Chapter 3

Morning arrived rather lazily for Naruto and his new wife, cracking one eye the whisker marked boy allowed the sensations from his body to roll in closing his eye. The first sensation was warmth, ripples of satin fabric and brief touches of silky smooth skin on his stomach, legs, and across his chest. The next were the intoxicating smells of his wife's hair and some light sweat from the night being a bit warm more so with their entangled forms. He thought of the night before and smiled; after he told his new wife everything half believing she may leave him because of what he planned. Instead she seemed to get excited at these prospects, repaying half the village for every wrong doing to both of them. After that they made plans to wake up his mother the next morning and talked in more detail about what happened in their time apart. As they grew tired Sakura reached down grabbed one of her bags she packed before heading with Naruto to begin their lives together, she turned to him and offered a rather coy smile before disappearing into the bathroom. A few minutes later she opened the bathroom door slowly first sliding a bare leg out to greet him followed slowly by the rest of her.

She came out dressed in a milky pink satin lace tank top, with spaghetti string straps with a matching pair of sheer panties, the combination left little to Naruto's imagination, as it showed all of Sakura's assets through a milky pink film, he noted that she was indeed naturally pink. She walked up to him hips moving in a very sexy gait until she slid straddling his lap. "Naruto-kun," she whispered.

"Been hanging out with Anko for way to long," he remembered whispering hoarsely.

"Does it make you want me?" she asked excitedly.

Naruto said nothing kissing her passionately, "It does but even though we're adults by just being Shinobi, and in the hunter clans they consider us life mates. We're still only thirteen years old, Sakura-chan," realizing what he was saying and wondered if he had been hit in the head.

Sakura simply giggled rolling her hips, "I'm just staking my claim Naruto-kun," she said sliding her hand down between them rubbing the barely restrained object of this discussion. She blushed softly, "Did those hunters enhance you in anyway?"

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Naruto gave a wry smile remembering those words, eyes opening looking at her sleeping form and watching her peaceful expression as she snuggled even closer to him. Those words and their heavy make out session after word made him realize that they might not make it to the appropriate age for consummating their marriage. That and the fact his wife turned out to have been corrupted by Anko than he first thought. He would be having some words for her later. He could feel her slowly waking up watching in anticipation as her beautiful jade green eyes slowly opened, she looked up looking into his eyes her amazing eyes gazing into his deep blue ones looking at him in complete adoration. "Morning Sakura-chan," he whispered to her.

With a soft smile she reached up and gently caressed his face rubbing his whisker marks, he purred at the gentle touch. "Ready to see your mom, today Naruto-kun?"

"Yeah," he replied reaching clutching the hand and kissing it, "better be careful Sakura-chan, took a lot to reign myself in last night," he stated.

Sakura's coy smile returned, "What makes you think I care if you lose control or not Naruto-kun, your my husband now, if you find me sexually attractive as I do you then I want you to take me regardless of age," she explained partially sitting up putting both her hands on either side of Naruto's head leaning down kissing him. "I loved you the moment we first locked eyes on one another, I love you now, and I'll always love you," she said softly. "That means I don't want you to hold back, in anyway when it concerns us together," she nuzzled his nose with her eyes alight with a fire Naruto had only seen when he saw Darktooth's mate once when they visited the Predator homeworld.

"You would make Raventooth very proud if she met you," Naruto said.

"Who's she?" the rosette asked.

Naruto smiled sliding his hands underneath the milky pink satin tank top, "Darktooth's mate she would like you," he said running his hands along Sakura's soft heated skin causing her to whimper in delight then squeaked in surprise finding herself underneath her husband looking up into his eyes. "Your right we shouldn't worry about whether or not it's right to make love even though we're only thirteen." Sakura gently put her hands on Naruto's cheeks rubbing his whisker marks hearing him purr her coy smile replaced with a dreamy one. He gently leaned down and kissed her feeling her slide her arms around his waist drifting them to the waistline of his boxers. He reached down and stopped her watching her pout and frown. "Tonight I promise, we have a lot to do today aside from my mother," he stated which cause her to ask him with her eyes. "Shinobi ID Pictures, Orientation, probably meeting our squad mate and sensei. Plus, I need to check you out on the hunter weapons I brought for you," he explained further the last bit piquing her interest. With a sigh she let go of his boxers instead leaning up and kissing him allowing her to get up so could she picked out her clothing for the day which was the Shinobi outfit she wore the day before.

Naruto also dressed and brought out the hunter items in question to her measured down from the ones he had already strapped to his arms, upper body, and legs. "These are the Wrist Knives, self-explanatory of what they do. Two blades spring loaded in a sheath that retract and detract at the simple application of muscle tension, keep your hands closed into fist to use and release your hand when unused," he gestured to the wrist gauntlet that didn't have the blades. "Hunter wrist computer has three uses."

"Which are?" Sakura asked as he was attaching the gauntlet to her arm, marveling at how comfortable the blade gauntlet felt on her arm almost as if it belonged there.

Naruto smiled kissing her neck. "First is the most valuable piece of the equipment, a specialized cloaking device that renders you almost completely invisible, it's susceptible to shorting out in water though so don't rely it on in rainy days. Second thing is the vision you have three different forms of infrared that is we can see body heat. What's more I added a new one that detects Chakra networks, as a way to tell real Shinobi from clones."

"Ingenious Naruto-kun," Sakura giggled as he handed her a mask that was silver in color, no marks on it save a slot for what looked like three red LED lights. "What's this?"

"That's part of the targeting system for the Caster's, you won't get one right away Sakura-chan, not until you master the other things," Naruto stated watching her frown. "I had had to go through the same thing, however I won't put you through the hell I went through to get my Caster. Remember what I told you about the Rite of Passage." He watched her shudder at the implications of facing the nightmare serpents he told her of. "Anyway the last feature of the computer has two functions actually, the first is it acts as recorder and playback, using it to confuse a target. This is tied in the speakers in your mask, the secondary feature however is an item of last resort. Because although small this thing contains a small 10mt fire bomb device that could if place at the center of the village level it to the ground," he smiled at Sakura's reaction who looked like she wanted to set it off that moment. "Only as a last resort hun," he whispered pecking her cheek. "Now the mask itself is self-contained providing air as long as you wear it, which means you can survive in any kind of environment." With this last bit of information Sakura had her final bit of hunter gear attached. They left their apartment a few minutes later making their way to the hospital.

The ICU was quiet with only a handful of staffers on call for any emergency should their patients take a turn for the worse. However the only patient currently in the ICU coma room was a rather beautiful red haired woman dressed in a blanket, catheter inserted to allow the woman to keep her urine and pan to catch her excrement. A nurse would give the woman a sponge bath every day and check her vitals. It was early morning so the nurse on duty was at the receptionist desk filling out her paperwork for the coming day. A second later a familiar pink haired figure appeared this time with a young man with blond hair. "Hello Sakura coming to visit Ms. Uzumaki again?" the nurse asked.

Sakura nods and smiles, "I brought her son this time," she replied.

The nurse looked at the boy in the dreads and recognized the whisker marks, "Naruto it's good to finally see that the Hokage told you about her." Her recognition and response surprised Naruto somewhat not to mention her friendliness. "I was one of your mother's students, myself, Yuugao, and Hayate Gekko. When I went into nursing they assigned Anko to your mother's team," the nurse explained.

"Thank you for looking after my mother," Naruto said softly.

"I'm glad to do it, your mother was a like an older sister to me growing up," she handed Naruto a visitor badge. "You know where she is Sakura."

With a single nod Sakura led her husband into the quiet room with a heart monitor beeping to the rhythm of Kushina's heart. Naruto quietly walked up to her and took her hand into his giving it a firm squeeze. "Hi mom, it's Naruto," Naruto felt her hand squeeze his and saw a faint trickle of tears run down his mother's cheeks. "Sakura-chan she's aware."

"Yeah I notice that every time I've come in here and talked to her. She listened to me as I told her about my day and how people treated me," Sakura smiled brightly. "I could tell she was pissed a couple times I mention how they treat me because of how I feel about you."

Naruto nods looking at his mother, "She's conscious just not able to wake up," he mused then tapped his wrist computer turning on his heat vision, cycling through to the Chakra network vision and focused on his mother's head and neck. "A precision strike to the chakra point just at the base of her neck, only two clans in the village know this kind of precision, the Hyuga clan and the Uchiha clan," Naruto's body language became tense. "Nothing good ever came from the Uchiha clan, but if it's the Hyuga clan then my revenge will extend to them when the time comes," he said solemnly Sakura nodded watching as he explored his mother's neck. "No bruising not Uchiha, they have the skills but they don't know how to prevent bruising even years after the strike."

"I would think bruising would heal after eleven years?" Sakura speaking her thoughts aloud.

Naruto nodded, "Normally it would but blocking a Chakra point takes refined skills, if you don't the wound will keep injuring the skin around the blockage. Only one clan can perform such a strike and it would heal naturally leaving no traces of the attack."

"Hinata's clan," Sakura stated coldly.

"Only the older generation of Hyuga are responsible for this crime," Naruto assured her. "Question is why," after a few seconds Naruto reached up and behind him grabbing his Predator med-kit and putting it on the counter opening it. Inside were devices, fluids, and surgical tools that Sakura had never seen in her life. He reached in a pulled out one of the devices that looked newer than some of the others. With a spring loaded arm it flipped open a small strap hanging loosely to one side. Naruto fixed the device to his mother's neck and gently kissed her cheek before activating the device.

"What's that thing do, Naruto-kun?" Sakura asked.

"It's something I help develop on one of my trips to the Hunter's homeworld. Raventooth helped me with it, be amazed how good she is at medical technology. We worked on a Chakra network scanner and repairing droid," Naruto explained.

"H-how were you able to build one, I thought you told me the hunters have no chakra network," Sakura looked at her husband with confusion, she noticed his guilty expression. "Naruto don't tell me you were the guinea pig!?"

Naruto chuckled rubbing the back of his head, "Then I won't tell you," he felt her slap the back of his head looking up he saw tears trickle down her cheeks, "I'm sorry Sakura-chan, but it was the only way create this technology and they weren't life threatening tests."

Sakura put hands to his cheeks rubbing his whisker marks, "I don't care I could have lost you and never have known it." Naruto purred slightly at her touch and nodded kissing her hands before turning back to the device. A strange set of LED lights appeared, "What's it doing?"

"It's initiating the repair protocol the LED is counting down to its completion," Naruto looked at the symbols in the light. "A minute." They both saw Kushina eyes flick inside her eyelids at the possibilities of being free from her prison. Sixty seconds later the device beeped and the strap retracted into the device which snapped close and dropped to the sheets forgotten Naruto and Sakura leaned in as Kushina Uzumaki's eyes squinted tightly before slowly beginning to open them. Blinking a few times to get use to the sensation of being open after eleven years Kushina Uzumaki Namikaze looked up at the two teens and gave a gentle watery smile. "Hi mom," Naruto responded.

"N-Naruto," his mother's voice was hoarse from years of not being used, "Sakura," acknowledging that she did indeed hear every word that was spoken to her during the years.

"What happened mom, do you know who paralyzed you?" Naruto asked.

"Hizashi Hyuga," Kushina stated. "He was under orders from Danzo, Homura, and Koharu, to kill me leave you open to either death or indoctrination into Danzo's Root ANBU. Hizashi was staunchly loyal to your father and it took one of the Hyuga elders torturing him with the Bird cage seal to get him to do anything. On the night of your sealing he snuck into my room and jabbed the chakra point to render me paralyzed. I heard him say this way I'll still be alive to see you eventually and protected from further attempts on my life. He was supposed to wake me on your fourth birthday, but he never came."

"That's because he was used as a scapegoat to protect the Hyuga clan, from the Hidden Cloud village, he went to his grave protecting you," Naruto, Sakura, and Kushina turned to see Sarutobi walking towards them a new fire lighting his eyes. "Have my old teammates become so hungry for power they would deny Naruto his natural heritage."

Kushina snorted using what little arm strength to boost herself into a sitting position wincing at the tube between her legs. "The Hyuga elders conspiring with your advisors, does Hiashi know?"

"No, he was also not privy to your situation Kushina and I couldn't risk the elders knowing you were alive to ask him to wake you," Sarutobi stated picking up the device that woke her up. "Those hunters have amazing technology, and you helped with the construction of this did you Naruto?"

Naruto smirked, "That's just one of things I help develop, the others are hidden," he turned to his mother. "So not all the Hyuga are to blame, that'll make things a bit easier."

"What are you planning Naruto?" Sarutobi asked sternly.

The whisker marked blonde turned to him and smiled innocently, "Nothing major, but in order to make things better for this village, I plan to trim the corrupt fat. Face it old man this village is neck deep in corruption, the Uchiha Massacre, Hizashi's death to appease the Could village, my dad's murder at the hands of an Uchiha."

"Naruto your father died sealing the nine-tails into you," Kushina stated looking at him in confusion.

Naruto nodded in response, "Why would the nine-tails come here in the first place, its widely known that only three people could ever control the biju. The first Hokage, the Six Sage, and, Madara Uchiha, two are known to be dead while the third's body has never been found."

"You believe Madara Uchiha is still alive?" Sarutobi asked.

With another nod Naruto walked up to the closed window and opened it slightly, "It's the only thing that makes sense, even though the possibility of him actually being alive is actually crazy." The four of them looked rather grim however Naruto's eyes were set, "I have one way to track him and possibly kill him, it's a big risk though."

"Why's that Naruto-kun?" Sakura asked.

"It involves," he gestured to the small tattoo on his right arm just above the gauntlet. "Before I use them I need more knowledge in a bug's hierarchy."

Sarutobi thought a moment rubbing his goatee then smiled, "I believe I can help you with that, it involves making some changes to the genin teams but nothing really major. I'll change Kurenai wanted a tracking team but she specified she wanted Hinata on her team," he paused frowning a bit, "however Kakashi wanted you and Sasuke on a team, owing a debt from both his former teammate and former sensei."

Naruto scowled, "I won't be put on the same team as an Uchiha, I'll kill him first."

Kushina looked a bit hurt at those words, "You would kill your own god-brother Naruto?"

Naruto eyes quickly shifted to his mother a brief look of shock before closing them taking a few deep breaths. "You're Sasuke's godmother?"

Kushina grinned faintly, "And Itachi's, it was the only way for Mitoko could stand being Fugaku's wife, she figured if she killed him in the future she have someone to look after her son's that wouldn't give them a swelled head."

"She was killed by Itachi in the Massacre mom," Naruto stated then glanced at Sarutobi who looked a bit stone faced. "She wasn't?"

"No Rin Inuzuka, Mitoko Uchiha, and Keiko Hyuga are not dead," Sarutobi stated which brought Sakura's attention around.

"What Hinata's mother is alive, what haven't you told us old man," Sakura looked down right angry.

"The corruption is far more complex than you think Naruto, Sakura, the only ones not are the Nara, Yamanaka, Akimichi, Aburame, Hiashi, and the three Sannin," the old Hokage said.

"Inuzuka minus Rin, Half the Shinobi council, the civilian council, your advisors are all so corrupt. You said all three Sannin what does that mean for Orochimaru?" Kushina asked in wonder.

"We staged his experimentation and flight for the benefit of the council I'm the only one who knows his real loyalties," Sarutobi frowned however, "at least I did at the time he may of changed."

Naruto clenched his hands into fists, both left and right armed wrist knives came out with a click. "Old man I need to be assigned to a team with Shino, this is no longer about the Uchiha. I'll deal with Madara Uchiha in due time, right now I want to learn how to use my Nightmare serpents to return the village to the place it was when my father ruled as Hokage."

Sarutobi nodded, "Maybe I should drop a hint to Sasuke about why his brother killed his clan, it may give you another ally in this fight against Danzo and the others." Naruto nodded releasing his hands and the knives went back into their sheaths. He felt two gentle arms wrap around his waist looking behind him he saw Sakura burying her face in his bare shoulder feeling her sigh in contentment. The tension inside him left at that sigh he smiled turning in her embrace.

"So all those talks every afternoon about one day marrying my son, did they come true?" Kushina asked a bright smile on her face. Sakura blushed nodding burying her face if possible deeper into Naruto's chest. "Guess your father had been right."

"About what?" Naruto asked.

"He said that all Namikaze men know how find the right girl for them," Kushina giggled. "I'm surprised she hasn't bopped you on the head for being stupid yet."

Naruto chuckled, "She just did, a few minutes ago." No sooner had he finished then Sakura lightly bopped him her eyes alight with mischief. "Did that on purpose," he stated tickling her. Sarutobi silently dismissed himself heading to the Jonin, Chunin meeting to inform them of the team changes.

Author's Note: Not much for me to say, I finally read the chapter on the truth of Kushina and Naruto's past and what caused her to not be in his life. Madara Uchiha is a real bastard beyond measure, if he hadn't been involved at all Naruto's life would have been greatly different. Also the fact that Naruto and Sasuke's mothers knew each other is bound to come ahead between Sasuke and Naruto. Fact is Naruto and Sasuke might be more related than they even know about, all they could know is Kushina could be Sasuke's godmother and Mitoko could be Naruto's godmother which would really change the series dynamics when the final confrontation goes down.