Hello everyone! Renegadeofficer89 here with another chapter of A Loving Heart, A Body of Steel, delayed due to Dead Space 3, me digging up some old games, my massive anime backlogs, helping my dad with his business, friends' weddings among others. Believe me, I typed this every moment I can; in the train, in my friend's car, before I sleep, during my travels, during family outings, and a lot of other moments. Yet it didn't seem to come fast enough. Anyway, my comment on Naruto 620:
Well, for you Sasuke-helps-the-Alliance-in-war fans, guess what? Your wish *might* come true! If Kishi decides to do so. Personally, for me, Sasuke's a prick, and more than deserves to die. But that's just me.
Welp, enough of a rant. Also, for those who said that my last chapter sucked, I am sorry for that. I just hoped that I can do better for this chapter and the next, and the next. Enough of that! Go ahead and read!
CHAPTER 9: PEOPLE, MISSIONS AND THE COUNCIL! Uploaded 16/02/2013.
-CHAPTER START-
The next morning after the reveal, Naruto and his family had a nice but simple breakfast of fried fish with miso soup and rice, though at a rate where normal people would've keeled over and died, their stomach exploding from the sheer quantity of food consumed. Hinata and Kurumi ate normally though, their normal human body (or close to a normal human body for Kurumi) unable to consume such large amounts of food. While Naruto and Kushina were gorging themselves in breakfast, Kurumi asked Naruto. "So, Naru-koi, do you have any plans on how to take missions? I mean, all of you are extremely skilled. Performing D-ranks are nothing but a waste of energy."
Pausing his gluttonous eating of the breakfast, he looked towards Kurumi before answering. "Well, I planned to just march into the mission office with Anko and have Anko take all available D-ranks and use Shadow Clones to perform them. The next day, we can take C-ranks already, and maybe I can persuade the old man to give us B-ranks early. Nice plan, isn't it?"
"Will Hiruzen allow that be done?"
"Well, the village has a huge population, and with that, a massive number of D-ranks, so much so that the available genins are unable to perform all of them, causing a massive backlog of D-ranks. If we were to do that, we can solve that backlog problem in one fell swoop. The old man's going to be happy, no questions."
Kurumi just sighed. "Well, let's just hope that it's going to be true. Now, where's Anko?"
And like a true ghost, appearing when asked about, Anko's chakra signature appeared in front of the gates requesting entry, though a lot of other much lesser chakra signatures were also present. Feeling confused at this, Kurumi stood up and headed towards the front gates, passing her garden which a Shadow Clone of hers is tending right now before reaching the 10 feet tall gate, attached to the 10 feet tall walls covering the compound. Holding a hand towards it while being watched by the rest of her family members who were also confused at the chakra signatures, she pushed the door open.
The sight that they all saw behind the gate will be something that the family will never forget.
Anko was surrounded by civilians, by people of varying age and sizes of both genders, being mobbed due to her close association to the Uzumaki-Namikazes. Kurumi looked towards Anko's face, and sure enough, her expression shows that she was doing her best to hold back her temper and not smashing the faces of these people on the ground for daring to mob both her and the house of her saviours. But at one point, she felt that someone's hand brushes over her boobs, causing her face to become red and her temper to blow.
She was about to lift her hand up to punch the asshole that tried copping a feel of her body when a massive wave of KI came from Kurumi, who was walking slowly towards the people, causing them to stagger backwards while letting Anko breath out a sigh of relief. As Anko went to Naruto and his family to get her so-called students, Kurumi speaks to the people, her tone icy cold and promising a huge pain with a wrong answer. "All of you. Why are you here? You came here in the early morning, bothering my family member and one of my only friends within this town. Tell me this: Why?"
The people cowered behind everyone else and most did not dare to even talk to her since they knew that this beautiful redhead in front of them is a demon, the Kyuubi herself, in the flesh, in fact! Looking at the terrified face that some of the member of the rabble showed, Kurumi sighed, before saying, "I know that you all know that I am the Kyuubi. In fact, I will not deny that. But as I said yesterday, I am NOT the bloodthirsty demon that you think I am. A demon, maybe, but bloodthirsty I am not. I will not eat you or kill you just for bothering my home, though I will chase you out of the compound, using force if necessary. Now. Tell me, why are all of you here? Is it to take revenge on your loved ones? Or is it to ask some questions to me? Or all of you just planned to visit us today?"
In fear so palpable that it seems visible, a man came out from the gathering and tried to speak, but before he could do so, the sound of people being shoved aside were heard, and from the crowd, a bunch of people came out carrying knives and machetes, screaming "Die demon!" or just screaming incoherent battle cries before rushing towards Kurumi, some of them had tear tracks down their face, probably remembering their long dead family members, died within Kurumi's forced attack on Konoha. Looking at the charging villagers, Kurumi just sighed, before she disappears from sight.
The next thing that anyone can remember is that all of the villagers are on the ground, their charge halted in their tracks with Kurumi standing in front of them while looking down towards the villagers. Looking back at the gathering, she said. "Okay. These guys have already 'said' their piece. What about the rest of you?"
The spokesman, already fearing this demon in human form, became even more afraid watching this display of skill from Kurumi and shook harder and looks like he's about to piss in fear, up to the point where the only thing he could say were "I-I-I, I mean, w-w-w-w..."
A vein on Kurumi's head popped. "Oh, for god's sake, just say it!" she snapped towards the spokesman.
The man, and everyone around him instantly jumped in fright before the spokesman, nervous sweat dripping on his face, said quickly. "Wejustwanttomeetyou! Pleasedon'tkillme!" before cowering behind the body of a woman standing beside him, not daring to see the response of Kurumi. The woman then stiffens up, her body tense.
Kurumi just sighs, before addressing the crowd. "Alright. Also, I won't kill you." She said, referring to the original spokesman. "I have no reason to. Anyway," She said, referring back to the crowd, "I am Uzumaki-Namikaze Kurumi, also known as the Kyuubi in human form. Nice to meet you, but I suppose that isn't technically true when all of you are still afraid of me like I'm going to eat you. Relax. As I said, I won't."
"But you attacked Konoha before! What makes Hokage-sama so sure that you won't attack us again?! We have no guarantees!" the voice of a woman cried out from the back.
Kurumi sighed. "Well, if that's the only thing that you're afraid of, don't worry. My husband will stop me if I ever were to be controlled again by anyone else. Now, anything else?" She said while waving her hand towards the gathering of people, trying to coerce any further questioning from the people. Luckily, or unluckily, a woman came up front to ask her question. "Kurumi-san, I-I mean, we, can we ask you a couple of questions regarding yourself? I mean, you promised not to attack right? So, will you be angry if we were to ask you a couple of questions? I mean, the Yondaime's son appears out of nowhere with a wife, and the wife is the bijuu sealed within him, I'm sure a lot of questions are going to be asked. Can we? I mean, it's not every day someone can claim to see a bijuu in human form, so some of the more curious ones among us are going to ask something. Is that fine?" the woman said, her confidence rising with every word that she spoke.
Hearing this, Kurumi placed a finger on her chin and thought for a bit. "These people wanted to know more about me. Hmm... As long as they didn't ask questions too private, I don't think that's too bad. Might even be able to reverse the opinion of the people about us. Also, I spotted a couple of Uchihas here. Wonder what they want. Maybe clarification on Madara controlling me? Well, no harm done in answering. I'll agree then." She then nods to herself before facing the crowd. "Alright, I accept. But first, let me send my husband, our daughter and my co-matriarch away first." She turns around and heads towards where Naruto and the rest are standing before going straight to Naruto and giving him a light kiss on the cheek. "Go ahead. I'll entertain them here."
Naruto stared at her. "You're taking them into the house?"
Kurumi nodded. "I'll have henged clones watching out for any deviants. They just want to ask questions anyway. What's wrong in doing that?"
"Nothing my love. Alright. We're going now. See you in the afternoon during the council meeting." Naruto kissed her in the forehead as well before leaving to the Missions room to receive his missions with Hinata, Kushina and Anko following him, while Kurumi went back to the people before speaking to them. "Alright. My husband agrees, so follow me."
Kurumi then leads them into the Uzumaki-Namikaze clan compound, showing the beautiful garden at the middle of the compound. The housewives and flower lovers within the rabble immediately "Oooohh"ed in awe at the beautiful garden. They immediately ran towards the garden, sniffing the flowers, touching them and some even tried picking them. Kurumi then said, "Don't pick the flowers please." Causing the ones who were about to pick a flower or two to let go of their flowers like they're molten steel from hell.
A housewife close by then asked, "Kurumi-san, did you do all this?"
"If by do you mean took care of these flowers, yes I am." Kurumi said, nodding in approval of the lady's question. Some of the housewives around her then gained a glassy look in her eyes while looking at her, causing Kurumi to gain a tinge of red in her cheeks. Attention in a good way by others was still something rare for her, so this is considered as a valuable moment for Kurumi. More and more questions about the garden were asked to Kurumi by the gaggle of housewives and gardeners, causing Kurumi to gain some difficulty on answering them all.
Unseen by her, a couple of people gathered behind the fountain in the middle of the garden, planning something. One of them then spoke, "How the hell are we going to get her? She's surrounded by the people!"
Another answered, this time, a woman. "Don't worry. We'll slip in between the people around her before stabbing her with this!" the woman then took out a dagger with a nearly invisible coating of poison on it. "She is human now, bijuu or not, and this poison is able to kill an entire horde of elephants with just a drop! She'll die from this!" all of them then laughed slowly before sneakily trying to slip in between the mass of people around Kurumi, still asking her questions.
Slipping in between the people, the knife changes hand multiple times while the would-be assassins pushed the people aside slowly to reach Kurumi, knife still changing hands. Finally, they managed to slip past everyone and now, the guy holding the knife is directly behind Kurumi, knife poised to stab her kidney in his hand at his waist.
Unluckily for them, Kurumi can detect their negative feelings from a mile away, and is monitoring their actions through the position of their chakra. Just as the guy pulled his hand back to knife Kurumi, she spun around before sending a flying knee straight into his abdomen, causing him to bend over and spits out air. Unfortunately for him, Kurumi is not finished. Using his head, Kurumi pulled herself higher before elbowing the man's back, causing the man to lose consciousness and fell to the ground, his knife clattering away from him.
Kurumi then felt more attackers coming her way. Once again, she spun, a man holding a knife high trying to stab her. A palm strike to his face and he's out. Another tried grabbing her from behind in a chokehold, but a quick stomp of the man's foot and an elbow to his face, breaking his nose stopped the man cold, his consciousness gone not long after, his nose still bleeding profusely. By this time, everyone is already away from her location, giving her free movement to do anything towards her attackers.
Two more came running side by side from the throng of people and rushed towards her. She dropped them with a powerful punch to their stomach, one man on each fist. They crumpled down like a sack of rocks. Another two, this time, one's a lady, came running, the lady screamed out while lifting her knife in a reverse hold as she rushes Kurumi. "THIS IS FOR MY BA-urk." Her scream was cut short as both him and the man was sent flying away using a more powerful version of the Eight Trigrams: Vacuum Palm that Naruto taught her. Both of them sent flying, one eating dirt a moment later while the lady was smashed into a wall close by. More and more came as she dispatches them all quickly and non-lethally.
Suddenly, she was swarmed by a mob of villagers, all calling for her blood. Looking at some of the Branch Family Hyuugas who also wanted to see the Kyuubi in human form while they are out to perform errands for the Hyuugas gave Kurumi an idea, an idea that she knows will cause the Hyuugas to get extremely pissed off at her, not that she cares, and not that they can win against her if they tried their best. She then stood straight before making a 'come here' motion towards the villagers with her fingers, her face showing the smirk as she prepared herself to perform her idea.
Seeing this causes the villagers to be mad, and thus, unthinking of the consequence, they all rushed Kurumi, be they man or woman with no idea of what she had planned, nor with any coherent thought on what to do other than 'beat the shit out of her until she dies'. But as they were charging towards her, she saw that she's in a peculiar stance, knees bent, one arm to the front of her body while the other to the back, palms open and fingers pointing upwards, body bent a little to the left.
As the mob closes in, chakra poured out of all her tenketsus at the same time, and she starts to spin rapidly. The expelled chakra creates a spinning wall as she spins, causing everyone that is close by to be hit by the Rotation's chakra wall, causing all of them to get blown away with groans and moans of pain, some hitting the walls, some crashing into the garden and destroyed some of her beloved flowers, and some into other villagers. She then stops spinning and stands straight, in her face a huge evil smile appeared, having managed to rile up the people.
Meanwhile, the Branch Hyuugas who saw this had a look of absolute shock on their faces, completely not befitting the status of the Hyuugas as emotionless bastards on seeing someone who's not even a Hyuuga use the Rotation in front of them. In fact, her use of the Rotation is so good that there is not even a crater on the ground, only a small patch of dirt was disturbed as she used it as a place to anchor her body and to act as a pivot point as she spins.
Kurumi smiled as she saw the flabbergasted look of the Hyuugas there and was laughing inwardly as she knows that she had succeeded in making the honourable Hyuugas shat bricks when their Branch Member reports what she did to the Main Branch. Looking around, she saw that there's only a handful of people left who wanted to stay while the others left already, their fears of 'the demon' confirmed. She saw that around her, unconscious bodies of the villagers that attacked her lied on the ground, breaking some of her flowers and pots while some other found themselves faceplanting on the walls close by. One or two even ended up in the fountain. She then pats her hand to remove them of imaginary dust before she said "Okay! Anyone else?" Nobody replied, just as she expected. She continued. "Now, time to catch the leader." Before disappearing.
She appeared among the people that remained while lifting the woman from before, the leader of the attack towards her by the neck. She struggled as best as she could, her limbs flailing as her neck was grabbed by Kurumi, though her grip was just enough to let her lift the lady. Her throat a little constricted, she shouted "What are you doing?! Unhand me, you demon!" suddenly, she felt like the world became much darker as she looked into the raging eyes of Kurumi, her killing intent focused on one target: her. The sheer amount of KI felt like a massive cloud of flesh-eating bugs to her, trying to eat her piece by tiny piece even as she looked into the suddenly glowing eyes of Kurumi, her mouth slowly moving to form just one word while her grip tightens ever so lightly: "Talk."
And with that, the lady broke down and talked about everything: her plan to kill Kurumi for killing her husband and daughter when her tail smashed into their home, her calling the rest of the villagers with some being highly curious as to why the Kyuubi was in Konoha as cover, her giving the deadly poison-coated knife to the first man that attacked her, urging the other people to attack as well before trying to blend in with the curious crowd to evade her. All this while her body was shivering from a combination of fear, the pressure of Kurumi's chakra saturating the area and her own anger at the failure of her plans.
Kurumi then released her neck, causing her to fell down and slumped on the ground like a marionette with its strings cut off. Sighing, she looked towards the remaining villagers, numbering 8 people. "So you guys are the only one who is really here just to ask questions eh? Well, follow me." Leaving a Shadow Clone behind to inform Sarutobi of the attack, she led the people towards the training ground within the compound and told them to sit down on the grass. "Sorry there's no mat or whatever. Your arrival isn't quite expected, you know."
A woman among the people remaining then said. "It's nothing, Kurumi-san."
Kurumi smiled at this. "Well, I'm glad. Now, let's start the QA session. So, anyone first?" she said while sitting down on the ground as well, her legs crossed, her long skirt revealing nothing to the people gathered.
One of them then asked. "Kurumi-san, yesterday, Hokage-sama said that you are given the title of Uzumaki Clan Head. Why is that?"
She answered. "A nice question. Well, I was sealed within 2 Uzumakis, one of them the wife of Hashirama himself, while the other was called 'The Princess of Whirlpool'. Both of them had good relations with me even during the time I am sealed, so they taught me about the Uzumakis, their jutsus, the way humans use chakra and a lot of other stuff. That is why I was given the title of Uzumaki Clan Head."
Another lady then asked. "Kurumi-san, you kept saying 'you humans', as if you are not one now. Why is that actually?"
"Another good question." She started her answer. "Well, let's see..." she then showed her nine long, blood red furred tails with white tips at the end in her hanyou form while walking towards the 8 people, some of her tails tickling them, some just passes in front of them, some just touched the people, though a couple moved as if they are shocked when the tail touched them. Kurumi then continued. "Now, do you see me as a human or not? The truth is, even if I have a human form, I am not completely human. I am not a human, since I have a bijuu's power and form in me, yet I am not a bijuu as well since I have a flesh and blood body now. I am something that is less than both, but at the same time more than both. My husband and all of our descendants and their descendants and their descendants are, and will be the same. Think about it." The lady then pondered over her answer, the answer so philosophical yet so direct to her mind.
A Hyuuga Branch family member in the group asked, "Is that skill you used to blow away the attackers just now the Hyuuga's Rotation? How did you manage to learn it?"
Kurumi sighed, knowing that her answer might lead to a quarrel between the two clans if improperly answered. Not that they'll lose in a battle even if their numbers are small, but it's the future prospects that causes her to worry. "Well, not really. I've heard of the Hyuuga's Rotation in my years of living, and with a flesh and blood body, I know that I'll need to have a good protection against attacks. And thus, I reverse-engineered the technique from just the theory, knowing that it is both an excellent defence and offense if used well. Being a chakra based being once, I am much more in tune with my chakra than anyone else. Even my husband, with his non-stop training was unable to achieve such a level of unity with his chakra. And thus, I managed to recreate the Hyuuga's Rotation jutsu. I bet that the Main Family is going to shit bricks when they found that out, but also raises their head in pride when they found out that a humanized bijuu said that their technique is considered a great offense." The Branch Family member just laughs, knowing how true what Kurumi said. Inwardly, Kurumi promises herself. "We will help Hanabi-chan to remove that damning seal on your forehead, if she dares to ask us for help. We will, nave no worries. Family members shouldn't do such a thing to each other."
This QA session continued for a long time, causing Kurumi to create Shadow Clones to serve the people with refreshments in case they wanted to continue. The session continued well into the afternoon before they stopped and left, their relations better now. Watching them leave, Kurumi hoped that they can be the catalyst for a good relation between the Uzumaki-Namikazes and the entire village, not wanting them to be isolated from the village like the Uchiha once was. She then remembered that she was supposed to have a council meeting in the evening, so she went inside her compound back, closing the mighty gates behind her to prepare for the meeting.
-A COUPLE OF HOURS BEFORE, AFTER NARUTO LEAVES THE COMPOUND-
Anko and her team were walking towards the missions office when Hinata said to Naruto. "Naru-kun, is it fine leaving Kurumi there alone with the people?"
Naruto chuckled lightly at her question. "Hina-hime, you must know that Kurumi is nowhere near weak. You know that right?" Hinata nodded. "Then you'll have no worries. She'll be able to trash around those villagers if they tried to attack her. Besides, as a clan head, she has special protections and is able to retaliate against anyone attacking her in any way, depending on the severity of the attack. Also, if she's in trouble, me and Kushina can Hiraishin straight towards her location to give instant backup if she needs it, not that she will. Don't worry." Naruto said while petting her long, neck length dark blue hair, causing her to gain a light blush on her cheeks; public display of affections are still something that can cause her to blush.
Kushina, looking and hearing this said, "Yeah! Hina-mama shouldn't worry! Kuru-mama's very strong! She won't just lose to anybody!" her chipper attitude really improves the mood of everyone around her easily. Hearing this, Hinata smiled, before they continued walking to the missions office, ignoring the sight of people watching both Naruto and Kushina, with whispers of "Look! He's the Yondaime's son!" or "That demon!" or "the Yondaime's son is a demon?!" being heard from all around. The family, as usual, ignored it and made small talk while walking to the missions office.
Upon reaching the office, they found out that they are the first genin team there; no one else has arrived, even the chuunin manning the counter was asleep. Anko then walked towards the counter, ready to deal the stupid chuunin a piece of her mind when he woke up suddenly. "Uh... guh...?" He then shot up straight when he realised that there's someone in front of him, and that someone was no other than THE Mitarashi Anko, The Snake Mistress of Konoha, also known as the crazy snake lady among some people. The sight of her catching him falling asleep on the job, and her evil grin caused him to have nervous sweat falling from his forehead. "H-h-how can I h-help you, Miss Anko?"
Anko nodded at the chuunin's way of calling him. It may be true, but calling her by her title straight to her face is a sure fire way to gain her anger. And people don't want to incur her wrath, second only behind Ibiki, with the first being Hokage-sama himself. "Good, good. So, I am here to take D-ranks for my genin team."
The chuunin, still half asleep, jolted wide awake on hearing the words 'genin team'. Anko taking a genin team? Preposterous! The kids are going to die on their first day with her! Also, she's not the teaching kind, and is more likely to tear the kids up a new asshole than teaching them! Though the 'tearing up a new asshole' part is actually what she considers her way of teaching the kids. But still, no way the dango-loving, sake-drinking, extremely brutal and sadistic Mitarashi Anko of the T&I department would take a genin team, even if her life depended on it! And sadly for him, his face reflects his line of thought, and Anko saw this.
Quick as a flash, Anko whipped out a kunai from somewhere, playing with it right in the face of the chuunin. The chuunin stood rigid at the sight of Anko right in his face, seductively playing with her kunai, licking it, scratching it on his face slowly. Anko then said, "So, think I won't be able to take a genin team eh?" the chuunin, despite every effort to do the opposite, nodded. But to his visible shock, Anko went back and stored her kunai. She then shrugged, before saying. "Not that I can blame you though. Even I never thought that I would have a genin team in my name. But look at my brats." She said while pointing her thumb over her shoulders to point towards Naruto.
The chuunin followed the direction of the thumb, and he saw a huge figure of the so-called 'Yondaime's Demon Child' with his daughter. Standing at 7' tall, wearing a long tailed coat like his father with black colour and yellow flames at the bottom with the kanji for kitsune at the back, black combat pants and combat boots with a black jacket filled with pouches with an orange lining at its side, he struck an imposing figure with his crossed arms. The chuunin suddenly felt like he's an ant in front of this giant, causing him to stand still while his eyes remain locked on Naruto's.
Anko banging his table snapped him out of his stupor before he shot a generic greeting. "Yes! How may I help you?" Anko sighed. "Look, kid. I want to get out of your hair as fast as possible here, and you also want us to be out of your hair as soon as possible. So, we came here to perform D-ranks, so give them to us." The chuunin wordlessly nodded before grabbing a scroll marked 'D' from a pile of scrolls beside him, the pile doesn't even look disturbed; the sheer number of D-ranks available was staggering. Anko then sighed again before saying. "Look kid. I said 'them'. That pile. Give it to us." Anko said, while making a 'give me' motion with her finger.
The chuunin sputtered out. "What?! B-but that's too much! No way can a single genin team do all that missions! There's like a thousand something of them!"
By now, Anko was starting to get angry. And people won't like Anko when she's angry. "Kid, I said, give. Them. All. Is that not clear enough?"
The chuunin was sweating bullets by this point. The Uzumaki-Namikazes who were watching this was doing their best at holding back their laughter. Instantly, the chuunin broke down and said "Here. Find a way to carry all of them. Come behind here and take them all for yourself." Before he fell down on his chair, his mind exhausted due to dealing with Anko. Anko then took out a sealing scroll made by Naruto before sealing each and every one of the D-rank scroll in it. "Thanks. And next time, when I say I want the mission, you give it. Understand?" the chuunin just nodded, not in any way wanting to deal with an irate Anko in the morning again.
Outside the mission office, the entire team stood in a line, before all of them shouted at the same time, "Shadow Clone jutsu!" and suddenly, the area in front of them, previously empty, was filled with clones of the entire family and Anko. Anko then shouted. "Alright! Divide into genin teams!" And so, the clones went together, all 250 of the groups while Naruto and Kushina's excess clones are to make pairs, resulting in a total of about 500 groups, give or take. Anko pulled some chakra from her seal to make them while Hinata did the same, though with a different seal, just a chakra storage seal that stores more chakra than Sarutobi had in his body. The result of training for both Hinata and Anko was extremely shocking. Thanks to the pressure placed on their chakra systems, they improved so much so that Hinata had about as much chakra as Naruto if he were to grow normally as an Uzumaki were to have at 17 if they're not a jinchuuriki, which means a whole fucking lot to other people while Anko had more chakra than the Sandaime at her age. Not just that, she also had a chakra storage seal built in her new Blessed Seal, giving her emergency supplies when she needs it the most, an idea inspired by the excess chakra storage theory of Tsunade's Creation Rebirth seal.
Anko then shouts out. "Alright you clones!" before unsealing the scrolls and have them falling on the ground in a pile. "You guys are to take one scroll for each group! Once each of you have one, take another, and another until the pile disappears! Once the pile disappears, each of you will perform the task on the scrolls one by one until they are complete! Now, start!" just as she said that, the clones up front started distributing the pile of scrolls to the groups, and once that's done, the same thing was repeated over and over again until all the scrolls disappeared, all 1,743 of them. Afterwards, all the clones disappeared to perform their respective tasks. While the clones are distributing the scrolls, some ninjas who either just finished their missions or was about to take a new one found themselves flabbergasted at the sight of so many Shadow Clones at once performing the D-ranks. After the clones disappeared, they went straight to the mission office after considering that what they saw must've been a genjutsu of sorts.
Meanwhile, completely ignoring the sight of the shocked ninjas, Anko turned back towards her team, asking "Now that we've sent the clones on the stupid chores, what should we do?"
Naruto answered. "Well, since Kurumi-hime is going to have a bit of a QA session with the people at the compound, let's go to the Forest of Death and train there. I mean, slaughtering some deadly animals is going to be fun, right?"
Anko just nodded. "Yeah. Sounds great. Team 11, let's go!" and with that, the entire team shunshins themselves to the Forest of Death, intend on training their asses out by killing some of the deadly animals in it.
-BREAK-
The Forest of Death, a forest said to be made by Senju Hashirama himself to drain himself completely of chakra for training is a circular forest filled with deadly beasts and mutated animals and plants, said to have appeared after Hashirama's death with the most popular theories saying that the creatures there turned extremely large and mutated as an aftereffect of the bleedoff of the Senju's chakra after he created the forest, and on his death, the chakra bleedoff went out of control, causing the creatures and animals to become deadlier and more mutated, making this the most difficult training ground in Konoha, where even ANBU teams don't traverse around alone, and usually in teams. Even elite jounins are wary of the place. It is fenced by special seal lined fences to prevent a myriad of things: preventing the forest from spreading outwards, keeping the animals inside and keeping people from coming in.
Unfortunately for the forest, the Uzumaki-Namikazes are not one to be scared by the prospect of man eating plants and demonic spiders, and is more than willing to tone down the population of some of the more rowdy inhabitants of the forest for the sake of training. Or population control. Take your pick.
Within the dark depths of the forest, a huge Konoha black bear, about 9' tall was flying away from someone, its chest cavity crushed. At the start of its flight path was the figure of Hinata, her cream colour jacket, unbuttoned up front was flowing together with her hair, a fist held straight and rock steady while another fist at her back after using one of her special moves for the Gentle Crush. Seconds later, a huge crash was heard, signifying the bear crashing into a tree somewhere.
"Wow, Hina-hime! That's awesome! That bear was flying!" Naruto said while he was shouldering the hind legs of a tiger roaring with pain while placing his foot at the back of its head before crushing said head with an application of pressure, before releasing the carcass and stomping it for good measure, showering his legs with gore.
"Of course, dad! Hina-mama's totally awesome!" Kushina said while she's busy handling a bunch of head sized spiders, hell bent on eating her. They all died a toasty, crispy death courtesy of a good Katon: Grand Fireball from her towards the bugs, killing them instantly.
"Stop talking, more killing!" Anko shouts out as she buried a man eating Venus Flytrap underground with a Doton jutsu and burning the ground around it with a Katon: Fire Stream for good measure. "Hah! Take that you slimy piece of stupid tree!" she shouts in triumph as a huge monkey jumped at her back, claws ready to rend her flesh. She was about to turn around and stab the damn thing when Hinata blew it away using Suiton: Water Trumpet, causing the monkey to crash into a tree and die, the water's high pressure breaking its neck and backbones. Anko looked to where she is, her hands still in position beside her mouth, and made a thumbs up gesture, saying "Nice one, Hinata!"
Hinata just nodded before her danger senses triggered, causing her to spin around, dodging the lunge of another flesh-eating monkey before punching its back with her Gentle Crush, both sealing the tenketsu while dealing bone shattering impact to the monkey, killing it instantly.
And so, the entire team fights their way in the Forest of Death, training all the way.
-BREAK-
A couple hours later, the sun is high in the sky, and the attacks have temporarily stopped, and as such, the group took some time to sit down in the middle of the forest, thinking of their next step, their clothes looking untouched and unharmed thanks to the self-repair and self-cleaning seals Naruto placed on them. Naruto then said. "Alright. I think we can finish the session today. I mean, I need to prepare myself to go to the council meeting, and I can't do so while covered in blood, forest goo and animal gore can I?" Hearing this, Anko's mind immediately thought of such a sight, before she laughed hard, until she fell down, her laughing never stopping along the way. After a while, her laughter turned into small chuckles as she stood, wiping tears from her eyes. "Hell yeah Naruto. I think you should do that. I want to see the sight of everyone when you came in like that! Hahaha!" Anko said, laughing again at the end.
Suddenly, all of them received the memories of their clones, some having finished performing their respective D-ranks. A couple memories made Naruto smile, giving him some good feelings to go to the council with.
-FLASHBACK TO A NARUTO/KUSHINA CLONE PAIR NO. 143-
(AN: During a clone's flashbacks, unless they meet other clones, they will be referred to as if they are the real people.)
The two opened their first scroll, and read the mission description. It turns out their mission was babysitting at a nearby nursery. Naruto then called Kushina, saying "Let's go, Kushi-chan. I just hoped that they're not as bad to take care of as you do when you're little, no matter how short the time was."
Kushina pouted at this. "I'm not hard to take care of!"
Naruto just laughs as they walked towards the nursery. A while later, they reached the nursery, a single floor building made on a large land to care for the children in a huge area. The walls are painted bright colours, as per a nursery, with yellow and light blue being the predominant colour. Made of stone, the building looks sturdy and tough, just what it needs to contain a bunch of rowdy kids. Stepping towards the front door, Naruto knocks on the door, before the matron opens the door, saying "Hello, are you-" Her words were cut short as she looked at the imposing physique of Naruto, Kushina following right behind her. "Hello Madam Hana, you asked for a D-rank mission to take care of the kids, right?" Naruto said with a smile on his face.
Hana's face turned into a scowl at the sight of Naruto and Kushina at her front door. "What do you want here, demon? Your kind is not welcome here!" and she slammed the door in Naruto's face, though her attempt was cut short by Naruto placing a hand on the door, preventing it from moving at all.
Already expecting this, Naruto calmly said. "My kind may not be welcome here, but you sent a request for a D-rank mission to the missions office, and we have picked it up, so you're stuck with us for the duration of the mission. Like it or not, we're here, and we're going to perform the mission. Also, the Konoha mission request terms and condition says that 'anyone carrying an official mission scroll will be the ones performing the mission for a D-rank, and any changes in the team performing the mission will not be tolerated.' The rule must've been there to prevent teams from being changed by the requester's request and allows for more efficiency and speed when genins are performing the D-ranks. There is a lot of them too. So, you're stuck with us, unless you want to pay the cancellation fee for the mission."
Her scowl turned deeper, making her face look dark and menacing to everyone else, but not to Naruto and Kushina. "Alright then. But one sign of, of, of... anything, and I'll report you to the ANBU. Understand?"
Naruto nodded. "I understand. Now, let me see the kids." Naruto then entered the nursery, using his strength to gently push the still angry lady, Kushina following behind him, her face showing a huge smile towards Hana, which Hana promptly ignored. They then walked towards where the room for the kids age 3-5, Naruto leading the trio.
Upon reaching the room, Naruto pushed the double doors open, and was met by the sight of the kids all playing among themselves with some trying to bully some other, while some playing alone and some just chats with each other about their parents or their homes. A kid was crying, his toy taken by an older kid. Naruto entered the room, followed by Kushina with the matron watching, her arms crossed. Going to the front of the room, Naruto stood there, arms crossed as well, before saying one word with his 'voice of authority' in a flat tone, as flat and as emotionless as he can manage. "Silence".
Abruptly, all the kids, even the rowdy bunches, stood rigid at their places; the crying kid stopped crying. The tone and his own aura of authority and superiority caused them to stop everything they are doing, and to look ahead at the man standing in front of them. Kushina just giggled watching the stupefied face of the matron, never expecting anyone to be able to stop this bunch of kids with just a word.
The matron was snapped out of her shock as she saw the figure of Naruto walking towards the crying kid, everyone else watching his move. The matron was about to dash towards Naruto when a strong grip was felt on her shoulder. Looking towards the source of the grip, she shot a death glare towards Kushina, and almost shouted at the demon to let her go, when Kushina slowly said. "Chill out, lady. Look." Doing what she said, she saw that Naruto was crouching on the ground, his hand petting the kid's head. With a gentle tone, he then said, "Hey kid. What's your name?"
The kid, his sniffing already stopped though tear marks and snot still poured down his eyes and nose, answered "Kuja. * sniff* Rodou Kuja."
Naruto smiled. "Okay Kuja. Why are you crying?"
Still sniffling, Kuja said, "Someone took my toy. That kid." He said, pointing towards a boy at the other end of the room, holding a wooden toy car. Naruto then turned his head to look at the kid, who sweats bullets when the man whom he saw yesterday that can turn into the demon that attacked Konoha was looking at him. His sweat stops poring as Naruto turns his head back towards Kuja. He then said, "Kuja, want to see a jutsu?" Kuja replied with "Y-y-y *sniff* you can use jutsu?"
Naruto nodded. "Yes, Kuja. I can use jutsu. Here, let me show you." Naruto first did something simple, unsealing a hanky from his wrist seals. "Keeping everything and then some in seals on my body is definitely worth it", Naruto thought. He then uses the hanky to wipe the tears and snot on Kuja's face. "But first, you need to stop crying. A strong boy won't cry all the time, right?" Naruto said with a smile.
Seeing this, Kuja nodded, his sniffing already stopped. "So, uncle..."
"Naruto."
"Uncle Naruto, how are you going to use a jutsu?"
Naruto chuckled, before saying, "Here. Look." Still holding the hanky, he snapped it as he substituted it with the toy car in the kid's hand, who jumped back in fright at the car that suddenly turned into a snot filled hanky. He then hands the car back to Kuja, whose eyes were wide with gratitude and shock at seeing how easily he retrieved back his car from the boy. He then stammers out, "H-how...?"
Naruto just chuckled. "That's the application of one of the most basic jutsu, the Substitution. A good user can replace himself with any item around him, with someone else or even another item with another item."
Kuja stared at him in awe. But then, he suddenly remembered what his mother said about him yesterday. "Uncle Naruto, you're the demon from yesterday right?"
Still smiling, Naruto nodded. "Yup. And this is my human form. I also have my half demon form and my full demon form. Do you want to see them?"
Kuja said, his face a look of fear all of a sudden. "B-but my mother said that demons are bad. Are you bad?"
"Nonsense. Here, I'll show you." Naruto then turned into his hanyou form, revealing ten absolutely long, blonde furred white tipped tails at his back and his pair of fox ears on his head. The tails waved around like they had a life of their own as the kids all watched, enraptured by the sight of those furry tails.
The matron almost screamed out when she felt Kushina's grip on her shoulder tighten, and she said "Relax. Dad won't harm anyone. Unless they deserve to be harmed, but that's a different matter."
Naruto then moved two of his tails towards Kuja, who still stood there in shock, his wooden toy car already on the ground without him even realising that he released it. One of the tails wrapped itself around him before lifting him up, while the other was held in front of him for him to use as a holder to prevent him from falling down. "Relax Kuja. I won't drop you. If you're so afraid, here, I'll place you down." He then placed Kuja down, his legs immediately failing him as his nervousness at being lifted off the ground with his tail struck him. Kuja, still shaking, tilted his head upwards to look at Naruto's face, the tails still waving around him. Naruto then said, "How about this? I'll give you a ride on my back. How's that?"
Without waiting for his reply, Naruto transformed into his full demon form, except this time, he's only slightly taller than the kid if he stood on all fours. Kuja realised this and asked. "Uncle Naruto, yesterday your demon form was larger than the Hokage tower. Now you're really small!"
Naruto chuckled, though in his demon form it sounded more like an evil laugh. "Well, in this form, I can change my size as I deem fit. Right now, changing into my full size will probably tear this nursery apart, and since your matron already hates me, I don't want to further anger her. Here." Naruto then wraps his tail around the kid before lifting him up and placed him on his back. Upon touching his furry body, he said in shock. "Uncle Naruto! Your fur's very soft!"
"Yes they are. Not considering my own grooming, when I gained this power, the furs are all extremely soft. Is it comfortable?" Kuja immediately lied on Naruto's back, loving the feeling of his fur. "Yes. They're so warm..."
Naruto suddenly said. "Hold tight. I'm going to walk around, see how you like that." Naruto then trotted around the room, passing by the static children and waving his tails around, sometimes petting some of the kid's hair, sometimes tickling them, sometimes just reaching them. After a while of Naruto playing around with them, the kids all started to play around with Naruto's tails and himself, ignoring everything their parents said about the so-called demon. He went around, nipping the kids when they're a bit too rough, wrapping his tails around their bodies, even having some of them caressing his tails on their faces, making some of them wondering how something with a fur this soft and this warm be a bad person. Or thing. Or person.
After a while, the kids have gotten tired playing with Naruto and they fell asleep, and Naruto left them there in the room, transforming back to his human form as he walked towards the matron who haven't moved an inch from her place at the door, her shoulders still being held by Kushina. Finally, she released her, causing her to stumble towards Naruto, who caught her in his hands, making her entire body seize before pushing Naruto away from her, though she didn't say anything.
Naruto and Kushina left, their contract completed with the matron signing the contract and paying them, not saying a word during the entire time. But before they can leave the building, the sleepy figure of Kuja appeared in the hallway before he spoke to Naruto. "Uncle Naruto, come again, will you?" Naruto then went towards him, places his knee on the ground before petting his head, saying "I'll try, Kuja. Ask the matron to send another mission request to the mission office." He stood and almost left the building before they are stopped by the voice of Hana. "Why do you like kids so much? For a demon, you look so, so... natural with them."
Naruto, not even looking back, answered. "Because their minds are not yet polluted by the lies and views of the adults, and their purity allows them to pull both the best and the worst of mankind from within themselves. Besides, I have a daughter myself." He then left with Kushina, leaving the matron standing at her place, her mind in turmoil.
-END CLONE MEMORY-
Naruto just smiled remembering the piece of memory while Kushina just laughed remembering the shocked face of the matron as she looked at Naruto handling the kids using his demon form. Another memory brought a smile to Naruto's face at the fact that some people recognize him, though just because he looked like his father.
-FLASHBACK TO A NARUTO/KUSHINA CLONE PAIR NO. 21-
The pair looked at their first D-rank scroll and found out that their job was grocery shopping for an old folk's home located within Konoha proper. Sighing at the sheer laziness of Konoha citizens, Naruto said to Kushina. "Kushi-chan, let's go. The faster we finish this, the faster we can perform our other stupid tasks. Wordlessly, Kushina agreed and they went to a nearby grocery store to perform their task.
Upon reaching the store, Naruto and Kushina went inside and each grabbed a basket and started shopping for the stuff listed within the scrolls. As Naruto was looking around the shelves for the products that he was supposed to buy, a mother and son pair entered the shop and the kid's eyes immediately locked itself on the massive figure of Naruto before he tugged his mother's skirt in surprise before saying, "Mom! That's the demon that said he's the Yondaime's son!" his mom was just about to pull him away and take him out of the shop when the boy let his mother's hand go and ran straight to Naruto. Already sensing the boy coming at him, Naruto stopped what he's doing before bending down. "Hello boy. How can I help you?"
"Sir! Are you a demon?" at this, his mother, who was chasing him had her face in a look of horror, fearing that Naruto will kill her son. But what she feared will never come to pass.
Still smiling, Naruto answered. "Yes, kid."
"Yesterday, you're huge! Why are you so small now?"
"I can change my size in my demon form at will. Yesterday I used my full size, though right now I am in my human form."
"Wow! You're the Yondaime's son too right?"
"Yup."
He then looked at Naruto with a look of awe even as Naruto stood to continue his shopping. The kid's mom ran towards him, her face still in a mixture of horror and disgust, pulled him away while saying, "I'm sorry my son's been a bother!" looking at her son, she said "Let's go! Now!"
Naruto just chuckled and waved it off, saying "It's alright. I don't mind. Don't worry miss. I won't harm anyone. I promised yesterday, remember?"
Ignoring him, the mother pulled his son away from Naruto and out of the shop while Naruto continues his shopping. At this, Kushina felt a bit left out since everybody recognized her dad, but no one recognized her. "I am there yesterday as well! I turned into my demon form too!" She pouted internally.
A few minutes later, they finally completed their grocery list, and went to the cashier, who was conspicuously absent during the entire time. Naruto approached the checkout counter, and as he was about to call the cashier, he came out of the back room, and saying "Yes, hell- Namikaze-sama!"
At this, Naruto was inwardly shocked, but kept his feelings inwardly. "Please, don't call me that. I haven't done much to earn such a name. Not the ones you know of, at least."
The cashier shook his head. "No. I-I am sorry for everything that I did to you all these years. I-I never realised! I mean, now that you've said it yesterday, I just realised that you look exactly like him! Except for the whisker marks, but that came from being a part demon, I guess."
Smiling, Naruto said "Yes. That's right. Anyway, just call me Naruto. I won't actually do anything, but I don't want to be called with a –sama honorific to my name just because of my lineage. As long as I haven't performed any honourable deeds, I wouldn't want anyone calling me that just because of my father's name."
"Alright then. Here's your bill, sir."
After paying for his purchases, with Kushina following behind him, they left to go to the old folk's home to hand over the groceries and successfully complete their mission.
-FLASHBACK ENDS-
Kushina pouts after she received the memories of some of her clones and voiced her annoyance to everyone. "Dad! Why does everyone only recognizes you?! I look like you! Yet no one said anything towards me!" everyone laughed while Kushina pouted at this.
Naruto, still laughing, said "They didn't recognize you, I guess. They still remember me, and your mom already showed that she's the Kyuubi, so I doubt that they'll recognize you when there are two other much bigger targets for them to look at."
Anko then said after she finished laughing at Kushina's so-called misfortune. "Alright guys. At least you all got jobs done. They'll continue with the jobs. Though we'll need to consider finishing everything today. We can do C-ranks tomorrow if we're done."
Hinata, who's silent all this time said. "So? We are finished today right?"
Anko said "Yep. Now go on. Naruto's got a council meeting today, so he'll need to prepare for it. Hinata, we can spar, or clear out the forest some more. How's that?"
Hinata smiled. "I think that's a good idea Anko-sensei. Wait a minute." Hinata then skipped towards Naruto's location before giving him a kiss on the lips for a while. After their lips parted, she said, "For good luck."
Naruto, a grin on his face, replied. "I don't need luck. I need more of that kiss, though." He immediately crashed his lips on Hinata's even playing around with her tongue, turning a good luck kiss into a makeout session. Just as Naruto about to slip his hand into Hinata's shirt, Anko cleared her throat to attract attention of the two lovebirds. "Alright you two, break it up. Me and Hina-chan got stuff to kill, and you guys got a meeting to go to. Kushina'll stay with me though. We got nothing better to do."
Naruto just shrugged before walking to leave the forest, with Hinata watching his back and Anko shouting "Alright! Now we're going to kill some more of these damn things! Let's go, ladies!" before jumping deeper into the forest, her so-called students following her behind.
-BREAK-
At the same time, Hatake Kakashi was taking his cute little genins to the missions office to take a D-rank after having his group perform teamwork exercises, his little orange book in his hands, as always. His group, as already expected, was a pretty dysfunctional one, with Sasuke being the most skilled, having been trained by his mother and Itachi himself, while Sai is the second best, being an ex-ROOT saw him to that. Sakura, meanwhile, is the weak link of the group, a fangirl towards Sasuke, though her habits have been tempered somewhat due to her constant thrashing at the hands of the Uzumaki-Namikazes back in the academy. But due to the fact that she's only at an average genin level at best when her teammates are all definitely stronger than genins causes her to become the weakness of the group instead of the support. And having her rely on the other two to help her up will not be a good thing for both herself and her team in the long term. "I'll need to make her improve fast, or she's going to end up dead at the field later on. Maybe I can ask Naruto for help... if he would want to help me, that is." Kakashi sighed.
Having been unable to help Naruto too much since he was small, Kakashi felt as if he had failed his sensei's legacy and teaching, causing him to inwardly cry at the thought of Naruto being a demon, though he knew that the Kyuubi herself is a good person, having met her a couple of times in Kushina's body before when she took control to let her feel the outside world. And thus, the sight of Kurumi attacking Konoha was something that he'll never forget, and never stopped wondering about, though Naruto's revelations yesterday helped clarify things. Kakashi never doubted the demon turned half demon, not now, not ever.
Upon reaching the missions office, he was a little surprised at the lack of genins taking D or C-ranks for some reason. Also, the sight of other genin teams going into the missions office only to leave empty-handed made Kakashi's ever inquisitive mind questioning what happened, even if he hid it from everyone else with the skill born of years of being a ninja. He then reached the missions counter, before saying. "Elite jounin Hatake Kakashi, jounin sensei of Team 7, requesting a D-rank mission for my genin team."
The chuunin looked at Kakashi's face, before saying something that shocked Kakashi more than he ever was in his history of being Konoha's ninja. "Kakashi-san, I am afraid that all the D-rank missions are taken."
At this, Kakashi was visibly shocked, his lone visible eye widening due to surprise, before he composed himself before asking. "The D-ranks are taken?"
The chuunin nodded. "Yes."
Kakashi laughed. "You must be joking. There are no possible ways in the history of the Hidden Villages that all the D-rank missions can be finished. Now give me one."
The chuunin sighed. "Kakashi-san, thank god that you're not the first that said so. I've been handling the same thing since this morning. But I am definitely not lying. All the D-ranks are taken by a team."
This shocked Kakashi even more. There is no way that ONE TEAM can perform all the D-ranks in Konoha! Kakashi was about to ask which team when the chuunin lifted his hand, stopping him mid sentence. "I know what you're thinking, I know what you're about to ask. And yes, a single team. And it's not impossible. Look outside carefully."
Kakashi then looked outside from a nearby window, and the sight that he saw surprised him. There are literally hundreds of blonde haired pairs running around town, with some of them also paired with a blue haired girl and a violet haired lady; the hairs of Team Anko. Kakashi just sighed at this unsightly abuse of the Shadow Clone technique before going back to his team and making an announcement. "Alright team, since all the D-ranks are taken, I think we can start with more teamwork exercises. Now, training ground 3, here we come!" his enthusiasm was replied by a groan from Sakura, a snort from Sasuke and a creepy fake smile from Sai.
-BREAK-
Naruto Hiraishined back towards his home and is met with a very peculiar sight, the sight of Kurumi's garden all trashed up. Quirking an eyebrow, he walked towards the door to his home when they opened up, the people that Kurumi talked to earlier leaving the house. Naruto could deduce the reason for the garden's thrashing from the mob that appeared this morning, but not the reason for these people exiting his home. They even greeted him as they passed! Feeling confused, Naruto entered his home, intent on asking Kurumi on the reason why these people are here. But before he can ask, Kurumi's voice was heard from the back of the house, already expecting his question.
"They're here to ask about us, though mostly me. Being a bijuu kinda makes people ask you a lot of questions you know."
Shrugging, Naruto continued his walked into the house, the curiosity of the people are pretty much expected after his identity reveal stunt yesterday. Kurumi then walked beside him, her hands at her back. "So, anything interesting today?"
Naruto nodded. "We did D-ranks today. Not much to speak about, though since the D-ranks are performed just within Konoha, a lot of people saw me and creates various reactions among people, with most we already expect. Some of them are scared, some of them hated me, though most of the kids loved me for some reason. Maybe my fluffy fur attracted them too much." Naruto laughed.
Kurumi also laughed at this. She then looked at Naruto's clothes. "Well, we're going to need you to prepare yourself to go to the council later, we can't have you going looking like that can we?"
"You have any idea of what I should wear?"
Kurumi thought for a while, before saying. "I have just the look. The people will be shocked when they saw you in it!" her tone a bit mischevious.
Naruto knew that when her tone becomes something like that, they'll be either insane, cool or insanely cool. Sporting his own grin, they both entered their room, ready to prepare themselves for the council meeting.
-BREAK-
At the Konoha council chamber, the figures of all the council members, both civilian and ninja are present and sitting around an oval wooden table, waiting for three more people; one being the Sandaime, with another two being the newest members of the council. Currently, the civilian side was having a riot at the fact that there are hundreds upon hundreds of the members of Team 11 running around, performing D-ranks like nobody's business.
"Why are there hundreds of them?!"
"They came to my house to handle a D-rank just now!"
"Why is the demon still alive?! I thought the Hokage should be killing her by now!"
And so on, the civilian side of the council argued and bitched, causing some of the members of the ninja council to gain a headache. Among the victims are Inuzuka Tsume, the head of the Inuzuka clan, the mother of both Kiba and Hana, a clan who thanks to their close connection to their partners, gain canine traits such as sensitive hearing and smell, two traits which were causing her endless amount of headache, especially when the civilian council starts to shout among themselves like this.
Tsume almost slammed the table and screamed out to shut the bloody idiots' mouth when the figure of the venerable Sandaime Hokage entered the room, his official Hokage robes flowing behind him with his hat on his head. His appearance silenced everybody, the civilians included. Ever since Danzo's death, the elders have been fired for conspiring with Danzo in a multitude of his plans thanks to Naruto's information and knowledge about Danzo's plans, and as such, there are no more high-ranking supporters for the civilians. After a year, all of the council members learned not to mess with the Sandaime, considering that he seems so much stronger and more energetic than he was before for some reason that no one knows. He has also been showing his proverbial fangs as the Hokage more often now, thus making the citizens watch their steps around him.
Accompanying him is the figure of Jiraiya, Konoha's spy master. Being Hiruzen's student and one of his most trusted people, he was elected as the Sandaime's advisor in all matters. The fact that he had a spy network across the Elemental Nations, capable of knowing any attacks or threats towards Konoha in a matter of hours makes him one of the best choice as advisor, especially when considering that he also knew a lot of both Konoha's and other village's dirty little secrets. Somehow, his face was stuck in a permanent grin as he entered the council chamber for some reason.
The Hokage stood at his spot at the head of the table with Jiraiya at his side, looking to the council members, each and every one of them. He then lifted his hat and places it on the table. Then, he did something that no one, except Jiraiya expected, an act that causes the entire civilian council to gape in surprise and caused the shinobi council to stare at the object in his hands in absolute shock: he took out the Hiraishin kunai that Naruto gave him all those years ago. Amidst all the looks of awe and shock among the council members, he stabbed the kunai straight in front of him onto the table, making it stood straight on the table.
Before any member of the shinobi council could say anything, a yellow flash appeared beside the Hokage, causing everyone of the shinobi council to be extremely shocked while the civilian council had afterimages on their eyes due to the flash, and from within it, the large figure of Naruto, wearing a white longcoat similar to his father's except with the kanji for 'Demon' at the back with the insignia of the Uzumaki-Namikaze clan at the left shoulder, and the kanji for kitsune at the right shoulder with the kanji for ten at his left chest with one hand on his wife's shoulder. He is also wearing a dark orange jacket with pockets for the storage of scrolls and sealing equipments and also for extra protection. He also wore a pair of black combat pants with black steel toed combat boots for his footwear.
Kurumi, who has one arm wrapped around Naruto's waist, was wearing a one piece long-sleeved black long dress that has no frills or anything, just a basic dress that, unknown to everyone, has a wide skirt that allows for full mobility during combat situations. The dress also had the Uzumaki-Namikaze logo at the left shoulder with the kanji for kitsune at the right in white. Unseen to anyone, the sleeves contain a myriad of seals meant to support her in combat situations and can also be used to help her allies. The dress was covered by a white jacket with inner armour linings within them, strengthened by seals and light yet strong materials. She also wears combat boots like Naruto's. Her back-length blood red hair was untied and is let free, making her sudden appearance with her hair flowing around her making her look like a goddess of beauty, whose wrath was something you don't want to face.
Letting go of Kurumi's shoulder with Kurumi letting go of his waist, Naruto faced the Sandaime before asking, "Hokage-sama, are we late?"
Chuckling, Hiruzen answered "No. You are just in time. Sit down on your respective seats." Naruto then went to the shinobi side and sat beside the sleeping form of Nara Shikaku, the head of the Nara clan, one of the smartest clans in the Elemental Nations whose tactical know-hows are second to none. The Nara then woke up just to look at Naruto's face before slowly saying "Troublesome. You really look like your dad. Nara Shikaku." Before going back to sleep. Already knowing about a male Nara's habit due to his association with Shikamaru, Naruto just ignored him before standing straight.
Kurumi meanwhile, went to her seat at the civilian side of the council where the council was staring at her with hate, disgust and anger in their eyes. Internally sighing and already accepting her fate, Kurumi stood at the council seat allocated to her, waiting for Sarutobi's invite.
But before Sarutobi could say anything, the voice of Tsume was heard. "Hey kid! That just now, that's the Hiraishin, isn't it?"
Naruto nodded, admitting it. "Yup. My dad taught it to Kurumi-chan, who taught it to me as my birthright, while we then taught it to our daughter, as it was her birthright."
Hiruzen cleared his throat to cut the chat off before saying, "Alright, now since everyone has arrived, we will start this week's council meeting. Our first issue is the welcoming of two new members of the council, so welcome to both Uzumaki-Namikaze Naruto and Uzumaki-Namikaze Kurumi. You may be seated."
Kurumi didn't even had a chance to sit down on her chair when one of the member of the civilian council stood before screaming "Why is that demon allowed as a council member!? She's not even human!"
Sarutobi sighing, thinking "Here we go. I just hope that no one would lose their heads today." He then said to the council member, though he was also telling it to each one of the council members, be they civilian or shinobi. "She was allowed as a council member due to the fact that she is of Uzumaki blood. Since there are no more members of the Uzumaki clan before, their seat was frozen, and the fact that she's an Uzumaki and not a ninja lets her have a seat as a civilian council member, though if she became a ninja some time later, she'll have the full control of the Uzumaki's shinobi seat as well. The fact that she's a demon once and a half demon now does not change the fact that she's of Uzumaki blood, thus making her the remaining member of the clan, and the seat given to her." He then looked towards Kurumi who nodded in thanks before proceeding to sit down on her seat.
The man continued. "What is the Uzumaki clan?! We never heard of it!" the civilian cheered at this while the shinobi side sighed at the civilian's idiocy at not knowing of the great Uzumaki clan, which even Hiashi did.
Sarutobi then said. "I guess I'll have to teach you some history. The Uzumaki clan are a great clan located at the Land of Whirlpools that had a hidden village of their own, named Uzugakure. The Uzumakis are cousins of the Senju clan, and without them as the mediator between the Senju and the Uzhihas, Konoha will not be built. During the 2nd Shinobi World War, the village was attacked by a coalition of Kiri, Kumo and Iwa due to their mastery of seals, an extremely difficult branch of ninja arts that even I am not very good at, I have to admit. Seals are known to be the most difficult, yet the most powerful of all ninja branches, and that they can be used to perform nearly anything if done well. And Uzumakis are known for their mastery of seals, in that any and all seals come naturally to them. Also, an Uzumaki has a strong life force, being able to live for more than 300 years old. In fact, the same person who mediated the Uchihas and the Senjus was also one of the best warriors during the Clan Wars era, and lived for 347 years old. During the war, Uzugakure was attacked by the combination of Kiri, Kumo and Iwa and decided to take the attack head on, not even requesting help from us, their biggest ally in hopes of diverting their attention to Uzu instead of Konoha, knowing that we are unable to win in that battle despite winning the first war. The battle rages for days, causing even the Uzumakis, with their nearly endless stamina and massive chakra pool to be tired. The earth was torn asunder, and even the water was burning as they fought, yet in order to defend their homes, each and every man and woman of Uzu attacked the coalition no matter if they are civilians, even kids held kunais to stab their enemies. The people of Whirlpool died in droves, their spirit proving resilient upon the onslaught of the coalition. Yet they never once faltered, never once turned their back towards the enemy, letting their bodies become the shield to their lands. But eventually, due to the 15 thousand strong number of attacking ninjas compared to the 7 thousand total population of Uzu, they eventually won through sheer weight of the bodies that the enemy can throw. Yet, they gave as good as they got, killing nearly every one of the coalition's armies in a two week long war. But eventually, they won, and each and every people living in Uzu were killed. They did not spare anyone or anything; men, women, children, even days old babies. They even destroyed every infrastructure that they have, not sparing anything. Unfortunately for them, one Uzumaki, Uzumaki Kushina was brought beforehand to have Kurumi-san here sealed within her as a safeguard, and thus, they left one Uzumaki alive. The sheer destruction of the coalition's army allows Konoha to avenge the Uzumakis in just one attack, their battered and tired numbers unable to block the sheer ferocity of Konoha's attack, allowing us an easy victory in the 2nd Shinobi World War, though not without cost. The Uzumaki spiral was then placed at our jounin and chuunin vest as a sign of mourning and pride, since it's their sacrifice that allows Konoha to remain what it is. Though it seems that the education about the Uzumaki Clan was left out of Konoha's education, which needs to be fixed." By the end of Hiruzen's story, Naruto shed a tear in remembrance of every clan member that died in the attack, and also remembering the skeletons that he buried during his visit and stay at Uzu while the rest of the council had their mouth gaping in shock at the Uzumaki's sacrifice with most of the shinobi council having their heads down due to their failure at saving their ally.
The man, meanwhile, was fuming about the strength of the Uzumakis when he saw the figure of Naruto, already sitting down on his seat. Pointing a finger to him, he shouted again. "Then what about the demon boy?! What clan does he represent to gain a seat at the council?!"
Now this was an easy question for Sarutobi to answer. "The Namikaze clan seat of course." Before he could shout again, Sarutobi cut him off. "And if you're saying that he's not of any clan, remember that when a Hokage was elected, if he's not of a clan, he will be the first member of a clan of his family's name and will gain a seat in the shinobi council if he were to quit being Hokage for whatever reason. And I'm extremely sure that dying makes you unable to continue being a Hokage, and as the Uzumaki clan seat, the seat was frozen, though since his son is alive now, he'll be able to take the seat." He said, with the dying part said with more than a touch of humour.
Still, the man shouted. "What proof do we have of him being a member of the Namikaze clan, and also the son of the Yondaime?! And on that matter, how did she," finger pointing towards Kurumi, "Become an Uzumaki?! Even she admits yesterday that she's a demon before a human and she was sealed multiple times in an Uzumaki! How can she be of Uzumaki blood?!"
Before Sarutobi could say anything, Kurumi interjected. "Hiruzen, I think I'll explain this myself to everyone here." She then stood up and looked at every one of the council member's eyes, which causes most of the civilian to look back in fear and loathing, the shinobi side to respond in intrigue except for Hyuuga Hiashi, the head of the Hyuuga clan, who stares back in massive anger and disgust. "Guess he already received the report." She then laughs internally, before continuing. "As what he said, all of you already know that I am sealed in Uzumakis before, since their amazing chakra and lifeforce are pretty much the only thing that can contain the madness within my powers. When the deal I made with the Uzumakis was fulfilled, the conditions are that I will take the form and blood of the last female Uzumaki that I was sealed into."
Yamanaka Inoichi, the clan head for the Yamanaka clan said, "No wonder you look so much like Kushina it's almost scary. Though you are so much calmer than she was. But still, why only female Uzumakis?" as a member of a clan known for their specialty of playing with the minds of enemies, they are also a very smart and inquisitive clan, though not as much as the Naras.
"Well, it's because unknown to everyone, all the bijuus have their own gender. I am female, as you can see, though I won't reveal the genders of the rest of my siblings."
"Still, where's the proof that you're an Uzumaki and he's a Namikaze? There must be proof, since we can't just let any blonde haired blue eyed person or demon" the last part said with a sneer "who claims that he's a Namikaze be given the seat. Is there any proof?" the civilian council member said with every member of the council, be they civilian or shinobi, nodding at this.
Tsume, still standing, shouts out. "Are you all bloody stupid?! He just used the Hiraishin in front of all of you! Is that not proof enough?!"
Another civilian then countered. "A technique alone does not ensure that a person is someone else's child! We need more proof!"
Sarutobi, in reply, said. "And so, that is exactly why I have Jiraiya here with us. As all of you know, Jiraiya was the Yondaime's teacher, and his most trusted person behind Uzumaki Kushina herself. And thus, in order to make sure that the person claiming to be his son is his son, he has devised a system to make sure of the fact. Jiraiya, you have the word." And with that, Jiraiya walked forward, taking out two elaborately decorated scrolls from his kimono, one of them having the logo of the Uzumaki clan's spiral while the other had the picture of a tri-pronged kunai on it, the unofficial sign of the Namikaze clan. Jiraiya still had that massive smirk on his face though, and looked like he was holding back a huge laugh.
"Algiht." Jiraya began, holding the scrolls between his fingers. "Each of these scrolls contain a special sealing matrix that can only be deactivated and the scroll opened by a blood relative of the Yondaime and the Uzumaki respectively, from what the clan symbol shows. Now, before I give it to Naruto and Kurumi for them to prove their identity, I'll pass it around an d have some of you test it for yourself."
Jiraiya then hands the two scrolls to the council. The civilians immediately tried to pry it open, but no matter what they do, they cannot open the scroll, not for the life of them. The shinobi side meanwhile, received the scroll and fearlessly cut their fingers on their kunai and wipes the blood on the scroll, though nothing happened. The scrolls are passed around, with Kurumi and Naruto not even touching them with some of the civilian council also tested the scrolls using their blood, confirming the authenticity of the scrolls and that they cannot be opened if you're not an Uzumaki or a Namikaze. A civilian councilmember passed the scroll back to jiraiya, who continued. "As you can see, as long as you're not an Uzumaki or Namikaze, it will be impossible for you to open the scroll. Everybody checked it yet?" everyone nodded. "Then can all of you agree that if Naruto and Kurumi were able to open the scrolls with their blood, that makes them the true heir to both clans?" the shinobi side nodded, but one of the civilian council stood before slamming his palm on the table, making a huge bang. "This is preposterous! How can a scroll of paper be used to prove one's identity?!"
Jiraiya stared at the civilian council with anger smouldering behind his eyes. "Are you questioning the Yondaime's sealing skills? The same Yondaime, whose seal based Hiraishin was known to all the shinobi of the elemental Nations? Whose sealing skills are said to be only second to the Uzumakis and one who was definitely better than I am? Who sealed the Kyuubi, no offense to you Kurumi-san," Kurumi nooded at this and gestured for him to continue. "The Kyuubi, using a seal that called the freaking Shinigami himself to do the sealing for him? Are you?"
The civilian sputtered apologies and unintelligible gibberish while Kurumi crossed her arms while saying, "It's true. The Shinigami himself came." She shivered. "I'd have to say that it's the most painful experience in my thousands of years of life. Nothing can compare to it. Even as he ripped me in half, I can still remember his smiling face and the coldness that his sheer appearance created." She shivered once more. That feeling will never be forgotten by her, not now, not ever.
Jiraiya then continued. "You even saw that it's effective! You tested it yourself! You tried opening it! Placed blood on it! Did everything you can! Yet," By this point, Jiraiya was leaking KI like crazy. They may have slandered both his student's name and legacy, but he'll never let the same thing happen again, not while he's here and while he's drawing breath! Not even if he punched the shit out of him, not that he didn't deserve it. "You dare to say that it will not be useful! You dare assume that it won't work! Slandering him is indirectly slandering me as well! I thought him everything I knew! Are you saying that what I thought him was nothing but a farce?!" by this point, even the shinobi council was sweating bullets, handling the Kage-level KI emitting from Jiraiya. The civilian council was on their seats, some nearly having seizures, some unable to breath while some other saw their lives ending.
A hand from Sarutobi on his shoulders stopped Jiraiya, causing him to take a deep breath to stop him from killing every civilian there with KI alone before clearing his throat. "My apologies. I lost to my emotions a bit there just now." No one questions his apprentice's abilities in front of him. No one! "Now, as you have all seen, the scrolls are completely tamper-proof. Even I cannot do anything to change them." Everyone nodded, with the civilians nodding harder and faster than the shinobi council, not daring to mess with Jiraiya again after what he did just now without even touching them. "So, let's see what effects their blood will have on the scrolls." He said while handing over the Namikaze scroll to Naruto and the Uzumaki scroll to Kurumi.
Wordlessly, the two took out a kunai from a seal on their wrist and cut their finger, letting some blood out. They then wiped their blood on the clan insignia of their respective scrolls, knowing just how they worked. The scrolls then glowed blue, a sign that their blood was accepted, making the civilians' eyes open wide at this. Their eyes opened wider when the two of them opened their respective scrolls without any difficulties, causing the civilians to rethink their accusations at the two.
Naruto opened the Namikaze scroll before seeing that the scroll contains words that was probably a letter addressed to him. Opening it fully, he saw that there's a huge sealing array at the end of the scroll with it being as large as the scroll itself. Naruto then reads the words, and found out that it was a letter directed towards him.
Dear Naruto,
First, let me tell you this if you haven't known about it yet. I am Namikaze Minato, the Yondaime Hokage, the Yellow Flash of Konoha, Konoha's seal master, The Bane of Iwa, but the title that I am most proud of is your father.
My son, I know that you must've gone through the hell that was known as being a jinchuuriki. But know this: I have no other choice but to use you to seal Kurumi. And for that, my first wish is that you forgive me. What kind of Hokage will I be if I cannot sacrifice myself to save my beloved village? I expected that the village will be unable to understand the seals that I placed on you, though I'm sure that both Sarutobi and Kurumi will protect you, one from the start, with one after she woke up from Madara's genjutsu. Yes, the person attacking us was none other than Uchiha Madara, the only Uchiha capable of controlling Kurumi. But even so, I am sure that you'll be the person to cure her of the Juubi's vile chakra and becoming her mate. Kushina was very excited at your birth and so was Kurumi herself. But during your birth, a person attacked us wearing an orange spiral mask with the Sharingan visible in it, and from what we know, the only one Uchiha capable of controlling Kurumi was Madara, so I made the connection immediately. But enough of the morbid matters.
Naruto, know that you are my pride and joy. Even if I am not with you, remember that my spirit will always watch over you and I hoped that you will not hate Konoha for what they did to this letter help you in erasing the potential grudge that you may have towards the people. Though I am not able to guide you, always remember that your heart will help guide you to the right path. And I'm sure Kurumi herself will, as well.
Finally, train hard, and train well. I have taught Kurumi all my techniques, and know that she will not hesitate to teach you all of them, seeing that you are my rightful heir. And I know that she'll teach you well, just as how she taught me and Kushina to be the best we can. I dare say that if not for Jiraiya and Kurumi, I will not be able to become Hokage. (At this point, the paper has water stain on them, probably his dad's tears.) Make sure you treat her well. I know that she'll be a great partner for you. And also, finally, as my last wish, no matter if Kurumi takes you as her mate or not, I want you to make the Uzumaki-Namikaze a feared clan once more, and make sure that my grandkids be strong, as strong as you possibly can. Don't forget to bring them to see my grave. (The tear marks got harder by this point.)
Can't believe I just wrote that. The seal below is a special seal that stores my notes on my jutsus and everything else and is only openable by my descendants. It is guarded by a grand array of seals that I made to prevent anyone from stealing it. Remember this saying my son: Knowledge is power. Guard it well. So guard it.
I'm not good with all this feeling stuff, but know that I love you. Never let anyone said any different.
Love,
Your father,
Namikaze Minato.
At this point, Naruto had tears flowing from his eyes that fell on the paper that his father had his tears on as he wrote it, making people wonder what was contained within that scroll. Then everyone looked towards the voice of another person crying, and they are met with the sight of Kurumi, looking like she almost bawled her entire stock of tears, the scroll gripped as tightly as possible within her hands.
Dear Naruto (Or Kurumi),
If Naruto is the one opening this scroll, then, I am your mother, Uzumaki-Namikaze Kushina if you haven't known it yet. If it's Kurumi, then this is Kushina, your previous host, guardian and friend. I expected that you can open this scroll. We Uzumakis have our prankster self within us. I guess it came from your father. Though I also made a logical deduction once Mito-sama told me about the deal with you. I'm not stupid, you know!
You two, this letter is written with the last of my strength, as you two know. I am tired and injured due to the attack shortly after your birth, Naruto and your escape, Kurumi. The man that controlled you might try to come back again, so make sure that you train Naruto to his utmost limit. He will protect you, I'm sure about that.
Naruto, I am afraid that my time is almost up. Kurumi is not far from the walls, rampaging due to the person's control. Kurumi, if you're reading this, I know that you are controlled by that Uchiha. I forgive you for killing me since I know that you are not in control at the time. I just hope that the people will forgive you for what you did, though I very much doubt that.
Naruto, forgive me, forgive us, your parents for placing the burden on you becoming a jinchuuriki. Without us to guide you, I just hoped that you can be a great person and will not be influenced by the thoughts and actions of the people around you. Make sure you do not fall into hatred like so many other jinchuuriki before you. Kurumi, for everything, thank you, and we do not blame you for everything that happened.
Love, your mother for Naruto,
Goodbye, your friend and ex-host for Kurumi,
Uzumaki Kushina.
Both of them then wiped their tears while the rest of the council watched them before they calmed themselves and sat back down on their chair, the scrolls that they received sealed within the storage seals on their wrist. Looking at the two, Jiraiya grins before looking at the rest of the council. "Now, since all of you have tested it yourself, it can be seen that the scroll can only be opened by someone of Namikaze and Uzumaki blood respectively. Now, anyone wants to contest this fact?" After seeing the previous display of power from Jiraiya, the civilian council quickly shook their heads, intend on not making anymore problems for themselves while the shinobi council also shook their heads, more versed about blood seals than the civilians. Jiraiya, looking at the lack of rejection from everyone, then continued, "And now, I hand the floor back to Hokage-sama." Before going back to his initial position, right beside Sarutobi, a bit to his back.
The Sandaime then said. "Now that their blood has been proven, their seats are now officially theirs, Naruto being the heir Minato and Kurumi being the heir of Kushina." He then paused for a while, looking at the faces of every member of the council, the shinobi side having welcoming looks for the two except for Hiashi who for some reason was concealing a look of murderous rage towards Kurumi, totally unlike the stoic as rock Hyuuga personality that he knew of the black haired Hyuuga. The civilian side meanwhile, had looks of hate in their eyes, though they knew better than to make their lives miserable in front of the Hokage himself.
Sarutobi then continued. "Also, they will receive all the inheritance of their predecessors, and will also be granted clan head status with all the benefits and immunities bestowed upon other clan heads. Now, since this is over, we will get back to our usual council meeting. Now-" Sarutobi was cut short by the sight of Hyuuga Hiashi standing up to say something. He then said, "Hyuuga-san, do you have anything to say in front of the council? If not, I implore you to sit down."
Hiashi nodded before saying. "Yes. Yes I do. Hokage-sama, I have reports from a Branch member this afternoon saying that someone stole the Hyuuga's secret techniques. I wish to pursue the thief and bring her to justice for stealing a clan technique, as per the rights of the Hyuuga according to the Konoha Clan Charter. "
Hearing this, Sarutobi was intrigued. It isn't easy for someone to steal the Hyuuga's secret moves while also being able of using it. The only person that he knew of would be Naruto who ate the brains of those Hyuugas years ago, but Naruto won't use such a skill; it didn't fit his body build. Also, curiously, the thief was a woman. Sarutobi decided to follow through with his request and said, "Who is the thief, Hyuuga-san?"
Hiashi looked towards the direction of Kurumi before letting loose a powerful Byakugan-enhanced glare and some KI towards her. Kurumi just laughed at this. Hiashi then looked back to the Hokage before saying, "The thief is Uzumaki-Namikaze Kurumi, Hokage-sama."
At this, gasps was heard across the council room since stealing clan jutsus are a terrible crime, while Naruto had a stoic look on his face, but inwardly, he's laughing his ass out. "Oh yeah! I just know that Kurumi-hime's going to make this a massive riot!"
Sarutobi, still looking calm, places both his hands on the table before saying. "That is a grave accusation, Hyuuga-san. Is there any proof to this?"
"I do. In fact, she is waiting in front of the door to this council right now." With a hand gesture, Sarutobi ordered the ANBUs to check on the outside the door for the person who Hiashi referred to. And sure enough, the sight of a Hyuuga girl with a white cloth tied around her forehead to cover the Caged Bird Seal was seen, and she was ushered into the council chambers, where she became nervous, considering that there are many eyes within the council chambers trained on her, with all of them eager to listen to her eyewitness account on the accusation of jutsu theft by Kurumi.
Stuttering, she started talking after a hand gesture from Hiashi was seen by her eyes. "U-u-um... M-m-my name is I-i-izumi. T-t-this m-morning, I saw that Ku-ku-kurumi-san over there u-used a te-te-tchniq-que e-e-exclusive to the Main Fa-fa-family, the Rotation." She then stood there, still nervous from the eyes of everyone within the council chambers.
Sarutobi frowned. From what he could tell, the girl was telling the truth. But why did Kurumi... Oh. Now he sees... He then inwardly smiles before saying. "It seems that the girl didn't lie, from what I can see. Still, I will have some of my ninjas investigate this matter. Though, how do you answer this accusation, Kurumi-san?"
Kurumi shrugged, saying "Well, it's this. I made it myself. When I gained my human form, I realised that unlike my bijuu form, in this form, when I die, I die for real, even if I won't die that easily. When I was a bijuu, if I were to die, I will reform somewhere else, though it will be extremely painful, since you can say that we bijuus are a part of the earth's nature. I lost that right when I gained my human form. During my travels, I have heard about the Hyuuga's absolute defence, a technique called the rotation, said to have been able to block even powerful jutsus and attacks without so much a scratch to the user. From what I heard about it, I gathered information and managed to recreate the technique, meant to be used as a defence for me in case I need it thanks to its extremely powerful offense and defence."
Hiashi stood up, shouting, completely breaking the Hyuuga's stoic looks when he heard this... slander. "Preposterous! There is no way that the Rotation can be recreated just like that!" Unknown to everyone there but Kurumi and Naruto who was expecting this, Hiashi felt proud due to the fact that a bijuu said that their clan's skill was something that she can use as an absolute defence, but he had a reputation to take care of, and thus he hid his slight smile beneath layers of rage. "A non-Hyuuga should not be able to use it!"
"And why is that?" Kurumi said.
"Because you didn't have the Byakugan!"
Kurumi laughed, to the confusion of everyone there except Naruto and Hiruzen. "Do you really need it for that skill? The Rotation, at its basic is just a method of making a thick, spinning chakra wall around you, deflecting all attacks and jutsus and making a safe area right around the user. Even from that alone, I can deduce that it takes a strong body, adapted to the rapid spinning speeds of the Rotation and a huge amount of chakra control to be able to push all your chakra out yet maintain it close enough to you to make the spinning chakra wall. Am I not right?"
"That's impossible! Someone like you cannot use it! I will make sure that you'll-" Whatever Hiashi was about to shout out was cut short by the gigantic wave of KI emitting from Kurumi, so palpable that you can almost see it. The civilian council already had most of their mouth frothing from sheer fear while most of the shinobi council was frozen on their spot, the sheer weight of the KI paralyzing them, but for Hiashi, he saw the Shinigami himself behind Kurumi with an evil grin, ready to take his life anytime. Even Hiruzen was scared by this point, especially when he knows that if she decides to go on a rampage, the only person who can stop her was Naruto who somehow had an ear-splitting grin on his face, making even that saving grace disappear.
"Watch your tongue, you insolent child." Kurumi slowly said. "I have lived for so much longer than you do. I was there after the Sage of Six Paths defeated the Juubi. I have been in all 3 shinobi world war, helped both Mito and Kushina in those war, saw Hashirama himself die against an entire army, saw him capturing my brethrens among other deed so great and crazy that even saying them will cause disbelief to all of you. Yet you dare say that I am unable to use it? Why? Because of your oh-so mighty Byakugan?" she slowly sauntered towards Hiashi, making sure her movements look extremely predatory and deadly at the same time. Her flowing black dress helps this effect even more as the people can see just how her steps could cause it to move hypnotically. Standing right beside the Hokage while still releasing her huge KI, she said "Now, tell me why can a skill not be recreated when someone sees it or knows the theory behind it?"
And just like that, the released KI was reined back, making the entire council let go a huge breath of relief due to the lack of the oppressing feeling. Hiashi, still standing while doing his utter best not to shit himself, said. "Because you have neither the bloodline nor the capability to do so! This theft will not go unpunished!"
Kurumi sighed. "Okay. Let me show you all of you something. A technique, inspired by another, yet both extremely powerful as a proof that one can duplicate a skill even without the necessary bloodline, power, nor capability. Watch." Her right hand suddenly erupted in a golden fire, causing the shinobi council (the civvies are still out) to gasp in horror except for Tsume, her partner Kuromaru and Aburame Shibi, the head of the Aburame clan, whose bugs are going haywire, saying that the life contained in those flames are too irresistible. Looking at the sight of an Aburame trying his best, and failing, at reining his bugs makes Kurumi laugh, though for no evil intent.
"Aburame-san, forgive me if this causes your bugs to go crazy. These flames around my arm are my bijuu powers, so to speak. When I became human, the demonic youki was purified, and became a huge ball of life force, attracting the attention of bugs and plants, since they are the beings most attracted to life force. I am sorry, but I'll need this to perform my demonstration." She then looked towards the entire shinobi council, her right hand still burning with that ethereal golden flame. "Have you ever heard or seen a bijuudama?"
Most of the shinobi council nodded their heads, having seen a jinchuuriki in action, though they've never fought against it directly. Suddenly, the feeling of an extremely powerful chakra was felt within the room, and looking towards Kurumi, they saw that she was creating a small ball of extremely condensed chakra, with a weird white colour and a black colour, with the black dominating the combination. They then saw that the two chakras are spinning around and being compressed so tightly until it becomes a ball of rapidly spinning, highly condensed chakra.
All the shinobis are in awe looking at the sight in front of them. The sheer amount of chakra they felt from that sphere was more than the chakra of everyone in the council (not including Naruto) including the Sandaime multiplied by a hundred! Inoichi had a thought within his mind at this point. "It looks like the Rasengan, but is much, much more condensed and powerful. Is this where Minato gets the idea for his Rasengan?"
Kurumi smiled when she looked at the awestruck faces of the council and the thoughtful look at Inoichi's face. She then lifted her left hand and created a Rasengan in seconds and places the two chakra spheres side by side. The shinobi council looked at this in shock, Hiashi still the first to shout out. "How do you know the Rasengan?! That was his private skill!"
Kurumi nodded before saying. "True that it was his private skill, but he taught me the skill for me to teach it to his descendants. Anyway," she looked towards the rest of the council. "What's the difference between the two of these chakra spheres?"
Inoichi answered. "The bijuudama has a whole lot more chakra, and the chakra is different."
Kurumi nodded. "Exactly. That is the only difference between the two. A Rasengan can drill a target to cause immense damage, while the bijuudama in my hand, if thrown, is able to destroy a quarter of Konoha in one hit." This statement causers the entire shinobi council to look at her in horror. Nevertheless, she continued. "The bijuudama is a skill only useable by a bijuu and his or her jinchuuriki. No matter how much a human try to replicate it, this is going to be the best they can do, since they didn't have the same chakra of that of a bijuu. It also comes instinctively to any bijuu, and this is their most powerful attack." She then dispels the Rasengan before grabbing the bijuudama and crushes it, returning the chakra back to her body.
Hiashi entered back to his rage mode before saying. "That is powerful, but it still didn't tell anything about how you could recreate the Rotation."
Kurumi sighed again. "I was about to get to that." She then looked towards the entire council, the civvies still frothing, though some of them have started to stir thanks to the chakra that the bijuudama emits. "That was a story of how a man tried to copy the skill of a bijuu, and its partial success. As you all know, I was a bijuu, a being of pure chakra. I am more in touch with my chakra and its nature, and the world itself when I was. When I became a hanyou, the characteristic remain, and due to that, I can perform a lot of things with chakra that other people are unable to comprehend. Performing such a shield with chakra alone was something that I can easily perform, though it still took a while for me to make my body adapt to the spinning. I even improved it, capable of making the chakra barrier around me from chakra control alone, spinning the chakra shell around me with nothing but chakra control. I call it the Spinning Wall jutsu (AN: Lame name, I know. Ideas, please?), and is capable of being performed like the Rotation, but due to the fact that I can spin it around me while standing, I can even attack with it or use a jutsu while the wall's up, increasing my offensive ability, though the wall, just like the Rotation, can be broken apart with the proper technique."
Hiashi fumed even more at this, his face gaining a reddish tint from anger. "Impossible! It wasn't called the Hyuuga's ultimate defence for nothing! Even you, as a hanyou, admit that it is powerful!"
Kurumi nodded. "Yes, I admit that it is powerful. But remember that no techniques are perfect. Every technique has its weakness and its strengths. It is up to the user to be able to use it to its utmost ability, while using it to protect their loved ones, and not to cause harm against innocents."
Before Hiashi could reply, Kurumi lifted a hand up to forestall any arguments that he may have, before coming up with an idea for her to get the Hyuugas off her back. "Alright. What about this? We could have a duel between the two of us, the Hyuuga Clan against me. You'll send your best Gentle Fist user with the most powerful Rotation, while I'll use just one jutsu to counter it. If I can stop the Rotation and disable or threaten the life of the person with that one jutsu, then I win, and you and the rest of the Hyuugas will not bother me about my usage of the Rotation and its variations that I've created or what I use it for. If you were to win by either me being unable to break through your Rotation or me being forced back with it, I will teach the Hyuuga clan both the Rasengan and the Spinning Wall, which I will demonstrate before the duel. Deal?"
So confident was Hiashi on the strength of the Hyuuga, he immediately agreed to the deal. "Deal. Now, how about we make a written agreement about it so that no one can argue with it when the side loses?"
Nodding, Kurumi agrees. While the two of them wrote the agreement on an empty scroll that was brought in by someone else, Sarutobi can't help but think that the Hyuugas are making a huge mistake with this. But he agreed that the Hyuugas need some lessons in humility taught to them, so he just lets them be. Besides, a little asskicking goes a long way.
A while later, the scroll was completed and shown to the Sandaime who checks that all the detail matched what they agreed and the blood thumbprints of the two, before placing his own stamp of approval and stores it for safekeeping, and agreeing to become the judge for the two of them. Inwardly, Naruto was laughing hard, knowing that there is absolutely no way for the Hyuugas to win. The deal was set for a later date, about 10 days from the council date.
He then sat back on his chair, before saying. "Now that the dispute will be handled at a later date, it's time we heard what the rest of the council has to say. ANBU, wake the rest of them up. The meeting has not yet finished." 3 ANBUs appeared to wake the civilians up while looking through the corner of their eyes towards Kurumi, who was smiling widely at the prospect of the duel, making them shiver in fear all of a sudden.
-BREAK-
While the council continues to talk (or bitch, for the most part), the sight of Hinata and Kushina walking side by side, back from their training (or genocide) at the Forest of Death just now was seen by the figure of Yamanaka Ino, who was currently talking with the rest of the rookies at a nearby fast food junction that sells a weird stuff that was a bread sliced in half, with pieces of veggies in the middle with a piece of meat in between. The owner called it a 'burger'. She ate it regularly, considering that with her regular training nowadays, she'll be able to burn all the fat in hours. She then looked back towards her friends, before saying. "So Kushi-chan's the granddaughter of the Yondaime, and a half demon as well, also the daughter of the Kyuubi? Totally didn't expect that to happen."
Inuzuka Kiba, the son of Tsume, answered. "Yeah! No wonder she smelled like foxes all the time! And she is strong too! Both of them are trained by the Kyuubi, right?"
Kurama Yakumo answered for Ino. "Hey! Don't talk about her like that! If not for Kurumi-san teaching Naruto on what he knew, I won't be here with you guys right now!"
Kiba's eyebrows went up at this. "Really? Why?"
And so, Yakumo told everyone there about her Ido, Naruto's support during her fight with it, her powers, Naruto helping seal the Ido and now she's more powerful than she was before and much stronger. After the explanation, everyone there had their mouth gaping due to the sheer skill that Naruto had even when he's so much younger than they are.
Kiba then said, "Wow! Damn he's good! Anyway, I guess her being a half-demon explained why she was so huge and powerful!" suddenly, a hand grabs his shoulder and squeezed it, causing him to jump in fright at the sudden touch. Turning around, Kiba and everyone there was greeted by the sudden appearance of the 6'3" Kushina behind him, Hinata following not far behind. Each and every member of the rookies are shocked at the sudden appearance of Kushina there, but they chalked it to the fact that Kurumi trained Kushina to be the best.
Kushina, grinning, said. "So I heard that mutt boy here," she said while squeezing Kiba's shoulder, causing Kiba's face to heat up in fear, considering what he went through with her during the academy. "Was talking about me and my mom. Care to explain?"
Everyone was having looks of fear on their face, afraid of what she might do to them if she knew. But she then let go of Kiba's shoulder, making him release a breath of relief that he didn't realise that he was holding. She then unsealed a chair before she sat on it, saying, "Hey boss! One of this double patty burger thing for me!" The owner of the shop then said "Okay!"
Looking back at the rookies, she said. "Relax. I heard you guys just now, and let's just say that I am interested enough to answer anything that you might ask. So, shoot."
Kiba was about to ask his question when Kurumi lifted a hand up to stop him. "From what I can hear just now, I guessed that you'd ask about why are we so huge and strong, right?" Kiba just nodded rapidly while everyone else listened well to what she was about to say.
"Well, one of the reasons is because of our extremely hard training, but the main reason is due to our bloodline." At this statement, everyone hearing Kushina speak was confused. The Yondaime was not someone of a clan with bloodlines, so how did his granddaughter have one? Before anyone can ask, Kushina immediately spoke. "Well, the reason why we had our bloodline is that my mom, Kurumi, or also known as the Kyuubi, granted it to my father when she was sealed within him. Her youki allows her to modify one's body, thus allowing her to give dad the bloodline that we have, though when she gained her human body, she lost both that capability and the youki was purified, turning her massive quantities of youki into a ball of life force, or we call it her purified youki."
Everyone's mouth was open at this time when they heard of what her youki does. Though, even Kiba realised that she still didn't explain what her bloodline can do. But once again, Kiba's thoughts was read by Kushina, who proceeds to continue her explanation. "Yeah, yeah Kiba. I haven't told you all what the bloodline is capable of. I'll tell you now, but some of the reasons why the bloodline is so will be a tad bit horrifying, though. So brace yourself."
"The bloodline is called the Astarte bloodline, a body based bloodline. It gave our body a myriad of new organs and improving the ones already there to work past regular human efficiency on certain functions.
The first is a combination of organs called, unimaginatively, the second heart, the Haemastamen and the Multi-lung. These three organs gave us an extra heart that gives extra blood flow to the body, a better improved blood oxygen exchange rate and an extra lung that can breathe underwater and within even the most toxic environment while improving the body's oxygen rate. This is so that my dad has near unlimited stamina thanks to a rapid oxygen exchange within the body, allowing him to run far, far longer than what a regular human can run, giving him the capability to run away if he was attacked, which the villagers did, as he said yesterday. The saddest part is that at 4, dad had his worst attack, before he gained the bloodline."
Everyone hearing this was horrified. He was attacked when he was 4?! What madness! Yet, they could see that if not for the attacks, he won't have such a bloodline. Sakura, ever the smart one, realised something. "There is no way only those two organs changed within you. There must've been some more."
Kushina giggled, before continuing. "Yup. There's more, though the reasons why they're there are going to get even worse.
The next are two organs named Ossmodula and the Biscopea. These two organs secrete growth hormones to the skeletal structure and the musculature respectively. The first will also improve the skeletal structure, making them denser, tougher while also using materials that are normally inedible and unuseable by the body such as iron, carbon deposits among others. This gives my dad near unbreakable bones and a stronger and denser musculature system, making people unable to harm or do too much damage to him if they managed to attack him and preventing them from breaking his bones. He can also use the stronger muscles to jump higher, run faster, or just punch through a wall to run away from mobs. It also had the side effect of rapidly increasing one's growth rate when they have the bloodline and makes our height extremely tall and our bodies extremely large. Thanks to these two, I am taller and stronger than all of you here, though I am just 8 years old.
The next is the Larraman's Organ that increases our already extremely fast regeneration so that small wounds heal in seconds, and even lethal wounds can be healed in seconds. We can even regrow lost limbs, lost organs, and also allowing us to be nearly immortal; nothing short of a decapitation or a full annihilation can kill us. It also had the side effect of making us immortal by age and giving us permanent youth, allowing us to live forever as long as no one chops our head off. Obviously, this is so that my dad can heal nearly instantly in seconds, allowing him to survive even the most severe attack easily.
The next is the Catalepsean node that allows my dad to do anything for days without sleep by shutting down parts of the brain unnecessary for the current condition to allow it to rest, or needing minimal sleep if any. I trained 24 hours a day without fail with this, only sleeping at the weekend for six hours. This is so that my dad can stay up and ensure that no one's coming to attack him again.
The next two organs are called the Preomnor and the Omophagea. The first allows our body to absorb any nutrient from anything while also filtering poisons and toxins, while also storing the information so that our body can reproduce them. The second allows us to absorb the knowledge from the brain of an enemy that we ate, giving us instant knowledge on what the enemy's skill was, his experience, his memories, his knowledge, everything. The first is so that my dad's body can still extract required nourishments even if he were to eat nothing but trash or even dirt since no one gave him any food. The second is so that my dad is able to gain the knowledge from people that attacked him instantly, allowing him to gain the mob's numbers or the person attacking him."
The people who are gathering around the burger joint, which increases in number somehow, was horrified at what they allowed the Yondaime's son to become, causing all of them to look downwards. But, a little tidbit there hits Shino, who decides to ask. "Forgive me if I am being too direct, but I feel that it is necessary for this to be asked. Does that mean that you'll eat the enemies' body?"
Kushina had a horrified look at this question. "What? No! Not that my body can't digest them and extract the available nutrition, but it is a horrifying act! Imagine if during a battle, your ally just ran towards a body to eat it. Even I find that terrifying!"
Yakumo then asked. "But you said that you eat brains!"
"That's something else, actually. We only eat the enemies' brains if we deem that they are necessary to be eaten, such as the brain of someone with lots of secret information or one with a powerful jutsu that can be used. Even I did that once in a while, though not often. My first was a bandit who I ran to when I'm 5 and I'm still unable to control my demon part. I just rushed at him before biting his thigh, making him fell down before tearing his skull open and eating his brain. Maybe a combination of the bloodline and the instinctive demon side of me made me do that. I don't know, and so does my parents."
Everyone there slowly gets away from her, though she notices this. She then looked back towards the rookies, all who are looking at her in a terrified look. She then sighed. "Chill out guys. Here I promise. As long as you stay loyal to Konoha, I won't harm you nor will I eat your brains or somesuch. But if you were to betray her, all bets are off. How's that?"
All of them still looked at her sceptically, though she ignores it and continued. "The next is the Occulobe and the Lyman's Ears, where the Occulobe are special eyes that gave us low-light vision, chakra vision and a much farther viewing range then a regular human's while the Lyman's Ears allow us to hear sounds that humans usually unable to while giving us a much stronger hearing than a regular human. These two are so that my dad can see in the dark and observe any threat coming his way or just by listening to them.
The next is the Oolitic Kidney, a special kidney that can filter any and all poisons, toxins and bacteria that entered our body and cleanse them while working in conjunction with another organ that allows it to recreate said poison or toxin to be used again. This is so that my dad won't be poisoned by what they slipped into his food. God knows how much poison my dad must've ate while he's at the orphanage. Maybe about 3 litres. Who's keeping count anyway?
The next is the Neuroglottis, an organ that not just improves our sense of smell and taste; I bet even the best Inuzuka hounds had nothing on our noses. They also can biochemically assess whether a substance can be eaten or not and allows us to track a target based on taste or smell alone. Once again, this is obviously to prevent my dad from eating inedible stuff, knowing the toxicity of a material or food that someone gives him or to smell any incoming attacks from afar.
The Mucranoid is another organ, one responsible to make our sweat coat our body in a sort of light armour, allowing us to work or fight in environment that most would consider deadly like zero gravity, vacuum and can even act as insulator that allows us to live and fight in extreme places. This is so that my father won't die just from someone freezing or burning him alive. They tried, oh they did.
The next are the Betcher's Glands, one located at the mouth in the saliva glands and another within our body. The ones in the mouth gave us acidic spit so that we can even spit our way to victory or to melt anything that we eat so that our body can digest it, such as concrete, steel, earth, tree bark among others. Also, the gland in the body reproduces the poisons that we ate or got injected with, allowing us to not just become immune to it, it also makes our blood a final vengeance weapon, where even a drop can kill someone with a variety of poisons. This poison information will also be inherited by the child, making the poison contained within the blood of each generation more potent than the previous generation."
Always one for a good story, Ino can't help a gasp when she heard the part about acid spit. "Wait! Then you'll melt anyone that you kiss!"
Kushina chuckled. "The acid spit will only come out when triggered, so in regular conditions, they will not appear, enabling my mom to kiss dad just fine. She thought about it already from the start. So, the two last organs.
The first is the Linker Core, an organ that becomes a second chakra production factory and control unit. With it, we can have impeccable chakra control, control at a level so high with only minimal training, and pretty much the reason why we can still control our bijuu level chakra. In fact, I am BORN with Kage-level chakra. It's going to be hard controlling it if not, that's for sure. It also automatically dispels any genjutsu placed on us through the help of the Progenoid Glands.
The last is the Progenoid Glands, a series of glands that acts as a second brain, controlling every function of both the new organs and regular organs and maintaining their work performance at its maximum. It also gave us enhanced reaction time, photographic memory and helps the Linker Core to release a chakra pulse when it detects genjutsu.
So there it is."
All of the people listening to them are utterly flabbergasted about the sheer potential and power of the bloodline. Just the strength that it can give was phenomenal! No one knew that it also had a lot of other functions as well! They are also horrified at why the extra organs are necessary for him, but they hoped that it's all in the past. Everyone knows now, right? But then, Hinata walked forward, before saying in a sweet voice yet harder than diamonds, "I hope that all of you will keep this a secret. We do not want anyone from trying to kidnap us just because they wanted the bloodline. Kushi-chan, let's go." And with that, Hinata turned around, before leaving.
Kushina did the same, but before she left, she had a last word for the rookies. "Oh, another thing. All those reasons why dad had the bloodline and their special abilities? He didn't get to use it for what they are for. Goodbye. Hina-mama! Wait for me!" she shouted the last part out, leaving the still gaping rookies there.
After a while, Shino, ever the logical thinker, spoke first. "Everyone, I suggest that we are to follow Hinata-san's wishes. Also, I am sure that I will not even try to harm them after this." Everyone just nodded at this.
-BREAK-
Both Hinata and Kushina reached home to the sight of both Kurumi and Naruto making out with each other heavily, one of Naruto's hand was caressing Kurumi's lone exposed breast while another was busy playing with her hair while Kurumi was rubbing Naruto's rock hard dick while playing with his back.
Already gotten used to this sight, Kushina just walked away, saying, "Hi dad, Kuru-mama. Go have sex in the room please. You two are clan heads now, so having an ANBU suddenly appearing when you're about to have sex in the living room is going to be awkward."
Naruto stopped making out with Kurumi, only to switch to the petite figure of Hinata who suddenly appeared between the two, wanting her own make out session with Naruto. Placing her boob back into her dress, Kurumi said to Kushina, letting Hinata have a go at Naruto. "Kushi-chan, you should know better. No one can enter if we didn't let them in, so that just won't happen. Besides, you know we love each other, right."
"I sure do. Anyway, most of the clones have finished their missions, so we might just be able to take C-ranks tomorrow." Kushina said, before climbing up the stairs to go to her room. Looking at this, Naruto grins, before continuing his current activity, with Kurumi joining in for more fun.
But Hinata suddenly breaks off, her face flushed with lust. "Naru-kun, I think that now that we are full ninja's, I can give myself to you completely tonight and become your wife completely, body, mind and soul, if you let me. Tonight, I want you with me, in me. Do you want to?"
Naruto was pleasantly surprised at this, so he said "Of course I want to! But are you sure about this? I will not be angry at you or anything, but since you took so long to allow me, I'm afraid that you might want to take it longer."
Hinata just lightly kissed Naruto's lips, before saying. "Yes, Naru-kun. But now, I am sure that I am ready, mentally and physically. Yours and Kurumi-chan's training helped a lot too. I am ready now, and with the life expectancy of ninjas, I felt that there is no better time than now."
Naruto just grins, before shifting his arm underneath Hinata's knees before lifting her up bridal style, with her making a shocked 'eep' at this action before Naruto kissed her forehead. "Then prepare, for I will make sure tonight, and every other night afterwards will be a night you won't forget." With Kurumi following beside him, he carried Hinata into their room, ready to give a five year long-delayed deflowering to the ex-Hyuuga heiress.
-BREAK-
The next morning, Anko went into the house, but instead of Kurumi inviting him in, Kushina was the one doing the inviting. Confused at this, she was about to ask when Kushina said. "Relax, Anko. Dad and both mom was having a fun night yesterday." Immediately getting her point, Anko let loose a perverted giggle, that made Kushina comment on it. "Always the sex lover, eh?" Anko's giggles just got harder before she said, "Yeah, you know me. Sadly for me your dad's fixated on his two. If not, I might just ask for permission to join in. Unlimited stamina, huge body, just what I'd always wanted!"
Kushina just waved her off. "Naah. Dad ain't going to do that. In fact, I bet that you'll get thrashed so badly in the next spar against him that you won't be walking out the hospital for a week. Or a month. Or more. Dad's extremely loyal and extremely loves both his wives and both my mamas, so any suggestion like that is just going to get you a one way trip to the hospital, or morgue."
Anko laughed. "Yeah, yeah kid. I know. Anyway, what happened yesterday?"
"Well, me and Hina-mama came back from the Forest of Death and went inside the house to the sight of dad and Kuru-mama making the hell out with each other, and Hina-mama suddenly wanted to join in, and 'gave herself to him completely, mind, body and soul', or so she says. Never heard them though. Dad's seals are too good for something like that."
"And why are you so calm about watching your parents making out like that?" Anko asked Kushina, confused at why she's acting so relaxed about something like that.
Kushina shrugged, before answering. "Well, when you've caught the sight of your parents having sex like, everywhere and had the birds and the bees talk, sooner or later you'll think that watching your parents making out or having sex is just a normal thing, though I'd have to say that dad didn't actually want to make me see it, it kinda just happens. Can't help the fact that we hanyous are very horny most of the time.
Anko tsked. "Dammit. If only Naruto wasn't too tight about who he had sex with."
"I sure as hell don't go around fucking anybody just because of my unlimited stamina and extreme sex drive, you know."
Naruto's voice coming from directly behind her caused Anko to jump, considering that she didn't even feel the arrival of the person. Turning around, she saw Naruto in his regular clothes, though his face was glowing somehow. Anko, being as blunt as she was, asked, "So, finally become newlyweds eh?"
Hinata who was having a slight limp was walking behind Naruto when she heard this, giving her face a blush. Anko then took a peek towards her, before saying loudly, "Damn! That must've been a good one! She can't even walk right!" Hinata's blush became redder at this point though the smile on her face gets wider. Anko then looked back towards Naruto before asking. "So, how long did you two go at it?"
"Anko, why the hell are you bugging around with our sex lives?"
Once again Anko was shocked out of her boots, but this time, it's due to Kurumi who appeared out of nowhere, grabbing her shoulder. Slowly, Anko turned around, only to come face to face with Kurumi whose face was rife in unbridled fury even if she was smiling. Somehow, Anko realised that the smile was more dangerous than anything she had ever seen, and that weird purplish aura coming out of her really makes her look even more deadlier than she ever can while still maintaining a sweet smile on her face. Anko who knew better pushed her arm from her shoulder before saying "Alright you guys! Meet me at the missions office! Bye bye!" and leaving like a bat out of hell. Watching this, Kurumi giggled, saying "She's funny when she's scared, you know." Naruto just sighed at the morning antics between the two of them.
-BREAK-
Arriving at the missions office, Anko was hoping to shake the poor chuunin behind the counter once again, until she saw the face of the Sandaime behind the counter, his Hokage robes and hat on him as usual with his fingers crossed between each other, shoulders placed on the table, his face right behind his crossed fingers, giving him a scary, intimidating look. The only thing that Anko could do is "H-h-hokage-sama! Why are you here?!"
Still having that weird glow within his eyes, he placed the bridge of his nose on the fingers, giving him a more intimidating look. He then said. "I decided to handle the missions counter today. I have Shadow Clones performing my tasks, and if there is a need for me, I'll be able to appear there in an instant." Suddenly, the glow turned deadly when Sarutobi asked "Anko, I've heard that your team performed 1,700 plus D-ranks yesterday. May explain?"
Anko was sweating bullets by this time, thinking of a way to answer the hokage when the figure of Naruto appeared beside her, saying "Relax old man! We just don't want to get stuck doing D-ranks for too long, so we decided to use Shadow Clones to do all those menial chores, so that today we can take C-ranks! I assure you that we'll be the first genin team in the history of the Elemental Nations to take A-ranks!"
"Naruto, you of all people should know that D-ranks are to build teamwork ability among the team members. And another thing, genins can't take anything higher than C-ranks."
Naruto whined while making his best puppy dog eyes, which totally didn't fit his looks."Aww, jiji... Can't we take some C-ranks today? Besides, you already know that our skills are top notch and that our teamwork are impeccable. I think you should just let us take some of those C-ranks. Besides, we just cleared up all those D-rank backlogs for you, right?"
Sarutobi just sighed. "Alright. First things first, stop making that face. It didn't fit you." Naruto pouted, a look that was extremely unfitting his face and his gigantic stature. It even caused Hinata to giggle lightly, while Anko and Kushina, having no such restraint, laughed their ass off. "Second, yes I know." Sighing while rubbing his head, he said, "Alright, alright. I'll give Team 11 a C-rank mission."
As Sarutobi was rummaging around the pile of scrolls for a suitable mission for Team 11, Naruto said, "Jiji, just one? I am sure that we can do more of those C-ranks."
Sarutobi stopped his actions before looking at Naruto straight in the eye, while Naruto didn't even look scared at the glare the 'God of Shinobi' sent to his direction. "Naruto, what do you mean by 'do more of those C-ranks'?"
"Well, we can use Shadow Clones, and-"
"No." Sarutobi forcefully said.
"Aww... why...?"
"Naruto, C-ranks involve combat, and Shadow Clones can't last more than one hit. Sending them will mean a disaster!"
Naruto pondered this for a while, before saying. "Then, what about this? I can create a seal that can channel chakra from me to Shadow Clones. The chakra will be used to recover themselves. I'll act just like the youki core for my bug clones, so they'll remain, and we can perform more C-ranks. I know that you know that they work well enough. In fact, I showed you almost all of my regularly used jutsus. Even you know that this seal can work well. The only time that they won't work too well is if someone sent an attack that completely annihilates them, and owners of such an attack is totally difficult to find. They'll be able to take care of themselves. So how about that?"
Sarutobi slowly stopped glaring towards Naruto, before replacing the glare with a sigh. "I know of that seal. The chakra transfer seal wasn't it?" Naruto nodded."*sigh* Well, I guess that you can take some C-ranks. But know that it's because I am confident in you and your team, and all of you better not fail that confidence!"
Naruto mock saluted the Sandaime. "Alright jiji! We'll make sure the missions are completed successfully! And just to be sure, I'll also paint Hiraishin seals on the clones so that the entire team can be there when necessary. Is that fine?"
Sarutobi noddd. "That's fine, but I want to see the process of seal painting on the clones. Is that fine?"
"Alright! No problem!" Naruto answered in a chipper tune. Turning back towards his team, Naruto said, "Okay! Let's make a hundred clones!" "YOSH! Answered the entire team, before walking outside the missions office, Sarutobi following behind. And in a shout of "Shadow Clone!", a hundred replicas of Team 11's members appeared, and Naruto immediately begin painting them with the chakra transfer seal and the Hiraishin seals so that they can appear if necessary in an instant, Sarutobi watching all of this as if he was used to it (which he does).
After that was done, they went inside again to get their mission scrolls, and after all of them received the scrolls, they all went to their respective missions. Sarutobi just watched the backs of the Uzumaki-Namikazes, while reminiscing about how fast they grew up, from a kid to a giant of a man, from a shy, petite, scared girl into a strong, brave and powerful kunoichi, from a recluse to a recluse with a lot of power and from a little girl into a gigantic lady. Still remembering the past memories, the chuunin who was supposed to man the missions office stood beside the Sandaime while also watching them leave. He then asked the Sandaime. "Hokage-sama, is it a good idea to give them all that many missions? They may be the Yondaime's son and granddaughter, but giving a team that many missions would make even them screw up a little."
Wordlessly, he turned around, intend on entering the office again, before answering the chuunin. "I don't know. I honestly don't. But if there's one thing I know of, it's that they won't disappoint me in anything, for any reason whatsoever. Nor will they fail the village. I trust them to act as befitting a Konoha ninja."
And with that, Sarutobi entered the missions office, hopefully being able to ward off some of the incoming headache that might happen from his recent decision...
-CHAPTER END-
Well? So how was that? 23 thousand words dude! Hope this compensates the lateness of this chapter. I was actually hoping to place a lemon for Hinata's deflowering, but since I found out that I can't type lemons worth shit, I was hoping to have someone else type them for me if possible. Anyone interested? Anyway, read and review!
