Author's Note: Sorry for the wait! I'm not that good of a writer, but enjoy!

Chapter 3:

"AGH! I can't believe this! I have to take these boring classes! I already did my time in the slammer! Why would I want to do it again!?" Naruto's new girly high pitched voice whined. Naruto was currently not a happy child, having been sat down to told of 'her' brand new schedule which he was currently reading, so much for a vacation.

What would he even need flower picking skills for?

This was just as likely to be as much work as being Hokage. Luckily, he learned those classes wouldn't be starting for another few days, and hopefully he would be gone by then. His only goal for now was to spend some quality time with his supposed Father, whom of which was apparently in.

...But his Father hadn't told where exactly the place he would be meeting at was.

Crap.

Was this a test? Naruto hated test.

Naruto had dozens of thoughts running through his mind at lightning speed, but out of all of them he was worried about disappointing his Father.

...

"Oi... Why am I the one who should be worried about disappointing anyone! If anything, he should for..." Naruto's tiny little fists curled in anger, the tiny girl inhaled deeply and gave a large smile. Naruto had left that behind when he grew up, he couldn't let this rise back up. His father had gotten off with that punch to the gut. But really, was that all he got for all the hell he'd been put through? "Tsk..." Naruto placed his hands in his pocket, where he attempted to find his occasional cigarette that he needed whenever he got stressed, a habit he'd picked up from Shikamaru.

...Or he would have, if he had pockets. Instead, he was wearing a pretty pink dress with dark pink knee socks, and a hairband with a large bow on attached the top said band. "...What have I been reduced to?.." Naruto paused, staring at the ceiling with a hope whatever this was could simply be forgotten. Sadly, the universe had other plans as the world continued to function despite Naruto's apparent despair. "Crap... So, what's on the list... Find wherever Dad is. Find something at the very least, orange to wear. Then the ability to do whatever he wanted was at his disposable. He had time to burn, besides he was going to enjoy his short vacation, he was bursting with childish energy! Added to the list of things to want was candy. That was next to ramen of course. "First, got to find where Dad is. Oh boy..."

Naruto had been asking for directions left and right in the castle, mansion or whatever it was to be called. With surprised and mystified looks the staff had pointed Naruto to what was apparently the throne room. Naruto would get to meet whoever was behind taking over the Ninja World first hand, what if he hated kids? Naruto knew he could take anyone in a fight, but what if his body malfunctioned somehow?

Ocean blue orbs glared dangerously at the large imposing doors of the throne room, having been flanked by two impossibly large armored glowing red eye Samurai who were blocking the door at either side with their large demonic like mixture of a katana and a claymore twice the size of Naruto's body. What kind of knights were these guys? Their eyes every so often turned down to gaze at Naruto questioningly. What made it worse was that they weren't alone. Besides just the knights, there were hidden presences all over the outside of the door, flooding the hallway and even what seemed to be the entire floor of the mansion. It was especially strange because he could tell they were exceptionally powerful. He could take them down in less than a fraction of three seconds, but they were still enough to maybe make Jounin. The knights blocking the door however, were a different level to their self. He would place these knights on at least an Anbu level, not quite Kage level, but though, so Kage level was still far below him. However, even through the door which was holding back the chakra of extremely powerful the two of these dangerous looking knights fighting together at one time would certainly be Kage level. Naruto was on a level of his own individuals he could still them quite heavily. He was sure however, that he could take everyone in the room on at once and come out mostly unharmed. However, what made him question this somewhat was the presence of his own Father he felt. Though, he knew by sensing and by knowledge that his Dad was leagues stronger than whoever was in here. But then, where was the emperor's chakra? Naruto figured it'd be flooding the whole land with how powerful the man must be.

Once again, he'd noted the two ominous looking guards had looked down to him with puzzlement.

Naruto had been sitting outside the door for almost a whole ten minutes now. "...I've taken on way worse, but I can't even step into a throne room? How pathetic am I..." Naruto sighed, but steeled his nerves and gave a serious look to the guard. Well, what he wanted to be serious. In actuality he probably looked to be pouting. "Open up! Dattebayo!" The hulking shadow-esque knight figures silently turned their eyes to exchange incredulous looks, but complied never the less. The door actually proved to be a gate, the knights lifted their swords, causing the cogs of the gate's turning lever to begin turning. The noise from the cranking lever was so loud that Naruto was sure it would be able to be heard all the way back where he started.

WOOSH!

The gates flew up into the ceiling, and the metal door behind it blew open- causing a full blown gale of wind to blow through the doorway. 'Shit!' Naruto had almost been taken off guard by the sudden gale, but knew it wasn't harmful, one of the Knights had looked ready to catch Naruto if he flew back, but instead Naruto calmly stood at the center of the shriek of wind, mixed with chakra and restrained killer intent, the Knights that looked ready to catch Naruto had been the first to fall back in terror from the surge of power coming from the room, and actually got drafted away by the wind and slammed harshly onto the wall.

Not but moments later, dozens of ninja guards jumped down from wherever they were to help the guards who'd been exposed to the chakra. A few stood to look at Naruto with shock, that he was still standing strong and calm in the gale with his hands behind his head, a casual but slightly determined look on his face. The child's dress blew profusely in the wind along with her golden silk like strands, billowing in the breeze. The room was an incandescently bright white, the light in the room died down- the aftermath leaving Naruto in shock and awe.

The solid black marble floor was clearly polished every single day, reflecting the light off the prophetic windows with art works painted on them much like a church window, black gold stone pillars stretched up the ceiling, layered with actual gold and trimmed, expertly designed to appeal to the viewer. Crimson red flags clung at to the ceilings with a obsidian black symbol in the middle of the banner that Naruto realized vaguely resembled Konoha's own symbol. The curved ceiling was aligned with artistic strange shapes that seemed to almost be some form of summoning circle. Naruto would even call it magic like if he believed in it, it was a sealing array but much stranger, using emblems that had no recognizable content. The whole building Naruto noted was very rich in it's taste, and despite not usually being one for fancy things, Naruto appreciated it.

Despite being caught off-guard by the surprising seen, the Herald was quick to announce Naruto's presence.

"Entering is Future Empress, and current Princess Naruto Kushina Namikaze!" What?

Naruto's heart skipped a beat as he'd heard the Herald announce 'her' title for all to hear. 'Future Empress? But that would mean...' Naruto Oh-So-Slowly gazed upward to the large towering golden staircase that was spiraled around the whole room leading up to the throne where the Emperor sat.

Fuck.

There, on the throne, his father sat with his cheek lazily laying in his hand, his arm propped up onto the arm of the extremely eye catching with a bored look on his face before golden throne with the softest crimson pillows and even an umbrella thing above his head. That was, before he'd realized who'd been called and noticed exactly what the commotion was in the room. He'd stood up in shock, awe, and panic when he'd seen Naruto. "Naruto! What are you... No, I didn't give you a time for the meeting, or where I was going did I? Oh crud, how didn't I think of that? Oh boy, this is embarrassing... But you're still standing even after all of this power going on in the room! Your mother would be proud, you're going to make a great Empress."

Double fuck...

"...This one was not told the hatchling spawn of yours was quite talented in the ways battle to even be able to stand without passing out in this environment." One seemingly empty knight suit with the booming voice of a thousand legion echoed throughout the room, clearly impressed with Naruto's feat. "If this one had known, this one would have been more inclined to train the whelpling."

Triple fuck!

"To be fair, I hadn't known either. This changes so much, but nothing I'll put into action yet. Well, you're already here Naru. Come sit on the throne with your father!" Minato gave a wide non formal grin of happiness. "We were just discussing about training future guards. But we'll change it to something more interesting if you're here. Right?" Minato turned toward the table, where Naruto finally noticed a small group of about twenty different people all sat at the a large rectangle diamond crusted table with a clear hologlass in the middle. All of them sat far below the emperor, in their own tiny versions of thrones. Minato seemed to make it clear he was the one with the power here, even literally putting himself to look down upon the people at the table. A small mutter of agreement ran through the table, the strange powerful individuals all seated, but clearly all at Kage level. It would appear though, that Naruto's father was just that much more powerful than all of them. Naruto found himself walking up large stairs to the imposing throne, swallowing down his nervousness as he traveled to the top in his tense silent journey. The whole way, he kept checking up on his father, throwing a glance his way who'd seemed to be smiling every time he turned back toward him, but Naruto knew he was glaring at his council for making Naruto feel uncomfortable.

After a long terse trek up the abnormally large stair case, Naruto finally reached the top of the stairs, where his Father awaited him with his same kind smile, offering his arms out to Naruto. Naruto's heart fluttered at the thought of hugging his Dad again, even in these strange circumstances. Naruto gave in to his urge, gaining a wide beam and jumping into his Father's open arms. Minato looked very surprised, but quickly recovered and hugged his daughter to his chest. "So cute! My daughter really does love me! Well then! Let's talk about something 'interesting' shall we?"

Naruto was both happy, and upset with how things were going. Occasionally, he would feel the lingering gazes of the council who were truly intrigued by Naruto and his apparent strength, and how close Naruto was to the Emperor. No one else could get away with being even two feet near him with the intent of physically touching him. It was a true testament of just how much he loved his child. The conversation was mostly about boring things, but occasionally they tried to 'get an opinion' from Naruto. Probably to see how stupidly cute the answer would be, or just how stupid it would be. Naruto remained silent though, opting not to get caught up, and his father only made funny faces. The seriousness of the meeting was quite apparent, even being so much as nation changing from what he'd gathered, and his Father was trying to make him laugh by making funny faces in the throne room. Besides from what his Dad was doing, he could feel the uncomfortable atmosphere from everyone sitting below them. To them, Naruto was a walking bomb. A small scrape could land a bunch of them dead from the wrath of Minato. It was why they generally avoided the small girl, it was hard to ignore a problem now literally right in the same room as you.

"Naru, are you feeling alright?" Naruto snapped out of his trance to focus on his Father, who had a worried look on his face, completely disregarding the council. "...You've been quiet. Are you sick? Maria would have told me if you were- Wait, I haven't seen Maria all day. Where is she?" Maria? Was that the woman who he had lost back in the halls? Oops...

"I'm alright! I'm just... This is boring." Naruto said bluntly, to which he got a few hushed snickers from below in the council. Even Minato had to chuckle at that.

"Yes, well you'll have to get used to it later. Future Empress and all." Naruto opened his mouth to probably get himself in trouble, when someone else decided to get themself in trouble.

"Who is this wench entering the holy court without permission? A servant of the Emperor?" Naruto's gaze turned to the door, a look of surprise and guilt on his face as he'd found one panting, and sweating Maria who was being held back by two guards pointing swords at her throat. She'd look up to meet with the gaze of Minato who had a strangely disappointed look.

"Maria, I gave you ONE very important job to do and you couldn't even do that? You know how much my daughter means to me, I gave you that trust and you broke it." Maria looked like someone had told her that her execution was a surprise and was happening right now, her face had gone pale as her legs gave out from under her as she cowered before the gaze of Minato.

"I... My lord, I'm sorry, I-"

"Wait!"

Every set of eyes swiveled to Naruto, who felt uncomfortable from the sudden attention. He had his father's full undivided attention, who looked quite intrigued to hear what Naruto would have to say. He'd turn to meet the gaze of Maria, who looked like someone was dangling a thin shred of dead hope above her, she knew in her heart that she was in deep trouble, but had a hollow hope that Naruto would help her. but Naruto was a cruel evil little girl who only cared about getting her way, so why on earth would she help-

"It was my fault!"

Every single breath in the room stopped at the proclamation, a look of bombshell drops all over the throne room.

"You... admit?" Maria's face was filled with absolute confusion. Children don't take responsibilities, especially not this child.

"Eh I admit, I ran off without thinking about you. It's not your fault, it's mines. And..."Naruto paused. "I'm sorry."

The silence was deafening.

Minato stared at his little girl. The sudden dramatic change in character was absolutely crazy. Minato knew his daughter a little more well than she thought he did, but he was her father so it was his job to know things about her. Despite this, Minato put his daughter above everything else because he loved her more than anything else in the world. Even more than this life itself. This step, this sudden jump in improvement was absolutely beautiful. It was also confusing, she showed no signs of being the way she was now, but she certainly wasn't replaced. He could sense the Kyuubi still deep within his child, this sudden jump was amazing.

Naruto had never, ever said she was sorry and actually meant it. He was never going to fire Maria, as he knew the moment that Naruto stepped into the throne room with all that energy that Maria had likely been left behind. She wasn't an outsider girl either, so she wasn't able to catch up very well. And certainly not with that dress. He wanted to see what Naruto would so, and his answer had been gotten.

Naruto was changing for the better.