Saotome Naruto
Description: see other chapters, I'm not in the mood to say it again.
AN: There is a mistake during the graduation in chapter 2, it isn't Neiji and his family but Shino. The creepy gathering makes more sense now.
Someone said that Naruto was being treated unfairly and that Ranma would have stepped in. The problem here is that Ranma isn't that influential in the village politics when that happens. He's respected as a ninja but if there was to be a meeting of all the clan heads, Naruto in cannon would have more say in things in a politic kind of view then him since he's head de facto of the Uzumaki clan until we see some sort of family around him. Ranma being an outsider at the beginning has many ramifications in the village politics. It's like opposing a minor clan like Sakura's against a major one like the Hyuga. Anyone saying the Hyuga are going to lose is rather moronic. Ranma did, in fact, try to find out but he couldn't do a thing until it became ridiculous and then went to see the Hokage.
The age matter: I thought I had already cleared that one out but I'll state it again. They are 16 because I said so. Period and no discussion allowed on that statement.
Enough rambling! On with the show!
Chapter 7: Reinstatement
As team 7 left the wave country, someone was throwing a fit over in Konoha.
"WHAT DO YOU MEAN YOU SENT NARUTO MY 'A' CLASS MISSION?" Ranma demanded to a very frightened dispatcher.
"It-it was a-a-an assa-assa-assa. . ." He stammered as he understood his mistake.
"AN ASSASSINATION MISSION TO A GENIN! HOW ABOUT I TAKE YOUR HEAD INSTEAD OF THE TARGETS ?" The dispatcher was a bureaucrat, he was a mere genin who just had enough brains to be able to understand names and give the missions to those who had the said name.
"But-but I-I-I just filed it and-and . . ." He wasn't able to explain because an angry Ranma with the full armoured demon head was facing him.
"INSTEAD OF DOING SOMETHING USEFUL LIKE GIVING IT TO ANOTHER ANBU YOU HAD TO USE THE SHORTEST WAY AND FILED IT FOR ANOTHER SAOTOME IS THAT IT? DIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIE !" Ranma gathered his ki between his hands as the ninja made a very simple seal which saved his life at the moment, a simple kawarimi no jutsu got him out of harms way, or so he thought.
"Hello, I'm Mrs Saotome." A female voice spoke from behind him. While Ranma was deadly, his wife was vicious when it came to her children. A female scream resounded through the whole administrative complex as Hikari Saotome passed her frustration as violently as she could without killing the man. Good thing she knew Hibiki, she had the habit to exchange techniques with the interrogation specialist.
After the initial scream, Ranma made his way to the Hokage's office.
"I see you got the news Saotome-kun." The old man was quite grave as a second scream resounded.
"Yeah, I know Naruto can deal with it but I'm more afraid of what it could do to his morale." Ranma answered now calmed a bit since justice was being served.
"NOT THERE ! NO AAAAAAAAAAAAAAARRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRG!" There was another scream nearer along with a weird sound which both men didn't care to identify. They had a fair idea of the cause anyway. Hikari came in the office leaving the bureaucrat to tend to his wounds.
"Sorry for the noise but he deserved it!" She growled as she fell in line next to her husband. It was obvious what both men thought but didn't say out loud: PMS.
"First of all, I've made the papers to transfer Naruto back to his original clan, he'll be an Uzumaki as soon as he signs the documents. Once it's done all his assets: the mansion, the scrolls of techniques and financial assets will be his legally but under your jurisdiction until he's 18. Is that all you wanted?" The third asked the couple who nodded.
"I wanted to ask for a leave of absence with the whole family Hokage-sama." Ranma said surprising his wife.
"Why is that if I may ask?" The old man said with a raised eyebrow, Ranma was a tireless worker in both the ANBU and as a sensei. He rarely asked to be off the battle roster unless he had near-death injuries and that only happened once a long time ago.
"I'm going to use 'It' and I want Naruto and my family with me." He said, not telling his wife what 'it' was.
"I see. . .very well, you have a month once Naruto gets back." The Hokage conceded.
Ranma bowed and left leading his wife outside and back to their house.
"Alright Ranma, what's the big deal?" she asked sternly.
"Hikari, all those years ago, when we were about to get married, I found a way to my home during one of my missions." He explained, her eyes were wide at the admittance.
"Why?" She asked.
"What? Why I didn't leave Konoha?" He asked back.
"Yes, why didn't you return to your home? To your fiancée? Your family?" She had tears in her eyes.
"You remember what I said when we were married? That I wouldn't leave you for the world ?" He evaded and answered the question all the same. "I Love you, it's simple, and I loved you back then as well. But now, everyone must have moved on and I want you to at least meet my mother. I also want her to meet her grand-children." He now had his wife in his arms and she was kissing him happily, very eagerly even. . .she eventually managed to drag him to their bedroom (and the rest is labelled as NC-17.)
Team 7 made it to Konoha 2 days later. Kakashi and Naruto were required to report for the missions at the administrative building. Sakura didn't even bother to ask Sasuke on a date and the dark Uchiha was frowning. He would never admit to it but being the centre of attention, especially the female kind, was quite addictive. He followed the pink haired kunoichi from the roof tops without her notice. She was being sloppy and he didn't know why. He closed the distance with her until he could hear her mutter to herself. She never saw him nor did she ear the loud shout of her rival who was getting back from a mission of her own.
"SASUKE-KUN!" Ino charged at the Uchiha survivor while Shikamaru scowled and muttered his usual recriminations against the other ninja and women in general.
Another kunoichi was back from her own mission with her team, the timid girl was ecstatic in fact, Naruto was surely around. Without the academy she couldn't see him everyday and that was missing from her daily schedule. She moved toward his home, she knew where he lived since she used to follow him when he trained, and waited for a bit.
As fate would have it, Sakura's parents were on a mission when she got home and there was a letter telling her she could go and stay at the Saotome House until they were back. It was unusual for her parents to get missions but it happened once in a while. She looked at the empty house, sighed and locked the door, maybe a talk with Mrs Saotome could help her clear her mind a bit. She wasn't her mother but that could be to her advantage as well.
She walked slowly toward the Saotome household and saw Hinata leaning against a wall opposite to the estate.
"Hello Hinata-chan!" Sakura said politely. The girl was in a daze somehow and the words seemed to have awakened her.
"Oh, he-he-hello Sakura-san." She answered shyly, she had been in one of her personal fantasies. "Fancy meeting you here." She had regained some of her footing. This wasn't Naruto but Sakura, one of her classmates.
"Yeah, my parents are gone on a mission and they said I could stay with the Saotomes until they came back." She explained. Hinata's eyes widened, Sakura was staying with the Saotomes, in Naruto's home. Life just wasn't fair.
"I-I Have to go, I-I'm supposed to get home soon. Jane, Sakura-san." The Hyuga heir ran as fast as she could to get away from who she now identified as her rival for Naruto.
"I wonder what that was about. She didn't even let me say goodbye." Sakura stood there for a second and finally turned to the Saotome home.
Meanwhile, Naruto was giving his report to the Hokage himself instead of an administrator.
He entered the office and the old man looked at him fondly.
"Naruto. . . I must say I'm sorry, there was an error in the bureaucratic process and you weren't supposed to get this mission." He said with his head downturned.
"No big deal, Oji-san. It would have happened sooner or later anyway." Naruto said. His voice was still cheerful like it always was, but it now held an edge of maturity which wasn't present before.
"Very well, if you insist. Your report then." The Hokage ordered. Naruto recounted the events that led to the assassination. He omitted the part about Sakura being in his mind but that was rather irrelevant.
"You may leave Naruto. Again, I'm sorry to have put you through this, but rest assured that you mother punished the culprit." Once again, the two males shivered but this time visibly and Naruto uttered the letters which could doom any sane man. "PMS?" He asked.
He was quite unlucky since the secretary, a young woman, eared him quite clearly when she opened the door to let the next visitor inside. Both the Hokage and Hyuga Hiashi took a step back when the woman, an armed jounin level ninja who also acted as bodyguard within the tower, attacked the teenage genin with the intent to kill him.
'Maybe he'll learn that the subject of female hormones is hazardous to one's health.' Both the Hokage and Hyuga leader thought as they witnessed the chase around the office and stood out of the way. Naruto had stepped into no-man's land and he had to get out of there by himself.
"Popcorn?" Someone asked from the shadows of a corner. The only evidence of his presence was the bag of popcorn.
"Still watching over him aren't you?" The hokage asked as the three intelligent beings without killing intent in the room observed the situation.
Within the Saotome house, the whole clan, minus Naruto, was preparing for the trip when Sakura came in. She remarked the preparations and immediately asked herself if war had been declared during their mission.
"Sao-Aunty?" She asked Hikari as the woman passed her with a backpack full of different clothes. She was out of her normal wear and in an obvious ANBU armor complete with the mask. Ryoma and Moegi were stacking all sorts of different weapons in their clothes while Ranma seemed to be meditating.
"Hello Sakura-chan, could you get the other bags with the rest. We're going to see Ranma's family." Hikari remarked as she stacked the bags in a specific corner.
"Aunty, I really needed to talk to you." She said. "My parents were sent on a mission and they left a note saying I could stay here while they were away. I really wanted to ask my mother but. . .I guess I just need a woman's advice on the matter." She said. Hikari stopped her moving things and went to Sakura.
"You can tell me everything dear. I didn't think I'd have a girl-talk session until Moegi got about your age but I'll consider this a trial run." She lifted her animalistic mask, a small smile was on her face. She guided Sakura toward the diner table and gave her a cup of tea.
"Alright, I'm not your mother so just tell me what you're willing to tell me. I'll help with what I can." She put her mask on the table, it caught Sakura's attention that there was the distinctive look of a sparrow to the image.
"Well, it's just hard to describe. I've liked Sasuke for so long you see. I was sure, certain, he was the one perfect guy. But now I'm not so sure about that. . ." She trailed off trying to find her words.
"He doesn't seem as interesting as he did before right?" Hikari asked. Sakura only nodded as her answer.
"But. . .at the same time those feelings are dimming, there's something else, for someone else that. . .it's just something else, It's not the same thing as with Sasuke, it's more. . .more. . ." She was interrupted by the smiling Hikari.
"It's just more isn't it? As though it was overloading you with different feelings and making you forget everything around you as it melds into the background and nothing is important anymore." She described with a dreamy look upon her face.
Sakura nodded again after a little thought, it had been exactly that feeling she had when Naruto had kissed her, would it have been the same had it been Sasuke. Had she been asked maybe five minutes earlier she would have said Sasuke would have been better but she wasn't sure anymore, nothing was sure for her at the moment.
"How did you know?" She asked in a small weak voice, as though she was afraid of the answer.
"I feel the exact same way about Ranma even twelve years after we met." She answered simply. "It took me a while to figure it out and maybe a bit more to make him mine but I know I was in love with him at first sight."
Sakura didn't know what to do or say. In her inner self's opinion, Naruto was a rather loud and obnoxious boy with nothing compared to Sasuke but this side of her was weakening, either merging with her actual self or lying dormant in the background remained to be seen but it was lying low for sure. However, there was an air of mystery about him for most of the time she had known him. He had first been her mysterious knight in shining armour when she had still been teased, then came his unnatural strength and skills when he had practised with Ranma and finally she discovered that he was somehow the recipient of the Kyuubi. There was only the transmission of thoughts she hadn't solved but she had written it off as an after effect of the demon for the moment.
Her mind, even if it understood those principles wasn't about to accept the knowledge without an argument.
"How. . .how could I have fallen in love with him?" She whispered with an absent look on her face.
It's at that moment that Naruto came in, he saw the circle of arcane circle of seals his father was meditating in and carefully sidestepped the thing. His father wasn't the most skilled ninja in the written jutsus, even blood scrolls weren't easy for him and all you needed was a bit of your blood for the technique to work. Ranma was another story however. He could duplicate the effects of the techniques on scrolls every once in a while but he couldn't control them in their written form. Naruto simply took his precautions and walked away from the thing and went to the most important part of the house even before the dojo, the kitchen.
When Sakura saw him she was thorn in two by her feelings, even made clear she didn't seem to know how to react to Naruto's presence. A part of her was almost begging for her to run away from him while another part wanted to kiss him senseless. Naruto looked at his mother, then at Sakura and spoke.
"Is this a session of girl talk or can I take a snack?" trust a Saotome to think with his stomach. Hikari shot him a look and he got the hint. Turning away from the war zone he decided to risk the proximity of his meditating father.
"AAAAAAAAAAARRRRRRRRRRRRRRG!" Sakura let out a growl of frustration.
"Men tend to think through their stomach more then their brains you know." Hikari chuckled. "And that's why we, women, are the real boss in the relations, we hold them by the sentiments." She grinned quite ferociously.
"How did you know?" Sakura asked.
"Mothers intuition, woman's intuition and a kunoichi's sixth sense. I can almost see the future." At the joke, Sakura giggled a bit. "Seriously, unless I was blind I wouldn't have missed the absent look on your face when he came in."
Sakura blushed at the implication that her feelings were on display for everyone to see.
"Are you embarrassed of how you feel?" Hikari asked with a questioning glance.
"You know. . . about Naruto and. . .you know, the seal. . ." Sakura was silenced by a very hard look from the woman.
"I know, every adult knows. What about it Sakura, are you scared of what Naruto carries?" She asked with an edge to her voice. Sakura sinked just a little under the steel the woman seemed to emanate.
"I. . .I can't say I'm not scared of it, of Naruto. . .I'm not scared of Naruto himself. I'm scared shitless of what he could do to me if he decided to attack me. I'd be scared even if he didn't have the. . .well, you get the idea." She answered, Hikari seemed to stop glaring.
"I think I understand, I felt the same way with Ranma at first. He's so much stronger then you and if he ever got the idea that he would take what he wants. . ." She didn't need to finish the sentence as Sakura's eyes widened in fear. She hadn't really thought of it that way but it was true. "I wouldn't worry too much about that, his father and himself are a bit too innocent for their own good sometimes. Naruto is a bit more perverted then his father though." She then told her how Ranma had first found the child Naruto and what he had been doing
"You mean he was going to make guys pay to peep in on women?!? That pervert!" Sakura exclaimed.
"yes well, a four year old kid can't be called responsible for not knowing everything about right and wrong when his tutors weren't exactly the best models of caring at first. He still has that prankster's mind hidden somewhere in his brain." Hikari sighted.
"Anyway, it would seem like you're coming with us to Ranma's home. I'd take all the weapons, equipment and tools you can carry as well as your clothes and all that you already have in your pack. I'll just make a quick laundry so you have clean clothes." She said with a wink.
"I wouldn't want to impose and. . ." Sakura said but she trailed off when Hikari grabbed the pack and went to her washing room.
Meanwhile, Naruto had gotten the story from his siblings and was preparing some more equipment for himself. More scrolls, more clothes, more hidden ramen, more weapons, did I mention the hidden ramen ? He was about to close his pack when he decided to put three other cups of instant ramen.
His father made three seals and shouted the names right as he closed his pack.
"Tora ! Inu ! Neko !" Ranma screamed and the glow of chakra went to the written seals on the floor and was sucked into a scroll which now contained the technique.
"That should do it." Ranma said as he pocketed the scroll. He then saw Naruto standing there. "Welcome back son ! I think we need to talk. Let's go to the kitchen." Ranma said.
"Can't do that, mom and Sakura are having a bit of girl talk." Naruto warned his father who turned around and went toward the door.
"As I said, to the dojo so we're not. . . erm. . .distracted by other matters." Naruto smiled a bit and followed.
"I heard about your mission." Ranma said immediately. "I want to know how you're dealing with it all." He almost ordered.
"I'd lie if I said I was fine with it. For a second back there I almost enjoyed what I was doing. It was so easy and it felt. . .I felt Kyuubi settling. The damn fox was always agitated before but when I killed that man it became. . .I dunno. . .tame." Naruto stopped for a second and put his head between his hands. "I disgust myself ! Enjoying to kill, I almost became that demon everyone thinks I am for real ! I don't deserve to be your son or even your student." Naruto exclaimed hotly.
"Naruto. . .son, what happened was normal, we are shinobis, ninjas are tools for people to use, deadly tools. You're still at the level where missions are about finding stray cats or helping at the harvest, once you progress you become a soldier, a bodyguard or even an assassin. You fight in a war for a lord for about a week, after that week is done you could be ordered to fight for the other lord or to assassinate him. No Naruto, your reaction isn't a failure, you felt what any and all shinobis face at least once in their life, the fear that you could like to kill. You're a special case with the demon sealed inside you stirring feelings we wouldn't know about but don't ever give in to the urge to kill for fun. That's all I ask of you to be proud." Ranma said a bit too sagely for him. Naruto looked at his hands and then to Ranma's poker face which, by the way, doesn't exist.
"Mom wrote that right?" Naruto deadpanned as Ranma hid his ink stained hand behind his back.
"No, it came from my mind, not hers !" Ranma said trying to act honest, it worked as much as Happosai's flying cute monkey disguise.
"At least you practised enough to say it as though you were the author." Naruto rolled his eyes. "So, when are we leaving ?" He asked hopeful to sidestep anymore conversation.
"Once I'm finished with you son. You see, you're almost 17 years old now, we took you in ten years ago. Now I want you to become your own person." Ranma said.
"You're kicking me out ?" Naruto said wide eyed.
"No, just putting you back into your original family register. You're the only member and you have a place in the village clan council. I'll always consider you my son but when we adopted you me and Hikari knew you'd be our son only temporarily." Ranma said. "You're an Uzimaki by name but I'm still considering you my son in my heart, that's where it really counts." Ranma stated with a grin which Naruto mirrored.
"Well, I guess I'll stick around the place for a while then." He answered with a large grin.
"Not that much, we're leaving for a month's time of vacation." Ranma said as he got up.
"Vacation ? Moegi and Ryoma told me it was a training trip !?!" Naruto exclaimed.
"It is, you'll meet weird people and strong fighters from my youth." Ranma announced with a smirk.
Both practitioners of martial arts went back to the house to find the whole family assembled with Sakura and their things.
"We're all ready dear." Hikari said. Ranma nodded and made a long series of seals before he called his technique.
"Hijutsu : Dimension's door!" He called as he poured chakra into his hand. A gust of wind picked up and the assembled people were pulled through a portal.
Naruto was falling through the void with his eyes closed. He was holding instinctively onto Sakura who had been the last person in his field of vision. They fell until they broke the waters of some small pound or spring. Naruto felt something shift inside of him, as though something was amiss. His senses seemed sharper then ever. He came back to his senses quickly as he tried to break to the surface with his passenger.
They breathed deeply as they surfaced and quickly reached the border of the pool.
"Na-Naruto. . .what happened ?" Sakura asked as she looked around. To find herself in a mountain range with pools of water. They both got up and put their back to the other. They looked for Ranma or Hikari but couldn't see either of them in their immediate vicinity. They did see a man and a young girl a bit older then them run toward their position.
"I is so sorry young costumers! I not see you come to Jusenkyo ! I see you fall in Kitsuneniichuan, it tragic story of demon fox who drown here 2356 year ago, very tragic story." The guide announced.
"Demon fox !" Naruto exclaimed as he ripped his shirt open. He found his stomach marked with the seal of Kyuubi which started glowing before it spread a bit over his body. He had to close his eyes when he felt the demon stir. The seal spread some more until almost his whole body was covered in markings.
"Naruto ! Try to control yourself ! Please !" Sakura was panicking, she didn't want Kyuubi to take over.
The demon, opposite to Sakura's thought, wasn't taking over at the moment, it seemed to be quite the opposite.
"What have you done boy?" The booming voice resounded in his mind.
"How should I know what's happening ? All I know is that I'm seeing your stupid memories!" He answered hotly as another wave of memories hit him, war, death, pillage and massacres were the least of the things he saw. Naruto was panting on the ground as he looked at the gates of the seal. The demon was gone, or rather, he wasn't the container of the demon fox anymore.
"That's right boy! You're the demon fox now ! How about a fitting end for the great Kyuubi! Dead and still alive at the same time. I'm free of the seal and yet I'm even more of a prisoner now!" The fox chuckled. Naruto came back to the real world only to see the seal on his belly had spread to his higher collar.
"Naruto ! You're awake!" Sakura launched herself at his neck without even taking notice of what he was wearing. Naruto saw Sakura's now flaming red hair, she let him go and he saw her slitted yellow eyes and her ears which were pointed.
"Sakura, what happened to you?" He asked as he took in her smell and he felt dizzy all of a sudden. This had never happened before, sure, he could smell better then most people for some reason but why did it hit him that hard all of a sudden. Naruto felt the hot water hit the both of them as the guide explained the curse of Jusenkyo.
"Jusenkyo are springs of sorrow, hold many secrets young costumers. Curse give you form of demon fox when you hit with cold water. . .why you no change?" The guide looked at Naruto who still had the same red slitted eyes along with red streaks in his hair and the pointed ears.
"Long story, I don't want to really talk about it." Naruto muttered.
Just as the guide was about to explain the aqua-transformation, someone knocked on the door. A procession of people came in with Hikari and a red haired woman in front with Moegi and Ryoma in their arms.
"Hello, I guess you found our two missing. . .oh god, don't tell me! Kyuubynichuan right?" The red head asked.
"Ah, welcome honoured costumer! It has been a long time." The guide exclaimed as he took out a kettle which he kept permanently warm. Naruto watched in awe as this woman became his father.
"NANI!!!?????" Naruto screamed while pointing.
"Long story, Nyannichuan, spring of drowned girl, yare yare yare." Ranma answered.
"It was a shock for me too dear, let the poor boy adjust." Hikari said from besides him.
"Yeah, I know. Did Sakura fall into a spring?" He asked suddenly.
"Same one as mine." Ranma's eyes widened, there were two kitsunes? The Hokage and her parents would want his head!
Ranma started sulking while some other people came in.
"Honored elder of Joketsuzoku! What bring you here?" The guide asked as an old wrinkled woman stepped in.
"I felt the ki of my moku-dono and came rushing to find he had a whole family!" Ranma turned to face Khu-lon and the amazon smiled.
"Hey there old troll! Gave up on Nerima?" He asked as the woman shook her head.
"Not really, I just came here for my vacations along with Xian Pu and Mu Tsu." She answered. "Nerima is far too entertaining to leave, even with you away." She grinned and it made Naruto shudder.
"Oi! Tou-san, who's the old troll?" Naruto asked. The woman hit him on the head with her stick.
"Respect your elders!" She admonished, but before that Naruto disappeared in a cloud of smoke leaving a log in his place and a message which read. 'A slow old troll to boot!' Sakura chuckled a little at Naruto's joke and watched the face of the old woman fall.
"He's been trained by me all his life and right now he's under the effects of the Kitsuneniichuan so let's just say he could be a bit . . . feral at times." Ranma explained as Naruto reappeared behind the woman with a water balloon. The result was a drenched Khu Lon and a beaten up Naruto as she caught him from his inscessant laughing.
"Quite a son you have. How about we go talk to the village?" She narrowed her eyes as she said that, maybe getting Naruto to join the tribe would be possible.
"No challenges for Naruto or you can be sure your warrior will die." Ranma said. Khu Lon looked at him and nodded gravely, it was too risky to lose a prime catch like this boy who could sneak up behind her so easily. He seemed a better catch then even Ranma had been. The trek to the village was short since everyone was already quite up to speeds. Sakura seemed to lag behind but Khu Lon had her doubts that the girl was holding back something.
Sakura for her part was cursing the weights her training demanded. That is until she was hit by a bit of cold water, now Ranma was cursing (quite loudly I might add) his curse while Sakura was catching up with a burst of chakra. Naruto's senses picked up on Sakura immediately and he almost had to stop himself from jumping on her. Fifteen minutes later, the group was in front of the village of the amazons and many young maiden warriors were eyeing Naruto in an interested manner.
'If any of them even thinks about Naruto I'll rip off their throat' She growled in her mind. Naruto heard it and growled himself.
'They have weapons, if even one of them hurts you. . .' He didn't finish as he let leak a bit of the Kyuubi's chakra. Every warrior drew their sword or weapon a bit closer as they felt the murderous intent of the ninja.
"Children! Lower your weapons or do you want to provoke this boy into killing you all?" The matriarch asked in a booming voice. All the weapons were immediately hidden and the villagers dispersed. All except one girl with lavender hair.
"Great great great grand-mother, did you bring these guests to spend the night?" The girl asked.
"Fe Briz, I'm on the other side. I told you to wear your glasses." Khu Lon said exasperated.
"Mu Tsu and Xian Pu's kid?" Ranma asked only for the matriarch to sigh in defeat.
"She's a truly formidable fighter but she needs surgery once she's grown." Khu Lon talked quickly with the girl in Cantonese and they then went to her house.
"Make yourselves at home. Xian Pu and Mu Tsu are back in Nerima so you won't have much problems as long as you're with me." She stated. Ranma nodded and he started to talk with the old woman about all that had changed.
"Well, we're leaving for Nerima tomorrow. It shouldn't be a long trip for a family of well trained shinobis." Ranma remarked. Khu Lon nodded and they turned to the room to see the children gone.
"I hope they don't have your luck with the ladies Ranma or you'll have another amazon after your party." She said. Ranma opted for slamming his head on the table just to change the pain.
Moegi and Ryoma, quite young children, were lucky enough that the marriage rule was not in effect at their age. Naruto and Sakura however were getting quite a lot of attention as they were sparring with one another. They were well trained, maybe a little too well trained, especially the girl but the male was a superb specimen of manhood. Girls sighed as he let go of the weighed vest. The boys of the village were given quite a show when Sakura did the same but they weren't stupid enough to stay after Naruto looked at them with his vertical pupil. The girl, it seemed, was claimed and Naruto oozed killing intent compared to even some of the most hardened warriors of the village. Naruto pinned Sakura to the ground after a full hour of full out sparring. Both of them had held back, Naruto more then Sakura, but the session was supposed to improve her endurance and technique for long drawn out battles, something many shinobis loathed to engage into.
It was strange how Sakura found Naruto's protective burst to be, quite honestly, cute. Many would have said he was too possessive but she knew otherwise. Naruto held her dear and outside his family she was one of the only people to ever show she cared. There was also the knight in shining armor thing, for a shinobi who grew up in a violent environment where death was an everyday matter it resumed in the guy making the other guy eat his own guts as he was dying from blood loss for the simple reason he had looked at her wrong. There weren't many instances of that happening if the guy was a shinobi but every once in a while you could find a rapist with his guts in his mouth and it was generally because he had picked on the wrong kind of victim.
Both of them picked up their vests and put the on, much to the audience's chagrin, before they started another set of exercises to concentrate their chakra. They sat and meditated.
"Have you seen how gorgeous the stranger is?" one girl asked.
"Yeah, those muscles, and those red streaked hair, he looks so cool!" another exclaimed. Sakura and Naruto didn't understand a word of this though since Chinese wasn't their forte. The strength of the village was their abilities as fighters so when they felt the enormous chi both strangers were emitting they backed up and took positions better fit for defence or, if the need should arise, to flee from a certain death.
The fact that neither were moving quickly bored the often overactive amazons who went back to their own training, it did catch the attention of several old women though who watched these two children meditate as though they were in their own backyard and everyone of them was hatching plans for their heiress to challenge the boy to battle and get this fine. . .catch shall we say.
"What weak outsider girl want in amazon village?" a guard asked nearby. Naruto opened his eyes for a second and saw something he never thought he would get to see in his lifetime. A girl with an exact replica of Sasuke's clothes which were quite wet and, just to add to the oddity, the girl was actually looking at the guard with the sharingan.
"Sasuke?!?!" Naruto exclaimed jolting Sakura out of her own meditation.
"Sasuke. . .chan?!?!?" was her immediate reaction at the very wet and female ninja.
End of the chapter
It's official, I am EVIL! Sasuke dunked in the Nyannichuan! Oh the horror! Oh the drama! Oh the possibilities!
After a long summer of unproductive work I finally have a chapter written but now IO have the whole chuunin exams planed and the next chapter in the works right now along with a new story in French for the Naruto section so I didn't go on a perpetual break, just a summer break.
