yup another chapter, I like the two in one chapters better, longer and it doesn't fill my chapter log so fast haha :) Carry on! Jackie
The next morning Naruto ate all that he could. Anko looked at him shocked when he kept asking for more. Sasuke looked at him and shrugged his shoulders at Anko, not knowing either. When he had twelve servings of eggs and four cups of ramen, he ran out the door a piece of toast in his mouth. The two members of this weird ass family looked at each other and followed. "I have to go to the academy, make sure he doesn't kill himself." Sasuke nodded and ran after Naruto; Hinata joining and asking what was going on.
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Anko walked into her classroom to see a girl with green hair sitting in the front row before any other student would arrive. "Are you Anko?" she nodded and the girl smiled. "the pervert said you might be able to help me… my village basically was going to execute me and reseal the tailed best in another… someone stronger so I ran. And he brought me here… the hokage said that you may be able to give me a place to stay, said your son is the nine tails?" Anko leaned back to the blackboard and stared at this girl. The poor thing was two years younger than Naruto, but was very tall for her age. A smile came to her face. "Yes, I need another girl around to even it out." The girl smiled
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Naruto sat on a large rock by the waterfall gathering as much chakra as he could; Jiraiya looked at him and smiled. This was what he wanted to see yesterday, the determination his father had. Kakashi, Sasuke and Hinata watched as Naruto jumped from the rock and did the summoning jutsu. "My gods." Kakashi spoke as the smoke cleared and the largest toad they have ever seen stood before them. "Jiraiya boy, why did you summon me?" the deep voice boomed over the trees. "I didn't, he did. He wishes to pass the test." Gamabunta grunted and glanced up at the small boy on his head. "You summoned me?" he began to laugh, Naruto having to hold on for dear life. "He's Minato's boy, so yes he did." Naruto smiled down at his friends. "I did it!" his voice was softer being higher up but still loud enough to hear him.
"Alright brat, you think you can hold on for that long? Fine. You owe me the best Saki you can find for at least a month." Jiraiya sweat dropped and scratched his neck, then checked his money pouch and sighed. "Wait hold on? What?" Naruto didn't have time to finish his sentence as he was busy screaming out as the giant toad leaped and thrashed about.
When the sun was beginning to set Gamabunta stopped and bellowed out a laugh. "Well brat you did well. I will honor the contract." Naruto smiled the best he could as he slowly slid off Gamabunta's back and into Hinata's arms as he fell over. The smoke cleared and Jiraiya smiled at the boy his eyes closed. "I would still like to train you, but I will wait until you are older. You win the bet Gaki." Naruto smiled hugging Hinata without blushing for once. Sasuke smirked and turned to walk away, following Kakashi to the closest food stand. "How did you know to use as much chakra as you could?" Naruto shrugged, "I was just going to try and if it didn't work I was going to anything I could to get it to work." Jiraiya put a hand on his hair and ruffled it. "That's what I expected of you Naruto. Now, let's go get food, I bet you are half starved." Naruto touched his gut and laughed when it growled.
They all sat at Itchiraku's and laughed while they ate. Graduation was two weeks away, they felt ready except Naruto. He could do everything except the clone jutsu. He had a plan though, he would ask his mom or Kakashi maybe even the pervert if they knew why he couldn't do it, and if they could help him. Sasuke and Hinata had tried to help him with it, but they always looked like a dead version of himself.
When they left the food stand he looked at Jiraiya and bowed to him shocking the group. "I look forward to training with you in a few years to come. You trained my father, I would be honored to b-be trained under you." Jiraiya smiled and touched the boy's hair. "I will see you in about two year's time." Naruto stood straight and smiled. When Jiraiya looked back as he was walking away, he could've sworn it was Minato who was waving back at him. His heart panged, but he waved back looking forward to the future.
"So do you think you could teach me a clone jutsu that can help me?" Kakashi touched his chin, thinking over all of the jutsu he knew. "Perhaps but we will need the hokage's permission to use it. As it is a village secret and only jonin are permitted to learn it. But because of your reserves being so large a normal clone jutsu won't work." Naruto smiled and walked up to bed when a girl with green hair sat on his bed. He paused and tilted his head. "Are you Naruto?" she spoke softly. He nodded and she bolted to him hugging him tightly. "I'm your new sister! My name is Fu, and I am the jinchuuriki of the six tailed beast." Naruto stood silent for a moment as the girl held onto him. She must have been a year younger or about the same age he couldn't be too sure. "I'm sorry, I was just excited to be part of a family…" she backed away looking down. "So, Fu…" she looked up to see a smiling face of Naruto. "Welcome to the weird ass family." She smiled and ran to hug him again knocking him to the floor as he laughed. Sasuke walked to his doorway and glanced down at the girl who still held onto Naruto as he laughed. "Sasuke! You have a sister! We both do, this is Fu." Sasuke blinked a few times, showing a rare smile.
"Well then I think we should set Fu up a room." She paused looking down at the floor. "I get a room? I don't have to sleep outside?" the boys looked at each other and said no in union. Why did she think that? This began to bother Naruto when he remembered having to sleep outside. "Tell you what. We will pull in two sleep mats and we'll sleep in here together tonight." Sasuke groaned but left to get his mat, Fu looked at Naruto and smiled grateful for his kindness. When the mats were pulled in, the three fell asleep, Fu rolling over to be closer to Naruto and Sasuke rolling away to sleep alone.
Anko cracked the door slightly and looked in. a smile came to her lips and she prayed to kami for help. Three kids now, three… oh kami no more…
* two weeks later *
Today is the day, Graduation. The three ninja sat in their desk and waited to be called for the test. This was the final stage of the tests; they passed the written and the weaponry without a single worry. Naruto was still nervous, even after he received permission by the hokage to use the jutsu. Hinata was the first of the three to go; Naruto blushed softly wishing her good luck with only one stutter. She was gone only a few minutes before she came back with a headband on. Naruto smiled looking away at how even more pretty she looked. Sasuke went before Naruto giving him a satisfied smirk. When he returned with a headband Naruto relaxed a bit. His name was called and he stood walking to the door while Hinata and Sasuke gave him an encouraging smile.
once inside the room he saw his mom and another sensei named Mizuki. The man had a glare in his eyes that made Naruto flinch back, and sent a red flag in Anko's mind. "Alright you need to do a henge, a substitution and a clone jutsu." Naruto took a deep breath and preformed the henge, turning into the third hokage. They both nodded and wrote down his score, next he switched placed with his mom, which she laughed at cause he put his feet up on the desk and had her dango, which he was currently taking a bite of. "ok now the clone jutsu." Mizuki smirked, he had never seen him do it right so he looked forward to watching Naruto fail, using him to get the scroll and take it to his master.
Naruto took a deep breath and held two of his finger on both hands into a cross. "Shadow clone jutsu!" Mizuki's face paled when five Naruto's stood before them. "Good I see Kakashi was able to help you in time. Congratulations you pass." Anko held out his headband and Naruto smiled largly. "thank you mom, thank you very much!" Naruto placed it on his forehead and tied it, it felt like the gods were smiling on him. "Anko, I was not aware the students were allowed to use any other clone jutsu." Naruto froze. "he had permission from the hokage. He cannot perform the simple clone jutsu his reserves are too high." Mizuki grunted. "I think we have to wait until the hokage can confirm this." Naruto glared at Mizuki. "I have it right here." He reached into his pocket and pulled out a small scroll. "unless the hokage tells me himself, I will not pass him." Anko sighed and looked at Naruto sadly. "I'm sorry Naruto, but I need the headband back until later." Naruto's face fell as he took it off and handed it back to his mom., then quietly walked out of the door.
When Naruto didn't return to the classroom, Sasuke and Hinata began to worry. "I'll go find him Sasuke." Sasuke nodded and waited for Anko to return to the room. Hinata began her search in the courtyard, where Naruto sat on the lone swing where they had eaten lunch every day for years. He was not wearing the headband. Hinata gasped softly at the news, she knew he did it, she watched the five clones appear. Why did he not pass? Naruto didn't look at her when she walked up. "go away." He said softly. When she sat stubbornly on the grass he groaned. "Mizuki wouldn't pass me because I used a shadow clone and not a basic clone. Now I have to wait until he speaks to the hokage to verify I had permission, the whole class will get to celebrate and I can't join them." Hinata remained quiet as he ranted. "well you did pass, and we can have our own celebration at home. Screw the class." Naruto looked up and a faint smile played on his lips.
the other students began to walk out into the yard, Naruto just wanted to hide from everyone so they didn't see his shame. "you did pass, just say you wanted your dad's headband instead." Naruto perked up and smiled. "that's a great idea! I do want my father's headband!" Hinata smiled and took his hand making him blush, and walked over to the other new ninja. "hey Naruto where's your band my man?" Kiba threw his arm over Naruto's shoulders. "I asked if I could wear my father's headband instead so my mom is getting it from the hokage." Kiba nodded. "Right on, hey Hinata come on go on a date with me!" Kiba chased after Hinata who fled to her father and bowed softly. Her father gave a small hidden smile that only she could see, and turned to lead her home. Hinata waved to Naruto and Sasuke and walked off. Sasuke stood next to Naruto and bumped his shoulder with Naruto's to show affection the way boys do.
Later that night Naruto walked with his mother to the hokage tower, where Mizuki stood waiting for them. He had every intention of making sure Naruto stayed a failure, but he didn't expect Anko to come as well. "shit." He swore almost silently. The hokage looked over at Naruto and smiled at him, "I assume Mizuki has a good reason to hold off Naruto's headband?" Mizuki cleared his throat. "I was not aware that Naruto had permission to use a different more advanced clone jutsu, we do not just change the rules." The hokage looked at Mizuki and exhaled some smoke. "We did last year for the boy who could not do anything but Taijutsu. And you seemed fine with that last year." Mizuki began to get red faced. "But Naruto is not an exception like that! He is perfectly capable of doing all of them." The hokage grunted. "Yes, but you need to take into consideration that his mother and the Uzumaki clan have high chakra reserves, and doing basic jutsu like the clone is almost near impossible. I gave Naruto permission to learn and use the shadow clone jutsu." Mizuki was losing this fight and without thinking yelled out something that would send him to prison. "THAT MONSTER DOESN'T DESERVE TO BE A NINJA HE IS THE NINE TAILED FOX FOR FUCK'S SAKE!" Naruto hid behind his mom and sighed sadly. The third stood and slammed his fists on the desk. "Rabbit, be sure Mizuki gets a comfy cell. And tell Ibiki to be ready." Anko interrupted then, "I want in! I am sick of these ass holes hurting my son." The third smiled and nodded, as the Ambu led Mizuki away. The third looked at Naruto holding out the headband he had received earlier. "With all due respect sir, may I have my father's headband?" the third smiled and nodded standing and walking over to a picture of the third. It wasn't large, just a basic painted picture like that matched the first three hokages.
The third placed his hand on it and using his chakra opened a small safe behind it. Inside were a few items, one being his father's headband. It was on black fabric instead of the classic gray. It had scorch marks and scratches on the metal but Naruto took it in his hands and didn't speak. There in his hands was his father's own headband. Smiling he put on the headband, and felt closer to the father he never knew. "Thank you Jiji." The old man smiled and shooed him away so he could finish his paperwork. "One last thing sir, have you ever thought of using shadow clones to help with paperwork?" Naruto smiled then walked out leaving an old man sweat dropping with anime tears, cursing himself for not realizing it before.
When he got home, seeing the faces of his family except his mom who was probably making Mizuki piss himself, he smiled and sat joining them in the living room. This was his family, they believed in him, loved him and he loved them back.