Chapter 18

Returning Home

It was morning again and after their usual two hour morning routines they were back on the path to Konoha. Hinata was doing her best to teach her fiancé some of the finer parts on leading a village or clan while traveling hoping to get a head start on his Hokage training. After the second day of travel they noticed the absence on nature noises and were on their guard. Fifteen minutes later Hinata saw something coming fast from the west through her special eyes.

"Naruto, enemy dead ahead in the trees!" Naruto already had a shot charged in his pistol and took the intruder's head clean off with his precise aim when the second intruder showed up wearing a plain black hooded cloak with a huge bandaged sword pointing inches away from the dark haired Hyuuga woman.

"Well, what do we have here? I heard someone was coming for the hidden treasure of the temple, I just never thought I'd find a Hyuuga and a blonde kid. This will be very profitable indeed." Taunted the man

"Hey, shark bait! Stay away from her got it? Now where is that Uchiha bastard that you always kiss ass to?" yelled Naruto while grasping the hilt of Tetsuda, his katana.

"Well he died a long while back, I am the last surviving member of the organization known as Akatsuki after their plans were destroyed. How do you even know of this?" the shark man demanded still with his sword dangerously close to the Hyuuga.

"Hehehe. Well I guess something good came from the fox protecting me, you will die here Kisame!" Naruto grabbed his katana and channeled an enormous amount of chakra into it. "Tetsuda, protect Hinata. Great Barrier!" He flung the sword directly at Kisame causing him to give ground on Hinata as the sword stuck into the ground and erecting a barrier around her.

"I don't need you to protect me Naruto!" she yelled angrily "I could probably take him myself!" Naruto landed right next to the barrier keeping a watchful eye on the swordsman.

"I know you can take care of yourself, but what would happen if his chakra draining sword was to come close to a possible third person forming within you?" She looked at him for a moment before her eyes fell and looked at the ground realizing what he was saying.

"I'm sorry, I wasn't thinking about our child, I just didn't want to be thought as weak."

"You were never weak in my eyes. Now just sit back and relax while I take care of this idiot." Naruto watched as the bandages fell off the large blade in the hands of the attacker.

"I will shave your skin off with my Samehada!" called the now uncloaked nin as he charged for the blonde. Naruto never moved an inch as he brought forth the huge blade of Kirikorosu to block the attack. Naruto pushed hard on his blade to fling himself into the air as he whirled around to bring down his own attack. His powerful downward slash was blocked but the pure force of it pushed Kisame to a knee.

"Not bad, but it isn't over yet" Kisame called out before he rolled out from underneath the sword and started to madly slash towards Naruto, forcing him to defend without getting a chance to attack. Each attack was extremely powerful but didn't really seem to be targeting him, from what he could detetmine.

"Oh shit, Kirikorosu, how are you holding up?" he called in his mind

"Could be better, you are correct that he is no longer attacking you, but attacking me. If you can access my second form, you should be able to attack without having the chakra drained from me."

"Wait, you have a second form?"

"Yes, but it can only be accessed by someone pure of heart and in need of protecting people, The perfect weapon for a Hokage."

"I understand, there is nothing I'd rather do than protect my new family I'll have in a few months." One massively powered slash from Kisame landed on the broad edge of the sword. His bluish face contorted into a grin as he saw, and heard, the blade crack under his attack, but his grin vanished when he felt a strong pulse jump from the blade. The massive zanbatou shifted from the silvery color to a light absorbing black as the blade edge shown with a chrome like luster. Finally the guard of the sword grew around his hand and created a smaller five inch long retractable blade from the hilt. Kisame's eyes widened as he looked upon the transformed blade.

"That's impossible; you couldn't possibly have the legendary sword Kirikorosu, the slayer of 10,000 demons. It was banished into oblivion 200 years ago since it wouldn't take another wielder!" Kisame slowly backed away from the blonde in fear of the blade.

"Well, I guess you can say I've been to oblivion and back. Kirikorosu, Lend me your strength!" A dark blue aura formed around the blade as Naruto smiled upon the frightened face of Kisame. "I would let you live if I knew you were to change your ways, but you are a criminal through and through. So as the newly elected Hokage, I, Uzumaki Naruto, sentence you to death as a enemy of Konoha!" Naruto leapt forward bringing the blade down at an awkward angle slicing trough Samehada. The moment Naruto's huge blade stuck into the ground, he pushed the hilt forward as the small hidden blade revealed itself piercing the throat of the former mist nin silencing him forever. Naruto fell to his back out of exhaustion from his quick, but very intense battle. The moment he fell the barrier around Hinata came crashing down and she was at his side in mere seconds.

"Naruto-kun, are you ok?" she asked clearly worried. Naruto turned his head to her and smiled.

"Hey, Hina-chan, nice view." She looked down and saw he was looking up her slightly opened robe. She started to blush from his comment but knew how to turn it around.

"Well after you get cleaned up from your fight, you can look at it all you want." Like she expected he turned a bit red before struggling to his feet.

"Alright gorgeous, where is the closest stream?" She giggled at his enthusiasm to see something that he has spent twice a day with over the past days but obliged happily and brought him to a stream to clean up. It was about 3pm or so when they got clean, so they decided to setup camp for the night and leave fresh in the morning. Besides how else were they to make good on her promises of getting a child?

The last few days went by uneventfully, well except for the couple's intimate actions, and they finally returned through the gates of Konoha. They were greeted by friendly faces as they walked through town towards the Hokage tower but bumped into Sakura along the way.

"Hey you two, how about telling your friends you are leaving on a trip. Some of us like to know where you are." she berated them.

"Sorry Sakura-chan, it was a spur of the moment thing." Replied Naruto trying to get away.

"You're back now so who cares. Anyways, have you two, you know, consummated your engagement?" asked the nosy medic. They both blushed and smiled while Hinata held up two fingers. "Twice already? You might get pregnant at that rate." Hinata still smiled at her.

"We want children Sakura." Hinata told her as they continued past the medic but she paused and turned back to her. "And it wasn't twice, it was at least twice per day." The couple laughed hard when they saw Sakura blush in her own world and fell to the ground. "Do you think we should help her?" Hinata asked after watching her friend fall.

"Nah, she'd let us sit there if we did the same." Thy continued to the tower but once again were stopped by a large group of laughing villagers. They made their way through the crowd and immediately joined the laughing when they saw Hanori dressed in a pink ballerina outfit asking 'what's so funny?'

"Why is he dressed in that?" Hinata asked as Naruto's laughter got louder.

"What, you think you are the only one he hurt? For a moment after what he did I was blinded by anger and almost left you, now just the thought that I even considered doing that has haunted me since then." Hinata looked at him very angrily before letting go of his hand and walked to the blind Hyuuga and performed a chakra powered leg sweep snapping his legs like twigs as he landed face first in complete pain causing silence to fall upon the crowd.

"I should just kill you now. I tolerated the fact that Naruto only took your eyes because he is just that kind, I even let you stay in my house because I could tolerate the pain you caused me, but when I learned that you nearly cost me the love of my life with your dirty trick, that is the last of my tolerance. Hanori, you are no longer a Hyuuga. I strip you of all your ties to the house and you are never to come within 100 yards of the Hyuuga Manor or you will be executed on sight. You should consider it a privilege to even be alive right now." Hinata walked back to Naruto's side, after kicking the blind ex-Hyuuga once more, and aggressively took control of her fiance's lips as she kissed him madly before pulling him along into the Hokage tower. She smiled at his dazed look knowing she caused it again and gently pushed him into his future office where Kakashi and Anko were playing 'rock paper scissors' for paperwork duty. Kakashi lost and succumbed to the paperwork demons. Anko smiled at her victory and smiled even more seeing Hinata in her Hyuuga robe.

"Yeah, you better keep that robe on girl." She whispered on her way out.

"What was that about?" Kakashi inquired watching the whole event.

"Well, I guess we had a bet about who has the better body her or Hinata. Let's just say she lost horribly and may be considering 'batting for the other team' for a while." Calmly stated Naruto, while Kakashi had a dreamy look on his face, obviously from imagining Anko with another woman. Kakashi finally brought himself back to this world.

"So then, what can I do for you?" the Jonin asked.

"Well we just returned from our journey for the Yondaime's box he hid for me, and we just wanted to let you know that…" Naruto pulled out the hilt half of Samehada and set it on the desk, "Kisame is officially no more." Kakashi's eyes widened seeing the destroyed sword in front of him.

"I see, well I guess everything went well for you two. Um, I guess you can go, I'll transfer the bounty to the Hyuuga account since the two of you are most likely sharing already." They shied away from that topic and quickly left him to the paperwork at hand. The couple quickly made their way to the Hyuuga manor where the resistant members of society were already waiting for their arrival.

"Ah I see you have returned." called out the self appointed leader. "Where is the scroll?" Naruto had a feeling that this particular person wanted to get his hands on the scroll hidden in his jacket he now wore. It didn't matter to him now so he pulled out the box and it was immediately snatched away by the man's greedy hands.

"You can have what is in the box only if you open it here in front of every one." Naruto announced. The man had it in his possession so he didn't mind and broke the seal on the scroll and pulled it open. Immediately smoke poured out from the writing upon the scroll shrouding the room in the haze. The silence of the room was pierced with painful cries leading into a gurgling sound, obviously from the man's throat being sliced open. Nearly everyone was scared shitless, but that soon turned to shock as the smoke dissipated revealing another spiky blonde haired man standing over the corpse of the leader with a tri-pronged kunai in hand. The blonde turned to the rest of the group with hatred until he laid his eyes upon his look alike.

"Ah, Naruto, it seems you have grown up well." He quickly came up to the younger man and embraced him in a firm hug while Naruto looked on in both slight disgust and happiness.

"Yondaime… I've wanted to know the answer to one question my entire life. Why me?" the man backed away from Naruto as tears became present in his eyes.

"How could I have put another parent's child through what you endured if I couldn't bring myself to do it to my only son? I couldn't so that is why you took the burden, because you are my son." Naruto became speechless as his tears started gathering in his eyes before jumping forward hugging the father he never knew.

"It has been very hard father, but at least all the pieces of the puzzle are coming together." He let go of his father and composed himself. "So how long will your clone last?" Naruto asked as the onlookers looked saddened again.

"Maybe for another 5 minutes at the most, so what would you like to know about your family?" the Yondaime asked.

"Nothing, I really just want to introduce you to someone." He went and grabbed Hinata's hand and pulled her forward to his father. "This is Hinata, clan head of the Hyuuga, in a few weeks she will be my wife and the future mother to my children. I had many things I wanted to ask you, but it doesn't really matter now, it is all in the past and Hinata is my future." The older blonde stepped up to her and embraced her in a strong hug.

"Thank you for giving my son the love he deserves, you appear to be a perfect balance to him. Continue to make him happy, since I see in your eyes that just being near him makes you happy."

"Yes, I will definitely keep him happy, and I will be the best wife and mother. I will do anything for the Hokage." He let Hinata out of the hug and looked at her curiously

"Hinata, I don't want you to do it for me…" he immediately stopped when he saw a mischievous smile from the both of them.

"I'm not doing it for the Yondaime Hokage, but for my soon to be husband, the Rokudaime Hokage." She announced proudly causing the trio to break into billows of laughter.

"You have really chosen well my son, your mother would also be proud. Have ero-sennin tell you of me and Yuki later and be sure to study that scroll it holds everything needed to perform all my jutsu, including the Rasengan." Naruto quickly produced three clones and held out his hand.

"I know you don't have much time left so I just wanted to show you one thing before you go." A brilliant blue ball of chakra appeared in the younger blonde's hand while his father smiled and was about to say something before his eyes doubled in size as winds surrounded the sphere causing tendrils of chakra to form into revolving blades around the ball. "I thought you would like to see a Fuuton elemental of the Rasengan before you had to go."

"Yes you are right, I've wanted to see the power it would create, but you aren't quite there yet my son. There is still more power hidden in that for you to unlock and right now that form seems much too dangerous to use without destroying your arm in the process of letting it loose, but I guess your demonic friend can still heal that if you need to. I am truly proud of you my son, the Rasengan is now solely yours, I have no further claim to it. Protect the village well." With a final smile and wave the clone poofed out of existence.

"Well I guess that is taken care of, any one else have a problem with me being Hokage?" none of the remaining men dared to say any thing and just shook their head and ran out of the room quickly. With a pointed glare from Hinata, the rest of the Hyuuga left out the door behind them.

"I'm sorry you couldn't spend anymore time with him, you spent the time introducing me when you should have asked some other questions." she apologized.

"Like I said before, you are all that matters in my life now. I'll find out that other stuff later, but now I have another goal in life, I promised you would be the mother of my children and you know I don't go back on my word."

"Yes I guess you did promise." Just then he heard a clicking at the door, when he look towards the sound he saw Hinata fully undressed before him with her hand still on the deadbolt. "Then why don't you show me how determined you are to come through with your promise." With her mischievous smile in full effect she sat upon the conference table displaying herself to her fiancé. She didn't need to try anymore coaxing as he shed his clothing to join her.

(The Epilogue) Jumps through time….

Time passed and Naruto and Hinata got married like they wanted. The wedding went by much like it was planned with her previous attempt but this time she actually got married. They had a wonderful time afterwards with many intimate events that really should be kept to themselves. About another two months went by before Hinata started feeling the effects of the journey she took with her husband and was officially declared pregnant by Sakura when they went into the hospital. This brings us forward another five months to the day Naruto is being inducted into the Hokage seat seeing as how he managed to assimilate all the knowledge offered to do the job, with the help of the kage bushin technique.

"Hinata-chan, its time to wake up." Softly called Naruto as he nudged his very pregnant wife. She opened her eyes and yawned before being helped out of bed. She walked her naked form to the bathroom and stopped to look at herself in the mirror. Naruto saw her stop and was quite upset seeing a tear fall down her cheek. He came up behind her and ran his hands across her bulged abdomen and kissed her neck.

"How can you even look at me like this, I'm so fat and ugly." She asked in a teary voice. He just held her tighter as he nuzzled her neck.

"You are still very beautiful, Hina-chan, and I love every inch of you."

"Show me one good thing about how I look." She demanded while still standing in front of the full length mirror obviously not believing a word he said.

"Come on Hinata-chan, I still love every part of you. Your beautiful face, your elegant neck, of course your boobs, that have gotten a bit larger but just as fun to play with, and most of all I love your stomach where you safely hold our child." She turned around and kissed her husband deeply hoping to believe all he said.

"Thank you, but I still don't know why you still enjoy sex with me, I can barely do anything."

"Hey you are still very fun to be with, and I know having sex reminds you how much I love you, besides, it is safe as long as you are up to it. Now get ready quickly and I'll give you a massage before we leave."

"Um, why don't you help me with getting cleaned up, it'll go much faster." He couldn't refuse her request and helped her wash ever part of her body and even gave her the massage she needed with time to spare before the ceremony. Naruto put on plain black shirt and pants and helped his wife into the only thing she has worn since she began showing, the Hyuuga robe, that still to this day will turn him on just seeing it from all the times on their journey. He hugged her tightly before performing some hand signs and disappeared in a flash of light reappearing in his new office with her still in his arms. All the current acting Hokage were there and they all smiled at the pair when they arrived and they each congratulated both of them on their child and his position of Hokage.

"Hinata, you are still gorgeous." Remarked Anko on her way out the door causing Hinata's gloomy appearance to brighten considerably.

"How many plates of dango did that cost you?" she asked her husband knowingly.

"Only three, it would have been worth at least ten to see you smile like that again. How about we go get me my robes beautiful?" Her smile was still on full as she nodded and was guided to the platform of the Hokage tower where Naruto was just introduced as the Hokage to much noise and cheering. He put on his Hokage robes and matching hat before putting his arm around his wife holding her tight as they both smiled to the crowd.

Another month passed before Hinata was in the hospital threatening the life of the pink haired medic for holding back the information that she was giving birth to Fraternal Twins and not just a single child. Unfortunately Naruto's hand took the brunt of the damage in the process, but it was well worth it to him when he saw a blonde boy and a dark haired girl, each with the telltale signs of wielding the Byakugan, lying in his wife's arms.

"Naruto-kun, they're just so beautiful but what should we name them?"

"Can we name her Yuki (means snow), after my mother?" He asked after thinking for a while.

"Hmm, how about Kesshin (means determination, I believe), I've wanted a boy with that name since I started to fantasize about having a family with you. Kesshin, Yuki, welcome to the world, now go to your father, I'm very tired and need my rest for you two." Naruto smiled at his children and kissed his wife before taking the two and leaving her to sleep off the event of the day.

Not much else could be said about the Rokudaime Hokage other than he was a great leader, father, and husband. His benevolent attitude helped lead to the eradication of the strict clan rules in the Hyuuga allowing anyone to follow their heart, which in turn created a more family based atmosphere in the manor. His attitude also kept Konoha out of wars letting the village prosper into a beautiful thriving land where no one was ever left homeless or alone, the Hokage saw to that much at least. His wife, Hinata, only had the two children, but their family grew to the size of ten, since her husband was known to bring home orphans that were overlooked for adoptions.

Konoha will always remember the Hokage that was raised an orphan and overcame all odds, while holding back the strongest demon within, to become the greatest ninja in history and he will forever be looking down on the village from his spot next to Tsunade high upon the Hokage monument.

...LATER!