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Word 2 Scene 4: Father and Son
Standing in the middle of the living room, Hilda held Baby Beel in her arms while watching her fellow blonde get ready to go to the academy. At the moment, he was wrapping bandages around the middle of his thigh on the outside of his pants before strapping on a brown leather pouch filled with sharp knives over that. Naruto also had a larger pouch on his belt filled with other things.
Naruto smiled faintly. He wondered what it would be like to have someone there, watching him as he headed off to do missions, or waiting there for him to return. He couldn't help but feel a bit jealous of his other.
"Maybe I should come too," she mused as he moved to adjusting his sandals, "From what you say, this academy thing is extremely boring and I would not wish to subject the Master to such a thing and could entertain him during that."
The genin males except for Neji, Lee, and Shino nodded. The academy was certainly boring. It was just painful to live through.
"No it'll be fine today," Naruto replied with a small yawn, "Today is Taijutsu review and a sparring day, if nothing else then Baby Beel will enjoy watching as a bunch of kids beat the hell out of each other."
The boy in her arms nodded sagely, "Da…"
Anko nodded with a snicker. Watching kids beating the shit of each other, her favorite past time.
"It'll also give us a chance to strengthen the Zebel spells bond right?"
Hilda nodded slowly, "Yes, as I told you before, as the Master's parent, you are a vessel for his power, the bond will grow with the more opponents you defeat along with the mark."
The teen glanced at the mark on his hand, he hadn't noticed before but smaller marks had appeared near his wrist and had grew slightly ever since he knocked out that villager and beat Kiba within an inch of his life. It hadn't been until Hilda congratulated him on the admittedly small accomplishment did he notice it.
Finished, Naruto sat up and held out his hands for her to hand Baby Beel over, which she did, "I've noticed that I do feel stronger than before," he mentioned while letting Beel crawl over him to hold onto the back of his coat, "Faster too, is this part of the bond?"
"Yes, the Masters power is bettering your physical condition, making you faster and stronger than you already were. It is a way to ensure that the one the Master chooses always has an edge to better protect him."
Jiraiya grew interested in this "Zebel bond", his curiosity as a seal master peaked.
Sliding his orange sleeve up, Naruto clinched his fist, causing the muscles on his arm to bulge slightly. He had always tried to stay in shape, one of the main reasons that the villagers stopped attacking him was because he started looking like he could handle himself in a fight. Attacking a scrawny little brat was one thing but attacking one with the muscle to fight back was something that made them stop and think. He was by no means ripped but he could take off his shirt and feel good about being in public without being self-conscious.
A few of the girls, mostly Hinata, blushed a bit at the invading image of a shirtless Naruto, revealing his slightly muscular form.
"Here then,"
Hilda's voice broke him from his thoughts to find her holding a messenger bag, "What's this?" he asked while taking it and looking inside.
"It is Master's food, remember that you are to feed him five times a day. Don't forget it."
He nodded, "Don't worry, I know how to do this,"
"Good, now there is three portions here," she continued before he spoke with a small laugh.
"Milk those udders of yours?"
Her eyes narrowed before Naruto found himself sitting there with a large lump on the side of his head that glowed red and smoked.
Jiraiya and Kiba laughed at this, along with Anko, as Naruto grumbled. The young girls looked at the large pair on Hilda's chest and compared it to their own, making them frown in jealousy. Shizune also frowned in jealousy, holding her pet pig, Tonton closer to her chest in a move of self-conscious.
"It is powdered milk suitable for royalty." she simpered with one hand on her hip and the other holding her umbrella.
"So what, are your boobs all dried up?"
*THUNK*
"THUNK!
Kiba and Jiraiya laughed harder as Naruto was sitting on the floor, holding his own lump on his head, delivered by an annoyed Sakura. "Baka! You don't say something like that to a girl!"
"But I didn't." Naruto grumbled.
Naruto twitched, another lump on the other side of his head while Beel laughed on his back.
"Listen up," she continued, sounding as if his comment's didn't bother her, "The mild should be the temperature of the underarm of a wyvern that lives on Midolche lake in the Demon World."
"How the hell should I know something like that?" he demanded, making her roll her eyes.
"Honestly, I got that pop up monster book for a reason, if you had read that then you would know that the temperature of such thing is equal to what you know as room-temperature"
"Why didn't you just say that in the first place?"
"If you had read the book then you would've known," she simpered while turning away from him.
"Hell no!" Naruto shouted. He knew that he, as well as his alternate self, would be stupid to mess with that book!
Naruto sweat dropped, like hell he would be reading that damned book again. In fact, he had taken it and tied the thing shut with wire before throwing it up on the top shelf of his closet. He started to do the same with the other Demon World toys but compared to that book and the Doll, which was still trapped in his freezer, everything else looked innocent enough.
Shaking his head, he stood and placed the strap overhead, letting it cross his back and chest to rest at his hip.
"Whatever, I'm heading to class, just… just don't do something like unleash a horde of flesh eating cockroaches or anything while I'm gone please,"
"Naruto…" Iruka started as he looked at the blonde sitting near the window.
It was still a little early and class hadn't started yet, so Naruto was the first one there shockingly enough and yes, still had his son with him.
"The dobe's actually early for class? Has the world come to an end?" Sasuke teased with a smirk. Naruto glared at him.
"Screw you, teme!"
"Yes Iruka-sensei?" the blonde answered innocently.
"Don't 'Yes Iruka-sensei' me, you know what I'm about to ask!"
Naruto 'Oh'ed, "Well I decided that I needed to come in a little early, I know it's weird and all since I usually come in last or late…"
The man twitched, "Not… that… why in the world did you bring him with you to class?"
Naruto cocked his head to the side then looked at Baby Beel, "Well I can't just leave him home, what kind of father do you think I am? Besides, the Hokage gave me permission on this,"
"Yeah, Iruka-sensei! You'd actually expect me to leave Baby Beel alone? What kind of a father do you think I am?" Naruto questioned with his arms crossed.
Iruka pulled him into a headlock. "Don't be such a smart-ass!" The chunin said as Naruto tried to get out of the hold.
"How long have you had him?"
"For a while now."
By now, the other students were coming in, sitting down and listening in as the two talked about the blond's son. After he left the other day, Naruto had been the main subject of gossip and rumors all day, ranging from if the boy was in fact his son to who the mother was.
"Are you the only one taking care of him? What about his mother?"
"Well, Hilda-chan does a lot to help out but Baby Beel cries if I get too far from him, and I hate it when he cries."
When he said that last part, everyone swore that his eyes turned red, but afterward he smiled and grinned, leading them to believe that it was just the light shining or something.
The older and experienced shinobi saw the flash, and flinched. What could be worse than a protective father? How about a protective father that was a Jinchuuriki?
"Hilda?" Iruka repeated, "Is that the mother?"
"Oh yeah that's right, you haven't met her yet. Yeah she's Baby Beel's mother… and my wife."
That one word sounded like an explosion, echoing over and over in the room.
"WIFE!?" everyone repeated in shock.
The blonde turned and looked at them strangely, "Y'all didn't know? I thought that Kiba would've told everyone by now."
"Kiba hasn't been to class the past few days,"
"Oh yeah," Naruto mused with a dark chuckle, "I forgot about that,"
KIba shivered with a gulp, recalling the mess his other looked like after the beating the gave him. He would be lying if he said he pitied his other.
"Huh?"
"A while back, I was walking with Hilda and Baby Beel… he said some things and attacked me, with Beel still on my back might I add. Anyway, he threw some shuriken at us and ended up breaking Baby Beel's favorite rattle." he mused while tickling the toddler sitting on the desk, making him giggle, making the girls in class 'aw' at them.
The girls also 'awed' at the cute scene.
"I hate it when he cries and that rattle was one of the only ways to calm him down. So I beat Kiba up and knocked out every tooth in his mouth. Isn't that right Baby Beel?"
"Da-bu!"
Cue shivered at the nice, but still horrific, recollection of the event that happened between the alternate Uzumaki and Inuzuka.
Images of Naruto viscously attacking Kiba as the little kid giggled not too far away entered their minds.
But before anything else was said, the bell rang, starting class for the day.
In no time at all, the entire class was outside on an open stretch of grass that was used as a sparring area by the older classes. But in the center there was a small dirt circle that had been made as a ring for two to fight in. A little ways away there was the academy playground, separated from the field by a chain link fence that kept the younger students from wondering off and getting lost as well as keeping them from going over and mixing in with the older students and possibly getting hurt.
Iruka started off by pairing two girls up to spar and having the other students back away. Many stood by to watch a little ways from the ring but a few went off to hang out further away, waiting for them to be called.
Naruto sighed, "Well Baby Beel looks like we got to wait for a good fight," he mused while the toddler crawled up to sit on his head, wanting to watch the fight, "Trust me, these girls aren't worth watching, they'd rather spend their time doing hair and looking pretty than practice."
"Hey!" Sakura and Ino called in offense. Anko looked at them, narrowing her eyes with a dark grin.
"Well is he wrong, girlies?" She asked, not that she needed an answer. Like several jonin, she had watched the academy spars, overseeing possible candidates for future teams. And what she had seen was absolutely the most pathetic excuses for future kunoichi she had ever seen! Nearly every girl was barely above civilian level, and had shown obvous signs of not doing any training whatsoever, merely focusing on their looks and boys.
Tenten felt the same way as both and Anko, being possibly the ONLY girl of her generation, who had taken being a kunoichi seriously at her time in the academy. Unlike others, she didn't fantasize over boys or make-up, but on training her skills and weapons. Sure she would admit that she had trained to be like her idol, Tsunadem but at least she took her training seriously, unlike Sakura and Ino from what she had seen in the chunin exam. Their fight was absolutely pathetic!
'Not that my fight was any better.' She thought with a growl, as she recalled her fast defeat at Temari's hand. It was only after the exams she had taken the OBVIOUS signs of Temari being a Wind expert fighter. 'I mean she had a GIANT FAN on her back for pete's sake!' She thought, her face turning a bit red in embarassement. Aftet the exam, she had taken her training to new heights. Much more than she could say for the two other female genin.
Sakura and Ino looked dawn sadly, knowing that it was true. Now that they thought about it, they were like that back in the academy, In fact, in Sakura's case, and a bit in Ino's, they haven't really changed much since then.
Beel soon found out that Naruto was right and crawled back down looking dejected.
"Don't worry," the teen said after seeing the look, "it'll get better soon…"
Moving away from everyone, he took Baby Beel in his arms so that he could sit down and lean against a tree, letting the toddler sit in his lap.
A little ways away from him, Naruto had numerous eyes watching him.
"I can't believe that Naruto's got a kid!" whispered Ino Yamanaka as she and a group of other girls did their gossip thing, even Sakura, her fan girl rival for Uchiha Sasuke was there with them, watching and talking about this new development.
"Yeah, I know right. Who'd wanna have one with an idiot like him?" Sakura sneered while looking at the two.
Naruto and Sakura flinched at that, with the former looking down in sadness. Sakura also frowned, as she got several glared for what her other said, mostly from Tsunade, Jiraiya, and surprisingly Anko, Hinata (tough I guess she's not so surprising), and shockingly enough, Tenten. 'Damn it, what the hell is wrong with the other me?! I'm not like that! I would never degrade Naruto like that. Yes, he might be a bit of an idiot sometimes and a bit annoying, but not enough for me to say such things!'
Another girl shook her head, "I don't know about him being an idiot anymore," she said looking unsure, "My big sister had a baby when she was in school a few years ago, she went from straight A's to nearly failing because of it. He looks like he takes being a dad serious so he probably skipped class and never studied because he wanted to take care of his son."
"But he's always been an immature idiot," the pink haired girl argued back.
Sakura was beginning to wish she could go to that dimension and punch her other in the face to get her to shut up.
Shin, who had been silent since Naruto's secret was revealed, saw her reactions, and nodded. 'There's hope for her yet.' He thought, knowing how at least 35% of Sakura Haruno's in the Naruto-verse were bitches.
Ino looked at her, "Sakura we're still young, of course he was immature, but think back, he's been getting more serious about things for awhile now, he's even stopped calling you 'Sakura-chan'… actually, he barely even looks at you anymore now that I think about it."
"Well he did say that he was married now," some other gossiper supplied.
"Hey that's right!"
Sasuke scoffed as he crossed his arms. "Maybe having a kid will actually make the dobe smarter than he is." He remarked, getting a glare from Naruto.
"What'd you say teme?!" He shouted at the Uchiha's face.
Sasuke glared back at him. "I called you stupid. And you've just proved me right!"
The two were now face to face. "Oh yeah, you bastard?!"
"Yeah!"
"Maybe we should see if we can replace you! I like that female you better!"
Something snapped in Sasuke's head at being remembered about that female version of him. "Don't you bring her up!"
"You're much nicer as a girl, you bastard!"
With a roar, Sasuke jumped at Naruto, the two fighting in a cloud of dust. Everyone ignored the two fighting genin and got back to watching the events.
Peeking from around a tree, Hinata trembled as she spied on Naruto as he played with Beel. She had a crush on him for the longest time, watching him from the corner of her eyes when they were in the same room, following him around sometimes and watching from around the corner. She had wanted to confess to him and tell him how she felt but could never work up the courage, fainting whenever she got too close or running away when he walked toward her.
Hinata yelped, her face turning completely red at the fact that now everyone knew her 'secret' crush on Naruto. She glanced at Naruto, wondering if he saw that. Unfortunately for her, Naruto and Sasuke were too into their fight to pay attention.
'Naruto-kun has a wife!' she mentally screamed at herself while mentally ripping out her hair, 'an adorable son too!'
Her dreams… shattered. Images of her wedding with Naruto gone, an adorable blond haired baby with his blue eyes… gone, replaced by a faceless woman and a naked green haired baby with matching eyes. If only his son looked like him, blonde with blue eyes, that way at least she could continue to dream.
"Oho! Looks like someone's jealous!" Anko teased the red faced Hinata.
"Stop teasing her, Anko." Kurenai scolded. Though she frowned, hoping Hinata didn't become depressed at the possible though of Naruto one day dating someone other than herself (Hinata). She had seen how some of the others go too into the events, and hoped her student wouldn't be the same with this particular one.
At this point all she could picture was a happy green eyed, green haired woman holding Naruto's son while he had his arm around her. The only thing that matched her dream child with Naruto was the fact that his son had the same spiky mop of hair.
"Hinata, it's your turn!" called Iruka, breaking her from her thoughts.
"O-ok Sensei,"
"Da-bu…" Beel growled out slowly with narrowed green eyes as he sat on Naruto's lap, hands in his lap as he saw the pathetic fight end. Naruto had the same look, hunched foreword with his legs crossed and a hand on each knee.
"I know," he growled back, "Want to color?"
Baby Beel instantly brightened, "Da!"
Smiling, Naruto reached into the messenger bag and pulled out a box of crayons and a coloring book that he brought from home, having foreseen this problem before heading out the door, "Here you go, have at it,"
Watching, Naruto grimaced at the picture Baby Beel started coloring… or more like scribbled all over. It was probably the least dangerous Demon World toy Hilda bought along with the crayons, but instead of simple cartoon pictures of trees, smiling suns, flowers, and animals it was something like a cartoon Halloween hell on steroids. The crayons were normal, but it was the names that differed from normal ones, while it did have the names like Red, Green, and Black, it also had another name below the first, Red was Spilt Blood, Green was Snot, and Black was Charred Bones.
"How the hell is that okay for a child?!" Tsunade questioned, appalled at the things inside the coloring book.
Next to her, Jiraiya shrugged. "Well the kid is a demon baby, Hime. So I guess such things are normal for his kind."
"Hn, since when do you have a son?"
Naruto glanced over while Baby Beel busied himself with coloring a demon dog attacking a demon cat to see Sasuke standing there with his arms crossed, "Since when did you care?" he shot back smoothly without missing a beat.
"I don't."
"Then why bother asking if you don't."
"Just answer me already."
The blonde chuckled, "Do I really have to explain where babies come from? We'll I guess I could get a hotdog and doughnut for a visual aid… or you could ask one of your fan girls, I'm sure they'd love to show you how to make a son."
At that time, Shin and Kakashi were able to separate the two fighting genin. Hearing what the other Naruto told his counterpart, Sasuke turned chalk white pale at the thought of one of his dreaded fangirls experimenting with him. Naruto just laughed, bringing up round two.
Sasuke closed his eyes, "Why'd I even bother asking?" he muttered before walking away.
Soon, all the girls were finished with their matches and it was the boy's turn. There had been a few good matches that Beel watched while others he just ignored and went back to coloring. It had taken a while but soon, Iruka called for Sasuke and Naruto to come up.
Sasuke came up with a smirk on his face but Naruto didn't.
"Naruto!" Iruka called out as everyone looked around.
"Oi I'm a little fucking busy right now!" he yelled back.
When they all looked, they found him sitting with a small burner heating up a portable metal tea pot that had just started steaming from the spout. In front of him was a thing of powdered milk with a grinning mouth full of sharp teeth as it's logo with a glass milk bottle sat next to it.
Baby Beel sat in his lap, waiting for his bottle and watching the blonde's hands like a hawk.
"Aw!" Sakura and Ino cooed, seeing the fatherly scene. Unknowingly, the other females also cooed, though stayed silent.
"Hurry up dobe," Sasuke said, "I'll make this quick,"
The blonde had just put a scoop in of the powder in the bottle when he said that and looked up with a glare, "I said I'm busy. He's hungry and if I don't feed him he'll cry, and if he cries you'll all regret it!"
Kiba shivered along with Lee and Choji when they saw the glare both the young father and toddler gave. 'Scary.'
Both father and son were glaring darkly at them before going back to the task at hand. Taking the hot water, Naruto poured it into the bottle and placed the top on before shaking it good.
Everyone watched with a sweat drop, this was… new, to see Naruto go from violent teen to caring father in mere seconds as he finished shaking it and stuck it to his cheek.
"Are you done yet?" Sasuke demanded.
"Do I look like I'm done?!" Naruto shot back, eye twitching, "I have to wait for it to cool first, what'll I do if it burns him?"
"…"
The clearing fell into a tense silence.
"Alright, here you go Baby Beel," Naruto said with a smile before handing him the bottle and sitting him on the grass. Making a hand seal, Naruto summoned a shadow clone and patted the toddler on the head, "Now be good for the clone while I'm gone, I gotta kick the taste outta the bastard's mouth ok?"
"Da-bu!"
"Idiot, Bunshin's can't touch things!" Sakura called out, trying to make him look stupid, only to look stupid herself when the clone not only touched Baby Beel but picked him up so that he could watch while he ate.
Sakura face-palmed. She couldn't believe she was saying it, but she was getting tired of listening to her own voice.
Walking into the dirt ring, Naruto popped the bones in his neck, "I'm gonna enjoy making you squeal while I beat you," he hissed out, making everyone around them blink in shock.
Every shivered and flinched at the dark tone in the other Naruto's voice. Though Anko licked her lips, her eyes showing slight arousal. 'Damn the gaki's hot like that!' She thought shamelessly. Hey, sometimes a girl likes excitement!
He had never sounded so evil before… he was showing a darker side. Just goes to show that one didn't fuck with a father taking care of his kid.
Tsunade and Jiraiya nodded at that. It reminded them of how Minato acted whenever someone mocked Kushina when she was pregnant.
"Yeah right," Sasuke shot back, "Keep telling yourself that."
'Why do I get a feeling something bad's about to happen to me?' Sasuke thought, feeling a foreboding shiver go up his spine.
Iruka started the match, inwardly wondering if he made the right choice in pairing these two up for the sparing match.
Sasuke started advancing while Naruto stayed still, "I'll end it quick!" he smirked before throwing the first punch at Naruto's face.
Flesh and bone struck flesh and bone, making the other students blink.
Naruto had caught it with his left hand, grinning and showing pointed teeth, "Squeal!"
The Uchiha blinked before dropping to his knees. Grabbing at his wrist as his hand was crushed in an ungodly grip, he actually cried out before being caught in the face with a powerful right hook that sent him to the ground.
"Come on Uchiha, don't tell me that's all you got." he mocked, making the other teen growl as he stood. Patting his cheek, Naruto grinned, "Come on and I'll even let you get a free hit."
Pissed that he was being mocked, Sasuke tried to punch the teen in a rage only to stumble when Naruto leaned out of the way, leaving him open for a strike.
"Burying punch!" Naruto yelled, bringing down his fist and punching Sasuke hard enough in the back of the head to send his entire head down into the dirt, only stopping when his shoulders struck the ground.
"Hahaha, I can't believe you fell for that." Naruto mused coldly as Sasuke's body went limp, "Not so full of yourself anymore eh?"
"I… I don't believe it," Ino gaped as Naruto dusted himself off and walked away.
Sakura sputtered out denials that Naruto must've cheated somehow.
'Naruto… you really have grown,' Iruka thought as he watched Naruto pick up his son. He couldn't believe how much he had improved and changed, it seemed like just yesterday when Sasuke busted Naruto's nose two minutes into their first sparring match a couple years ago and now, he finally got his revenge like he said he would.
Everyone stood in shock at not just how easily beat , but also how cold he fought. They were unsure of how to react to this.
"My Kami…" Hiruzen exclaimed after watching Naruto make Sasuke imitate an ostrich, "At this rate he'll be stronger than Tsunade without using chakra!"
End of Chapter 8 of "Into the Edge of the Naruto-verse" and chapter 4 of "Father and Son".
Also, I've decided to add "Naruto the REAL Fifth Hokage" by Traban16 into the list. I thing everyone will enjoy that seeing that.
And just so you'd know, there isn't any bashing in this fic, meaning only bashing if the stories have them, not the viewing characters in general. I'm talking to the ones who hate Sakura. I've gotten some reviews on her, and all I've got to say is: you need help for your murder thoughts.
Any who, if you are waiting for more updates for my other fics, im sorry its taking so long. THIS one is probably the easiest for me to do.
I know how popular Ashurado no Kami is, and am working on it.
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Ja ne!
