Chapter four: Konoha's yellow flash versus Uzumaki Naruto!
Naruto slowly opened his eyes. He heard Kakashi-sensei in low discussion with someone else. At first he couldn't remember anything then slowly it came swarming back to him. Sasuke's departure, his broken promise, the temple, and….His eyes widened and he turned his head. The fourth Hokage lay sound asleep near by, he was curled in a position his body twitching ever so slightly.
"I don't care! He needs to be retuned to Konoha immediately!" Iruka's voice shouted. Slowly Naruto began to sit up despite his body protesting it.
"Lay back down, close your eyes and go back to sleep Uzumaki Naruto." A sleep slurred voice said from the other bed. Naruto froze and stared at the hokage, his back was to him and he didn't appear to be awake at all. Maybe it was just his imagination. He sat up slightly more.
"I wont repeat it, lay back down now." The same slurred voice commanded the tone of voice was now slightly annoyed. Naruto stared at the man. How could he possibly know that Naruto was sitting up or at least trying to sit up. Finally he was totally upright.
"Calm down Iruka, Naruto is not going anywhere, besides have you forgotten the fact that he isn't going to stay there, he'll just run away again, to train and in his current condition he wouldn't survive pushing himself this time." Jiraiya's voice answered. Naruto blinked, training?...right I have to get stronger…Sasuke…his mind thought he glanced around the room but the only exit was right near where the voices were coming from. He jumped slightly when he heard a sigh from the hokage who turned over and met Naruto's eyes, the hokage's eyes looked tired and weary like he hadn't been able to really sleep…either that or he had just woken up and had yet to adjust to the fact he was no longer sleeping.
"Lay.Back.Down.Now." he said again to Naruto. Naruto rolled his eyes and the hokage made a sound that was a cross between a hiss and a growl as he pushed his blankets away and stood up. He towered over Naruto staring the boy down, then he moved walking over kneeling next to Naruto. Gently but firmly he pushed Naruto laying back down and kept one of his hand's on Naruto's shoulder.
"Go back to sleep." He commanded.
"Tsunade commanded us to bring him back! We have to bring him back, she'll have our hides if we don't besides Naruto needs real medical treatment not whatever the 4th knows or may have known. You don't even know if he actually was able to help the wounds at all!" Iruka's voice sounded panicked. The hokage sighed turning his head towards the door.
"Iruka was it? Will you please quiet down, you woke both myself and Naruto up and now he is refusing to go back to sleep." He called out. The door slid open and three faces as well as sunlight peered in.
"Nani?" Iruka questioned. Sighing the 4th removed his hand and gestured to Naruto that it was okay this one time to sit up. Slowly doing so Naruto turned and looked at Iruka.
"Naruto why did you…" he began but Jiraiya covered his mouth with his hand.
"Hey bakka do yourself a favor and go back to sleep, all of us have quite a few words as well as lectures, for example there's this great one I have about limitations and knowing when to stop." Jiraiya said. Kakashi smiled closing his visible eye obviously despite everyone else's reaction to Naruto being awake, he was pleased.
"Great job at the temple!" he said giving Naruto a thumbs up.
"What do you mean great job! Look at the condition he is in!" Iruka exploded. Naruto opened his mouth to argue but the hokage quickly covered it shaking his head no.
"He protected his assignment, and managed to survive, granted he was wounded but the fact still remains he is alive." Kakashi said seriously. Jiraiya grunted and sighed.
"I think I should take Iruka back to Konoha." He said. Iruka turned to glare at him.
"I'm staying." He snarled. Naruto tried to move his right arm but found he couldn't, slowly he raised his left and gently tugged at the hokage's hand. The man turned to look at him then slowly removed it.
"Iruka-sensei." Naruto said softly. Iruka turned looking at him. The normally energetic and cheerful boy, now stared at him something gloomy in his eyes.
"Naruto." Iruka said softly his heart tearing seeing what the boy was acting like.
"I'm not going back to Konoha without Sasuke." He stated in a quiet voice. Iruka winced, and looked away.
"You don't really have a choice Naruto." Iruka said sadly. The Hokage glanced at Iruka then cleared his throat.
"Jiraiya I'm rusty, I wonder if you could help refresh my memory, and Kakashi I'd love to see how much you've grown." He said. Jiraiya chuckled understanding where this was leading. Iruka blinked.
"Of course." Jiraiya said smirking. Kakashi closed his eyes grinning behind his mask rubbing the back of his head sheepishly.
"But Tsunade…"Iruka began but the Hokage cut him off.
"Until I am back at my best I'd rather no one save those already here know that I am still alive. Which brings me to the other matter." He said. Iruka stared at him.
"Naruto." Jiraiya stated. The Hokage nodded and without even turning he covered Naruto's mouth just as the blonde was about to shout.
"Be quiet." He commanded. Naruto snarled.
"What about Naruto, he's coming back to Konoha." Iruka stated.
"What if he were to stay here, and after he heals…train with myself, Kakashi and Jiraiya. It would solve the problem of worry of him running off to train himself." The hokage said. He turned and looked at Naruto out of the corner of his eye, the boy's eyes were slightly drooping and he was slumping over slightly.
"Let's discuss this while he sleeps." He stated removing his hand from the boy's mouth and pushed him back down, the boy didn't even resist. Naruto closed his eyes, he was exhausted already despite the fact that he had just woken up. The Hokage waited until he was sure he was fast asleep before he turned to look at Iruka.
"If you had any feelings for this boy you would have to understand what he is going through, I don't know all of the facts…in fact I barely know them at all, but if what I have figured out so far is true, this may be the best place for him." He pointed out. Iruka looked away clenching his fist.
"He belongs in his home." He muttered stubbornly. Yondaime yawned and stood up walking back over to his bed. He gave Iruka one last look before he fell face forward onto the bed burrowing his face into the pillows.
"Argue with him more you two I'm tired." He stated bluntly.
"What do you mean by that!" Iruka snapped much like he did at Naruto when the boy did something stupid. Yondaime lifted his head and glanced at him.
"Go very far away, I am trying to sleep." He snapped and then fell asleep. Iruka stared at the hokage in shock.
"He…but…" he stuttered. Jiraiya roared with laughter slapping Iruka hard on the back sending the man head over heels onto the floor. Kakashi looked even more sheepish as he decided it was a lot safer going back to reading.
"Go back Iruka, tell Tsunade that we have Naruto but…hmmm…something that would make her not want to come out here herself." The sannin muttered trying to think hard of an excuse to give the fifth. Iruka rubbed his back and winced as he got to his feet.
"Excuse? Why not just tell her the truth?" he asked refusing to agree to the fact that Naruto was staying.
"Because then Tsunade would come down here beat the crap out of me, Yell at Naruto lecture him, and then freak out over the fact that Yondaime is still alive. And to be honest with Orochimaru having Sasuke and also having Akatsuki after Naruto and anyone like him. She has enough to worry about. Naruto is safer with the three of us than he is with a hundred members of the ANBU." Jiraiya pointed out logically to Iruka. The man was silent his eyes drifted to the sleeping form of his former student. He didn't want to admit that the sannin was correct, not to mention the fact that not only was Kakashi staying, but one of the three sannins as well as the fourth Hokage himself. Sighing Iruka turned to look at Jiraiya.
"What do you want me to tell Tsunade?" he asked in a defeated voice. He wasn't strong enough to protect Naruto there was nothing he could expect make sure that the boy was where he belonged and now it seemed that Konoha was the last place for him. Jiraiya smirked.
"Tell her he is off training with Kakashi and myself and that we wont be able to be reached because we are moving around a lot. Which might actually be true once Naruto is back on his feet. There's this hot springs hotel not to far from here, and I need to get back to my research." Jiraiya said grinning. Iruka's eyes twitched. It was still a wonder to him that one of the three great sannins was a pervert.
"Go now while there is still light." Jiraiya said grinning at Iruka who sighed giving one last glance at Naruto before he took off. Jiraiya chuckled.
"So Kakashi, how well do you think the two of them are going to get along?" he asked the silver haired ninja who looked up from his book and closed his eye smiling at him.
"I have a feeling that they are both in for a surprise." He said then went back to his book…
the next morning
"You cheated!" the shout rang out against the trees. The argument had started out simple enough.
"No you can't get up." Yondaime said to Naruto as the boy leaned back against the pillows the hokage had put behind him helping him sit up. Naruto glared at the blonde haired man who was not even paying the slightest attention to him. He was busy studying a scroll, one of many that were scattered around the room. Naruto grumbled fuming.
"I don't see why I cant, you know I cant leave here because of the fact that Kakashi-sensei is right outside the door!" he snapped. The hokage grunted in response. Naruto glared, if the man was going to ignore him then he was going to ignore him too! He thought in fury as he threw the blankets back which was as far as he got before a yellow flash appeared at his side and Yondaime firmly put a hand on Naruto's shoulder.
"I said no, and I know that that word has not changed since I was last awake, no means no!" he snapped his patience running out. The boy was getting on his nerves, did he complain about pain like anyone else would? No the baka instead complained about being stuck where he was instead of training.
"And I said I don't care! I don't have to listen to you!" Naruto shouted. Yondaime felt his left eye begin to twitch, now he had a feeling he understood what Iruka had gone through when the boy had been his student. He shuttered to think of a younger Naruto running around.
"And I would like to point out that I don't care if you think you don't have to listen to me, I'm stronger than you are and if you think you can take me…." He began before he realized his mistake. The boy instantly quieted down a smile on his face and a look in his eyes that sent chills down Yondaime's spine. I think I just made the biggest mistake of my life he thought. As Naruto painfully moved his right hand and left hand into a sign.
"Sexy-no-jutsu!" he said softly Yondaime blinked, what the heck was sexy-no…he thoughts ended as Naruto vanished and a blonde haired blue eyed beauty appeared in his place, a beauty who also happened to be…naked. Yondaime's eyes widened before he fell backwards with a nosebleed. Quickly Naruto turned back to himself and ran to the door sliding it open he ran out into the morning. He lasted about exactly ten seconds out there running before a yellow flash appeared beside him and he felt a arm snake around his waist yanking him off his feet. Yondaime glared at him blood still on his face.
"That was a dirty trick." He commented dragging the genin back kicking out.
"Let me go!" Naruto snarled then moved to place his hands in the same position, Yondaime grabbed one of them as he carried the boy back into the room.
"That wont work twice on me boy." The hokage said dropping Naruto back down onto the bed and moved quickly pressing at two areas in each of Naruto's legs. Then he turned to look at the boy. Naruto snarled and tried to stand, only to find his legs didn't move.
"Hey!" he shouted but the hokage was walking back to his scrolls.
"Get back here and undo this now!" Naruto shouted louder. The hokage turned and looked at him, Naruto gaped the Hokage was grinning ear to ear at Naruto.
"I win." He said in such a gleeful tone that had Naruto snarling.
"You cheated!" Naruto accused, Yondaime stuck his tongue out at him then gave him his back again. Naruto fumed. He had never seen anyone not only move so fast but recover from that jutsu. He felt himself pout, he was going to get the hokage back!
A/N: I know these are short chapters and sorry for that as it goes on they should get longer lol! As for this chapter I tried to add the humor aspect that I have had in my head for a while now, after all from what I have read and seen of the 4th Hokage he actually is a lot like Naruto in many ways. So hoped you enjoyed it, please review!