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 Eleven
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The party had been a success, the Hokage was present, the Found-jounins didn't miss it for the world, a few day-off'ed demons showed up, the Akatsuki showed up as well, as were one or three clan members from the various other clans, the Hyuuga had eight members in attendance, even the Uchiha had representatives in the form of Itachi, in Anbu form, and Mikoto. A few uninvited, but not unwelcome, guests also joined the party, it was the author of Madara's Bushin book, Rosuto Juushu, he brought a book on chakra control for Naruto.
There had been fun and games, and eating and drinking, juice only, then there were the cakes, there were two cakes, Madara made a regular chocolate cake that looked like Gamabunta in icing, and a ramen tasting cake that looked like a steaming ramen bowl. It was one of the rare times that Madara allowed Naruto to eat something that was technically not healthy, no one but he knew that of course, not even Ayame.
Once the party drew to a close sometime after eight, Madara and Itachi volunteered to help Naruto bring all of his gifts back to his apartment. Once the Hokage left, the two men began sealing all the gifts in separate scrolls depending on what they believed to be inside the wrapped packages. The trio walked the whole way to the apartment building which, Madara actually owned, the man had bought the whole apartment complex to make sure that Naruto's life was a little bit easier, sure he still had to pay rent, and bills, but they weren't as high as when the previous owner had him pay them. The youth's living conditions were renovated and made new, sort of. The apartment complex had gone through a number of changes, most of which were to the whole look of the place, from furniture to the walls, the wiring, it was as if the whole complex was rebuilt from scratch, which it wasn't, it was just upgraded by a few levels. Another change to the complex were the inhabitants, some were kicked out, some were kept, and some were added, the most important criteria in being allowed to live in the complex was that the people should acknowledge the fact that Naruto was not the demon he contained. The complex was run and maintaned by a crew of demons, as well as some Found-nin that needed the extra cash.
Naruto's living quarters were actually the penthouse, while Madara didn't live in the place at all, he lived a few blocks away from his restaurant, in a house, no longer a cramp living space, but a house that he had bought a year after the stand was upgraded. The apartment now had an elevator which most of the civilians used, shinobi chose the stairs over the tight space that barely had any fighting room or more than one viable exit, jumping in through windows was a no-no, same went for jumping out. Even if the apartment was yours, it was against the complex's myriad of rules, one chunin found that jumping out, thinking that it wouldn't hurt, hurt a lot, there were a lot of security measures in place. The Anbu had been sent to test out the defenses of the place once it came to the Hokage's attention that someone had bought the place and changed it drastically, he wanted to know how safe Naruto was in his new-old home. The only Anbu that managed to enter was none other than Tenzou, and that was after having to extensively use his Mokuton ability. If only one Anbu could get in, with lots of scratches to boot, how would any run of the mill assassin, or plain civilian be able to endanger the child's life and home. Even the sewers underneath the complex were fortified. No one would outright die from attempting to break-in, but whomever tried would have a hard time getting away.
The Konoha citizens rejoiced when they saw the Anbu attacking the complex, with jutsu even, they thought that the Hokage had finally seen the light, and most were even openly cheering on the Anbu, but when they saw the Hokage with Naruto beside him on a roof, they refrained from shouting out the youth's secret, and some realized that something was amiss. The Anbu too at that point realized that something was seriously wrong with the picture, they were using heavy duty jutsu and there had yet to be any visible structural damage to the place. When their assult had finally ended, after Tenzou limped out of the complex lobby doors, the Hokage decided to have a go at it. He found to his dismay, that even he the "God of Shinobi" was unable to do more than shake the place up. After that little show of Kage-level force, the last line of defence for the building manifested, the Hokage had apparently done some damage to the structures inside the building, within the walls, in places not visible to the eye from the outside. The lsat line of defence had managed with its appearance, to freeze all the onlookers, especially the Hokage, since it was a man, or as they would later find out an automated battle puppet, that looked like Uchiha Madara the village co-founder, complete with armor. The puppet had a bowl of steaming ramen in one hand and chopsticks in the other and it was seated on one of the wires around the outside of the complex.
"Halt all hostile actions against the complex or feel the wrath of Uchiha Madara puppet version thirteen!" was the announcement made by the puppet.
After that little display someone in the crowd decided to see what it would do, so that person threw a rock at the place, which prompted the puppet to act, it threw one of the chopsticks it was holding in the direction of the thrower, then it dropped its jaw to release a gout of flame in the direction of the thrower. But before either attacks could hit their target, the stick was snapped back, and the flame extinguished.
"Sorry 'bout that! The friend-foe control seals haven't been finished yet!" the head of the complex's security said, while he dropped down all the defenses back to level one, which was what it was at during the start of the assult.
After that incident the apartment complex was deemed as one of the safest places in all of Konoha, barring the Anbu HQ, the Hokage Tower, and the Konoha prison. Which made applications to rent a unit skyrocket as compared to before, who cared if the demon brat lived there, it was the best place to live in, next to having one's own house, it was affordable too, it was also strategiacally placed near most of the important districts of the village.
Back to the present.
Madara and Itachi had laid out all the scrolls in one corner of the sitting room, Itachi then made sure that Naruto had his bath, changed into his sleep clothes then went to sleep.
"He's sleeping, we can talk now," Itachi said as he reappeared in the sitting room from the bedroom.
"Simply put, I'm Uchiha Madara, and no I am not some poor sap named after the greatest nuke-nin to ever leave Konoha, I am the real immortal deal," Madara said.
"Uhm..technically as a nuke-nin of such high ranking I would have to try and dispose of you, but since you have not been in the Bingo Books for a long time, I wont do that, but..err..why are you helping him, and why are we having this conversation?" Itachi asked, since it truly was a puzzling thing, Madara was supposedly the most powerful Uchiha the clan had ever produced, as well as the most feared out of all the nuke-nin the village had ever had the misfortune of ever having.
"To answer your question, I'm helping him because I can, and because its partially my fault that he's in the situation he is in, as to the conversation, well, you're the first Konoha-nin to witness what I can do. Which comes to my other reason for talking to you, I believe that you can become the next me with a little bit of training, me in the sense that you would be recognized as one of the best that the clan has ever produced, so whatcha think? Train under me?" Madara replied to Itachi's questions, as well as asked one of his own.
"Normally I would be considered crazy to refuse such an offer, but why should I train under the one man that deserted my clan?" Itachi answered with his own question.
"Let's just say that I suffered from having Multiple Personality Disorder, and am only now trying to right the wrongs that my other personality had done while he was in control, as they say the more power the person's got, the more likely that he's crazy, no?"
"Is that all?"
"Fine. How about my lust for power has waned, and I only wish to see the world become a better place, with myself helping in that dream's fulfilment," Madara decided to say.
"I think I'll go with the first reason, and just accept the training," Itachi said.
"Good, good. You know technically since Ayame is my only child..though not by blood, I'm still clan head, haha, ain't that great, that also means that your father does not have the clan seal," Madara decided to inform the younger man.
"W-what?"
"Yeah, so while under my tutleage, secret tutleage and all that, if the clan plans on doing anything..like say go into civil war mode, you tell me about it, and I'll help deal with it, I'll go so far as to write up something real official, I'll use the seal too."
"A-alright, so..now what?"
"Now, I go home, and you do whatever it is you do, when you're off duty come by the restaurant so that we can begin your training, bring Naruto with you too, when he's not in school or anything, he could use a bit more help than I'm sure the academy is willing to give," Madara said before he left the apartment.