The End Of A Legend
Kurama talking/ other bijū
sounds
'thoughts'
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As everyone was staring at the new creatures in the distance it was Ino and Sakura who acted first. Ino and Sakura jumped down to the centre of the arena, Ino acted first by putting her hands together in her families own special jutsu. "Yamanaka style: Web Of The Minds!(1)" she cried out and Ino targeted all of the civilians inside the arena stands, Sakura was then up next she then stared into the eye's of her oldest friend and nodded once, Ino nodded back.
"Haruno style: Dream Of A Thousand Sleeps!(2)" Sakura shouted with confidence and in an instant all the civilians fell to the ground below them, some in a heap. Sakura caught her friend and lifted her onto her own shoulder, looking over to Naruto she saw something that was amiss on his face.
Bewilderment.
"Naruto I need help getting the civvies out of here!" Sakura yelled at him snapping him out of it. Normality returned to Naruto's features as well as a fire in his eyes.
"Time for an upgrade I think." Naruto mused aloud and instantaneously the village was smothered in smoke. Naruto fell to one knee. 'That was a lot of memories,' shaking his head he stood back up determination clear on his face. Shadow Clones filled the arena all holding a civilian under their arms. "You lead I'll follow, my Clones will anyway," Naruto joked as he turned back to the oncoming wave of creature's.
"Kit Let me out I want to deal with him personally," Kurama growled from within Naruto's mind, a grin spread it's self over his lips.
'And how badly do you want to deal with him?' Naruto asked using the same tone as Kurama had when referring to him.
"Don't make me your enemy Kit, you know what I can do!" Kurama roared for the first time, if he was out in the real world many would have lost themselves to the force of it.
'That's why I'm teasing you Kurama, because I know what CAN happen when you fight an enemy,' Naruto stated with determination 'nothing is left unscathed.' pain rung through the last few words.
"I will be careful not to damage the village... Gaki." Kurama promised with a toothy grin.
Running past Neji and Genma Naruto continued till he was about to collide with the wall but one quick jump and he was running up the wall gaining speed as he went. Upon reaching the top of the wall Naruto flipped and landed on the roof. Before him, and the village, was a mass of snakes and a sand raccoon.
Bringing a thumb up to his mouth Naruto bit down hard and waited till he could taste the iron in it before placing the hand on the outer wall concentration etched into his features as his closed eyes darted from side to side behind his eyelids. They snapped open and when they did Naruto let out a great cry.
The whole area was awash in potent chakra that all the seasoned shinobi of Konoha knew. The Kyuubi was free.
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Hiruzen stood on the roof top with the other Kage beside him. Looking to his left he could see Mei analysing the battles below in the streets "Could you lend them a hand Mizukage?" Hiruzen asked to see Mei nod then disappear.
As soon as Mei had left four sound shinobi slowly became visible, Hiruzen looked at all four seeing that they were in the corners of the building he had but one thought and it came true when the Kazekage began to laugh in a frightening way.
"KuKuKu you are but a fool." the Kazekage laughed coldly as the sound four faced outwards and forced their hands together. A purple barrier sprouted from the ground around them sealing them in.
"What are you planning to do?" Hiruzen said as he took a defensive stance sliding kunai out of his selves.
"For all your brains you are rather stupid sensei." the Kazekage then began to peel off his own face to reveal a pale face with golden eyes stared back at him.
Hiruzen's eyes narrowed as he looked at his former student "Orochimaru." he spat out at the sight of him.
"KuKuKu aren't you glad to know that your student is alive, after letting him go after all these years?" Orochimaru smiled an evil grin at his sensei. He quickly started to work his way through some hand signs and stopped on the last one as a coffin began to rise out of the roof which was quickly followed by another. Just as a third coffin was rising, slower that the others Hiruzen flew through hand signs of his own and prepared to counter that jutsu.
"KuKuKu Do you really think I hadn't planed for that?" Orochimaru stated flatly, the sight of Hiruzen's eyes going wide was the icing on the proverbial cake as the coffin kept rising.
"That's a forbidden jutsu Orochimaru why are you using it?" Hiruzen barked while trying with every fibre of his being to try and stop the third coffin from rising.
"Why?" Orochimaru said in a creepily soft voice, "I want to destroy this village and I will begin with you sensei." as Orochimaru had finished his sentence all three coffins had fully emerged and the lids fell forward hitting the tiled roof with a thud.
Three figures stepped out of the coffins Hiruzen's eyes once again went wide. He was looking at the three other Hokage's the First being Senju Hashirama, the Second Senju Tobirama and finally the Fourth Hokage Namikaze Minato.
Stepping out of the coffins each of them yawned and stretched themselves before looking around. It was the Senju brothers that reacted first by pointing at each other and yelling "You!" this caused Minato to turn around still rubbing his eyes but after his vision came back to him a look of shock struck him.
Pointing at the First and Second Hokage Minato began to tremble "You're meant to be dead!" he exclaimed then it donned on him and he pointed towards himself "I'm meant to be dead."
The three heard a cough coming from behind them and turned to see Hiruzen standing in his Hokage garb. Tobirama stared at the old man for what seemed like an eternity before saying "Hiruzen is that you?" Hiruzen nodded, only to get a laugh from his old sensei "Damn you have gotten old haven't you hows the village been?"
"It's had it's trials..." Hiruzen said not quite sure of what was happening.
"Hokage-sama, How's Naruto been doing?" Minato asked quite clearly he was already looking around at the carnage below. But just as he asked that a very loud cry came from the wall furthest away and Minato froze the smile on his face fell as he saw that the Kyuubi was now loose.
"I want my other half, Give it to ME!" Came a bellowing voice from within Minato's own mind grabbing his head he looked up at Hiruzen who was smiling as he looked over to where the Kyuubi was standing.
"To answer your question Minato Naruto has been doing great. He's smart, strong, friendly, one of a kind, partly insane okay he is insane with those jutsu he keeps making and has someone worth living for." Hiruzen said as he looked out towards where his adoptive grandson was, although what he saw was the Kyuubi he knew Naruto was there with him. "Don't worry about Kurama Minato look down. Carefully, see any red heads?" Hiruzen asked calmly turning his head back to Minato.
Minato looked down carefully as Hiruzen had instructed and he was amazed at how many red heads there was, but they were all the same person. "Shadow Clones? That means-"
"Yes Naruto is still alive and well and is working in tandem with Kurama, the Kyuubi." Hiruzen completed for him. A tear came down his face seeing that his lone son was alive and well. A hand found it's way onto both of Minato's shoulders looking back he could see the smiling faces of the first two Hokage. Sniffling Minato rubbed his nose on the sleeve of his cloak.
"KuKuKu sorry to break up this touching reunion but you will have to kill him now." Orochimaru said as he walked up behind the three Hokage's. As he did they all became rigid, a battle was waging inside them they were fighting an order from their summoner.
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Kurama's eyes opened to reveal that he was once again outside and he could feel the air rush in between each follicle of hair. He had forgotten how nice it felt. Looking forward he saw a group of snakes stop to evaluate if it was smart to move forward or not. They never had a chance to decide because Kurama was already bounding towards them at a increasingly fast pace.
Kurama's jaw found the head of three snakes who were clumped together, in one swift motion Kurama closed his jaw and crushed the heads of the three snakes. Another group was in range of one of his huge paws. So with a quick swipe from his taloned paw that group of snakes had also perished. The last group had quickly dispelled themselves so that they could live.
"It's time for us to fight now brother." came the voice of Shukaku as he had already sent his tail after his brother. Kurama rolled to avoid the tail and charged in close avoiding the same tail as it made it's way back.
"You still refuse to learn don't you Shukaku that it's better to work with your host rather than take them over!" Kurama yelled back at his baby brother.
'Kurama it's ready!' Naruto yelled from the small space in Kurama's mind.
'Thanks Naruto.' Kurama replied back and brought forth his centre tail that had a black orb floating next to the tip.
Shukaku's eyes went wide when he saw that "How could you make a bomb you need uninterrupted focus to make it!" Shukaku demanded only to get a grin from his eldest sibling as he ingested the bomb.
The grin on Kurama's face widened into a devilish smile just as his cheeks puffed out, he inhaled through his nose and roared at his brother and at the same time let loose the bijū bomb. It completely decimated Shukaku leaving only the top of his head to fall to the ground. "Naruto you can have your body back, thanks for letting me deal with him." Kurama said aloud and got a hi five from Naruto as they passed each other in their mind space. The giant body soon disappeared and Naruto standing before the unconscious body of Gaara.
"Now what to do with you?" Naruto said thinking aloud. With a nod he slapped Gaara across the face waking him up instantaneously unfortunately the same slap sent Gaara slamming into a tree. One in front of the one that the Sabaku siblings.
"Owww." was the first thing that came to Gaara's mind when he awoke to find himself in a forest. Looking around Gaara had no idea where he was "Where am I?" Gaara said weakly surprising his hidden siblings.
Naruto walked over to the boy and sat down. "Your in a forest just outside of my home, Konoha, that you or to be precise Shukaku tried to destroy." Naruto said calmly as he was fixing his coat tail.
"How did I get here last thing I remember is walking to the bathroom in the arena." Gaara said even quieter so that Naruto could pick it up. Naruto tried to stifle a laugh but it didn't work. He was on the ground holding his sides as he let out a laugh. Gaara on the other hand was red with embarrassment, Him the son of the Kazekage and Jinchūriki to the Ichibi, was knocked out when going for a piss.
When Naruto had finally finished laughing he lay there looking up at the blue sky above. "That means that your still human Gaara." Naruto said easily gaining a confused look from Gaara himself. "You said that nothing could harm you right? Well you being knocked out when doing a piss means that you ain't some sort of monster that's unbeatable. Mind I just won against bushy brows." Naruto said with a laugh. "Well I best be off to help Jiji," Naruto stated as he looked back at the village to see a purple square sitting above the Kage booth. "besides I think it's best if I leave you to your brother and sister." Naruto then leaned in to whisper into Gaara's ear "They're worried about you."
And with that said Naruto disappeared in a mist of kicked up leaves from Kurama and Shukaku's fight. Gaara just sat there and looked up to the blue sky above before both Temari and Kankurō landed down at his side. Without looking at his siblings he stood up then walked forward weakly and turned to face them. Tears were running down his face at an uncontrollable rate "I'm sorry." Gaara said weakly only to be embraced by Temari and after a death stare from her to Kankurō he joined in.
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Naruto appeared on the roof top of the Kage booth to see a group of ANBU sitting watching as Hiruzen was doing combat with the three other Hokage's and Orochimaru. For his age he was certainly not going down without a fight especially with that staff of his. He was knocking them about like it was nothing. Although Naruto could see what was truly happening Jiji was being pushed beyond his limits and the other Hokage were trying to hold back as best as they could.
Naruto turned to the ANBU sitting watching and opened his mouth to say something but an ANBU answered the question before Naruto could ask it. The boar masked ANBU picked up a tile off the roof and threw it at the barrier and as soon as it made contact it fizzed into dust.
Nodding Naruto turned to focus on the barrier itself but that's when he noticed the shinobi in the corners. The nearest one was a girl with pink hair (Yes she does have pink hair it's red in the anime for whatever reason) and a smile came to his face.
He walked over to her and sat down just on the outskirts of the barrier that covered her. "I'm Naruto, you are?" he asked getting a stunned look from the girl.
After a while she answered "Tayuya." Naruto nodded.
"Just Tayuya or do you have a surname?" Naruto probed her for an answer.
With a sigh Tayuya answered "Uzumaki Tayuya (3), what's it to you dirtbag?"
Naruto couldn't help but smile "It's because my full name is Uzumaki Namikaze Naruto, Heir to the Namikaze and Uzumaki clans."
Tayuya was shocked to hear what the man just said 'He's lying he's got to be,' she thought to herself 'there's no more Uzumaki left bar me lord Orochimaru confirmed it.'
"I take it Orochimaru didn't tell you about me, Shame, now I'm going to have to take care of him." Naruto said as if it were nothing and drew Kubikiribōchō and channelled his chakra into the blade.
"It wont work nothing can get through the barrier." Tayuya insisted as she was holding on for hope that Naruto was speaking the truth.
"If that were true how is there air and light inside the barrier?" Naruto asked her. Confusion was written on her face. Kubikiribōchō Began to heat up and turn white "Ah it's ready, please stay after all this I wish to speak with you." Naruto stated in a commanding voice. One that the clan heads use and Tayuya agreed instantaneously with a nod. Naruto brought Kubikiribōchō up above his head and sliced it down onto the barrier cutting it open. Tayuya was shocked as Naruto walked through the hole he had made before it resealed. Seeing the look on her face Naruto decided he should name the technique "Sun style: Light Blade".
Naruto then began his run towards the Hokage but stopped short when he saw what had happened before him. Hiruzen was using his own soul to try and pull out Orochimaru's but it didn't seem like it was going to happen.
"You three deal with the boy!" Orochimaru commanded and the three other Hokage dashed straight for Naruto.
"Don't worry about me Jiji, just worry about yourself!" Naruto shouted back to try and bolster Jiji's mood.
"I'm sorry Naruto, but I'm done for." he said solemnly to himself.
Naruto locked blades with Hashirama. Neither moved and Hashirama was very surprised by this. "So you're the First Hokage how are you?" Naruto said pleasantly.
"I'm good for being dead, sorry for trying to kill you that white guy is ordering us about." Hashirama replied as he motioned with his head over to Orochimaru.
"I heard that you were married to an Uzumaki is that true?" Naruto asked as he began to push the First back.
A smile appeared on Hashirama's face "That's true she was the most beautiful woman I have ever seen her name was Uzumaki Mito." Hashirama recalled all the memories he had of her in an instant.
"I guess that makes us family then." Naruto stated "My name is Uzumaki Namikaze Naruto." just before he forced Hashirama's sword up which leaved him open and Naruto took that opportunity and cleaved him in two.
"Thank you for freeing me... Naruto." Hashirama said as he closed his eyes and disintegrated into dust.
Tobirama was next up after shooting "Water style: water dragon bullet." Naruto had just managed to deflect one but got hit by another sending him skidding across the roof. Looking down at Kubikiribōchō he could see a dent in the blade from where the jutsu had hit that sent him flying. Naruto couldn't help but whistle at the power Tobirama had in the jutsu so Naruto returned Kubikiribōchō to his scabbard on his back and switched it out for his coat.
Both Naruto and Tobirama then flew through hand signs for another water jutsu. When Tobirama had finished he shouted out "Water style: Water severing wave!" while Naruto shouted "water style: exploding water colliding wave!" when both jutsu met neither one gave way they just stayed put battling for supremacy.
Minato had rushed Naruto from the side of his jutsu with a kunai in hand. "Naruto look out!" he yelled just as he was about to drive the kunai into his own son's body. But the blow never happened instead he felt a hand on the back of his neck then nothing. Minato blinked a few times before his back connected with the tiles of the roof top. Sitting up he saw that Naruto had now jumped over the water jutsu and was on fire as he was about to slam a punch down on Tobirama's head. The Second Hokage looked up and jumped back but not before raising an arm to protect himself. The blow that was meant for his head tore off the arm he used to defend himself. Minato could only sit there and watch as his son was now engaging in a Taijutsu fight with the Second Hokage and was beating him. 'Look at him Kushina our little boy has grown up so much.' Minato said to himself happily.
"He has my other half let me out, LET ME OUT!" commanded the dark half of the Kyuubi that resided inside Minato.
'That's for Naruto to decide not me.' Minato answered the Kyuubi before looking over to see the third Hokage still fighting with Orochimaru. It didn't look good for the older Hokage. Minato looked back to see that his son had just kicked Tobirama straight at him and in an instant Naruto was above Tobirama with a Rasengan in his hand and slammed the jutsu right into Tobirama's back killing him instantly, again.
Naruto then stood up straight and looked at his dad. "Hey dad." Naruto said with a shaky voice.
"Hey son." Minato replied in the same way, tears started to run down both their cheeks. "Your mother would be so proud of you right now."
"Yeah and she'd be worried no doubt." Naruto said with a bit of a laugh only to get a nod from his father.
"And I would somehow get the blame for it." Minato joked as he rubbed his head. With a sigh he looked at his son who was only slightly taller than himself. "I heard you made friends with the Kyuubi." Naruto nodded. "Well there is another half of him sealed within me."
"Don't worry dad I have great friends I can bear the burden of the other half." Naruto said through a teary smile. Minato smiled back and stepped forward and placed his hands on his son's shoulders and pulled him into a hug. Naruto then hugged him back.
"Okay here's what you have to do." Minato said as he took a step back and lifted up his shirt revealing a seal on his stomach. "You have to pull the Kyuubi's chakra out of me and into yourself. You got that?" Naruto looked down for a second processing the information then looked up with determination in his eyes and he nodded. "Just start whenever your ready." Minato told him and Naruto just smiled at him.
"I love you dad." Naruto said just before he began to pull the Kyuubi out of his father and into himself.
"I know son." Minato responded and concentrated hard not to yell out in pain and so not to frighten his son.
The process was very tiring and just finished before Hiruzen's fight with Orochimaru's soul. Naruto fell backwards and it felt like he was on fire, all of Kurama's chakra had doubled and the extra was being pumped into him so the only way to get rid of extra chakra is to use it. With out a second though Naruto filled the cube with Shadow Clones and commanded them to run into the barrier. Thirty seconds had passed and Naruto could finally stand up, shakily but still standing.
"What have you done old man? Why can't I use my arms?" Orochimaru barked.
"I've taken the arm parts of your soul." Hiruzen coughed as he fell forward onto his front.
"Naruto you need to finish me off." Minato said from the part of the roof he'd fallen back onto.
"But-" Naruto was about to protest but his father held up his hand and he stopped.
"I don't want to 'live' like this commanded by a mad... thing" Minato joked as he looked through his yellow hair up towards Orochimaru.
"I'll do it then." Naruto said solemnly as he took his fathers tri-pronged kunai and sank it into his heart. Tears rolled down his face as he had to kill his father but he changed the pain to anger when he looked at Orochimaru through his red eyes. "You." Naruto stated quietly as he glared at Orochimaru.
Orochimaru looked down at his now purple arms. He cursed his old sensei for what he had done. "We're leaving now!" Orochimaru commanded and the barrier vanished along with Orochimaru and three of the four sound shinobi. Naruto was about to chase after them when he felt a hand on his shoulder. He turned to see that it was an ANBU operative who was shaking his head.
Mei soon arrived and knelled down next to the corpse of Hiruzen and she could see the smile on his face. 'He was clearly happy with his choice at the end.' Mei thought to herself. She looked round to see the Naruto boy sitting down near a pink haired girl with a cap on. She was about to go and ask if he was alright when he was tackled by a purple haired kunoichi who began to exam his body before kissing him deeply. Mei didn't know where to look so she just turned round to see the smiling face of Ao. That face ticked her off so much that she kicked him off the roof.
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Three days had passed and the damage that the village had suffered was restored with thanks to the shinobi from the academy to the ANBU operatives chipping in where ever possible but funnily enough Anko's apartment complex had been destroyed when a sound shinobi blew herself up when she saw that her team mates had been killed.
The hospital was coping with the injured and with some help from the medic nins that were now back in the village everything seemed to be going well. As well as it could be with the death of their Hokage.
99% of the shinobi force was grieving with the passing of their loved Hokage but one wasn't. Danzo was overjoyed when the news came to him that Hiruzen had died in combat. The Hokage seat was now open for the taking.
Jiraiya had returned to the village after one of his spy network informed him that his sensei had died. By Orochimaru's hand no less. Jiraiya kept the mask of not caring on until he was running through the trees towards his home. Occasionally wiping the tears from his eyes and trying to keep the fury berried deep within himself at the thought that Orochimaru would actually go out of his way to make sure he was dead. So he kept running gaining more speed with every push off eventually with the chakra Jiraiya was channelling to his feet the branches were shattering where he was kicking off just to shorten the journey time.
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The next day rained like never before. Kami must have known that it was Hiruzen's funeral that day.
Every shinobi had gathered on the roofs of the buildings that surrounded the Hokage tower while the civilians stood down in the streets. No one in the village wore anything other than black. Not one person from any clan had a symbol showing said clan. They were just people here to see a great leader off.
Naruto stood on the nearest building with Anko by his right side with his team on his left with the only one missing being their sensei Asuma. Anko and Naruto both had masks of indifference on, all seasoned shinobi did with the exception of the newer shinobi and the rest of the rookie 12. There was a part where people would say some words about the Hokage most hit home for people others broke them. Eventually the seasoned shinobi broke and tears ran down their faces, same with the ANBU but they said it was just the rain getting in behind the masks.
Jiraiya took the stand which shocked some people as they didn't know he was back in Konoha.
"Sensei was.. Sensei was a great man who looked after everyone like he was their father." Jiraiya began as he let the tears begin to flow, "No matter what their background was everyone was equal until their actions proved otherwise and you would be punished just like a naughty child. I know I was." this gained some laughs from the gathered crowd. "No matter what happened sensei always had a plan that seemed, weirdly, like it was already planned out," most shinobi who served with Hiruzen nodded. "but they somehow always worked. I'll miss you old man. Everyone will." Jiraiya finished and walked backwards looking up it the darkened sky letting the rain fall on his face. He never really thought of himself as Old per say, but with his sensei gone it hit him like a Rasengan to the nuts. What did he have to his name, a few pervy books, some jutsu that were just refined ones of others, sure he had the title of Sannin but that didn't count for anything other than a body count that he and his team racked up years ago.
This got him wondering 'What's my legacy?' he was by no means a leader not for a village, sure he could manage a team but not a village and he knew that the village elders would ask him before Danzo. Firstly that man would never get the title of Hokage as long as Jiraiya lived he'd take the position but try and get someone else to do the work. Then an idea popped into his mind 'Tsunade!' she was the one that kept the Sannin together she was a natural leader just like her grandfather Hashirama. She'd be the next Hokage.
The ceremony lasted all day and the rain never let up once. Everyone took the burden of being soaked by the rain as a kind of tribute to the Hokage for everything that he weathered for them.
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The next day Naruto dragged himself to his bed edge and sighed. He looked back onto his bed to see Anko all curled up into a small ball and Naruto smiled. She'd just been lying outstretched all night but as soon as he left she curled up. She was cute when she wasn't torturing you about something but then again Naruto done it to her as well.
Getting up Naruto stretched and looked at the clock 7:15am it was weird. No shout about "YOUTHFULNESS!" yet. Naruto would remedy that later. He walked into the living room and kitchen combo after putting on a pair of combat trousers.
Naruto noticed something was amiss when there was a smell of toast in the air. "come out." Naruto said dryly as he stuck his arm into the fridge to get some things for breakfast.
"Good to see your skills are still high Gaki." Jiraiya said as he dropped the stealth jutsu and lent back against the worktop.
"Nope yours dropped, I could smell the toast and another thing," Naruto hit Jiraiya on the head lightly "Don't take without asking."
Jiraiya just smiled and rubbed his head "I guess I'm just getting old."
"Yep."
"You weren't meant to agree," Jiraiya barked before sighing "the council want me to be Hokage."
Naruto stopped buttering the bread and turned to the older man in the room. For the first time Naruto saw just how old Jiraiya was, the wrinkles covered his brow and his eyes didn't have that perverted shine in them, honestly they were dull and lifeless without it. Even his posture was wrong and Naruto didn't like it so he hit his godfather again.
"Oww stop hitting me." Jiraiya complained as he raised his arms up to prevent another hit to his head.
"Go be perverted somewhere will ya, then come back when you're yourself then we'll talk." Naruto said as he began to fry the bacon that he took out of the fridge. Jiraiya couldn't help but laugh at what Naruto had said. Naruto looked back at the old man and he was back to normal and he had that damn infectious laugh so Naruto had to laugh as well.
A grumbling noise came from round the corner and when it got closer it turned out to be a very hungry Anko who was sporting very little in terms of clothes, a pair of Naruto's boxers and an old shirt. She walked over to Naruto and wrapped her arms around him resting her head in the crook of his neck. Only then did she notice Jiraiya but she was to hungry to care. "What do you want?" she asked flatly but when she seen him look her up and down she growled saying "They're comfy and I don't want to hear anything from you." Jiraiya put his hands up and motioned to keep his lips sealed about what he saw.
"I'm just here to say that the council want me as Hokage, only fair to let my godson know that I'm not taking it." Jiraiya admitted.
Before Anko could question him Naruto spoke up. "Right both out and leave the cook to cook breakfast, that includes you Jiraiya I've made some for you too." both were then ushered out of the kitchen area and sat down at the table where Jiraiya had his toast sitting so he eaten it quietly.
A few minutes past and Naruto arrived with three plates placing one down in front of everyone they tucked into their bacon sandwiches. Which were made to perfection. After swallowing hard Naruto turned to Jiraiya asking him "Why aren't you taking the title?" Anko agreed with a nod as she had just taken a bite.
"I've never been good at leading," Jiraiya admitted seeing a raised eyebrow Jiraiya know what Naruto was thinking "I can lead a team yeah, I proved that with your dads, but a village." Jiraiya shook his head "That's not me my team mate Tsunade yeah but not me." Jiraiya concluded taking a bite of the bacon sandwich before him.
"Why not go get her?" Anko asked this time while Naruto nodded. Jiraiya couldn't help but smile at them.
"She won't come back even if she is the granddaughter of the First Hokage." Jiraiya responded and took another bite of his sandwich.
"Not even FOR family?" Naruto asked with a smile, Jiraiya and Anko raised an eyebrow this time "Well we know that Hashirama was married to an Uzumaki right? Well..." Naruto enticed only to see Jiraiya cough on his sandwich and point at Naruto who nodded.
Swallowing hard Jiraiya rubbed his godson's head like how he did when he was younger. "That's evil you know that don't you." he commented and Naruto nodded.
"All's fair in love and war, Right?" Naruto retorted with a smile as he got up from the table and headed to the bedroom then to the bathroom with a set of clothes under his arm.
A few minuets later Naruto came out dressed in some of his usual gear and headed to the door. Anko was at the sink cleaning up the dishes with the help from Jiraiya and when they seen Naruto they both cast a glance at each other before Jiraiya spoke up. "Naruto where are you off to?"
Naruto without turning answered when he opened the door. "I'm going to talk with Tayuya about something." and with that he walked out the door closing it as he went.
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In the cell Tayuya was given there was a bed and a toilet and not anything else. Sighing she looked down at her flute and began to play a small melody. As she delved deeper into the melody she stood up and twirled with the rhythm of the melody right into someone's arms. She stopped and looked up to see the smiling face of Naruto. A blush came to her face as he had just witnessed what she had done. "W-what the fuck do you want?" she said trying to compose herself with a quick dust down of her front.
Naruto couldn't help but laugh a little and apologised for doing so. "Sorry Tayuya, I thought you could do with some company and a chance to stretch your legs."
Tayuya looked around her black cell then to the boy in the door way and nodded. Naruto then stood aside and let Tayuya pass him out of her cell. "I could hypnotise you with sound you know." Tayuya said as she twirled her flute.
"No you couldn't Genjutsu doesn't really work on me." Naruto stated in a absolute tone. Tayuya looked at him up and down before playing her flute and tried her luck at getting Naruto under a Genjutsu that was meant to make him freak out by making him blind. However nothing happened he kept walking and looking about but also waved to the T&I (Torture and Interrogation) members that he passed.
"Told you it doesn't work, nice tune though." Naruto admitted as he walked out of the front doors of the T&I building with Tayuya in tow. "Want to go eat something." Naruto asked and Tayuya nodded and answered "Yes please." in a really quiet voice.
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Naruto and Tayuya walked over the the ramen building that Teuchi had commissioned after his stand was destroyed in the fighting. He footed the bill for the upgrade and business was better than ever now. Naruto and Tayuya walked in through the parting felt that had their logo on it.
"Hey Ayame, how are you?" Naruto asked seeing Ayame run from table to table getting orders but when she heard his voice she turned on the spot and ran over and hugged him. "Wh-what's this for?" Naruto asked again.
"I'm so happy you're alright we haven't seen you in over a month and..." that's when she noticed Naruto's blood red hair. "You dye'd your hair?" she asked surprising him.
"Oh no that's just an effect my training had done to me." Naruto reassured her. "Well this is Tayuya Uzumaki-" at the word Uzumaki Ayame lit up and pulled her straight to the front of the restaurant along with Naruto and sat them down at the stools that looked into the kitchen where Naruto saw Teuchi working harder and faster than ever at all the order tags that were above however he could still sense Naruto was there.
"Hello Naruto it's nice to see you again." Teuchi said as he was throwing noodles up in the air and catching them again and he was doing this with the vegetables as well, in fact he done it with about everything. "I'll get your order sorted soon twelve bowls as usual?"
"Yep and I have another Uzumaki here too." Naruto announced and he saw Teuchi kick it up a gear that Naruto didn't know he had.
"Ayame get me the others order. Now!" Teuchi commanded and Ayame flipped out a not pad and pen from nowhere.
"Miso please." Tayuya said confidently.
"How many?" Ayame answered without missing a beat.
"One just now thanks." Tayuya said in a less confident voice.
Ayame then ripped the order of the pad and put a pin in it and thrown it at the board that was near her fathers head where it sat in the centre.
Minutes passed and the restaurant got busier and the Akimichi clan had ventured in and when Chōji saw Naruto the two battled for most eaten bowls it was close Chōji had twenty one while Naruto had twenty four. Tayuya had a surprising ten bowls to herself, while the other Akimichi that were there had long since finished at eighteen.
The day had soon turned to night and Naruto had walked Tayuya back to her cell in T&I. "Today was fun, even if I was with a dirtbag." Tayuya joked as she punched Naruto's arm.
Naruto just laughed with her "Yeah it was. Hey teach me how to play the flute sometime right?" Naruto asked as Tayuya had began to play again.
She stopped and looked at him "Yeah I might, if you keep taking me there that is." she said with a smile and went back to playing her flute as she walked into her cell.
Naruto turned to leave but stopped and addressed the ANBU in the shadows "If so much as one hair on her is hurt I will burn the perp to the ground understand?" the ANBU stood forward and saluted before returning to the shadows.
Naruto sighed and dissolved into his own shadow and vanished. This shocked the ANBU who subsequently became paranoid of random noises in shadowy areas.
Naruto emerged from the shadow of his apartment door and looked back at the giant rock face of Hiruzen "Night Jiji." and with that Naruto grabbed the handle and walked into his apartment.
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And that's chapter 16 my longest one to date hope you enjoyed. Now for some things that I numbered.
Yamanaka style: Web Of The Minds- this is a jutsu (of own creation) that links the minds of those around the user although the advantage of such a jutsu is that you can select who to connect to. A-rank jutsu however when used in conjunction with (2) it becomes S-rank.
Haruno style: Dream Of A Thousand Sleeps- This jutsu puts the target to sleep indefinitely until cancelled by the user which happens to be Sakura Haruno. A-rank jutsu however when used in conjunction with (1) it becomes S-rank.
Uzumaki Tayuya- Tayuya only had a first name there fore I thought it would be nice for her to belong to a clan so who other than a destroyed clan like Uzumaki?
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