Disclaimer: Legal mumbo jumbo: I do not own Naruto verse in any way shape or form. All characters and places within the show or the manga are the property of someone else. Only this idea is my own. Here is the final chapter. After this there will be an epilogue but then the story is ended. I hope you all read and enjoy.

The Honeymoon Mission

by The Mother Rose

Chapter Ten:

Before noon the next day everyone knew there was a new genin girl in the village and she was on Team Seven replacing Uzumaki Naruto. Asuma had told Sarutobi, Natsu's lie about Naruto and the reasoning behind it as soon as he got home the night before. So first thing in the morning Sarutobi had called the council and other higher ups together and told them the same story. Naruto was tired of shouldering all the grief of the village all the time for events he had no say or control over and so he had left for a distant outpost. He would not be back until such a time as he was needed or could be convinced he would no longer have reason to fear for his personal safety. Since Sarutobi didn't name an outpost, he didn't have to worry about anyone sending for confirmation of his arrival but he knew those who knew Naruto and were not his enemy would know Natsu was still here. Those who weren't his friends, knew nothing of Natsu but would not inquire anyway just being glad to be rid of the threat they thought the boy represented to the village. For everyone else, he sent a message to Jiraiya to send communications back every once in awhile claiming to be from him but nothing too specific or racy. Naruto might have been rude and sometimes crude but he was never sexist or the type to tell off color jokes. He sent samples of Naruto's handwriting so Jiraiya could pracitce the style and get to know the boy he was to portray in those communications lest someone figure out Naruto wasn't out there from what he said or how he said it or wrote it. Sarutobi had no doubt more than one of Naruto's enemies had seen his handwriting a time or two and would know it if they saw it again.

Since he had given Kakashi and Natsu the week off and Sakura as well, Sarutobi had Gai pick up Sasuke for taijutsu training while Asuma handled his nin and ken jutsu training until the rest of his team was ready to be active again. Both jounin had agreed to work with the Uchiha longer if Kakashi still wanted to be alone with Natsu and Kurenai told Sarutobi to send Sakura to her if Kakashi was not ready to go back to work when his week was over. She didn't like it that a thirteen year old girl was getting all her innocence taken away from her like that but Asuma had explained everything to her before they came in. She knew the marriage truly was the best outcome for Kakashi's little wife. All three told Sarutobi that newly married people quite often needed more than a few days to get used to being married. Add to that the fact that being able to actually openly be herself was likely to cause more problems than Sarutobi had ever really thought about for Natsu. While they agreed Sakura really only needed a week of coddling time with her Mom and the support of Ino, Hinata and Tenten, Natsu was a different story. Natsu didn't have any girlfriends to help her adjust and she was bound to be afraid of appearing in public period without some very firm support she knew loved her. So the three jounins would handle Kakashi's genin until Natsu could face the village as herself.

Sarutobi nodded knowing he hadn't considered that side of things at all. Not once had he thought about the fact that living in secret as she had Natsu did not have any friends her own age or the effect that would have on her now. Naruto had been barely tolerated by his peers but they didn't even know Natsu. He called in his council of advisors who had helped him raise the girl and laid the problem on the table for them all. Hiashi said it would actually be a simple matter to solve. He would send Hinata with Neji as her bodyguard over to meet Natsu that afternoon when she was finished with her team training. He knew Hinata would find the fairy girl enchanting because his Hinata was too gentle not to. He didn't bother to explain his entire clan knew Naruto had never really existed and even though Natsu had cooked up the story about Naruto choosing to leave Konoha his law with his clan was very much still in effect. If any of his clan spoke of the girl being the demon carrier they would die before they finished the sentence. He would not tolerate her getting hurt over something she'd had no say in.

Hinata wasn't sure what was going on that afternoon when her Otousan told her and Neji to go to Hatake-san's home to meet his wife. She knew she should have an invitation if this was something formal she was expected to bring a gift or something to but since he hadn't said any such thing she wasn't sure just what was expected of her.

Neji was just as perplexed as he walked alongside his gentle cousin to the address Hiashi-sama had provided them. But when he knocked on the door he found Kakashi was expecting them both. He invited them inside and told them what was going on before he asked them if they wanted to meet the real Naruto. Hinata nodded shyly all the while wondering why he thought she hadn't known Naruto was really a girl. When Kakashi had settled the teens in the den of his home and come in with refreshments for them she hesitantly asked, "Natsu-chan? Why did Kakashi-san think I did not know you were a girl? We went through the academy together and I do possess a working Byakugan."

"Again no one asked me who knew from who doesn't, Hina-chan. I guess they thought because you never showed you knew and neither did anyone else from your clan, then the henge was not penetrable by your clans eyes."

"Actually that was more because Otousan threatened to kill the first Hyuuga who mentioned the truth even if they were only talking to their mirror," said Hinata, smiling wryly.

Neji smirked and said, "He actually did kill someone he caught talking about it once. I remember wondering what girl was masquerading as a boy and for what reason. Now it makes sense but then it just gave me more reason to think the main branch was high-handed with the lives of the branch family."

"Your whole clan knows?" asked Kakashi.

Hinata nodded. "Otousan found out when I came home asking him why Uzumaki Naruto was hiding in a henge and pretending to be a boy when she was actually a very cute girl. I was only seven and didn't know the facts of life yet or that it was a secret no one was supposed to know. Nor did I know anything about henges at the time. Otousan went and dug around some and came back telling me no matter what not to tell anyone I knew the truth. He said it was done for Natsu's own protection since she is and always has been an orphan and some people don't like her very much. He told me if those people knew she was a little girl she could get very badly hurt and maybe die from it. Later on I found out what he meant but at the time I didn't need to know anything more."

Over the course of the following week Hinata was at Natsu's side as they worked to bring her into the light of the village. Hinata was a calm support for the small girl helping her explain where she had been to the other girls and why they were finally being allowed to meet her. Sakura joined the two girls and Hiashi always made damn sure Neji was close at hand also. Now that Natsu was Kakashi's wife, he just knew a single person allowed to hurt the tiny girl would lead to a bloodbath.

Ino was jealous at first but when she found not only was Natsu not interested in any of the village boys but already married to Kakashi-Sensei, she came around very quickly. She took on the daunting task of initiating Natsu into the world of the teenage girl but Kakashi put his foot down when it came to anything remotely resembling being a fan-girl of any boy for whatever reason Ino claimed someone was drool worthy. Natsu had just smiled and laughed every time Ino tried to convince him it was a normal thing for a teenage girl to do. Nor would he let her talk Natsu into putting up pink things in his room or hanging posters of supposed superstars on his walls. It became a game between Ino and the jounin as to what teenage things Natsu was going to be allowed to indulge and which ones were off limits as a married woman sharing her bedroom with Kakashi. Natsu and the other girls just stood back and watched the game play out. The end result was Kakashi gained his own niche in the gathering of the young people that he would not have otherwise had since he was a jounin-sensei to three of their number and of the decade before theirs.

Tenten took to teaching Natsu kunoichi skills along with Hinata and Kurenai and Ino joined the sessions as did Sakura. So to all extents and purposes Kurenai actually had two teams she was training. But the red-eyed woman didn't mind at all knowing full well the bonding the genins were doing was probably one of the most important things they would ever do and to see Kakashi's Yoosei being accepted by her true peers was worth all the tea in Tea Country. Everyone who met Natsu soon began calling her Yoosei much to her disgust and Kakashi's amusement.

But the guys of her generation took a little longer to come around but then they had a different reaction to her than the girls and the older generation did. Kiba just could not get over the fact that his nose had not told him Naruto was a girl. Nor was he willing to accept her story of being Kakashi's wife no matter how much proof he was shown. He insisted, like Hinata, she was just playing hard to get and would come around to see she was best off with him in time. He simply would not believe he was not the best looking guy she could get and he was determined to show her exactly how women should behave around alpha males like him. Even the clan dogs had tried to warn him the girl had another alpha and was not interested in him but Kiba wouldn't listen. As determinedly as he'd once chased after Hinata's skirt he was now panting after Natsu's.

Shikamaru took one look at her, got a bloody nose and passed out. He didn't even have time to mutter his catch phrase. All the rookies just stood there staring at him wondering if he'd just decided it was time for a nap or if he really had passed out like they thought he had. When he woke up again Ino was giving him a bad time for passing out the way Hinata was known to do while everyone else was laughing at him. But Natsu wasn't even looking at him. She was with Kakashi, Sasuke and Sakura and definitely the center of their group. Kakashi had taken a possessive and yet protective stance behind Natsu clearly showing his claim on the tiny girl. Shikamaru bowed his head in acknowledgment of the message Kakashi was giving him.

Chouji almost forgot to eat for a full day when he saw her. He knew instantly who she was because the form might be a girl now but the mannerisms were still Naruto's. They were just a hell of a lot more fitting now than they ever had been on him. To him, whatever reason Natsu had chosen to hide as Naruto was none of his business. One look had told him if she was single there would be entirely too many guys on her skirt for her to ever look twice his direction so he had gone back to his normal routine without a qualm.

Shino sent his bugs to see if she was really telling the truth and that night he and his colony had a very serious falling out over the fact that the bugs had not noticed the henge that concealed Naruto. It took a visit to the Hokage's office to fix things between the bugs and Shino, who did not want to hear any excuses from the bugs. He also didn't care who she was associated with. His only concern was that there had been a person in the village who was not as they had appeared to be and his bugs had not caught it even though he had known Naruto for years. They had sat in the same corner of a classroom for most of their years in the academy and the bugs had suspected nothing. To Shino, the bugs had allowed themselves to get overwhelmed by the bad chakra and looked no farther and that was inexcusable.

Lee didn't understand what all the fuss was about but he also didn't think it was very youthful of Naruto, as he insisted on calling Natsu, to hide herself the way she had. Gai had to take him aside and very firmly told him to never call Natsu that name again. He then punished Lee for having done so already and promised the boy that if he ever heard of Natsu getting hurt because Lee forgot, his punishment would be ten times worse than what she suffered from it. But he told him Kakashi would have something very nasty to say to him if Yoosei Girl got hurt because Lee couldn't remember her name. Lee got the message very quickly when he had to be carried to his home by Neji. Neji wasn't any too gentle when it came to dealing with the injured Lee which let him know he wasn't any happier over Lee's slip-up than Gai was. He also delivered his own warning to the bowl cut boy to watch his mouth or suffer because if anything happened to Yoosei because Lee shot his mouth off Neji would take the blame from his Uncle for having failed to properly school his teammate and for having failed to protect Yoosei. And if Neji suffered damn sure the big mouth that led to it was going to suffer as well.

Team Seven settled into their roles as village guards and decoders pretty smoothly since both Kakashi and Sasuke knew they needed children before it would be safe for them to be the same kind of ninja they had been before Sasuke grew up and Kakashi had found Natsu. Since Sakura was reassessing herself, she also didn't mind being on duty in the village. She knew she needed to grow a lot before she went into the field. She needed to find a new direction for herself and that was going to depend on finding out who she was and what made her happy more than any fairytale romance story. Being a part of a Honeymoon Mission once in a lifetime was enough for her. She never wanted to do that again. And Natsu was simply too used to being told she needed to be sheltered and protected to question staying in the village now. It was just another facet of her life to date and absolutely nothing new.

Sarutobi did avoid becoming the ball in a new pasttime game for Konoha residents but he still spent more than a few weeks checking and double checking everything Natsu or Kakashi could have possibly have gotten to. They however were bidding their time. They wanted him to relax and think they had forgotten about their revenge. He did. And that was when they struck. Natsu snuck into his office and replaced all his tobacco with tea leaves while Kakashi, Sasuke and Sakura slipped around the village buying up every single leaf and bud available. Even Asuma fell in with their plan and hid his cigarettes so his Pops couldn't just take his until the shops got a new shipment. An anguished wail came from the tower as Sarutobi discovered what they had done. He looked out his window to find a huge banner telling him in no uncertain terms "NO MORE MATCHMAKING."