Free For All

AN: Here's another idea that was just taking up space in my head.

Disclaimer: I do not own Naruto.

Sarutobi's Sacrifice

"I'm dying Minato." Kushina said simply as she held her newborn son close to her chest.

"I know, but we can still save Naruto and the village." Minato replied just as calmly as he stroked his wife's hair.

"I know what you're thinking. I never wanted that life for Naruto and if you're going to use that jutsu, then he's going to be all alone. You can't do that to him." Kushina said desperately.

"He won't be alone; he will still have his mother. I'll seal Kyuubi's yin into you and the yang into Naruto." Minato ran his fingers through his son's scruffy blonde hair and smiled down on him sadly with tears rolling down his cheeks. "You'll have to prepare him, that man in the mask hasn't given up, he is still out there."

"Minato?" she said with a trembling voice.

Minato smiled at his wife. "It's my right as a husband and a father to give my life for the two of you." He leaned down and kissed his son on the forehead and then he kissed his wife one last time and infused all the love he felt for in to it.

Minato reluctantly broke the kiss and stood. He took one last look at his family and then turned away to face the still rampaging bijuu. He was about to go through the hand seals for the summoning jutsu when his world went black.

"Jiji!" Kushina yelped in surprise when the third Hokage came out of nowhere and knocked Minato unconscious with a chop to the neck.

"You damn noble fool." Sarutobi said as he looked down at the blonde Hokage. He turned to look at the new mother and her son with a bright smile. "When he wakes up, tell him he shouldn't be so quick to throw his life away. I know what he planned to do. I'll do it instead."

Kushina was speechless as she looked upon the Hokage. Even as a man of over 60 years of age, he was standing tall, unbent by age and with a calm determination that would not be swayed. Kushina looked at the "God of Shinobi" the "Professor" and for the first time in all her years of knowing the man she fully understood how he truly deserved each title.

"Thank you… Jiji." Kushina said.

Hiruzen continued to smile down on the red head. "No need to thank me Kushina-chan, this is the act of a selfish old man. My children are adults and now that Biwako is gone, I've suddenly realized how tired I am. Tell my children, I'm sorry to leave them, and that I wished I could have met my grandchildren."

Kushina was now openly crying and could only give him a trembling nod.

Hiruzen walked away without a backwards glance. He strode forward without a hesitant step towards his assured death with one thought in mind. 'One old man loses his life in place of a young husband and father…fair exchange.'

(12 years later)

"NARUTO! GET YOUR ASS BACK HERE AND TAKE YOUR LUMPS LIKE A MAN!"

Minato cringed behind his desk as the windows in his office rattled at the roar that was definitely heard throughout the village. The blonde Hokage shook his head in exasperation as he turned around to see his son run across the roof tops away from an enraged Inoichi Yamanaka.

"I'M SORRY INOICHI-SAMA, I TRIPPED. IT WAS AN ACCIDENT!" Naruto pleaded as he hauled ass away from the irate mind specialist.

"NO ONE TRIPS AND KISSES MY PRINCESS!" Inoichi yelled, not letting up from his chase.

Minato was about to turn away and get back to his paper work when he got a glimpse of something that had a sweat dropping forming on his head. It was Ino, Inoichis daughter and one of Naruto's classmates.

"DADDY, DON'T YOU DARE LAY A HAND ON MY NARUTO-KUN!" Ino screamed after the two blondes.

Minato turned his back on the scene, this wasn't the first time Naruto was chased through the village by an irate father and it most likely wasn't going to be the last time. 'I should have never left Naruto alone with Jiraiya so often.'

(Knock-knock)

"Come!" Minato barked at the closed door.

A warm smile spread across Minato's face when his wife entered. She was wearing a forest green kimono with a white obi around her waist, she also wore black shinobi sandals and her hair as always was flowing all the way down to the back of her knees.

"Kushina-chan" Minato said warmly as he approached his wife with open arms. He should have known something was wrong when her smile seemed a little too sweet, but he paid it no attention. The next thing he knew, he was face first on his office floor with a lump growing in the center of his head.

"W..why?" he asked weakly.

"Because it was your idea to let Jiraiya babysit Naruto whenever he was in town." She said irately. Kushina marched over to the window and gestured angrily at Naruto, Inoichi and Ino, hopping from roof to roof still screaming at each other. "Look at what that pervert has done to my darling Naru-chan; he turned him into a playboy dattebane!"

Minato picked himself up off the floor and cautiously approached his wife. "It's just a phase; he'll grow out of it."

Kushina spun around and glared at her husband so hard, he actually backed up a couple of steps. "He better grow out of it or you're on the couch for life."

The blonde Hokage paled at the threat. "There's no need for that kind of language Kushina-chan. Besides, this isn't that big a …", Minato trailed off as his hot tempered wife narrowed her eyes at him.

"Hiashi, still has standing orders for Naruto to be captured and brought to him after he caught Naruto and Hinata playing Doctor, and that was two years ago."

Minato couldn't keep the grimace off his face as he remembered that incident. He had to assign Kakashi as a bodyguard for Naruto for six months following that uproar.

Minato was brought back to the present when he heard Kushina let out a heavy sigh.

"Naruto's playboy antics aside, that wasn't the reason I came here. You said you would take a look at the seal, how is it?" She asked.

"The seal is fine, I checked it this morning." Minato said as he wrapped his wife in a hug "There's no degradation and the portion of the seal that purifies the Kyuubis chakra is working perfectly."

Kushina looked up into the cerulean blues eyes that matched her sons perfectly. "Tomorrow's the big day; do you think he's ready?"

Minato smiled down at his wife. "If he can survive irate fathers, who also happen to be seasoned war vets, I think he's more than ready."

(With Naruto)

'Can't a guy make out with a cute girl without being threatened with brain damage?' Naruto thought crossly as he sped away from Inos father who was currently frothing at the mouth.

'And my day was going so well to' Ever since Naruto woke up that morning things seemed to be going his way. He got up earlier than usual to spend some time in the family dojo and after six months of training, he finally perfected the Dancing Shadow Leaf Jutsu but instead of pile driving his opponent, he added his own variation at the end.

Even his day at the academy didn't seem like such a chore. Most of the morning was spent reviewing for the graduation exam but after lunch it was do whatever you want until class ended. So Naruto took full advantage of his free time and talked Ino into taking a walk with him to a less populated area of the academy grounds, where he proceeded to flirt with Ino until her face turned into a cherry. Naruto then coaxed a few small kisses out of the Yamanaka heir, we had just started our make out session when we were interrupted by a shout of surprise mixed with fury. Naruto turned and paled when he saw Inoichi Yamanaka, standing about 30 feet away from him. Not even attempting to come up with an excuse the Namikaze heir started running as fast as his legs would carry him and he hasn't slowed down since.

Eventually Naruto dropped from the roof tops and down into the streets hoping to lose the incensed torture specialist in the crowded market place. He ducked in and out of stalls and restaurants before ending up at the mouth of an alley the smelled of rotten fish and urine.

"At it again eh Naruto?" an unexpected voice said right next to him.

Naruto barely stifled a girlish shriek as he snapped his head to the right and focused his attention on a shinobi leaning nonchalantly against the building next to him. He had silver gravity defying hair and one visible eye the other being covered with his shinobi headband. Naruto visibly relaxed and smiled brightly. "Ero-Kakashi, you got to help me, Ino's dad is going to turn my brain into oatmeal."

"That seems fitting Ero-Naruto, it's already going around the village that he caught you smooching his daughter." Kakashi said with an eye smile.

"I was merely expressing my…admiration for her beauty."

"Obviously Inoichi wasn't too keen on the way you expressed it."

"I don't have time to debate are you going to help me or not?" Naruto demanded.

"What's in it for me?" Kakashi asked as he dug into his hip pouch and pulled out a very familiar orange book.

Naruto sighed heavily at Kakashi's not too subtle hint. "Fine, if you help me, I'll give you my autographed copy of Jiraiyas special edition Icha-Icha he gave me for my birthday."

"Deal" Kakashi said before grabbing Naruto by the back of his shirt and tossing him in the street.

Naruto landed with a thump in the middle of the street as the people in the market place looked on in curiosity. He sat up gingerly and glare at the silver haired jonin.

"Don't forget our deal; I expect delivery no later than tomorrow." Kakashi said as he started walking away.

"No deal, you didn't help me escape." Naruto said belligerently.

"The deal wasn't for me to help you escape it was for me to help you, which I did." Kakashi said and kept on walking.

"How exactly did you help me?"

"Troublesome…I missed." Was the lazy drawl from the darkness of the alley Naruto had just recently taken refuge, out of the shadow of the alley walked Shikaku Nara.

Naruto looked at the Nara clan head in confusion. "Wait a minute, I know for sure I never kissed Shikamaru, so what's your problem?"

Shikaku lazily scratched his cheek as he looked at Naruto. "You troublesome blonde, this has nothing to do with Shikamaru. No matter how troublesome it might be, as one of Inos god-fathers, I'm sort of obligated to be here."

"O..o..One of her god-fathers? Is it safe to assume, her other god-father, is capable of growing to the size of the Hokage Tower?"

"The Hokage Tower?" a congenial voice rang out behind Shikaku "I've grown as big as the Hokage Monument before." Choza Akimichi said as he came to a stop next to his lifelong teammate.

"I've gotcha now!"

Naruto turned to his left to see Inoichi pushing his way through the stunned crowd of people who stopped in the middle of their day to watch the spectacle taking place. Thinking quickly Naruto reached into his hip pouch and pulled a few smoke bombs and through them at his feet.

"Shikaku, stop him before he gets away!" Inoichi yelled desperately.

Shikaku didn't have to be told, his Shadow Possession Jutsu was already on its way when the young Namikaze reached into his hip pouch. He sent his shadow tendrils into the smoke screen and instantly felt them connect. "Shadow Possession Jutsu success."

Inoichi smirk evilly into the smoke even as he raised his hands to form his own unique seals for his clan jutsu.

"What are you going to do to him?" Choza asked his blonde friend.

"I haven't completely decided yet, but some ideas that have been running through my head involve tar, feathers, a rubber chicken and a camera." Inoichis evil chuckling was abruptly cut off as the smoke cleared and a dazed and confused Kiba Inuzuka was discovered.

"What the hell is going on, how did I get here?"

"Sorry Inoichi, he must have used the replacement jutsu just before my shadow could grab him."

Inoichi let out a howl of frustration "I vow on this day that Naruto Namikaze will pay for kissing my princess!"

"Daddy would you knock it off, you're embarrassing me! It was just a kiss." Ino said as she scowled at her father.

"But you're too young." Inoichi whimpered.

Ino shook her head as her father pouted in the middle of the street and complained about the hardships of raising a daughter.

From the back of the crowd Naruto mentally apologized to Kiba for dragging him into his mess, but since he saw Kiba laughing his ass off at Naruto's expense, he figured he could pay Kiba back and escape, all in one go. Naruto finally walked away when Inoichi declared his vengeance.

'Well, that's another father declaring vengeance, and the day started off so well.'

AN: There was nothing special I had in mind for this fic other than Naruto growing up with his parents and being better prepared for life as a shinobi. I made him something of a playboy just for shits and giggles. I know I didn't mention it but everyone knows Naruto's a jinchurikki, when the Yellow Flash and the Red Death tells you to treat their son like a hero, what else are you going to do?