CHAPTER 21 BABYSITTING
Naruto and his team walked into the Hokage's office to give their report.
"I am guessing all went as planned?" Tsunade asked
"Not a problem at all everything went as planned" Naruto replied "Went up took out the target, and embedded Shino into the network." Naruto replied as he took out some paper work and put it on her desk.
"When did you get time to write that?" Sakura asked confused
"Last night." Naruto replied with a smirk.
"So that is what you doing instead of…" Ino began.
"I don't want to hear this." Tsunade cut her off.
"Sorry lady Hokage." Ino said a bit flustered with a bow.
"Any way you two are dismissed I need to speak to Naruto for a moment." Tsunade said to them
"Yes Ma'am" Ino and Sakura replied as the both left the room.
"Guessing you have that team set up for me then?" Naruto asked
"Yes." She said as she tossed three files on her desk, and he picked them up.
"When do we start?" He said looking through them.
"They will be getting placed tomorrow afternoon after lunch." Tsunade replied
"Alright." Naruto replied as he walked out of her office looking at the folders, and walked out of her office.
Naruto walked out of the Hokage building to find Sakura and Ino standing waiting for him. "Don't you two have to go home?" he asked
"Well we don't have to go home right away." Ino replied as they fell in behind him as he walked down the road.
"Right of course not." He sighed as he turned a corner.
"I thought your apartment was the other way." Sakura said in confusion
"Got a new place, well an old one really." Naruto replied as he walked through a small gate that seemed to have been unused in years.
"Wait a minute this is the Namikaze compound." Ino said looking around
"Well I am a Namikaze after all." Naruto replied as he walked into the main house.
"Well yeah but I didn't think you were telling people about that yet." Ino replied
"Why do you think Tsunade busted in my door after our night of fun." Naruto replied as he flopped down on the couch looking at one of the files while putting the other two on the coffee table.
"Ah so your meeting with the council was about getting on it." Ino sighed as she dropped on the couch as well.
"What do you mean, I didn't think the fourth's clan was on the council." Sakura replied as she sat down on the other side of him.
"Well a member of clan becomes Hokage they are taken off the council to prevent any bias." Ino replied "Before the second war the Namikaze was a large clan, but suffered serious casualties during that war and just as much during the third till only Minato Namikaze was left. When he became Hokage he was no longer allowed to sit on the council, but now that Naruto has reclaimed the seat he is part of the council."
"I don't remember that in school." Sakura replied
"Well I am part of a council level clan." Ino replied "All kids that are heads of clans have extra classes that others don't."
"Well good to see my friends knew more about my clan than I did." Naruto scoffed "I learned all this once I became ANBU and Jiraiya and Kakashi told me."
"Well what else should we know?" Sakura asked
"Well I was put into the CRA." Naruto said with a smirk looking at Ino who got a wide grin on her face, and hugged him with a squeal.
"Ah wait what is CRA?" Sakura asked confused
"It means we don't have to fight over him anymore." Ino said which only confused Sakura more. "The Clan Restoration Act. It is an old law, older than the village, stating if a clan falls below a certain number of members they can take on multiple wives." She said with a grin as a look of realization came to Sakura's face.
"Wait so he can…" Sakura began
"Marry us both." Ino said in excitement.
"As long as the heads of the potential wife's clan agrees." Naruto replied
"Ah so you have to ask our fathers permission." Sakura replied
"Yeah, that is how the law goes." Naruto sighed
"Oh great I need permission from daddy to marry the man I love?" Ino said in an upset tone
"Your dad already agreed." Naruto replied getting a shocked look from the two girls.
"What my dad already said yes." Ino squealed
"You already asked her father?" Sakura said in shock and a little hurt he didn't ask her father first.
"Well he was there on the council when I was put into the program, and he figured out why you didn't come home the night of the party." Naruto replied as a look of horror went across Ino's face
"Wait you told him?" Ino asked with fear.
"No of course not." Naruto said "he figured it out himself he isn't an idiot, but he would rather have blissful ignorance about his baby girls private matters."
"Right of course." Ino said
"Well the hard one is out of the way I guess." Sakura sighed
"Actually not really." Naruto replied getting confused look from Sakura "Your dad is going to be the harder one, Inoichi understood the burden I carried and it helped I had a member of his clan on my ANBU team that vouched I was a good guy."
"How can my father be more difficult than hers?" Sakura asked "He is one of the nicest friendliest people in the village."
"You ever wonder why I never came to your place to pick you up for missions?" Naruto asked as Sakura thought about it realizing he had never been to her parent's place. "I came over once while on my way for a mission. I knocked your father answered and gave me that look all the villages do. That I am the demon and said you had already left, and to leave you alone if it didn't involve a mission or training. He added some choice words I will not mention, and I saw your mother just past him giving me the same glare saying the same as him"
"What?" she asked in shock at the new light revealed about her father.
"But it has been a long time since then maybe they have changed." Naruto shrugged "Circumstances have changed since then."
"I will have to talk to them." Sakura said as she got up and stormed out of the house.
"Well now that she is gone." Ino said with a smile.
"I need to get too work." Naruto said opening the file he had previously laid down on his lap.
"Oh they don't meet their sensei till the afternoon." Ino said as she got on to his lap and kissed him and he set the file on the couch.
Sakura burst into her home "Mom, dad are you here."
"Yes honey what is the wrong?" her mother asked
"We need to talk." Sakura said as her parents sat down at the table
"About what dear?" Her father asked
"It's about Naruto." Sakura said as she saw her parents eyes narrow "So he wasn't lying to me."
"Oh that would be first." Her mother said
"Oh shut up he has always been honest with me." Sakura spat "He has never shown me a reason to distrust him."
"He…" her mother began
"What has the nine tails in him?" She asked "He may have it in him but I'll tell you what else he has. He has the biggest heart I have ever seen. Even when I shouldn't have been forgiven he forgave me."
"Both our families where killed in the nine tails attack." Her father said in anger.
"And what? You blame the child that was chosen to hold the demon at bay?" Sakura said "He had no choice that his father sealed the demon inside him."
"Father?" her dad asked in confusion.
"Yes he finally came out and told the council so it should be coming down the pipeline soon, but his father is Minato Namikaze. But you still see him as the demon even after how many times he has saved this village how many times he has saved me." She said as look of shock went across their faces "You know what I don't care what you have to say, I love him and he is going to ask me to marry him."
"What?" both her parents asked in shock
"You know what, I just can't look at you right now." Sakura said as she walked towards the door "I'm going back to Naruto's." she said as she stormed out
"Kinda lost our cool back there." Inner said as they walked down the street.
'I just, saw the look in their eyes and finally saw what Naruto has seen his whole life and I just couldn't handle it and lost it.' Sakura replied to herself
"Yeah it was very unsettling." Inner replied
'I can't believe he has gone though that his whole life and not just snapped.' Sakura sighed
"He did with this pranks, and he could of ended up like Gaara." Inner replied as a look of realization went across Sakura's face as she walked up to Naruto's house and opened the door. She saw Naruto and Ino on the couch without shirts on and Naruto sucking on Ino's breast.
"You were really going to do this without me." Sakura asked with a sigh as she took off her shirt to join them and forget about her parent problems.
Hanabi sat in class listening to the team placements and finally heard her name called out.
"Team twelve, Hanabi Hyuga, Mono Inuzuka, Noke Inuzuka. Your sensei is Naruto Namikaze." Iruka said as all three perked up their heads.
"I thought he was an Uzumaki?" Hanabi asked raising her hand.
"I will let him explain that when he gets here." Iruka said "now your sensei's will be here soon." He said as a few people walked into the room calling out different team numbers once all the other teams had left team twelve still sat there waiting. Just then the door opened and Naruto walked through it.
"You're late." Hanabi said
"Sorry I didn't want all the questions about the change in name." Naruto replied getting Hanabi to nod in agreement.
"I was wondering about that myself." Hanabi replied
"Well I'll meet you up on the roof." Naruto said as he vanished in a yellow flash.
"Well I guess we should head up there if we want any answers." Noke sighed as she got up and headed out the door followed by the rest of the team.
They walked on to the school roof to find Naruto sitting on the edge of the school leaning back propping himself up with his arms just looking out on the village.
"Come on take a seat." Naruto replied as they each walked up next to him and sat down. "Normally this is the part where we introduce ourselves, but we got most of that out of the way, when I taught your class. I'll get to know you more as we go on missions. Is there anything you wish to know about me before we set off on this new adventure?"
"Why is your name Namikaze now instead of Uzumaki?" Hanabi asked
"Well the third kept it under wraps even to the council about my background, but my father was the fourth and he died when he sealed the fox within me." Naruto replied getting a look of shock on their faces. "oh what shocked your teacher has a demon in him."
"Oh no that we found out after Peins attack." Noke replied.
"Ah right." Naruto sighed
"But you are the son of the fourth?" Hanabi asked a bit shocked "Seems father was too quick to judge sister for her taste in men." She said under her breath.
"Even if he wasn't I never really liked your sister that way." Naruto said getting a shocked look from the girl.
"How did you?" Hanabi asked
"Well I was Jiraiya's apprentice he was a master of spy craft and he taught me how to overhear conversations that were not meant to be heard" Naruto replied 'granted the conversations he listened in on were girls to see if they were into him.' He sighed to himself.
"Please don't bring up I spi…" Hanabi began to ask
"Don't worry I have known for a while." Naruto said "I just didn't know how to break it to here that I wasn't interested, and before I could she started dating Kiba."
"Ah well alright." Hanabi said now trying to get off the subject.
"Anything else?" Naruto asked
"No that is all I wanted to know." Noke replied as Mono nodded as well
"Yes it was my only question for now." Hanabi replied
"Well if that is all I will see you tomorrow morning zero six, training area twelve." Naruto replied as they all nodded and got up and left.
The next morning the team met at their training area where Naruto was to begin their training.
"Alright time for your final exam." Naruto said rubbing his hands together
"What do you mean?" Noke asked confused "I thought that we did that so we could be placed on a team."
"Well not quite." Naruto said tossing up a pair of bells. "Normally I would test your team work abilities by having you try to get these bells away from me. But I know you two would just team up against her and I don't want that." He said pointing to Mono and Noke "So I divised another test for you." He said holding up three pieces of paper and they each took one. "I'll meet you at those locations." They all nodded and headed out to their locations
Hanabi made it to the hokage building and only had to wait a minute for Naruto to meet her there.
"So what is my test Naruto sensei?" Hanabi asked
"Cause some mischief." Naruto said with a grin getting a confused look on Hanabi's face as he held up a can of spray paint and a can of paint. "I want you to tag all the places on this list and once done with the list I want you to hit." He said and pointed at the hokage monument "And remember don't get caught."
"Why?" Hanabi asked
"Because I want to see how well you take orders you don't like or agree with, because you will get those orders while on the job." Naruto explained
"Fine." Hanabi said taking the paint
"You have until two. Then meet me back at the training area" He said as he vanished
Next up was Noke who was waiting outside the BBQ restaurant, when Naruto appeared in a flash of light
"So what is my mission?" she said excitedly hoping for something fun
"Here." Naruto said handing her a bucket a scrub brush and a list.
"What?" Noka asked confused
"I want you to go around and clean any graffiti you find at them." Naruto said "When you are done head back to the training area."
"What why?" Noke asked confused and upset.
"Because you like causing mischief and I want to see how well you clean up after someone else's mess." Naruto said
"But?" Noke began to protest
"This is an order and you aren't going to go against orders, are you?" He asked
"No." Noke sighed in defeat
"Good, meet back at training area once you're done." Naruto replied as he vanished.
Naruto than appeared outside Ichiraku where Mono was waiting for him.
"Ah Naruto sensei what do you want me to do?" Mono asked
"Start a fight." Naruto replied getting a shocked and confused look from Mono
"What?" she asked confused
"You don't like causing trouble and that can be our job sometimes." Naruto said "So go start a fight as long as it isn't with a civilian."
"But." Mono gave a little whine.
"You have till two." Naruto said as he sat down at Ichiraku and ordered a bowl
"Alright." She stuttered as she left him to his meal
Mono walked around all day but just couldn't find any one to start a fight with for no reason. It was starting to get late she looked over at a clock tower to see she only had thirty minutes left to finish her mission. That was when someone bumped into her.
"Sorry." Mono apologized as she looked up to see a brown haired boy about a year older than her wearing a blue scarf.
"Hey watch where you are going." He said in an annoyed tone then kicked at her dog "And put that thing on a leash."
"Don't…" Mono began.
"Oh what are you going to…" he began to kick at the dog again but stopped as a fist connected with his face
"Leave Moro alone!" Mono yelled as she threw another punch to his gut. She then brought another fist up but it was blocked, that was when she felt a fist in her own gut and then a kick to the side knocking her to the side. She got up ready to continue fighting but found the person was gone. "Ah well I got into a fight like he said so I should head to the training area." She said to herself as she headed back to the training area
Mono reached the training area about the same time that Hanabi did. "So what did he make you do?" Mono asked and Hanabi just pointed up over her shoulder at the Hokage monuments and saw they were all painted.
"What about you?" Hanabi asked
"He made me get into a fight." Mono replied
"Who did you fight?" Hanabi asked
"Me." came a voice that Mono recognized but seemed a bit lighter. They looked back to see Naruto and the boy she had gotten into a fight with.
"You." Mono said getting angry and started to stomp toward him. "you kicked Moro."
"Wowow calm down." He said waving his hands in defense getting behind Naruto. "I just did what boss told me."
"Hey I didn't say to kick her puppy." Naruto said getting a confused look Mono
"Hey you said I needed her to fight me, so I did the one thing I know that would make her." The boy said
"Ok what is going on?" Mono asked irritated and confused
"Alright first off this is Konohamaru, an old friend of mine who graduated a year before you, I knew you may have trouble getting into a fight. So since he is the most annoying person I know I asked him to help you out." Naruto replied
"Hey I'm not nearly as bad as you." Konohamaru shot back.
"Sure you aren't" Naruto said rolling his eyes "Any way Konohamaru you've already met Mono" he said gesturing toward Mono "and this is Hanabi Hyuga"
"Ah hhhh hi Konohamaru Kun." Hanabi stuttered as she went beat red
"And our last member is currently cleaning the hokage faces.
"I still can't believe you are a genin sensei." Konohamaru sighed shaking his head.
"Hey taught you plenty didn't I?" Naruto asked
"Perhaps." Konohamaru said then made a handsigne "se…"
"No." Naruto snapped cutting him off "I told you Tsunade put that on the forbidden jutsu list."
"Right sorry boss." Konohamaru sighed rubbing his head
"Any way get out of here before you give my students bad ideas." Naruto sighed waving him off.
"Ha bad ideas from me?" Konohamaru laughed "got most of them from you." He said as he headed out.
"Well I'll see you guys tomorrow." Naruto replied
"What about Noke?" Mono asked
"I'll tell her to head home after she is done with her job." Naruto said "Just tell Kiba she is doing some face time. He will understand." He said with a smile as he vanished in a flash
Naruto was now standing on the face of his father as Noke was on a cleaning bench as she scrubbed away the paint left there by Hanabi
"How is it going?" Naruto asked
"I know you were behind this." Noke said in an annoyed tone.
"Well it is my signature." Naruto said "But I also chose this task specifically for you."
"Oh and why is that?" Noke asked getting a little pissed off.
"Because I wanted you to learn that we as ninja are always cleaning up other people's messes." Naruto replied "And maybe you will learn that when you cause messes someone else will have to clean it up as well. So I am hoping this will help teach you not to make any more messes for others." Naruto said
"Alright I get it." Noke said
"Good." Naruto nodded "Now once you are done you can go home and be at the training area same time tomorrow." He said as he vanished in a flash.
Naruto appeared in his new home to find it was empty, and a small pang of loneliness washed over him for a second but vanished as he remembered. "Guess the girls are still at the hospital."
Just then he heard a knock at the door and he walked over to it "You guys know you don't have to knock." He called as he opened it but found Sakura's parents instead. "Oh hey what do you want?" Naruto asked a little annoyed from what Sakura had told him the night before.
"Don't take that tone…" Mebuki began but was stopped by Kizashi
"Honey we didn't come to start another fight." Kizashi said as he looked back at Naruto "We came here to speak to our daughter as well as you."
"Well Sakura is still at the hospital." Naruto said "She also told me about your conversation last night." He said as a sullen look went across their faces. "Come on in and have a seat while we wait for her."
"Wait a minute?" Kizashi asked "She told you about what we said and you still invite us in? so easily?" he said as he followed Naruto to the living room.
"Well unlike Sakura I'm used to people seeing and treating me like that." Naruto replied "So I've learned to overlook it and let it roll off my back. However something I can't overlook is someone hurting Sakura she was pretty upset last night. But I know she can over react at times and that is what happened last night."
"Well she was justified somewhat. You have saved the village and her numerous times but the fox took so much from us we have seen how our daughter has changed toward you, and we couldn't help but seeing you as the fox taking her away from us."
"Hey I don't want to take her away." Naruto replied "I know what it is like to be without parents, I don't want to see the three of you push each other away."
"Yes your father was actually a close friend of mine when we were younger." Kizashi said "I should have seen it before." He said gesturing toward him "But I was just blinded by my hatred of the fox."
"Like I said I have gotten over all that. But you will have to smooth things over with Sakura when she gets here." Naruto said as he heard the door open "speaking of."
"Naruto-kun you here?" came Sakura's voice from the entry way
"In the living room with some guests." Naruto said
"Oh who is it?" Sakura asked as she and Ino both walked into the living room and her face turned to anger "What are you doing here?"
"Calm down Sakura." Naruto said.
"Why?" she snapped "They have said such horrible things about you."
"Because I've let it go." Naruto said getting Sakura to look at him in confusion. "I have dealt with those hateful stares longer than you have even known about them. I hold no grudge toward your parents and neither should you." He explained "They are your parents you may get mad at them from time to time but they are something you can never replace and I don't want you to break apart because of me."
"Oh no Naruto-kun i." Sakura began but was cut off.
"They only want to look out for you." Naruto said "and I want their blessing on our wedding when we get everything planned out." At this Sakura was speechless and her father got up.
"You have it." Kizashi said holding up his hand "We had you all wrong and I am sorry. You truly care about her and I would be proud to call you my son in law."
"Thank you." Naruto said as he shook his hand
"Daddy." Sakura began to cry as she hugged him and they sat down next to her mother and began to talk and Naruto slipped around to the kitchen where Ino was standing with a drink in her hand.
"Well did you tell them about marrying both of us?" Ino asked
"Not yet." Naruto said "They just began to like me I want to ease them into it and break it to them easily."
"Well sounds like a good plan." Ino said
"WHAT?! HE IS MARRYING YOU AND INO?!" they heard come from the living room as Naruto rolled his eyes and face palmed.
"Well Sakura's bed side manner always need some improvements." Ino grinned as she took a drink.
END CHAPTER 21
A/N sorry for such the delay this semester has been harder on me than most so I have been delayed due to trying to focus on my classes. But hopefully I can get these out more often. Please review I like to hear input from your guy's side