Disclaimer… watching smosh this time.
Returning to the elemental nations with the signature puff of black smoke, the fourteen shinobi/hunters were met with a sight that made even the new and improved naruto nervous. The third hokage was standing at the forest line with hundreds on anbu behind him. "uhhh hi jiji.. what's going on?" hiruzen replied to naruto's question with a cold glare "you have committed a crime against the shinobi of the hidden leaf uzumaki-san. You have gone behind my back and experimented with the genetics of not only yourself, but six clan heirs. What do you have to say in your defence?"
Naruto, seeing that these next few words held his fate, spoke carefully and honestly "hokage-sama, this is not what it seems! These are not experiments as you call them, but rather evolutions! In following with your request to create huntsmen, I decided to bring about the rebirth of the huntsmen's greatest allies, the faunus. Human-animal hybrids and these six behind me willingly accepted the change. Thanks to their efforts, this village now 6 more clans, or at least houses for the clans they originally belonged to! These transformations are nothing more than successful sage transformations made permanent!"
Hiruzen did not reply, he simply withdrew his staff from the ground and held in a stance. "j-jiji?" "I'm sorry naruto-kun… but you have still broken the laws of the leaf. I will give you one chance to give yourself up or die. Please don't make me kill you" "AS IF YOU COULD YOU SENILE ASSHOLE!" looking over the group, they were surprised to see shino of all people stepping forward, his glasses gone revealing his cold eyes. "this boy- no this man has brought an entire SPECIES back from extinction and you call him a CRIMINAL? If he goes, so do I and the NEW aburame clan!"
"as do the current aburame clan". The hokage whirled around in shock to see ALL of the clans coming from the opposite side of the field. "you too!?" "yes hokage-sama. I and the other clan heads agree that what we see before us is what the village needs. Your decision towards uzumaki-san is not your normal logical mind, but rather your illogical fear that this is the rise of a second orochimaru." Looking to the other clans and seeing not anger, but pity and sadness, hiruzen finally looked to naruto. what he saw, broke his elder heart.
Naruto was crying. His tears pouring down his face as ruby embraced him, repeating the words "I'm sorry" in defeated whispers. "oh kami… what have I done?..."he dropped his staff and stepped backwards "y-you're right shiba-san… I have been a fool…" his words did not calm the, now battle ready, faunus surrounding naruto in an attempt to shield him. This was seemingly proven useful as a fourth party came from the remaining space in the training field "D-danzo?!". The root leader looked upon the faunus with curiosity. "naruto-san.. I heard the rumours but… I never thought such a thing was possible…"
Shino, still enraged by the thirds statement, jumped between the two. "if you try and lay a single hand on him shimura, you will have many more bandages upon your bloddied corpse!". Danzo simply laughed at the threat "you misunderstand young shino. I side with the clans on this matter and in fact, would like to propose something to our young naruto." drying his tears, the blonde looked at the root leader "you see young naruto, I am not getting younger and I still need to redeem myself for the horrors I have committed… I wish to present my entire root army for faunus transformation, with the ideal that that can live normal lives from then on."
All the occupants of the training field watched on in awed shock, as the war hawk of konoha discarded his personal army. "danzo, what has brought this on?" danzo looked to his old friend, a single tear sliding from his exposed eye. "I have cancer hiruzen.. its too late to stop it and my body isn't strong enough to fight it.. I'll be dead by the end of the chunnin exams." Hiruzen felt his breath catch at this news. His oldest friend and rival, was dying from the one disease that ninjistu could not beat. Forgetting his place as hokage, he walked up to danzo and hugged him, not ready to admit that his old friend was going to die before him.
Of corse, naruto stepped forward and played the holy card of deus-ex-machina. "actually… I think I know how to beat your cancer danzo." Looking to naruto with hope in his single eye, danzo tore himself away from hiruzen and begged naruto for his answer "it's simple danzo.. you become one of us" "what? but what will that do to stop my cancer!?" "the gene pools give you the chance to choose your animal side.. if you choose to become a phoenix, you will gain their reincarnation. You will unfortunately still die but you will be reborn with all your memories and skills.".
Danzo was shocked at this, he had just been given a chance to become pseudo-immortal. He knew that such a gift would come at a large price though. "what would be the payment for such a gift, naruto-dono?" "you will become my 2nd in command and vice-head of my new academy. You will no longer train root, but hunters." Danzo could almost cheer. He would live and still be allowed to train students. As much as he might hide it, he saw all his students as his children and longed to feel the pride a teacher would feel once more.
"I accept full heartedly naruto" "I don't!" they turned to a strangly grinning hiruzen. "why not hiruzen!? Would you keep me from my one chance at redemption!?" the third simply shook his head "it is not that danzo.. it is that I do not agree that naruto will be training students for MY village." Naruto looked to his leader in shock, fearing that he had just officially been exiled. Hiruzen saw this and decided to explain. "naruto.. with this act, you will be creating hundreds of new families and 6 major clans… that can't be held within a single village. That is why I am giving you permission to build a second, neighbouring village for huntsmen… on top of the hokage monument and the surrounding cliffs" naruto's mind was blown at this. He had just been told to build a village for himself in the same place as beacon academy.
"umm hokage-sama? We've kind of already started with that." even naruto turned to his teammates and the clans of konoha. "what do you mean tsume?". The clan head stepped forward and spoke with a nervous grin "team KMN came to us during the day and asked every clan, along with at least a thousand clones each, to build something they called beacon academy on the hokage monument. Its been under a genjutsu the entire time and is already halfway done." "WHAT?"
The field's occupants all turned to naruto as he shone a grin that would put gai to shame. "you mean that MY BUILDING is almost finished!? That wasn't expected to be built until the chunin exams! You've just cut back the time needed by months alone!" "we can get it done today bro, we just need your seal expertise to finish it off" "THEN LETS GET GOING!". And with that, naurto, followed by the entire field, took off towards the monument.
Hokage monument
The audience to naruto's creation finally arrived at the monument, naruto having somehow gotten there in 3 seconds flat, to see him finishing off the last of many fuinujutsu markings. Naruto himself had a grin that could blind kages and sparkle to his eyes that made ruby swoon.. until she and the rest noticed that he was ranting like a mad man to a shimmer in the air. "fuck, fuck, FUCK! Bloody lines of place! That's an explosive seal, not a shielding seal!".
"umm naruto? what's going on? Where's beacon? We took the genjutsu down when we came to you" "huh? Oh sorry, I just made an error with the seals in my excitement and I put the genjutsu back up so I can work without the village seeing. I want this to be a surprise after all" he spoke with a smile as he set the seal back. "speaking of which, that was the last one! Now, whose ready for a beauty to be unveiled?!"
Looking to the crowd, he saw excitement and high expectantcy in the eyes of the shinobi… but theirs was not the eyes he was searching for. Looking to ruby, he saw nothing but hope, hope that her home had been restoared. Walking up to her and wrapping his arms around her from behind, he spoke into her ears, the entire entourage hearing his words. "go ahead ruby-hime. This was your home and your life.. you deserve the honour of bringing it back." She turned to him with a smile and tears "no naru-koi.. you built her.. you do it."
But he would not take it for an answer, luckily tsume decided to break the tension and the ice "oh for kami's sake! Just do it together you love birds!". The two looked to each other, the same glint in their eyes. "speech?" "speech". They walked forward, the group stepping back to let them have enough room, as their voices echoed over the village, attracting every occupant of the leaf. "ashes to ashes, dust to dust. The sands of time scatter for you once more, rise now remnant of a forgotten past. Rise now BEACON OF HOPE! KAI!".
Light. A single ray of light shone through the clouds towards the shimmer, shattering the illusion like glass like a hammer of kami herself, showing the monument of beacon tower, reborn among the leaves, "i-its beautiful… you got everything right.. thank you.". the audience looked to the two lovers, seeing ruby laughing and crying in her boyfriend's arms. Even danzo, someone who had frozen his heart long ago, had to smile at this.
Turning to his old rival, he spoke with hope for the first time in years. "things are going to change for good now hiruzen. I think we can see the next owner of that hat of yours" surprisingly he shook his head "no danzo.. naruto no longer belongs to the leaf village. With this, he has become his own kage and beacon is his villiage.. we have just seen the birth of the Kariudokage"
"the huntsman's shadow eh? Fitting hiruzen. Very fitting"