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'Demon/Inner Sakura/Summon thoughts'
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Chapter 54: Small tour and a housewarming gift
Naruto and the other rookies were no longer in the garden as Naruto decided to give them a tour of the new compound.
"How the heck did you get the funds to build this place?"
Naruto looked to Shikamaru who was the one that asked the question making sure that he didn't move too much since Hanabi was at the moment riding on his back while having one of his tails as a makeshift seatbelt. "Well, most of my missions pay from the missions I go on go unused since I was living in the forest of death since the Suna attack."
Karin sighed at hearing this "how can you even think about living in there? Most of us went through hell during the Chunin exams!"
Sakura nodded "yeah and even you were panicking when you were being chased by that giant snake."
Everyone looked at the fox in intrigue since none of them knew exactly what team 7 went through inside that forest.
Naruto continued forward, not looking at anyone as he spoke "Sakura, that snake wasn't part of the forest of death. That was a summon from the snake-teme. And as for how I could think about living there, I have spent a lot of my time there during our academy days. It was a good place to hunt without being overcharged for food."
Kiba chucked a bit "well that explains what you said to that crazy snake woman before we went in."
"You mean Anko-nee-chan. Yeah, she ran into me one time and thought she was the only one that used the forest as a playground. At one point we started to see who could steal the most food from the wildlife in there. She always won, until I started going as a fox."
Shikamaru noted this piece of info "so she knows about you?"
"Yep. she used to guard me when I shifted."
Everyone nodded as they really didn't want to hear more about his shifting since they grimaced at hearing it. They could only imagine how painful it was for him and they really didn't want to.
Naruto led them to a long hallway that had rooms that were finished "this is the area I made that is meant for anyone that wants to crash here for a bit."
Kiba poked his head inside one of the rooms and whistled in appreciation "damn this room is bigger than the one I have! Not fair!"
*ARF*
Everyone peaked into a room themselves and they couldn't help but be impressed. There wasn't much of a difference between them but they were furnished with a shelf, a desk, futon, and a large walk-in closet. Each room was a Japanese style, with tatami flooring and paper sliding doors.
Once they all went back to the hallway Tenten remembered something "hey you didn't tell us how you were able to pay for all this. You said that you use your mission money but I doubt you make enough for all this."
Naruto gained his foxy grin as he asked "any of you ever been to a casino before?"
Most of them shook their head as they didn't see a point.
Kiba was the only one who nodded "yeah. Went to the one close to my clan compound with my mom before. We went there for a bit of fun. Lost a lot of my money when I went."
"Have you seen it recently?"
Kiba thought about the lace before Akamaru barked at him *Aarf* "oh yeah. It was closed due to some incident."
Naruto nodded "yep! The reason it closed was because it no longer had any money to give anyone. They had to close for a bit because they needed to regain some of it so they could pay the people that won."
Shikamaru was beginning to put the pieces together but he wanted to get the most negative solution out of the way first "don't tell me you stole the money?"
Naruto shook his head "nope." he began walking again "I won all the money."
"WHAT!?" they all ran to catch up with him
"Yep. I have insane luck when it comes to gambling. During missions outside the village, I went to casinos and won a lot of money. I even go to casinos here to win as well. I think I'm banned from seven casinos in Konoha." his smile grew mischievous "not like that would stop me."
Ino slapped him in the back of the head "don't go bankrupting businesses on a whim."
"Ow"
He continued his tour until he reached a hatch that was on the other side of the mansion. He lifted the hatch to show that it was a set of crudely made stairs "this is the last thing to show you guys in this mansion." he used one of his tails to take Hanabi of his back, much to the little girl's ire, since the passageway was just big enough for him to walk through with his back just a few inches fro the ceiling. "Need to make this bigger."
Everyone followed Naruto through the downward but they couldn't really see where they were going since Naruto's tails were clumped behind him. After they walked down the stairs a good while they made it to a passageway that seemed just as cramped for the fox as the stairway was. They were at least happy that there were mining lights lining the walls. Once they saw Naruto reach a larger room they all finally saw what they were heading to. They saw that it was a massive dugout cavern with the flor being smooth out a bit.
Neji had to ask "what is this Naruto-san?"
Naruto sat down as Hanabi moved to his tails and plopped down to them. "I was planning on making a large underground training area. I still have to make this bigger since at the moment I think it only takes up like half of the mansion."
Lee shouted out in excitement "THIS IS THE MOST YOUTHFUL TRAINING AREA I HAVE EVER SEEN!" *seen seen seen*
Everyone waited for the echo to die down before one of them spoke
"You sure this is a good idea? To carve out all of this right under your mansion?"
Naruto looked up at the ceiling "yeah I thought it was a bad idea at first too when one of the rooms fell down here…."
Everyone paled at hearing this as they all began to feel nervous about causing a cave in.
"But I plan on reinforcing this whole room with concrete and support beams. I also plan on making some seals that will stabilize it so that there is less chance of that happening."
Everyone felt a bit of relief at hearing that.
Choji then asked "hey how big is this place?"
Naruto thought about this and answered "well I'm making it big enough so I could maybe summon the toad boss.
"How big is he?"
"About the same size as the Ichibi"
Choji whistled in amazement "you think I could come here sometime and train when it's done?"
Naruto nodded "sure. That's one of the reasons I showed this to you guys. I mean this place is huge so I thought maybe you guys would at some point come by and hang out or train."
Karin put her hands on her hips as she looked at him as if he was an idiot "well you made a massive place that will only have one occupant. Why not get a house, since it would make more sense?"
"I made it as a way of saying 'screw you' to the villagers that were always making my life harder. And I felt it would be nice in having a large place like this."
"So you just went with this on a whim?"
Naruto shrugged
Everyone sighed at this but they couldn't really say anything bad about it since they all thought that it was an amazing place for a clan.
Naruto got up as he made his way to the passageway with Hanabi holding on to one of his tails "come on. There is still more to show you." he moved his tail to drop Hanabi into Hinata's arms as they all made their way back to surface level.
Once the group made it they all realized how stuffy the lower level was
Sakura looked to Naruto with an irritated look "you should get some air circulation down there otherwise if someone were to train down there they might exhaust themselves too fast."
Naruto thought about it and nodded "I'll add it to the list of things I need to add." He then led them out the back of the mansion to show that there was much more land there and another large building just a few yards away.
Everyone couldn't help but deadpan at Naruto for the ludicrous amount of space he had.
Hinata, who let Hanabi go so she could ride on Naruto again asked "Naruto-kun what is in that building?"
"The bathhouse."
"...WHAT!?"
"Yeah, I once went to one and thought it was a lot better than my dingy bathroom so I chose to make one of my own. I'm not finished decorating it yet but it's usable."
Kiba got in Naruto's face and shouted "you have an entire compound to yourself and you have your own bathhouse. You could start a business with that there and make a killing!"
Naruto shrugged
"...can I move in with ya?"
Everyone besides Naruto and Hanabi, face faulted at this.
Naruto looked at Kiba before saying "you could sleep over some time but I doubt your mom would let you move in really."
Kiba thought about what was said and realized that Naruto was right. He grumbled to himself as Akamaru patted his head in sympathy.
After that, they went back inside the mansion into the living room, where Kiba once again shouted at Naruto for having a tv and tape player (VHS). they spent the rest of the day just talking and hanging out with some of the girls talking about what he could do to make the place look better. Well, mainly Ino and Sakura saying what he could do. When night fell everyone decided it was time to head home much to Hanabi's ire again since she was enjoying her time petting Naruto and treating him somewhat like an oversized pet.
Neji and Hinata could not help but smile at how childish the young Hyuga was becoming.
Naruto smiled at how the day went, with his friend accepting him as he was and that they thought his new living place was amazing. He didn't feel like he should do anything else for the day so he made himself some ramen and decided to call it a night. Heading to the master bedroom, which was several times the size of the other rooms, he looked it over and felt that something was off.
In the center of the room was a massive bed that could hold up to five of him. He wanted to go big for it. On the side of the bed was a pile of pillows that he bought in case he wanted to sleep on them instead. A dresser that had his clothes and a closet that held his ninja tools. What was off was that on the side of the bed just above the pile of pillows was a small table that he would use for whatever reason. The table itself wasn't the issue. It was what was on the table. He moved closer to it and was stunned by what was there. A picture inside a simple frame right above a scarf.
"That scarf was something your mother made for you before you were born."
Naruto didn't look back as he moved to the items and placed his paw on the scarf, making sure not to cut it with his claws. He looked from the scarf to the picture and asked "how did….?"
"You can thank the Kyuubi for that one. During the Chunin exams, Orochimaru summoned your father in order to give him an edge against me. Kyuubi, in quick thinking, was able to get Minato on our side and we drove him off. Before the jutsu that brought Minato back ended, Kyuubi asked for this action to be done. Fortunately, I had an Anbu retrieve a camera for me at a quick pace and he and Minato posed for this."
Naruto looked at the picture. It was of his father kneeling behind Naruto with a big smile on his face while the Naruto clone in the picture had his eyes closed with his usual foxy grin and giving a peace sign to the camera. It was a moment he never really got to experience since he never got to meet his father in the real world but this picture meant so much to him. Especially the words that were written at the bottom right corner.
"I'm proud of you my son! -Minato Namikaze, your father."
Naruto couldn't help the happy tears that fell from his eyes down his muzzle. He turned around and hugged his spontaneous visitor with as much strength as he could without hurting him as he whispered out "thank you Jiji!"
Hiruzen smiled as he hugged the fox boy back "your welcome Naruto-kun."
Nauto now had something from both his parents and it was thanks to two people that cared for him 'thank you Rama-tou-chan!'
"You're welcome Kit."
End of chapter
This was brought up to my attention. SASUKE, who do you guys want him to be paired with since Sakura is no longer going to be paired with him.. Leave that in a review and I will consider them since I have other characters that could use a pairing.
So I gave Naruto a compound that is far bigger than one person should have but hey it's fanfic.
I never forgot about the picture that was insinuated back during the end of the Chunin exams arc. It's just that only now does he get that little bit as well as the scarf that Hiruzen apparently had in storage. Since Hiruzen is retired, I figured that he would actually have the time to go through his storage and find it to give it to the boy.
I'm thinking of having someone move in with Naruto but not sure if I should or not.
The lower level training room was something that I figured would be usable for secret training. The compound isn't finished yet so there is room to add more stuff.
Ok on a note away from this chapter. I am rewriting the first two chapters since I am kind of tired of hearing that the mob start is a weak start. I get it, it is an overused and bad opening trope but this was my first fic and I had no idea on how to start this. If ANYONE has ANY ideas that I could use for a better start let me know. Heck if you want to rewrite the damn chapters then go ahead, write it, send it to me, I give you credit and then we all live happily ever after -_-. So chapter 55 will take a bit longer till it's uploaded since I will be doing that. I was actually planning on doing this anyway, I just never got around to it
Sorry but I got a bunch of Pms telling me that the start was junk and a couple reviews saying the same thing. There were only a few that were actual criticism instead of a hate review.
Anyway, I hope you enjoyed this chapter.
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