AN: Alrighty then, folks…! Here's the first non-really short chapter of Savior's Ascension! I really don't have much to say here, so let's get the show on the road!
N:SA Chapter 2
"So, Uzumaki-dono, it is with great pride I give you the title of Rokudaime Hokage!" The Fire Daimyo announced. Naruto didn't move, standing still as a statue. Kakashi lazily waved his hand in front of his face, even snapping a couple times. Nothing.
"… I think we broke him…" Kakashi mumbled after a minute. Konan performed some hand signs and a small deluge of ice-cold water drenched Naruto, causing him to splutter and yell indignantly. Konan formed a small smile at his actions before pointing at whom he was in the presence of at that moment. Rubbing the back of his head sheepishly, Naruto bowed and accepted the offered robes and hat with whatever dignity he had left at that moment, being drenched as he was.
Never in his wildest dreams did he actually think he would become Hokage like this: and truthfully, he wanted Tsunade to be the one to hand over the hat… But emergencies like this one call for heroes, and apparently Naruto was that hero at that point in time.
"I accept this honor with all my heart and soul." Naruto announced, face uncharacteristically serious. "I will defend Konoha and its people with all my being!"
"That is wonderful to hear, Rokudaime-dono." The Daimyo smiles, shaking Naruto's hand. "I believe you have guests in your office though, and they are here to see the Hokage… I think I'll leave you to it!"
Naruto nodded, still shell shocked. He looked at the robe in his hands, and looked at Konan whom nodded. Then he looked at Kakashi who had his eye crinkled up in his trademark eye-smile, motioning for Naruto to put the robe on.
"It's sad that Ero-sennin isn't here to see this…" Naruto finally said, thinking fondly of his perverted teacher. "Hopefully, Baa-chan will wake up soon and see…"
Konan felt a small twinge in her heart, since she could have stopped Nagato at that time, but hindsight is 20/20, as she wouldn't have had any clue that she would be standing where she is at this moment… Kakashi offered up a small prayer for the soul of the late Toad Sage before placing his hand on Naruto's shoulder.
"I'm sure that he's proud of you, wherever he is." Kakashi offers consolingly.
"And Dad would be too…" Naruto smiles sadly.
"Yeah… Minato-sensei too… But your mother would whack you on the head for being depressed like this after achieving something you've wanted to achieve your whole life."
"My… Mom?" Naruto asked.
"I'll talk about her on the way to your office… You should put your robe on; I want to see how you look in it." Naruto looked at the robe in his hands again before finally nodding his head in confirmation to himself, slipping the robe on over his shoulders.
"How do I look?"
"If your hair was longer, you'd look almost exactly like him…" Kakashi admitted, astounded at the resemblance.
"Hah… Maybe I should let it grow out a little bit, ne Kakashi-sensei?" Kakashi chuckled at that.
"If you want. Now, I think we should get going; those messengers from Kumo are liable to get annoyed by the wait." Naruto nodded and left the tent he was in. Konan followed suit, not saying a word. Kakashi watched both of them leave the tent before hobbling out himself.
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"Ugh, where is the Hokage? This is really pissing me off!" A dark skinned kunoichi growled. A dark skinned teenage boy with a sucker looked pensive.
"What if they couldn't choose the next Hokage…? Maybe the candidates have to fight to the death and they ended up killing each other and now they have to arrange a funeral for them…?"
"Ugh, shut the hell up Omoi!"
"Karui, Omoi, be quiet." The third member of the team ordered, a (very) busty pale blonde girl with equally pale skin that was rubbing the back of her neck. "My back hurts…"
"It's because of those bazookas you call breasts!" Karui shouted. "You could suffocate an enemy shinobi in them!
"I think you're jealous." Omoi pointed out. Karui blushed and smacked her sheathed sword on his head angrily. Before the violence could escalate any more, the tent flap opened up, a blonde teenager in the Hokage robes walking in; followed by a woman with blue hair in a topknot and wearing a form fitting bodysuit. Soon after that, Hatake Kakashi hobbled in on his crutch. Karui and Samui couldn't help but blush at the young man when they looked at his torso, which was only covered by a skintight white T-shirt. Naruto decided to forgo his orange jacket, since it was almost completely destroyed and there hasn't been any time to fix it up at all. He quickly took notice of his guests and sheepishly scratched the back of his head.
"Heh, sorry I'm late. The old farts couldn't decide all that quickly." He said. Kakashi elbowed him in the ribs. "Oh! Rokudaime Hokage, Uzumaki Naruto at your service! Whatcha need?"
The Hokage shook everyone's hands and went to sit in the ultra comfy chair that somehow survived Pein's assault. The how and whys will be answered later, as soon as someone can figure out where Tsunade's Sake stash is. The man with the lollipop handed him the sealed envelope.
The ladies were somewhat… Less enamored than before due to Naruto's casual attitude, but realized that he was chosen for a reason when reading the message, his face got a murderous look on it, killing intent leaking everywhere. Kakashi was curious, so he made a motion to see if he could have permission to see the note. Naruto handed it to the limping man with the scowl still on his face. Kakashi's visible eye widened after a moment and put it down with a defeated sigh.
"So it's come to this then…" Kakashi muttered. Naruto banged his fist on the replacement table, cracking it and nearly breaking it in half.
"That idiot…" He growled. "I thought we could help him… Bring him back to Konoha…!"
"Naruto, I…"
"No, Kakashi-sensei!" Naruto interrupted. "This can't be forgiven! We… I can't let this slide!"
"What about Sakura…?" Kakashi asked. "She'll take this quite hard."
"I know… But, this has to be done… Otherwise I'll be next." Naruto mumbled out. "Uchiha Sasuke is to be killed on sight, on order of the Rokudaime Hokage…"
Naruto painstakingly put his seal on the orders, and gave it to Kakashi to deal with. Then he took out a piece of parchment and with tears threatening to pour down his cheeks, he wrote his approval to the Raikage. Some of them spilled on the parchment, but he ignored them. After signing it, the response was sealed and handed to the Kumo messenger team, whom saluted and left quickly. Naruto slumped back in his chair, he looked at Konan and sighed.
"Konan, did I do the right thing…?"
"Yes, you did." She answered. "I'm sure Madara has twisted Sasuke's mind beyond all hope of recovery…" The two sat in silence for several minutes before someone rapped on the metal plate outside of the tent.
"Yes…?"
"I was asked to report to the Hokage's tent to be your assistant."
"Is that you, Kurenai-sensei? Come in." Kurenai walked in, not showing any real emotion. The death of Asuma hit her hard, and her miscarriage caused by Pein's attack seemed to suck all the joy out of her entire being… In short, the Genjutsu Mistress looked like she had been through shit…
"Hokage-sama." She said, bowing. Naruto frowned.
"Please, just call me Naruto… You know how much I care for formalities, ne?"
Kurenai chuckled softly, standing back up. She looked around, stopping when her red ringed eyes met Konan's amber eyes.
"Why is she here…?" She asked, genuinely curious. "If you already have an assistant, why am I needed here…?"
"I am here as…" She paused, thinking on the correct explanation. "As a favor to my dead sensei…"
"Besides, I am useless when it comes to things like paperwork, despite my paper ninjutsu." She added, cocking her head to the side, one eyebrow up and a finger on her chin. "It really doesn't make that much sense, now that I think about it…"
"But I suppose I could help out." She finished, shrugging at the end.
"It's not as if there is much paperwork we need to be worrying about at this time: we're in a tent after all…" Naruto pointed out. Konan nodded in hopeful agreement. Kurenai disagreed.
"That's incorrect… There's going to be a lot of it incoming, especially with all the contractors and merchants that are going to be aiding in the reconstruction of Konoha." Kurenai said, crushing Naruto and Konan's dreams of training to beat Madara and Sasuke. The poignant silence was broken by Naruto's exasperated cry.
"…That sucks!"
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"So, Naruto's the Hokage, huh?" Sakura asked Kakashi. She had read a copy of the decree concerning Sasuke, and burst into tears. She had just regained her composure. "I don't want to believe that he gave that order… I just can't believe it!"
"Sakura, calm down… Naruto did this for the well-being of the village… It was hard for him to do." Kakashi offered. "Sasuke is beyond saving now. He realized that, and signed his death warrant knowing that Konoha will be his next target if he didn't."
Yamato entered the medical tent exhausted and flopped on a couch that had been salvaged from Kami knows where and sighed.
"I'm exhausted…! How did the Shodai do this?" He moaned, dragging a palm down his face. " 'Okay! Now another one!' … Easy for you to say…."
"Rough day, Tenzou?" Kakashi asked through an eye smile. Yamato merely gave him the ghoul stare, to which Kakashi chuckled nervously to. "I take it that is a yes…"
"What do you think, sempai…? I'm the only one in the known world that can do this…! Making houses from nothing isn't easy!" The anbu rants on some more, but Sakura and Kakashi tune it out.
"What's going to happen next…?" Sakura asked. Kakashi looked pensive for a moment before shrugging.
"The most we can do right now is rebuild the village. Naruto knows what needs to be done, so we don't need to worry about things going awry under his leadership."
"If you had said that three years ago, I would have laughed in your face, Kakashi-sensei…" Sakura admitted, giggling a bit. "But I have faith in him."
Kakashi nodded in agreement.
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"Okay, what's this one…? A requisition form for… Seriously…? Wow. I didn't know that they needed to run these things by the Hokage…"
"What is it Naruto?" Kurenai asked.
"I… I don't want to say… Let's leave it at that, ne?" Naruto responded, blushing. Kurenai glared at him, causing him to glare back. Konan casually picked the form up and glanced it over.
"Oh my!" She blushed. Naruto and Kurenai broke away from their match at the furiously blushing paper mistress who started to have steam come from her ears.
"Augh! What is so interesting that it must be hidden from your secretary?" Kurenai shouted. She practically teleported across the tent and snatched the form from Konan's clutches. As she read it, she felt her blood pressure rise (and not in the way that's good for everyone around her) and ticks started showing on her forehead.
"WHAT THE HELL?"
Naruto quickly replaced himself with the chair at his desk and hid under it. Konan realized that she had left the oven in her apartment on, despite not having either. On the list was the incoming inventory of a sex store that was destroyed in the attack by Pein. Normally, this wouldn't be so bad; but there were some exceptionally detailed images of the products that were listed. Naruto had been traveling with the Grand Lord of all Perverts through Magical Boobie Land for nigh three years, so he wasn't really fazed by seeing them, but was still a bit embarrassed that there was a shop selling them in Konoha.
Konan, being in a place like Ame for most of her life which had been ravaged by civil war and oppression for longer than she had been alive. Such things were not known by her, but by what most of them resembled (cough cough), she put the pieces together and thoughts started running through her head like a train that had been derailed… Though a better comparison would be 'running through her head like a rabbit orgy.' The difference is beside the point. Long story short; Konan had a sexual rebirth overload. They grow up so fast, don't they…?
Kurenai was emitting an aura that promised indignant female destruction, and soon. To whom the destruction is promised is yet to be determined... Naruto silently prayed that it wasn't him. Not even a kage is immune to the fury of an enraged woman when it comes to perversity for some reason...
"Soo... Uh... I think it should be approved..." Naruto nervously announced. Kurenai's head creaked slowly to face Naruto's, with eyes that could make Izanagi wet himself. Gathering what was left of his courage, he decided to clarify the decision.
"Look, Kurenai-sensei, Konoha normally doesn't meddle with private businesses like these, but since we're in a state of emergency it has to be done. This place already existed before Pein's attack, and not giving them the supplies to keep their livelyhood going should be criminal."
Kurenai felt a blush rise on her cheeks in embarrasment.
"S-so, you're not doing this because your a pervert...?"
Naruto chuckled and rubbed the back of his head and said, "well, I was travelling with ero-sennin for quite a long time, and I would be lying if I didn't say I didn't become a slight pervert..." Kurenai's eyes narrowed, Naruto immediately flailed his hands placatingly in front of him. "Don't hit me! It's not like I'm going to leer at every pretty woman that walks by me! I mean, I'll give nice compliments, but..."
"Are you saying that I'm not pretty...?" Kurenai responded, arms crossed and foot tapping. Konan realized what she was saying and joined in the gesture.
"Konan? Not you too!" He cried.
"Well, Naruto-kun...?" Konan asked impatiently. "What do you think of us? Tell us e-v-e-r-y-t-h-i-n-g." Naruto took a deep breath, accepting his punishment. He had to do this. Well, at least he can say he died being the Hokage. His only regret was not being able to start a family...
"Well, Kurenai-sensei, you have a beautiful face, and the wavy dark hair that frames your face draws me into your enchanting red eyes... Your body is nothing short of near perfection, with no extra body fat and not too little either, the perfect combination for being a kunoichi; and your chest and hips are the envy of many other women in the village, despite not being as well endowed as Konan... I could lose track of time staring at your long, toned legs..."
"W-wow." Kurenai mumbled.
"And Konan, your golden eyes entrance me, making me forget many of the problems I have in my life, as well as many of the pains I've endured to get to where I am... Your blue hair is exotic, and I love it quite a lot. You are curvier than Kurenai-sensei, but once you get to a certain degree of perfection like the both of you have, there is no winner in beauty. Both of you are perfect in my eyes."
Konan just felt it was appropriate to hide her blush with her hands.
"I'm not a shallow guy though, as personality is a huge factor as well..." Naruto mused aloud. "I only hope I can actually find someone as great as you two who'll go for someone like me..."
Konan and Kurenai looked at each other and frowned. Meanwhile, Naruto was wondering why he was still conscious. Normally not one to doubt his blessings, he was still concerned with the silence of the two women in his presence, so he decided to ask what was wrong. Konan launched herself at Naruto in a flying hug, kissing him fiercely. Kurenai shoved the ex-Akatsuki member off when she broke the kiss to take a breath and took her spot.
Naruto's reaction was three-fold: first was the thought of being killed, then the thought of "what the hell are they doing?" and then "O-oh Kami... She tastes wonderful...". The next reaction was physical, blood gorging a certain male appendage in the sign of approval of what was going on. Finally, he passed out, the last image being one he surmised was that of two goddesses waiting on him.
TBC!
Yeah, I know that little thing at the end really makes the romance unrealistic, but look at it this way: Kurenai went into premature labor during Pein's attack (in my story at least) so the hormones are still running rampant throughout her system, and hearing such well thought out and poetic compliments doled out to her shut down her inhibitions temporarily. As for Konan, I suspect she has never heard things being said to her like that in such a heartfelt manner due to the constant strife and civil war of Amegakure. Toss in a little desperation of some sort and ya got a glomp of affection. It's not actual love, mind.
Anyway, a couple things. For fans of Sci-fi and fantasy put into one story, check out my original story Scion's Grimoire. It's on this site, and it lacks a real large amount of serious criticism... Translation; IT NEED MORE REVIEWS! The easiest way to find it is just look for it on my profile, where the rest of my stories are shown. It's the one under mythology.
Second order of business, my other Naruto fanfic Leafen Rebellion is still up for adoption, since I has no fuckin' clue where to go with it. Just PM me if you're interested.
As usual, read and review! A psychosomatic response is ingrained into my brain to reviews: they instinctively make me wish to write more, since I will crave more reviews... It's a wonderful cycle, isn't it?