Ninja people problems
*Konoha*one week after Tsunade was found*One day since the return of Jiraya's Party*Coronation day*
Naruto and Fuu were holding in piggyback Konohamaru and Megumi respectively, watching as Tsunade gave her speech as the new fifth Hokage.
Megumi was looking at Tsunade with nothing but adoration on her eyes, and the day before she had been pestering her brother for how Tsunade was and what she liked to do, Naruto had answered with blunt honesty that she was a hag that liked to drink and gamble.
This had deflated the girl a lot, leaving her to sulk, until he told her of what she had done to Jiraya and how she had fought Orochimaru.
Konohamaru however, was not someone really happy right now, as they were finally giving the last thing, other than his head in the mountainside, which kept the memory of the Sandaime alive.
He had originally planned to barricade himself in the old office of Hiruzen so no one else could throw away the things from the old man, but his mother had told him that he had to go with the rest of the Sarutobi clan to the reading of the will of the old man.
Kon had gotten the pipe of the old man, and the scrying orb, but that had been kept by his mother.
So now he was watching dejectedly as Tsunade, wearing her normal attire with the only difference being that she had the conical Hokage hat on her head, the veil on it covering all but her face.
He had wanted that hat.
He would have to be the sixth Hokage.
"I promise you, citizens of Konoha, that I will do everything I can to run this village just like my predecessor did, with a firm hand and peace in mind for every decision" Tsunade finished her speech to the applause of the crowd.
The crowd started to disperse as Tsunade left the roof of the Hokage building, Jiraya, who had been watching from one of the many spikes of the building under his camouflage technique, following behind her, his illusion broken.
Naruto, Fuu, Haku and Hagane, the latter two of which had been watching the speech from some rows behind with Haku carrying Moegi, walked through the main road of the village, going to the onsen as per mutual agreement.
They all submerged in the boiling water, each on their side of the onsen, but the sighs of enjoyment could be heard from both sides of the screen.
"Say, Naruto, now that you're a chunnin, do you think you could take me out for a mission?" Hagane asked after a while of almost total silence in the baths, which were surprisingly empty, considering how hectic the last few weeks had been in Konoha.
"No!" Megumi shouted from the other side of the fence, "Onii-chan has to stay at home to train us"
"Yeah," Konohamaru agreed in a softer voice than Megumi, "you've been gone for a month, boss, Ebisu-baka tried to train us, all he gives us are the basics for the Leaf's taijutsu."
"Yeah, you left my training halfway!" Megumi yelled again, "you never told me how to complete your henge"
"That's because you don't have the chakra for that" Naruto sighed, "your reserves aren't big enough to compensate for your density"
"But I want to complete it, come on Nii-chan" Megumi whined, making Haku and Fuu smirk.
"How about something else?" Naruto purposed, not really wanting a discussion to break out.
"Like what?" Moegi asked before Megumi could, "could you teach us the substitution?"
"I can teach you that" Naruto agreed, thanking the girl mentally, "we start tomorrow"
"You know, if you were a few years older, you would be the brats' jonin sensei," Hagane commented.
"They would prefer me over Ebisu, that's for sure" Naruto agreed.
"That's because Ebisu is an idiot" Konohamaru complained, "he insults you and then insist I practice something I already know"
"Really now?" Hagane asked, "Think you can shut him up, kyofu?"
"Don't call me that" he growled, to the amusement of everyone else, "but no, not until I can stand on even footing with Kurenai-sensei or Yuugao-nee"
"Why don't you train with me?" Hagane asked Konohamaru.
"Because you're a pervert, mom says I have to keep away from those" Konohamaru answered.
"How do you know I'm a pervert?" Hagane asked, affronted. On the other side of the screen Haku and Fuu smiled amusedly.
"Because Naruto and Haku say so"
*Streets*
Naruto walked around the streets of Konoha after everyone else had gone back to the apartment complex, wanting a moment to him and using grocery shopping, done in several different faces and bodies, as an excuse as he had a lot of things on his head.
First of all was the fact that he would probably not be seeing Megumi a lot as he was a chunnin and was now required to take B-rank missions that could last up to months depending on the parameters, and unless he made jonin at sixteen and manage to be her sensei, the only time he would be seeing her were training with her and in-between missions.
The second thing on his mind were the missions themselves, he would be required to lead team eventually, and while he knew he could take charge, he doubted most of the chunnin other than the ones a few years older than him, Fuu, Shikamaru and Izumo and Kotetsu would listen to his orders, as most were old enough to know that he was a jinchuriki.
The third and last thing was the thing he and Jiraya had discussed a day before arriving to the village; the older man had told Naruto that he planned to teach the younger male all about his spy network, so the red-head could take over as soon as Jiraya retired from that, died, or went back to active roster, which meant that much like the older man, unless he managed to devise a way of getting into the other villages, he would have to travel around the world and meeting up with the spies.
It would be awesome to see the whole world, but that would mean that he would see the village only once every two months unless, once again, he managed to find a way to contact people over long distances or he somehow cracked the Hirainshin with nothing but photos and descriptions of the seals on the kunai the Fourth had used as markers.
Even so, he could not deny that following the steps of the man would amazing and that serving the leaf from outside of it with only the normal threats to deal with instead of ninja coming to kill him was tempting.
He more than anyone could appreciate the peace and quiet of the little moments in life, being treated as he was in his childhood had made him want those moments and look for them.
But he would rarely see his family, which was why Naruto had been hesitant in allowing Jiraya to teach him anything other than what he had already been, battle seals with the occasional tips to increase his control and skills.
He could take fast infiltration missions; those would be fun and easy considering all the pranks he had pulled around the village, but actually staying in a village that was not his for more than two months would not be something he was willing to do, not without being completely sure that the information was worth it.
He sighed and changed form again, this time going into a clothing store; his shirts were starting to get to tight for his liking.
*Hospital*
Sasuke Uchiha was not happy as he looked to the roof of his room at the hospital, the reason for that? His recent defeat at the hands of his older brother and only a few weeks after that at the hand of Aoi Rokusho, the man that had stolen the Raijin no Ken from Konoha before deflecting, at the mission his team had taken to Tea Country.
The first had not really been a bad defeat, his brother had just knocked him out cold and left him on the floor while he fought Jiraya, but that had been a blow to his pride, as he believed he had been strong enough, even if he hadn't been promoted to chunin, .
The second man had been thorough with his humiliation of the Uchiha in their confrontation in Tea County, leaving the survivor with scars on his torso that would never leave him as they were cauterized by the Raijin no Ken as it was a sword of pure lighting thanks to the seals that his teacher had later explained as he recovered the blade, were inscribed in the handle of the blade, under the cloth that covered it and gave better grip.
But by the end of his battle with the man, by the time that Kakashi Hatake had interfered, Sasuke was little more than a twitching mess with lots of cuts that were an awful color thanks to the power of the Nidaime's blade.
The worst part of that mission though, was that Inuzuka Kiba, the loser of the team, had managed to get their client's runner to the finish line, carrying both said teen and an injured Akamaru up hundreds of stairs that led to the finish line of the race that would decide who would rule Tea Country for the next year, beating the other runner by nearly ten minutes, while he fought Aoi and lost badly.
Then, as if to add insult to the injury, Kakashi had taken him to a cleaning job, only to discover that his and the Inuzuka's job, escorting the daughter of one of the Daimyo's court men, crossed paths somewhere because the girl had been kidnapped and taken to the same camp he and Kakashi were supposed to deal with, and the Inuzuka dealt with most of the opposition before he could jump in and execute the pan he and Hatake had agreed upon.
Uchiha Sasuke was not a happy man, not a happy man at all.
Maybe he would take Orochimaru's proposal.
The man did say he would make Sasuke powerful
