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Thinking (+ flashbacks, "Naruto speaking to Kurama in her mindscape," etc.)

Emphasis

Bijuu, etc. speaking

Bijuu, etc. thinking

Inoichi stared at the man who was his (resurrected) friend, one-time classmate, and village leader, not realizing that his mouth was hanging open. "It's TRUE?!" He glanced at his old teammate before doing a double-take. "You KNEW! You son-of-a-bitch-ass-deerfucker - oh, sorry Minato, er-Hokage-sama - but you KNEW, Shikaku!" Inoichi was so disappointed; how could he have missed this?!

"Troublesome."

Minato tried not to laugh but it was difficult. "'Deerfucker:' I forgot we used to call you that during the war."

"Tch! What a drag."

"I'm surprised she told you, Inoichi," Minato finally replied to his old friend as he closed his eyes and rested his head against his office chair's tall back. He relaxed and threaded together his fingers, knowing that he could trust Inoichi with the information Naruto spilled. If I hadn't wanted her to tell him that she'd led another life, I suppose I should have told her. And there was no way he was letting Naruto avoid therapy.

"Why wouldn't she have told us before?! Why would… Why would you not tell me, 'Kaku? I could've helped! And how do you know it's true?"

"Naruto and Shikamaru were right to keep things to themselves in the sense that they were afraid of Danzo's influence on Hiruzen," Minato reminded him while avoiding his last question. In his opinion, Danzo was a short-sighted, disgusting menace that was antithetical to everything that Konoha stood for: a prejudiced old fool.

Shikaku continued, "And they didn't want to be put in T&I. You remember what it was like, 'Ichi: how Naruto was looked upon," he said, unable to look at Minato. He still felt like he'd failed the girl before he took her in. "Can you imagine? Remember freaking out after I told you she admitted she knew of her burden and who her parents were?"

Inoichi nodded grimly, running his hand over his face. "A second life, huh?" he eventually murmured. "It's not like I haven't heard it before. –I always thought those that talked about being reincarnated were a little.. bent."

Shikaku shrugged. "Considering What's-His-Name claimed that he was once one of my deer…"

Inoichi let out a snort. "That guy thought he was STILL one of your deer. The Alpha."

"Well of course! Why would he be any other?"

"Shit," Inoichi breathed, tugging at the cuff of his shirt. "To think, I came in thinking we only had a delusional jinchuuriki. –No offense, Minato."

Minato opened his eyes: they were especially sharp. "Why would I take any offense to that?"

The Yamanaka Head swallowed thickly. "Did she tell you that one of the Akatsuki members holding her had the Ketsuryugan? –Not that she knew that." Minato's eyes went wide and Shikaku dropped his paperwork. Inoichi understood why: the Ketsuryugan was supposed to be a myth. "From what she described, that was the dojutsu used to control her."

"Fuck," Minato hissed, shaking his head and knowing that he'd be unable to concentrate on his BS paperwork now. "-Sorry. I need to train. To counter a dojutsu that can control blood…" He snapped his fingers, realizing something but Shikaku beat him to it.

"Kumo thought they were attacked by another Uchiha. The red eyes they reported may have been the person holding the Ketsuryugan, not the Sharingan."

Minato tapped his fingers on his desk, not knowing of a Ketsuryugan user that had been in the Akatsuki in his past "life" as an Edo-Tensei. "What a terrifying ability. I need to read more about it. Shikaku…"

"Got it," he drawled, headed into the archives. –He also sent a clone over to the Hatake place so that he could talk to Naruto about the Akatsuki member she'd encountered.

/

Two Weeks Later -

Naruto took a deep breath, pasted on a smile, and marched upstairs to her father's office next to one of her small fox summons of all things: they were making an effort at working together. She wondered why she'd been dreading being out and at work when everyone was so nice and seemed glad to see her. Naru knew every shinobi she'd come across so far but she wondered if that was by design.

Knocking on the door, she couldn't help but grin when she heard her fathers' excited voices: her father, the Hokage, and his Jonin Commander who had raised her this time around.

"Come in! Er, Enter!"

Naruto let out a quiet giggle at that and opened the door. "Good morning, Hokage-sama, Nara-sama. Tokubetsu Jonin Hatake reporting for duty."

"It's good to have you here, Naruto," her father grinned excitedly as he slowly walked around his desk, giving the fox a glance and a polite bob of the head. Naruto playfully rolled her eyes and engulfed him in a quick hug - doing the same to Shikaku shortly after.

Kakashi had told them that Naruto was doing better - that he'd walked downstairs while she was talking to herself or Kurama one morning, declaring that "This is bullshit! Uzumaki Naruto doesn't give up!" –Minato understood that his student had been put out that she used (part of) her maiden name in her declaration but the more important thing was that Naru was healing from her traumatic ordeal.

"First off," Minato began and sat on the edge of his desk, "how's your arm?"

"Pretty good," Naruto said, stretching it out and trying not to wince as she flexed her fingers a little too much. Just like an old person, the pain in her dominant arm and hand ached more when the barometric pressure dropped. Punching was really going to be a bitch! "Tsunade-baa-chan said that I healed remarkably quickly, of course - and she's got me doing exercises for therapy, ya know." Her father already knew this so maybe he was asking for Shikaku? She'd only seen Shikaku once during the time she'd been forced on leave to recuperate and they'd really only discussed who was responsible for her latest ordeal. "I was worried about scarring but 1: scars are kinda cool, and 2: it's long-sleeve season, right?"

Had she said something wrong? –Both men winced at her words so she quickly apologized. Now what? "Hmm." The scars on her arm from the screws and pins weren't that bad and they'd probably go away. "SO," she began again before something weird could be said. "What exactly does the Hokage's secretary do?"

The old hag Naru had always referred to as Big Boobs suddenly left the position or had taken a previously unscheduled break, so Naruto would be filling in for a while.

Naruto wasn't completely stupid: she figured that her father was trying to keep a closer eye on her. Fortunately, she hadn't been busted down in rank like Dragon had threatened when they'd attempted to seal Isobu, so who was she to argue with a new opportunity?

"It varies, day by day. Sometimes I don't know what to expect," Minato said with a fake, polite grin (and real sigh.)

"Other than paperwork," Shikaku reminded him. Minato's head and shoulders fell miserably.

Naruto tapped a pen on the black compression glove still covering her hand. "That's why I don't want to be Hokage," she said with a calculative grin.

"Well isn't that interesting?" Her father asked with a creepy expression that made Naruto's gut twist. "Between your shadow clones and mine, I'm sure we can get this place in order." He released one of the genjutsus in his office.

Naruto blinked several times as her mouth fell open when high PILES of paperwork were revealed. "OH, my gods! You should be ashamed of yourself!"

"Careful, Naruto," Shikaku warned, raising an eyebrow as a smirk appeared on his scarred face, "that's Hokage-sama you're speaking to."

"Oh, right." Naruto sat up straighter. "Hokage-sama, forgive me. But you should be ashamed of yourself."

"Troublesome."

Minato's lower lip jutted out and Naruto covered her smile with what she hoped was a discrete cough. Ah: who was she kidding?! "Yosh," she declared, wanting to punch her bad fist into her other hand: she was ready to get back to work - doing anything! She stood up and rubbed her hands together instead. "How many shadow clones can we fit in here and work effectively, do you think? And where do I start?!"

Minato made several shadow clones and then flopped down in his seat and glanced toward Shikaku, silently directing him to take over while he began the worst part of his job. He knew that he needed to leave the position he'd dreamed of all his life ASAP: there was too much at stake for him to remain office-bound.

"Come with me, kid. The crap in here's on your father's plate; he's had his guard sorting through it for a while now. For now, you'll handle the Missions Desk before lunch then the lower-level crud the boys will sort out for you, after. You WILL be required to take THOROUGH notes at all of Hokage-sama's meetings beginning tomorrow."

"Tomorrow?"

"Yeh-ep. Today, he and I've got shit to do. Oh - and we've got Academy kids doing D-ranks. –They're always a drag."

"I think that's actually a great idea and pretty exciting," Naruto cheered. She was looking forward to seeing Konohamaru. She hoped she'd see him…

"You are the only person who could get excited by handing out D-ranks, Naruto." He looked at the golden fox following her around. "Who's this?"

"You can call me Fox, human."

Naruto facepalmed. Why did all foxes have to be so initially stubborn and awful?!"

Konohamaru happened to be waiting in line. "Hooray! Naruto-nee-chan! I'm glad you're here; I want an A-rank." In a lower voice, he added, "but I need to talk to you first."

Iruka ran in, a little sweaty and looking disheveled and exasperated but he stopped short when his brown eyes met startling blue. "Naruto! Oh… I'd heard but I'm SO glad you're back."

Naru felt her heart skip a beat. So everyone heard what I pulled, huh: getting captured again? "Thank you, sensei." She tried to smile, reminding herself that most of the Jonin had been pretty obvious that they'd been made aware of her latest princess-needing-to-be-saved drama. What a drag, indeed.

"You're at the Missions Desk this morning?" Iruka asked warmly. "That means you're with me!" He was extremely surprised when a little fox jumped up on his paperwork.

"I'm glad," Naruto easily admitted.

Iruka frowned and nearly pouted at the cute fox who was staring at him so intensely.

Take my fox, please, Naruto thought to herself. She'd much rather have Jazu with her right now but her puppy was chewing up EVERYTHING.

"Sensei," Konohamaru said much too seriously to be taken lightly, "I need to talk to Naru-nee-chan. Privately."

Naruto was immediately concerned, especially when she saw a certain glint pass from Kono's eyes to her old tutor.

Iruka smiled kindly at both of them but looked a little pained. "Well, this is a perfect opportunity. Go on then! Naruto, maybe your conversation would be better had in private?" Seeing that Naru looked reluctant to leave her new post, he assured her that he could handle things for a bit. His latest brat students were the ones lined up for missions, after all. He asked the fox if he wouldn't mind moving.

"Fox" decided he'd be comfortable hanging on "Iruka's" neck.

Naruto got up and followed her kawaii apprentice who was getting pretty gosh-darn big. She offered Moegi and Udon a head pat but felt even more concerned when she saw the anxiety present in their cute faces. She and Kono walked over to the nearest corner and each leaned on a wall. "What's going on, Kono-kun?"

Kono put down a silencing seal and his super-tough future master's golden eyebrows raised. Was she surprised he had one? The Academy began teaching them real fuuinjutsu this year! "I wanted to thank you… And warn you."

"For what?" Naruto asked incredulously. "And of what?" She couldn't help herself: she covered half her mouth with her gloved hand so that no one could lip-read what they were saying (she knew she was being paranoid) and was a little relieved when Konohamaru did the same. But then he bit his lips and his eyes darted away from her as his other hand fisted: now she knew something bad was up.

"At the hospital, they um… Sakura-san? –She said you helped release my Obaa-san."

"Release?" Naruto parroted, thinking back to all her awful moments at the dreaded hospital - her eyes went wide as she remembered that one old lady who woke up after a supposedly long coma when she accidentally fed her Kurama's purified chakra. "Obaa? OH MY GOD, Kono-kun!"

It was impossible, though, right? It's impossible that you and your father are alive again, too, Naruto. "I'm so sorry? –I mean, I am!" She grabbed him and hugged his brains out, lifting him off the ground.

"No way, Boss," Kono said with a genuine smile when she put him down: she's so short even with her heels on - don't say the SH-word, Konohamaru - and strong. "I uh, never really knew Obaa-san. She was almost um- killed in the Kyuubi attack." He felt bad when Naruto flinched: he knew what she held.

"Obaa-san was wounded by a sword or something, not the Kyuubi - and she never woke up until you were there that day. I got to meet her and say goodbye! She was glad - and Ojii-san and Asuma-oji were there, too. And Kurenai-san - I mean Kurenai-oba! Obaa-san's safe in the Pure Lands now. –That's what me and Asuma have been tellin' Gramps."

Naruto gulped and asked the question she had already realized the answer to. "Biwako-sama was in a coma all of this time? For all of these years?"

Konohamaru looked away and gave her a slow shoulder shrug. "Yeah."

I thought she was dead! "Why didn't you ever tell me? –I feel so bad that…" She shook her head. Naru had thought that she and Kono were close again! It's not like she babysat him all the time when he was little - maybe - but Naru reached out to him whenever she could. Until I married Kakashi - of course, that's when she'd been finally put on a team and had missions but still. She should've been there for him more. "I really owe you, Kono-kun. …Some 'Boss' or big sister I am."

"You're a great boss! You taught me lots back when you were crazy and couldn't remember shit and even after when… Well, you're still pretty crazy." He stopped himself before he ticked her off and tried to better explain himself. . "...and you've been my big-sister, friend, and ALLY! You're gonna help me be Hokage one day, right?!"

Konohamaru's eyes were twinkling again, making her hug him tightly one more time. "Of course, I will!" Naru reached up and ruffled his hair before bending down to pick up the silencing seal for him but Kono stopped her. "What is it? Something else?"

Kono nodded. "Something's wrong with Gramps, Naruto. Just… you might want to avoid him."

Naruto nodded and faintly understood. Sandaime-sama - and wasn't it weird thinking of him by his title and not just "JiJi" now? - had been avoiding HER ever since Orochimaru's attempted invasion. "How is he? I mean," she covered her mouth again, "I heard that Danzo-fuck- er- guy really messed with him."

Actually, she wasn't supposed to know that - but like any good ninja, she kept her ears open. She'd heard that Danzo-fucker had repeatedly been genjutsu-ing the Third Hokage, potentially scrambling his brains.

Kono nodded again. "He's different. But we go fishing now and that's nice!"

The whole thing made her sad but she offered him a tight grin anyway. "I'm glad you get to spend time with him, Konohamaru-kun."

"Thanks, Boss," Kono replied, wondering if Naruto realized that she needed to be careful. Well if not… "Be um, careful if you see him and HOW 'BOUT THAT A-Rank?!" He picked up his seal and wondered if he could use it again.

"HA! Screw you, Konohamaru! I'm not sending you out on an A-rank, you little…"

"NARUTO," Iruka big-head yelled at her, making her squirm and squawk. She pseudo-apologized and got back to work although thoughts of the Sarutobi family didn't leave her mind.

An hour later, the Academy brats had all been sent out to do chores. Naruto tried to tease Iruka (whom the fox had taken a real liking to) into telling her how things were going with Anko but he was being weird.

"I want to know how things are going with you," Iruka pressured. He had just gotten back together with Anko and didn't need Little Miss Pranks-a-Lot masterfully tricking either of them right now. They discussed her injury at his additional insistence and then he asked the thing that was REALLY bothering him. "What's it like being married to Kakashi-san?"

He couldn't keep the bitterness out of his tone. Iruka really felt that Naruto deserved better than an arranged marriage but her reply - and the way she stared out into space with that lovesick look on her face made him begin to wonder if he'd been right about the constantly brusque asshole.

"I love him. …I love him more than anything." Yeah; Naruto really did. Images and a flood of feelings came to light in her mind and heart.
- Kakashi telling me a funny story about a mission over dinner
- Kakashi fussing over my broken arm
- Kakashi growling playfully as he rubbed my back after I took my bandages off
- Kakashi running his thumb over my cheek, staring at me with his sweet, mismatched eyes
- Kakashi laying in the middle of the living room - on the floor, covered with eight ninken and a toad or two
- Kakashi covered with a beautiful sheen of perspiration as he does sinful things to me - a lot of those things…
- Kakashi, disguised as Sukea, telling me that he loved me for the first time
- Kakashi growling and pulling me into his side even as he pretended to re-read his Icha-Icha while we were out walking
- His ridiculous challenges with Gai that made him that always made him look like such a dork

Kakashi had become a part of her. –Was this the way all married couples felt, at least at the beginning? That was hard to believe. More than a year ago, she'd married the man who thought she was a stranger - the one she'd once crushed so hard on. And now…

"Naruto?" Iruka asked, beginning to worry when she hadn't said anything else. It was difficult for him to believe the stoic, sometimes cruel and arrogant (for admittedly a fair reason: that jerk) Hatake Kakashi was a match for his sweet and somewhat wild favorite student/little sister-figure.

"Gomen, sensei. I was just thinking about what you asked." She felt her face heat up and looked away as Iruka continued to study her. "He really is everything to me."

What can I say to that? Iruka patted her hand, re-adjusted the little fox, and sensed that more shinobis were coming their way. They'd have to wrap this up. "And he treats you well?"

"OH yeah…"

"Hime-sama," a Jonin Naruto had never met before with bindings over most of his head said, irritating (and intriguing) her after sunshinning in, "the ANBU Commander has requested your presence in his office at once."

"Oh! Okay, thank you," Naru said but the guy had already sunshinned off. "Sorry, sensei. I gotta run!" Once out of the building, Naruto looked up and sighed at the ANBU shadowing her: Tenzo. She didn't need to be shadowed!

- Yeah, right, Naruto. –So says the kunoichi who allows herself to be captured on nearly every mission outside the village.

Once inside ANBU HQ, Tenzo dropped down beside her, giving up his game.

"You were following me," she badgered in a falsely aggravated tone, stating the obvious. "I'm gonna tell Kakashi!"

"Keep your voice down, Hatake."

Naruto pouted up at him, liking his Cat mask very much. "You're no fun." ANBU wasn't silent inside this building! What was his problem? And what in the world does Uncle Nawaki want with me?

Oh, Big Hairy Balls! Am I going to get demoted after all?! Gathering her courage, Naru knocked on his door.

"Enter," came a muffled voice. Naruto winced: all of Dragon's blinds were closed, which was unusual. –Maybe not for firing someone, though.

Chakra signatures were somehow suppressed and muddled together down here so when Naruto opened the door, she was surprised. "Kash!" She looked around at the otherwise vacated office. Tenzo, aka Cat, closed the door behind her and that was when she realized how smug her husband looked. "What's going on?"

Kakashi sat back in his chair and threaded his fingers together, letting out a hum. He liked surprising her. Actually, he liked surprising everyone. "I got… promoted."

That should surprise everyone.

"What?! What happened to Dragon? And Jiraiya? —Are they okay? OH my gosh! Er - Congratulations?!"

Kakashi slowly shook his head. "Absolutely not. It's a plot: I'm tellin' ya, Naru-chan. And Dragon's fine: he's working on something elsewhere. Jiraiya's… doing his thing." Probably complaining that sensei sealed him out of the onsens. The man was still their spymaster, thank all the gods - even though now Kakashi had to oversee all of his incoming pervertedly-coded info.

"I'm sorry to hear that. I mean, I'm glad they're okay! And I'm sure you'll do a wonderful job."

Even though he was wearing his mask, Kakashi's nose clearly wrinkled up in distaste. It made her softly laugh. "Are you taking the Dragon mask?"

"No. Inu's a legend, Naru-chan."

"Is that right?" Naruto teased, tilting her head and twisting her lips, pretending not to know that. "So is Dragon."

Kakashi growled at her, making her laugh at him. "You look nice today," he said, getting up to pull his little wife down on his lap. "You changed clothes from when I saw you this morning but now you smell like… Iruka and that brat."

Naruto had been in what had become her all-too-sexy yet practical uniform but now she was wearing a long, slim, slitted black skirt and a blue long sleeve blouse that matched her eyes, along with heels and makeup. He moved her Hatake-crested Haori (how is that haori such a turn-on when it's already plastered across her back and smells like other males? Blegh: that smell has to go) to better admire her curves. "You look very beautiful. But you should lose the clothes."

They stank of Iruka and the brat!

Naruto felt her face heat up. "Nah! And I'm replacing Big Boobs today, ya know, so I thought maybe I should dress the part."

"You do have very big boobs," Kakashi teased, waiting for her ridiculous reaction. Sure enough, she spazzed out and began scolding him.

"...and they're not that big!"

"I don't know," Kakashi pretended to question, running his hand over one of her beautiful but sadly covered breasts. Her blouse was very soft and a bit shiny; he wanted to buy her more things that felt like it. "You said my hands were big and they can't hold all of this. You just spill right out between my fingers and under my palm. Plus you're short and when you compare them to your height, maa..."

Oops: from her irritated expression, it looked like his teasing had gone a little too far. "...Never mind." He continued massaging her breast: it was one of his very favorite things to do, after all.

Naruto marked her mental prank-target list with one more name: Kakashi - for calling me short. "I'm gonna get breast reduction surgery," she joked. Kakashi grabbed her waist with a little snarl and lifted her to his desktop, making her laugh at him yet again.

"You will do no such thing and that is an order. These are mine." He ran his hands over and around her mounds, very happy that she wasn't wearing bandages. He sucked in a breath when he saw that Naru was biting her very red lips and pulled her hips down off the desk, softly pushing her backward.

Naruto tilted her head at him, finding him somehow adorable yet crazily sexy when he would get all wound up. "No thanks, and why did you request my presence, Commander-sama?"

"Ohhhhhhh, I've got commands for you alright. –If I have to sit at a desk, I'm going to get some pleasure out of it!"

Naruto's common sense told her that she shouldn't go along with this, but Kakashi had gone out of his way to have her brought to him, hadn't he? And he had just gotten promoted! –Aaaaaand he was also a pervert and she didn't ever want to lose his interest… "What would you have me do, Commander-sama? I have to work with Tou-san after lunch."

Kakashi sucked in a long, deep breath. "Just 'Commander' in this office, please, little one." He liked the blush he was rewarded with for either the request or calling her that. He pressed chakra into the seal under his desktop and a sealing array appeared that secured the entire room. "I love you, you know. Hmm. Take off your smelly clothes but leave the heels on."

I don't smell bad! Naru pretended to begin undressing - maybe (make that maybe not: it was not happening here, at least not right now) - while she blinked up at him. "I was talking to Iruka-sensei about you." Kakashi stood up and crossed his arms over his chest, closing himself off.

"Oh?"

"Yeah." She sat up. "He asked me if I was happy with you and I… may have gone on a love-tangent about ya. I hope not - but my mind sure drifted to you."

Kakashi pulled down his mask, also pulling her down into his lap again. "Ohhhh? Can't get enough of me, eh?"

"I guess not," Naru said shyly as she played with her hands. "I - um - you've really changed my life, ya know?" She felt tears come to her eyes. "I can't imagine my life without you now."

"You won't have to," Kakashi whispered, kissing her head. "We'll always be together. …Even if I'm doing this crappy job."

"Is it really so bad?"

Kakashi raised an eyebrow at her. It wasn't so bad. What was a pain was that this was the highest-profile ANBU assignment there was - and that it would keep him in the village when his time could be better spent hunting down Obito. And only one position was really over the one he'd just been given: Hokage. And Kakashi did not want to ever be made Hokage. He took a deep breath. "As long as it ends here."

Naru's heart began to pound. "Ends here?!"

"I don't want to get promoted further. This… is a lot of responsibility. My hours are going to potentially vary a lot," he huffed and stuck his nose in his little wife's hair. "I don't want to mess things up with you."

"No worries there. I'll tell you if you start ticking me off!"

Kakashi snorted. "You really need to stay away from Iruka and that - Maa; everybody."

"Ha!"

"Grrr!"

Naruto and her clones were going through the most ridiculous (and OLD) civilian council requests, stamping them as "Denied" and wondering how bullshit things like this ever made their way to the Hokage's desk.

She was now VERY glad that whether in this life or her last, she'd never become Hokage. Blegh: the whole thought of sitting behind a desk all day, juggling crap like this made her shiver with disgust. Pulling out another thing that supposedly needed the village leader's attention, she frowned and sat down to read it more carefully.

Sighing miserably, she stood up to take it to her father. The report was six years old, but why were those in the orphanage being monitored so closely? –All the way down to their genetic makeup? As she walked toward her father's office, she realized how late it was. The Hokage's office door was ajar.

"...that's why I need to step down!" Minato was saying. Naruto knocked on the door hard enough to knock it off one of its hinges. "Naruto! Oh. It's getting late, isn't it?"

Naruto slammed the broken door behind her and pressed chakra into both the door and the wall next to it. The office lit up in blue seals. "What's this about you stepping down?"

Minato gave Shikaku a dirty look. "You left it open on purpose."

"I would never," Shikaku said in a way that proved he was lying.

"For that reason alone, you CAN NOT step down," Naru said, getting riled up. "What if someone else heard you two talking? You don't think someone could take advantage of that?! We have peace right now and the village is stable thanks to you being Hokage. Whether it's the Akatsuki, rogues, or the other Kages: they're scared of you and thus we have peace."

"Naruto, I don't think you understand." Minato wasn't terribly pleased that his sometimes-mouthy daughter waited for him to explain himself because there were some things he didn't want to admit. "This paperwork, Naru-chan: that's so much of what this job amounts to. I can NOT be the strongest ninja in this village if I'm up to my shadow clone's eyeballs in paperwork 24/7!"

"So get help," Naruto said dismissively. "Everything that I've gone through today other than THIS," she said, waving the papers she was holding at him, "is crap-bullshit. There's NO reason someone else can't decide on these issues and provide a report to you, in case you disagree with one of their decisions. And this shit's old!"

Minato glared at Shikaku who had said something similar. "Let me see what you have."

Naruto handed him the report and wondered if it was something that Danzo had come up with as he looked for potential soldiers. Her father read through the report, looking more and more disturbed by it the more he read.

"I need you and your shadow clones help here to help me, Naruto. How many reports did you get through today?"

Naruto had to think for a second. "I've still got shadow clones going through it but the last I checked? 387 reports or requests. The report I just gave you? It's one of the much newer ones." Both men gaped and Minato flashed to the room she'd just been in. She and Shikaku looked at each other in disbelief when they heard her father holler (unnecessarily:)

"Katon: Kitsunebi!"

"Holy crap! He set the office on fire!" Naruto was impressed! She ran down the hall to join him. "You gotta teach me that one, Tou-san!"

"It's called Fox Fire," Minato grinned as he exited the blazing room. "I doubt I have to tell you who suggested it. Now, Naru-chan: I want to see one of your Suiton jutsus."

"You set the Tower on fire you idiots," Shikaku shouted over the noise of the increasing flames, in no real rush to put them out, either. ANBU began sunshinning in but Minato held them back.

Naruto bit her lip, intimidated at having to do this in front of so many shinobis but the fire was getting pretty bad. Dragon → Tiger → Hare: "Suiton Mizurappa!" She blew out a big trumpet of water and then did so again, eventually putting out the fire and soaking the room and hallway.

There was a lot of applause and Naruto felt herself blushing until she realized that she agreed with the other ninjas and joined in: she was proud of their Hokage for torching all that old shit, too.