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A little something before I get into this chapter. Naruto is going to learn two fighting styles but he is going to focus primarily on one, The Armadillo fighting style. When you picture this style try going for kickboxing with mostly the forearms and shins, with the occasional punch and kick here and there. It isn't necessarily fast-paced but it gets the job done; you'll see it in action in a few chapters, maybe the next chapter. EVEN I DON'T KNOW.

There are going to be some indecent themes here, not a lemon or a lime but there are going to be some things that most people under the age of puberty shouldn't know or think about…yet. Just a little warning, I'm going to put up a warning before that part but that part is still essential to the story, so read at your own risk.

I never saw Sasuke as a brat, that's why I don't bash him in my stories. If I do bash him I put up a warning. So I try my best to depict him as decent enough to talk to but still power-hungry, know what I mean. He will talk to you and do stuff with people but only if it benefits him directly or indirectly, like Naruto. I'm changing something about his character though. He still looks up to Itachi before the massacre but he didn't necessarily want his father to be happy, you'll see another fact about him in the story.

That seems to be about it.

Enjoy…

CHAPTER 14

One month later

"You took down the one tail holder, Gaara, correct?"

"Ye.," Naruto punched a tree and continued punching as Sasuke kept asking his questions.

"You're the person that Hokage says helped retrieve her, correct?"

"In a way, yes. Jiraiya helped too." A forearm went forward and dented the tree, leaving a thick horizontal groove on the tree. After impact, he reached back and kept on drilling mid-chunin speed blows to the tree. He was garbed in his training gear; plain white shirt, light blue shorts, blood-red forearm and shin protectors. This was the first time Sasuke had sought him out just to speak with him, which wasn't so bad seeing as Naruto was seemingly always busy doing something.

"You went against my brother and Hoshigaki Kisame and held your own until Jiraiya and Tsunade arrived, correct?"

"Eh…Yes. That's more or less true." Sasuke looked at him questionably. "I did hold them back but when you say that I think of taijutsu and I only used ninjutsu and fuinjutsu."

"That's still…impressive," the Uchiha struggled to bring out the last word. Naruto nodded his thanks and grabbed the trunk of the tree he was laying waste to and began to smash his shin protectors on the sides, creating more and more groves, though these weren't forming straight away. "You beat Orochimaru of the Sannin, correct?"

"Not entirely correct," Naruto grunted. The fascinating thing about the Armadillo fighting style was that it was incredibly similar to Iwagakure kickboxing; it made use of blocking and countering, grappling and dealing out blows to either the head or the mid-section. The attacks weren't to be left out; though it had to do with striking with the protectors and the fists, the feet had to be solid on the ground. "I only distracted Orochimaru for long enough until the other two Sannin arrived."

"But you did some damage," Sasuke pointed out, something Sasuke wasn't even able to do.

"Yeah, you can say that."

The little things all started to fall into place about the quiet seal master; from the first time he saw the boy dejectedly walk out of the Hokage's tower a year eight months ago, dismissing him just as soon, then the invasion where he caught sight of Naruto with the corner of his eyes just before he was knocked out, like at the picnic, then when he had seen Itachi trying to get to Naruto and failing, lastly was the time he had seen the summons fight far away from Tanzuki and Naruto shooting down his blue chakra beam attack. That single attack Naruto had used could be seen where Sasuke hid, and the memory has been plastered in his mind ever since.

He idly scratched his neck where his altered curse seal was.

Naruto had told him that he wasn't able to remove the curse seal without a drop of Orochimaru's blood, so he had discussed with Sasuke an idea he had. That he would correct the nature chakra beacon seal, making it so that the nature chakra that had already accumulated there would syphon out. The corrected seal had layers of seal stacked on top of each other; at the far bottom was the corrected nature chakra seal, the next was the nature syphoning seal, then the level ten super suppressor seal he had learnt from his father Hirashin seal, he tightened hold over the master/slave seal and reversed the loyalty seal to a pleasure seal that was a lot weaker than the one he had given Zabuza. The last was a full body restraint and chakra-draining seal in case Sasuke ever lost control of all the power flowing into him, preventing him from turning into rock.

Naruto, of course, had to get express permission from the Hokage, Tsunade Senju, and Sasuke's team sensei, Kakashi Hatake, while he was supervised by Jiraiya before he could go ahead with altering the cursed seal.

He was sure he didn't need the white-haired Sannin looking over his shoulder at the seals he was placing on the other boy, but he wasn't quite disturbed by it. Maybe the man was finally taking his seal work above his smut work.

Maybe.

Kakashi though was glad for his help; it was always hard training Sasuke with the way his anger would spark uncontrollably, especially when he was training with his team. At least now after two whole weeks of observing the lone Konoha Uchiha ninja, there weren't any problems coming up.

The thing that Naruto was hesitant to do was to train Sasuke on how to handle the nature chakra in the seal; Kakashi only had the experience to train Sasuke with his sharingan but Naruto had let it slip that the seal on Yakumo was where he got most of the design from and that he was training Yakumo on how to utilise the beast chakra in her, the older seal master had proposed that he should help Sasuke with his training.

The seal master had declined the offer but had said that Kakashi and Sasuke could as well be present when he was training Yakumo; he wouldn't look over the Uchiha or his development personally but he wouldn't hinder him in the least.

The copy ninja could work with that.

Yakumo was three months ahead of Sasuke in training beast/nature chakra. Naruto only gave Kakashi his notes on training Yakumo. A copy, of course.

Right now though, Sasuke had appeared when Naruto was going through his training. It was almost unbearably annoying how Sasuke kept following him but he couldn't bring himself to care. "Why didn't the Lord Third let you become a ninja again?"

"I couldn't walk well."

"You obviously can."

"He didn't see it that way." This time Naruto began to pummel his fist directly to the bark, turning his knuckles red but he ignored the pain and powered through. "Where is this coming from Sasuke?"

The Uchiha began counting on his fingers. "You became a level nine and a half seal master in eight years, you can beat any jounin with just your seals, you helped beat up Orochimaru, you changed my cursed seal, you're training Hinata and Yakumo. Do I have to continue?" Naruto shrugged. "Train me."

"No."

"Why?"

"I have enough students for now."

"One more won't make a difference."

"Then I have to catch you up on where Hinata and Yakumo are."

Naruto remembered a spar between Hinata and Naruto; it had ended with Hinata victorious because she had used all of her pent-up raw strength instead of her custom gentle fist style. Her style made use of more high kicks and outright punches rather than palm strikes. She didn't make use of any jutsu, just her byakugan and her strength to match up and overcome Sasuke.

It was a humbling feeling for the boy to see the formerly quivering Hyuuga stand so confidently over his beat-up body.

Naruto continued, saying, "That will take a full month of intense training that I would prefer to use training myself in taijutsu. Besides, I don't think Kakashi would appreciate it if I trained you as well."

"He won't care." Sasuke refrained from growling, though he did clench his fists at his sides.

Naruto stopped and leaned on the tree with his shoulder, crossing his arms. "I could just give training scrolls to Kakashi."

"He emphasises team training. If you give scrolls to me you have to give to the rest of the team too, then the other genin teams will think that's partiality and demand training scrolls as well."

"That's true." Naruto slid down the tree trunk and patted his side for Sasuke to sit down beside him. Sasuke did so hesitantly. "I'm asking this as a concerned acquaintance Sasuke; what is your goal in life? You have years of being a successful ninja ahead of you. Why are you in such a rush?"

Sasuke pulled his legs to his chest and stared out over the trees ahead of him, at the orange clouds that blocked the mid-afternoon cloud.

In truth, he would have liked a more peaceful life; maybe be promoted to the rank of chunin, and when he was older, he would have liked to become a father. He would have been content with that life, but his brother turned him into what he was; a power-hungry loner.

"My goal is to avenge my clan and to resurrect my clan."

Naruto looked at him from the corner of his eyes for a minute before he puffed out some air from his mouth. "What do you know about the Uzumaki clan, Sasuke?" The Uchiha shrugged and shook his head. "They were a great clan revered for their mighty chakra capacity, their fuinjutsu knowledge and their infinite abilities with the sword. The Uzumaki were what you called the perfect clan because they had the chakra to do any kind of ninjutsu and not feel the pull all that much. For example, I have twice as much chakra than Orochimaru at the moment, and growing."

Sasuke's eyes widened.

"My clan was destroyed by the coalition of Hidden Lightning and Hidden Rock villages, all because my clan were too powerful and they feared invasion. My clan, though we were famed for our legendary rage, never intended to invade any village. Matter of fact, we helped build Konoha." If Sasuke's eyes could widen any more, they would pop out of their sockets; he was learning more and more about Konoha every day. "But those two villages and their nations were power hungry. Now let me ask you a question: what would have been my life if Hidden Whirlpool, my clan's home, wasn't destroyed?"

"You would have been a ninja. You would have been more acknowledged."

"I would have been happy," Naruto smiled thinly. If it were in an Uzumaki's power, Naruto would have the seals to walk and thrive as a ninja, but Naruto had to do all of that by himself at such a young age. "I would blame Iwa and Kumo for how miserable my life has been. I would set my sights on destroying them."

"Yes, you would."

"But I'm not."

"You're not? Then why would you need to learn how to fight? Why reach this level in fuinjutsu?"

"I do not plan or wish for their destruction because, as stupid as it sounds. They were doing what they thought was right. They feared what they did not know, and what men feared they either subjected under them or they destroyed. What they did was for the good of their interests."

"But…but they destroyed a village. A legendary clan! How are you not mad?"

Naruto was silent for a minute. "Royal delegation from both Iwa and Kumo were in Whirlpool for a treaty signing but they died in their rooms before anything could happen. I dug through all the records Konoha had on them and I found out that there was a small hole in the emigration log Konoha has."

"You think Konoha killed them and framed the Uzumaki clan?"

"I think someone in Konoha wanted the Uzumaki clan out of the way. You can see why my rage isn't directed at the two villages', right?"

Sasuke sighed and nodded. "They were reacting to a threat they thought was your clan."

"In some twisted way, they were protecting their interests."

Naruto leaned back and closed his eyes, allowing the Uchiha beside him to think through all he had said. Then he opened his eyes and removed his right forearm protector, looking down at the seals that speckled it with critical eyes. He tapped here and there and seals glowed under his touch, each one more complex than the last.

Sasuke was looking away with his eyebrows furrowed. 'What interest was Itachi protecting by killing his clan? His blood? He said he wanted to train himself but…I've known him for years…' he looked to the blonde Uzumaki beside him and realised that the boy was just as alone as he was; he was probably the last of his clan. "Naruto?" the boy responded with a hum without looking away from what he was doing with his forearm guards. "My…brother told me he killed everyone in my clan because he was testing himself."

"What do you think?"

"I…I honestly don't know what to think. You just took three years of my anger and made me question it." The boy chuckled dryly and Naruto snorted. "He told me to use my hate to get stronger. Do you think that's right?"

"It depends on how you use that hate." Sasuke looked at the boy with his black eyes and Naruto decided to continue, "Hate, for me, is a good training partner; I can use my pent-up rage and destroy a training ground. The drawback is that you wouldn't see anyone else but your final goal." The Uchiha nodded his understanding, realising that he had never seen anyone else but Itachi and himself. Everyone else to that point was invisible. "But at the same time, I also got stronger because I'm dedicated to being the best at what I do. I cannot use hate to do that because if I do not see anyone, I cannot measure myself up to them, only the object of my hate."

Sasuke's shoulders sagged, the other boy was speaking the truth; there should have been a ninja more powerful than even Itachi, probably closer than he thought. Kakashi had the sharingan and he was also the last of his clan, after much digging. The Hatake clan were infamous for their white chakra.

"I paced myself the best I could at the time. I started small by trying to reach past the Third in fuinjutsu. He was level six. Then after that, I tried to surpass Jiraiya and he was a level eight and a half. Now I'm trying to reach past Yondaime and he was at the peak, a level ten. Do you see what I'm trying to say?"

"Yeah. I need to start small at my level."

"And that I'm not telling you to drop your goal or throw away your hate. I'm advising you to re-evaluate it; there is a lot more to life if you look past your nose."

Sasuke rolled his eyes. "Thank you, Naruto."

He will have to re-think his clan's massacre.

Naruto slipped two bottles of water seemingly from thin air but in reality, it was out of one of the seal tattoos on his left arm that was in full view from the short sleeves he wore. He gave a bottle to the boy beside him and both drank it down, Naruto being the only one to finish his bottle of water.

After successfully containing Sasuke's cursed seal, Tsunade politely asked if he could do the same for Anko Mitarashi, a Konoha jounin.

Naruto accepted but asked for a week of break since it took the boy twelve hours of uninterrupted effort to work on Sasuke's seal. Plus, he had to put Sasuke to sleep, as the process was mind-numbingly painful for him.

Anko was more than grateful and had sworn to him that he could ask her for anything any time and she would do it for him, adding that she would find a way to get her former sensei's blood to remove the slave/master seal that was still there. In turn, he requested from the Hokage a favour and Tsunade had hesitantly obliged.

Naruto didn't appreciate all the attention he was getting, especially after he had fixed Anko's cursed seal; there were more jounin and chunin that knew his name and his mastery of fuinjutsu, and this made it harder for him to move around. Anko took it upon herself to promote him even though he had expressly told her not to turn him into a public figure.

The boy groaned and got to his feet, stretching his body and sealing up his forearm and shin protectors into a tattoo seal on his left elbow. Sasuke got up as well. "Got somewhere to go?"

"Yup. I have something to sort out." Naruto scratched his neck and threw on his blue hoodie. "I'll give you some pointers in your training here and there but I cannot promise I'll take you up fully. Agreed?"

Sasuke smiled slightly. "I'll take what I can get."

"First, work on your guard. It's alright at your level, but I notice a lot of holes you might not be aware of, like your mid-section." The Armadillo taijutsu demanded he know all the possible attacks anyone would make on him so he could form ways to counter or block them. "You need to learn how to fight with both feet on the ground before you take it up a notch and go for high kicks. Don't blindly copy Hinata; she's a special case. For anyone else that hasn't been through the training she's been through, high kicks are usually where people lose control of a fight." Sasuke nodded and stored that titbit of information. His last spar with Hinata proved that even as he copied her fighting style. "Also, don't depend on your sharingan. It can seriously hinder you if the person you're up against knows how to negate it." The other boy nodded again. "I'll see if I can swing by your team's training ground later."

"Thank you, Naruto." Those words came out hesitantly but Sasuke meant them. He bowed his head slightly.

"Call me sensei when I'm teaching you, Sasuke."

"Naruto-sensei."

OOOOOOOOOOOOO

Warning: a little indecent

A tall blue-haired man donning a black hat pushed open the doors to Konoha's White tooth and was immediately blasted with the sounds of slow, heavy, seductive music as well as the thick scent of sex in the air. He grinned as he looked around, watching all of the call girls slide up and down their poles as well as walk around, sashaying their hips in tune with the music.

Most of the prostitutes that were walking around were only clad in their underwear or short shorts that barely hid anything. He saw some rubbing up to men sitting on chairs and giving lap dances, enticing them with their alluring eyes and their sweet mouths.

The men and women that were sitting around stripper pole platforms were hooting at the pole dancers' dexterity and beauty, not ashamed to wave their money above their heads to get their attention.

The man took a deep breath, taking in the blatant stench of flesh against flesh, the seductive music and the murmurs going around under the music that dominated the sound waves.

His coal-black eyes looked around for a free table and he walked briskly there. His neat black suit pants and black shirt not ruffling as he wafted past the call girls that were attending to the eagerly paying customers. He slid into a seat and his eyes sparkled at the sight around him. Not five minutes later a woman in her late teens slipped onto his lap, with both of her legs over his and put her arms around his neck, she smirked shyly and gently rubbed her rear over his crotch, frowning when he didn't develop a full hard on but his eyes did show his 'delight'. She wore bright yellow, lacy underwear that didn't hide anything from view and black stockings that went up past her thighs, she also had a lacy thin white bra that covered her womanly breasts and a cute little black hat perched on her head. Her mousy brown hair was styled in a short bob cut and her brown eyes glinted with underlying mischief, covered up with what most would call childhood innocence.

The man grinned and wrapped his arms around her as she gyrated her hips over his still semi-flaccid member, she licked her small ruby-red lips, something she hadn't yet used that night and pulled the man closer so they were forehead to forehead, he took the chance to run his hands over her shapely body, appreciating every curve and the way her rear bounced after he slapped it lightly.

He palmed both cheeks in his hands and smirked as she muffled her moan in his shoulder. She pulled her head back and grinned at him. "What brings you to these parts stranger?" her pale white skin glowed slightly in the dim light.

"I came for a good time." She kissed the corner of his lips but the man pulled his head back. "Eager aren't you?"

"I aim to please."

Both stared at each other and she slowly pulled her left arm back, briefly flashing the four horizontal waves that were tattooed on her biceps. She put a strand of her brown hair behind her ear and blushed as his arms tightened around her, feeling him draw circles on her lower back. "The missus is being troublesome, honey; I'm just here to talk."

She idly counted the circles.

'One, two, three, four…' she pouted her lips cutely and kissed his neck slowly. "You sure you don't want us to take this to my room?"

"Very sure," he replied. The woman sat back on his lap gently and looked around casually. "What do you have for me, Mole?"

Mole was a high-ranking ROOT operative, only a level under Danzo himself, so this gave her special privileges other operatives didn't enjoy, like the fact that she could have accommodations outside the ROOT headquarters as well as have an outside hobby.

The nineteen-year-old woman had chosen to be a call girl, but she didn't have full-blown sex with some of her customers. The woman was famed among her prostitute peers for giving the best hand jobs, blow jobs and boob jobs, not always allowing anyone to enter her and for some strange reason the men and women she attended to never raised any complaints for her occasional lack of full service. She was also known to be able to work the stripper pole like a master, contorting and moving on it like she owned the place. Danzo didn't particularly like her hobby but she was ranked high enough in the ROOT echelon to not be blocked from pursuing it.

The brothel/bar was too dimly lit for any person to keep track of anyone, add in the shirtless women swishing around and the smoke that hung in the air; this was the perfect cover for Mole to give regular reports to Naruto through Daku.

The blonde seal master could have come by himself to retrieve the information but quite frankly he was never comfortable with the scent of hot sex in the air, coupled with his hyper sense of smell and hearing. Daku though was as smooth as a brick when it came to females so he was fairly sure he could hold back his urges, which surprisingly enough he had in spades since he was part of Naruto. She had willingly put herself into this line of work to further prove her loyalty to Naruto, making it known to him that she would do anything to show that she was firmly on his side.

She may have taken the loyalty seal and Naruto trusted her enough to seal off her painful nerve endings but she would always think that it was never enough, that she could go that extra mile to assure him she wasn't going to defect.

Naruto knew of her obsession with him, he didn't particularly like the fact that a woman five years older than him was so devoted to him and his cause but he was glad for the addition to his shinobi.

Mole, as a prostitute, called herself Em.

She was aware that to keep her cover she wasn't ever supposed to step out of the red light district without a customer escorting her, so she compensated by telling Daku all she knew about ROOT, both written down and verbally, whenever the dark shadow appeared in disguise. She was to look out for a man with traces of blue in his hair and who couldn't be fully aroused, she would then flash her Wave black ops tattoo (the four wave lines on her bicep) and he would say he was just here to talk before or after she showed him her tattoo. This regular correspondence happened once a week, specifically on a Friday night when the strip club was mostly filled with clientele so they would mostly be passed off as a man being attended to by a hooker, nothing unusual.

Mole lightly swished her hair and ran her right hand through, bringing out a finger-sized scroll and trailing it seductively down Daku's face, and then slipping it into his pocket.

"Danzo plans on infiltrating Wave, posing as a cloth merchant from Hidden Darkness. He plans on using Wave as a sort of second ROOT base," she whispered this as her forehead again touched his. She stifled her moan when his hands unconsciously squeezed her behind, idly rubbing her crotch against his to get rid of the aching need there.

Maybe she could invite that crazy jounin, Anko, to come and help take care of her. That lady knew exactly what she was doing. She always liked it rough, to an extent, but she never found anyone who could sate her thirst, so she would likely do it herself until the early hours of the morning before she had to return to ROOT headquarters.

"He is sending Fuu Yamanaka, Torune Aburame and me with him to act as his guards. He doesn't know we are allied to Darkness." Danzo had chosen a hidden village that was only slightly known but only for its silence and reclusiveness.

Daku hummed and furrowed his eyebrows. "How far are you with your training?" Naruto had sent her his Chakra high seal through Daku for her to train secretly with, only when she was on a solo mission and when she was running on fumes.

"I'm proficient enough," she answered shortly.

"When is this mission?"

"In three days. Danzo wishes to fully prepare himself to take over Wave."

"Before that, will you be ready if Master Naruto wishes to destroy ROOT?"

"Yes, I will always be ready." Her eyes showed her conviction.

"Though I am not sure if Master Naruto would do that, he would probably bring ROOT to light. I am not sure. Still, stay vigilant."

"Yes, Daku," the Henge'd seal creation nodded and pulled her in for a hard kiss, making sure to nip her bottom lip slightly and turn the young woman into a pile of goo on his lap; maybe it was the fact that Daku came directly from Naruto, maybe that Daku had read up on ways to pleasure a woman simply by kissing her, but Mole was sure that she had never had this reaction with other men before. Never in her life. That fact repulsed her and made her see herself as some sort of monster that likes children younger than him, but it was not so; it was only Naruto.

"If all goes well, I assure you of a promotion to assistant DARK captain." She bit her bottom lip to contain her glee, but she nodded fervently. After the ceremonial kissing session, they both parted ways, Mole went to search for Anko and Daku to go and report to Naruto.

OOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

Gaara crossed his arms and glared at the council elders in front of him, protectively standing in front of his sister and older brother, Temari and Kankuro. The red-haired one-tail holder remained unmoving as the elders stared back at him. "I do not see how I am ready."

"You have shown remarkable growth after the…failed invasion. Konoha has decided not to retaliate but we are still kept at arm's length. We are glad about that," the oldest puppet master, Chiyo, said from her seat beside the vacant Kazekage's desk. The sand siblings' sensei, Baki, once occupied the seat as the interim Kazekage but it was now empty; the elders had asked Gaara to fill the seat officially. The only councillors that were present were Chiyo and three other members he couldn't be bothered to remember.

"I am still not sure if I am ready."

"Do you love Suna, Gaara?"

"With all my heart," he immediately responded.

"Would you die fighting for Suna?" another councillor asked.

"Yes."

"Would you do anything for Suna to prosper?"

"Yes, anything within my power."

Chiyo spoke up, "The people have noticed your dramatic change, Gaara. Some are still hesitant but most now see you are stable." She stood up slowly, creaking to her feet and walked to the boy; she put a hand on his shoulder and smiled widely. "They are willing to follow you, Gaara."

Gaara's guarded stance slumped slightly, his arms remained crossed but the glare had come off his face. His eyes trailed to the other present councillors and saw them nod their heads in agreement; the failed invasion might have been months ago and Suna was rehabilitating well enough, but the village still needed a strong leader.

His eyes hardened and he nodded curtly.

The old puppet master led the boy around the desk and he sat down, the seals on the chair glowed a light green-brown to show their acceptance, knowing that the person who had just sat down was in the Kazekage clan. He sighed and looked at his siblings, Temari and Kankuro, and he slowly smiled at them. His older sister wiped a stray tear from her eyes, and Kankuro sent him a thumbs up.

The youngest Kage looked at the paper on his desk and frowned; the council members noticed this and winced. Chiyo returned to her seat and chuckled nervously. "Oh, I might have…forgotten about that…"

"I disagree; I will not allow it."

"It is for the good of Suna. It will make Suna strong, Gaara." A councillor grunted. "You said it yourself; you will do anything for Suna and this is a test to prove that."

The sand user clenched his fists on the desk but his sand remained calm. He breathed in deeply and looked at his brother apologetically, then his sister. "I'm sorry Temari; a marriage contract has been proposed to Naruto Uzumaki today." His heart shattered on her open-mouthed stare. "But…but look on the bright side; he doesn't come off as the marrying type, right?"

OOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

Naruto sneezed and whipped out a handkerchief from his black pants pocket to wipe his nose. "Excuse me."

"Maybe it's one of your admirers talking about you," Tsunade said with a snarky glint in her eyes. She leaned on the desk with her arms and winked at the younger blonde who was sitting near the window. The boy rolled his eyes and sat back comfortably on his chair; his wheelchair was by the door to the office.

"I hope it isn't Anko," he murmured.

The woman chuckled and went back to the paperwork stacked on her desk. "The fact remains that you're a major hit with the genin teams." Her eyes scanned a document and she pursed her lips, speaking a minute later, "Do you think hosting a festival is a good idea?"

"You mean besides the annual Kyuubi festival, the Rice festival, and all those other festivals?" Naruto asked with a raised eyebrow.

"…I see what you're saying." She set the document aside on a pile she had dubbed the 'later' stack.

The reason Naruto had come to the Hokage's office in the first place was to cash in on his favour, but he had been side-tracked by the woman when she began her long-winded rant on why she even agreed to be Hokage in the first place, the conversation then went to how she would have liked gambling, and losing than being stuck in the office all day. After that the talk between the two spiralled out of control until she had tried teasing and failing, the boy on how many female and male stalkers he now had. The boy was a pro when it came to keeping his face blank but the woman was very persistent.

It wasn't unusual for the woman to ask for his opinions in some village matters, things that weren't necessarily secret in the first place and some other things that she genuinely wanted him to help her with; the boy had shown strange wisdom not among his peers when it came to the affairs of citizens.

She bit the end of her pen between her teeth and looked up at Naruto as he cleared his throat. "I came in the first place to talk about something important, or important things, either one is fine." It was nine in the night and the only ones in the Hokage tower were the Hokage, the ANBU guards, Shizune and the cleaners. Tsunade knew as a fact that Naruto found it very hard to sleep longer than two hours and that the Kyuubi would nullify any drug she gave him, so she didn't hesitate to host the boy in her office and talk about things. The effects of talking to a cool and collected person were that she could think better, that she could use him to bounce ideas off of and that he never caved under her rants; it was doing a lot of good to her.

The woman looked at him curiously. "Yes?" she instinctively knew that what he was going to say was not to be joked with.

"Alone, if you don't mind."

She waved her hand and the shadows in the corners of the office lightened, Naruto frowned and scratched his neck, using the motion to show her something. The woman caught on and tucked her hair behind her ear, doing so slowly. The boy scoffed and held a single ram hand seal, drawing a line with his big toe on the ground.

"Ninja Art: Fuinjutsu: Light Seal Trap," he muttered the words quickly and the ground in the office shone blue, throwing any shadows away and Tsunade remained calm as her body was caught in the wide-range seal trap.

A hazy white lightning bolt shot out at her but bent around her, going around her four times before it entered the ground and electrocuted someone who was hiding behind the curtain. The ground still shone blue as Naruto made a circular motion with his free hand, like a fishing reel, and all the blue circled the spot where the lightning had gone.

Then the curtains parted and a ROOT operative was dragged out by the blue chakra, his body completely unresponsive before and after he had been electrocuted. Naruto willed the blue chakra to sit him in place as he commanded a silver snake rope to tie up the ninja. The ROOT ANBU had been using a triple-layered genjutsu and a B-rank hiding ninjutsu to prevent anyone from tracking him. Tsunade wasn't a sensor but Naruto had sensory seals all over his body, these seals alerted him of a little chakra presence in the room and he had used his custom-made trap Fuin-Ninjutsu to capture him.

The snake rope held the ninja tightly and Naruto sat back on his chair, releasing the ram hand seal so that all of the blue chakra could slip back into his body through his feet. The Senju glared at the ninja from across her desk, being able to do so since the ninja was in the middle of the room. "Who are you?" she commanded.

"Don't bother, Tsunade. He has a Death by Fire seal on his tongue." That particular seal would prevent the ninja from speaking the truth to anyone but their true superior, and they could also activate it to kill themselves to take their secrets to the grave. The ninja wasn't able to activate it because his body had been put into paralysis, and the snake rope was draining his chakra forcefully.

"Have you seen him before?"

"Yes, in fact, there are more of his type of ninja in Konoha."

The woman stood up abruptly. She simply asked, "Where?"

Naruto motioned for her to calm down; she did so slowly and sat down. "I know all of their hideouts. This man's shinobi faction is one of the reasons I'm here in the first place." It was ridiculous to think that he had come to the woman's office four hours ago and had been so distracted he almost forgot the reason he was there in the first place.

"What's the other reason?" Naruto paused and began to re-think telling her, but he shook his head; it had to be done.

"I'm the leader of Wave country."

Authors note

Jutsu list

Ninja Art: Fuinjutsu: Light Seal Trap: This is a B-rank trapping jutsu Naruto had created. It requires him to spread his chakra through the ground quickly to stick everyone in the vicinity in place; if he is on solid ground it would spread in a two-mile radius if he wanted. Then he would use his affinity seal to command chakra out of the chakra in the ground and attack anyone in the vicinity. He can command the lightning to look over some people, like he did with Tsunade, but attack anyone else. The downside of this ability is that the wider the area he has spread his chakra the 'thinner' it becomes, making it easier for people to break out from. Its counterpart is the Heavy Seal Trap which is the one he used on Akahoshi. That seal is for anyone with denser chakra, he may even be able to trap a jinchuriki.

Super Chakra High seal OR Chakra High seal: this is a high S-rank fuinjutsu that was created by Naruto after he had read about the 'Eight Chakra Gates'. He had acknowledged that he wouldn't be able to find the time to learn how to activate them with his schedule so he made the seal to simulate and create an incredibly similar version of the eight chakra gates. The seal took a drop of natural chakra and mixed it into the user, making the person's chakra much denser than normal. He added seals so that the person's chakra would heal any wounds and that any pain would feel like pleasure. Naruto had applied this seal to all members of his trusted inner circle, except Daku (Frog, Mole, Rat, Zabuza, Haku and himself. The demon brothers declined the seal). Naruto had noted that the seal would only function at optimum levels if the user had almost empty chakra levels, if not the person's movements would be very sluggish. He also noted that each individual had specific coloured chakra that personified their most common emotion if they activated the seal; Haku's colour was a calm baby blue to show that he was mostly calm and happy, Frog's was a dark blue to show that he mostly felt free but at the same time busy and determined, Zabuza was a crimson red to show that he was a raging inferno inside, the others differed. The seal would be able to last an hour or two, depending on how well the user made use of the chakra boost.

How was this chapter?

What do you think about the marriage contract they want between Temari and Naruto? There is going to be a twist there, so watch out for that.

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