'Shit, I mean, I get it, it's hard work to run a village but you seriously needed to keep me waiting for an hour and half plus?' I think, bored, kicking my feet as I sit on a chair in the waiting room outside the Hokage's office, the secretary shooting me suspicious glances every so often, scribbling in a small note book.
'What the hell is taking so long?!'
"Excuse me, Secretary-san?" I ask, trying to be polite as possible, not wanting to earn an enemy so soon.
"What kid?!" She snaps back.
'Damn, what's got her panties all up in a twist?' I think. 'Bitch.'
"Who is the Hokage meeting with right now?"
"The Civilian council members, now shut up and sit quiet."
'….Bitch….' I grumble internally, sitting back and deciding to hum lightly while just barely tapping my fingers on the armrest of the chair, just to piss her off.
I had gotten her to the point where she had snapped a pencil and was on her way to a second when a small blonde kid with a black tee shirt and navy shorts opened the door and sat down in the seat furthest to me,
SNAP!
The sound of the pencil snapping made me look back at the Secretary, who was staring at the kid with a look of pure, unadulterated loathing. Her mouth puckered up like she was about to spit acid and her face took a red tint closest to a cherry.
'Oh SHIT!'
I quickly glanced and saw the red Uzumaki symbol on his chest.
"Naruto." I breathed, quickly getting up to sit down next to the boy and stare at the women, using every cell in my body to radiate a warning, 'Fuck with the blonde, and I WILL fucking END YOU.' I felt her stiffen, look surprised, then snort and go back to her scribbling.
"Hey, what's your name?" I ask, turning to Naruto, a smile on my face.
He looked surprised and a little confused.
"Naruto Uzumaki." He offers, smiling slightly
"Cool. Nice to meet you, the name's Taoreta Yari. What are ya in for?"
"I'm visiting Jiji," He said, before asking "You?"
"Just got in, guess I'm going to see the Hokage. I'm from the Yari Clan by the way, so I think they're gonna try to get me to stay in Konoha." I admitted.
"Are you? And you're from a clan, that's really cool, how big is it?" He asks, looking interested
"I'm thinking about it, seems like a cool place, and were going one strong, I'm the last of them."
"Oh, sorry, but if you choose to stay, you wanna go for lunch sometime? There's an awesome ramen place in town."
"Sure why not." I say, then hearing the clock chime 7, I bite my lip and growl,
"I've Been Here SINCE 6, WHAT THE HELL IS TAKING SO LONG?!"
"Quiet!" Hisses the secretary at my raised voice. I kindly flip her the bird with a deadpan expression on my face.
"Well, Hokage-jiji said I come into his office whenever, so I guess I could help you…"
He murmured hesitantly.
'I guess this is before he goes all delinquent on them,' I think before Naruto smiles a dangerous smile,
"Besides, it'll be fun to piss off those damn old stogies on the civilian council."
'Or maybe not…' I sweatdrop slightly, before grinning with him, getting up and walking over to the door, ignoring the secretary's cries of 'NO!' and 'What are you DOING?' as we each take a door and slam them open, yelling:
"CHIMICHANGAS!"
"HOKAGE-JIJI!"
I took pleasure in the fact that we scared the absolute bejeezus out of three men in angry and argumentative positions in front of a tired looking, white haired man helplessly smoking a pipe, who perked right up when he saw Naruto and then confused when he saw me with him.
"Ahhh, gentleman, we seem to have gone over our appointed time. How about you reschedule with my secretary, okay?" He said politely telling them to GTFO. They all politely, but stiffly bowed, muttering as they left, shutting the doors behind them. At the final click of the doors, the Hokage relaxes against his chair, heaving a large sigh, and taking a deep breath in,
"Thank KAMI! THEY WOULDN'T LET IT GO! NO, YOU CAN'T USE THE TRAINING FIELDS FOR STORE AREAS, WE NEED THEM FOR NINJA TRAINING! YOU KNOW, THE MEN AND WOMEN FIGHTING TO KEEP YOUR ASSES SAFE AND FAT, YOU ARROGANT FUCKS! KAMI! A MAJORITY OF THEM WERE AROUND FROM THE LAST WAR THEY SHOULD KNOW HOW MUCH THEY RELY ON THE NINJA! KAMI!"
He rants, then takes a deep breath.
"Sorry Naruto, how're you? And who's your friend?"
"This is Taoreta Yari, he had an appointment with you Jiji, and I came because the villagers torched my place again." Naruto says tiredly, slightly embarrassed.
"Oh, I'm so sorry Naruto, forgive them, they just…they're just confused. They'll see straight eventually."
He seemed unsure, and Naruto looked unconvinced, but smiled at him anyway.
"Sure, Jiji."
"And Taoreta, I have the report filed by Umino-san here, it says, oh, um, Naruto, could you step outside for one moment, this is rather private information."
"Oh, okay Jiji."
"I'll be right out in a few minutes okay, so don't go anywhere, you still have to show me that cool spot you found in the forest." He said cheerfully.
He smiled softly as the doors closed behind Naruto, running through a quick number of hand seals before tapping his desk, glancing up at me with a look of warning and caution.
"What do you want with Naruto, Yari-san, and why are you here?"
He asked, voice serious and a slight aura of killing intent surrounded him.
'SHIT! They did NOT give this guy enough credit in the anime! He's scary as fuck!'
"I just want to be a lonely boy's friend, and stop a lot of bad shit from happening." I say, just as serious, sweating slightly from the KI.
"Do you know what he holds? And what does that last bit mean? What do you know?"
"I know that the fox didn't die on October 10th, and that depends how much you'd be willing to trust someone's word." I say, feeling a terribly large amount of KI focused on me, causing my knees to buckle slightly.
"What does that mean? And how did you find out about him?" He asks, still deadly calm, staring at me with eyes easily capable of sentencing me to death as they were of saving me.
'OH, I'M SO FUCKING DEAD! FUCKITY FUCK FUCK!' I internally screamed, externally taking a deep breath.
"The two are one in the same, are you willing to listen to the story I have to tell?" I ask, sitting in a seat in front of him, partly to bias his decision, partly because if I didn't, my knees were going to give out.
He sat and seemed to consider it for a moment, then tapped his desk once, an ANBU appearing besides him. He whispered something to him, then he disappeared again. A couple of minutes later, he reappeared with a tall blonde in tow.
'Inochi, okay.'
"You will tell me from start to finish your story, and Inochi hear will tell me if you're lying or not." He says, motioning me to continue as Inochi stands behind me, smiles once, then place two fingers on either side of my temple, an odd current seemed to connect in my head, and I started to tell the story, hoping that what I knew would satisfy them both.
AN HOUR OR TWO LATER
"So, that happens…" He says, oddly calm as Inochi is breathing heavily, rubbing his forehead,
"HOLY SHIT, I CANT BELIEVE IM STILL ALIVE!"
"If it weren't for me tuning in and filling in the gaps in your memory, you wouldn't be."
"Thanks Editor-san."
"No problem, but it's time to tune back in."
"So, what do you plan to do? I obviously can't change too much or we'll lose our advantage, but I can do some smaller and subtler things. I can't believe I died. I have gotten lazy."
"I just planned to help out Sasuke not turn into a pedo-fodder, and Naruto to get a little bit more serious in his training. Maybe a few other small things. But really, I didn't have that big of a plan."
"Well, I guess that's that for now. I'll be calling you in later in the week, here, hand this to Naruto, it his new apartment, you can room with him for the meantime, there your first chunk of change in there for clothes and food, as well as some in there for Naruto and the things we found on you." He said, chucking me a medium sized scroll.
"Tell Naruto that there was an unforeseen complication. But that I'll go get him tomorrow. I assume you'll be entering the academy?"
"Yeah, I know what the basics are, go get some sleep Jiji." I say, walking out and nudging a sleep Naruto awake.
"C'mon dude, Hokage-san said we'd be rooming for the time being and that you're my tour guide."
"Humm? Wha-Awesome, cool. So, wanna go for dinner? I know Jiji's busy or head be out here too." He says, chuckling and rubbing the back of his head.
"Sure dude, you choose." I say, tossing him the scroll and following him.
'Well, here we go, into the rabbit hole for real this time.'