"Oi, Naruto-san you have to go see registration and get an ID tag and everything. You better not be late for that or Sensei will be on my ass for not telling ya," Shikaku mumbled not taking his eyes off his meal.
The boy certainly did not look very enthusiastic about it, despite how old the Chunin vest made him look. He looked to be a year or so younger than Naruto but that did not surprise him. Naruto was 16 heading towards 17, meaning he had the age advantage over the boy.
Naruto was amazed how the boy ate barely moving his mouth, if he thought Shikamaru was lazy; he had nothing on his father. The boy was eating his noodles in such a slow pace that he wasn't even sure the food would even reach the end of his mouth by the time breakfast was done.
He even drunk his water in the same slow place his son would later copy in the future. Nara Shikaku looked like the exact image of his son, the only difference was that his hair was a lot darker and he had even more sharp contours than his bum-like son did.
For some reason Naruto felt that he could get along with the boy just fine.
"Thank you, Shikaku-san, I'll have to keep that in mind when Yoshino shows me around the village. My memory of this place isn't like how it was in the past and things have changed a lot since the last time I was here." Naruto turned back to his meal and started taking large gulps, hoping to finish it in time to make it to his appointment.
He had been as polite as he could be in this new situation, acting like his old self was not a good idea until he could feel more comfortable with these people.
"Oi, at least look at Uzumaki-san when you tell him something, that was very rude," Yoshino said, almost choking on her food as she tried to talk and eat at the same time.
Shikaku just looked at her, and then went back to his meal. It was as if she was some kind of insect in his eyes, or at least that is what it looked like from a distance.
"Don't ignore me, oi!"
"Yoshino-chan, don't shout at the dinner table." Grandma looked mad. She did not like shouting this early in the morning it seemed. Though he figured, no one wanted to start the day cranky.
The girl had the predictable reaction.
"He started it!" She was pointing at the black haired, ponytailed boy who now that Naruto took a closer look, was blanked out and sleeping sitting down?
"Oi, wake up! You got to meet your team soon! There will be hell to pay if that fatass has to come and pick you up again." Yoshino stood up and went to wake up her cousin.
Naruto turned to face the elder in the family. "Thank you for all you have done for me. If it is alright do you mind if I stay one more night until I can get everything setup to leave?"
The old lady smiled at Naruto. "Of course you can, you can take as much time as you like. These are troubling times. Did you know last week district 12 was blown up?"
Naruto didn't make a comment; the less he said the better.
"Uzumaki-san lets go, c'mon, if you want to see the village before you have to head out to your appointment make it fast!"
Naruto nodded and got ready to leave. He wondered where she would be taking him first, perhaps to see the sights. The girl seemed to be the no nonsense type after all.
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"There, there she is! See how she is always so smug, she thinks she is all that! Look at her throw her Kunai, without missing anything. She likes to show off, that is why she is always here in the busiest time of the day-,"
"YO YOSHINO-CHAN!"
Naruto had to cover his ears as a teenage girl a year older than the little Nara pounced on the girl with enough momentum to knock her to the dirt. The pounce was quickly followed by something heavier on both of them because a large grey dog…dog piled them.
"Tsume, you bitch! Get the dog off!"
"Ouch, damn it Kuro! Get the hell off of us; you weren't supposed to tackle me too!"
"Woof!"
Naruto sighed and went into the pile of dog, beast, and girl and pulled the three apart. No one made a comment on how he did that without even moving much of the muscle groups in his arm, but the girls might have been too preoccupied with each other, at the moment.
At least Naruto thought the thing that pounced on Yoshino was a girl?
It looked kind of like Fem-Kiba? It even had the same coat, and she was short for her age. The only thing that distinguished her from his male friend was the dog fang necklace around her neck.
Naruto tapped the Kiba-copy and she turned to face him, interrupting her angry banter with the foul mouthed Nara girl. "Oi, what is your problem, we were having a conversation here."
"No we weren't, you just interrupted us dog-bitch!" Yoshino pointed out.
"Dog-bitch! Take that back, you Vein-pulsing hag!" The dog-girl shouted.
"Bum licker!"
"14 year old granny!"
"Pussychaser!"
"OH! YOU HAVE CROSSED THE LINE!" Naruto did not even bother breaking up the catfight between the girls and just walked to the training ground where the girl "Mikoto" threw kunai, shurinken, and senbon into the targets.
Naruto noticed she had yet to miss one.
Better not say something that could get him into trouble.
Naruto was well aware he had a big mouth. Sage training had given him a better understanding about many of his flaws and he really did not want to have a repeat of what could have happened if he was still the same idiot without the training.
"Cough, cough" Naruto made some noise to get the black haired girls attention.
The girl stopped what she was doing and turned to face him. Naruto would have to admit despite how informative Yoshino was; she failed to detail him how beautiful the girl in front of him was.
Naruto knew that black hair, black eyes, a simple black short-styled kimono, with obi, and a tall athletic figure was not really that special in Konoha, but the way the girl's features mixed together to make a rather formidable sight give him the impression that the girl had style, along with class.
But it was her smile that really got to him. "Sorry, do you need to use this training ground I sometimes get carried away"
The blond haired boy shook his head. "No, not really."
The girl accepted that excuse but then scowled. "Then what are you doing here, exactly?"
Naruto thumbed the two girls fighting in the background.
Mikoto just rolled her eyes.
"They bother you much?" Naruto asked.
"You have no idea," she said bending down to gather her things. It looked like she was making her exit while the two ruffians fought.
Naruto took a moment to stare away from her bum that was pointed at his direction; he had enough of the pervert life being around Jiraiya. It was not that he was gay but it might have been the fact that the old Toad Master was a sexual harasser and that perversion might have kept the old man from ever reaching Naruto's level.
Plus the girl was a year younger than him, sure it wasn't wrong but it didn't feel right either.
Thus, Naruto avoided trying to take a sneak peak, after his training he had a reputation as a wise man to maintain after all, Hermit's were people you went to for some worldly advice.
Mikoto might have also understood that Naruto was not looking due to his head facing the fighting twins. Also the fact that her large buttox was at his direction while he was clearly trying to ignore it.
"Sorry about that, that was pretty rude just bending down like that," she said, not blushing but looking somewhat embarrassed.
"No, its fine. I am used to it," Naruto replied, taking a leap into the two fighting girls, missing the puzzled look the black haired girl gave him.
"Okay, break it up."
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"I need to see the Hokage, it is really important. It has to do about my accident."
The two guards stared at him for a moment. They did not make a single expression on their face. They had been trained to never show any emotion, and they were doing a good job. Naruto kept looking at them and they looked back.
Yoshino was glaring at all of them.
Then the guards cracked up. Then they started coughing, after about a minute they were giving out an evil laughter and then a full blown "HAHAHAHAHA."
"What is so funny," Naruto said seriously. He really needed to see the Hokage, he had to tell him about who he was, a time traveler or dimension hopper, and it was urgent business.
The two looked at Naruto as if he was a fool, well Naruto was a fool but they did not have to show such obvious disdain like that! They sneered at him and circled him. "The Hokage, you want to see the leader of the village you say?"
"You have something urgent, eh"
"You want us to let you in?"
"Even if he is in a meeting right now?"
The two started laughing once again banging their hands on their knees looking at Naruto with tears in their eyes. It was not everyday a teenager wrapped around in bandages comes to their door and starts asking to see the leader of the Hidden Leaf.
"This is serious, you have to let me see him," Naruto pleaded.
"Right, kid. That is on the top of my to-do list," the guard chuckled, shooing Naruto away.
"Yeah, we will get right on it." The two of the guards gave each other a high five and went back to their duties.
Naruto walked down the stairs looking angry, followed by the flustered Nara girl. "I told you this would happen!"
Naruto didn't want to argue with her right now, he knew it was a long shot but he had to try it either way. "I didn't say this was going to work, but I had to try."
The girl just nodded as Naruto made his way across the street.
The girl followed him; his bulky form was parting the crowd easily while she trailed behind him hoping no one bumped into her. Unlike Naruto the girl wasn't as tall and she had to watch out for people stepping on her feet or a pervert groping her when she was unaware.
Naruto was heading towards the direction he would go when he was angry and he didn't even mind the girl screaming behind him to slow down.
He had been told that he would have to meet up with the Shinobi Registration officer to get an evaluation as well as to get his ID checked so that they could confirm that he was a member of the village.
There were a lot of Black ops in Danzo's army that many were not allowed to know about and Naruto had lied and said that he was a member of Root, thus no questions were asked about his identity. The problem was he was afraid about the time when Danzo would get wind of him and admit that there was no "Uzumaki Naruto" in the Root division, but that was a problem for another time.
He finally reached it: Ichiraku Ramen stand.
"And then I kicked her ass, you should have seen her run! Tsume's got nothing on me, haha!"
Naruto paused to look at the red haired girl sitting on his spot. IT was his spot! No one had the right to sit there. It had the best view of the kitchen and he could talk to Ayame while the meal was being finished. He was half tempted to just toss the girl away.
But when she looked up at him with a glare Naruto thought better of it. "Oi got a problem?"
Rolling his eyes Naruto turned around and sat beside the little girl, she looked to be about Yoshino's age. The only difference was that unlike the black haired girl, this girl stood out like a bonfire on a dark evening.
She had short red hair that spiked similar to his hairstyle when he was a kid. That to him was unusual as it was a boy's haircut and he didn't expect any girl to try and imitate it. As far as he knew he was the only person in Konoha who ever had his hairstyle as a child, the other being the Fourth but her hair was a lot shorter.
The other thing was that the girl was tanned!
Normally that would not have bothered him, but as far as he was aware Uzumaki Naruto was the only occupant of Konoha who had tanned skin, no one else could claim his complexion. At first he thought it might have been the sunlight that caused his breed of skin pigment, but it really was his natural skin tone! It was in his genes and it wasn't just sunlight that caused him to look the way he did.
The darker tanned skin, along with the red hair and lastly the deep green eyes really threw him off for a loop. People always said there was something deeply fascinating about his eyes, as if they could see hope, love, dreams, and desires.
Up until now he thought that was just bullshit.
Now looking into her own he thought maybe they might be onto something.
"Quit staring! I don't come into your meal and start looking at you," she said banging her fist on the table. "And where the hell is my Ramen!"
Yoshino came by the girl looking angry. "Kushina that wasn't nice!"
The read haired girl just raised an angry red eyebrow. "And I have been nice since…?"
"You shouldn't just start spewing bullshit like that when you meet people, haven't you ever heard of manners before."
"Ora, Ora, And you are supposed to be that creep Hiashi now?" she asked, still banging her fist on the table to get the waiter to hurry up.
From the corner of his eye Naruto could see a growling young man who was glaring at the red haired girl. As the man got closer he could see that he resembled Teuchi very clearly, only a lot more youthful and he had hair!
He looked so flustered Naruto was sure he was just going to toss the Ramen at the kid; Naruto would have paid to watch.
He dumped the ramen onto the table and that got the red haired girl out of Yoshino's hair. She broke her chopsticks and tried to dig into her meal, but was stopped easily by the Nara girl who stole it away.
"Say sorry first!" she said this while holding the sticks up in the air; Kushina was a lot more petit.
"No, I don't wanna!"
"Say it!"
"No!"
Naruto sighed and went about to break up another fight. At least this was easier to break up than Sakura and Ino's fight back when they were still after Sasuke. Though Sakura and Ino where weaklings by nature so they were not really that hard to break apart.
These two were much more ferocious Kunoichii however and he had to tread carefully. He still had those bite marks from Tsume's dog, or was it Tsume herself? He might have to inquire if the Inuzuka themselves got shot for rabies.
"Girls, you don't have to fight over this. I was in the wrong anyway, sorry but I was staring"
"Ha!" Kushina pointed at Naruto. "See I told ya!"
"It is because you are so ugly, red haired girly-boy!" Yoshino pointed out, smirking but had to duck when a bowl of ramen went past her head. "Watch it!"
"Take that back!"
"Never, you boobless wonder!"
"Well at least no one thinks I am a 50 year old, with that huge artery pumping in your side forehead!" she shouted back, clearly everyone knew Yoshinos' weakness.
"That's it, you are going down Uzumaki!"
Those words stopped Naruto in his tracks.