Naruto

Chapter 13

Yay! I hit the 100 review marker. Though that's the best I've had for any of my stories, I secretly wished there were more. (sighs.)

After retrieving a swirly-eyed Itachi from the side of a cliff, Naruto, his parents, and the girls all made their way to Konoha.

Arashi was outraged by what he saw there; people were staring at him as if he was a ghost, while at the same time throwing glares at Naruto, who Arashi could tell was wearing a mask of emotions. Haruka set a protective hand on Naruto's shoulder, not at all shocked at the tense muscles there. She narrowed her eyes at the fleeting shadows moving on top of the roofs that were the ANBU. She practically snarled when one of them landed in front of them when they were halfway to the tower. The ANBU was wearing a dirty white cloak, with a bear mask, but didn't look ready for a fight.

"Shishio, what is the meaning of this? How low has the village managed to get after 17 years?" The ANBU captain quickly fell to one knee, "My apologies, Uzumaki-san. I just panicked when I saw you with the demon there." A flash of golden light later, and Arashi was holding the nin's face mere millimeters from the hot grill of a shiskabob stall. "if I ever hear you insult my son again, I will personally ensure that you will never have kids in your lifetime. Am I understood?" The nin mumbled something. Growling, Arashi brought his face closer to the grill, "What was that?" "I'm…sorry…Hokage-sama." "That's better. Now, I'm going to talk to Tsunade about this, and rest assured, you will be reprimanded for your actions." The nin sagged against the stall as he was dropped, eyes wide with fear. He had seen how protective Tsunade was of the boy. He was doomed.

They were about halfway to the tower when Jirayai popped up. He stared once at his student, before turning to Naruto. "You baka, what the hell did you do." Naruto's eye began to twitch, and he bonked his sensei. "Who are you calling a baka? You're the one that threw me off a cliff to get me to use Kyuubi's power! That, and anytime I wanted to train, you were off peeping!"

Jirayai's face darkened, "I am the legendary sannin Jirayai! Show me some respect, runt!" "I will when you earn it, ero-sennin!"

"What! Short-stuff!"

"open pervert."

"hyper-active chihuaha."

"Toad-licker."

A loud oooh! issued from the crowd before Jirayai began to creep towards Naruto, hands twitching. "Ahh! Back off Ero-sennin, don't make me use it!"

Curious, Arashi bent his head towards Sakura while watching his sensei chase his son. "Use what?" Sakura sighed, "It's a move he created by combining henge with Kage Bunshin. Just watch."

"You asked for it Ero-sennin! Harem no jutsu!" Immediately the street was full of scantily-cloud-clad Narukos each of whom cooed and began to rub themselves against Jirayai. Unfortunately, this caused a massive river of blood to appear, as every male in Konoha had gotten a nosebleed; even the unconscious Itachi, who was giggling pervertedly in his sleep.

"I knew it! Every male here is a pervert!" Haruka threw a suspicious glance at Arashi who was unsuccessfully trying to hide his nosebleed. Arashi coughed lightly, "umm, Naruto? I might have to make that a kinjutsu, you know." His son gave him an exasperated lok, "You're too late. The old man made it one when I used it on him to get the scroll of seals. I did use it on Sasuke though, but he simply ignored it." Naruto put on a thoughtful look, "Though I do think I caught him watching Lee's butt while he was training."

Lee began to choke at the very thought of being mentally undressed by Sasuke. Shino turned a little green.

Five minutes later, they were all standing outside Tsunade's door, watching as the two ANBU played rock-paper-scissors to see who would have to wake the hokage up. Eventually, the Falcon-masked one lost, and he hung his head in defeat, before entering the room they were guarding.

The tiger-masked ANBU chuckled evilly before he whispered, "That's the fourth time he's lost, but he hasn't figured out that I used a henge." As he was saying that, there was a loud crash, and the falcon ANBU was sent flying through the door, to land in a heap against the opposite wall.

Arashi smiled, "I see she hasn't changed much. Let's go in."

Inside they found Tsunade staring sleepily at the hole the ANBU had made, her desk groaning under the weight of paperwork. Blinking blearily, she asked, "Who's there?"

"It's me Tsunade-obaa-chan! I beat Orochimaru!" Naruto was then promptly smacked in the face by a vey large sack of money. "Congratulations, now go away and let me sleep." Naruto sweat-dropped, before yelling at her, "But obaa-chan, I summoned shinigami and…ow!"

"You dumbass! Why the hell did you summon the death god? What were you thinking!" She repeatedly beat Naruto on his head, keeping him in a headlock so as he could not escape. "And I told you not to call me obaa-chan!"

she prepared to launch one more painful punch at the boy she considered a brother, but was stopped when someone grabbed her wrist. "As much as I'm glad to see that someone cares for my son, I really must protest against your beating on him." "Your son? Just who the hell are you?" But then, Tsunade turned deathly white as the realization hit her.

She dropped Naruto on his rear end, much to the poor boy's discomfort, and slowly turned around.

Arashi grinned a shit-eating grin, "So you're the woman my son considers a sister, huh? Makes me feel even older." That earned him a smack from Haruka, who rolled her eyes before bowing to Tsunade. "I apologise for my husband and son's behavior hokage-sama, it seems that troublemaking runs in the family."

Tsunade was still staring at Arashi but seemed to catch the last part of her apology. "Oh, it's nothing really. I've gotten used to it by now. Though Naruto did tell me this one prank he pulled where he painted on the faces of the hokage monument. I laughed harder than I ever had before, especially when he made Sarutobi look like a woman."

Arashi snorted into his hand, the only sign that he wanted to burst out into laughter. Tsunade tapped her chin thoughtfully, "There is one thing I'd like to know, though. How did Naruto get to become such a good gambler? I mean, he could get a half a million pot from only 5 dollars. (me know no other money, save british pounds.)"

Arashi raised an eyebrow, "Really…"

Tsunade seemed to come to her senses all of a sudden. "Wait a minute…what are you doing here? You're supposed to be dead!" Arashi chuckled, "Well you see, Naruto here seems to have gathered the favor of both Kami and Shinigami. When one of his girlfriends Hinata was killed, he used the Shiki: Fuujin (spelling?) and gave up both his souls and that of the snake bastard's to Shinigami, though for Orochimaru's, he requested that the soul be slowly tortured for eternity." Tsunade nodded sagely, as that would probably be what she would have done herself. "Then Shnigami brought myself and Haruka back as compensation for Naruto's soul. Then Kami asked Shinigami to give Naruto his soul back. Shinigami didn't complain, as he had the snake bastard to play with forever. It was then that Kami selected Naruto for his champion, and gave him a scroll filled with Tenshi techniques."

Tsunade looked impressed. "Wow. Your son keep surprising me, Arashi. First he learns the Kage Bunshin in one night, then uses it to almost kill a chuunin before he's even a genin, he and his teammates take down a jounin level nin and his s-class 'tool', he survives his chuunin exam on his first try, making it to the finals, and then he learns summoning and the Rasengan in a week. You have yourself a juggernaut there, sir."

Arashi and Haruka grinned, "Oh good. I was hoping for a son like that. now, I want to know everything that's happened since I've been gone."

So, for an hour, they sat while Tsunade gave her story, and then another while Naruto gave his. However, Naruto left out some of the more painful bits, only to have them thrown in by Kyuubi, which earned her a frown, as if to say, 'Why did you do that?'.

Arashi was ready to kill when he heard what the villagers were like to Naruto, but a calming hand from his wife, soothed him enough to stop from ordering several hundred executions. Tsunade looked at the clock, "Well, it's just about time for me to go home. I suggest the lot of you do the same. It's good to see you again, Arashi, and when you see Kakashi, yell at him for me, please? He shouldn't have taught a technique like the chidori to that Uchiha brat." Arashi nodded, his joking face long gone.

As one they left the tower, Naruto being flocked by his girlfriends. Hinata was clutching one of his arms, while Kyuubi had a death grip on his other, while the others were trying to find some way to fit in between.

Slightly ahead of their beleaguered son, Haruka and Arashi were having a quiet cnversation. "Can't I kill just a few of them?" Haruka asked, her right hand twitching towards her sword. "No," replied Arashi. "they will have to pay for their actions by humiliation, when they realize that the boy they have spurned is in fact our son." "But what about all of his girlfriends?" "What about them? If anything, he has too few,though I did notice that the daughter of that ramen guy was looking at him. he needs all the love he can get, especially if he is now Kami's champion." Haruka sighed, "I guess you're right, it just doesn't seem fair to the girls that Naruto has all of them." "I really don't think they care, even if the subject was brought up. And just think, they're dating someone of practical royality!" "What do you mean, practical? Your father is the Fire Lord." "Yes, but one can't be hokage and Fire Lord at once."

Haruka gave him a disbelieving look, "I bet you our son could." Arashi smiled and hugged her tightly, "Our son can do anything."

Ryo looked positively ecstatic that his former masters were there, and was extremely vocalized in his happiness. A large drop of sweat dropped down the back of Arashi's head and he whispered to his son, "Is it too late to kill me?"

Naruto threw the man a dirty look, before shaking his head. "If I have to put up with Ryo, then so do you." "Damn."Muttered Arashi, as his ears began to turn red as Ryo talked them off.

Naruto sighed as he lay back on the bed. In one day, he had managed to kill Orochimaru, lose Hinata, bring Hinata back, and get his parents back, while gaining the favor of the Kami. Smiling slightly, his last thoughts before falling asleep were that things just might be turning around for him.

Arashi smiled broadly as he watched his sleeping son. Haruka came up behind him and wrapped her arm around her husband. "He's pretty strong." Arashi nodded. "To think some one his age has been abused for most of his life, yet still manages to stay sane, and not plot revenge against the village, it's remarkable." Haruka sniffed and leaned her head against Arashi's shoulder. "Well, at least he has us to protect him now."

"What about us? We have to protect him too." Arashi turned to face the girls who had come up behind them, which, oddly enough, now included a heavily blushing Ayame.

"But of course, girls. You will always take precedence in protecting him. after all, he hasn't had anyone love him in a long time, not since I died." Kyuubi sniffled before putting on a stubborn face. "You better believe it. You may become our father-in-law soon, but that won't keep me from beating you up."

Arashi chuckled quietly, not wanting to wake his son up. "So, the marriage is final. By the way, how on earth did Naruto manage to get so many girls to love him at once?"

Everyone save Kyuubi blushed heavily. The former youkai just frowned, "Does it matter? We don't care how many wives he has, as long as he loves us. In fact, I might put a clause in the contract allowing him to marry more people while being married. That's how a harem works, after all." Kyuubi put on a thinking face as she and the rest of the girls walked past their soon-to-be relatives into Naruto's bedchamber, sliding under the covers with him. for those who couldn't reach him bodily, settled for one of his tails, which the hyuuga girl, Hinata, was currently hugging as if it were a stuffed toy with an adorable smile on her face.

Arashi closed the door gently, before he guided his wife to their quarters. "Yes, I think our son will be well cared for. Now, time to catch up on lost opportunities." And he kissed his wife passionately.

Naruto woke up early the next morning, to find himself in a bed filled with girls. Sighing, he made two lightning-fast seals, Kawamiri and Kage bunshin, before he found himself free of their grasp.

He took a quick shower before walking back into his room to find clothes folded neatly on his bed, a note lying on top of them.

Naruto-

Your mother and I have gone out to ask about being reinstated as jounins. I decided to let Tsunade keep her job as Hokage, seeing as she's doing such a fine job of it.

These clothes belonged to your grandfather, and he passed them on to me. Now I'm passing them on to you. When you wear them, everyone will recognize you as my son. It's time for you to be recognized, son. Never let anyone push you around anymore, show them that you are a ninja.

-Love,

Your father

Naruto smiled, pride filling his heart as he donned the garments.

They weren't much different than his old ones. An under-armor type stiffened shirt covering his torso, in a shade so red it was black in the right light. On the back there was the insignia of a fox, with what looked like 9 newly sewn tails around it. (I decided that a fox head would be the Kazama insignia. The tails represent Kyuubi.) Black cargo pants tucked into light combat boots, with three belts supporting it. One belt held up his pants, and carried his shuriken pouch, as well as the holsters for his kamas, while the other two dangled down in an x-shape, kunai nestled snugly in the leather holsters sewn into the leather. Black leather gloves covered his hands, with metal cups covering his knuckles. What made these gloves different than his last pair, however, was that his new pair had three stunted spikes set in between each knuckle. With those, someone could easily shatter a jaw in one blow.

His forehead protector was still a bandanna, but this time it carried the Uzumaki crest, a diamond with a line shooting out from each apex. He smiled at another few additions to the bandanna. Along each of the lines, there was a different crest. A white eye, a kunai, a blossom, a giant fan, the kanji for mind, and a steaming ramen bowl.

To his back he strapped two katanas, making sure that they were snugly set in their sheaths.

Right before he stepped out the door, he placed two wrist weights and two ankle weights on, and grabbed the scroll Kami had given to him.

Hurray! Update done! Sory about the wait, it would have been done sooner, but I had to redo the chapter, cuz the first one sucked badly from me not having practiced. Well, anyways, my thanks to those of you who reviewed, and to those of you who haven't…shame on you! Receiving feedback from an audience is the best way for an author to get better.

Well, I have some good news. I got the results from my PLAN test in October. The PLAN test is sort of like the ACT's , but is just used to measure how much you need to study. Anyways, I did much better than I thought I did. I only missed one question out of thirty in Science, and received an average of 97 in all the others. My accumulative score range was 24-28, enough for me to get into the best college ever, Colorado school of Mines! I feel happy now. -purrs-.

Well I hope you enjoyed this because it may be the last chapter for a while. Btw, for all those who asked, I am now going to add Kurenai and Anko to the Harem, as well as some OC's later on. Cya!

-Soulthief2