Glory of The Prince
Naruto Fan Fiction
Standard disclaimer applies, the only thing I own here is my ideas, not Naruto, I don't own historical figures, Sparta or Pankration.
Italics are dreams, thoughts or flashbacks.
Bold is Kyuubi or some other supernatural force speaking
Chapter Ten: Survivors
Three Years had passed since Naruto had become Hokage, currently he sat in his office, reading through his current papers, with the help of his shadow clones he'd kept way up on paperwork to the point where he'd actually run out of stuff sometimes, today he was thinking, he'd been dating Sakura for three years, he loved her and he wanted to propose, but how to go about it?
"Boy, just straight out do it. Get her a ring and do the whole kneeling thing." Kyuubi offered his advice.
"But where to do it? Should I take her to dinner? Show her some secret place? What?"
"Dinner's the classiest way to do it" Jiraiya smiled as he climbed into the window. "So you're finally dropping the question huh kid? Your dad was freaking out the same way"
"I'll do dinner then"
Naruto walked through the village, seeing all he'd changed, Spartans walked among shinobi, children battled on front yards with practice swords and wooden shields. He'd made the Greek fighting system part of the curriculum at the academy, he'd made shields that were gauntlets until they had chakra channeled through them, they then turned into full blown Hoplons.
The emblem was changed so that the symbol was inside the symbol Lambda. Naruto found a group of kids bullying one smaller child, he walked over there to break it up.
"What's the problem here?" Naruto asked, four children turned to look at the Hokage.
"This girl's a freak, look at her eyes" The girl looked up at him. She had crimson red eyes, they had three marks like small flames surrounding her pupil.
"Who's son are you girl?" Naruto picked him up.
"My daddy was Uchiha Sasuke, but he's been gone for a long time, my mom left me when I was born and I've been living in a town in fire country outside of here" the girl appeared to be about five.
"You're going to come live with me now, how did you get in here?"
"I snuck in with a shipment of weapons, I wanted to find my daddy" the child looked up, her eyes, even at five were full of pain. "Do you know where he is?"
"He betrayed us long ago" Naruto sighed "He's far away, come on, let me get you some food and clean you up, you want to help me out?"
"Yeah!! Can I have some ramen please? They wouldn't let me have it at the orphanage but it's my favorite." She grinned.
"Yeah, it's my favorite too! I know a really good place" Naruto took the child to his once most frequented place.
"Ayame! I need two bowls of Miso Ramen" Naruto said as he sat down at the bar. Teuchi had passed away a few years ago and Ayame had since taken over.
"Okay, two coming up" Ayame began cooking the noodles and the broth. "Who's kid is this?" She asked.
"Sasuke's apparently he got started on his clan revival about five years ago. She's been in an orphanage since then, her mother is gone. I'm going to take her in" Naruto smiled at the small child.
"What's your name little girl?"
"Uchiha Kohana" She grinned.
"Well my name is Ichiraku Ayame, I'm pleased to meet you, when your father was younger, this one here and your dad would come here a lot" Ayame smiled at the girl. She then handed her the finished bowl of ramen. She handed Naruto his as well, they broke their chopsticks and began eating.
They finished eating and then headed back to the Namikaze-Uzumaki home, Naruto walked in and brought the young Kohana in, everyone looked at the small girl.
"Naruto who is this?" Sakura asked, she then saw Kohana's eyes "Is this who's daughter I think it is?" Naruto nodded.
"Yes, it's Sasuke's daughter, Kohana, meet Sasuke's other teammate, Haruno Sakura" Naruto introduced the girl, Sakura smiled and knelt to her level.
"Hi, I'm Sakura, welcome to our household. This is Ichigo, Naruto's younger brother, and Yukiha, his mother." They both greeted her and then Naruto spoke up again.
"Sakura, I was wondering if you could clean her up and put her in a bed?" Sakura looked at him and then smiled.
"Sure, I'll do it. I'm sure you've already fed her, are you hungry?"
"mmm… I could eat" Naruto unbuttoned his cloak and began removing his armor he still wore under his cloak that now bore the symbol of Fire, it was also on the front of his armor. He unbuckled the armor and put it on his stand, he put the groin protector there too, as well as his gauntlets and greaves. He placed his sword there too, leaving a very basic assortment of clothing and his knives. He sat down with his family and began to converse about the day. Sakura came out an hour or so later and asked Naruto out onto the porch.
"Naruto, you brought an Uchiha into our house, every single Uchiha you've ever known has tried to kill you." she was clearly angry.
"This is a five year old girl, who has lived the same life as me, do you know what it's like having no family at five years old and having to sneak and steal every meal? How about when everyone beats and torments you for simply existing? No? Okay then how about always being told you'll never live up to your dreams and the girl you loved always telling you to screw off? When she asked me if I knew where Sasuke was, it tore my heart in two to know that I struck the killing blow, that I watched in satisfaction as his life force bled from his body." Naruto stood there, his blue eyes full of anger at his resurfaced memories. He turned. " I was going to propose to you tonight, but if you're going to be full of this bigotry then perhaps I'll reconsider, I have NEVER ONCE tolerated it in my life, you're one of the only remaining people who understand that." He walked inside, grabbed his cloak and walked off his porch and into the night.
"Where are you going?" Sakura asked, tears beginning to well in her eyes.
"Why should it concern a shinobi where her Hokage goes. You report for your mission tomorrow morning at seven a.m. be there on time" Naruto walked off.
He sat atop his father's monument, staring over his nation, he had his dream, to become Hokage, but it was strange, he felt terrible right now, he'd never snapped at Sakura that way, never at anyone he cared for.
"You're losing the edge you had Boy, careful, I may sneak out and terrorize your village again." Kyuubi laughed.
"You joke of that and I'll run myself through and take you right into hell with me. Naruto was rather calm, he tensed only when he felt a presence behind him, h stood and his spear was drawn immediately. "Who goes there?" Naruto held up his spear. A cloaked figure came from the shadow of the tree line and approached him.
"A war approaches my king" The man wore a black cloak and no armor of any sort"
"What do you speak of?"
"I speak of an attack on Konoha, One of a magnitude that will shake the city to the ground. The army moves like ghosts and leaves nothing in their way living. You must beware" The man said.
"How do you know this?"
"I was one of them, they take the souls of the men in this army and teach them to be unstoppable. I escaped and came to warn you of them, they've heard of your power and come from far north of Gokuni's boarders, you must prepare for this." With that, the man was gone, as if he was never there. Naruto stood there atop the mountain where he could see his whole village.
"I will not let them burn father, you overcame Kyuubi in one way, I will destroy this army with my own. And you'll show me the way. I know you will." Naruto said, the Hokage was then swept with a wave of guilt, it was only nine, maybe he could fix the problem…
Sakura was sitting in her room sobbing, never had she seen Naruto so angry at her. But it did make her realize what she had said, and frankly she felt horrible for it. Why in the world would a little girl try to kill Naruto? Would it even be possible? Naruto would wake at the smallest and quietest sound, she had to be absolutely silent when leaving their room in the morning. Several times he would wake violently and she had to dodge anything that came her way.
She was snapped out of her zoning out when Naruto knocked at the door, she let him in, he stood with both hands under his cloak, she suspected something when she noticed that.
"Naruto…" She began, but he interrupted her, with her own sentence.
"Sakura I'm sorry I snapped at you, it's just I don't want Kohana to grow up like I did." Naruto turned and faced her.
"I should apologize, I was thinking irrationally, why would Kohana be here to kill you, you took her off the streets and brought her into our home, how can I make it up to you?" Naruto smiled.
"Well, there was one thing I was thinking…" He began
"What was that?" she raised her eyebrows. He pulled a small box from under his cloak and opened it to reveal a diamond and emerald ring.
"Marry me?" Naruto asked. Never once in her life had her mind gone out the window so quickly, she tried to form the word yes, but nothing happened. "Sakura?" Naruto looked up, worried when he saw tears. He then felt himself pushed onto the bed and his love atop him.
"Why even ask? Of course I will" She then placed a kiss on his lips, the night began there…
-three months pass-
Naruto had long since given up communicating with Sakura when she planned for the wedding, when she was planning, she was oblivious to everything that happened around them. Naruto paced about his office, he was thinking of the words the man had said to him, he began setting up more wall guards, he sent patrols up north almost daily and had them report on anything that even remotely suspicious. Some called him paranoid, but he needed to prepare. He also had the upcoming Chunnin exams to worry about, Suna and Konoha had worked together on planning this one. Gaara and Temari would come to the village while Kankuro would serve as the temporary sit in. Shikamaru heard of this and immediately went pale, Temari would surely be troublesome again.
"Shikamaru, you're right, this is troublesome" Naruto sighed and sat in his chair, to think of the imminent stress that was to continue piling up.
Far up north in the mountains, men gathered, prepared for battle, their leader stood over the village, smiling as his soldiers prepared for battle.
"SOLDIERS! WE PREPARE FOR BATTLE! WE WILL ANNHIALATE THE SPARTANS AND KONOHA IN ONE FELL SWOOP!" The man shaped entity stood as his soldiers shouted battle cries.
-Chapter Ten: End-