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.  This chapter contains a little information on Naruto and why people are so enamoured with him.  It is a little short, but the longer chapters are coming next.

Pairings: Undecided

Ratings: 18 and Above.

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Kakashi had just been through the wringer. He had just met the terrifying menace that was Nara Jen. The woman wasn't a shinobi, but she was a mother and apparently she had taken a immense liking to Kazuki who had looked so innocent coming back… apparently Sasuke hadn't been able to keep his mouth shut and preened on their first C-class turned A-class mission.

And Kazuki who was as silent as a rock had either been smothered in feminine arms to the point of not being able to say anything or had been unable to deny the fact that he had done something… and then when that wasn't enough… he had to meet Kurenai! And man was she scary when she wanted to be! He was sure he'd have nightmares for a couple of days of red eyes glaring angrily at him for putting dear Kazuki-kun in danger. Like he wasn't a genin at all. He wondered if this was karma for being such a pest when he himself was Kazuki's age. He shrugged.

"Today, Team seven has the honorable duty of delivering supplies to the Konoha hospital. Be very careful since some of those packages can break if manhandled wrong." – he said and directed his genin to the twenty boxes stacked neatly behind him.

Sasuke and Sakura frowned and scowled respectively and wondered how they could work out a way to make the situation less strenuous than it was. Kazuki took a page out of his usual silent ways and said…

"Kage bunshin no jutsu." – directing the sight of his older teammates to himself.

Thus seventeen shadow clones were made each a double of Kazuki and emitting a tranquil aura that even Kakashi was forced to dig his head out of his Icha Icha Paradise book to look and watched as Kazuki made the other bunshin grab one box each and then look expectantly towards his teammates silently saying that he had made his part and they had to do theirs as well. Sasuke just humphed and grabbed one of the boxes and made his way after the seventeen clones making their own way to the hospital. Sakura frowned for a second more before shrugging and grabbing onto the last box and walking behind the Uchiha.

Kakashi waited expectantly for the boy to say his piece. Even though he had known Kazuki since he was such a young child, it still unnerved him that the two years he had not seen him since he made that two year spying mission in Iwa for the Hokage, made a terrible change in the boy's unpredictable nature. And what Kakashi hated the most was being unable to predict a person's nature after two or three times meeting said person.

"Sensei. I wish to ask you permission to browse through the book you're reading at the moment." – he said softly.

Kakashi thought he had misheard him. When Kazuki didn't repeat himself or say something else, he lowered himself to eye-level with Kazuki's eyes and said…

"This book is over and above your age-range."

"I'm aware of that sensei. But if you don't want me to tell my father of your 'aroused' state while you watched me bathe in our mission, then you will let me read through the book and any other book of the same genre." – he said in a matter-of-fact tone of voice. Kakashi was sure that this was the first time Kazuki had ever shown a cunning side to anyone else.

"Tell me why you want to read porn." – he said in the end sighing, already knowing he was about to give in. He knew his sensei would kill him if he knew of his brief lapse of judgement. He remembered six years ago when the Hokage had found out about Jiraiya-sama and Tsunade-sama's teaching the boy of the ninja arts. Everyone had felt the killer intent and thought the apocalypse was coming soon.

He didn't want that to happen ever again.

"I have noticed the unnatural interest many people have in me. Whenever I channel some killing intent, it comes out as a instinctive genjutsu that makes everyone in fifty mile radius react in arousal and lust towards my person. I wish to discover a way to either mitigate that and/or curb it towards other things." – he heard his sensei say out loud.

And Kakashi was sure that if he were any other person, he would've blushed to the tips of his hair in embarrassment. Alas, he wasn't and he nodded.

:-:

Jiraiya came back from a long gone mission bone tired and just wanting to crash in his bed to find Hatake Kakashi waving at him from one side on his one bedroom apartment on the outskirts of the Forest of Death's training grounds.

"Yo!" – he said to him in false cheer. Jiraiya immediately knew this meant bad news abounded.

"What is it, Hatake?" – he asked feeling mildly concerned when the young man before him tensed even more.

"We've got a bit of a situation here. Kazuki-kun has discovered your porn."

Jiraiya groaned at the implications and the ramifications of those implications. He was sure this was going to bite him in the ass.

:-:

Shizune was wondering if the young boy standing in front of her teacher and her wearing only white boxers was serious. He looked directly at them without wavering, she looked to see Tsunade's twitching eyebrow and was sure that this was not a joke.

"Hatake-san lent you all the porn books he had?!" – she exclaimed in the end knowing her sensei echoed her sentiments quite well.

"Why on earth would you want to read that trash?!" – she jumped as her sensei stood up abruptly from where she was sitting to grab the shoulders of the little blond boy standing still inside their office at the hospital.

"For research. I wished to know why the general populace suffers from arousal and lust whenever they stay in lengthened periods of time in my vicinity. A medical book revealed nothing of that. All it said was 'hormones and whatnot and it didn't explain in a baser and explicit way what that meant. I now know why they look at me like that and I don't like it." – he said softly looking to the side and for the first time looking shy and insecure.

Shizune's heart went out to him. Tsunade looked serious for a second before turning back to the matter at hand.

"You don't want to peek at women bathing in the hot springs or anything like that, do you?" – she asked fearing the answer.

"No." – he said scrunching up his nose at the thought of doing that. He didn't like that thought at all.

Tsunade's shoulders slumped in relief.

"What do you wish to do about that?"

"A seal perhaps?" – he asked wondering.

Tsunade shook herself and sighed deciding that once and for all he should know of the Kyuubi. Perhaps this was the side-effect of having a kitsune inside of him deeply intertwined with his chakra system.

"Kazuki. Another seal would throw off your chakra control to smithereens."

Kazuki was quiet and still for a full minute. Shizune worried what he was feeling and what her sensei was doing. She quickly formed the seals for a privacy jutsu and locked the office's door.

"Are you speaking about the seal in my tummy, baachan?" – he asked softly.

"That seal is the one that's probably giving you these problems. You see, you remember that story Jiraiya told you about how your father defeated the great Kyuubi no kitsune when you asked why they celebrated your birthday in such a large scale?" – she said looking into his blue eyes.

He nodded seeming to know where this was going.

"Your mother defeated it by sealing it inside a recently new-born baby. She sealed it in you on July 10th, with your father's sealing technique. You hold inside of you the Kyuubi no kitsune, but under no other circumstance are you the kyuubi."

There was endless silence. Then after a few minutes of silent contemplation on Kazuki's part, he nodded.

"Then… it's the kitsune's reason why there is so much sexual attraction going on?" – he asked puzzled.

"That's my theory, so yes; it's possible that's why so many people react like that towards you." – Tsunade said sighing partly in relief that Kazuki was taking this well and partly afraid that she had told him about this too soon for his psyche to catch the right meaning.

But she shouldn't have worried, because Kazuki was already aware of his tenant. And his tenant was already in love with his own kit.

:-:

Later that day, Minato was surprised to see his sensei's teammate turn up with a load of books in both hands. She was a strong woman, but the amount of books she held and those that were held in Shizune's arms was undoubtedly a sign of bad things to come.

"What are all these?" – he said as he took one of the books in his hand and leafed through it. He blanched immediately and drop the book as if it had scalded him.

"Those are the books many of your nice shinobi read in broad daylight where innocent children such as your own son can see them."

His pallor became translucent at the thought of his own son coming in contact with those porn books.

"T-then what do you want me to do with them?!" – he asked, his voice tremulous.

She put her hands on his desk and leaned over to him, if he had bothered to look; he'd have a great look of Tsunade's boobs. He didn't bother to look.

"I want you to ban them. If you can't ban them, then the least you can do is produce some sort of hefty fine for those who reads those books wherever and whenever everyone else can see them!"

Minato's stressed out waves curled all over the office before exploding in sheer killing intent at what Tsunade commented to him. His poor Naruto-kun! His eyes burned with fire and hatred towards the perverts! All of them!

:-:

Ibiki was not surprised to being ordered by his ex-teammate to string his ex-student by the balls of his feet in one torture chamber. The poor young man probably knew why he was here, but Ibiki didn't really care if he did or didn't. Short of cutting off Hatake Kakashi's dick off – and here Ibiki would not attempt such a thing – there was nothing he could do to change things. But he would do his job and not complain. He didn't want to be at the end of Tsunade-sama's fists.

:-:

The next morning, Team 7 approached the bridge like nothing was wrong. Only to meet up with the Slug Sannin who looked neither unhappy or ecstatic to seeing them.

"Today, your jounin sensei has been commissioned to do a mission, so he'll be unable to attend to your daily duties. For that, I've taken up the slack and have decided that you'll be training with me. Please, follow me to training grounds nine."

Sasuke and Sakura looked shocked and pleased that a sannin was going to be training them, but only when they looked at their smaller teammate did they begin to worry for themselves. It turned worst when Kazuki caught them looking and simply said…

"Brace yourselves for a lot of pain."

Sakura looked green which clashed horribly with her pink hair. Sasuke, in turn; looked much more than white itself.

:-:

By the end of the day, the remaining two of Team 7 wished pain and suffering on their sensei for not being with them that day. Only Kazuki remained aloof and cool to the proceedings of the training session with one of the sannin. After all, he had been privy to these training sessions with her baachan for more time that he could count in one hand than they had.

He wondered briefly if he should tell them that since their sensei was off on a mission, it was likely that they'd meet her again for the next couple of days. In the end he decided not to since they seemed to be suffering from the aches and pains of Tsunade-sama's gruesome training spiel. Once they reached town for a much appreciated return towards their own homes, Tsunade looked down at her charge and sighed content.

"Kazuki, do you want to go with me to the Barbecue restaurant?"

Kazuki looked at her and smiled. Tsunade smiled too and then led him to it.

:-:

It was only Hatake Kakashi's sixth day at the torture chamber and Ibiki was surprised to see the Hokage's only child come to visit him at all baring good tidings in a large basket.

"Are these for me?" – he asked as he squatted down to Kazuki's eye level.

"Un. It's an offering of sorts, Ibiki-san."

"Whatever for?" – he asked perplexed.

"I'm pleading you, on behalf of my teammates in Team 7, to let our sensei go home this weekend. I don't think Sasuke-san or Sakura-san can take another training regime day with Tsunade of the sannin."

Ibiki straightened up and laughed. Not a nice sound if you were an inmate like many of the criminals down at the dungeons.

"Very well. I'll let Hatake-san go. But you'd better talk with your father about this, brat. Otherwise it'd be my head on the platter, next time round." – he said grinning sadistically. Kazuki nodded to indicate he knew what the older man was talking about.

:-:

The witch hunt for the perverts wound down by Monday. Tsunade and the Hokage got what they wanted, so it wasn't such a bad deal. Kakashi was grateful for his little student, even if it had been him the beginning of it all in the first place. But even he as an adult should have recognize that even if the boy had wanted to see the porn books, he shouldn't have given in.

So now, now that he was going to see his team again; he wondered if his other two cute little genin would appreciate the changes coming their way.

Perhaps, not.