Naruto and Tsunade broke from one another's embrace when a crowd started to gather, it seemed shocking to the general populous, that the Hokage would be kissing some one in public, especially him, they really didn't care how old he was, no, it was the fact that he was that boy.

Tsunade whipped around in record time to deliver the "evil eye" glare to the surrounding crowd. It was, a frightening glace that was for sure, so frightening that some of the crowd soiled themselves. Tsunade grabbed Naruto's hand so viciously, Naruto had to visibly wince do to the monstrous strength she possessed, grabbing his hand she then led him down the street to her office, far away from the prying eyes of the public.

Reaching the office the two ANBU guards were going to say something but decided against it when Tsunade used her super secret glare no jutsu and scared the two guards . She rushed through the door to her desk and ripped the drawer out and grabbed the paper work and started filling it out. Naruto looked at the women he loved and laughed, causing her to glare at him. Naruto not one to take this activity lightly walked up behind her and placed his hands on her hips drawing her closer to him.

Tsunade was immediately thrown into an internal war, one side wanted to glare but the other side was melting at the contact, on the outside it was apparent who was winning, her features softened as the closeness of the two bodies was a reality. She mentally cursed herself for falling victim to the mere touch of the boy, no scratch that the man. Tsunade had never felt something like this before; she had come close once when she was with Dan. Dan, that name made her frown for a moment, a mere moment and she realized that Naruto would never be Dan, but he would be someone else to her, he would be Naruto. She finished the paper work and handed it to Naruto who took his freedom and walked around to the other side of the desk.

"Naruto, are you sure about this, I mean all of it?" She asked as she looked at the blonde

"I have never been surer of anything." Was Naruto's reply as he never took his eyes off hers, the entire time signing the sheet of paper, he then quickly added "Lets go see the council."

Tsunade's insides were doing the tango, it was almost impossible for her to remain calm, the only assurance she had that everything would be alright was the smiling idiot next to her. She rolled her eyes, only Naruto could be smiling at a moment like this, it was a bit settling and unnerving at the same time. Their approach to the chambers was a slow march, similar to the march at a funeral. It seemed fitting though; they could be closing this chapter on their journey and opening another one.

Tsunade walked up to the two guards posted at the front door and smiled, they parted and allowed the two to walk in with out a hint of emotion evident on their faces. Tsunade let an audible sigh escape her lips. She was tired of all this political maneuvering by the council; they were going to use her relationship with Naruto against her.

"Give afternoon, Hokage-sama and Uzumaki-san, thank you for coming to the meeting." Nara Shikaku greeted the two

"Thank you, Council members for seeing us, I am sure you want to begin so what can Naruto and I do for you today." Tsunade asked giving a slight bow

"Well we are here for two reasons really, the first one will decide if there is a second one." Hyuga Hiashi said

"What would the first problem be and how can it lead to a second?" Tsunade asked already a clue as to where this was going

"It is simple, we believe that as our leader you should not enter into a relationship with the very thing that nearly destroyed our village, it makes you look like a Harlot." Hiashi spoke again

"Listen here and listen well, she is not a harlot, you can say what ever you want about me, throw what ever you want at me, but say something like that again I will kill you, believe that." Naruto shouted as his eyes flickered from blue to red and then back, leaving the head of the council in shock

"As you can see Tsunade-sama, some of the council shares less favorable opinions of your relationship while others like me, Akimchi, and Abraume clan heads believe that it is a blissful partnership." The Nara member said to Tsunade trying to deescalate the situation.

"Yes, where as some of the others believe your relationship is fine, the majority don't." Hiashi quickly interjected before Naruto or Tsunade could reply

Naruto had listened to everything so far and he was silently shaking in rage, Tsunade looked over at the blonde and could tell the boy was fighting a losing war; internally he was struggling not to lose it.

"It is our opinion that one of such noble birth such as Tsunade should not be fraternizing with the trash." Hiashi added but paused for a breath and continued "So your options are step down or discontinue the short lived fiasco."

"Noble birth, trash, do you even know who my father is, and what gives you the right to label our relationship?" Naruto asked quietly while seething.

"We are the council we can decided what we want when we want." Hiashi replied with a sneer.

"I quit, I am no longer a ninja for this forsaken village, I am out of here I have the necessary papers from the Hokage." Naruto said as he stormed out and slammed doors behind him

"Well, now sense everything is settled"

"Actually I don't think everything is settled, who are you to tell me the Hokage who I can and cannot date, the young man who just left has proved himself time and time again, which why it is easy for me to make the next decision, I Tsunade formally retire from the position of Hokage." Tsunade quickly cut Hiashi off so she could announce her retirement

"NANI, YOU CANT RETIRE, WHO WILL TAKE YOUR PLACE?" Hiashi screamed now standing waving his hands wildly for effect.

Tsunade left the chambers as the council was in an uproar over the fact that they had forced their Hokage to resign. She left the building and went to the one place she knew Naruto would be A RAMEN STAND, yes that was were Naruto was drowning himself in Ramen.

"Thought I could find you here, drowning yourself in ramen." Tsunade said as she walked in and sat down next to him

"OF COURSE, it is ramen, ramen is good all the time, really helps when one is depressed, so when are we leaving?" Naruto asked as he stirred the ramen with his chop sticks

"I was thinking we could leave tomorrow, we still have to talk to Jiraiya and Shizune, but I figure pack tonight capped off with some heavy night time activity, we could be ready to go by the morning." Tsunade replied as she ran a hand on the inside of his thigh, this caused the blonde to nearly choke on his food while trying to hide a blush "What's the matter Naruto can't take a little touch, I am sorry if this is too much for you."
"Too much, are you joking, during our late night "training" when I touch and I mean all of you we will see you can't take it." Naruto replied seductively as he took this time to kiss her neck

Jiraiya was beside himself he was watching the whole exchange from behind them and giggling like a school girl. He was quickly taking notes, the way they were interacting was enough to send him over the edge, it had been too much for him. He took his time and then walked up and sat down next to them.

"So how was the council meeting?" Jiraiya asked

"Not good, we are leaving the village tomorrow, Tsunade quit as did I, they wanted us to quit our relationship and I disrespectfully declined." Naruto replied with a faint smile

"That good huh, well that's too bad, where are you going to go?" Jiraiya asked

"Sand maybe no clue yet, but since you and Shizune are coming with us where ever you two want to go first." Tsunade replied

"Meet us by the gates tomorrow at 8 in the morning." Naruto said as he got up paying his bill while managing to drag Tsunade with him

"Okay, where are you going in such a hurry?" Jiraiya asked laughing at the sight

"That's a secret and if you follow us I will cut IT off, you understand me?" Naruto asked

Jiraiya looked down at his lap and nodded his head in reply, he knew what they were gong to do but nothing and I mean nothing was worth losing his IT. The couple smiled as the fled into the crowd of people in the business district the sun could be seen setting in the distance as Naruto and Tsunade sought after the place for their NIGHT TRAINING.

Naruto and Tsunade eventually made it back to her place, Tsunade had the entire thing planned out, she took Naruto by the hand and led him to her couch where she had him sit down and wait for her.

"Naruto when I call for you come in and not before I call okay?"
Naruto was confused so he just nodded his head in affirmation and waited as Tsunade left the living room and walked in to the bedroom. Once inside she slowly took off all her clothes, she then searched her dresser for the necklace Naruto had given back to her, putting it on she then wrapped a silk robe around herself and called for Naruto. While waiting for Naruto she went around her room and let small candles just to add to the over all atmosphere.

Naruto walked into the room and could smell the sweet aroma the candles seemed to be giving off in waves. Naruto noticed that Tsunade was pulling the sheets back on her bed and walked over to her. Walking up behind her he slowly reached out and began to lightly massage the out side of her legs, moving in an up and down pattern, causing the silk robe to elicit a small purr of pleasure from the former hokage.

Tsunade turned in the embrace so that she was now facing Naruto, she was smiling because for the first time in a long time, two long tortured souls had found a sense of rest, rest in one another, knowing that tomorrow they would leave their village for good, sure they would wonder in the back of their minds how everything would work out but for this one moment, all that mattered was one another.

Some say that in the end love conquers all, some might argue that love isn't enough to overcome everything, but in this case love is all they need it is enough to get them from point A to point B, love might not have stopped Tsunade from losing her job or Naruto from losing his village or ninja status, but what it did do was heal. The process had started that day when he had fought Kabuto on the field in which Orichamaru and Jiraiya were locked in their on struggle.

Who knew that a simple act of courage by an upstart gennin would spark something so deep and passionate in a washed up sannin, watching the women could only gasp when the loud mouth blonde caught the blue haired traitors fist and smirked, "Now you cant run away" while most are certain his words were meant for the traitor, Tsunade knew, she knew he was talking to her.

Words whose meaning was seemingly lost on Kabuto, but struck a nerve with Tsunade as flash backs, of first her brother the first recipient of the necklace given to her by her grandfather, if this had been the only flash back then she could have denied the way she felt around the boy, but it wasn't there was a second flash back, one of a deeper more intimate love. Tsunade found herself remembering Dan the one she had loved, while looking at the boy who lay injured after a most amazing fight. If only the two would have met in a different age then maybe something could have worked itself out.

They hadn't met in a different time, this was their time and she had to go on denying herself the boy, because after all how could some one so old justify their feelings for a 14 year old, to her it didn't seem possible. Not possible eh, besides the boy called her old women every chance he got, so there wasn't any way her felt the same way, except maybe the way he had acted when she first kissed him on the forehead he won their bet. His wide eyes, giving away a little of what might be a developing crush, but yet she refused to believe it and after a while suppressed her feelings as Naruto realized his were growing and there was nothing he could do about.

He took up peeking at her when she had baths, there is really no need to divulge the details of the over all voyeuristic approach to satisfying his growing hunger for the older women, because well we all basically could have a clue or two. Yet after a while he had found the answer to his prayer, finally they could be together, but he would have to turn to the one curse in his life he couldn't get rid of and that was the Kyuubi, sure when you got right down to it the Kyuubi wasn't nearly as evil as everyone made it to be but still you had to be weary.

Still he loved her and realized that in this he would anything in his power to have her, she had been his from the first time she kissed his forehead, she hadn't known it herself but he had. So the deal was made and he sacrificed something of use to him and that was his hand, well it turned out to be more of his whole arm then just the necklace but it suited him well. What he thought was a win-win situation had blown up in his face and landed him where he was now, in the bed of the women he loves.

Yes love doesn't conquer all things but it helps with some and Naruto could tell looking up at the woman now straddling him as he lay on his back that he loved her. He watched as she moved her hands to the sash holding her silk gown.

"What are you doing?" he asked as she untied the sash and let the gown fall from her body leaving her above him with nothing but the necklace on, she leaned forward and brought the covers with her to cover their bodies as she whispered in his ear "Giving the necklace to some one I care about."

Well here is the next chapter read and review and let me know what you think I work nights so my chapters will come a little slower now but anyway here it is.