How Naruto was forced to become a ninja:

Hiruzen was having one of those days, where it seemed the universe was trying to get him to kill himself. The child who he loved like a grandson was apparently living on the streets with only the Kyuubi in his stomach keeping him alive so far. Then the young child's cardboard house was burned down, the very idea was haunting. No 5 year old should be living in a self-made cardboard house. Then the child wouldn't reveal to him who had done it, nor allow one of his specialist to enter his mind.

Then on top of all of the guilt and anger that series of events caused, the boy was attacked and then attacked back and then attacked once more. It was very terrible night, but the past was the past right? WRONG. Naruto had withdrawn deeper into himself and then he was called to an emergency council meeting. All in all it had been one of the worse 12 hours of his life. It was right up there with the Kyuubi attack that had resulted in the death of his wife. It brought him to this moment now, walking toward the council chambers with two of his personal ANBU bodyguards flanking his sides while slightly trailing.

Taking a deep breath, he pushed the doors to enter the council chambers open and saw that they were all here. As this was an emergency council meeting, the civilians where to send a single representative, but for this particular meeting, Hiruzen had foregone that protocol in this case, as there was no reason to create any extra opposing forces toward his goals. Looking around the Hiruzen saw the 20 people that made up the Shinobi Council for the Hidden Leaf Village.

The heads to the Hyuuga, Uchiha, Aburame, Akimichi, Inuzuka, Kurama, Nara, Sarutobi, and Yamanaka Clans where present as where his Jonin Commander, his Hunter Ninja Commander, his 4 ANBU Commander (A/N1: I will explain this part and the entire council set up in my author's note at the end), his head of Recon and Scouting, Head of the Police Force, and finally his 3 advisers, and the tie breaker of the Council being himself. The full 21 members of the Council was now here, and upon his entrance, the other 20 people jumped to their feet and snapped to attention. With a nod of his head, Hiruzen dismissed their salute and motion for everyone to sit down.

Talking his place at the elevated head table overlooking the U-shaped table that housed the other 20 members. "Okay, it is a mere 3 AM on a Tuesday people, now I am not sure why you people enjoy calling meeting at this ungodly hour, but let us get on with meeting." said a slightly cranky Hiruzen. His mood worsens when his adviser Danzo said "Shouldn't we wait for the Civilian Representative, it wouldn't sit well with them to find out that we aren't including them in our meetings, they will try to make things more difficult for us in the future."

Hiruzen flared his nostrils, before letting loose a tired chuckle. Smirking, he looked at this old rival in the eye and said "Funny, because you have never once cared for the civilians of this village, no you only care for the ninja who you want to mold into weapons. I'm sure that everyone remembers your failed Root program. I can't seem to remember how many emotionless husks you left behind, using your methods. As for the civilians, I, myself, gave the order to not include the representative in this meeting for this is strictly a shinobi matter, I care little for the opinions of those who don't know better, besides if the information that is said in this meeting is leaked, I will have everyone here charka's sealed and have your minds walked through one at a time until I find out who did it, then I will have you put to death for treason. I have learned my lesson from 5 years ago."

Danzo grit his teeth, as he knows that by reminding everyone of his methods, he will lose some support today, and the civilian representative would undoubtedly have supported him. It seems that today would not be his day, oh well you win some you lose some. Hiruzen looked around the room looking at the clearly surprised expressions that graced the faces of his ninja and said "Hello, I was called to this meeting by the likes of you people, not the other way around, So I, an old man who loves his sleep and has to you know, run this village in the morning would love for you to kindly inform me why this meeting was called."

Inoichi of the Yamanaka clan, rose up and stated in a voice the stated that he truly was a little bitch inside "The child has lost control, we need to re-open the topic of what we do with him. He is a danger to not just himself, but the rest of us as well. I would prefer that we keep him away from our civilians, our friends, and most importantly, our families especially our children." The room fell silent and Hiruzen could have sworn that the emotionless mask of Danzo cracked into disbelieve. Hiruzen looked at the supposed man in front of him and gave him that "Are you deadass right now" look that everyone makes when somebody says some dumb shit.

Shibi of the much manlier Aburame Clan, coughed and said "While I agree that it is not a good sign to have an insane container at this tender age, it is also illogical for us to blame a small child for lashing out at people who attacked them. If I were to attack you right now, would you not defend yourself, Inoichi?" Inoichi glared at Shibi and stated "Of course, but this is different. I don't hold a well of power that could flatten our village, if I lost my temper or control of emotions." This seemed by be something that was mutually agreed upon by the rest of the council and Hiruzen could see the seeds of doubt and little specks of fear in the council member's eyes, besides Danzo and the ANBU member, although the Head Hunter Nin looked super bored.

Hiruzen chuckled and drew the attention of everyone in the room and stated "Then we might as well have this topic extended to include myself in it. I have mastered almost every Justu that this village has to offer besides some Clan only techniques. If I was put in a bad enough mood or was in a battle that took place inside of the village, I could level the entire thing with charka to spare. Hell, I could massacre the entire group in this room with little to no effort, starting with you. So, what should we do about me, Inoichi?" The flower selling blond felt pressure from all around him and quickly said "Nothing my lord, it Is just that you are a grown man, while the child is just that a child."

"Ah then you see the difference, do you?" asked Hiruzen and Inoichi nodded and Hiruzen continued on without any pause "I could and would kill you at any time that I wanted to, I would do it knowingly. It would not be because I am being attacked or because I am in a bad mood, I could do it because I am tired of listening to you bitch and moan at every meeting. On top of all that, I wouldn't need to summon the charka of a natural disaster." Inoichi gulped and Tsume stood up and said "What are we doing besides making fun of this flower selling bitch, we came here to discuss the situation that happened last night. Our future trump card is but a boy and thus should be treated as such until it is time for him to become a ninja. Once he becomes a ninja, we can decide whatever we want with him, how he well be trained, how he will do missions, all of that is in the future. There isn't any reason for us to talk about it today."

Hiruzen let loose a burst of air through his nose as Danzo stood and stated in an almost perfect monotone voice "Under Section 78B paragraph 11, All Jinchuriki are considered military assets from the time of the sealing until the day that they no longer hold the tailed beast is no longer being contained by their bodies and seals. I move that we utilize the boy as quickly and as much as possible, we could have him up to ANBU level in 4 years, and Kage level in 10."

Hiruzen choked at the blatant attempt to obtain Naruto and said, "it is funny who you didn't finish the rest of that paragraph Danzo, as the next line states that 'A Jinchuriki's rank is to be considered 3rd in the entire village under Hokage, ANBU and Jonin Commander, and then Jinchuriki, followed by council members, then ANBU then Jonin …' and so on. You forget, only 6 people in this room have the authority to command that child to do anything. Until the time that the boy becomes a Genin, the people in this room simply have no control over him or his actions."

Danzo grit his teeth and then let a brief smirk cross his face before he said "Naruto Uzumaki is an orphan correct?" A collective yes rang out across the room and Hiruzen narrowed his eyes as Danzo continued "Well, seeing how orphans cannot enter the Shinobi Academy without a sponsor, I would like to hereby nominate Naruto Uzumaki for enrollment at the Academy, so that his training may begin and thus our village can safer in the near future rather than the distant future." Hiruzen glared at the pest like mummy and said, "You would need at least 11 of the 21 votes for that to happen Danzo."

"Well then, I guess we will have to vote then, wouldn't we?" stated Danzo

'That smug bastard has me right where he wants me huh? I guess we will have to put it to a vote?' thought Hiruzen before he gave the signal that a vote would be happening. He stood and said "Okay, since we are all here and Danzo had decided to try an weaponize a 5-year-old, we will vote one by one. I will start and then the ANBU Commanders, Jonin Commander, then Head Hunter Nin, the Advisers, then Alphabetically through the Clan Heads. I vote in the Negative." after that he sat back down as there was nothing more he could do on the topic.

The ANBU with the Horse Mask, dubbed Horse, stood and she said, "I vote in the Negative." before returning to her seat.

The ANBU in the Dragon Mask, dubbed Dragon, stood and he said, "I vote in the Positive" before sitting back down and avoiding his leader's stare, because he didn't want to see how angry he was.

The ANBU in the Wolf Mask, dubbed Wolf, stood and he lazily said "Hmm, I guess I will vote in the positive." and then returned to his seat. Hiruzen glared at this ANBU and thought 'Really Kakashi, you would do that to your own sensei's son'

The ANBU who wore the Snake Mask, dubbed Snake, looked at Hiruzen before standing and saying, "It is too early to create a weapon that we could use, so for the now, I will vote in the negative." She stood back down and Hiruzen was unnerved about her basically saying "No, not right now, later"

Next up, his Jonin Commander stood up (A/N:2), Ki Hyuuga, stone faced but overall kind Main House Hyuuga who was one of the most powerful ninja in the active roster at this time, stood up and looked to his leader and said, "I vote in the positive, even if we are not training him to be used as a weapon to throw in any direction, but he should be about to control himself." Sitting back Ki felt confident.

The Head Hunter Nin, Name not allowed to be disclosed to anyone outside of the Hokage, Doza Inuzuka, stood up and said, "I vote in the positive." he gave no reason or anything else because he simply didn't care

Danzo, the old ass mummy who was an asshole, didn't stand but said "Positive"

Homura stood up, pushing his glasses up, he said "I vote in the positive" and then he immediately sat down and placed his eyes in his lap because he couldn't look Hiruzen in the eye. Especially with the way that Hiruzen was glaring at him, he wished he was anyone

Koharu stood and she said, "I vote in the negative."

Hiruzen looked at the tally so far, through 10 votes, the tally wasn't going in his favorite, sitting at 4 to 6

Shibi Aburame stood up and said, "I will vote in the positive, it would make no sense to make the young Naruto capable of stopping himself."

Choza Akimichi rose to his feet and said "No, I wouldn't like for my son to made into a weapon, so I will vote in the negative." He sat back down and Hiruzen relaxed realizing that they only trailed by 2 votes, something that was easy to come back from when only twelve votes had been casted. With 9 more votes to go, Hiruzen was more than certain that they could close the gap.

Hiashi Hyuuga stood up like the noble that he was and said, "I vote in the negative, Minato didn't ask for us to make a weapon of Naruto Uzumaki, he asked for us to view him as a hero."

Tsume Inuzuka jumped to her feet and everyone looked at her as she said, "I vote in the negative, we are at peace, there is no reason for us to rush into something." Hiruzen nodded at those wise words and Danzo snorted as he knew of all of the danger that lurked outside of the walls of this village

Murakumo Kurama stood gently and said, "I vote in the positive, we have to make sure that he remains in control, and that requires practice and training." he dropped back into his seat, and Hiruzen groaned internally because they actual sound logic was the type of shit he didn't want to hear at a time like this.

Shikaku Nara stood up, but it was slow and took like 10 seconds, but when he did manage to get to his feet, he said "I vote in the negative, it would be too troublesome to force a child to do anything really."

Ash Sarutobi stood up (A/N 3) stood up and said, "I vote in the positive" he sat down really fast after that and Hiruzen sighed as one of his son's managed to disappoint him again

Fugaku Uchiha rose to his feet as graceful as a falling leaf, and said "I vote in the negative."

All eyes turned to Inoichi as he was the last of the clan votes and those might be able to push the scales in either direction. Inoichi climbed to his feet and said, "I guess that I will have to vote in the positive because I am the main complainer here."

Hiruzen's eyes narrowed as he counted the tallies made so far it stood at 9 vs 10 and it still wasn't in his favor nor Naruto's and such it would come down to the Head of Scouting and Recon, and the Head of the Police Force.

The Head of Scouting and Recon was a large man by the name of Daino, one of the smartest people in the entire village, he stood up on his portly legs and said "I will vote in the negative, it just doesn't make any sense to try and force the boy into anything that he doesn't want. What if we make him into the very monster that our civilians call him, what if we make him so powerful that when he calls on THAT power, we cannot put him down even if we wanted to do so.

What if we build him up and then because of the very way that our people treat him, oh and make no mistake, they treat him like shit, that he grows to hate the people of this village and one of them tries something, and he kills them because he doesn't care because he has the power now.

I will not be the nail in the coffin that sends this boy into some sort of self-fulfilling prophecy where he actually brings about the end of our village."

Everyone looked at Daino and realized that he could be sending them into a mess that they might not be able to clean up if they messed up too badly. With the speech fresh in their minds, they all looked at the Head of the Police Force, Yakumi Uchiha. The man who they said had no emotions, who stood and said "I believe that it is clear what I must do. I have to do what is right for the sake of us all. I will vote in the …Positive"

Hiruzen sighed heavily, the voting having taken almost a physical toll on him. "Okay, it is too be stated that as of July 19th, Naruto Uzumaki has officially been entered into the Shinobi Program Academy, effective immediately."

Everyone nodded and Hiruzen snarled with rage "Now get out of my sight before I gut the lot of you worthless sacks of shit"

Present Day:

Kurenai moved to sit in the only open seat, next to Naruto. She was in the process of sitting down, when the wooden chair snagged the back of her dress. The result was that when she sat all the way down, the dress ripped all the way down her back and her dress fell forward off of her body. This lead to the entire table getting a view of her in just her shorts, that they couldn't even see. . Kurenai felt a slight breeze and looked down only to see that the other people at the table now knew about her lack of a bra. She turned bright red from her face down to her stomach, but before she could do anything a small smoke bomb went off and when the smoke cleared seconds later, she was wearing an orange and black jacket that was zipped up all the way.

Naruto was now wearing a tight black t-shirt and everyone was surprised at how fast he managed to fix the situation for Kurenai. A waiter came over, with the manager standing in the distance, and asked "What was the cause of that smoke bomb?"

Naruto raised his hand and replied with, "Sorry sir, I was leaning back, and it slipped out of my leg pouch, I will pay for any inconveniences' that it may have caused, you can add it to our bill"

The waiter looked to his boss and got a nod and took their orders. It wasn't until after the waiter left with their orders that Kurenai even looked at Naruto.

"Thank you, Naruto, I'm surprised that you managed to move so quickly, you did it without me even feeling or realizing what you were doing until you finished."

"Well, I had to act fast, can't have the entire restaurant seeing you naked"

"I think that it was some amazingly fast thinking Naruto. I honestly don't know if any of us would have been able to react as fast" commented Hana

"Hana has a point, I was more dumbfounded by the rack on Mrs. Genjustu over here" the crude Anko said

"Anko, you know that you're not allowed to talk like that at any meal time, we had an agreement. And you know as well as I do, it is Ms. Genjustu, not Mrs." Retorted Kurenai.

"Oh, does that mean you dumped Asuma" asked Kagomi, hoping to catch some gossip.

"Well, we are on a break right now, mostly because he's an idiot" muttered Kurenai.

Naruto leaned back in his chair and just listened, hoping to hear something that would allow him to profuse his feelings for the red eyed Genjustu user. Nobody else seemed to notice his lack of engagement in the conversation besides Hana, who was watching Naruto and Kurenai with interest.

"So, what did the bearded one do this time?" asked Kohari, as she sipped her lemon tea

"He thought that a good way to celebrate my promotion to Jonin was to go to a mixed bathing Hot Spring. He said that it would loosen me up for later that night."

Even Naruto winced as he realized that Asuma had said the wrong thing. That poor stupid man, what had he done?

"Do you want me to stab him? I can and will do it for free" asked Anko, her eyes lit with a fire that promised pain

"No Anko. I'm not angry at Asuma, more disappointed in myself for not picking a better boyfriend. I just want someone who is honest, nice, smart, always happy to see me, and trustworthy." Said Kurenai

"Sounds like you want a dog" joked Hana

The girls at the table laughed and Naruto let a smile break on his face.

"Soooooo, Naruto. Are you dating anyone? Anyone catching your eye?" teased Anko as she wagged her eyebrows at Naruto

"I don't know Anko, are you offering yourself to me?" replied a calm Naruto

"Please, you couldn't handle me on my worst day. No, I was offering the chance to take our dear Genjustu Mistress here on a real date with an actual gentleman."

"Anko, you can't set up dates for me while I am right in front of you" hissed Kurenai

"You're right Kurenai, but in all seriousness, I don't see Anko in that way, she's like that favorite cousin that everyone has."

"Oh, okay" muttered Kurenai as she sat up straighter in her chair, something that only Hana seemed to notice.

The Waiter popped back up with their food and set it down in front of them.

"Naruto! Is there a reason that you come to the best Sushi spot in the village and still end up eating Ramen?" asked Hana as her eyes twitched dangerously

"You eat what you know you like when you're paying for it" snapped back Naruto, ready to die to defend his ramen addiction.

"Hmm, so you're paying? Good because this outfit doesn't exactly have pockets to carry a wallet" said Kagomi

"You're Jonin vest has like 30 pockets on it, I can see the pockets" pointed out Kohari

"Shut up, I'm trying to get him to pay for this" whispered Kagomi

"You don't have to whisper, if I didn't want to pay for it, I wouldn't have said yes to Hana's invitation. The only time it seems that she wants me around is when she wants me to pay for something."

Suddenly, Anko, Kagomi, Kohari, and Kurenai thought of all of the Naruto stories that Hana had ever told them and their memories clicked.

'Naruto does always pay for her stuff in her stories' thought Kohari

'All of Hana's Naruto stories do involve him paying' thought Kagomi

'That's not very nice of Hana to take advance of a nice guy like Naruto' thought Kurenai

'That BITCH! I need her to teach me how she gets guys with money to continuously buy her shit' thought Anko

"Hey, I am not the bad guy here. It's all his fault, when we first became Genin, he told way more missions that my team did, so he spotted me for lunch one day. And then the next and the next and the one after that too. After like 20 times of his just paying, I stopped brining my wallet places because he always paid. That plus, I have the ultimate dirt of him" said Hana, trying to save her reputation

"Dirt, you say" asked Anko, eyeing Naruto with the greatest of interest

"What kind of dirt" asked Kohari

"The dirty kind of dirt?" asked Kagomi

"I don't think you need to be sharing that kind of information lightly Hana" said Kurenai as she looked at little flushed

Naruto gulped and refused to make eye contact with anything but his bowl of steaming noodles.

"I have to pieces of dirt on the whiskered one here, one is some normal embarrassing dirt and the other is the dirtiest of dirty dirt, but you can only pick of them to learn." The words that left Hana's mouth trapped the attention of each and every other girl at the table and Naruto groaned internally.

"Hana has a picture of me in my sleepwear, which is a toad-like sleeping cap, a white t-shirt and what I used as underwear at the time, ramen patterned underwear." Said Naruto

'You're move Hana, I told the embarrassing one' thought Naruto, confident in his move to force Hana to drop the topic

Hana deflated at the revealing of the embarrassing dirt on Naruto. Naruto drained his bowl of Ramen and motioned for another when he caught a glimpse of the clock in the corner.

"Well ladies, I never like to eat and run, but I only have 20 minutes to go home, take a shower, get changed, and make it to my training grounds to meet my Sensei. It's been fun, we should do it again sometime." Before he dropped a couple of hundred Ryo on the table and moved to exit.

Naruto had barely made it outside of the restaurant when Kurenai came racing out after him.

"Naruto wait up" she called out after him

Naruto turned around and looked at the gorgeous woman who was wearing his jacket and a pair of shorts.

"Is something wrong Kurenai?" asked the blond ninja

"You left without getting back your jacket" stated Kurenai

"Honestly, I didn't forget about my jacket Kurenai. I just know that you aren't really in a position to give it back to at this particular moment." Said Naruto, hinting at the lack of clothing under the jacket.

"I can't take your jacket from you Naruto, it wouldn't be right."

Naruto waved her off and smiled brightly "I can see worse ways to lose my jacket than to willingly give it to a very beautiful woman, such as yourself Kurenai."

Kurenai blushed lightly and shifted from one foot to another

"Thank you, Naruto. Both for the jacket and the compliment. I will pay you back for the jacket as soon as I can"

"Hmm, well I can see a way that we work something –" started Naruto, but he was interrupted by someone saying "Kurenai?"

They both looked and saw a tall tan man, with really dark brown hair bordering on black, a mostly full beard, a cigarette in his mouth. The man was also dressed in a standard Jonin uniform, but he also had a white and red sash around his waist that said "Twelve Guardians".

"Asuma" Naruto and Kurenai both said, both knowing the mostly asshole-ish man.

"Well, I'll be damn, little Naruto all grown up. I remember when you were 7,8 years old running around causing all types of trouble, screaming to the world that you would be Hokage. It is good to see you, I heard that you managed to land yourself an active roster spot on Kakashi's squad." Asuma said addressing Naruto before Kurenai

"Umm, yeah I did. I was actually on my way there right now" said Naruto has he felt that third wheel syndrome start to kick in

"Oh, well I will see you around. Maybe even have you show my squad a thing or two, if you have some free time, if you don't mind." Asked Asuma

"Sure" said Naruto as he waved goodbye to both of them and started walking away. Despite leaving the once upon a time couple, Naruto could still hear the two of them argue.

"So, Kurenai, mind telling me why you're half dressed in another man's jacket?"

"I don't owe you and answers Asuma, we're not dating anymore remember."

"Do not give me that shit Kurenai. Actually you know what, if you wanted to open your legs for the next man that walked by, I am glad that we aren't dating"

"Oh just go straight to hell, Asuma."

They two of them were interrupted by another female screaming "Flying Anko Kick of Doom"

Naruto didn't care about going home or showering any more, he just let his feet carry him. He actually ended up at the training grounds not that far from his team's training ground.

Hiruzen stood looking at the 15 year old Naruto who was panting on the ground a few feet away from him.

"You put up a valid effort, Naruto. But do you know why I am called the God of Shinobi?"

"Umm … I don't know, because you're as old as dirt?" mocked Naruto from his position on the ground

Hiruzen let out a chuckle and replied with, "No, I know every non-clan specific Justu in the village, along with mastering all 5 elemental chakra natures. I am famous from being about to start a Justu in my body, stop mid Justu, complete a different Justu before I finish the Justu that I stopped without having to restart it."

Naruto sat up and looked at his Hokage in amazement.

"How … how could you do something like that?" asked the young blond

"Well Naruto … I am the God of Shinobi"

Pulling himself out of his memories, Naruto continued his way to his team's training grounds, and when he got there he saw that everyone else was already there

"Naruto, you are late" called out Kakashi as he arrived

"Sorry Sensei, it will not happen again" replied Naruto

"I know that it will not" stated Kakashi before he addressed all three Genin "Okay, today we are going to set up our physical limits, our benchmark if you will."

"How are we going to do that Sensei?" asked Sakura

"First, you are going to hand over your recipes or receipts for your lunch, and then you're going to run until you are either pissing, shitting, or vomiting on yourself."

The Genin looked at him with horrified faces, which only made Kakashi chuckle.

"Bonus points if you do more than one of the three, not get to it" commanded Kakashi

A/N: So, I have provided a little more backstory on Naruto's past. We know that he and the Hokage were close, but now that their relationship is on the rocks. We also saw how Naruto was forced to become a Ninja, more on that at the beginning of the next chapter. Also, I was told putting explanations in middle of the story is annoying, so I tried to make a change with that.

A/N1: The way that I see it, you can't have 1 ninja in charge of all the different fields of things. So, my version of the council has 4 ANBU commanders, 1 for assassinations, 1 for recon and surveillance, 1 for tracking and support, and 1 for the safety of the village and their land. They overlap a bit, but it is because I think that ANBU is broken up into tiers, the first and strongest tiers are the guys like Kakashi, they can kind of do it all, but don't have the signature style or ability. These are generally the Assassinations squads and the internal village protection. These guys are all like 8 out of 10 in most categories. The next tier is the specialist layer of guys. These are the elite trackers, the type of people who are like the Dad from taken and the medics, the planners. These people are 7 out of 10 in some key categories. These guys are generally not the same squad as the first-tier guys but are usually used for their strong suits only. These guys are mainly on the Tracking and Recon teams. The last tier is the most realistic tier. These guys are like the first-tier guys but worst. Instead of 8 out of 10 in most categories, these guys are like 5-6 in all categories. They make up the human meat shields that are on all squads, but their main purpose is Recon.

A/N3: Hiruzen has more than one son, and nobody but the creator of Naruto knows his name. If you do, please let me know, but for now, I don't know and thus his name is Ash.

A/N2, I know it isn't in order but I tried: Yeah, so the Jonin Commander would be Kakashi or the Nara usually, but does anyone mean to tell me that there isn't some super badass Hyuuga just chilling around like a number one draft pick, waiting to go on missions that are super crazy. Neji was an OG badass and although he was a prodigy, he can't be the only one.

My Naruto is very close to the Canon Naruto in different aspects. He's more skilled and smarter, but he doesn't have the Rasengan nor does he have Sage Mode. I have a plan on how he will achieve those as well, but it is still a work in progress. Now, I am not sure if he will know Jiraiya, so either comment or PM what you think about that.

We also have seen people starting to want to see Naruto to be in the Chunin exams, as he would be a great story for the Village to exploit, as the village is a business and Shinobi are products. In the next chapter, we will be finishing the day of training, some missions, will be leading up to the mission to Wave. Oh, and of course some more Kurenai/Naruto interactions.

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Outtake: If Hana had called Naruto's Bluff, just for the guys who stood all the way until the end

"I have to pieces of dirt on the whiskered one here, one is some normal embarrassing dirt and the other is the dirtiest of dirty dirt, but you can only pick of them to learn." The words that left Hana's mouth trapped the attention of each and every other girl at the table and Naruto groaned internally.

"Hana has a picture of me in my sleepwear, which is a toad-like sleeping cap, a white t-shirt and what I used as underwear at the time, ramen patterned underwear." Said Naruto

'You're move Hana, I told the embarrassing one' thought Naruto, confident in his move to force Hana to drop the topic

"I know how big Naruto is?" said Hana

Confusion passed over the group of girls faces and Kohari even muttered "But we can all see how tall he is" before it hit them.

"How big?" asked Anko immediately

Hana held up her hands somewhat close together causing the girls at the table to giggle and Naruto to scoff and make a face/

Naruto recovered and proceeded to climbed on his chair and say "Attention people of this establishment, may I have your attention!"

Hana glared at the single male at her table and hissed at him to go down.

As everyone in the building looked at Naruto, he continued his apparently very important announcement.

"My good friend Hana has decided to spread lies about me and my manhood, so I am about to set the record straight."

And with that, Naruto pulled down his pants and within a moment grew to full mass.

The result was almost every girl flying away from massive nosebleeds, a few guys as well.

The waiter came out of the back and said "I don't get paid enough for this."