The Greek Kunoichi

Chapter 5: Finale Wave and Naruto's blooming womanhood.

Author's notes: Well, the answer to this fiction is becoming warmer! I'm glad that it is the case. I posted a new poll on my profile, so please go vote on it, it would be very useful. After Wave, I will resume the Chuunin exams and Sasuke's attempted defection. I came to a decision of what to do with that situation, you will see very soon. After that a little remainder of what came to past, but if I expand on Part 2 of the Manga/Anime, it will be forever before we go back to the Greek and Roman Gods. By then I will surely came to a decision of what to do with Six Paths Sage Mode and the mess with Kaguya/Juubi/Shinju. To be frank, I stopped following the manga at the start of the Fourth Shinobi World War, just getting glimpse of the events, only diving in the cloaks of Sealed Hatred Mode and Tailed Beast Mode. I love the golden cloaks and when Naruto take the shape of Kurama .I will also let Naruto, Sasuke and Kushina make their debut in the U.S.A earlier than expected, so the kids will be seventeen for my plan to work, so they will arrive somewhere in 2008. I also posted a new poll on my profile; please go put a vote when you have time. Well, on with the show.

Tsunami, daughter of Tazuna, mother of Inari and widow of Kaiza, was a level headed woman. She had seen and done a lot in her short life, but motherhood was what she was the most proud of. Tsunami had long blue-coloured hair. She was wearing a short-sleeved pink shirt with the end of the sleeves and the collar being red in colour. You could also excuse her for freaking out a little when she went to greet her father who was back with hired shinobis from Konoha, when she saw the lion sized golden three tailed fox carrying an unconscious man on its back. It was only the multiples reassurances from her father and the other conscious ninjas that it was a technique that Naruto could employ and that she was not a youkai (Supernatural animals, most commonly labelled in English as demons) that prevented her to scream murder and try to kill it somehow. Once calmed, she permitted entrance and when they were done settling Kakashi into a guest room, Naruto took back her human guise into an impressive flash of golden fox fire, which didn't burn anything! That one took a while to digest. How a little girl of twelve, almost thirteen could shape shift like that, it was unreal. The others couldn't do anything like that, but they weren't about to discuss Jinchūriki abilities to a civilian. Cat proceeded to gave orders to the Genins before she went back out to scout the island. Naruto volunteered to go back outside to create a safety net around the house with Fuuinjutsu and was promptly told to do so. Sakura started to make small talk with Tsunami, to try and gather more Intel about the local situation in the woman's point of view and help her into the kitchen. They still had enough deer meat sealed away to make a few meals, so it would help ease the burden.

Sasuke was forever banned from any kitchen. He couldn't cook to save his life if it was more complex than roasted meat, survival rations, dry food or fast food. Kushina even tried to have him follow her movements while cooking with his Sharingan. The result was still inedible. So he went to the room they had stashed their sensei, to see if he could do something more to help. It wasn't a good idea generally to use weapons around civilians. Even if it was just to sharpen the blade, they tended to freak out or be very nervous. Yes, he loved his weapons; he was a son of Ares after all. He would also have to up his training; he didn't want to be left behind by his foster sister. He knew in his head that she was housing half of the nine tailed demon fox Kurama from birth, thus boosting even more her life force and Uzumaki attributes. The Uchiha Clan were on the other side of the spectrum, they had good bodies yes, but were more attenuated to mental energy than the physical. After all, in the legends, the first son of the sage had inherited the sage's mind and his eyes, the second son had inherited the sage's body and his large stores of chakra. The Uchiha were descendants of Indra Otsutsuki and The Senju where descendants of Asura Otsutsuki. With the Uzumaki clan being closely related to the Senju clan, Naruto was the literal definition of a powerhouse. He could understand Naruto's vitality, he could see he was getting better, but it was kind of hard for him to see her progress by leaps and bounds while his pace was slower. It was a balm to his pride to see her struggle with the more theory based subjects. They had sworn a blood oath to bring Itachi to justice together, to make him answer for his crimes before a jury composed of his peers. To help those he massacred find rest. At the rhythm things were going on, she would be too strong for him to walk equally with and it was very hard for him. His pride and his ancestry pushed him to be the best possible. He was not even remotely sexist; being taken in by Kushina Uzumaki at a young age would destroy any misgivings about women being inferior to men. Not to mention Amphitrite. Don't ever say or do anything sexist in her presence, ever. It's the last bloody error in life a mortal will do! Poseidon forgot one time and slapped her ass with an open palm in passing when she was bending over to pick something. She managed somehow to have him handle over his trident to her so she could pursue him and bash him very hard again and again on the head with it! Afterward, he was made to sleep on the couch for three days! Has he not being a God, Poseidon wouldn't have survived his wife's fury.

If there is one thing that the Big Three have in common, it is the fact that they hated the couch! Many times they had been forced to revisit the cushioned domain they hated so much for reasons that they couldn't begin to understand. Being punished for siring a half blood behind their wives' backs was one thing. They did something wrong and they were able to own up to it. For the rest? Not so much. Getting out of his musings, he could see that his sensei was at least resting easier now by the smooth rising and falling of his chest. He suddenly sensed a powerful instantaneous flash of Chakra; it told him that Naruto was successful in setting a safe zone around the house. It wasn't a barrier per see, more like a warning system if somebody came around. They wouldn't be blindsided and/or sitting ducks. Sasuke was somewhat amused to see Naruto climb in through the window and then come to sit next to him. There was a comfortable silence between them; after all growing up together had some perks. He was surprised when he felt Naruto get close to him and put her head on his shoulder though. She wore her emotions on her sleeves, yes, but normally she wasn't that touchy feely with him. She distracted him by saying

"Hey, do you think we could take off Kakashi-sensei's mask to see what he looks like? Even mom doesn't know. She said he was wearing it way back when he was still dad's student. She never saw him without it."

Sasuke answered by a negative toned grunt. He wasn't in the mood to play games right now.

"Hnn."

Naruto gave him a deadpan look and told him with a bit of annoyance

"You're a real master with words aren't you?"

Just to annoy her, he smirked, but didn't say anything else. Without knowing really why, he then took one arm from his side and put it around Naruto's waist, hugging her against him tighter. She let him do it; it didn't seem to disturb her. They continued to watch their teacher sleep, wondering what would happen next. They knew that the A.N.B.U operative Cat was out there, scouting and gathering Intel for her own mission. She would be the one to deal with Gato. He really should have learned to play by the rules. The business man got greedy and tried to expand his influence and black market goods where he shouldn't. Konoha would make sure he wouldn't do the same mistake ever again. He wouldn't make any mistakes ever again. Oh well, no skin off their noses. They stayed cuddled like a little while, but their A.D.H.D was starting to act up. Naruto's was worse with her bottomless chakra reserves; she always had some energy to burn. She crept silently toward their sensei on her hands and knees after disentangling herself of her friend's embrace, but Sasuke found himself suddenly mesmerized by the sway of her developing hips and her bottom. Sasuke was started out of his peeping and Naruto out of her prankster queen from hell persona by the sounds of footsteps on the stairs and then on the floor coming their way. The golden haired girl then sat on her haunches, a pout on her pretty whiskered face at being interrupted before she could satiate her curiosity. Finally remarking that Sasuke's face was red as a tomato, she was about to ask what was wrong when Sakura entered the room after knocking. She saw Sasuke who was red for no reason, Naruto who was looking intrigued and Kakashi sensei was comatose. Her team was weird, but hey, they made her a better person.

The next morning, Kakashi was awake, feeling better but was not combat worthy. After getting a tongue lashing from Cat for letting himself go and grow lax and laughed at by his students, he showed Sakura how to utilize her chakra to climb trees without her hands and set Sasuke and Naruto to try the same, but on water. When informed that they mastered water walking before tree climbing due to living on an archipelago for years, he then sent Sasuke with Tazuna to the bridge on guard duty and after letting Naruto give tips to Sakura on how to improve on the exercise, he sent her along with Tsunami to the market. With Cat out scouting and everybody else occupied, he sat himself against a tree and started to read his book, giggling strangely at certain passages. He still could give Sakura some critics without seeing her. Seriously, jonins were weird. The day was productive for the entire team. Naruto, in a revelation, let the kitsune's animal instinct in her guide her toward a prey and she ends up bringing to the client's home a good sized boar. It was more than enough to feed everyone for a good while with the deer meat diminishing. Suddenly, she went stiff. Something was wrong. She was really close to the house, just outside the range of the seals. A soft but menacing animal growl got out of her throat and she started to sniff the air intensely. She knew that smell! But what was she doing here?! From the woods, like an apparition, then came out the Roman Wolf Goddess Lupa herself. Lupa was a giant she-wolf with chocolate red fur and misty silver eyes. She was seven feet tall, and was very imposing. When she was younger, Naruto wasn't scared of her, in fact she even played with her, mistaken her for a dog. The goddess didn't take offense as she was a little child. Misty silver and feral blue eyes met and neither of them was backing down. When Lupa tried to intimidate the girl by snarling and showing her fangs, Naruto, more connected to Kurama than both of them knew, showed more animalistic traits. Her whiskers birthmarks grew darker, her fangs more prominent and both her pupils became a slit but stayed blue, and then she answered the snarl with a bigger one from her throat. She was about to let herself fall to all four and shape shift when the She-wolf stopped and said with a commanding voice

"That's enough showing up, kit. You are centuries too young to beat me at that game. So that's what happened to the old fox. I was wondering why he wasn't prowling his territory. Divided in two by Thanatos and sealed away by mortal means into living containers. One half sealed away in your mother, the other in you, at birth. There was something familiar in both of you when I met you all those years ago. I didn't recognize that old grouchy fox at first, his energy was muted by yours. I won't beat around the bush, when you are sent out outside of Delos, come and seek me out at the Wolf House. You need to be trained by someone who understands both the beast and human mindsets to truly be able to fight when you shift and not lose yourself. Usually I don't have anything to do with the Greeks for I am Roman and you are a Greek demigod. But you are something more than Greek or Roman. You are Jinchūriki. You are two beings in one body; both demigod and kitsune. If you complete my training, you will be rewarded with the status of ambassador to Camp Jupiter from Camp Half Blood. If not, I will put you down and send your half of Kurama in Tartarus. Let's see the famous nine tailed demon fox get out of this one. Maybe it will give Pluto a good challenge if he's as strong as he said. Show this to the old centaur in the Greek camp and he will let you go with official credentials. I know how much of an airhead you are, you will forget in the years to come the location of my den and what are the camps. I will let you know in time. Good bye kit."

Before Lupa returned to the woods the way she came, she materialized a gold coin with a howling wolf on one side and the symbol of the Roman Legion on the other side. Not knowing how a Roman deity still managed to slip in but promising to really have a serious talk with her grandfather about the security of the continent, she took the coin and put it in her supply pouch. For the rest, well who know where the gods got their Intel from? The rest of the mission went smoothly. Inari was still a defeatist, saying they will all get killed, that Gato was too powerful to be defeated but nobody was really giving him attention when he was in that mood. When he was more pleasant, the rest were more courteous with him. With Naruto's shadow clones, the bridge was progressing very fast. Gato had been permanently dealt with the fourth day after their arrival. Cat had put him into a genjutsu to make him divide his fortune in multiple shares. The two biggest shares went to Nami and the Konoha coffers. She even had the foresight to pay Zabuza and his accomplice and also told them of the fact that Yagura the yondaime Mizukage was dead and that Mei Terumi was now the fifth Mizukage and that all bounties on Kiri shinobis who deserted that was put in place in the reign of the previous Kage were removed and a pardon could be given within reason. Needless to say, Zabuza was floored that the rebellion had been successful and that he didn't knew about it. But paid for his services and with the midget dead, he didn't have anything to do anymore in Nami. Too bad, Haku and Naruto had somehow bonded as friends. They did promise to write each other though. That Uzumaki girl could bond with anybody given time.

So Kakashi had all the time in the world to get better and get railed upon for being out of shape. Of course it was Cat who was doing the railing, if it were his cute little students, he would have them doing training drills and jumping jacks from dawn to dusk. With the money flowing back into the coffers of the city and the country and with the thugs either encouraged to go elsewhere or permanently disposed of, peace and serenity came back little by little. A few weeks later, the bridge relying Nami No Kuni and Hi No Kuni was completed and thus the mission accomplished. The Konoha shinobis were due back home and after an emotional farewell, they were off. Of course, it would be years before Naruto learned that a bridge was named in her honor. Without a civilian to guard, the team could do the return trip at higher speed and go through the trees now that Sakura was able to use the tree walking exercise. She had a natural control of her chakra reserves, a good sign for shinobis specialized into genjutsu and for medics Nins. They were in view of the village's gates at twilight, a solid day of travel. Kakashi was able to continue due to his years of training. Sakura was fading fast; she had the less amount of chakra in the team. Sasuke was faring better but he was tired also. Naruto was fresh as a daisy, a fact that she showed by breaking formation and started to accelerate to the speed needed before entering Sunlight Speed, but she couldn't activate the ability due to the mix of day and night that was the twilight. With a back somersault, she was the first to check in at the guards' station. A few minutes later, her team managed to join her to check in correctly. Once done, Kakashi dismissed them, saying that he would gave the action report to the Hokage and to take three days off before meeting at 8'o clock at training ground 7 the morning of the fourth day. He would also make sure that their pay would be deposed in their bank account. He then vanished in a smoke explosion shunshin. (Body Flicker technique) After a bit of random talking between the three teammates, Sakura was the first to split to go back to her parents' home. Naruto and Sasuke were heading home walking through the streets; they passed a nice green grocer a few blocks before the house and low and behold, out of the store came Kushina carrying some groceries. In seeing her children, she then created a shadow clone with instructions to bring the groceries home and she precipitated herself toward Sasuke and Naruto, sweeping them into a crushing but motherly hug and peppering both of them equally with motherly kisses on their faces. For many it would have been embarrassing, but Sasuke was always craving motherly affection since his own mother's unfortunate demise, so Kushina's affection was always welcome. Naruto being as emotive as her mother, was embracing the affection, it was soothing really.

"Oh my babies! You're back! Your first C-rank mission outside the village and it's a success! Oh I'm so proud of both of you! If your fathers could see you, I'm sure they would be also proud! Come, come! I will cook you your favourite's meals tonight as celebration!"

Sasuke and Naruto grinned at each other and after taking each a hand of their mother/mother figure, they walked toward their home. That night, they were fed to burst. Even Naruto and her legendary appetite couldn't eat anymore! It was really just too bad though, Kushina had a mission the next morning. Nothing complex this time, she had drawn the short straw and was required to deliver the tax reports of the village to the Fire Capital. It was a three to four days mission, with the permanent Hiraishin seal etched into a private room in the Capitol; she would teleport there once she had all the tax reports. She would have to wait for the proper papers for every active shinobi to be ready. The civilians' tax reports were already sent and back with another mission a few months ago. All was calm that night, but in the morning, Naruto was woken up by strange abdominal cramps. She was feverish, a novelty as she was never sick due to her heritage and with Yang Kurama inside her who usually was boosting her healing factor. She wasn't feeling well. When she went to the toilet, she remarked that she had bled from down there somehow during the night! No, that wasn't normal. Since her mother wasn't around and she would never be caught entering into the hospital willingly if it wasn't for a visit to someone hospitalized, because in her mind hospitals was equalling evil place who smells like bleach and was as entertaining as Shikamaru, who was so lazy it was a miracle he was a shinobi, she would go see Sarutobi-Jiji and ask him what was happening to her. He was like super old; he would surely know what was going on! She showered, changed into clean clothes, ate a few fruits and took her wallet and once out of the house, she ran and engaged her Sunlight Speed, destination the Hokage Tower. She pin-balled between buildings, important landmarks and people, civilian and shinobis alike with a disconcertingly ease, never hurting herself or anybody else. Once arrived at the base of the tower below the bay windows that Hiruzen loved watching the village through it, she literally ran up the wall and became a kunoichi again once through the open windows and just a centimetre before the desk. Of course, the momentum and her chipper greeting of

"Good morning, Jiji!"

Made him groan out loud, because the said momentum made enough wind to knock all his paperwork around his desk and her voice started him into almost swallowing his pipe. Giving the girl a gimlet eye which made her give him her now infamous foxy grin, he then let out a sigh and told himself that the sooner he dealt with his pseudo granddaughter, the sooner he could finish the damn paperwork! Paperwork, an evil even greater than Kronos and his merry band of Titans combined! He then said with an exasperated voice

"Did you really have to come barging in here in Sunlight Speed? Look at what you did! I will have to start from the beginning! Ah, no matter. What can I do for you?"

Now, Naruto started to fidget in an uncomfortable manner before she grimaced and put a hand near her stomach. At first he though she had problems with her seal. He wasn't a seal master, but he knew enough to patch the problem and give time for either Kushina or Jiraiya to come back and fix it correctly. But her next words made him blanch and start to shudder with cold sweat. Please, Gods so loving, please no, not that! Anything but that!

"Jiji, when I woke up this morning, I wasn't feeling well. I'm all feverish and it never happened before. I don't feel well, I feel weird and I have strange cramps. Also hmm...I found out I somehow bled from down there! And it's not healing! Kurama doesn't answer when I ask him what's wrong. I could swear he's afraid or something. I never thought that the grouchy old fox would be scared of something! Can you help me? Please? "

Hiruzen Sarutobi was a very brave man. Not much scared him. He was a veteran of two shinobi world wars; he had survived and seen many horrors in his lifetime. He became a father and later in life, a grandfather. He firmly believes into the Will of Fire, he was called the professor on the battlefield and also the God of shinobi. But explaining to a twelve years old girl what was happening to her body through her first period and explaining where babies come from was something beyond terrifying! He then remembered the wise words of his teachers. Never ever piss off an Uzumaki woman on her period. It's a death sentence in the waiting, clear and simple. Even Jiraiya who was so much into the sadomasochism and super pervert lifestyle would not risk that kind of fury! He was perverted, not suicidal. Debating on how he could get out of that situation, for he couldn't well ditch the girl, it was important to explain those things to her, but anybody but him! That's when the Gods or the Fates granted his prayers! Bless them! Somebody who could answer Naruto's questions about her blossoming body! Anko Mitarashi, Tokubetsu Jonin (Special Jonin, elite specialists) entered his office for a reason or another. Anko has light brown, pupil-less eyes, and black hair which has a blue tint to it, which is styled in a short, spiky, fanned-ponytail. She is commonly seen wearing a tan overcoat with a purple in-seam, which has a pocket on both sides, and complete with a fitted mesh body suit that stretches from her neck down to her thighs. She wears a dark orange mini-skirt, as well as a forehead protector, a small pendant that looks like a snake fang on a thick cord rather than a chain to prevent it from being easily torn off in combat, a wrist watch, and pale grey shin guards. She also wears a dark blue belt around her waist that connects to her skirt that has an appendage-like sash. Hiruzen then bamboozled them.

"I understand Naruto. I know what's happening, but! It is not the place of a man to explain the changes into a young woman's body. It is usually the duty of the mother to explain things like that, but as she's on a mission right now, we now have a perfect substitute. Anko, never mind about a mission request or whatever, I have something for you to do. You see, young Naruto here is becoming a woman and needs to learn all about it. Since Kushina is out of the village, you are then tasked to explain to her all the changes from a girl to a woman. Now, both of you, out of my office, I have paperwork to do. Now shoo!"

He even used his deceptively great strength for his advancing age to put both ladies outside of his office, close the door and activate the fortress seals to not be disturbed. He would take the evil of paperwork before explaining to a young girl about her periods and how babies where made! He already had to do that talk with his sons when they came to a certain age! He wasn't about to try his hand at *shudders* Girl talk. No sir! Both ladies where stunned. Who knew that something was scaring the Old Man. Anko even let out a bellow of laughter! Naruto was confused. Jiji didn't want to give the answers she was looking for, and then he dumps her for the Crazy Snake Lady! She had made the mistake once to steal her dango. (Japanese dumpling and sweet made from rice flour) She made her regrets it by chasing her around the village and sicking on her a summoned venomous snake! That was not a fun three hours! Once Anko was calmed down, she then said

"Alright gaki (brat) you're becoming a woman huh? Come on, I will explain to you all you need to know. Oh get over it, you managed to avoid the snake and you didn't steal my dango anymore, I have no reason to chase you down. It's not like I could catch you with your Sunlight Speed."

She then put her arm around Naruto's shoulder and leaf shunshined both of them towards a private booth in her favourite dango restaurant. That was important information and she also had a plan to stick it to the Old Man. Hiruzen would later curse himself to ask Anko of all people to give The Talks to Naruto. She would take to flaunt her body in a similar way. Somewhere, he was sure that the Fates and The Gods were laughing about him! Why him?