A full year had passed for Naruto and Anko, and neither of them had gotten any closer to finding out who those two people with the Uzumaki clan name were. However, their little family had grown bigger over time with the introduction of The Legendary Sucker, Tsunade of the Sannin, and her apprentice and surrogate daughter, Shizune. While the first impressions weren't something to write home about, Anko had managed to strike an uneven deal with Tsunade to get her to come back, one that favored Anko, Kurenai, Naruto, and Konoha more than people would initially think.
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Anko, Naruto, and Kurenai walked through a rather small town several miles away from Konoha. It had been almost five months since Naruto had found the documents stating Tsunade's relation towards Naruto as his godmother, and the three of them had all been eager to find her for their own varied reasons. They had been allowed to secretly go and find her by Hiruzen, as a S-Rank secret mission. It was labeled S-Rank because he wanted it kept secret from the Elders, and this was the best way to do so. He just wished them the best of luck before they had left. Officially, the mission was to retrieve a kunoichi who was vital to the village, and Naruto was to go with them as cover, Tsunade's name was kept off the paper so that if the Elders did get wind of it, they wouldn't be able to comment on it, as the mission was marked, 'Hokage's eyes only', so if the Elders did comment on it, they could be tried with treason for 'learning village secrets' due to the fact that it was only supposed to be aware to Hokage and the two kunoichi involved. Anko was the mission leader, Kurenai her backup, and Naruto was their 'cover' for the mission, was listed as 'child cover provided'. The official cover of the mission was, to be blunt, a joke, one that Hiruzen came up with, Anko agreed with, though, Hiruzen came up with the cover since he is a 'dirty old man', and Anko agreed with it cause she thought it was funny as hell, the cover for the mission was that, Anko and Kurenai were a lesbian couple who were on vacation with their son. Both of them were in agreement that, it would be best if they didn't inform Kurenai of what the cover is, after all, Anko was concerned about finding Tsunade and concerned for Naruto, and Hiruzen was old, his memory could be…'forgetful'.
"Come on! One more!" Shouting could be heard at a bar a little ways away from the group. It was obvious that the woman that was shouting was enraged to no end, and it was proven to be true as a man was thrown out of the building through one of the walls.
The man who was thrown through the wall hit another wall, and fell to the ground lifelessly. After a good moment of lying there though, the man got up, shaking his head a bit before looking up and yelling into the building, "I told you that's enough! You're going to run us dry if you don't stop!" He shouted as he dragged himself back into the building, obviously done putting up with the woman.
Kurenai looked at Anko with curiosity. Anko returned the look and thought about the situation. Maybe the people of the bar would be able to point them in the right direction to where their target was, since the snake summons were only able to lead them so far before they eventually disappeared in a puff of smoke.
With a nod, the trio walked into the bar, making note of the sizeable hole that the man had created when thrown through the wall.
When they walked in, they were able to see a woman with a rather ugly scowl on her face looking at the men and women around her with hatred. She wasn't drunk, maybe buzzed at best, it seemed to them, but she was obviously irritated about not getting her drink. "All I asked for was another bottle of damned sake! Now you made me throw a guy through the wall!" She yelled to the people around her.
She had pale blonde hair, brown eyes, and a somewhat fair complexion. There was a purple gem on the center of her forehead that made her stand out even more among the crowd, and she wore a green haori over a grey kimono-like blouse.
A young raven-haired woman with a small pig in her arms approached the angered woman and attempted to calm her down, but was unsuccessful in the end. The pig in her arms moved around and squealed occasionally, as if it was a part of the conversation.
"Please, Tsunade-sama. We should just go before you throw another person through a wall!" The younger woman said, getting the full attention of the trio.
"Shizune, I already told you that I'm not going until I get another bottle of Sake!" The now dubbed Tsunade said to the young woman now identified as Shizune.
Anko looked at Kurenai and grinned, "Perhaps it's time to implement plan A, stage one." she asked, looking at her surrogate sister.
With a smile, Kurenai nodded and walked up to Tsunade, guiding Naruto along with her hands on his shoulders.
Anko went and sat down and waited for Kurenai to sit down with Naruto next to her. Once they were, Anko heard purring from next to her, and looked over at Kurenai and Naruto, only to see the former petting her son's whiskers again, she gave Kurenai a deadpan but also slightly amused expression, "You really can't get enough of that, can you?" she asked.
Kurenai smiled sheepishly and continued to pet her godson's whiskers. "Sorry." She said with a wide smile, unable to help herself.
A small distance away, Shizune picked up on Kurenai petting Naruto's whiskers, and kept an eye on them as she continued to try to get her master to leave the bar. It was certainly an interesting sight, but she had other things to worry about at the moment that were more important than seeing an adorable boy purr.
Sighing at Kurenai, and shaking her head at her response and reaction, Anko reached into her coat, and pulled a bottle out. On the bottle was a label that immediately caught Shizune and Tsunade's attention, as it declared it was, 'Uzumaki Whiskey, Mitarashi Style' with the second part of the name being underneath the name, meaning that it was a variant of the drink, obviously Anko's unique brand of the drink. Anko then reached over and pulled two shot glasses to her, very small shot glasses at that though, "If you want another drink, I could provide, but only if you hear us out, Tsunade Senju," Anko said, grinning like a shark, and watching Tsunade, who eyed the bottle.
Tsunade kept her eyes on the shot glasses and the bottle that the whiskey had come from. She knew about that red swirl, and slowly moved to the other table to sit next to Anko. "Alright, what do you want?" She asked rather seriously, her anger still present, but different in a sense.
Anko grinned, "Well, let's not BS one another here," she stated, smirking, You're the godmother of Kushina Uzumaki's son, and that white haired bastard, who I intend to torture…painfully, is the boy's godfather," here Anko paused, taking a deep breath for a moment to calm herself of the anger she felt for a certain white haired old man who happened to write her favorite book series, but also had a connection to her son, then continued, "Now, we want you to return to Konoha, to help raise the boy, it's up to you of course..." she finished, trailing off at the end.
Tsunade clenched her fist as she looked at the group. Even in her buzzed state, the memories of Minato and Kushina resurfaced, and how they wrote back and forth. She remembered how she was in a little port town near the Land of Waves when she had gotten their final letter. "I'm not going to listen to this crap just to have a little shot of that whiskey! For all of the memories you're bringing back, you'd better give me that whole damned bottle!" She remembered how she had actually considered going back to Konoha to become the godmother of their child. She remembered how news of the Kyubi attacking Konoha reached her ears. She remembered getting the letter saying that all members of the Uzumaki clan were dead and nearly unidentifiable.
Anko looked at Tsunade with a neutral look, she had thought this was going to be easy, but she was apparently wrong, now came the 'fun' part of the plan she had made with Kurenai, to get Tsunade to come back to the village, as Anko looked to Kurenai, letting her know she would be taking the lead, and Kurenai should just follow her lead.
Kurenai nodded back to Anko as she continued to pet Naruto, which now had the full attention of Shizune as Tsunade was talking to the snake mistress for the time being.
Anko looked over her glass as she drank her shot of Whiskey in one gulp, and then immediately shuddered from its strength, "Oh yeah, that's the stuff. That's the second time I had this stuff, first time I made the mistake of drinking a full bottle in one go, was out cold for a few days from it," she laughed for a bit,unable to hear Tsunade mutter something under her breath before putting down the glass and looking at Tsunade again, "Now, I have an offer for you, more of a bet really, if you're interested..." she looked at Tsunade meaningfully.
Tsunade couldn't believe this woman. She sought her out, found her, brought back terrible memories and physical proof, and now wanted to make a bet with her. She must have been out of her damn mind, or totally insane, but Tsunade knew that she wouldn't be able to say no to a bet. "What is it?" She asked sternly.
Anko grinned, "Ok, you play a game of poker, right here, right now, against my son here," she paused and pointed at Naruto, who had his eyes closed, enjoying Kurenai petting his whiskers and making him purr, and hiding his blue eyes from Tsunade, completely oblivious to what's going on around him, Anko looked back at Tsunade now, "Now, you win, the three of us will serve you, travel with you, protect you, help you, whatever...you...want!" Anko said, stressing out the last three words while staring at Tsunade as she said her piece.
"And if you win...?" Tsunade asked, but already having ideas about how the strange woman was going to respond.
Anko grinned, "IF we win," she emphasized the first word, trying to make it seem like she didn't really have confidence in her son's ability to win so as to help fool Tsunade, "You will return to Konoha, you will become a member of the Uzumaki Clan your grandmother was a part of, and through her, you are too, and you will help the clan to the best of your abilities," Anko paused in thought for a moment, "Oh, also, I forgot to add, if you win, we will also clear every single one of your gambling debts, in every country you have been to, since, as your servants, it would be our duty to help you clear them," she grinned at Tsunade as she spoke, she could see the cogs turning in Tsunade's head as she thought about what she had just heard.
Kurenai glared at her friend with wide eyes. Although she didn't say anything, it was obvious that Kurenai heavily doubted the plan with such high stakes. She knew that Naruto had luck like no other, but this bet seemed like a bit much.
Tsunade smirked and nodded as she cast a glance at the boy. In her current state, she wasn't able to fully recognize his face, and assured herself that it was going to be an easy win for her.
Unfortunately, it didn't turn out that way.
Naruto had beaten Tsunade hands down, as he had the best hand one could possibly get, and she had the worst. A royal flush for him, and a pair of twos for her.
Naruto smiled at Tsunade with his trademark foxy grin, and began to put all of the cards back together before handing them back to his mother. He knew that Tsunade was the godmother his parents had picked out, but he had also been told to not say anything until spoken to by Anko. He couldn't wait to see the look on her face when she would out that she was his godmother, he was literally hiding the urge to grin, laugh, and smirk.
Tsunade sighed and cursed her luck. She knew she had horrible luck, but she normally didn't lose anywhere near this badly. She hated the universe for making her go back to where so many terrible memories lay, and cursed kami himself for making her go through more pain. "I'm telling you, though. Everyone in the Uzumaki clan in Konoha is dead. There's no godson to watch over, and no point to me coming back."
Anko shot a look at Tsunade, and couldn't help grinning, "You know, I saw the recognition in your eyes, when I pulled out the whiskey, you have to wonder, if they are all dead, how did I get my hands on genuine stuff? After all, probably not a good idea to openly claim I have access to Uzumaki Whiskey unless it is in fact genuine," she smiled, "Also, take a better look at my son here, I am sure you will be surprised," she was holding back her laughter.
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Looking at Naruto closer, blinking a few times to try and remove the 'fog of alcohol', she began to take in all of his facial features, and even some of his tendencies from when they were playing. Tsunade looked at him with a blank expression for a moment before it shifted into something else. It wasn't joy or sadness, but rage. Pure, unfiltered, unadulterated, all-encompassing rage, and it had a target. In an instant, she smashed the table into particles and yelled at the top of her lungs.
"THOSE FUCKING MOTHER FUCKERS! I'M GONNA FUCKING KILL THEM!" She yelled to the heavens above, filled with absolute rage as she stomped outside and began to trash everything in her path. She saw only red, thinking back on the note that was, in hindsight, obviously from the council now that she thought about it, and not from the Hokage, and she knew it could have only been them, as Minato and Hiruzen never would have lied to her out of all people, that more people that were close to her were dead.
Shizune simply watched with wide eyes as her master rampaged through the streets, walking in the direction of Konoha. "We should probably go after her…you know, before she starts killing people..." She suggested to the group, taking off to go and calm Tsunade down before they got in even more trouble.
Anko couldn't stop laughing at how badly the elders and civilian council had fucked up this time. Kurenai on the other hand, was sheltering Naruto with her arms, protecting him from the splinters of the table. As Shizune broke off to go after Tsunade though, Anko calmed down and summoned dozens of snakes, ordering them to hold Tsunade down, before sending them off and summoning several more as back up and sending them off too. As she watched the snakes slither off, Anko reached into her coat, and pulled out a needle with a cap on it.
Kurenai looked at Anko curiously with an arched eyebrow as she looked at the needle, which was a syringe filled with what appeared to be a white, and somewhat semi solid mixture. "What's that? A poison or something?" She asked, the curiosity obvious in her voice.
Anko looked at Kurenai with a hurt expression on her face, "Course not!" she paused, "Well...not exactly anyway..." she said, trailing off at the end.
"Not exactly?" Kurenai asked with a glare, now slightly aggravated at the vagueness of the answers. "What does that mean?"
Anko smiled sheepishly while scratching her head, "Um, let's just say it's a mix of crushed up 'Happy Pills', and a slight tranquilizer like solution mixed into to keep it liquid base with a tiny stasis seal to keep it fresh..." she said, trying to look at anywhere but Kurenai.
"Oh Kami, Anko..." Kurenai sighed as she looked down at Naruto, hoping that he wouldn't turn out that way in the future.
Anko looked affronted, "Hey, I had good intentions when I made it!" she said, trying to defend herself.
Kurenai sighed once again, dearly tempted to face palm, had she not been holding her godson at that moment. "Just go get her." She told Anko before looking down at Naruto. "Come on, let's go see what your crazy mother is going to do…" She said to him, making the boy nod to go and catch up to her.
Anko grinned as she took off with eagerness to try out the concoction she had made up, she had dubbed it her 'Happy Juice', and had created it to deal with any situation where they needed to calm someone down but who had a high resistance to drugs or medicine or other calming techniques, most of which, took a while to kick in anyway, so this stuff, entered directly into the blood stream, should do the trick. Five minutes of running later, and following the massive trail of destruction, which included collapsed houses, pulverized walls, flattened trees, and more signs that an Oni had gone through then an angry woman with super strength, she caught up with Shizune and Tsunade, the former of which, was currently trying to calm down Tsunade, though obviously unsuccessfully, while the latter was attempting to get past her and run in what was obviously the most direct direction to Konoha. Running up behind Tsunade, Anko took a deep breath and shouted, "HEY, IS THAT JIRIYIA HOLDING A 'MARRY ME TSUNADE' SIGN?" knowing it would get the blonde medic to turn around, while also redirecting her temper for a moment, thus catching her off balance, after all, Tsunade's hatred of Jiriyia, was infamous, as was his attempts to get together with her.
"I'M NOT DEALING WITH HIS BULLSHIT RIGHT NOW! WHERE THE FUCK IS HE!?" Tsunade yelled, stopping and turning around to look for the old pervert, her anger temporarily shifting focus from Konoha to Jiriyia.
Anko grinned, and jabbed the syringe into Tsunade's stomach, hoping she hit a blood vessel as she only had the one chance and the one dose of 'Happy Juice' so this one had to work, so, stabbing it in and hoping for the best, Anko stepped back, to watch, from the math she had done when she made the concoction, albeit very little math though, it should start working in about a minute at most, especially with Tsunade's blood flowing through her veins like a rapid river with her rage storming.
~end song~
Tsunade felt the liquid being injected into her, and watched as Anko backed away. She had also taken notice of the syringe still inside of her, and pulled it out none too gently just before throwing it on the ground. She continued to rage around for a few more moments, but slowed down with each passing second, becoming sluggish, before finally hitting the ground with a loud and heavy thud. There was a soft smile on her lips as she lay down on the ground, the contents of the formula obviously working on her.
By the time she had fallen down, Naruto and Kurenai had arrived at the scene just in time to see Shizune and Anko standing on both sides of the older woman.
Without thinking, Naruto spoke up to the women around him. "So... we're kidnapping my godmother?" He asked them, taking everything he had just seen into account, and also obviously trying to lighten the rather heavy atmosphere, even if it wasn't for long.
Anko couldn't help it, she laughed, long and hard, at her sons words, it would seem she had taught him well, or he had picked up on her mannerisms, "I think I may be starting to help him open up and be funny, what you think Nee-chan?" she asked, looking at Kurenai.
Shizune, who thought that Naruto's remark was somewhat funny, decided to be the serious one in this situation. "So he's Minato and Kushina's son?" She asked them, getting a heavy glare from Naruto at the mention of Minato. "I remember Tsunade-sama being really happy about finding out that she was going to be the godmother, and we were even making our way back to Konoha to look after him, but then we got the letter saying that Kushina and Minato died, and she was destroyed the same way as when my uncle and her brother died. She never even wanted to think of Konoha again." She explained to them all as she slowly picked Tsunade up, putting one of the older woman's arms around her.
Anko got on the other side and helped Shizune out by helping to carry Tsunade on the other side. "I see." Anko replied. "And I'm going to assume here that someone told her that Naruto died as well?"
Shizune nodded. "Yes. The letter we got saying that Minato and Kushina had died, also stated that Naruto was among the many that died that day as well. Do you think you can find out who was the one to send the letter?"
Anko immediately pointed fingers at a certain war hawk. "I might have an idea or two..."
~~~flash back end~~~
Needless to say, Konoha had seen a dramatic rise in those who went into the hospital for injuries incurred by severe beatings in the last several months. Then again, it was also understandable, given who was the one doing the beat downs.
In addition, Hiruzen had personally confirmed that the Uzumaki clan now officially had the grounds to accuse Danzo Shimura of tampering with clan business, despite this, they had decided to wait until later to actually accuse him, as Naruto had found a jutsu named the 'Hawk Buster' inside his father's library that was apparently connected to a specific type of seal, not unlike how the Hiraishin was connected to seals.
Tsunade had also been shown the adoption array they had found, and had been going over it to make sure it was safe to use, ever since she got back, with her taking breaks to beat the shit out of those who deserved it around the village. According to the update she had given just yesterday, Anko, who had volunteered to be the first adoptee/test subject of the array, would be ready to be adopted in a week or so at most. She was overjoyed, as it would give her another way to connect with her son. Given what little she understood of the notes, the line in the effects stating, 'Those adopted become full blooded Uzumaki' had caught her attention, well, needless to say, it would make her true family for her son, and really, what better gift was there for her to give her son. It also helped to motivate Tsunade that she had been promised twelve bottles of Anko's brew of the Uzumaki Whiskey, if she got through the notes and made the seal array work quickly.
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"Hello to everyone of Konohagakure." The aged Hokage spoke through a microphone as he stood on a platform. Anko, Kurenai, Tsunade, Shizune, and Naruto stood behind him, out of sight. He looked out at all of the men, women, and children of his village. "I have come out today to announce something of dire importance. Something that is in relation to the history of the village, and its leaders."
In the large crowd, every capable Inuzuka clan member stood guard. They had been ordered by the Hokage to act as crowd control if things got too out of hand. Near the stage stood Tsume and her ninken, Kuromaru, taking on the charge of the mission given to her clan, given their wild natures and strong bodies, it shouldn't be too hard to do. Hana would have been nearby or beside her mother, had her genin team not decided to take a mission out of Konoha for the next week.
"In a few months, the widely celebrated annual festival in honor of the downfall of the Kyubi no Yoko will be held. What you do not know, is that it is also the birthday for the son of the Yondaime Hokage, Minato Namikaze, and Kushina Uzumaki the 'Red Hot-Blooded Habanero of Konoha', Naruto Uzumaki, the current Kyūbi Jinchuriki." He announced to everyone.
Immediately, there were outcries and screams of lies and how this was untrue, and that the Demon Brat should be killed and couldn't possibly be the son of the Hero who defeated it and sealed it in human form. Many people were already secretly plotting ways to beat the 'truth' out of Naruto, so they could prove their self-believed lies that he was nothing special true.
"Yes, my people. Naruto Uzumaki is the son of Minato and Kushina, and is the heir to both of their clans. He is also the godson of Tsunade Senju of the Densetsu no Sannin."
Naruto smirked at the outcries, and created several handsigns before disappearing in a flash of light. The boy then reappeared next to Tsume, who was holding an unmistakable kunai in her hand that was clearly shown to anyone who looked at the time. This of course scared the people around him with the exception of Tsume, and the boy disappeared again and reappeared next to Hiruzen this time.
"That's right everybody!" He said to the world. "My name is Naruto Uzumaki Namikaze. I don't want you to beg for forgiveness, and I certainly don't want you to kiss up to me either. I don't want you to vent out your hate on me anymore, but at the same time I don't want for you to idolize me and look at me for every answer. I've suffered from most of you, for all of my life, and I clearly do have the grounds to get back at you all, with a vengeance, but I'm not going to do it, because I'd be as bad as you are."
Suddenly, as he looked at the crowd, Naruto felt a small sense of danger in the back of his head. He had no idea what the possible danger could be, other than the obvious danger of being around thousands of people who openly hated him with a passion up until now. Little did he know, all of that hate would quickly change to another feeling in regards to many, but not all, of the people of Konoha. With the feeling still in the back of his head, Naruto grabbed a hold of Kurenai, Anko, Tsunade and Shizune's hands, before flashing out of the area, as the door behind them started to creak from the other side having pressure applied to it…
~end song~
~~~One week later~~~
For the last week, Naruto continued to have a sense of danger that refused to go away. He had no idea what he should be scared of, but all of a sudden, he had a chill go down his spine. A sense of dread washed over him as he walked through the village, hearing the sound of a stampede some distance away from him due to his enhanced hearing, and it was getting louder.
Naruto looked down the street, and was just able to see a rather large group of women running his way. Naruto's eyes widened as he began to run, but was suddenly picked up by Hana, who had jumped down from the rooftops, before running while carrying him.
"What's going on?" Naruto asked Hana, who ran with her dogs on the rooftops after having jumped back up onto the buildings roofs.
"Remember that incident from a year ago when all of the Inuzuka girls chased you?" Hana asked him, stopping briefly to set the boy on her shoulders.
"Yeah…?" He said back to her questioningly, remembering the day in question only so much. A sudden realization came to him though as he looked back at her. "Oh...RUN!"
At the Uzuamki compound, Tsunade, Shizune, Anko, Kurenai, Ibiki, and even Tsume were all sitting around in the main room, enjoying the temporary silence that filled the air.
Shizune had recently served everyone drinks, but Tsunade and Anko were the only two left that were still drinking. Kurenai finished her water rather quickly, Tsume didn't want anything at the moment, and Ibiki had said that he would get something later.
They had just been talking idly for the past several minutes, talking about how they had been adjusting to being an official clan now, how Naruto's training was going, and many other things.
"Oh, I've been meaning to ask you." Anko said to Tsunade, causing the older woman to look at the younger.
"Hmm? What was it you wanted to know?" Tsunade replied, taking another drink from her cup.
"Do you know anything about two people named Dympna and Jigan Uzumaki? We don't have anything on them other than their names, and we thought maybe you might know something." Anko explained.
Tsunade thought about the names before shaking her head. "Not really anything, sorry. I think I ran into them once... maybe twice at most before I left, but I've never really talked to them, or about them with Kushina." She tried to remember all she could about the two of them. "I think Kushina did said they were her aunt and uncle though, but I don't think they looked any older than she did."
Anko nodded. "Well, it's more than what we had a few minutes ago, so it's something." She said with a shrug. It was actually a fair bit of information, since they could use it to narrow the search about who they are and where they could be.
"Speaking of family." Tsume spoke up. "I think you guys have a problem."
This caused all of the heads in the room to turn to her with curiosity, wanting for her to continue.
"Naruto's the head of the clan, as well as the heir since he's too young to be put in charge. Anyways, I'm pretty surprised that nobody talked about it during the council meeting this week, and it's only a matter of time before Naruto's set up with Kunoichi to repopulate the clan."
Tsunade shook her head at Tsume and gave her a friendly smile. "We've got it covered, right Anko?" She looked to Anko with a smile, who returned the look with a grin.
"Yeah." Anko said, bringing the attention to her. "When we were first getting settled here in the compound, all of the rooms and doors were sealed off. With Naruto's help, we got into just about all of them, and there's no doubt more hidden rooms in this place. One of those rooms was a room dedicated to Uzushiogakure. All sorts of artifacts and things from the old village were in there, and one of those things was a special seal array." Anko looked at Tsunade to continue where she left off.
"This seal array is like no other. Each seal in the array is designed to change a certain aspect of the human body, since changing everything would be much too complicated for a single seal. Or, at least not one of a manageable size anyway, even for an Uzumaki. Basically, the array is drawn on a person and over the course of a few days, the person's body changes accordingly. The seal can be set with blood to give one person a specific relation to the person whose blood is used." She told Tsume, but was also aware that Ibiki didn't know everything about the array either. "This means, that if the person is made the relative of a Kekkei Genkai user, then there is a good chance they'll get it as well, depending on the relation that the person with the seal has with the one with the Kekkei Genkai. There's a little more to it than that, but that's it in a decently sized nutshell."
Anko could see the impressed looked on the others faces, "Remember Tsunade, I am to be your first test subject, and, if what you told me is right, that it should happen tonight then, correct?" she said, looking at the older woman.
Tsunade nodded back at Anko. "That's right." She looked back at Tsume to explain the situation further. "The reason we haven't done it sooner is because we were waiting for Naruto to get better at his seals. While he is improving nicely every day, he's going to need my help with it. I'm a little familiar with how it works, thanks to going over it once or twice with Kushina back in the day, Naruto should be able to understand it at my level or better, and we have a complete guide and diagram that we've been studying to make sure we get it right."
Tsume thought about all of the information she was just given for a moment before nodding. "So, if this works, and Anko biologically becomes Naruto's mother or something, then you would be able to use it on other people and also make them Uzumaki?"
Anko smiled as she nodded, "Yeah, so, if I am right, Naruto is probably going to want me to be his mother when I get adopted into the clan, if it works that is," here she looked at Tsunade.
Tsunade looked at Anko with slight confusion. "I thought that was what we were going for in the first place. Nobody told me anything, but I knew that you and he both wanted you to be set as the mother."
Tsume stood up and began to walk to the door. "It's been fun you guys, but I'll see you later when it's all done, I guess." She said just as she left.
Anko smiled as she got up, "Well," she said, trying to hide a grin, "I am going to go make sure that bikini I bought for the... Well it doesn't matter what I bought it for, you guys have fun chatting," as she left the room, leaving Kurenai and Ibiki confused about what she was talking about, and causing them to look at Tsunade for answers.
Seeing the two sets of eyes on her, Tsunade shook her head and cast a glance at Shizune, who had taken Anko's glass as well as her own to clean. "Don't ask me."
All of a sudden, Naruto came into the main room from behind, as Hana had dropped him off in the back instead of the front, just to make sure nobody was waiting there for him.
"Hello Shizune-nee!" He said happily as he passed by Shizune, he had started calling her his sister after a few weeks of living together at the Uzumaki compound, who smiled warmly back at him as she cleaned the glass cups. Everybody else turned to look at him as he made his way to the main room.
"Welcome home Naruto." Tsunade and Kurenai said to him at the same time, Ibiki simply nodding at his presence in the room.
Naruto looked around and noticed the absence of Anko. "Where's Kaa-san?" He asked them all.
All of a sudden there were sounds an explosion and a fight going on from upstairs, everyone looked at one another, before they noticed something, "Um, where did Naruto just go?" Kurenai, asked, the only evidence of him being there was a quickly dissolving dust trail heading for the stairs.
~~~Meanwhile, a few minutes earlier upstairs~~~
Anko made her way into her room at a slow and comfortable pace. When she reached her room, she made her way inside before closing the door behind her. She just had to make sure if it fit and looked good for when they would be using the seal array. It couldn't be too revealing, as Tsunade and Kurenai would probably have a cow if she wore something skimpy and provocative in front of Naruto, especially since he was her son, but it still had to have enough open room for Naruto and Tsunade to work with while they applied the seal, as it had to be applied directly to her skin.
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Anko stripped down to nothing before putting the bikini on. It had taken some time to find the right one, that was the perfect one, that would give them lots of space to work with, but not be like small patches of fabric over important parts that no boy Naruto's age should see. Before she could get out of it and back into her normal clothes, Anko felt a presence behind her, and a kunai pressed against her throat.
"You're not getting that seal." The person behind her said. Anko's eyes opened at hearing the voice, and wondered how it was at all possible that she could be right behind her.
Standing behind Anko was an exact copy of her, except, it wasn't her, it couldn't be, as it wasn't a shadow clone, but yet, it looked exactly like her, sounded exactly like her, and was flesh and blood, "I do not know why you're after the Uzumaki Adoption Array, nor do I know why you have taken the form of my sister, or what you are doing with him," the Anko copy said, "But, I will protect my home from some imposter, who would try so many dirty tricks on a young child to get the array," she said as she readied to plunge the kunai into Anko's throat, only to jump back as Anko released a smoke bomb that erupted with a loud bang.
Anko coughed and managed to get away from the woman who looked exactly like her, only with longer hair that flowed down to the middle of her back… Hopefully it was just someone in a henge, but she had a feeling that it wasn't.
"Kaa-san?" Anko could hear from outside the room. The voice was obviously Naruto, and Anko quickly opened up her door to let the smoke out, as well as get out into the hallway where there was more room to escape if needed.
Naruto was caught by surprize as the door to his mother's room opened and smoke started to billow out of the room, before quickly dissipating, needless to say, he was shocked when his mother came barreling out of the quickly clearing smoke, coughing and eyes closed, and dressed in only a bikini, and barreled right into him, sending them both to the floor, not to mention he caught site of his mother in her bikini she would be wearing later, which was purple in color to match the shade of her hair, he then looked over her shoulder, trying to look into the room to see what had happened when he paused, frozen, standing in the doorway, was a copy of his mother, except with longer hair, "Kaa-san, why are there two of you? You told me you still can't make more than three shadow clone before feeling exhausted, and even one wears you out a little." he said, looking between his mother, and the 'copy' of his mother.
The copy looked on the two in the hall way, Anko lying on top of the Uzumaki boy, and wondered why the boy had called the imposter his mother.
"Menm-" She asked just moments before she felt a sharp pain on the back of her head, courtesy of the last of the Senju.
Tsunade watched as the Anko lookalike fell to the ground. Knocking people unconscious seemed to be a popular thing for the people of this compound.
The oldest woman in the hallway looked at Anko and Naruto. She cast a glance at the unconscious woman on the floor, silently asking about what was going on.
Anko shrugged her shoulders and looked at the woman again, taking note that the only differences between her and the 'copy' were that one's hair was longer than the other and the fact that the 'copy' had no curse seal on her neck. "No idea, since it's obviously not a henge... But she did want the array for some reason."
Tsuande sighed as she pinched her nose and simply said, "Alright, let's just tie her up till she wakes up and we can question her with help from Ibiki," she said, though she was fighting a smile at the thought of what Ibiki would say about there being two Ankos now.
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~~~Half hour later~~~
Anko lay on her back in the center of the main room. She was on a mat that they had found in the room with all of the other artifacts, and it apparently went along with the array. On each side of her was a person, with Naruto to her left, and Tsunade on her right, and Shizune at her feet. They had spent quite some time preparing and making sure everything went perfectly, and now it was time for the real deal.
Both Naruto and Tsunade had ink and brushes, and their own copies of the guide that they needed for drawing out all of the seals needed for the array. This made it a million times easier for the two of them.
"Are you ready Naruto?" Tsunade asked the boy, who nodded in response and proceeded to dip his brush in the ink, Tsunade doing the same.
The two of them got to work on Anko, who tried her best to be as still as possible for them. It felt odd to be drawn on, but she couldn't say that it was a bad or uncomfortable feeling.
Naruto and Tsunade drew several seals and intricate designs all over Anko's body, just as the scrolls had specified. Every seal, every brush mark, every little thing had to be done a right way and at the right moment. Once each little seal was done, it would be activated, and then the person making the seals would work on the next one. When the seal is activated without the master seal being active, it would enter a standby mode, where the seal is only partially active and awaiting commands from the master seal.
One by one, Tsunade and Naruto drew the seals all over Anko's body. When the master seal was just about done, Naruto pulled out a kunai and drew blood from his hand, allowing it to fall onto the master seal which was on Anko's stomach. While Naruto's wound healed, Tsunade finished up the seal by making the proper adjustments to make the seal change her into his biological mother. When it was all done, and the seal was fully activated, Anko fell into a deep sleep, and the Array began to work its magic. The first thing to change, was her hair, while it still had its purple color, it also took on random strands of Uzumaki Red, and, rather than detract from her beauty, they appeared in places that would instead accent Anko's beauty instead, another quick change, was that she grew a few inches over a few minutes, according to the scroll, this was normal, so, as a result, the rest of the changes would come with time, however, it didn't exactly specify how long that would be though.
Naruto sat back on his butt, as he had his hands hold him up from behind him, "Well," he said, "I guess now all we can do is wait, right?"
Tsunade nodded, "Yep," she paused in thought, "I think we should wait to interrogate the look alike of your new mother, until after she wakes up, don't you agree Naruto?" she asked.
Naruto nodded his head, "Yeah, she will probably have questions to ask her...um, what do we call her, exactly? Twin, double, clone?"
Tsunade sighed tiredly, rubbing the bridge of her nose, "I have no idea..." she replied.
Omake: The Great Rivalry! Fanbase against Fanbase!
Deep within the woods and in a secret fort in Konoha, one known only to fan girls and stalkers alike, a fierce battle was going on between the heads of two of the newest fan clubs to emerge in the last year or two.
"Naruto's the best!"
"No, Sasuke's way better!"
These shouts and similar ones could be heard from everyone, each and every person in the fort having taken one side or the other in this battle.
Dozens of girls and young women had joined both sides, and whenever one side seems to gain the advantage in numbers, the other side soon caught up and surpassed it even if by only a member or two, needless to say, this was proving to be the most intense fan girl battle Konoha had seen since its formation few decades ago.
"Shut up forehead! It's obvious that Naruto is way better than Sasuke!" One Ino Yamanaka, daughter of Inoichi, the head of the Yamanaka clan. She had platinum blond hair that stopped just above the base of her neck and wore an orange shirt with black trimmings on it.
"Don't be stupid, Ino-pig! Sasuke is the coolest!" Sakura Haruno shouted, her green eyes staring at her former best friend forever and now enemy and rival with a fiery passion. She had bubble-gum pink hair and a dark blue shirt with a slightly higher collar than normal.
The two were always at ends, and always had a reason to argue against the other.
Ino would not loose in this fight, "Naruto is so adorable, he purrs when you scratch his whiskers!" she pointed out in a knowing tone of voice.
"That's stupid!" Sakura called out, a fire in her eyes as she thought about her beloved Sasuke. "Sasuke's gonna get the Sharingan, and will take all of the moves Naruto can do!"
Ino waved a hand in front of her face dismissively, "So what," she said, grinning now, "Naruto is the son of an S-Rank kunoichi, and an SS-Rank shinobi, not to mention related to three of the four Hokage," she said with a triumphant sounding tone of voice, believing she had the upper hand.
Sakura smirked and folded her arms in front of her. "Sasuke's whole family is filled with dangerous and powerful ninja, AND, his clan owns the police force!" She said with a smirk of victory, believing that she knew countless facts that would make Sasuke better than Naruto.
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One of the other Naruto fan girls in the crowd suddenly raised her hand shyly, drawing Ino's attention, "Yes?" Ino asked, looking at the girl and causing everyone to look at her, which caused her to blush from the young girl had straight, dark black hair and wore a long sleeved shirt with a collar going up to her nose. In addition to the collar, she also had on a pair of sunglasses on to keep her face from being identified.
"From what I read, Naruto's clan was so powerful, that their home village was wiped out in the last war because everyone was scared of how strong they were..." the girl said, trailing off at the end, and causing a silence to rein for a moment over the hall due to shock at this bit of information.
Even Sakura became quiet at that for a moment. Wiping out a village cause of one clan's power was quite the statement after all. Suddenly, Sakura smirked and laughed. "They must not have been all that strong if they were wiped out just like that! Something like that would never happen to Sasuke's clan!"
"Um...actually..." the same girl from before said, still blushing, "It was a short term alliance, a combined effort between, two major villages and a half dozen minor countries, and of those, the half dozen minor countries armies were wiped out completely and the two major countries armies were cut in half..." she said, still blushing from the attention and causing another bout of silence by her provided information.
Sakura was rather shocked to hear that. They must have actually been powerful to bring on that much force, and deal so much damage before falling to ruins. She was silent for several moments before huffing and stomping out of the fort, along with several other young girls and women that fawned over Sasuke instead of Naruto.
Ino turned to the shy girl and smiled at her. "Thanks! You really helped show her who has the better clan!"
The girl blushed again, "You're welcome. My name is Inago Ab..." she faded off, trying to hide her embarrassment, as she knew a lot of people were freaked out by her clan's abilities, but those opinions were not her own, so she did not care as much as a normal person would.
Ino smiled, "Well, how about I make you the second in command of the Naruto fan club of Konoha?" she asked, earning many looks from other fan girls of Naruto who had wished for that position, now considered to be 'Konoha's Whiskered Prince' with the revelation of who his parents are, and his distant uncles.
Inago nodded slightly, still not entirely comfortable with so many people looking at her. While she was like most to all of the people in her clan, she was a bit more emotional, and more open about her emotions. "T-thank you…" She said quietly as she accepted the offer. She was secretly pleased with being made second in command of the club about her not-so-secret crush.
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Back at the Uzumaki compound, Naruto felt a shiver of fear run down his spine suddenly as he looked over his mother who was still undergoing the changes from the array. Out of the corner of his eyes, he could see a small bug wandering around the compound.
Hello everybody! I hope you enjoyed this chapter, even if it is a bit smaller than usual. So… We've now got Tsunade, and the Uzumaki clan is once again officially taking residence in Konoha. Talking briefly on the jutsu Naruto did during the announcement, it is in fact NOT the Hiraishin, but something else.
With the seal, I think I've explained it pretty well in the story, but I'll run down it briefly here.
The Uzumaki Adoption Sealing Array is like a map of seals that is applied onto the person who wishes to be adopted. It is typical for the leader of the clan, or for whoever is in charge at the moment to apply the seals onto the person, but since Naruto is not old enough to be the clan head, and is not experienced enough, Tsunade helped with the array since the is vaguely familiar with Uzumaki seals.
Once the seals are made, they are activated. Because of how they are made, they enter a standby mode, like a soldier awaiting commands from the leader. They exist, and are ready, but cannot do anything until the master seal gives them the orders.
The master seal is the one where the blood is applied. It is also configured to make a person related to someone in a certain way, like the blood would be applied to the seal by Naruto, he'd continue the seal, but in such a way that it would make the master seal change Anko accordingly to make her his biological mother.
How that works is almost a reverse Punnett square. Since she's becoming Naruto's mother, she would not only gain all of the standard Uzumaki traits, but also the traits that Naruto got from Kushina. So, while Anko still be changed to become a full Uzumaki, she will also retain most of the traits that she had beforehand, and will just be more like Naruto and Kushina.
Anyways, I hope that you liked the music provided, and you can always use your own music for those moments if you want to! Please Rate and Review! Also be sure to tell us about how the songs worked!
Until next time!