Shin Uzushio Yondaime Uzukage Chapter 6, a naruto fanfic

Chapter 06 – Finishing

Seven months after the wedding, the village that was in complete ruins a mere eleven months ago was bustling with life. Fish mongers with every variety shouting to attract attention, shinobi coming and going from and to missions, children laughing and playing, the hospital was receiving patients that never could have treatment before they came to the village. And it was all thanks to the Uzukage.

Said man was sitting at his favorite restaurant in the whole world; Ichiraku Ramen. It had taken quite the persuasion skills to get Teuchi to move his establishment to a new location. Especially since business was good in a stable village. But seeing as Naruto was their best customer and they honestly liked the boy as if he were family, they decided to take the risk. And they were thankful everyday that they had taken the offer. The little bar that they had was gone and in its stead was a full restaurant. The children of the village were treated often enough by Naruto, and since 'Uzukage-sama' ate there, people literally flocked the place. They were even thinking of hiring people when three children expressed their wish to become a ramen chef. This of course made the old man chuckle, but when his daughter Ayame adopted the two boys and girl that made the statement, the old man saw that he might have created a nice inheritance to his baby girl and his new grandchildren.

Neji Hyuuga was also a pleased man. After marrying Tenten and with their first born underway, his clan was making great progress. Most of the branch members still had trouble adjusting when the Caged Bird Seal was removed and accepting the new Bloodline Safeguard. But the first security members had showed to both their clan and the village that they were appreciated and needed. They had stopped several infiltrators coming into the city and even stopped a few crimes from happening. Nothing major of course, a few brawls and a shoplifter, but still it was more effective than the Uchiha ever was in Konoha. They were even given special training in ranged weapons from Tenten, seeing as the Hyuuga only dealt with close range combat normally and this would give them an advantage.

Sarutobi Konohamaru had taken less time than anybody expected to come to terms with Naruto's plan. He had taken residence in the Konoha embassy. When Naruto asked the lad to just stay with him in his home, the boy said that he wanted to know where his future subordinate would be living at. And that the noises from his big brothers bedroom made sleeping a bit troublesome.

His training was proceeding well. Naruto had rummaged in his library for some scrolls to let the Sarutobi copy. When Pein attacked Konoha, the Sarutobi manor was wiped away, taking away all the family treasures and styles. Hiruzen was a renowned Bo-staff fighter with his own style. Asuma was an expert with short blades, with a preference to his trench knifes. Then there was the Ape summoning contract of their family and some family Fire jutsu. Of course, there was no way to duplicate the original styles of his uncle and grandfather or the families own Fire techniques, but Naruto could give him new ones. The Ape summoning contract was no problem, because of the blonde's Animal Path abilities, and Enma was glad to see that even though with unconventional methods, he could remain by his dear friend's family's side.

The Gāng couple was the proud owner of a beautiful forge. When the couple started their store in Konoha, they had to be considerate with the amount of space there was available and the neighbors when working. Naruto gave them directions to the two head contractors Inari and his grandfather Tazuna, were allowed to pick a spot wherever they want and design it however they liked. Now they had the dream of every blacksmith in the world; plenty of space to work and display, perfect sound isolation so they can work whenever they want and a simple request form for when they needed supplies to complete the order that Naruto made. And that was the best part. He wanted to supply an army with weapons but would only allow the very best in quality. Blacksmith paradise indeed.

The embassies were occupied by their respective nations. While Suna had sent a permanent dignitary to become the ambassador of Suna, the other Nations had decided that they would keep rotating it. In Kumo's case it was Samui one third of the year, her brother Atsui the second third and Darui or Karui for the third part. Naruto didn't know the people that Iwa and Kiri had sent. They met and they were polite; he could try and loosen them up later.

Tazuna's family was doing great as well. The family had designed a larger than average house for themselves near the outskirts of the city, as close to the harbor as possible. The two men were still busy with plans and ideas, there were still some construction sites in the village. Tsunami had met a nice man with which she seemed to be getting along with. Naruto had already warned the man for any transgressions, but the lady herself had already mentioned to her suitor that she wanted to take it slow.

Naruto stopped recalling everything that had transpired over the last few months and downed his last bowl. He had something big to do in a few minutes and he needed all the energy he could get. If this went wrong in any way, it would kill not only him but his wives as well. So Naruto paid for his meal, waved goodbye to the larger Ichiraku family and made his way to the other side of the island. He needed to be as far away from the village as possible.

Once the blond Jinchuuriki made his way to a small clearing, he saw how his women were all waiting for him. A feeling of pride welled up in him when he saw the pregnant state of them. He had been a busy man indeed during his honey moon; all three of them were expecting to deliver in approximately seven weeks' time. So now Naruto had to finalize his revival of the Senju clan and ask an important question. Konohamaru was present as well, just to keep an eye on his big sisters; they could be quite reckless despite their delicate condition.

They all took a seiza position on the ground; Naruto sat in front of Anko, Hinata and Tsunade, with Konohamaru behind them. The man went into his Tailed-Beast mode and started making hand-seals faster than they could follow. With one burst of chakra he bit his thumb and slammed his now bloody hand on the ground.

"Outer Path: Summoning Technique: Gates of the Afterlife!"

Nothing seemed to happen at first, but nobody would ever place a bet against Naruto and soon enough the ground started shaking. From the ground a mere ten feet in front of them one gigantic door made purely out of skulls and bones raised up from the ground. Everybody watched in silence as the thirty foot tall fifteen foot wide door remained still. Most of them were scared shitless when a tremor could be felt and one big black dog stuck his head around the corner. It could have been a wolf and they had no idea how it hid BEHIND the gateway. Just his head was half of the door. But then came another head and another one.

Naruto could hear the people behind him whimper in fear. He himself probably would to, but for some reason he couldn't at that moment. He felt safe even when looking at the Gamabunta sized triple headed wolf…dog…canine.

"Mortal, what purpose have you for summoning the most sacred of gates and it's keeper."

"I request an audience with Shinigami-sama. I would like to ask a favor." Naruto didn't miss a beat. Show no fear. He didn't know why but those three words kept ringing in his head.

The giant black guardian of the gate let out a deafening howl with all three of his heads. Naruto was positive that the Inuzuka clan in Konoha could most likely hear it. The howling stopped and their breaths hitched when in front of their eyes the gate opened revealing nothing but darkness. The doorway fully opened, but still they could only see the endless black. Without warning a figure started to appear in front of them; a figure that Naruto found vaguely familiar.

A being clad in a pure white kimono and pure white hair but covered with a black oni-mask showed itself. It looked at his minion and then at the gathered group.

"Cerberus stated that you request an audience mortal. Why?" It was eerie how the male sounding voice came from everywhere at once and the God of Death just kept hovering without really moving.

"I would like to talk to several people whose souls are trapped either within you or in the afterlife already."

"Ohhh and what do I get in return for granting you this request?"

"I am aware that normally you take the life of the one you deal with, but since this is a mere meeting and does not require your direct influence in the world of the living, I was hoping I could offer you a tainted soul in return."

"And where is this soul then?"

"I do not have it now, but depending on the granting of this request it may arrive sooner."

"Hand me two souls and you may request to speak to the people you seek." Naruto could think of two more people to sacrifice, so that wouldn't be a problem, at least not for him.

"Very well. I request the presence of Senju Hashirama, Senju Tobirama, Sarutobi Hiruzen, Namikaze Minato, Uzumaki Mito and Uzumaki Kushina."

The God clapped his hands seven times and with each clap a person appeared. With the last clap all the people now standing in the gate opened their eyes and looked at their surroundings. The newly summoned spirits noticed each other and were surprised to see each other. The Yondaime Hokage looked at his predecessors, of whom the first two he hadn't met and the third he had never seen in his mid thirties. Then at his wife who seemed to be solely focused on something in front of them and when he looked himself he felt the first tears fall from his eyes.

"This mortal has gained the permission to converse with you. You will not have long, so make your time count mortals, you will not receive this privilege again." The God of Death faded away and the great hound just lay down, almost as if sleeping.

The group couldn't resist the urge to use a few of their precious minutes to see how their relatives were doing. All of the deceased spirits knew Tsunade so most of the time was spent on her. Naruto took a few minutes to see his parents and his 'Ji-chan'. Anko and Hinata just met their father-in-law and mother-in-law and bowed when introducing themselves to the founding members of the village they were born and raised in. Konohamaru was crying as he talked to his grandfather.

After ten minutes of teary conversation, Naruto needed to get down to business. He didn't want to, he wanted more time to talk to his father and mother and give Tsunade and Konohamaru more time with their grandparents and great uncle. The blond Uzukage forced his group to once more take a formal seiza and composed himself so he could continue. The souls picked up on the different mood and waited to hear why they were here.

Naruto took the next fifteen minutes to explain all that had happened over the past six years; starting from the time Orochimaru invaded, working up to Sasuke defecting, his betrayal, Uchiha Madara's plan, the Akatsuki and the war and finally the current situation of the village. The two most visibly affected by this were Hashirama Senju, who had always hoped that his friend and rival Madara would one day see the light and Sarutobi Hiruzen when he heard what had happened after his death.

"Now that you know everything and have been informed of the current corruption of the village you have sacrificed your life for to protect and shape, I request your permission to use force to reshape it to the way it was and was supposed to be." He then explained what he was planning to do.

"I see that you have prepared this thoroughly young one, but what of your plans if we do not give you the permission you seek?" Tobirama asked.

"I will still proceed, but will feel more guilty about it. I love the village of Konoha even though I have been mistreated by everyone but Sarutobi Hiruzen and the owners of a small restaurant. True, over the years people started to act kindly to me, until I brought back the last Uchiha and everybody shunned me once more after he stole my dream and the girl I had loved a lifetime. But despite that, I still have love for the village that took in my mother, raised my father and gave me my only family; my 'Ji-chan'. I do not wish to destroy the village, I wish to take over without casualties and reform the current corruption that allowed a traitor and an S-ranked criminal to become its leader."

The Hokage's processed the words and two of them consulted with their wives. Hashirama was the one that stepped forward this time and looked straight into the blonde's eyes.

"I hereby give you permission to restore my dream, to weed out the corrupt and tainted." The others nodded and gave their blessing as well.

"Thank you, Shodaime-sama. If I may, I wish to make one more request of you." The man turned a question gaze at the lad and told him to proceed.

"None of your descendants have ever inherited your bloodline limit. It is still the most sought after power in the world. Despite that, I wish to pass it onto the Senju clan heir, to prove his heritage."

"How do you plan to do that?"

"Careful research has let me to findings that I can use. Special seals and techniques can let me merge your chakra, instead of your DNA, with a new born child since their chakra network is not yet developed and working. Similar to how a newborn child was able to house the Kyuubi no Youko. All I would need from you is to force your chakra into this scroll, which is filled with seals to be able to take in your spiritual energy signature and your physical energy blue print. When my children are born and the data is merged with them, it will not cause any alterations in the child's physique or mind, but will grant them your abilities."

"How can you be sure of that? I doubt my granddaughter would like it if you made a clone out of me."

"I have stolen the research of a mad scientist that tried to discover a way to steal bloodlines, compared it with studies that have been made in the past and when I was 100% certain it would work, I asked for two volunteers; one with a bloodline limit and one without. I succeeded in the experiment, but since the non bloodline carrier's chakra system was too developed, the newly gained abilities were present but not to full capacity of its original wielder."

Sarutobi had been standing quietly, listening to the former loudmouthed knucklehead talk. He simply couldn't believe the level of talk that he was hearing from the young lad. Before, the boy didn't want to read even if it was a jutsu scroll, but now he was reading about bloodline-limit transfer research and a higher level of Fuinjutsu that he himself knew of. What on earth happened after he had died to cause all of this?

"Very well. Just pour chakra into this scroll?" And the founding father of Konoha did just as he was requested. He was dead now so it wasn't like he needed it. He was already thankful that his granddaughter, who should be nearing the end of her life, had been given a second chance to start a family. And if he could contribute to it with just a little usage of his chakra, then he would do it gladly.

No sooner had Hashirama given the scroll back to Naruto, did the Death God appear. They all wanted more time. But life was rarely fair, so they said their goodbyes as quickly as possible. Konohamaru couldn't stop the tears when he heard his grandfather say that he should have a happy life and take his time to reach his goals; to enjoy life as much as he can. Tsunade felt a few tears herself when she saw her mentor, her uncle and grandparents just smile at her. And Kushina and Minato, who just simply looked proud at Naruto, for all that he has accomplished in this world. They waved at him and told him to take his time, that they would patiently wait for him to spend time together.

When they were all gone, Shinigami just told Naruto to summon him once more to complete his end of the deal. With that, Cerberus walked back behind the closing door; disappearing behind something that shouldn't be able to cover him and the skeleton-invested Gate sunk back into the ground.

Naruto turned towards his wives and his student and smiled. He had the last piece of the puzzle. The only thing left to do was finish Konohamaru's training to complete his mission. He was close now.

It had been four years since the meeting with the previous Hokages. Sarutobi Konohamaru stood next to Hyuuga Neji, Hyuuga Tenten, Namikaze Hinata and his big brother Naruto. They were all wearing their battle garbs. Konohamaru was wearing a dark brown shirt over a mesh top, black cargo pants and his Leaf forehead protector on his head. He had shin and lower arm guards that matched the breast plate especially made for him. The set had special seals from Naruto himself; the armor was a present that could maybe become a family heirloom.

Neji had a white hakama with a lavender breastplate that only covered where his heart was. Tenten wore no armor, she simply had three large scrolls on her back. The couple had the Leaf headband on their right bicep and the Shin-Uzushio headband on their left bicep. Hinata was mostly out of the field nowadays, preferring to tend to her two children instead of going out to do missions. But for this occasion, she pulled out her old clothes, thought they needed to be resized a bit, it had been a while since she wore them. Her dark blue skintight pants with lilac jacket over her mesh shirt made it look like the past six years never happened. Her Shin-Uzushio headband hanging proudly around her neck.

Naruto was not wearing any armor either. He said he didn't need it and didn't like it. He wore his black kimono with the golden embroidery of 'Strength' and 'Wisdom' on his sleeves, he had added an old saying from Sandaime Hokage in gold to his back. 'There is Power in Knowledge'. Naruto would never have the chance to tell the old man how right he was. With the triangular hat symbolizing his status as a Kage with the mark of Shin-Uzushio on both his hat and his black and white Kage robes.

The group of five looked at each other; this was their last mission together. Neji, Tenten, Hinata and Konohamaru all did a Henge, giving them alternate appearances, while Naruto summoned 300 shadow clones and made the clones Henge as well. If Naruto's face could be seen through the veil of his hat, he would have been the only one recognizable.

"Let's go!" With that order, the army of Shin-Uzushio crossed the border into the Land of Fire.

25 year old Uchiha Sasuke was not happy. He was not happy at all. It would be better to say that he was seething, furious, pissed beyond measure. The past four years have been one disappointment after another. He was Hokage now, but he had several merchants leave his city, multiple shinobi deserting to a new village, he had lost alliances with all of the Great Nations, the smaller nations and some steady suppliers of missions. And all of it went to the new village that appeared four years ago. If it wasn't for the steady supply of work from the Fire's Feudal Lord he would have been bankrupt.

He didn't need the military alliances really; Konoha had the strongest military force in the world. And with him as leader, with his fully evolved Mangekyou Sharingan, only a fool would attack his city. He had a self-sustaining village, so he was not dependent of other places to feed his people. But the people were getting restless because of the lack of luxury they were used to.

His biggest problem though, even after being married for four and a half years with his former team mate and the woman he stole from the 'dope', he still had not sired a child. He had her checked to see if she wasn't barren; an act that had her screaming and flailing for a good few weeks. It couldn't be him that had faulty equipment, he was an Uchiha, they were made for expanding their clan and bloodline; they were perfect. So he would just have to keep on trying. If only he wasn't honor-bound to have only one woman, but he would not discard his families traditions; he still had time to make children, he was still young. Sasuke was snapped out of his musing when a Chuunin stormed into his office.

"Hokage-sama, we have an incoming army led by the Uzukage! They are 300 men strong and will arrive within half a day! What are your orders?" The Uchiha smirked, the perfect way to vent some frustration.

"Start evacuating the civilians, alert every shinobi to man the walls and gather around the front gates. Did they have any siege weapons?" The Chuunin shook his head. "Then the only way for them to effectively enter the city is the front gates, since the walls have auto chakra seals on them. Also, send a message to Suna that we might need back up, nobody has faced the new village's shinobi before." The Chuunin bowed and left to relay the orders. Sasuke smirked, what fools are they to attack an Uchiha.

Nara Shikaku, Aburame Shibi, Inuzuka Tsume, Yamanaka Inoichi and Akimichi Chouza all knew that this day would come. They had all given orders to their respective clan members that as soon as the order was given they were to retreat to their clan base. Some of the younger members were not fond of this decision, but followed the order of their clan leaders.

Hyuuga Hiashi however, ordered his clan to not move out at all. He had another reason for anticipating this day. This day would lift the curse of the Hyuuga clan and fulfill his lifelong ambition. He had to get the council of elders in the same room, but that was easy, those old fools would always take the most inappropriate time to have a meeting about the future of the clan. Even if the very village they lived in was under attack. They had done so with the Sound/Sand invasion and the Pein invasion; why would this be any different? All he had to do now was to wait for three of the 'invaders' to come and stage the coup.

When the army arrived all of the shinobi forces were gathered and standing in defensive positions around the main gate. The troops witnessed how the people manning the wall got pulled over the edge and screamed in pain without any sighting of a rope or weapon being used. It was safe to say that ever ninja was on high alert. Most of them were fresh, since the Fourth War had claimed many lives. It was thankful that many of the veterans were still alive; the clan leaders and several of the ANBU, if not for the presence of the latter under command of Morino Ibiki many might have fled in fear.

As soon as the last sentry on the wall vanished, the doors to Konoha were blown up, leaving only splinters and a large cloud of dust in its wake. Out of the dust walked a Kage with a few dozen of his men. They drew the attention to a point where nobody noticed three figures slipping by under the cover of the dust cloud. Nobody attacked yet, it never happened for a leader of the army to stand in front of their army; especially in the line of sight for long ranged attacks. The dust settled, showing that where there were once 300 warriors, now only twenty remained.

One overly nervous, fresh Chuunin got trigger happy and shot a Fireball at the enemy leader. To everyone amazement, without any sign or movement, a wall of water erected just in front of the concealed man; absorbing the technique as if it was water being sucked into a sponge.

"You never were a real good leader, bastard."

As the sentence was said, Naruto removed his hat and robes, leaving him in only his kimono. All of the people gasped when they saw him; the hero of the war. But why was he attacking the village, he was a shinobi of the leaf, right? He wanted to become Hokage, right? Why the hell was he wearing Kage robes from Shin-Uzushio?

"It's you, dope. You know that only a Kage is allowed to wear those robes and if you think you can take over Konoha to take over my position, you are even more of an idiot than I thought." Sasuke smirked at his old teammate. He wanted to pour more salts into the blonde's wounds, let him feel the pain of humiliation; the Uchiha had to go through it when the dead-last of Konoha had with defeated him pure luck before bringing him back here. He clearly didn't know the expression 'What goes around, comes around.'

"How is the village doing, bastard? Got any allies? Oh, wait, I have them. Any trading partners? No, wait, got those too. Any steady suppliers outside of the Feudal Lord? Damn…I got those too." Sasuke was seething. Naruto was the Uzukage?! When the hell did that happen?

"So what, you started a little village. With the might of Konoha under my command, you and your village will be squashed like the dead-last you are."

"Under your command Konoha is mighty? Because you're an Uchiha? The Uchiha is down to one last weak member; the Uchiha are extinct, so I don't need to worry about that."

"You just wait until I get my clan restored, then we will see who's extinct."

"Not gonna happen."

"Why is that, dope?"

"Because you will die today and you don't have children."

"How do you know about that?!"

"I sterilized you." With those three words, all the color drained from the young man's face. The shinobi looked in disbelief at either their leader or the invader. Sakura was standing in the crowd and was making her way with impressive speed towards Naruto and lashed out at him with the enhanced strength Taijutsu she had learned from Tsunade before she left.

All watched in amazement as the pink haired girl seemed to simply be suspended in the air, not moving a muscle before Naruto grabbed her larger than normal forehead, slammed her into the ground, and seemed to place a seal on her. The shinobi immediately launched a volley of shuriken and kunai at the aggressor, seemingly forgetting about the pink kunoichi that lay at the man's feet. He simply turned around and once more disappeared behind a dome, of earth this time, without moving an inch, deflecting all of the incoming projectiles. Not even exploding tags attached to the weapons seemed to even dent the cover.

As soon as the last cling of metal hitting stone was heard, the dome withdrew back into the ground and displayed an unmoved Naruto, but no Sakura.

"Where did you take Sakura-sama?!" Shouted a Gennin.

"She will be used in my experiments, just like the rest of you." Naruto said with a malicious grin. He wouldn't do it of course. He just placed his whore of an ex outside the wall, constricted by a forced sleep seal; so she would neither rejoin the battle and wouldn't be in harm's way. She was sleeping nicely with the few dozen Leaf shinobi that had the misfortune of guarding the wall. But he wanted to anger them, rile them up.

The men behind Naruto all dropped their Henge, Konohamaru standing guard at the prisoners in case any woke up or if someone found them and would try to release them. Once more the Leaf shinobi were shocked, they weren't fighting an army of 200; they were fighting one man with clones. They were not as afraid now as they were earlier. Hero or not, he was outnumbered 400 to 1.

Naruto whistled once and suddenly the troopers noticed people retreating. Sasuke looked up bewildered, wondering where the hell his soldiers were going off to while they were under attack. The Uchiha looked back at Naruto and saw him smirking. The blond bastard had people on the inside. He would deal with them after finished the dead-last.

The 'dead-last' made one hand-seal, the one he was famous for and shouted the name of his technique. Once more 200 clones faced the Konoha forces. Every clone took out a three pronged kunai with a yellow label on the hilt, only a few of the oldest shinobi recognized it. Once all of them had the blade out, they threw it in every direction, much to the fear of those who recognized it; they prayed they were mistaken, otherwise…this would be a massacre.

The real Naruto took one step forward, lifted his hand towards all off his foes and smiled at them warmly, before his eyes turned cold.

"Shinra Tensei!" The people gasped in horror when they heard the name of the attack that once made a giant crater of the village and closed their eyes in fear when they all felt themselves being thrown back. The attack that was yelled next was only known by the older generation and knew it as soon as they heard it; they were royally screwed.

"Hiraishin!"

Sasuke could merely watch as he saw his men being taken out by the dozen; not two at a time, not five at a time…no, ten-twelve every few seconds. He tried to keep up with the movement that the blond used to be everywhere and nowhere at once. He had tried to take out a clone or two, but even with his fully evolved Sharingan, he wasn't fast enough. He had to listen to the screams of his men falling like bushes in pain and see the looks of fear on their faces before they went still. Was this really the dope? This couldn't be right, only an Uchiha was supposed to have this much power.

The one-sided battle lasted a mere 30 minutes. In that short amount of time, Konoha was defeated, by one man. It was humiliating. The only ones still standing were the Rokudaime Hokage and the Shodaime Uzukage. Truth be told, Sasuke was scared, just a little bit, but still scared. And when he blinked once, just to moister his eyes, Naruto was behind him and all went black.

Sasuke woke up feeling a slight throbbing in his head. It took but a few seconds to remember what had happened, but when he did, he shot up, looking around him to confirm the situation. He couldn't quite place where he was. He was out on the street witnessing his men getting decimated, but this wasn't any street. The place seemed familiar, but it took him a minute to realize he was in the arena where he fought with Gaara more than a decade ago. He was wondering why he was here or where Naruto was, but that was answered when Naruto started talking.

"I see you have woken up, bastard." The blond said from in front him. He stood up from the chair he woke up in and walked towards the dope. He looked around once, to see that the civilians were gathered in the stands, seemingly trapped by a barrier. In his private box overlooking the field, the clan heads and the deserters Neji, Tenten, Hinata and Konohamaru were standing looking at him like a hawk watches his prey.

"Why are there traitors in my box?" Naruto just huffed at the man. The Uchiha saw how his citizens and his captured troops were being kept hostage and looking at him for help but the only thing he deemed worthy to mention was that somebody was sitting in his spot.

"They are there to look over us and keep an eye on the hostages. I wanted to make you an offer. Since you took my dream, I took yours; now that we are even, I wanted to give you a chance to save your people in a one on one battle." Naruto looked dead serious at his former friend.

"Who cares about them, I will kill you for what you did to me!" Sasuke shouted as he charged forward at Naruto.

"I see." Sasuke smirked as he watched how Naruto didn't move when he made the first sign of hostility. 'A dope until the end; just stand there while I show you the power of an Uchiha.' Naruto heard his foe yell out the name of Amaterasu, but it wouldn't matter. Not against him anyway. A large black flaming dragon sprung forth from Sasuke's eye and flew towards Naruto.

The crowd of shinobi and civilians alike had been silent from the moment that they heard their precious Hokage saying that he didn't care about them, while they were trapped by the enemy no less. They didn't know anymore who to root for. The invader hadn't harmed them in any way yet; all the shinobi that faced him were just knocked out with light but well placed Taijutsu and or techniques. Yet their protector, their hero, their leader condemned them, instead taking 'revenge' for something that only the shinobi seemed to know; the civilian council members listened in horror as one of the shinobi told them that Naruto had practically ended the Uchiha bloodline.

Hinata and her group watched in silence as the black flame of the Sharingan sped towards the blond. The leaders of each respective clan were at the edge of their seat, fearing that their leader was in trouble. But just mere inches away from Naruto the black fire disappeared into the blonde's hand using his Preta Path. Gasps could be heard all over when the most feared fire attack was useless against an enemy. The inhaling of air was soon replaced by the screaming Uchiha that demanded to know what he did to his 'ultimate attack'.

"You'll have to do better than that Sasuke. You're not the only one with a Doujutsu and mine is stronger. Try something else." Naruto looked disappointed, which only made Sasuke even more furious.

The raven haired man shot towards his blond foe again, only this time took out his hand and charged it with a Chidori. His hand shot out at Naruto's chest, aiming to end all of this in one move, but like before, a mere inch away from his heart, Naruto grabbed the lighting charged wrist and held it firmly, knowing full well that the last time this happened to Sasuke it was Itachi who did it. Sasuke kicked but needed to bend his body back when Naruto simply twisted his arm, his jutsu releasing and his retaliation stopping.

Naruto forced the arm behind his former teammates back and stood behind him, whispering in his ear.

"The Uchiha are extinct. You are weak. You have always been weak. I ended your clan and I will end you. You can't beat me weakling." Naruto pushed the boy away and said in a loud enough force.

"If you surrender, I may spare your people." He knew the answer already, but he needed the people to hear this.

"Never! I will kill you!" And the dumb man charged again. He never realized that even if he won, he would have a major rebellion on his hands.

Sasuke went for Taijutsu this time and unleashed a flurry of punches and kicks. Naruto dodged every single attack as if he was moving in slow-motion, he made it seem like it didn't require any effort. Naruto suddenly launched his arm out and grabbed Sasuke by his forehead, he could hear a girl screaming in the crows, Sakura most likely, and Sasuke went limb in his hand. The crowd looked on in fear, what was going to happen to them now?

The clan leaders came on down and stood around Naruto, who had Sasuke on the ground struggling against his restraints. He looked up in hate as he looked at HIS men and HIS forces that betrayed them. He cursed at them to release them, if they didn't that the council would do it later, so why waste time? Naruto just sighed; the so called prodigy really didn't seem to understand the situation.

"Sasuke, the enemy invasion on 'your' village has been successful. At this moment, I am in charge of this village and your council has no say what so ever. I make the rules now." Sasuke knew that he should be afraid now, especially when he saw his two biggest supporters, the elders Homura and Koharu being brought over bound as well.

Naruto went into a seiza and motioned for the people behind him to do the same. The blond went into his Tailed Beast Mode and started doing hand-signs he would never do again after this. At the last sign, everybody present could feel the chakra pulse and listened in slight trepidation when they heard the name of the technique.

"Outer Path: Summoning Technique: Gates of the Afterlife!"

The now familiar huge gate of bones rose up from the ground. The people behind Naruto intended to back away, but with a warning of Naruto they stayed seated. Inuzuka Tsume gasped when she saw the biggest hound she had ever seen and when the great beast revealed the last of its heads she bowed in respect to the Boss of the Dog summons; Cerberus.

"You return mortal. Are you ready to fulfill your end of the deal?" The blond merely nodded.

Everybody held their ears to block the howl of the black canine and looked enraptured when the gates started to open, only to reveal nothingness. A form soon appeared that no other had seen before, but they could guess who it was.

"Mortal, have you prepared the stipend?" Homura, Koharu and Sasuke felt their eyes widen in fear when Naruto motioned to them.

"As a sign of gratitude I have decided to give you one extra soul Shinigami-sama." The apparition looked at his payment, before taking out his dagger. With one hand he grabbed onto Sasuke's head, clutched and started pulling back. A bluish form started to come out of the young man until it revealed Sasuke in spirit form; his very soul. When all that remained between the body and the spirit was a small sliver, the God of Death merely cut of the link between the two and ate the soul under the eye of all. He repeated this process twice, with the two former advisors of three Hokage's and the three bodies went limp.

"The deal is fulfilled." The door closed and Cerberus walked back behind the door as the gateway started to sink back into the earth, leaving not a trace behind of his presence.

Naruto stood, with the leaders of Konoha's clans doing the same, a bit wary of the blond, and listened to their temporary leader as he spoke.

"I call a meeting of the current council members of Konoha."

Nara Shikaku sat in his seat at the long table that was used for every meeting. He had brought his son Shikamaru with him, as he was going to be here in his stead in the near future and needed more experience in the dealings of politics. He looked to his left and saw that the other clans had done the same. Yamanaka Inoichi was here with his daughter Ino, who was frightened to be here, Abarame Shibi with his stoic as ever son Shino, Akimichi Chouza with his even now chips eating son Chouji, Inuzuka Tsume with her son kiba and more surprisingly, Hyuuga Neji with Hiashi behind him. The last one got the most looks as for one, Hanabi was supposed to be clan heir, two, Neji was a deserter, and three, Neji was sitting at the table and Hiashi was standing behind him.

On the other side of the room sat five of the civilian members; seeing as the other two Shinobi in name but civilians at heart council members were now gone. Ogane Shoji was the head of the catering sector, Hanabusa Ichiru was the representative of the upper class of the people, Midori Shiori was the representative of the middle class, Mogami Kaoru for the lower class and Genkin Yoku for the merchants of the village.

All heads snapped towards the door as it opened and revealed Naruto in his Uzukage robes, with Hinata in a lavender kimono behind him. The civilian side was surprised to see the grandson of the Third Hokage, Sarutobi Konohamaru walk in behind them.

"Welcome. As you know, the Village Hidden in the Leaves is now under my command. Therefore it is within my rights to change whatever I want. First things first. Hyuuga Neji, do you have anything to report." All heads turned towards the deserted Hyuuga as he stood up.

"Yes, Uzumaki-sama, I have. I have taken over the Hyuuga Main House. Sadly, I was unable to prevent the deaths of three of the five Elders, who resisted until the end. The other two, including Hyuuga Hiashi have surrendered after losing the duel I had with Hiashi-san. They have accepted the new rule and their banishment." The young man bowed and took a seat. The civilians really wanted to know how the hell this happened without anyone noticing.

"Very well. Then next up is the new formation of the council. Currently there are as much council members for the civilians as for the shinobi. No longer. There will be only two from now on; one representing the merchants and one the citizens." The five, soon to be two members that it related too stood up and screamed bloody murder; they all had a nice income thanks to their influential position. It wasn't until Naruto send out a wave of killing intent, which quieted them down.

"I wasn't asking for your opinion. This village has always been a shinobi village. Decisions regarding the village should therefore be mainly decided by them and not the normal populace. The people are free to leave if they do not agree with a policy, unlike the ninja who will be branded and executed if they disagree." The shinobi side nodded.

"Since you have no leader at this moment and I have plenty to do with both my family and my village, I hereby instate Sarutobi Konohamaru as Nanadaime Hokage. I have trained him extensively over the past few years and have groomed him for this position. He is as wise for his age as his late grandfather was and will be an excellent leader." The room was a bit skeptical because of the boys age; his lineage was without doubt good though, looking back at all the impressive shinobi they produced.

"Now that all that is out of the way. I hereby propose an alliance between Shin-Uzushio and Konoha."

When Naruto returned home with Hinata, his father-in-law Hiashi, sister-in-law Hanabi and the last of the original 'Branch' members of the Hyuuga; the village cheered as their leader was home safe and sound. The new arrivals looked around in amazement and even more so when they saw their clan members so active in society, free from oppression. The Hyuuga clan members went to their compound while Hiashi and Hanabi went to their next door neighbors; they wanted to see their nephews/grandchildren of course.

Hanabi was reluctant to get the Safeguard seal on her, fearing it was like the one her old home branded the servants with, but when Hinata showed the back of her neck, the spot where she had her own seal, Hanabi stopped struggling. Hiashi took it without difficulty as he knew it wasn't the same he was forced to use. Naruto showed him how to do it for future descendants of their clan.

Never let it be said that the Hyuugas don't show emotions. Hiashi had the biggest smile on his face when he met his four year old granddaughter Yuuka and Hanabi literally squealed when handed her one year old nephew Kaname.

Anko and Tsunade sat around Naruto as he played with his three other children, two of them from Tsunade and one from Anko, who had one more on the way, and looked at him expectantly; they wanted to know what happened back in their home village. After telling them all that had happened, he had one last thing to say in regards of Konoha.

"Don't worry, it's over."