HO-HO-HOLY SHIT. talk about felling the love here, so many positive reviews, almost 84 faves and 64 alerts, also 2 more C2's , OK Answer some reviews time

Wanna-be-player: Ah my first anon reviewer. Well I'm not sure on any other older women, Tayuya is a probably, Kushina is a no, I read cest stuff but writing it just makes me uncomfortable, I MIGHT write cest stuff but not in this story, as for FemKyuubi that's a no as well, I'm not sure what I'm going to do with Kyuubi at the moment, but the fox is not going to be a love interest, if anything it's going to be the sarcastic comic relief/deus ex machina when and if I need it, HOWEVER, the rules are always subject to change, I like to keep my bases open when I'm writing something like this. If theres a good spot to introduce a character as a possible love interest and I'm feeling the love I'll consider it.

Leave-the-village: Ah yes another anon reviewer, that was for chapter two but I'll answer it anyway. WHY IN THE BLOODY HELL WOULD HE LEAVE? lets take five minutes to think on this. He's been out on the street for only 1 month, not half his life. There are fics where Naruto has been BADLY abused, this story isn't one of them. Sure he was ostracized and maybe a few cases of violence, but the first chapter was his first time in a life or death situation, not the tenth, not the 200th, the first. And that time was because it was a drunk mob rather than an angry couple of villagers, also, he outright vaporized that mob, so any pain or fear they caused him was returned 100 fold. As for reasons for staying er duhhhh he just got a massive boost in power and is in a very good position to get the recognition he wants. Hell he even got a wife/mother/teacher figure out of all this. Why would he leave when things are starting to look up for him? It's a case of leaving and starting out at the middle/neutral and working slowly up or staying and starting out at the bottom with a rocket strapped to your back pointed to the top.

Tamult: I actually answered some of your review in the anon one above lol, Personally in the real manga he's never abused, just ostracized, with my story it's just slightly more heavyhanded with a couple people here and there being physical, like what COULD happen in the real story, and the mob was drunk and likely ALL fox haters so it's easy for a mob mentality to get out of hand, thus what happened in this story. As for Sarutobi, I really like him as a character, he had alot of development in the story before he died, and even after that when people talked about him he still seemed like that pillar of strength that has been worn away over time, all it really takes is something to patch up those weak spots, and that something in this story is that mob attacking Naruto, its a wake up call and it's making him take a heavier hand in handling Naruto's well being. As for Anko...heh Anko will always be Anko, she's like Naruto but with tits. Yeah I kinda assumed her age since I remember there being a flashback of Orochimaru and Anko standing together and Anko looked to be about errr 8-9, I'm pretty sure orochimaru left not long after the fourth became Hokage so 7 years of Naruto's life plus one or two for the fourths reign then add 8-9, so 16-18 years old. I just chose the lowest age because that makes me feel less like a pedo pairing them together XD.

...Reading some of the other comments...I'm really feeling the love on more people added to the harem... ALRIGHT THEN, more women it is.

As always, don't own Naruto, if I did Naruto really would have fox parts, and every girl in the village would be trying to rape him.

"speech"

'Thoughts'

"Demon speech"

'Demon thoughts'

Jutsu

-ooo-

Chapter 4: Shopping with the snake mistress.

Naruto awoke to a peaceful morning in the forest of death, the sounds of birds chirping could be heard all around the tower. Yawning to himself, Naruto dragged his ass out of bed scratching said ass as he made his way to the bathroom. He opened the door with his foot as he yawned again, not even paying attention to his surroundings as he made his way to the toilet. Once there he was preparing to take care of business when a cough interrupted him, he turned towards the sound tiredly not expecting a naked Anko to be standing 5 feet from him with a towel draped over her shoulder. Naruto stared for a moment, too tired to understand the world of shit he was in right now, then slowly his eyes widened as it dawned on him that he was about to take a piss in front of a FULLY NUDE Anko and she was giving him a look that spelled certain death...

"Um...sorry?" he began. Anko shook her head no. "Um...owwie?" she nodded "eeep" he squeaked as the sound of a fist connecting with a overly hard head echoed through the tower.

"What have we learned?" Anko asked rubbing her hurting fist...what? The brat had a hard head.

Naruto wept anime tears as a large whelp rose on his head "Knock first before entering?"

"Eh, close enough." she shrugged, still not covered in the least which Naruto noticed.

"Um, if the purpose of hitting me was to punish me for seeing you naked...WHY are you STILL naked?"

Anko deadpanned. "3 reasons: 1. I'm not the most modest of people, you only have to look as far as my clothing to see that. 2. We're married so this really shouldn't surprise you, if it does, use this chance to get used to it." As she opened the shower curtain to the bath showing a tub large enough for the both of them to bathe together. "And 3. I didn't hit you because you caught me naked, I hit you because you just walked in without making sure I wasn't in here and also because you were staring at my tits the entire time."

Naruto blushed, he had been staring a bit south of her face since he walked in, it's not like he could help it though, he was still a guy after all, and not only that it was the first time he had seen a womans bare breasts before.

"Are you getting in or what?" Anko asked as she leaned back in the tub.

"Uh, yeah..." He turned back to the toilet and finished peeing trying to ignore Anko staring at him intently.

'Hmm big for his age, good' she silently appraised him '...maybe he could...NO BAD ANKO, NO PEDO THOUGHTS!' she mentally slapped herself as Naruto sunk into the water with her, blushing madly as he sat in front of her.

"I'll wash your back for you" she smiled lathering up a bar of soap and scrubbing the boy down, his skin was smooth to the touch, not a mark or blemish on him but that probably had more to do with the fox than anything the boy did. As she was beginning to lather up some shampoo she noticed a pair of odd pointy things sticking out of the boys head, reaching out she grabbed a hold of them and immediately Naruto melted in her grasp. She blinked a couple of times then looked over naruto's shoulder at his face and noticed his face was bright red, flushed and was really, REALLY relaxed. She looked at the points on Naruto's head for a few seconds then started massaging the tufts of hair lightly making the boy shiver in her grasp. A wide grin escaped her as she continued her massage "So cute!" she giggled, "The fir ball was right you already have fox ears coming in, I'd say a few more days and you'll have a full grown set to charm the ladies with."

"Oh joy..." he said sarcastically, shivering some more as she hadn't stopped stroking his ears. Kami were they sensitive.

"Oh don't be like that, if you're so worried about someone seeing them I'll teach you the henge jutsu to hide what you look like until we can get you a hat to cover them, and if your tail ever comes in we can figure something out as well." she poked the back of his head hard for a few seconds to get her 'point' across.

Naruto sighed "Alright" as they both enjoyed the bath.

In the Hokage's office.

We find Sarutobi passed out in a pool of his own blood, the red fluid pouring heavily from his nose.

'Note to self, DO NOT check on Naruto with the crystal ball in the morning...not good for my health.' The third thought before darkness took him.

-ooo-

Back with our odd couple we find them walking down the main streets of Konoha with the aroma of the market district filling the air. Anko was dressed in her usual while Naruto beside her was in his makeshift clothing with a loose grey hat on that he had thrown together from a belt and some old cloth, honestly it looked like a cross between a chefs hat and a beret to him but Anko thought it looked stylish with the rest of the clothes so he begrudgingly wore the thing rather than try and fool a village full of ninja with a half-assed henge.

Anko looked down at her young husband and noticed his rigid posture "Don't be so tense kid, as long as you keep that hat on and don't look anyone in the eyes they won't know the difference, and if someone starts shit I'm here with you."

"Some comfort at least" the boy retorted.

Anko sighed, the kid was being difficult again, it wasn't that he didn't understand that they could count on each other now, it was the fact that the constant glares the villagers were throwing him were breaking the boy's resolve. Every other villager they passed gave the boy at the very least a look of disgust or anger, hell she NEVER had it this bad, no wonder the kid was so depressed. "At least I can discourage a few of the glares now" She sighed again, tossing out a small bit of killing intent at a few civilians that were giving him dirty looks, more than a few paled and turned away which for some odd reason gave her a sick sense of satisfaction, 'Is it because I'm protecting Naruto?' she wondered. 'Eh it's keeping em off the boy.' as she noticed his more relaxed posture.

"You don't have to do that An-chan" the boy said quietly.

"Kid, these people aren't worth your time of day." She frowned "The old man told me that your dream is to be recognized as a great ninja and become Hokage. I can tell you now just being Hokage won't get you recognition from everyone, there will still be people like this that will glare at you because they are fools and don't know any better...also, the Hokage is a military leader, that means he is appointed by his military, his ninja. Not the civilians. If you really want to get some recognition show the ninjas who you are first and the civilians will follow."

The boy froze at what Anko had said, 'Really?' he thought to himself, he turned to Anko with a small smile on his face. "Thank you An-chan"

"Any time Gaki." The walk to the Wolf Claw weapon shop from there was in a deep but comfortable silence.

"Welcome!" a cheerful voice greeted them as they entered the shop, "Can I help you with anything" the man behind the counter asked, he looked to be a middle aged man with greying hair and a cheerful face, if anything he reminded Naruto of old man Ichiraku.

"Hey Dustin" Anko greeted. "We're here for some threads for the gaki here."

"Heh, same as always Anko." he scratched his beard in thought. "Yeah I heard from Sarutobi you were coming by, said you needed some supplies and a new wardrobe for the runt here, though I gotta say when he said your clothes were a mess I imagined them to be more...well in pieces, what you have on now doesn't look half bad."

"Pfft yeah the kid here made em from some cloth, an old t-shirt, a belt and some rope, the little guy is pretty damn good." She ruffled said kids' hair playfully.

"I'll say, that's pretty professional work right there, it almost looked store bought except for the few seams that are visible. I wouldn't mind having him around the shop fixing a few of the special orders I get."

"Heh I'll keep that in mind if he ever needs a job."

"Yeah" Dustin chuckled, "But on to business, what's on the kids to do list? I'll help you find anything you want, Sarutobi said to put it on his tab so you can get just about anything you want."

"Well, we need some scrolls on elemental manipulation, one for each element..."

"Ah, I see the rumors are true after all " Dustin interrupted her "Word is the kid's got all the elements under his belt, am I right?"

"Yeah"Anko whispered "But keep that under your hat, I'd like for those rumors to stay rumors for as long as possible, no need to make things harder on him."

You don't even need to ask, I'm a good friend of Sarutobi's, I wouldn't be unless he and I shared views on things, and Naruto is one of the things we see eye to eye on, you're straight with me as long as you don't stiff the bill."

Anko chuckled "Heh as pragmatic as ever I guess, well as I was saying, we need scrolls on elemental manipulation, just the basics for now since I've really only ever covered earth manipulation." Dustin nodded "He'll also need some kunai and shuriken, preferably the practice kind if you have em, I don't need him cutting anything off before I can get to it." she raised an eyebrow in his general direction and Naruto could only chuckle nervously.

"...I see the OTHER rumor is true too" Dustin remarked dryly.

"Under the hat old man, or it won't be the boy that looses something to a kunai." She growled.

"Easy, easy." he held his hands in front of him defensively. "I have a few sets of practice shuriken and kunai in stock, anything else?"

"Yeah" she punted Naruto in the rear towards the clothing section. "Go fetch Gaki"

"I'm not a dog." Naruto grumbled.

"No, you're a little fox, now get, before I do that thing I did to you this morning again." She flashed him a hungry little grin, Naruto paled visibly and took off into the rows of clothing.

Dustin turned to Anko "Do I even want to know?" he deadpanned

"Nope."

"..."

A few minutes passed before Naruto came back, the two adults in the room turned and their eyebrows rose, Naruto apparently had good taste in clothing. He had somehow found a mesh armor undershirt his size along with a black t-shirt on top with the mesh coming out a few inches under the arms, his shorts were black as well and had orange strips running down the seams on the side, A pair of fingerless black gloves were on each hand and a pair of black ninja sandals on his feet. The grey hat still sat loosely on his head though since there was nothing really loose to cover his ears, he just had to settle for grabbing a roll of black cloth and another belt to make a black one later. For accessories he had a kunai holster strapped to his leg, a ninja pouch on his waist, and on his back was a small tanto, which looked more like a full length blade on the small boy.

"Wow" they both said at the same time.

"Not bad Gaki. That's a nice look, but whats with the sword?" The snake mistress pointed to the blade curiously.

"I...don't really know, I just liked it, I never really had any weapons to practice with and this is something my size."

Dustin rubbed his chin thoughtfully "Makes sense, if the kid is going to get used to a sword or blade its good to start small and work your way up.

"All right I guess, but you can only practice with it while I'm around I don't want you cutting yourself with it." Naruto nodded

Dustin marked a few things down on a piece of paper. "OK, you have the scrolls, the training tools and some new clothing and weapons, anything else?"

Naruto thought for a moment before something caught his interest "Hey Old man could we talk over there for a second...Alone?" he looked out of the corner of his eye at a frowning Anko.

"Uh, yeah, sure kid." the two walked to the back of the store for a few minutes, Anko watching the discussion silently, the boy was whispering in the mans ear so she really couldn't make out what he was saying but by the way Dustin pulled back surprised and looked in her direction it couldn't be anything good. The two of them walked back to the counter "Yeah kid I'll get what you wanted but are you sure? That's a bit advanced for you right now."

"Yeah I'm sure." He nodded

"Ok, one moment" He walked to the back and opened his storeroom door, after a few minutes of rustling papers and clanging of metal the man returned with a scroll in his hand. "Everything is in this storage scroll, just send chakra into it and the materials will pop out, to store stuff just do the same." as he handed the scroll to the boy.

"Thanks Old man."

"Heh for a friend of Sarutobi it's the least I could do." Dustin grinned at the boy "It's all on his tab so don't worry I'll send him the bill."

"Hehehe, thanks" he smiled back as the pair walked out of the store.

Dustins smile slowly turned somber as he watched the two walk away though the window. A small yawn from behind him turned the man around, looking around he noticed his daughter standing in the stairway to the living area.

"Who was that daddy?" The girl asked, the buns in her hair bouncing as she yawned again.

"Just a friend Tenten, the son of a good friend, a man who I respected greatly." his voice was quiet as Tenten nodded sleepily and walked into the kitchen. "Minato..." he whispered "Your son is going to make one hell of a ninja, I just know it..."

-ooo-

"Mind telling me what's in the scroll?" Anko asked sweetly...a little too sweetly...

Naruto looked warily at her "No." he held the scroll behind him.

An eyebrow rose "Why?"

"It's a surprise." the boy stuck his tongue out at her

"And we're husband and wife now tell me what's in the scroll." she whispered angrily.

"No" He growled at her and turned away.

"Gaki, just, hey! Get your ass back here!" she yelled at him when she noticed he had started running away from her towards a nearby playground.

"Oi you brat, get back here." she chased after him.

The chase lasted a good 10 minutes as they ran through the busy market district, and Anko had to admit, the kid was fast for his age, hell he was almost as fast as a high ranked genin, and the way he weaved in and out of crowds of people baffled her.

"Heh catch me if you can." Naruto whispered to himself as he made his way to the playground. He took to jumping from stall to stall as his destination came into view "Almost there" he laughed. as he made a final leap to one of the slides, unfortunately for him he over shot it a bit and lost his footing "Shit" he cursed as he lost his balance and fell over the edge.

"Eeep!" a voice from below cried as a loud thump sounded.

...

"Ouch" Naruto rubbed his head as he leaned up on one arm. "Where...?" he froze when he noticed a small girl in a similar situation next to him. "Um...Hi..." he rubbed the back of his head nervously feeling that his hat had fallen off in the fall.

"H-hello." the girl stuttered.

"Hello as well, the names Naruto, and sorry for falling on yah, I'm kinda being chased by my An-chan.

"H-Hinata" she poked her fingers together nervously "And w-who is A-An-c-chan?"

"GAKI, GET YOUR ASS OUT HERE NOW" A voice screamed in the distance

Naruto sweatdropped "That would be her...I don't want you to get in trouble too so I'll sneak away, just keep quiet please?" he turned away from her looking around nervous.

"A-Ano, Naruto-san?"

"Yeah?" he turned to her curiously

"I-is this your h-hat?" she held up the thing in question.

"Uh, yeah...thanks." he flashed her a smile that made the girl feel all fuzzy on the inside as he put the hat on his head. "Thanks for the help, I kinda needed it. You know you're a nice person" he flashed another smile that made her melt.

"T-thank you." Hinata blushed.

"No problem, see yah" He jumped over the fence that seperated the playground from the road and ran off.

"There you are you brat, come back here!" a voice yelled in the distance.

'N-naruto-san...no...Naruto-k-kun...' the girl thought to herself. 'He's...nice, not like father, and those e-ears on his head...' the girl blushed again, she had peaked at the boy's head when he was looking around, and said appendages had grown enough to be noticeable above his hair

"So cute..."

-ooo-

Naruto Shivered slightly

"I suddenly feel threatened" He shivered again with Anko not far behind him.

-several hours later, top of the hokage monument, sunset-

"Dammit...gaki" Anko choked out, huffing in exhaustion.

"I told you already it was a secret." The boy stuck his tongue out at her with his back to the edge, apparently the chase had made its way through most of the villiage and ended on top of the Hokage monument, coincidentally on the head of the Yondaime.

"Alright already" Anko gasped "It's a secret, now get your happy ass over here away from the edge."

Naruto looked at her for a moment defensively, relaxing slightly when Anko backed off, "Will you promise not to take the scroll?"

"Yeah I promise, now hurry up."

Naruto slowly made his way towards her keeping the scroll tight in his fist.

"Hurry up dammit!" she growled. Naruto approached her warily keeping an eye on her hands, when she flashed behind him, his eyes flew wide as a fist connected with the back of his head.

2 minutes later

'Ok I deserved that one' Naruto thought, weeping anime tears.

"What have we learned? ...Again?"

"Don't piss you off?" he rubbed the large knot on his head comicly.

"Close enough." she picked him up by the back of his shirt and brought him to eye level, "Scare me like that again and I'll have my snakes tie you up for the day and you won't do jack shit, understand?"

"Yes Anko-san, he nodded quickly.

"Good, I'll respect your privacy for that damn scroll but let's get some dango, chasing you made me hungry."

"Wait, An-chan." The boy grabbed her coat.

"What is it Gaki?" she turned around and crouched low, hearing the pleading in the boys voice.

"I'm sorry about scaring you, I didn't just run away to get away from you I kinda wanted to show you my special place..." His voice trailed off as he nervously looked away.

Anko turned beet red for a moment thinking he meant...well, something dirty, but the boy turned away from her and pointed towards the western wall of the village. Anko looked and her voice caught in her throat, in front of her was a view she had never seen before. The entire village was bathed in a crimson sunset, it was...too beautiful to even say anything, she only knelt close to Naruto and enveloped him in a hug from behind, neither one said anything, they just sat there and watched the sun set, turning the world from red to orange, orange to purple and finally ending in a deep ocean blue that gave way to the first stars of the night.

Anko was silent for a long time after that, still holding onto the boy for dear life. Finally her voice, nothing but a whisper broke the silence "N-Naruto..."

"Yeah?" he whispered back.

"Thank you" She squeezed him tighter. a few minutes passed before naruto spoke.

"...Anko?"

"Yeah?"

"I...cant...breath..."

"Ah..." she replied blankly, releasing the boy, who was turning an unhealthy shade of blue. "Sorry..."

Naruto gasped as she let him go "Don't...worry...about it."

Alright Gaki, lets get going, I worked up an appetite chasing your ass around, after we get some food we're going home."

"Ok An-chan." he grabbed a hold of the woman's arm and the two of them walked to the nearest Dango shop...'suggested' by Anko...via sharp pointy hurty things...

-ooo-

A/N another chapter down, just a day of shopping and character development.

I know these chapters have been Anko heavy in regards to the harem, but she's going to be the 'head' wife since she's probably going to be the oldest of the wives, so she's responsible for the others, also, I need time to develop characters dammit :O so having a few chapters to Anko is just common sense.