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At long last

[4 Months after Jiraiya met Tsunade]

Tsunade's office

'The brat should be back home any time soon, if he is on time.' This was the chain of thought that had occupied Tsunade's mind when she was not battling her most stubborn enemy 'paper work' she groaned 'sooner the brat gets here the better, it would make the day more interesting if nothing else.'

"Thinking about me obaa-chan?" she turned around to see a fairly tall blonde haired, blue eyed man 'Minato' was her first thought 'whiskers? Minato did not have whiskers.'

"Hello brat, how did you know I was thinking about you?" she asked facing the blonde boy or man depending ones point of view, given she was more or less 35 years older than him she stuck with boy. He replied "I know that because" he let his sentence hand unfinished and flashing a smile true to his character replied "I am just awesome."

While still grinning like an idiot jumped in front of her table. An annoyed Tsunade jumped well clear of the table behind which she was seated, she landed in front of him and flicked him on his forehead with her finger causing him to go crashing out of her office.

Sakura heard a loud sound that she recognized as the sound of someone being violently evicted from her master's office, she knew how little it took for her master to snap, so one would expect this to be a common occurrence but this was a rarity; as she was not the only one who was aware of Tsunade's temper; because of which most people took precaution. 'Wonder who ticked her off?' was the thought running in her mind only for it to be vehemently reinforced by her alter ego; she strode towards her master's office.

Sakura expected blood and destruction what she was partly what she had expected there was a lot of broken things, no blood though her shishou was about to kill someone, if the person under attack was to be believed; "Obaa-chan your killing me, can't breathe."

'Obaa-chan' that word resonated in her head with a strange scene of nostalgia she looked at the man who was being crushed to death, get unceremoniously thrown back into her shishou's office and his facial features stuck with her, 'Blonde hair- check, Blue eyes-check and whiskers- double check!' this thought ran through her head and it came to only one conclusion 'Naruto'.

"What was that for Obaa-chan?" the blue eyed blonde asked, others would term it screaming "It's called tough love brat" she replied and sat behind her desk motioning Naruto to sit before he could a pink haired women moved behind and hugged him.

"Welcome back Naruto" he looked slightly uncomfortable but tried to hide it beneath his laughter both the women noticed one was very content by what she saw; though the other was perturbed and confused "Thank you Sakura" was his reply, it reinforced the thoughts of both women one all the happier and the other more confused by the minute.

Sakura let him go looked to her mentor "I will leave you to catch up with him shishou, I have work in the hospital" she said, her mentor nodded and she walked away to meet another blonde who was just as confused as her, they walked way leaving the two blondes to catch up as privacy barriers were put up.

[Later that night]

Random bar

"Guys I heard Naruto is back" spoke a man with fang marks on his face "mendokuse" was the reply he got from one bored looking Jōnin a nod from another a smile from a man with pupil less white eyes a nod from another.

"Damn that bastard for not meeting us, right guys?" one did not reply looking too bored to say anything "he might be busy Kiba" was the reply a shades wearing nin they downed their drinks while they were joined by a Green blur screaming youth.

Onsen

"Lee told me Naruto is back, is it true?" Tenten asked "True, forehead and I saw him today in Shishou's office today" the blonde of the group replied, "Oh, so you spoke to him, what has he been up to?" the weapon user asked "Don't know what they spoke about, privacy seals were used" she paused before continuing "forehead here is pissed that Naruto is all grown up and different" she finished pointing to Sakura.

"Well 5 years is long time" Hinata added and Tenten sagely nodded they were joined in by few more ladies and they chatted on in to the night before each one went their own way.

Hokage Monument

A blonde man stood over the head of another thinking of the statement which to him was the core of his believes 'You gain true strength when you wish to protect those precious to you.'

He thought of a few memories which were connected to this sentence, the person who had told him this had in his opinion died a need less death partly by his hand; he did not want to kill those who wanted to kill him, less said the better.

'Precious people, I have been throwing away that word too easily; it's not like I don't have any ' a moment later it came up in his mind 'I just have a few, a few id give my life to protect, some whose live are worth more than my own.'

Looking down at where he was standing he thought to himself 'dad you are pretty awesome; I doubt I can do the dead you did for this village, I guess what you did explains sacrifice in the best way, I kind of hated you for a while, at least till a while ago.

The best moment of life was upon me, only then did I realize your sacrifice dad, I will never hate or doubt you or mom ever. I have to make sure I'm never in the same position as you.'

A tall white haired man came up and put his hand on his godson/grandson's shoulder and asked "what has got you thinking?" he got a reply "Ne sensei, could I do what my dad did? You know, do I have the strength of mind to do what my dad did?" this question hurt Jiraiya where it hurt the most.

"You know if you asked me are you as strong as you dad I would have given an easy answer, this I don't know; I hope neither you nor I have to find out kiddo." He got a reply before they both disappeared "I hope so too."

There was one other standing there a blond with a bottle of sake in her hand she thought to herself 'You have grown up well Naru-chan, you have grown up well.

You won't be doing any of that as long as I'm alive, I have lost too many I'm not losing any more till my last breath leaves me.' She too walked away from there and into the darkness of the night.

A/N: it is a short chapter only to introduce the new Naruto and reactions, missions and further explanations will come in the next chapter.

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