Blue Kitsune: Sorry it took so long to get this up, but my editor was away so I had to wait before I could load this baby up, so here's for all you fans waiting for this new chapter. I hope you like, please read and review.
Chapter Nine
Naruto walked down the hall to where he saw his nine children, already asleep by the time he got back. Figures, he thought for a second before looking at his watch. It maybe way past their bedtime and they must've been exhausted from using charka to get here, it wouldn't have been an easy run for five years, especially ones with demon power in them.
Shizune and Jiraya were waiting for him too as they had been talking quietly for some time before they noticed his presence in the office.
Jiraya looked up at him expectantly and waited for the answer that the Fifth Hokage had fated the boy. "Well Naruto…what did Tsunade decided?"
"Tsunade has granted me permission to stay here, with certain conditions that I will have to be require to follow. So I guess it's either good or bad in my case. I am to be reenlist as a ninja again." He then paused and took a deep breath, "However for my children, they must live here in the village as well and have to be enrolled into the Ninja academy, so Shizune…" He looked at the small brunette sitting by the desk.
She nodded her head. "Hai, do not worry, I'll have papers ready for enrollment, but we might need to do some medical testings on them later on, just to inform you."
Hai of course, he didn't forget how much that was an annoying and painful, especially when the doctors have to take very long SHARP needles and stick them in you. Naruto's kids never like the doctors much back in Wave country and he worried what the hassle will be for Tsunade and Shizune will have. He knew those two would be the ones doing the testing because:
1) Tsunade was the best medical nin in this village,
2) She might find out more about his son and daughter with the blood of a demon and a 'bloodline' and check if there might be slim chances that they might carry it within their genes and
3) He wouldn't be sure if the Kohona hospital would very much welcome him with open arms along with his nine kids. Chances they'd blab to the whole village, not too long before he would have a word to say he had nine kids, but of them being demons and blah-blah.
Sure he could take being called that before, but nobody should dare think his kids were monsters! Naruto would have to tell them to do Henge no Jutsu whenever they go out because theirs hats couldn't protect them forever from a skillful ninjas hands, no sir.
Once they see the fox ears protruding on top their heads people would start freaking and a chance for the children to be with friends and become ninjas would be in vain. He would hate for that to see his kid's sad and terrified by everyone, reflecting like Naruto's own past.
And the one thing he feared above else beside his kid's future, which was first as always in his book, that if words seriously got out that Naruto, gave birth to nine kids that were half fox demon and some of them looking like him but of another familiar person, well it would have to take more than a genius and one certain genius he knew could have put two and two together.
"God last thing I need is that bastard finding out I'm back…" He whispered to himself as he walked past the two adults and headed to the couch where all nine kits laid, shoulders huddled together. He stared at them and saw their hands gripped in each other's hands, sleeping peacefully though he heard the whimpering and crying of one or two in their sleep.
He didn't want to wake the whole band but he couldn't carry them all on his back and having eight extra Bushins while people might still be out might catch attention. Just when he tried to figure the best solution, he felt a hand touch his shoulder. He turn to see Jiraya staring at him.
"Here allow me." He bit his thumb and made symbols with his hands then slamming it down on the ground. A bright orange frog the size of a horse appeared through the cloud of smoke.
It raised one of it's orange padded hands in the air. "Yo Jiraya, been awhile since you last summon me, what up?" Gamakichi, son of GamaBunta said as he looked around his surroundings, hopping in a circle, checking to see what was going on when his yellow reptile eyes caught staring at a familiar young man.
A man with blonde hair, blue eyes and whiskered cheeks.
"NARUTO!"
"Hey Gamakichi." Before he had a chance to say anything else, Gamakichi jumped onto him and he and the frog fell to the ground with a thud that shook the office. This caused the children to wake up with a start.
"W-what was that?" Kagura said as she woke up first after that long nap she had. She then looked down at her father with the huge frog sitting on him. "ACK! Daddy's being eaten by a frog!"
The other children looked directly down at the frog and before they had a chance to spring to action to rescue their father, Naruto and Jiraya were shouting 'NO!' and Jiraya waving his arms frantically.
"It's ok kids. This is Gamakichi, he's one of the frogs I used to summon back before I left. Remember I told you the stories about GamaBunta and his sons…" The children looked at the frog on their father and wondered seriously if this was indeed the son of the very special frog their father told in the past.
Ramne and Saru and Iruka walked around Gamakichi while Gamakichi watched them warily as they circled him. Yondaime and soon Naruko and along with the other children followed suit. They surrounded Gamakichi and he had the strangest feeling that he was being judged by this strange kids. One of them with black hair and shy blue eyes, stared as she touched his orange cheek.
"Are you really one of the frogs from papa's stories?" Kagura asked as she looked at the big creature. Before Gamakichi could say anything, Naruto decided he wanted him off before he died of suffocating.
"Sorry Naruto, haven't seen you in a long time. So did Pop, he was wondering when you, the loudmouth would ever dare summon him. Guess you were too busy babysitting, huh huh?" Naruto decided to ignore his comment for now as he then stood beside him and cleared his throat.
"Yes kids, this happens to be one of GamaBunta's sons that I knew and you seem to have grow bigger now. I remember you use to be the size of Akamaru back then."
The frog gave him a smile though the children couldn't really tell if it was a smile or not on his black lips but it seem the frog was happy to see him. "So Jiraya exactly why did you summon me?"
Jiraya then looked at the kids then looked back at Gamakichi. Gamakichi could sense what he was thinking the moment he saw that look.
"You want me to give these kids a ride! What do I look like? A riding pony, I refuse to do such a thing? This is why you wake me up! I refused to be considered for such a lazy no good-" His words were cut off when he saw one of the kids touched his side and he turned to see it was the little girl that had asked earlier.
The girl was holding a fox doll in her hands, which she had popped from her pouch before she came over to him and was looking at him sweetly with those shy eyes.
"Mr. Gama, we're sorry we had to wake you if you were sleeping, but me and my family traveled very far from our home and we, daddy, so tired…" She yawned softly before Gamakichi watched as two blonde girls came to the aid of the sleeping child. They too gave him puppy eye stares.
"Please Mr. Gama would it be all right if we ride on your back for tonight. We're very tired and our charka is dry up so we can barely walk well…"
Soon the first two boys, Saru and Ramne walked up to him. "Pretty please with Miso Ramen on top!"
Naruto and Jiraya watched as the frog, defeated under the stares of all the kits look at him pleading with puppy eyes.
Gamakichi sighed in defeat then bowed down slightly. "Hop on!" The kids jumped one by one while Gamakichi was shouting at them for no back seat talking. "And no kicking on the sides!"
Once all the kids were on him and secure holding fasten on one another while Yondaime held Gamakichi's collar, Gamakichi looked over to Jiraya.
"Where we're going?" Jiraya looked then to Naruto. Naruto had two packs over one shoulder holding with one hand while his other went through his pockets and plucked out the keys that the Hokage tossed him. Jiraya recognized the logo on the keychain as of the Uzumaki symbol and nodded.
"We're going to the Uzumaki manor. Don't worry I know the way…"
"Are you seriously sure you know the way to this place!" Naruto said as he followed after Jiraya with Gamakichi hopping slowly behind him, carrying the kids and not trying to disturb them from their slumber as they fell asleep on his back. At first Naruto thought that the home of where his father lived would somewhere be in the town but Jiraya had decided to take him past that and into a part of the forest where training grounds were and passed that.
Where exactly did his old man lived? In the forest, a cave! There was no way his kids were gonna live like animals!
'Hey Naruto I resent that!' Kyuubi shouted from her cell in his mind. 'We may be animals but at least we raise our kits properly on certain bases of life!'
'Sorry Kyuubi but I just don't want my kids to be raised like…barbarians if you get what I mean.'
Kyuubi rolled her eyes, 'Of course, but that still doesn't stop certain people to act like some in your culture today.'
"Jiraya please tell me that the Fourth Hokage, my own father at least lived in a decent enough house and did not sleep inside some cave!"
Jiraya scowled and turned and glared at the blonde. "Don't be stupid Brat! Your father was as any other human being and a civilian, not a barbarian. He just didn't feel very much into living so close to his 'job'. He preferred the quiet nature and the calm ease it gives to him that allowed him to be at peace with himself. He had wanted to be someplace far but not too far from the village, a place he could train without interference and be secluded from any pestering neighbors, get my drift?"
He continued to walk ahead to wherever he was heading, "Beside this is the best place your father believed that he found himself to relax, as well did your ancestors when they lived there."
They traveled through the forest a bit and just when Naruto though that they would be lost, Jiraya stopped.
"We're here."
Naruto looked around, he didn't see any house here. He turned once more to Jiraya as he watched Jiraya do some hand symbols.
"Jiraya what are you-" But he stopped when all of a sudden shake started and part of the forest illusion was disappearing before his very eyes. Now when the illusion vanished, Naruto looked ahead and indeed he saw a house.
A very big house! Bigger than any place he ever seen in the village.
"Holy-" He covered his mouth and turned to see if the children woke up with his almost curse word. He then once more look at the place. It had to be five times big as the Hokage tower as this one had a tower as well which might make for looking over the village at time to time.
Why hadn't anyone known about this place? Was the justu that strong to keep it hidden away from all skilled ninja's eyes! He looked once more to Jiraya to ask him these questions but he was already walking to the front of the place. Naruto followed along with Gamakichi as they headed to the front door. "Nice place Naruto!"
"Yeah I think we might like it."
"Oh you'll like it Naruto, this house is one of the few homes that have in certain ways to oblige your needs."
Silence as the boy and frog looked at the ero-sensei strangely.
He did not mean what he though he said? Naruto pulled out the keys and unlocked the door and stepped in followed by everybody else.
"Oh I hope the traps aren't still up I hate to think of all the work we might have to do to undo them. That's one of the few thing your father had surrounding this place beside the illusion. If he didn't want disturbance, he always had a few traps set and seal in place then."
Naruto was at first taken aback by this news, but he knew he could handle anything even a few traps. He was surprised at how big the room was when he stepped in.
"Damn this is huge!" He said as he walked in. The moment he did take his first step, lights turn on in the room. Suddenly darts of flying kunais came heading straight for him. "What the!"
He dodged the first set only to be caught with another coming from the right of him. He barely was able to slide from this before one or two caught his shirt and ripped the sleeve off clean.
He was dodging left and right as more and more kunais started throwing themselves around the room until either the trap ran out of kunais or it got jammed. He looked around him to see the room covered with thousand upon thousands of kunais scattered around him.
"See I told you there were traps."
Naruto glared at him before saying. "Yeah but you didn't exactly say where they would be coming at!"
Just as he became more aware of this happening, he wondered what other kind of traps waited for them if he and his family plan to live in this house.
He walked, caution this time about where he went, he decided that maybe have some bushin would work.
"Kage Bushin no Jutsu!" And then about a hundred Narutos appeared in the center of the hall. He told the clones to check the place out and see if there were anymore booby traps set anywhere else. The clones left and within the next half hour they returned, some disappeared and those left, noted where the other clones 'poofed' and Naruto made mental note to find a switch or whatever to keep the room from springing so if he needed to use it.
But as the other told him of the other 'trapless' room, he was thankful that no other traps were set until he found a way to turn off and on the security in this place. He then dismissed the clones and all Naruto disappeared with a single poof.
Well as for the real Naruto he would have to see what the room that his bushins describe were like.
He walked and was astounded that wherever he step, lights would go on and then off when he left. Also to find that the room look certain clean and not a trail of dust or cobwebs touched the corners or walls.
"This is one cool place you left to me old man…" He trailed as he step into a living room and the lights turn on once more and turn off from the hall.
Guess he wouldn't have to worry about leaving lights on then.
'Or the certain security we have now.' Kyuubi said dryly. Naruto nodded. He would have to figure that out and see how it work before he might set it up again. If his dad had handle it well then so could he with the security in place later on.
Soon the children were stirring, wondering why it was becoming so bright. Ramne who was the last in back, fell over easily and then landed on the floor with a hard smack on his tush.
"OWWW!" Ramne said as he was rubbing his sore butt and then looked around the strange new house they were in.
"WHOA, DAD IS THIS SERIOUSLY GONNA BE OUR NEW HOUSE!" Ramne said it way too loud as soon as the words left his mouth and the wall started to echo with his voice.
The children, startled by the sudden echo ringing, woke up groggily and one by one stared at this new surrounding. It was way bigger than the house grandpa Tazuna, Auntie Tsumani and Inari lived in.
They slid off the frog's back and slowly started walking about while Naruto walked around too and he himself seem frozen as he was staring at something that caught his eye in one of the many foyers.
It was a painting that hung over a small pillar, a painting showing a young man in his late twenties staring proudly down at whoever his gaze was. For a moment, he thought he was staring at a mirror when he realized that the mirror image was of him and his own father!
The resemblance between the man and himself was uncanny and knew for certain that it was his father he was staring at.
The spiky golden hair, the sky blue eyes, the strong sense of being tall and mighty in an air of pride seem to portray from this canvas.
Dad…he gazed closely at those sky eyes that seem to stare right into his soul. His eyes started to feel itchy and out of the corner sprung tears that he thought never to have shed before for the family he never knew.
Father…to think all this time I thought you would never wanted me but when you came to me during that day, I could never forget you then…
"Daddy, are you alright?" Naruto turned around to see everyone standing by the door, staring as he stared at his dead father's portrait. "Come here…" The children did and when they stood by him he then pointed to the picture. "Do you want to know who that was?"
"Hai." They said and Naruto had to smile.
"This is your father's dad, the fourth Hokage. He was someone I never knew but somehow I did when I named one of you after him. He happened to been the bravest ninja I believe because of what he did for this village's sake…"
"Yeah but you were to be deemed a hero and yet they look down on you. But I know your father was a good man I think and somehow I guess, dare I say it…you're like him in most ways…' Kyuubi said to him and Naruto thanked her for her kind words. She may have been a pain and everything before but now she was acting like a surrogate mother he never knew.
He looked at Yondaime as he stared curiously at the picture. Jiraya came into the room and said he was leaving.
"I'll bring food tomorrow and have the details reported to you possible." Then disappeared in a cloud of smoke.
Naruto then yawned and said, "I think it's best I get you guys to bed now. We have a big day to come by pretty soon." He smiled as all the children yawned sheepishly and then started walking up the stairs to where the clones told him where the bedrooms were. The clones said that there had to be over fifty bedrooms here.
"Well I guess, you can have your pick of whichever bedroom you want?"
All nine heads turned around. "Seriously?" Naruto nodded.
"Hai, now get some sleep and then we'll probably have breakfast at-"
But the children quickly scattered, searching for the best room to claim before Naruto had time to finish his sentence.
"Eight o' clock." He sighed and shook his head.
A new home, a new life…a new beginning for him and his family.
He was already starting to imagine what it was gonna be like for his sons and daughters entering the academy. He wonder if Iruka was still teaching and if plan to teach his kids possibly.
Naruto bet that Iruka would be the most happy to see him and surprised at the kids he had.
"I bet Iruka's gonna be having a hard time with these bunch!" He chuckled and walked about, seeing his children already in their new beds, not changed out of their old clothes and snuggled tight.
He kissed each and said goodnight then started walking until he saw a bedroom door with a symbol on it, one out of the fifty that didn't have this and Naruto already guessed who that was. Slowly he opened and stepped in. Heading over to the four-poster bed and sliding under the red satin covers, his head hit the pillow and he and the rest of his family were asleep.