Chapter 16

Hey, people, sorry for taking so long to update but I got a bit of writer's block. Anyways, here is Ch. 16, and I'm glad so many people liked the last chapter. I hope I continue to impress.

"Speech"

'Thought'

"Jutsu"

"Demon/Summon Speech"

'Demon/Summon Thought'

Disclaimers: I don't own the anime/manga Naruto in any way, shape, or form.

Naruto stood there, his eyes and mouth wide open in surprise. Sakura fidgeted a bit and looked down,

"Please stop staring, this is embarrassing enough." Naruto sighed and stood aside to let Sakura in. When she came in they heard Mikoto in the back call out,

"Naruto, who's at the door?" Naruto picked up his sunglasses and put them back on before replying,

"It's just Sakura, apparently her punishment for revealing the S-class secret was worse than she thought." Sakura sighed and they walked towards the back of the mansion towards Mikoto's room. When they got there Mikoto waved slightly at Sakura and sighed before lying down. Naruto looked at a nearby clock and made a Shadow clone which rushed off. Sakura looked at Naruto with a confused look, making Naruto sigh,

"It's time for Mikoto's protein soup. She's been in a coma since the Uchiha clan massacre. That means her muscles have deteriorated and need to be restored. Every afternoon when we're out doing those damned D-ranked missions, Granny Tsunade and a team of medics come in to preform muscle restoration techniques, acupuncture and things like that." Sakura nods and looks at Mikoto, who had her eyes closed as she rested and Naruto looked at the Chakra Collar on Sakura's neck and he sighed when he saw 'Uzumaki Namikaze' on it. The clone came back with the soup and gently woke up Mikoto who smiled and began to drink the soup carefully. Naruto got up and placed his hand on the clone's back and channeled chakra into it making last up until he got home that evening. He looked at Sakura and sighed,

"Look, just act as if everything is the same, ok?" Sakura looked down and nodded, then they both left for training ground 7.

On the way to Training ground 7…

Naruto and Sakura walked along the road when a familiar figure walked out of a nearby hotel and Naruto smiled and waved,

"Hey Rebika!" said girl turned, looked and smiled a small smile while waving slightly and walked over,

"Hello Naruto, how are you?" Rebika said softly. Naruto smiled again,

"I'm fine, how are you?" Rebika smiled a bit more,

"I'm fine, thank you for asking. So where are you off to?" Rebika tilted her head out of curiosity when she asked,

"We're gonna go head out and do a few missions and train, then I'm gonna learn some sub-element manipulation." Rebika blinked and asked,

"Sub-element manipulation? What element is it your training?" Naruto thought for a moment and shrugged,

"I don't know yet. Due to my Kekkei Genkai, I can use all elements and sub-elements, but I might start with Ice element since I am strongest with wind and water elements." Rebika smiled brightly,

"You have a Kekkei Genkai? That's incredible. You know, maybe I can help you with your Ice manipulation training, I am originally from the Land of Water's Yuki clan, with the Ice-style Kekkei Genkai." Naruto blinked and tilted his head and smiled,

"Cool, I knew someone a few years ago who had an Ice-style Kekkei Genkai as well." Rebika blinked in surprise,

"Really? Who was it?" Naruto thought for a moment,

"His name was Haku and he was the apprentice of Zabuza Momochi." Rebika stopped and began to think and her eyes shot open,

"Haku? You met Haku? He was my best friend back in Water Country. I heard his family was slaughtered by a Kekkei Genkai wielder, but I never believed it since he is a distant relative of mine. His true name was Haku Yuki." Naruto nodded and began to think as well. Sakura spoke up then,

"Um, Naruto, don't we have to hurry up and get to the training grounds? Otherwise we'll be late." Naruto rolled his eyes behind his sunglasses and looked at Sakura,

"Did you really just say that?" Sakura looked confused and Naruto sighed making Rebika look confused as well,

"Sakura, Kakashi-sensei is three hours late for everything excluding an S-ranked mission, or a crisis." Sakura looked like she was about to say something but then her eyes widened in realization. Naruto was right, Kakashi sensei was three hours late for everything but those mentioned by the blonde. Rebika tilted her heard slightly,

"Is your sensei really that late for everything?" Naruto looked back at Rebika and laughed,

"Rebika, here's how he is: he would be late for his own funeral." Rebika blinked and giggled a little bit and sighed,

"Well, in exchange for teaching you, can I ask you a favor Naruto?"

"Sure, what is it?"

"Can you ask your Hokage if I can join Konoha?"

"Sure, but you might want to hide your bloodline and make it seem like it's just a special talent that you learned from the Land of Snow/Spring's Hidden Snow Village." Rebika looked confused,

"Why do I need to do that?" Naruto sighed and took off his sunglasses surprising Rebika as she had heard of the legendary Rinnegan,

"The reason is because the Civilian Council would want to turn you into a baby producing factory in order to 'restore your clan', or worse, give you to Sasuke to help restore his clan, and I don't care if he is mellowing out, I don't trust him at all." Rebika shivered at those thoughts and nodded. Naruto smiled and held out his hand which Haku shook. They went their separate ways promising to meet up after they did their daily Team 7 routines.

One month later…

Naruto was standing in the middle of his clan's training grounds panting. He was standing in front of the crater he made and he smiled and shouted in triumph. He finally mastered the jutsu his father wanted to create, the final stage of the Rasengan. A technique Naruto perfected and he called it Rasenshuriken. Naruto looked up and around, he saw all the craters that looked different, one crater looked scorched and slightly melted, another looks wet and completely smooth. Another looked like it was shattered by a giant hammer. Another looked like it was drilled into by a stationary tornado. Another looked like it was struck by a huge bolt of lightning, while the final crater looked like it was smoothly imprinted by a large and extremely heavy sphere. Naruto smirked and looked up at the clan home and waved to Kushina, Darian, Lexi, Chikyu, Tsunade, Jiraiya, Kakashi, Mikoto, Sasuke(who had calmed down greatly), and Rebika, who was wearing a white kimono with silver stream designs traveling down it, over her Konoha flak jacket, which could be seen through the opening of the Kimono near her neck.

He walked over to them and Jiraiya patted the blonde on the head smiling brightly,

"Good job gaki, I'm sure Minato would be proud that you completed his technique, and use it with all 5 elements as well as the Gravity element." Naruto looked embarrassed and rubbed the back of his head while Kakashi nodded in agreement. Mikoto, who was almost fully recovered, she had recovered a week before enough to walk around a bit as long as she rested often, stood up and hugged Naruto, much to Sasuke's annoyance. He knew Mikoto treated Naruto like that for taking care of her while she was recovering, but he didn't understand why it ticked him off a little bit. Naruto blushed as she congratulated him when she let go and Kushina, Darian, Lexi, and Chikyu saw her blush slightly when Mikoto hugged the blonde and knew something Sasuke didn't. Jiraiya's hand was twitching towards his pocket as he wanted to write down ideas for his next book as he had seen Mikoto blush when she hugged his student. However he wouldn't risk pissing off Tsunade or Naruto or worse still, Kushina. However, little did Jiraiya or Tsunade know, Naruto, Darian, and Lexi owned all of Jiraiya's books. They even his owned a copy of his first ever book, Tale of a Gutsy Ninja. Naruto and the girls enjoyed that story a lot despite the fact that it didn't sell very well when it was published.

Darian, Lexi, and Chikyu walked up to Naruto and hugged him together when Chikyu whispered into his ear,

"Hey, Naru-kun. Me, Darian, and Lexi want you to take us out to eat, will you do that for us?" Darian and Lexi both whispered into Naruto's ears, Lexi in a shy voice,

"Please Naru-kun, take us out to eat." Naruto couldn't refuse and promised them he would and Jiraiya's hand had moved and he was now writing on his little notepad before he flipped to another page while he was giggling perversely, which Tsunade and Kushina noticed. Kushina punched Jiraiya in the stomach and Tsunade gave an upper-cut to his chin and sent him flying. Mikoto looked at the notepad because it landed in front of her and blushed when at what she saw on it as it involved a character based off of her and a character based off of Naruto and she substituted the filled notepad with a blank one and planned to return the notepad to Jiraiya, because she was a secret fan of Jiraiya's work and looked at Naruto blushing as she imagined her and Naruto doing some of the things written in the notepad. Sasuke looked at his mother as her nose started bleeding, making him worried and he asked if she was alright and she blushed a bit more and nodded that she was ok while wiping the blood away. Darian, Lexi, and Chikyu saw her expression and giggled.

Rebika laughed at the Sannin get punched into the air and over the clan house. Tsunade looked at Naruto and the girls who were hugging him and realized something. He had a bloodline and was the last male of his clan and that made him eligible for the CRA. She smiled and walked over to Kushina and told her this and Kushina blushed slightly and nodded. Tsunade saw this and wondered if Kushina fell for the blonde, but she shrugged it off as members of the same clan marrying was a common practice in many clans such as the Hyuuga clan. Kushina looked at Naruto as he talked to the girls hanging off of him and then Sakura walked out nervously, since she had recently told Sasuke of her 'demotion' to servant of the Uzumaki-Namikaze clan. Sasuke, who had finally calmed down (even though he still wanted to find Itachi and make him pay for what he'd done to the clan), comforted Sakura a little bit, at his mother's command of course. Sakura was still humiliated but was glad that no one was forcing her to do something she wouldn't want to do, they mostly had her just cleaning around the house and even then they helped her out. Rebika walked up to Naruto with a smile and Naruto smiled back as Rebika said,

"Ok Naruto, lets continue your Ice-manipulation training, ok? Have you mastered the latest Ice jutsu I gave you?" Naruto nodded and turned away while making several hand signs,

"Ice-Style: Black Dragon Blizzard Jutsu!" Suddenly a frosty wind picked up and circled Naruto and when Naruto threw his fist out a dragon made of black ice formed around Naruto's arm with red eyes and red mouth and it charged towards one of the training dummies and when it collided it smashed the target to pieces and Naruto canceled the jutsu as he looked at Rebika who nodded and smiled,

"Good job Naruto, now to give you this technique, I'm sure it'll be useful to you." Rebika pulled out a scroll and handed it to Naruto,

"That scroll contains a stronger form of the Black Dragon Blizzard Jutsu. It is called the Twin Blizzard Dragon Jutsu. This jutsu creates two dragons rather than one and it then combines them after they attack for a few moments into an enormous twister of ice and wind which deals further damage to enemies that try to get near you." Naruto chuckled at the description,

"Well, that sounds cool. It is an very powerful offensive jutsu." Rebika nodded and told Naruto that to make this jutsu work he would need to double everything he did with the Black Dragon Blizzard Jutsu in order to make two black ice dragons and then gain enough control over it so that it doesn't require much more chakra than its weaker counterpart. Naruto nodded as he memorized these instructions and began to work on it. He used his favorite method, the Shadow Clone Jutsu method since it shortened the time needed to learn jutsu, and make his muscles memorize taijutsu and Kenjutsu katas.

A few hours later…

Naruto, Darian, Lexi, and Chikyu were walking up to the restaurant Naruto was taking them to, The Burning Leaf. The girls gasped when they saw this and looked at Naruto as Lexi spoke up,

"Naruto-kun, are you really taking us here? This is one of the most expensive restaurants in Konoha." Naruto chuckled and led them to the man taking names at the front door and Naruto spoke up,

"Excuse me, reserved table for Zen Senkensha (All Seer) (A/N: a little pun on the Rinnegan since they are kind of all seeing like the Byakugan and Sharingan)." The man looked at his list and saw the name and let them through. Naruto brought them to a table near the back of the restaurant and they sat down with a view over a nearby lake. Darian looked at Naruto and sighed,

"Ok Naruto-kun, can you tell us how do you have private seats in this restaurant?" Naruto chuckled lightly,

"That's simply answered. The man who owns this restaurant owed me for saving his daughter from being raped by a group of bandits." The girls eyes went wide and they wanted Naruto to explain,

"Ok, I'll tell you. It was last month that this happened, I was out looking for some herbs and stuff since my supplies had run low, while I was out I heard a scream and ran over towards it and saw a woman being held by a group of bandits. They were about to tear her clothes off when I used Banshou Tenin to pull the woman away from them and then use my katana and kill them off." The girls were slightly disappointed by the lack of action in the story but nodded anyways and then a server came and bowed to Naruto and the girls before taking their orders. They began talking about random things until their food arrived. When it did they ate while continuing their previous conversation. After they ate, Naruto paid for their meals and led them home with them hanging off of him. Darian was on his left arm, Lexi on his right, and Chikyu was behind him with her arms wrapped around her waist as she hugged herself close to him. Naruto blushed at feeling their breasts pressed against his arms and back. Guys were staring at Naruto but this wasn't the same 'kill the demon' stare. This was a stare of jealousy at the site of one guy with three girls hanging onto him.

At the Uzumaki-Namikaze clan compound that night…

Naruto and the girls walked into the living room where Kushina and Mikoto were resting on the couch and talking. When they noticed Naruto and the girls Kushina smiled and waved, which was returned, while Mikoto looked at Kushina who nodded, smirking and Kushina motioned at the girls clinging to Naruto who nodded and each kissed Naruto on the cheeks and walked upstairs to their rooms. Kushina whispered a little bit to Mikoto and she left the room as well. Mikoto stood up and walked over to Naruto who smiled,

"Hey Mikoto-chan, how are you feeling?" Mikoto blushed and nodded,

"I'm feeling ok. Um, Naruto, do you mind if I talk to you privately?" Naruto tilted his head but nodded and led her up to his room. When they got there, Mikoto closed and locked the door and walked to him. She leaned forward so she was near his ear and spoke softly,

"I want to thank you for taking care of me Naru-kun." With that said she pulled back and kissed Naruto, right on the lips. Naruto was surprised but kissed back as he had always thought Mikoto was attractive. Mikoto lead Naruto to the bed after they separated and they kissed some more before parting again and Mikoto whispered,

"Thank you Naru-kun. You are such a sweet boy. I hope you would consider me as part of your clan now, especially since you are under the CRA now." Naruto's eyes widened. He was under the CRA? He smiled and nodded, making Mikoto smile brightly and they kissed again before falling asleep in each other's embrace.

The next day…

Naruto and Mikoto had woken up and where a little embarrassed by the fact that they were sleeping in the same bed but they got over that as they got up and walked down stairs. The sat down in the kitchen and ate breakfast before getting up and Naruto headed out to do his team duties for the day. Though he wasn't looking forward to the D-ranked missions, especially if it was catching that damned demon… I mean cat, Tora. Though Naruto recently noticed that Tora was a little bit calmer around him, especially since he didn't try killing the cat unsuccessfully like all the other genin, so the cat didn't claw him unless he used a weapon to catch it.

Today, however, was a good day for Naruto, he just didn't know it. Kakashi had arrived three hours late as usual but when he arrived he handed Naruto a familiar slip of paper. Naruto stared and smirked as he looked at Kakashi,

"When is it and who will am I teamed up with?" Kakashi smiled as he watched Naruto sign the slip of paper and hand it back,

"You are teamed up alone, I have gotten special permission from Lady Tsunade to let you compete alone this time since there are no genin teams with spots open. As for when it is, it is in a week, so be prepared." Naruto smirked even more and nodded.

Later that day, at the Namikaze compound…

Naruto walked up and saw Kushina sitting at the kitchen table drinking some tea. Naruto snuck up behind her and hugged her, making her quietly yelp in surprise,

"Hey, guess what?" Kushina blushed at the contact,

"What is it Naruto-kun?"

"I'm gonna be in next week's Chunin exams!" Kushina looked surprised but smiled brightly,

"That's great, make me proud. You know what, I was planning on cooking, but I decided we should go out to eat, what do you say?" Naruto smiled and nodded,

"Sounds good to me, Dattebayo!" Kushina giggled at the phrase as it was similar to her verbal tic 'Dattebane'.

A few hours later…

Naruto and Kushina were leaving a restaurant after eating and celebrating Naruto's entry into the Chunin exams. However, Naruto noticed Kushina was acting strangely. When she looked at him she blushed, however, Naruto didn't know it but he was doing the same thing. Kushina and Naruto stopped in the middle of a park and Kushina motioned for them to sit down on a nearby bench.

"Naruto, there's something you need to know."

"What is it?" Kushina looked down and bit her lip, contemplating her words and she sighed before she turned to Naruto, grabbed him by the collar of his shirt, pulled him towards her and kissed him. After a few second she pulled away and looked down and Naruto looked surprised. He smiled softly and gently moved her head so she was looking at him,

"I see, so this is why you were acting so strange. Well, let's head home, ok?" Kushina looked confused but saw he only has a smile, no disgust at what she did or anything and she smiled, knowing he didn't mind that she loved him and they left. When they got home they saw the ANBU operative Boar, standing in front of the door with a woman who had long flowing crimson red hair that reached her legs and covered her right eye as well as two bangs meeting just below her chin. The woman was wearing a blue battle kimono with a mesh bodysuit underneath and shinobi sandals. She smiled lightly and bowed to the two and spoke,

"Hello. I am Mei Terumi." Kushina and Naruto bowed back out of respect and Kushina smiled lightly before speaking,

"Hello Mei, I'm Kushina Uzumaki-Namikaze, and this is Naruto Uzumaki-Namikaze." Naruto smiled brightly and waved,

"Hello." Mei smiled and looked at Naruto closely,

'Hmm, he's quite handsome, and to think he has a Doujutsu. That must put him under the CRA. Well, I think I'll get to know him a bit better.' Mei looked back at Kushina,

"I was told of Naruto-kun's Doujutsu when Kiri and Konoha finished our negotiations last week. I learned that he could learn my Kekkei Genkai jutsu and decided to train him in Lava and Broil elements. Assuming you don't mind of course." Naruto smirked and took off his sunglasses, showing his pale purple ringed eyes,

"Sounds interesting, I don't mind at all. So what're you doing here Boar?" The ANBU operative laughed and took off his mask showing he had brown eyes, pale skin and a slight smile,

"I'm here for a similar reason. I am here to teach you wood release jutsu under Lady Hokage's orders since she wants you to get stronger." Naruto smirked again and nodded,

"Awesome, when can we begin? Just a heads up, I have the Chunin exams next week." The two nod and Mei spoke,

"You can train with the ANBU for the week, and once the month long break comes along, I will pick you up and take you to Kiri to train you in my clan's techniques." Naruto smiled even more and nodded. Kushina giggled and knew that Naruto would bring hell to the exams.