3rd chapter has finally arrived. Took me a bit longer than my other two I apologize, but it is definitely a lot longer. Just around 8000 words and about 4 edits.
This chapter should reveal just a tiny smidge of what I want to do with my fanfiction.
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Disclaimer: I do not own Naruto or any characters of the Narutoverse, if I did Naruto would be the son of a Senju. Easy fix, Minato is a Senju. BOOM! Plot holes fixed. Honestly how can he be Asura's reincarnation if hes an Uzumaki with no Senjua blood! Kishi completely pulled that out of his ass with no explanation. The only plausible explanation is that Kushina is like the great, great grandaughter of Mito, which was never stated or hinted at in canon.
(4 years later)
During the first two years the village of Konoha was slowly regaining its strength after the Kyuubi incident. The day following the attack Minato recalled all Konoha shinobi within in the border of Hi no Kuni(The Land of Fire) and increasing border foreign missions were put on hold as the village was being rebuilt.
Most of the damage occured to Sectors 3 and 4 concentrating most of the damage around the Trading and Merchant District and the Civilian Residency quarter, with minor damage occuring near the slums and red-light districts.
With the attack the Sarutobi and Kurama clan saw some of the more devastating losses each losing around 50 jounin and chunin level shinobi. Some believed that these were insignificant loses compared to the loses of regular forces, which totaled near the 400's, but with some of the major and minor clans shrinking in population, this was a huge loss to both clans respectively. Konoha also lost around 3000 civilian citizens to the beast in the residency quarters before they could be evacuated.
During the 3rd year, just as Konoha finished its reconstruction, the Hokage determined that much of its new strength would come from their ninja academy. As such the Yondaime implemented a new educational reform within the Ninja Academy.
The times of peace were slowly being whittled away and the young boys and girls attending the academy needed to be properly trained. Minato appointed the Sandaime Hokage to be in charge of the new Academic policy which required every aspiring genin shinobi to go through all 4 years of study at the the younger children attending the civilian academy until the age of 8, where, with permission, they could apply to attend the Shinobi Academy.
These past 4 years also served the Yondaime well, with the help of Jiraiya he had finally made progress within his sage training and was currently able to fuse with both elders with only slight alterations to his physique.
Through this progress came the creation of another supplementary S-Rank technique, the Senpo: Kankaku no Hiraishin Kekkai( Sage Art: Sensory of the Hiraishin Barrier). This technique used specialized seals designed to absorb ambient nature chakra and turn it into a sensory barrier that allowed Minato the ability to sense foreign chakra within the confines of the barrier by absorbing sage chakra.
This barrier had a radius of 5 miles and was placed within the center point of the entire village, the Sarutobi Compound. Using an Octagonal sealing array and various anchors at the cardinal points, this barrier allowed every Konoha shinobi to register his/her chakra with the barrier. This allowed Minato full awareness of foreign chakra's and giving him the power to immediately respond to any threat within the Village. The barrier was maintained by Konoha's Barrier Division led by Sarutobi Sasuke, and allowed the Barrier Division shinobi the ability to sense anyone attempting to sneak into the village.
After everything the Yondaime truly was the hero of his village. He was admired by the villagers and feared by all his enemies. To this day nobody had yet to get the better of the young kage. No one except...
(Hokage Manor)
"NARUTO!"
Minato didn't know how or why, It must have been something he inherited from his mother, but the young red head had a knack for chaos. Somehow he had found his way into Minato's weapon cache and stolen one of his kunai. He had been runnig around the house for the last 10 minutes 'killing' all the furniture in the house.
He was currently hiding behind the curtains near the windowsill in the living room of the Hokage Mansion. He quietly snickered at the thought of the blonde Kage running around the house looking for him
'He'll never find me here, this is my new ultimate hiding spot!' thought the boy with a snicker.
"Naruto give me that kunai back this instant before I dye Gama-chan pink!" shouted the annoyed blonde Kage as he walked towards the living room.
If there was anything that would make the boy break it would be his beloved Gama-chan, an orange frog plushy that his mother had purchased before the incident.
Upon hearing Minato's words Naruto paled.
'No not Gama-chan!' he despaired, as he began to slowly pull the cutains back.
Thinking back on his plan he stopped.
'I can't quit! With this new prank I'll beat the hokage and be recognized as the strongest in the village! Then I'll buy 100 Gama-chans!'
Tightening his grip on the kunai he went over the plan, giggling quietly at the thought of finally succeeding in one of his pranks.
Walking into the living room Minato noticed a bulge coming from the curtains. Taking a few steps forward he realized it was quiet. Too quiet.
The normally hyperactive boy must have something planned. Cautiously taking steps forward Minato reviewed the room. There were no wires on the floor, no surprises hidden on the roof. What was he planning? At that moment he heard a giggle from the curtains, momentarily breaking his thoughts and distracting him as he passed by the couch, failing to notice the strategically placed wagon toy in the shadows.
As his foot came down on the toy, his foot slipped backwards, making Minato fall forwards towards the curtains, stabilizing himself with a hand on the wall. In that moment Naruto chose to attack, bringing his kunai down towards the nape of the Hokage and holding it there with both hands.
"Gotcha!" shouted the red-head in glee.
A smirk crossed the blonde kage's face as he poofed into white smoke, a look of confusion crossing the young boys face as his uncle disappeared.
In the confusion, the real Yondaime dropped from the ceiling onto the unsuspecting boy, bonking him lightly on the head. Within seconds the boy was neatly tucked under his arms as he lead the boy towards the bathroom.
"Ne, ne thats unfair oji-san," huffed Naruto, annoyed at being bested once more.
He wasn't really his uncle, but then again he wasn't his dad either, he had seen a picture of his mom and dad, but then again what else should he call the man that was raising him?
"You cheated!"
"Nothing's fair in the shinobi world Naru-chan," chided a smirking Minato, the boy had potential, but he was still to young.
"Besides, now that I've got you its bath time."
The look of horror that crossed the boys face was priceless. Thinking back to all the destroyed furniture this more than made up for it. With a grin he plopped Naruto onto the bathroom floor and began preparing the bath
Once released, he made a break for the door, this time only making it a few feet before Minato flashed in front of the boy, quickly closing the door behind him.
"You're not getting away that easily," With a light smack on the boy's forehead the Yondaime applied a paralysis seal.
"There that will make things a lot easier," he said with a bemused grin.
Unfortunately, this paralysis seal didn't stop the boy from speaking.
"Bu... but whyyy," whined the indignant red head.
"There's no point in taking a shower if I'm just gunna get dirty again. Ne, ne you know its true."
"Now, now Naruto its almost your bed time you don't want to go to sleep all sticky and nasty, that's just bad hygiene," chided the Namikaze.
Naruto just looked at him with a blank stare. Why did he always try to confuse him with big words. Conceding defeat at the hands of the better opponent Naruto quickly conceded.
"Now I'm going to take the seal off and you're going to take your bath like a good boy, okay?"
"Okay," sighed a resigned Naruto, he did lose fair and square.
With that the night proceeded with no more commotions, Minato made dinner, ramen of course. He had a white apron tied to his waist, while Naruto played with some toad toys at the table. Placing the steaming bowls of ramen on the table, they both began to eat with a quiet chorus of "Itadakimasu."
After a few minutes of silence, Minato turned to the boy and asked,
"Are you excited to start up school Naru-chan? It should be exciting. You get to meet more kids to play with."
Truth be told Naruto was excited at the prospect of meeting new friends, to this day he had only met Shikamaru, Choji and Sauske-teme.
Shiakamaru's dad was his uncles best friend and Choji's dad was part of the original Ino-Shika-Cho trio, so he went wherever Shikamaru went. He met Sasuke-teme because his mom was Naruto's mom's best friend growing up. Naruto had wondered where the 'Ino' part was, but he never asked.
To be honest, Naruto was just afraid because everywhere he went people would always look at him funny.
They looked at him like he was an outsider and nobody else would let their kids play with him whenever he went to the park with Kakashi-niisan. It was almost like they blamed him for something, but he just didn't know what.
Noticing the hesitation in the boy's answer, Minato immediately diagnosed the root of the problem. The Kyuubi. Unfortunately for Naruto, there was little he could do to hide Naruto's Jinchuuriki status.
When he proposed keeping it within the confines of the council chambers, he was immediately shot down. The council stating that assets like the Kyuubi Jinchuuriki must be made public so that they did not seem weak to the other elemental nations.
When put to vote he was over ruled 14 to 6. The only votes he managed to garner were of the original Ino-Shika-Cho members, the Sandaime, and the elders.
Reaching over and ruffling the boy's head, he gave him a fatherly smile.
"Don't worry Naru-chan you'll make lots of friends, I'm sure of it," said the young Kage.
"Besides you'll have Sasuke, Shikamaru, and Choji with you too so you have nothing to worry about right?"
"Right," chirped the red-head, a smile slowly working onto his face.
"Ne, ne are you going to walk me to school tomorrow oji-san?" The hopeful look on the boys face almost breaking his defences.
"Unfortunately Naru-chan, I have a very important meeting tomorrow with some representatives from Kumo," intoned Minato a slight frown marring his face at the thought of Kumo. He didn't forget about the time they tried to capture Kushina to turn her into a jinchuuriki.
Naruto's smile quickly fell,
"Oh."
Minato's heart broke at the look on the boy's face, it pained him to see his son so sad,
"...But, Kakashi-san said he would be more than happy to take you to school."
A slight smile working his way onto the boys face at the thought of seeing his nii-san. "And the meetings shouldn't last very long so I'll be there to pick you up from school okay?" continued Minato.
This caused the largest smile he'd seen to date to appear on the boys face. With a sloppy slurp of his ramen broth he quickly put his bowl down and rushed to his uncle's side.
"I've got to get to bed quick so tomorrow can come faster! Good night oji-san!" With those final words he gave Minato a brothy kiss on the cheek and rushed towards his room to get into bed.
Chuckling at the his antics, Minato finished his meal before taking the bowls over to the sink and beginning to wash the dishes, letting his thoughts consume him.
'Oh Kushina how I wish you could be here with us today. You would be so proud of you're son,' thought Minato as he methodically washed each dish. 'He's gunna grow up to be a fine man, I promise.' With this final thought he finished the last of the dishes turned the lights off and walked towards his room, mentally preparing himself for the events of the next day.
(Hokage Manor)
The following morning was a rushed one in the Namikaze household. A panicked Minato was hurriedly finishing packing Naruto's lunch making sure everything was perfect. Throwing a glance over his shoulder he noticed Naruto was eating at an inhuman pace.
"Naruto! Slow down before you choke on your eggs," he scorlded.
Meanwhile Naruto sat at the table quickly scarfing down the eggs and rice his uncle had prepared for him. Every so often his eyes would glance to the front door in anticipation. If Kakashi-nii didnt hurry they were going to be late! He turned to hear his uncle say something about choking, but blew it off as unimportant. Behind him the door opened, entering a young Hatake Kakashi
"Yo," said the ever-late teenager. At 17 years old he was on the fast track to becoming one of Konoha's Elite Jounin. He had gravity defying white hair and had his headband covering his left eye. Over his face he had a blue mask. What was under it was as much a mystery to Naruto as was the concept of 'girls'. Turning back to his orange book he let out a perverted giggle.
Hearing the opening of a door, he quickly turned and let out a gasp seeing Kakashi standing in the doorway. Bad timing, as Naruto still had food in his mouth. Choking on his breakfast, he frantically waved his arms around trying to get Kakashi or his uncle's attention.
Minato took one last look at the lunchbox, ensuring everything was in order, he nodded his head in satisfaction.
'This should do,' he thought, slowly turning to see Naruto turning purple frantically waving his arms around.
"Baka, what did I tell you about eating to fast?"
He sighed, walking over to the boy and quickly thumping him on his back two times, allowing the food to go down smoothly. Relief broke across the young Uzumaki's face as he could breathe again.
Turning towards Kakashi, seeing him armed with his usual book Minato let out a sigh. His sensei was slowly corrupting his student, one pervy book at a time.
"I can't slow down, oji-san todays the first day of school!" excitedly explained Naruto.
Turning towards Kakashi he pointed a finger and shouted,
"YOU'RE LATE!"
Minato could only chuckle at his son's antics.
Looking up at the distrubance, Kakashi sighed and closed the book. "I passed by a black cat on my way here. I didn't want to get bad luck so I decided to take the long way around."
At this explanation, both Minato and Naruto deadpanned. Minato was the first to speak,
"You overslept didn't you"
Looking at his sensei he shrugged. Neither denying or confirming his statement Kakashi turned towards Naruto beckoning him forward with his hand.
"Come, come. We don't have all day you know, I have to get back to reading my book," He said with a giggle. "Let's get you to school."
Quickly forgetting his irritation with his older brother figure, Naruto grabbed his lunch from Minato and made his way towards the door. He quickly turned and shouted,
"See you later oji-san!"
"Good luck on your first day Naruto!" replied Minato
Turning to see the empty house, he realized just how quickly time passed by.
Broken from his thoughts by the sound of an alarm he had set to remind him of his meeting with Kumo, he summoned an ANBU, quickly ordering him to clean up the mess.
Putting on his white haori, red flames adorning the bottom and the kanji for 'Fourth' on the back, he quickly disappeared in a flash of yellow, arriving just a few minutes before the meeting was slated to begin.
The ANBU turned to look at the mess left behind. It looked like a bomb had gone off in the kitchen.
The ANBU sweatdropped, 'No one said anything about being the Hokage's maid when I signed up for ANBU' he grumbled, as he bent over to pick up the remains of Naruto and the Yondaime's breakfast.
Streets of Konoha
Walking down the road Naruto noticed some of the glances the villagers shot in his direction. Confused as to why they still looked at him that way he turned to Kakashi and asked,
"Hey nii-san to you know why all the villagers look at me funny?"
Hearing this Kakashi's eyes narrowed slightly, 'he noticed them already?' thought Kakashi. 'How long can we keep this secret from him?'
Looking around he noticed some of the glares that were sent in his direction. Elevating his killing intent in their direction and shooting them a withering glare, the civilians turned to go about their business.
"You're just imagining things Naruto, it must be the nerves for you first day, lets hurry or we'll be late," he said with a trademarked eye-smile.
At this Naruto shot him a glare, Kakashi clearly oblivious to the irony of the statement.
"Yeah I guess you're right, lets go!"
Once they arrived Naruto took a long look at the Blue Civilian Academy building. The kanji for fire prominently displayed on the front.
With barely contained excitement he thought to himself, '4 more years until I can get permission to join the Ninja Academy!'
Looking over at Kakashi he smiled, finally he was on the road to becoming a kick ass shinobi like his nii-san and oji-san.
Kakashi noticed the boys look and gave Naruto an eye-smile before speaking,
"Alright Naruto this is where I leave you, good luck in school alright? If you manage to stay out of trouble I may even take you out for some ramen at Ichiraku's, hows that sound?"
At the mention of Ichiraku's Naruto nodded fervently.
"I promise to be good nii-san, but..." and here a glint of barely contained excitement could be seen in his eyes, "...you have to buy me ALL the ramen I want, deal?" said Naruto.
"Deal," said Kakashi thinking nothing bad could come from it, besides how much ramen could a 4 year old eat anyway?
"Ja ne!"
With those final words Kakashi disappeared in a whirlwind of leaves, leaving the awestruck 4 yeard old standing there .
Naruto turned in search of his other friends. As he walked through the crowds of students he noticed two girls standing in front of one of the classrooms quietly whispering to each other. One girl had short blonde hair that came to her shoulders, while the other girl had short pink hair in a similar style. They seemed to be staring at one of the other boys in the classroom, a little shy to enter the classroom. Taking a look at the number by the door he noticed it was the same number as the one of the piece of paper he had in his hand. With a deep breath he walked up to the girls, and introduced himself,
"Hiya! My name's Naruto, Uzumaki Naruto. Are you guys in this class too?"
Startled by the sudden new voice, the girls turned to look at the boy, taking in his red hair and appearance.
For his first day of school Naruto chose to wear a white clan shirt with an orange Uzumaki whirlpool prominently displayed in the center, blue pants and a green froggy book bag. His red hair stood out among the varying shades of brown and black that could be seen walking behind him.
The blonde girl seemed to be the more confident of the two. She stepped forward upset that he scared them,
"None of your business!" Screeched the blonde.
"Now move you're blocking the view of the pretty boy with the black hair."
A little hurt, at the outburst, he tentaively looked inside, confusion etched on his face. He wanted to see who this 'pretty black haired' fellow was.
When he peeked inside he was greeted by Shikamaru's lazy form sleeping on one of the desks. His pineapple style haircut was difficult to miss even from way over here.
Naruto sweatdropped and turned towards the blonde and her friend with a grin, payback time.
"YOU LIKE SHIKAMARU!" he said, pointing an accusing finger at the rude blonde. " Ahahahahaha, you like Shika, you like Shika." At the sound of a loud shout Shikamaru lifted his face from his desk wondering who distrubed his sleep, next to him Choji quietly munched on his chips.
Checking the doorway he saw his troublesome best friend Naruto, accusing Ino of something, while he danced around with a finger pointed at her.
"Oi, Naruto!" he said lazily. "Leave Ino alone she'll just get more... troublesome." With that he put his head back on the table and went back to sleep.
Ino's face was immediately flushed with anger and embarrassment,
"NO!" she said, hitting the red haired boy over the head. She then pointed over to another black haired boy seated behind Shikamaru. He wore a high collared black shirt and his hair stuck out from the back of his head, reminiscent of a duck's backside.
He looked over, confused by all the commotion, until he spotted Naruto. That baka was always getting into trouble.
"Thats the boy," said Ino with a sigh. "He's soooo cute!"
With those final words Ino and the pink haired girl huddled together and started giggling.
Naruto squinted his eyes at the boy. He looked vaguely familiar...
Stepping into the room to take a closer look Naruto realized who the boy was. Turning to look at the girls he said,
"Ne, ne, what's so special about Sasuke," he said with a confused look. "He can't even go to sleep without his favorite teddy bear, Kuma-chan."
Upon hearing these words, Sasuke's face flushed. He rose angrily from his chair and pointed an accusing finger at Naruto.
"Hey! That's not true," shouted the indignant Uchiha. " It was only one time because you were making creepy noises form under the bed! Besides you can't sleep without Gama-chan and Shika can't sleep without his deer!"
Looking around the room Sauske noticed they were rapidly becoming the center of a attention.
He sat back down with a huff, quickly realizing what Naruto just made him admit. He muttered something about stupid red-heads and revealing top secret, secrets to girls. They didn't even like girls yet!
Upon seeing the outburst the girls in the classroom had stars in their eyes with a shout of,
"Kawaaiii!"
Ino and her pink-haired friend were no different, with hearts in their eyes. He just couldn't get any cutre.
Naruto sweatdropped hoping for a different reaction. Nonetheless, he was pleased with his work. He proudly paraded Gama-chan around town, but he knew Sasuke kept Kuma-chan a secret. He delighted in Sasukes embarrasment, at least until Sasuke-teme started getting even more attention from the girls. With a sigh he went to sit next Shikamaru who had gone back to sleep, not caring that his deer plushie had been revealed to his new classmates.
As she passed Naruto, Ino gave him a withering gaze and stuck her tongue out. Her pink haired friend, who had yet to introduce herself continued walking with her.
The two girls proceeded to take seats on opposite sides of Sasuke stealing glances at his face everyone once in a while.
He looked around the room and noticed there were some weird kids in his class.
Right behind Sasuke,was a kid who had red triangle markings on his face. Next to him was a girl with white eyes. Right next to her was another kid that wore sunglasses and a thick white coat, in the middle of summer!
As he continued to scan the room, he heard the door open and close as a young civilian instructor walked in, making everyone fall silent.
"Good Morning class, welcome to your first day at the Academy! My name is Akame Iwana and during the next four years you'll be learning basic functions like reading, writing and math so you can all be well-rounded individuals. After the 4th year you'll be allowed to take the Ninja Academy exam where you can continue on to become a Shinobi of Konohagakure no Sato. There is no greater honor. For those of you who do not pass this test, you will be moved on through the various trade schools that are offered here at the Civilian academy, where we will ready you for a life outside of school..." and thus began the longest lecture of Naruto's young life.
As the instructor droned on Naruto was lost in his thoughts,
'Man this was going to be a long day,' thought the young red head quickly realizing there was nothing exciting about school. 'I wonder what oji-san and Kaka-nii are up to right now.'
Hokage Tower
It seemed that both the men of the Namikaze household were having rough mornings.
After listening for 2 hours to the proposal made by Kumo about a possible alliance, he now had to sit and go through mountains of paperwok.
All he needed was a little Katon Jutsu(Fire Technique) and he could finish the paperwork in 2 seconds flat!
Quickly shaking off his pyrotechnic tendencies, he thought back to the meeting. It had gone relatively well, Kumo was not asking for anything extravagant. All they wanted was an increase in trade across their borders and security for foreign missions operating within Hi no Kuni. In return they promised open borders and no hostility towards leaf-nin on foreign missions within Kaminari no Kuni(Land of Lightning).
It was an intriguing proposal as it allowed for more revenue to flow through Konoha, but there was something off about the whole thing that he just couldn't put his finger on. Kumo has always been an isolationist, why are they suddenly interested in a new allegiance?
With a slight shake of the head he decided to just leave it for their council meeting later today so they could put it to vote. Kami knows thats all those bastards liked to do anyway. The last time they had a meeting, they spent an hour trying to vote on what kind of lunch they should get.
"I motion for Pizza!"
"I motion for Sushi!
"I motion for Ramen!"
Back and forth for an hour with each member gave a diatribe as to why their food choice was better. It drove him insane!
Putting two fingers on the bridge of his nose and resting his arm on his desk, he was starting to wonder why he even took the hat in the first place, all it brought him was more stress.
In that moment, Minato heard the window open and a deep, gruff voice starting to speak,
"Ehehehe starting to regret the decision of taking the hat Minato?"
Looking over at the window he saw a large, muscular man sitting on the windowsill. He had long white hair that ran down his back, with two strands of hair that framed his face. On his forehead he wore a steel headband with the kanji for oil. There were two long red markings just underneath his eyes that ran all the way down to his jaw-line and he wore a forest green haori over a mesh shirt, with a sleeveless red jacket over top that was opened down the middle. On his back he carried an overly large scroll that was known to Minato as the frog summoning contract.
This man was none other than Jiraiya of the Sannin, one of the most powerful shinobi Konoha had ever produced, and Minato's mentor.
With a slight sigh Minato looked back over to his desk and said,
"No one ever told me there would be this much paper work.I just wanna burn it all to the ground! I mean why do we need mission reports for D-Ranks!I always just saw the Sandaime lazying about and thought, 'man that'd be an awesome job to have'."
Minato's shoulders slumped over at the thought of reading another Tora the Cat mission report.
With a knowing smirk Jiraiya, a glint of mischief appearing in his eyes,
"Oh? You mean sensei never taught you the secret to paperwork?"
Perking up at this so called secret, Minato looked over to his sensei,
"What do you mean secret to paperwork, there is no shortcut I can't even get my assistant to do it. I always get scolded and told I need to know everything that happens in the village."
With a grin Jiraiya continued, "Ahh but there is a secret. It's how the Sandaime was able to complete my collection of Icha Icha books. But I guess you'll just have to figure it out on your own. Unless..."
He knew he had Minato hooked the minute he mentioned a secret to the mortal enemy of kage. It was almost too easy.
"Ne, unless what?" said Minato, sounding not unlike Naruto when he got excited.
"I'll tell you the secret to paperwork that sensei always used, IF you help me do some research!" a lecherous grin plastered over Jiraiya's face
At this Minato sweat dropped.
Leave it to his sensei to still be perving around at a time like this. Still he did need a break and he hadn't gone 'researching' with his sensei since he was promoted to jounin all those years back.
Jiraiya had convinced him to take a peak right as Kushina-chan and Tsunade-sama had entered the hot springs. They immediately noticed and proceeded to beat he both of them within an inch of their life.
He shuddered at the memory.
'Neither of them are in the village this time, what's there to lose? It's not like I'm doing anything important,' thought Minato. ' Besides it'll be worth it if I can learn how to beat this blasted paperwork!'
"Alright I'll do it, but if we get caught I'm flashing away..." This was why Jiraiya loved peaking with Minato. Once he mastered the Hiraishin there was no way he could get caught! "...without you." At those last words Jiraiya face faulted, that cheeky brat!
"Fine, fine. To the Hot Springs!" announced Jiraiya, with a crash he broke through one of the windows leaving an amused Minato in his wake.
'There's no one else in world quite like sensei,' thought Minato with a smile. He quickly flashed away to the marker he ever-so-discreetly had hidden within the hot springs to wait for his super pervert of a sensei.
Yamanaka Flower Shop
Ino's day was going as perfect as possible. She made a bunch of new friends and even found a really cute boy in her class. Even though Naruto-baka was annoying, she still considered him a new friend and was even plotting on using him to try to get Sasuke's attention.
She had just arrived at her family's flower shop filled with happy thoughts. With a hum she skipped inside and left her butterfly bag behind the counter.
Sending a quick greeting to her mom, she began tending to the flowers.
The Yamanaka's' had owned this little flower shop for nigh on 4 generations.
The Shodai Hokage would even come by to pick up his flowers here. He loved watching all the life that was present in the one little shop. Sometimes even going so far as to spend an entire day surrounded by the only friend he knew would never betray him, Mother Nature.
He even gifted them a special garden just inside their clan compound, where they could pick their flowers. The flowers in this garden were never affected by seasons and always grew back the next morning after they were picked, it was the ultimate present, one they treasured to this day.
For this reason everyone came to the Yamanaka Flower Shop to receive all their orders. You could always find the type of flower you wanted no matter what the season. They were also some of the most gifted flower arrangers within Hi no Kuni. Almost like they were born to it.
Ino was currently tending to the jasmine's, her favorite flower. They represented grace and elegance which Ino always believed was how every princess should carry herself. Quietly humming to herself as she delighted in smelling and spraying every single flower.
As she walked past the flowers, they seemed to come to life. Standing a little bit taller, the colors more vibrant. Some were even growing at an alarming rate.
Her mother was quietly reading behind the counter watching her daughter tend to the flowers when all of a sudden it seemed as though the flowers themselves had come to life.
She had never seen anything like it. The only time she had ever heard of something like this was from her mother. She used to tell her stories of her great-great grandfather, the Shodai would spend hours talking about the wonders of watching him create new life from chakra.
Could it be that there was a new Senju heir? She had long before hidden her heritage. After her parents were killed in the second shinobi war, she decided it would be better to drop her last name and marry into an established clan. She would have to wait to speak to her husband when he got back from his council meeting. He was the only one who knew the truth behind her heritage.
Maybe even her great-aunt, Tsunade, would return. Who knew? After all she said she had no family worth staying for. Maybe Ino was the spark that revived the flame of her will.
Outside the Civilian Academy
Naruto's first day of school was not going how he expected. First, all the girls were fawning over Sasuke-teme. Then, all their instructor did was lecture them about the importance of having a strong foundation of reading and writing and math. When are you ever going to use math as a ninja! That was Naruto's thinking anyway.
The worst part came when he was eating lunch. At first it was just him, Sasuke, Shikamaru and Choji. All of a sudden Ino and Sakura, he finally found out the pink-haired girls name, joined in and brought over the weird guy with the red marks on his face, Kiba, and the weird girl with the white eyes, Hinata.
They started off quiet with the girls, sans Hinata, trying to get Sasuke's attention. Afterwards, they started to work the conversation toward their clans, which Naruto found the most interesting since almost everyone there was from a clan except Sakura.
That was when he found out that they had all already accessed their chakra and were getting special clan training! Special training! Naruto wasn't even allowed to play outside without any supervision! This ruined the rest of Naruto's day especially since he had been asking his uncle to train him ever since he found out he was the strongest ninja in the village.
Now he was sitting outside, impatiently waiting for his uncle to come pick him up. He'd been waiting for around half an hour, but he still hadn't arrived.
The more he sat there the angrier he got about the fact that kids his age already started top it off whenever the parents of other villager kids arrived they would look at him with disgust and turn their kids away.
Naruto couldn't get the whispers of, 'stay away from him' or the slight mutterings of 'demon child' out of his head. He just wished he knew why the villagers treated him so poorly. He hadn't done anything wrong, not that he knew of anyway.
After another five minutes he realized his uncle probably got caught up with 'Hokage duties,' so he grabbed his froggy backpack and started down the street towards the Hokage Mansion. He was keeping to himself as he realized that there weren't very many people around him and he was receiving glares from everyone as he walked past, even more so now that his uncle or his nii-san weren't there to walk with him. The villagers wouldn't dare to hurt him, but they could shun him and keep him away from their businesses when the Hokage and his watchdogs weren't present.
The longer he walked the more frightened he became, slowly starting to pick up his pace to get home quicker. As the crowd got larger and larger, and the muttering grew louder and louder Naruto began sprinting his way out of the 3rd sector and made his way past the gate, glad to have escaped the large crowd of people. Just as he rounded the corner, he ran face first into a large man sporting a series of white dreadlocks that ran down to his back. He stood around 5"11 and wore a strange hitaite that Naruto had never seen before.
The man shrugged off the blow and took a closer look at the boy. Noticing his red hair he realized he must be an Uzumaki.
'Didn't the Sandaime order the capture of an Uzumaki some years ago?' thought the strange man. 'Hmm it couldn't hurt to...' his thoughts interrupted when the boy spoke
"Hey! Watch where you're going, you could get someone hurt," said the young Uzumaki, sending a weak glare at the man, quickly forgetting about the villagers.
The man chuckled to himself before speaking.
"Why don't you, watch where you're going. You ran into me, shrimpy" said the white-haired man with a flick to the boys forehead.
Naruto clutched at his forehead, annoyed that the stranger had hit him and was about to challenge him until he looked up at his forehead and realized the man must be a shinobi. With a squint of his eyes, he tried to decipher the strange man's headband.
The white-haired man noticed the young boy trying to concentrate and decipher his forehead protector, enjoying the look of concentration on his face. Deciding to save the boy the trouble he spoke,
"Its from Kumo kid, the Village Hidden in the Clouds"
Slowly taking in the information Naruto started to think back to where he heard Kumo a few seconds a lightbulb went off in his mind,
"You met with my uncle today!" shouted Naruto with a look of pride
The Kumo-nin was taken aback. He didn't realize that the Yellow Flash had a nephew, especially an Uzumaki nephew, that was new information to take home.
The thought of nabbing an extra paycheck he began formulating a plan. Sure his mission was to just steal the Hyuuga heiress, but if he could get out of here with the Hyuuga AND the Uzumaki, it would be a greater boon to their village. Hell he might even get paid triple for this.
"Yeah I did kid, hes a pretty cool guy," started off the plotting shinobi, "but, hey listen kid your uncle gave me permission to walk around the village and I'm having some trouble getting around. Would you mind showing me around? I heard there are some pretty cool clan compounds around here."
Thinking hard about Naruto made a facec. His uncle had warned him about going to places with strangers, but then again this man did just have a meeting with his uncle, and he was still mad at him for not picking him up. Besides maybe he'll get to see one of his new friends.
Thankfully for him his uncle made sure he knew how to get to all the major clan houses and where they were located. When it came to learning about the village Naruto would absorb the knowledge like a sponge, but his mind would wander off if you ever started talking about boring stuff like math.
Having made his decision Naruto looked up at the man and said,
"Yeah sure it's this way follow me!"
Not noticing the gleam in the man's eye.
Council Room
After returning from the council room Minato's day got progressively better.
Once Jiraiya had arrived at the hot springs Minato demanded that he get his payment BEFORE they started "researching." With a smirk Jiraiya made a cross shape with two fingers on each hand, creating a Kage Bunshin(Shadow Clone). Minato's eyes widened at the realization of what his sensei had just done.
Shadow clones were normally used for scouting and reconnaissance. They returned their experiences to the user of the technique allowing for an instant transmission of information through their experience. Some shinobi of higher calibre train mentally train themselves using clones, while training their body at the same time.
Using a clone can not increase physical strength, however, by doing a series of exercise, such as Taijutsu Katas (Fighting Techniques and Forms), they can retain the muscle memory and transfer it over to the original user of the jutsu. This can server to perfect the style, but the user of the technique would still have to physically train their body in order to increase their strength and speed with the style.
The only downside to the technique is that it requires a lot of chakra from the user as they're essentially splitting their reserves into multiple bodies
By using a shadow clone to do his paperwork Minato could enjoy himself with his guilty pleasures, while his clones did all the work and he retained the knowledge of the papers that had to be signed. Who knew such a simple trick like the Kage Bunshin no Jutsu(Shadow Close Technique) would alleviate the amount of work he actually had to do.
With his new revelations he sent a shadow clone to take his place in the office and work on the paper work, essentially acting as a figure head. Meanwhile Minato spent the whole day with his pervy sensei peeping on women and helping him with new ideas for his books. He was so giddy with excitement he lost track of time and forgot that he had to pick up Naruto form school.
Unfortunately his day met an abrupt end when he was called into the council room to discuss the proposal of an alliance with Kumo, and that is where he found himself now.
The Council members had been going back and forth debating the pros and cons of accepting and declining the proposal. Half of the council said yes, the other half said no. They were in a stalemate, but nobody was agreeing with each other on their reasons for accepting or declining.
Just as the deliberation was reaching its climax Minato felt a tug on the back of his mind, it seemed to be coming from the barrier. Completely focusing on the barrier he began to collect nature chakra in his chair, activating his connection to the barrier and searching for the disturbance. Within seconds of 'looking' he sensed a disturbance in Sector 2 just on the outskirts of the village.
The Kumo-nin he had a meeting with was running towards the outer wall, it seemed as if he was attempting to leave the village, but why? Taking a closer 'look' he sensed to more chakra sources with the Kumo-nin. One very small source and the other relatively large. Upon sensing these chakras he immediately identified one as Naruto's. He just now realized he had left he boy alone without any supervision!
Opening his eyes he immediately flashed to the Hiraishin marker he had placed on Naruto's clothes, to the surprise of various council members.
Arriving just in front of the Kumo-nin, he noticed he had both children slung across his back in separate bags.
With a look of surprise on his face the Kumo-nin slowed before throwing out a volley of kunai and shuriken attempting distract the young kage.
Minato quickly sidestepped the volley of knives and responded with his own tri-pronged kunai, dropping one on the floor and throwing the other two. The first he threw was towards the bag on the man's back, the second was slightly delayed and angled towards the mans chest.
Within seconds the battle was over. As the Kumo-nin attempted to dodge the first kunai, all he saw was a flash of yellow and was parted from his package. Two more flashes later the man lay dead at the Hokage's feet. In the time it took the man to dodge the second kunai, Minato had flashed forward, taken the children flashed backwards to safety and once again flashed forward to the third and final kunai, ending the man's life with a quick clean cut to the jugular.
This was the power of Konoha's Yondaime Hokage
Taking both kids in his arms, he flashed back to the council room placing them both in the corner of the council room. Ignoring the wide-eyed stares of his associates he flashed back to the body of the kumo-nin, taking it with him on his final trip and depositing it on the council chambers floor.
From start to finish it had taken less than a minute.
The council members in the room shuffled through a medley of emotions. Initially they were shocked, then they were confused, and finally they were angry as they realized what had just occurred. Their voices gaining volume as they called for more Kumo blood. The elders sat quietly watching the young kage and reading his reaction
Of the council members none voiced his anger more than one Hiashi Hyuuga, but even his anger paled in comparison to that of the Yondaime. The aura that he emitted was terrifying and the small, concentrated amounts of killing intent that were being released were enough to make even the most seasoned jounin freeze.
With a single raise of the hand, he silenced the council chambers.
The Sandaime took this opportunity to speak,
"Minato. You understand that the Raikage will demand reparations for what has occured here tonight. Killing one of his shinobi that we granted immunity to during his visit will not be taken lightly. At the very least they will be demanding a pair of Hyuuga eyes, as we can see that was their intent with the capture of young Hinata.
Upon hearing his words, Minato turned to look at the aged Sarutobi. With a cold edge to his voice, he spoke,
"They will receive what they deserve"
Grabbing a scroll from his pack , he turned towards the body and with a quick swipe of his kunai severed the head from the torso. He then proceeded to seal the head within the scroll. Motioning towards two of the ANBU guards in the shadows, he said,
"Burn the body, get a box for this scroll. Make sure to mail it to the Raikage of Kumo. Send my regards"
Annnnnd Scene!
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It was something I always wanted to explore. Tsunade, Naruto, and the Yamanakas are the only blondes in Konoha. Somehow, somewhere Senju blood, all of which are represented with dark hair, and Yamanaka or Namikaze blood mixed together to create super powered blondes.