I don't own Naruto or the front image.

DBlade59: Yes, Naruto has both halves of Kurama. The tailed beast question is also a yes.

Name is Grid: You… you made me laugh. Like, really freaking hard. In response to the Albert Wesker thing, he's too much of a douche to parallel to femNaru. Ugh. But again… sorry for the slow updates. I've got work, y'know?

(Ps. I do not want to kill my readers with tortoise sex slow updates, just torture them a bit XD)

ImmaFuckU: Can't say I fancy the idea of being done by a ten inch long monstrosity like that. So, because I do fancy the idea of a functioning ass, here's the continuation~


After Naruto's visit to his office, Hiruzen Sarutobi stood atop the Hokage's Tower, staring out over the blanket of night above his beloved village.

He was the God of Shinobi.

He was a genius.

He was the infamous and respected Third Hokage of Konoha.

But Hiruzen Sarutobi was also a human being.

That's why he stood watching his village all alone, with silent tears streaming out of his eyes.

He feared the future. He feared what he may have to watch be unleashed upon his village.

And most of all, he feared what kind of monster he would become to protet his village, as well as Naruto.

He was a legend, yes, but Hiruzen Sarutobi was also just a man.


"Hey Jiji, can you keep a secret?"


The ANBU didn't know what they should be doing. The little blonde girl with the regenerating arm had simply given their leader a secretive smile. She had pulled down her mask, so that everyone could see that smile. One too wise to be tilting the corners of lips belonging to one so young.

She had asked the Third, if he could keep a secret, after blatantly disrespecting him by referring to him as "grandpa". The Third had obviously seen through that smile, and recognized the request in those large blue gems.

"I need your help." The little girl had said, voice quiet and slightly sad.

The silent warriors noticed she took extra care when speaking, and recognized she probably suffered from some kind of speech impairment.

"I can't do it all on my own. I need you, Jiji."

The ANBU balked, but the Third had not looked the slightest bit ruffled at being called such a demeaning name, and simply rounded his desk, tan hands folded regally behind his back.

"And what is it exactly that you need from me, my dear girl?" He had asked, gliding elegantly across his office's carpet.

The little blonde smiled again.

"Pwease come here, and I'll show you."

The Third approached the small girl, until he stood looming over her slight form. The ANBU wondered how one so small could be unintimidated by a man hailed as a god among men, because the look in her eyes clearly showed she knew exactly who she was calling "grandpa".

The blonde spoke to the Third as if she had known him for years, as if they were old friends who had not met in a long time. It was startling, because she couldn't be older than five. Even Hatake's boy spoke to the Third with a small amount of awe in his dark eyes.

"Pwease, I can't weach you way up there."

The Hokage nodded, stunning his silent warriors stiff when he kneel-yes actually kneeled before a five year old little girl.

Their Hokage, was kneeling before someone.

"Cease."

The four agents halted the movements of their various blades, which they had been moving to pierce the small blonde when she reached out to touch their leader with her one good hand. The other, was a grotesque mass of chakra pulsing muscle and tendons, every so often, the limb would drip blood onto the Hokage's carpet, but the slightly graying man didn't seem concerned with that, nor the fact that the child had forced an almost entirely missing limb to regrow.

Her tiny, (not bloodied) hand, gently stroked the side of the Kage's cheek, and the ANBU were forced to watch, as they had been ordered to stop moving. Two chakra arms glowing like the sun spilled from the little girl's back, and curved around, taking a gentle hold on either side of Sarutobi Hiruzen's face. The child leaned down, until their foreheads connected softly.

"Kuwama, bwing him inside, and show him all of our most important memories."


The blonde and brunette duo remained in their strange position, with Naruto's chakra arms buried in Hiruzen's spiky hair, their foreheads connected, and eyes peacefully closed.

The ANBU nearly cracked an entire hour later, having never seen a child so still… well, unless they were dead of course.

It took a painfully long hour, but the Third finally rose to his feet again, moving fluidly as if he hadn't been crouching for sixty minutes and thirty five seconds, staring down at Naruto with an unreadable expression.

"ANBU." Hiruzen intoned, causing his soldiers to stand at attention instinctively. "Leave immediately." He commanded. "No one gets in until I say so."

The silent soldiers had no choice but to disappear, leaving no trace as they flickered out in silence.

After they'd gone, the blonde and brunette duo stared into each other's eyes for a period of five whole minutes, speaking without uttering a word.

Suddenly, Hiruzen sighed, folding his hands behind his back before he looked out of his office's window, staring out over his village. He had taken the liberty of activating a silencing jutsu so that no one could spy on his office for as long as he desired.

"You realize there is no way for you to live here freely unless I hide your existence, which is impossible, because several people have seen you with Sakumo Hatake already."

Naruto shrugged, offering the wise kage a cheeky smile.

"Hiding isn't weally my style anyways."

The Third snorted, shaking his head slightly before he looked back at the blonde.

"You really are quite an unpredictable child, Naruto."

"So I've been told." She said, smirking slightly.

The Third snorted again, before sobering.

"Beyond that, I do want to help you, and I have no doubt that you knew I would." Hiruzen began, lips pursing slightly. "And though I want to aid you, I have a responsibility to this Konoha, and the present. I cannot be concerned with a fourth war when I have barely lead my people through the third."

"I know Jiji." Naruto said maturely. "I don't weally need you to do anythin'. I decided, that I just need you to watch my back while I step in to stop major events that will lead to the Fourth War."

Raising a dark brow, the Third smiled slightly. "Oh? And if you don't really need me to actively help you change things, then what do you need me for?"

"I need you to enwoll me in the ninja Academy." Naruto said, shrugging.

"Make up a lie and say I'm some orphan that got attached to 'Akumo and he couldn't turn me away. It'll be easy to slip in fake files to make me a citizen of Konowa. No one but a few hospital staff and the Hatakes knows I had only one arm up until now. And I know you can make it so that stays that way."

"Pretty high demands." Hiruzen said flatly. "Do you know how many laws you are asking me to break with just this?"

"It gets better." Naruto grinned, inwardly admitting that she was a menace for feeling glee at her Jiji's deadpan expression. "I need to know that when I leave this village for whatever reason, that I won't be getting into trouble, or be sus-pect-ed as a spy. That's how you'll be watchin' my back."

"Very well," Hiruzen said, face slightly grim. "I can at least do that much."

"Thanks Jiji." Naruto smiled, pleasantly surprised at how easy it was to convince The Third she was from the future.

"You're most certainly welcome." Hiruzen responded, mouth tilted with a slight dark smile. "But don't think you won't be paying for my hair dye when my hair whitens early."

The duo shared a bit of laughter after that, and when they calmed, something occurred to the little blonde.

"Oh, and one more thing…" Naruto muttered, face suddenly flushing.

The Third's dark brows rose high upon his forehead.

"What is it Naruto?"

"You wouldn't happen to know how to potty train a girl… would you?"

The formidable God of Shinobi paled.


Two hours later, Naruto was escorted back to the Hatake compound, with the knowledge that (little girls sat their butts on toilet seats unless it was a public bathroom, always cover the seat and squat unless you want some egregious ailment contracted through your uterus! And also that) she had two allies in the current time. The Nine Tails Kurama, and Sarutobi Hiruzen.

When the little blonde had questioned the wise village leader on how he could possibly take Naruto's presence so well, he simply stated that when she left, he would cry, and then try to figure out if he would keep all of his hair in the next few years with Naruto running amok throughout the nations.

Dark humor aside, the little girl felt slightly guilty, having burdened her beloved Jiji with the knowledge of the future, knowing the pain of it quite intimately. But she also knew, that he was pretty much the only person she could trust without a doubt. Because even though Naruto hated to admit it, her parents were adolescent teens, they probably wouldn't be able to handle the fact that their future so-daughter was in the same time plane as them, and Naruto would cause them nothing but trouble appearing before them.

In the time she was in, Kushina was the jinchuuriki of Kurama, and there was no telling what could or would happen if she came into contact with Naruto, someone with a stronger, and now open seal for the bijuu.

'I wouldn't worry too much about that.' Her partner chimed.

'Eh?' Naruto responded intelligently.

'Remember when I mentioned sensing my other self?' The fox asked, only to continue before Naruto could even respond. 'Well, soon after I told you that, my consciousness merged with my other self. So, what is within Kushina, is simply my other self's chakra. If you go near her, your stronger seal, will absorb the leftover chakra, and possibly cause her harm.'

'And you're saying not to worry about that!?' Naruto screeched, face turning beet red in righteous anger. 'I could kill her if I go near her, she's my mother!'

'Well, she survived having me ripped from her after your birth, and would've been fine had certain circumstances not occurred.'

'I don't care.' Naruto huffed. 'It sucks, but I won't take the chance and go near her. It's not like this weak body can handle any more of your chakra anyways.'

'That is fine.' Kurama said. 'I believe your family would only serve as distractions to your new mission anyhow. We will simply find a way to reclaim my leftover chakra from Kushina without harming her later, and only when you are strong enough to withstand the influx.'

'Cool.' Naruto said, anger tensed muscles relaxing, allowing her to sink further into the therapeutic depths of the Hatakes' bath. 'I mean, it'll suck having my parents alive, and not being able to be with them, but I've lived my whole life without them. I can do it again. I'll be fine...'

'True, true, and true.' Kurama said. 'But this time around, I'm here much earlier along.'

'Awww thanks buddy. I knew you loved me.' Naruto gushed.

'Oh shut up you fool.' The bijuu grumbled.

Naruto giggled to herself, running a wet hand through the long and soaked bangs on either side of her round face, enjoying the heat of her bath.

Kakashi had been awesome enough to put bubbles into it for her, and still hadn't seen the bloodied mass of arm Naruto had where her stump should've been, (as she had kept it hidden under her hospital issued cloak all day). She hadn't let her arm touch the the steaming water, or anything, and had it wrapped up in white bandages that curiously remained unsoiled.

The two children hadn't interacted much, because Kakashi had Genin duties with his shisou, her father, from 8:00 am. to 4:00 pm, and even after that, all the boy did was practice kenjutsu and read scrolls.

Sakumo was still out on his mission, so Naruto had nobody to entertain her but her own thoughts. Kurama didn't count, because he refused to "waste time" by chatting idly to save his partner from death by boredom.

'Wait.' Naruto sat up straighter as something occurred to her, stopping her almost unconscious movements in creating a bubble beard.

'Ugh.' Kurama sighed explosively. 'What is it now Naruto?'

'My new arm.' The blonde huffed, annoyed at being snapped at. 'Why the hell isn't it completely regenerated yet? Where's the skin?'

There was a long pause, and The blonde's stomach did an odd little flip flop at Kurama's silence. It was that empty, awkward sort of silence that told you when someone had something terrible to tell you, but didn't know quite yet how to phrase the news without utterly crushing you.

'Kurama…' Naruto prodded uneasily. 'What's wrong? Why hasn't my arm healed completely?'

'Ah, yes, about that…' The bijuu finally said, massive tails shifting behind him as he tried to find a way to tell Naruto the truth. The fox had known it was only a matter of time before the little blonde noticed, and also that the only reason the Third hadn't noticed, was because he was too caught up with his thoughts of the future.

'You will never be able to regrow skin for that limb.' Kurama blurted.

Naruto blinked, and sat utterly still in her bath water for a long moment.

'What.'

Rolling his eyes at the sadly expected response, Kurama rose from his lying position atop the murky water within Naruto's mind.

'I used the Six Paths Sage chakra to regrow that limb for you. I am not a sage, therefore, I have no business using sage chakra.'

When Naruto just continued to blink absently, Kurama took it upon himself to continue his explanation.

'There were a few complications in the process of having the skin from your elbow down regrow, as the cells around the parameter where your original arm and new arm meet, are dead. However, the new part of the limb, is not dead. It is almost completely separate from you, simply grown from your original flesh.' The fox explained.

'If someone were to test the DNA of it, it would differ from yours slightly. It is basically a prosthetic limb, hollow, a mass of muscle that will grow along with you, but holds no bones.'

Naruto stared ahead of her, into the steam lingering about the spacious bathroom she lounged in. Kurama could tell she wasn't so much struggling to comprehend what he had just told her, but that she was struggling to accept what he had told her. The Bijuu decided to finish his explanation before she did something idiotic.

'That arm also has a chakra network made specifically to channel sage chakra. I cannot tell you why my interference caused such a mutation that made the limb specifically channel sage chakra, but I can say, that this can be viewed positively. Because your body is too weak to fully accommodate sage mode, you can use a partial sage mode with that arm until you grow stronger.'

"It's just one bomb after another these days, isn't it?" Naruto said aloud, sighing with a tired look that had no business on a face so young.

'Heh. Well, at least you have all of your limbs now.'

'Hmph.' The blonde grunted, unconvinced. 'I can barely feel the damn thing, it's like a slight weight hanging off of the stump that I'd already gotten used to.'

'Then I suppose you better learn to use one handed seals.'

Naruto scoffed, summoning Kurama's chakra arms, using them to get herself clean, before exiting the bathroom.

With more of Kakashi hand-me-downs covering her up, that said littlest Hatake had left outside the bathroom for her, Naruto padded down the long hallway that would lead her to the compound's kitchen. She found leftovers in the fridge and decided to just heat them up, knowing she was allowed as Sakumo had left a note for both she and Kakashi on the refrigerator.

A few minutes later, Naruto was sitting at the table, and munching on her reheated fried shrimp, and staring off into space, knowing Kakashi had already went to bed, as he had early morning training.

'Hey Kurama, I've got a question.'

'What is it?'

'You know how you said that I've got all my past techniques, but I'm too weak to use them properly?'

'Yes, what of it?' The bijuu asked.

'Does that mean I still have Shukaku's Magnet Release and Son Goku's Lava Release?'

'Hm?' The fox hummed. 'As a matter of fact, you do. When you reverted to the body of a small child, your DNA shifted slightly. If you ever have children, they will possibly inherit Lava or Magnet Release from you.'

'Holy crud that's awesome!' Naruto crowed. 'Can I use them without getting hurt?'

'I don't know. Why don't you try it and see?'

'Yeah, I'm not really sleepy anyways...'

Naruto got up from the table, her new limb hanging limply at her side. Making her way silently to the Hatake's koi garden, Naruto couldn't help but feel slightly giddy. She missed training. Being a small child was boring.

'Heh. Foolish boy.' Kurama snorted.

'I'm a girl!' Naruto spat, surprising them both.

'Ha!' Kurama cackled, causing Naruto's cheeks to burn in embarrassment. 'You really are a little girl now, aren't you? Hmph, I'll be sure to remember that from here on out, foolish girl.'

'S-shut up...' Naruto returned weakly. 'I know I'm a chick, you don't gotta rub it in so much.'

'You're the one who got all offended when I referred to you as male, so it's only natural.'

'Still...' Naruto grumbled. 'You shouldn't rub it in. It sucks bad enough.'

'Alright alright.' The fox rolled his eyes. 'Just begin this little test run of yours.'

Pursing her lips, Naruto hopped onto the rock that bordered the koi pond. She positioned her hands before her chest, opened her mouth, and drew a complete blank.

'What's wrong?' Kurama questioned.

Naruto grinned sheepishly. 'I just remembered I'm too weak for Sage Art: Magnet Release Rasengan, or the Super Tailed Beast Rasenshuriken. Not only that, but I don't know any jutsu from Lava Release.'

'You're hopeless.' Kurama sighed. 'You're lucky I remember that monkey's jutsu development days.'

Kurama pulled Naruto's consciousness into the seal, and she stood before the great Nine Tailed Fox, even more unassuming compared to him as a little girl then a sixteen year old boy. Both the heir to Asura's chakra and the strongest bijuu stood atop the still murky waters of Naruto's mind, Kurama's old cage lying in the background, gates gaping wide open.

"You gonna teach me a jutsu?" Naruto asked, looking excited.

"Honestly, some things never change." The bijuu snorted. "And yes, I'm going to teach you a jutsu."

"Yatta!" Naruto cheered, fist pumping exuberantly. "How does it go?"

"Alright alright. Pay attention girl."

Naruto nodded quickly in understanding, quieting and peering up at her partner as he settled before her, raising his massive claws before his chest.

"The hand seals are Dog → Ox → Hare → Snake." Kurama said, running slowly through the process so Naruto could see the symbols.

She went through them multiple times with her slightly clumsy and small hands, her sage limb not hindering her within her mind.

"Okay, so, what do the one handed seals look like?" Naruto asked, intrigued.

"The half seals look like this." Kurama continued, showing the blonde the movements very carefully so she could pick them up. He corrected her when she fumbled using her left hand.

After what may have been fifteen minutes outside of Naruto's mind, the small child finally got the half symbols down.

"Despite the common misconception that you have to have excellent chakra control to manage one handed seals, pretty much any one can use them. It is just a matter of how fast one is at using them. Since it takes a lot of practice, only few humans use one handed seals. You have years before you are drawn into a serious battle, and you will have mastered one handed seals by then."

"Wait, what's this jutsu called anyways?" Naruto asked, scratching the side of her head with her bandaged limb.

Kurama grinned.

"Lava Release: Scorching Stream Rocks Jutsu."

Naruto grinned back. "It sounds awesome."

"I thought you would think so." The fox snorted, rolling his eyes. Naruto just laughed, holding out her tiny fist in thanks. The bijuu fist bumped his one true friend, and allowed her to return the real world.

"I think I'll master this jutsu, and then work on chakra control." She said aloud.

Kurama rolled his eyes again, lying his massive head onto his paws, and readied himself to heal Naruto while she harmed herself during reckless training.


Kakashi stared wide eyed at the passed out blonde girl lying face down in his backyard, her little body covered in singe marks and scratches. The area around her was full of small craters, and there were small brown boulders everywhere.

Kakashi would've been impressed by the damage she was capable of inflicting, but he was too busy staring at the arm that should not be attached to her.

Sensing his presence, the small blonde groaned, shifting as she slowly came to. Her head turned to the side, facing him, and her blue eyes narrowed as the early morning sun assaulted them.

"'Kashi?" She rasped, looking up at the sky to gauge the time of day. When she gathered the information, she looked back at the young Genin. "Shouldn't you be leaving for twaining or somethin'?"

"It's Sunday." The boy answered automatically. "It's my day off for self training. I was coming back here to practice kenjutsu, and you were just lying there..."

Naruto lifted her unbandaged hand, and ruffled the back of her long locks sheepishly. "Yeah, I couldn't s'eep yesterday, so I trained, an' got carried away. Next thing I know, you're standin' over me..." Kakashi could tell she was grinning, even though she was wearing one of his old masks/shirts.

The boy's dark grey eyes trailed down from her face, rudely boring into her bandaged limb, holding a slightly skeptical gleam.

"Oh." Naruto said awkwardly, bringing her arm down and holding her hand out in front of her, staring at it. "Yeah, I heal weally fast. And stuff that shouldn't grow back does."

"That's... that's really weird..." Kakashi admitted. The little Hatake honestly didn't know how he was supposed to behave. At first he was using all of his training not to bombard Naruto with questions on how she lost her arm, and now, on top of that, he had to keep himself from demanding where she got her healing abilities from. If he wasn't a ninja, he'd probably be way more skeptical. But as a ninja, he knew more often then not, impossible things were quite possible, even if regrowing missing limbs was a bit of a stretch...

"Hey 'Kashi?" Naruto called, pulling the boy from her musings.

"Yes?"

"Wanna train together?" Naruto asked, excited.

"You think you can keep up shorty?" The little Hatake asked, unable to stop himself from ruffling the girl's feathers. She just made it so easy...

Naruto shot to her feet, cheeks adorably puffing in indignation. She pushed both of her sleeves up on her arms and cracked her knuckles, glaring. Kakashi could see the annoyed blush rising over the border of her borrowed face mask, making her look more like an annoyed kitten then someone intimidating.

"I'll show you you porcupine headed jerk!"

Kakashi couldn't help his responding snort of laughter.


When Sakumo returned to the village to brief his Kage on a return from a successful mission, he had not expected to be informed that Naruto had regrown an arm. He stared at his Hokage, dark grey eyes nearly popping out of his head, mission mask bunched around his neck, allowing the tan Sarutobi to clearly see the Hatake's gaping expression.

"S-Sir?" Sakumo croaked, scratching the back of his head. "C-could you perhaps run that by me one more time?"

"I said, Naruto's arm has grown back, though there were a few complications, and it is slightly deformed, so she will just have it covered at all times." The man said easily, as if he wasn't explaining the impossible. Fortunately, before she began training with Lava Release, Naruto had visited the Hokage to briefly explain to him the nature of her new limb, also explaining that Kushina was no longer the jinchuuriki for the Nine Tails. Of course, there was no way Sakumo was ever going to be informed of any of that.

After a moment, the Hokage blew a lethargic ring of smoke from his mouth as he pulled his pipe away from his lips. "Oh, and please tell her that her first day of the Ninja Academy is one day from now. ANBU watch on her has ceased, but will continue on your compound when you are on missions as in the past." The Third added this all as an afterthought, looking at a few papers on his desk and messily scrawled his signature across a few of them, or stamped them with glaring red ink that bluntly read denied.

"I had the interrogation unit look through her mind once more whilst you were on your mission, and have decided to clear the child of any suspicions." The Third informed easily. "I realize this may be too lenient, but the Yamakaka's most gifted prodigy in the T&I unit has assured me Naruto has no ill intent towards the village, nor any ulterior motives. No outside forces have erased her memories either, so, everything checks out with her."

Sakumo was really pleased to hear that everything would be alright with the young girl, as he had grown quite attached to her, but the man was still trying to move past the fact that Naruto had apparently regrown a completely obliterated limb.

"My final bit of news for you is to simply keep the child with you until I can find her a place of living."

"H-hai, Hokage-sama." Sakumo stuttered, having no problem with keeping Naruto with him. In fact, he would love for the girl to live with him and his boy permanently. Though, that was a matter for another time.

"You may return home now Sakumo-san." Sarutobi said. "Give both little Kakashi and Naruto my best wishes."

Sakumo nodded dumbly, bowing with respect, before turning around and absently shuffling out of the Hokage's office. The silver haired man returned home in a dazed stupor, following the chakra he sensed from his son and their sunny house guest. He arrived to the koi garden out back, eyes focusing immediately at the spar happening before him. The man quickly masked his presence as not to interrupt them, knowing Naruto had probably already sensed him a ways off.

'Regrowing limbs and high sensory abilities. This girl is just amazing.' Sakumo thought. 'All I can do is expect the unexpected from her if I want to keep all of my hair...'

The Hatake focused once more on the fight, noting Kakashi wielded a wooden practice tanto, and Naruto a wooden kunai.

The two danced around each other, parrying and striking with impressive speed for people their size and age. Sakumo noticed Naruto was quite skilled, just a bit clumsy, as if she expected her limbs to be much longer and stronger. But she took advantage of her own fumbling in the most unexpected ways. She was so unpredictable and wild, that she caught Kakashi completely off guard sometimes, even though he was supposed to be the better fighter.

Naruto tripped as she made to punch Kakashi in the solar plexus, and the boy leaned back, eyes going wide when Naruto let herself fall forward quickly. As her hands met the ground, her legs shot up, nailing the boy in the chin with both feet. With a grunt, Kakashi took the blow in stride, taking a page from the girl's book when he let himself fall all the way back, arms shooting above his head and propelling him into a back flip that put distance between he and the blonde.

Both children were breathing with labored breaths, and stared each other down, young eyes calculating. Sakumo counted five full seconds before they both darted forward simultaneously, meeting in the center of the koi garden. Their chosen weapons met with clanks, arms straining to over power the other. Naruto danced back, ducking back in to sweep Kakashi's legs from under him, only for the boy to leap up, curling into a flip and soaring over her head. He landed behind her, and when she whirled around, she froze, finding Kakashi's blade positioned perfectly at the center of her throat.

"Hmph!" Naruto huffed, crossing her arms at the loss.

"Looks like I win shorty." Kakashi said flatly, yet still managing to be teasing.

"M'not short!"

Kakashi straightened, stiffening when he heard applause at the display.

"Very impressive you two. Though, there is much room for improvement."

Both children looked over to the compound's back door, cute little masked faces lighting up at the sight of Sakumo.

"Dad!"

"Saki-chan!"

Sakumo grinned, left eye twitching slightly at Naruto's demeaning nickname.

"Hey kids." The man smiled. "Tadaima."

"Okaeri." The children chorused, rushing over to greet him.

Sakumo's heart warmed.

'This is nice...' He thought. 'It seems home is a bit more sunny these days...'


"Don't be such a baby." Kakashi said flatly, eyes equally flat as he looked at Naruto, who was hiding behind Sakumo's leg as they stood outside of her new classroom for the year.

"M'not bein' a baby!" She huffed, scowling at Kakashi.

Sakumo resisted the urge to roll his eyes. His son and Naruto apparently hadn't interacted much except for yesterday, and after that day, they decided they hated each other's guts and that they had to test Sakumo's endless patience by arguing back and forth, which usually ended in Naruto's fuse blowing and the girl attacking the boy with her chakra arms. The littlest Hatake was still a bit upset that Naruto had given him an 'Ultimate Jerkface Wedgie' on the way to the academy.

Kakashi crossed his arms, a single silver brow raising and disappearing under his unruly hair.

"Oh really? Well, you sure aren't doing a good job of proving that by hiding from a bunch of kids who haven't even learned to tree climb yet."

"I'm just nervous okay?" Naruto snapped, little hands clenching even more tightly in Sakumo's pants leg. "What if they don't like me?" She finished quietly, ducking her head meekly.

Sakumo pursed his lips, brows furrowing in worry. He placed his hand atop Naruto's head, causing her to look up at him through her long lashes. He could see her pout through her black mask.

"Why would you say such a thing Naruto?" Sakumo questioned softly. "Of course they'll like you. You're a very sweet young girl, and they have no reason to dislike you."

Naruto scuffed her sandal on the floor, eyes lowering once more as she shrugged. "People always make fun of the way I talk. And... and I'm weally small... so they push me around..." She mumbled.

Sakumo frowned, but his eyes widened as his son stepped away from the classroom door, and in front of Naruto. The boy's arms were still crossed, and his expression was bland, but Sakumo knew his boy, and recognized the awkward, yet protective shine in his son's eyes.

"If the kids in there are stupid enough to seriously make fun of you, then why would you want to be friends with them?" Kakashi asked. "My dad and I don't care if you're a shorty, or that you sound like a baby."

Naruto looked up at him, big blue eyes shining with unshed and nervous tears.

Sakumo hid a grin. Not only had Kakashi basically said that he had never seriously made fun of her, but he was also implying that she didn't need to be friends with the kids if they were really out to hurt her, and that he would be her friend. Of course, Naruto didn't know that, but Sakumo knew that.

Naruto stepped away from and around Sakumo, so she was right before Kakashi. She threw herself at the littlest Hatake, crushing him in a fierce hug as she blinked away her tears.

'I'm proud of you son.' Sakumo thought, lips stretching into a fond smile as he watched his son try to find the proper way to behave whilst being hugged.

"Thanks 'Kashi..." Naruto mumbled, ignoring the fact that Kakashi had gone completely still. "You're still a jerk though."

Kakashi snorted, pushing the blonde away.

"Whatever shorty." He dismissed. "Just get in there already. I'm already late for training, thanks to you."

Naruto rolled her eyes, and flicked Kakashi's masked nose playfully. She turned away as the boy glared at her, going on her tip toes to hug Sakumo around the waist, earning an affectionate hair ruffle from the man.

"As much as I hate to admit it, jerkface is right. Nawuto is no scaredy-cat! So I'm gonna go in there, and give all the people extreme 'Ultimate Jerkface Wedgies' that mess with me!"

Sakumo laughed as Naruto pulled away, and rushed to her new classroom, throwing the door open loudly whilst exuberantly exclaiming that she was Naruto and 'pleased to meet you chumps'.

The Hatake duo shook their heads as everyone in the room gawped at the cackling blonde, thumb positioned over her chest as she introduced herself.

"She's going to be fine." Sakumo chuckled, watching the young Chunin instructor try to get Naruto to sit down.

Kakashi just shook his head again.

"What an idiot."


I know it's strange Hiruzen so easily accepted Naruto as someone from the future, but to be honest, I was too lazy to go through the whole interrogation thing. The Third is a peace loving and wise man, he will try to lend aid to someone with no ill intent before he kills them for being a risk to the village.

Also, 50 reviews in 2 chapters?! My mind is officially blown. Thanks so much, I am extremely flattered.