It was eight am and a certain brown haired six year old crept into his mother's room.

He was clutching a small green plushie of a frog in his arms. He opened the curtains to let the summer sun into the room and the figure on the bed groaned at the offending light in their eyes. He walked back towards the bed and readied his legs and pounced on the bed. The figure curled under the sheets placed a pillow on top of their head, as the boy bounced on the bed.

"Kaa-chan, Get up! Get up! You promised you'd give me one of Tou-san's scrolls today!"

Yuki sighed as Naruto begged her to get up by continuing to jump on the bed.

"Alright, alright Naru-chan. Calm down. You can stop jumping on my bed now"

Naruto sheepishly placed his hand on the back of his head and gave her one of Minato's goofy grins, and plopped down on the bed and slid off.

Yuki shooed him out of the room to get changed and told him to meet her in the library, where the scroll vault was located. She pulled on a kimono from the closet and went to meet Naruto in the library.

She walked down the long hallway and went into the overly large library. It was filled with regular books and also had some jutsu scrolls in their as well. Yuki went straight in the back of the library where a large metal vault kept all the clan and highly ranked jutsu from both her and Minato's clans. Yuki didn't want any of the Konoha scum getting the secrets of the Hiraishin or the Rasengan, after the way they treated her husband's last wishes and the horrible treatment of her only son, her true flesh and blood. (Her adopted sister San didn't count, but she loved her like a sister anyway. They were spirit sisters and all else didn't matter.)

She turned to face Naruto, who was leaning on the vault door, waiting for her arrival. She swiped her blood across the door and the sound of clicking filled the room as the door unlocked itself and swung open with a clank.

Both of them walked inside and she led him to a large scroll and took it out and placed it on the large wooden table in the centre of the room.

"Ok Naru-chan, I'll only be teaching you your Tou-san's Kage Bunshin no jutsu."

Naruto frowned at her and complained. "But Kaa-san," Naruto whined "I wanted to learn the Hiraishin!"

"When you make chuunin status, I might think about teaching it to you."

Naruto gave her a dejecting "ok."

Yuki looked over the scroll and then placed it back on the shelf. She walked to the training grounds in the back of the mansion with Naruto, after both of them had breakfast. They both walked up to the large tree and stopped.

"Naru-chan, copy my hand sign and then channel your chakra to make a clone"

Naruto nodded and she placed her hand in the Tori sign and pumped enough chakra for twenty clones. Naruto watched as purple crystalline bullets came from the trees, destroying half of the clones in their wake. (1)

Yuki sniffed the air then shouted in the direction where the bullets came from. "Sari you're NOT helping!"

A black swirling vortex appeared next to her and sari came out dressed in a black and silver battle kimono, holding two guns in her hands. "Sorry, I couldn't help myself."

Sari then turned to Naruto. "Gaki, how 'bout you try the jutsu now." "Hai" he copied his mother's hand sign and made 100 Kage bunshin.

Sari let out a loud whistle. "Wow Gaki that is quite a large number of shadow clones. I suggest using them to practice your taijutsu style since they can be used to gather information. So anything they know, you'll know when they get dispelled. But a word of advice, only dispel them one at a time since they give you one bitch of a head ache." He nodded and kept ten of them working on the feral wolf stances and another ten working on the hummingbird stances.

Yuki smiled at her beloved Sochi and said "I have to go to town to do shopping, and then I have to talk to your aunt and Sari about something in my office, so come in at sundown. Ok?"

Naruto nodded.

She left the compound to go to the village market with sari in tow.

"What is the stuff you have to tell me and San later?" sari asked.

Yuki sighed and answer the Eboshi clan head. "I know Naruto wants to be a better ninja than Minato, so he will want to enroll in a ninja academy. And I'm saddened to say that Konoha has the best in all of the elemental countries. I'll have San watch the grounds of the compound and I'll go with him to Konoha. I'll also have him sign the ookami summon scroll so at least Moro-sama will protect him from the hateful villagers and the conniving council who will use him as a weapon. Moro thinks of him as one of her own pups, since I brought him to meet her last year and she loved him instantly and swore to protect him like she has done for the rest of my ancestors."

"Moro is the boss of the ookami clan right? I don't remember."

"Yes baka, she has been the guardian of the Mononoke clan since it's creation and even longer as the boss of the ookami clan. Moro will protect him from the villagers since she swore on her honor to it, and you know how we of lupine descent think highly of our honor."

"Yeah I know, you and San go all crazy over something if you gave your word about it. I know Naruto adopted that idea from you but I wonder what he adopted from minato other that the kekai genkai. But anyway, can I come with you? Tsuki will be boring without someone to bother."

"What about your brother Ashitaka?"

"He can look after the clan, it's not like he has anything better to do."

Yuki thought for a minute and nodded "True. But is he capable of making the iron weapons?"

"He is an Eboshi, we were taught at a young age how to forge everything. I left him the blueprints for everything I've ever made, so he can handle it. But is San up for taking care of your clan?"

"My parents treated her like part of our family and even though we are not flesh and blood, she is my Imotou-chan all the same and I am still her Aneue. I would trust her with my life, Naruto's and definitely the well being of the clan."

"Ok, geese I didn't need a speech ya know."

"So when are we going to Konoha?"

"Tomorrow, that's why we are shopping for things. I also need to pick up my kimonos from the drycleaners and get some kunai for Naruto."

"I'll make the kunai for you, do you want me to polish kokujato and haikaito for you?" (2)
"Yeah, my poor katanas have been getting dull. I need to brush up on my katas again. I haven't wielded them since I became pregnant with Naru-chan. They're probably mad at me."

"Well yeah. If I was a sword spirit I would want to be mad at you too but I would also understand your reason."

"Thanks for your support Sari" yuki said in a sarcastic tone.

Both clan heads went to the kimono shop and picked up their kimonos from the old woman who worked there. When they were done, it was about noon, so they went back to their compounds to tell San and Ashitaka about their plans.

Yuki walked to the forest behind the compound where she knew she would find her sister. Yuki caught San's scent and followed it to the waterfall where all the ground was littered in fallen sakura petals from the previous season. "San" yuki called out and the brown haired female in question turned from her position in the water towards her sister.

"You know how much Naru-chan wants to be a ninja just like his father correct?"

"If you intend to take him to Konoha, then I will guard the forest and the compound in your absence. I want you to know that if the old monkey tries anything I will personally run all the way to Konoha with one of the wolves and rip off his head."

"I will hold you to that Imotou. Arigato"

"Tsuneni" she paused "When are you and Naruto leaving?"

"Tomorrow with Sari, We'll be staying in Minato's old compound."

"You must miss him. I know if I lost my Ashitaka-koi I would die."

"Minato was my youkuo. There is never a day when I don't miss his goofy grins or his laugh but when I look at our Sochi, I see a little piece of Minato in him and that is all I need." (3)

"I am glad you are content with your life Aneue. I wish you and Naruto a safe travel to Konoha."

"Are you coming inside or are you going to sleep outside in the forest tonight?"

"I will stay in my forest if you don't mind."

"Not at all but at least come in for dinner?"

"Hai Taicho!" San gave her a mock salute and continued to swim in the water.

Yuki laughed and went back to prepare dinner since the sun was setting behind the tree line.

She made onigiri, udon soup and chicken teriyaki. She placed everything out on the table and howled for San and Naruto to come in for dinner. When both of them came, the three of them said "Itadakimasu" and dug into their meal. Then yuki said to her son, "Naru-chan we are going to your father's village. You remember I told you about Konohagakure no Sato. Right?"

"Wow we get to go to Tou-san's village, I promise I will be good and go to bed early and brush my teeth and say goodnight to auntie San and Sari and….."

"I am glad you are exited about going to Konoha" she interrupted him "but I need you to sign Moro-sama's summon scroll"

" Arigato-gozaimasu Kaa-san. I love Moro-sama!" San looked warily at Yuki but her question was instantly answered.

"I am glad sochi. She will protect you should I not be there." She then told him to follow her to her room where she had the summon scroll laid across her bed near her pack.

"Put your hands in the Ohitsuji seal after you cut your hand and signed the scroll in your blood right next to mine and San's."

He did as told and a small black and silver pup was summoned.

"You summoned me milady?"

"No, Naruto summoned you. I already spoke to Moro-sama about him being a summoner and she approved that he didn't need the test."

"Very well, my name is Mayonaka, and I will be your familiar Naruto-sama."

"Arigato Mayonaka-chan."

"I will be leaving now if there is nothing else you need of me."(4)

"Hai, and give my regards to Moro-sama" Yuki said.

"I will milady. Sayonara Yuki-sama, Naruto-sama." Mayonaka said and poofed back to the forest.

Yuki healed up his hand and listened to the lull of his heartbeat which told her, Naruto fell asleep due to chakra exhaustion since he trained all day and used up his remaining chakra to summon Mayonaka. So, Yuki carried her sleeping son to his room and changed him out of his training clothes and into his frog pajamas and gave him his frog plushie named Orange. She tucked him into his bed, brushed the stray hairs from his face and kissed his forehead. She moved to his closet and packed his things into his pack and sealed up the rest of his clothes into a scroll.

She silently walked toward the door and shut off the light and shut the door behind her. She walked back into her room and finished packing most of her clothes into a sealing scroll since she still had some clothes in Konoha. She finished and fell asleep herself to get ready for the long trip ahead of them.

~~~~~~AUTHOR'S BOX~~~~~~~~~~~

(1)- For all you kingdom heart II fans, those are Xigbar's powers that we gave to Sari

(2)- Kokujato means "Ivy blade" and Haikaito means "Sword of fiery destruction"

(3)- Youkuo means sunshine

(4)- Mayonaka means midnight

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