…..i'm not fucking saying it again.
The sun rose over the village of the leaf, smiles and laughter ringing out across the streets as they began to fill with many a face, shinobi and civilian alike. One home however was silent and calm. This was the apartment of the uzumaki family. Inside we see a lone blond child laying on a couch with a cute girl lying next to him. This was the newest couple in the village, naruto uzumaki and ruby rose .
Naruto woke up to the sun landing across his eyes and a breathing that wasn't his. Looking down, he smiled and blushed as he saw the cute visage of his girlfriends sleeping face squished up against his chest. 'she must have sneaked in here last night while I was asleep..' . looking around he saw the aftermath of the ramen war that occurred last night. Upon learning that ruby was a glutton for ramen as well, team KMNN made a feast of the food which eventually lead to an eating contest between naruto, ruby and surprisingly menma and yang. The resulting war between the two pairs caused the loss of 100lbs of ramen and the dreaded 'ramen coma', an occurrence that is caused by the huge overload of flavour, which makes the body shut down in order to prepare it for the digestion of such huge amounts of food.
He was snapped out of his rememborance of his and ruby's anticts by a knock on the door. Sliding out from under ruby's arm he opened the door to see an ANBU with a tiger mask. "uzumaki naruto, you and team RWBY are to report to the council chambers as soon as possible. The hokage requires your presence." Not waiting for a response, the anbu leapt off into the distance, leaving naruto with the job of waking team rwby for the meeting. "fuck…." Deciding he would need ruby's help, he walked over to her and shook her shoulder to wake her "mmmnnn naru-kun… 5 more days…" "common ruby-chan I need your help…" trying once more, he was greeted to just what ruby was dreaming about "mnnnn naru-koi… not so hard…".
Knowing he would have to be a bit gentler to wake her, naruto kissed her on the lips until she began to return it. In his bliss at the slow kiss he never noticed the remainder of team rwby exit his room and stare at the two lovebirds, basically making out on his couch. "wow.. they work fast" "EEP!/YAH!" the two jumped from the couch and stood opposite each other, staring at the three smirking girls. "i-i-i-um uh-" "we know naruto. that anbu agent wasn't exactly quiet. We'll wait for you two to get ready so we can get this meeting."
Thankful for the distraction the two of them shot into separate rooms. Ruby into the bathroom and naruto into his room. A few minuets later the two exited, ruby in a cleaner version of her attire that she had washed last night and Naruto in a new outfit entirely. In honour of his new girlfriend, he had sent ahead an order from wave that he picked up last night. He was wearing a pitch black muscle shirt, a dark blue cowl/cloak combo and dark blue combat boots and fingerless gloves. On his shirt was a deactivated storage seal for design in white.
"looking sharp ruto" "thank you yang. Now lets go see what jiji needs with us shall we?" they nodded and left through the door, leaving the apartment in silence once again.
Council chambers
Entering the meeting hall, naruto and team ruby were met with silent stares and questioning glances. "ah there you are naruto kun. Nice change in outfit by the way" "thank you jiji" "now onto business.. we need you to report what happened in wave. Unfortunitly with sakura and sasuke still in hospital and kakashi resting due to chakra exhaustion, we need you and team RWBY to report what happened on the bridge.".
Nodding, naruto stopped forward with a blank face "when me and my team reached team 7, we were met with the sight of gennin sakura and sasuke knocked out and kakashi hatake in captivity. The assailant was zabuza momochi, someone my team and I engaged in combat with. In our fight, a stray attack freed kakashi and then he struck a fatal blow through zabuza's heart. Over the next days, my team accidently blew up one of gato's mansions with an overcharged jutsu thanks to me. This also struck a slavers convoy that had captured team RWBY behind me, freeing them and in the shadow of the traumatic event, I offered them shelter with me and my team at the clients house. It was then they admitted to being a traveling mercenary group that were raised outside of a village. I decided that the village could use more forces and offered them a place here, which you lord hokage agreed to."
"it was then I used my ability to remake weapons that had been lost in their capture and in order to field test them, I took them on my patrol to the bridge that we were guarding where I and team RWBY were attacked by someone who appeared to be zabuza's apprentice. He separated me and ruby from her team and proceeded to, and please pardon my language here, get his ice lovin ass uterlly handed to him." Chuckles broke out across both sides of the council at his blunt statement. "gato then appeared and tried to finish us off… leading to 201 bodies that were not our own, laying strewn across the cold stone."
Hiruzen nodded at the report and shuffled his paper that had the report written down on it. "thank you naruto kun. Now Is there anything else you wish to say?" "yes hokage-sama… sasuke uchiha and sakura haruno should be pulled from the ninja forces" shouts broke out in the chamber, the third himself looking angrily at naruto for dismissing his comrades so casually "SILENCE!... now naruto-san, I think you should tell us why you are putting such a serious suggestion forward."
Naruto's eyes softened and his mouth went into a frown as he spoke "I do not wish to say such things sir… but their injuries have made it so I cannot just leave them alone. Sasuke would be bad enough, with the large amount of physical therapy needed so he can get back into shape after he has healed. I suggest he be taken as an apprentice by kakashi for the next 4 years and when he returns, he be promoted to special jounin and placed back onto active duty" "as good as that is naruto-kun, what about my daughter?"
Turning to mibuki, naruto's frown got deeper and tears came to his eyes. he dared not cry though when he broke the terrible news. "I did not wish to say this in front of team 7 but… sakura is incapable of being a ninja any more.. you see, one of her injuries was a gash across her back from zabuza's sword.. I was unable to tell in my rage but it had shaved off and displaced a section of sakura's spine. Normally that could be healed normally if done professionally but sakura took it upon herself to heal her 'cut' and thanks to my numbing seal.. she never felt her spine being permanently damaged. Your daughter now rellies on that seal to stop the immeasurable amounts of pain she would normally feel. Shinobi work would essentially paralyse her for life"
Realising how much this was hurting naruto, hiruzen decided to change the subject to a solution "what would you suggest she does then naruto?" he looked to his leader with a strange smile "I would give her an apprenticeship as a chef under touchi ichiraku, owner of ichiraku ramen. I know the restaurant isn't that big or even well known, but take it from someone who goes there whenever I can… I have never felt more welcomed in my life. The two owners are the kindest people I know and have never turned me away. That is how I know them, the original naruto was out on the streets with not a single hope for his future and they took him in and gave him free food and shealter, eventually becoming a second family to him. Sakura will do well in such a loving and caring atmosphere."
Hiruzen smiled as he realised naruto was trying to give sakura a truly happy alternative to a shinobi life. "very well naruto-kun. I will have a messenger nin tell the two of them later and personally alert kakashi myself. Thank you for your words and report. You are dismissed." "hai hokage-sama". Naruto bowed and left, team rwby joining him. When he was out of hearing distance, he finally let loose a sob. Ruby ran forward and hugged him silently, having seen just how difficult it was to speak of what had happened to sakura.
"it's ok naruto… you did your best" "NO I DIDN'T! I failed her ruby! I failed my sister and now her dreams are ruined!" ruby only hugged tighter and pushed naruto's head into the crook of her neck. "no you silly… you didn't fail her.. it was zabuza's fault and even then, shinobi live a hard and dangerous life… it was random chance and you are not to blame".
Meanwhile her team watched as she comforted naruto. yang whispered to the two of them so as to not disturb them "they really love each other don't they?" blake turned to her with a small pout "yeah… it kinda makes me jealous there's no one for me." Wiess, being blunt so as to get rid of the sour mood, spoke loud enough for naruto and ruby to hear as well "I have no idea what you're on about blake. There are loads of people you can date.. im rather interested in naruko myself. A smart, noble girl like herself is a fine partner for romance." The others stared at wiess in surprise not expecting such a response.
"plus she's got a great rack" "WIESS?!"