Chapter 5

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Here's chapter five.

Chapter 5

The Opposition

It had been a month since Naruto officially became Hokage. And only the people he worked with personally had right to his identity. So that was basically everyone in the tower. He'd be learning under the tutelage of the third's advisors. It was a hard and torturous experience. The old wrinkly man and the old wrinkly woman, as Naruto addressed them as, had a black and scorched object in place of what should be their hearts. Naruto had almost gotten a hang of things, but he had to stick with them for one more month. Mandatory Hokage training they called it. He hadn't had the chance to even train by himself, and don't get him started on having Jiraiya train him. The old Sannin was everywhere but Naruto simply didn't have the time for him. He thought back to their training deal with a scrunched up face, it had been so easy back then, he had all the time in the world. Now the only time he had was going home at the depth of the night-he couldn't even get ramen anymore- and waking up at the crack of dawn to some nameless Anbu chanting 'Godaime-sama!' He had long since moved out of the rickety apartment he lived in for the better part of his life. His new home was right behind the monument and above the fourth's head. It had been made with every preventive measure in the book and then some. The wood was made to withstand medium sized explosions and collisions. It was fairly fire resistant and it didn't creak on the stairs. It was a little bit tall, apart from being overly large, it was white and the inside was red. It had been made by some 'very valuable Jounin' from Konoha but Naruto thought he was just some nameless guy with cool abilities.

Naruto had spared little time to exploring the house. After all, it was, wake up eat, jump into the office , eat , nap on documents, go back home in the depth of night, writhing in pain, paying no attention to anyone and then crash onto the bed and start all over again. At some point Naruto began to think of retiring.

He looked up and heaved a sigh as he signed an okay for some dude to rent out one of the training grounds for a week. He dropped his pen and leaned into his armchair. Weeks ago he was afraid of doing so because he thought he would fall. But now he just didn't care. He stared between the two heads in front of him. Their lips moved but he had long ago tuned them out. He stared on to the oak door, as if looking through it. He suddenly frown. He rose up and stared at the two wrinkly old folks in front of him and cut them off easily.

"When am I going to start training?" he'd had enough of checks and balances. He needed a good work out. The old wrinkly woman, Koharu as she was named looked up at him with her ever permanent scowl, even deeper. Her eyes seemed sealed shut. But Naruto could tell she could easily track his movements. She was sensor. He figured this out when he tried hiding under his desk when his assistant told him they were there for him.

"are you complaining?" of all responses Naruto didn't prepare for that one, his mouth gaped and he relaxed his muscles "if you are complaining about it, then feel free to walk out that door and never come back again" Naruto being Naruto opened his mouth to shout out yes, but was cut off by the old wrinkly man, Homaru as he was named.

"Only that before you walk out that door, you forsake everything you dreamed of. You remove that hat and pull off that garb and leave the work to someone more…capable of being the Hokage. It's a good thing your face hasn't been constructed yet." At this Naruto gaped even wider. He sat his ass down, not ready to leave his reign yet. How would that go in history books? 'Uzumaki Naruto, Godaime Hokage…for only six weeks'? He shuddered at the thought and began signing documents.

He would endure. Just like he always had. These wrinkly old folks will not be here for long, he had made plans. He needed fresh minds to advise him on serious matters, like how to make ramen the national delicacy! He thought about his present assistant. She was slow in bringing him his ramen. She had to go. He thought of his options and saw he didn't have many. Sakura? Nope, way too emotional at these times, what with Sasuke in jail and all. Ino? Not a fat chance! She was too, well she was too self-centered, and she wouldn't care to bring him his afternoon ramen. He didn't even want to think about Tenten. But then a fleeting thought crossed his mind. Hiyori! Though she had insulted his ramen, she would be propelled to work for him to her best because of the pressure her father put on her. He thought about the way she dressed that day they met. A blush found its way to his cheeks. Yes she was the jackpot!

"Oi! Brat! Are you listening?" the shrieking voice of Koharu met his ears and he snapped out of his daze and they began their nagging anew. He tuned them out again. He'd heard it all the first two weeks.

Yes, Hiyori.

He hummed to himself and went back to the image of her in the office, the image changed to her in his sitting room. He blushed. It seemed Jiraiya had a strong influence on him. Perhaps he would make such dressing a law. He grinned behind his scarf. Yes, and the key to it was making Jiraiya his advisor! He was brilliant! He patted himself on the back mentally, for thinking up such a genius plan to get the nagging wrinkles out of his life. Maybe Tsunade could be an advisor too. And then Kakashi! He praised himself once more. He had to put it on his to-do list.

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The old folks had left for the night, they stayed with him for eight hours, starting from nine in the morning. They relieved him at five in the afternoon and he continued working till nine in the evening. It was currently seven thirty. He signed the last of the documents pertaining the new academy construction and new equipment request. The academy was closed, but that didn't mean learning stopped. He sighed as he spied the enormous amounts of paper work waiting for him. He spun around and faced the large glass window behind him. He saw a great city. Bustling with lights and streaming with activity. He sighed heavily and closed his eyes and relaxed on the armchair.

He opened his eyes when he heard a drop of water.

PLOP…PLOP…PLOP.

The place he stood in was filled with red. Even the water was red. He stared at the red bars in front of him and gazed into the red eyes of the Kyuubi. He didn't feel any fear. His eyes were already dull.

"How did I get here? I don't remember being attacked" Naruto asked the great demon. The Kyuubi growled and rose to shift into a more comfortable position. Naruto tilted his head to the side "I don't know how you did this and I have no idea what you want, but…" the look in his eyes changed. From uninterested to determined. "…I am not going back to the paper work!"

Silence reigned for a while as they stared at each other, then, like in the horror movies the demon's lips parted into a vile grin. The Kyuubi laughed and laughed. Until Naruto began to back away slowly.

"Uzumaki Naruto!" the wind blew against Naruto and he noticed he was in his old clothing. Orange and black jump suit.The wind stopped and he felt a strong heavy and powerful presence behind him. He turned around to face what he currently looked like. White Kage robes, the hat and a white scarf around his face with hard steely red eyes. He opened his mouth to ask the all obvious question but was cut off when his doppelganger disappeared from view and appeared in front of him. Chakra radiating off him like a geyser, the doppelganger placed a punch to his stomach. The shock wave that followed Naruto as he flew across the room was not one to doubt. Its wrath present on the waters and the air vibrated. Naruto's ears rang even as he landed hard onto the ground.

Naruto was wide eyed, he didn't need a medic to tell him that most of his internal organs were mush. He knew his lungs were punctured by the way he breathed and the way his mouth was filled with coppery tasting blood. He laid on the ground unable to do anything as he died. His doppelganger stepped in front of him with hardly any feeling to his face. He just had power. He looked onto the Kyuubi behind the bars, his mind still in shock, he couldn't say a word.

"Uzumaki Naruto, you are a shadow of what you wish to become, of what you are expected to become. That is what you are to become! Strong, fearless, and awesome! I could make this happen with a snap of my fingers, I hust want a guarantee that you will survive till the next extraction or my prison break…think about it"

His vision failed him but the last thing he saw before blacking out was kyuubi's gleaming eyes. The same eyes his doppelganger had.

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Naruto woke up to the sounds of his secretary's voice screaming in his ears "Godaime-sama! Godaime-sama! Godaime-sama!" at a point he heard her voice flatter as if she was crying. He peeled his eyes open and spoke raspy "Tsubasa-san…what's going on?" she gasped and pulled him into a bear hug that suffocated him.

He held his shoulders and sniffed "I am glad you're okay" he stared into her puffing eyes and he remembered his encounter with the Kyuubi. His eyes widened and he gaped at her. She wasn't old by any chance. Probably in her late twenties.

"I came in to check on you if you needed anything and found that your heart had stopped beating, you were going cold. I didn't know what to do! I should have taken you to a hospital I am so sorry Hokage-sama!" she bowed her head and she kneeled before him. He looked at her in awe, he'd never known his assistant cared so much for him. It looked like his name as the 'Kyuubi brat' was being expunged. He held her shoulders tightly, as if to assure her he was safe and alive.

"Look at me" he commanded. She raised her head meekly and he looked her in her auburn eyes and assured her he was safe. "I am perfectly alright, and it's a good thing you didn't call anyone. I thank you for that." He didn't need Tsunade and Jiraiya peering at his seal like it had exploded. Moreover, he planned to think of the kyuubi's offer. The way a grown up woman behaved towards him. All because of the title he bore. Kyuubi had the right idea. He was still scrawny old Uzumaki Naruto, no matter the title he held. He needed to get stronger. And fast.

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It had been a week since his encounter with the demon residing within his belly. He thought about what the demon had said several times. He thought of the beating his alternate self, had given him. He thought about it every time he put on the hat it had reached a point that he couldn't take wearing it on any longer. Today he entered the office without the hat and without the robes. He was plain old Uzumaki Naruto-with a black scarf and black cloak. He sat on his would be throne and signed off complaints without a care in the world. His eyes were lifeless and it didn't take too long for the old wrinkly folks to realize it.

They had left him to his devices, until Koharu couldn't take the lack of response to her incredulous commands. "What bothers you, child, spit it out" he looked up at her and realized that as cranky as she and her companion were, she was still a woman, and a woman almost always had a soft heart for the younger and more vulnerable. The scowl on her face deepened and Naruto realized he'd been staring for long.

"I, uh I…" Naruto didn't know how to tell them that he may be considering going up a deal with the devil. So he lied "I had a dream, a reoccurring dream" Koharu spat at this and spoke with disgust.

"A dream? A dream is what disturbs the Godaime? Even though you are but a child, dreams should not get under your skin, you should be able to throw them off your sheets and-" Naruto had to cut her off there, she didn't allow him speak.

"NO! This is more of a nightmare!" Koharu look as if she wanted to say something so he continued "I see myself, lying helpless, in a pool of my own blood, facing a burning Konoha. Who did this to me? I don't know, who did this to Konoha? I may have an idea" Koharu had mellowed down, enough for him to take his time and think the dream through. He wanted it to have a bit of truth so he threw that in there "I saw the Kyuubi…free as a bird, it ran to me and growled over my face. And it spoke these exact words 'you deceive yourself and everyone around you with that title, it means little if you do not have power to enforce your role, you are weak and always have been, you WILL fail to protect" it lifts it foot up and crushes me, and I wake up. Those words have rang in my ears for days, sometimes I feel like I'm in the afterlife anyways"

At this point, both elders stared at him with sympathy on their faces. Homaru turned to Koharu and nodded before going back to his work. Koharu looked up to a frightened Godaime and sighed "you must not show fear boy! Your training in diplomatic acts and interactions will have to be suspended, take a day to train physically, do not strain yourself. But until dawn breaks you are still training under the two of us, so get back to work!"

Naruto relaxed visible and muttered thanks to the old wrinkly woman and began to sign on some strange looking document. He dipped his head down to better cover the childish grin that graced his face. For once these old folks were being considerate

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Naruto woke up late in the morning, and late for him these days was eight thirty. He had a big grin on his face. He got his gear and jumped off the monument.

He landed gracefully on the streets of Konoha, not too many recognized him, but the few that did began screaming his title. He waved to them and let his eyes portray his emotions. He then began running off, before jumping onto the roof tops.

He landed on a building and then stopped abruptly. He slapped his forehead before raising his arm above his head and flicking his wrist downward.

Immediately, three Anbu appeared, kneeling before him. He sighed heavily and spoke the most hilarious thing he had ever heard himself say to anyone since he became a Godaime. "Do any of you have an idea of where Hatake Kakashi resides?"

The Anbu were all silent for a while and Naruto could have sworn he heard a stifled laugh somewhere. Then the one with the mouse mask, rose his head and asked "if I may speak freely, are you telling us that you never got to know where your teacher lived?" he asked incredulously

Naruto blushed behind the confines of his scarf and then rose his nose up high and glared at the Anbu that spoke "I never said you could speak freely" the man lowered his head immediately. "…but" Naruto's mood changed from borderline serious to sad and guilty "the man never opened up to me…to any of us" his eyes grew dark with pain and anger as he turned away from the three in front of him "not even his prized student"

He turned towards the Anbu sharply. His eyebrows still furrowed and his eyes hard "take me there…now" the three nodded sharply before taking off to the west side of the village.

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The four arrived at an apartment complex, Naruto could easily recognize the roads now. It was the one he always took on his way to the training grounds.

It was also the one he found Hiyori at that day in the rain.

He thanked the Anbu and found his way to apartment twenty-nine. He sighed and began walking up the creaking stairs.

On his way up he thought of all things he could and probably would say to his teacher when they met in his apartment. Ever since he had become Hokage, the only teammate he saw was Sakura. And that was when she couldn't take Sasuke's absence. He sighed sadly. Maybe Kakashi didn't come anymore because he had put his prized student into a cell with no windows. Maybe Kakashi thought he had torn the team apart. Maybe he had, who knows, maybe he even tore the rookie nine apart.

He wiped his eyes at the thought of him being the center of more hatred. He stood up straight and wiped he face with a hand. He was here.

Apartment twenty-nine.

He rose his hand to knock but it didn't fall onto the wooden door. It just hung. It hung there because he was scared. Scared of rejection and scared of loneliness. He shook his head and took in a deep breath. He was not just Uzumaki Naruto any longer, he was the Godaime Hokage of Konoha. That old wrinkly woman had said it herself. 'I have no fear!'

His hand came down with much more force than necessary and he held his nose up high as he knocked continuously. Not wanting to let go of the garnered up courage he had. He heard footsteps but he just kept on knocking. Until the door flung open and he saw Kakashi's drowsy masked face, his head band wasn't on but he had his left eye closed. He white hair looked like it had given up on defying gravity, as it fell forward and covered his forehead like a bang. He wore a stripped black and blue pajama and he smelled entirely different. Naruto guess he always thoroughly prepared himself in the morning. Probably why he took so long to get to the grounds.

Kakashi looked at him with his ever bored eyes and asked "Godaime-sama? What are you doing here…so early in the morning" the last part sounded like a whine to Naruto. He cringed when he heard his sensei address him so respectfully. It felt like an odd itch at the back of his mind. It didn't feel right. But the last time he told Sakura to call him by his name, he got scolded by the old wrinkly man. He kept on saying something like 'no respect, no power' Naruto guessed he could see the sense in there.

"Kakashi! Wash up, get dressed and meet me on the monument" he turned his back without waiting for a reply he started walking "don't be late Kakashi"

Kakashi just stood in the doorway, wondering how in the hell Naruto knew where he lived.

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Naruto punch through another boulder with a rasengan. His face was filled with anger and frustration, Kakashi still wasn't here. Even after two hours. He was so angry he just might be considering using the demon's power. He threw his fist through another boulder and cooled himself.

"Mouse!" said Anbu operative landed in front of him kneeling. He formed another rasengan and mouse thought he was going to shred him. "Go drag Kakashi here, whatever it takes, I could care less if he was naked" mouse nodded fiercely and disappeared.

A few rasengan's later and footsteps could be heard. And Kakashi could be seen walking towards him. A few seconds more and Kakashi stood in front of him. Naruto sneered fiercely "I said don't be late!" Kakashi stood unfazed at his student's anger.

"I am not late" Naruto looked at him as if he'd gone mad "what do you mean you're not late?" the tension built and built until Kakashi pulled out an eye smile and said one thing that made his anger for naught "you never told me the time to come"

Naruto's face fell and his anger subsided "just come over here would you?" Naruto led Kakashi over to the wide expanse he called his training ground. It was made by the same nameless Jounin that made his home. He stepped into it and picked up one of the pouches that laid on the weapon rack.

"Kakashi, today's the day I am free from work. I need training…badly" Kakashi nodded at this, but Naruto went on speaking "this isn't going to be about teamwork so I want you to train me one on one, got it?" Kakashi nodded again. Then he bought out his book. This didn't impress Naruto at all. He moved to speak but Kakashi cut him off.

"If you want training, you will not be needing many kunai for this training…the training you are receiving from me is chakra control and memory control" Naruto looked at Kakashi dumbly and sighed. Training was training. He shrugged and went along with it.

"But…what's memory control?" Naruto asked dumbly. Kakashi looked down at him and sighed. "I never thought you'd be dumb enough not to notice" Naruto took great offense at this and set his foot forward and waved a fist in front of Kakashi's face, daring him to say it again "I have no idea what you are talking about, cut me some slack, okay?"

Kakashi sighed "make one clone" Naruto looked at him questioningly "just do it" a clone popped up a second later and Kakashi made his. They nodded at each other and then clone-Kakashi took clone-Naruto far away and did something. After a while they came back, and clone-Naruto had mirth dancing in his eyes. Kakashi walked over and bonked clone-Naruto on the head.

Kakashi turned to Naruto expectantly "well?" Naruto looked at him with a pout on his face "well what?" Kakashi sighed "what do you remember from your clone's rock-paper-scissor game with my clone?" Naruto's eyes widen "I remember I won…I won a cool new jutsu!" Kakashi eye smiled at him and smugly asked "and how do you know that?" Naruto stared at his sensei with awe and a huge smile graced his lips "I have no idea!"

Kakashi chuckled at his student and began explaining the secrets of the Kage bunshin "you see, it was basically made for spies, it's an information gathering technique, but in a Kage's hands, it's something much more" Naruto sat on the grass with his legs crossed and he stared at his sensei with attentive eyes. "so you see, you could learn a lot within the span of a few months, imagine what you could accomplish in three years" seeing as Naruto was still awed to silence he went on "you remember the jutsu I promised? That the second lesson"

Naruto shot up and pumped his fist into the air. "But we have to work on your chakra control, you can fasten this up with the clones. But things like weapon practice and taijutsu will have to be learned on you own, got it?" Naruto looked sad but very happy, he shrugged it off. It was better than paper work.

"I want you to create four-hundred clones and divide them into two groups" Naruto nodded and uttered his favorite jutsu and in a second the training ground was a bit over populated.

Kakashi nodded as he saw the army of Naruto's separate into two. He gave the two armies what to do, one for chakra control and one for the techniques hand signs practice "the name of the technique is Katon: Ryuuka no jutsu (Fire release: Dragon fire technique) a C-Rankits basically you sending a stream of fire towards your opponent, you could use it as a flamethrower too."

Naruto looked at him with a dead face, he was as stoic as ever. "This was for Sasuke, wasn't it?" Kakashi visibly tensed at the name of he locked up student, Naruto move to speak again but Kakashi cut him off

"Despite what Sakura may tell you…I think you did the right thing" Naruto nodded dumbly, a bit surprised his teacher understood.

Kakashi nodded at Naruto and pulled out a slip of paper "this is a piece of chakra paper, it can tell your chakra affinity, I am lightning, and proof of this is when this paper crinkles when I pour chakra into it. Give it a try" Naruto stared at the piece of paper and gulped, he really hoped he got something cool.

"I will help you this once…to prove my power, boy" Naruto swiftly whipped his body around at the voice, he stared at the filled up expanse, he could swear he heard a voice. Even his clones heard it. The looked around dangerously too.

"-ruto!" he turned back to see Kakashi looking at him worriedly. "Are you okay? You seem tense." Naruto shook his head at this "I'm okay, honest"

Kakashi examined his student carefully and nodded once more. "Well, go on, let's see what your affinity is" Naruto grinned and put the mysterious voice at the back of his mind.

He accessed his chakra pool and poured some of it into the slip of paper. He watched it carefully as a cut appeared on it. "You aren't pouring enough chakra into it, Naruto!" Naruto nodded and began anew. Sending in chakra into the paper it glowed before cutting into two, Naruto's eyes widened and before his eyes the two pieces of paper were set ablaze by his chakra. He looked up to his sensei to see him eye smiling down at him.

"That's a powerful combination, wind and fire. You could use a C-rank fire technique and with a small burst of wind make it A-rank. You truly are gifted" Naruto blushed at the praise Kakashi showered him, he rubbed the back of his head and kicked the dirt beneath his feet "Aw, schucks"

Kakashi beamed down at him and turned to the other four-hundred Naruto's "okay you guys are the hand signs while you guys are chakra control, got it?" hearing a chorus of 'yes' he nodded and made two clones to control and direct them. He looked over to Naruto and smiled.

"Now what" Naruto asked. Kakashi could only smile-his cheeks had begun to ache-at his student and he spoke the words "now? Now we train…your taijutsu and that kusarigama of yours"

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Naruto huffed and puffed, he looked over to Kakashi who looked, more or less tired. He hid it well. They had trained into the late afternoon. Naruto leaned on a boulder that had miraculously survived their bout. He sighed heavily as he looked into the sky and took in the beautiful view that was the sun setting. The sky was orange and the clouds were getting scarce. He had long dispelled his clones and he was beginning to feel the effect. A massive head ache along with involuntary finger twitching. He could already feel his chakra control improving too.

They both sat in silence, both satisfied with the work they had achieved. Naruto looked at his sensei and he felt happy. Happy but not happy enough to go back to paper work. He sighed at the thought of his position. It's strange, none of this would have happened if the sound-sand invasion hadn't occurred and if the old man didn't die. He looked over to his sensei and asked the question presently bugging his mind "how come you never told me about this training technique?"

Kakashi shrugged the best he could in his lying position "I always thought you knew" Naruto scoffed at this. "I would have never known about it if I didn't become Hokage. Come to think of it, I still don't know much, especially…" Naruto trailed off as he remembered something he desperately wished to know. The Sandaime always blew him off when he asked. Becoming Chuunin was his key to the answer. But the Sandaime was dead. He wondered if Kakashi knew.

"Kakashi…" hearing the man hum in acknowledgement he continued "do you know who my parents were?" at this Kakashi sat up straight and looked at him in the eye. "They haven't told you yet?" seeing the boy shake his head he sighed.

"I really shouldn't be the one to do this but…since I knew them, I guess I have no choice" Naruto too had sat up and was looking at his sensei expectantly. "Minato Namikaze and Kushina Uzumaki. Both powerful shinobi in their own rights. Minato was my teacher. And Jiraiya was his teacher. He was also the Yondaime Hokage." At these words Naruto was shocked to the core. Kakashi stood up and dusted his trousers "you are going to have to ask Jiraiya your questions Naruto. Ja ne!" and with a well place shun-shin, Kakashi escaped what would be a trip down memory lane.

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Naruto walked home, to his kitchen. He'd never been there before, he opened his well-stocked fridge and was assaulted by a vile smell. He looked around to find what it was and saw that it was everything. He slammed the door shut and backed away. He had never opened it before. He guessed he had never had a chance to use any of the goods in there. But now, they were well over their expiry date.

He grabbed a glass and poured water into it. He stared at it rippling over and over again. When it stopped he down it. He cringed as the cold water touched his sensitive teeth. He sighed and walked towards his room upstairs.

When he reached he didn't bother removing his clothes, he just slept off as soon as his head touched the pillow.

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PLOP…PLOP…PLOP…PLOP

Naruto opened his eyes to red. Red everywhere. He knew where he was. And this time, he was scared.

He stood up from the water. Strange thing…he wasn't wet. He looked at the demon behind the cage and gulped. "What do you want this time?"

The demon opened its eyes and from the darkness he saw another pair of red eyes. His doppelganger. He gulped again.

"What do I want? I helped you gain a second affinity, fire. My personal favorite. I have given you a glimpse of what I can do. Tell me, was your master not proud when he saw you had an affinity he could teach?"

Naruto nodded dumbly "he was, and I give you my thanks if that's what you want"

"What I want? I'll tell you what I want. I want your answer. Do I give you my eyes or do you die like a fly?"

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AN: you heard the big man. Time for you viewer to make up your mind. Polls have been set and they await voting!

I haven't posted cuz I'm having exams. Hope you can understand!

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~Genocideshinobi~