Chapter 4! Its much longer!
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"Let me in you fuckers! Don't you know who I am!?" The ANBU at the hold looked at his through their masks. "The future Inuzuka head! Lemme in!" Kiba once again tried pushing past them, but was barred by the larger men.
"Orders by the counsel, no one besides Kazekage-sama may enter." Kiba growled angrily.
"Damnit! Just talk to Naruto! He'll let me in!" The ANBU merely stood there, ignoring Kiba. The brunette glared at them and leaned up against a tree near the door. I'll just wait...
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Even Gaara was visibly upset at the reasons for his brother's arrest. He turned to Naruto, looking him right in the eyes. "The Orochimaru incident?" Naruto nodded.
"Mhm...from years ago... I don't think it needs to be brought up. Suna has proved time and time again that they are our allies." Kankuro had stopped talking and was staring at the floor.
"Kankuro..." Gaara turned to his brother. The puppeteer didn't move, his gaze was locked onto the cold stone floor.
"Why didn't you overrule the decision to arrest me? We both know that the Daimyo's lost almost all power after the Madra indecent." Naruto sighed and sat down on a bench.
"There's been major political turmoil after I became Hokage... They still don't like the fact that their 'weapon' is running everything. The counsel has tried to take my position away three times. The jounin are the only thing stopping them..."
Kankuro looked at the blonde, he was still impassive, and looked sad.
"I see... Naruto... I want to ask you a favor..." Naruto looked up, and nodded at Kankuro. "I want to see Kiba."
The kage closed his eyes and lowered his head. Kiba and Kankuro had been together since the kidnapping of Gaara. The Inuzuka had rushed to Kankuro's side after he heard that he had been poisoned. The relationship developed from there. And thanks to Kiba, he was now married to Hinata.
"I can't... Even as Hokage I can't bring people in and out. It would be suspicious. I'm sorry..." Kankuro's anger came back in a rush.
"Oh? Sorry are you? Mk, lemme put you in another country for a year and a half without Hinata and then drag you back here and separate you two by a cell!" He jumped up and gripped the bars. "I haven't seen Kiba in a year, and you wanna keep me away?!" Gaara immediately got between the two, and pushed Kankuro back with his sand.
"Manage your temper Kankuro. We'll... get you and Kiba together somehow..." he turned to Naruto. His impassive mask had been taken off, and there was a pleading in his eyes. "Naruto, it's been stressful on my brother without his lover, isn't there a way?"
Naruto blushed at the word 'lover', but stood and turned to Kankuro. He ran his fingers over tired eyes, and nodded at the siblings.
"Mk... I'll try to get you visitors allowed..." Kankuro sat back down and sighed.
"Thank you."
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"Hokage-sama" the ANBU guard nodded respectfully to Naruto. Suddenly, Kiba jumped out at his blonde friend, and stood accusing, with his finger pointing at the kage.
"Let me see Kankuro!" Naruto was still shocked from Kiba's initial attack.
"Kiba! You can't just jump out in front of people! Especially Kages! What if I had killed you!" Kiba shrugged, and crossed his arms.
"But you didn't. So tell your ANBU friends to back off and to let me see Kankuro!" Naruto sighed, and looked away from Kiba, not wanting to meet his eyes.
"I can't" Kiba snarled.
"'Course you can, your the kage." The blonde shook his head.
"I really can't Kiba... The counsel has too much power and won't let me do what I want... I'm sorry..." The Inuzuka growled angrily.
"So that's it? Hm? What happened to the trouble making, rule breaking Naruto I knew? Following some fucking counsel as they make you their bitch. Some kage you are." And with that, he teleported away.
Great... Two friends I've lost today...
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Kiba screamed again. It was a good thing he had moved out, otherwise Tsume would be yelling at him. He was pacing around his room, and kicking his chair around. Damn it Naruto... don't you know how long it's been since I've seen him? The year they had spent apart was due to the collapse of Amegakure. After Pein's death, the whole country had just fallen apart. Tons of radical ninja had been causing so much trouble, that both Kiba and Kankuro had been busy and couldn't travel.
He had feared for the other man's life every day. He knew Kankuro was strong, but they were ninja...
And now, they were so close. And he couldn't see Kankuro. He was gonna kill someone. Just as he was digging his claws into the wall, someone knocked on the door. Kiba looked out the window to see Hinata. He pulled the apartment door oped, and let her in. "Hey Hinata..."
The once-shy girl smiled and walked inside. Kiba couldn't help but smile back. Hinata had become a powerful and dangerous kunoichi. She had mastered both the Sution and Raiton*, and had become as proficient with the Byakugan as Neji. She could even do the Kaiten and Jyugen* and the 64-palm touch. He nodded at his best non-dog friend and sat down on a stool in his kitchen.
"Kiba, please don't worry, I know that everything will be alright. You'll see Kankuro again." The Inuzuka gave a weak smile in return, but Hinata knew her friend enough to see through his guise. "Kiba..."
"It's just..." She smiled.
"You haven't seen him? You miss him? You just want to hold him?" She nodded. "I get it. How'd you think I felt when Naruto went away for his training? It's hard. But c'mon, Suna's our allies. And Naruto's rather angry at the counsel. And he gets his way when he's angry." Kiba smiled and put his arm around Hinata.
"Thanks. You and Kankuro are the only two people that could make me feel better in a situation like this..."
She nodded and looked out from the balcony, taking in the skyline of Konoha. The rebuild wasn't quite done yet, even with Yamato's Wood Release, but the city was still there, and the construction had boosted the economy. Kiba snickered.
"Although, you're wrong." Hinata rasied a brow.
"What do you mean?"
"'Just hold him' is so not all I want to do..." He laughed as Hinata blushed and smacked him on the arm.
"You horn-dog!"
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The view of Konoha at sunset was nice. But even now, it couldn't make Naruto feel any better. He closed his eyes, letting his mind take him to the boiler room in his stomach.
There he stood in front of the mighty gate that locked Kyuubi no Yoko away, and the demon glared at him with it's fearsome eyes.
"WHAT DO YOU WANT, MIGHTY HOKAGE?"The fox said in its gruff voice, sarcasm almost as the thick as the heavy air.
"Hello Kyuubi." Naruto said with a dismissive wave. The Kyuubi had lost its blood lust right after Naruto had become Hokage. Nobody, including Kyuubi, was sure why. Tsunade thought that maybe it was because of the destruction of the body of Jubi, which prevented the recombination of the tailed beasts. Naruto thought it was because Kyuubi was too damned bored to want to kill anything. Kyuubi blamed Naruto. "You and your damned 'good conscience'" he often said.
"SO? WHAT IS IT? YOU COME HERE WITH SOME WHINY COMPLAINT OFTEN ENOUGH FOR ME TO KNOW WHAT YOU WANT TO TALK..." He grumbled.
"Shut up! I don't whine! I'm Hokage! Or are you forgetting what the last one did to you?" Kyuubi growled. Mentioning Minato always shut him up.
"UPSET AT THE COUNSEL? JUST KILL THEM. THAT'LL SOLVE YOUR PROBLEM." Naruto sighed.
"I can't kill them all... The villagers will get angry..." The demon raised an eyebrow (as much as a fox-like chakra manifestation could) and flashed his teeth, in what Naruto took as a smile.
"OH? NOT BECAUSE IT'S A 'EVIL THING TO DO'? JUST 'CAUSE THE VILLAGERS WILL BE UPSET?" Naruto put a hand over his mouth and glared at Kyuubi.
"Shut up! You know what I mean! Stupid fox..." Kyuubi just growled at him, and snorted at the bars of his cage.
"WHY DON'T YOU DO THE KILLERBEE THING AND LEMME OUT OF YOUR BODY, BUT KEEP THE SEAL UP?" Naruto glared at him again.
"You know why. Because, one: even at 6-tails form I can't control your chakra. And two: because your a bastard and wouldn't let me control you." Kyuubi 'smiled' again.
"YOU KNOW ME SO WELL..." The Kyuubi had in fact let Naruto take control of all 8 'tailed' forms of his chakra, but even with that, Naruto could only keep his mind at the 6-tails form.
"I need advice..." Naruto admitted. "I have no idea how to handle the counsel. After Danzo's death, they thought that they should rule as the 'Collaborative Hokage' but the Jounin and the other Kage's wouldn't hear of it. So they keep trying to manipulate me..." Kyuubi sneered.
"KEEP THINKING THAT YOU'RE NOTHING MORE THAN THEIR WEAPON TO USE AT WILL? TYPICAL. ANYTHING POWERFUL, DANGEROUS, UNSTABLE, OR DESTRUCTIVE IS A WEAPON TO BE EXPLOITED..."
"I'm not dangerous or unstable!" Naruto fumed.
"DON'T FLATTER YOURSELF, I WAS TALKING ABOUT ME" The blonde turned away from the cage, pacing as his Hokage cloak swished behind him.
"What should I do, Kyuubi?" The fox actually pondered the question for a few seconds, and sighed, speaking again.
"HONESTLY KID? ASSERT YOURSELF. BE STRONG. YOU'VE GOT ALL THOSE FRIENDS, AND YOU'VE GOT ME, SO SHOW THAT THEY CAN'T PUSH YOU AROUND."
Naruto nodded, and smiled at the fox. He went over to the cage, and touched the metal bar.
"Thanks. Sometimes I'm glad that I have you on my side. Even if you are a smart-ass." He smiled and vanished from the room. Kyuubi's last reply echoed in his mind as he looked around his office.
"DAMNED KID! YOU SHOULD ALWAYS BE GLAD TO HAVE ME!"
Naruto almost laughed aloud. But at that moment, Hinata walked into the office, and smiled at her husband.
"Hello Naruto." she said, smiling at the blonde.
"Hey Hinata, where were you?" She went over to his side, and wrapped her arm around him, and gave him a quick kiss.
"Comforting Kiba... He's really upset right now..." Naruto nodded sadly. He put his arm around Hinata's shoulders and sighed contently as she put her head in the crook of his neck.
"I know... I saw Kankuro today. I think he wanted to rip my throat out." The Hyuga sighed sadly, and looked at the view of Konohagakure.
"Naruto? Is everything going to be alright? I saw you talking to Kyuubi... What did he say?" Naruto smirked. Hinata could tell when the vessel and demon were talking because when he was in the room, his chakra became more 'red' to someone with the Byakuga because of the ability to see chakra.
"He said to kill the counsel." Hinata frowned. "But then, he said to keep my chin up, show them who's really in control, and to remember my friends."
"Doesn't sounf like the Kyuubi I know" Hinata said with a smirk.
"Yeah well... give or take a few words."
They both laughed for a bit, enjoying the view, and enjoying each other. Hinata turned to face Naruto.
"Do you really think it will be OK?" He nodded and smiled wide.
"Yeah! I'm Hokage! Nothing'll go wrong as long as I'm here!"
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Nice right? I think so! Oh! Explanation:
* Raiton is 'lightning release'. It's like Kakashi's chidori. I just think Hinata should have at least two elements!
*Suiton is 'water release'. It's Hinata's elemental type (it's in a filler) and she should be a master!
*Katon is the release of chakra from all over one's body and spinning to create a super strong sheild and attack
*Jyugen is the 'gentle fist' attacks of the Byakugan that stop the flow of chakra.
I know I probably don't need to explain, but just in case you forgot, or just don't know!
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