"Kyuubi talking"
'Kyuubi Thinking'
"Regular Talking"
'Regular Thinking'
I Do Not Own Naruto
Naruto the Crimson Chain Wielder
As Naruto and Inari returned home dinner was just being set on the table while Naruto glanced directly into Tsunami's eyes as she was staring at him the whole time since he walked into the room. She immediately looked away with a blush on her face but was still resolved to talk to him about her feelings later.
"Wow, that food smells delicious Tsunami-chan." Naruto says to her making her get flustered at his sincere compliments.
"It really does, kaa-chan." Inari adds in not paying attention to her now flustered look.
"Thank you Naruto-kun. I worked really hard on it and its always nice to hear compliments on hard work." She says while recover but hiding her nervousness, 'I just hope it tastes as good as it smells to him, I want him to be extra happy when we talk later.' "Actually Naruto-kun, could I talk to you later after dinner in private?"
"Sure Tsunami-chan. Looks like everyone is on their way in now too, let's eat."
During their meal, Naruto the speaks up. "Guys, there is something really cool that you should all see. Inari showed it too me and I know you guys would love to see it too." Naruto said making the rest of the team curious and the Wave family smile as they had an idea of what that could be. For the rest of the dinner they had a lot of laughs at Naruto refusing to answer Kiba's questions about the so called 'awesome thing.'
After dinner Naruto and Tsunami left the house and stood on the deck facing the ocean while the team went to see what was so cool to Naruto. Kiba was dying of curiosity and the others weren't doing much better but they hid it very well.
Tsunami's knees were a little shaky and her hands were getting sweaty which Naruto noticed and asked, "Tsunami-chan, are you ok? You seem nervous about something."
She looks back at him and gathers her courage, "Naruto-kun, I haven't been able to stop thinking about you ever since I first laid eyes on you. I thought you were the most handsome young man I had ever seen and the more you did for Wave, the more my feelings grew. Ever since you came here Inari became nicer and lost all depression making me lose mine as well. I can't say how much I am thankful to you because words would be meaningless to try and describe my gratitude." She said calmly making Naruto blush and make his eyes widen in surprise before he got enough control to reply.
"You don't ever have to thank me Tsunami-chan. I did what I believed was the right thing to do. Me and the team came here and helped fix Wave country together because we couldn't leave this place to die. As for helping Inari, all I did was point him in the right direction. He is a really cool kid and I wanted to get to know him as the real him and not the angry kid he had turned into. Plus, I also got to meet you and while I am reluctant to admit it I also warmed up to the old drunk." He finished making her smile and his modesty and giggle at how he described her father.
"I really like you Naruto-kun. I talked to Anko and she told me that you were under some CRA law and that you, her, and some others are already together, but I would love to be a part of your life, forever, if you want me. After all, Inari needs a father figure and I happened to find the perfect one." She said with a massive blush on her face with a mix of hopefulness, and fear that surprised Naruto.
"I would love to be with you too Tsunami-chan if you are okay with everything. I had thought you were extremely beautiful ever since me eyes first met yours. I also love your cooking and I really missed it when I left. I promise you I will treat you equally and that I will be a good role model to Inari." He said with a conviction and honesty that once again startles Tsunami but it makes her like him so much more.
Tsunami could only begin to cry in happiness at his kind words and the return of his feelings. "Really? O, I'm the happiest person in the world Naruto-kun. I'm going to move with you to the village if that is okay with you. I just need to pack my things and get Inari to pack his."
"Alright, I'm gonna send a message to the Hokage and tell him, I'm gonna need a bigger house for my family after all."
Tsunami gathers some more courage and kisses him with all the love and passion she had and moaned a bit at his return of the kiss. She then recovers from her daze and runs into the house with a few tears on her face but she is glowing with happiness.
"Mom," Inari calls out in surprise, as they and the team have just returned from seeing the statue. "Whats the crying about?"
Tsunami slowed down and than pounced on him, "O, Inari. Were moving to Konoha to live with Naruto-kun." She says shocking everyone in the room but they all settle down and then smile.
Inari is the most shocked in the room, "Wait, we're going to live with Naruto-nii? Really?" He yells excitedly as he loved to spend time with him.
Tsunami smiled happily which then turned mischievous and said "yes, but your going to be calling him tou-san form now on."
Inari simply stared at his mom with shock clearly written on his face. Naruto just remains smiling at the boy calmly with a warm expression on his face, not at all bothered at the comment Tsunami made about being Inari's dad.
"DADDY!" Inari yelled out happily as he latched himself to his new dad's waist. The whole room began to smile and break out in a happy laughter. Tsunami smiled to herself in the moment. 'I definitely made the right choice.'
"Alright Inari-kun, go and pack your things while I write a message to the Hokage." Naruto says while still smiling at the boy.
"Hai tou-san." Inari says happily while being a little surprised at how easy it was to call him dad.
Anko comes over and says, "well, I'm happy for you Naru-kun but we have to finish our other mission first before we meet them at the village, so tell the Hokage and then we can leave to quickly complete the mission."
"O yea. I kinda forgot about that, I'll hurry with this and then we can say our goodbyes and go."
Naruto quickly wrote his message and Anko summoned a snake to take it to the village. The team then said their goodbyes and Naruto made some reinforced clones to escort Tsunami and Inari to Konoha. Tazuna decided to stay in Wave as he was going to become the leader of their village soon.
The Hokage was sitting behind his desk as usual and was working away on his paperwork. Something which he could honestly say that he hated, and he didn't hate that much which was saying something of how much of a bother it was.
"Man, doing all this work is killing this old man, what I would give for a distraction right about now..." Hiruzen complained but was surprised when a snake poofed onto his desk. At first he was wary around it because his student Orochimaru abandoned the village but he remembered that Anko could also summon snakes and he relaxed.
"Hokage-sama, this is a letter from Nartuo Uzumaki out in Wave Country." The snake said to the man who was currently thanking Kami and Naruto for his distraction.
"Ah, thank you. I'll take a look at in now." As he read the letter he began to chuckle pervertedly and then began to laugh. "Naruto my boy, you sure are good with the ladies." He mumbled to himself as he began to look for a certain scroll.
"Ah, here it is. I'm sure this place will be more than enough for his entire family to move into." He said to himself while looking at a scroll with the name Namikaze on it.
The Team has been on the move for a good hour after saying their short good byes to Tsunami, Inari, and Tazuna and they had make quick progress thankfully because there were no problems on the way like in their first mission. "Alright team, we're almost to the last know location of where these nuke-nin were last seen." Anko says to them as they all stop.
"Well lets start searching for clues, I'll make some kage bunshins to search other areas." Naruto informs her. It was only a few minutes when the clones came upon an abandoned camp of what appeared to be the bandits. "sensei, I found some deserted bandit camp to the east of our location, I would guess that is was theirs."
"Let's go check it out then." She said to them and once there they see some charred wood in a fire pit and a good number of tents in the area.
"It looks like there are quite a few nuke-nin in this group." Kiba said as usually not many nuke-nin stick around one another.
"I agree." Sai adds in to the conversation.
"Wait, there is some type of box over here." Naruto says looking into the nicest tent by far, making him and the others believe it was the leader's tent.
"What do those papers say, Naruto-kun?" Anko asks him as they see him open the box and search through papers.
"These are notes and plans on invading the Takigakure Village." Naruto said in alarm while Anko and the others eyes go wide at that.
"What!? That is probably the most hidden village their is. I don't think anyone can break into that village." Anko said to him.
"They seem to know when the guards shift duties and where to get in. I would think that this is someone who was once a ninja of the village helping the others to get in."
"Shit. We need to inform Hokage-sama." Anko said and summoning another snake, while Naruto quickly follows up by writing the note and Anko having the same snake take it to the Hokage.
The Hokage had just notified the gate guards of the pending arrival of Tsunami and her son to the village while taking a nice and long stroll back to his desk. At the same time he was sitting down, the same snake from before poofed into existence for the second time that day.
"Hokage-sama, sorry for another interruption but I have another note, this time concerning the mission." The snake said seriously while being polite.
"Alright, I'll read it right away." The Sandaime said as he does just that with the snake staying with him on stand by. After he reads the letter he looks to the snake and begins to talk, "this is bad, the leader actually requested an escort back to his village recently and I can send another team to meet up with theirs for additional support. You can inform them of my decision and tell them that Team Ten will be leading Shibuki, the leader, there."
The snake quickly returned and told them the news which make Naruto excited to see some of his friends again and to show them how much better he got.
"Well, I'm going to practice some more of my fuinjutsu while we wait." Says Naruto while thinking excitedly. 'I think I'm getting close to releasing Kyoshi-chan from the seal.' "You guys should do something productive too."
Team Ten was lounging around in the mission office waiting for the Hokage to give them the mission request that he had called them all here for. Ino and Choji were pretty excited while Shikamaru was just lazing around while hoping for an easy mission as they haven't gone on one in a while. "This is the mission I was planning on giving to you Team Ten, but know that it is a C-ranked mission. Do you think that they can handle it Asuma?" The Hokage asked his son calmly.
Asuma saw the faces of each of his genin and saw that they were all pretty eager for the mission, well, all except the lazy genius. He had thought that his team had some of the best team work of all the genins, not knowing that Team Anko had the best teamwork.
"I think that we can handle this mission Hokage-sama."
The Hokage handed him a scroll with a kanji and a 'C' on it, "The leader of the Village Hidden in the Waterfall came to the Hokage some weeks ago with an alliance request, and since the highest level ninja that Taki has had since Kakuzu is a borderline A-ranked, he wants additional manpower for anything that could happen on his way back."
The four nodded, thinking it interesting that they would visit another hidden village, "you'll be meeting up with Team Naruto who are nearby the village. They have been given a mission near the area, you'll meet them there.
Asuma nods at this and turns to his team, "alright team, we're meeting the client and then I want you to go and prepare, it shouldn't be longer that two weeks, if that much."
"I'll call in the client quickly before you go to pack." The old Hokage said, "bring him in." He calls out to his secretary.
A man in his late teens walked in, relief evident in his face. He had black eyes and hair, the latter being as long as to reach his upper back. He was wearing a green shirt, gray pants and the traditional ninja sandals. "Thank Kami I finally got called in here, I was sure I would die of boredom in there," he said once he saw the group that would lead him to his home. He looked at the children, "There was nothing to do in there." His terrified face made the teens snicker.
"We have heard stories, Shibuki-sama" said Asuma to the young leader and then looked to his students, "go pack, I'll be waiting for you at the west gate with Shibuki-sama, meet there in a half an hour." The three kids nodded and went their separate ways.
It had been about 35 minutes since the team had left the mission room and the entire team was at the meeting point except for one of them. As per usual Shikamaru was the last to arrive to the meeting point which made Ino angry. "Dammit Shikamaru why are you always late to everything." She screamed at him.
"Troublesome." Was her only answer making her fume even more which caused the guys to chuckle.
"Alright!" said Shibuki cheerfully, "can we leave now? I really want to get back to my home village now." The five then started to walk out the village gate, with their client.
Only about a day later the entire group was starting to get fed up with the constant flinching Shibuki had been doing. Every little noise he heard he would jump and cower in fear searching for some enemy.
"WOULD YOU STOP DOING THAT!" Ino shouts and then takes a few deep breaths, "I wouldn't mind if we were actually in danger but if you keep trying to use me as a shield I'm going to make sure you arrive to Taki in a lot worse condition that your in now."
The dark-haired man cowered from the twitching teen behind Asuma, who along with the others even Shikamaru had a large sweat drops on the back of their heads. "You shouldn't threaten our client Ino" said Asuma with not much force in his words, "at least wait for the mission to finish if you are going to threaten a foreigner."
Shibuki shrunk even more at the malicious grin on on the girls face.
"Well you have to admit he shouldn't be cowering in fear from every little thing, he's the leader of Taki after all." Ino replies heatedly making Shibuki a little depressed.
"I agree but that's besides the point, you can't threaten a client while on a mission with said client. No matter what they do." Asuma replies with his usual laid back tone. Ino just huffs and continues on walking having decided to just ignore him for the rest of the time and hopefully meet up with Team Naruto.
Team Naruto had been waiting for a day and most of the nest one while hoping for the team to arrive so they can continue their mission. They had all been training and Naruto was very close to finishing his seal that would release Kyuubi without affecting him or her at all and hopefully not killing him in the process.
'Why do I have a feeling that this mission is going to be harder than I thought?' Naruto thought to himself while going over what he saw at the camp ground. 'I guess we'll just have to see.'
Just when they were getting tired of waiting, the team then spotted a group of five in the distance making them smile. It looked like Team Ten had finally arrived.
As Team Ten approached Team Naruto's location a hawk with the leaf insignia on its back came down to Anko, Team Naruto also made it self known to the group.
"Hey Shika, Choji, Ino. How are you guys doing?" Naruto called out of now where scaring the group but mostly Shibuki, while Asuma and Anko went and read the letter.
"AAhhhh!" Shibuki screamed and ducked behind Ino again only for her to fume.
"Troublesome. We're doing good here Naruto although our client is kind of annoying. Almost as bad as Ino is." Shikamaru says to him only to receive a punch to the head.
"I'm not annoying baka." Ino yells at him, again receiving a 'troublesome' from the lazy genius, making the rest of them laugh at them.
"Its been a while Naruto, Kiba, how's your team doing?" Choji asks them kindly as he had missed hanging out with them.
"Our team is great, Naruto-taicho is the perfect leader and all of us get together perfectly." Kiba says to them happily.
"I have to admit that our team is probably the best of all the genin in the village right now." Sai adds in making Team Ten look at him suspiciously while Ino just fumed a bit.
"Hey, we're the best team in the village not you guys." Ino yells at them making her two teammates sigh.
"Troublesome, we can't say whose better for sure until we see the others in action Ino." Shika tells the girl.
"Hey gakis," Anko yells getting their attention. "The Hokage has called the jonin of the village to a meeting regarding a coming event" her eyes narrowed a fraction, "we're leaving the rest of the mission to you, I want you to head back after Shibuki-sama is safe within Taki, UNDERSTOOD?"
"Hai" the genin saluted.
"I would recommend that Naruto be in charge but I'll leave that for you to decide." She adds in and then heads out. 'I hope everything goes over well, not that I don't think that Naruto could handle the situation with a few missing nins.'
"Well, I would personally recommend you Shikamaru but maybe both of you could share leadership on this one. Good luck guys." Asuma adds before leaving after Anko.
"So, you up for sharing the lead role Shikamaru?" Naruto questioned him, not knowing how difficult the mission could turn out to be.
"Nah, you go ahead Naruto, it would be too trou-"
"Troublesome... We get it!" Ino shouts at him, "let's just get this mission done right."
"We got this no problem, Naruto-taicho will lead us to victory." Kiba said while Akamaru yips in agreement. Sai nods also making Team Ten wonder why they have so much faith in Naruto. Either way it gives them more hope for this mission and they actually feel like nothing would go wrong.
"Alright guys." Naruto said as he looked at them seriously, which surprised Team Ten. He looked at them and said, "so I'm leading this mission until we get Shibuki-sama to Takigakure safely." his teammates nodded seriously.
Shibuki looked at Naruto with some jealousy as he is not able to be confident or get his ninjas attention as good as he does. When he saw that the others began to move while he lagged behind a bit, he quickly began to move. "We'll be there soon." he said, "probably another hour, hour and a half at most."
"Alright, we'll follow you Shibuki-sama," said Naruto and they set off once again.
Coming to the edge of lake, the now combined team saw that two young children near by it cleaning the water. As soon as two young kids saw the group they ran towards the Taki leader. "Shibuki-sama," they shouted as they ran to tackle the older man.
"Hey kids, how are you?" he smiled at them kindly.
"We're good, our mother told us to clean the lake out here." the bigger of the children, a black-haired boy, looked at the Konoha-nin, "Are they here to help us Shibuki-sama?" he asked pointing at the kids standing behind the Taki leader.
Shibuki just look at Naruto as he scratched the back of his head, "well, why not? Anko-sensei did say we we're at your call until you were inside and safe." He shrugged, "but anything other than combat will get us an extra D-rank pay."
The Taki leader just nodded to the team while the kids grinned.
"Well guys, let's just do this quickly" Naruto said to them getting grumbles from them. "Hey, we do this together and it won't take us long. Plus we get paid for it so stop whining and do it." He said a bit forcefully which got them working.
'Ooo, I like a man that can take charge...' Kyoshi purred to him making him blush a bit. 'How much closer until I'm out of this seal?'
'I'm pretty close to freeing you without killing me of course. Probably when we get back to Konoha.' Naruto said making her grin happily.
'I can't wait to get out of here and finally be able to be with you Naruto-koi.' Kyoshi says to him making him smile. 'Plus we could finally have some fun'
Naruto just blushes heavily from his new thoughts in his head but composes himself. 'O, I'm sure you would love the kind of fun we could get into Kyoshi-hime.'
'No fair Naru-kun...' Kyoshi whines while blushing like a tomato while Naruto just smirks.
Meanwhile, a group of unknown ninja is on the move near by with unknown objectives, that same team that the Hokage had been hearing of. This is all without the teams knowing... for the most part anyway.
After the team finished cleaning up the pond and the area, Shibuki spoke to the genin. "Guys, I'm taking you inside the village now." Everyone nodded "kids take the main entrance, I'm leading them to the visitor's one."
"Okay, bye Shibuki-sama." The kids replied and left their 'fearless' leader with the nice Konoha shinobi.
Shibuki then motioned for the Konoha-nin to follow him into the lake, "Taki has a few different entry ways." he explained, "One that everyone that lives inside the village knows, and one that changes every month and is only used by our visitors." They were standing in the middle of the water now. "Now you'll have to take a deep breath and follow me."
What Shibuki didn't see was the subtle conversation going on with Naruto and Kiba. "Did you pick up any scents from the nearby ninja?" He asked his good friend getting a nod from him.
"Yea taicho, Akamaru picked up their scents and warned me of them, what should we do?" He said quietly so Shibuki wouldn't hear but the rest of the team did and began listening.
"We'll just have to be perfectly alert from now on and let's not mention anything to our Oh so fearless friend Shibuki." Naruto said with a light chuckle at his joke while the rest of his team laughed with him, while Team Ten shared a nervous glance.
"Troublesome..." Shikamaru said, "how can he be so composed when we have a possible threat to our mission?" He wonders quietly with his team, while the others nod with him.
"I know." Ino said to the lazy genius even though she was feeling more safe with Naruto nearby and leading the team, not that she would admit it. Unknown to her both of her teammates were thinking something similar.
'Who knew Naruto would seem this cool.' Ino thought to herself with a smile.
'Seems like he knows what he's doing, I guess we'll just see later then.' Choji thought about his old school friend.
'At least I'm not the leader, too much work involved.' Shikamaru thought but was inwardly feeling safer too.
"Troubl-" He began but the death glare he received stopped him from finishing his thought. 'Troublesome.'
Half an hour before the cleaning was finished, the group of ninja from before were all on top of the cliff side in one of the many trees surrounding four other ninja.
"Suien, are you sure this is the best plan to go with," one of the standing ninjas asked. He is a muscular, tough-looking shinobi. He wears a black, sleeveless shirt, grey pants, ninja sandals, and arm warmers which look similar to Zabuza's. He has chin length grey hair which is spiked at the top with his Amegakure headband holding it away from his eyes. He also has a teal line marking that goes over his nose.
"Trust me Murasame, don't forget that I was a jounin of this village for a long time." Suien says to the now named Murasame. Suien has long spiky hair, dark eyes, and a goatee. He wore a dark blue jacket, grey pants, sandals, and a bandanna that held his hair out of his face.
"Whatever, lets just do this already." Spoke a slightly crazed voice while the leader Suien looked over to see a man wearing a bandanna for the rain village Amegakure. He was wearing a pair of overalls with a light gray shirt tucked into them with black ninja sandals.
"Remember Kirisame, I want all killing to remain at a minimum." He said sternly.
"Hmph, yes sir." He says back not sounding too happy or compliant.
"So you still hold some love for this place then." Murasame said to the man.
"That's not it at all you fool." Suien begins, "the only one who knows where the hero water is is Shibuki, the village's so called leader."
"Right, and in order to make him talk we need to take some of the villagers hostage. Alive." Spoke the only female of the team. She is a young, quite tall, and slim kunoichi. She has short light brown hair, blue earrings, red lipstick and a white hairband over her head, holding the hair out of the way from her eyes. She wore a pink tube top with a open, light green shirt, navy blue pants and ninja sandals. She wore her shuriken holster on her right leg.
"Hmph, well they always said that you were the most clever ninja in the hidden rain village, Hisame."
"Well, that was a long time ago, now I'm a missing nin, just like you." She spoke to him calmly.
"Whatever, are we just going to sit around all day. Can't we just begin now." Spoke the same slightly crazed voice of Kirisame.
"Yes, lets begin taking the hostages now." Suien spoke to them and they all moved out.
Back with the Taki leader and the team, Shibuki jumped high into the air and dived into the water, the others looked to Naruto as for his directions to which he shrugged and nodded, "lets go team."
He then followed as they were led through a fairly complex maze of underwater roots and rocks, the only light being the one that came occasionally from gaps in-between roots. They swam for a good three minutes, and if it wasn't for Shibuki, Naruto was sure they would have gotten lost.
They surfaced in a pond in what seemed to be a murky cave and Shibuki was smiling cheerfully at them, "Welcome," he said, "To Takigakure no Sato."
Naruto took the time to scout out the area to see what he could see from his position inside the small pond. He noted that there weren't many places for ninja to hide or pass by the team without them seeing them so he calmed himself down but kept his senses on alert.
Shibuki took them forward towards a plaza entrance to the village, they were going to explore the outskirts of the village and move inwards later.
Trees were growing all around town, giving it a kind of wild image, while still remaining firmly civilized. The buildings were made of some type of wood that Naruto had guessed came directly from the village. The Konoha ninja looked up and squinted, the sun came from the canopy and gave the impression of being inside a box. A large tree was easily distinguished as the largest of the village and was in what Naruto assumed was the center of the village.
Shibuki noticed where his gaze was resting upon, "That's the biggest tree in our village and possibly the world. Years ago at the begging, our first ninja decided to build our ninja in this location because it was hidden and safe." he smiled sadly, "It's also where Tou-san used to work in their." his smile turned into a nervous grin "let's get going, I want to show you as much as I can before you have to go."
He then begins to look around and gets increasingly nervous as he isn't seeing anyone nearby and is getting suspicious so he decided to get into the water and get away while leaving the others to figure out the problem for him.
He never knew how serious this problem could be though, and he could have never expected in in just a few hours that Takigakure would change forever...
Chapter End