8/7/14

No real an, except to say that when I start the next chapter the poll will close.

Konoha, the next day.

Naruto awoke with his bed empty, which confused him because Ino was living here now so she couldnt have gone to her parents house for any reason. After a few minutes the smell of bacon wafted into the room on a cool morning breeze, prompting Naruto to climb out of bed, wearing only a black pair of jeans and his socks, his long bangs shading his eyes without his headband holding them up.

What he saw when he entered the kitchen area of his apartment was forever burned into his mind. There, standing at the stove was Ino, he hair out of its ponytail, letting it cascade down her shoulders angelically, in spite of the fact that she was just wearing a plain Gray pair of sweatpants that must have been his since they were so big on her, and an orange t-shirty with a lighter orange trim.

Ino felt his gaze on her, along with the long silence since she had heard him come into the room. She looked over her shoulder, smiling at him and holding a piece of bacon which she took a nibble of. "Mornin 'Ruto-kun. I made breakfast."

"... I love you so much." he stepped forward, hugging her from behind and kissing her, when he pulled away from her the piece of bacon was gone from her hand, held in his teeth as he grinned. "Its good."

"The way to a mans heart Truly is through his stomach." she sighed and went back to stirring a pan of scrambled eggs, turning off the burner for the pan of bacon while leaning back against Naruto's chest.

Konoha streets, after breakfast.

"So why are we going to see the Hokage?" asked Ino, who had his arm wrapped in her own, as if she were hugging it.

"Since I'm not acting stupid anymore im going to ask him about my parents."

'That's right, he doesn't know anything about them does he... How sad.' thought Ino with a small frown.

Hokages office

Sitting there, bashing his own head in as he glared at the growing pile of paperwork, was poor old Sarutobi Hiruzen. There were two thumps at his door before the doors slammed open inward, revealing a grinning Naruto and a blushing Ino.

"Sorry Hokage-sama" she stammered

Hiruzen waved her off. "No worries dear, Naruto is family. Besides I was just doing some paperwork." he glanced at the pile which inspite of no one coming into the room was miraculously two inches higher. 'The fuck?' eloquently thought the old Hokage. "So what did you need Naruto?"

"Old man, I want to know about my parents. You have to know something." Naruto's words were not much different than any other time he had asked, but his gaze was dead serious.

Hiruzen was no young man, but with age came wisdom and he felt Naruto would be ready for atleast part of his history. 'sealing is still a bit out of his league, so ill tell him about Minato.' "Alright Naruto, its time. But just your father for now." He stood and walked over to the wall with all the Hokages portraits on it, motioning Naruto to come over. "Cut your finger and touch the fourth's head"

Naruto brought his hand up to his face, taking a bite out of his thumb walking away from Ino and placing his hand on the head of the portrait, which smiled suddenly and the kanji for son appeared near his heart, which even Sarutobi didn't expect. "Yes, hes your father. Now channel some chakra Naruto."

Naruto did as he said, channeling a small amount of chakra to his hand, his control more focused because of how tense this moment was. The portrait gained a sealing array, before tiling away revealing a safe which swung open. Inside were Three scrolls. One yellow, one red, and the last orange. Sarutobi reached in and withdrew the yellow scroll, handing it to Naruto and closing the safe door which reset the security features. "That scroll is the yellow flashes last will and testament, as well as his things he wanted you to have. Along with this." the man took out the final thing, a key held on a necklace along with two metal dogtags. "These were your fathers, and the key is to his estate. Go to the market district, and take the road near ichirakus. When you get to the large empty lot do the handsigns Rabbit Dog Hare Snake Monkey and end with Ram. His estate will be revealed once again, it had time seals for if he died. You have to reset them every week by touching them with your chakra, otherwise it will reseal." the old man placed a hand on his shoulder. "Your father was a great man, and your well on your way to being just like him."

Ino grabbed Naruto arm comfortingly, and lead him out into town.

Sarutobi turned back to sit at his desk, and saw the paperwork had grown another five inches. He growled lowly in annoyance, and was surprised when the paperwork growled back.

The Anbu posted outside his door heard crashes thumps, grunts growls and even a meow at the end. They broke stance and looked at each other curiously. "what the..." They were silenced when the doors were thrown open and a stack of paperwork flew out, Sarutobi following. "HA!" the anbu were sweat dropping, till they saw the paperwork growl at him before the Sarutobi went through a string of handseals. "KATON, KARYUU ENDAN!" a flaming dragons head shot at the pile of paperwork, incinerating it before the Hokage retreated into his office. "We are going crazy... Were those our paychecks?" his fellow anbu was already walking away. "I don't know, I am leaving though... Maybe ill go to kumo..." his partner shrugged and followed him.(1)

A while later, and one walk past ichiraku

Naruto carefully did each handseal, his hands shaking as he did so. Ino grabbed his wrists from behind, moving against his back which let him steel his nerves, as he finished the last two seals with purpose, touching his hand to the ground. There was an enormous cloud of smoke which quickly dissipated to reveal A large, but not overly large western style mansion. From the front it looked wide enough to have atleast 5 rooms on each of the three floors, and though they couldn't see the side it looked like it would be the same.

"I don't believe this." said Naruto and Ino in unison. They walked up to the gate which held another sealing array. Naruto nicked his thumb on his canine teeth and pressed his hand to the seal, which after a second swung open of its own accord, completely silent as if it hadn't just been opened for the first time in thirteen years.

"Naruto... I know your upset right now but we have to go to the test..."

"Right..." he rasped. He grabbed the scroll from his father. "Let me read this first?"

When she didn't answer he used his thumb and peeled up the edge of the scroll, unrolling it to its full two feet in length. It read 'dear Naruto. I'm sorry you have to read this instead of hearing from me, but life has a way of screwing you over sometimes. I cant make this long, im sorry. As I write this the Kyuubi is approaching. Your mother is doing the same as me, hastily writing her last wishes for you in her hospital bed. We both love you very much son, never forget that. I used a bit of my remaining time to seal the mansion so you would have a home when you were given your inheritance. I also took the time to seal some gifts for you away. The clothes I left in here were made after my own. I cant believe how much you look like me soichi. Good bye son, I will watch over you with your mother. Never forget we will always be with you' the message cut off there, dried watermarks stained the paper, blood and tears most likely.

Naruto moved down the scroll and saw a string of seals, and went to the one that say 'Year 13', placing his hand on it and channeling chakra, a puff of smoke occurred before a long black trench coat appeared, with blue flames licking up the sides, and a pair of anbu style arm guards. "... Its amazing." he pulled the coat on over his black jeans and t-shirt, then tugged on the arm guards.

"You look good Ruto-kun" said Ino with a small smile. "Now c'mon we need to get to our test."

Naruto nodded and rolled the scroll back up, but one more small item fell out. "Oh I missed something.." he bent down and picked up a pair of gloves that had been under the coat apparently. There were black with a blue spiraling seal array in the palms. He tugged them on with a grin, before putting the scroll away in his pouch and wrapping an arm around Ino. "Lets go." he shushined them away to the training ground.

The training grounds

Kakashi and Sasuke were surprisingly there already, both jumping for different reasons when Naruto and Ino appeared. 'When did dobe learn the shushin?' 'Sensei?' thought the two sharingan users.

"Maa, sorry are we late?" said Naruto with a grin.

"... Yes. Now then on with the test. You three need to get these two bells from me. Come at me with the intent to kill-" He was cut off as he dodged a lazily thrown kunai from Naruto. "Maa, I didn't say go yet... Go." he pulled out his book as the three disappeared from the clearing, Ino and Naruto in the same direction and Sasuke into the bushes. 'Hnn, not bad.'

with Naruto and Ino.

"Ok so you remember the plan right Ino-chan?"

"Yes Ruto-kun"

"Alright let me get Sasuke then." He dissapeared, rushing past Kakashi without shushin since he was carrying anyone, the jounin just raising an eyebrow but doing nothing. Naruto dove into sasukes cover, grabbing him before shushining back to Ino. "Alright Sasuke, time for you to shut it." he taped his mouth shut. "We need to work together on this, Hes a jounin after all. You know your not on his level, and neither are Ino and me. Together we stand a better chance."

Sasuke grumbled but nodded.

"Okay, now heres the plan."

Roughly fifteen minutes later

Kakashi heard a roaring fire, and leapt into the air just being missed by a large fireball from the bushes. 'okay, there is Sasuke.' He went into the brush after him, and paused when he saw a cheekily grinning Naruto with his hands still in a tiger seal. 'What? Naruto doesn't know fire jutsu right? ITS AN ANBUSH' he turned just in time, weaving through a few small fireballs with shuriken concealed in them. "Not bad but not good enough!" he leapt into the air, aiming to get back to the clearing but just as he got the same height as the sturdier branches he saw Ino with her hand in the seal for her family jutsu ' Shit gotta move' He looked around, seeing a log that had been felled by Sasuke's shuriken fireballs, and kawarimi'd with it right as Ino tried transferring, slumping over on the branch, before being caught by Naruto.

"Is that all you had?" asked Kakashi attempting to rile them.

"Actually, game over sensei" Naruto held up his hand to reveal the bells, Ino opened her eyes and stuck her tongue out at him while Sasuke smirked.

"When..."

"When you kawarimi'd with the log, didn't you notice it was the Only log that was there, that it was cleanly cut? I was waiting near the log while you played with a clone." at this point his clone walked up to them and waved before dispersing "And I snatched them before going to 'catch' Ino."

Kakashi looked like he was contemplating before giving an eye smile. "Well, nothing to say except You pass!"

The team smiled back at him.

Later

The team had gone to lunch with Kakashi, before going there separate ways. Ino and Naruto were heading for his mansion. "Naruto, we haven't moved our stuff yet... I know your eager to move in but I don't want to sleep on the floor."

"No worries, I made a few clones go do it while we ate dinner." he swung the door open and flipped on the lights revealing the already fully furnished home. There coats were near the door, and after being lead into the living room Ino saw that it was quite modern. "Wow, I love it!" The couch was the main area, but it looked more like a large square bed with raised sides and an entrance. It was facing the large flatscreen TV on the wall.

Ino ran, hopping cutely into the couch. "c'mon Ruto-kun lets watch a movie! Forget the bed lets sleep in this." Naruto shook his head but hopped in after her, wrapping an arm around her as they opened up the icon for a movie service called netflix, and started to just watch whatever looked good, dozing off while watching a goofy movie called Movie 43.

When I start work on the next chapter the poll will be closed so be ready for that. I didn't want to end the chapter here but I felt if I put in anything else it would be moving the story ahead too fast. But atleast it means vie already got plans for next chapter I guess.

(1) I actualy copied this joke from memory, I don't know who originaly made it but if you do let me know and ill give them credit.