Man, trying to do three stories at once is not easy! You keep getting mixed up and it's hard to try and upload one and the other!

Anyways, heres chapter 3

ENJOY!:D

Chapter 3: Return

Naruto opened his eyes and found himself in his old, run down apartment, back in the Leaf Village. He looked around, and then looked down.

"I'm back," he whispered as he stared down at his tiny, 9 year-old foot once again.

"And you're not the only one," came a little girl's voice from the right as the cold wind blew in.

Naruto quickly turned his head towards the window and found two figures sitting on it, well one was sitting on the bottom frame with a happy smile on her face, the other was just standing behind her with his arms crossed and looking as emotionless and board to death as always.

"Karin-chan, Toshiro," Naruto blankly said before smiled. "I see you guys made it. And the others?"

"They're already here and are setting things up within the Leaf village," Karin answered. "We're meeting them at the 'House', so hurry up and come greet us! Oh, and you might want to check to make sure that Kurama-chan came back too. Otherwise, you're going to have to wake him up and then somehow get him to wake up and remember you, if he hasn't already of course."

Toshiro sniggered. "Yeah, considering the fact that you haven't used your powers in a while, you might just messed up somewhere, losing your strongest and very first soul creation somewhere alone the line of space and time," he mocked, a smirk on his usually emotionless face.

A red tick mark appeared on Naruto's forehead. "Why you-!" Naruto started, only to have tripped on his two feet and fall face first into the hard floor.

Toshiro and Karin chuckled. "Getting us to your new body, Naru-chan?" Toshiro questioned, a smile on his face.

Naruto's head shot up and he sent Toshiro a death glare.

"Now, now, Shiro-chan," Karin began. "Don't tease him so much." Naruto began to get back up and dust himself off while Toshiro frowned a bit at the old nickname. "He's just getting use to things again, after all."

"Fine," Toshiro said, his smile now coming back. "But it sure is fun thought."

Karin giggled. "Well Onii-chan, come meet us at the 'House' soon!" and she waved goodbye to him as she and Toshiro disappeared out of sight, and time once again resumed its course from having been frozen stop by the God of Winter.

"Damn him," Naruto growled as he continued to glare at the spot Toshiro once stood at before looking down. 'Kurama, are you there?' he questioned his familiar.

"Yes, I'm here, Master," Kurama replied back.

'Oh, good,' Naruto sighed in relief. 'I didn't mess up.'

Kurama chuckled. "Surely you didn't believe what the God of Winter told you, did you?"

Naruto's eyes trailed off to the side. 'Of course not! I was just worried that I might've done something wrong, is all… Anyway, I'm letting you out, so get ready.'

Naruto put his hand to the ground, closing his eyes, and a red magic circle appeared as he whispered while the clam wind of the late summer blew in trough the opened window, "Summon: Kyubi No Kitsune, Kurama."

Slowly, a figure emerged from the circle and Kurama opened his eyes as Naruto got up and got dress. Kurama spared his small tail out and looked up at his master as the young boy came and scooped him up and into his arms, a serious look on his face.

"You know-," Kurama started as he looked down, a bit worried for his master's sake.

"I know," Naruto said in a serious tone of voice before opening the door. As soon as the door was opened, one of happiness and that of a carefree child suddenly replaced his serious face as he held his stuffed toy in his arms and walked down the street to show it off to everyone in town.

As Naruto walked down the streets to get to the 'House', the villagers whom he passed by all looked at him in discus before seeing the little red-orange fox in his arms, and they immediately trembled to the ground, but none of them could find their voice to say anything, or shout anything out. All they could do was look on as the happy little boy strolled by with the fox in his arms, almost as if they were paralyzed.

Finally, Naruto saw the en and he inwardly relaxed a bit as he saw a girl around his age or so standing in front of an en which read 'Lotus' at the top of the en's sign. Naruto strolled by and accidentally bumped into the girl's back.

"Sorry!" the black haired girl tuned around and apologized, her oceanic blue eyes wide with worry.

"Sorry," Naruto also said at the same time. "Um, what is this place?"

The girl smiled. "It's an en and a restaurant," she said. "Would you like to come in?"

Naruto's face lit up. "Can I?"

"Of course. Though we're supposed to open tomorrow, but it shouldn't hurt for you to come in. Come on, I'll guide you around." The girl led Naruto inside. "Oh, and my name's Naomi by the way, and I'm 9. Nice to meet you…"

"Naruto," Naruto said. "And this is my pet fox, Kurama." He showed her Kurama and she gave a happy smile and shook his paw. "Nice to meet you too, Naomi-chan."

Naomi nodded and led Naruto farter in, much to the surprised of many villagers.

Naomi led Naruto to a tiny wooden door with a star carved on, at the end of the third floor hallway. She pushed opened the door and went in, followed closely by Naruto. Then, they climbed the steps up to the attic, where they made their way across the wooden floor and to the single, white door lined with ancient, gold writings on it at the end of the room. Once there, Naomi pulled out a beautiful gold key from around her neck and inserted it into the key hold before turning it. Once the door was unlocked, Naomi grabbed on the gold handle and pulled it opened. She held the door opened for Naruto to go in first and Naruto stepped into the white light first, followed by Naomi, who closed the door after they both went in.

"I've brought him, Father," Naomi bowed to the head figure in the room.

The blond nodded his head at his daughter, giving her the signal that her mission was now complete and that she could now take her seat along with the rest of the members that have gathered.

Naomi nodded her head before going to seat down at her place in line. Naruto watched her go before turning his gaze back to looking at all the gathered members, Minato, Karin and Toshiro included.

"… Well," Naruto said as Kurama jumped down from his master's arms when Naruto let go, and turned into his medium, 9-tailed fox form, staying behind Naruto protectively, incase a battle broke out again. "New members of the village, hah? Not bad at fixing their memories. Is that all you did?"

The little blond haired boy at the end of the long table shook his head. "No," he said. "I've also had some of our male members become jonin level shinobies and some others are joining you at the academy as well, Naruto. Starting tomorrow. And that includes your father…" his oceanic blue eyes went to his older brother's young form.

Naruto followed his eyes and found his father appearing to be the same age as him sitting on the 7th seat from the head, on the left side of the table.

Minato bowed to his younger brother before looking back at his son and smiled.

"I see," Naruto said, closing his eyes as he went and took his place in line, sitting on the right side of the table, opposite his father and next to the king of the Eternal gods. Kurama sat down in between them. Naruto opened his eyes and looked at his uncle's young form. "So it was all your doing after all, Uncle Kazuya."

Kazuya shrugged. "It's more convent this way. Now then, let us review the plan…"

Don't worry, Hinata will be in the next chapter. Hopefully you now know some of the characters in this story... if not, then i'll do a character profile once I get farter along and have introduced more/all the major and/minor ( with impotent or lots of roles) character in this story.

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