In The Arms of Angels

By: Kyubi X

Chapter Five: Questions, Answers, Birthdays, and Missions…

A/N: Okay, I just want to make sure that everyone is on the same boat as I am when I say that this story is slightly AU and has a slightly different timeline, they reason I want to make it perfectly known is because this chapter won't make sense if your following the manga or anime timeline. But that aside I hope you enjoy reading this chapter as much as I enjoyed writing it. Also I have to say, 63 reviews, in only four chapters, you guys are amazing and I want to thank you all, so as I keep this story rolling keep the reviews coming cause I feed off of them. And now, on with the show…

When Naruto got home his head was swimming, he let his mind wander back to when Ayame fell on top of him, he just didn't understand what he was feeling, was there something wrong with him? He sighed as he walked up the steps and went into his room. He sat on his bed and considered going to Anko, but then he stopped to think, ever since she had become a jounin she had let her unique side come out and she was a little bit weird. The thought made him momentarily forget about his problems as he smiled remembering all the memories he had with Anko.

He let his mind wander to his 12th birthday, he was walking back home when he suddenly felt the presence of people following him. He knew that he was in danger because they villagers became the most vicious on this day towards him because it was also the anniversary of the demon's attack. He tried to pick up his pace but was blocked when a new group of people came out of the alley and blocked the path; he spun around but saw that he had been surrounded. He looked up to the roofs for a safe place to jump, but saw that some hateful ninjas were prowling along the roofs daring him to jump up. Naruto could feel himself getting nervous and got ready to unleash his wings. It was then that he felt a presence jumping at him; he got into a defensive stance but gasped when he saw Anko land in front of him with a kunai in each hand.

"Anyone who wants to touch him, is going to have to try to get threw me!" Anko said in a low growl that dared the people to even try and attack. The villagers screamed out that she had been brainwashed by the demon but still weren't willing to try and fight her. And so they all grumbled and walked away, after that Anko walked Naruto home and held a small party for him. Just between the two of them.

Naruto's thoughts were cut short when he felt cold metal press itself against his throat. Naruto closed his eyes and cursed the fact that he let his guard down in his mind. "Come now little brother, you disappoint me with your lack of attention. Now I know something's on your mind so don't try to get out of it, tell me what's up." Anko said as she pulled her knife away from his neck and put it back in her pouch. She sat next to him and patiently waited for him to begin.

"Big sis, I have a problem and I'm not sure exactly what it is or what I am supposed to do about it. You see, there's this girl I see everyday, but every time I'm around her and we get close to each other I feel my heartbeat quicken and I feel this tugging in my heart. I get nervous and I am starting to think that there is something wrong with me." Naruto finished and looked at his sister with wide eyes who was trying to hide her giggling with her mouth which only made her giggle worse.

"What's so funny sis? I don't understand is there something wrong with me?" Naruto let this out a little louder than he had intended to and it made Anko stop giggling right away. Anko let out a little cough trying to find the right words to say.

"First of all, there is nothing wrong with you, every boy your age begins to get these feelings and it's completely normal, I guess before I try to explain the more complicated things I should first tell you what is going on with your body." Anko took a deep breath and cursed Iruka in her mind for not teaching the kids about these things in the academy. Anko took another deep breath and thought that telling this kid about growing up was harder than any mission she had ever done. She once again cursed Iruka in her mind before going on with "the talk."

"Okay Naruto, your body is beginning to go threw a stage called puberty, in this stage in your life your body will begin to undergo some drastic changes. Perhaps the most important, your body is going to begin to grow, you are going to get taller, and your body is going conform itself to what it's going to look like until you get old and die. You are also going to begin to grow hair all over your body, especially on your chest and under your arms. Your voice is going to go threw an awkward stage that will make your voice swing drastically from going very high pitched to going to a very low pitched. When this is over your voice will be deeper and it will be the voice that you have for the rest of your life." With this being said, she bit her bottom lip hard feeling surprisingly uncomfortable with the things she was about to talk about.

"Okay Naruto, what I am going to tell you next will seem embarrassing but it is a very important thing for you to know." Anko then leaned in to Naruto's ear and began to explain what his "manhood" was and what it did and what it would do during the stages of puberty. When she pulled back Naruto had a shocked look on his face and Anko was feeling very uncomfortable but knew that the next part would be the hardest but that it would all go downhill from there. And so, she took another deep breath and choose her words to explain sex to her young brother.

"First of all Naruto, you need to know that what I am about to explain to you should only be put into practice when you find someone you want to spend the rest of your life with. What I am about to tell you will explain how babies are brought into the world. It all begins when a man and a woman fall in love and decide that they want to have children, all those things I told you about your "manhood" come into play with sex, the man inserts his manhood into the woman and will eventually have what is known as an orgasm, during this process the man will spray out sperm which will attach itself to the woman's version of sperm which is egg's, when these two connect together they form an embryo which will grow into a child in nine month's and will be born into the world." Anko was fighting as hard as she could not to blush as she asked Naruto if he understood everything she had told him. Naruto slowly nodded his head and Anko hugged him gently.

"Now that the tough stuff is over and done with, I will tell you what you are feeling for this specific girl. I believe that you have a crush on this girl. Crushes are usually the starting stages of the process of love. Now don't get me wrong, not every girl you may have a crush on will form into love. Love is special and the girl has to have a crush on you back. However, crushes usually go on dates and that's how they begin to grow closer. Eventually, if you stay with your crush long enough, you will begin to realize that you're in love and love usually leads to the couple getting married. But you're far from that stage and you don't need to be thinking about that far ahead, however if your feeling a crush on a girl and you think that the girl has a crush on you back then you should ask her out. Now come-on, let's go get some dinner ok?" Anko asked hoping she had taken care of the boy's curiosity. Much to Anko's relief, Naruto nodded his head and they went to eat.

Dinner went normally and Naruto surprised Anko by giving her a hug before running off to his room. Anko smiled at the boy's antics and looked over to the calendar on the wall realizing that his birthday was exactly a week from this day. Anko grinned and began to plot a party in her mind. Naruto on the other hand, was to busy thinking about a certain girl while lying on his bed to even bother thinking about his birthday. He smiled as he thought about taking his sisters advice and asking her on a date. With the thought in his mind, he closed his eyes and feel into slumber. Anko walked by and saw that Naruto had fallen asleep with his clothes on, lights on, and without setting his alarm clock. Anko gave a small smile as she walked into the room and removed Naruto's Kimono; she hung it over his chair and gently removed Naruto's headband and placed it with his Kimono, she did the same with his sandals and decided that was enough, she turned on his alarm clock and gave him a kiss on the forehead and walking out turning the light out as she went towards her room.

The week went by surprisingly fast, Naruto and his cell completed more "D" ranked missions around the town and Anko was gone on an "S" ranked mission by the Hokage. The day before his birthday Naruto received news from the Hokage that Anko wouldn't be able to make it home in time for his birthday. Naruto acted like he took the news well but he was completely devastated that Anko wasn't going to be around. And so, Naruto decided to go to the Ichiraku Ramen Stand for dinner. Ayame came up and gave Naruto another hug and kiss on the cheek which caused him to blush slightly. "Hey…Ayame-chan…" Naruto said without much energy as he sat down on his stool.

The tone of Naruto's voice didn't go unheard and Ayame was sitting next to Naruto asking him what was wrong. "Well, its kinda silly, its just…my sis is on "S" ranked mission and she isn't going to be home for my birthday and this will be the first one since we met all those years ago." Truly Naruto was sad but he held back his tears and tried to act like he was strong. Ayame reached out and gently hugged Naruto before leaning towards his ear and whispering to him, "I will see if daddy will let me hold your birthday party at my house." Naruto smiled at the girl and watched her skip away to go prepare him his favorite miso ramen and ask her father. When she brought the ramen back out to him she winked and told him to be at her house at 3 P.M and not to be late. She then winked and went back into the back to prepare more ramen to help satisfy Naruto's hunger. When Naruto was finished he put his money on the table and called out to Ayame.

Hearing his voice, Ayame came out and asked, "What's up Naruto-kun?" Naruto looked at her and felt himself begin to panic, he had planned to ask her out after the birthday party but now fear was starting to set in and before he knew it, words were coming out of his mouth. "I just wanted to say thanks for deciding to throw me a last minute party and that he truly was thankful." Naruto then looked at the ground ashamed of himself and left the stand leaving a confused Ayame behind, for truly she thought that maybe, just maybe, the boy she had a crush on was going to ask her out, but it seemed that it wasn't meant to be… And so she sighed and went back to work.

When Naruto stepped inside of his house he closed the door and banged the back of his head against it hard. "Stupid Naruto….really stupid…" Naruto then sighed and decided to go take a shower and call it a day, he didn't really have that much else to do anyways….

The Day of the Party

Naruto woke up at 9 in the morning and decided to train in the dojo a little bit. He yawned as he picked up his scrolls and decided to work on some of the jutsu's he had created. Now amongst the ninja who knew him, Naruto had a special talent for coming up with very useful jutsu's. Naruto wanted to make sure to get them all down on scrolls so that he could teach them to someone else someday. And so, Naruto went to work on practicing some of his own techniques before deciding to end his training at 12 P.M. He went back to his home and took a shower. When he got out of the shower, he was using a towel to dry his hair and walked into his room butt naked only to find Gabriel, Tobias, and another angel he had never seen before who just happened to be a female. Naruto quickly placed the towel where it would cover his "manhood" and it made all of the angel's laugh which only caused Naruto to blush more.

"You humans truly are fickle creatures, we are angel's Naruto-kun, we see your soul, not your body." Gabriel said with a grin on his face. Naruto just simply nodded in understanding, but he sure as heck wasn't going to leave his "manhood" hanging out in the presence of a woman, even if it was an angel. Naruto quickly got into his clothes and put his kimono on overtop of it before looking to the angels and speaking again. "So, first of all, to what do I owe this pleasure Gabriel and Tobias, and second of all, who is your lady friend?" Naruto sat on the edge of his bed and began to put on his sandals until Gabriel reached out a hand and stopped him.

"Well Naruto-kun, first of all I would like to introduce you to Alice, she is Tobias's right hand lady as it were. Second, we are all here in celebration of your 13th birthday party and we come baring gifts." With that being said, Tobias stepped forward and got to one knee holding out a scroll.

"To you Naruto-sama, I present this summoning scroll for phoenix's, all you have to do is bite down on your thumb and run your blood across the scroll, when this is finished I will show you how to summon in the dojo but for now, let's finish up giving out the gifts." With that being said, Tobias placed the scroll next to an awestruck Naruto and stepped back allowing Alice to step in.

"To you Naruto-sama, I present this flute, its power is great indeed, for when you play this flute you shall be able to summon down fire from the heaven's to smite your enemies, be warned though, you can only use this ability once a day and it shall only activate its power when you infuse it with charka, other than that, you can play it just like any normal flute, so I suggest that you find someone who can teach you how to play." With that, Alice stepped back and Gabriel stepped forward.

"To you Naruto-kun, I present to you these white boots with a golden outline, lightweight and impenetrable, these boots not only go with your kimono, but they also have the special ability to store charka, and with the large amount of charka you posses, you will be able to walk up trees or walk across water without having to waste extra charka in dangerous situations, also, do to the charka storage, you can fall from large heights and land on your feet without doing damage to your body. But perhaps my favorite feature, you can use the chakra you will store into the boots to do a "charka jump" which will allow you to jump to heights unreachable with charka infusion." With that being said, Gabriel placed the boots and Naruto's feet and stepped back.

They watched with happy faces as Naruto let tears of joy fall down his cheeks. Never in his life had someone given him a birthday present besides Anko, and today he had already received three. Naruto ran to the angels and hugged them all in a big group hug. When they were finished with the embrace, Alice showed Naruto how to attach the flute to his kimono, Naruto then put on the boots from Gabriel which were very comfortable, and after that Naruto bit his thumb and ran his thumb across the scroll. When he was finished, The scroll disappeared and Naruto was led by Tobias to the dojo where he learned how to summon a phoenix.

When Naruto correctly performed the hand seals, he slammed his palms into the ground and screamed out, "Summon!" When the smoke cleared, a medium sized (was so big that it reached the top of the dojo at full height.) multi-colored phoenix appeared. Naruto stared in awe and the majestic bird before flinching when the bird asked, "Who dared to summon me, Saisei, son of the king Fukkatsu ruler of all phoenixes!" Naruto gulped before gaining the courage to speak.

"I summoned you here great Saisei! My name is Uzumaki Naruto, and I am the sole surviving heir to the Uzumaki bloodline." The phoenix looked down upon the boy and found that he liked the boy. "Very well child, you have found favor in my eyes, the phoenixes shall always be your ally!" And with that the great bird disappeared in a bright flash of light.

After it was done, Naruto realized that it was time to head over to Ayame's house and so Gabriel, Tobias, and Alice wished Naruto a happy birthday and ascended back to the heavens. With that, Naruto ran out the door, already pumping chakra into his new boots as he ran. Naruto managed to arrive at Ayame's house with just a few minuets to spare and so he calmly walked up to the front door.

Naruto saw a note on the door and saw that it told him to enter the house. Naruto opened the door and stepped inside only to find no one there. Naruto furrowed his brow in confusion before walking into the kitchen and finding another note that told him to make his way out back. Naruto found the door and opened it to a sight that took his breath away. Outside were Ayame and her father, along with his sensei, his teammates, the others of the rookie nine, but most importantly of all, was a smiling Anko. Naruto just stood there with wide eyes in shock as he heard them all yell out, "HAPPY 13th BIRTHDAY NARUTO!"

Anko ran up to Naruto and gave him a hug whispering to him that she was so she fooled him but she wanted the party to be a complete surprise. Naruto took a moment to get over his shock but then felt tears of happiness form in his eyes. He turned away and wiped his eyes trying to look tough. "What's a matter Naruto? How come your crying like a baby?" Sasuke taunted just wanting to get his rival upset.

"It's ok to cry when your happy Sasuke…you should try it sometime." Naruto said whipping his eyes which caused Sasuke's smirk to disappear. The party then went on like a normal party. Everyone was laughing and enjoying themselves. And eventually cake was served and everyone got ready to give Naruto their presents. The present giving went something like this.

Anko- A pet snake (Who would have guessed that?)

Hinata- A picture of their team wearing there headband protectors like Kakashi and Kakashi giving the peace sign with one hand while messing up Naruto's hair with the other.

Kiba- A Pair of Sword User's gloves (White with gold outlining to match his outfit of course!)

Kakashi- The newest issue of Come Come Paradise (After getting beaten up by Anko Kakashi just decided to be an Indian giver and take it for himself)

The rest of the rookie nine-all pitched in to buy him a large set of scrolls so he could create new jutsu's.

When everyone was done as the party commenced again Sasuke stood up and made an announcement, "Excuse me everyone, I thought that for a bit of entrainment I would challenge Naruto to another spar, because this time I don't think Naruto is going to have as much luck as he did the last two times." Naruto immediately accepted the challenge and everyone made room for the two. "The rules are simple Naruto, first one to fall loses." Naruto nodded and everyone held their breath waiting to see what would happen.

Sasuke began the fight by charging at Naruto, Naruto ducked low when a punch came from Sasuke and Naruto hit Sasuke in the chest and it made Sasuke do a half flip in mid air. But it an impressive show of athleticism Sasuke twisted his body at the last second and landed on his feet. "Nice try baka," Sasuke taunted before waving Naruto towards him. When Naruto swung to hit at Sasuke, Sasuke spun on his heel and hit Naruto in the head which sent him flying at the fence. Naruto flipped in midair and stuck his feet to the fence which left him vertical. Naruto grinned before flipping off of the fence and releasing his kimono's weight system. He flexed his arms a bit before staring Sasuke dead in the eyes and saying, "You're going down!" With that Naruto began to make hand seals and screamed out, "Phoenix flare no jutsu!" With that, a burst of light shot from Naruto's hand and hit Sasuke in the eyes, Sasuke screamed and slammed his palms into his eyes as Naruto rushed up and took him down with a sweeping kick.

After a few seconds Sasuke blinked a few times before being able to see again. He was Naruto standing there holding his hand out to help him up. Sasuke grumbled before taking his hand and getting up. After that incident was over with, Naruto looked around before spotting Ayame peeking out from the left side of the house; she was using her index finger to motion for him to come to her. He smiled slightly and made his way to her. She walked back further the closer her got and Naruto continued to follow quietly. Soon, Naruto found Ayame sitting underneath of a willow tree patting the ground gently telling him to sit next to her.

Naruto walked over and sat down gently looking at her curiously. "Well birthday boy…it seems that your birthday party is almost over and I have yet to give you my present." Naruto was about to ask what his present was when Ayame let one hand run threw his hair as she leaned in and put her lips on his. Naruto's eyes widened in shock, this was his first kiss and he had to say that, he rather enjoyed the way it felt. Slowly, Naruto closed his eyes and gently began to kiss back. Ayame decided that he wasn't that good at kissing and that she would have to correct that little flaw. The thought made her blush as they broke apart for air. They looked into each other's eyes and were panting gently from the excitement of the moment. Slowly, Ayame let herself lean into his body and Naruto wrapped his arms around her cuddling her up gently.

Naruto just laid there for a while holding Ayame in his arms until he realized that she had fallen asleep against him. He watched her chest rise and fall with steady breaths and allowed his eyes to take in everything she was, and he had to say to himself, she was a beautiful person. Naruto gently ran his fingers threw her hair before hearing a "poof" sound and seeing Kakashi step out of the smoke. Naruto removed his hand and just looked at his sensei that he could tell had a big grin on his face. Suddenly, Kakashi's expression hardened and Kakashi spoke out in a firm voice saying, "Naruto, an ANBU just stopped by and told me that our team has been summoned by the Hokage for an important mission opportunity and we need to go now. With that, Kakashi disappeared back to the group most likely.

Naruto gently shook Ayame awake watched with awe at how cute she was when she woke up. "Naru-kun, why did you wake me up?" Naruto blushed slightly at the nickname but whispered to her that she had to get up because he had to go see the Hokage. And so he gently helped her to her feet and they walked back out to the rest of the group who was giving them coy smiles. Naruto simply cleared his throat before putting on the gloves that Kiba gave him wanting to look his best for the Hokage. Anko told Naruto that she would take the rest of his presents home and with that, Kakashi, Kiba, Hinata, and Naruto all made their way to the Hokage's office to receive a mission that would change their lives…forever!

A/N: Wow! This may be the longest chapter I have ever written so I hope you enjoyed it! Be anxiously awaiting the next chapter because all of you who wanted to see what Naruto's bloodline limit would do to him are going to find out. I promise you that I am very excited to get started on the next chapter which will involve non-stop action and a nice bit of angsty drama! So until next time, please continue to read and review cause you guys rock!