Kakashi exited the tent, letting the family of three have their moment. Sakura was still standing outside, a mix of emotions playing on her face but mostly a smile tugging at her lips. "Sakura." Sakura turned serious and looked at her sensei. "Will you go get Iruka, Yamato, Gai, and Kurenai for me? Tell them to come here. Please return with them."
"Of course." Sakura replied then headed off. Kakashi stood guard at the tent once more, waiting for Sakura to return with the requested people. If Kakashi was one thing, it was patient, so he waited as long as it took.
At one point a child with a box of rice balls came by. "May I have three?" Kakashi asked politely to the young boy no more than five years of age.
"Only one per person." The young boy said.
"I have a couple of friends in there who need food too." Kakashi informed, kneeling down to the relative height of the child and pointing a thumb at the tent behind him. The child agreed and gave Kakashi three rice balls then walked away to feed other people.
Kakashi entered the tent where he found Naruto asleep once more and the parents chatting amongst themselves. He set the rice balls on the table next to them. "Those are for you two and Naruto when he wakes up, I better head back out until Sakura arrives with the people I requested."
"Have you eaten, Kakashi? If you're still the way you were, I remember you putting yourself last." Minato informed with a knowing smile on his face.
Kakashi rubbed the back of his head with a sheepish expression but avoided answering the question when a passionate cry erupted from the entrance of the tent. "Kakashi, my eternal rival, what bothers you in your time of youth!" Gai and the others Kakashi asked for entered the tent.
"I'd appreciate it if you didn't yell while my son is resting, ya know." Kushina demanded with her arms crossed and a stern look on her face.
Minato laughed, "Looks like you haven't changed much, Gai."
The eyes of the four who entered the tent went to the two who were sitting next to Naruto. Their faces went stone white. "How?" Kurenai asked.
Minato shrugged simply. "I don't know either."
"I expect we'll know more once Naruto wakes up and explains what happened in his battle, but it must be the same thing that resurrected me and the other villagers who died during the battle." Kakashi explained. He looked to the entrance, "Is Sakura guarding the door?"
"Yes." Replied Yamato.
"Good." Kakashi said. "Why don't we get down to business then, there's a few things that need to be spoken about." They all took a seat at the table that was a little far off from where Naruto was laying. All except Kushina, who refused to leave Naruto's side for understandable reasons.
"Well, not knowing where to start since there is so much, I think I should start off by informing Yamato the necklace broke upon Naruto reaching the sixth tail so we have no way of suppressing the kyuubi should it rampage again." Kakashi explained.
"That's a big problem." Yamato said, that is, until Kushina started laughing.
"Don't underestimate the sealing justu of the Uzumaki clan. If he goes on a rampage leave it to me." Kushina stated proudly, still looking at her son fondly, his hand in between both of hers. Iruka couldn't help but smile. Naruto really did look a lot like his mother, except for the hair, and he could tell that they are going to get along quite well.
The rest of the conversation consisted of how they were going to tell the rest of the public the Fourth Hokage and the Red Hot-Blooded Habanero were alive and how Minato would take over as Hokage once more until Tsunade woke up from her coma. At some point or another Kushina had eaten her rice ball and at some other point or another Minato had eaten his. Everyone was mostly waiting for Naruto to wake up at this point to tell what had happened during the battle. Eventually, he did.
Naruto opened his very blue eyes expecting disappointment but when he felt someone holding his hand and saw his mother's face still next to him, he smiled contently. "It wasn't a dream." He mumbled.
"Of course it wasn't. I promised I'd be by your side when you woke up didn't I?" This motherly instinct came naturally to Kushina despite being a mother for technically only a few hours.
Naruto sat up in bed and it was then that he noticed the rest of the people there. He yelled. "Were you all watching me sleep!"
Minato laughed. Yup just like his mother. "Well we had to wait for you to wake up so you can recount your battle to us, so we have a better idea as to what happened." Kurenai said.
Naruto slumped. That would take forever. That battle was long and exhausting and now he had to go through the entire thing again in detail. Iruka noticed this. "I'll buy you as much Ichiraku as you want in return." He bribed.
Naruto crossed his arms and shook his head. "It was destroyed." He grumbled but with a deep sigh he gave in and recounted his tale anyway. Eventually he got to the part with Hinata. "She ran out and started to fight even though she didn't stand a chance. Still have no idea why she did it." The adults smiled knowingly as Naruto was too thick to realize this girl was head over heels for him. "Anyway, I thought she… he made it look like… At that point I lost control. I don't remember much, mostly just red and rage." Naruto finished recounting his tale and finished it with Kakashi finding him right on the verge of passing out in the forest.
At some point during his story he had eaten the rice ball but when the story was done, he found himself hungry once again. "Why don't we go to the dining hall and get some food, besides, everyone is expecting to see the village hero." Kakashi suggested with a smile. Naruto nodded. Anything for food.
Naruto didn't leave his parents' side all the way there. "Wait until I introduce you to my friends, they'll be so surprised… Well I'm sure everyone will be surprised to see you… Well, that is, mostly the older generations at least since no one who didn't know it already were allowed to be told who my parents were." Naruto was rambling at this point. He was so happy and so excited he didn't know what to do with his energy.
When they got to the dining area, Naruto started to feel a bit nervous. He knew when he walked in, all eyes would be on him and he didn't know if he was ready for that yet. He didn't have much time to ponder as Sakura opened the curtain and shoved him in. All chattering ceased. All eyes went to him. "It's Naruto!" He heard Bushy-Brows call from somewhere to his right. That was when everyone stood up and started clapping and cheering. He still wasn't quite used to this yet. He smiled sheepishly not quite knowing how to react and forgetting how he reacted the first time. The rest of the people he was with came into the tent one by one after him until eventually it was his parents' turn.
When Minato and Kushina entered the tent all clapping stopped, the younger ones, who had no idea who these two strangers were, only stopped clapping because the older folks did. They had no idea what was going on.
When Naruto's initial shock subsided, he smiled and spread his arms out, gesturing to his parents behind him. "What is everyone doing? Why don't we give them a big welcome back to Konoha!" The silence lasted a good five more seconds before one person, somewhere in the back, started clapping. Slowly more and more joined until cheering was once more heard throughout the dining tent. Naruto and his group headed to where the rest of his friends and their parents were sitting.
Sakura sat down next to her parents and Naruto sat down next to her. He didn't say anything as he grabbed a bowl and filled it with the soup that was at the table. His friends stared at him. Naruto was about to take a bite when he saw Hinata sitting on the opposite side of him, a few seats down. "Oh, Hinata, I never got to thank you. You really helped me. Are you alright?"
Hinata's face turned red and she ducked her head a bit. She only managed to stutter out a few syllables though because Kiba butted in and yelled, "So are you going to introduce us to those people or are you going to just leave us in the dark?"
Naruto looked over at Kiba, at his parents, then back at him. He noticed all his friends were staring at him just as expectantly as Kiba. "Right! I was so hungry I forgot."
"Likely story." Kiba muttered.
Naruto grinned and gestured to his father, "This is the Fourth Hokage, Namikaze Minato and," He gestured to his mother. "The Red Hot-Blooded Habanero, Uzumaki Kushina. They're my parents."
Everyone's awe-filled eyes didn't last for long as Naruto was promptly hit across the head by his mother's fist. "Who said I let you use that nickname? No one, ya know!"
Naruto grabbed his head in pain. "I'm sorry!" He managed out.
Minato, on the other hand, politely waved his hand. "It's nice to meet you. Are you all Naruto's friends?"
Kushina regained her composure with this question. She looked around at all the young faces staring back at her. "It's so nice that Naruto has made so many friends. This is beyond what I was expecting."
Lee, who much like Gai, was trying to refrain from crying, jumped out of his seat and bowed. "It's a pleasure to have the opportunity to meet the two who saved the village from the evil Kyuubi!" He took one glance at Naruto then realized his mistake. He bowed even lower. "I'm terribly sorry! That didn't come out right! I meant it's an honor to meet- oof!" Ten Ten had pulled Lee back to his seat and stabbed a kunai through his sleeve and onto the table, where he struggled to get it out.
"I'm sorry, he's kind of an idiot." Ten Ten waved off.
Kakashi leaned over and whispered to the slightly confused Minato, "He takes after Gai." Minato nodded understandably.
Kushina, on the other hand, held up her fist as her hair floated menacingly. "Something wrong with the Kyuubi?"
Lee yelped and hid behind Neji who, though he didn't show it, was just as frightened as Lee. Naruto chuckled and placed a hand on his mother's shoulder. "Mom. It's fine. Lee means well." Lee relaxed considerably until, "But I bet kyuubi has been wondering what he tastes like." Lee immediately got up, sleeve tearing from the kunai still there, and ran out the dining hall. Once Lee was completely gone, Kushina and Naruto started to laugh out loud. "The look on his face was priceless, ya know!" Kushina, who was laughing too hard to talk, only nodded in agreement.
Beads of sweat fell down the heads of Naruto's friends. "There's two of them." Mumbled Ino.
"This is gonna take some getting used to." Said Shikamaru.