"Naruto"- Person Talking

'Naruto' - Person thinking

"Naruto"- Demon/Summon Talking

'Naruto' - Demon/Summon thinking

Italic - Letter/ Journal

(A/N: Author's Note)

Disclaimer : I do not own Naruto.

Summary: Namikaze's are the cousin's of Uchiha similar to how Uzumaki's are the cousin's of Senju. Naruto Uzumaki Namikaze, Only child of the Minato Namikaze and Kushina Uzumaki among the triplets who is unable to use chakra. Only to be used as a scapegoat to the Kyuubi's attack then married to Fourth Raikage in a political marriage to prevent war from breaking out. Will she be able to unlock her chakra, will she find the love and acceptance that she always wanted...? Sharingan/Wood Style/Rinnegan Naruto. God like Naruto. Alive Minato & Kushina. Neglect Naruto. Fem NarutoXA

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Chapter 9 - Road to Cloud

Same Day - Evening Time with Cloud group

They were making a good progress on their journey since leaving the land of iron.

"It's going to be dark soon. I think we should find a place to set up a camp," said Darui to A.

A nodded and said "Ok and if my memory served me correctl then there is a clearing just few miles away from here. There is also one water stream nearby to that. I think it will be a good place for the camp."

"What about Naruto-san. If I am not wrong then she never camped outside before. It might be uncomfortable for her," said C.

"She is also shinobi in training C and I thought you have already stopped underestimating her. I only got to spend around an hour with her and I already know that when it comes to her, I should expect the unexpected. Besides she is a tough soul. I don't know that whether you noticed it or not, but when she cut her hand with that sword for her blood oath, she didn't even flinched from pain. It seemed like she didn't even registered the pain, which means that she also has high tolerance to the pain. Someone like her won't even bothered by these kind of trivial things," said A.

A's reply shocked other shinobis in their group, including ANBU, since their Raikage rarely praised anyone.

After few minutes of travel they reached the clearing and started setting up the camp. Few minutes later the ANBU's finished the camp with a small campfire in the middle. The whole time Naruto stayed inside the carriage because they have asked her to.

After few minutes a female ANBU went towards carriage and said "Naruto-Hidenka, you can come out now."

Naruto stepped outside the carriage and turned towards the ANBU as she started speaking again.

"We are making arrangement for dinner. It may take few minutes. Why don't you sit beside the campfire since it's a bit cold out here," said ANBU.

"Thank you Crane-san. Is there anything that I can help you with?" asked Naruto.

Crane smiled from behind her mask. Even if Naruto is a child or rather a cute child, she is also very polite and down to earth person. All the ANBU couldn't help but respect her. At first they were conflicted on how to address her. They want to address her with proper respect which according to them, she earned it because of the wedding and her selflessness. They also came to know that she don't like being called Naruto-sama because according to her she hasn't earned it yet. So after arguing among themselves, ANBU's settled with "Naruto-Hidenka" and it seems she didn't mind that title.

"There is no need for that Naruto-Hidenka. As I said that we will be finished in few minutes," replied Crane.

"Ok. But if you need any help then please don't hesitate to ask," said Naruto.

Crane nodded as Naruto went towards campfire and set few feet's away from it and hugged her knees before resting her chin on it and kept staring at the campfire.

Opposite side of the campfire stood A, Darui, C and B. They were chatting among themselves. A was taking discreet glance towards Naruto. C noticed it and said "Why don't you go and talk to her boss?"

"What are you talking about?" said A while trying to look oblivious.

"Don't try to fool us boss. We noticed it when you were trying to look at her discreetly," said C.

"I wasn't doing anything like that. Now will you please drop this subject and look food has arrived," said A while trying to change the subject.

C signed but before he could have said anything else, an ANBU came up to them and handed over the food.

While others were eating the food, Crane went towards Naruto and gave her the food.

Naruto took it as Crane said "I am sorry if it's not up to your standard. But this is all that we have at the moment."

The food consist of rice balls and roasted fish, which they have caught from the stream.

"There is nothing that you should apologies for Crane-san. After all we are camping outside and this is more than what one could expect and I am not that choosy when it comes to food," Naruto said and mentally added 'Well except ramen especially Ichiraku ramen'.

"You all have eaten the food, right?" asked Naruto.

"Don't worry Naruto-Hidenka, there is more than enough for us. Some of us are also guarding the camp. We will eat it after they are finished," replied Crane.

Naruto nodded and after finishing the dinner, she took out her journal, which she was maintaining it since she was four and started writing in it. After few minutes she closed the journal and took out her sleeping bag and laid it beside the campfire and slid inside it.

Meanwhile in the Leaf Village

After arriving back from land of iron through Minato's Hiraishin, all of them went towards their respective ways. Unlike cloud group who has left immediately, it took them some time to collect things which Naruto and company brought with them from the leaf village. They have arrived around late afternoon.

Hiruzen went back to Sarutobi compound.

Kakashi went to stand in front of memorial stone.

Tsunade, Jiraiya and Shizune went back to Senju compound and after dropping their luggage, Tsunade and Jiraiya left for the bar while Shizune stayed inside the compound.

Minato went back to his office to finish his paperwork, which was nothing but a excuse. He just wanted to divert his mind from all the events that happened recently.

Kushina went inside her room to cry her heart out.

Mito and Menma stayed inside the mansion and cried for couple of hours before going outside to meet their friends.

All the clan heirs except Sasuke were sitting inside a restaurant along with Mito and Menma. They want to inquire Namikaze siblings about the marriage. So they told them everything. From Naruto's drinking incident to their farewell. All of it.

"It is still hard to believe that she got married. I mean she is as old as us and she already got married," said Ino.

"Don't forget that who she is married to Ino, She is married to Raikage, who is even older than our Hokage, her father. And on top of that she is used like a sacrificial pawn. I don't know how she must be feeling right now. This is so troublesome," said Shikamaru.

"I still can't believe that she drunk almost half of the bottle of sake and from what Menma told us that it was the world's strongest sake," said Kiba.

"Her logic sounds right Kiba-san. She just doesn't want to cough in front of all the attendance. Though I am not able to understand, why she used that sake instead of any other lighter sake?" said Shino.

"It might be because it was Raikage's favorite sake," replied Shikamaru.

After seeing everybody's confused faces, he went for an explanation "Troublesome. Mito told us that how Naruto redesigned Raikage's wedding dress and some cloud shinobi came to collect it from Naruto. She might have asked him about Raikage's favorite sake. That is the only explanation I can think of."

"That sounds logical Shikamaru-san," said Shino.

"Ah...huh" said Choji who was more interested in food then their discussion.

"D...don't f...forget a...about her b...blood o...oath," said Hinata. She always lacked in the confidence department and to hear that a girl, same age as her did something like this in front of all those important peoples was quite admirable for her.

"Yeah nee-chan is amazing. I always thought that I am the who has the more guts but even I wouldn't have been able to do something like that," said Menma.

"Don't forget about the position in which they kissed each other. It's so romantic. I wish Sasuke-kun will kiss me like that during our wedding," said Ino.

"They didn't kiss like that because it would have been romantic Ino. It was most probably because of the height difference," said Shikamaru.

"Do you think that nee-chan has planned it beforehand nii-san. Because how nee-chan followed the Raikage; it seemed like she already knew that Raikage will be kissing her like that," asked Mito to Menma.

"I don't know Mito-chan. From what I know that Naruto-nee-chan never met him before the wedding but I can't deny the possibility of that," said Menma.

They chatted for couple of hours then went outside to go to their respective homes but before they could have left, they stopped after hearing a commotion. Menma asked one of villager about the commotion.

"They are celebrating because the demon has finally left the village. They knew that she was getting married today and after hearing that she left for the cloud village already, they have started the party," said the villager.

The clan heir stood shocked on their spots. They heard about Naruto's treatment but they never thought that it was this bad. While it was true that because of Naruto's past actions, like asking the Hokage to let go of the villagers after they hurt her, many have stopped hating her and even apologized to her but there was still a small population who still hated her for containing the Kyuubi.

Menma wanted to storm in but a hand on his shoulder stopped him on his tracks, courtesy of Mito.

All the clan heirs started walking towards their respective clan compounds. Mito and Menma just took the few steps but soon found themselves surrounded by some drunk chunins and jonins.

"Well well well look what we found here boys. Demon's brother and sister," said the first chunin.

"Well we already lost our punching bag to the cloud village. How about we take them as our new punching bag?" said another chunin.

Mito and Menma was scared at this point. Other clan heirs have noticed the commotion and after seeing that Mito and Menma was surrounded by some shinobi, they came back to help them but other shinobi has stopped them.

One jonin grabbed Mito's hand and said "Look at this. It is so soft. I think that it will break in one blow."

"Let go of my sister you bastard," said Menma and tried to punch her offender but other jonin stepped in and punched him hard on the stomach making Menma cough up some blood and kneeled to the ground. Mito tried to get free to help Menma but the jonin grip was too strong for her to break free, so she bit him on his hand. The jonin cried out in pain and released her in the process but before she could have moved towards Menma, The jonin back handed her, making her cry out in pain as she fell down near Menma with blood coming out from the corner of her mouth.

"What down already. Your sister was able to take more than that. But you know what the most frustrating part was? She never cried out in pain. The maximum we got was a whimper. Well except when we hung her with her thumb. But your cries are like a music to our ears and we want to hear more of it. So please don't pass out too soon," said the jonin.

"Why are you doing this to us. We thought that you look up to us as your heros and Naruto-nee-chan as the demon. Then why are you hurting us?" shouted Menma.

"You don't get it, Do you boy? We knew from the start that she wasn't the Kyuubi. Unlike some civilians, we know the difference between a kunai and a sealing scroll. We were just using her to take out our frustration and hate towards the Kyuubi and she knew it and since she is gone you both got are going to take her place. Do you want to know something, Whenever we were beating her and any of us have suggested that we should drag both of you also into that, she used to ask us to leave you two alone. Her exact words were 'You can beat me however you want just leave them out of this'" replied the jonin.

Mito and Menma were stunned after hearing the jonin's words. Their sister protected them even when they were mean to her. She took the beating almost on daily basis just to keep them safe and how they have returned it? The flashes of memories started playing inside their minds. Clan heirs also weren't fairing any better.

Ninjas started walking towards Namikaze sibling to torture them but two person landed between them and one of them gave the jonin a hard blow on his jaw, they also found themselves surrounded by two squads of ANBU.

Tsunade and Jiraiya were drinking in a bar when they heard some commotion nearby and went to check it. After seeing that Mito and Menma was surrounded by some drunk shinobi. They decided to save them so they rushed towards the scene but not before flaring their chakra to call the ANBU. Just before jonin was about to struck they landed in front of him and punched him hard on the face. ANBU has also came by this point and surrounded the group.

"Take them to Ibiki," said a pissed off Jiraiya as Tsunade kneeled down to heal Mito and Menma.

ANBU complied and took them to Ibiki. As clan heirs approached them.

"Is this is what nee-chan has to face?" asked Menma in a low voice, filled of regret.

Tsunade signed and said "You both got very lucky. By the looks of your injuries, you both got one blow each while Naruto used to get thousands of those blows in a single beating. Sometime even with weapons. I remember once she has to spend two whole weeks in a bed, even with her advance healing factor because they broke her both the hands and legs. She was even in a coma for a week after one of the beating." said Tsunade.

Shame, guilt, sorrow, these kinds of emotions were coming out of everyone present there, more so in Mito and Menma's case.

"There, All done, you can go home now. Don't worry about the villagers. We will have a squad of ANBU trailing you. Just be careful. Even though Naruto has reduced the number of haters due to her past actions and taking all of their hate on herself, there are still some people left who still hate the Kyuubi and by extension its jinchuurikis," said Tsunade.

"Baa-chan is this is how the jinchuurikis are normally treated?" asked Mito.

Tsunade signs and looked towards Jiraiya indicating him to continue as she was in no mood for an explanation.

Jiraiya nodded and said "This is how most jinchuurikis are treated. Only Kumo seems to be the exception to this and that is only because of Raikage's brother, who has full control of his bijju. But even he has to struggle at the beginning. You both got very lucky only because you have Minato as your father but most importantly you have or rather had Naruto as your sister." said Jiraiya as he walked out of the place with Tsunade in tow, leaving the other in their thoughts.

Next day Morning (Cloud Group)

Everybody from the group has woken up except Naruto who was still asleep while covered from head to toe by her sleeping bag so A asked Crane to wake her up.

Crane walked up to her and shook her while saying "Wake up Naruto-Hidenka. We are about to move out in few minutes."

Naruto woke up from her slumber and rubbed her eyes. Crane has to resist the urge to shout KAWAI and the hug but it was quite difficult because she was looking so adorable at the moment.

"Sorry about that Crane-san , Can you give me few minutes to get ready," asked Naruto at which Crane nodded.

As Naruto went to grab her bag to take out some items; Raikage and group, who was standing at the other end of the clearing finishing their breakfast, except B who ran off to woods to do God knows what.

Darui turned towards rest of the group members and said "You all noticed it too right?"

A nodded and said "There was tear strained marks on her. She most likely cried herself to sleep and she didn't want us to see her crying, that's why she covered herself completely."

"She must be feeling lonely. Out of her home, surrounded by the group of strangers. She would have felt more at ease only if you had talked to her last night," said C.

"And what should I have said to her? Talk to me because I am your husband. I am completely new to this sort of things. I don't know what to do?" said A.

"You might not have noticed it but she is emotionally attached to you. She tried to look at you many times last night. Right now if anyone could reach her then it's you," said Darui.

"I don't know Darui, I really don't" A said as he released a sigh.

Few minutes later they were done and started their journey back again.

Three Days Later

It was night time. They have already set up the camp and waiting for the dinner. They were only few hours away from the cloud village. They have made a good progress even if they were travelling at the slightly slower pace than usual. They have already crossed the border of the land of lightning and they were few miles away from the mountain range. It was quite a warm night unlike the previous ones.

Few meters away from the camp, a group of around fifty bandits have noticed the camp and thinking that it was a usual merchant caravan, decided to loot it since shinobi rarely travels in such a large group and the presence of the carriage solidified their suspicion.

As soon as they attacked, cloud shinobi started to massacre them. Raikage was leading the charge himself, followed by the other shinobi and ANBU's.

"Naruto, get inside the carriage immediately," shouted A.

Naruto complied and ran back towards carriage.

When shinobi's started killing them all, bandits noticed that it was a shinobi camp instead of the merchant caravan and Raikage himself was there. So they started shouting the order for retreat but cloud shinobi didn't gave them any chance and continued the slaughter.

Naruto was running back towards the carriage. When she was only few feet away, a kunai with explosive tag attached to it, came out a bush and struck right in front of her. She noticed it and jumped backwards but before she could have totally went out of explosive radius, it went off.

Naruto put both of her hands in front of her face to protect herself. The explosion singed her cloths and shockwave thrown her backwards. She rolled to the ground but managed to balance herself. Suddenly a person came out of nearby side bush with a tanto in his hand and tried to behead her.

After hearing the explosion A, Darui, C and B stopped the onslaught and turned towards the explosion while ANBU kept on killing the bandits. They have seen Naruto balancing herself and signed in relief but that relied soon turned to worry when they have seen a person coming out of bush and tried to kill Naruto.

"Look out Naruto," A shouted.

Naruto has also seen the person and side stepped the blow and caught the offender's sword holding right wrist with her right hand but before she could have done anything else, that person positioned himself behind Naruto while pointing the sharp edge towards Naruto's neck and Naruto holding his right wrist to stop its descent.

By now ANBU has finished the bandits and landed beside A and others.

"Let her go," shouted A.

"Now now A. Don't be so hasty. After all you don't want your newly wedded wife to be killed before she has even reached the village," said the offender.

Two more persons came out from the side bush and joined the first person.

"I know you. You are Kori, Moe and Kaori. Genin wanted for murdering their own jonin sensei by poisoning him," said A.

"Well he was a fool, who thought he can order us around," said the Kaori, the one who was holding Naruto as a hostage.

"For stopping you from raping your own client. This is your last warning release her or else..." shouted A.

"Or else what. We are the one who is holding all the cards hear A. Now move back if you don't want her to be dead. Don't worry we will take a good care of her," said Kaori while other two were have a creepy grin on their faces.

"You are not allowed to touch this body," This time it was Naruto who spoke.

"Oh and what will you do if we touch you princess?" asked Kaori.

"You pests don't know who are you messing with," said Naruto in a anger filled voice which sent a shiver down to all three former genins. While other occupants of the clearing were shocked because they never heard Naruto talk like that.

"And what is stopping me from doing this." said Kaori as he tried to grope her breast with his left hand. Keyword tried because before he could have touched her, she grabbed his hand with her left hand.

"Then I will have to teach you a lesson but you won't be able to remember it because you all will be dead very soon," said Naruto as she twisted his tanto wielding hand so that it was now pointing away from her. Then she put his weight on her back and flipped him.

Kaori landed on his back and released a grunt because of the pain and his hold on tanto loosened. Without wasting a moment, Naruto snatched the tanto out of his hand and turned towards the other two.

The other two genin were shocked by this change of events but quickly regained their composure but before they could have done anything, Naruto has already reached Kori. Kori did a horizontal slash but Naruto ducked underneath it while running and slashed his side chest from his left all the way through the heart and due to the momentum, appeared behind him. Kori instantly fell to the ground, dead.

Moe, who was couple of feet away from her, charged towards her. Naruto, took a step back to avoid the diagonal slash and kicked him in the chest, making him skid back due to the force but before he could have regained his balance, Naruto threw the tanto straight towards his heart. True to her aim it went through his heart, killing him instantly.

It all happened in an span of six seconds.

Kaori, who has regained his composer by now, after seeing his both comrades fall, gave a war cry and charged towards Nauto , completely ignoring the other occupants of the clearing.

Naruto braced herself and was about to attack but A appeared behind Kaori, while engulfed in his lightning armor and thrust his hand through Kaori's back. Kaori looked down to his chest, coughed up some blood and fell to the ground, dead.

As soon as Naruto has flipped Kaori, A has activated his armor and was about to charge in but stopped after seeing Naruto snatching up the tanto. He wanted to see how good she really is. Her posture and instance has already indicated that she knew what she was doing. So he decided not to intervene but kept his armor activated for emergency. Even if they were genins, they were no match for his speed, more so when he was using the lightning armor at its full power.

Other shinobi has seen A activating his armor but after seeing that he hasn't charged in yet but kept his eyes on the fight, they understood and kept their guard up.

After seeing Naruto easily dispatching two genin easily, they were shocked. Here she was, not even graduated from the academy and already defeating a genin team without breaking a sweat. Anyone would have been shocked if they were in their place.

A has seen Kaori getting up and charging towards Naruto. He then decided that he has seen enough and killed Kaori in one swift move.

"Are you alright Nauto?" asked A.

"Yes Raikage-sama, I am completely fine and thank you for asking," replied Naruto with a smile.

Her smile has already warmed his heart. He can feel the heat on his cheeks, so to avoid the embarrassment he nodded and turned towards ANBU teams and asked them to clean the area while the others gave Naruto an approving nod.

Naruto went back towards the campfire and sat beside it.

After finishing their dinner, Naruto took out her journal and started writing in it again.

"You should go and talk to her," said Darui.

"Listen to us ya motherfucker," rapped B which earned him a blow on his head from A.

"Seriously boss, we have been on to this since we left land of iron. Couldn't you muster enough courage to simply talk to her," said C.

"And what should I talk to her about?" asked A.

Darui and C sighed but before they could have said anything, B who was still nursing his bruise said "Ask her what she is writing fool ya fool. She could be a great artist like Hachibi-sama," said B.

"Well you can also praise her for her performance in battle," said Darui.

"You can also talk to her about her kills. For all we know, this is most probably her first kill and we all know that she won't say a thing even if she is disturbed," said C.

A took a deep breath and nodded towards them after mustering enough courage.

Naruto was writing in her journal when she heard a cough sound. She looked up and found that it was A.

"Raikage-sama," Naruto said as she tried to get up but A motioned her to sit down and set beside her.

Silence filled the clearing for few seconds. Everyone was looking towards them in anticipation. Finally the silence was broken by Raikage.

"You did good out there," said A.

"Thank you for your kind words Raikage-sama. It means a lot, when its coming from you," said Naruto.

"You are taking it quite well considering that this is your first kill," said A.

"This isn't my first kill Raikage-sama," said Naruto and after seeing the confused expression on A's face she continued "I was seven year old at that time. Tsunade-baa-chan and Shizune-nee-chan was going to Benisu Island to collect some herbs. I insisted on going with them. When we reached there, I wondered around to explore the scenery. That's when I saw a women about to be raped by couple of thugs. When I tried to stop them, they attacked me and I killed them in self defense."

"That was very brave of you," said A.

"I don't like killing Raikage-sama. Don't get me wrong, I know that it is the part of the shinobi's job and we have to kill sometime. I understand that but that doesn't mean that I have to like it," said Naruto.

A nodded and they both set in silence and Naruto went back to her journal.

After few minutes A asked "What are you doing?" while trying to start the conversation again.

"I am writing my journal. It was a gift from Tsunade-baa-chan on my fourth birthday. Since then I am writing all the important events of my life," replied Naruto.

"Can I read it?" asked A and soon mentally slapped himself, Everybody who heard him did the same. 'Real smooth genius. You just have to ask her personal journal knowing that no one will ever give his or her personal journal to anybody.' but Naruto's answer shocked him to his core.

Naruto looked down and thought for a moment then said "Ok but can you give me few minutes to finish it?" asked Naruto

A nodded in trace and after few minutes Naruto closed her journal and handed it over to A.

"Can you grant me a request Raikage-sama?" asked Naruto and after seeing his nod, she continued "Please don't read it now. I want to tell you everything personally so can you wait till then?"

A looked confused for a moment but nodded nonetheless. Then A moved back to others and few minutes later everybody was sleeping.

Next Morning

Almost everybody has woken up early in the morning and when C noticed that Naruto was still asleep, he said "That's odd. Usually Naruto-san is the first one to wake up well except the first day of course but we all know the reason for that. Do you think she is fine and not shaken up by yesterday's events."

Darui and A nodded. Except the first day when she cried herself to sleep, Naruto was the first one to wake up every morning. So they thought that yesterday's event might be the case of her longer than usual slumber.

C was about to ask Crane to wake her up but A stopped him and said "Let me wake her up,"

Everybody smiled and nodded as A went towards Naruto.

Naruto was a nervous wreck last night but not because of the events transpired before, but because she knew what was coming today. That's why she didn't got that much of the sleep.

A moved towards Naruto. Because of the warm weather, her cover was only half way up meaning till her waist. She was lying on her right side. A was about to shook her awake but because of her haywire nerves, she turned at the last moment and because of that instead of grabbing her biceps, he ended up grabbing her breast.

Naruto's eyes immediately shot open and first thing came in front of her was Raikage's face. She then looked down towards her chest and found that it was As hand. She immediately turned beet red.

Everyone in the vicinity stopped in their tracks. Some of them even had their jaws hanging to the ground. Only few knew the real story while the others thought that their Raikage has turned into a pervert, not that they could blame him. Anyone can turn into a pervert if they got a wife as beautiful as her and since Raikage has yet to pull back his hand didn't help it either.

Usually Naruto would have beat the living shit out of anyone who would have dared to grope her but since it was A, who also happened to be her husband, she let it slide but that doesn't mean that she wasn't embarrassed. On the other hand A's mind has shutdown and has just started the rebooting.

"Ahh... R..ra..Raikage-s..sama y..your hand..." said Naruto in embarrassment.

"Hah..." was the A's intelligent response.

When Naruto pointed downwards with her face, A came out of his trance like state and immediately pulled his hand back.

A face became as red as tomato as he tried to apologies "Ah.. I..I am s..sorry Naruto-san. I..." A tried to continue but couldn't find the right words.

"I...It's ok R..Raikage-sama. Y..you have e..every right to t..touch me anywhere y..you want. Y..You are my h..husband after all. But p..please don't do that in public. It's embarrassing dattebaki," 'Crap, I thought that I got rid of this verbal tic.' said Naruto.

Naruto then noticed that others were looking towards them while trying to control their laughter.

"Dattebaki?" A asked in confusion, his embarrassment completely forgotten.

"It's nothing. I'll go and get fresh." Naruto said and without waiting for A's response, she dashed towards the carriage, picked up her bag and vanished inside a bush.

A then turned towards others and noticed that some were giggling perversely and some were trying to hold back their laughter. A mumbled something and went back to his group while his face clearly said that "Not a word" so no one uttered a word wisely but that didn't stop their giggling.

Naruto came back and after few minutes and after seeing that some of the ANBU, Darui, C and B were still giggling, she bowed down her head in embarrassment.

Crane came towards her and held out the breakfast, which she took and to avoid the further embarrassment, went towards the edge of the clearing and jumped on fifteen feet high rock with her back facing everyone.

She wanted to ran away from there right now due to the situation she found herself in but knew that they won't allow her to move out of their sight. So she set on top of the rock while eating the breakfast while admiring the scene of the sunrise. The sun was coming out from behind a mountain.

Few minutes have passed and Crane went towards the rock and asked "Do you want some more Naruto-Hidenka?"

Naruto then turned her head toward Crane and said "No thank you Crane-san.".

As soon as Naruto turned her hear head, A got mesmerized by the sight. As she was talking, the sun was coming out of horizon casting a light over the area and from his viewpoint, Naruto almost looked like she was bathed in the light. The way the light hit her and reflected through her skin and hair, which was perfectly matching the sunrays, completely captivated him.

A sudden clicking sound broke his gaze and he turned towards the sound. B has took out a camera from somewhere and took a picture of Naruto.

"B?" asked A.

"We have seen how you were looking at her, so I asked B to take a picture. Don't worry we will give it to you after developing it," said C.

A nodded and turned back but not before thanking them.

"You know, you should go and clear the misunderstanding, otherwise she will always think of you as a pervert. It will take few minutes to pack everything anyway and we will not mind if we have to wait for few more minutes," said Darui.

Few moments later Naruto found A sitting beside her but before she could have said anything A started speaking "I am sorry Naruto-san. It was an accident. When I came to wake you up, you turned at the last moment and I ended up ah.. groping you."

"It's alright raikage-sama and I am sorry for accusing you," said Naruto.

A nodded and after noticing that Naruto was still gazing towards sun, he asked "Why are you looking towards the Sun?"

"I always liked the sunrise and sunset. I always used to go to Hokage monument to watch it." said Naruto.

"You miss your home, don't you?" asked A.

"Even if I don't have to many fond memories of the leaf village, It doesn't change the fact that it was my home and to answer your question, Yes I miss it but it is not my home anymore. My new home is with you and which means that it is cloud village," said Naruto.

From the corner of her eyes she noticed that everyone was looking towards them so she said "I think they are done. We should leave now." said Naruto.

A nodded and they both jumped down to start their journey back to cloud village.

Few Hours Later

It was around late afternoon when they reached the cloud village. Many people has came to greet Raikage and his newly wedded wife but they didn't got the opportunity because they directly took the carriage to Yotsuki mansion.

Naruto came outside of the carriage and went inside the mansion immediately. She has finally arrived to her new home, the Cloud village.

A/N: Hope you liked it.