A/N Story starts up now; Yondaime's made an unsteady recovery. He reflects on what has happened in the past few years before heading out on a mission.
Disclaimer: I do not own Naruto or any of its characters, there are owned by Kishimoto-san. Oh and the main pairing has been decided, however, before you storm off in a fury, allow me to explain the kind of relationship they have in the end.
Summary: One fateful night in Konohagakure, the Yondaime Hokage chose his village over his only son; only time will tell if he made the right choice. Feral!Naruto, Pairings to be voted on.
Key: Normal, "Speech" 'Thoughts' "Demonic Speech" 'Demonic Thoughts'
Chapter 7
Times Gone By, Things to Come
Konoha, shippuden startTsunade sighed as she looked out over the visage that was Konohagakure, her hand idly seeking the bottle of sake hidden in a draw.
'Why did I ever agree to this job?' The sake found it's way to her mouth and she swallowed, smacking her lips with content.
'Oh yeah, perks of the job' She smirked as she sat down at the heavy wooden desk of the Hokage. Truth be told, there where more tan a few stunned faces when she'd accepted the position. Many expected either her teammate Jiraiya to take the job, or else for the Yondaime Hokage to take up his position again. However, Jiraiya refused to give up his free roam privileges, insisting he was needed 'gathering data' for the village. The fact that he wouldn't have time to write icha-icha may also have explained why the council wasn't very insistent. Arashi on the other hand…he never truly recovered from the loss of his son. He was stable, for the most part. However he was prone to sometimes-violent mood swings, and lacked his former focus. He could be perfectly fine one minute, then trying to maim a civilian the next. The only person who could calm him down was Jiraiya, and sometimes Kakashi. As such, he never went on a mission without at least one of them. The fact that Kakashi's team had two vacant slots helped. Not that the circumstances surrounding the reason where any less tragic;
The team had been made up of Haruno Sakura the year's top kunoichi, Uchiha Sasuke the rookie of the year and last Uchiha, and Dareka Daremo the year's deadlast. The team interaction had been shaky at times, but under Kakashi's tutelage and value of teamwork, they had become close friends, with Sasuke even agreeing to go out on a date with Sakura, and Daremo was always making an effort to brighten up the Uchiha genius. But it was not to last, Orochimaru had infiltrated during the chuunin exams with intent to exact his revenge on his old sensei. While doing so he seemed to take it upon himself to leave Sasuke with a taste of the power he offered, appealing to his desire for revenge. When he gave into temptation and left a team of prominent genins was sent to retrieve him, with Daremo at the frontlines. As the other genin stayed back to hold of the sound-nin, it eventually resulted in a confrontation between Daremo and Sasuke, exactly what happened is unkown, Daremo's body was discovered by Kakashi, a chidori hole in his chest, and Sasuke no where to be found. The event had left the remaining team member distraught and scared. Tsunade could only take pity on the poor girl when she had approached her and begged to be taken on as an apprentice, saying she never wanted to lose someone precious to her again.
Now where was she? Oh yes, Arashi and Jiriaya, the two had become almost inseparable; with Jiraiya having to reteach the ex-Hokage the many things he had forgotten in his absence. Oh, he could still fight like a demi-god; he still knew everything he ever did before the sealing about combat. If anything he was better, having been engaged in non-stop combat for a good twelve years did would improve anybody, he didn't even need to think to perform most of his techniques anymore. No, it was the other things, things alien to the battle; how to dress yourself, how to hold chopsticks, it was a miracle he still understood human speech.
Another important change was Arashi's deep mistrust of the civilian population, a large part of the reason for his adamant refusal to don the pointy hat again, no matter how much he tried to put it past him, he never succeeded in forgiving them for their sins against his child. For their part the council accepted his stand on the matter, many not trusting the former 'yellow flash's mental fortitude to give him a position of command again.
Of course, a ninja of such acclaimed strength would hardly be pulled from the force altogether, which brought the Godaime to the task at hand.
'It's been a while since their last assignment, I'm sure he's probably getting restless' She thought, glancing at the sheet of paper sitting on her desk.
"Shizune" She barked, her assistant jumping to attention.
"Hai, Hokage-sama"
"Contact Kakashi, tell him his team has a mission"
"Hai, er…who will be the fourth member?" Tsunade groaned, despite having been over two years the team still lacked a permanent fourth member, most potential candidates where either put off my the Blonde's…uniqueness, made a wrong comment about the wrong subject, ranging from Sasuke to Hokage. All up there was only a select few who could work with the team, and all of those where specialists who would be useless on certain missions. For this one…
"Mitarashi Anko, she should be at her house at the moment, although who knows how long she will remain there". The youthful slug sannin tented her hands in front of her, reminiscent of her late sensei.
"Aah…Anko-san's house?" The dark haired medic fidgeted nervously.
"Yes…will that be a problem?"
"NO! I mean, not at all Tsunade-sama"
'What could be so bad about Anko's house? I may have to have ANBU investigate'"Good, dismissed"
Knock Knock"Who is it?" A voice shouted from behind the door.
"It's me, Shizune, Tsunade-sama says you've got a mission"
"Hmm?" There was an audible creek as the door opened, revealing a bemused Kakashi, a towel wrapped around his waist, another around his head, and shaving cream masking the lower half of his face.
'Damn! Two minutes later and…'"I'm sorry, did you say something?"
"I said Tsunade-sama has a mission for you and your team"
"Oh? Tell her I'll be there in ten minutes"
"Of course"
'Yeah right you lazy bastard, I bet I could show you something to get motivated over' Ten minutes laterShizune was trembling in fear as she approached the Mitarashi den of evil, as she referred to it. She had only been there once before but it had left a…lasting impression. It was the kind of incident that could shake ones faith in mankind. It took the poor med-nin four days to recover.
Her hand was shaking as she reached for the doorbell
'Ding-dingaling-ding-dingaling-ding-ding-da-ding-da-ding-dingaling'
"It's open, come in" A voice answered from within.
'Why me?' She braced herself before opening the door, she unconsciously tread lightly, not wanting to disturb the beast that dwelt within.
"A-anko-san? Tsu-tsunade-sama says you have a mission" Having said her message she quickly turned to leave,
"Shizune-chan!" To some it sounded like a lovesick fangirl, to others a little sister; to Shizune it spelt certain doom.
'No! Not again' She quickened her pace and dashed towards the door.
'Almost there, 3, 2, 1,'"Waah" She cried out as she was tackled too the floor.
"Shizune-chan!" The tokubetsu-jounin squeeled with delight.
"A-cough-anko-san, I really must be going"
"But Shizune-chan, don't you like me? I thought we had something special, but then you started avoiding me, I've been so lonely without you. No-one to play with…" Images flashed unbidden across Shizune's mind, reminiscents of her last encounter with the snake-apprentice. A blush rose to her cheeks and slight trickle of blood dripped from her nose.
"A-a-a-a-anko-san, w-w-w-what happened l-l-l-last time was a-AH!" She was cut off as the somewhat older woman's fingers found there way into her panties, eliciting a gasp for her search.
"It was what? Shizune-chan" The hormone filled kunoichi purred.
"I-I-it was…mmmph" She moaned as a delicate nail flicked across her bud.
"Yes?"
"I-it" A second hand snaked its way up to her chest, parting the fabric and fondling the soft flesh inside
"Say it" her voice, barley whisper was coated in unbridled lust and desire.
"I-it wa-ohh" She could hardly speak as her climax drew near.
"Admit it"
"I-I-I-I-I-it was the-ooohhh- itwasthe BEST NIGHT OF MY LIFE!" She fell, panting, onto her back as a wave of pleasure washed over her. Anko stood up and sucked on her finger, a smug grin on her face.
"See, that wasn't so hard, you said I had a mission? I supposed I'd better get going then, see ya!" She strode out the door and shut it behind her, leaving the poor, flustered girl slumped on the floor, trying to get her breath back.
"Th-that crazy woman, I-it's no wonder Arashi-sama gets along with her" She tried to sit up only to fall back down agin.
"I…I need a cigarette"
A/N: O.K, In this fic, as Konoha had no Jinchuuriki, and Itachi knew it, Itachi and kisame never came to Konoha, Kakashi etc never fought him, no-one in Konoha knows about Mangekyo, Kakashi hasn't got his own Mankegyo yada yada.
Mild lemony content, I'm putting the rating up to M just in case, how you receive this will probably dictate wether I do any other lemon scenes in this. Poor Shizune, molested by a sex-fiend.
And yes ANKO WON.
Actually, it was a tie, but by the time I received the equaliser, I'd already started on that last scene and didn't want to wait for a tie breaker, and I don't feel I'd be able to pull of having both girls. Also, if I count the Not Hinata votes -1, then she lost by 4. I will say this; Hinata WILL NOT be paired with anyone else.
Someone pointed out that Sakura was never listed amongst the contenders, I have a reason for this…okay, actually I don't, I'd fully intended for her to be a possibility but I missed her when I was writing up the list in Chapter 1, and no-one mentioned it before now, so sorry to all you NaruSaku fans out there but to be honest I'm not to big on that pairing anyway. I suppose it was a subconscious thing when I left her out.
The final votes where:
NaruHina 17
NaruAnko 17
NaruTen 5
NaruKur 1
NaryHana 5
NaruShizu 2
NaruxNot Hinata 4
Kill Hinata 1
NaruxfemNaru 1(Namley, Naruto and a Sexy Naruto, you know who you are 'glares')
I can't help but feel I should have said what changes I would have made to Hinata, had she won. I just never got around to it. But basically she wouldn't have had Naruto to stalk forcing her to either grow some semblance of a backbone, or commit suicide. Obviously I wouldn't have chosen the former. Since she would be post skip, that gives me a lot of leeway into altering her personality etc, se wouldn't be the 'creepy weird girl who stalks and stutters you all stereotype her as FEEL THE GUILT!!.
I really don't now why Hana didn't get more votes, I was actually hoping for this pairing but it would have played out similar to Anko's so it didn't bother me too much. Judging from the comments I think a lot of you thought I meant Hanabi…right. I specifically said when I brought her into the pairings Inuzuka Hana, or didn't you read that???
Oh, and if you have any plot ideas for this fic, tell me, because in about 5 chapters I run dry and am left clutching at straws. That said, I'd like to give mention to Kafaru, without whom I wouldn't even have straws to clutch at. If I fail to find my inspiration I'll start on my second fic, either my epic fic, or else an AU I thought up, both of which are rewrites of canon, the latter of which, however, needs more research don so is unlikely, if I can be bothered I may post a preview summary on my profile, beneath all the crap I have on there.
Kinda long for an A/N, but the chapters approx 1500 words without it so :P
Also, I'd like to recommend Into the Woods by Kyuubiteaser, one of THE best NaruHina fics out there, I just wish Kyuubiteaser would get back to working on the sequel Into the Desert .