WELCOME TO THE NEXT CHAPTER!
So sorry about that cliffhanger last chapter but I just had to end it there. I am trying to keep the chapters between 8k and 13k and I almost went over that time. Actually I'm not sorry cause that cliffy will keep you guys coming back for more so Narudevilfan your just going to have to deal with it, MUAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!
Now this will mostly be filler since the fight ended as will be the next chapter, but both are very important. So please read them both thoroughly.
Raiden: Alright kiddies! Time for story time with your favorite sexy librarian, MITARASHI ANKO! Anko if you would please get their attention and start.
Anko: No problem Rai-kun. LISTEN UP MAGGOTS I'M ABOUT TO START THE STORY! Now this is Chapter 10. titled
HOSPITALS, TRAINING AND MISSIONS!
At the Hospital.
Nurses were running frantic the moment Tsunade burst in with a group of jounin and two civilians behind her. In her arms was a bloody heap holding onto a metal rod like thing and she was screaming for nurses and doctors.
Hearing the ruckus outside their room Lee got up to check what was going. Opening his door, Lee sees a nurse running towards him "Excuse me nurse what is going on? There seems to be quite the commotion going on out here."
The nurse kept walking but yelled back at him as she ran to the ER "The Uzumaki clan head was just brought in by Tsunade and several others. He's in critical condition. I don't know anymore sorry!"
Lee ran inside and picked up Tenten "Lee what's going on! Why are you carrying me!"
"Naruto-kun is in trouble. It seems something happened and Tsunade-sama is treating him." said Lee as he dashed down the hall following the nurses making their way to Naruto.
The doors to the ER were closed but Lee and Tenten could still hear Tsunade yelling to fix certain things and what to leave be for now."Ahem" Lee turned to the location the sound came from and saw several jounin sitting in the waiting area as well as Hinata and Yakumo.
Among them sat Gai, Asuma, Ibiki, Anko, Kurenai, Kakashi, Yamato and Jiraiya "Gai-sensei what's going on? Why is Naruto in the ER?" asked Tenten as Lee sat her down across from their sensei next to the other girls.
"According to Yakumo and Hinata, he was attacked outside of the compound during a midnight walk by a member of the BuruKijuuki. They said he called himself the Manticore." answered Gai.
"Is he going to be alright sensei?" asked Lee.
Kakashi sighed "We don't know Lee. When we got there Naruto had just set off two of Tenten's special exploding kunai and he was at ground zero. Yamato grabbed him right as the blast went off, we were almost too late."
"Well then why is he in the ER? The Kyuubi should be healing him." argued Tenten.
"His injuries are from before the blast. Apparently the guy he fought pierced his shoulder and then cut him across the chest from shoulder to hip almost cutting him in two. After that he jumped in front of Yakumo to save her ans took another hit to the gut that barely missed his spinal cord." answered Kakashi.
"That still doesn't explain why he's in the ER!" yelled Tenten.
"Tenten calm down. The metal that cut him was from a Kekkei Genkai, the metal stops all healing from other Kekkei Genkai and apparently Bijuu from working. All he has till those wounds are healed are his human healing factor and the work down by Tsunade-sama, Shizune-san and the other doctors an nurses." said Gai.
Tenten started to cry "Where is he? WHERE IS THE BASTARD THAT DID THIS!"
Hinata and Yakumo moved to hug the girl "He's gone Tenten. Naruto-kun killed him to save us."
"Sensei how was he attacked?" asked lee taking a seat.
"We were told by Pakkun that he was under attack by a whole squad of ninja when apparently it was just the one man. Yakumo said that Naruto went for a walk and when he didn't come back they got worried and went to go search for him." Kakashi took a breath and continued.
"Well when they got there he had a spike of metal in his shoulder so they attacked the guy and freed Naruto. After that he took a blow for them and fell unconscious, later he woke up and took another blow for the girls and then blew the guy to hell with those kunai." finished Kakashi.
Lee nodded "How many did Naruto use?"
"Kunai?" asked Kakashi."I think Hinata said two."
Lee's eyes went wide "He used two!"
"Yeah. What's so bad about using two?" asked Kakashi.
"Tenten created those during our one month training to be used as building demolition explosives. One can take out a building the size of the Hokage tower. Two would take out the STADIUM!" Lee pointed at the girls and then at Yamato,"HOW ARE YOU THREE ALIVE!"
"Kid you should be quiet, you're in a hospital." said Asuma,"And you should remember that besides Kakashi and Itachi, Yamato is the strongest ANBU captain we had. And I don't think he let his skills slip."
"To answer your other question, Naruto created an earth wall to block most of the blast from harming the girls." said Yamato.
Lee thought about this for a moment before he sighed and leaned back against his seat and closed his eyes "Well Naruto-kun is too stubborn to die this early in his career. I doubt we will have much too worry about with Tsunade-sama healing him."
Jiraiya cocked an eyebrow hearing Lee say this "You have a lot of faith in him don't you?" this was said more of a statement than a question.
Before Lee could answer Tsunade burst through the ER doors with blood splattered on her face and chest "Jiraiya and anyone else that has B negative or O negative blood needs to get in here now!"
Jiraiya got up and was followed by Kurenai, Lee and Anko "Tsunade-sama what's going on?" asked Lee.
Shizune had set up cots for them to lie down and explained the situation while another nurse got the needles and pumps ready "Naruto-kun's blood type is B negative but that is a rare blood type here in Konoha so we don't have much in stock for when someone needs more."
"So the gaki is low on blood huh?" said Anko.
Shizune nodded "Yes he is. He lost quite a bit and is still losing more. So we need you to donate. We also need to know what your blood types are since it would take to long to look it up."
"I'm O negative." said Lee.
"As am I." answered Kurenai.
Anko spoke up "I'm the same as these two."
"Tsunade already knows I'm B negative." said Jiraiya.
Shizune wrote all of their info down as the nurses were hooking them up to extract the blood. After a few minutes Shizune came by and gave each of them blood pills and swapped out bags of blood. This happened several times in next few hours until Tsunade said they did not need anymore.
Many hours later Tsunade walked out of the ER and sat next to Jiraiya who was still awake. Everyone else had either gone home or was resting in Lee and Tenten's room waiting till they heard something.
"So how is he?" asked Jiraiya.
Tsunade sighed leaning back against her seat "Well, we managed to stabilize him. We repaired most of the damage and stitched him up so he's not gone bleed to death unless he pops his stitches."
Jiraiya let out a breath he did not know he was holding "That's good to hear. His parents are already gone beat the shit out us when we pass on, if we let him die I think they would come back from the dead to kill us just so they can beat us earlier."
Tsunade laughed sadly at that "So did the Kyuubi finally kick in to gear and start to help heal him?" asked Jiraiya.
Tsunade shook her head "No, we had to do it all ourselves. And because of that he's gonna have some real nasty scarring from all that damage."
Jiraiya chuckled "Scars build character. I use them as a constant reminder to get better and stronger so that I don't have as many."
"hmph," snorted Tsunade,"We need to get some sleep. Its been almost thirty hours since he got here and we need to be rested if he needs us again."
Jiraiya stood up and offered Tsunade a hand "Come on. Lets go find a room to sleep him close by."
Tsunade to his hand and glared at him "If you try anything.."
"Don't worry Hime, that is the farthest thing from my mind right now. Maybe once he's out of intensive care but not right now." said Jiraiya as he walked with Tsunade to an empty room.
Several days later Naruto finally woke up "Ugh, where the hell am I?"
"Your in the hospital."
Naruto followed the sound of the voice and saw Tsunade checking something "Do you remember how you got here at all?"
"The last thing I remember was stopping that guy from killing Yakumo-chan. After that it's all a blur." answered Naruto truthfully.
Tsunade sighed "Your lucky to be alive, if it wasn't for Jiraiya, Lee, Anko and Kurenai you would be dead."
"How did they save me I thought you were the medic-nin?" asked Naruto.
"Well you nearly bled to death and your blood type is extremely rare in Konoha so we ran out of our supply pretty quick trying to keep you alive long enough to close up your wounds. So we needed donors to help supply you. Jiraiya was the only that actually matched you exactly but the other three could donate since they were O negatives." answered Tsunade.
"Now You need your rest. Once the Kyuubi kicks in you'll be out of here in no time, but until then you have to stay here." as Tsunade turned to leave she tossed a medium sized scroll onto the bed,"Jiraiya wanted me to give that to you when you woke up. He's currently training some of your clansmen in Fuuinjutsu and he wanted you to get started once you could. Your friends will be able to visit once your out of critical care now get back to sleep."
Taking the advice of his doctor, Naruto got some rest. The following weeks went by rather slow for Naruto. Lee and Tenten were released and were continuing their Taijutsu training as well as their ninjutsu training.
From time to time they came to visit Naruto once he was out of intensive care. During his stay he did as Jiraiya had asked and followed through with what was in the scroll.
In the scroll was a test of sorts to see where exactly Naruto was when it came to Fuuinjutsu, which turns out he was rather gifted when it came to barrier seals, storage seals and blood seals but over all he was rather average and could not complete half of the seals that were in the scroll.
When Jiraiya got the scroll back he started sending shadow clones to teach Naruto daily. Other than Fuuinjutsu training Naruto had begun planning out his teams trip before they went off to train in Kumo.
Three months went by and Naruto was finally able to leave the hospital.
"So how are you feeling today Naruto-kun?" asked Shizune.
Naruto stood up and stretched as he got his clothes from Shizune "I'm feeling great Shizune! Staying in this hospital bed for so long has really worn me out. It's a good thing Tsunade has cleared me to go home, although I could have left a month ago."
Shizune sighed "Now Naruto-kun you know you couldn't have gone home. Your injuries only healed three weeks ago and you still have massive scaring. And with the Kyuubi not healing your wounds we wanted to be safe."
Naruto smiled brightly at the older woman "I appreciate it Shizune, and thank you for helping save my life."
Shizune smiled "Your welcome Naruto-kun. Just promise that you wont make it a habit okay?"
"I can't promise that, but I will promise that I'll do my best. After all I got at least two groups of shinobi coming for my head and I wont come back uninjured all the time. Besides you make it sound like you don't like coming and checking on me." said Naruto with a cheeky grin.
Blushing, Shizune ushered Naruto out the room grumbling about tiresome blonds. Walking out of the hospital Naruto made his way to the Hokage tower to ask the old man a few questions.
Once he was in the building Naruto picked up a scroll from the front desk that he was to pick up once he was out of the hospital. Sarutobi had informed him on meetings and had Yamato tell him what happened and what he thought on the matters.
Getting to the double doors that were the entrance to the Hokage's office Naruto pushed one open and quickly shut it as he entered.
"Hey old man, I got a few questions for ya!" said Naruto as he took a seat by an open window.
Looking up from his paperwork Sarutobi smiled seeing the blond boy finally out of the hospital "AH Naruto it's good to see you! I see they finally released you. Now what do I owe the pleasure?"
"Well I have a few questions that I wanted to ask." said Naruto.
"Ask away Naruto and I will do my best to answer." replied Sarutobi.
Naruto unsealed the lance that he had kept in his hand before the explosion and set it beside him "As you may know this is the weapon that nearly killed me. Now what I want to know is, are the spires that guy created on my land still there?"
Sarutobi nodded as he puffed on his pipe "Yes they are. I had ANBU check the area out once you were in the hospital. They said they were unharmed by the blast as was the mans body, or skeletal frame, but they are their."
"We found no traces of anyone else in the area though." finished Sarutobi as he looked over the report about the incident,"It says here that you used 'explosive kunai' to kill the target who's name we don't know yet."
"His name was Tetsuya, according to him he was formerly of the Kaguya clan. Hinata said his Kekkei Genkai was a mutation of theirs, he could still control his bones like that clan can but they turned into metal for some reason." explained Naruto,"And yeah I used special kunai that Tenten had made. Don't ask how to make them though cause even I don't know that and she wants to keep them a secret for the family."
"Well could you you at least tell me what they do?" asked Sarutobi.
Naruto nodded and pulled one out "Well think of it as an enhanced bomb tag. Put what sets it off is the ring here," Naruto point to the ring at the end of the kunai,"You just pull the ring and it goes off. You can delay the blast by turning the ring a few times, half a turn equals five seconds but if you pull the ring without turning it it goes off immediately. Which is what I did."
Sarutobi nearly dropped his pipe when Naruto told him what exactly happened. Sighing he took a long drag, got up and walked across the room to stand next to Naruto and froze for several awkward minutes.
Naruto began to lean slightly away from Sarutobi while poking his robes "Why are you frozen like that...your freaking me out?"
Naruto's only answer was Sarutobi's hand striking the back of his head sending him to meet Mr. Floor.
"If you EVER pull a stunt like that again I will have you chasing Tora for the rest of your shinobi career! DO YOU UNDERSTAND!" yelled Sarutobi.
Sitting back in his chair weekly Naruto rubbed his nose trying to reset it since the force of him hitting the ground via Sarutobi's slab broke his nose "Yeah no problem, just don't break my nose next time you wanna 'knock' some sense into me...OUCH!" Naruto finally got his nose reset so the Kyuubi could start to heal it.
After his meeting with the Hokage, Naruto got a quick bite to eat then went to go searching for some people. Finding Kiba and Shino he asked where he could find their sensei, Kurenai.
The two told him that Kurenai along with all the jounin sensei's from their year had gone to his home today. When asked why, their reply was to say that they were not invited since neither of the two were allowed by anyone in the compound.
"Hinata said since you are the only one besides your brothers that can give people permission that we were not allowed in." said Shino.
"YEAH! We were also told you didn't trust us man!" barked Kiba,"What's the deal Naruto!"
Naruto sighed "Sorry you guys, I just don't. I didn't really talk to either of you in the academy and vica versa. Kiba you always ridiculed me since I had the lowest scores in the academy and you Shino never said a word to me friendly or otherwise. What reason do I have to trust either of you?"
"WERE COMRADES! WERE SUPPOSED TO TRUST ONE ANOTHER!" yelled Kiba quite angry.
Shino nodded his head "I agree with Kiba, Naruto. We are fellow genin of Konoha we should be able to trust one another."
"Actually Shino, I along with my two teammates were promoted to chunin. Also since as long as I can remember my 'comrades' have tried to kill me on several occasions." said Naruto,"Two of the Sannin have broke into my clan home on more than one occasion and disabled its security measures twice resulting in several deaths of my clansmen the last time this was done. And to this day the civilian council tries to have me executed, even going so as to suggest it when I'm in the council chambers."
"Now tell me, why should I trust you?" Naruto asked taking a few breaths.
Both boys hung their heads down after Naruto's rant not being able to come up with an answer.
"Maybe one day I could trust you or anyone besides my family, but you will have to show why and earn it." saying his parting words Naruto left to his home.
An hour of walking later Naruto arrived at his home and was confused to find a lot of people there.
"Ummmm what are all of you doing here?" asked Naruto a little pissed.
At this point everyone turned around and looked at Naruto standing at the new gateway of the Uzumaki clan. It had changed from the regular entrance that was there a month ago before his injuries. Now it was a Large Gate way with doors with the symbols of the Uzumaki and Kurama clans of it.
There in front of him were the members of team ten, team seven, and the genin's senseis. Sitting down at tables constructed by Yamato were the elder council of Konoha, seated next to a bandaged Sasuke and Neji, who had members of the main and branch families of the Hyuuga. The Hyuuga were led by Hiashi.
Across from them were Unkai, Kakashi, Yamato, Tsunade and Jiraiya. His team along with his fiancé's were there as well.
Unkai was the first to respond to "Oh Naruto, you're here. We all thought you would not be out of the hospital for at least another week."
Naruto moved up to the table that was in the middle of the compound "I'm still a bit sore but all the wounds are completely healed, despite the scars. But you haven't answered my original question." pointing to the non-clan members and friend/ally side of the table,"Why are you all here?"
Homura responded for the council side "We are here to speak with Jiraiya and Tsunade as well as speaking to Unkai about having young Tenten create a hand for Sasuke-san so he can continue his career as a shinobi."
Naruto snorted but turned to Hiashi "We are here to talk about the happenings in the exams and about compensation to our clan."
Stomping the ground, Naruto formed a chair of earth for him to sit on "Tenten, Hinata, Yakumo it is good to see you three outside of the Hospital again." the girls smiled,"After this I will speak to the three of you more privately but now it seems there are some crazy ass politicians with a wild hair up their asses trying to do things involving my clan with me out of commission."
Unkai again spoke before anyone else "There was nothing going on here Naruto just talking. I would not have made any decision without speaking with you first."
"Thank you Unkai, I appreciate that." Naruto smiled at the older Kurama head,"Now that I am here though I would like to be apart of my clans business."
Unkai nodded and passed Naruto some paperwork that had been handed to him by the two parties here. Reading through them briefly Naruto got a good idea of what was going on.
Naruto frowned at what he was reading. Some of what he saw he had already agreed to but it turns out the council had tried to pull a fast one on him when it came to Sasuke's new hand. When it came to the Hyuuga, all they wanted was reparations for him blinding Neji.
Naruto laughed "This whole meeting is a farce, Sasuke the council has already agreed to commissioning Tenten to make your new hand for you." Sasuke smiled briefly before Naruto finished,"But you will be paying her for her time and effort. Also there will be seals placed on the hand as a precaution."
Sasuke sneered "What kind of seals?"
"As I do not trust you, there will be a tracking seal placed on the hand so that at anytime if you decide to leave Konoha with out permission from the current Hokage all ANBU will be notified of your location and will intercept immediately. This is to make sure that if you do leave our enemies don't gain the Sharingan." explained Naruto.
"Fine, what else?" asked Sasuke.
Naruto smiled knowing that this was pissing Sasuke off "Also as a precaution another seal will be placed in case you get too far from Konoha without the Hokage's permission, I will not tell you what it is or how it will activate or the distance at which it will activate but know that if it is tampered with or Tenten her self does not remove the hand. You wont like what happens."
"The hand will be made out of an Iron-wood compound that Yamato here has created as the base material and chakra conductive metal will be used so that you can still mold chakra using handseals and also channel chakra to your fist. As a bonus I will place a storage seal on the bottom portion of the wrist to hold shuriken and kunai for easy access. Any and all other mods to your new hand will cost more."
Sasuke did not like that there would be a seal that he was not allowed to know about, but he resigned himself to shutting up and allowing it to happen. He could always find a seals expert to fix that problem or have Kakashi look at it."Alright, so what is this going to cost me?"
"First it will cost you a hundred thousand ryo for the hand. Any extra seals will cost fifty thousand. Weapons and traps will cost you ten thousand. Secondly you will have the tracking seal placed on your body as well just in case you find away around the hand. And lastly you will handover any scrolls you have that tell how to counter the sharingan." finished Naruto.
"WHAT! I'M AN UCHIHA! I WILL NEVER HAND OVER ANY CLAN SCROLLS TO YOU! YOU SHOULD FEEL HONORED THAT YOUR MAKING A HAND FOR ME AND PAY ME!" roared Sasuke.
Naruto sat there with a cold expression for a few moments before standing up, walking over behind Sasuke then suddenly grabbed Sasuke by the hair and slammed his face through the table. "Listen to me you little prick, I am selling a clan secret to you so that you my continue your career as an shinobi. Without me you become breeding stock for the council so they can have their own little Uchiha's as weapons."
"So you WILL pay what I asked and you WILL submit to the sealing! If not then no new hand and no shinobi career, which also means the Uchiha clan is no more." Naruto walked back to his seat and sat down," And if you think I'm bluffing you can go ahead and ask the elder council and Hiashi here about this little law Konoha has. Section five, Article II, Amendment thirteen of Konoha Clan Laws: Any surviving member of an all but extinct clan that is not, or can no longer continue duties as a shinobi must produce an heir within a year to become a shinobi. If the Survivor does not produce an heir or continue work as a shinobi they for go their clan rights and must surrender any and all scrolls involving clan jutsu to the Hokage to be placed in the village archives, library, and /or forbidden scroll."
Sasuke finally sat up out of the hole with a pleading face frowning deeply and having a hard time deciding on who to glare at: Naruto for injuring him or the elder council for not telling him about that particular law "Fine, I agree to your terms."
Naruto smirked "Good, now leave. I will have someone come get you once Tenten is ready to start making your new hand." Sasuke got up and left leaving the elders and Hiashi still there,"Once I am finished with the Hyuuga clan head and his council I will leave you three to speak with Tsunade and Jiraiya."
The elders nodded and drank from the tea that had been placed in front of them.
Naruto then turned his attention to the Hyuuga that were sitting next to Sasuke "I read here in these papers that you are seeking monetary compensation for what happened in the finals of the chunin exams, is this true Hiashi-san?"
"It is Uzumaki-san. We the Hyuuga believe that the actions taken against my nephew were unwarranted and deserve compensation." answered Hiashi.
"And what actions do you believe were unwarranted in a tournament that is a live combat exercise were killing is not forbidden just frowned upon?" questioned Naruto,"I did not take Neji-teme's life nor is he unable to function in normal everyday life, he is perfectly able to continue his life as a civilian although he will need extra training to deal with his handicap."
You could hear Neji seething at how casually Naruto talked about taking away his vision "You took away my sight all for beating that worthless, no talent ex-Hyuuga, Hinata! I deserve compensation!"
Naruto's killer intent spike and was directed at the entirety of the Hyuuga present "You are lucky to be ALIVE! It was well within my rights and competition rules to end your sorry existence right there in the arena in front of the entire village! And if it wasn't for Hinata you WOULD be dead! She asked me not to kill you, she wanted to save her cousins life, why she wanted that I will never know because it is painfully obvious that you are a disgrace to the Hyuuga and your parents."
"Now see here!" yelled Hiashi standing up.
"NO! He will hear this!" said Naruto interrupting Hiashi,"Neji the way I fight I show no mercy. If I fight you and even have the slightest reason to end you, I end you. But because I love Hinata and respect her opinion so much I went against my own desires, although if you wish I could always reconsider my choice in the matter and kill you here and now."
"But seeing as you want compensation for the lose of your shinobi career, then I want them as well." said Naruto with a smirk.
If Neji still had eyes his would have gone wide with the rest of the Hyuuga "WHAT!" what the collaborative disgruntled yelp of the Hyuuga clan.
Naruto laughed as well as Jiraiya since he got where Naruto was going "I see what you're doing kid and I gotta say I'm impressed."
"Thank you Jiraiya. Now what I want compensation for is for Neji ending Hinata's shinobi career." explained Naruto.
Neji scowled "What do you mean? I did not end her career!"
Naruto looked over at Hinata "Hinata-chan, during the prelims did you or did you not fight your cousin Neji?"
Hinata replied with a "Hai."
"And Neji, before the match was called even though Hinata had passed out momentarily from the damage you received, didn't you give her one last strike?" asked Naruto.
"Yes but I don't..." Neji was again interrupted.
"Did you know Neji that that last strike hit near her heart causing extensive damage to the heart leaving it weak enough that she had to end her career? Because of that one strike and you hating the main branch so much because of your fathers death you ended her career." said Naruto.
Neji again scowled, this time with his head hung low "So if you want compensation Neji, So do I."
"I believe that wont be necessary Naruto-san. I feel it would be beneficial to both our clans if this subject is dropped." said Hiashi.
Naruto smiled "Good. Then you can show yourselves out while I take my leave as well."
Naruto rose with Hiashi and his clan and bowed to one another. After the Hyuuga left Naruto sat back down and sighed "Man, I was hoping to avoid shit like this for a while after getting out of the hospital."
"Its good to see you out of there Naruto. Though I would suggest getting a change of clothes seeing as those are the same clothes you wore during your fight and the only thing left is the pants pretty much." greeted Yamato who got nods of agreement from just about everybody.
"I don't know, I think a few kunoichi might not like that seeing as they are getting a free show." replied Kakashi with a laugh.
Looking around Naruto did indeed see heavy blushes coming from his fiancé's and bloody noses from Tsunade, Ino and Kurenai. Anko though was licking her lips and looking like she was ready to pounce. All the men saw this and while most laughed some cursed about damn blonds where as Jiraiya giggled perversely and scribbled in his note pad.
Naruto blushed slightly and henged his destroyed clothes into some simple clothes so he was not showing everyone around him what he had to offer the ladies. But every time he brought up the henge it faded away. Looking around he saw Kurenai and Anko holding a ram seal smiling pervertedly.
Sighing, he performed a quick shunshin and came back a minute later in simple black shorts and white muscle shirt "Alright now if everyone is done gawking at me I just need to ask a few questions."
Holding up his fingers Naruto asked his questions "One, Have Tsunade and Jiraiya started their training with everyone like I ask? Two: Have you been opening the scroll and having my clones teach Taijutsu every day? And Three, this is more a statement then a question but whatever: Yamato-nii-san, Kakashi-nii-san, could you two do me a favor? I need you two while I'm talking with my Hime's to carve out a storage unit next to the clan armory."
"In this order; Yes, Yes, and sure but why?" answered Kakashi.
Naruto smiled brightly like he did when he was younger "Well you know all that metal in the forest up top? Well its our property now so I had Sarutobi get some ANBU to get all of it and deliver it here sometime tomorrow so we need a place to put it."
"Naruto-kun why do you want it? That man almost killed you with it." said Hinata with a depressed look.
"I know Hime, but I figure since that metal has the ability to negate my healing factor why not turn those into weapons our clan can use? If we ever face someone and they get away they can be healed, but if we injure them with a kunai or shuriken made of that stuff we wont have to worry about it." explained Naruto,"I don't like it either but if it will give our clan a heads up on any enemy then I will do what I must to make sure we are safe. It's better we have it then Danzo's ROOT or Sound any way right?"
Everyone nodded their heads, some a little sadder than others, but they all agreed.
Walking over to his girls Naruto wrapped them up in a big hug "Now I believe I have a private meeting with you three that we are a few weeks late for." Naruto gave a perverted smirk to his ladies and shunshined them all to their bed room.
Several men muttered a "lucky bastard" while on the other hand the women muttered "lucky bitches".
Once everyone settled down Koharu and Homura got down to business "Jiraiya, Tsunade we wanted to speak with you both about something that needs to be done." spoke Homura.
"Yes, what is that?" asked Tsunade.
Koharu sipped her tea "Sarutobi is getting on in years and is well passed his prime. We believe it is time for him to, once again, choose a successor."
"And we feel that it should be one of you that takes the mantle." finished Homura,"We know that Orochimaru was here during the exams and that nothing was done to apprehend him. This alone shows Sarutobi's weakness and lack of ability to do what must be done."
Jiraiya sneered "Why would we want this job? Because of this damn village our godson hates us and sees us as nothing more than stepping stones for his clan! And because of them he was and still is hate for something beyond his control, so tell me. What POSSIBLE reason would there be for Tsunade or myself to become Hokage other than to have the two of you along with the rest of the civilians executed for breaking the Thirds law multiple times which is the ONLY thing Sarutobi-sensei was too weak to do?"
"Well Jiraiya not only could we do that, we could also spend a bit more time with Naruto even if it would be forced. I could initiate that med-nin program that I wanted to years ago and you could further advance or sealing and spying skills. Too many shinobi these days rely too heavily of flashy jutsu and big shows of force. We could turn this village back to what my great-grandfather and great-uncle actually wanted built." said Tsunade.
Homura and Koharu paled, were these two actually implying that they would kill them and others that had gone against Naruto?"Now hold on just because you are Hokage doesn't mean you can do all of that, you have to bring this all to the council for consideration first and then we would vote on it." said Koharu.
Jiraiya laughed "You seem to forget something though."
"Oh? And what may I ask did I forget Jiraiya?" asked Koharu.
"You forgot that Konoha is a military dictatorship. The council is just around simple to do just that: Council. The Hokage has final say in everything, all the council is supposed to do is advise and inform the Hokage in what is happening in respective clans and what happens around the village pertaining to the civilians and economy." Jiraiya was grinning like a madman making the two elders sweet."Oh and when the new Hokage enters office he is allowed to remove the former advisers to the previous Hokage and implant their own advisers. That would mean if either of us excepts, you two are history."
Up stares in the master bedroom with Naruto.
Naruto appeared within his room along with Tenten, Hinata and Yakumo, letting them go he set them all on the bed and pulled up a chair. He knew that the girls would want to talk to him and were pretty pissed at what happened when he almost blew himself to kingdom come.
"Alright first I just wanted to say I'm sorry. What I did was dumb and I know it hurt you three a lot. What I did was selfish and hurt you more than anything to see me like that. Back in Nami I saw Tenten almost die in front of me and I never wanted to see that happen again but what I did put all three of you in the same situation that I was in months ago." apologized Naruto hanging his head low in shame.
Naruto expected swearing, yelling, a beating, several other things to happen that did not occur. What happened was each girl lunged at him and tackled him off his chair crying.
Pulling himself together after the shock of getting tackled, Naruto hugged his crying girls and rubbed their backs in an attempt to calm them down "Shhhh, its okay, I'm right here. Every thing's gonna be alright."
Hinata was the first to lift her head to look at Naruto "We thought we lost you, we thought we would have to go back to the way things were before... before you helped us and loved us."
"If it wasn't for you saving us from our loneliness I don't know where we would be right now." cried Yakumo.
Tenten squeezed his chest tighter "If you hadn't have come along I might have died on the Nami mission or probably still would have been an orphan that was hooked on emotionless Hyuuga."
Naruto let a tear fall down his cheek as he held his girls lovingly "I am so SO sorry I worried you my Hime's. I shouldn't have tried to take that bastard with me... I just couldn't let him harm any of my precious people. So let me try and make it up to you three."
All three girls looked up at Naruto with an anxious look "How about I give you each your own Naruto tonight and you can do what ever you want with us?"
"Which one gets the real you and the other gets the clones?" asked Yakumo.
Naruto smirked "Well since they are blood clones you wont be able to tell. So what do you think?"
Tenten turned to the others "Well I think we should do it."
Hinata nodded nervously "I agree."
Yakumo was a bit hesitant but agreed as well "Good. Now pass me that scroll on the desk would you Hinata-hime?"
Hinata blushed then did what was asked. After being given the scroll Naruto opened it and sent chakra to the first seal then out popped two blood clones.
Getting up Naruto stood beside the two clones and they began running around the girls in circles "Alright which one of us is the real us?" asked all the 'Narutos' at once.
Hinata activated her Byakugan but could not tell the difference between three "I can't tell which is which..."
"Good." said one Naruto,"Then when we are together you can assume that you are with the real one." said the other."Also since blood clones have the same memory ability as shadow clones we will have all the memories from each night so neither of you can trick us to figure out who had the real us." explained the last Naruto.
Each Naruto grabbed a girl and disappeared into the house searching for an empty guest room. One Naruto however stayed in the master suit with Yakumo."So Yakumo-hime, you have me from now till the time we wake up tomorrow all to yourself. So what to you want to do?" asked Naruto with a mischievous grin.
Anko: And that's it for this chapter. Shorter than the last few but I think I got done what I wanted. Glad you all decided to read and I hope you review.
Raiden: Thank you Anko, its been a pleasure as usual. Well kiddies I hope you liked it. Now I gotta start work on the next one. Also if you haven't read the first chapter of Team Hood yet please do.