"Naruto"- Person Talking

'Naruto' - Person thinking

"Naruto"- Demon/Summon Talking

'Naruto' - Demon/Summon thinking

Italic - Letter/ Journal

(A/N: Author's Note)

Disclaimer : I do not own Naruto.

Summary: Namikaze's are the cousin's of Uchiha similar to how Uzumaki's are the cousin's of Senju. Naruto Uzumaki Namikaze, Only child of the Minato Namikaze and Kushina Uzumaki among the triplets who is unable to use chakra. Only to be used as a scapegoat to the Kyuubi's attack then married to Fourth Raikage in a political marriage to prevent war from breaking out. Will she be able to unlock her chakra, will she find the love and acceptance that she always wanted...? Sharingan/Wood Style/Rinnegan Naruto. God like Naruto. Alive Minato & Kushina. Neglect Naruto. Fem NarutoXA

A/N: Hi guys, I know that it's been almost three months since I have last updated this story and I apologize for that. I will try to update it more often and I AM NOT ABANDONING THIS STORY.

First of all, I got a few request to change the A's and B's names. So from now on I will be addressing them as Ay and Bee.

I also got some of the flamers from guest. One of them complained about the lemon scene and about Naruto's submissive nature. Let me tell you something first. Their marriage was arranged and both of them doing it for the first time so I took that into the consideration before writing it. and regarding Naruto's submissive nature. Have to read about how many things she hide it from anyone and kind of treatment she went through in the leaf village?. So obviously her nature will be submissive at first. She will come out of her shell slowly as written in this chapter.

One more guest has written about Naruto's abuse in leaf village. You forgot about one thing my friend, Minato himself allowed her treatment. Normally they would be too fearful to do that , but after letting the first villager (drunk) go without any punishment, others will get the obviously get the courage to do that if they hate this person too much.

kingthe13: Your ideas has some merit but i don't think that it will affect the tailed beast and regarding imagining A's saying all that, think about me, how I am imaging it to write it, when this is my first story and most probably will be the only one.

Queen of the Snow-Wolf: Whether Itachi will be joining the Kumo or not, I want to keep it as a suspense, but I can tell you one thing. He won't be dying in my story.

Light Lord Cybergate: I think that this chapter will give you the answer to your question and thanks for the head's up. I tried to be as careful as possible, but I apologize in advance if I had made any mistakes. Unusual pairing. isn't it?

seouldjinn: why were you feeling weird?

DualStarduster: Thanks for the support, but some of the reviews are criticizing me for the same. At some of you are appreciating my work.

Piro-san: Hi piro. It took me more time to update my story in comparison to yours. I was planning on doing the same. As you will notice in this chapter, They have started teaching her everything from the basics. In last chapter, She was only telling and showing them some of her skills, but that doesn't mean that she has mastered everything.

legojoe: I am working on my grammar and sentence formation. Regarding Minato, We all have our own opinions. As I have explained in old chapter's AN. I dislike some of his decisions, especially concerning Naruto and using the reaper death seal. If Kushina can contain it fully then why can't Naruto?

DannyPhantom619: I think most of your questions can be answered by this story's summary itself. Summoning contracts? I am not sure about that.

idea getthe: . As you will notice in this chapter, They have started teaching her everything from the basics. In last chapter, She was only telling and showing them some of her skills, but that doesn't mean that she has mastered everything.

roboguy45: He is going to try that for sure, but I have something in mind. Stay tuned to find out.

icefox: There will be time skip after this chapter. As you might have noticed, since chapter 8, only 2 weeks has been passed. So I have to pick up the pace.

Angel 01 Phoenix / Thetigerlovecats: Wow, didn't knew that somebody has liked my story that much. Sorry for the delay.

Mr lava123: Sorry to say this, but I really don't want any discussion on this topic. I got enough flamers and explained myself many times earlier, But thanks for the support.

Sunrisehime: Oh hell no, No way at all. No child till at least she is twenty. I don't want to deal with flamers once again.

Chapter 13 - A Helping Hand

Next Day Morning (Yotsuki Mansion - After Breakfast)

All three members of the Yotsuki family are eating the breakfast. They had already finished their daily morning training routine. They have started the day quite earlier than usual, so they got the enough time to train her in various fields.

The training was brutal in Naruto's opinion. At first, Ay had forced Nauto to the ground with exhaustion by asking her to do various types of physical exercises; started with running multiple laps around the training ground, followed by multiple sets of pushups, sit ups, pull ups, squats, etc., and that is after tying twenty five pounds of weights on each of her limbs, to build her speed and stamina. After that, all of the Naruto's trainers had trained her in chakra control. Since she has already mastered the surface walking and water walking exercises, they have asked her to practice them once again while sticking many leaves on multiple parts of her body.

They have also explained to her the difference between learning a technique and mastering the said technique. They have told her that a master of a technique can perform it with much less hand signs to none. They have also explained to her the importance of basic three techniques and asked her to master them to a point where she won't be needing a hand sign to execute them perfectly.

While they didn't know about the extra training regimen that Naruto has set for herself. Naruto has also decided not to inform them about it, so that she can surprise them later.

After Naruto finished her breakfast, she picked up her plate and created a shadow clone to finish her household works.

"You know, I think you are really abusing your ability to create these clones of yours," said Ay in a teasing voice.

Naruto let out a chuckle and thought about what Ay will say, when he find out about her training with shadow clones.

"I have to go to the library to return the books that I bought yesterday. If you need anything else while I am out, then you can ask my clone. I will be back in a couple of minutes, then we can go to your office. You enjoy your breakfast till then," replied Naruto.

"I surely will, and one more thing, I know that you are going to use body flicker, but try to be as discreet as possible since we don't want many people to find out about your chakra right now," said Ay.

Naruto nodded and said "I will use a nearby alley to body flicker, then I can walk the rest of the distance. Will that be ok?"

Ay nodded in response as Naruto used the series of body flickers to reach the same training ground, which they have used this morning and created one hundred clone once again and said "Ok listen all of you. Use the same training regimen as yesterday's and if any of you manage to finish your book, then go to the library and get a new one. You can use the body flicker if you want, but if you are doing that then use the nearby alley. Got it?"

"Hai boss," replied all of the clones in unison.

Naruto knew that she was lying to Ay in a sense, but it was not a total lie since her clone will be doing the exact same thing which she told Ay.

With that Naruto body flickered back to Yotsuki mansion both Ay, and Naruto went towards Ay's office as Bee has already left to meet with his team.

Raikage Tower

After arriving the Raikage's office, Ay picked up a paper from one of the many stacks placed on his table, arranged earlier by Mabui before she departed for her mission. While Naruto went to check the rest of the paperwork and started arranging them according to their priority order.

After she finished arranging the already filed paperwork, she said "There are some documents that your other temporary secretary marked as important. I think you should go through them first." as she placed all the paperwork in their respective piles before continuing, "I'll go and start arranging the newly arrived paperwork on the secretary's desk," said Naruto.

Ay nodded and started going through the paperwork before saying "Please check the list of the appointments Naruto-chan and let me know the schedule."

Naruto nodded before walking out of the room and set on the secretary's desk. She picked up the scroll and went through the Ay's schedule before notifying him and started arranging the paperwork.

Naruto was so engrossed in arranging the paperwork that she didn't even notice a presence approaching her, until a voice called her out.

"Is that you, Naruto-sama?" asked a man, after making his presence known.

A sudden voice startled Naruto as she almost jumped up from her seat and almost thrown all the papers into the air, but she controlled herself in the nick of time and turned towards the source of the voice after regaining her composure and said "Hmm, yes... And who you might be shinobi-san?"

"Oh, Sorry for startling you Naruto-sama. Oh, and where are my manners. My name is Dodai. It is a pleasure meeting you personally," said now identified Dodai.

Naruto eyes widened. She has heard about him from Ay. Apparently Dodai was the one who taught Bee, one of Ay's and his signature move Lariat, Lightning Release: Lariat, and Lightning Relase: Double Lariat, etc.

Naruto rose up from her seat immediately and bowed before saying "I am sorry for not recognizing you Dodai-sama and it is my pleasure that I finally got to meet you, but please don't call me Naruto-sama, since I have not done anything to earn that kind of respect from you."

By saying what she said, Naruto has earned a great deal of respect in Dodai's eyes. He has heard a few things about Naruto. At first he didn't believe in any of it, but didn't voice it since he liked to be the judge of one's character himself, and from what he has seen in this small interaction with Naruto, he has to say that all of the good things he heard about her seems to be true. So he gave her a small smile and said "You don't have to bow to me as well Naruto-sama. As for not addressing you as Naruto-sama, Well, I only got one thing to say; Darui has explained to me a few very interested things about you and I have to say that you have earned that right."

Naruto released a sigh and said "You are not going to drop it as well. Right Dodai-sama?"

All she got was a small smile as a response. She released another sigh and set back on her chair.

"So, you are acting as Raikage-sama's secretary today?" asked Dodai.

Naruto nodded and said "Mabui-san went for a mission yesterday and Raikage-sama was having some trouble with the paperwork, so I volunteered for the job and he agreed."

"Good to know. By the way, Is he free right now?" asked Dodai.

"He is only doing the paperwork at the moment, so you can go inside," replied Naruto.

Dodai nodded and knocked the door of the office and went inside after getting the permission while Naruto went back to arranging the paperwork once again.

A couple of minutes later, another person walked in, but this time Nauto was attentive to her surroundings and looked towards the new presence.

There was a boy around Bee's Genin teammate's age. He was wearing normal cloud shinobi attire. He had shoulder length straight blond hairs and brown eyes.

After reaching the secretary desk, he leaned forward and said in a flirting voice "Hey there sweetie, I have never seen you here before. I have to say that you certainly give a new meaning to the word hot. My name is Atsui, Would you like to go out with me for lunch today?"

Naruto was looking at Atsui with a dumbfounded expression on her face. She doesn't know how to reply to the proposal since nobody has ever asked her out back in the leaf village. Fortunately for her, help has arrived at the right moment.

"Stop flirting with Raikage-sama's wife, Atsui," said a new voice.

Both of them turned towards the voice with the different expressions on their faces. While Naruto has relieved and thankful expression; Atsui on the other hand has the horrified expression on his face.

Standing a few feet away from them were Bee, Karui, Omoi and Samui, and judging by the angry and disappointed look on Samui's face, who was standing a couple of feet ahead from her teammates; It was clear the she was the source of the voice.

"W..w..wife?" asked Atsui with a hint of nervousness and fear.

All colors drained from Atsui's face after Samui nodded in confirmation.

Samui turned towards Naruto and bowed before saying, "I apologize for my brother's behavior Naruto-sama. He can lose his cool sometimes. He was out of the village for a C-rank mission, so he didn't hear the announcement."

Naruto nodded and said "No problem Samui-san, but I didn't know that you have a brother?"

"He is my twin brother to be exact," replied Samui before turning towards Atsui and said "What are you doing here Atsui and where are your teammates?"

"One of my teammates got injured so our sensei took him to the hospital and asked me to file the mission report," replied Atsui with nervousness evident in his voice.

"Then do that and leave fool ya fool before bro decided to put you in place of the practice dummy for his iron claw," rapped Bee.

Atsui nodded fearfully and handed the mission report to Naruto before apologizing for his behavior and left the office like Shinigami-sama was pursuing him.

"I still can't believe that they already got a C-rank mission while we still are doing these so called D-rank mission," said Karui in an irritated voice.

Naruto perked up at this and asked in a teasing voice, "So how was your missions?"

All of them looked towards Naruto angrily, who has put an innocent expression on her face.

"How can you be so cruel. Do you know how much flesh those hawks bite off when we were sent to capture them alive?" said Karui.

"Rapper got banned from doing rapping while these brats were cleaning the old library," rapped B in a dejected voice.

"And don't forget the public toilet that we had to clean," said Omoi.

"While we had unbearable amount of weights strapped to out limbs. That was certainly not cool," said Samui as she shook her head.

Naruto let out a giggle and said "I hope that your today's mission will be as exciting as the previous ones."

Naruto let out another giggle after seeing the evil looks they were giving her and said "Please go inside. Raikage-sama is waiting for you." while giving them a mischievous grin, which sent a shiver down to their spine.

A few minutes later they came out of the room and Naruto asked them "So, which mission you guys got?"

All of them started crying rivers of tears and said in unison "Cleaning the whole sewage system of the cloud village.", forcing Naruto to let out another fit of giggles.

Raikage tower - Lunch Time

Many people came and went. Many stopped to greet her or get to know her. Some went directly inside the Raikage's office after a nodding towards her in approval. After a few hours of hard work, Naruto looked towards the wall clock, only to realize that it was lunch time already. She decided to call Ay, so that both of them can go back to their home for lunch. Since he was quite engrossed in the paperwork, she doubted that he will notice that it is already lunch time. She had already instructed one clone to prepare the lunch for them before leaving the compound in the morning.

She knocked the door and entered inside after getting his permission. She came face to face with a funny situation, for her that is. Ay was furiously signing one paper after another.

After a few moments of silence, Ay looked up from his paperwork only to realize that it was not a random shinobi, but his wife, who is waiting patiently to get his attention.

"What is it Naruto-chan?" asked Ay.

"It is already lunch time Raikage-sama. Let's go back home. My clone has already prepared the lunch for us," said Naruto.

"You go Naruto-chan. I am very busy. I still have too much paperwork to catch up with," replied Ay.

Naruto sighed and nodded before walking out of the office. She had expected that Ay will say something like that. After closing the door behind her, she created a clone and dispelled it immediately, letting the other clones know about what she wanted them to do.

After a few minutes, a clone body flickered right in front of the secretary desk and handed over a couple of Bento boxes to her, before disappearing in the cloud of smoke.

Naruto rose up from her seat and went inside the Raikage's office once again, but without knocking the door this time.

Ay looked up once again after hearing the door open and he was surprised after spotting Naruto inside his office with a couple of Bento boxes in her hand.

Naruto walked up to the couch and placed the Bentos on the table and said "I brought us the lunch Ay-kun. Come here and eat the lunch with me. You can continue your work after lunch."

Ay shook his head and said "I told you Naruto-chan, I am very busy. I don't have the time for that."

Naruto frowned and said "Everybody needs food to work efficiently and you are no exception and this time I am not going to take no for an answer."

"But..." Ay started, but Naruto cut him off in the mid sentence.

"No buts. I think I already told you that I am not going to take no for an answer," said Naruto.

Ay let out a sigh and said "Fine, but tell me one thing, what caused the sudden change in the attitude. When I told you earlier that I am not going to have lunch, you didn't say anything and simply left the office. But right now, You are trying to boss me around."

Naruto knew that Ay was trying to crack a joke, if the slight mirth in his voice was any indication, but decided to humor him and said "That time I was your secretary, who was supposed to follow your every order; but this time, I am your wife, who won't allow you to continue your work with empty stomach."

Ay let out a chuckle and asked "Is that is why you are calling me Ay-kun now instead of Raikage-sama, like how you were calling me in the morning."

Naruto nodded and said "In the morning, you were on duty and I was working here as your secretary, so I was calling you Raikage-sama, but right now I am your wife, so I am calling you as Ay-kun. It is as simple as that. Now stop being stubborn and come here and eat lunch with me. You finish your lunch and I might give you some suggestions to reduce your work load. I might even teach you a jutsu that will help you to finish your paperwork much faster."

In a blink of the eye, Naruto found herself lifted off the ground, in the arms of the Ay, who was hugging her tightly while saying "Please Naru-hime. Please teach me the way to defeat this paperwork. I will do anything you ask for. I will give you anything you want. Please tell me." almost begged Ay.

All the ANBU hidden inside the office sweat dropped after seeing their Raikage's antics, but they couldn't blame him. They have seen him struggling to finish the paperwork for many years and they know that it has almost driven him to madness. So they can justify his actions.

Naruto blinked in shock before she shook her head and said "Fine, but first put me down and finish your lunch, only then I will tell you."

Ay nodded and put her down immediately before he himself set on the coach. Naruto handed him over a Bento before taking the last one for herself and they both started digging in.

Naruto knew that Ay was anxious, so she started talking between the bites.

"Ok, first of all, Let's talk about D-rank missions. I have noticed that we are rejecting some of the D-rank missions. Missions, no matter what rank is the key to the village economy. Then why are we rejecting so many D-rank missions?" asked Naruto.

"No higher rank or experience ninja accepts those missions and we don't have that many newly graduated Genins, who can complete all of those missions." replied Ay.

"Then we can assign easier and less time consuming D-rank missions to final year academy students, while offering less than usual pay. It will not only provide them some extra pocket money, but it will also give them a bit of training in teamwork. It will also help the village to determine that who can work better with whom and it will help you when you in choosing the teams at the time of team placement. While all the saved money we got from these D-rank missions will be added to the village's treasury." said Naruto.

Ay thought for a moment before asking, "But who will observe them?"

"Chunins and Jonins, who are on medical leave or some experience ninjas who wants some easy cash. I am quite sure that we will find many volunteers, since not many wants to avoid a chance to earn extra money while doing nothing but observing and guiding some of the students when they are doing those missions," replied Naruto.

"I thought you were going to tell me the ways to reduce my paperwork, not increase them," said an annoyed Ay.

"I will come to that shortly. But for now, what do you think about my idea?" asked Naruto.

"It will require a slight change in the curriculum and I will need council's approval for this, but I doubt that Council will approve this idea," Ay finished with a sigh.

"Oh, they will approve. As you might have noticed that most of the easier D-rank missions are requested by council members. All you have to do is reject some of their D-rank missions and when they ask you the reason for the rejection, You can say that we have an influx of many important D and C-rank missions and all the Genins got occupied with that, before putting this proposal on their desk," replied Naruto, with the glint of mischief visible in her eyes.

"I am starting to like this conversation Naruto-chan. What else have you got? Tell me, I am all ears," replied Ay, while letting out a grin.

"Ok, the next point of discussion is D-rank mission reports. Tell me, why do you need to go through all of the D-rank mission reports. I mean, they are nothing but chores?" asked Naruto.

"We ask the Genin to write the reports to give them the practice for when they start taking higher rank missions," replied Ay.

"But why do you need to go through all of them? Couldn't their Jonin sensei check their mission reports. They are experienced ninjas after all and it is their responsibility to teach them these sorts of things. You can also have your Jonin commander to go through all the reports of the C-rank missions, while you go through the B-rank or higher," replied Naruto.

"Hmm, I think you are right when you put it in this way. I will look into it. If this worked out, then it will reduce my work drastically," replied Ay, while grinning slightly before continuing, "Now all I need to do is convince the council, but again, I don't think that they will agree on this no matter what, unless you have something already planned."

Naruto let out a shy smile in response and scratched the back of her head in nervousness.

"So, You do have a plan. Care to enlighten me?" asked Ay.

"I do have a plan, but I am not sure that whether you will agree to it or not. But let me finish first before asking any question, ok?" asked Naruto and continued after seeing Ay's node, "A Kage has to be the strongest ninja of his/her village and he/she has to remain the strongest. So if you are doing nothing but going through paperwork all day, then you won't get enough time to train properly and somebody else will surpass you. So all you have to tell them is if this continued, then you have to hand over the hat to the strongest person, who just happen to be Bee-sama. Everybody knows that he won't agree to take the hat normally, but if somebody put it in his mind that nobody will be able to stop him from rapping and won't be able to stop his rap consorts that I heard so much about, then we all know what he will choose. I know what you are thinking, but this is just to put the fear of Bee being the Raikage in the councilors mind and we all know what will they choose, right?" finished Naruto while letting out an innocent smile.

The whole time, All the ANBU hidden in the office looking towards Naruto in awe. Their mind couldn't even comprehend that they're shy and selfless Naruo-hidenka has come up with such a devious plan. Only one thought was running through their mind, 'I have to make sure that I never mess with Naruto- hidenka and I should also inform the others to do the same.'

Ay's shoulders started shaking at this point. Naruto looked towards him in concern, but before she could have said anything, Ay burst out laughing and said "Ha ha ha ha, Oh we all really know what they will choose. Tell me Naruto-chan, how did you come up with this plan?"

"Well, I didn't call the most unpredictable person back in the leaf village for nothing," replied Naruto while giving him one of her sweet smile.

"Now I can understand why they called you that," Ay said between his laughter.

Ay has calmed down after a few minutes and asked "You also said something about teaching me a way to defeat the paper?"

Naruto nodded and said "We should go to the training ground then. It shouldn't take that much time to learn the technique that I am about to teach you. So you will have time to catch up with your paperwork later. Shall we go then?"

Ay nodded and both of them body flickered towards training ground, but with all their talking and Ay's haste, Naruto has forgot to dispel her clones. So it goes without saying that her secret is about to be found out by Ay.

Training Ground

After both of them arrived at the training ground using body flicker, Ay looked around and shocked to find out that around hundred Naruto's clones were doing various things. He looked towards Naruto and asked "What is this Naruto-chan?"

Naruto let out a nervous smile and cursed herself mentally for forgetting about her clone before saying, "This is the technique I was going to teach you Ay-kun. As you might have already guessed, they are shadow clones. What you might not know is that there is one thing special about shadow clone. You see, while Shadow Clone Jutsu is a forbidden technique of the leaf village, because of the chakra consumption and too fragile and can be dispelled after one hit, the main advantage is that the user gets the memory feedback of whatever the clone has learned over its lifespan before dispelling. That is why they are perfect for the scouting, paperwork and if you have enough chakra, then training. That is what they are doing right now," finished Naruto as she pointed towards her shadow clones.

Suddenly she found herself being hugged tightly by Ay, who was continually saying thank you over and over again. Naruto let out a sweat drop after seeing her husband's antics.

"So you will learn everything whatever they have learned after you dispel them, Right?" asked Ay in astonishment, after releasing Naruto from his hug.

Naruto nodded and said "Yes, I will, but I can't use them for physical exercise. We have to work on that on our own."

"Since how long you are using them for training purpose?" asked Ay in concern.

"Since the day I unlocked my chakra," replied Naruto sheepishly.

"That is why you were able to learn all of those techniques so quickly?" asked Ay.

Naruto rubbed the back of her head after being caught red handed and nodded in response.

Ay signed and said "I know that you know your own limits Naruto-chan, but please be careful. Using ten or so clones for training is fine but what you are using over here is one hundred. If my theory is correct, then a technique like this can put a lot of pressure on your mind and can do some mental damage if not used carefully."

Naruto nodded and said "For the normal people, yes, but not for the jinchuurikis like me. I know that there is a slight risk for even for a jinchuuriki, that is why I am only using one hundred, not more than that and Don't worry, I will be careful. I promise.", with determination in her eyes before she started explaining him the Shadow Clone Jutsu.

Raikage Office (Half An Hour Later)

Ay was laughing like a mad man while constantly shouting on top of his lungs 'Take that Tou-san, I have finally found a way to defeat this cursed paperwork', as his ten shadow clones were going through the paperwork at an insane rate. All the ANBU hidden inside the office were thinking the same thing 'Has Raikage-sama finally lost all of his sanity?', but none of them were brave enough to voice it.

After learning the Shadow Clone Jutsu, Ay has hugged Naruto with all of his might, making some of her bones crack, due to enough pressure. Fortunately, Ay had released her after she let out a cry due to the pain and apologized profusely. Thankfully, she has Kurama sealed inside of her, who has healed all the damage done to her body in a span of a few minutes.

Naruto, who was standing in front of his desk, looking at the scene with amusement in her eyes. Suddenly a look of concentration came to her face before she created a clone and immediately dispelled it, which Ay noticed and asked "What is it Naruto-chan?"

"Some of my shadow clones just got dispelled. Apparently they have finished the weight seal and gravity seal. I asked them to test it on a couple of the shadow clones, while asking others to continue working on restriction seal. They should be able to finish it by the end of the day," replied Naruto.

"And what do these seals do?" asked Ay curiously.

"As the name implies, weight seal increases the weight of any object. The more chakra you put in them, the more heavier they become. They can be applied to the training weights to make them more heavier by adding the chakra, instead of adding more weights. Gravity seal increases the gravity around you, thus making you feel heavier than normal. Restriction seals restrict your movements, forcing you to put more efforts even for a simple task such as moving. They are great for training purpose, making you faster, stronger and they also help in increasing the muscle density," replied Naruto.

"Hmm! Can you put them on me?" asked Ay with glee. He couldn't help himself, since all his life he felt inferior to his father because his flesh was hard has steel. He always wanted to surpass his father and now he has found a way to accomplish that.

"Only after their testing is finished, since we don't want any accident now. Do we?" replied Naruto.

Naruto continued after seeing Ay's nod, "I'll leave you now so that you can finish your paperwork. But don't overexert yourself.", with that she left the office and went back to the secretary's desk.

Night Time (Leaf Village)

Inside a bar, we can find both of the loyal Sannin of The Village Hidden in the Leaves, talking with each other over a few bottles of sake.

"How are Mito and Menma?" asked Tsunade.

"They were a bit shaken up, but they are doing fine now. Some villagers have tried to target them again, but their ANBU guards stopped them before they could have inflicted any harm," replied Jiraiya.

"I couldn't understand, why Minato didn't do the same for Naruto-chan when she was here? He has no problem in doing that for Mito and Menma?" asked Tsunade.

"I think he was so stuck in his belief on Mito or Menma being the child of prophecy that he completely forgot about Naruto-chan and I think he still believe in that. That is why he is trying so hard to protect them, unlike Naruto-chan. You know, sometimes I believe that it was my fault for what happen to her. If I haven't told him about the prophecy, then they would have protected her also," replied Jiraiya.

"Don't be silly Jiraiya. It wasn't your fault. You did what you thought was right at that moment. If it was any once fault, then it was Minato's and Kushina's and to some extent mine, not yours. So stop blaming yourself and man up," replied Tsunade.

Jiraiya let out a small smile and said "That is what I like about you Tsunade-hime. You know exactly what to say to make one feel better."

"I know what are you trying Jiraiya. Flattery will get you nowhere," said Tsunade.

"Hey! The girls from all over the elemental nation throw themselves at me because of my charm and manliness," replied Jiraiya.

"Then it's too bad that it will never work on me," replied Tsunade with a straight face and soon both of them burst out laughing.

"It's been a while since I laughed like that," said Tsunade after cleaning a tear, which has been falling out after laughing so hard with her left hand before continuing, "So what are your plans?"

"Minato and Kushina have invited me for dinner, but I don't think that I will go over there. I simply can't stand for them after what they have done to Naruto-chan. To be frank, they disgust me," told Jiraiya.

"So you too, huh. Can't say that I am surprised," said Tsunade.

After a few minutes of silence, Tsunade asked "Do you think that Naruto-chan will be alright? I am afraid about how Ay will react after learning about Naruto-chan's ability to use chakra."

"She will be fine Tsunade-hime. I am quite sure of it. Ay, must have accepted her otherwise he would have sent a messenger bird immediately after learning about it. Besides, it's no big deal since he already knew that Naruto-chan might be able to unlock her chakra in the future," replied Jiraiya.

Tsunade nodded and said "When are you leaving?"

"Why? Are you going to miss me hime?" asked Jiraiya.

"You wish, pervert," replied Tsunade.

"So cold, I am hurt, hime," told Jiraiya.

"Stop fooling around Jiraiya and tell me when are you leaving and when will you come back?" asked an irritated Tsunade.

"Fine you spoilsport. I am going to leave tomorrow morning and I don't know when I will come back. My spy network has picked up some information about our wayward old teammate. Apparently he has joined an organization consisted of S-Rank missing ninjas, but betrayed them a couple of years ago. This organization worries me Tsunade. I am not sure about their numbers or about their motive, but a group of ninjas of that caliber can't be a good news for anyone and just think about their leader. He has to be insanely strong to control the ninjas of S-rank caliber," replied Jiraiya.

"You can't be serious, Jiraiya?" asked Tsunade, with shock evident in her voice.

Jiraiya nodded grimly and said "I am afraid, I am hime."

She looked a bit shocked and tried to comprehend the situation. After a few minutes of silence, she decided to ask him about his plans to visit the cloud village.

"Will you come with us when the time will come for us to go to the cloud village after six months?" asked Tsunade.

"Hey, no matter how busy I am, I am not going to miss this opportunity to meet my favorite goddaughter," replied Jiraiya.

"Like you won't visit her while travelling," said Tsunade sarcastically.

"Only if I am near the cloud village. I still need to find more information about Orochimaru and this new organization," replied Jiraiya before both of them ordered their dinner and continued chatting casually.

Same Time (Namikaze Mansion)

Kushina was setting up the table for dinner. Minato has just came back from his office and went towards his room to change into his nightwear.

"Hey honey, Where are the kids?" asked Minato after coming down from his room.

"They are in their room Minato-kun. Dinner will be ready in another few minutes," replied Kushina.

"How are they holding up?" asked Minato.

"They are a bit shaken up, but they will come out of it eventually," replied Kushina.

"I have invited Jiraiya-sensei for dinner, but I guess that he won't be joining us since he isn't here yet," said Minato.

"Why is that? He has never missed any opportunity to taste my cooking before?" asked Kushina in a bit of shock.

"I think he hasn't forgiven us yet. He met with the kids in the evening and told them that he will be leaving tomorrow morning. He hasn't even come into my office since we came back from the Iron country. He has even stopped calling me 'brat' like he used to. Even though it used to irritate me whenever he used to call me 'brat', but I can't help but hope that he will start calling me that once again," said Minato.

Kushina started to tear up and said "Everything is falling apart Minato-kun. Our family is falling apart."

Minato rose up from his seat and hugged Kushina before saying "I know Kushina-chan. I wish I could say that everything will be fine, but the truth is that I am not so sure about that anymore, but that doesn't mean I... no we won't try our best to fix everything."

"But what about Naruto-chan? We have hurt her Minato-kun. How do you even know that she will forgive us in the future if ever?" asked Kushina.

"I am not sure about that. All we can do is hope for the best and pray Kami-sama that Naruto-chan will find in her heart to forgive us," replied Minato.

Kushina sobered up after a few minutes and asked in a soft spoken voice, "How do you think she will be doing over there? Will Ay be treating her properly? Will she be happy over there?"

"As far as I know Ay, he is a man of his words. He promised me before leaving that he will treat her like a princess and I am sure that both of them will at least try their best to make each other happy," replied Minato.

"I hope so too Minato-kun, I hope so too..." said Kushina.

Yotsuki Mansion

All of the members of the Yotsuki family were eating their dinner peacefully. When Bee has come back from his mission, he was stinking very badly. So Naruto immediately told him to take a bath first before joining them for dinner. He has complained at first, but after getting a single glare from Naruto, he complied and went to his room, while Ay was letting out a snicker at Bee's misfortune.

Ay has praised Naruto for manhandling Bee, after he was out of the hearing range, since she was the first one in the whole cloud village, who has been able to force Bee to do something against his wishes, without resorting to any kind of violence.

Bee joined them after a few minutes and they all started eating dinner in a peaceful manner.

After they finished their dinner, Naruto rose up from her seat and collected their plates before taking them towards the kitchen.

"Yo bro, you seems to be in a good mood. What happened?" asked Bee.

Ay let out a huge grin before saying "I was able to finish all of my pending paperwork thanks to a technique that Naruto-chan taught me."

"Oh really? And here I thought that you are happy because sis has let you bang her in your office or because I am going to be an uncle very soon." said Bee in an innocent manner before taking out his notepad and started writing his raps, completely oblivious to the killing intent which the other occupants of the mansion were letting out.

Naruto, who was carrying the plates, tripped and almost dropped the plates which she was carrying, while Ay, who was drinking orange juice, splattered it on all over the table, before both of them let loose their killing intent.

"I think you haven't learned your lesson yet Bee. Tell me, why shouldn't I use you as a practice dummy for my iron claw before forcing you to do only D-rank missions for the rest of your life?" said Ay angrily.

Bee looked up from his notepad and immediately all the colors lost from his face and he said "B..br..brot..brother, I.. I..."

But before he could have said anything else, he heard one more threat, which made him pale and almost thrown him on the verge of unconsciousness.

"Bee, I will watch out of what I am saying from now on if I were you. Because if you say something like that one more time, then I will place a seal on you which will give you a shock if you try to say something, let alone rap, before I forbid you from any piece of meat and start feeding you the vegetables that you seems to hate so much. Got it?" said Naruto.

All Bee could do was nodded hurriedly before he bolted towards his room and immediately locked it from inside.

Ay, and Naruto let out a sigh before Naruto handed over the plates to a newly created clone and went towards the dinner table before taking a seat right in front of Ay.

"That was embarrassing. I hope that Bee will learn to control his tongue, but I don't see that happening anytime soon," said Naruto.

"Hmm, but he made a good point. I obviously won't mind doing that in the office," said Ay perversely.

"W..wh..what?" said Naruto, while blushing a storm, before saying "D..don't say s..something like that. It's embarrassing dattebaki,", and immediately shut her mouth with both of her hands and thought 'Damn that verbal tick!'

Ay let out another chuckle and said "You know, you look quite cute when you are embarrassed or when you blush Naruto-chan."

Naruto lowered her head in embarrassment while letting out a full body blush after Ay called her cute. Suddenly she let out a squeal when Ay picked her up in bridal style and said "And I certainly won't mind doing that right now.", while emphasizing on 'that', letting Naruto know what he was talking about.

Even though they did it before, she couldn't help herself and let out another blush, before recomposing herself and wrapped her hand around Ay's neck before saying "You do know that I won't stop you, right?"

Even though their marriage was arranged and there was no love between them at the start, but they couldn't help but appreciate about what she/he has done for him/her, more so in Naruto's case. Slowly, but surely they both were falling for each other and they both knew that.

Ay let out a grin and bolted towards their room before closing it behind him and activated the privacy seal.

One Week Later

It's been one week since Naruto has taught Shadow Clone Jutsu to Ay. Mabui has returned after three days and to say that she was surprised after seeing ten copies of Raikage going through the paperwork with enthusiasm, would be an understatement.

She thanked Naruto professedly for making her life easier. Since Ay tends to blow things up at the sign of too much paperwork, thus increasing her work. It also helps that he has stopped complaining about the paperwork altogether, which used to give her a massive headache.

Ay has tried Naruto's idea and after manipulating the councilors with her ideas, the whole council has come to a collective decision and passed the proposals, thus increasing the village income and reducing the paperwork for Ay.

Both of them have also gone on a couple of dates and started spending their free time with each other. Since Ay was getting more free time because of his shadow clones covering the paperwork for him, both of them could be found either in training ground or simply walking around the village. Even Mabui couldn't complain about it since Ay always finished his paperwork and left a clone or two for mission assignment or meetings (except the important one of course), before leaving. All an all things were going smoothly for them and for the village.

Though, there was a downside of it. Since Ay was getting so much free time, he has started reading Jiraiya's novels, signed by Jiraiya himself, while his clones were going through the paperwork. He has found these books when Naruto accidentally pulled them out of a storage scroll, when she was searching for some of her stuff.

Mabui has tried to stop him from reading them in office, but he simply waved her off. Mabui has contacted Naruto immediately and when Naruto has tried to stop him, he simply said 'If you can read them then why can't I?'. That has stopped the argument altogether and Naruto has left the office with lowered head while leaving a slack jawed Mabui and grinning Ay behind.

Finally things were looking good for after a long time for a certain child of prophecy, but the things will remain the same in the future or not, that is still buried in the future.

A/N: I won't make any promise regarding next update, since I had broken them so many times before, but I will try my best to update it as soon as possible.

Thanks for the support and now there will be time skip to pick up the pace.

I badly need a beta. Any volunteer?