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Chapter 13

Hiruzen was doing what he always did. His dreaded paperwork. He had gotten Kakashi little present and had sent the living foreign shinobi straight to integration after he was patched up. He groaned at the extra paperwork he had to do because of it. A sudden wind blew into his office, and he looked up to find the source. Only to find Kakashi standing there looking tensed, something he rarely saw in the man. He was about to ask why he wasn't with Naruto when the man spoke up.

"I would like to adopt Naruto." He said it simply, leaving no room for argument. Hiruzen looked at the man in front of him a little stunned. He hadn't expected this, but than again it involved Naruto so he shouldn't be to surprised. Hiruzen wanted to grant the wish of the sullen man in front him more than anything else. He knew that Kakashi would take good care of Naruto even if he was young. He already knew that they were good for each other. But some ugly truths stood in the way.

"I would allow it but you and I both know the civilian council will never allow it. Other shinobies had tried to adopt the girl but they have been stopped at every attempt. They want to keep her completely isolated." Hiruzen hated it, but it was true.

"Make her a genin than. That way she would only be answerable to you and the civil council will not be able to interfere in the matter of a shinobi." Hiruzen looked at him in surprise. Making a five year old a genin in non war time was unheard of, in fact he had made sure that no one under the age of ten could be a genin. He had seen enough kids lose their lives as shinobies and face so many hardships. He was about to comment when Kakashi continued. "She has enough skill to outrank any of the current genin and even some of the lower chunin. Her chakara alone could match up to a jonin. She was also able to fend off two enemy shinobi, majorly injuring one, until I arrived on the scene." Hiruzen wondered why exactly he was surprised by that. He should have known she was somehow involved with the foreign shinobi, and that she was apparently able to fight against them. But he still had his misgivings.

"Are you sure Kakashi, I want her to attend the academy still? She is too young to face the harsh lives that shinobi live. You should know that better than anyone else." Kakashi stiffened at that but he was undaunted.

"Promote her and then assign her a C rank mission to watch over the kids undercover then. There are a number of clan kids in the academy this year. So know one could complain. This way she won't see any real battle until she is ready. I will have her complete some D level mission from time to time." Kakashi advised. He was determined to get his way."But know this, nothing will stop be from adopting Naruto. She has been driving herself to the point of exhaustion and is malnourished. She could have easily died today. She's not even out of danger inside the village. The villagers continue to hurt her. She cant live all on her own anymore. She needs a real home. I would never be able to look Minato-sensei in the eye again, if I didn't keep my promise to watch over her. I have kept my distance so far because of the council but now I refuse to."

Hiruzen stared at the young man in front of him. He had no doubt that he would allow nothing to stand in his way. Kakashi could be quite stubborn when he wanted to be. He nodded, "All right. I'll draw up the adoption papers and I'll promote her to genin. The fact that she knows the Shadow Clone jutsu should be enough to silence any protest. But for now we will continue to keep her training a secret. Its better for those hard headed fools to underestimate her as much as possible. I'll come visit you and Naru tomorrow with the papers. Oh and Kakashi there will be times I will have you resume your duties as an ANBU captain. Be sure to have someone who can watch and teach her during that time or who knows what she'll do."

Kakashi nodded satisfied but before he could leave he saw that the Hokage started to chuckle a little. He raised an eyebrow inquiringly. "You do realize that she's going to drive you crazy right?" Kakashi decided not to respond for even if he realized that, he wasn't quite ready to acknowledge it. He simply left to his apartment to look after the tiny blond. Hiruzen just laughed harder. He had a feeling that Kakashi would be at his wits end by the end of the week.

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Naruto woke up slowly. She had no idea where she was. She looked around her surroundings but nothing looked familiar.

"You baka, you were to weak to fight against those imbeciles and you stinkin collapsed. You've been asleep for a whole day. I told you to slow down, but do you listen to me no. Foolish Human." Karama scolded her.

"A whole day seriously. Sorry for worrying you. You big fox." Naru apologized embarrassed.

"Hmph" came his trademark response.

She looked at the door, when she heard it creak.

"So your finally up, sleepyhead." Kakashi stood in front of carrying some food. He placed it in front of her. Naru was happy at the sight of food. She was starving, but she couldn't help but grimace when she saw what he brought her. Porridge and steamed vegetables. Blah, Yuck! She hated vegetables, where was her ramen? She looked up at the one eyed scarecrow and made a pleading face. He understood what she wanted instantly.

"No, you need something other than ramen. Eat it. Vegetables are good for you." He told her sternly.

She than turned on puppy dog eye jutsu. She really, really hated vegetables. Kakashi did what he always did when she pulled this trick on him. 'You wont fall for this again Kakashi. You've face the deadliest of opponents, a look will not bring you down. You will stand strong. You will not fail. You will not give in to her.' It only took a minute for him to break down.

"Fine, I promise I'll take you later for ramen. But you have to eat everything in front of you now. Even the vegetables. Just stop it with the eyes." He cried. Naru grumbled and Kakashi decided to drop one of the bombs right than to distract her.

"Well, being a genin means that you're going to need more nutrients to do missions. If you really don't want to eat them, than I guess I can tell the Hokage that you don't want to be one." He said casually.

"Geni- wait what? I'm a genin?" She started to grinned really wide. In response Kakashi pulled out a leaf shinobi headband from one of his many pockets and laid it in her lap. "Yata ah" She yelled in excitement.

"Sadly you wont be able to wear it often for now." Kakashi informed her. She looked at him in confusion. "You are being assigned a long-term C rank mission to watch over the kids at the academy. That means you have to pretend to still be a student. Currently only the jonins, ANBU, and the Hokage will know that you are a genin." He didn't want her to bummed about this so he continued "you should be happy kid, its unheard of for a new genin's first mission to be a C rank one."

Naru nodded solemnly. While she hated the academy, this meant that she would still be able to watch over and train her friends. Plus now she didn't even have to attempt to do good at the academy." Kakashi seemed to read her mind, "Don't think you can slack off in school either, the hokage and I expect your grades to be good. It would be embarrassing to see a full fledged genin to have to have lower scores than a normal academy student"

'Well, at least I don't have to do any stupid D-rank missions. Like weeding someones grass or catching that stupid cat Tora.' But yet again, Kakashi seemed to read her thoughts.

"I'll be taking on D-rank missions from time to time, so you don't fall behind the other genin as much." He quickly dashed her hopes. Naruto groaned.

"Where am I anyway?" Kakashi straddled a chair.

"You're at my apartment. I found you passed out in the training ground. Apparently you had overworked yourself." He accused. "What did I tell you about working to hard?"

"umm...I.." Naruto couldn't find a good way to get out of this line of questioning. She really had no excuse to give him, instead she just started to stuff her face with food. After a while his gaze softened as he watched her eat.

"Hey Naru." He said softly.

Naru paused mid-bite and looked up at him "Ya?"

"How would you like to live with me? I want to adopt you." Kakashi asked softly. Not knowing how Naru would react,

Naru was stunned. Did he really just say that he wanted to adopt her? Naru couldn't really grasp what she was feeling. The one thing that Naru had always wanted above all else was a family. She remembered watching the other kids running to their smiling parents. She watched them be congratulated when they did something good and she watched them being fussed over when they were hurt. Naru had never had a chance to experience how it felt to be in a real family. She had briefly met her father and mother, and even fought alongside them. It was a moment which she would never forget and hold dear forever. But that was all that it was a moment, they were only there for a little while, before they had to leave her again. Now Kakashi was offering her a chance to have a family. One that stuck. She couldn't stop the overwhelming joy she felt at that.

When they had first been formally introduced in her time-period, Kakashi had been distant with her. He spent most of his time training Sasuke and largely ignored her. But she couldn't deny that he had silently always watched out for her. It just hurt to be ignored once again. She had later learned that he had been highly pressured by the council to focus on Sasuke, but that didn't make it fully alright with her. It was after she had returned with Jiraiya that had begun to change. Not only did he teach her one of her ultimate moves, he began to be much more involved in her life. He began to mentor her, advise her, forced her to take breaks, and was just a constant reassuring presence in her life. Especially during and after the war. He was one of her much needed rocks that supported her and gave her the strength to move forward. She had formed an unbreakable bond with him over the years. Suddenly she realized that at some point in time in her time-line, though she knew so little about him, she had already started to see him as family. Now he was offering to make it official.

Naru could barely hold back her tears, so she turned away and just nodded yes. She knew that by agreeing, she had made things a lot harder for herself. No doubt living with him would make keeping her secretes a lot harder. Plus she wouldn't get a chance to train as much but honestly Naruto could care less about it at the moment. She was finally getting a chance to have a family.

Kakashi gently smiled at the back of the blonds head. He had seen her shocked face, and also the pure happiness and wonder that had light up her face. He couldn't help but feel saddened at all she had gone through in her young life. No one should have had to experience all that she had. 'I promise to look after her for you sensei.' He vowed silently.

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3 Days later

"Please, please, please can we train together? I'm dying of boredom. You haven't let me move a muscle for three days. I'm rotting on this bed." Naruto begged Kakashi.

"Sorry, nope. You need to rest." Kakashi said feeling amused by her desperation. Wouldn't kids usually want to avoid training, and yet he was stuck with the one kid who begged for work. Naru wrapped her entire body around Kakashi leg and begged some more.

"I'll promise to be good. I won't pull any pranks for the rest of the week. Please, I'll do anything. I'm all better now. Just let me train. Pleeaaaseeee." Naruto was feeling desperate. Not even her puppy dog eye jutsu worked. He hadn't budged on his stance.

Kakashi snickered silently. No pranks for a week, he didn't think it was physically possible for her to forget about her prank for two days let alone a whole week. She must be desperate. Kakashi looked her over, she did seem to have recovered. It was probably the fox's influence. Kakashi sighed, he could never win against the brat.

"Fine, but Naruto if you don't take it easy." Kakashi got really close to her face than and smiled "I'll tie you up to your bed for a week. Understand?"

Naruto nodded frantically. She backed away from him scared. She could tell he was completely serious. But he had agreed, so that was all that mattered.

"Yata ah." She grabbed his hand and started to drag him out the door." Kakashi let her drag him, amused by her enthusiasm.

Before they could even make it past the front door. A group of two ANBU, five jonins, and a hand full of chunins stood In front of them. Kakashi eyes widened as he looked at them. They were covered in paint. What was a complete give away of who was at fault was that the paint was orange. Kakashi looked down at the girl beside him. She looked sheepishly up at him.

"I kinda did this way before we made the no pranks deal. It isn't my fault that they were caught in my trap." She hastily tried to explain. She had rigged several doors and windows of any official shinobi building she could find. Her trap was simple but highly effective for she designed it in a way that was naked to the human eye. The group of ninja glared at her, one of the jonins stepped up.

"Sir, we need to know of how to remove this, we've tried but nothing seems to work. This paint is causing...complications." Kakashi simply raised an eyebrow at that.

"Well...ummm" The elite jonin was at a loss of how to explain the situation, "the paint seems to glow in the dark." That just caused Kakashi's eyebrow to raise even higher, while Naru couldn't completely hold her laugh in. He looked back at Naru and told her to give it up just with his eye. She sighed and looked back at the angry orange mob.

"You need to mix water, soup, and fish oil then scrub it off using chakara." The group nodded and dispersed, eager to get the paint off.

"Fish oil?" Kakashi asked. Naru rubbed the back of her head sheepishly but couldn't quite hid her smile at the fact of how many days it would take for the shinobi to get rid of the stink.

"Fish oil." Naru answered. Kakashi groaned, what had he done?

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As they approached the training ground, they noticed four others there standing next to Gai and Itachi. It was Asuma, Kurenai, Genma, and Hayate

"Yo Kakashi, my old man told me you adopted a kid." Asuma greeted.
"We couldn't bereave it so we had to see for ourselves." Genma chuckled.

"If the legendary aloof and solitary Kakashi adopted a kid, the kid must be pretty special." Kurenai added.

"Yes *cough* we wish to see how you of all people*cough* will handle taking care of a kid." Hayate said.

"Yes my eternal rival has adopted such a youthful little girl." Gai announced. Itachi lip turned a little upwards at their antics.

Kakashi sighed. Why was it that all those who could be considered his friends were nosy? He decided to just get this over with. He pulled Naru in front of him. "This is Naruto Uzamaki Hatake, she is now my adopted daughter. Naru these are my friends. They are all jonin, so you have to remember to listen to them." All of the jonin obviously recognized the girl in front of them. They knew that she was the jinchuriki. But none of them held any hostility towards the girl, they knew how powerful the seal was that the forth placed on the girl. They all knew that the girl was no demon, and the fact that Kakashi adopted her spoke volumes about her.

Asuma actually knew Naruto better than most, his father was her jiji after-all. He had frequently watched Naru when she was a small child. She didn't remember him because he had left the village to join the twelve guardians. He had just recently gotten back, and had only seen her from afar or when she was visiting his father. His father was highly protective of her and by default so was he. He was naturally happy that a man he highly trusted and respected had adopted her.

"Hey, I'm Naru. Its nice to meet you all." Naru greeted. At first she was a little started at the Hatake that was added to her name and the fact that Kakashi called her daughter. But she quickly got over her shock. She looked at the four shinobi in front of her and noticed that none were giving her cold looks. In fact their expressions were mostly of amusement. She knew Kurenai and Asuma well alittle. She did spend some time with them in her time-line of course. She was actually pretty exited to see Asuma alive and it was weird seeing Kurenai without her baby. She also knew Genma a little. He was her chunnin proctor for the third exam and she had done one or two missions with him. The last one she knew very little about. Hayate was the proctor from the chunin pre elimination tournament. She had heard that he was killed by Baki. She also knew that he was a master swordsmen.

Kurenai walked up to her. "Hi Naru, I'm Kurenai. This is Asuma, Genma, and Hayate." She introduced while pointing to each of them.

"Hi Aunty Kurenai, Uncle Asuma, Uncle Genma and Uncle Hayate." Naru greeted them all once more with a completely sweet and innocent face but inside she was snickering at their faces. All four of them looked at her flabbergasted.

Kurenai grabbed her and hugged her hard. "Kawai, your so cute. But call me nee-san, Aunty makes me sound so old."

Naru hesitantly hugged her back. She was not used to human contact other than fighting. "Okay Kure-nee" She looked at the other three, "Do you guys also feel old. I'm sorry. Should I call you, Asu-ni, Gen-ni, Haya-ni." All the three could do was nod their heads dumbly, already unable to say no to the adorable kid. They were drowning in too much cuteness. Naru beamed at them, she than turned to Gai and Itachi. "Should I call you guys Gai-ni and Ita-ni too." Now it was Gai's and Itachi's turn to nod. Gai was feeling extremely touched and agreed to the term whole heartily, while Itachi just looked bemused. He was used to being call Ita-ni by his younger brother and he had somehow gained a soft spot for the little girl in front of him.

Kakashi looked on with amusement and exasperation. He could see the affect that Naru was having on them, Pretty soon they would be agreeing with whatever she said. He felt amused that his supposedly elite jonin friends could be manipulated by a tiny five year old girl, though he wasn't one to talk. He already knew that she had him wrapped around her little finger. Seeing his friends faces, he knew he would have warn them about THAT jutsu. But felt that it was already to late. They were all already goners. He could just see it now, she would become such a spoiled brat.

Part of him couldn't help but feel happy at that. She deserved all the spoiling she would receive, she had received none in the past. He had seen her reaction to the hug that Kurenai had given her. No kid should look so surprised and confused at receiving affection. He had seen her hesitance to accept the hug, like she feared that once she accepted the affection it would be ripped away from her. Kakashi resolved to make sure that she would never feel like that again.

He looked at Naru with a tender expression and when he looked up he saw his friends all staring at him grinning. He glared at them to comment, and they just turned away chuckling. Suddenly he saw the face that Naru was making and groaned. He could already see the wheels turning in her brain. 'I'll be good' and 'No pranks for a week' ha what a joke, his suspicions were confirmed with her next words.

"Hey, hey. Your all jonin righ? That means you all know some pretty awesome jutsus right? Please, please, please teach me. I'll be the bestest student ever. Promise." They all looked at her. Part of them wanted to deny her request. She was too young after all. But seeing her pleading face, they couldn't find it in themselves to say no to the adorable kid in front of them. "I want to be as cool as you guys someday." She flattered them and decided to give it one tiny push. "I understand if you don't want to teach me. You all probably have better things to do than hang out with me right. It's ok. I'll try to learn on my own." She turned on her Puppy dog eye Jutsu and tried to look as sad as possible for some extra effect.

"Of course not kid, we'll be happy to teach you." Genma gave in first. The others quickly nodded. There was no way they could say no to that face. Itachi had already fallen victim to that jutsu, so he knew exactly what she had just done. It was amusing for him to watch his sempias be manipulated by her.

'Hmm I wonder if I can use the image of her using that jutsu in a genjutsu with the sharingan. It would be a lot more effective for making enemy shinobi crack and spill all their secrets. Much better than torture.'

Kakashi, on the other hand, faced palmed at how quickly they had fallen for it. At this rate practically everyone in Konoha would do her bidding. He shuddered, it was to scary to even thing about. He really needed to find a way to ban that jutsu.

Suddenly Kakashi realized that one good thing that could come out of having more people train her would be a less empty wallet for him. When Itachi and Gai had become her senseis, she quickly juiced them for everything they had over her Ramen bill. Though they had thus learned on how to escape whenever she mentioned food and more specifically Ramen. In response his own financial burden had decreased. Now that he was going to be taking care of her full time, he needed all the help he could get. It would be best to let them find out on their own of the perils of treating Naru. Kakashi kackled with glee on the inside.

"Hey kid, I heard that your already a genin. You're only five right? That's pretty impressive." Asuma congratulating her. Naruto beamed up at him and nodded.

"Yes, you should be proud. *cough* Only one other in the history of this village was someone promoted to genin at that age." Hayate added.

"Really!" Naruto couldn't help but be proud of that fact. But it was nothing for the future Hokage. She purposefully pushed away the fact that she was from the future. 'Beat that Sasuke.' The other all nodded at her. She couldn't help but be curious though. "Who was the other one?" She asked.

All eyes turned to Kakashi at that moment.

"My eternal rival of course, he made genin at five. Just like you." Gai proclaimed, proud of the fact that his rival was so great. Kakashi just rubbed the back of his head in embarrassment.

Naruto turned to "Wow. I didn't realize you were so cool. Hey that must mean you knew some pretty cool jutsu at my age. Why haven't you taught them to me yet? All we have been doing is element manipulation, I want to learn more. Teach me, teach me, teach me. Please."

"Naru, didn't you promise to take it easy. You do remember what I told you what would happen if you didn't right? " Kakashi asked in a deceptively lazy voice.

"Yup I remember. I'll take it easy" She said hurriedly. He stared at her in a way that meant that he clearly did not believe her. "Really!"

Only two minutes had passed when Naruto started to fidget. The jonin were teasing Kakashi about him becoming a parent, when she finally couldn't take it anymore.

"Can we pleassssse train now?"

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It was later that day when Ibiki showed up at Kakashi's apartment. Naru opened the door, and grinned up at the giant of a man at the door.

"Hiya" She greeted. Ibiki was surprised at the grin that the girl was giving him. Those who saw him were usually scared out of their wits, and it wasn't just kids. He had sometimes been part of Kakashi ANBU squad and looked after the kid, but she didn't know that. So to see this girl grinning at him, not scared one bit by his height and scars, was something new. He couldn't help but smile back at her. 'Interesting kid.' He thought.

Kakashi appeared behind her. "Hey Naru, why don't you go to your room and read those scrolls now?"

"But they're boring, Come on cant you just give me some jutsu scrolls?" Naru begged.

"Come one kid, I'll teach you a jutsu after you've read and memorized those scrolls." When all she did was cross her arms, he added "Or do you want more scrolls to remember, if you wait here I can get you some more?"

At that she ran to her room, "The jutsu you teach me better be good."

Ibiki watched the scene in amusement, who would have thought that the most private shinobi of Konaha would be part of such a domestic scene. Kakashi led Ibiki to his sound-proof office.

"So what did you find out." Kakashi asked as the two sat down.

"The wuss sang like a bird," Ibiki smirked. When Ibiki had found out that the shinobi had attacked a kid, well lets just say it took him no time at all to get the information he wanted and than some. "He and his partner were here with the small group that had come with the cloud delegation for the treaty signing. They were present for the kidnapping, and saw your kid Naruto Uzamaki attack the leader. Once they noticed the crowd they scrammed, and have been hiding in the forest ever since. Apparently the Raikage had nothing to do with this attempt but something that the three took on to themselves because of greed. They would have been disgraced if they returned to their village, since they failed their self imposed mission. So they decided to wait out and see if they could get another chance at kidnapping the Hyuga heir. Not the smartest blocks in the woods, those two.

When they were traveling in the forest, they noticed Naruto leaning against a tree. At first they thought that she was any old brat, so they decided to use her as hostage encase someone from the village spotted them. Once they recognized her as the one who attacked their leader they decided to get their revenge..." Ibiki trailed off here noticing the murderous intent rolling off Kakashi. He continued with his story quickly "Heh, it seems that the kid was pretty resourceful. She elbowed her captor in the gut with chakara infused strength and than kicked him where a man should never be kicked."

Kakashi smirked with sadistic pleasure at that. 'Good job, Naru.'

"She than apparently threw a few dozen shurikens at the second shinobi. You arrived when the first shinobi got up and was about to attack her." Ibiki reported. Truthfully he was pretty impressed by the brat. She had been able to hold her own against two enemy shinobi until help arrived, that showed some real guts from a five year old. 'Maybe I can recruit her for my division in a few years. We need some fresh blood.' he glanced at Kakashi and noticed his protective nature 'Never-mind, he wouldn't hesitate to kill me if I tried, Anko is good enough.'

Kakashi nodded, now fully satisfied knowing exactly what had accord. He was also pretty proud of hearing what Naru had done. He had no doubt that if she had been at her full strength that she displayed during training, she would have held out a lot longer than she had. He now felt no misgivings about insisting that she be promoted the genin. She truly deserved it.

Kakashi turned to Ibiki, or the ANBU operative codenamed Bear. "The Hokage is sending me on an ANBU mission in a week. You are to be part of the team along with weasel and Tenzo."

Ibiki nodded as he left, "Yes, captain."

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TsubasaTenshi-sama: Thanks, I'm glad you liked it. For this story, I'm planning on thier relationship more a father/daughter one. I do have an idea of who I'm going to pair her up with but it won't show up for a while.

GiuliaZe: Go papa-kashi! lol. I hope you were satisfied with the reaction above. I tried to Naru character down as precisely as I could. Hopefully I captured it.

LookOutReader: Thanks for the advice. As you can see, if giving her a lot more teachers to make her more rounded. But when it comes to genjutsu and medic jutsu, she'll probably only learn the very basic, since I want her to still have some weakness. It would become overkill if she suddenly became great in everything, so I'm planning on making her keep her low chakara control. Yup poor Shino is always left out. Sad to say that while I'll try to make more scenes with him, hes just so hard to write about since we know so little about him, so their wont be to many. As for the adobation thing goes, honestly it just kinda happened. I originally didn't plan to include it, but to me it just made sense. To me it's just not normal for a five year old to be left alone. Since Kakashi is training her everyday, it makes sense that he would take some action towards that fact. AND YES I STILL NEED A BETA READER! THANKS FOR OFFERING! I'll PM you the next chapter as soon as I'm done with it. Again many thanks.

april7000222: If only! I would love more reviews. Im glad your liking my story.