Last time: Minato stood there as ANBU brought Danzo forth. Minato announced all of Danzo's crimes including his involvement in the attack by Kyuubi. Deciding to give him a quick death to avoid any possible rescue attempts, Minato took an ANBU sword and quickly removed the old man's head from his shoulders. The body was burned and everybody went home happy knowing one more traitor was removed from the leaf village.

Minato stood there watching the villagers leaving. He knew that Naruto was safe from the old bastard. Minato knew that things were slowly getting better within the leaf village.

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Minato was sitting in the hokage's office getting ready to go home when a knock occurred. "Enter" Minato said with a weary voice. In walked Homura Mitokado and Koharu Utatane the once former followers of Danzo. They had claimed that Danzo had forced them into helping him by telling them that if they didn't agree with him he would have Root forces assassinate them in the night. Since Minato had been unable to get any dirt on them other than constantly backing Danzo, he had no other choice but to pardon them. Now here they were coming back into his office for god knows what.

"What in the hell do you to want?" Minato asked with annoyance in his voice.

"We have come to ask you to consider us for the position of COCA. (Control of Civilian Affairs.) Homura asked. Minato just looked at them and laughed.

"Please, the only reason you two are standing in front of me right now is because there was no solid evidence against you showing you were willingly working with Danzo. Your days as a Politian of this shinobi village are over. You were once the teammates of the 3rd hokage. But now you go too far in you're in your ambitions. Get out of my office and don't come back." Minato said with a sneer.

The Two turned and walked out of the office grumbling things about it not being over and what not. Minato was currently looking through Applicants for the 3 positions of COCA. He had a good idea on who he wanted he just needed to see if they would do it. "AH fuck it. I'll take care of this tomorrow." Minato said as he got up and walked out of the office heading home for the night.

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Naruto had just dropped Hinata off at the Hyuuga compound and was walking back towards his house. He began thinking about what had been going on recently. They had been in the academy for a three months and Naruto could not have been any more bored. Everything that they were covering in the academy he already knew. On the bright side, he had made a few new friends. Hinata and Naruto ended up spending time hanging out with Shikamaru, Chouji, Ino, Kiba, and Shino. They were slowly becoming good friends even though Ino acted like a fan girl around him. Sasuke Uchiha and Sakura Haruno were two completely different stories. Sasuke could not stand the fact that Naruto was better at him than pretty much everything. According to Sasuke, he was the best simply because He was from the Uchiha clan and had the Sharingan. Naruto countered that If he was so great then 1) How was Naruto beating him and 2) Why was he bragging that he had the Sharingan when he didn't even has his activated.

This banter was an everyday occurrence which ended with Sasuke attempting to attack Naruto And ending up losing. Sakura was a Sasuke Fan girl of the highest caliber. She stalked the boy wherever he went and nobody could say anything bad about him or she would attempt to pummel than. She always failed because she was the weakest out of everybody there but she would still try. She even attempted to stab Naruto in the back with a Kunai during Class for Humiliating Her Sasuke. Nobody in the entire class liked either of those two. They were constantly signaled out by people in the class just to make them shut up. Other than these slight problems, Naruto was enjoying his time in the academy.

He finished his reminiscing when he reached his home. He bit his thumb and smeared a little blood on the seal that kept the gate locked. It open and he proceeded to the dojo.

When he got to the dojo, he picked up a wooden sword and began going through the kata's of the Uzumaki kenjutsu stance. This stance was based upon fast moving slices and cuts. It was easily interchangeable into a duel katana style. However, Naruto had a different idea. When he finally gets tall enough, he wants to get strong enough to wield dual Zanbato's. However, He would have to get through the basics before getting that far. He finished going through the kata's of the newest stances when he heard his mother and Tsunade come home. Tsunade lived at the Namikaze compound as the personal medic of the clan. He proceeded to go meet his mother.

"How was your day Blondie?" Tsunade asked Naruto with a tease. They would always go back and forth messing with each other. Truth was, Tsunade was like a grandmother to Naruto And god forbid if she ever heard anybody badmouth him. She beat them within an inch of their life, heals them, and then takes them to the hospital after beating them again.

"It was fine old hag!!!! That Sakura bitch tried to stab me again but Iruka caught her and sent her out of the class." Naruto replied.

"Naru-chan, go clean up for dinner. Afterwards, we will go to the dojo and practice on your kenjutsu. Then you can work on seals with your father when he gets home." Kushina said with a smile. Naruto looked at his mother with a smile. She knew that she could stop the arguing between the two of them by offering him training time.

"YEAH!!!!" Naruto said as he sprinted up the stairs to go clean up. Kushina looked at Tsunade and said "So you going to offer him medical training like you was talking about?"

"I was thinking about it. He seems like he is a little impatient to learn medical but I was going to offer him at least the basics. If he wants more than he can study further." replied Tsunade

Kushina was about to reply when Minato walked in the door. Kushina turned to him and smiled. Minato walked up, gave her a kiss and said "Three things. No talking about being hokage, what are you talking about, and what's for dinner? I'm starving." Tsunade muttered something about Namikaze men thinking with their stomachs. Minato turned his attention to Tsunade and asked "By the way. Have you made up your mind about my offer?" Kushina looked on confused.

"What offer are you talking about?" She asked. Tsunade turned back to her and said

"He offered me the chance to take another apprentice straight from Naruto's graduation class. Jiraiya has already laid claim that Naruto will be trained by him as soon as he graduates."

Kushina looked on with a smirk "So who are you going to choose?" Tsunade looked at Kushina with a sly look.

"I plan on taking Hinata as an apprentice since I have already agreed to teach her medical jutsu. Right now I have her focusing on chakra control and studying all of the book learning that has to come with my profession. My hope is that by the time she graduates the academy, she will already know all the mental so we can get straight into the physical portion of it."

Minato nodded as he asked again "So what is for dinner?" Kushina laughed

"IF Naruto makes it down here in the next minute I am going to Make BABOR's (Big Ass Bowls of Ramen.) But if he doesn't then Tsunade will be doing the cooking tonight."

Minato looked on the situation with fear. Tsunade was known for only one thing worse than her luck at gambling. That was her cooking skills. She had once cooked dinner for the family that put them all in the hospital for two weeks. That was a bad time because everyone was afraid that The Entire Namikaze family would die because of Tsunade. Needless to say crisis was averted as they all pulled through……barely.

"SON IF YOU DON'T GET YOUR ASS DOWN HERE IN THIRTY SECONDS YOU WILL NEVER TOUCH RAMEN AGAIN. IF YOU ARE MORE THAN 35 SECONDS LATE THEN TSUNADE IS DOING THE COOKING FOR A MONTH!!!!!! Minato screamed at Naruto. Within seconds the Kyuubi was dragging Naruto downstairs. See even The Kyuubi had gotten sick when Tsunade had cooked. And that was supposed to be impossible since the Kyuubi could heal any wound that was ever dealt to him. But even he was sick for a week after eating her food. Apparently Naruto had been taking a shower. Kyuubi had been taking a nap in Naruto's room only to be woken up by hearing Minato's scream and snatched the boy on his way downstairs.

"I'm here please don't let her cook!!!!!" Naruto begged.

Kyuubi Chimed In "Mother of Kami don't let her COOK!!!!! IT WILL KILL US ALL!!!!!" Tsunade retorted "My cooking can't be that bad can it?"

Kushina smirked at this and said "Don't worry. I am making BABOR tonight. Now go and put some clothes on." Naruto sprinted back upstairs only to be back in a couple of seconds with a pair of gym shorts on and a t-shirt that Tsunade bought him that said LIFES A BEACH. HAVE FUN. After the food was cooked, they all ate. After dinner, Naruto and his mother made their way to the dojo.

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After about an hour of working on his Kenjutsu training Minato came into the dojo. Naruto looked at his father and said "What's up dad?"

Minato replied "Well I came in here to help you work on your sealing training but if you would rather work on kenjutsu with your mother I understand."

Kushina spoke up "Naruto work on seal training. All I want you to do is practice the kata's I showed you." Naruto nodded as he and his father set into work on his learning Seals.

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Hinata and Neji were in the dojo at the Hyuuga compound working on the gentle fist. Neji had more power in his strikes but Hinata's strikes were a lot smoother. She was faster than he was making up for the difference in power. Both of their father's were watching from a distance. It was obvious that they were evenly matched.

"Hinata you need to increase your chakra output in the strikes to make them more effective" Neji spoke up when they were taking a break.

"And you, Neji, need to work on speed and flexibility. You have plenty of power but not enough mobility." Hinata replied.

This was a common occurrence within the Hyuuga Household. Since the combination of the Branch and Main Houses, the hostility had disappeared. True there were a few old Main branch members who held on to the belief that they were superior but they were dealt with quickly. Dinners tended to be a casual affair unless there was something of major importance going on. The usual was Neji and Hinata get back from the academy, train in the dojo, have dinner with family, then they were free to do as they please until ten pm that night. Often, Neji and Hinata would head to the Namikaze compound and spend time over there. The two were planning on getting back to training when Hiashi announced that dinner would be ready soon. They went to clean up before heading toward the dining hall to have Dinner.

After dinner, Hinata climbed into bed early to insure that she was well rested for the upcoming days at the academy.

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Time Skip: End of their first year at the academy.

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The last day of the academy rolled around. The rankings had been posted and the top 3 were Naruto, Hinata, and Sasuke in that order. Sasuke was livid that he was beaten by not only Naruto but Hinata as well. Naruto's kenjutsu training had gone very well. He was now skilled enough to handle a katana with expertise. His mother had given him permission to carry a standard Anbu style sword.

Hinata had progressed to near perfect Chakra control. She was constantly progressing in the Juken style.

Naruto had dropped off Hinata and was making his way towards the Namikaze compound when he noticed someone following him. He continued on his way hoping that it was a coincidence. Unfortunately he for him it wasn't. He tried to make it home when he noticed they were gaining on him. "Crap" He said out loud. He turned to confront the person when he felt a sudden prick in his neck. He pulled a dart out of his neck. Naruto fell to the ground hoping that someone would find him in time…….

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The sun was setting when Minato made his way home. He had just got out of the meeting with the 3 members of COCA. He had finally picked the 3 people he wanted. HE picked Old Man Teuchi from the ramen stand, Old man Sarutobi, and Shizune. Since Tsunade was staying in the Namikaze compound, Shizune needed more to do. So she volunteered. Anyways. Minato was on his way home when he saw Kushina sprinting out of the house.

"What's wrong Honey?" Minato asked.

"SOMEONE HAS KIDNAPPED NARUTO!!!!" Kushina screamed half crying. Tsunade was already scouring the village for clues.

"HOW….WHEN????" Was all Minato could say.

"I don't know……When I got home I found this letter pinned to the door by a kunai." Kushina replied. Minato took the letter from her and read ….

Fourth Hokage. We have your son. IF you meet our demands we will return him without any problems. However, if you fail to meet our demands, we will take you son to Iwagakure where they will have the distinct privilege of enacting their revenge against you……on him.

Our demands are simple. We want the forbidden scroll of sealing, along with 20 million dollars. You are to send at most one chuunin level Nin with our demands or you can kiss your son goodbye. The necklace that had your flying thunder god mark on it has been destroyed so do not attempt to use your jutsu. Doing so will alert us and we will claim your son's life. Send the items mention to the valley of the end in two days.

Minato bawled up the letter and let out a primal scream. "ANBU!!!!!!!" several black ops showed up. "LOCK THIS MOTHERFUCKING VILLAGE DOWN!!!!!!!! I WANT EVERY NINJA READY FOR COMBAT AS SOON AS POSSIBLE!!!!!! GO!!!!!!" Minato looked at his wife and said "I will get our son back… I promise…."

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Naruto woke up lying on his side to find his arms bound and unable to talk. He looked around and saw two people. One he recognized immediately as Mizuki, Mizuki was the assistant to Iruka at the academy. Naruto didn't understand what was going on. The other person, he recognized simply from the stories he had heard. Skin as pale as snow. Long black hair. Green eyes slit like a snakes. There was only one man that fit this description………Orochimaru.

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Sorry for Cliffhanger. And sorry the update took so long. Had a lot going on with Finals for College and whatnot. Those things suck. I hope that you like this chapter. Don't worry I have not forgotten the Konohamaru corps. They just haven't come into the picture yet. R and R People!!! I like the reviews!!!!!!