Cruel Summer
By: Kibou32
Disclaimer: I don't own Naruto.
Summary: AU The Fourth Hokage doesn't die due to the fact that he didn't do the sealing. So the Kyuubi comes two months before Naruto is born and Kushina decides that the seal her husband is about to do on her still unborn son, should be done by her. If she's an ANBU Captain, and her duty is to her Hokage; then it stands to reason that she should leave the strongest of the two to care for their only child.
Author's Note: This scenario has been bugging me awhile. I've read stories in which Naruto is so ukeish it's not even funny sometimes. So… here's my take on a seemingly uke-looking Naruto.
Pairings: Undecided. It might end up being Shikamaru + Naruto. It all depends on the muse. Root the muse for it if you want this pairing.
Ratings: 18 and Above.
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On their first C-level mission, Sasuke learnt the lesson Itachi had been trying to teach him well. The mission started as a simple guarding Tazuna – that old mean drunk bridge builder – to his home from bandits and the like. Things it seems are never what they are. The first thing they encountered were two chunnin from Rain country. It was there that they learnt that the client had lied to them. He so wanted to throw a tantrum, but he didn't.
On the other hand, all Kazuki did was look at the builder and ask why had he lied to them calmly. As it were, it was only due to the use of teamwork instigated by Kazuki that saved their asses from getting killed. Kakashi didn't do much in that, which was a huge letdown for Sasuke. He had wanted to see the older shinobi in action. Sakura on the other hand praised both her teammates with enthusiasm.
"Well… there isn't much to do with this." – Kakashi said quietly.
"You will help me, won't you?" – Tazuna insisted nervous now that his ploy had been discovered.
"This is way over our heads Tazuna-san. The next enemy they'll send won't be anything less than a jounin.." – he was interrupted by Sasuke who smirked saying…
"We can do it. We managed enough now, didn't we?"
"Yeah! We can do it! We can't back down now!" – Sakura exclaimed vehemently in response to Sasuke's confident drawl.
"Kazuki-kun? What do you think?" – Kakashi said turning to the last person who could tip the scales in his favor.
"Going back to Konoha would seem like we're scared of whoever else will come next. However, doing so without backup is dangerous for us. So… just send a message to the Hokage about it. He'll either send someone else to help us along, or tells us to quit the mission." – Kazuki stated quietly.
Kakashi should have known Kazuki wouldn't be swayed either by his superior's words or his teammates' enthusiasm.
"Very well… by general consensus… we've decided to go on with the mission. However, you have to be truthful with us from now on Tazuna-san." – he threatened the older male and was granted the view of a terrified civilian who up to until then had acted with a certain arrogance that made Kakashi sick.
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Kakashi wasn't so sure this was a good idea once they – finally – reached the bridge builder's house. The past fight with Zabuza had dealt a low blow in his usual confidence over his own skills when Kazuki – of all people?! – had freed him from the mist-nin's water prison and made Zabuza fall under the hands of a hunter nin who took Zabuza away to finish him off. It was then that it clicked. Zabuza wasn't dead, but he wasn't at top conditioning and would require medical help and time to recover from the entire ordeal. He was sure that for this he would have to train his lovely charges.
:-:
That afternoon, when Tazuna was back from the bridge, Kakashi spoke of his suspicions and watched idly as Tazuna grew white as a sheet. So he said…
"But after a wee bit of training, we'll be ready to confront them easily!" – and then he one-eyed smile at his team.
Kazuki said nothing as he followed after his teammates, into the surrounding forest that encased Tazuna's home. He knew what Kakashi was about to teach his teammates, so he decided to just bring a set of blank scrolls and some brushes and ink.
"So what are we doing here, Kakashi-sensei?" – Sakura asked wondering what kind of training awaited them all. She eyed Kazuki as he just sat down near a tree and begun to unload his belongings on the floor next to him.
"You're going to learn how to climb a tree without using your hands." – he said.
"How is that even possible?" – Sasuke asked.
"Well… I guess the best way is for me to show you."
And then they watched as he gathered chakra to his feet and then took a step towards the tree and began to walk up to it using his feet laden with chakra.
"Sugoi!" – Sakura breathed excitedly.
"Problem is that for you to get this far up, you would probably need to run to help in walking up the tree. This exercise is called 'Tree-walking' and is the prelude needed to all of the rest of the higher level ninja techniques you'll learn later on." "Now you guys try."
And so they did, they gathered chakra to their feet and Sakura learnt that it was surprisingly easy for her to do so. On the other hand, she could see Sasuke was struggling whilst Kazuki continued to sit on the grass, painting something with a brush of ink on the blank scroll.
"Ne… Kazuki-kun!" – she shouted from the tree limb higher above Sasuke to get his attention.
"…" – He didn't answer but he did look up to her signaling that he was listening.
"Why aren't you climbing the tree?" – she asked.
Kazuki didn't answer for a second. Kakashi was worried the boy was upset or something else, but his fears were found to be incorrect when he noticed what he was about to do.
"Wait! Kazuki!" – he shouted but it was for naught. The boy had begun to climb the same tree Sakura had been practicing on and did not run to get some sort of impulse up the tree.
Sasuke, Sakura felt their eyes bug out when they saw the seemingly quiet boy walk all the way up to where Sakura was and then proceed to sit down leaning his back to the tree trunk.
"Well, I guess you've already been taught this technique." – Kakashi stated needlessly.
"Sugoi! You're the best Kazuki-kun!" – Sakura cheered.
Sasuke felt that he had been a let down for Kazuki and found it disturbing to notice he missed Sakura's praise. He strengthened his resolve and moved to continue training until he got it.
:-:
Later that night, Kazuki walked down the nearest stream of water and unloaded his bathing supplies. Kakashi had warned them not to go outside alone, but he felt grimy and dirty and he wanted to clean himself as soon as it were possible. This was the right timing for him. He took his clothes off and waded into the cool shimmering water. At first he didn't notice he was being watched. When he noticed, he turned to look at both Kakashi – who didn't look as angry as Kazuki imagined he would be, but looked strangely unsettled – and Sasuke who was blushing like a big ripe tomato.
He felt a stir inside his mind and knew that the wicked smile etching on his other self was the reason Sasuke seemed so uneasy looking at him wash himself off.
He wondered why did it seem that the scent coming off from his sensei and his teammate made him strangely aware of his state of undress compared to how they were dressed.
'They're aroused, Kazuki. They want to jump your bones, do you notice? Your teammate is beginning to harden and if you show him your lovely rump he will groan and whimper like a bitch in heat.' – was Naruto's comment.
Kazuki was aware that he had a strange sort of charisma that made all men and women act lecherously towards him if given the right incentive. But he wasn't cruel enough to taunt Sasuke with this. On the other hand, he was sure that his sensei either was unaware of his own arousal or he was ignoring it because it made him afraid of what he might do to him if he acknowledge it.
He washed his hair and cleanse it from the soap before making a motion to indicate he was about to come out.
Kakashi turned his back to him whilst Sasuke drooled for a minute before realizing what he was doing caught up to him and immediately turned away from the alluring sight of Kazuki coming out wet and clean off the stream.
As they made their way back to Tazuna's house, neither spoke a word about what had happened.
Kazuki was willing to forget it as long as they kept their mouths shut. Naruto – inside his mind – laughed his pretty red-blond head off.
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Kakashi was sure that he'd never be able to forget the sight of his sensei's son bared completely to the elements. He was delicate and looked almost like a goddess, except… except his sex wasn't small at all and for his age… he shuddered internally. He wasn't sure he would be able to forget the image of that well – proportioned small body and that nice looking butt. He groaned inwardly again and decided to take a hike outside to relieve his erection away from the house.
As he was coming back, he saw that there were two people awaiting to him by the door. One was Mitarashi Anko and the other one was Genma of all people.
He groaned out loud this time around.
:-:
Mitarashi Anko was one of those people who were always unpredictable in everything they did. You'd tag a person's ways and actions so that you'd know pretty well how much to react to them whenever you'd meet them in combat or in usual life situations. Mitarashi Anko was unpredictable in that she didn't use her unpredictability that often and only when she absolutely needed to. Unpredictability can also turn into a rut and you end up anticipating events that had not occurred before.
Uzumaki Namikaze Kazuki Naru was unpredictable as well. In that, while he remained to be a polite young genin of age 11 with impeccable manners and the deceiving nature of a fox. Even if he didn't mean to deceive anyone.
Kakashi was sure this was a match made in hell. Once Anko and Genma got into the bridge builder's house and Anko saw the Hokage's son, she immediately took off her jacket – he could see her damn fine ass! – and grabbed the kid into a hug. Genma just chewed thoughtfully on his senbon and looked mildly disturbed – if that were to be the truth, perhaps even a little aroused – at the sight of Anko – sadistic snake bitch – hugging and nuzzling Kazuki like he was her child… it was a sight that both made him want to claw his eyes out and at the same time made him want to control his raging libido.
Kazuki was a good sport at the snuggling Anko did. He let himself be manhandled to a sitting position on Anko's lap. He let her shift her fingers through his golden hair. He let her hug him, cuddle him and snuggle him. It was as if he were a teddy bear instead of a regular human boy.
It took Sasuke and Sakura coming down for dinner, for Anko to give up touching Kazuki like that.
He was sure Sakura – at the sight of a woman like Anko touching Kazuki like that – would have shrieked and said that it were statutory rape or pedophilia or something like that. Sasuke just blushed to the top of his black eyebrows and looked ready to keel over in a dead faint.
"Kakashi-kun! Why in the hells didn't you tell me that you had such a cute little genin in your grasp!? Shame on you!" – Anko singsonged towards him, but let Kazuki go.
Kazuki for his part, only left her lap and sat next to his female teammate. He didn't want to be close to Sasuke for fear of what the little pervert would do. He was seriously beginning to revise his opinion on most of the human male race.
:-:
Once everyone reviewed the situation, Kazuki saw Sasuke leave to the woods for some more training. Kazuki wondered if it was right to leave his teammate alone, but decided not to. So he followed. Except that for some reason, Kazuki ended up in a different clearing. Here he saw why he had been led astray from the usual walk. A family of white foxes – these were strange since it was barely winter and Wave Country wasn't cold weather all year round – was awaiting his arrival to the different clearing.
He watched calmly as each of the family members bowed. It wasn't strange to him to see foxes bowing to him and offering allegiance and whatnot, nor was it strange for him to see foxes with more than one tail.
"Good evening my liege. I, Kin of the white foxes ask of you forgiveness for severing the path between the human and yourself. I wish to ask of you a favor."
Kazuki cocked his head to the side like a fox looking curiously and then sat down on his feet, like a dog waiting for a treat would. He nodded after awhile. His eyes gleamed in the moonlight.
"This land has been prosperous and we as their guardians have made it so that it always is powerful. But lately a human by the name of Gatou has been creating havoc and poverty in the land of the Waves, we as guardians of the land have been unable to do anything against him. We petition you, oh might Kazuki of the Ninth Tails to help us out with this human who dares infringe in our territory." – the elder of the white foxes said.
"In return for this, we'll give you our youngest son, Ichigo. He will serve you for many years to come." – the she-fox said and Kazuki looked pensive for a moment before nodding and saying in fox tongue.
"I will make certain that man dies and prosperity once again returns to the land of the Waves."
:-:
When Kazuki returned to Sasuke it was to find him lying down in the early morn with a girlish boy collecting medicinal flowers. At first, Kazuki thought the girlish boy was doing something to Sasuke, like holding him captive and whatnot. But as he narrowed his eyes he found Sasuke was only sleeping. He wondered if Sasuke was that tired. So he entered the clearing quietly.
The girlish boy immediately noticed him and grinned softly. But Kazuki could tell that the smile was empty because the boy was aware of Kazuki's capabilities. Kazuki noticed right away who was it that this boy reminded him of.
"You must care for him, don't you?" – Kazuki found himself asking. He was genuinely curious as to the reasons the boy had for caring for a missing ninja.
"Ah. I care for him very much. Do you care for someone?" – he asked softly still continuing on with his activities as if the idea of two enemy nin conversing whilst gathering flowers was the right thing to do. The normal for this type of situation.
"Care for someone?" – he asked still in a curious tone of voice. He recalled the face of his father, the face of his baachan and her apprentice Shizune. The face of the perverted Toad Sannin, the face of one of his first true friends… Shikamaru.
"Ah. I'm of the believe that you are stronger, the strongest when you are protecting your precious person." – said the boy.
"Is that why you follow him?" – Kazuki asked putting a hand on Sasuke's chest to keep him asleep a bit longer, lest he ruin the situation.
"Yes. My name is Haku. I must go." – he said as he stood up just remembering that he had to be somewhere else.
"I hope that the next time we meet is under different circumstances." – he said in the end. Kazuki acknowledge that and let him go. He couldn't in good conscience kill the boy. At least not now.
Kazuki looked to the side at the white kit sitting on his hind paws waiting for what was to come. He sighed and just sat down next to Sasuke to wait for him to wake up.
:-:
Sasuke woke up an hour later a bit disoriented and then when he found the knowing blue eyes of his teammate, he blushed.
"You shouldn't train until you're exhausted and have literally no chakra left in your body." – he admonished to Sasuke softly.
This had been told to Sasuke many times before by his brother, by his instructors in the academy, by almost everyone else. But only Kazuki's soft admonishment made Sasuke reevaluate the wisdom of his ways. He pouted and looked down feeling unworthy to be looking into those wise blue eyes.
"Come on. We're missing breakfast." – Kazuki said a bit jovially. Sasuke was surprised at the change. But he wasn't so much as he wouldn't be able to take notice of the white ball of fluff wrapped around Kazuki's head like some stole.
"Kazuki…? What is that?" – he asked.
But by that time, they had already met up with Sakura who was looking for them at the edge of the bridge builder's place and Sasuke's question went unanswered.
:-:
Anko was vigilant that early morning. Once Kakashi had deemed himself ready enough to go, she was sure that the other missing nin might also be okay to confront them as well. Genma and her were supposed to be backup, so she was kind of sadistic when leering at the client. He had seemed too hopeful for her to stomach. She hated those pathetic ones who couldn't do anything on their own. Kazuki for that matter, skipped that assessment because she knew without a doubt that the child had some sort hidden abilities he wasn't showing anyone else. After all a shinobi was also a trickster in a killer's disguise.
She commanded to Genma to just watch during the fight. Genma nodded calmly and they sat watching quietly as the conflict at the bridge turned in Konoha's favor.
:-:
Kakashi had used chidori to kill Haku – Haku had put himself in between Zabuza and himself – and he virtually had no more chakra left in his body. However, that wasn't what was currently going through in his mind. It was the heavy mist surrounding them – even Zabuza was at a loss to who or what was making the mist and its purpose – that had him worried. And then one sniff and he felt his hands itching to get to his penis… he felt himself stiffening so much and the desire coursing through him was so thick that he felt his pants' buttons open on their own from the stress. He wondered briefly if the fog was some sort of genjutsu that enabled him to get really aroused. But at the same time wondered how everyone else was fairing.
Zabuza heard distinctly the sound of someone's tranquil breathing next to him and turned to look down, although his arms were useless to him now, that didn't mean he wasn't still dangerous. He looked to the side to find a blond haired genin quietly looking up at him.
"We're surrounded, mist-nin-sama. Would you help us get rid of Gatou? After all, he's probably about to gloat about how he wasn't about to pay you lot at all." – he stated softly.
Zabuza was immediately reminded of his dead weapon. Of Haku's soft tone of voice and the way he was as girlish as the boy standing next to him. Of his ideals and his love for him. Looking at the boy's bright blue eyes, Zabuza was reminded forcefully of Haku's eyes, his smile that reached his eyes in full bloom, but that the mouth only quirked a little in a half-grin. Thinking of Haku's mouth, brought memories of the last time his mouth had been wrapped around Zabuza's dick… he sighed inwardly. He would be lying to himself if he said that Haku hadn't left an imprint in his life, in his heart.
"Hand me a kunai kid. Let me show you why I'm called the 'Demon of the Mist'."
Kazuki threw a kunai upwards and Zabuza caught it between his razor-sharp teeth. The mist cleared and then there was bloodshed.
:-:
Genma was puzzled. One minute there was a showdown between Kakashi and Zabuza, Sasuke and Kazuki against that senbon wielder and Sakura bodyguarding the bridge builder Tazuna. The next, a thick fog clouded everything on the bridge. There was zero visibility and he was hard-pressed to stay put or to not try to disengage the mist from the half-made bridge. And just when he was sure his superior – Mitarashi Anko was also impatient – was going to call him to make a move, the mist disappeared and pure carnage was abound. Kakashi and Sakura seemed to be bathed in blood, Kazuki was partially clean and Sasuke was awake but not as nearly covered in red as the rest of the team was. He shook his head and wondered if it was a kage-level genjutsu going on.
:-:
"Thank you for your help, shinobi of the leaf. Due to the help we've received, we'll be back on our two feet in no time." – Tsunami – the bridge builder's daughter said softly but in a clear voice that carried over all of those present.
To think that this sort of change happened in the month or so that they were here was astounding. Tsunami herself was a bit concerned when her father had brought those four ninja home. But, and here was the clue; thanks to a blond haired genin with his silent ways and his shy smile, had turned her little scared boy into a lively one now. The village was surely going to be okay.
The jounin eye-smiled and bowed. Sakura preened and Sasuke smirked. Kazuki bowed once and smiled.
The people who were able to see it gasped and fanned themselves with their hands. That smile so beautiful, the boy was going to grow into a heartbreaker for sure.
As they moved away, Tazuna said: "So well now that the bridge is complete, how will we name it?" – he queried.
Tsunami just smiled softly and began to think of a good name.
"The great Kazuki bridge!" – Inari yelled out.
Soon the rest of the villagers were in agreement and it was made official.
Kazuki smiled at the white furry fox by his neck and felt content to have done such a big help to the land of the Waves.