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Shizune squeezed Tonton in her arms in discomfort seeing the look on Naruto's face when Tsunade tells him about his home.
"J-jiji gave me that apartment Obaa-chan. Without it, where am I supposed to live?"
"Naruto, I really am sorry..." Tsunade tells him sincerely, the older blonde herself hated that this happened. Some of the villagers had somehow got it into their heads that Naruto had intentionally hurt Sasuke badly so they thought they would give the Uzumaki a lesson by torching his house.
Idiots...
Naruto wasn't actually the one that defeated and brought back Sasuke to begin with!
"Obaa-chan, Kaka-sensei really couldn't get hold of anything from the apartment? I have pictures frames...of Jiji and things..."
Tsunade shakes her head, "Kakashi reported that everything was burned, nothing salvageable."
"Where is Kaka-sensei?" the blue-eyed blonde asks, curious.
"He is on the hunt for the ones who did this. Don't worry Naruto. I will charge these villagers to the fullest extent of the law."
The genin nods sullenly, knowing nothing else could be done but he could not stop the silent tears that flowed down his face. Unable to help himself, he starts crying, the pain in his chest intensifying at the same time.
"Oh Naru-otoutou please don't cry" pleads Shizune. "Tsunade-sama and I will help you find somewhere new to live."
"Or he could live with me."
Naruto stops, the sharp, sweet yet familiar scent filling his nostrils.
Vanilla and wisteria...
He turns and he stares intently at the beautiful young woman sitting on his windowsill, her rosebud pink lips curved in a smile.
"Still a crybaby I see Naru-kun."
She looked no more than 20 years of age. She had long mint green hair that ended at her back, delicate eyebrows and dark heavy lined eyes of amethyst color that practically twinkled with mischief. He lowers his eyes and immediately reddens seeing what she was wearing.
She wore a black mesh short-sleeved jacket but she left it unzipped so the genin got a good eyeful of her ample cleavage thanks to her gracious revealing white sports bra. Naruto also did not fail to notice how long her legs were in her fitted fishnet cutout black leggings and guessed she would be about Kakashi's height. He watched as she swung her mint green and white sneakers adorned feet once before moving off of her perch on the window and towards where he was to stand in front of him.
"You know who I am don't you Naru?"
"M-mitsukai-nee?"
She smiles at him and sits next to him in his bed, ruffling his hair with her white fingerless gloved hands, "Good boy. You get ramen later."
Just like that, just hearing her silvery voice so close to his ear, the familiar feeling of her soft fingertips against his skin and the fragrant smell of her soap brought about so many memories that Naruto ended up crying again causing his 'big sister' to smile.
"Such a baby. C'mere."
Naruto buries his face in her neck as she holds him close.
I'm back now baby
Sasuke stares horrified at the state of the Uchiha compound. It was tp-ed, there were broken windows and from what he could see on the ground and the walls, rotten fruit were thrown.
He walks inward, looking around at the mess. He wondered why would anyone go through so much trouble to do any of what he was seeing. It was then he saw what was written on the walls. There were several but there were some that gripped at his heart.
"TRAITOR"
"DIE SNAKE BITCH"
"SCUM"
"YOU ARE NOT WORTHY OF THE NAME UCHIHA"
The last one stung hard. Sasuke clenched his fists angrily until he finally sees the condition of his own home. Kunais and shurikens were sticking out of the exterior and in large red letters, it was clearly read, "HOME OF THE SNAKE-LOVING TRAITOROUS WHORE, UCHIHA SASUKE"
Sasuke cursed, long and loud.
He was in hell.
Tsunade and Shizune sits on the bed watching the green-haired young woman brush her fingers in Naruto's hair as he sleeps peacefully with his head in her lap.
"You are Mashiro Rina-san right?"
Rina looks up and tilts her body to roll up the sleeve of her jacket to reveal her ANBU tattoo but unlike the standard ANBU tattoo, the ridges of the
Konoha symbol was much thicker.
"So you are the Kohana" Shizune realizes, looking at the tattoo.
Tsunade tilts her head, looking at Rina, "I just approved your application to demote my best and first female ANBU General to a Special Jounin just so that she can adopt a certain former Orochimaru experiment."
"You sound disappointed Lady Hokage."
"Well of course I am, these days I can't find much women who are as comfortable with honeypot missions as you are."
Rina smirked, unable to help herself, "You mean as young as me."
"You started out young but I hear you have quite a talent."
"Why else did I request a part-time position with Morino Ibiki-san? I wanted to hone my skills out of the bedroom too."
Tsunade snickers causing Shizune to smile, "Rina-chan, I noticed you also put in request to adopt Naruto here."
"I did, yes but it hasn't been approved."
Tsunade moves to affectionately rub Naruto's shoulder as he sleeps, "I think of Naru as a grandson of sorts, I wanted to meet you without your mask and the usual formalities until I approved it."
"Am I satisfactory then?"
The hazel-eyed blonde looks at Rina and sees a quiet needy expression but filled with love, "Tell me how you knew the boy."
"Alright" sighs Rina, knowing she had to. "I met Naru when was 3. The first time, I saw him being picked on. He was crying and he was trembling so hard. I just ran in, picked him up and took him away to a quiet place in the forest. I covered his eyes with the bandana I was wearing at the time and spoke to him. He told me the other kids in the orphanage bully him and call him demon brat like the caretaker told them to."
Shizune deadpanned, confused, "Why would she do that?"
"To make Naru's life hell. Not long after that, she pushed Naru down the stairs and if Naruto didn't scream like he did, I wouldn't have heard it or stop the caretaker from doing further damage."
Tsunade cursed whilst Shizune gasped hearing this.
"The Sandaime had her fired but the next woman that replaced her was the same, eventually I advised the Sandaime that Naruto just can't live at the orphanage anymore. We planned for him to move out once he turned 6 but another incident happened where the old lady attacked Naru with a beer bottle, almost blinding the boy so we pulled him out of the orphanage at 4 instead after he recovered from that."
The Hokage stares at Naruto, unable to believe that the boy has such a cheery disposition when he had a childhood like that.
"From time to time, I would visit Naru where I would make him a cooked meal to eat, clean his room if needed and leave behind some books to help him study. Naru isn't very good in studies so I tried my best to write out study notes for him and correct his homework for him to see and re-do."
Shizune couldn't help but smile, hearing hat, "You've been a big sister to him all this while."
"I tried my best. After he became genin, I thought I could relax more but Naruto has become a target for the Akatsuki so I realized that Naru needs a more focused trainer."
"Focused trainer? Is Kakashi not sufficient?"Tsunade asks, puzzled.
"Kakashi Hatake mostly devotes his time to Uchiha Sasuke and Haruno Sakura. Aside from making him spar with his teammates or even himself sometimes, Kakashi makes Naruto sit in the corner to hone his basic skills but the fact is, Naruto has covered most of the basics. The major problem he really has is his chakra control which is what Kakashi is making him practice but it cannot be helped because Naru is a jinchuriki, he can try and master chakra control as much as he wants but doing the leaf exercise every day won't be of much use."
Now, this was news to Tsunade. She thought since Kakashi was Minato's son, the man wouldn't ignore Naturo and train him properly but guess she was wrong. To say she was disappointed was an understatement. Tsunade was actually pissed. Shizune watches her mentor ponder over the situation, curious on what she was thinking until she hears a soft purr of some sort.
She turns and realized it was Naruto!
Rina giggles, brushing her fingers over Naruto's whiskers again, "Gomen but I always loved hearing this boy purr like a little kitten."
Shizune shyly follows and Naruto purrs again.
"I got it."
The two females turn to see the Hokage with a smug grin on her face.
"Mashiro Rina, I approve of your request to adopt Uzumaki Naruto together with his cousin Uzumaki Karin on one condition."
The green-haired young woman raises an eyebrow, "Condition?"
Tsunade nods, fully believing that the plan she thought up was a good plan.
"NARUTO! CONGRATULATIONS!"
The Konoha 12 excludng Sakura and Sasuke burst into Naturo's room with big and colourful balloons. Naruto couldn't help but grin, seeing everyone.
He did his best to ignore that his teammates weren't there but he cheerily thanked his fellow genin for coming.
"Yo Naruto, what's with the box?" Kiba asks in his usual annoying, strident voice.
Naruto grins turning to look back at the medium-sized orange box behind him with the big blue ribbon bow on the top, "It's all the personal stuff from my house."
Shikamaru was surprised, "I thought everything was torched?"
"My Nee-chan manage to grab everything before the fire got to them."
"Nee-chan?" repeats Neji, shocked.
"E-erm N-narut-t-o-kun I'm s-sorry for what h-happened" Hinata tells him sincerely, speaking up.
"Thanks Hinata-chan and thanks for your help in my surgery too. Ino told me you were a real champ."
The shy heiress blushes intensely causing Tenten to smile at how sweet Hinata's crush on Naruto was.
"Naruto-kun" Lee says, moving forward to squeeze the boy's shoulder, "Are you really alright? You only just woke up yesterday right?"
"I'm fine! You know me, I heal fast."
"You looked like death yesterday."Ino reminds him.
"Woah Naruto! You got so many pictures?"
Naruto turns to see Kiba going through his box, pulling out all the items.
"Hey!"
Curious, everyone gathers around as Naruto snatches back his things but everyone had already caught a glimpse of the the pictures Kiba pulled out; a photograph of him and the Sandaime, a Team 7 picture, a picture of him, Shikamaru, Chouji and Kiba when the four were Academy students and another picture of Naruto with Umino Iruka. Inside the box, they saw Naruto's frog wallet and a small wooden box.
"That's not a lot of personal stuff." Neji comments. "I thought you just said you had a sister."
"She only adopted me yesterday you know, actually, she's coming any minute with my cousin I never knew I had!"
Shino adjusts his glasses, frowning, "A cousin too?"
"Yeah apparently, she was really far away but Nee-chan found her and brought her here so she could take care of both of us so we can all be a family!"
"That's right Naru."
Everyone turns and the boys all blush furiously excluding Naruto who just grinned proudly, happy to have such a pretty Nee-chan to look after him now.
Ino gawked at the expensive blush pink body-con midi dress Naruto's new guardian was wearing. It was off-the-shoulder, floral print throughout, slight sweetheart neckline that hugged the woman's perfect curves like it was made for her. The colour was exquisite as it practically made the older female's skin glow. The cute little white handbag with a golden clasp the Yamanaka heir noticed that she carried on her wrist made Ino wanted to squeal in glee and the white high heel shoes on her pedicured feet were to die for too. Ino knew she just had to know where she shopped!
Rina smiles seeing everyone, "Good afternoon, my name is Mashiro Rina. I am Naru's new guardian. I'm glad to see that my otoutou has such thoughtful friends."
Before anyone could speak, Naruto rushes over all packed and ready to go, hugging his new big sister.
"Where's Karin-chan?"
"Hi..." says a small voice.
He turns and sees a red-haired girl just his height, she looked flushed and guessed she was maybe shy.
Karin Uzumaki had short fiery red hair that reached her chin, crimson eyes, fair skin and brown narrow glasses. She wore a purple long sleeved top that had a black broken heart symbol on the front, a burgundy colored skater skirt and thigh-high black boots.
"I'm Naruto." he tells her, feeling shy suddenly too. Mitsukai-nee-chan didn't tell him his cousin was so pretty.
"Great, the both of you are acquainted." The older woman gently nudges Naru to step toward causing both of them to smile awkwardly with blushing faces.
"Rina?"
The green-haired girl freezes but reluctantly turns to see Kakashi staring at her in shock.
Good grief, she was as beautiful as he last saw her. Long mint green hair gracefully fell down her back, piercing amethyst eyes, rosebud glossed pink lips and her flawless peaches and cream complexion that drove him wild the last time he was with her.
Kakashi was so confused, wondering why she was there. Sasuke and Sakura who were next to Kakashi stood there, transfixed by not only Rina's beauty but how startled Kakashi seemed to be.
"What was Naruto doing holding her hand?" the three of them wondered.
"What's going on?" the grey-haired Hatake finally asks.
Rina intertwines her fingers with her blue-eyed blonde, "Naruto is my new ward Kakashi."
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