Chapter 7: Naruto's Homecoming
"Naruto, open your eyes now" Iruka commanded after he led the blond into a room. "Hey, its, HUGE!" Naruto almost screams out, looking at the room in front of him. "Well, I doubled my house's size, the entire second floor is yours" Iruka happily says behind a huge smile. "Iruka, its awesome, what's the rent" Naruto asked. "What rent, its free, Tsunade wrote off the loan on Monday" Iruka says with an ever bigger smile. The two walk around the rooms that Iruka added, Naruto appreciates them like no one else could, he even runs back to the front door to remove his shoes after he realizes what he just did. "Iruka, it so nice." Naruto says before giving his mentor an huge bear hug. "Oh, thank you Naruto" Iruka manages to say, fighting for air.
Its now a few months after Naruto has moved in, and Iruka is noticing a strange pattern and calls Naruto down. "Naruto, I've noticed that you only did "it" to the males around you." he says. "What are you going at" Naruto asks as he looks up at Iruka with a glare. "Naruto, if you were gay, who would tell" he finally asks the blond sitting across from the table. "Why would I be gay, I am Uzumaki Naruto, I have a clan to restore" he says to Iruka with a deadly glare, sending shivers down Iruka's spine. "Oh, it's nothing, I was just asking" Iruka says. "Well, if you were just wondering, then why even ask" Naruto spits out. "Its just that you seem to always have guys up, I next to never seen Sakura or even Hinata visit" Iruka says. Naruto can't believe his ears, thinking back to the night to where he attacked Shikimaru. "Could it be true" he wondered. "Iruka, I have a mission tomorrow, I need to sleep" Naruto says to Iruka, who is now sipping on some green tea. "Sure, have a good night" Iruka replies to Naruto as he walks out the door, "Iruka, you would be the first to know that if I am" Naruto says just before he exit's the kitchen and starts up his own set of stairs. "I hope you are" Iruka thinks to himself as he watches Naruto walk out the door.
It is late evening about a week later, and Naruto finally gets back from his mission. He is covered in cuts and scrapes. "I need a bath" he says as he walks past Iruka to his own door and walks up the stairs to his apartment. He puts his keys in the door, just before he unlocks it, he feels something, a presence he hasn't felt since the night he was "forced" into living with Yamato. "Yamato, I know you are in there" Naruto says as he opens the door, to see no one in his apartment. He sighs as he takes off his jacket, then a noise catches his attention. He feels a draft and sees that a window is open, "Um, I didn't leave any windows open, did I?" he asks himself as he goes to inspect the noise. To his relief and surprise, he finds the source of the noise, some papers had fallen off of a small table. He starts towards his bathroom, but feels Yamato's presence again "Enter" he says into the darkness around his door. "Naruto, I had some problems, I need somewhere to stay" he hears as Yamato comes into view. "Sure, why not, just make yourself at home, I'll be back out in a bit" he says as he shuts the bathroom door behind him. "Um, so many cuts, must have been a bad mission, I should make some tea" Yamato thinks aloud as he walks over to Naruto's kitchen. "Second shelf by the fridge" he hears Naruto say from the bathroom. "Did he hear me?" he wonders to only have his answer said through the thin wall between the kitchen and bathroom. "Yes, I did, you could hear a mouse fart" Naruto says from the bathroom. After a few minutes, Naruto walks out of the bathroom, wearing a pair or orange shorts with a grey shirt. "Smells good" he says to Yamato as he opens up a cabinet and gets out some bread. "Nani, no ramen" Yamato says raising an eye brow. "No, just toast, I feel like I am going to pass out" Naruto says as he puts two pieces of bread into the toaster and clicks it down. He makes his way to the table and pours himself into a chair and passes out. "Naruto!" Yamato yells as he catches the blond, setting him to the ground. He feels for a pulse, and fails to find one. "Iruka, get your ass up here" Yamato yells into the floor. Before he could say another word, Iruka is at his side. "Get him to the hospital and find out what happened" Iruka says, just as Naruto opens an eye. "Oh, I forgot, I didn't sleep at all on the mission, bed will be fine. Yamato, the pulse is above the thumb, not in the palm." Naruto says as he closes his eye. Iruka and Yamato take Naruto and place him on his bed.
Iruka looks over at Yamato with a puzzled look. "So, what brings you here" Iruka says to Yamato while pouring him a cup of tea. "My apartment building suffered some damage from a fire, and Naruto said that I could stay here for a while, until I could get back into mine" Yamato responded. "Hn" is all Iruka could get out before they heard a noise from the bedroom. They both got up and looked in through a crack to see that Naruto had only shifted a little. "He's right, you could hear a mouse fart here" Yamato said, looking at Iruka. "Ya, I had to make the walls thin so I could afford this" Iruka said, looking back at Yamato. The two made their way back to the table. "You know, I know that isn't the real reason you are here" Iruka says to Yamato over his cup. "You caught me, I was assigned by Tsunade to continue to guard Naruto, since once the villagers catch word of what he had done, they'll want to kill him more" Yamato said to only see Iruka almost choke on his tea. "Are you talking about the rapes or something else?" Iruka asked in a worried tone "The latter" is all Yamato could say. "You see, on the mission today, Naruto was told that he was to stay behind and guard the base, he refused. As the day went on, he became more and more irritated that he was ordered to do such a menial task, finally he went off into a full four tail demon possession and killed three leaf shinobi before I could stop him. The scrapes and cuts he walked in with were from his battle with some of the other ninja why wanted to kill him." Yamato finally finished, Iruka looked over the table with a pale face, not sure what to say. "So, Naruto actually killed someone because of his frustration, then why is he not in jail for this" Iruka managed to get out before Yamato put a hand over his mouth. "He's not in jail because I made a wood clone and they arrested him. I told Naruto to stay at home for the next year. They are going to do an investigation and discover the same thing Kakashi and myself already know, that Naruto once he gets past 3 tails is not in control of his own body. Once the trial finds him innocent, I will tell him its OK to go outside of the house and I will also terminate the wood clone" Yamato finally finished. "You know what will happen if they find out, you'll be on trial too, and even executed." Iruka said in a hiss. "Is he really worth all of this, besides, once you tell him to stay inside, then he's going to go off worse then before, it'll be the end of you!" Iruka finally shouted, waking Naruto up. "Um, Iruka, please quite down" Naruto said as he walked out of his bedroom and looked to Yamato, who was smiling an evil grin. "What's he so happy about, someone fuck him" Naruto asked bluntly. Suddenly, Naruto felt a sharp pain in his head "Ow, what was that for" he said as Yamato was giving Naruto a look that sent shivers down his spine. "Oh, I see, its 'the look', like at the hot spring, I get it, fear, ok" Naruto said as Yamato went pale. "I don't fall for the same thing more then once, Taichou" Naruto said as he took a chair and sat it to Iruka's left on the table. "Naruto, I, I have something I need to tell you, but you must not be angry with me for any reason." Yamato said as he looked over at Naruto who was giving him a weird look. "OK, what is it" Naruto said looking back. Yamato explained his plan, Naruto did get angry, but not enough to release any tails. "So, where am I to go, I can't stay here, they'll be looking for me here" Naruto said at the last part of his plan. "Yamato, he has a point" Iruka was quick to point out. "OK, then we'll send Naruto to live with his father" Yamato said with a grin. "But, my father, Minato, he's dead, isn't he?" Naruto protested but Iruka and Yamato heard nothing of it. The two made some hand signs and Naruto vanished in a cloud of smoke, leaving the remains of a shadow clone behind.
"Iruka, open up, that's an order" Iruka heard from the door. "OK, coming" he opened the door to find three ANBU standing there, along with Lady Tsunade. "We had arrested Naruto, but once scanning him, we discovered he was a wood clone" she said looking right at Yamato. "You know what this means" she almost yelled at the now former ANBU standing in front of her. "Well, you see, Hokage sama, this was at Naruto's request, he said he would much rather die in a place he felt more comfortable at, and I honored his wish." he said. Iruka was shocked "when did Naruto make this request" he said. "When we went to take him for questioning, he said that he would much rather die at home in the village then outside at the execution area. He has always wanted the village to know that he was gone, so he wanted them to see his body and funeral, not just an execution." Yamato said with an official voice. "You have three seconds to show me a body or you'll be going into the afterlife too, Tenzou" Tsunade spit out, making Yamato cringe because when ever someone used his real name, he knew he was in trouble. "OK, my lady, right this way" he gestured to the kitchen, where a Naruto was laying on the floor, with wound to the back of his head, blood running out onto the tile floor. "Good work, Yamato" was all that Tsunade could say. The four left, taking the Naruto's now limp and cold body with them.
While walking down the street, one of the ANBU scans Naruto's body. "Hokage-sama, take a closer look" the ANBU says with a worried tone. Tsunade looks at the boy and realizes something isn't right, the wound, it had bled on the floor but there was no opening on the top of his head. She stabs him with a kuni, only to see the body turn into a chair. "That bastard, he's still out there" Tsunade about screams, making the ANBU around her cringe at the anger that was radiating from her. "Do you want us to find him, lady Hokage" one of them said to find an extremely angry look on her face. "No, I want you to arrest him, and Yamato, and Iruka!" she says in an ordering tone. "Hai" all three ANBU scream as they vanish to look for the two.
"I wonder if she fell for it" Yamato thinks to himself as he sees Naruto come out from a cabinet. "I don't know, that old hag is pretty smart" Naruto says with a smile before feeling a chakra signal coming closer. Yamato feels the same signal and freezes in fear. "Shit, she didn't" he whispers as he feels the ground shaking. "Yamato, Naruto, get out of here" Iruka says with fear in his voice before the front door explodes, reveling Tsunade. "Uzumaki Naruto, Yamato, Umino Iruka, you are ALL under arrest" Tsunade screams as Iruka sees a flash of color around him to find that the small kitchen he was in is now filled with ANBU operatives. Naruto can't believe his eyes, he has never seen so many ANBU outside of the headquarters. "What are you arresting me for" Iruka protested as he was bound. "Iruka, you know what was going on, there for, you are an accessory to this" Tsunade points out, making Iruka cower. "Naruto, you are in so much trouble" he hears as Yamato is carried from the house, followed by Iruka then himself. "What should we do with him" an ANBU says, pointing Naruto. "I don't care, as long as he is in jail" Tsunade says, with a bit of hurt in her voice. "Did I save him just to have him play these games and betray the village" she thinks to herself as she walks towards the Hokage Tower. "This is going to be quite a lot of paperwork" she says as she enters her office, finding Shizune already there.
"I heard, was having all three of them arrested a smart choice" Shizune says, taking out a small bottle of sake, knowing that Tsunade would need it. "I often wonder, why am I Hokage, Shizune." She says as she takes a sip. "Having to arrest the one I see as a grand child, being tricked by one of my most trusted ANBU, and having an academy teacher stand by while all this happens, its almost too much." She says before taking another sip. "Shizune, please get Jirayia." Tsunade says, hurt evident in her voice. "Yes, m lady" Shizune says as he leaves her office. "So, will Naruto handle being in jail, it may be for just a few days to get his lesson into his thick head, but still, will he manage." she thought as Jirayia walked into her office. "I heard what you did to the brat, isn't that a little harsh" he said when he saw Tsunade sitting on her desk. "I am beginning to think that myself." she said, taking another sip of sake. She looks up at the door as she hears foot steps coming up the hallway, there is a single knock. "Enter" she says to find an ANBU covered in blood walk in then falls to the floor "What the fuck" she screams as she jumps over her desk and lands next to the ANBU. "Fire…..red…….chakra………6.…TAILS" is all the ANBU could get out before passing out. "Six tails" she screams out as she hears a loud scream followed by an explosion outside of her office. Tsunade gets up and looks out the window to see a large fire from the area of the prison. "Shizune, issue an order for all available shinobi to go to the prison at once and evacuate the civilians to the caves" she screams out to Shizune who is in shock, staring out the window. "And do it NOW" Tsunade screams breaking Shizune from her place. "Hai", Shizune says as she runs out the door as Kakashi enters. "What did you do to Naruto." he says as he walks in with Naruto under his arm and Yamato limping behind him. "So, you two are fine, then what the hell is going on over there" she points out the window. "Well, that was happening when we got there" an ANBU says as he appears beside her holding Iruka. "So, it wasn't Naruto" she thinks as she calls for Shizune to come back into the room from the planning chambers. "Shizune, cancel the evacuation" she orders.
She looks down to Naruto, who looks burnt. "So, what happened, she said something about 6 tails and red chakra" Tsunade says while pointing to the ANBU now sitting up. "She was correct" Yamato says as he lifts up Naruto's shirt to revile that the first half of the seal was faded. "So, it was weakening" she thinks. "Tsunade, we need to reinforce the seal right away" Yamato says. "Very well, do what you must, I will drop all charges against you and Iruka, but Naruto is still in deep shit" she says as Yamato, Iruka, and Naruto vanish from her sight.