I'm ending everyone's suffering, enjoy.

Epilogue

And they lived...

Naruto came back to Konoha under the accolades of a hero. Unanimously the council decided that on his sixteenth birthday Naruto would become hokage. Tsunade decided to reward Naruto in stopping Pein, defeating Madara, and bringing back the majority of Konoha's shinobi by releasing him from his duties as a Konoha shinobi, much to Naruto's joy and the council's displeasure.

Naruto left to become a professional gambler, did ridiculously well and eventually started some casinos. He would often visit Tsunade, and his others friends in Konoha. When he was thirty he grew board of running the casino's and handed their management over to his wife, Hinata. He then finally took the council's offer and put on the Hokage hat. After which he finally disbanded the stinking council and reorganized it.

Shikamaru and Naruto remained best friends, And when Naruto became hokage Shikamaru became Naruto's second in command, and chief liaison to Suna where he would often take his wife to visit her brothers.

The rest of Konoha also lived, and as they lived they got more and more used to the crazy betting antics of their gambling hokage. Comforting themselves with phrases like, "at least he always won, unlike other Hokages they'd had."

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A/N well that's the end. Thank you to everyone who reviewed and favorited my story. :) TAS