Chapter 4
Naruto woke suddenly gasping for air looking around wildly, after a few moments getting his bearings. The blonde boy slumped forward, ever since he had met the ones inside himself, he had managed obtain their abilities he would dream rather strange things. One night he dreamed he was fighting some old man with yellow eyes in a black robe who shot lightning from his fingertips. Each dream got stranger and more terrifying each time. The dream he just had however frightened him the most as it depicted him fighting a man with blonde haired more wilder than his. In this dream he was trying to bring about the end of the world using a summoning called Meteor. He killed an innocent girl and unleashed four monsters ten times worse than the Kyuubi. Are these dreams a result of unlocking those abilities, did I somehow absorb all those heroes and that monster. The night before he had dreamed about fight some kid named Will. He had watched from Kenchi's point of view as his friends and sister fought against Will's Dark Mages. He had watched as one by one the good mages were slaughtered, until it was only him and Anna. They were surrounded as the boy said "any last words?". He looked up and said "Screw you." The boy just laughed as he raised his hand then everything went black. He looked at the clock and sighed as lie back down. After few minutes he drifted back to sleep, hoping the new dream will be better than the last.
When the sun rose Naruto was awakened to some gentle hands shaking him. Cracking one eye open he looked up to see Shizune with a light smile on her face. "Rise and shine Naruto-kun, time to head back to the shinobi race."
Naruto nodded weakly sitting up pulling off his nightcap. "Morning," he yawned slowly climbing out of the bed. Shizune gave him a brief smile before leaving the room, Naruto stretched before taking off his night shirt. Opening his closet he scanned it, inside were various shinobi and civilian style outfits. He however pulled out a pair of grey pants and a black long sleeve shirt, turning to look at a mirror muttered activating his chakra tail shirt became the dark blue vest that Kenchi wore. It hung open to show his bare chest, His pants darkened as well. Looking at the outfit under the bright bed room light it wasn't much to it. He pulled out a plain red-orange cloack with no sleeves similar to the Hokage robes. He grabbed his headband and tied it to his head with a smirk Naruto saluted his own image before turning and leaving the room.
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A few minutes later Naruto with Sasuke and Sakura were waiting for their sensei. His teammates was staring at him. Sasuke however finished his staring with a grunt turning away, while Sakura had a light blush on her cheeks and not realizing it. Internally Naruto was jumping for joy; he piqued his Sakura-chan's interested, meanwhile inside of him Kenchi sighed and said "Oi, what does the gaki see in her" as his sister shrugged and Albiero said "Maybe it's because of her large forehead." to which Kenchi snorted. "From what Iv, he'd be better off with that quiet girl from the academy."During the last few days the nine beings had viewed Naruto's memories. "Hmm, first one to show kindness to him she was. First one to play with him she was" said Yoda as Roku and Raven nodded in agreement Meanwhile, after about two hours Kakashi appeared on the railing across from them holding up a hand in greeting. "Yo," he states dryly.
"YOU'RE LATE!" Naruto and Sakura shout pointing at the silver haired.
"Sorry, I have a reason for being late this time," pulling out three sheets of paper and handing them to his students. "I have nominated you for the Chunin exams." The trio looked at the paper's Sasuke and Naruto wore matching smirks while Sakura looked a bit apprehensively. "Bring those to the third floor of the Academy on Thursday, room 301." With that the silver haired jonin shunshin away, shortly after he vanished Sasuke walked away.
"You okay Sakura-chan?" Naruto asked.
The rosette looked at him a moment then stared down at the chunin papers, "Yeah I'm fine." The two walked along not realizing they were walking together in silence, one was busy trying to make up her mind on what to do about the application. The other was trying to come to decision about his training and if he could get a date with the rosette or not. Both stopped when they heard a commotion ahead of them.
Naruto saw a tall boy roughly two or three years older than himself dressed in a one piece black jumpsuit with cat like ears. The boy also wore paint on his face which Naruto guess was intended to be war paint but came out looking like make-up. The taller boy however held in his arm someone that was precious to the blonde. "Hey you in the makeup, put Konohamaru down now!" he growl walking over to the group, he spotted Moegi and Udon off to the side looking relieved and frightened.
"it's war paint dang you" the boy shouted as he turned to face the two of them. "This kid bumped into me," the painted boy stated.
Naruto crossed his arms looking annoyed, "Yeah and he apologized, didn't you Konohamaru?" Naruto asked and was greeted with a swift nod.
"So what apology not accepted," the boy stated.
"Kankuro let the brat go," a blonde girl hair done up in four ponytails and wearing a grey battle dress carrying a large fan.
Naruto glanced at both the headbands not noticing how surprised Sakura was looking behind him. "Not a good idea to harass the 3rd Hokage's grandson, in his home village is it, especially if it could get you kicked out of the Chunin exams." The one known as Kankuro dropped Konohamaru to the ground growling at him.
"Are you threatening me?" Kankuro asked as he pulled off the bandaged bundle on his back and sat it on the gound .
"Chakra tail 5 – the Grand Jedi Master." Naruto whispered his clothing changing to a light brown as his hair thinned and paled. Naruto was amazed at what he was sensing. Since he was unused to this form, he delved into his mind and went to small sage and asked "What now?" Yoda then gently replied "Empty your mind, and then reach out and feel the force flowing through you, you will. The force is in everthing, show you it will the thoughts and feelings of those around you it will." Naruto bowed to him and returned to the moment at hand. Focusing, he could feel the force, like river flowing around and through him. He reached and was amazed at what he seeing and hearing. The girls name was Temari and she was feeling annoyed, agitated and…scared. At that moment he heard Yoda's voice in his head say "The dark side I sense nearby." Naruto turned to where he was feeling an enormous amount bloodlust. "Strong is the dark side in this one" Naruto thought as he felt three very strong emotion coming from above him. At that moment the bundle began to levitate. Kankuro gave out a shout as hell backwards.
Konohamaru and his gang were hoping he would beat the snot out of the black clad boy. As for the black clad boy who actually saw Naruto's change was freaked out. "This you see before is the bi-product of mastering and destroying a tailed beast that was sealed inside me," he whispered.
"You what?" Kankuro stepped back in fear. "W-Which one?"
"Your brother has one, I had nine," Naruto said gently. "Yes, thanks to my new abilities I know all about Gaara, but I didn't have to read your mind," he looked up into the trees seeing Sasuke. "Isn't that right Gaara?" He deactivated his chakra tail and hair color changing back to normal. Sasuke jumped spinning around in time to see a red haired boy with dead green eyes glancing down at Naruto.
"What is your name?" Gaara asked solemnly.
"Naruto Uzumaki..," Naruto seemed to pause a second. "Namikaze, son of Minato Namikaze and Kushina Uzumaki." The night he had met his grandmother Naruto had been pulled into his mindscape and met his parents along with the other nine or well in siblings case ten entities that had taken up residence with in his mind.. What surprised him most and what had surprised them, apparently whatever power had been unleashed essentially allowed his parents to stay alive at least in his mind which was currently undergoing an overhaul to look much like his family home. "I'm the grandson of Tsunade Senju one of the Legendary Sennin," he shrugged scratching the back of his head. The blonde haired girl, Sasuke, and Sakura looked dumbfounded. While the Konohamaru Corps looked absolutely bewildered at exchange.
"Y-You're the son of the 4th Hokage, Naruto?" Sakura asked.
Naruto nodded once then smiled as Kankuro seemed to pale more, "Kind of hard not to know who my parents were now that I've met my grandmother. She pretty much told me everything," he turned his head to the black clad boy.
"I see," Gaara said in a monotone voice sand shunshin next to his older. "Kankuro you're an embarrassment to our village," the black clad boy started to protest. "Enough embarrass us further and I'll kill you," the red haired sand user said coldly before walking away quietly followed by the blonde. Kankuro gulped glancing at first at his departing siblings then at the blonde boy, before following his siblings.
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Sasuke jumped down from his perch looking a bit amazed at Naruto's revelation, "It's hard to believe that you're the fourth's son."
"Tell me about it, I spent all last week with my grandmother and her apprentice," Naruto smiled. "It was kind of refreshing, to know I still have family left in the world."
The Uchiha's face darkened a bit at those words before turning shoving his hands in his pockets, "Whatever just be at the academy Friday not like I really need both of you losers, but at least you'll be of some use," he states.
"What about Sakura-chan?" Naruto asked coolly.
Sasuke turned his head looking at the rosette haired girl looking indifferent, she wilts under the gaze. "Just don't slow me down," he grunts turning and walking away. Naruto watched them quietly unsure how to react in these moments. Before he would have jumped down the Uchiha's throat saying something that cruel to Sakura. However glancing at the pinked haired girl he wasn't sure it would be appreciated. He had tried several times to compliment her only to stumble over his words and get belted for them.
"You okay Sakura-chan?" he asked looking uncertain.
Looking a bit lost for a moment, Sakura turns to him and smiles faintly, "I'm fine Naruto, see you on Friday."
Watching her begin to walk away he suddenly came up with something brilliant and he hoped would earn him brownie points, "Sakura-chan, would you like to get stronger?"
The rosette turned looking at him her eyebrow raised in question, "What are you talking about?"
"I'm asking you, do you want to get stronger to prove to people that you're as strong Sasuke-teme and I. As strong as I've always believed you to be," the multi-powered blonde asked again.
Sakura completely turned to him looking confused for a moment her face holding a slight pink tint to her cheeks. "Okay how?"
"Talk to my grandmother, she's the best medic-nin in the world, Shizune has already finished her training. So grandma is looking for someone new to teach," Naruto said with a shrug. "I think she's waiting until after these exams before approaching the old man for a Medic-nin academy."
Sakura took a moment to think about what he said before she responded. "Alright, but I won't get much training done before Friday."
At this the blonde haired boy seemed to smile wryly before he stepped closer to her, "What would say if I can show you a place where you can get three years' worth of training in just three days? It's a place I've found at the base of the Hokage Monument."
Sakura's eyes widen thinking of the implications, "How do you know that?"
"I found out about it, after I unlocked the power I used on the bridge. I used it a couple of days ago, to train in the use of my abilities. I still haven't mastered switching the powers interchangeably yet, I feel like another training session to do that. So if you agreed to train with my grandmother the three of us can go in and she can train you while I working on mastering my powers," the multi-powered blonde explained.
The rosette's mind was working overtime on the amount of information that he was giving her. The chance to catch up with Naruto and Sasuke, to be of use to her team, as well as uncover the mystery that her blonde teammate was becoming. It was in this mystery that she found she was starting to show a real interest in him. He was the fourth's son, the grandson to the Legendary Sennin Princess Tsunade Senju, and through her he was related to the first two Hokage, he was as much royalty to the Hidden Leaf as his grandmother. And no one including myself knew about it until recently, I was cruel, I even said I hated him. Yet he treats me like the princess, always encouraging, always praising even my smallest accomplishment. She remembered him praising her tree climbing efforts even asking her how she did it, while Sasuke had ignored her and even looked irritated that she done something easily that he could not. Was I really that blind, so blind that I never realized what I had. Naruto watched as his long time crush dropped to her knees burying her face in her hands, he heard muffled sobs.
"Sakura-chan?" Naruto cried out in concern dropping to one knee beside her he follows the advice Shizune had given in regards in how to deal with such emotional distress.
XXX Flashback XXX
"Naruto what's the matter?" Shizune asked watching her sensei's grandson standing staring down at the koi pond.
"I've never been good at dealing with girls," Naruto sighed scratching the back of his head. "You're all just so confusing."
Shizune giggled, "Any particular girl causing you to get confused?"
"A couple there's that weird Hinata girl from the academy she always passes out around me, and her face is always flushed," Naruto explained.
Shizune shook her head smiling faintly, "That my dear nephew would be a crush, and severe one at that."
Looking wide eyed at the woman he calls aunt in shock, "Really I never knew," he frowned a moment thinking about his own feelings about a certain rosette haired girl. "Then why don't I do that around Sakura-chan? I mean spend all my time thinking about trying to make her smile even though I all seem to do is make her mad," he said sadly looking down at the water.
Shizune heard the sad sigh in his voice, "That's because what you have is not a simple crush, Naruto-kun. What you have is far more stronger than a simple crush," she looked down sadly at him.
Naruto just shrugged, "Can you help me understand girls a bit better maybe that way I can avoid making Sakura-chan mad at me all the time."
"I can try," Shizune smiled faintly. "The first thing you should know is the difference between tears of joy, sadness, and anger."
Naruto smiled giving a salute, "Understood Auntie Shizune-sensei."
XXX End Flashback XXX
Still wondering what his aunt meant by feelings stronger than a crush but he could care less at this point. He slowly pulled Sakura into his arms holding her gently and was surprised when she turned in his arms and buried her face in his shoulder. "I-I-I'm sorry for everything Naruto," she cried into his shoulder curling her arms around his waist.
"It's okay Sakura-chan," he paused lightly sniffing her hair and the scent was much like her namesake a hint of cherries with roses. "I forgive you. I'd forgive you for anything."
Sakura's heart tighten even more realizing just how much she had missed out the last four years during the academy and she damned the rest of Sasuke's fan girls for it. After a few minutes slowly gathering her emotions from the turmoil she hiccupped a few times before pulling her head away looking up at Naruto and this time really looking at him. His lightly tanned face no longer obscured by the whisker marks, blonde spiky hair, and bright deep blue eyes that held such hidden pain yet had so much kindness in them. She had to admit he was handsome, "Thank you, Naruto."
Naruto's face broke into a large smile, "Welcome Sakura-chan, so want to do what I proposed?"
"Yes, I want to help pull my own weight," the rosette haired girl stated slowly standing her emotional rollercoaster making unsteady but with Naruto's help she was able to stand.
"Let's go, I pity those other teams when squad 7 enters that exam, believe it!" the multi powered blonde smiled.
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It took some convincing but Tsunade agreed to both of Naruto's requests and the trio were now standing in front of a huge boulder, Naruto looked at it for a moment before moving his finger's along the side feeling for the lever he used once before. Finally finding what he had been looking for pulling the lever. The boulder slid quietly to the side revealing a large red ornate door with a design of a dragon embedded on said door. "Welcome to hyperbolic Time chamber, inside we can get three years' worth of training in three days."
His grandmother and Sakura looked on in awe, "My grandfather told me about this place once, but never said where it was, he used this chamber before his final battle with Madara."
Naruto nodded, "one of the chakra tales that I absorbed gave the knowledge and final location of this chamber. Used it to get some knowledge on how to use these powers I have, now I need to learn how to use them interchangeably," he glanced at Sakura. "This chamber will help Sakura train to get stronger and learn medical ninjutsu in time for the exam."
"Let's get started then," Tsunade replies as the three entered the room. At that moment Naruto froze in mid step. "Naruto?" Sakura said, causing Tsunade to turn around. "Naruto? Is everything ok?" Meanwhile inside his mind Naruto found himself standing in front of his inner friends. "What's, going on? Why am I here?" Yoda bowed his head and said "alone you and your precious one are not." "Huh?" said Naruto dumbly as Roku said "What our friend means, is that you and your grandmother and teammate are being watched." Naruto looked confused and said "What do you mean we're being watched? By who?" At that moment Kenchi sighed and said "No clue. All we can tell is that the person is female." At that that moment the Rikudō Sennin said "Activate my gift to you. With it you will be able to see them via their chakra." Meanwhile Outside in the real world three people were worried about Naruto.
Two were beside him, trying to snap him back into his right state of mind. The third one was hiding behind a row of bushes, watching all this with concern and fear. She recognized Sakura, one of his teammates, but she didn't recognize the blonde woman with them. Meanwhile with Naruto, said blond opened his eyes causing Tsunade and Sakura to gasp, albeit for two different reasons. "I haven't seen those eyes since Nagato" Tsunade though while did a good impression of a fish. "Naruto, what happened to your eyes?" asked Sakura as Naruto said "You can come on out now" This confused the older blond and the pinkette. "who is he talking to?" they thought, then they an "Eep" from behind a row bushes. Tsunade's brow furrowed as she said "whoever you come out right now or I'll force you" she said as she directed her killer intent towards whoever was behind the bushes. "How can he sense me?" though spy thought as hesitantly stepped out into the open.
"Hinata?" said Sakura as she then realized why she was here. "She must've been following Naruto-kun the whole time. Wait did I just Call him Kun? Why would I do that, I love Sasuke-kun!" She thought. Naruto was just as confused, "Hinata, what are you doing here?" Hinata began to stammer "I w-as, uh I was wa-watchining….." as she began to imitate a tomato Tsunade began to laugh as the pieces fell into place. This girl had a crush on her grandson. "EH, Hinata you sick or something, cause your face is all red." Tsunade burst into laughter as the girl fainted. "Hey, Baa-chan this isn't funny she could be sick or something." He said as he laid her on the ground.
Tsunade smirked as she summoned Shizune who came running "Yes m' lady" Tsunade then said "Go and get Hiashi Hyuga. Tell him that I wish to speak with him." Shizune bowed and ran off while Tsunade called Naruto away from the prone Hyuga girl. "Eh, Ba-chan what's wrong with Hinata?" Tsunade sighed at her grandson's denseness.
Several minutes later Shizune returned with Hiashi who was frowning. "Tsunade-Sama, you wished to see me." Tsunade looked up at the proud man and replied "yes, I was planning on leaving on a training trip with my grandson and his teammate when he sensed someone watching us. Turns out it was Hinata here." Hiashi sighed as he looked at his unconscious daughter and said "I apologize for her rudeness and will make sure that she doesn't bother you again." Tsunade just waved the comment aside and said "Actually, the reason sent for was to inform you that I have decided to take her on as my second apprentice and was hoping to get your blessing. Know this though I will still train her without your blessing."
Hiashi bowed his head and said "It would be an honor to have you train her. Perhaps you could train her so that she will not be a burden to her team and to be a worthy heir. If you will excuse me I must return to the clan compound to finish up today's clan business." With that the stoic Hyuga head walked off.
Several minutes later Hinata woke up to find Naruto's face inches from hers. She turned as he said "Hey, you ok?" Tsunade snickered then pulled her oblivious grandson away from the poor Hyuga girl. He then smiled and said " Hello Hinata, I assume you know who I am?" to which Hinata stammered "y-yes. You t-the Sa-Sanin lady Tsunade." Tsunade Smirked and said "How would like to to become my apprentice?"
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Sakka Kinjutsu Ouji: Hangagake no Jutsu (Writer's Forbidden secret Technique: Cliffhanger Technique)
Yo ! Here you all go. The latest chapter for Grandmother of a God. Thank you all for being patient with me. Ive had problems with writers block, laziness, Xbox360, reading other fics, Ect…. Please continue to be patient with me as I have a hard writing. Updates for this and other fics will be few and far between each other. I will update when I can that is a promise. Also I set up a poll to decide on the pairings. Should this fic be a NaruXHarem or NaruXTwo girls. I will also be taking sugetions for who the girls should be. Know this though whether it is a harem or not, Hinata will be one of the girls. If the it is just two girls then should it be Sakura or someone else. If Sakura is not with Naruto then she wil be a sister like figure. Another Note: Please check out my other fics and tell me what you think of them. I draw my inspiration form these fics as well, so PLEASE check them Out!