Artic Fox
Chapter 2
Hello my fellow fanfictioners how are you this fine morning/afternoon/evening/night/late at night? Well here is chapter two of Artic Fox.
I DO NOT OWN NARUTO OR THE STORY IDEA! Enjoy!
Naruto's Pov
We were making much better time on the trip back to Konoha, maybe it was the fact that we are ninja and without a civilian, well a civilian we can't carry, we go much faster. Yes we were tree hopping with baby Satoshi who was giggling the entire way almost making Sakura fall from looking at him, with Sasuke pouting in the background. As Sakura's last bit of pretty pathetic stamina started to wear down Kakashi looked for a place to set up camp.
Once we found it Haku, Kakashi, and I managed to get our tents set up in about thirty seconds, Sasuke took about a minute, and Sakura took about two and half minutes. Once everyone was set up Kakashi told us to get certain things done while Sakura stayed at camp with Satoshi while Haku and I went to get dinner and Sasuke got firewood.
Haku and I went and found a nearby stream to catch fish as we were talking.
"So, Naruto-kun are you going tell Hatake-san about what you did for training?"
"Yeah but not everything, is that acceptable Kakashi-sensei!"
"Yes, just give me a basic outline."
"Okay, so we did physical conditioning, more complicated chakra control, going to the ruins of Uzio and getting some scrolls and taking control of Gato's money."
"Wait what's this about Gato's money?"
"Well, I liquidated all of his illegal accounts, and gave back all the trading companies he had to the Wave, except for the largest one, and some of the brothels he owned I sent some people to actually teach the women to do something other than offer up their bodies."
"You did good kid, but you know that the council will try to take control of it."
"Yeah, screw them, I know every single crime they've done and I can blackmail them with it, if they get too uncooperative first of all, and second of all I probably know the laws they passed against them, I also know that they told you to teach Sasuke more though."
"Sorry Naruto, but I really don't want my son in danger."
"Huh?"
"Well, a couple years back I did knock someone up, the mom's dead, and the kid's two."
"Nah that's fine, I understand, but really you have a kid, I always thought you were gay from the hair and all."
"Um, that's natural."
"Oh," there was an awkward silence that Haku and I escaped form with our nearly forgotten fish.
Once we escaped to the campsite we figured out it was even worse than the awkward silence with Kakashi, it was complete and utter tension between my teammates and I. The only thing keeping that tension from exploding was an exhausted and overstimulated Satoshi who had to go to bed much earlier than four pre-teens and an adult. It somehow managed to stay peaceful for a whooping ten minutes in till Sasuke said this.
"Dope, give me the sword you're obviously wasting the potential of it."
"I'd like to see you even try to take it, Uchiha-sama," I mocked him. He ran forward thinking he was winning against me as I didn't move, and he reached for the hilt. As soon as he grabbed the hilt he withdraws his now severely burnt hand, crying out in pain.
"NARUTO! WHAT DID YOU DO!"
"I didn't do anything Sakura, Zabuza's sword is one of the legendary swords of the seven swordsmen of the mist, his particular sword changes for each new wielder, and unless you have been allowed to, killed, or its been given to you by its other wielder, it uses that person's elemental chakra capacity to hurt the person trying to take it."
"So you're a fire?"
"No, I've been born with all the elements, for some reason."
"NANI!?"
"Well that's interesting Naruto, can you combine any?"
"Yeah, I can use Haku's if I concentrate really hard, but I can use something to do with wood naturally."
"We'll discuss this when we get back to Konoha, Naruto."
"Alright," and Haku went back to the tent to go to bed and my two teammates, one pouting, went to theirs. Kakashi and I talked for a while in till I left to my tent only to be confronted by the cutest sight ever.
Haku was cuddled up with a very asleep Satoshi with said girl's arm around the small child, and I smiled at the adorable sight. I stayed like that in till Satoshi started to suckle on Haku's covered bosom trying to get breast milk from the poor girl. I pick him up and take him away from her and he wakes up and wails.
"Shh, shh, Satoshi," he starts to quiet down, "It's okay, are you hungry little one?"
He looked at me like he knew what I was saying, but he's six months old and he cannot speak. I rummaged through Kakashi-sensei's bag to find the milk, and heated it over the fire and gave it to Satoshi. We then all went to bed to get ready for the next day.
8
We got to Konoha at about noon the next day, but we had to take a break for about five minutes before we could even walk in to the gates thanks to Sakura. When we walked to the gates I saw Izumo and Kotetsu, the gate guards and grin at the two. They look at me and recognize me by my trademark grin and seem shocked at my appearance.
"Dear Kami, Naruto, you're a carrot top!" Kotetsu said and Izumo facepalmed.
"Well," Izumo said always trying to seem professional, "who are the two that are now with you."
"The baby is a distant cousin on my mom's side kid who sent his kid to safety, and the girl is-"
"She's a bloodline user that managed to escape the bloodline purges in Kiri, and she wishes to join our ranks."
"Alright, go through and go report to the hokage."
"Oi, Izumo, Kotetsu, you two, Iruka, and me, Ichikairu's, tonight, I'll explain everything."
"Dually noted kid."
Haku, Satoshi, and I catch up to the rest of the group, and I try to get used to stares that don't have any malice in them as I see a bunch of girls with hearts in their eyes. Once we got to the hokage tower the secretary waved us in winking in my direction causing me to shiver in disgust. When we enter the Sandaime looks like he's been bitch slapped and he stutters out.
"N-Na-Naruto?!"
"Sup, ojiji-san."
"W-what happened to you."
"A very looooong story."
"Yeah," teme said, "that the dope won't tell me."
"Who said you had to know," I retorted, "you're on a need-to-know basis, and guess what? You don't need to know." (thank you Raphael).
"Don't you dare speak like that to me you, lowlife, do you even know who I am?"
"The last of a clan that was complacent in their abilities that they were the highest casualties in every war we've been in, and a child who's ego has been stroked since the day your parents died by the stupid ass civilians," I say coolly.
The 'Last Uchiha' gets angry and his face becomes redder and redder by the second seeing that his fangirl isn't backing him up. He looks for the girl only to find her tickling a giggling Satoshi with Haku.
"You don't have backup this time, teme."
"SHUT UP! DOBE!"
"Maa, maa, Sasuke, you're scaring the baby, tone it down."
Sure enough the girls were fussing over a teary eyed Satoshi that looked at Sasuke and smirked like he had won the battle. Kakashi-sensei, jiji, and I were trying to stifle snickering at the predicament that my male teammate was in, and then the door swung open and someone proclaimed.
"Team 8 done with a mission!"
Kiba walks up to the hokage's desk with his eyes closed and his chest puffed out like he accomplished something, unknowingly stopping a fight between myself and my 'teammate'. Kurenai, Shino, and Hinata enter much quieter than their teammate and also much more cautiously.
"Hokage-sama, when will we get some good missions?"
"Kiba, look around you, I'm too busy to deal with your childish complaining, right now," and the canine-like genin looks at us and most likely sees two strangers, Sakura, Sasuke, their sensei, and a baby that has captured the attention of the majority of the people in the room. He probably looked for me in my neon orange outfit which was long gone, but I don't think he could find me.
"Hokage-sama, where is Naruto?" I tap his shoulder and say.
"Really Kiba, I thought you would recognize me?"
"NARUTO!? WHAT THE HELL HAPPENED?! YOU'RE, you're GINGER?!"
Everyone on his team snapped their heads to look at me and their mouths hit the ground (Shino's eyebrows were raised) and Hinata fainted from the sight.
"Sup guys, how are you doing this fine afternoon?"
"Interesting," the shocked Shino said.
"What the heck happened to you, Naruto?"
"Long story," he then looked at Satoshi.
"And what's with the baby?"
"Part of my clan."
"You're a part of a clan?"
"They didn't teach you about the Uzumaki's in the academy?" The adults asked
"No," everyone answered besides Haku and Satoshi answer who bath looked very confused. The adults seem shocked and I hear the hokage mutter 'civilians aren't going to touch the academy anymore' and I smirk.
"Cat!" A cat-faced ANBU appears kneeling before the hokage respectfully and asks.
"Hai, hokage-sama?"
"Get all the gennin that have graduated in the last twelve years for remedial lessons that the civilians didn't include, and tell any chunnin what to read, they're mature enough to do things by themselves, based on what was just said."
"Hai, hokage-sama," and he/she shunshis away in a whirl of fire.
"Hokage-sama, what is so important about the Uzuamki's?" Sakura asks always ready to learn.
"Well, do you see the swirls on the flak jackets and hiates?"
"Hai," she nods.
"Those are from the Uzuamki clan, they helped found this village along with the Uchiha, Hyuuga, and the Senju clans, and are a branch of-"
"Actually hokage-sama, if you're about to say offshoot of the Senju that is incorrect, while my great-grandmother did marry the first hokage, we were not cousins in till then."
"O-okay then, anyways the reason we use their symbol, is our greatest failure, our allies since day one we failed them, they didn't live in Konoha, they had their own village, country even, but it was destroyed at the beginning of the Third Shinobi War, by the alliance between, Kusa, Kumo, Kiri, and Iwa, they lost and were scattered across the whole world, but not before causing some serious damage."
"How so?" Sasuke asked impatiently.
"They," I say, "were the largest clan ever recorded with a whopping thousand members, and they were eighty percent shinobi, ten percent shinobi in training, and ten percent either retired or some type of artisan or civilian, they fought against an invasion force of 40 thousand, and only 20 thousand returned home to celebrate."
"It's a record that still hasn't been beaten, not even by the Uchiha."
"There were also some perks in my family, we lived for a really long time, the average lifespan for a male is 100 years old, and we also have really large chakra pools, that's why I could never do the bushin, I had so much chakra and such crap control that I always overloaded it," Hinata then decided to wake up at this point.
"I-I h-ha-had the wie-wierdest d-dre-dream," I walk over and ask.
"What was it about?" She looked at me and fainted after turning a very very bright red.
"Hinata," I panic, "Are you alright? Kurenai-sensei is she okay?"
"She's okay," she has a smile on her face, "she probably just needs to rest and eat, we'll leave you now."
All of team eight left quietly after Kurenai-sensei threatened the not so quiet ones (read: Kiba) they left, Kurenai carrying a fainted Hinata. It left us alone and we turned to jiji everyone quiet even Satoshi and he said.
"Sakura, Sasuke you're dismissed, go home and rest, I have to talk to young miss…"
"Yukina," Haku says.
"Yukina, Naruto, and you're sensei about something."
"Hokage-sama, I must respectfully-"
"Do what Uchiha, you question my authority? I may be old but I can kick your ass any day, you pompous brat, if you were in any village, they would have killed you."
"Sasuke-chan listen, go home, now," he left no room for argument.
"He huffs and leaves a dazed Sakura following him and after she is through the door he slams it with as much force as he can get away with. The hokage then turns to Kakashi-sensei and asks.
"What happened?"
MWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA! CLIFFY! How you like me now