Author's Note:- Hey guyz, I am thinking of a short name for my story after I got a review from reddit. I have thought 3 names based on my future plans for Naruto. These are - 1. Naruto- The Gurdian of the World 2. Naruto - The Eternal Protector of the World 3. Naruto- The Second Sage. There is poll a in my profile. Please kindly cast your vote. If you are unable to cast your vote their, please comment in review.


Chapter-6 Calm before the storm

Naruto was roaming the market district after completing his training for the day with Kakashi. Why you ask? The reason was next day was birthday of Kiyomi Uchiha. Naruto's one of the closest friends after Sasuke. You see, in recent years Uzumaki-Namikaze family and Uchiha clan, especially Main house of Uchiha clan- Fugaku's family has grown closer more than ever. Not only Fugaku was Minato's right-hand man and chief advisor, Fugaku was also Minato's genin teammate. Moreover, Fugaku's wife Mikoto Uchiha was also Kushina's best-friend, Genin teammate and rival. Fugaku and Minato had some degree of rivalry between them in their Genin days, but Mikoto-Kushina rivalry was not only famous all around Konoha, even many rival villages knew the rivalry between 'The Red-Hot Blooded Habanero' aka 'The Crimson Princess' and 'The Sharingan Witch' aka 'The Raven Pricess'. Some enemy ninjas even tried to use their rivalry against them but the bond of friendship between the two kunoichi were far stronger to give birth any hate for each other from their rivalry.

And Minato's genuine efforts to help the Uchiha clan made the bond stronger between two families. And thus, Naruto and Sasuke, Fugaku's and Minato's youngest became best friends. And Sasuke's older sister, Kiyomi Uchiha, who was 2yrs older than Naruto and Sasuke but 5yrs younger than Itachi also became Naruto's friend. As Kiyomi was older than Sasuke and Naruto, she was the unofficial leader of the trio. Kiyomi, Naruto and Sasuke always spent their free time together playing Ninja, running around Hokage tower and Police HQ to annoy Minato and Fugaku and pranking. Yes, you heard that right, Pranking. You can turn Madara back to good side using talk-no-jutsu, but you can never set apart pranking from Naruto irrespective of the fanfiction universe. But in this fanfiction universe, there is a slight anomaly. Although Naruto does prank here and there, but he does not do it alone. The trio pranks the village together. And obviously the leader is none other than Kiyomi. Kiyomi is neither serious nor calm and collected. She is a hyperactive raven-haired ball of energy. She has a cheerful and optimistic attitude and always prone to break rules. But she is also kind and respectful towards others and smart. Whereas, Sasuke is calm and collected guy. He is a cool guy without any attitude. And then we have our resident hero, Naruto. In terms of general personality, Naruto is very much similar to Kiyomi – hyperactive, cheerful, optimistic, happy-go-lucky guy, respectful. But there is also another personality in Naruto. It comes out when he is serious like when he is studying or training seriously . Whenever Naruto studies Fuinjutsu he becomes smarter, calmer and extremely focused on his studies. Sometimes people think that Naruto has bipolar or split personality. But time will tell.

Naruto was confused. What should he buy for Kiyomi-chan? "Hey bro, what should I get for Kiyomi-chan tomorrow?" "Well, what does she like?"- asked Kakashi thinking he is the last person Naruto should ask this, he he…. "Well, for starters she likes Dango too much and she have recently started serious training with uncle Fugaku as she will go to academy soon. And although she is neither Uzumaki nor Namikaze, she is very interested in Fuinjutsu…. Ah ha… Got it..."

"So, what did you decide?"

"I will gift her the book 'Sealing Jutsu for Beginners' and a complete kit for Fuinjutsu. I am sure Mom has multiple copies of the book in home. And with that I will also gift her Fuinjutsu supplies like ink, brush and scroll. Besides this I have a coupon for 50% off on Dango from her favourite store. I will add it. Well, what do you think bro? Will she like it?"- Naruto asked.

"It is a good gift Naruto. I am sure she will like it very much. By the way, don't slack of from your own training Naruto, else after tomorrow she will surpass you in Fuinjutsu. After all she is a smart girl unlike someone I know." – Kakashi teased Naruto. Kakashi can't help it. It's too easy to rile up Naruto. Ha ha…

"Heeey! What's that supposed to mean? I am smart too big bro… I will show you; I will become best Fuinjutsu expert on planet… Believe it…"

"You sure will Naruto. You sure will."-Kakashi said smiling with his only 1 visible eye.


Same Day
Evening
Unknown Location

A man was running non-stop. His destination was Hidden Leaf Village. He was none other than Killer B. His mission was to go to hidden leaf village to foil the plan of abduction of Uchiha and Hyuga heiress. He was running non-stop from Hidden Cloud Village. But he had still 24 hrs of travel. He was determined to finish his mission. Time will only tell if he will reach in time or not.


Same Day
Morning
Kumogakure

3rd Raikage was doing his routine morning workout. Suddenly he felt 100s of shinobi was surrounding Kage Tower. He did not understand why. But before pondering about it too much, his Eldest So Ā entered his office and said, "Father, it is time you step down. Please retire peacefully?"

"Or else? What can you do you traitorous Brat? If you this much focused on retiring me then you have to kill me. Come at me and show me you have surpassed me... Ā..."

"So be it." Ā said and he quickly gathered high amount of chakra and unleashed his lightning cloak and so did the 3rd Raikage. Ā was thinking very fast how he could defeat his father who on his prime was powerful if slightly not more powerful than 8-tails. He defeated 8-tails and passed out. 3rd Raikage also fought combine army of Hidden Mist, Stone Village and some small shinobi villages to standstill for 3 days, wiped 80% of the army, survived and escaped after making sure Kumo's army had retreated to safety to avoid complete annihilation. 3rd Raikage was not on his prime due to many injuries he suffered, especially during fighting 10000 shinobi he suffered some major injuries which would get any lesser man killed. Due to those injuries, he lost considerable amount of power afterwards to never be able to gain his lost strength. But Ā knew better. He knew that even after loosing considerable amount of power, his father was still very powerful and Ā will have to be careful.

"I think we should take this fight to outside of the village walls; else village will suffer damage."- said 3rd Raikage. "Agreed." Then they body flickered to a clearing outside the village.

They were facing each other in the clearing. The were both clad in their signature blue coloured lightning armor, and their chakra was visibly crackling around them. The 3rd Raikage took the first move, charging forward with a powerful punch. The 4th Raikage dodged the attack with ease, and then countered with a lightning bolt from his hand. The bolt struck the 3rd Raikage in the chest, but he was unfazed. They continued to trade blows, neither one able to gain an advantage. The 3rd Raikage was physically stronger, but the 4th Raikage is faster and more agile. Their taijutsu bout was going on for nearly 6 hours. Occasionally they would use ninjutsu but without much result. The clearing was destroyed and the hill on which the clearing was damaged heavily. Craters were everywhere. The shockwaves generated from colliding their fists was generating major earthquakes. These earthquakes were causing landslides blocking the roads leading to village. They were relentless, determined. Both were battered, cut and bruised. But neither was getting any opening for a definitive strike to damage his opponent considerably.

3rd was going to kick Ā on his chest with his right leg. Ā blocked his kick with his left hand and elbowed his leg fiercely with his right hand. It hurt the 3rd. He took his leg clenching his jaw in pain and jumped back to make distance between him and his son. "That was a good shot son"- he complimented his son and then continued," But I think this is time to end this." Then he focused huge amount lightning chakra in his one finger-tip rather than 2 as he was doing before. He was going to use his signature Hell stab at its level 5, the max level on his son to defeat him.

"So, father, you are going for one final strike? Eh?"- Ā smirked seeing his father powering up his strongest attack. "Then I shall do the same." Then Ā gathered his 5 fingers started gathering lightning chakra around it. If someone saw this, at first glance he would think he was going to use level 1 Hell stab. But no. It was different. The lightning chakra gathered around his hand and made shape of triangular drill which had its tip in front of his middle finger. This was similar too Kakashi's Kamui Lightning Cutter but without Kamui's power. And the most astonishing aspect of the jutsu was it was rotating in high speed around Ā's hands increasing exponentially the stabbing and drilling power of the jutsu. He powered the jutsu so much that his lightning cloak was beginning to flutter.

"Lightning Release: Divine Lightning Drill" Ā called out the name of the jutsu and rushed towards his father.

"Lightning Release: Hell Stab Max Level" 3rd called out and rushed towards his son for one final strike.

The result of this clash will decide the fate of Hidden Cloud Village. So, after detaining all Loyalist shinobi and seizing power in the village, rebel forces as well as detained shinobi gathered at a safe distance to observe the father-son deathmatch. They 2 blue blurs clashed for one final time in blinding speed and then a huge blast of lightning occurred creating a large crater and shockwave of lighting and earthquake knocking out many spectators on the front. After gaining orientation of their surroundings again they saw a column of smoke from the crater. The rebel forces rushed to the scene to aid their leader Ā fearing the worst. But they sighed in relief when they saw their leader standing and a heavily injured 3rd Raikage lying down. He lost his right hand and bleeding heavily from his wound. Ā was panting. He was unsure if his new S-rank jutsu would work on not. But after this battle he was sure that after some improvements this jutsu will gain fame equalling to Rasengan.

"I am glad that you have grown this much powerful. I am proud of you son." 3rd said smiling to his son. Hearing this Ā came out from his musings and he went down to his knees besides his dying father shouted for medic seeing the gathered shinobi. But his father stopped him holding his hands. He said," Son, my time has come. Your mother is waiting to see me. I have lived more than I should be. I have seen enough. I know we have many differences and I have done many mistakes in recent years. I hope you and B will find in your heart to forgive me. Thank you for giving me a warrior's death. Go and lead this village in new era of greatness Lord 4th Raikage." After saying these 3rd Raikage left the world of the living. Hearing his parting words Ā could not help but shed his tears. After all, he was his father. The man who loved and cared him and his brother and tried to give love of both father and mother after their mother's untimely death. 3rd Raikage was known to people for his strict and cold exterior. But Ā and B knew how caring and loving the man was towards them.

After mourning his father in silence for 2 minutes, he stood up. One Storm shinobi loyal to him went to him and whispered in his ear. He nodded. Clenched his jaw and shouted to the gathered crowd. Almost all shinobi of Kumo were there.

"The 3rd Raikage is dead. The village is secured without much blood shed. All loyalists to Lord 3rd are detained. This day marks the end of the reign of unjust rule of Lord 3rd. But we can not forget his sacrifices through-out the 2nd and 3rd Shinobi War. So, honouring his last wishes and remembering his contributions to our village, I, Ā Yotsuki, son of Ay Yotsuki, hereby declare myself as 4th Raikage." Then he cut his finger with a Kunai and with the blood on his hand he continued, "In the name of my village, clan and my blood, I pledge to not only protect this village with my life but take this village to new heights. Anyone who thinks he is worthy of the title Raikage can come out challenge me now." He did not have to wait. Gathered Ninjas started chanting Ā's name- "Long Live 4th Raikage." "Long Live 4th Raikage." "Long Live 4th Raikage." He smiled. He knew there will be hardships but he will conquer them all. Oh, how wrong he was. If he knew about the bane of the existence of all Kage, he would not have smiled now. Oh well he can always flee the village and become missing nin… Hahaha…


Same Day
Evening
Konohagakure
Hidden Underground Root HQ

In a dark room lit by only some candles, a man was sitting on a throne. The man was elderly and frail looking. He had black shaggy hair and his right eye was bandaged indicating he was a war veteran. He had x-shaped scar on his chin. He wore a white shirt, with a black or dark grey robe over the top of it covering from his feet, to just over his right shoulder. A cane was kept standing beside his thrones handles. This man was none other than Danzo Shimura. The one and only 'Shinobi of the Darkness' aka 'Yami no Shinobi', the counterpart, teammate and rival of late 'Kami no Shinobi' aka 'God of Shinobi' Hiruzen Sarutobi.

Suddenly Danzo spoke, "Have you completed your mission?" Suddenly a figure appeared via Body flicker but in a bowing position and spoke up in a female voice. "Yes Lord Danzo. This is the file containing all petrol routes, schedule, call sign of Police Force. My ink beasts also recorded the briefing given to Police force by the Police chief and Deputy police chief."

"Ok. This will help me in my plan. Good work. And your son Sai is doing fine in his training. Now go and tend to your unborn child. For now I dismiss you from service until your second child is born. Dismiss."

" As you wish Lord Danzo." The pregnant female root anbu left using body flicker.

Then Danzo summoned another of his henchman. " Take this file to our analysts and find out the best route to go in Uchiha and Hyuga compound and exit routes for our client. Then send it to our client." Then he gave a scroll to the new anbu,"Then give this scroll to Squad 5 for their new mission."

"Understood Sir." Then the Anbu left.

"Hu hu hu.. Hah ha ha..." Danzo began to laugh in cheap Madara style. "Soon... Soon I will be the Hokage and all elemental nations will be under the thumb of my empire... No one can stop me.. Not even the Yondaime... Ha ha ha ha..."


Next Day Evening
Konohagakure no Sato

Knock! Knock! Knock! "Heeey Mom, when will you be ready? I will be late for Kiyomi Chan's birthday partyyyy..." Naruto knocked Kushina's room door whining. Kushina was getting ready for almost 45 minutes and Naruto doesn't have much patience. He can't wait to go to the party and meet his other friends and play with them. You see, Naruto is also very good friend with Shikamaru, Choji, Ino, Kiba, Hinata, Neji and Shino. Almost everyday Naruto goes to the park and plays with them. And he can't wait to play with them hide and seek and show off his recently discovered ability and win all games hi hi...

"5 minutes sweetie." Kushina semi shouted from her room.

"And this is 5th 5 minutes" Naruto deadpanned...

"Well son, there is nothing you can do about it. Your mother rarely does makeup but when she does she takes her sweet time like others. Nothing we can do about it..."

"What do you mean by like others? And why so much time mom needs at all?" Naruto asked tilting his head right cutely...

"Well you will understand when you will have your own girlfriend..." Minato chuckled... Naruto became more confused ... "What do you mean by girlfriend? Like Kiyomi Chan is a girl and my friend?"

"Well..." Minato thought for 30 seconds building up the anticipation and then told,"You will understand when the time is right." Naruto face-faulted...

Just then Kushina came out of her room wearing a stunning red kimono with pink flower printed on it and a yellow Obi around her waist. Her red hair was untied reaching her ankles. She wore light makeup and red lipstick. Uzumaki and Namikaze symbols were stitched at the back of her Kimono.

"Woooow Mom..You look aweeesome...!" Naruto exclaimed... "Ha ha.. Thanks sweetie..." Kushina giggled... Then she turned to Minato and could not help but laugh seeing Minato... You ask why? The cause is Minato was again awestruck seeing the red haird beauty he calls his dear wife. You see, after the Kyuubi attack, this is the first time Kushina dressed up for any occassion... And after Kushina's pregnancy and Kyuubi attack, due to huge political pressure and workload Minato could not go to any party, trip or date with Kushina and enjoy their time together... Kushina was also recovering and taking care of Naruto took almost most of her time... So after almost 5 years Minato was again speechless seeing his Crimson Princess in luxury clothes and light makeup which amplified 10 folds the natural goddess level beauty of his wife...

Seeing Minato speechless Kushina chuckleld, "Hey Minato, don't you have anything to say?" Minato came out of his stupor and with a goofy smile said, "You look beautiful Kushina... Just fabulous."

Before Kushina could replied Naruto whined and said," Heeey Mom, Dad, lets go.. We are getting laate..."

"Oh, that's right.. Let's goo..."


The Uzumaki-Namikaze Family arrived at the Uchiha clan district. It was located in Shinobi section of the village near village centre. It was 3 clan district away from Uzumaki-Namikaze clan compund. In between these 2 clans, there were Nara, Yamanaka and Akimichi clan district. After arriving at the birthday party, Minato told his wife and son to go ahead and enjoy the party. He promised he would return as soon as possible after signing the non-aggression pact with Kumo delegation. Fugaku and Shikaku also left with Minato. They had already greeted the Uchiha princess happy birthday.

As soon as Naruto entered the Uchiha main house he greeted and hugged his dear friend, "Happy Birthday Kiyomi-chan..."... Kiyomi was very happy and little bit embarrassed as he was hugging her in front of everyone... "Thank you Naruto-kun.."... Then Naruto gave his gift to her, "Happy Birthday again Kiyomi-chan" and gave her a box wrapped in gift paper... She took it, curious to see what this gift may be. Then taking Naruto's permission when she opened the gift she was overjoyed. In the box were a luxurious sealing jutsu kit... And she started jumping in joy... "Naruto you are so thoughtful. I was just thinking about learning fuinjutsu..." She then hugged him and said thank you.. And now Naruto was slightly embarrassed. Then she turned to his aunt Kushina, "Happy birthday sweetie. This is your gift." When she opened the box, she just hugged Kushina in joy and asked her with her dangerous cute eyes jutsu, "Aunt Kushina, will you teach me sealing jutsu pweaase?" Kushina could not resist the cuteness charm of her dear god-child. She agreed. And Kiyomi threw his hand in the air and shouted, "Best birthday ever! ".. She was very happy as Kushina gifted her a book- 'Sealing Jutsu For Beginners – Part-1 to 5' written by Ahina Uzumaki, Kushina's grandfather and the strongest and foremost sealing jutsu expert in the world till now.
But Kiyomi did not know then that this birthday will forever be etched in her mind for completely different reason and opposite feelings...


Author's Note:- Sorry again for soo much delay. Many things are happening in my life and loosing 15 written chapters almost made my motivation disappear. But don't worry, how much time will take, I WILL NEVER abandon this fic. This is my Nindo, my Ninja way. I have tried to write the fight between A and his father as good as possible but right now I am not capable enough to write a fight between 2 kage level shinobi as I am a novice writter. But don't worry, after publishing atleast 20 chapter I shall try to improve this fight sequence. Thank you all for your kind support.

P.S- If you see any typing/grammatical error please inform me in comment. I will correct those. As a reader I don't like grammatical and typing errors. So I want to keep my writting neat as possible. Thank you guyz for your co-operation.