Chapter 3: New Bloom.
**The Next Day**
Naruto awoke with a weight on his chest as he opened his eyes he realized he must've fallen asleep with Yuki on his chest. He was in the kitchen floor with the dinner she was preparing last night fallen cold. He got up slowly and quietly careful not to wake the sleeping girl, as he picked her up and delivered her to a couch in the living room.
Only now did Naruto realize that the house was more like a mouse's house with rooms in unexpected places. There was so much décor that you could yell in the kitchen and the people sitting at the table wouldn't hear you (Exaggeration of course.).
But there was quite the extremity of decorations littered through out the house, the majority of it being purplish. He looked around and noticed that there were many windows but almost all of them were covered with purple curtains.
He decided that in return for taking care of them he could do some stuff in return so he decided to tidy up and make breakfast. He looked at the sun and guessed it was around 6:30 because he slept on the floor he woke up sooner.
He headed outside and decided that fresh meat would be better then the frozen or dried meat stored inside the house. He walked outside and immediately used a jutsu to locate anything alive within about 100 feet.
He decided to chase the rabbit that he seen digging through her flower patch nibbling on some roses. He jumped at the rose bush so he could get some fun out of chasing it. He chased it into the forest but he soon saw what the rabbit was making a bee-line for, its burrow. It would be difficult to get the rabbit out without a jutsu if it made it.
If he used a jutsu it would alert Kumo that there was atleast a high-jounin level ninja in lightning country, because Naruto had so much chakra he had to use high level jutsu without it back firing.
Naruto pumped chakra into his feet and snatched the rabbit up and found a birds nest in the tree above them.
Naruto found about 6 more rabbits and 3 more nests and hurried back with his catch. It was about 8:30 now, so he threw the extra rabbits into the smoker outside.
He went in and noticed Sasuke wasn't up yet which was weird Sasuke usually got up about 5:00 and rarely stayed in bed till later then 6:30 even if he was sick. Naruto on the other hand didn't wake up so good.
He fried the rabbits and used the hair in a fire and hung the partially cooked rabbits over the smoke to get a little smoky flavor into them.
He then made scrambled eggs and got to working on the house making it less of an eye sore with all the purple decorations. He didn't take anything down but cleaned everything.
About an hour later Yuki finally woke up and walked into the kitchen seeing it completely spotless and smelling food. She looked around and realized that there was a bunch of food sitting on the table and immediately recognized it as her favorite, rabbit meat.
Naruto who had been hiding in the closet putting everything back turned around to see Yuki staring at the food hungrily. He chuckled and gestured her towards the table as if saying it was okay.
She quickly complied and walked over and neatly but quickly gulped down her plate.
Naruto seeing she was still hungry gestured her towards his plate and even though looking guilty she complied.
He wasn't that hungry anyways he'd just force some rations down later.
Naruto was starting to worry about Sasuke since he hadn't woken up yet and told Yuki he'd be right back and went to check on him.
When he walked into the room he half expected to see a dead Sasuke or something. But as he walked in he was greeted by a peacefully sleeping Sasuke.
Naruto figured he was just tired and just waved it off and walked back to Yuki Naruto opting to eat Sasuke's breakfast instead of forcing down nasty rations.
He talked to Yuki about the town she lived in it was fairly good walk away from the big city of Kumo so there weren't many people that wanted to travel that far to pick on her.
He went outside and decided to train for a while, after training he decided to shun shin to Kumo, to pick some stuff up.
He walked into a grocery store and picked up some instant ramen and canned foods, he put them into a storage scroll.
He walked over to the post office across the street and decided that he was going to send a message to Shikamaru. He wasn't the choice he would've made if it had been a regular message saying hi but he wanted this message figured out fast besides, the Nara compound had a post transfer. Meaning the messages weren't checked by the Konoha police force, (Which was now taken up by the Inuzuka clan part-time.).
He wrote the message on the scroll and put it into a privacy box about the size of a box of chocolates. He then walked into the office and seen a man taking a package from a chunin. The shinobi guarding the door looked at him strangely for having a Konoha hitai-ate with a scratch in it.
He walked over to the man and handed him his package and gave him a note with the address on it and a modest tip to not let anyone look in it.
He headed outside and spied the Raikage tower in the far north.
He started hopping along the roofs towards the tower and arrived in roughly 5 minutes.
When he got there he seen something he hadn't seen in forever, a fellow Jinchuriki how did he know this? He didn't know but he had a feeling that this person was a Jinchuriki.
He walked over towards the blond haired girl in a jounin outfit about to tap her on the shoulder, then about 6 Kumo nin jumped out of know where and tried to stab him with their various weapons of choice. He easily dodged all of them and back peddled a slight distance away.
"Well isn't that a way to greet a person you never met before, I think I might like this city." Naruto said with an arrogant smirk as he stood straight up with his guard down, trying to prove that he was no threat.
He'd easily be able to get into stance and proceed to fight if it so required.
As they were about to attack him the Raikage appeared and back handed the entire group with one swipe of his hand. Him doing this reminded Naruto that he was not as powerful as a Kage but he soon would be when he gained his Demonic capabilities.
"Naruto Uchiha, I assume?" The Raikage spoke as he stared him down.
"Hai you must be very good at assuming because you are right." Naruto stared the Raikage down knowing full well that he couldn't beat the Raikage but tried to make the Raikage think otherwise.
"I wish to ask a favor of the Konoha nuke-nin," without even waiting for Naruto's reply he continued, "You are to train my grand-daughter to be a better shinobi then she is now."
"What makes you think I'll agree to that?" Naruto activated his sharingan not his Mangekyou but his regular matured sharingan. He thought it was more intimidating.
"Because if you do not I will not allow you to stay in lightning country and you, your friend, and your, girlfriend will have to leave, plus if you do I will allow you and your friend to become Kumo nin." The Raikage's deal was quite sweet but even if there was no favor he would still have to agree.
"I'll do it under two conditions."
"Name it and it will be done if it is not unreasonable."
"I want a house in Kumo easily able to fit 6 comfortably, and I want to be an academy sensei." Naruto was going to need to make money some how and doing missions was out of the question besides it would be fun.
"Deal, my granddaughter will be in your class and will help you when necessary and provide a substitute should you be absent." The petite young woman glared at her grandfather but said nothing.
"Grandfather what makes you think this person can help me in the regular arts, much less my 'special' abilities." The younger jounin stared at me as if sizing me up. I had been building over the years I had a lot more muscle then I used to, so I knew I must intimidate her atleast a little.
"Well considering he is Sannin level in strength without his demon and the fact he will soon become a bijuu himself I think he is quite qualified." Raikage said this like an everyday occurrence.
"Well anyways, moving on I am Naruto it is nice to meet you…." I had just realized that I didn't know her name.
"Yugito… Nii Yugito."
"Nice to meet you Miss Yugito, I am sure we will learn a lot from each other." Naruto smiled and turned to the Raikage, "I have a favor to ask of you sir."
"Okay follow me to my office there's a storm brewing." The Raikage looked up at the lightning filled skies.
"Ummmm, this is Kumo there is ALWAYS a storm brewing in Kumo." Naruto said.
"Right right, this way." The Raikage lead on as we followed him he soon dismissed the jounin saying that they shouldn't jump people for trying to talk to Yugito.
Naruto looked around and noticed the city was quite nice once you got used to the lightning permanently in the sky.
As they arrived to the Raikage tower a group of ANBU seemed to stare at us from the roof across the road whispering to each other.
We got to the Raikage's office and he directed us to sit, which we did.
"So what is this favor that you needed to ask of me and why didn't you include it in our deal instead?"
"I wish for a dojo reserved for me, Yugito-chan," she blushed at this, "and my advanced students of which I may take up teaching only advanced students and take them to it.' I stared him down with my sharingan still activated.
"Well there is an old dojo that an old man owns next to an old ramen shop in the market place, it's also extremely close to the academy so you can use them both."
"Thank you but I might need a note from you telling him to let me use the dojo."
"What? I'm not going to force him to let you use the dojo it is his dojo after all, I was just telling you of a good one you could buy, he never uses it anyways." I was frustrated at this but I shook it off.
"Okay and could I get an advance in my check for teaching so that I may buy this dojo?" Naruto looked at the Raikage who shook his head.
"No, but I do have a mission that will require your assistance for 700,000 Ryo which should get you a good start on living here." He handed Naruto the scroll detailing it to be an assassination in… Konoha.
I stared at the location of the target, it was, Yumichi Inuzuka elder of the Inuzuka clan." I bit my lip wondering if I should accept. 'It would make it much easier to live here if I did this mission, I wouldn't have to take another for months. It's a great deal the Inuzuka will be easy to sneak into with a quick stealth jutsu.'
"I'll do it and leave immediately."
"Great I have the papers your name is on it already I had a feeling you would accept so while you were mulling it over about the dojo I filled it in."
I took the papers and nodded my respects and looked at Yugito, "When I return your training begins go condition yourself I will not hold back."
She looked nervous at this, but nodded.
I was about to jump out the window when I head, "What do you think your doing? You need your hitai-ate and Sannin cloak." Raikage pulled out a Kumo hitai-ate and a cloak that had Demon in kanji on the back in a circle surrounded by black flames. The rest was a dark red with the black flames licking the edges of the cloak.
"We don't name our Sannin by animals like Konoha we go by Demon, Nature, and Light." Raikage handed me them both which I quickly put on before heading out the window.
"Thank you Raikage-Sama!" I yelled back as I sprinted towards Yuki's house.
**Yuki's house**
I arrived back finally to the house to find Yuki watering her flowers.
He slowly crept up behind her about to grab her shoulder when she grabbed his hand flipped him over and twisted his arm with a kitchen knife pointed at his throat.
"What the hell was that?" Naruto asked as he got up and dusted off.
"Ehhhh sorry reflex?" Yuki said as she walked over to him and wiped some dirt off his cheek.
"Right, the girl that needed help fending off a low level nin just took down a Sannin in 3 seconds out of pure reflex?" Naruto looked at her suspiciously. 'There is more to this girl then she is letting on…'
"I made a pie would you like some?" She offered him a comfortable smile. (I'm just now getting back into the Fanfiction way of writing about right here so, it should be a little better instead of rushing through things like I have been. I been reading a lot of One-Shots and bad rushed stories, along with actual books that use their details differently.)
"Sure, that sounds great," Naruto walked inside with Yuki following him, "I'm going to go check on Sasuke I'll be right back."
"Okay I'll get you a plate ready."
Naruto got to the room and noticed Sasuke was still sleeping, now most people wouldn't care if someone slept through the day, but Naruto was not most people. He was a trained shinobi as was Sasuke and he should be up by now, intense training made them able to keep a schedule in a cave with no natural light what so ever for weeks.
Naruto decided he should run a quick diagnostic on Sasuke, something Tsunade and Sakura didn't let him leave the village without learning it.
(P.S. I don't have access to internet while writing this so any jutsu that I use will not be by Romanji(in Japanese) like most of my jutsu.)
"Kit it seems the brat is in a comatose state, meaning he will sleep for a very very long time" Kyuubi awoke with a yawn.
"By very very long time how exactly long are we talking?" Naruto asked.
"Roughly 3-4 years 2-3 if you use a jutsu on him, its only that short cause he is a shinobi, by the way he will be unable to move on his own when he first wakes up." Kyuubi said.
"What? He will have no time to train for our encounter with the Shinigami's son! We will likely die!" Naruto's shouting alerted Yuki downstairs.
"What's wrong Naruto?" She shouted up the stairs.
"Nothing I'll tell you later!"
"Kit if you convert then you should be more then enough to defeat a son of the Shinigami, but don't try to challenge 'the' shinigami he will easily dispatch you." Kyuubi sighed.
"I don't know… any kids I have would be shunned because I mean, how likely is it that I will find another demon and mate with her? I would have to marry a human, this is a huge decision… on one hand if I do it, 2 entire countries and major hidden villages will be established. Not only that but I mean the Lunar and Solar lands possess the only amounts of Death ore, and Life ore. Which make the ultimate weapons when smelted and forged." Naruto stared at Sasuke, without him there would be no possible way for them to defeat the son of Shinigami.
"Kit just think about it and make the decision in the morning, morning is a good time to decide." Kyuubi went back to sleep.
"Right, well time to grace Yuki with my company." Naruto told Yuki about Sasuke as expected since she didn't know him she was only slightly concerned.
"So Yuki you have a ninja background?" Naruto asked as he ate another bite of strawberry pie.
"Well my family possesses a Kekeigenkai, that allows us sort of a Sixth Sense kind of thing, increasing our hearing and smell, as well as instinct, and touch. Some of my family were so sensitive that they were able to feel the air move if a leaf fluttered down from a tree 100 yards away. Of course they are only legends but I often wonder how cool that would be." Yuki almost seemed proud of her heritage, I mean everyone should be its just that she seemed sad.
"So why don't you live with your clan?" Naruto asked as he took their plates to the sink.
"Well I have a friend of mine, she was kind and caring, she once carried a grown man all the way from here to Kumo. At the age of 10." Naruto looked at her strangely as she said this.
"Who was this friend of yours?" Naruto was washing the dishes they used.
"Her name was Nii Yugito, she had blond hair-" She couldn't finish cause Naruto then stared at her strangely.
"I know this friend of yours, I met her. Now tell me why you don't live with your clan." Naruto didn't want to be rude but time was dwindling and he had to be somewhere and that somewhere was going to be hard to get into.
"Well my clan didn't like my friend very much, and they told me to never talk to her again, said she was dangerous and would hurt me." Yuki looked at her hands in her lap as she let one stray tear fall.
"My clan isn't like most clans in Kumo, they hate special cases like Jinchuriki."
"And your clan forbid you from seeing her, so you refused so they exiled you." Naruto stated this is a fact like tone, it had happened to him. Chouji's family forbid them from ever talking to each other, of course this didn't stop them but they cant exactly exile Chouji.
"Yeah that's how it happened exactly," Yuki looked at him and then moved over and hugged him.
Naruto just stood there hugging her back as they looked at each other understanding dawned in each others eyes. Naruto pulled away, 'No I just met her I can't be falling for her already can I?'
"Yuki, I have to go for a while, I need to go to Konoha to take care of some stuff." Naruto pulled his back pack on that he never unpacked and headed towards the door.
"Naruto I just want you to know that… I think what your doing is not right, but I'll support you even though I don't approve." She walked over to him and kissed him on the cheek and walked upstairs.
Naruto looked down in shame, 'She may not approve but I'm going to have to do this, if just to make sure she has a better life,' he walked out the door and headed towards Konoha.
**Just outside of Konoha's gates**
Naruto looked at the gate, it was the gate he made his promise to Sakura, the only promise he broke. He leaped onto the walls and used chakra to run up the walls. He leapt up onto a wire and ran along the wire to the closest house where he slid down the angled roof. He then fell to the ground silently and walked over to the Inuzuka compound.
He looked at the iron gate that ran along about 30 acres of land, that held dogs, gardens, many vets, and houses. He hopped the fence and started walking towards the main building, where the elderly lived, and meetings were held.
He walked up to the low balcony and hopped onto the porch and crept along making sure his shadow didn't show through the doors. He crept up to the door where he heard an old many speaking, he looked at the scroll of the old Inuzuka and his dog. He took out a scalpel and slowly made a miniature hole that wouldn't be noticed immediately.
Sure enough the old man was the one he was looking for, he got his kunai out and charged in, stupid? Yes but the old man wasn't exactly in an assassination position. He quickly darted in and slit the mans throat and put a sleeping genjutsu on the dog.
Naruto didn't know why but he'd never been able to bring himself to kill a domesticated animal.
He looked at the scene it was an obvious assassination so he had to make it less obvious. He healed the hole in the mans throat and tied a rope to the top of the roof. The blood didn't get everywhere so he just stabbed and ripped the few places with blood.
Considering he let the dog live, that should lead them off his trail long enough for him to get back to Kumo.
He slipped quietly out the door and quickly out the compound.
He jumped onto a building and looked out over the city admiring its consequently beautiful scene.
He looked behind him and noticed an ANBU and turned to look at them.
What he didn't expect was for the ANBU to glomp him and let the mask fall off…
It was Sakura, his old team mate, his personal traitor. She had offered to abandon Konoha with Sasuke. Sure Naruto did do it but atleast it was out of friendship not obsession.
He looked down and seen she was crying.
"Naruto, you came back. I knew you wouldn't stay gone you never did." Sakura looked into his Sharingan, big mistake, but he didn't place a genjutsu over her.
'Technically she's right, I cant leave this place forever, I'm not strong enough. That's the main reason that I accepted this mission.' Naruto stared at her, as much as he told himself he hated her over the years… he couldn't bring himself to ruin this.
"Sakura, it's been a while, I haven't seen you in over 3 years," Naruto lifted her chin to look him in the eye. "Sakura, I'm not back… I hate to tell you this but I likely never will be."
"Then why are you here? Just to make me get my hopes up that your coming home and smash them?" Sakura looked horrible like she abandoned everything she cared about for years.
"Sakura, I am here to visit, to remember what it was like to be normal and have friends," Naruto looked at her with a sad smile, "Friends like you…"
Sakura looked at him with a smile, "If we meant so much to you why did you leave us for Orochimaru?" She started to get distraught again. "You and Sasuke left us all just so you could get a little extra power from some snake pedophile!"
"I did it because I needed the power, without I never wou;d've been able to succeed in my plan."
"Why won't you stay then? Tsunade will forgive you and even Sasuke! You are only D-rank nuke-nin we can easily get you back here!" Sakura was really trying to get him and Sasuke back. But the weird thing is she was mostly trying to get 'Naruto' back Sasuke seemed little more then a tag along to her.
"Sakura had I been here about a week ago I would've considered it but, I have allegiances in other places now…" Naruto pulled up his hair revealing his Kumo Hitai-ate.
"You… You went to Kumo? I thought you were with Orochimaru." Sakura seemed stunned but Naruto knew it was dangerous to remain in the open this long.
He was on an assassination mission he shouldn't be doing this, he could get caught, or worse she could get blamed for helping him out.
"I did but left, Sakura I will make you a promise, every month I will come back and visit you." Naruto didn't allow her to respond he gave her a swift chop to the back of the neck and took flight into the huge metropolis that is Konoha.
He ran around Konoha like a mad man, leading anyone following him off course by making dozens of clones to make trails. Anyone following him there would be about a 1 in 12,000,000 chance were still following him.
He took off towards Kumo being careful as he'd ever been to not make a trail. All his clones were also fleeing the city all of them going to different places.
**Back in Kumo**
Naruto arrived at the Raikage tower, it was barley morning but he knew the Raikage would be here.
He walked up to the Raikage door and as soon as he was going to open it and walk in, a blonde haired jounin walked out and bumped into him. They both collapsed to the floor.
"Ouch, it seems I have a tendency to run into beautiful women lately," Naruto got up and helped the blushing girl up.
She walked off swiftly without so much as a word.
"Naruto! Get your ass in here!" Naruto walked into the office and noticed that just like every Kage the Raikage was battling the ultimate foe.
Paper work.
Naruto gave him the mission report and left out all personal things, such as Sakura, he looked at the Raikage's face as he read it.
"Well you did well and completed the mission, you didn't fool them for long but you did throw them off your track long enough for you to escape. They will have no idea that Kumo was involved. I bid you well," The Raikage handed Naruto a scroll, "As we agreed your 700,000 ryo is in this scroll, the academy expects you to start next week. The kids are happy to learn their teacher is the Demon Sannin."
Naruto walked out and decided to waste time is foolish so he headed towards the dojo and seen the ramen stand next to it.
"I should have plenty left over from this to get equipment and some lunch so I'll buy the dojo first." Naruto walked in and seen an old man sitting at a table sipping tea.
"Come join me for some tea son, its my favorite." The old man gestured towards another place mat for Naruto.
Naruto sat down with the old man and the old man poured him some tea.
"So why have you graced me with your presence?" He looked at Naruto with the kind of creepy stare only the elderly could possess.
"I have come to see if you would allow me to buy your dojo," Naruto was hoping this would be quick, sweet, and simple. So far it had been.
"Well, I suppose so if you allow me to continue living in the basement," The old man looked at him as if expecting him to say no and leave.
"Sure I plan on holding classes in this dojo maybe you could help me with the students every now and then if you want."
The old man looked slightly relieved, and looked at Naruto, "70,000 ryo and she's yours to train the new shinobi generation."
"Only 70,000 are you sure? I mean this is a fairly nice dojo in a great location." Naruto looked at the old man who just shook his head.
"No, No, its all I want this is an old rundown dojo," he gestured to the gleaming dojo covered in swords and training dummies.
"Sure, anyways here you go," Naruto pulled out the scroll and pulled out 250,000 ryo and left it in front of the man and left before he could argue.
Naruto decided he couldn't wait to eat, so he headed into the ramen stand.
Naruto walked into the rather large stand, and seen the last person he ever thought, or wanted to see. He had golden blonde hair, and cerulean blue eyes, and an Akatsuki cloak.
It was Naruto's brother…
A/N: Sorry for the wait I'm going to my friends tonight and I'm going to try to work on chapter 4.