Hey guys this chapter is a little longer, about 2500 words. Oghren I agree I am going to start making the chapters about 3000 words and the only reason they aren't a lot more is because I want to update every week because I hate when the author takes months to update and then is late. Know that I look back at the first few chapters I see that it was way rushed and will fix that for the next story I write.

Disclaimer: I do not own Naruto.

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Choji grins sheepishly, "Oops I forgot about that." A snort is heard and everyone turns Naruto as he says, "It's probably because Sasugay over there declared he would be Hokage over me!" Sasuke loses his cool demeanor for a moment and glares at Naruto, which only makes him wink. Kushina giggles while Minato sweat drops. Naruto is exactly like his mother… He thinks to himself. TenTen is still confused, "Well then why are you guys here, I mean we can see you are reanimation?"

This time Minato answered, "After the war Orochimaru was going to put release the reanimation, but before he released me I asked him for a favor. I asked him to reanimate my wife and keep me here also so we could get to know our son. He told us the only way he would agree to it is if I taught him how to do the Hirashin." Naruto widened his eyes, "You taught Orochimaru how to do the HIRASHIN?" Minato had paused, since he was expecting this. Yes Naruto, exactly like your mother. Minato smiled in amusement, which only seemed to anger Naruto more.

"No I told him that I am bound to only teach that seal to my kin by the village of whirlpool. So instead I taught him some seals to store chakra and he was satisfied enough to agree. Kushina always wanted to own a restaurant so here we are." Naruto sighed in relief but Sasuke seemed to become the opposite.

If I know Orochimaru he knew Minato wouldn't give him the Hirashin… So what is he playing at? Karin suddenly became interested in the conversation when she heard whirlpool. "Wait you said whirlpool village right? That's my home village!" Kushina's eyes lit up and Minato mentally face palmed. Of course she is an Uzumaki nobody has such bright red hair except an Uzumaki, Minato thought to himself.

"So you were born in whirlpool?" Kushina asked with surprise in her voice.

"Yes I was just born when the village was destroyed and my family fled with me and we became travelers until we found the sound village. By then I was five. My family tried to get into the village but bandits attacked us before we could get there. My dad sacrificed himself to save us and we ran towards the village. Right as we crossed through the field in front of the gates my mom was hit by a kunai in her right calf. She collapsed and told me to run and get inside the village. I told my mother to bite me and she did. But then something happened… her calf healed itself and she stood up with shock in her eyes. That is until-" Karin closed her eyes in pain at the memory. Sasuke allowed some emotion in his face as he rubbed Karin's back comfortingly. Said red head breathed in to calm herself before continuing with a hollow voice.

"My mother's eyes turned lifeless in an instant as another kunai was plunged through her head and I saw the bandits dashing across the clearing. I turned and ran through the field and was almost through the village gates before I was grabbed and pulled backwards by one of the bandits. After that point I don't remember anything except waking up in Orochimaru's lair." Karin's face held no emotion but everyone could see her inward struggle to keep calm. Naruto's mom put her hand to her chin and thought for a second before saying, "Ahah! I know what family you were from in whirlpool!"

Karin eyed the other redhead curiously, "What family might that be?" You have one of the kekkei genkai of the whirlpool! It's called coil regeneration." Everyone stared at Kushina then back to Karin, who seemed very surprised herself.

"So basically whenever someone interacts with her physical chakra she can convert it into a chakra regeneration that strengthens their own chakra coil for the amount of time the two stay connected, thus accelerating the healing process." You could have heard a penny drop in the sand village because of the silence that ensued after Naruto's statement. Minato was the first to speak after several minutes. "Naruto, how did you know that?" Naruto's grin disappeared, as he seemed to be in deep thought. "I don't really know dad, it just sort of came to me… almost like a revelation of a kind." Minato began his own deep thoughts at that point.
"Well I will be damned, Naruto's right." Said a befuddled Kushina. She shook her head and continued, "Well now let's get down to business, what would you guys like to start with to drink?"

Everyone ordered their drinks and their food. Naruto and Ino split a meal since Ino didn't want to eat anything at first. They agreed on crab imperial with lobster chowder as an appetizer. Choji ordered everything on the menu until he was informed that the dinner was not free of course and hurriedly changed his to two meals that had too many different topping on burgers to even begin to explain. Ayame ordered a simple beefcake platter with a baked potato with cheese, butter, sour cream, and bacon on it. Sasuke ordered the Alaskan blue crab legs with tarter sauce. Naruto raised his eyebrow at this, "But I thought since you are an Uchiha you would have ordered the most expensive item on the menu just to prove how much better you are than us." The said Uchiha simply shrugged and took a swig of his jack Daniels and coke. Karin ordered salmon cakes with loaded French fries. Tenten and Neji decided to split a meal and ordered an assortment of clam, scallops, lobster, and crab appetizers. Kushina wrote all of this down and went back to the kitchen and immediately began screaming for the cooks to get everything done right or the lose their jobs and get to eat from the gutters in the street. Sounds like hell's kitchen 2.

Everyone was immersed in conversation and bringing up old memories, until Choji asked, "So Naruto, how did you calm Ino down and convince her to eat something in the same night?" The blonde rubbed his head as his face flushed. "Well that's a little random to ask…" Neji cut Naruto off, "Don't change the subject."

"Nobody wants to hear it anyways Neji…" he trailed off at the looks everyone at the table was giving him. They said, 'Tell us now you prick!'. Naruto sighed. If I tell them I made out with her on top of the Hokage monument they will not let it go and will tease us both all night… I guess I gotta do it now… Naruto sighed again reluctant to do what he was about to do. That is until he looked into miss Yamanaka's eyes. He felt himself get butterflies again just like earlier. He leaned in towards her ear and whispered something in her ear. He pulled away and she began to smile mischievously. Naruto stood up and created a shadow clone. He turned to the shadow clone and said, "Get the package." The clone saluted and turned on chakra mode and disappeared in a flash. Not a moment later he returned with something on his shoulder. The something was moving very slowly. Naruto nodded and the clone grabbed the 'something' by his green chunin jacket and held him up for everyone to see. Everyone gasped and froze. Shikamaru was unconscious and had two black eyes and a huge gash that started above his right eyebrow and ended on his chin.

Naruto began to emit some of the Kyuubi's red chakra and made his eyes turn red and his hair spike up. He spoke in a demonized voice that was similar to his own, "This is what I did." He held the evil look for a few more second before he busted up laughing with Ino joining him. There was a poof sound and 'Shikamaru burst into smoke and turned into another Naruto shadow clone. The two clones then dispelled themselves. As everyone in the group began to realize they had been tricked. Minato and Kushina had been doing what parents do best and eaves dropping on their son's conversation. Kushina was giggling and Minato was trying not to laugh. He was failing miserably.

"I can't believe how much our son is like you Kushina-hime, its almost scary, JUST KIDDING!" He flinched as she glared at him for the comment and continued listening to group's reactions. Sasuke just closed his eyes in annoyance and crossed his arms; Karin held no emotion on her face with having seen worse with Orochimaru. Choji however was horrified but soon began laughing a throaty bellow with Ayame giggling. She knew Naruto long enough to know he would never do anything like that. Neji and tenten were a mix of emotions all at once. Neji was trying to keep his normal stoic expression and not laugh but was also, failing miserably. TenTen however, was another story. She appeared to be mad, horrified, disgusted, amused, and disappointed all at once. But she wasn't disappointed in Naruto. She couldn't believe she fell for that stupid trick.

Naruto gave everyone his fox grin while Ino tried to stop laughing, which she was struggling at to say the least. Minato and Kushina decided that was a good time to bring everyone's food out. Everyone began eating and continued conversing for a while until Naruto noticed Ino had quit eating after her first few bites. If I know her, she is refusing to eat to keep her figure. I will have to see about that. Naruto calmly put down his utensils, and rather unnervingly looked at said Yamanaka. Ino swallowed having guessed what this was about and waited for him to say something. She waited, waited, and waited some more before her patience broke. She closed her eyes in annoyance and open her mouth to ask him what the hell his problem was, she felt a fork with crab imperial go in her mouth, dump the food there and then a hand shut her mouth forcing her to chew the food and swallow. TenTen immediately sweat dropped. Naruto is about to die… Ino opened her eyes and grabbed Naruto by the front of his jacket and dragged him kicking and screaming outside of the restaurant. The rest of the group watched Naruto grow his nails with the nine tails chakra in desperation and drag them on the floor, but to no avail. Ino didn't even slow down.

The group, including Naruto's parents, had one collective sigh and went back to eating while they still could.

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Once they were outside Ino picked Naruto up and slammed him against the wall of the "shack" and held him there. She had enough venom in her eyes to make Kurama visibly shake in fear.

"Explain. Ten seconds." Naruto swallowed and began his rushed defense.

"Because I care about you and its not healthy to starve yourself especially as a ninja since you burn so many calories on missions and we are required to eat more than civilians so I figured instead of fight I would trick you into eating so you would eat and then you wouldn't explode and I am apparently wrong about that and I'm sorry!"He actually finished all of that in roughly five seconds, and that almost impressed her. Almost. Ino continued staring into Naruto's soul thinking over what he said and came to two conclusions.

"Okay well the way I see it you have two options. One, we go back inside and you don't do that ever again and we forget about this. Two, you ask me out, I say yes, we go back inside, and feed each other in front of everyone including your parents, who have been listening the entire time. Your choice." She smirked seeing him sigh in relief that he wasn't going to die today before contemplating his answer. It didn't take long for him to figure out what he would do.

Naruto grinned a big cheesy grin and replied, "I will take option two Ms. Yamanaka." Ino grinned also and took his hand and led him back inside. The group put their utensils down at the sound of the door opening and pushed their plates away to make sure nothing happened to the food. Until they noticed they pair holding hands walk over to the table. Choji and TenTen's jaws dropped in shock and Sasuke Brooded to himself at the sight. Karin was inwardly happy because now that was one less person to get in between her and her Sasuke-kun. Kushina giggled and Minato smiled proudly at his son. What they did next however shocked everyone, and especially Kushina because she was never this confident when it came to relationships. They began feeding each other. With their arms intertwined. Minato stood there frozen in shock wondering where his confidence came from while everyone else's jaws hit the table. Surprisingly Choji was the first one to break the silence with a booming laugh. Naruto and Ino looked over confused as did everyone else. "Okay guys you can quit the act now. It was a hilarious joke you fooled us! Hooray you win, so you can drop the act." Naruto then laughed after a few seconds and shook his head. Ino blushed and smiled at Choji.

Naruto looked at Choji and simply stated, "Um we are dating now, no joke." With that TenTen promptly fell out of her chair in shock. Choji once again became confused and everyone else didn't even move. Sasuke stood up and thanked everyone for dinner and walked out with Karin on his arm and uncharacteristically winked at Naruto before he disappeared in a swirl of lightning. Neji got up, politely thanked everyone for dinner and dragged a frozen TenTen out of the restaurant also uncharacteristically winking at Naruto. Choji and Ayame didn't leave yet and ordered dessert as did Naruto and Ino. Choji and Ayame split a simple chocolate fudge brownie sundae and Naruto and Ino split a peanut butter pie with Reese's pieces mashed up on top with chocolate topping. Choji devoured his half of it while Ayame ate with slightly more manners and finished a few minutes after Choji. Choji and Ayame got up, thanked Kushina and Minato for the food and as they were leaving Ayame turned and winked at Naruto and left.

The spikey haired blonde threw up his hands in exasperation and exclaimed, "Why does everyone keep winking at me?!" Ino laughed and pointed at the bill Kushina was handing Naruto as she was shaking from laughter. Then it dawned on Naruto.

"NOOOOOOOOOOOO!"

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Ino was resting her head on Naruto's shoulder with her left arm wrapped around him as he had his right arm wrapped around her. She giggled again as he muttered something about being broke and no good asshole friends. Naruto looked at her giggling and rolled his eyes before grinning himself.

"I guess they won tonight huh Ino-hime?" Ino nodded and thought to herself. Yup. I guess that's what happens when you play too many pranks on your friends in one night. They leave you to pay the 5,000 ryo bill for a luxurious dinner. She snuggled closer to him and made him forget about the bill and brought him back to reality. He pulled her closer to him as they continued slowly to Ino's home to drop her off.

Meanwhile…

"And you are sure that is exactly what happened?" Inoichi inquired. Minato gave him an affirming nod. Kakashi eye smiled, "This is great news then, and a very progressive night. I say our work here is done. They can figure it out from here." Inoichi also nodded and the three ninja jumped away to their respective homes. Each of them extremely happy with how the two people in question relationship has transformed. Minato thought to himself, I am glad I didn't miss Naruto's first and only true love…

This one took me awhile but I hope you guys like it. It's not my best but it is hopefully still good.