"This is the best ramen I've ever had," says Mei-chan, as she politely wolfs down a bowl of Ichiraku ramen.
Iruka grins. "It's the best ramen in the world."
"You don't need to flatter me, Iruka," says Ichiraku, looking a tad embarrassed. "I know you've been coming here your whole life."
"It's not flattery, it's the truth," says Iruka. "I have tried many different people's ramen, and your's is still the best."
"Iruka-nii!" Naruto bursts into the ramen shop. There is a tiny Kurama sitting on his shoulder. Naruto sees Mei-chan there and says, "Oh, hey, Mei-oneesama," and hugs her. Iruka smiles. It seems Naruto has accepted the fact that Mei and Iruka are married now. Iruka was worried Naruto would always hold a bit of a grudge against the two of them. Then Naruto turns and hugs Iruka. "Where's Sanma?" he asks.
"I have him," says Ayame, who had pounced as soon as she saw the baby.
"Grandpa Third is back!" says Naruto, grinning. "And we brought Gaara so the Five Kage Summit can continue. Oh, and we met the Sage of the Six Paths."
"You met the Sage of the Six Paths?" Mei-chan looks flabbergasted. "What did you do?"
"We played chinese Whispers, Musical Chairs, Pass the Parcel and Duck, Duck Goose," says Kurama. "What do you think we did?"
"You mean you didn't play Blind Man's Bluff as well?" asks Iruka.
"That's what we forgot!" Naruto facepalms.
"Dammit!" says Kurama. "We missed a golden opportunity! Blind Man's Bluff is Dad's favourite party game!"
While the Five kage Summit reconvenes to discuss what they should do about the Scottish Villagers that Hiruzen brought back, and what they should do about team Tsuki no Me, Jiraiya drags Naruto off to find Kakashi-sensei.
"Here, Kakashi!" Jiraiya thrusts Naruto into Kakashi's hands and says, "He's all yours again!" Then Pervy Sage shunishins away.
Naruto and Kakashi-sensei stare at eachother.
Bring him in here, says Naruto's Dad.
"I'm going to bring you to my mindscape, okay?" says Naruto, and does just that. "I brought Kakashi-sensei!" he announces.
"Yay!" Kushina leaps forward and hugs Kakashi, then gives him a noogie. "You got so tall while I was dead, lil' Kashi-kun, dattebane!"
"GAAH! HOW DID YOU TWO END UP IN HERE?" Kakashi-sensei freaks out and scrambles away from Kushina.
"Calm down Kakashi," says Minato, smiling. "We are sealing masters - did you honestly think we wouldn't seal our chakra into Naruto so we could meet him one day?"
"Oh, right," Kakashi-sensei instantly calms down. "That explains it."
Several hours of catching up with Minato and Kushina later, and Kakashi is about ready to bang his head against a concrete wall several times. He is beginning to remember why he alone thought Naruto was easy to deal with (besides Iruka, of course; but no one bothers to count him anymore, since it usually goes without saying).
Naruto and Kakashi finally leave Naruto's mindscape and Kakashi breathes a sigh of relief.
"So can I go now?" asks Naruto, turning to leave.
"Nope," says Kakashi, grabbing Naruto by the collar. "I have a thing I want to teach you, now that I have you back."
Naruto stops struggling. "What is it?" he asks, interested.
Kakashi grins and asks, "Do you know what your chakra type is?"
"My chakra type?"
Several hours later, about 100 Naruto shadow clones are trying to split leaves in half.
"I got it!" yells one.
"Good, then on to the next stage," nods Kakashi.
By the next day, not only have the village leaders not decided on their plan of attack - binge watching excellent TV serieses takes priority over planning a war - but Naruto has finally mastered splitting a waterfall in half vertically.
"Thank you, Tenzou," says Kakashi. "You can go now."
"Dammit, senpai!" complains Yamato, releasing his waterfall jutsu. "I'm Yamato now!"
The next day Iruka, who is still in the Leaf due to the fact that the meeting of the village heads still isn't finished, wanders down to training ground seven to see how Naruto and Kakashi are doing. He takes Sanma with him, since the Kages and the lesser village leaders are actually having a proper meeting today instead of 'educating' Gaara. When Iruka arrives at the training ground, Naruto is trying to add Wind Style chakra to a rasengan. It's not working so well, even with Kurama's help.
"I just can't do it!" complains Naruto. "It's like trying to look left and right at the same time!"
"Really?" says Kakashi. "That's easy." He make a shadow clone. "I'm looking left," says one Kakashi. "And I'm looking right," says the other Kakashi.
"Of course!" says Naruto and makes a shadow clone of his own. Within a few minutes, he has the completed jutsu whining away in the palm of his hand.
"Impressive," comments Iruka, wondering if Naruto would have eventually managed it without a shadow clone's help.
"Naruto!" snaps the tiny Kurama sitting beside Kakashi. "Dispel that jutsu now!"
Naruto does so. "Why did you-"
"That jutsu was tearing the nerves in your arm," says Kurama. "It is too dangerous to use!"
"But…!"
"However," continues Kurama. "If you were to go into Sage Mode, then not only would the Nature chakra heal the damage as fast as it forms, but you would also be able to throw the thing."
Naruto grins, looking incredibly happy. He sits down and starts gathering Nature Chakra. Once he is in Sage Mode, Naruto forms the purple jutsu again. Then he turns and throws it across the training ground. It hits a tree, cutting right through it, turns and cuts several more trees down before expanding into a giant ball of purple light and exploding.
Sanma wakes up from his nap in the grass and starts crying. Iruka picks him up and quiets him. "That is an impressive move," says Iruka. "What are you going to call it?"
Naruto thinks about this for a few moments and then says, "Rasen Shuriken! Cause it's like a shuriken, but it's also a rasengan, and you throw it!"
Naruto's entire expression changes to one of intense pain.
Kurama vanishes with a pop, and Naruto collapses with a scream.