Chapter 3: Teams
After Naruto left the academy with his forehead protector proudly tied around his forehead, he immediately went to his home where all his friends and family were waiting for him, even Iruka was there, which Naruto wondered how did he got there so fast, all of them had a look of concern on their faces.
"Hey guys," Naruto greeted them with a cheerful smile, they all smiled at him before greeting him.
"Naru-kun are you okay!" Kurenai asked in a worried tone, she was worried about him ever since she saw him today when he was teaching the Uchiha a lesson, she or anyone had never seen Naruto so angry.
"Yeah, Kure-chan I'm okay. It's just that the stunt Sasuke pulled today made me so angry that I wanted to end his ninja career so that he wouldn't repeat what he did today again," Naruto said with a frown.
"It's okay Naruto-kun, I know how you feel and I will make sure that he is punished properly," Hiruzen said.
"Well enough about this, how about we celebrate brat's success today!" Tsunade said.
"Oh yeah congratulations Naru-kun, I knew you could do it," Kurenai said while smiling at him.
"Thanks Kure-chan," Naruto replied with a smile of his own.
"Now time for the presents for you for passing the graduation exam," Jiraiya said before he handed Naruto a box. When Naruto opened a box he saw that there was a book and locket in it.
"The book that I gave you was the first book that I wrote; The Tales Of The Utterly Gutsy Ninja. Your father loved it, even your mother liked it very much. You know your name was given after the name of the main character of this book, sadly this book didn't sell much," Jiraiya told Naruto. First Naruto took out the locket and opened, what he saw inside the locket made him tear up a bit, it had a picture of both his parents, before he tied it around his neck and then took out the book.
"Well now it's my turn to give you something, since I know how much you love board games I bought you this," Asuma said before handing Naruto a gameboard of shougi, and a pair of trench kunai.
"Thanks Asuma oji-san," Naruto said.
"Now my turn," Kakashi said before handing Naruto a scroll confusing Naruto, seeing Naruto's confusion he elaborated, "This scroll contains my father's Kenjutsu style and Hatake Taijutsu style and I want you to have it."
Hearing this Naruto's eyes went wide, "Are you sure about this nii-san, I mean I'm greatful and all but this is your family's Taijutsu style and your father's own personal Kenjutsu style," Naruto asked.
"Yes Naruto I'm sure and I want you to have it and learn them," Kakashi said with eyesmile.
"Yosh Naruto-kun, my youthful friend and student, it is my turn to give you something youthful," Guy said before handing Naruto two scrolls, "Among these scrolls, one contains my own youthful Taijutsu style, Goken and the other one contains a guide on how to open the eight inner gates," Guy said while giving Naruto a nice guy pose making Naruto's as well others eyes wide.
"I guess we will go next," Yugao said before she and Hayate came forward and gave him their own scrolls while explaining that these scrolls contained their own personal Kenjutsu styles. When Naruto said that he couldn't accept it since it was there own styles, they said that he was a family member to them so they weren't giving it to anyone, they were giving to family.
Naruto had met Yugao when Kurenai introduced her along with her other friends, Anko and Hana. Yugao introduced her boyfriend, Hayate to him and ever since then the three of them could almost always be seen in the Namikaze training ground in a fierce Kenjutsu spar in which sometimes even Kakashi took part.
Next were Tsunade and Shizune who gave him all the books and techniques they had and knew on medical ninjutsu, while Tsunade gave him one extra gift by giving him her grandfather, the First Hokage's necklace. Anko gave Naruto a scroll on infiltration and interrogation. Iruka gave Naruto an all-you-can-eat-for-a-month ticket at Ichiraku Ramen for which Naruto started a river of thank you to his teacher.
"Well I guess it is my turn now to give a gift Naruto-kun, I was saving it for this moment," Hiruzen said while taking a long drag on his smoking pipe, before he handed Naruto a scroll, "This scroll contains my father's Kenjutsu style," he explained.
"But jiji this was your father's, why are you giving this to me, I think Asuma oji-san is the rightful owner of this and what about Konohamaru!" Naruto asked.
"Well Naruto I don't really use swords as I'm well versed with trench kunai and as for Konohamaru, I don't think he will use swords either and you are perfect for this Kenjutsu style since you are good with swords and it is basically going into family anyway," Asuma said while putting a cancer stick into his mouth.
"As for me, well that is a surprise which I will give in the morning Naru-kun," Kurenai said with a mischievous smile on her face.
"Thank you guys," Naruto said while smiling, "Oh yeah, Anko nee-chan, I completed the seal to remove your curse mark, we will remove it tomorrow after my team placement," he said shocking everyone.
"R-R-Really!" Anko asked hopefully while touching the spot on her neck where the curse seal was branded to her.
"Yeah! But I'll need Jiji, Baa-chan, Ero-sennin, and Kakshi nii-san there," he said to which all of them nodeed.
"Well Naruto-kun, I should get going, I have to deal with some paperwork," Hiruzen said with disgust in his voice, he was about to go when Naruto spoke.
"You know Jiji, for being called Professor you sure don't know much, it's really simple to defeat paperwork if you use your brain," Naruto said causing the old man's eyebrow twitch in irritation while others simply snickered.
"And why do you say that Naruto-kun, do you know a way to deafeat it!" Hiruzen asked in an annoyed tone, to which Naruto nodded causing the old man to look at him pleadingly, causing Naruto to sweatdrop, and asked, "Please tell me a way to defeat that evil, wretched paperwork."
"Two words Jiji; Shadow Clones," Naruto said causing the old man to stare at Naruto for a few minutes before he went to a wall and started banging his head on it while mumbling 'stupid, stupid, stupid' over and over again, causing the others to sweatdrop before he turned toward Naruto and thanked him profusely while anime tears were running down his face, "Old man I suggest that you assign someone to watch over the Uchiha, he is at flight risk since the only thing he care about is power and he will betray the village without second thought," Naruto said seriously to the Hokage.
"I will do that, maybe I can get someone from Danzo to watch over him," Hiruzen said, "Oh and Kakashi, Kurenai, Asuma, Jiraiya I want you all in my office in an hour," he said to which they nodded and then he left.
"I must go as well, I have some research to do," Jiraiya said lecherously and left while all the female were glaring at him.
"I'm going as well I have to look at some patients today," Tsunade said and left. One by one everyone left until it was just Naruto and Kurenai.
Both Kurenai and Naruto talked about some of her missions and their future until it was time for Kurenai to go to the meeting with the Hokage. When she left, Naruto decided to train for sometime to polish all his skill as he wanted to start training from the scrolls given to him from next day.
Hokage Office
Hiruzen and Jounin that he had called were currently in his office discussing about who will get who in their teams.
"Asuma do you have someone in mind whom you wanted to be on your team!" the old man asked.
"I want Shikamaru Nara, Choji Akimichi and Ino Yamanaka on my time as I want to train the new generation of Ino-Shika-Cho," Asuma said.
"That can be arranged, your team will specialize in capturing and interrogation," the old man said as he handed Asuma his team's file, before he turned his gaze over Kakashi, who had his head buried in the new addition of the Icha Icha book, and asked, "Anyone you want on your team Kakashi!"
"I want Naruto Uzumaki Namikaze on my team other than that you can assign me whoever you want," Kakashi said for once looking away from his book.
"I can't allow that Kakashi and before you ask I can't allow that because it make your team overly powerful than other teams, which is not good for other teams," Hiruzen said causing Kakashi to sigh in defeat, before handing over a file to him, "Your students will be Sasuke Uchiha, Sakura Haruno and Sai," he said.
"What! Why! What did I do to make you so angry with me that you assign me an emo gay and a fangirl. I don't know anything about this Sai though but he will be the same category as these two," Kakashi whined/said.
"I gave the Uchiha because if he ever awaken his sharingan, I want you to train him with it, I gave you a fangirl because she was the Kunoichi of the year and as for Sai, after seeing Uchiha's actions today I called Danzo and asked him to lend me someone Sasuke's age to watch him, about which surprisingly my old teammate agreed with me," he informed Kakashi, before turned his gaze over to Kurenai and asked, "And Kurenai, do you want someone on your team!"
"I want Naruto Uzumaki Namikaze and Hinata Hyūga on my team," she said.
"You can have Hinata on your team but I have something else planned for Naruto so you will not get him, instead you will have Kiba Inuzuka and Shino Aburame, your team will specialize in tracking," he said before handing the file of her team and dismissed them except for Jiraiya, who still didn't knew why he was their in the first place, as this was taking his precious research time away from him damnit.
Namikaze Compound
After three hours later Naruto completed his training and went inside, when he went inside he saw that Kurenai was already there and was making dinner, she started making their food ever since Naruto said that her cooking was the best when she first made something for him, so he went upstairs to his room and went into the bathroom to get fresh since she wouldn't give him any food if didn't do that.
After he was freshen up he came down and sat down to eat while having small talks with Kurenai, after dinner both Naruto and Kurenai washed the dishes and went upstairs to retire to the bed, after a small make-out session both of them went asleep, well more like Krenai went asleep while Naruto entered his mindscape.
Naruto's Mindscape
After falling asleep Naruto entered his mindscape in order to spend some time with his parents and his tenants.
When he entered his mindscape he noticed that all of the tailed beast and his parents were already waiting for him.
"Hello Naruto, so you finally a ninja huh, how does it feel!" Minato asked with a smile.
"I feel very happy dad, now I'm one step closer to my dream of becoming Hokage and bring peace to the world," Naruto said with a smile.
"I'm very happy for Naruto-kun," Kushina said before she engulfed him in a big hug.
"Naruto we have all given you a gift to you for graduating from the ninja academy," Gyuki said.
"Really, and what's that!" Naruto asked in an excited tone.
"We have tweaked your DNA a little bit, as you know that because of your Uzumaki genes you will have their longevity," Gyuki started earning a nod from Naruto, "Well we changed it a little bit, now not only you will have longer life force, you will also stop aging after you reach the age of twenty five and always remain in your prime until the day you die. This along with your longevity, will also transfer to your mate and offsprings as well," Kurama said, while Naruto blushed after hearing the mate and offsprings as an image of a certain red eyed Kunoichi passed through his mind.
"Look at him, he is blushing already thinking about Kurenai as his wife and their children. They grow up so fast," Kushina said while wiping tears from her eyes causing Naruto to blush even more and Minato and others to sweatdrop at her antics.
"Well that aside, I'm proud of you of what you did today to save your future comrades from Sasuke's attack, you will become a great ninja in the future," Minato said with proud smile on his face.
"Thanks dad, I had to do it otherwise someone would have gotten hurt or worse," Naruto said with a smile on his face.
"And good job beating up the Uchiha for his foolishness today son," Kushina said, "You should rest now, since tomorrow is going to be a big day for you," she suggested Naruto to which he nodded and left his mindscape.
Next Day
Next day Naruto woke up early, before the sun was even up to start his training from all the scrolls that he got yesterday from his family. After he got those scrolls, Naruto thought about first mastering all the styles and then add them to his own Taijutsu and Kenjutsu style creating something new.
When he woke up he saw that Kurenai was still asleep so he decided to let her since she looked so peaceful and he didn't had the heart to disturb her, so he kissed her forehead causing her to smile in her sleep and slipped out of the bed. After completing his morning ritual Naruto went to the training ground and created about a thousand clones and worked on the katas of the styles given to him. He decided to master all the fighting style one at a time before moving on to next, the first he chose was the Hatake Taijutsu style, since it required the speed and agility to evade the attack and then counter them.
After two hours of rediculous amount of training Naruto decided that it was enough and went back inside only to see that Kurenai had woken up and just came back from the bathroom in just a towel which barely hide her huge assets, seeing this Naruto blushed a new shade of red and turned around, while Kurenai, who had also noticed him, also blushed and was amused by his actions.
"Sorry Kure-chan, I didn't mean to walk in on you like that," Naruto said while his back was still toward her and was still a blushing storm.
"It's alright Naru-kun, it wasn't your fault it was just an accident. Now can you please give me the room for five minutes so that I can change," she asked to which Naruto nodded and left.
After five minutes when Kurenai was fully dressed, Naruto came back to the room while still blushing the moment he looked at her, which only made her giggle as sometimes he was just too innocent.
"So how was your training Naru-kun!" she asked, when she woke up she saw that he wasn't in the bed with her, she instantly knew that he was in training ground learning from the scrolls that were given to him, since it was some kind of habit to him to try learn everything that was given to him or taught him as fast as possible.
"It was great, I'm already half through the katas of Hatake style because of shadow clones," he replied happily, "So Kure-chan, do you have any idea on who will be Jounin instructor!" he asked.
"No Naru-kun, I was hoping to get you on my team but the Hokage declined it," she said while frowning as she really wanted him to be on her team.
"Oh it's alright," Naruto said, "So who did you get!" he asked
"Sorry Naru-kun I can't tell you that," she said causing Naruto to sigh in disappointment.
"Oh well it can't be helped, I'm going to get ready for the academy now," Naruto said before he walked into the bathroom.
After an hour later Naruto came downstairs to find Kurenai in the kitchen, when he went their to find Kurenai setting up the table for breakfast. To him Kurenai was perfect and she was just becoming beautiful everyday, from her black long unkempt black hair that reached upper back, red eyes and pink supple lips to her proclain face, she didn't even need any make-up to add to her beauty, she only wore make-up consisting of red lipstick and purple eye shadow. She had a body that any female would kill for and any straight man would drool over, she had D-cup breast size, slim waist, a plump rear and long sexy legs. Her regular outfit was consisted of a red mesh armour blouse with only the right sleeve visible. Overall, this was very broad material which resembles bandages with a pattern on it similar to those of rose thorns. Her hands and upper thighs are also wrapped in bandages and her forehead protector on her forehead.
While Naruto was admiring her beauty, she had noticed him and blushed when she saw him looking at her so intently. She also looked at him, she loved him to death because of his kind heart and good nature, but his handsome looks were a plus as well. He now stood 5'7", the tallest among his age group, he looked like he was about seventeen years old, he still had his spiky blonde hair with two jaw length bangs framing either side of his face, his face was now even more angular and sharper then before, with three whiskers on each side of his cheek which made him even more handsome and exotic in Kurenai's eyes, he looked an exact copy of his father if you remove the whiskers. His outfit was consisted of a dark blue full sleeved shinobi shirt with two white bands on both sleeves, dark blue ANBU pants, a pair of shinobi sandals, and his forehead protector proudly showing on his forehead with some bangs hiding Konoha's insignia. After seeing his outfit she remembered that she had yet give the blonde his gift for graduating from the academy.
"If you are done checking me out Naru-kun then come and eat your breakfast while I go and get your present from upstaires," she said in an amused tone while Naruto blushed at being caught.
"Sorry Kure-chan, but I couldn't control myself since you are too beautiful to not check you out," Naruto said sheepishly with a small blush on his face while Kurenai also blushed.
Naruro sat down and started eating his breakfast while Kurenai went upstairs. After a few minutes Naruto was done and Kurenai also came down with a packet in her hands.
"Here Naru-kun, your present, please open it and tell me how do you like it," she said while handing him his present, which Naruto quicky took and opened it. Inside the packet was a white short sleeved knee length coat, on the middle back of the coat there was a swirl for Uzumaki clan symbol with kanji for 'Perfect Maelstrom' in golden color over it, with a design of red fames licking from the bottom and on the sleeves with blue lightning dancing over the flames, it had the golden trimming on it's collar and on the edge at front of it and had a thin black rope inorder to tie it.
When Naruto wore it, Kurenai couldn't spress a huge blush that crept on her face while looking at him, he looked so handsome to her that she couldn't even look away from him, it was Naruto's voice that broke her out of her stupor.
"Thanks Kure-chan, it means alot to me," Naruto said before giving her a short but sensual kiss on the lips.
"Your welcome Naru-kun," she said while a small blush was still present on her face, "I had it made specially for you, I even added some seals on it, it will grow along with you to fit you, there will be no need to wash it, it will automatically restore the damage done to it although that will be really tough since I added the seals on it to withstand almost any attack, all you have to do is channel a small amount of chakra in it," she explained to Naruto who nodded to her and again gave her a kiss before he said his goodbye to her and left for the academy.
While Naruto was walking toward the academy, he noticed that many girls his age were looking at him with blush and hearts in their eyes, along with some older women, while men and shinobi were looking at him and whispering something about he really look like the Fourth. Along the away he even got chased by some fangirls.
When Naruto reached the academy he saw that all the students were looking at him with wide eyes but he ignored all of them and went to seat with Shikamaru and Choji. Suddenly everyone picked up a noice that sounded like a couple of horses running toward the class and everyone groaned as they knew just who it was.
"HA I WIN INO-PIG, NOW I GET TO SEAT WITH SASUKE-KUN," the pink haired bitch shouted.
"No way you cheated forehead," Ino said
Sakura ignored her and sat with a brooding Sasuke, who was glaring at Naruto, and started fawning over him. That was the seen that Iruka came upon, he tried to gain the attention of the class but to no avail, which made his eyebrows twitch furiously as a tick mark appeared on his head.
"QUIET YOU BRATS AND PAY ATTENTION," Iruka shouted with his big headed jutsu which made everyone in the class to quiet down and look at him, when they looked toward him they noticed that his torso was covered in bandages while his face had few bruises.
"Iruka-sensei, what happened to you, why are you covered in bruises and bandages!" Naruto asked him worriedly.
"I got it last night when I had to fight Mizuki, it turned out that he was a traitor and tried to steal the forbidden scroll from the Hokage's office," he replied with a frown on his face.
"Are you okay?" Naruto asked.
"Yeah! I'm fine now, Tsunade-sama healed me yesterday now it's just few aches and small cuts," Iruka replied with a small smile on his face in order to assure his favourite student.
"Alright class it's been a pleasure to teach you all and now for the teams names-" but before he could start a knock on the door interrupted him, when he opened the door he saw a pale looking kid with a fake smile on his face.
"May I come in instructor-san, I am the new student here," he said.
"Ah yes yes you may come in," Iruka said before he turned toward the class, who were looking at the seen, and said, "Class this the new student of your batch, he had already passed the exams last year but he was on the reserve list," he then turned toward the new student, "Why don't you introduce yourself!" he suggested to which the new new kid nodded and turned toward the class.
"Hello my name is Sai and I graduated from the academy last year and was on a reserve list for a new team," he said while still had the fake smile plastered on his face.
"Why don't you take seat Sai while I announce this year's teams," Iruka said to which Sai nodded and sat with Sakura and Sasuke, and called Sakura ugly which got laughter from the whole class and a loud screech from Sakura, while he greeted Sasuke by calling him dickless which again got laughter from the class, an annoyed grunt from Sasuke and a screech from the pink haired howler again. Iruka let that happen for a few minutes since he himself was busy controlling his own laughter before he got class' attention and started announcing the teams at which Naruto tuned Iruka out until it was his turn.
"... Team 7 will be Sai, Sakura Haruno and Sasuke Uchiha. You team instructor will be Kakashi Hatake," Iruka said but he could continue he was interrupted by a very loud screech.
"TAKE THAT INO-PIG, TRUE LOVE ALWAYS PREVAIL," the pink haired banshee screeched causing everyone in the class to cover their ears while both Kiba and his companion, Akamaru were whimpering because of the loud voice.
"Shut up Sakura, now team 8 will Hinata Hyūga, Kiba Inuzuka and Shino Aburame, your Jounin instructor is Kurenai Yūhi. Team 9 is already active so it will not be formed. Team 10 will be Ino Yamanaka, Choji Akimichi and Shikamaru Nara, your Jounin instructor is Asuma Sarutobi," Iruka finished.
"What about me Iruka sensei!" Naruto asked.
"You are chosen by Jiraiya-sama of the Sannin to be his apprentice," Iruka replied with a smile.
"Why is that dobe chosen by the Sannin not me, I'm an Uchiha, an elite, Jiraiya should be begging to me to teach him not that dobe," Sasuke shouted but he quickly shut up when he felt Naruto's KI on him.
"Listen here Uchiha and listen well, you will talk about my Godfather with respect otherwise I will pulverise you," Naruto growled, he had enough of the Uchiha.
"What do you mean by that Naruto?" Kiba questioned.
"What I mean Kiba, is that both Jiraiya and Tsunade of the Sannin are my Godparents and I will not tolerate it if someone talk like that about them," Naruto said shocking the whole class except for Iruka since he already knew, everyone in the clasd knew that he was the son of the Fourth Hokage, Minato Namikaze and the Red Death, Kushina Uzumaki Namikaze but they certainly didn't knew that two of the Sannin were his Godparents.
Before anyone could even say anything, the door slide open and Jiraiya walked in and looked at Naruto, "Naruto meet me at training ground forty three in thirty minutes," and with that he puffed out of the class.
Naruto stood up and left the stunned class. Naruto reached his destination before even thirty minutes and saw that Jiraiya was already there waiting for him.
"Hey Ero-sennin," Naruto greeted.
"Damnit brat stop calling me that," Jiraiya said in an irritated tone before his face turned serious, "Well let's plan your training, we will train here everyday except for the weekends, on those days you will be doing joint training with other teams, I will help you master all the fighting styles that you got from the others and do some mission. We will both go on some C-rank and above while you will do D-rank mission with other teams. Understood," he said to which Naruto nodded.
"I understand that but I will not do any training excercise with team 7 otherwise I will really kill the Uchiha and his pink haired fangirl because I know he will do something that I will not tolerate and his banshee of a fangirl will just agree with the Uchiha on just everything no matter how wrong it is," Naruto said in a serious tone.
"That is acceptable but you will have to do any mission you are given by the Hokage with them," Jiraiya said in a tone that clearly did not leave any room for an argument.
"Now then let's get started, shall we," Jiraiya said and then went into his sensei mode and trained Naruto for five hours straight before they both went to the Namikaze Compound.
Namikaze Compound
When Naruto and Jiraiya reached the compund they saw that Tsunade, Kurenai, Kakashi, Hiruzen and Anko were there talking among themselves.
"So Anko nee-chan, are you ready?" Naruto asked to which she nodded.
"Naruto why did you wanted us here?" Kakashi asked.
"I will tell you guys why but first let me explain this seal to all of you. This seal has four layers, first layer contains the influence seal that influences the victim's will, second contains the slave seal, third contains a small part of Orochimaru's soul, and fourth contains the foul chakra whose fuction is to taint the chakra of the victim," Naruto said shocking everyone but before anyone could continue Naruto again started, "I wanted you guys here because I will need you guys to destroy Orochimaru's soul when it comes out, I wanted Baa-chan here because after I remove the seal, nee-chan will suffer fatigue and a severe case of chakra exhaustion," they nodded and Naruto got to work.
Naruto took out a paper and ink and started drawing the counter seal. When it was completed Naruto put it on Anko's neck where the curse seal was and flared his chakra while going through some handseals and then touched the seal and yelled,
"Uzumaki Hijutsu: Cursed Seal Unseal"
As soon as he said that the seal glowed for a moment before Anko started screaming in pain while a snake like creature started coming out of the seal and turned into Orochimaru. When Orochimaru's soul was out, Kakashi, Jiraiya and Hiruzen did not waste anytime and destroyed it, while Anko's screaming ceased and she slumped. When Naruto was done, he let out a breath before he removed the paper from her neck and everyone saw that the curse seal was no more before Tsunade started healing Anko.
"Alright it worked, I have completely removed the seal the only thing she needs now is rest and she have to make sure that she do not use any chakra for a month since the seal removal put a lot of strain on her chakra pathways," Naruto informed Hiruzen who was looking at the unconscious Anko.
"That can be manageable, I will tell when she wakes up, it is small price to pay in order to remove that cursed seal she got from my wayward student," the old man said.
"I think I will take Anko to her house so she can rest I will also inform Iruka to look after her and also about not using any chakra for a month," Kurenai said before she grabbed Anko and left via shunshin.
"So nii-san, how do you like your team!" Naruto asked
"If team you mean by an emo whose ego knows no bounds, a banshee who is nothing but a pathetic fangirl and a creepy guy, then no I'm not happy with my team," Kakashi said in a lazy tone but everyone could hear disappointment in it.
"Don't worry Kakashi, you haven't tested them yet so it might not be that bad," Hiruzen said assuringly.
"You know that this team will not work Hokage-sama since we saw that Sasuke don't give a damn about teamwork and comrades as long as he gets what he wants, Sakura only graduated because of her booksmarts so I don't think that she have any skills and we both know that Sai is one of Danzo's drone," Kakashi said.
"Don't worry nii-san, it will get better," Naruto said.
"I'm not all that sure about it but thanks, so who is your instructor!" Kakshi asked
"I'm chosen as an apprentice by Ero-sennin," Naruto said causing Kakashi to glare at Jiraiya for stealing Naruto as his student.
"If you turn him into a pervert, I will castrate you," Kurenai said in a very threatning voice, who just had arrived.
"Now now, no need to be like that Kurenai," Jiraiya said while sweating bullets.
"She is right Jiraiya if you do something like that then I will join her and I'm sure Anko and Yugao will be more than happy to join us as well," Tsunade said in a very sickly sweet tone causing Jiraiya to turn pale and run away from them to save his life which caused everyone present to laugh.
"Now look what you did to poor Jiraiya," Hiruzen said.
"What! We just told him the truth, if he ever try to corrupt Naruto, then I will carry out my threat, we already have Jiraiya, you and Kakashi as perverts we don't need Naruto to turn into one too," Tsunade said, causing the Hokage to grumble something about disrespectful students.
"Well I must go now since I've some business to attend to, and by the way thank you Naruto-kun for telling me the cheat code to defeat the evil that is paperwork," Hiruzen said and turned to leave but before he could open the door, Naruto said something which caused the old man to grumble something about disrespectful blonde brats.
"And by business you mean that you are going read that perverted book that nii-san always read and Ero-sennin write," Naruto said cheekily and chuckled when he heard the old man grumble before he left.
"I'm going as well, otherwise Shizune will get into her grumpy mode," Tsunade said before she left.
"I'm going as well since there is a road of life that I must cross," Kakashi said lazily and left.
After everyone left Kurenai went into the kitchen and started making dinner while Naruto left to his room to changed. After changing into normal clothes, Naruto came down and ate his dinner before both of them retired to the bed.
Next Day
Hokage office
Currently all the Jounin sensei were present in the Hokage's office, with a bunch of Hokage's shadow clones doing the paperwork, and were all waiting for Kakashi because he was running three hours late... again. Suddenly a puff was heard and they a very lazy looking Kakashi coming out of the smoke and much to every female's ire had a very annoying orange little book in his hands.
"Sorry Hokage-sama, I'm late again because I got lost on the road of life," Kakashi said earning groans from everyone present in the room.
"Alright, now that Kakashi have arrived, why don't all of you give me your reports regarding your teams," Hiruzen said while glaring at Kakashi, which the lazy man just shrugged off.
"Team 1, failed,"
"Team 2, failed,"
"Team 3, failed,"
"Team 4, failed,"
"Team 5, failed,"
"Team 6, failed,"
"Team 7, passed," Kakashi said earning gasps and surprised looks from everyone present in the office causing him to sweatdrop, he wasn't that bad, was he.
"Team 8, passed," Kurenai said.
"Team 10, passed," Asuma said.
"Alright everyone except for Kakashi, Kurenai and Asuma are dismissed," Hiruzen said and all Jounin except for those three left, "Report."
"Team 7, for the lack of better word is pathetic," Kakashi said harshly surprising everyone by his tone and the description of his team, "the only member on the team who is remotely good is Sai, other than him both members are idiots. Sasuke Uchiha is an arrogant, egostatical brat, who want nothing but power by any means necessary, he is talented and good but nothing special, Sakura Haruna isn't even fit to be a ninja, she have no skills outside her booksmarts, she couldn't even dispell a simple Genjutsu. Sai is a creepy guy but he is most likely the strongest genin after Naruto ofcourse."
"For their genin test, I had conducted my bell test and Sasuke and Sakura didn't even had a clue on the meaning of the test, the only reason they passed is by a fluke, Sai was the one who quickly figured out the meaning but when he told his teammates about it, they scoffed him, Sasuke by saying that he don't need anyone's help because he is from the Uchiha clan and they are elites, while Sakura, well she was in her own fantasy that she and Sasuke will be in a team and then Sasuke will save her on missions. The only reason they all passed is because when I tied Sakura to the tree post and told both Sasuke and Sai to eat infront of her and went to hide inorder to watch what they will do now, I saw that Sai offered his food to Sakura while he included the Uchiha by saying that she needs to eat otherwise she will even more of a dead weight then she already was," Kakashi finished his report.
"Team 8 consisting of Hinata Hyūga, Kiba Inuzuka and Shino Aburame passed my test quite fantastically, the only problem from my team is Hinata's lack of confidence and Kiba's overconfidence, other than that my team is good," Kurenai said.
"Team 10 consisting of Ino Yamanaka, Chozi Akimichi and Shikamaru Nara, passed my test rather easily. Shikamaru on my team is a genius but is rather lazy just like other members of his clan, Ino has a lot of potential but is a fangirl, but she is coming out of her fangirl tendencies after she saw what Sasuke did at the graduation exam and Choji while being the strongest on my team, doesn't like to fight that much," Asuma said.
"Alright you are all dismissed and Kakashi I want you to keep an eye on Sasuke, while I may have assigned one of Danzo's drone to watch him, I will be even more confident if someone I have my trust in watch Sasuke and if he show any sign of betrayal, I want you to report me before you take action," Hiruzen said to Kakashi to which he nodded and left with the other two Jounin leaving the old man alone, who took out a little orange book, opened it and giggled perversely.
One and a half month later
It's been over a month since Naruto was taken as an apprentice by Jiraiya, during that time alot changed, Naruto was almost finished mastering his new fighting styles and was now on his way to mix all the fighting style he knew, like in Taijutsu he was going to mix the hummingbird style for it's speed and quick attacks, frog style for it's great defence, Hatake style for it's agility, fox style for it's unpredictability, which he leart from his mother, and Goken for it's power and same was for his Kenjutsu. In that time alot had happened as well, such as Naruto and Jiraiya went on may C-rank and higher missions, while Naruto took some D-rank missions with other teams but there was one thing that Naruto will never forget, it was when his parents time with him was up.
It was about three weeks ago when they informed Naruto that their chakra was almost used and were about to disappear.
Flashback
Naruto and the one's he consider as his family were inside his mindscape and were currently looking at his parents who had informed him that their time was up about an hour ago.
"There has to be something that I can do to keep you guys, I don't want you to leave me," Naruto said while tears were streaming down his face.
"There is nothing you can do Naruto, remember we are already dead and these bodies are nothing but the manifestation of our chakra and soul that I sealed inside of you," Minato said sadly, "and besides we will always be alive as long as we are in your heart," he said while placing his hand on Naruto's heart.
"And besides we have taught you everything we knew Naruto, so it is time for us to leave. But remember that no matter what happens we will always be proud of you my son," Minato said before he noticed that he was fading, "Well it is time for me to go, my chakra has run out, I will meet you on the other side Kushi-chan," he said to Kushina, "Always remember son that I will always love you," and with that the Fourth Hokage, Yellow Flash of Konoha, Minato Namikaze, Naruto's father faded while Naruto wept but his tears ceased when he was engulfed in a comforting hug from his mother.
"Always remember that your father loved you from all his heart just as I do," Kushina said with a smile before she turned to the others, who were watching the seen sadly, "I leave him in your care please keep him safe," she said to them.
"Don't worry Kushina, I will keep him safe afterall what kind of grandfather would I be if I can't even keep my grandson safe, so rest assure," Hiruzen said.
"As a big brother it is my duty to keep him safe," Kakashi said with a smile.
"As his Godparents, both me and the pervert here will keep him safe and make him strong in the process," Tsunade said, who had tears streaming down her face, while Jiraiya just nodded.
"Thank you everyone," Kushina said before she turned toward Jiraiya and glared at him causing the pervert to sweat alot, "Remember Jiraiya, if you turn him into a pervert then I will be waiting for you on the other side with my chara chains and Minato's Rasengan," to which Jiraiya nodded furiously.
She then turned toward her son, who was looking at her helplessly, helpless that he couldn't do anything to save his parents, she noticed that she was starting to fade, "Thank you for being my son Naruto-kun, and remember that I and your father will always love you and we will always be proud of you. Live your life to the fullest and enjoy it for me my son," she said with tears down her face before she turned toward Kurenai, "Keep my baby boy happy," she said before she got a mischievous look in her eyes that everyone usually saw in Naruto's eyes, "And Naruto-kun, Kurenai, give me lots granchildren alright," and with that she faded leaving a heavily blushing couple and a small group of chuckling people in her wake.
Flashback end
Later that day Naruto wept and was comforted by Kurenai but three days later Naruto bounced back to his old self and trained with new determination.
Naruto was currently on his way toward the Hokage tower with team 8 after completing another D-rank mission. Ever since team selections Naruto had been going on D-rank missions with team 8, 10 and sometimes team 7, in which Sasuke would just always glare at him while Sakura fawn over Sasuke and Sai always gave him a fake smile. Naruto was brought out his musings when he heard Kurenai say that they have reached the tower.
Hokage Office
The old man was currently reading the new edition of Icha Icha while his clones were doing the paperwork, when he heard a knowck on his door, he quickly hide his book and cleared his throat before saying, "Come in," he said the door open and in walked his favourite blonde and team 8.
"Hey Jiji, we completed our mission," Naruto said while Hinata, Kiba, Shino and even Akamaru shook their heads seeing Naruto so casually converse with the village leader while Kurenai merely giggled, no matter how many times they see it they could never get used to it.
"I can see that my boy, so tell if you want another mission or you want to train today," the old kage asked.
"Well I was goin-," Naruto started but he was cutoff when a chunin barged throught the door huffing and puffing with a scroll in hands.
"Hokage-sama, forgive me for barging in like this but there is an important message from Kakashi Hatake," the chunin said before handing over the scroll to the old man and left.
The Hokage took the scroll and read it before, "WHAT!" he yelled.
"What's the matter Jiji, why did you yelled like that, is nii-san okay!" Naruto asked.
"Two days ago Kakashi and his team requested a C-rank mission which I gave them, it was an escort mission to the Wave country, but the client lied to us saying that it was a simple escort mission but it turned out more than that," Hiruzen started before he took a deep breath to calm his nerves and again started, "On the way they were attacked by the Demon Brothers, the B-rank missing nin from Kiri, Kakashi's team easily disposed them and Kakashi threatened the client to answer his question, the client said that the country was so poor that they couldn't afford the pay for B or A-rank mission since it was taken over by the tyrant, Gatō of the Gatō Shipping Production Company. When Kakashi said that they were going to cancel the mission the Uchiha disagreed," he said.
"Needless to say that the Uchiha wanted to prove himself as the best, and nii-san agreed to the Uchiha so that he don't have to put up with the Uchiha's pestering, but it turned out to be more than Sasuke could chew, am I correct!" Naruto asked.
"Yes Naruto-kun, you are correct in your assumption, on the way they encountered, Zabuza Momochi, an A-rank missing nin from Kiri. They survived the encounter but Kakashi requested back-up because there could be more missing nin hired by Gatō," the old man said before he turned serious and looked at them, "Team 8 and Naruto-kun, you are going as the back up for team 7 and Kurenai you are going to be the in-charge of this mission along with Kakashi," he said to which they all nodded.
"Alright I want all of you to meet me at village gates in an hour," Kurenai said before she left along with Naruto.
Village Gates After One Hour
Every member of team eight was at the village gates waiting for Kurenai and Naruto to show up, it wasn't long before Naruto and Kurenai came.
"Alright now that everyone is here let's head out," Kurenai said.
"Hey Naruto, where is your stuff," Kiba said when he noticed the lack of bag with Naruto and Kurenai.
"Here in this storage scroll," Naruto replied while showing them the scroll before he went ahead with Kurenai with Team 8 in toe.
To be continued...