"Then the Yukie-san and the way you acted against her…"
"If Naruto had wanted to have a relationship with her, I would have approved her without hesitation." A vein appeared to her forehead. "Okay, it may taken a while but… anyway, but because he obviously didn't care for her… I could go back killing her for what she did to my precious little guy back then." She gulped. "He is growing up so fast…"
She felt a touch on her shoulder. "He is still a boy. No matter how he acts or how strong he is. How many illness he treats. He is still only a twelve year old boy. He will find a way sooner or later. And he will always be your son. He will need your help."
"Thanks." Tsunade whispered. "But reminding him that he is still a boy is the thing Im trying to do here. I wish he would date girls, read mangas, watch tv at home, sneak out from home. Even do some drugs or something. You know? The things we did when we were young."
"When I was that young I was killing Iwa nins." Shizune reminded her.
"My childhood wasn't that great either." Tsunade agreed. "But I did date guys. And sneak out of home. Got into fights. Acted like a child almost until I was eighteen."
"Me too." Shizune smiled to her memories. "I think I still am a child… So you think this girl will help him to become like that?"
"Hopefully but if it doesn't work, I have other plans made for him already."
"Hokage-sama?" Asuma walked in followed by his two team members who haven't left for a mission. "Is everything okay? Your son-"
"Had an emergency case." She answered. "Come in. I have a mission for you and your team."
The fat kid gulped slightly. It had been a week since the meeting with his father, himself and the Hokage.
"You want my son to… stalk your son?" Chouza asked little confused. "Why?"
"Actually I want him to make himself known to him. Which simply means stalking." Tsunade smiled. "Only thing he has to do is to make himself known and if possibly to befriend with him."
"But why my son? There must be heirs of higher clans who-"
"Who haven't gotten beaten by him? Simply, because they weren't beaten by him." Tsunade smirked proudly. "Naruto respects strength. If your son can take his straight right, your son obviously has his interest. If he has his interest, he can possibly even…"
"Befriend with him?" Akimichi asked. "But why?"
"For the same reason why new moms have play dates." Tsunade answered.
Chouza seemed to start understand.
"And your son can seem a kind person which is one thing Naruto also likes. If those two can be friends, I can rest my mind and your son has a new friend."
"Can you do it?" Chouza asked from his son.
"I… don't know. He is kind of scary." Chouji admitted sheepishly. "What does he like?"
"You have to find yourself." Tsunade answered. "But I can tell you, he never hits his friends."
Chouji had been thinking. Hokage-sama had practically given him a mission. Him of all the people. Akimichi weren't a great clan. He wasn't a great shinobi. He was fat and slow. What would Hokages son like about him? He had been thinking it hard the whole week. He had even considered consulting Shikamaru but wasn't that sure. It was so hard to decide.
"Chouji!" He snapped. "We're leaving."
"Right!"
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"Why can't you let me die!? Please, let me die!" A voice echoed through the dark corridor.
"I take it she is in there?" Naruto asked while pointing one of the cells. "Right?"
"Right." The chunin guard nodded. "She has been screaming like that almost two months now! I mean, you would think she would get tired of it sooner or later."
"She has been screaming like that for two months now? Constantly?" Naruto asked doubtfully.
"Well… she does sleep. And we sedate her from time to time but… when she isn't under sedative or sleeping she can just suddenly start screaming and continue it for hours."
"Almost two months and you haven't killed her?" Naruto snorted. "You must be really resilient."
"Thank you." The chunin nodded. "So… Hokage wants me to open that door to you?"
"She can't attack, can she?" Naruto asked like it mattered to him. He maybe wasn't all-powerful but he thought he could take on a chunin ranked (according her file) fighter.
"Well… no. She has charka handcuffs which-"
"Are like leeches. They keep eating her chakra and keep her from using jutsus. More she tries to mold it, more they will suck." Naruto answered. "Not my first time."
The chunin placed his hand over the plate and molded some chakra. The door made a sound when the lock system deactivated. "Here you go. Yell if you need anything."
"Sure." Naruto stepped inside.
The cell was small dark room. There was a light coming from a lamp on the roof. That was the only decoration the room had. There had a small bed, toilet, a metal sink and a chair. None of them had been used for a long time. The proof was the dust on them and that there was a girl tight to a bed. There were IVs going into her body and tubes coming out. She had long, black hair and brown eyes. They were red and swollen. She had obviously been crying. Her skin was pale from lack of sunlight. "W-who are you?" She asked. "Are you here to kill me?"
"Not likely." Naruto answered while sitting down. "I'm here to give you a reason to live."
She smiled sadly. "I don't have one. I'm only a broken tool. I let down my master. I don't deserve to live."
Naruto gulped. Now there was nothing that he wanted more than hit that girl's face to a mush. He took a deep breath. "We started on a wrong foot. My name is Senju Naruto. I'm your doctor. Who are you?"
"You're a medic-nin? But you're so young? You must be a genius." She whispered.
"Not really. I just work hard." Naruto answered. "And I'm not even a shinobi. Just a doctor." Then he waited. "Have you no manners?"
"You don't need to know my name." She whispered. "Just kill me."
"I'm not going to kill you." He screamed. "Get a hold of yourself already! What's your name?"
"… Haku." She answered. "Will you-"
"No! How long have you been here?"
"I don't know… since Zabuza-sama was killed."
"Your file tells it was eight weeks ago. You don't know what has happened up there, do you?"
"No… I don't ca-"
"Sound and Sand attacked the village during the chunin exams." Naruto cut her before she could finish. "They were repulsed but the Hokage died during that invasion. That's why you have been kind of forgotten. New mistress had to put her whips in right order."
"M-mistress?" Haku asked confused.
"New Hokage." Naruto answered. "Tsunade of the Sannin."
"I've heard of her…" She whispered. "She is the mistress of modern medicine…"
"That's the hag." He nodded. "She is also my mother."
"You're a son of the Hokage?"
"I guess. But I like being called 'Naruto' or 'Naruto-sama'." He grinned but made himself back to serious. "Council wants to use you."
"Why?"
"Your bloodline limit." Naruto simply answered. "You're last of your kind. You have no official allegiance to any village so no-one will come and try to claim you. You're in this village. We only need to conceive a baby and rest will come out eventually."
Hakus eyes widened in shock. "Y-you're not serious! I will not allow it!"
"A person who hasn't moved an inch from her bed for two months hasn't really anything to say on the matter."
"So that's why you're here?"
"To have sex with you?" Naruto asked. "Not really into bondage but I do enjoy spanking girls. Moderately of course."
Haku looked away. "If you're here to make fun of me…"
"I'm here to give you a way out!" Naruto yelled.
"What?" Haku turned away. "Why-"
"Let me tell you something." Naruto leaned closer. "This is how things are going go from now on: you ask me to kill you one more time, I will refuse because I'm a medic and promised not to attack those who are no threat. And you most definitely are not. After I have refused, I will leave this cell and tell me mom that you're a lost cause. You will be put into a coma at the hospital where we will make you pregnant. Nine months later a baby will born leaving your almost dead body in the hospital which will be take to the morgue after some shinobi has finished the job. Your baby will be given to some new parents. They will grow it into a shinobi of the Leaf. Twelve years later, it will be given a hitai-ate, as a first Hyoton skilled leaf nin." He looked into her eyes. "Your baby will grow without ever even knowing your existence but as some name in a paper. Do you want that? Are you sure, you have no reason to live?"
"I have no reason to live. I don't fear death." She whispered a lonely tear felling down her cheek.
"Yes you do. If you hadn't, you would've been dead a day you were caught." Naruto smirked.
"Wha-"
"Biting your tongue is an effective way to kill yourself." He answered. Her eyes went wide. "Especially when you're roped into the bed like you are."
"B-but-"
"You haven't thought about it? Means you haven't been serious about it." He narrowed his eyes. "You're pathetic."
"Of course I am!" She screamed. "I couldn't save my master! I'm just a broken tool! Not worthy to live. If I'm lucky I may be worthy to meet him in the afterlife."
"What happened? You stood there while he was killed?"
"No! I… I was trapped by that boys lions… then… I hear something like a housand birds… flashy light and – and – and he died…" She whispered. Naruto recognized the attack. 'Another victim of Hatakes Chidori.' Tears started falling down again. "I… I shouldn't live anymore. They tied me up. They brought me here. 'Because I should live' they said." She gulped. "I… was born in a small village in the Water… one day I realized I could manipulate water… I showed it to my mother. She was angry. Back then I didn't know I was a bearer of a bloodline limit. I could manipulate water and wind to create a new element, ice. Because of the civil war they hunted us… they blamed us for causing the war."
Naruto sat there in silence while she told her story.
"My father found out." The tears continued running down like there was no end to them. "It was my fault. I was using my skills… he saw me. He became angry and… and killed my mother…" She stopped for a while. "He came to me. With a mob… they were going to kill me! My own father wanted to kill me! Then – then I don't know what happened… I only defended myself! I killed so many… I just… I didn't know what happened before it was over. My father… the mob… they were dead. I had to leave. I… I couldn't stay there. I lived for a while… then he came to me…" Her eyes gained unexpected light. "He took me in… he gave me a reason to live… I did some horrible things for him. But it didn't matter. Because that's what a tool like me should do for their master. When he needed an escape plan, I was there. When he needed medical attention, I was there. Without moment of consideration I did his bidding… because it was what I should do. Because I'm a tool… who allowed his master to die!" She started crying again. "It was just a simple job. Kill the bridge builder… that's it. I didn't know it would go like this…"
"When I was kid once… I was chased by a mob of ninjas." Naruto spoke up suddenly. "I was… what four or five back then. They chased me. Like I was a rat with no worth. I could hear their laughter behind my back. I was only a small boy back then. Even now it would be hard to lose so many shinobis. It was impossible back then. They made me be their mouse in their cat and mouse play. They stabbed… attacked with different jutsus… broke my body… let me go… and then suddenly appearing in front of me again and the game began all over again." He gulped the bitterness out of his tongue. "And to believe back then I wanted to be a ninja. I even yelled it to them. Do you know what they answered? Destroying monsters like me… is their job." He gulped again. "That was when I realized the life of a ninja wasn't for me."
"Why did they attack you?" Haku asked forgetting her own pain for a moment.
"Because of my parents." Naruto answered. 'Because my parents made me take this demon inside me.' He added inside his mind. "I'm the son of one of the Sannin. My dad… doesn't matter. In any case, they have many enemies. They wanted to pay for my parents crimes against me…" He looked into the ground. "My mom saved me… eventually."
"Where was she-"
"She was out of town. I was with grandpa at the moment. He had important job so he couldn't watch me as much as he should have if you ask me… he… I really can't blame him. He was just doing his best… he sucked but… he tried. My mom never forgave him for what happened to me. In order to protect me always and to prove she would always love me, she gave me these." He showed his necklace to her. "Do you like it?"
"It's pretty…" She whispered.
"It was my great-grandfathers." He answered while putting it back inside his shirt.
"What's the other one?"
"This?" He pushed some hair away from his forehead. Blue diamond shaped mark was revealed.
"What is it?"
"Kind of a clan marking. My mom has it too."
They watched each other for a moment.
"Do you want to die?" He asked looking directly into her eyes.
"I… don't know. I don't have a reason to live. What's the point of living anyway?" Haku asked with a desperate voice.
"That day… when those ninjas hunted me… I gave up for a moment." Naruto surprised her. "I gave up on living that day for a full moment. I was tired, sick, hurt, alone… I couldn't go on anymore. I couldn't go back to the village. My legs didn't carry me anymore in the middle of that road. Do you know how I survived?"
"Your mother…"
"Showed up and rescued me. She restored my life to me." He smiled to the memory. "I… I can never forgive myself for giving up. If I had died on that road that day, my mom would have found a dead body. The sadness. My nee-chan crying over for me… I wouldn't be able take it. My mom drinking herself to coma… Ero-sennin blaming himself… my precious people… I became a medic so they would never need to worry about me. I could become a medic because I was alive. Because I didn't die. What ever happens today, I can go home. Have dinner with mom and nee-chan. I can fight with my chopsticks against my nee-chan. Victor will get more meat from a beef stew. I can listen how my sis will scowl my mom about drinking sake with children in the room. I can be teased by them about some most stupid things you can imagine… only because Im alive! I can save lives, because Im alive!" He stood up. "People give their lives because they think there's no hope! Long as there is life, there's hope! When you're dead… it's over. There's nothing… just… death. That's why I can't forgive people who give up hope! Myself included!"
The cell became silent. "If you ask me to kill you… I will do it." He whispered tears coming from his eyes. "Just say the word. I will be painless… and over before you know it."
There was no word. There was only silent whimpering. He slowly raised his gaze from the floor. Haku was crying. "I- I don't want to die! But I don't want to kill anymore. I… I have done bad things…" She looked into his eyes. "H-help me…"
"That's what I wanted to hear." He whispered and raised his fist. Swift move and the chains broke into pieces.
"What's going on?" Chunin rushed to the cell to witness Naruto carrying Haku in bride style. "What are you doing?"
"Taking care of my patient." Naruto answered with a dangerous voice.
"You can't-"
"I'm the son of Hokage." He raised his voice. "This girl is in weak state. If she doesn't get immediate medical attention, she will die." He walked to him. "You have been listening to my speech, haven't you?" Chunin gulped. "I won't kill you because you want to gossip. But you will let me go, now."
"But-"
"Do you honestly think she can put up a fight?" Naruto snorted. "She is barely conscious."
"The council-"
"Have no authority inside the Hokage tower."
"Hokage-"
"Will blame me."
"But-"
"You've been crying, haven't you?" Naruto asked suddenly. "Did my story move you?"
The man tried to act cool. "You're so brave, Naruto-san!" It failed. He cried and rushed to hug him all of a sudden. "So painful past and you're still going on! You're a hero!" He sniffed. "You can go. But-"
"My mother will understand." Naruto nodded.
Haku listened only half awake how she was carried out of the dark cell block. She was carried trough the corridors to… a roof. It was so bright. She went blind. "Welcome to Konoha…" She heard and narrowed her eyes. Naruto's face was inches away from hers. She saw sun… bright sky… and the faces of her saviour. Naruto… sama. "This is where you're going to live from now on."
"Here… Naruto-sama?"
"First you will have to go to the hospital of course." He smiled. "We need to get you better."
"What will I… do?"
"You said you gave your old master medical treatment." He answered. "If you can't find anything, you can become my assistant."
"Assistant?"
"Would you dress in a cute nurse outfit with extra short skirt?"
"If that's what you ask of me, Naruto-sama."
"Now there is a problem we must work with. But no hurry. Let's get you all better first. Then deal with the problems."
They sat on the edge. She started feeling cold all of a sudden. "I… haven't been outside for so long."
"Here." Naruto took his jacket and placed it around her. "You can use this until we get into the hospital."
"Thank you… Naruto-sama."
"What ever." He smiled overlooking the village. He noticed a large caravan which was moving out. "But there is something we must do when you get your strength back."
"What is it, Naruto-sama?"
"Don't worry about it now. Just rest…" He smiled.
Haku obeyed and closed her eyes. The sun felt warm against her face. The coat was warm against her body. Naruto-samas shoulder was so comfortable. "I have a reason…" She whispered.
"Yes you do…" Naruto nodded. "Now I just have to convince my mom how to let you live in our place."
"SENJU NARUTO!!!" Angry scream echoed through the village shocking everyone.
Naruto looked into Hakus eyes. "Ready to meet my mother?"
Chapter END