AN: Well I'm back for another chapter.
Naruto: "About time."
Sakura: "It has not been that long Naruto."
Naruto: "Yes it has."
Me: Knocks Naruto down and sits on his back.
Naruto: "Hey what..." Sakura gags him.
Me: "I own nothing but my crazily wired self."
Tactition101: "I, on the other hand, own the power to make Naruto's life miserable if he manages to tick me off enough." (Gains shark grin while holding a certain scroll in hand.)
Naruto: Eyes widen in horror before they roll back into his head and his body sags.
Tactition101: Evil cackle.
Chapter 4
Sakura POV
Having dinner with Naruto last night was fun. Not informative on what is hidden inside, but fun. I have been humming all morning as I get ready for my shift at the Hospital. I will have to invite him over more often. As I walk to the Hospital I see Naruto and Kakashi-sensei walking the same direction. "Naruto, Kaka-sensei." I call out as I jog to catch up. They stop and wait for me. "Good to see you're back Kaka-sensei, and how are you this morning Naruto?" Kakashi-sensei nods and gives me his patented eye smile and starts walking on my right and Naruto on my left with a big grin that looked more real than the others.
"I'm doing good Sakura-chan. How about you?" He had his hands behind his head as he walked and a bounce in his step, but something seemed off.
"I'm good. Hey would the two of you like to come over for dinner? Iruka-sensei can come to." There was a brief flash across Naruto's face. So fast that I could not read it and if I had not seen that smile I would have thought I imagined it. I wonder if I had brushed off other such flashes?
"I would love to Sakura, and I will be sure to bring Iruka with me." Kakashi-sensei replied.
"I will be there as well." Naruto yelled as he pulled me into a big hug. Giggling I returned the hug.
"Great I will see you then." When he put me down we had to part ways as I entered the hospital and they continued on most likely to the Hokage Tower. With a smile I start my rounds. I plan what I'm going to cook for everyone. Then a thought struck me. Does Naruto know about Iruka-sensei and Kakashi-sensei being a couple? Oh that could be awkward.
Naruto POV
Dinner at Sakura's again tonight. Now I knew she had to have noticed something. Hmmm maybe I should bring her in on my secret? Oh well I will have time to decide that later. Right now I have to worry about how Tsunade-baachan will react. Kakashi-sensei and I both decided we will bring her in on it now rather than later. Respectfully Kakashi-sensei knocked on Baachan's office door, there was a quiet enter from the other side. The look on her face when she realized I was there was priceless.
"I'm going to take the omission of your usual entrance means I'm not going to like this." She said as she leaned back in her chair.
"Hokage-sama what we need to talk to you about is important but for your ears only at this point." Kakashi said in the emotionless tone of the ANBU.
"Everyone out." Barked Tsunade causing several ANBU to come out of hiding and leave. After they left she activated a seal that closed the room off from the outside world. "Now what is going on?" she demanded from behind her steeped hands.
"First of all," I started "have you heard of the Eye-to-Mind-jutsu?" At this Tsunade's eyes narrowed.
"Yes I have. But who told you of it?" I looked her in the eye and smiled.
"An old dusty book in a forgotten corner of the Library." She raised an eyebrow at me. "And that is all I will say outside of that jutsu." I could see the gears in her mind start working double time at that. Now I had to wait for her decision and see how much she trusts me.
"Fine let's do it." she said with a smile as she walked to me.
"Kakashi-sensei please stand beside Baachan." Once he had done so I put my hands on their shoulders.
Tsunade POV
This is very disconcerting. I don't like it that the brat is acting out of character. It is confirming what Jiraiya and I suspected and feared. When the first thing I saw was an office I started to relax a little. The place was clean and the shelves only slightly cluttered, but the drawers in the wall where what really caught my attention. "Those are my memories." he said from behind me. "Come we only started here to get this." I turned around and he handed me a scroll. "These are Jutsu that I know." And with that he left through a door I had not seen. Apprehensively I walk through the door and when I see what is on the other side I want to cry. This dark dank sewer is what he thinks of himself? Oh Kami what has this village done to my boy? As we walk I hear what sounds like breathing.
"I take it we are going to see the Kyubi because he has something to do with why we are here?" Naruto looks over his shoulder and grins at me.
"Well fuzz butt is part of why we are here but not the only reason." Wait did Naruto just call the kyubi-no-yoko fuzz butt?
"You love how people react to you calling him that don't you." Stated Kakashi as he shook his head.
"Yes he does." boomed a gravelly voice. "Stop wasting time kit and get in here." Naruto started laughing and turned a corner leading us into a cavernous room that was dominated by a gigantic gate held closed by a slip of paper that had seal written on it. Within the cage it was pitch black but I could see hints of movement then suddenly the Kyubi was right there looking down on us with a gleeful grin.
"So you're the Kyubi." I say "You owe this boy a lot." At that the grin disappeared and was replaced by what looked like remorse. I'm not yet convinced that it is.
"Baachan..." Naruto started but I interrupted him.
"Naruto I want to talk to Kyubi alone." I'm going to give the bastard a peace of my mind.
"But..." He started again but was interrupted by Kyubi this time.
"I think it will be for the best kit." Why was he calling Naruto Kit? Naruto looked at the Kyubi for a moment then sighed and gestured for Kakashi to follow him out of the room. When they left the entrance vanished leaving me alone with the Kyubi for what felt like an hour. I laid into him telling him what I thought of him and how much he has ruined my Naruto's life. The whole time he quietly took it without defending himself. In fact he flinched a few times. When I was done he was quiet for a few moments. "I'm so sorry and I will do my best to make it up to the boy" Wait what? "For most of the atrocities that happened to him I could not see or hear what was happening. Now that he has shown me I'm fully aware of how much I have harmed him just by being sealed within him and I will now do all within my power to help him. And I know he will probably never tell you this but in his eyes you are like a mother to him. Jiraiya was like a father and Kakashi a beloved uncle. Leaving Iruka and Sasuke cherished brothers." Do I dare to believe him? He could be telling me what I want to hear.
"You better or I will find a way to force you to." I glared at him when he stared to laugh.
"No need to worry on that front Tsunade. The kit already has a seal that will make me his slave if he so wishes."
"He has a what?!" How did he get that?! I look through the list he had given me and found nothing of the sort on the list. "How do you know he has it?"
"He showed it to me. He knows far more then what is on that list. That list is what he is currently willing to admit to. After all he has a photographic memory." My head shot up and I looked at him. "We should wrap this up the kit is getting impatient." I nod and the entrance to the room reappears.
"What the hell took so long?" Naruto yells as he reenters the room. "Never mind we have other things to discuss."
AN: Me: "So I will leave this here for now."
Naruto: "Wait I want to read more."
Kyubi: "I could tell you a story about you." me and Naruto turn and look at him.
Me: "Let me guess it will be X rated. " Naruto gulps
Tactition101: Blinks at me before he grins. "While it's tempting to let this continue, I don't want to permanently scar the readers so soon. So I've got a better idea." Seeing everyone now looking at him, he pulls out the Team Fortress 2 game he got for his birthday yesterday (March 6) and said "Game Night anyone?"
All: "Yeah!" (Naruto looking very relieved with his fist pump.)