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Training Ground 6 Two Weeks After the Bell Test

Third POV

Naruto was excited. Not for the D-Rank hell that would be her life for the next six months, but for the single moment that this morning was going to bring her when her team found out about said D-Rank hell. She planned on having Iruka-sensei snap a picture of her beloved teams faces the moment Kaka-Baka announced their first mission. Especially little Aiko-Chan's.

Naruto could already feel the cackle bubbling up as she approached her team that were all assembled for the day. They all looked so excited, even Tadashi, in his own little way.

"Good morning Team!" Naruto called out once she got close enough to not have to scream at the top of her lungs, "And how are my cute little Genin doing this lovely morning?"

Tadashi, of course had already had her chakra signature pinged before she even got close so he was not surprised like his teammates, and only gave a nod as his two more energetic teammates whipped around to face Naruto.

"Naruto-sensei! I've been here for hours!" Naruto looked at her more loud-mouthed male student with a raised eyebrow, "I know you said to get plenty of rest, but I really just couldn't sleep. I am just so pumped for our first real mission!"

Aiko, even more so than Mamoru, was bouncing around like it was her job to be as noisy and boisterous as possible. Which the irony of such was not at all lost on the three's sensei.

Mamoru, while only slightly more docile, was still making his joy obvious, "Sensei, what's our first mission gonna be? Are we protecting some merchant from some bandits, or escorting a dignitary to protect them from missing-nin? Are we finding an enemy hole?!" He jumped so that he had latched himself to Naruto's back, with Kaname nimbly making her way onto Naruto's head.

Naruto couldn't help the chuckle that escaped her, "Well I suppose we will be finding that out once we get to the Hokage's office, now won't we?"

Aiko was suddenly attached to Naruto's front, and had Naruto been a lesser Shinobi, she might have fallen at their students exuberance, however she simply shifted Aiko so that she was situated on her left hip; "Wait wait wait! Hokage-sama's the one who's going to be assigning us our first mission?" Aiko hollered almost directly in Naruto's ear.

Cringing, Tadashi looked to his two teammates who were clinging to their sensei as if she was their own mother and that was where they belonged. He felt torn between admonishing their childish mannerisms or being envious of their easy shows of affection.

"Well of course, Aiko-Chan. It is tradition after all," Naruto said with a pat to Aiko's head before walking forward to scoop up her last charge rather unceremoniously.

Mamoru and Aiko snickered as Naruto bent down to swoop up Tadashi onto her right hip and he let out a squawk, flailing his arms about wildly before latching them around Naruto's neck, tucking his face into the groove where her shoulder met her throat where he could feel the vibrations of her throaty chuckle.

"Alright then my cute little Genin, let's get going!"

With Team 7 in the Village

"Menma-kun, what do you think about my new outfit?" Sakura asked of her now boyfriend at the entrance to a shop near Ichiraku, since they had just had a small good-wishes breakfast with his sister, who was going to be taking her new Genin on their first mission today.

"Hmmm?" Menma looked over at Sakura and saw her wearing a gorgeous red high-low top that showed just a small amount of belly from just above her bellybutton before dipping down and covering everything from the backside, along with a white pair of capris and heeled black ninja sandals, "Oh, I noticed that earlier Sakura-chan. It lookes beautiful on you." He replied with a wide grin on his face.

Sakura, for her part, shifted from side to side, clutching her hands in front of herself. She still couldn't believe that she had fallen for the red head in front of her, and despite her doubts, she couldn't be happier. She had thought for so long that she had been in love with Sasuke that she had ignored the little voice in her head that told her to take the Uzumaki seriously. She still wanted to apologize for the way she had acted when they were younger but she just couldn't bring herself to start the conversation. She was so embarrassed by her younger selfs words and actions that she just couldn't bear to ask whether he truly forgave her for them.

"Thank you Menma-kun. You don't know how much that means to me."

Menma blinked at Sakura for a moment before reaching out to take one of her hands from where they were clasped, "Hey, none of that. I still may not understand why you doubt yourself so much, but you should never worry about that stuff with me. I'd think you were just as beautiful if you wore a flour sack and messy hair. It's not about the clothes or the hair, or anything like that. I may be kinda thick sometimes, but trust me when I say it's you I love, not your looks."

Sakura couldn't help the wide eyed stare she gave him. She had never been told something so sweet. She only remembered all of the rejections and insults that Sasuke had given her growing up about being annoying and useless.

Before she could reply, she caught sight of something behind Menma that made her giggle, causing Menma to turn around and see what it was that had distracted her. She heard him choke when he caught sight of his sister carrying her team through Konoha's streets: one little boy, an Inuzuka if the markings said anything, clinging to her back in a piggy back style, a little girl on her left hip talking animatedly, a quiet boy on her right hip with his face mostly buried in the crook of her neck, with only one half of his face peeking out to see where they were going, but the best of it all with the little wolf pup perched happily on top of her head, seemingly snoozing away.

"What in the actual hell do those little brats think they're doing?" Menma growled out, "don't they know any respect? They're ninja for Kami's sake!"

Sakura let a full laugh out before calling out to Naruto, "Naruto-san! How are the little brats doing?"

Naruto looked over to them while the little girl who had previously been chatting to the rest of her team turned as much as she could to get a look at the speaker, before her eyes widened comically.

"Wah! Naruto-sensei is that really Sakura-San with your brother?" Sakura heard the girl call out. Well, if she had one thing to say about the girl already, it was that she knew her famous Shinobi.

"Yes, that's really Sakura-chan, Aiko-chan. I know you look up to her a lot too." Naruto said with a sly smile towards Sakura.

"Oh, so you know about me then little Aiko-chan? That's very sweet of you." Sakura smiled down at the girl in Naruto's arms.

"Oh whatever. You can coo about her all you want later. What I want to know is why three Shinobi aren't walking by themselves instead of being carried when they aren't injured." Menma broke into the conversation.

"Nonsense. Stop trying to pick on my team Menma-kun. They're perfect where they are. I'll carry my damn team if I want to ototou. I did it plenty with you when you were little." Naruto said with a slightly sharp edge to her own voice, looking at Menma with an admonishing eye.

"Naruto-San, while I think it's adorable, they are Shinobi of their own right. Do you really think it's best to carry them in such a way?" Sakura broke in before Menma could stick his foot any further in his mouth.

"Sensei said that we're fine so we're fine, dammit! No one questions Sensei. Sensei knows best, right Kaname?" Mamoru finally broke in, with his companion sounding off from her nap to confirm Mamorus words.

Tadashi however, refused to speak. He knew that the two other Shinobi were right (after all, hadn't he been the one earlier considering chiding his teammates about being mature?) but he also felt warm and oddly happy with where he was at. He didn't want to pull away from the comfort his Sensei was offering by simply keeping him in her arms; and he especially didn't want to leave when he could feel the chakra of a strange Shinobi hiding behind a nearby pole. He knew all of the chakra signatures of the village Shinobi but this one was foreign to him so he was automatically weary of it.

Tadashis thoughts were interrupted when he heard the growling of his Sensei's brother, "Why you little brat—"

"Menma, weren't we supposed to be waiting on Sasuke-kun?" Sakura interrupted quickly, knowing that Menma was rather territorial about his only sibling.

"I'm right here." Came a deep voice from right behind the two members of team 7.

Menma whipped around to look at the new member of the conversation only to see his third and final teammate, "Sasuke-teme! What the hell took you so long huh?!"

"He's been there the entire time Naruto-sensei." Tadashi finally said to her. He knew the name Sasuke and he didn't like it. He was known to be a traitor, one of the last Uchiha besides his own mother and some branch family children that had survived Madara Uchihas slaughter thanks in no small part to his own brother. Of course his brother had ended up getting blamed until Menma and Naruto had worked to clear his name after his death. So Tadashi supposed he could understand, but that didn't make him okay with the Uchiha.

Naruto couldn't help the laugh that bubbles out of her at the look on Sasuke's face when Tadashi called him out. She herself had also known her was there but it appeared that Menma and Sakura hadn't.

"What do you mean he's been there the whole time, brat?" Menma asked, looking rather confused to the young Shinobi.

"He means that Sasuke was hiding behind that pole since before I even walked up. I could sense him the moment I started approaching. Tadashi probably knew he was there even earlier than I did."

At this point Sasuke was becoming frustrated. How could such a little brat know that he was even there? He had never heard of such a skilled natural sensor before; not even with Karin, "Naruto-sempai, are these your students that I've been hearing so much about?"

At this point Aiko was getting tired of conversation and wanted to get to her first mission, "Naruto-sensei can we please go get our mission now? You promised that we'd be there bright and early!"

"Yeah, Sensei!" Mamoru kicked in, "we want to get our first mission already!"

Sasuke let just a small chuckle escape, drawing all attention to himself, "I can still remember our excitement for our first mission. Kakashi-Sensei was three hours late to meet us, then of course he always took his time getting anywhere."

"Oh yeah! Kami I hated it when he did that. And hmthen when he did show up he would just be reading that nasty Icha Icha book. I'm just thankful that neither of these two idiots picked that up." Sakura laughed, causing her two male teammates to pout.

"Sakura-chan! It's not my fault that both of my Sensei were perverts." Menma whined at his girlfriend.

It was that moment that Naruto decided to take her leave. This time instead of leisurely walking through the street, she took to the rooftops after reminding her charges to hold on tight.

Kakashi POV- Hokage Tower

It was already a long damn day. I had gotten to the tower only an hour ago (I was supposed to be here three hours ago), but already the paperwork was drowning me. It was never a fun job to be Hokage, but someone had to do it until one of the Uzumaki decided to take it over. And from the fact that Menma was still too young and immature, and Naruto had a Genin team of her own to take care of now, it seemed that I was stuck with the dreadful paperwork for another few years.

"Kaka-baka!" I heard and the window to my office snapped open to reveal a grinning Naruto with three little Genin attached to her person.

I almost wanted to be surprised of her entrance but I had honestly gotten pretty used to her since we were little. To most people she liked to present herself as calm, cool, and collected, this even often went for her brother and mother, since she always had this idea that she had to prove her strength; however, when it was only her and I? She liked to let go, be open and loud, brash and carefree, she liked being able to just let loose and enjoy being.

It was only a few years ago that I realized I loved her, and subsequently had an existential crisis, believing wholeheartedly that Uzumaki Kushina was going to beat me, and that Minato-Sensei would come back to life just to drag me off into the woods surrounding Konoha and make sure I was never seen again.

Eventually, of course, I got past those thoughts and settled myself to simply being happy as long as she was. Her boisterous grin and bright blonde hair may be the sunshine of my life, but that didn't make me hers, and if I were honest with myself, it would terrify me if I were. And thus, I decided that watching her from the sidelines as she ripped up every shred of propriety she could find as she went about changing the world at her brothers side was good enough for me.

"-Ashi... Kashi-Baka... KAKA-BAKA!"

I was snapped out of my reverie by the woman I'd been thinking about in the first place. Luckily my nose had still been stuffed in my precious Icha-Icha book so it looked like I was just ignoring things as usual, "I'm sorry, did you say something?" I replied with my usual lazy tone, determined to not let Naruto realize what I had been thinking about.

Unfortunately I didn't plan for the speed factor of an angry red blooded Uzumaki.

She snatched away my Icha-Icha before I even had the chance to react, holding it in the air with one hand on each side of the bindings; threatening to rip it to shreds.

"Nooo! Not my Icha-Icha!" I cried out, being as dramatic as possible.

"You ever ignore me like that again and I can promise you," she said, leaning over the desk and giving me a perfect view down her shirt that I did not notice, nope, not at all, "you won't ever be seeing this again." She finished in a low growl, as if her leaning over the desk wasn't killing me already, dammit.

And so, I decided to have a little fun of my own, taking advantage of her current lack of brother as well as her position, "Oh?" I raised my eyebrow, making sure to keep my voice low and smooth, "if that's so, then will you happen to be replacing it with something more..." I glanced down at her chest, that was right in my face, and back up to her eyes, which had widened in realization, "hands on?"

The silence was deafening.

And broken by a damn brat, of all things.

"Damn Sensei! I didn't know you and Hokage-Sama were a thing!" The little Inuzuka of Naruto's team called out, accompanied by a low whistle.

Jut as quickly as Naruto had gotten in my face, she was gone, backing up quickly, her face a violent shade of red.

I managed to catch the eye of the little brat and glared down at him over the desk, "Maybe that's because what we are or are not is none of her students' business."

"Who cares about that! What's our mission Hokage-Sama! C'mon please give it to us. We're dying here." The little girl of the team yelled out, her patience apparently wearing thin.

I couldn't help the chuckle. The little girl reminded me of Menma when I had taken team 7 to get their first mission from Sandaime-Sama.

"We have to wait for one other person. He's the one who I told to go get your mission from the mission desk and he's also rather special to your Sensei so I'm sure she'd like to say 'hi' anyways." I said around my chuckles.

At that the doors opened to reveal a man with his hair tied in a ponytail and a long scar running across the bridge of his nose.

"Iruka-Sensei? What are you doing here?" The Inuzuka boy asked loudly.

"Naruto -chan asked for me specifically to retrieve your threes first mission for the Hokage. She figured that it would be nice if your academy teacher could be apart of giving you guys your first mission." Iruka immediately answered, skillfully omitting that he was also there to take a picture of their faces after the mission was read off.

"Speaking of which, could you hand me their mission scroll please Iruka?" I interjected before any of the Genin could start talking again.

"Hai Hokage-Sama."

"Alright let's get this show on the road then," I said making sure to make a show of opening up the scroll, giving the team a smile.

"Hopefully not that damned road of life..." Naruto muttered under her breath.

After sending Naruto a small glare, I spoke to the three Genin, "Your first mission as Shinobi will be..." I paused for added suspense, causing two of the three preteens to lean forward in anticipation, "the capture and return the Fire Daimyo wife's cat Tora to her."

BANG, click!

In that single moment two things happened: Naruto's two loud students fell face first into the floor, presumably from either having leaned too far forward, or from the incredulity of the mission (if the looks on their faces had anything to say about it, probably the latter). Their third teammate simply had a dumb look of shock and disbelief.

In the next moment, two of the three adults were letting out belly laughs, with Naruto herself pointing at her own students and wiping tears away from her eyes from her mirth.

I, myself, simply chuckled, having grown very familiar with the reactions of Genin when giving them their first mission. Although still amusing, it wasn't as grand as it had once been when I had watched my own team react to their first real mission.

Handing the mission scroll to Naruto while she was straightening herself out, I glanced over at Iruka, "Make sure to have that printed and give a copy to them all."

"H-hai, Hokage-Sama." Iruka managed between laughs.

Then before any of the three Genin could contradict her words, Naruto was herding them out of his office, telling them to wait outside for her while she discussed some things with himself. Iruka also took the opportunity to catch up with the three, as they had been training for the last two weeks in preparation for taking their first mission.

As soon as the door was closed, Naruto smiles over at me, and I can feel the thump-thump of my heart speed up in my chest.

"You know, Kashi, there was no need for any of that in front of my cute, innocent, little Genin."

"Oh? No need for what?" I asked, trying to shove as much mock innocence into my voice as possible.

Naruto studied me for a moment, and I took the time to watch her as well, noticing the slight tension in her muscles as well as the shadow in her eyes. The shadow looked like doubt from here, and I didn't like it.

I stood up from my seat and maneuvered around my desk, getting within a couple feet of her, and not for the first time, realizing how tiny she was stature-wise. Standing at a meager 5'4", she was about two inches shorter than her own mother, and just shy of a foot shorter than myself.

"Kakashi..." Naruto whispered, looking at him with a disconcerting mix of hope and apprehension.

"Naruto."

"Kakashi, what are we doing? Are we... are we going to try for something or...?"

I took the moment to think about it. Here was the woman I loved, looking at me like we were both still teens, and trying to figure out how to confess. We had been daicing around each other for Kami knows how long, waiting for one to break and finally make the first move. It was a difficult decision for me, especially. She was my Sensei's daughter for Kami's sake, and I already knew that Minato-Sensei would be trying to dig up that six feet of dirt over top of him to try and murder me for even the thought, yet...

"That depends." I finally replied after a long moment.

Naruto's eyes immediately shot up to meet my own, the hope beginning to suppress the doubt, "... Depends on what, exactly?"

I swallowed hard, making my decision, "On whether you'd like to go out to dinner with me tonight." Sensei could roll in his damn grave all he wanted. I fell in love with his daughter, who was eight years my younger, mind you, but I didn't really care.

And Kami, was her smile worth it. The grin that slowly stretched her lips and revealed her perfect white teeth to him was possibly the most magnificent one yet, "Of course, you Baka. Why don't we meet at Yakiniku Q's, tonight at 20:00*?" She said, her voice slightly breathy and only working to make my heart beat even faster.

"Sounds perfect."

Omake #1

Yakiniku Q's, after the Bell test two weeks prior...

Mamoru was astounded. Flabbergasted. Holy-crap-what-on-Kami's-green-earth-am-I-seeing-right-now stunned.

Right in front of him stood the most atrocious looking pair of human beings, much less NINJA, that Mamoru had ever had the utter horror of encountering.

"My eternal rival! I understand that you may now be Hokage, but I must insist that you partake in a YOUTHFUL challenge of strength so that you may not lose your edge!"

Before Mamoru and his two teammates and their other companions stood the self-proclaimed "Green Beast of Konoha" and his... most youthful student: Maito Gai, and Rock Lee.

The three Genin watched with rapt attention as their Hokage simply kept reading his orange covered book for a moment or two more before turning towards the green spandex wearing monstrosity, "I'm sorry, did you say something?"

Naruto and Menma, of course, rolled their eyes and snickered respectively, before simply tuning out what they knew was to come and turning back to the three Genin to continue the conversation they had been having about strengths and weaknesses of different Shinobi specialties.

However, only young Tadashi rejoined the conversation, choosing to follow his senseis lead and ignore the chaos blossoming around him.

His teammates were far too enthralled in the vision before them though to look away; after all, how could they when a grown man was crying crocodile tears and whining about their Hokage's "cool and hip attitude"?

As Lee and Gai held each other declaring things of youth, and crying together and talking about— Mamoru choked— doing 1,000 laps around the damn village, Mamoru had a vivid moment of clarity where he really only could ask himself one question.

'What the hell did he get himself into now?'

Third chapter: COMPLETE! I am so sorry that this took so long to get out. I've been dealing with school, family, and helping out some close friends with their newborn. Who, by the way, IS THE CUTEST WHITTLE BABY EVER!!! Sorry. I just had to brag. ANYHOW, I should be pushing out chapters more often for this story and hopefully finding some new inspiration for a few of my others. That would be really nice, especially for those fans who have been waiting so patiently, I promise that I'm not giving up, but having so much on my plate is making life and getting out new chapters difficult. I'm trying to study to be an astronautical engineer so...

Alright. So to clarify, a lot of the history of this AU will be told using flashbacks or Omake's. So be patient, you will not always be stumbling in the dark my sweet, beautiful readers.

Until next time, stay happy!