The next day, naruko was cooking when she heard someone knocking on her door. She put down her utensils and shouted "coming!" When she opened the door she saw hinata.

"Hey naru-chan" hinata said. "Hey hinata. What are you doing here?" Naruko said. "I wanted to stop by and hangout for a bit since we haven't seen each other in a while" hinata said with a smile. Just as naruko opened her mouth to say something she stopped when she'd heard someone say "naruko."

Naruko and hinata looked at the person and saw sakura walking towards them. "Umm… hey sakura" hinata said. "Hey hinata" sakura said. Naruko scratched the back of her head and said "hey sakura are you still mad at me for what happened last night at the hospital?" "No I'm not mad" sakura said.

Naruko sighed in relief. "What do you mean? What happened?" Hinata said. "Can we continue this conversation inside? The thing is I'm making food and if I'm away any longer it's gonna burn" naruko said. "Sure" sakura said then went inside.

Naruko immediately went back to the kitchen and continued cooking. Sakura looked at hinata and said "did I interrupt anything?" "Oh no you didn't interrupt anything" hinata said. "That's good. I just wanted to tell naruko something" sakura said. "What is it about?" Hinata said. "It's about sasuke. I wanted to tell naruko how he's doing. Can you show me where the kitchen is so I can tell her?" sakura said. "Oh sure" hinata said then showed sakura where the kitchen was.

As they made their way to the kitchen sakura was surprised on how clean naruko's place was. When hinata and sakura entered the kitchen sakura said "naruko there's something I wanna tell you." "What is it?" Naruko said looking at sakura. "Well it's abou- whoa that's a lot of food" sakura said.

Naruko blushed out of embarrassment and shouted "shut up!" "Why did you make so much food for?" Sakura said. "Look I just accidentally made to much" naruko said flustered while hinata giggled. Then she said "naru-chan always does this when she cooks so I'm not surprised." "Hinata!" Naruko shouted. Then both hinata and sakura started laughing.

Naruko looked away embarrassed. She then sighed and thought 'when ever I cook something I always end up making to much. I'm so used to making a lot of food with Kagome. I know that it's been years but still. So it's pretty much become a bad habit of mine. The moment I realize that I made to much food it's already to late to just stop so I save the extras for later.'

"Naruko" sakura said bringing naruko out of her thoughts. "Are you ok" sakura said. "Yeah I'm ok. So what did you wanna tell me?" Naruko said. "Oh right. I just wanted to tell you that sasuke has woken up and he's been discharged from the hospital. Don't worry, he doesn't remember what happened last night" sakura said. Naruko was happy to know that sasuke was doing well and that he didn't remember what happened last night. "That's good. Hey since you two are here do you want me to make you two something?" Naruko said.

"Sure that would be nice" hinata said. Naruko smiled and said "ok. It's gonna be a bit so make yourself's at home." "Alright come on sakura" hinata said grabbing sakura's wrist not giving her a chance to talk.

A bit after sakura and hinata left her apartment, naruko ran out of her apartment putting on her jacket that covered up the first hokage's necklace and the ring she always wore around her neck. She then ran into rock lee and said "hey bushy-brow. How are you doing?" "Naruko. Good morning" lee said. "Morning. So did grandma Tsunade check you out already?" Naruko asked excited.

Lee looked down and didn't answer naruko's question. "Is everything ok?" Naruko said. Before lee could say anything they both heard two people say "naruko." They looked over and saw udon and moegi.

"What's wrong?" Naruko said. "It's konahamaru" moegi said. "What do you mean? What's going on?" Naruko said. "He's blockaded himself" udon said. "He's done what? Where is he?" naruko said shocked. "Follow us" moegi said.

Naruko, udon, and moegi ran to where konahamaru was. They saw two ninja's trying to get into the room konahamaru barricaded himself inside, accidentally setting off a boobytrap. They also saw Tsunade shouting at the two ninja's to get him out of there. Naruko managed to get Tsunade to let her get him out.

Naruko tried to convince konahamaru to come out while trying to avoid the traps. She did everything she could think of, offering to buy him some ramen, go outside and play ninja, she even offered to teach him a new jutsu but he still won't come out.

Naruko was trying her best to get him to come out but konahamaru was being stubborn as hell and he was really tested her patience. After a bit of talking naruko said "hey you little runt. This no time for that. We're in danger and it's the village that needs defending." Although she was trying her best to remain patient, her patience ran out when konahamaru shouted "so what. This stupid village can burn down for all I care!"

After hearing what he said something in naruko just snap causing an ominous dark aura to surround her making moegi and udon back away from her. Naruko walked right up to the door, went though a couple of hand signs, and said "gale palm." A heavy gust of wind knocked away the traps around the door, opened the door, as well as knocking away what was blocking the door.

She grabbed a kunai from her shuriken holster and sliced through the ninja wire that was also blocking the door. As she stepped forward a kunai came flying at her face. She moved her head causing the kunai to fly past her head and instead cut another wire making a bolder fall towards her. She quickly moved out of the way causing the bolder to miss her completely.

She stopped walking when she was right in front of konahamaru, staring down at him with her arms crossed. Konahamaru had his arms up, scared at what she was going to do. Udon and moegi could only watch and hope that she wouldn't kill him.

"So are you gonna get up and leave or are you gonna make me drag you out too?" Naruko said in a stern voice. Konahamaru looked at naruko surprised. He was really expecting her to hit him but she's just gonna let him go.

Without hesitation konahamaru stood up and ran out. 'Good choice brat' naruko thought. She then left the room and started to walk down the hallway while udon and moegi looked at her. Tsunade, who witnessed the whole thing, stood there in shock. 'Where did all that come from?' Tsunade thought.

After a bit konahamaru was at the monument paying his respects. "Paying respect to the old man?" Someone said. Konahamaru turned his head to see naruko walking towards him. "What are you doing here? Have you come to beat me up now?" Konahamaru said. "No I actually wanted to talk to you" naruko said.

Naruko knelt next to konahamaru and said "look you're not ready for someone else to take the role of hokaga. I get it. You're still upset about his death and I am too but the village needs a new hokage. We're down to half our strength. If we don't get a new hokage or repair the village's strength soon something bad could happen. So like it or not grandma Tsunade is the next hokage and there is nothing you or anyone else can do to change that." "I know but that's not it" konahamaru said. "What do you mean?" Naruko said confused.

"Pretty soon nobody is gonna call me honorable grandson anymore. I'll just be plain konahamaru" konahamaru said. "What's wrong with that? I thought you hated being called honorable grandson" naruko said. "You don't get it. Pretty soon everyone is gonna start to forget about the old man. It won't be long. They'll forget what a great ninja he was and then they just toss him into the back of the closet like an old shoe. Everything is changing so fast. The village isn't the same anymore" konahamaru said.

'So that's what this all about? He's afraid that everybody will forget about the third hokage' naruko thought. She then put her hand on his shoulder and said "Konahamaru trust me when I say this, the village is not gonna change and no one is gonna forget about him. He'll be well remembered even after we're gone" naruko said. "And how can you be so sure of that!" Konahamaru shouted with tears in his eyes.

Naruko thought for a bit then said "can you tell me what you know about the fourth hokaga?" Konahamaru looked at naruko confused and said "what does that have to do with anything?" "Just answer the question" naruko said. Konahamaru sighed and said "the fourth hokage had the respect of everyone in the village and years ago he died protecting the village from the nine-tails. Happy now?" Naruko smiled and said "keywords. He had the respect of everyone in the village and years ago he died protecting the village." Konahamaru looked at naruko confused and said "what are you trying to say?" "What I'm saying is that you think that everyone is gonna forget about the old man but what about the fourth hokage?" Naruko said. "What do you mean?" Konahamaru said even more confused.

"You said that the fourth hokage had the respect of everyone in the village and so does the old man. They both were great ninjas and rulers so if you think that everyone is gonna forget about the old man then what about the fourth hokage. You said it yourself. The fourth hokage died years ago and everyone still remembers him to this day so if the village would forget about the old man they would have long forgotten about the fourth hokage" naruko said.

Konahamaru looked at naruko in shock and disbelief. "Look the old man was a great man and hokage. He did everything in his power to keep the village safe, even gave up his own life to do so. So if you think that anyone is going forget about him so easily then you're in way over your head" naruko said. Konahamaru looked at the ground thinking about what naruko said.

Naruko stood up and said "and if it makes you feel better we can go to grandma Tsunade and make her swear that no matter what the leaf village will never change ok?" Konahamaru stood up and said "ok." They both then left to go find Tsunade.