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Madara had many things to tell him, he wanted to hug his precious grandson, tell him that he was very happy to see him after so long, to tell him that he watched his growth from afar and he was even proud of his many accomplishments. But he knew Naruto was going to want him to get to the point, get business done and if he had time to spare he would listen to all his emotional, and heart to heart then not before. "The reason for war is because deep down everyone has a very deep down desire to be the most powerful or the most rich. This drive for competition usually is not a bad thing, but when pride or even an extremely arrogant leader or leaders want to control the world, their foolishness would cause a war, and cause many to have deep emotional and spiritual wounds. The loss of the many loved ones and the loss of so many people cause a deep hatred to be formed. This hatred make other wars easier to begin. Hate blinds people after all, and these people do not see the harm that they do." Naruto was listening and waiting for him to get to the plan part. "My plan is that if someone was extremely powerful, more powerful than all the nations combined. Then that person could in fact force the leaders of nations to talk their problems and find a peaceful solution. Only with power he would have the means to force the fools that would cause war to listen and talk thing out."

"The only one that could do that is the Sage of the 6 paths. The man who was the jinjuriki of the 10 tail beast, Bijuu. My plan is to bring about the 10 tail beast, and to have a trusted person be the new jinjuriki and sage. That trusted person had been me, but seeing what you have accomplished, and seeing that you would not miss use the powers of the 10 tail beast. I have decided to chose you. If you manage to talk to the 9 tail beasts and get them to approve of you, then getting them all together and bring to this word the 10 tail beast will be much easier. I have a process that will allow me to extract the beast from the current jinjuriki. It will not kill this person, and will free that person from the burden of being a jinjuriki. Many would happily accept that, considering how jinjuriki are often mistreated. Naruto I am willing to wait till you win the support of the 9 tail beasts. But I need to know if you are willing to do that, since your own beast would be temporarily extracted too. So talk to Kurama and tell me if you both agree to this plan. Don't worry I can wait, but please decide today. The more we wait the more chances are that some fool will start a new war, and this plan would be put on hold."

Naruto had gone inside his mindscape, as he heard his grandfather finish his little monologue. "So Kurama you heard that long speech, what do you think?" The fox looked at Naruto with an almost questioning look. "What do I think... I do not like the prospect of being taken out of you. I think you would freak out if I told you this before, but Naruto I don't only accept you, and am quite willing to be in here. Naruto, I love you. Being in here is my only way for me to be so close to you." Naruto looked like someone was pulling a rather big prank on him, he was sure that Kurama must be kidding. He was even waiting to hear the punchline. "I am not joking Naruto. I have loved you for far longer than your own wife, Mikoto. I don't know for sure, but if I joined with my other 8 siblings I am sure that Bijuu would also love you as well. The original sage was her mate after all. So the real question is could you love a tail beast? even one that is the embodiment of the tree of life? You ask if I would accept you. I ask you would you love the Bijuu as much as I love you?"

Naruto was shocked in such a way that he was left speechless. Kurama loved him? even before Mikoto? could he accept the love of Kurama and eventually the 10 tail beast? would this be considered cheating on his beloved wife? The idea of cheating on Mikoto did not sit well with him. He loved his beloved Mikoto, and he would never want to injure her emotionally or physically. "Kurama I don't want to hurt Mikoto, I love her with all my heart. To cheat on her would be an almost unspeakable betrayal of her love for me and mine to her." Kurama almost was heard giggling. "Naruto, I am in no hurry. Love her, mate with her, make her happy for all the days of her life. I can wait. Most humans live to be 70. I can wait even 100 years. I am not affected by time, I will be here long after Mikoto is no longer in this world. If you accept me and eventually the Bijuu we would be together forever, what is 100 years when compared to that."

Naruto almost wanted to ask if the other 8 would actually accept him. "Don't know I guess we can hold you accepting me as a future lover, till we find out. I can tell you that you will not be bored talking to my siblings."

Naruto exited his mindscape to see the smiling face of his grandfather, "So Kurama finally told you she loved you?" Naruto was so surprised when he heard that, that he was again speechless. "Oh, relax, I can pretty much tell by the way that Kurama has not once tried to either cause your death or tried to take you over. By the look on your face I gather that you will start meeting the other tail beasts and talking about this plan. But since you need to report your mission and make sure your team is alright, I think we can continue this talk some other time. A special gift is waiting for you in your old hiding spot. I think you will like the picture, it might give you a good idea of what your future mate might look like." With that Madara left Naruto to go and meet with his team. Kazuku was busy paying a game of poker with the genin, surprisingly enough Yori and Menma were losing, but Itachi had enough winnings to make up for their losses and then some. "Ok, you too need to learn to bluff as good as that young Uchiha." He pointed at Itachi. He then looked at Itachi, "Remind me never to play poker with real money with you again." Itachi laughed and told him that if he returned the money to him and his teammates, he would return his. Everything back to the way it started, No one wins any money, but no one loses any money either. Kazuku did not like losing money, but Itachi had pretty much made him lose a lot of it anyways. He agreed to return the money that the two lost, and agreed that he kept the amount he started with. Kazuku was given the amount he had when he started.

Naruto walked to his team, and bid the zombie bounty hunter a fond farewell. Kazuku did the same and left. His team had many questions and he answered all the questions regarding the mission, but the discussion would be help secret or at least secret enough to discuss it with Mikoto. Kurama was taking a nice nap, and she was dreaming of what it would feel to make love with the one whom she loved for so long. She didn't even had time to show him her human form. She believed that he would have ripped the seal off and jumped her if she had.

Naruto was seen walking to his old cave hideout, the place where he would train as a kid, the place the imprint of his grandfather would teach him things. He walked to the back up and counted 3 feet up 2 to the right. He saw that something was weird about it, he activated his eyes and saw that part of the wall had been tampered with. A small box was placed into the wall. He took his katana and struck the wall causing the box to fall and open. Inside was a small book and when he opened the book it was a detail record of the current jinjuriki and their tail had suggested that he visit them and got to know them, maybe offer them a release from their burdens as soon as the beast got close to him. He flipped to the pages and saw that each chapter had a detail history and psychological profile of both the jinjuriki and possibly the beast inside him or her. The chapter ended with a picture of the beast in full beast form. When he reached his own picture, and saw the picture of the beast in amazing detail. There was a note on the back of the page. Look at the picture with your sharingan. He activated his eyes fully and turned the page. Instead of the image of Kurama in beast mode there was a full image in what would be her human form. Long red hair down to her waist, 9 tails on her back, and a figure that would make most kunoichi green with envy. Massive breasts, nice hips, long legs, and delicate hands. This was the image on his beast in human form. He quickly wondered to the other beasts, and was floored when he realized that every beast was a female. The thing that stuck him where the different shapes, some look muscular and tough, some rather delicate and demure, but the thing that made him shock is that all could be considered beauties.

Mikoto was not going to be happy to hear what he was about to do, but he would not lie or keep things hidden from his beloved wife. He would have to tell her and he would after he had a decent dinner and a good nights sleep. Today it had been a weird, frustrating, and long day. He walked to his home to be welcomed by Itachi and Sasuke giving a warm hug. The smiling face of his wife looked at him as he walked to her. She kissed him and he enjoyed the warm loving welcome home. "Let's eat dinner, Itachi help with the table. Sasuke help your father to his seat. He must be tired. After they do that I will run a nice bath with some nice oils. You look like you could collapse any second." Naturo smiled as he had his youngest help him to the table. "It has been a long day, my love. Nothing that the love of my precious family can't cure." Mikoto looked happy to see her husband being so sweet and tender to them.

During dinner Sasuke told how his day was, he even told him of a classmate he nicknamed the Pink Banshee, Itachi laughed until Sasuke indirectly mentioned Yori. That quickly made Itachi stare daggers at his younger brother. Naruto stopped the argument and told them, that every class had a class clown and a girl like that. He told Sasuke to focus on his learning, that would keep him alive when he finally had graduated. Itachi agreed to that, only he had to tell his younger brother to find a girlfriend or the class might label him a guy who likes boys instead of girls. Sasuke throw his cup at Itachi which he caught with one hand, "Thanks, little brother. You could just tell me if you want another cup of juice." Naruto and Mikoto laughed at that.

As the couple went to bed, and she came close to him. He kissed her lips, and she enjoyed the feeling of her husband. "If you keep that up, you won't be doing much resting. Let's sleep then I can deal with that thing that is pressing against me. honestly did you get in bed with a kodachi in your pocket or are you that needy of me, husband." She kissed her husband and pressed herself hard against him. "Sleep now, when we awake I want to make love like in our honeymoon." He laughed, and looked at her. "So are you ready to have a new addition to our family?" Mikoto blushed and told him as he closed his eyes, "I am, Sasuke is going to graduate before long, and you are always busy. It would be nice to have a little girl to keep me company." She finished saying that to see the sleeping face of Naruto. "Good night, darling. I love you." And she too closed her eyes and fell asleep.