Warnings: Well, in this fic we're just pretending that kids graduate the academy at 16, no spoilers that I know of and I'm pretty sure the Yondaime's name was Arashi…

Pairing: Arashi/Naru

Summery: Arashi did not die, but was instead placed in an age stopping coma, when he awakes sixteen years later he is astonished by the actions of the villagers towards their savior, and by the savior himself.

Genre: WAFF, humor

Rating: PG 13

A/N: Yo! This is just a big thanks to everyone who's been reading and reviewing. I'm sorry that if for some of these one-shots my portrayal of the characters was bad, or the storyline was unoriginal or dull, but I hope that you've enjoyed it overall.(As a side note, I know that many, many people think that Arashi is Naruto's father, hell, I used to think that. But if it was his father I think people would know, I mean, if his girlfriend/wife/significant other was pregnant, the baby due around the time Kyuubi attacked and suddenly there was an infant that just happened to look exactly like the fourth Hokage after the Kyuubi attack… I don't think the people of Konoha are dull enough not to put the pieces together.)

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In a dark room where the only light provided was from a fuzzy computer screen, which made the green liquid in the IV glow eerily, a man slept. He had been in this state for many years, his body regaining it's energy little by little as he lay unconscious in a room where only three people knew of his existence, the Third Hokage, and two of the best medic nins in Konoha.

When Arashi, the Fourth Hokage had had almost died giving his soul the God of Death for the power to seal the Kyuubi, two brave Jounin had stood in the way of the Fourth's destruction.

Saicho and Daisuke Umino had sacrificed their lives and souls so that the Fourth would live on, the Arashi had already had far to much of his power taken to live on, or so many thought.

The villagers believed the Fourth had died, not knowing that he had been taken to an underground facility by the Third where a dozen medic nins poured together their power to seal Arashi in a chakra induced coma that froze his body's aging process and would slowly allow him to recover.

They hadn't expected it to take him so long to heal, and slowly the medic nins who knew of Arashi's existence died off until there were only three left, and the third, Tsunade, had long since given up on the Fourth ever waking up and had left.

And so day in and day out two of the three remaining medic nins took care of the sleeping Yondaime Hokage, waiting for the day where he would awaken and lead their country once more.

"Ano sa Ano sa Sakura-chan! How about you go on a date w-" "Can it Naruto! I have plans tonight!" The blonde pouted as the pink haired girl stalked off in the direction his other teammate had gone. This wasn't how it was supposed to go, Sakura was supposed to see him complete missions with grace and vigor and fall head over heels in love with him!

'Damn, I guess I'll just have to try harder tomorrow.' Naruto stalked off in the direction of his apartment, unsatisfied with the day's events. First a crappy mission, and now he had the whole rest of the day and had absolutely nothing to do. He had been pursuing Sakura actively since he was twelve years old and even now, four years later there were now fruits from his labor.

He had considered no longer going after her many times before, but it was really habit now, and he had to use his fading crush on Sakura to ignore his growing affections for… Others.

Hell, when he was fourteen he'd even had a bit of a growing crush on Kiba of all people! Thank God his crush on Sakura could easily make him forget the crushes on other around him.

Most of the 'others' being males in his class. Dear God it was horrible, he'd had crushes on most of the males in his class, including one fleeting crush on Iruka-sensei!

'If I loose my affections for Sakura-chan, I don't think I'll ever be able to find a female attractive again, and then I'll be a closeted homosexual instead of being a self-known Bi-sexual. And then I'm sure people would notice and connect everything and then-ARG! Hell! My life is hell!'

Meanwhile in a dark room with an eerie glow, blue eyes opened for the first time in sixteen years.

The next morning Naruto woke at his customary time, five minute before he was supposed to meet everyone at the bridge, but he figured this way he'd only have to wait for Kakashi for an hour or two, unlike early people who'd have to wait several hours.

And he got more sleep this way too, very nice.

So he arose out of bed and slowly dressed before slurping up his ramen and slowly making his way to the bridge. Trying desperately to ignore the whispers that followed him wherever he went.

"Look, it's the Kyuubi brat." "Why did they allow him to graduate the academy?" "I know; it's better if he doesn't gain any more power, who knows what he could do to the village." "Exactly, it's preposterous!"

His eyes darkened and he quickened his pace, not even sixteen years of being hated could make him completely immune to the stinging words of the people who never bothered to get to know him.

Another pair of eyes watching from the shadows, eerily similar to Naruto's also darkened, not with sadness but with anger. Then the tall figure leapt cross rooftops in a blur to the Hokage tower. He had a bone to pick with a certain Third Hokage.

Sarutobi raised an eyebrow when Arashi climbed in through a window of his office. "When you said you'd be off exploring the town, I didn't think you come back within five minutes." He brought his pipe to his lips and inhaled before letting out a small cloud of smoke. "And you're lucky that no one else was in this room, if the villagers find out about your livelyho-" "I saw him. I saw Uzumaki Naruto."

Sarutobi calmly put down his pipe and smiled genuinely. "Yes, he has grown quite a bit since you last saw him, hasn't he? But that's to be expected since you were in a coma for all these years." Arashi took an angry step forward, clenching his fists.

"I knew he would be older, I just didn't expect him to be talked about as though he was a monster!" He slapped his hands down on the Hokage's desk, looking the older man straight in the eyes. "Why is he being so disrespected?"

Sarutobi sighed, a dark look settling upon his features. "I'm afraid that your wish for the boy to been seen as a hero was never something the villagers regarded him as. He's been detested by the villagers for as long as he's lived, they see him as the Kyuubi, not the container of it, not the one he'd keeping the demon at bay, but as the fox who nearly destroyed Konoha and killed many."

Arashi stood speechless for a moment before turning on his heel and storming out of the room. 'This has to be rectified.'

He went out in search of Naruto, finally finding him in the midst of a D class mission, gardening. He carefully watched as the boy ignored the hateful look from the woman whose garden he was tending, his eyes once in a while flicking to the forms of the boy's students and Kakashi, his previous student.

He had silently trailed them the whole day, metal storing any information he found: Kakashi favoring the Uchiha boy, the pink haired girl constantly making eyes at said Uchiha boy, Naruto making eyes at the pink haired girl.

By the end of the day as the group split up Arashi wasn't quite sure how he was going to solve this problem. His teammates seemed fairly tolerant of him and Kakashi, although he obviously favored the Uchiha, seemed to not outwardly hate Naruto.

But as for the rest of the village, well, they seemed to be a different matter all together.

So he quickly resolved to himself that he'd help Naruto and make the village see what a good boy he had to be.

To bad he forgot that he was supposed to be dead, and didn't know of Naruto's extreme fear of ghosts, or else he might have changed his plans. After all, the boy screaming before fainting into his arms wasn't really what he had expected.

Of course, him being unconscious and everything allowed him to have a closer look at the boy.

Damn, it was kind of freaky how much they looked alike. 'Of course, when I was his age I had lost all of my baby fat, and was a bit more buff. I wonder why girls aren't hanging off of him, he's kind of cute.' A grin stretched over his lips. 'Actually, he's very cute, maybe even cuter then I was at his age, of course, I was a lot hotter at that age-' His thoughts stopped in their tracks when he heard a small groan. "Ah-ha, time for sleeping beauty to wake up huh?"

Naruto, having vaguely heard the comment, blindly swung his hands around to hit whoever said such a horribly offensive thing. Of course, when he wasn't able to hit anything, he opened his eyes again.

"Yo." "G-G-G-GHOST!" Naruto made a mad dash to get away, but unfortunately Arashi was much quicker and had caught Naruto before he was even back on his feat.

Arashi stared into the brilliant, tearful eyes of the teenager and wondered if he ever pulled off an expression like that. 'But really, does he have to be so freaked out, I'm not a gho- oh, I guess this is pretty freaky actually.'

"Look Naruto." "H-How do you know my name?" "Well, I was there when you were born and everything." The tears in Naruto's eyes faded away and his mouth dropped open into an 'o' shape, his eyes focusing harshly on the face in front of him.

"Are you my… Father?"

Arashi couldn't hold in his laughter, he was rolling around on the ground, his shoulder shaking and there was no sign of stopping. Naruto sweatdropped and held out his hand, not sure how to react. "That wasn't a funny question, was it?"

Arashi seemed to get a hold of himself for one moment, glanced up at Naruto, and then burst out with laughter again.

Of course, this pissed Naruto off, so he harshly grabbed the older blonde's hair and kneeled down to the Fourth's eyelevel. "What's so funny, Yondaime-sama?" 'I wonder if I ever look so scary when I was a kid… Probably, if I had some killing intent… Uh-oh.'

"Well you see, it's just that I thought it was funny, cause we do look very alike, but that completely goes against the basics of genes. If you were my child, then you'd have to look a bit like your mother too." "Oh…" The boy looked thoughtful for a moment. 'Aw, kawaii.' "But why did you think that was FUNNY!" 'Oh, scary.' "I don't know, it was more of a, you had to be there type of thing." "I was there you idiot!" Naruto huffed angrily and let go of Arashi's hair, smiling a bit when he heard his forehead hit the floor with a dull thud.

'Oh, this boy isn't really how I pictured him, I thought he'd be a lot more angsty, and not have a bad temper. And not have some strange fear of ghosts.' Arashi coughed a bit into his clenched fist. 'He's kind of quirky actually, it's sort of refreshing.' He glanced up at the boy, who was now pacing a few feet a head of him.

"Well then, how about we go about proving I'm not a ghost." "Don't have to, I'm sure ghosts are scarier then you." Arashi cocked an eyebrow. 'Oh really.' "How do you know I'm not just tricking you, luring you into a false sense of security before I pounce and steal your soul?" He wiggled his fingers in what he supposed was a non-threatening way, but he really didn't feel like putting effort into it. Naruto just glowered at him and Arashi smiled. 'I like this kid, he's so… Radical.'

"Stop grinning at me like that. I want answers, I want them now. Why are you here when everyone said that you died sixteen years ago, and why haven't you aged in those sixteen years?" Arashi's grin widened. "You're straight to the point, aren't you. Well, let's just say that after the sealing of the Kyuubi I was put into a coma in order to recover my lost chakra, for the past sixteen years the only reason I was living was because medic nins were feeding me their energy. I don't know why I haven't aged, but I suppose it has something to do with the medic nins that took care of me freezing my ageing process." 'Ha, I can be straight to the point to.'

Naruto's eyebrow twitched and he turned around. 'I'm going to make myself some ramen, and forget all about the man behind me, dattebayo!'

Unfortunately Arashi wasn't easily ignored, he could just be lounging around a kitchen, which is exactly what he was doing, and he still looked unbelievably sexy.

Naruto wished that Sakura was around so that he'd have his crush to distract him from the man sitting in his kitchen. 'Damn it, what the hell's going on. This day has been sooo fucked up. I'd better wake up in the morning and find out this was all a dream.' Naruto snapped his fingers in inspiration. 'Yosh! I'll go to sleep right after I finish my ramen, this has to be a dream. I must have been exhausted after weeding that ladies garden and I fell asleep and had this dream and once I go to sleep I'll wake back up and-' He glanced over at the man who seemed to be falling asleep at his kitchen table. 'Then I can forget all about this.'

He quickly polished off his instant ramen, ignoring the amused blue eyes watching him, and then he dashed into his bedroom, slowly changing into his pajamas.

"Oi Naruto, what do you do for fun-" Two sets of nearly identical eyes widened as Arashi burst into the room, while Naruto was completely naked.

"DON'T YOU EVER KNOCK?" Naruto threw his top at the older man, flashing from head to tow. "Get out! GET OUT!"

Arashi calmly walked out of the room, holding Naruto's pajama top in his clenched fist, a blush slowly covering his face. 'Oh… My…'

Naruto quickly put on his pajama bottoms and practically jumped into his bed. 'This had better be a dream or tomorrow someone is going to regret not knocking!' He curled up and despite the early time, was able to get to sleep.

Unfortunately when you go to sleep at six at night, you wake up a lot earlier then you want to, like three in the morning. This wouldn't have been so unfortunate if Naruto hadn't opened his eyes to see Arashi staring straight back at him.

"GAH! What are you doing in my room?" 'I guess this means it wasn't a dream.' Arashi ignored the question in favor of telling Naruto he looked like an angel when he slept. 'I wonder if I ever looked that peaceful when I was sleeping.'

"That's not a good reason to watch people as they sleep. It's freaky, or was this some kind of trend back when you were young, what, twenty something years ago?" When the man didn't respond to his goading Naruto huffed and flipped over onto his side. 'Kamikaze Arashi, the Yellow Flash, the great Fourth Hokage, he's the strangest guy I've ever met.' A blush coloured his cheeks. 'Watching me as I sleep, how weird is that.'

"You know getting too much sleep actually makes you feel exhausted, so you might as well get up now." Naruto huffed and clenched his eyes shut as he tried his hardest to go back to sleep.

"You probably won't be able to get to sleep anyways, you're far too tense." Naruto rolled his eyes. "Oh I wonder why." He muttered under his breath, tensing even more when he heard the man behind him move. "What was that?" The hushed whisper blew gently across Naruto's neck and the younger blonde giggled and squirmed. "Don't do that, it tickles."

Arashi was aghast, here he was practically coming on to the boy, and all he goes is it tickles? No get away or you heard me. 'His oblivious nature is cute, he's cute, his fear of ghosts is cute-' "You're too adorable, how could anyone hate you?" He saw the boy tense and mentally smacked himself. 'You had it explained to you; it's not good to bring up such ominous topics when you're trying to have a nice conversation!'

He sat himself on the bed and glanced down at Naruto, placing a reassuring hand on the boys shoulder. "You shouldn't worry about it. After all, I wated you to be seen as a hero, and I'll make sure that you are, just as soon as Sarutobi decides it's a good time to tell everyone I'm still alive." Naruto, still tense, glared up at him. "Why do you care? Do you have some sort of ulterior motive?"

Arashi didn't know whether to feel insulted or grab hold of he boy and hug him until he was sure Naruto knew he didn't have any sort of underhanded plot.

So he went for just telling the truth, since he felt neither of the above options would be very useful.

"Well, combined with the fact that you're the son of my best friend, I'm then one who actually sealed Kyuubi inside you and I think you're cute I think I have good enough reasons to make sure that the village changes its opinions."

Naruto stared up at him, one eyebrow raised and a hint of a blush forming on his cheeks. 'That was a really blatant answer.'

"Anyways, I figure since you don't have to get out of bed for a while-" "W-What?" Arashi blinked cluelessly before breaking out into a grin. "Oh don't worry; we can do that type of stuff later. What I was going to say was that since we have time, you can ask me about anything, everything, I bet you want to know what your mom was like."

Naruto rolled over to face Arashi, dozens of questions running through his head, but to his embarrassment the first to pop out was. "Do you really think I'm cute?"

Arashi grinned and rubbed the back of his head. "Well, my nickname used to be 'Arashi the Narcissist', I guess seeing someone so cute looking and so much like me has got me being egocentric again." He let out a hearty laugh, inwardly reprimanding himself. 'You could have just said yes, now he's going to think the only reason you think he's cute is 'cause he looks like you!'

"I see… Next question, I once heard a rumor that said you impregnated five women within weeks of each other, is that true?"

Arashi fell off the bed, coughing, sputtering and blushing for all he was worth. "F-Five! I know I was taught by Jiraiya, but that doesn't automatically make me some sort of crazed womanizer! I don't even like girls!" By the end of his miniature rant he was yelling it right into Naruto's face before moving back a bit and taking a couple of deep breaths.

"Uhh… I only asked you if it was true, you didn't have to tell me all that other stuff…" Naruto trailed off with a blush, his eyes looking anywhere but the man in front of him. 'Just 'because he said he doesn't like girls doesn't necessarily mean he likes guys, maybe he likes neither.' Naruto gazed up for a moment a found Arashi's face much closer than it used to be.

"Well, I guess since that cat's out of the bag I might as well let out the whole litter." "Oh no! You don't have to do that!" Naruto waved his hands around wildly, but Arashi caught hold of both his wrists easily and brought his face closer.

"The second cat would be that I used to have the hots for Jiraiya." Naruto's face screwed up. 'Ewwwww. I didn't need to know that.' "The third cat is that when you were born, your mother made me promise to take care of you before she died of blood loss." 'Mother…' "The fourth cat…" Arashi took a deep breath. "I was crying when I sealed the Kyuubi inside you. You were seriously wounded after your birth and you would not have survived if you hadn't had its healing energy. I wanted so badly to keep my promise that I made your life a living nightmare." The older man had started to shake slightly and Naruto awkwardly patted his head. "It's okay, I don't mind. Thanks to the Kyuubi's chakra I've gotten through a lot of sticky situation where I could have died without it. Besides, a promise is a promise, and I wouldn't want to know you broke a promise to my… My mother…"

There was awkward silence for a couple of minutes where the only thing Naruto could bring himself to do was lightly stoke the sunshine blond hair in front of him. 'Soft…'

"Well… Does there happen to be a fifth cat, or are they all free from the bag?" Naruto asked, humor creeping into his voice. Arashi smiled up at him. "Well, there is now. You see, combined with your utter cuteness, my vow to protect you and your refreshing personality, I feel rather attracted to you."

Naruto sweatdropped. 'How can he just come out and say it like that!' "Uh, I don't really think… The thing is, ummm… You see-" "Say no more."

Naruto, for one relaxed moment thought he was safe, then he felt lips on his.

His reaction time was quite impressive, by the third second he had pushed Arashi away and by the fourth he was on the other side of the room, turned away so that no one could see his red face.

"What the hell was that!" "I figured you were just shy and didn't know what to say." "So you kissed me?" "Well, it seemed the thing to do." Naruto clenched his fists and turn on his heel.

"Seemed like the thing to do? Seemed like the thing to do!" "Yep. You're awfully cute when you blush like that." The result of that sentence was Naruto going even redder.

"But how can kissing me seem like the thing to do! You don't even know if I like you!" Arashi grinned and put his hand on his hips confidently. "Oh my dear Naruto, I know everything about you, I can read your mind." "CANNOT!" "Can too." "Fine! What am I thinking now?" "Well, it's along the lines that I'm a bastard, but a sexy bastard."

Naruto took a step back, eyebrows twitching. 'Dammit, how the hell-' Arashi was suddenly hugging him gently, his chin resting comfortably on Naruto's head.

"Don't worry Naruto, I'll protect you from now on. In a couple of days everyone will know I'm alive and I'll make sure you're treated the way you deserve to be. And as for our quickly developing relationship-" Naruto blushed glowered slightly at that. "Well, I'm sure you'll find that I'm completely irresistible, so we'll have no problems there." He took a step back and gave Naruto a quick peck on the cheek.

"Well, I'm off to save the world! Or something like it… Either way, I'll be seeing you soon." And then he disappeared, leaving Naruto to stumble to his bed and fall face first onto the mattress.

'What the hell was that about? There is no way that just happened. I just have to eat some breakfast and… Wake up some more. Yep, truly, definitely.' He made his way to the kitchen, and began preparing his ramen when a note on the kitchen table caught his eye.

Dear Naruto,

Why yes, this did happen, and if you really don't want to believe me, I'm sure I can refresh your memory tonight. I bet you're all dazed and confused, I'm sure I would be too. (We're so alike!) But don't worry; I'll be sure to take good care of you. (I'm the over protective boyfriend type.) Besides, it's easier to make sure people don't hurt you if we're in a relationship. And I'm only twelve years older than you, it could be worse-

Naruto stopped reading at that point and heaved a sigh. 'Man this guy's persistent. I never thought I'd actually have anyone come after me for a relationship.' A small smile began to sprout on his face. 'And I do have to admit, I am a bit attracted to him…' A huge grin was now on his face. 'And maybe he can teach me some cool new jutsu! That'd be awesome!' He thrust one fist into the air.

"Alright Arashi, I'll give you a chance. You should feel privileged that you are the first partner of the Great Uzumaki Nar-" "First? For some reason that makes you even cuter."

Naruto froze, his eyebrows twitching again. "I… Thought you went off somewhere." He felt strong arms wrap around his torso and air brushing against the side of his face. "I did, but you know, it doesn't take me much time to go places, besides-" He turned Naruto around to face him. "I said I'd see you soon." And then he caught Naruto's lips with his in a short kiss, breaking away after several seconds and gently resting their foreheads together.

"And just so you know, I'm also the jealous type of boyfriend, so if I see you making eyes at anyone else-" "Oh don't worry, I don't think I could take my attention off you for a second, think of the destruction that could happen." "Heyyy, that's not nice! I'll have you know that I've only ever used my abilities for destruction once, and that was because this girl offen-"

Naruto decided to shut him up with a kiss. Neither of them really minded.

This was the beginning of a truly strange relationship. Neither of them minded about that either.