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Three months, it was something that was dominating the thoughts of a certin Jounin shinobi of the leaf as he walked toward training ground number 9. It had been three months since the attack by the sound, and sand village, what had happened on that day three months before had chanced his life forever, and also chanced the course of life in Konoha as a whole. He would remember the details of that day forever, first he heard of the great victory that Naruto had achieved over Gaara. For a moment, Asuma had never felt more proud, and more upbeat in his life. The fact, that Naruto had was able to raise up to such a great challenge, showed that this new generation had such great potential.
The next news he heard, thought brought him down. When the barrier that was hiding what was happening between, the kage of the mist, his father, and Orochimaru, they found two dead body.. They were the bodies of the two kages, and also a seemingly near dead Orochimaru somehow escaped from the area. Asuma had never thought, he father would actually pass away, he was still the avatar of what a shinobi looked like. It had been hard to deal with for a while after the event happened. Things didn't get easier either for a bit, because of what had happened next didn't help.
Asuma would also remember that day as well, he had woken up that day early. He was going to start moving his things to the old traditional home of the Sarutobi Clan, with his father gone, he was now the head of the family. He went to see how Naruto was packing up his things. When he got to his room he just found a note. The note was well not very long, but it was enough to tell him most everything that he wanted. The letter talked about how Naruto was proud to have the Sarutobi name, that he was proud to be Asuma's son, and that he was most proud of the fact he had been able to be a leaf shinobi. He also then talked about how he needed to find himself, and come to a better understanding on what it meant to be Naruto Sarutobi. He said he was sorry, but he had to do this. Then at the last part of the letter, he said he would come back when he was ready, and that he didn't know how long that would be. After reading the note, Asuma talked about it with the elders, but apparently, he left a message of some type with them, that convinced them, that it was best for him to do on his quest. He had not seen Naruto since that day.
Still things would turn up, and two of the other days in the three months would turn to be two of the best days of his life. Those two days would be his marriage day, as well as the day of the birth of his first biological son. Yep, in the last three months, things had changed, and his life was different.
Then again, life for every one was different, most people were still working on fixing up the town to look like it did before the attack. They all had struggles with problems do to the attack, but they had all worked hard to over come these problems.
Asuma thought of the friends that Naruto held so closely, it had not been so easy on them to find out that Naruto had left. Ino had been given the rank of Chunin during the exam, by the council of elders in absence of a Hokage. Asuma also heard that she had been working on the application of being a teacher at the academy. Kiba on the other had stayed on the new look team Yamato, working hard with his new team. Team Yamato itself, had been given Kin, and Zaku to take the place of Ino, and Naruto. The team still had one of the best records, and Yamato, still acted pretty much the same as before.
There was also Hinata, how Asuma felt sorry for the heartbroken girl, she didn't leave her house for a week after hearing the news about Naruto. Still though, she came though the situation after a long talk with her brother. Which brings up Neji, a person who had changed a good deal, he had come out of his ice shell a bit, but still was overall was still closed off, and not near the social person Naruto was. Neji's team was pretty much the same, but because of his great stand against Gaara in the exam, Lee was given a advance in rank, which caused the biggest out pouring of tears any man had ever displayed. Tenten was pretty much the same, working with her two teammates to improve there teamwork as much as she could.
Hinata's team was something else, Shino kept about his life pretty much the same as before, but Sasuke while very similar was different. He was putting more effort into his work, but not to defeat his brother, but to defeat Naruto. In his mind, he had figured out, that he had to become stronger then Naruto before he could think of taking on his brother.
This brought him to his wife's team, who he was still in charge of helping. They had improved, and Shikamaru deserved his raise in ranks, but the young love between him, and Sakura, was a bit annoying. Ever since, the day of the attack, the feelings between the two were easy to see. Even Choji could who was happy for his friend, was sometimes annoyed.
Other things had happened too, Iruka had married Anko, Tsunade returned to the village, and the search for the hokage had began. Apparently both Jiraya, and Tsunade had turned down the job, though he didn't know the details.
Walking around the corner, he stumbled into someone, looking up he could tell that it was one of the elders on the council.
"Sorry sir, what can I do for you?" Asuma asked looking at him curiously.
"Well Sarutobi, we need to ask you something," the elder said with a serious look, "It would seem, that the council decided, that the title of Hokage should stay in the Sarutobi clan."
Asuma just blinked for a second, "You got to be kidding me, this has to be a joke. There are hundreds of better people for this job."
"Well, your work during the clean up the last few months, plus some notes from your father talking about how important you have been to the village, were what convinced the council. You were the only choice, they could all agree on, others were disliked by some in the council," the elder said pausing for a second, "Also Jiraya, and Tsunade agree to stay and help you, in memory of your father. Please take this job, your village needs you now more then ever."
Asuma paused for a second, remembering the last time, the village seemed to need him more then ever. That turned out ok, and had helped him in so many ways. "Sure, what the hell."
A/N- I know many of you will and won't like the ending, but it just came to me. Also I am undecided on if I should write a follow to this story. If you think I should please review, and also thanks for reading, and if you just want to leave a word, go ahead, and leave one. This is the end for now, like I said, I am not sure if I will write a follow up story.