Well the next update will unfortunately after christmas.
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Until Febuary I am postponing the next chapter of "Frozen Wood".
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Changing the name to: Finding Naruto.
About a couple of fics with about a dozen to twenty chapters each. I'm planning on turning this in to a series. Finding Naruto is considered part 1.
Will not complete until poll is put in! You'll like that what I'm offering. I think the fans should choose because then I can't get flamed because it was the fans idea.
It all depends on what you think.
Positive reviews. Thank Kami-sama!
The last chapter took a while to write. I needed inspiration.
Just so you know I will be having a time skip in later chapters. A Twelve year time skip.
How'd ya like dem apples?
P.S. I am finishing this fic. So help me kami-sama I will finish it.
Okay so here Naruto convinces Tsunade to pull up the tournament so he can fight in it and beat the living crap out of everyone! Yay! Only so many fights will occur in this chapter. But rest assured there will be a sannin level battle next chapter.
Oh and Ino get's her butt handed to her on a silver platter in this chapter.
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The sound of summer drifted in to the hidden village of Konoha. Children played in the playgrounds and parks, jounin reported in to get missions and to pick up their teams. Some chunins went to teach at the academy, others journeyed on to missions.
Gaara Subaku walked side by side his old friend Naruto with their respective son's infront of them reading a manga that the floating fox head of a soccor ball, Kyubi-P had extracted from his mouth."So that's what Orihime can do? Control time through those flowers?" Miso asked. Haku nodded. "Hai, Orihime-chan is cute, she has cool powers like Auntie Kyu Kyu and she's like Tou-san. She's always happy unless someone she loves is hurt. And Tou-san once said he liked her chest for some reason".
Naruto and Gaara froze upon hearing this. It wasn't something you should spreed about, especially with several dangerous kunoichis in the vicinity. "Haku, don't say that again in public okay" Naruto told his son slightly shivering under the fear inducing glares he was recieving from women on the street who had overheard what Naruto thought about the character.
After that the four hurried to reach the Hokage's office where they were suposed to meet up with Tsunade and other officials visiting Konoha no sato. Haku and Miso had no idea why they were going so fast to reach the Hokage tower. Within the space of five minutes the four found themselves outside one of the meeting rooms with Naru, Obito and other children waiting outside with a jounin Naruto recognised as Konohamaru. The grandson of the third Hokage gave the blonde and redhead a glare before speaking. "Hokage-sama awaits you inside. Please leave you children out here".
Naruto turned to Miso and Haku. "Okay you two. Kyubi-P will keep an eye on things, but I need you two to protect eachother if anything goes awry, okay?". The two nodded as Gaara knocked on the door. "Come in" a voice called from the otherside. Gaara opened the door and both he and Naruto entered.
A large table had been set up with many Konoha nin's waiting. Sakura, Sasuke, Tenten, Sai, Neji, Hinata, Ino, Shikamaru, Temari, Shino, Kiba, Yamato, Shizune, Kakashi, Kurenai, Gai, Lee, Tsunade, Hiashi, Koharu, Homura, Chouza and a kid with brown hair and red eyes, whom Naruto had never met before, who sat close to Kurenai (Guess who it is).
"Ah, welcome, Kazekage-sama, Naruto" Tsunade greeted. The pair sat down at the end of the table with Gaara giving his sister a look which promised a demand for explainations. "Hokage-dono, may I ask, why have you summoned both me and Naruto-san here?" Gaara asked. Tsunade looked towards Naruto with a glare. "We are here to persuade Naruto in to joining us and forgeting the challanges".
"For-get it" Naruto drawled "I may have been blackmailed in to going along with this, but I promise you I will not stay in this village when I win. I no longer have any ties to you people" he said you with a large amount of distaste in his voice. "Why the hell have you brought me here in the first place".
Sasuke growled and stood up "Because you are the toad sannin, dobe. We need you here". Naruto scoffed. "I haven't summoned a single toad since I left ten years ago. I think there's a time limit you can go without summoning before the contract is annuled unless you die, at least I hope". Hiashi narrowed his eyes. He may no longer be the head of the Hyuga but he stil retain a place on the council. "You would leave us to die in our time of need?".
"Why the hell are the foreigners angry anyway?"
Sakura shot a nervous look at Tsunade before the hokage responded. "Kusa and Oto want out land, Kumo wants revenge and the Hyuga's Byakugan, and Iwa want someone's life". Naruto rolled his eyes. "Well here's a solution. Give Kumo a Hyuga to breed as a peace seal. Send the guy Iwa want for execution and have the allies wipe Kusa and Oto off the map".
Shizune shot Tsunade a nervous glance. Naruto caught this. "Oh I get it. It's someone important. Who is it? Some loser with a stick shoved up his ass. Probably Sasuke..."
"It's not me dobe" Sasuke said with a glint in his eye "It's the son of the Yondaime Hokage". Naruto scowled deeply. "They'll have to get in line. I want a piece of the Yondaime's blood anyway the bastard". Eyes widened at this statement. "I hate the Yondaime, and as far as I'm concerned why should his son be any importance to me anyway?".
"Naruto, I know what the yondaime did was..."
"Oh yeah, stick a demon in an orphan's gut. Then off and die leaving the kid to get beaten and banished with two thousand and thrity-five assasination attempts by the time the kid was five, most done by villagers? Yeah now that's what I call a hero" Naruto said sarcastically. "So who's the guy they want?"
"You Naruto" Sasuke added smugly. The room froze, as if time itself stopped at that moment. Naruto abruptly stood up and walked out the door. Seconds later a long scream from said blonde could be heared all the way in Suna. Loud crashes and explosions erupted from behind the door. Kakashi sweatdropped until he, and everyone else in the room heared a string of swear words so long, disgusting, horrible and so physically impossible that it would make Tayuya either proud or blush like a Sasuke fangirl.
"That man's a father?" Temari asked as everyone else blushed at what they could hear.
Naruto walked in, with a face that would scare the shinigami shitless. "There IS NO F-ING WAY I'M RELANTED TO THAT BASTARD! THIS IS JUST ANOTHER ONE OF YOUR TRICKS KONOHA SCUM!" he yelled. Even Kakashi shrunk under his gaze, but even Hinata scowled when he insulted them and their village. Gaara just remained impassive throughout the whole thing.
"He is not my father. No way in goddamn hell am I related to that son of a bitch" Naruto raged. Tsunade stood up abruptly and scowled at Naruto. "That 'Son of a bitch' is your father Naruto. Don't forget that!"
"I hate him. There is no way could a father give there own son up to a great demon. A demon known as Konohagakure" the room caught on to what he was saying. Kyubi wasn't the demon, Konoha was for ostrisizing a child just because some village leader put a demon monster in to his stomach, then died leaving you to the mercy of people who hated the very air you breathed.
"As far as I'm concerned he can rot in hell" Naruto yelled as he stod up. He made his way to the door. "Be ready for when we fight losers, cause when we do you'll all die. That much I can promise" he said before sending a death glare at Tsunade and Sasuke. "You wouldn't dare" Tsunade insisted.
"Try me bitch".
Naruto was abruptly followed by Gaara before the blonde slammed the door shut. Sasuke growled and threw his glass of Sake at the door smashing it as it made contact. Tsunade frowned at Sasuke before muttering something about wasting good sake and that he would be cleaning it up.
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Outside Naruto soon found Haku sitting alone with Miso as other kids pointed at the small child who played with Kyubi-P. Haku threw the fox-like soccer ball at Miso who caught it expertly. As soon as Naruto walked in he was met by a gold glare from Konohamaru who sat sharpening a kunai.
"Miso" Gaara called out to his son "Come. We're leaving. Bring Haku will you". The red head nodded before taking Haku's hand and leading him away, Kyubi-P safely tucked under the blonde's arm. As Naruto turned to leave Konohamaru spoke up to his once idol. "Uzumaki! I want a word with you" the brown haired chunin stated. Naruto turned to him before speaking. "I've got a word for you. Two infact. Sod. Off."
Had the children not been there Konohamaru would have lunged at Naruto. As Naruto turned to leave he came face to face with the ten year old from before. "I've been meaning to ask. Aren't you a bit young to be in a high profile meeting like that?" Naruto asked as he passed.
"If my cousin wants to talk to you let him" the kid growled. Naruto snorted before walking away. "I take it you're Asuma's kid, Kurenai's to no doubt. Word of advice. Stay out of my way. I don't hate you, but I don't like you either. Don't do what the adults are doing 'cause they'll end up dead" Naruto told the boy.
The sarutobi child stod unmoving as the Kazekage, his son, his best friend and his son left.
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Ino entred the underground hospital's mental ward.
She usually came her as it was her job to help some patients to recover from certain stress. But today she was off the clock, but came for a social visit.
It wasn't anybody special. Just her brother.
Not many people knew that the famed Inoichi Yamanaka had a love affair years before he met his wife, well they did now anyway. He had a son with the Tsuchikage herself, before war broke out between Iwa and Konoha. That boy grew up no better than a jinchurikki. Hated for being half of them, and half of a Konoha citizen. Everyone in Iwa knew who his father was and it wasn't until Inoichi found records did he know either.
Ofcourse by that time his son was in a coma from a fight with the sharingan. The unknown Yamanaka was labeled a missing nin after his mother was assasinated and the new godaime Tsuchikage was put in office. Ten years from his fight with Sasuke Uchiha, Deidara Yamanaka still hadn't woken up from his coma.
Ino sat with her brother everyday when she wasn't on missions. Ofcourse nothing could stop her from trying to reach him. Although they hadn't officially meet in the real world yet, Ino used her mind jutsus to enter her brother's mind and talk to him, even though he was his younger self.
Sitting on a stool before the bed Ino formed her hands in to the classic handsign for the Yamanaka mind jutsus. Seconds later her body slumped as she entered his mind.
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As Naruto steered his way through the streets he couldn't shake the feeling he was being followed. It was a famillier feeling and the aura of his stalker was so familier it was uncanny. Finally as he stepped in an ally way he called out to his follower. "Alright Itachi, you can come out now" he called out.
The wind howled and the pressence became clearer to Naruto than ever before. Before he turned he knew Itachi had already materialised behind him. "How's Ayame and the lil'un?" Naruto asked his one time enemy. "Good" Itachi replied "Haku?".
"He's doing fine. Got a friend in Miso now"
"What is it with ramen names?" Itachi asked a coy smirk appearing on his face. Naruto shrugged. "I'm not the only one. Miso, Haku, Naru Umino and your kid" here he turned to face Itachi. "How are the eternal Mangekyo's treating you?" the blonde asked.
"I can never thank you enough for taking the eye out of Madara and using Kyubi's powers for the second one" Itachi said opening his eyes to reveal the Mangekyo Sharingan.
"You don't have to. Madara was a bastard. Especially towards Obito. I hate body snatcher like that".
"How are Obito and Rin?" Itachi asked concerned for his distant cousin's wellfare. "Madara hasn't resurface, Obito's Sharingan eye is working alright, he keeps it just at the basic level so's as not to go blind and he's adamant that he doesn't need the eternal. Rin still pitching a fit whenever he's late and lil' Taichi's taken to wearing goggles on his forehead". Itachi nodded placing a hand on Naruto's shoulder. "Konan?"
"Jiraiya-kun is learning from her to use paper. His rinnengan is a little haywire aswell, but nothing Kyubi can't help with".
"You?" Itachi asked.
"I'm fine. Royaly pissed at the village, but fine"
"Where is Haku now?" Itachi asked. Naruto smiled "With Gaara, Temari insisted that Gaara visits. Miso wouldn't go without him and Kyubi-P. I didn't know Miso was afraid of Temari?"
"Matsuri and Gaara are afraid of Temari. Gaara just doesn't show it" Itachi noted. Naruto turned to the raven haired man a smile plastered across his face. "It's good to see you my friend".
"Do you realise how old you sounded just then?"
"Shut up. Anyway Haku'll be happy to meet Ram. You guys should come over for a visit. Introduce Ram to Miso and Haku and help me come up with idea's to get this damn seal off" Naruto said as he pointed to the mark on his arm lifting his sleeve up before hand. "You are the closets to a seals master I know".
Itachi crouched down slightly to inspect the arm.
"A set of tri-grams, two sets of five element seals, three containment seals, a high level barrier seal ontop of a negation swirl. However did this was a complete idiot with seals. Theres a timer on here aswell, probably accidental. It's only a fluke that it's keeping your chakra sealed. They're lucking this could have created a barrier around you or sucked someone or something in to your arm".
"Can you break it?" Naruto asked urgently.
"Is Ayame good in bed?"
"Do you really expect me to answer that?"
"Nope, Because if you did, I'd castrate you before unsealed you" Itachi replied smirking. Naruto's face split in to a grin before he replied cheekily. "Don't need it anyway. Just make sure I'm asleep when you do it and keep me sedated". Itachi looked up suprised to see the blonde with a raised eyebrow and a cocky grin. "Very funny" the raven responded "Now hold still".
Naruto clenched his teeth tight and braced his body ready for the impact remembering the amount of pain he had felt when Jiraiya undid the seal on his stomach after the second stage of the chunin exams. Itachi's hand glowed blue before he exclaimed. "KAI!" he shouted slamming his hand on to Naruto's arm. The skin burned slightly causing the blonde man to wince out in pain.
The skin was sore for a minuted before it went numb, the Naruto calmed down. Itachi took that as a sign to release and when he removed his hand he saw that the seal was gone and all that was left was a bit of pink skin still suffering from the after effect of the seals release. "Ah that feels so much better" Naruto noted before Itachi placed his hands in to a seal. Gathering chakra the man preformed a henge, transforming him in to a happier version of himself with no marks on his face and shorter hair.
"Doesn't anyone notice the henge?" Naruto asked as the two walked out of the allyway and in to the deserted street. Itachi shook his head. "Not with your method of henge. Remember the one you taught me".
"Oh yeah. The shapeshifting one. Oiroke without the naked girl and with the control to whoever you change in to" Naruto said scratching his cheek. "So Ichiraku to see Ayame and Ram. Hey is old man Teuchi still around?"
"Not anymore. Got a place in the land of waves. Huge business there. Apparently, people flock from miles on the islands just to taste the same food their hero ate when he was a young man".
"Is the bridge still up?"
"Last I heard they were going to ingrave your image in to it. Namikage's orders". Naruto smiled brightly as he remembered who he had heared had turned out to be the Namikage. "Inari's doing alright for himself then?" Naruto asked about Teuchi's best customer and the Namikage, the same kid Naruto had to beat over the head about being all depressed and hopeless.
"He's fine. Getting married next month. So on the way aswell". Itachi's face turned in to a mighty smirk as they walked down the street. "Here comes the what? Yondaime Naruto?"
"Damn, and the rokudaime noodle name, after me, Haku, Miso, Naru and Ram" Naruto said following the joke. "Well at least a Naruto is a rokudaime of something" Itachi mentioned.
Naruto looked at him wide eyed. "Don't tell me you agree with them?".
Itachi was silent for a long time as they walked down the streets of Konoha. Finally, as soon as Naruto was about to give up Itachi spoke. "It would be nice to see you and have you around. We miss you. Even the Konoha Twelve, and most civillians. No one really expected your banishment to actually go through except some people with ten foot poles up their asses".
Naruto frowned as he walked. "Itachi I swore to myself never to return here. I've already broken three promises in my lifetime. Don't make me break a fourth".
"Fourth?" the raven inquisited.
"I swore never to become a kage. Especially Hokage. I swore it when I left".
"But by keeping that promise you break an even longer one. The one you shouted towards the heavens about. Ayame told me and I quote "I'll be Hokage one day. Dattebayo" end quote".
"So whatever. That never was a real promise".
"Then why did you swear on the grave of the sandaime you'd one day become Hokage?" Itachi inquisited. Naruto looked down depressed. "Ayame told you that to huh?" he asked. Itachi nodded.
"She's my wife. She tells me everything, like I tell her everything. Something you know alot about" Itachi said. It didn't take a lot to figure out what he was talking about. Him and Isaribi never kept anything from eachother. It was something they just did. Something they felt they needed to do. It was how Isaribi knew all about Naruto and the Kyubi. "So, Naruto which promise means more to you" Itachi asked as they neared Ichiraku, now a large establishment, calling in to Ayame and Ram.
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Sakura sat in her room at HQ looking at a picture of her and Naruto together, back before he left with Jiraiya and after Sasuke left. Tsunade took the picture on one of those days she made an escape from the office. It was infront of Ichiraku ramen and Naruto had just coaxed Sakura in to paying for the meal, something he never really paid her back for even though she still had the I.O.U. somewhere amoungst her things.
Ten years really seemed like a long time now to the Pink haired medic. Even longer than it is supposed to be. Naruto had changed so much and he seemed much older than the blonde haired idiot she knew when she was young. Now he was with a child and was not caring about any of them.
Back in the old days a family was probably the last thing on his mind and he would kill for any single one of them. Even Neji and Sasuke. Such a contrast ten years makes. Sakura didn't even think he would stop and think before slicing them up like he did with Choji, probably went soft on Choji because Choji had been one of those in the hospital when Naruto had been banished and didn't know about it until months later.
The light of the candle infront of her wavered until it suddenly blew out, leaving Sakura in the darkness. The pink haired woman closed her eyes before giving off a long sigh and speaking up. "Even after all this time you still haven't learned how to knock bastard" she said.
Sasuke 'hn'ed as he stood up against the wall behind her. "We need to talk" he said.
"Talk?" Sakura ask "Or get in to one of our fights again? Remember Sasuke we're team mates. I can't hate you, I can tolerate you, but I can dislike you intensely. Traitor". Sasuke frowned at her words.
"Sakura. With Naruto here we need to..."
"To what Uchiha?" Sakura asked venom escaping in her voice. Suddenly it was really hard to know who was the snake sannin here. "Convince him to stay? Beat him so he has to stay? Blackmail? Bribe? Sasuke I know how you feel but think about Naruto".
"You're not seriously thinking of letting him go are you?"
"Sasuke, he's moved on. No matter what we do, no matter where we go, no matter how strong we feel, we can't let him be forced in to this, and we have to move on aswell".
"Coming from one of the girls who waited ten years alone for him"
Sakura turned around no wand glared in the Uchiha's direction, her eyes a living hell. "I am not a girl anymore. Sure I waited but I'm done waiting. No matter how much I love Naruto, I can't have him. He cast us aside because of what we did. And especially what you did".
"That's not fair..."
"Neither is sitting by and doing nothing while Naruto is banished. Especially after he fought for you to spared. Remember the village laws. You didn't return to us of your own free will. You left us and didn't spare us a second glance. We had to tie you up and seal your chakra. I still remember that seal Naruto had from Jiraiya he put on you. You can't leave Konoha without permission or you'll just be teleported in to that holding cell underground".
Sasuke scowled at the memory and exactly where Naruto had placed the seal. The location made it incredibly hard for an seals master to counter because they needed room to jab and without outside forces helping. Besides they practically died of laughter at the location before they could unseal it.
"Sakura, think about this" he said softly. "We can both have Naruto back. The three of us together we could be a team again. Team Seven".
"Sasuke you just want..." her words were cut off by Sasuke pressing his lips together with hers. Sakura stood there in shock unmoving until Sasuke broke the kiss. Then she slapped him across the face. "Bastard!" she exclaimed before turning on her heel and grabbed a kunai. While Sasuke recoiled Sakura jabbed the kunai at his heart. "You just want the two of us. don't think I don't know Sasuke. You may think ou love us and we love you, but let me tell you this. Naruto and I will never be yours. He isn't in love with you. Neither am I. Get it through your head. He hates you, and quite frankly I'm not so fond of you either. Now get out!".
Sasuke stood and walked briskly out the door. As soon as he was about to close it all the way Sasuke spoke. "I don't think. I know you love me. And soon he will again to". He then closed the door as the bed was sent flying atowards him, snapping in half as it made impact.
For the next hour Sakura raged in her room continuously wipping her lips free from the remains of the kiss. Tears running down her face as she thought about how nice being team seven would be again and how bad she had F#ked up with it.
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Miso stared at Ram Ichiraku who smiled at the him and Haku like they were something amazing. "Hi I'm Ram Ichiraku".
"Ram?" Miso and Gaara asked in unison.
"It's short for Ramen" Itachi told them as he sat down next to Naruto.
"Ramen? You poor guy!" Haku excalimed shocked at that.
"What?" Ram asked a bit offended. "Is there anything wrong with my name or something? Is that what your saying? 'Cause if that's what you're saying I'll send you through the seven bells of hell".
Naruto decided to interject in this conversation. "Uh, Ram. Haku-chan has an inherited allergy to ramen" he said. Eyebrows on the heads of Ram and Miso rose. "Haku can't eat ramen or he'll get sick. Don't worry it'll be gone when he's about twelve".
Gaara whispered in to Naruto's ear. "Is that true?" he asked. Itachi leaned in to here this aswell. "Well yeah, by the time he's twelve all fish in him will be gone, so no allergy. I won't eat it though".
"Still" Haku exclaimed "having a name with something to do with ramen is weird". Before Miso and Ram could respond by pouncing on the child, Gaara spoke up. "But Haku, you are named after ramen, so is your father. Remember, what we call you is only a nickname, Chibinaru".
"Chibinaru?" Ram asked.
"Short for Chibi Naruto. Named after his daddy" Naruto said smiling.
"That's sounds so kawaii" Ram said slyly. Chibinaru's eye twitched dangerously. "Don't do that again Ram or I'll castrate you".
Eyes turned to Naruto who smacked his face. "Haku, he's to young to be castrated. Besides your not even supposed to know what that means".
"But you say that to Auntie Kyu Kyu and the old lady threatened the duck-butt headed man with it earlier on" Haku told his father. "Uncle Sasu-chan" Ram muttered. However Naruto heared this and mentally kicked himself. In all the excitment he had forgotten that Itachi was Sasuke's older brother, and they were both Uchiha's despite Itachi's changing of his last name (and probably his first name aswell). This ment that Ram could have the sharingan.
Ram was the same height and age as Chibinaru and Miso (hopefully not born on the same day, Naruto prayed that the universe wasn't screwing with him). He had ebony black hair that was styled in heavy bangs, which nearly covered his eyes and a large spikey ponytail round the top of his neck. His eyes were thankfully brown like Ayame's and didn't give him the complete appearance of an Uchiha, but did make him look like an ordinary child. Although Naruto didn't know it, it was Itachi's biggest fear that the child, his son, who obtain the sharingan and not only reveal Itachi's survival and his life amoungst the villagers but also reveal that Ayame had helped him as he was still technically classed as a missing nin, and Ram's existance as an Uchiha, putting him in danger.
"Hey kids how about you play in the bedroom" Itachi told them, only for Naruto to smack him over the head. "Do you have any idea how perverted that sounded? What the hell were you thinking baka, saying that?" Naruto asked as Gaara growled at the raven haired man.
"I was saying to play cards or catch or something. Nothing like that Uzumaki!" Itachi roared. Haku looked between the two fuming adults but shrugged it off grabbing the hands of Miso and Ram. "Come on Kyubi-P. We'll need that stuff" he called back to his floating stuffed toy. Kyubi-P floated behind him until he was in the bedroom and they closed the door.
Itachi leaned up against the wall of the kage suite in the hotel Gaara stayed at. "I see Chibinaru is fitting in alright". Naruto glowered at Itachi with an intense stare. Gaara looked in between them before speaking up.
"Tell me what is going on?" he asked them, sensing the tension growing between the two men as they glared at eachother.
"Itachi's begging me to stay" Naruto told Gaara in a matter of factly tone. Itachi stood up sharply before yelling his denial at the blonde and red head. "That's not true. I'm not begging. I just think it would be better for Haku to stay in Konoha away from having to travel all the time". Gaara looked at Naruto.
"Haku likes being on the road. He doesn't like staying in one place to long. He's getting irratable already. He has friends in different villages and cities and even different countries. He has me and Kyubi and Kyubi-P. Not to mention all the friends we've met on our journies".
"Naruto" Gaara spoke as he too stood up. "I don't think Itachi means this is all about Haku as you and him are stressing. If it was just that he knows I'd welcome you to Suna in a second flat. Demon country and many others would welcome you with open arms. There he would have a place to stay and grow up. What he's thinking about isn't Haku. He's worried about you".
"ME?" Naruto asked shooting Itachi a look.
"Hai. Naruto, I think Itachi wants you to stay in Konoha and give them the benefit of the doubt". Gaara and Itachi had to cover their ears as Naruto yelled.
"Are you out of your freaking minds?" he asked them. "No wait. Don't answer that. I already know the answer. I refuse Gaara. Itachi, why the bloody hell would I wan't to stay here in Konoha. I hate it here. I'm a nomad now. If I re-joined Konoha I wouldn't be in control anymore. And have you forgotten what these people have done to me?"
"I haven't forgotten Naruto" Itachi exclaimed. "Think about the people who love you. Tsunade..."
"Cow"
"...Sakura..."
"Tramp"
"...Hinata..."
"Weak nobody"
"Naruto you are being harsh. I've heared about what you did to Tsunade when you were being held but I believe that if anyone you should have spit on Sasuke" Gaara warned. "Sakura and Hinata love you. It took everything they had to keep Hinata and Sakura from becoming missing nin and going after you. Sai, Neji, Tenten, Choji, Shikamaru, Ino, Shino, Kiba, Lee, Kakashi, Yamato and Tsunade all tried to leave to find you but they were all stopped. Had I known I would have been there in a blink of the eye for you. Most of us would have gone for you but for different reasons we were unable".
"Then explain the walk of shame I had to do outside the village, the only time people turned around were to throw rotten tomatio's at me".
"None of them were the Konoha twelve. Choji, Ino, Tenten and Neji were hospitalised. Sakura was in the hospital working over time. Hinata was with her clan. Tsunade had to do what she did because as the Hokage she was obligated to do that. The rest were unable to come. Naruto the only reason why you were able to be brought back is because Shikamaru, Ino, Chouji, Hinata, Shino, Kiba and some others are clan heads and are a major part of the council. They risked a lot to revoke the bill concerning your banishment" Itachi told him, having reached Konoha by the time Naruto was about to be banished.
Naruto looked down in thought. "Still I hate them. Granted spitting on Tsunade was over the top even I have doubts about doing that" he looked away "She was right there and I felt so angry. I saw Sasuke's face and I lost it. I owe her an apology but I will not join Konoha. I swore..."
"Naruto" Itachi said sharply. "Name all three instances where you broke your promises" he ordered. Naruto recoiled. A moment od silenc hung in the air before Naruto commenced with the telling of his failures to keep a promise.
"I promised I would bring Sasuke back. I promised I would never return to Konoha, granted that isn't my fault, and never to bring Haku any where near a leaf ninja let alone the village". Itachi nodded before he spoke again.
"And like it or not, your about to break another promise. Either the one to become Hokage. The one promise which you repeated to everyone and swore on the grave of the Sandaime and the name of Jiraiya (that's right I heared about that to). Or the one where you never become a kage. Naruto either way a promise will be broken. Think about that".
"When I swore never to become a kage I swore never to join the leaf again. If I do fufill my promise to sandaime and Jiraiya I'll break that promise. And That makes five broken promises. I can't have that hanging over my head"
"Naruto I remember Sakura telling me you swore to become Hokage to Isaribi twelve or so years ago. That Anko lady told me aswell" Gaara said. "Hokage ment the world to you. You never gave up. But look at you now. Bitter and alone, with only your son, the memory of a dead wife and the demon which live in your stomach for eighteen years of your life".
"And you can't leave the leaf now. Your identity as the son of the Yellow Flash of Konohagakure and the Scarlet Death of Uzugakure has be established long before they sent out the search parties. A spy found the information when Tsunade revealed it. Oto's records from the time of Orochimaru confirm it. Iwa will not let it go Naruto" Itachi warned.
"They will never stop hunting you. Your life will be spent looking over your shoulder" Gaara said, "And they probably know about Haku. Do you really want the most blooslusting village since Kiri after the grandson of the Yellow Flash. Haku's life will forever be in danger unless you have Leaf. With leaf they will leave you alone until they find someone they hate more than the Yellow Flash"
"That's right Naruto. Leaf will fiercly protect the pair of you. The son of a Neo-Sannin. Heir to the Hiraishin no jutsu".
"Grandson to the fabled Yellow Flash"
"And Scarlet Death of Whirlpool".
"You are safer here than anywhere else in the world"
Naruto scowled. "The yondaime is not my father" he insisted. Gaara sighed. "I hear where you're coming from Naruto I really do. I do not consider the Yondaime Kazekage as my father. But no matter what I do he will always be my biological father. Remember, Blood is thicker than water to the people of this village. The person I consider a father is not anyone from my village but Baki comes close. Do you want to know who it is?"
"I'm sure you're gonna tell me anyway" he stated.
Gaara smiled and grapsed Naruto's hand. "Naruto, you are not only my best friend or my idol. You could be considered my father as you are closer to me than anyone other than Matsuri or Miso".
"We understand your hatred at the yondaime Naruto. But why not manipulate the village of Konoha by pretending you care. Then when this war is over you can just leave with Haku when this is all over. You can't lose".
"Can you predict how long it'll be until they win the war and how long after that that Iwa will let it go. The war will just want them getting more revenge. Especially if I join in with it and we win".
Gaara sighed before standing face to face with Naruto. "Naruto Uzumaki. I know this is asking alot but I beg of you. You are the only one I can trust. Don't do this for Konoha. Do it for it's allies where there are people you do care about. Nami, Suna, Tori, Taki, Hoshi, Tsuki, Yuki, Oni and the rest where there are people you have helped. Who care about you and who you really care about. No matter what you say I know that you do care about them. About us. Please Naruto just think about it".
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The sun was rising above Konoha and Tsunade of the legendary sannin sat at her desk with a pounding headache, afraid to walk because Shizune had noted she walked funny. Tsunade made a mental note to herself not to go out drinking and doing dirty thinks with Kyubi on worknights. Okay that sounded weird.
Especially the part about her and Kyubi.
Shizune found it extremely funny how earlier this morning she had stumbled across a sleeping Hokage who was talking in her sleep.
"Kyubi don't do that, you did it last night. Oh okay then, there ahh". Shizune had burst in to a fit of giggles before Tsunade had woken up completely and found Shizune rolling on the round laughing with tears in her eyes, feeling left out and extremely confused.
The slug sannin just let it go so she could just get her hangover pills.
Around midday when everything had begun to calm down something happened. Tsunade had been reading a report on the health of Choji Akimichi. The heafty man had made a miraculous full recovery over the past week and was oddly enough fully healed. The report said that Choji would be fit to go on missions as early as tommorrow. Tsunade had taken a sip of sake when her door burst open and Naruto came storming in.
"Old Lady. I've got something to say to you" he exclaimed loudly as Shizune made a beeline for the door not wanting to interupt but knowing she could evesdrop on the conversation through the door. As soon as she was out Tsunade spoke up.
"Naruto I..."
"Save it for now Hokage. I have somethings I need to tell you". Tsunade slowly nodded her head as she sat down. Naruto slammed his hands on her desk before speaking. "Hokage-sama. There are three things I need to tell you. Number one: I am sorry I spat on your face the other week. I was angry and possibly am still angry at Konoha. I know my anger was misguided and when I looked at you I saw Danzo and Sasuke's faces. I hate them Tsunade-sama".
Tsunade smiled before placing a hand over his. "Naruto..."
"I wan't to tell you the second thing" he said with conviction and strength pilled up behind his words. "I want the fights between me and the Konoha twelve brought forward. Now that Choji is healthy you can bring in the fights. I want them by next week. I wont stay unless atleast one of the Konoha twelve or anyone else of your choosing beats me. I want team battles aswell. Ino-Shika-Cho, Team Gai, Squad 8, Konohamaru corps if your having them in the battle, I know your putting our jonin senseis in. Kakashi, Kurenai, Yamato, Gai, I know you're putting in Anko and Shizune and anyone else. I wan't to fight Sasuke and Sakura to fight me in a Sannin free for all. If any single one can defeat me then I will stay. Capeesh?"
Tsunade smirked. "You won't go back on that?" she asked with an evil glint in her eye.
"Hai" he reponded. "But why do I feel like I've just been played?" he asked her. Tsunade sat on her revolving chair and twirled in it like a school girl. "Oh nothing. Just I was planning on letting you go without the fights. I do care about you Naruto. I did this only because I want you to stay and be safe".
"Please don't tell me I blew my one chance of escape once again?" he asked her.
"You still haven't changed. You still jump in to things".
"But don't forget. Even if I lose, and that's very unlikely, I won't become your Hokage. I'll just help out in the war. I won't permenantly join Konoha. Just until things have calmed down and Haku is safe from Iwa nins looking for some payback".
Tsunade remained quiet for quite some time. Naruto found the suspense nerve racking (just like you guys feel when I leave cliff hangers). Finally the blonde woman looked up and gave the blonde man a face splitting smile. "That sounds satesfactory to me. Uzumaki-san."
Naruto smiled before turning to leave. "I expect the fights to commence this weekend" he said gaining an air of authority and confidence as he walked briskly to the door of the office. "They'll be ready. I'll give you a list of the combators tomorrow".
Naruto nodded his head, flashing a grin that Tsunade didn't see because he was facing towards the door to the office. Suddenly Tsunade stood up and slammed her hand on her desk. "Wait, you didn't tell me the third thing you wanted to say".
"If I lose then I'll tell you" he said ducking through the door and making his way away from the Hokage's office.
(A.N.: Okay. Gaara and Itachi have put Naruto on a guilt trip and raised some good issues. If Naruto loses then he can assure Haku's safety in Konoha. Remember Iwa is out for his blood and the blood of his son (more specifically the blood of Minato Namikaze, you get what I mean). BUT just because Naruto and Haku MIGHT stay, doesn't mean they'll be nice to the people of Konoha. I'm still debating on whether or not to pair Naruto with Shion and live there with her (Come on people, don't you think Isaribi would have wanted him to move on and find new love? If you don't then you guys are heartless and don't understand what loving a person means). I know Naruto sounds like an idiot here but hey, he still is Naruto. His hotheadedness and disorder for jumping in without thinking is one of the reasons we all like him.)
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Naruto smiled dangerously as he read the line ups for the fight's Tsunade had just presented to him. The hogake shivered as he looke on the list. "Oh this is perfect. First match is the Ino-Shika-Cho Trio. I owe Ino a little payback for selling out my jutsus to Sasuke" he said as Haku shrugged at his fathers actions and looked at Tsunade.
"So I hear you and Auntie Kyu Kyu screwed on your first date?" the five year old said as if it were nothing important, returning to drinking soda from a straw as Tsunade yelled. "Who told you that?" she asked thunderstruck.
"I saw you in the street. That and there are rumours flying around" he told her. Tsunade cracked her knuckles.
"Haku, your Oba-chan is going to take you out in to town and you are going to tell me exactly who you heared those rumours off. If your a good boy I'll let you pound a few in to the ground. Sound like fun?" she asked him.
Haku turned his head to his father who didn't look up from the paper he was ready. "Tou-san. Why don't we come here more often? Baa-chan lets me beat people up. Oh, baa-chan can we throw some in to the mountain with all those faces of ugly men and you in it?".
"Naruto I love your son"
Naruto continued to scan the list Tsunade had given him.
1st Round:
Ino Yamanaka, Shikamaru Nara, Chouji Akimichi
2nd Round:
Rock Lee, Neji Hyuga, Rock Tenten
3rd Round:
Kurenai Yuuhi, Anko Umino, Shizune Hatake
4th Round:
Beni Sarutobi, Yamato, Sai Yamanaka
5th Round:
Kiba Inuzuka, Hinata Hyuga, Shino Aburame
6th Round:
Might Guy, Iruka Umino, Kakashi Hatake
7th Round:
Konohamaru Sarutobi, Moegi, Udon
8th Round:
Sannin Battle Free-For-All.
"This is so great" Naruto exclaimed. "Ino is going to rue the day she went inside my head" he announced.
Tsunade turned towards Haku who did the same with her. "Baa-chan, why does Tou-san want to demolish this Ino-guy?"
"Uh, Haku-chan. Ino is a girl. She's the blonde lady with her hair in a ponytail, dressed in purple. She married to the pale man with black hair and a paint brush". Haku inclined his head slightly. "I thought that lady was a drag queen and the pale man was a girl he was selling as a prostitute?".
"NARUTO WHAT HAVE YOU BEEN TEACHING THIS KID?" Tsunade roared.
"Blame Kyubi"
"Tou-san you always say that. When you blew up that mountain you said "Blame Kyubi". When you killed the last Mizukage you said "Aunti Kyu Kyu did it". What about the time...?" Naruto shoved his hand infront of Haku's mouth silencing the boy as Tsunade cracked her knuckles.
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Longest "Daddy's the Rokudaime" chapter ever! 47.0 KB
The fic will end somewhere in the twenties ready for a sequal.
Hope no one minds that or the title change. The series'll be called "Daddy's the Rokudaime?" and the fics will all have different names.
I know I promised the fights but I;m having trouble with them. The fic is dependent on the next poll I do. But first let me give you my reasons. Flame later read now.
Naruto has strived all his life to become Hokage. He swore it and swore it to the point where it just got ridiculous. But I think he deserves to atleast have a chance at it. He wont be nice and he certainly won't forgive most people but he deserves to atleast have a place to call home after travelling all these years.
He still loves Tsunade as a mother, no matter what he did he still can't deny the fact that the two share a maternal bond and she'll love him through thick or thin. Spit in the face or no spit in the face. I actually feel guilty about it being Tsunade. I think it would have been better to have been Sasuke.
I'm still debating if Naruto will win. If he does lose (yeah right), it'll be in the sannin battle royale. Because he wont summon he'll be at a disadvantage unless Haku lends him his summons. Only one person guessed right what it is.
Naruto's strived all these years and he should have something decent to show for it. It's either him or Sakura if Tsunade retires right away. That'll depend. If something happens then Tsunade wont retire for another twelve years. And I know who I can have as Rokudaime then.
Some of the things in this chapter contradict things I wrote in the prolouge. Madara escaped but was found by Naruto. He had taken over Obito's body. Naruto was able to supress him and Obito is now with Rin somewhere in the elemental nations. Jiraiya is Konan and Pein's son, named after their teacher. Konan was pregnant and escaped from Konoha. She's friends with Naruto now. I might pair her with him.
Obito didn't have the Mangekyo, Madara did. When Madara was supressed Naruto was able to take away the essence of his eye (not Obito's) and gave it to Itachi, used Obito as a doner and used Kyubi's chakra to regenerate a new sharingan eye for Itachi to gain a full pair of eternal Mangekyos and used it again to give Obito his eye back.
Taichi is Obito and Rin's son. Got his name from Digimon. He wears goggled like his dad and has the sharingan.
Deidara is still alive and is in a coma in Konoha hospital. He's Ino's brother and she communicates with him via her mind jutsus. If you look at them you can tell they could pass as siblings. I couldn't remember his age and I didn't know the chapter Sasuke killed him in or how he died.
Sasuke is bi and loved both Naruto and Sakura. However he also treates them as trophies and goals. So they both reject him. Sakura loves Naruto and hates Sasuke because to her he's the reason Naruto was banished.
Running Gags in the fic:
Haku's blurting out fo private things
Ramen related names
Naruto's bumbling attitudes at rare moments
Haku states the obvious
Kyubi causes Tsunade to blush
Haku's mistaking people for the opposite gender
Weird pasts explained.
I would like to thank you all for the positive reviews. Flamers beware. I don't care so you just waste your time. For all those who say you won't read my fic becuase you don't like it then fine. I don't need people like you who insult other peoples ideas. It's that attitude that's breaking down our world. Cruel sayings, insults, stuff like that. I don't care, you want to flame? Go flame your own fanfics cause your input doesn't mean anything. Those who give insight, constructive critisism and support are the people who authors want reading their fics.
Thank you again.
If you don't like please tell me how to fix it in later chapters.
Shodaime of S.S.D.D.