Disclaimer: If its Naruto, I don't own it. If someone else owns it, I definitely don't own it.

Warning: OCs OOCs Sues, and some crack. You have been warned.

Note: AU.

Note #2: Read Lost if you want something more serious.

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Screw It

Chapter Ten

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It was a rather hectic morning that Madara had woken up to, it was exactly six years since he began his new life in the world, it was also Naruto's sixth birthday, meaning that he would have to open up the second floor for a birthday party for Naruto. He'd also have to gather up some of his ninja to join the celebrations since Naruto knew them as some of them worked part-time in the restaurant. Usually as punishment, it was the worst thing that could happen to any Found-nin, not only did they have to blend in as citizens of Konoha, but they also had to perform at their best, meaning that they had to do as their demonic co-workers did. The ones assigned as kitchen staff had the worst of it, they had to deal with the Demon Lords, not all of them at once, but which ever one was second head chef, head always being Madara or one of his Ultimate Bushin, something that he had picked up from a Bushin Book written by a man named Rosuto Juushu. Madara would also have to invite some of the Anbu to come to the party, since they were also another group of people that knew Naruto. The Hokage would obviously be attending, along with whoever he decided to bring. There were also a few members of the various clans of Konoha that would be in attendance, these people being the ones that did not see Naruto as his tenant, and on occasion had helped the young lad. Ayame would also be in attendance for obvious reasons. Madara would also have to prepare all the food for the party, including a lot of ramen, and maybe even a special ramen cake.

Madara got out of bed and did his morning rituals, but instead of his usual clothes, he wore an entirely orange set, even the weapons he had on himself were orange. After finishing with his dressing, he went to his tweenaged daughter's room and woke her up, even though she would be attending the party did not mean that she didn't have things to do in the restaurant, she was the floor manager after all, as well as the employee supervisor, the boss of all the employees outside of the kitchen. Ayame unlike her father did not opt to wear a full orange suit, and just changed from her pajamas to regular clothes. After eating a quick breakfast the family of two left their home and headed for the work.

Most people were still asleep by the time the two arrived at the restaurant. Ayame went about getting into her uniform, while Madara remained in his orange clothes, not that it really mattered as most people didn't see him anyway. Madara went into the kitchen and passed his hand over the seal that would alert the employees that it was time to work. Once Ayame was in her uniform, which consisted of a blue short sleeved shirt and black pants, she had a little nametag pinned to her shirt that read 'Manager' and her name. She too like her father passed her hand over a seal, which also summoned the employees, as well as activating all the seals that made the interior of the place what it was.

The employees arrived one after the other, all of them appearing already in their uniforms, and ready to work. Today's secondary head chef was Kyuubi, making his assistants all kitsune, the kitchen staff depended on the Demon Lord, the kitchen staff was made up of the ruling class of the Makai of the lord in charge, the ones working outside the kitchens were a mixture of all the other Makai, none of them being from the ruling class. They may be servants of Madara, but that did not mean that he did not pay them, they each had a salary in ryo, so they could have some fun in Elemental should they wish it, they would be able to experience the joy of spending hard earned money.

But by this time not all the employees were demons, there were a few human employees as well, all of whom were shinobi that needed the extra cash, the Hokage didn't mind so long as they were able to perform and go on missions. Madara didn't have a problem with that, he actually encouraged it. But being shinobi made Madara watch their performance, he thought of their working for him as a way for him to train them into being better at their main job. Madara allowed the use of Jutsu in his restaurant so long as it was used for work. Ninja could spar for all he cared as long as it was integrated in work. The practice scared a few customers at first but after a week or two they got used to it. The ones that sparred while working were mostly chuunin, and the occassional jounin. Madara even created a point system for his human employees, similar to Employee of the week, it was shinobi of the week, the points were determined by how well the shinobi performed all in all, including their spars, as well as interaction with the customers.

At some point in time the Hokage decided to have a silver haired Anbu named Inu work part-time in the place, coincidentally at the same time as Maito Gai decided to try working part-time at the place. Their spars were considered legendary by customer standards, since they really did pull out some powerful skills, but even with all the chakra being let loose in the air and the like, the seals made doubly sure that the customers were always safe, but the two elites didn't know that, the customers guessed it but were never given confirmation.

On some occassions, the ninja customers would participate a little in the spars, and cause distractions by throwing shuriken, kunai, and at one time senbon, the demons always ran interference with these thrown weapons all the while doing their jobs, they also returned the thrown weapons to the thrower, along with a score card, with ratings on speed, accuracy, precision, and control. On a dare, a rather rare thing, Hiruzen had sent a wave of kunai at the human employees, then used Kage Kunai Bushin no Jutsu to multiply them, to the amazement of all that were present, all the ramen orders flew out and knocked all the original kunai into an open pouch which was delivered to the Hokage, the other kunai were all forcefully dispelled by the bowls. After that incident the Hokage was banned from doing anything of the sort in the restaurant by a pink clothed Madara who was holding a spatula in one hand and a cookie cutter in the other.

After the first customers arrived Madara left the kitchen in hands of one of his Ultimate Bushins, and teleported to his office in Hidden Found. Once there he had his clone henge into an Anbu and deliver the invitations to the jounins that were invited to the party. There was a teleportation pad in the office, which would be used by the jounin, it was created through runes and seals, and to use them required a one time use only key made by Madara, which usually was just a slip of paper with his chakra in it which would react with the chakra of one other person, the person that Madara allowed to use the teleporter. After that was done he dispelled the clone to gain its memories, then created another one to take its place.

Madara knew that Jiraiya had stumbled upon Akatsuki, along with some wrong information about the group, information about gathering the Bijuu or something like that, very much similar to Madara's past life. Sure the Hidden Villages and whatnot hired Akatsuki to do their dirty work, but the deal about the Bijuu was different this time around, good thing Jiraiya didn't have any info on the members yet, since Madara intended to bring Sasori, Deidara, Zetsu, Pein, Konan, and Kakuzu to the party, all of whom had already met Naruto, and the blonde had somehow befriended each of them.

Finally with everything prepared for the party, Madara left the restaurant again, but this time in search of Naruto to bring him to his party. By this time it was the afternoon, and the rest of the populace was already in party mode, it was the Kyuubi festival of course, starting on the day Naruto was born, it was a week long affair, it was also a week long hell for Naruto, which Madara and the Anbu knew it to be, since Madara had to come to the rescue of the boy a number of times. Even though Konoha was obviously not a place where Naruto should spend his childhood, Madara could not take Naruto away from the place, since when he offered the youth the chance to leave Naruto declined the offer saying that he would one day show all of Konoha, that was also the first time that he had proclaimed his dream of becoming Hokage. Madara was the first to hear it, and not the Hokage. Naruto told him not to tell the old man, saying that it was a secret, so Madara did not tell anyone. He also did not have the heart to take Naruto away from Konoha after that proclamation. The burning will of fire, of determination in the young man's eyes was enough to convince Madara that Naruto would survive, live and survive, somewhere along the line Madara had forgotten what it felt like, but after experiencing it again, he knew that even he, should he have been given the chance, would have chosen to stay in the hell hole than leave it.

When Madara left his restaurant he changed into his usual clothes so as not to draw any unwanted attention to himself, the orange was for Naruto anyway. His search for the blonde led him to the bar district, luckily he had arrived when he did, some drunks, even though it was afternoon, had conrned Naruto in an alley, the young blonde had nowhere to run or hide, from the dangerous and drunken citizens. Before the Weasel masked Anbu could make his move, Madara struck at the drunks, all of drunks, at the exact same time, or at least that was what most would have believed. Everyone in the area had been temporarily knocked out cold. To the Anbu present, one moment everyone was on their feet, after he blinked they were all unconscious, and Naruto was being lifted off the ground by Ichiraku rame chef. Itachi made himself known when the danger to his charge had been wiped out. He jumped down from the roof that he was perched on.

"So Itachi-san, are you coming or what?" Madara asked while walking away.

"H-how did you do that? You're only a civilian?" Itachi asked while he followed.

"We'll talk, after the party, ok?" Madara said.

"I guess..shouldn't we hurry up?" Itachi asked.

"Let's," Madara said as he took to the rooftops, making it obvious that he was no ordinary civilian.