Once again I'm floored by the amount of response I received from everyone with this story. Thank you everyone for the support. I'll be discussing the pairings at the end of the story. Seeing as most reviews pertained to the pairings lets get on with the story!
Chapter 2: Childhood Days part 2: A Diplomatic Mission
Minato sighed looking over the decimated uchiha clan district upon the grand fence surrounding the once large and proud clan a frown etched into his features. Anbu swept through the district looking for any survivors or anyone that was missed but unfortunately the masked man was ruthless. Of everyone that was in the district and not out on a mission everyone they had found had been killed.
Feeling a presence appear next to him Minato glanced over to see Itachi in his anbu gear sans mask.
"Itachi-Kun you shouldn't be here you should be with you family." Minato said wanting to spare the man the pain of seeing his clan.
"Your family is currently with mine Minato-Sama looking after them… I figured I could help here look for survivors or clues to who this man is." Itachi said his sharingan flaring to life.
"We've received reports that Uchiha out on mission were attacked but most of them have survived… All 20 Uchiha have been called back to konoha effective immediately." Minato informed the young man.
"Your mom will be named temporary clan head till you reach 16 she's already approved the measure and you will both be present at the emergency clan meeting tonight." He finished as an anbu appeared on the building in front of the two.
"Hokage-sama we've found one survivor a Izumi Uchiha but that's all that we've found within the compound." The Snail masked anbu informed the fourth hokage as itachi disappeared in a flock of crows.
"Izumi-chan!" Shouted itachi appearing next to his young girlfriend happy that she had survived as he kneeled at her side a piercing would on her side as a medic attended to her.
"Itachi-kun I'm so happy you lived." She said weakly with a smile her hand snaking around to find his hand which he gave her willingly grasping her tightly.
"I was so scared Itachi." Said Izumi tears flowing down her cheeks as Itachi wiped them away.
"I'm here Izumi-chan I'll protect you with my life." He promised as minato appeared.
"I'm sorry Itachi-kun but it's time for the council meeting… I assure you that your young girlfriend here will be fine." Minato promised as he clasped a caring hand down on the man's shoulder.
"Yes Hokage-sama." He said as the two we're flashed away to the hokage tower courtesy of the Hirshian (Flying thunder god). Standing up straight Itachi and Minato entered the council chambers Minato taking his spot at the head of the table as Itachi walked over to sit next to his mother.
"Please sit." Minato sounded out at the shinobi council and civilian council took their seats Jiryia entered sitting behind minato as his personal council.
"Hokage-sama why have we been called at this troublesome hour?" Asked one Shikaka Nara who had his head on his desk.
"Well… The uchiha clan has been nearly wiped out." Said minato as panic and chaos erupted within the chambers.
"The uchiha clan has been wiped out!" Shouted a major trader
"But how! Their one of our strongest clans!" Shouted another trader in terror these were just some of the shouts echoing within the enclosed area as clan heads and civilians alike reacted to the news.
"Silence!" Shouted minato quieting down the council chambers if only slightly.
"Do we know who did it Minato?" Asked one danzo shimura
"Well… In a way yes we don't know his true identity he confronted me after the murders to gloat about it… I can't give much more information than that, sadly." He told the council chambers.
"How many uchiha are left alive?" Asked Hirashi Hyuga a frown on his face at the loss of his rival clan. Even if the uchiha and Hyuga we're rivals they proved to be a powerful asset to konoha.
"Well we have confirmed 25 Uchiha are still alive as of right now, all of which have been recalled to Konoha." Minato told the council waiting for the council to continue.
"Have any of their assets been touched?" asked one Shibi Aburama as Mikoto frowned.
"Well not that we're aware of as of right now the man responsible solely focused on killing as many uchiha as he could." She said granted the scrolls hadn't been fully counted nor had their coffers but so far nothing had been touched.
"And have the Sharingan been collected yet?" Asked Shikaka knowing how damaging it would be if the Sharingan was captured by enemy villages or even danzo.
"As of right now every Sharingan has been accounted for." Informed minato after a dragon masked anbu or rather the anbu commander whispered in his ear.
"I believe with the uchiha weakened we have two clans that have rather low numbers." Danzo said making his presence known once more.
"And what would the second of these two clans be danzo?" Tsume Inuzuka all but spat out as she like most shinobi disliked the man heavily.
"Well The Uzumaki and by extension Namikaze clan." He said as minato could feel dread creeping out from his heart.
"What Exactly are you leading to danzo?" Asked Minato biting his lip to hold back a glare at the mention of his family.
"I believe having two once great clans have been led to extinction has had a rather drastic effect on our shinobi forces. I believe we need to rebuild these clans and quickly if we are to remain one of if not the strongest shinobi village. I believe the Uchiha can rebuild quickly with the numbers however, The Uzumaki and Namikaze clans have a grand total of 5 members at this moment and as such should be placed under CRA. If the Uchiha clan falls under 10 members they should also be placed under CRA." He finished as silence settled upon the council chambers at the elders deceleration.
"I refuse Kushina would never allow me to-." Minato started only to be cut off by Danzo.
"I'm not saying you should be placed under CRA but rather your clan heir Naruto Namikaze." Danzo stated causing Minato to glare at the aged man releasing a small amount of killer intent at the implication.
"Again I-." He started only for Shikaka to speak up.
"Minato-Sama I'm afraid you don't have a choice under the laws of CRA if a clan falls under 5 true born members it's required that the heir of the clan to take on multiple wives if the clan head is already married.
Breathing deeply minato thought for a moment, currently he was cornered he had no legal basis to refuse and it wouldn't do well to anger danzo with how powerful he was and his influence within konoha. Sighing he nodded as he began to fill out the paperwork.
"And how many wives does the council believe Naruto must take and by what age?" He spat out angry that he was about to put his son in such a position.
"I believe 10 would be the optimal amount it guarantees that children will be born, no matter what happens. I also believe by the time he reaches the age of 16 or chunin whatever comes first he should have at least three wives." Danzo said getting no rebuttal from anyone within the clan Minato sighed writing it down knowing his wife was more than likely going to kill him.
"If there's nothing else I believe we may all go home for tonight we're all tired and would like to be with our families." Minato said with a sigh as the council filed out of the room Minato leaving in a flash to the hospital room.
"Oh minato how did the council meeting go?" Asked kushina holding their newborn daughter unaware of the shock she was about to receive.
"Well… We need to talk about that." Minato said with a nervous chuckle.
(Two years later 5 years before the start of cannon)
"Why can't we just flash there Tou-san?" Asked Naruto as he and his father trekked through the land of wind.
"Because I thought this would be a nice father son trip." He said with a smile walking next to his son. Kushina was shocked and angry of course at the news with threats to castrate her husband or kill him and hide the body after finding out about the CRA. It took a lot of time and requests for forgiveness by Minato but she finally listened to her husband on the matter. It took some time but she slowly came to accept the act being placed on her son seeing as there was no other choice.
"Yeah? Well you could have picked a different venue." He grumbled as the walls of sunagakure appeared in the distance
"Quit complaining maybe if you paid attention more during your daily training we could have taken the fast way here." Minato said bopping Naruto over the head as they finally reached the gates the guards halting them.
"Fourth Hokage-sama what brings you here?" Asked a Suna chunin who wore their standard uniform checking for possible hedge or genjutsu.
"I'm here to meet with the Kazekage-Dono and to show my son the world a little bit." Minato told them as the guards nodded letting the duo through.
"Enjoy your stay Hokage-sama." They said as the father and son walked down the mainstreet of sunagakure the sandstone buildings rising around them as villagers scurried around in awe at seeing the fourth hokage a living legend.
"So this is sunagakure?" Naruto asked slightly in awe seeing another hidden shinobi village as the quickly approached their kazekage building which had the Kanji for wind displayed proudly. Well as proudly as a banner could be on the side of a building.
"Yeah it is I was here a lot during the third shinobi war Iwagakure tried to invade multiple times but your old man here repelled them every time." Minato boasted with a small smile knowing his son would believe his statement even if it wasn't totally true.
"That's so cool!" Naruto shouted as they entered the building a rush of cool air flowing over them as the buildings A/C enveloped the two.
"Hokage-sama!" Shouted the secretary surprised to see the young man in person and not the ambassador that she normally saw from Konoha.
"Hello I'm here to finish talks of our current treaty." Minato said she the secretary at a loss of words quickly led the Hokage and his son to the Kazekages room. Knocking there was a pause as the shout of "Come in" rang through the wooden door.
Entering Naruto was surprised at the appearance of the fourth Kazekage Rasa had auburn hair, dark eyes and was usually depicted with a very stern look on his face. He wore a simple black jacket and pants with mesh armour underneath. He carried a small canister strapped to his hip. He also had two creases around his mouth.
"Hello Rasa-Dono it's good to see you again after so long." Minato said with a smile which the now named Rasa did not return.
"I was not expecting to see you personally Minato-Dono however its not an unwelcome surprise I suppose. And who is the young child next to you?" He asked looking at Naruto with a critical eye.
"This is my son Naruto Namikaze." He said with a smile affectionately rubbing the top of his son head
"Well it would not do to have him listen to the boring prattle of negotiations I shall send him to meet my own children." Rasa said calling in a servant who took away naruto.
"So I have the current negotiations here which I believe are rather acceptable however I would like to add a few things." Rasa started as he pulled out the current treaty as the two Kages looked over the paper with a critical eye.
"And what would that be Rasa-Dono." Minato asked he assumed that everything that had been talked about was acceptable and the treaty was ready to be signed.
"Well simply put I would like to add in a clause that sends more missions back our way. We've lost a large portion of our clients to konoha after the end of the third shinobi war which has nearly crippled our village." Rasa stated causing minato to frown.
"I understand I believe potential clients that are closer to the Suna should be sent your way instead however we require a steady stream of clients as well. I believe a 75% 25% split would be acceptable with konoha receiving 25%?" Asked Minato sure it would in the short term lessen the income of Konoha but Hi no Kuni was large with an ever expanding need of jobs.
"I think that's acceptable Minato-Dono." He said pausing as he added it into the treaty.
"I also want to add in a political marriage clause between my daughter Temari and your son Naruto." He said shocking Minato as he looked at the Kazekage in confusion.
"Well that's not quite what I was expecting Rasa-Dono… However I believe that could be done with the two marrying by the time they become 16 or both reach the rank of Chunin." Minato said knowing he could kill two birds with one stone here.
"That's acceptable. I also wish for her to move to Konoha with you to deepen our relationship and her relationship with her now fiance." Rasa said shocking Minato once more.
"But won't you miss your daughter?" Minato asked as he could never even think of sending his own daughter away.
"I will don't get me wrong Minato-Dono however I believe this will help us to strengthen and deepen ties between our villages. I believe their second born shall move to Suna after reaching the rank of Genin." Rasa said which caused minato to frown but nod. This was after all a common political move between clans and even countries at one point in time however in the modern day it was a rather rare affair.
"Is that everything Rasa-Dono?" Asked Minato to which the man nodded.
"Yes." He said signing the treaty turning it for minato to sign as well the Suna equivalent of Anbu appearing to have copies made.
"I do however have a personal request. My son has the ichibi sealed within him however the seal work was rather shody and has caused my son immense issues. He's become rather unstable and I fear he might snap and rampage across sunagakure." Rasa explained as Minato frowned thinking about the request for a moment.
"Who exactly did the seal work on your son?" He asked, trying to understand why a jinchuriki even the ichibi would cause so much trouble for its container.
"Lady Chiyo did the seal work seeing as she has the most experience with seals however we have no true seal masters her in Suna." Rasa said as minato mauled over the decision for a while before he nodded.
"I will have to meet your son and take a look at his seal to get a good grasp of what I'm dealing with and what I would have to do." Minato said.
(Meanwhile with Naruto)
"Hello my name is Naruto Namikaze!" Naruto shouted to the two other children in the room one was a girl a little older than him with teal eyes and sandy blonde hair, which is gathered into four consecutive pigtails she also wore brown pants and a purple sweater. The other was a young boy who had brown hair and black eyes and had a striking resemblance to his father.
The young girl decided to introduce herself first. "Hello Naruto-san I am Temari." she said with a polite bow as her brother decided to go next.
"And I'm Kankurō." Said the young boy with his arms crossed only to be bonked on the head by temari forcing him to bow. Seeing this Naruto returned the bow all the children rising at the same time.
"So your Minato Namikaze's child?" Asked Kankurō which Naruto nodded to his chest puffing out at how awesome his dad was to be recognized.
"That's right! My dad is the most awesome ninja in the world and one day
I'm going to surpass him and be even greater!" He said proudly.
"Sure like a pipsqueak like you could never be an awesome ninja like I'm going to be." Kankurō said with a smirk his own chest puffing out at his own claim. Temari sighed seeing the now rising competition between the two boys.
"Yeah I bet I could kick your ass right here right now!" Naruto shouted which made Kankurō scowl.
"I'll take you on with my puppets!" He shouted right back as he pulled out a small puppet however it looked like a doll to the untrained eye. This caused naruto to laugh at seeing the small contraption naruto started to laugh causing Kankurō even more anger.
"What could you hope to do with such a small doll? House me to death!" Naruto shouted laughing even more as he clutched his stomach.
"It's not a doll its a puppet and one day it will be a battle puppet." Kankurō shouted in anger as he attached chakra strings to the puppet causing it to come to life. Naruto stopped his laughing and watched in fascination as the puppet began to move around a small needle coming out of it's hand.
"See that shut you up that small needle can be filled with poison or shot out of the hand to puncture vital areas." Kankurō explained which Naruto sucked up with gusto finding the obscure ninja art rather cool in his young mind.
"I could still kick your ass." Naruto offhandedly mentioned which only served to infuriate Kankurō even more.
"Why you-." He started only to be cut off by naruto.
"So what do you like to do Temari-san?" Naruto asked Temari who had delegated to sit off in the corner and just watch the two argue.
"Oh me? Well I like to work with fans I guess? I don't like to work on dolls like my brother over there." Temari said causing naruto to laugh and Kankurō to simply sit in a corner and cry about how cruel everyone was to his ninja art.
Suddenly the sound of the door opening drew all 3 children to look over as another young boy entered the room with red hair and teal eyes he wore a simple sandy brown shirt and brown pants.
"Oh gaara hey! Its ah good to see you." Kankurō said trying to interact with the now named young boy however he said nothing seemingly ignoring the boy. Looking at temari in confusion naruto felt a connect to gaara however it wasn't a good connect it felt like.
"Who is that?" Naruto whispered to temari who frowned.
"That's my younger brother gaara our father tends to keep him away from us, we're not exactly sure why." She informed the younger boy who frowned wondering what was drawing naruto to gaara who seemed to have the same question. Looking at each other they both frowned in confusion however both their fathers decided to make their entrances.
"Glad to see your getting along with everyone Naruto however I need to talk with gaara really quickly." Minato said as gaara looked to his father who simply nodded.
"I hope to meet you more later Naruto… Mother is intrigued by your presence." Gaara said with made naruto shudder wondering just what he referred to when he said mother.
"Dinner will be served soon once Minato-Dono is finished speaking with Gaara we will eat." Rasa told the children as he closed the door once more leading Gaara down the hall to a room prepared for sealing work.
"Alright Gaara-kun I'm here to take a look at your seal if you could please show me it I can help you." Minato said kneeling to Gaara's level with a smile. Once again Gaara looked to his father who nodded in approval.
Lifting up his shirt a little Gaara applied a little bit of chakra as a shoddy looking seal appeared the ink and kanji was jagged and rough. Minato deeply frowned seeing this as he could barely recognize the seal.
"Well Rasa-Dono I can fix the seal but I'll have to all but replace it. I have a lot of respect for Chiyo but she is no seal master." Minato said as he pulled a scroll and unsealing a bottle of ink and brushes to apply the new seal. Quickly going to work Minato found it hard to work on the seal as he had to deal with the sand initially sealing Gaara's access to it.
Minato began to write a large intricate seal on the ground around Gaara to make the transfer from seal to seal easier and block the chakra from escaping and forming the biju. This took around half an hour till Minato was ready to form the actual seal writing the seal took time as well coming to about 20 minutes till he was ready to transfer the chakra.
"Ok Rasa-Dono this is a 5-Points seal he'll still have access to the biju however that's only if he allows it and he can cut the connection at anytime. He should also be able to sleep soundly at night." Minato informed Rasa who nodded waving his hand as a sign to transfer the chakra between Biju.
Nodding Minato laid his hands on the two seals flaring his chakra as he began the long process of moving the biju from seal to seal even though it only took 5 minutes it felt like hours for minato who was panting at the end the transfer taking up a lot of chakra. Gaara looked at the two kage in confusion.
"I can't hear mother anymore. It's so… quiet." He said as Rasa performed a quick genjutsu putting his son into a sleep trance.
"So he can sleep. That's good thank you Minato-Dono." He said shaking his fellow kages hand.
"Your welcome Rasa-Dono he will still have access to his sand as well." He informed the kage who sent a pulse of chakra through his son waking him up.
"Did I fall asleep?" Gaara asked in confusion once again not used to the feeling which to him was strange.
"Yes son you did now let's go have some dinner." He said gently placing a hand on Gaara's shoulder leading the two men back to the room with the children.
"You said dinner would be ready soon!" Shouted both Kankurō and Naruto at the same time causing the two Kage to sweat drop and share a look of confusion.
"Well dinner is ready now so lets go." Rasa said as the two young children roared past the two powerful men Naruto following Kankurō to the dinner hall within the tower sitting down quickly as the rest of the procession follow sitting down at the table.
Quickly chowing down the air was comfortable but nobody spoke which was something Naruto wasn't used to seeing as dinner was rather lively in the Uzumaki Home. Once everyone had finished eating Minato and Rasa nodded to each other.
"Everyone's dismissed for tonight however Temari we need to talk with both you and naruto here." Rasa said to his children who all looked at each other in confusion. Getting up Temari and Naruto follow the two kages to the Kazekage's office looking at the two fathers in confusion.
"We have some news for the two of you…" Minato started as rasa decided to finish for his fellow father.
"As per the terms of the new treaty we have agreed on a political marriage." He started the two children sharing a look of confusion.
"How exactly does this concern us?" Temari asked for the two young children.
"Well seeing as your both the children of the kage you've been chosen to be the two to be married." Minato broke the news which didn't quite sink in at first but both children realised exactly what they meant after a moment of thought.
"I have to marry him/her!" The two shouted at the same time pointing at each other blushes heavily covering their before looking away from each other now unable to look each other in the eye.
"I know it's a lot to take in but in time I'm sure you'll understand it." Rasa said to the two. "For tonight however get some rest because-" He was paused by a look for Minato and a shake of his head. Nodding Rasa frowned looking at the two children.
"Because I'm sure this is a lot to process." He finished as the children frowned unable to say anything about the news they had just heard nodding Everyone left the office with Minato and Naruto led to their rooms. Both father and son settled quickly into their beds however Naruto was unable to sleep. Frowning the young child turned over to look over at his father.
"Tou-san… how come so many people in the village hate me?" He asked causing his father to turn and look at him.
"Well Naruto… It's not something I can quite tell you right now why do you ask?" Minato said to his son frowning in the dark room not that naruto could really tell.
"It's just that I can see when people glare at me most are subtle but others aren't." Naruto said. "I also felt this strange connection to Gaara as if he know's what I'm going through." He informed his father who was surprised that naruto could feel the biju kept within Gaara.
"When we get home we'll talk with your Kaa-san ok? For now you should get some sleep we'll have a long journey home." Minato said knowing it would be longer with temari joining the two Namikaze.
Naruto nodded yawning lightly.
"Ok Tou-san good night." He said drifting off into sleep as Minato did the same.
(Next morning)
After a heart breakfast the two kages and their family made their way through the streets of sunagakure Gaara and Naruto walking rather close to each other.
"Naruto-san… Have you ever had the feeling that we're similar to each other?" Gaara asked looking at his fellow jinchuriki.
"Yeah I have but I'm not sure why Tou-san said he'll tell me when we get home I hope it'll help me understand you better." Naruto said with a bright smile surprising Gaara who wasn't used to such a gesture.
"I hope so Naruto… I enjoyed meeting you." Gaara said to the young boy with a small smile playing upon his lips. Looking over at Temari Naruto gained a look of confusion as he saw her carrying a large bag.
"Temari what's with the large bag?" He asked with a frown tugging on your lips. Sighing temari looked at her fiance.
"Well it's been deemed that I shall return to Konoha with you and Minato-sama to build a potential relationship and strengthen ties with konoha." He informed Naruto which caused the young boy to frown
"I'm sorry Temari if I had any say in this I would let you stay home with your family." He said with a frown conviction clear in voice. causing temari to let a look of surprise flash on her face before a small blush to appear.
"Please Naruto...kun." She said playing with the way Kun felt on her tongue. "it's fine there's nothing that can be done at this time and it's not like I can't contact them or see them." She said with a small smile which Naruto returned.
"Hey let me carry your bag at the very least you shouldn't have to carry such a huge bag." He said taking the heavy bag from temari which caused her smile to grow.
"Thank you Naruto-Kun." She said as the group finally reached the gate. Stopping the groups looked at each other as minato and rasa shook hands once again.
"Please take care of my daughter Minato-Dono." Rasa said which minato nodded to.
"Of course she will receive the best care possible." Minato said as Rasa went over to his daughter.
"Please write Temari-Chan. I'm sorry we never had the best relationship." He said kneeling down giving her a hug which Temari gladly returned. Standing up Rasa looked at naruto.
"Take Good care of her Naruto if you don't I will find out." He warned causing Naruto to gulp as rasa lightly rubbed the top of narutos head stepping back to allow the others to say their goodbyes.
"Take care sis I'll make sure we write to you." Kankurō as he hugged his sister.
"I'll write every chance I get I love you guys." Temari Said returning the huge looking at her younger brother.
"Please grow up to be strong I'm sorry we never had the chance to repair our relationship." Temari said as her brother hugged her surprising the young girl.
"It's fine Temari I hope you'll enjoy your time in Konoha." Temari smiled returning the hug stepping away.
"I hope we'll have a fight one day Kankurō." Naruto said with a smile as he fist bumped Kankurō who returned it with a grin.
"Gaara I'm glad we got to meet each other good luck and listen for the name Naruto Namikaze future Hokage." Naruto said with a grin as they both fist bumped each other.
"To you as well Naruto." Gaara simply said as the parties stepped away from each other walking in different directions with their goodbyes done.
"Your going to love Konoha Temari it's super awesome and there's ichiraku's ramen!" Naruto said excitedly as he started to recount everything awesome about Konoha much to Minato's amusement
(4 Days later)
Izumo Kamizuki and Kotetsu Hagane sat at their usual spot as the eternal gate guards in the gate house. Izumo has brown hair, and dark eyes. His hair is combed down and always covers his right eye. He wears his forehead protector like a bandanna along with the standard Konoha shinobi outfit which goes all the way up to his chin he also wore the standard chunin flak jacket.
Kotetsu has long, spiky, black hair and dark eyes. He has a strip of bandage running across the bridge of his nose and a light-coloured marking on his chin,[8] although it has the same colour as his hair in the anime. He wears the standard attire of a Konoha shinobi complete with a forehead protector and a flak jacket. Kotesu Sighed placing his head on the desk.
"This Job is so boring, nothing ever happens." He said closing his eyes only for Izumo to whack him over the top of his head.
"It's better than off doing missions and having to fight." Izumo said as Kotetsu sat up rubbing the back of his head.
"Yeah whatever." Was all Kotetsu said as the Hokage party appeared in the distance.
"Hey is that Who I think it is?" Izumo asked looking down the road at the party.
"Maybe?" Kotestu replied as a flash of blonde ran past them.
"Ramen!" was all they heard as Minato walked past them.
"Sorry Izumo Kotetsu… I promised Naruto-Kun some ramen as soon as we got back." Minato said rubbing the back of his head with a small chuckle watching his son run down the street only to be glomped by Kushina.
"Naru-chan! You're finally back!" She shouted holding her son tightly
"Who is that Minato-sama?" Temari asked minato with confusion.
"That's my wife Kushina Uzumaki." He informed her as the two finally arrived to the struggling naruto.
"Wait as in the Kushina Uzumaki?" She asked which caused Kushina to pause and look at temari with a smile.
"Yup that's me Kushina Uzumaki nice to meet ya!" She said happily looking at the young girl. "So um who exactly are you?" Kushina asked confused
"Well I'm Temari I'm the Kazekage's daughter I'm also-" She was cut off by minato covering her mouth.
"She's also our guest for a little while." He said leaning down and whispering into Temari's ear. "If she finds out like this we're all dead." Minato said dread and fear in his voice.
"Oh well, it's nice to meet you Temari-Chan I'll help you settle in and we'll all go get some ramen." Kushina said with a smile as the group finished the walk to the Namikaze complex Naruto was practically bouncing as he was ready to get ramen.
Entering the main house Naruto was instantly glomped once more by two red missiles.
"Naru-Nii!" The two missiles shouted clutching his legs tightly as naruto smiled seeing his siblings.
"Hey guys, I'm finally back!" He said happily as he bent down to hug Aiko and Kaito Temari being led off to her room as Minato and Naruto were relegated to kid duty the young two year olds could be quite the handful.
"This is your room I'm sorry it's a little plain but I'm sure you'll make it a little nicer and I'm always happy to help." Kushina said happily as temari and her finished putting away her things.
"Thank you so much Kushina-Sama for housing me here during my time in Konoha." Temari said with a small smile playing upon her lips as Kushina waved her hands.
"Please Kushina is fine Temari-Chan I've never been one for formalities." She said as the two headed back to the main room as Naruto and Minato we're playing Chicken with Aiko on Naruto's shoulders and Kaito on Minato's.
"So what do you two think your doing?" Kushina said in a deathly sweet voice causing everyone to freeze and slowly turn to the woman.
"N-n-nothing Kushina-chan/Kaa-san" The two shouted which caused her to smile and nod.
"Good that's what I thought now let's go get ramen after which Naruto you can show Temari around." Kushina said as everyone excluding Temari and Kushina we're out the door and off to Ichiraku ramen.
"They really love ramen this much?" Temari asked which caused Kushina to nod.
"Well of course they do it is after all the greatest food to ever be created." Kushina sad sagely with a sagely nod as she locked up the clan complex causing Temari to grow a large sweatdrop as they started to walk to Icharaku.
Once they went under the flaps Temari was surprised to see so many bowls already.
"Ah did you guys bring me a new customer?" Teuchi said as he delivered a bowl of ramen to Kushina as naruto nodded.
"Yup sure did she's my finance after all!" Naruto shouted happily and oblivious to Kushina's shock as she turned to Minato.
"She's his what!" She shouted as Minato and Naruto turned pale looking at each other realizing Naruto's stupidity.
"She's ah she's Naruto's future wife as a term of our new treaty with Suna…" Minato said as kushina glared at the two but let out a huff.
"Your lucky I'm eating the food sent down by the heavens otherwise i would be kicking both your asses to the couch." Kushina warned with a glare before going back to her ramen.
"Men…" She muttered to Temari who shrug as she slowly tasted her ramen.
"I gotta say this is pretty good." She said after her first bite as she began to dig in finishing at 2 bowls while everyone else except the twins had 4.
"Thanks for the dinner old man!" Shouted Naruto as he took Temari's hand running off into the village pointing out all the landmarks and cool spots in his opinion. Looking up in the sky Naruto's grin grew as he lead temari up to the top of the hokage monument and on top of the fourths head.
"This is my favorite spot in the whole village especially at sunset." Naruto said as temari was in awe as Konoha was covered in bright oranges and yellows her hand subtly grasping Naruto's harder.
"It's so amazing Naruto-kun thank you for showing me this." She said with a smile as they simply sat their and watched the sunset before heading home and enjoying a night in their own beds.
(Next morning)
"Naru-chan time to get up and get ready for the academy you have to take Temari with you." Kushina said from naruto's room waking up the young boy who groaned about his sleep being disrupted.
Getting up slowly Naruto quickly got dressed in black pants and a burnt orange shirt complete with blue sandals as he walked down stairs to join his family for breakfast.
"I talked with Iruka he gave me everything you missed which wasn't much but we'll be working on it after you get home today got it." Kushina said with a smile which naruto simply nodded to.
"Good." She said handing pancakes to the young boy as temari joined them wearing the same brown pants and a purple sweater.
"Good morning everyone." She said tiredly as she began to eat once the two were finished and the goodbyes had been exchanged the two ran off to the academy were children we're already filing in seeing Sasuke and Itachi, Naruto Grinned running up the the two.
"Hey Itachi-Nii! Sasuke-teme." He said sending a glare to his rival who happily returned it. Itachi poked the two in the forehead with two fingers with a role of his eyes at the twos antics and looked at the young girl.
"And who is this Naruto-Kun?" Itachi asked as Naruto grinned.
"This is Temari. Temari this is Itachi and Sasuke Uchiha." Naruto said introducing everyone to each other.
"It's Nice to meet all of you." She said with a small smile and bow which itachi returned forcing Sasuke to as well.
"Anyways come on Dobe we gotta get to class lets go!" He shouted as the 3 quickly ran off to class opening the door to the small classroom however it housed the clan heirs of almost every clan.
"Yo naruto where ya been?" Came the above whisper of one Shikamaru Nara who had spiky black hair done up in a ponytail that made him look like a pineapple and brown eyes. He wore black pants and a gray shirt with the Nara symbol on the front of it.
"I've been in suna." He said walking up to take his seat next to the young man with temari sitting on his right.
"Whos the girl?" He asked confused as naruto chuckled lightly.
"Well you'll find out when Iruka-sensei shows up causing Shikamaru to sighed and muttur troublesome.
"Yo Naruto how ya been dude?" Asked Kiba Inuzuka Like most of his clan, he had messy brown hair, sharp black eyes with vertical slit-like pupils, pronounced canine teeth, and nails that he can change into claws. He also has the distinctive red fang markings of the Inuzuka clan on his cheeks. He wore grey shorts and a white sweater which had a white dog hanging out in.
"I've been good kiba." He said fistbumping the young man with a grin as he sat down in front of him with Sasuke sitting behind naruto and shikamaru.
"Naruto-kun!" Shouted Ino Yamanaka leader of the Naruto fangirls which caused his to groan internally but kept up a smile. Ino has fair skin, light blue eyes, and long platinum blonde hair worn in a ponytail, with bangs framing the right side of her face. She wore a pink dress with a purple skirt.
"Hello Ino-chan." He said with a smile as she finally noticed Temari.
"Who's this sitting next to you." which caused Temari to frown looking over at her fiance
"You'll find out soon Ino-chan." He said with a smile as the door slammed open. Courtesy of one Sakura Haruno leader of the sasuke fangirls. Sakura has fair skin, green eyes, and pink hair. She wore a green dress with a small red bow on the top of her head.
"Ino-pig what are you doing so close to my Sasuke-kun." She shouted which caused Ino to roll her eyes.
"I'm only here because my naruto-kun is here!" She shouted as Naruto and Sasuke looked at each other and sighed already used to this routine.
"Alright enough everyone to their seats!" Shouted Iruka as he slammed the door open already fully aware of what would be going on as he entered the classroom. Everyone scurried to their seats as Iruka looked at his clipboard for any major announcements outside of Temari.
"We have a new student, I'm sure you're already aware so please stand up and introduce yourself." He said with a nod to Temari who hesitantly stood up however she gained some confidence when naruto gave her a huge smile.
"I'm Temari I'm from Sunagakure and I've come here for diplomatic reasons between our villages. Um, I hope we can all become friends and I look forward to working with you all." She said with a smile before quickly sitting down relieved once everyone's eyes were off her.
"Once again welcome Temari I hope you enjoy your stay here in Konoha now then It's time to work on Taijutsu and Chakra control!" Shouted Iruka as most of the students got excited to head outside.
(2 Years Later 3 years before the start of cannon.)
Naruto groaned as he got up early in the morning after a particularly heavy training session with his mother and father they had been working him to the bone to prepare him to become a ninja and it had shown.
His normal routine consisted of running 20 laps around the training grounds 100
Sit ups 100 push ups followed by chakra control exercises Taijutsu practice with Minato teaching his son his personal style. He was then taught Kenjutsu by his mother and they both came together to work on Ninjutsu. They had found out 6 months ago that naruto had a high affinity to Futon and Suiton so they began with some minor jutsus mainly defensive in nature.
Finally at the end of the night Naruto studied Fuinjutsu after spending some time with his family or even with just Temari as the two had grown fairly close to each other over the past 2 years, though neither was ready to consider themselves boyfriend girlfriend.
Looking at the calendar on the wall Naruto grinned realizing today was the first day of the academy after the summer break. This also meant that they had finally reached specialization training.
"Can't you be more quiet brat I'm still trying to sleep." Came the voice of one Kyuubi no Kitsune as naruto sighed.
'Yeah yeah whatever you oversized hairball.' He quipped at the Biju who simply growled but didn't say anything. Naruto had found out the night after Temari's first day like his father had promised.
(flashback no Jutsu)
Coming home late in the evening Naruto frowned seeing that Mikoto was taking
Taking care of the twins which meant that Kushina and Minato had to do something important. Not even looking up from the twins Mikoto spoke.
"Naruto-Kun your parents are upstairs waiting from you." She informed the young man who nodded heading up to his father's study entering the room he saw his parents sitting next to each other with a single chair in front of his desk
"What's this all about tou-san? Kaa-san?" Naruto asked confused as to why his parents had called him up here like this the two looked at each other and nodded in understanding.
"It's time we come clean Naru-chan… you've learned about the Kyuubi attack right?" Asked kushina trying to slowly ease him into the reveal.
"Yeah of course you and the Sandaime Hokage killed it right?" Asked Naruto confused by the question.
"That's not quite true Naruto-kun sadly a Biju can't be killed only sealed otherwise it'll just reappear after some time." Minato Continued nodding to his wife.
"You see Naru-chan I was the Second Kyuubi Jinchuuriki. It was released during your birth." Kushina said as the realization started to kick in.
"Wait does that mean I'm the Kyuubi?" Naruto asked meekly as both parents were instantly next to their son hugging him.
"No Naruto-Kun it doesn't your simply the Scroll while the Kyuubi is the Kunai your a hero who protects Konoha from the Kyuubi." Minato told his son hugging and rubbing his back as his son cried.
"I know how difficult this can be Naru-chan I carried the Kyuubi before you but your strong and one day I'm sure you'll show the villagers that hate you that their wrong." She said holding her son closely Naruto continued to cry until he steadily feel asleep only to wake up in a sewer.
"Did Kaa-san and Tou-san leave me here?" He asked confused as he began to walk the sewer something drawing him farther and farther into it. Entering a large room he saw metal bars rising into the ceiling.
"Ah My Warden finally comes to see me." Came a loud rumbling voice behind the cage a small amount of killer intent leaking out as Naruto slowly inched forward
"Who are you?" Naruto asked fear creeping into his voice.
"I'm hurt you did just learn who I am." The voice rumbled out as red slited eyes appeared from behind the bars.
"The Kyuubi? But where are we?" Naruto asked Confused how the kyuubi was there in front of him now.
"We're in the seal or rather your mindscape right now young Naruto-Kun." Came an aged voice next to Naruto as the Sandaime Hokage appeared.
"Sandaime Hokage? But I thought you we're dead after the Kyuubi attack?" Naruto Asked.
"Well yes I am dead however I seal my consciousness inside you to look after you and your parents as you grew up. I must say Naruto-Kun you've grown into an exceptional young man." Hiruzen said with a grandfatherly smile as he laid an aged hand on Naruto's shoulder
"Sarutobi… I thought you weren't going to reveal yourself." Came the Kyuubi's voice from behind the cage as the lights flare to show the tower beast with it's 9 tails swishing behind it.
"I believe this is beneficial to Naruto-Kun in the long run and I can help train his mind so he becomes a strong host wouldn't you like that Kyuubi?" Hiruzen said which caused the Kyuubi growl
"I Will accept nothing else from my Jinchuriki." The Kyuubi said turning around and resting it's hands on his paws.
"Go now Naruto-Kun I will help you become an exceptional shinobi." Hiruzen said with a smile as Naruto hugged the man.
"Thank you Jiji for everything!" Naruto shouted as he faded out of the mindscape to begin his true Journey as a shinobi
(Flashback no Jutsu Kai!)
"Naruto-Kun please don't antagonize the Kyuubi" Came the voice of Hiruzen from within Naruto which caused him to give an exhausterbated sighed as he got dressed for the day quickly heading down the stairs as temari waited for him at the door with a quick breakfast.
"Good morning Temari-chan!" He said happily as he took the breakfast from her with a smile which the young girl happily returned.
"Good morning did you sleep well?" She asked as they walked down the street side by side as usual for the two.
"Of course you know how I feel after a long night of training." Naruto said with a chuckle as they went around the corner for the academy.
"So what specialization training are you going to today? I'm thinking I'll personally head to Kenjutsu and send a clone to Ninjutsu and maybe Fuinjutsu? Tou-san somehow got Jiryia-jiji to come and train that class. I also think Shurikenjutsu would be good for me" Naruto rambled on which cause temari to giggle into her hand.
"I wish I could use Kage Bushin(Shadow clones) Like you could to learn as quickly however I'm thinking I'll got either ninjutsu or Iryō Ninjutsu to learn how to heal someone. I'll go to both but I'll have to go to the different sessions." She said as they finally arrived in Iruka's class room.
Sitting in their usual spots they waited as everyone else filtered in excited to start the day and the final 3 years of the academy. Especially since the last 3 years were teaching potential specializations and doing D ranked missions. While the class was still mostly full of the 70 Students that had initially been in it the class was now down to about 50 students. While this was a lot of drop outs the academy still had 500 Potential ninjas in attendance between each year.
"Alright everyone, today is the day I'm sure you've all waited for. I hope you all had a good break and I'm sure you all know this will be your homeroom at the beginning and end of the day. Good luck I will see you all soon." Iruka said with a smile as the students separated off to their different sections.
(Ninjutsu Specialization)
Kakashi stood at the training grounds outside the academy reading Icha-Icha causing the Naruto clone to grow a sweat drop seeing his older brother reading smut in public like normal.
"Kakashi-Nii do I need to let the boss know your reading smut?" Naruto-N asked causing Kakashi to sigh.
"No Naruto I was just about finished." He said to the clone before looking at the class unsurprisingly enough it was more than likely the largest class with Naruto, Sasuke, Temari, Choji, Shino,and Shikamaru in attendance with maybe 15 other students in attendance.
"Welcome Everyone to Ninjutsu Specialization we will learn up to C or B rank Ninjutsu for what your nature Affinity is please come up to the table next to me and pick up a peice of paper." The students talked amongst themselves but grabbed the blank paper nonetheless.
"Um Kakashi-Nii I already know my affinities." Naruto said which caused Kakashi to eye smile.
"Good you can explain it to the class." He said with made Naruto grumble about lazy good for nothing Nii-sans.
"These are chakra paper if you pump chakra into it you'll find out what your nature affinity is. If it's wind it'll split in half. If it's water it'll become damp. If it's Fire it'll ignite. If it's earth it'll crumble into dust and finally lighting means it'll crinkle." Naruto said holding up the paper sending his chakra into it as the paper split down the middle one half became damp and the other crinkled ever so lightly causing naruto to frown.
"That's new I never had a Lightning affinity before." He said mostly to himself as Kakashi gave an eye smile.
"3 affinities that's rare for even jounin Naruto-otuto even if the lighting affinity you have is pretty weak." He said as the children began to test out their affinity most had fire or earth. A few had water, with Temari having a strong wind affinity and a minor fire affinity which matched well to each other. Shikamaru had an earth and lightning affinity and sasuke had a fire affinity which wasn't surprising for his clan however he also had a lightning affinity.
"Interesting Naruto and Sasuke pretty much perfectly complement each other with your affinity both canceling each other out." He said with an eye smile as he turned his attention to the rest of the students.
"Ok everyone grab a scroll with your affinity and get to work I'll be here to help you out." He said as Naruto and sasuke shot each other a glare but smiled as they ran up to grab a scroll.
(Kenjutsu Specialization)
"Hello everyone I am Kushina Uzumaki and this is Yūgao Uzuki she will be my assistant Sensei when she's not off on missions." Kushina said looking at her students which in total was 10 with 4 from the 3rd year students. students from the other 2 years were taking part as well to compliment the lack of interest in kenjutsu. Included was the actual Naruto, Ino, and Kiba there were two kids from the next year naruto kinda knew which we're tenten and Rock lee.
"Now then I want to know what weapons you want to learn so I can figure out a good style for all of you." Slowly each person named off what they wanted to use while a lot people said katana many wanted to learn how to use Tantō or even Ninjatō.
"How about you Tenten?" Kushina asked as she thought about it for a minute.
"Well Kushina-Sensei I want to be able to use as many weapons as possible." kushina nodded thinking about it for a moment.
"I do know one style that suits that purpose I can teach you." She said with a smile. "However I do recommend having a weapon you use the most." She continued as Tenten nodded.
"Then the main sword I want to use is a Katana." Which made Kushina smile.
"What about you Lee was it?" Kushina asked.
"As I can not use Ninjutsu or Genjutsu I want to be like Tenten and use as many weapons however I think I would prefer the Ninjatō." He said with a bright smile which kushina returned.
"I see I will teach you as well. Ino your up." She said turning the young girl who tapped her chin lightly.
"For me I think the Katana would be best for me." She said as kushina nodded once more turning to her son.
"And lastly Naruto I already know you have the same style in mind as Lee and Tenten." She said as Naruto smiled sheepishly at the looks from his fellow students.
"Yup the main weapon for me will be the Katana." He said as his mother rolled her eyes knowing he already had the exact weapon in mind already.
(Fuinjutsu)
Jiryia sat in a small room his legs crossed over each other as he had a scroll with Ink and brushes gathered around him. Only 5 students had some to Fuinjutsu 6 if you included the Naruto clone a lot of students were dumb struck to see the legendary man before them excluding Naruto.
"Yo what's up Ero-Jiji?" Asked Naruto with a grin as Jiyria instantly grew a tick mark on the back of his head glaring at the young boy.
"Shut up you damn brat!" He shouted smacking the boy in the back of the head as he vanished in a puff of smoke.
"Looks like we have to wait 5 minutes or so for another Naruto to appear." He said offhandedly as another naruto quickly came into the room glaring at the white haired man.
"Thanks for finally joining us Naruto now let's get started with a disclaimer. Fuinjutsu is a very advanced art and as such you will be held to a higher level. Any mistake in the Kanji or the Matrix even to format of how you place everything down can cause your death. So please be careful I will watch over your seal work closely we will start with working on our handwriting." Jiryia started as he gave each student Ink and a brush showing them what to write as he began to judge their handwriting.
(Shurikenjutsu)
5 Students had gathered for Shuriken Jutsu plus a naruto clone as Itachi stood before the group of students.
"Hello everyone and welcome to Shurikenjutsu this will not be an easy art to learn, I can assure you. You have to be calm and calculated in every throw every movement of your arm. We will begin with the basics hitting the target and using Kunai and Shuriken. I will also teach you how to fight with your kunai in hand to hand." Itachi told the students gathered before him as he began to teach each student how to properly throw a kunai.
(Iryō Ninjutsu)
Tsunade looked at the 4 students gathered before her with a frown. This group included Sakura and Hinata as every student looked at the legendary sannin in awe.
"While this isn't as big of a class as I wished I'm glad to see you all here every medic out in the field is another life saved you in my opinion are some of the most important ninja on any team or in the village. Iryō Ninjutsu requires high chakra control as even the smallest mistake can accidentally kill the very person you're trying to save." She warned as she pulled out CPR dolls.
"Before we start to learn actual Iryō Ninjutsu we need to learn what we can do when low on chakra or when situations don't require it." She said to the class as she began to show the students before her actual CPR.
(Minato's office)
Minato watched the different classes from Hiruzen's class happy that the new curriculum seemed to be a success however he was surprised that 9 students from the first year were taking taijutsu seeing as it was being taught by one Maito Gai.
"I hope your happy with the new changes Hokage-sama I'll admit I was scared at first but I think they've turned out well." Said Kyoshi sitting across from the hokage watching the different classes across all 3 years.
"I have noticed more drop outs over the years but we still have 500 students at all times." Minato said with a smile happy at how many students still went on to become shinobi.
"I've also seen that the pass rate on the actual genin test has risen to 66% which is good I'm hoping as more classes go through the new academy we'll reach 99 if not 100%.
"I think that will be possible by the time your sons class fully goes through the academy." Kyoshi said with a smile as Minato nodded.
"I think it will." He said with a smile, shaking the Naras hand.
And Chapter 3 is done. Wow did that take longer to make then I though I have serious respect for people that put out chapters like this every week. I think now that the story is over the 20,000 mark I will be focusing on putting out mostly 6,000 plus chapters as a nearly 10,000 word chapter just takes too long to make and I barely had enough ideas to fill it up.
So for pairings obviously I've set up the maximum of 10 girls through the classic use of CRA and I've made Temari the beginning member of naruto's harem. I might add one or two members next chapter as we begin the genin arc and by extension the wave arc but that's to be seen.
Just so everyone knows I did take a lot of inspiration from Son of the Sanin it's an amazing story that I can't recommend enough. I wanted to do something similar to that story in terms of the academy, suna visit and more than likely the team set up but I will be moving away from that to make my story more of my own once again as we leave the academy years and such.
While I do enjoy stories that focus like 5 chapters on Naruto's youth it can get repetitive as there's really not much there in terms of ability to tell good fights or tell a good story. So yeah this was pretty much a wrap up to this quick mini arc next chapter will focus on the end of the academy and teams and such and might kick off the wave arc. However, I'm thinking about doing something different for the wave arc or just sticking with the usual format Not quite sure yet I'll figure it out as a write the chapter.
What did you guys think about Hiruzen sealed in Naruto as well as the Kyuubi? Again I love his character in a lot of different stories he's simply one of my favorites so I thought this would be a good way to include our favorite grandfather character and finally pairings.
Temari
Fem Haku
Hinata
Yugito
Fu
Ino
Sakura
Tenten?
Kurotsuchi?
And finally maybe Tayuya?
Thanks for watching please review favorite and follow! Naruto Uzumaki-namikaze101 out!
