Blonde-Haired Warrior, Pink-Haired Princess
Disclaimer: I do not own Naruto, To-LOVE-Ru, or any other series I plan to use in this story. They belong to their respective owners, and I am making no money from this whatsoever.
"Speech"
'Thought'
"Demon Speech"
"Technique/Jutsu"
"Peke Speech"
Chapter 1: Understandings and Inheritances
Hizuren Sarutobi. Sandaime Hokage of Konohagakure no Sato. Known primarily for his title as the 'Kami no Shinobi', as well as his training of a Genin team that would later become known throughout the Shinobi world as the 'Densetsu no Sannin'. However, if one were to see him at that moment, they would not even think about his life achievements and instead focus on the huge amount of paperwork on his desk.
'Minato, you cruel bastard, you just had to take the secret to beating this damned paperwork to the grave with you.' Sarutobi thought, while signing and stamping another form, setting down, and picking up another, before grimacing at the writing on it. 'Motion to have Naruto Uzumaki placed into the custody of Danzo Shimura for training. Denied.' Placing his signature on the area to deny the motion, he placed it into one of three bins surrounding him, the largest being the 'In' bin, the second, and the middle one, being the 'Denied' motions, while the third and by far smallest pile was the 'Approved' documents.
Picking up the next paper, Sarutobi read it over, and couldn't help the sigh that escaped his mouth from the writing. 'Now this is one request I'm definitely not going to approve of.' Were Sarutobi's thoughts, and just as he signed off on the denied portion, a loud disturbance from the other side of his office doors caught his attention.
"Hey, what do you think you're doing here, you damn brat? Get lost!" Sarutobi's secretary shouted, drawing his gaze to the direction it was coming from.
'There's only one person that comes to see me at this time, and that's also the same person my secretary hates.' Sarutobi thought, while listening for the voice of the person he thought would respond.
"Listen, lady, I need to speak with Hokage-sama, at once. And, since I'm technically a shinobi of the village, I don't take orders from you, civilian." Responded a voice he knew too well.
'Naruto.' Sarutobi thought, while rising from his desk and walking to the door, only stop as he put his hand on the knob. 'But he never calls me 'Hokage-sama', so something must have happened.'
"Well, I don't care if you are a shinobi, you're still just some worthless brat to me, so take your little girlfriend there, and get out before I summon ANBU to remove you!" This caught Sarutobi's attention.
'Girlfriend?' Not wanting to take any chances on Naruto getting upset and causing a major scene, Sarutobi wrenched open the door, and saw what was unfolding on the other side. His secretary, a middle-age civilian, more than likely only working the position in hopes of gaining some fake sense of authority, was yelling at two people. One, Sarutobi recognized by the bright blonde hair, as a boy who had become something like a surrogate grandson to him, but the other, the female with long, bright pink hair, and a familiarly strange tail-like object sticking out her lower back, was someone he hadn't seen in many years.
"Shina, why do you feel the need to harass one of my ninja, and deny him an audience with his leader?" Sarutobi asked, while glaring down at the woman, who was trying her best to disappear from the man's sight, but failing miserably.
"H-H-Hokage-sama, I was merely trying to keep this disruptive influence from interfering with your daily work." She tried to reason, but it was blatantly obvious that her words were a very terrible lie.
"Of course you were." Sarutobi responded, his voice so laden with sarcasm, a deaf person would have heard it. "Naruto-kun, why don't you and your 'guest' join me in my office? And no more meetings for today, Shina, I'll be busy for the rest of the day with some other important business."
"Y-Y-Yes, Hokage-sama." Shina responded, before turning back to her own paperwork, but not before throwing one more glare at Naruto.
"I still say you should have fired her a long time ago, oji-san." Naruto said, after he and Lala had entered the office and the doors had been closed.
"Yes, and I agree, but as it stands, she does have some skills left in time management, but we can leave the argument for another time." Sarutobi responded, before turning his gaze back to Naruto and Lala. "Lala-dono, it's so good to see you again after so many years." The older man said, while bowing to the girl who he knew was royalty, only to hear her giggling in response.
"You've gotten so much older, Chuuko-Saru." Lala responded, while covering her mouth with her hand to try and stifle the giggles, but it wasn't working very well. Sarutobi had a sweat drop on the side of his head from the comment, while Naruto was holding his own laugh in as well, if his shaking frame was any indication.
"Well, I'm glad to see you're still as honest as you were the last time we met." Sarutobi finally managed to say, after regaining his composure, and Lala and Naruto had finally stopped laughing. "So, I take it that you recall everything now, Naruto-kun?" Sarutobi questioned the blonde of the group.
"Yeah, both seals have been removed, and I'm slowly but surely remembering everything." Naruto responded.
"I'm glad to hear that, and for what it's worth, I'm sorry that it had to happen like that." Sarutobi said to his surrogate grandson, while bowing his head sadly.
"Don't be." Naruto said, drawing Sarutobi's gaze to Naruto, who had his face set in a pure mask of concentration. "If you and Kyuubi hadn't sealed away my mental and physical abilities when you had the chance, I know the council's would have forced my execution. So, what was done was the lesser of two evils."
"Um…what are you two talking about?" Lala's voice suddenly cut into their conversation, making both men realize they had been talking about information that the third person there had no idea about.
"Oh, sorry Lala-chan, I forgot that this happened after you left." Naruto apologized, while sheepishly scratching the back of his head. "Well, to explain what we were just talking about, you need to first understand what happened after you and your father left the village eight years ago."
"It wasn't long after your father and I had finalized the marriage agreement between yourself and Naruto-kun that certain members of this village found out about it." Sarutobi began explaining. "They sought to remove the agreement to marry you two, but thanks to a loophole in the agreement, only one of the four people mentioned in the document could alter its function."
"Four people?" Lala asked, before she took a thoughtful pose, one Naruto had to restrain himself from yelling "Kawaii" about when she took it. "Papa, Chuuko-Saru, Naruto-kun, and me." She said after a few seconds.
"Correct. Since you and your dad were gone from the village, that left only two people who could change the contract: Myself and Oji-san." Naruto continued. "And between the two of us, the councils thought I would have been the easier to manipulate of us, so they forcibly summoned me to a late night meeting and began threatening in hopes of it being enough to alter the agreement."
"But why would they do that?" Lala asked, suddenly curious about the council's apparent hatred for Naruto.
"Naruto-kun is a well-known person in the village, but the problem is that the reasons behind his 'popularity', and I use that word lightly, is because of his significance to saving this village many years ago." Sarutobi began explaining. "You see, 16 years ago, on the day Naruto was born, the Kyuubi no Kitsune, a massive fox demon attacked the village, destroying much and taking countless lives. That all ended, however, when my successor, and now predecessor, the Yondaime Hokage, gave his life to imprison the Kitsune, using his own son as the jail cell. Sadly, when I returned to office after the passing of the Yondaime, I found out that many of the council members had already learned the truth about Naruto-kun, and had begun spreading lies through the village."
"Lies about what?" Lala asked, but seeing the downed look on Naruto's face, she slowly began understanding what the older man might have meant.
"That he wasn't the jailer for the Kyuubi, but was actually the demon that was responsible for nearly destroying the village. Many began calling for his death, and a slightly smaller amount were calling to turn him into the 'Village's Prized Weapon of War.'" Sarutobi explained, while Lala gasped at this. "I placed a law into effect, stating that anyone caught passing on information about Naruto's involvement in the defeat of the Kyuubi would be put to death immediately. But, that still hasn't stopped the older generation from spreading their hatred about him, warning their children to stay away from him."
"And this was the main reason behind their plans to annul the marriage arrangement between us." Naruto said, saying his first piece since the back story to his life began. "They felt that as the 'Kyuubi brat' as they called me many times during that meeting, it was too great an honor for me to have, being engaged to a princess of a large empire. Granted they didn't know the truth behind your father's empire, but they knew that he was a very important king. So, they felt the need to change the marriage agreement, instead hoping to force you into marrying someone they felt was more worthy of it."
"And what happened afterwards?" Lala questioned, her mind still trying to wrap around the problems Naruto had been forced to deal with for years on end.
"Well, their normal threats, namely executing Naruto-kun, throwing him in jail for life, or banning him from our shinobi program, were mainly ignored, and all by Naruto-kun himself. No matter what they threatened, from what my contacts in the meeting told me, he wouldn't back down, saying he said 'I would rather die, than let Lala-chan be married to some crazy pig' the councils had picked out." Sarutobi explained which caused Lala to look at Naruto with a happy smile on her face, while Naruto was looking away from her, a heavy blush on his face at the memory of standing against the councils. "But, many of the more vocal members of the council, who aren't known to be too bright, became angry at this point, and decided on a different approach. They decided to comment that if Naruto didn't bow to their wishes and alter the contract, then even if he did marry you, they would make sure your life was as terrible as they could make it, even hinting at the possibility of you having an 'accident'."
"That's when I lost it." Naruto took over, drawing Lala's gaze to him. "After hearing them threaten you, I blanked out, and the next thing I knew, Oji-san was restraining me, and the council chambers had been reduced to a wreck. He ordered the council dismissed, and took me back to my apartment to sleep, since I had passed out after the incident had ended. The next morning, we were informed about what had happened in the chamber, about how I had seemingly tapped into some latent transformation, which many on the councils linked to the Kyuubi. It was about then that the Kyuubi contacted us and explained that the power I had displayed was a special gift from the Kyuubi, which as it so happens, was a more advanced level of what Kyuubi had been teaching me."
"But, that's when the councils reared their ugly heads again, since one of my most trusted ANBU informed me of another meeting being held without my authorization. This one was being used to decide on a punishment for Naruto, since he had accidentally killed several people during the meeting from the night before. Ironically, as it was, those people he had killed were some of the more vocal ones about what might happen to you if the marriage had happened." Sarutobi continued. "As it stood, anything that I could think of would have backfired, since trying to ignore the punishments would have called my impartiality on the matter into question, which could have forcibly removed me from office. Luckily, it was the Kyuubi who had come up with a 'punishment', if you could call it that."
"A double-restrainer system was put into place, limiting my physical and mental abilities." Naruto kicked in. "Think of it as a set of locks on my potential, which held the abilities back, but still took all the training I was doing and fueled them to new levels. But, as a special, unknown to most, feature, the locks had a special unlocker system, which would be triggered by separate events happening. The locks on my physical powers could only be undone if someone had linked my name to the Kyuubi's, while the lock on my mental abilities would only unlock if I ever saw you again, Lala-chan."
"So, you've been living for the past eight years, hindered from achieving any prowess, because of me?" Lala asked, after several minutes of silence, while glancing sadly at Naruto, before shifting her gaze to floor, as if in shame. 'I wonder if he actually hates me.' Lala thought, but any such thoughts were stopped, when Naruto grabbed her arm and pulled her into a strong hug, surprising her by his action.
"Lala, don't think, even for a second, that you were the cause of this." Naruto said, while hugging her tightly. "The fault rests solely on the shoulders of those ignorant council members for trying to take away something they had nothing to do with. I don't blame you for this at all, and I want you to know that if it meant keeping you safe from those manipulative bastards, I'd gladly go through that all over again."
Lala's eyes began to water, hearing the pure honesty of Naruto's words, and feeling the affection behind them, she wrapped her arms around Naruto and hugged him in return, tears slowly falling from her eyes. The two of them stayed like that for a while, before Naruto pulled back slightly, and looked Lala in the eye.
"I'd gladly give up anything and everything I had, if it meant that you wouldn't have to face a single bit of trouble in this village." Naruto finished; a kind smile on his face, which stayed there until Lala leaned forward slightly, placing her forehead to his, and sighing out loud.
"Oh, Naruto-kun." She cooed softly, her eyes closed and a smile on her face. "It's just like all those years ago, when I first met you. You were so kind to me, not letting my royal title keep you from being my friend, and showing me kindness. I didn't realize when I was younger, but I had fallen for you the moment I met you, and now, I'm glad my father set up this marriage between us."
"Lala-chan." Naruto whispered, as he kept staring at her beautiful face, which became even more so when she opened her dazzling green eyes, and that's when Naruto surprised both of them. He tilted his head forward slightly, planting a short, chaste kiss on her lips, before he pulled his head back after realizing what he had done. But, to his surprise, Lala stopped him from pulling away completely, and instead, pulled him back into another kiss, this one slightly longer, but it was still chaste. After a moment or so, both teens pulled away, more from a lack of air, and smiled happily at each other.
"Ahem." Sarutobi coughed out, drawing the young couple's attention to the older man, who had a happy smile on his face. "I hate to stop you two, but we still have some important business to finish up." He then gained a slightly perverted grin. "Once we're done, I'm sure you two can catch up as much as you want."
"Oh…okay." Naruto responded, with a slight blush on his face, which Lala mirrored as well, before the two separated, Naruto taking a seat in front of the Hokage's desk, while Lala happily sat down on Naruto's lap, as the blonde wrapped his arms around her waist, Lala leaning back and resting her head on his shoulder..
"Alright, the first thing that needs to be said is that as of now, thanks to you entering the Shinobi forces, you, Naruto, no longer have to worry about the Civilian council hassling you." Sarutobi began, which Naruto gained a slightly satisfied smirk about. "Also, this means that several shinobi stores, which before you could not use, are now open for you to use, and as a side-note, most of the owners have no problem with you. Second, since you have achieved the rank of Genin, part of your father's last wishes can now be fulfilled."
"What do you mean by that?" Naruto asked, while eying the Hokage curiously.
"Before you're father died from the sealing process, he informed me of a small apartment that he had set aside, which would be accessible to you when you achieved the rank of Genin. Also, he informed me that it had several special features on the living space, but he never got the chance to tell me what they were." Sarutobi responded, causing an understanding expression to fill the blonde's face, as the old man slid a key across the desk, which Lala grabbed and handed to Naruto. "And, as for the last piece of information, I felt the need to inform you that there will be a one month break period before the Genin Team announcements are made, so you have some free time to get your skills back up to snuff."
"Alright, that will definitely help right now. Last thing I want to have happen is accidentally hurting someone with a stray attack." Naruto responded, which Sarutobi nodded his head to. "Was there anything else, Oji-san?"
"No, that will pretty much cover the important matters for today, so you two are free to go." Sarutobi responded.
"Well, Lala, I think that before we head to the new apartment, we should probably stop and buy you some more clothes. We can't have you wearing my hand-me-downs all the time." Naruto said, to which Lala nodded, but before she could say anything, a new voice suddenly sounded, coming from the window.
"Lala-sama, I've found you." The voice said, and when the three people turned to the source of it, two of them were shocked at what they saw. It was a small object, only about a foot or so tall, that looked reminiscent of a human, with cream colored skin, and an oval-shaped head, swirl-like eyes, it's body seemingly covered by a large shirt, with a red tie from its neck, and strange, bat-like wings on its back, easily as big at its whole body.
"Ah, Peke." Lala happily cried out, as she embraced the small creature, holding it tightly in her arms. "I'm so glad to see you, but how did you find me?"
"I traced the signature from your Pyon-Pyon Warp-kun, and then scanned for your biometrics." The now named Peke responded, before its small head turned to see the other two occupants of the room. "Lala-sama, who are these two strange people with you?"
'Strange?' Naruto and Sarutobi thought at the same time, a tick mark on their heads at the comment.
"Ah, the older man is Sarutobi, the leader of this village, but I just call him Chuuko-Saru. The other one, the blonde boy, is Naruto-kun, the one I came here to meet and marry." Lala responded, while turning to the two men, Peke still held in her arms. "I'd like you to meet Peke. She's an All-Purpose Costume Robot I invented."
"Costume Robot?" Sarutobi questioned, while turning his gaze to Naruto, a questioning look on his face. One that Naruto shrugged his shoulders at, showing he hadn't heard anything about this at all. At that particular moment, Naruto's reactions kicked in and he lifted his hand, catching an object that would have hit his face, before taking a closer look at it and seeing it was the shirt Lala had been wearing.
"Lala-chan, why are you stripping?" Naruto asked, though he kept his voice level low, so as not to let the annoying secretary on the other side of the door hear it. Instead of answering, Lala bent downward, pulling off the shorts she had been wearing, and leaving her completely bare, before tossing the shorts over her shoulder, which surprisingly hit the Hokage in the face, covering up his eyes, and the slight nose bleed he had gained from Lala's show.
"Peke, I'll leave it to you." Lala chirped happily, while facing the small robot, who was hovering at chest level to her.
"Understood." Peke responded enthusiastically, before her small frame began to glow. "Transform! Dressform!" Peke called out, as a bright flash of light engulfed Lala, which illuminated several tendrils which were the same color as Peke, which tightly wrapped around Lala's body, before merging into a new outfit. The outfit that Lala was now wearing made her look like a larger sized Peke, with a large hat shaped like Peke's head on top of her head, and her tail sticking out the back for all to see. It was also at this point that Sarutobi had managed to regain enough sense to pull the pair of shorts away from his face, and though he was disappointed that he had missed anymore of the show, he hid it well, especially when Naruto turned his stony gaze to him. "Lala-sama, is it too tight?"
"No, perfect like always." Lala responded, as she twirled a bit, showing that the clothes were indeed formfitting, clinging to her body almost like a second skin. "Naruto-kun, do you like it."
"Eh…well, it definitely suits you." Naruto managed to say, after a moment of silence.
Coughing slightly, Sarutobi once again returned the groups attention to himself. "Well, I'm glad that you have some other clothes to wear now, Lala-dono, but I think that particular outfit might stand out a little too much in the village."
"Oh, really?" Lala asked, her tone and expression showing complete surprise at this comment.
"Yeah, that definitely would be a problem. The tail alone would definitely draw attention, but the outfit would be an even bigger attention grabber." Naruto agreed, his eyes closed, arms crossed, and his head nodding in agreement, before turning his gaze to Lala. "Peke, can you take on any form of clothing?"
"Hai, I just need to see it once, and I can easily replicate it." Peke's voice responded, the source of it being the hat on Lala's head. A rustling sound came from behind the two, and when they turned their heads, they found the Hokage rummaging through his desk draw, before withdrawing his hand, which now held a photograph.
"This picture was taken back when I was in my prime. The woman standing beside me was my wife, Biwako. I think the outfit she was wearing in this photo would suit you, Lala-dono." Sarutobi said, while handing her the photo, which both Naruto and Lala took the chance to look at.
Standing on the left was a younger looking Sarutobi, his hair and goatee was a dark brown color, while his body was adorned with his usual Kage robes. Beside him stood a lovely woman with long black hair, which was tied into a ponytail at the back of her head. Her outfit consisted of a fish-net undershirt, with a deep-red kimono top over it, which was missing the sleeves from the elbows down. Her lower body had a pair of tight black shorts which went to the a few inches above the knees, while her feet were covered with the standard shinobi sandals.
"Hm, Peke, what do you think?" Lala asked, while glancing up to her hat.
"That can be done. Transform!" Peke called out, once again engulfing Lala in a flash of light, which soon settled down, revealing Lala in the same outfit that the woman in the picture was wearing, the only variation being the small pin in her hair just above her forehead, which resembled Peke's face..
"Wow…" Naruto commented, his mouth gaping at Lala's new look, before shaking his head to clear his thoughts. "You…you look great, Lala-chan."
"Th…Thank you, Naruto-kun." Lala responded, a light blush adorning her cheeks.
"Alright, I need to be getting back to this blasted paperwork, so you two go and see that new apartment of yours." Sarutobi said, while writing down the address to it on a small slip of paper, as well as the names of the stores now open to the young blonde, and passing it to Naruto. "I'll hire a Genin team to handle the transfer of your possessions to your new home Naruto, so don't worry about that."
"Right, appreciate it, Oji-san." Naruto responded, as he opened the door, first letting Lala go before him, before stopping at the slightly opened door and glancing at the desk, which had seemingly been covered with even more paper since the last time he saw it. "Um, Oji-san, I hate to question you about it, but why don't you just try a Bunshin Technique to handle the papers?"
For a few seconds, the Sandaime Hokage merely stared at the young blonde with a blank look on his face, before he suddenly smashed his head into the desk, with a loud cry of "BAKA!" After another few seconds of silence and stillness from the Hokage, he lifted his face from the desk and began rubbing his forehead, which was sporting a big red mark now.
"Um…Oji-san, what was that about?" Naruto asked the elderly Hokage, who just sighed and smiled at Naruto.
"That was a punishment for not figuring out something you and your father managed to solve easily." Sarutobi responded, receiving a confused stare from Naruto. "I've spent the better part of both of my reigns as Hokage trying to manage this paperwork, but I could never figure out how to do it. But, your father managed to best it, and it seems you inherited his keen mind for problem solving." He finished, before making a hand seal, and in a POOF of smoke, three Kage Bunshins appeared, before they quickly began working on the desk full of documents. "Thank you for your assistance Naruto, and I'll be sure to have the money for completing an S-ranked mission to you soon."
"S-ranked?" Naruto pondered out loud, before sighing. "Never mind, I get what you mean. Well, see you later, Oji-san." Naruto finally said, before closing the office door, leaving the old Hokage and his clones to finish up what would normally be a full day's work, with the possibility of staying late, but now it would only be a matter of one or two hours.
(With Naruto and Lala)
"So, after we check out this apartment my dad left us, what say we head to one of these stores Oji-san told me about and see if they have anything for us to wear?" Naruto asked Lala, who happily nodded her head.
"That sounds like fun, Naruto-kun." Lala chirped happily, before glomping the young boys arm, smashing her impressive bust on to the limb, which caused him to blush lightly.
"Can you believe that lovely young lady, hugging that abomination?" Naruto heard suddenly from the side, an older woman being the source of the comment, which she had said to several other women with her.
"It's actually a surprise that anyone would want to willing be around that thing." Another said, but any further comments were stopped by a powerful glare coming from Naruto.
"Naruto-kun, is something wrong?" Lala asked, since she had noticed his glare, but then she saw the direction it was aimed in, and also noticed the group of women who had just recently been gossiping.
"Don't worry about it, Lala-chan." Naruto responded, while holding her hand tightly in his own. "It's been over sixteen years; I'm used to it by now."
"Naruto-kun." Lala said, before she hugged herself to his arm even tighter, as if trying to relay the fact that he wasn't alone, and didn't have to deal with the isolation anymore without any words.
"Thanks, Lala-chan." Naruto said, while resting his head on top of hers. Sadly, their moment together was short lived, thanks to another interruption.
"Oh, Naruto, there you are." A new, female voice, sounded from behind the two, causing Naruto to freeze out of some strangely honed reflex, while Lala glanced first at Naruto, then back at the source of the voice. "I've been looking all over for you."
Slowly, Naruto turned to face the source of the voice, revealing it to be a woman that looked to be in her mid to late thirties, with long, fiery red hair, and passionate violet eyes. As his gaze landed on the woman, his face became suddenly devoid of emotion, and in an unnaturally calm voice, he spoke, shocking Lala at how restrained he sounded.
"Namikaze Kushina."
And, that's a wrap.
I know, you'll hate me for the cliffhanger like this, but I felt that the chapter had gone on long enough, and I do have some more plans for the next chapter.
Also, yes, Kushina is still alive, but she and Naruto are not on the best of terms. More will be said about this in the next chapter, but for now, I'll leave it be.
And, before I forget, two things to the readers.
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