Konoha's dark prince 2

The Uzumaki Family

Sasuke, and Sakura, stood outside of Naruto's apartment, both were hesitant to enter since neither of them had been there before, and more so after Naruto's admission that he saw them as teammates and not friends, though they understood why given their past actions with him,

Eventually it was Sakura who decided to knock,

"It's open," Naruto spoke quietly from the other side, and Sakura steeled herself and opened the door,

And was immensely shocked, Naruto was at his kitchen table, the girl from before was sleeping on his lap with Naruto's cape draped over her like a quilt, while Naruto himself was working on various papers in front of him, he passed them a glance, "Ah, Haruno-San, Uchiha-san, welcome to my home, please keep your voices down as Yakumo has just fallen asleep" He greeted and instructed them cordially,

Both Sakura and Sasuke were surprised at this,

Naruto just beckoned them over to the table, and continued working silently, stopping every so often to make sure Yakumo wasn't going to fall,

Eventually the silence was broken by Patchwork who entered the apartment carrying bags, "I have returned from shopping my prince," she glanced at the two new guests, "Are we hosting any guests for dinner my prince?"

"Doubtfully, but I won't say no," Naruto stated absentmindedly,

"I see," Patchwork said walking by them before she started packing food away,

"S-so what are you doing Naruto?" Sakura asked,

"Budgeting," Naruto stated, "I'll need a lot of money to build the Uzumaki Family Compound, and I have a lot of my money saved up, but we still need a lot of capital to fund it,"

A knock resounded on Naruto's door, "It's open," both Kakashi and Haishi entered, "Huh," he said, "What are you doing Naruto?" his sensei asked,

"Budgeting" Sakura and Naruto answered at the same time,

"Oh, I see,"

"You won't really need do that anymore Naruto-kun" Haiashi said,

Kakshi covered his mouth, "Naruto can you-,"

Naruto removed the scroll from his pocket and flicked it open, "Return," he commanded and the shadow of the first flew into its seal, Naruto closed the scroll returned it to his pocket and went back to writing,

Haishi rubbed his head for a second before returned to his neutral expression returned, "That was an experience," he stated, and shook his head lightly, "regardless I have a meeting to return to," he bowed and left,

Kakashi looked nervous, "So, uh how're you all doing?" He asked,

"I'm okay," Sakura said distracted,

"Fine," Sasuke spoke evenly,

"Sleepy," Yakumo yawned turning over in Naruto's lap,

"Alive," Patchwork intoned in a mater-of-fact way,

"Terrified we won't be able to make ends meet this month," Naruto groaned staring at the paper he'd been working on, "I've been able to keep us afloat with my pay but we're eating too much, this would be easier if I knew when I was going to make it back into active duty,"

"And I'm Pakura," Pakura said as she left her room, "Hey silver brat," she said looking at Kakashi,

"Hello Pakura," Kakashi greeted back hiding his shock, he already knew that she was living here but seeing it was another thing entirely,

"Well, we're in the green for a month but after that we'll have to start using the compound funds," Naruto stated,

"Noooo," Yakumo sleepily whined, "My swing set,"

Pakura scoffed, "Damn there goes my blackout windows,"

"And my-" Patchwork blinked, "Naruto what did I want again?"

Naruto just chuckled, "You wanted many rooms for children," he said, "You're swing set isn't in danger," he whispered to Yakumo, who mumbled okay and started sucking her thumb, "And neither is anything else,"

"Well, if it'll help mend things between us," Kakashi said rubbing his head, "The way the meeting was going I'd be surprised if they kept you suspended for more than a day,"

Naruto let out a breath he'd been holding, "That's great news," he smiled, "I'd already started reining in all the money to prepare for the worse case, but if I'm back on duty tomorrow or the day after, hell even a week from now then we'll be fine," he laid down the paper and looked incredibly relieved, "I suppose the Uzumaki Family's future remains secured"

Then he gave them a look, "Oh forgive me, I was so absorbed by my work I had neglected to ask why you were all here?" Naruto asked,

"I wanted to make sure everything was okay between us," Kakashi said, "How I brushed off training you for Sasuke before,"

"I wanted to know if you've had these powers all this time why I never saw you using them," Sakura wondered, "Like they would've been extremely helpful on some of our missions,"

"I wanted to know more about the devil fruit," Sasuke stated,

Naruto looked around at them, "Well starting with the simplest and fastest to answer," Naruto looked at Sakura, "Because if my powers were discovered there would've been questions I was not prepared to answer, and with those questions suspicion, with suspicion is distrust, and if the higher ups in the village distrusted me I would've been watched much closer preventing me from certain emergency activities" Naruto explained, "By which I mean Grave digging,"

Kakashi gave Naruto a cold look, "Have you-"

"No, but I am prepared to if I must," Naruto stated, "An undead army that feels no pain is a valuable resource to waste after all,"

"So it's ethical to disturb the deceased?" Kakashi asked,

Naruto leaned back in his chair, "Is it more ethical to have the ability to spare the living by disturbing the dead but to force the living to suffer anyway?" Naruto asked, "No it is by no means a good thing to dig up corpses, but the lives it would spare by doing so is an act of good, thus it becomes a moral dilemma, but to me the people who already gave their lives for the leaf would not mind doing so again so long as it continues to keep the village safe,"

The room had become silent, only Yakumo's snores and Patchwork cooking were heard as three stared at Naruto surprised at how far he was prepared to go to protect Konoha, "Moving on from that landmine of a topic," he looked at Sasuke, "While I do in fact have more devil fruit I cannot in good conscious give one to you,"

Sasuke glared at the blonde, "Why not?" he asked angrily,

"Simple, because I don't know what they might do to you," Naruto answered, "The devil fruit are not exactly well catalogued, by eating one you may get the power to become a literal dragon, immense power, immense strength, things that would be a boon to your mission yes?" at Sasuke's nod Naruto continued, "Well there are of course others, perhaps you could make wax, heal people, turn into a bee, things that may help your quest for revenge but would more likely harm you then assist you, and considering the fruits detriment themselves if I am to give you any fruit, I want very much to ensure that it would assist you"

Then Naruto rubbed his chin, "Though as you can tell even my fruit adds some viability to shadows, perhaps that wax you might be able to make would be strong as steel, but I'd rather know that before handing a power you'd be cursed with for the rest of your life,"

"And you don't have any way to find out what they do?" Sasuke spat,

"If I had a zombie eat a devil fruit, I may be able to give them the power of one," Naruto stated, though since he knew about the devil fruit life cycle he doubted a corpse could eat a devil fruit, but felt it best to keep that to himself, "And that would allow me to document what fruits I have,"

Sasuke crossed his arms, "So you are helping me with my revenge?"

Naruto smiled, "We are teammates thus our end goal of protecting Konoha is the same, thus I have no problem handing over a devil fruit you think would assist you,"

"Which," Kakashi said, "leaves my question unanswered,"

Naruto leaned forward and steepled his fingers, "No," he stated, "We are not on good terms, but it has little to do with my treatment and is about Haruno-san's treatment instead, the lack of training, encouragement, anything on your part, should she practice? yes, but it is your job as her teacher to help her learn, the only reason I have not reported your transgressions Hatake-san is simply that It would've put me under a watchful eye, which since I knew I could protect Haruno-san made it unnecessary" he focused his gaze on Kakashi more, "But since my secret is out and since Oji-san already knows you neglected training one of your students you might want to get started with her promptly, as I doubt you aren't going to be audited as a teacher soon,"

"But-," Sakura started but Kakashi interrupted her,

"He's right, the three of us should be training anyway," Kakashi stated, "Let's go," then he gave a look to Naruto, "Will you come to watch since you've been suspended from duty?"

Naruto shook his head, "Unfortunately I'll have to pass as there is too much work to do around here," he said, "Also I realise I have to go pick something up today,"

"Make it another day Uzumaki" Asuma said as he entered the apartment, just loud enough that Yakumo lifted herself off Naruto's legs and yawned,

"Eh whas happaning?" She asked rubbing her eyes,

Asuma started sweating at the glares Naruto and Patchwork were giving him, "S-sorry," he said,

"It's fine," Naruto said with a slight groan as Yakumo crawled off his legs and started stretching, "What brings you here today Sarutobi-san?"

"Well Pops wants to test you, so he's given you, me, Hayate, and Ebisu, a B-rank mission," Asuma said,

"B-Rank?" Sakura asked, "Isn't that above Naruto's skills?"

Asuma shrugged, "Pops said you all got a C-rank that turned into an A-rank before so It shouldn't be a problem,"

"How long will it take?"

"Three days maybe,"

"Then I must decline for now,"

Asuma looked surprised, "Ox said you'd ask that, and he wanted me to tell you that it wouldn't be a problem as he has basic medical ninjutsu and would pop in every day, he said you'd get what it meant,"

Naruto sighed, "Very well, may I at least go to get my package?"

"Uh sure?" Asuma said, "Just go to the gate when you're ready or we'll come get you," and he walked out of the apartment,

Naruto stood up and took his cape off Yakumo, "I trust you three will be fine in my absence?"

"You're a ninja this is kinda expected," Pakura stated, "I'll make sure stitches and fluffy here don't go making shit worse," Both glared at her,

Naruto chuckled before putting his cape on, "Then I'll leave it to you Paa-Chan," Naruto said before leaving,

He walked through the village and noticed something odd, the villagers were staring at him, which was normal, but typically they glared at him, now they looked suspicious of him, he wondered if this was simply due to his new style of dress, regardless he walked on, but made certain none of them had decided to follow him,

He finally came to is destination A weapon shop it wasn't small yet it had no sign or name, regardless Naruto entered,

Usually when he entered a shop he was careful to do so silently, he didn't like the cashier staring daggers at him until he left, but he'd been saved from a mob once simply because he entered this store and the owner threatened that if they didn't go home he'd test his stock on them for threatening a potential customer,

So he knew there would be no issue, he opened the door and walked up to the counter, The girl behind it... he'd certainly met her before, and she'd given him an odd look as she tried to recall who he was,

"Can I help you?" She asked,

"If you're not busy, I have an order coming today is it in?" he asked,

As soon as the word 'order' exited his lips she perked up and began getting extremely excited, "An order?" she asked cheerfully, "Oh I hope so," she said looking underneath the desk and pulled a massive book that looked too heavy for three of himself to lift, she opened the book and continued gushing, "There have been so many interesting weapons delivered to our shop lately and I hoped someone would pick them up while I was on duty," she seemed to go through what had been delivered and made here so fast that Naruto had no idea if his orders had been completed yet, she flipped through a few pages and asked, "What names the orders under,"

"Naruto Uzumaki," he said,

Her eyes went wide as she looked him over, "Oh yeah, the whiskered jump-suit guy," she stated in realisation,

Naruto resisted the urge to slump his shoulders and instead stood prouder, but internally... 'I-is that how most people think about me?' he wondered morosely,

"Any way as luck would have it your order is finished," She smiled holding up a large sickle in a scabbard,

Naruto took the handle of it, "Thank you for your-," But the girl opened the scabbard and her eyes shined as she examined the blade,

"So cool~" she gushed as she stared at the blade,

Naruto just raised an eye at her behaviour, not because it bothered him, he just doubted his sickle was anything special, there were three things about his sickle that was irregular of the weapon, first off the metal was brass, he'd chosen it simply because it was dark and shiny, dark to hide what material it was, and shiny to redirect light to aid his powers, second at the bottom of the pommel was a ring, a choice he made knowing he could shift Doppelman's shape into a chain thus allowing him easy access to unaware enemies, and third the sickle itself was quite a bit larger than most sickles were,

"Isn't it a rather common choice?"

She put her hand to her chin in thought, "I guess, but honestly you're the first sickle user I've ever met," she said, "Why do you use a sickle? why weren't you using one during the chunin exams? what style do you use? who taught you?"

Naruto raised his hands, "I can't answer that many questions at once," he stated, "I use one because of the fear it strikes into my enemies, I couldn't afford one back then, a person I met on the street taught me but never told me their name or the name of the style," Naruto said, now that he was looking at her he had remembered that she was one of Lee's teammates, a weapon mistress in training if he remembered correctly, but he was so concerned with keeping his act up that he must've forgotten her name,

Her shoulders slumped and her entire demeanour shifted, "That's boring," she frowned,

"Well I'd better get off to my mission, might I get my scabbard back?" he asked,

She looked to her hand and blushed, "Oh uh sorry," she said with a smile,

"It's fine," Naruto said attaching the sickle's scabbard to his back, "Farewell miss," he said turning away,

"Yeah bye," She groaned,

Naruto ran over to the gate as quickly as possible and found his group there, "Ah Naruto, glad to see your teacher's habits haven't rubbed off on you" Asuma said,

"Now that we're all here I think we'd better get running, Hayate said, but Naruto walked past him,

"Run?" Naruto asked looking back, he opened his scroll again, "I don't think so," And unsealed an entire wagon out of it, a fancy one too,

"Uh where did you get that?" Hayate asked while Naruto walked in front of it,

"An auction," Naruto said

"What?" Ebisu asked,

"Apparently a black widow used it to murder her husbands and after she was caught it went up for auction," Naruto explained,

"So how did a clanless nobody like you afford it?" Ebisu asked,

"Simple, there was already fear about it, so I disguised myself and told everybody at the auction in various transformations that it was haunted, and drove away the people who wanted to buy it, then took another disguise and offered literally 1 coin for it," Naruto said proudly,

"And that worked?" Asuma asked with a chuckle,

"Almost nobody wanted it anyway," Naruto admitted, "Since the idea of a black widow scared them enough,"

"Well it would be a good idea to use it if we had the means," Ebisu said,

"Doubt we could find a horse on such short notice," Hayate agreed,

Naruto just stood in front of them pointing to his shadow, "Dopple-Steed!" Naruto raised his hand up and beneath him his shadow turned into a large black horse, large enough to pull the carriage alone,

Everyone turned to Asuma who shrugged, "I guess we'll get up front Naruto,"

"I'll prepare the wagon Sarutobi-san," Naruto said, going on to attach reins to his shadow, he gave a quick look back to his temporary team, and since they weren't looking, He lightly opened his scroll and pulled out a tall lanky shadow and pushed it into his body, He rolled his scroll up and put it back into his pocket, "The wagon is ready" Naruto announced,

"Alright Uzumaki you're up front with Asuma," Hayate called loudly,

Naruto simply nodded at them and took the reins and sat at the front of the carriage, after a few minutes he heard the carriage door opening and people stepped inside, and then Asuma sat next to him,

"You can drive right?" Asuma asked,

"Let's find out," Naruto said with a grin, He flipped the reigns and called "Yah!"

Dopple-steed reared his legs and charged forward down the dirt road leading out of Konoha,

OCTOPUS-Meanwhile at the destination-OCTOPUS

A person trudged down the dirt path, their features were covered by rags, each step harder and harder than the last, a growl escaped her tummy, "Ooh Syo hungry~" she moaned tears pricking at the corners of her eyes,

"Excuse me," A hooded man walked up to her, "Miss are you alright?" he asked,

"Syo hungry," she repeated,

He grinned, "Ah I see, you need food, do you?" Then he grabbed her hand, "Well for a lovely woman like yourself maybe we can make an arrangement,"

"Arrangement?"

The man snapped his fingers, and several more hooded men came out of the surrounding forest, each holding weapons and grinning, "If you can service every man here, we'll think about giving you something tasty," he grinned,

"This one's a real babe," one man snickered,

"Yeah, look at those tits they're massive,"

"Can't wait to take her body for a spin,"

Then one walked up to her, "Lemme get a good look at that sexy body," he said and ripped off her cloak, suddenly the mood changed, the ''woman'' was actually just a really tall and very curvy 16-year-old but that wasn't why they had started backing away,

The reason for that is the fact that she was a tall, very curvy 16-year-old with pink curly hair, had a long freakish tongue, and twin fresh bloodied cleaver-swords on her hips,

The man who held her arm had started backing away, but one of the cleavers stuck his skull, "Syo too hungry to deal with you all," she said lifting the dead man with her cleaver using only one hand,

"I-i-IT'S SYO!" One of the men screamed and turned to run,

But Syo just crossed either blade over her body, "Massacre flurry!" she cried, her arms were a blur that quickly died the air around her into a thin red mist, The bodies of the men around her fell and fell to pieces each sliced like a fine piece of meat, she watched as the guy who'd gotten over his shock had fled into the trees, "Uh Syo missed one," then she reached down for her cloak, "eh?" She asked seeing it was all sliced to bits too, "No," she cried actually wiping tears from her eyes, "now how is Syo going to get food at town now?"

She looked around and smiled realising that one of the men had a cloak that wasn't too torn up, but it was an ugly brown, rather than her nice blue one, she licked her blades clean, so they sparkled and gave a smile as she sheathed them, then she picked up the ugly brown cloak and put it over herself, then she took all the money and any food they had on them, (The former quite a bit, the latter not so much) and walked toward the town devouring the small amount of food she'd found, even crunching the bones happily,

OCTOPUS-Meanwhile-OCTOPUS

The ride took six hours until they came upon a faraway town, along the way he learned of his mission and why so many of them had been sent, Konoha was in danger due to a secret tunnel that led inside and outside of the Village and went under the village's defences, it was made by the third Hokage to help civilians escape in case it were threatened by a SSS-Class forbidden ninjutsu, and this info had gotten out, fortunately it had been caught quickly by a hidden agent who'd taken the info to a town of which they were coming to the outskirts of now,

Naruto had no idea which of them were making the meetup, and from what Asuma knew, the person making the meetup didn't even know they would be doing it themselves, all he knew was that the person who would make the drop had been requested by the secret agent,

Each Ninja had a side of the town they would just slowly walk around until contacted, Naruto's was west, his job was just to walk around and wait until he heard a bell ringing, this would be the signal that the drop was completed, and he and the others were to return to the outskirts of the village and when the full group were together, drop their illusions, confirm they were all who they said they were, and return home where the one who received the drop would silently destroy the info, Alone.

Telling anyone who had the info was considered treason,

As they got close the carriage had stopped, was exited, and resealed, and the four used the transformation jutsu to make themselves look different, and each entered the town separately from different entrances,

As Naruto had entered from the west, he walked down the streets simply making sure he wasn't being too notable and that he wasn't being followed, as he walked he noted the town itself wasn't very wealthy but the people seemed happy enough, he was greeted several times by young and old alike, he greeted them back and from what little small talk he'd engaged in told him that people had no idea he was from out of the village,

It had taken an hour of walking before anything happened and when something did Naruto had turned toward the sound, it was of a girl crying and he walked towards the sound entering a restaurant, inside a woman stood looking at the owner, "Please just a little more," she begged, "Syo not full yet" she whined,

"Sorry lady but you're out of money, can't feed you if you're out of-," The woman's stomach interrupted him growling, "Money?" he asked, "You've had a full course meal how are you still hungry?"

"One course meal not enough for Syo," The woman whined,

Naruto remembered those pains, after he'd been kicked out of the orphanage and frowned, he walked over and sat down near the lady and put some money on the counter, "I'll pay," he said, "For her food I mean,"

The woman was shocked, "Eh?! really?" she asked hopefully, he realised what he'd thought of was a woman due to her size and shape Naruto now realised was actually just a tall girl a few years older than him, as despite her body she had a super cute face,

Naruto nodded at her question, the man looked at him, and just nodded, "Alright we can get you some rice balls with this," he said taking the money, "Just wait a little and you'll be served," he said walking into the back,

The girl wrapped her arms around him, "Syo thankful for your help mister," she said pulling him into a warm and squishy embrace,

Naruto fought off the blush from the contact with the certainly well-endowed girl and said, "I-it's fine, I don't like to let anyone go hungry"

As the guy came back with a tray of thirty rice balls, the girl released him and began wolfing down her meal,

Halfway through eating she looked at him and held a half-eaten rice ball to him, "Here" she said with her mouth full,

"I'm sorry, are you wanting me to eat this?" he asked,

The girl nodded happily, and Naruto accepted it, he couldn't really eat it since she'd already taken a bite, but he'd just slip it back onto her tray when she wasn't looking, then he realised she was staring intensely at him,

Naruto looked down at the half-eaten rice ball, she wanted him to eat the rice ball her lips had been on a second ago? how could he? they were two strangers, and wasn't this something couples do? Naruto looked back and saw the girl's face, her eyes were so cute,

'Naruto, you know what you have to do,' he thought to himself, he nodded and took a breath, he gave her a smile and ate the rice ball, "Thank you,"

The girl gave him a big grin and said, "No thank you for the food mister,"

After she was finished Naruto asked, "There, are you all full?"

"Yep yep, Syo powered up," she said flexing,

"Well, I'd better go," Naruto stood up and left the restaurant, as he continued walking, he realised somebody was following him, but whoever it was wasn't being very stealthy about it,

Naruto had come to a point he'd wandered to before and knew he could slip through a crowd and hide in a nearby alleyway, and did just that, but whoever was following him was gone,

But deciding not to take any chances Naruto turned down the alleyway his head looking behind him to make sure his secret follower hadn't noticed him slipping away, before he bumped into someone,

Naruto leaped back and drew his sickle, "Who are you?" He asked, "Why are you following me?"

The one he'd bumped into looked like an old man, "Naruto-san" he said hands on his hips, "Is that anyway to greet an old friend?" And then turned to smoke revealing the man's true form, one Naruto recognised, from the standard Konoha Anbu uniform to the Weasel mask,

"Weasel-nii?" Naruto asked, having not seen anyone wearing the weasel mask in years,

Weasel chuckled, "That's right," he said, "Glad to see you're doing well, when did you learn the sickle?"

Naruto glanced at the weapon, "Just recently," Naruto said sheathing it, "But where have you been?"

"You know I can't answer that" Weasel said mirthfully, "Hey nice headband you're with the leaf to, right?" Weasel asked reaching into his plain black coat, "Here" he said handing him a scroll,

"Wait you're the secret agent?" Naruto asked,

Weasel nodded, "I'm still working for the leaf my friend, I'm just a little further away," the weasel masked anbu waved, "Speaking of which you haven't changed at all eh Naruto-San?" he asked,

Naruto raised a brow at the man, "How do you mean?"

Weasel answered the question by handing him a bingo book, "Look inside page four hundred,"

Naruto flipped the book open to the page Weasel told him to, and received quite a shock, on the four hundredth page, was a surprising picture of the girl he'd brought food for but without her hood, she had her back to whoever sketched her, but she had turned her head to watch them, her long tongue ran along her blades cleaning the blood off both of them, her body had looked as if she'd been though a blood shower, her eyes gleamed with glee, underneath was her name, "Ripper Syo, Wanted Alive by the village hidden by Haki?" Naruto had never heard of such a village,

"Not surprising you haven't heard of it," Weasel stated, "It's relatively new," he explained,

Naruto nodded and kept reading on, "for the crime of-," Naruto's eyes narrowed, "general psychopathy?"

"You just stumbled onto one of the biggest clearer of bandit camps, outside of hidden villages," Weasel stated,

"But she was calm in the restaurant," Naruto said, "And she seemed like she was starving,"

Weasel nodded, "I've watched her a few times, she only goes full psycho when it seems like people are harassing her,"

"So why wouldn't the village want her b-,"

"They do" Weasel stated, "she left because she was afraid the village hated her, the King put that bounty on her head in the hopes that she'd be brought back home," he crossed his arms, "As far as I can tell Syo only starts going with her psychopathy on certain occasions,"

Naruto rubbed his chin, "And she has nowhere to go?"

"What are you thinking Naruto?" Weasel asked,

"She should join my family" Naruto declared,

"Naruto this is a psychopath-,"

"A psychopath who doesn't resort to savagery to get her way, it's like she's a psychopath with a heart," Naruto retorted, "Besides has she done anything but chop up bandits?"

Weasel sighed, "Yes, but nothing that would stop you, everyone she tore apart wasn't exactly an upstanding citizen,"

"See?" he asked, "and that girl is wandering around, with no bed to sleep on, no home to return to, and a bounty on her head to keep people away from her," Naruto pointed at Weasel dramatically, "I will ask that girl to join the Uzumaki family!" he declared,

"Would that make Syo, Syo Uzumaki?" The very girl Naruto had been discussing asked from behind him, Naruto was surprised,

"Syo?" he asked, "When did you get here?"

Syo gave him a pleasant smile, "Syo followed the kind mister who fed her, she wanted to give her thanks," then she took the hood off her face and played with her hair giving him a bashful smile "and now kind mister offers Syo family? even knowing how much she eats and that she likes to chop people?"

'So, the person who was following me without hiding it very well was Syo,' Naruto realised, but he nodded, "Syo you are perfectly fit for the type of family I'm making," Naruto stated,

"But Syo Big" she stated,

"That means you can fetch things for your sister,"

"Sister?" Both Syo and Weasel asked,

Naruto just grinned, "Yep, ," Naruto raised a hand to the tall girl what do yo-"

Syo started tearing up and pulled Naruto back into an embrace, "Syo h-h-happy, she wants to go with kind mister and meet new sister," she said crying her eyes out,

Weasel chuckled, "Well two you seem to have it in hand," He waved to the two of them, then he stepped into the shadows, "Bye"

As weasel vanished Syo asked "Who was that anyway?"

Naruto smiled, "That was Weasel he's an old friend," he hid the scroll Weasel had given him, "And I'm Naruto," he said leaving her out of the alley the sound of a bell rang out,

"That's our que to leave," Naruto said,

"Our?" The girl asked,

"Me and some friends," Naruto clarified, "But I would like you to join us," he knelt down to meet her eyes,

"W-what?" She asked,

"I'm making a family," Naruto said with a smile, "for people like us,"

"Us?"

He nodded, Naruto said taking a grandiose bow, "Your carriage awaits," he stated,

As they got back to the meeting point, he was given strange looks by the other ninja, "Naruto? who's the girl?"

"The newest member of the Uzumaki family," Naruto stated, "Everyone meet Syo Uzumaki,"

Syo smiled and waved excitedly with both hands, "Syo happy to meet you,"

Ebisu scoffed, "We can't take her back with us, as a ninja of Konoha you-"

"Listen Ebisu-san," Naruto said with a genuine smile, "You have two choices, accept that she's coming with us, or walk back to Konoha," He unsealed the carriage,

Ebisu looked around for support, Hayate shook his head and stepped back into the carriage, while Asuma shrugged, "Hey love to help you but I'd rather let this go and spend more time with my girlfriend,"

The newly dubbed Syo Uzumaki stared at the inside, "Oooh an actual carriage I've never ridden inside one before" she said stepping inside, "It's soo big" she grinned sitting across from Hayate,

Naruto had sat at the front with Dopple-steed ready to pull them, and Asuma next to him smoking his cigarette,

Ebisu frowned but stepped inside not wanting to walk back to Konoha,

And as the door closed Naruto snapped the reins and Dopple-steed sped toward Home,

After reaching the gate everyone split, except for Naruto, Syo, And Asuma,

"Is there something wrong Sarutobi-San?" Naruto asked,

"Follow me," Asuma said,

Naruto raised a brow at him but followed anyway,

The path they took surprised Naruto as it went into the one part of Konoha that the Ninetails had been able to get its hands on, what the citizens called the ruined district,

Asuma led Naruto and Syo in complete silence as they walked through the ruins,

"It's a little further now" Asuma stated,

Then Naruto's eyes widened as he realised where they were going, "Is that-?" he asked in complete wonder,

Standing before him was a large gothic manor, and unless he was mistaken it was His large gothic manor, Naruto reached into his pocket and just realised the manor's blueprints were gone,

"Ah here so fast are you?" Hiruzen called from behind them,

Naruto turned, "Oji-san what is this?"

"A sincere apology for your neglect, and a thank you gift for saving my life and the lives of many Ninja" he stated with a smile, "You left the blueprints for it in the council chamber, I thought it was a good thing to-," Hiruzen realised that someone else was with them, "Ah hello, who are you?" he asked,

Syo took her hood off, "Hiya Syo's happy to meet you, she's an Uzumaki now!" she grinned,

"Ah so you've gained a new family member already?" he asked, "And someone so powerful, I've heard of a Syo in the bingo books,"

"And you aren't suspicious of her?"

Hiruzen nodded, "Of course I am," he said, "But it's late so perhaps we should save that for morning," he said, turning back

Patchwork, Pakura, and Yakumo were further down the street walking over to the group as they stared in awe of the distant manor,

"Now since your three-day trip was cut short by two days there's no actual furniture here yet so we just moved your apartment furniture in for now," Hiruzen stated, "Since you have a carriage and the power to pull it, we may be assigning you to chauffer more time sensitive missions," Hiruzen took a chunin jacket out from behind him, "Chunin Uzumaki" he said holding it to Naruto who could only stare it in awe at the offered jacket,

"T-this," he said taking it, "Is mine?" he asked,

Hiruzen nodded, "Now don't go showing it off too much the ceremony is in a few days after all, but I couldn't wait to see that look on your face," and he wrapped his arms around Naruto, "Wear it with pride, you've earned it," he said patting the blonde on the back,

Before Naruto could hug him back Sarutobi let go and beamed at him, "Well I have to go, paperwork to do and all that," he said, "I'll give you all a tour tomorrow, for now get some sleep,"

Naruto watched as his grandfather figure left clutching the jacket close to his chest, "I," He looked at the jacket again, "I did it?"

Yakumo punched his arm, "Of course you did," she said with a grin, "You made chunin, the manor got built at no cost to us, and I have a-," She looked at the massive Syo who waved back, "Little sister," she grinned,

"Syo is little sister?" she asked, then she picked up the tiny Yakumo, "Syo always wanted to be the little sister,"

"And now Syo is," Yakumo grinned, "I'm your big sister Yakumo,"

"Syo is happy to meet her little sister," Syo grinned,

Patchwork stared at the two girls, "My children," she said wrapping her arms around both of them,

"Syo gets a mommy too?" she asked, "She always wanted a mommy," and pulled Patchwork into the hug,

Pakura stared at the scene, "Well new girl certainly went for that quick, I thought Fluffy'd have to show the girl her true form fore she accepted that she was the big sister," she said, before turning her attention to Naruto, "Hey are you okay?" she asked,

Naruto looked up, "It's just," he started, "now that the manor has been built and I've attained the rank of Chunin," he said wiping away his joyful tears and drawing all attention to him, "Now we can focus on protecting Konoha," He held his scroll out, "Through any means necessary,"

.

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...

"Syo doesn't get it,"

"Typical little sister," Yakumo said shaking her head, "Now that he's got a place to store them, enemy ninja can be collected by taking their shadows and bodies, the bodies can be stored away in seals, and the shadows can be used in conjunction with corpses to raise an army of the undead to protect Konoha,"

Patchwork nodded, "Yes sweetie, the prince referred to this part of the plan as phase two,"

"And the Prince is Naruto," Pakura said with a yawn,

"Ooh" Syo nodded, "I get it now,"

Naruto slightly annoyed that his dramatic moment was ruined, now let out the chilling laugh he'd been holding in, though now it felt out of place more than anything,

OCTOPUS-The End-OCTOPUS

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Cosmicuchiha: The worst part of that is that I do know all of the tailed beasts and where they are from, so I have no idea how I wrote Sanbi when I meant Ichibi, (my best guess is because I'm also writing a story that has Rin as leader of team seven and in that story she is the Sanbi jinjuriki,) but thanks for catching it,

Draklord: Thanks, I'm glad you're enjoying it,

Banjo the Fox: Yeah sorry about the misspelled names, apparently I'm forgetting to proofread these before I post them,

Reedz22: Thanks man, hopefully the story doesn't drag too much,

David-Teague-3950: Was it The Grinning Ninja? if so, you can tell how much I've improved right?