Author's note: I got this idea from a line in a fanfic so I should probably give credit here if I could remember which fanfic it was.

Also this chapter comes with an illustration. You can find it on my DeviantArt profile. The link is on my author's profile page. Look at the picture after reading this, it's spoilerous.

Disclaimer: I don't own Naruto.

Enma

It was impossible to find a new caretaker for Naruto on such a short notice, but his last one had been catered off to the mental ward rather abruptly after she had started screaming about little orange demons and setting fire to everything orange she came across and the Sandaime knew just how disastrous it was to leave the young jinchuuriki without supervision even for a minute. Currently he was keeping an eye on him himself, but he couldn't continue any longer. He was already supposed to be in a meeting with the Elders and there was no way he could take Naruto with him. He didn't want his teammates to suffer a stroke over the child's antics. It seemed like a hopeless situation, but Sarutobi was known as the Professor for a reason and so he found a solution even now.

"Kuchiyose no Jutsu!" he called slamming his palm on the floor. There was a puff of smoke and an ape dressed in samurai armor appeared. Naruto watched it wide-eyed. He had never seen anything this cool before.

"What have you summoned me for today, Sarutobi?" Enma asked. "Where's the enemy?"

"The monkey talks!" Naruto exclaimed. It was even cooler than he thought.

"Is it him?" the monkey king turned to the small child. Naruto recoiled in fear. The big monkey looked scary. But that made it even cooler.

"No," the Third shook his head, trying not to laugh at Naruto's expression. "I didn't summon you here to fight today. This is Uzumaki Naruto. Can you please keep an eye on him for a few hours?"

"Do I look like a nanny?" Enma sounded offended.

"I don't need a nanny!" Naruto protested. "I'm already six!"

"Well, I see you're going to get along," the Sandaime said hurriedly before his companions could protest further and left to attend the meeting. He couldn't afford to dawdle any longer. There was no telling what the Elders would come up with when he wasn't there. Or worse, Enma might refuse to babysit Naruto and then Sarutobi would have a problem.

Enma and Naruto stared at each other for a while after Hiruzen left. The boy was intrigued by the ape, having never seen anything similar before. Then he grabbed Enma's tail. At least he tried to. The monkey king dodged at the last moment.

"What are you doing?" the boss summon shouted. "Who do you think you are to grab my tail?"

"I am Uzumaki Naruto! I'm going to be the Hokage! Believe it!" the child declared proudly and grinned. Enma eyed him skeptically.

"Hokage? You? You're just a squirt. Can you even do the roar?"

"The roar?" Naruto asked puzzled.

"Yes, the roar. To show everybody who is the boss. If you can't do the roar, you can't be the Hokage," the ape king explained.

"Uwaaaah!" the boy tried the roar. Enma winced.

"You call this the roar? That was pathetic. Just a squeak. This is the roar! RWAAAAAAAAAAARRRRRRGH!" Enma roared punching his chest. The blond child stared awestruck.

"Cool."

"This was nothing," Enma waved his hand dismissively. "A real boss has to do this while swinging on a vine and throwing coconuts at his enemies."

"Teach me!" Naruto demanded.

"Show what you can do."

"Rwaaaeeiiigh!" Naruto tried.

"You have a lot to learn," the monkey king sighed.

"I'd do better if I could swing from a vine," the boy boasted.

"Can you even swing from a vine?" the summon asked.

"Ugh... Of course!" Naruto lied. Enma saw straight through it.

"You can't even swing from a vine? What do they teach you? Children today. Come with me, let's find a vine and I teach you how to swing properly." Naruto smiled brightly.

"Alright!"

When the Sandaime came back from the meeting that lasted several hours longer than it should have, he found Naruto covered in dirt, leaves and bruises swinging from the chandelier while screaming like mad and punching his chest. That was an odd sight even for somebody used to dealing with Naruto.

"What happened?" he asked not sure whether he really wanted to know the answer.

"Watch this!" Naruto exclaimed. "Rwaaargh!"

"What is it?" the Hokage asked completely baffled.

"That's the roar! So will you make me Hokage now?" The child looked completely sure that he deserved the hat.

"Why?" The Third still couldn't make sense of what was going on.

"Because who can do the best roar is the boss!" Naruto explained.

"You still have to practice a lot," Enma said. "It should be like this: RWAAAAAAAAAAAARRRRRRRGH!"

"I see." Sarutobi was finally beginning to understand the situation. "So why are you so bruised and covered in dirt?"

"I fell when I was learning how to swing on a vine," Naruto admitted.

"And don't forget how you fell when climbing the coconut palm," Enma said to the boy before turning to Sarutobi. "Seriously. This young one can't even climb trees and swing on vines and roar properly. What are you teaching children today?"

Hiruzen didn't dignify it with an answer. He had brought this mess on himself, honestly. He hadn't realized that though Enma was wise, he was still a monkey and therefore had very different ideas of what was the proper behavior. How could he have forgotten what had happened when he had summoned Enma to babysit Asuma once? His memory must be worse than he thought. Or maybe he had just suppressed that nightmarish experience. And where in Konoha did Enma find a coconut palm? Should he expect a complaint because of a destroyed garden tomorrow? His musings were interrupted by Naruto's question.

"So Old Man, can you roar better than me?"