From Ninja to Shinigami

Chapter 15: The Truth Revealed

By: jacke44

===Aug 1, 4:15 Hokage Tower===

Naruto told everybody to stay outside, this wouldn't take long, then he followed the Hokage up into the office, the four kunoichi behind him.. Entering the office Hiruzen sat behind his desk and watched Naruto talk to Anko and listened to their conversation.

(conversation)

Anko couldn't believe what she just heard. "Are you serious Naruto-kun?"

Naruto just smiled. "Of course I am, you've been my friend for years and now that I have room for it you are more than welcome to move into my compound. I know you always complain about how your landlord is always changing the rent on you, it's the least I can do for everything you done for me."

Anko wraps Naruto in a hug and whispers "Thank you". Naruto can feel her shaking and wraps his arms around her. "It's going to be ok, now you and all of your new little brothers and sisters are going to live together and be one big family now."

(the present)

Hiruzen cleared his throat to get Naruto's attention. "I hope you have prepared for the finals Lord Uzumaki."

Naruto turns to the Hokage. "Don't worry, by the time I'm done I'm going to change everything you know about being a Shinobi..." He said with his trademark Uzumaki grin. "...now if you'll excuse me Hiruzen I have to get back to the children before they destroy the village from boredom, as you all know a bored Uzumaki usually causes collateral damage." The women in the room giggle. With a small smirk on his face Hiruzen tells Naruto he is free to go.

As Naruto headed towards the door he suddenly stopped and walked back. "I almost forgot, I do in fact have business to conduct with you, it has come to my attention on the day you became Hokage for the first time my great-aunt Mito Uzumaki, who was a Master at Fuinjutsu, gave you an all seeing orb so you could watch over the village. I know you've abused this privilege on many occasions such as spying on women in the hot spring."

Upon hearing this the four kunoichi in the room give the Hokage a glare that would make most men leap out the window holding their crotch in fear.

Kurenai looks at Naruto. "Are you sure about that Naruto-kun?"

Naruto nodded. "I caught him doing it a couple times, he always made up a lie saying he just got a report of someone breaking into the hot spring and he was just checking."

Hiruzen looked at Naruto in shock. "Naruto you must understand that item is very important to me, it's one of the few things I have to remember my late Sensei and his wife."

Naruto's expression hardened. "Then you shouldn't have abused it. That orb was given to you by the Uzumaki Clan so you could protect this Village. The moment you let the first mob chase me down and beat me you betrayed that trust and why I never got to meet my great-aunt. I know that she would be ashamed of everything you have done in my regard. And I as the new Uzumaki Clan head hereby reclaim that item until such a time that you have proven yourself worthy of it again."

Hiruzen looked at Naruto with sadness in his eyes as he reached in and took out the orb out of his bottom drawer. Naruto walked up to the desk removing a scroll from inside his robe and sealed the orb inside. "Would you mind telling me who the two individuals in the golden Fox masks that were in your party are Lord Uzumaki?"

"They're personal guards of the Uzumaki Clan and their identities are none of your concern according to the treaty between the Fire and Whirlpool as the Lord of Whirlpool Country I have the right to have my personal guards here." Naruto said then turned to Anko and smiled. "Feel free to move into the compound at any time." Naruto said then walks out, closing the door behind him.

Letting out a small breath Hiruzen turns to the kunoichi in his office. "What were you able to discover while you were in Wave?"

Kurenai stepped forward, not hiding her anger, and begin to give a report on everything they saw. The new laws that were passed, how he was able to design a new seal for women, but didn't give any other information,on it and how the Academy was set up... excluding the new dress code to hopefully get rid of fan girls... put the new graduation test on the desk and gave him a copy of the speech Naruto gave outside of their Academy then explained how they then came home. "...and that concludes our report Hokage-sama."

Hiruzen briefly looks over the new paperwork. "Thank you for your report, the four of you are dismissed... before you go, where's Iruka?"

Anko replied. "He suffered a head injury and had to stay the night in Wave Country."

It was then that the Hokage noticed the time. "How were you able to transport this many people so quickly?"

Kurenai replied. "We are not at liberty to tell you as it's an Uzumaki Clan secret and none of us are going to betray the Uzumaki Clan who gifted us with knowledge of this technique, especially with everything he has done for all the women and as of recently between the law that he revealed and this new seal that he has made and now finding out that he took the one thing you were using to spy on women he has gained our respect to a level that I don't think was possible." With that all for kunoichi leave the office, once the door closes he looks at the pictures hanging on the wall and can swear each of them have a look of shame on the face. "I'm sorry Sensei, and to you as well Minato I failed all of you." He said with his head hung, a long moment later he called in his secretary. "Would you bring me some tea."

She glares and him and snorts. "Get it yourself, I'm going on my break." She said coldly, turned and left, slamming the door behind her.

===4:45 PM, Outside Hokage Tower===

As Naruto left the tower he could hear the sounds of a fight, quickly walking over to the crowd and pushing his way through he's surprised to see none other than Neji Hyuga attempting to drag both Hinata and Hanabi by the wrist.

"As ordered by Hiashi-sama you are to accompany me back to the compound, you're shaming and dragging the Hyuga Clan through the mud by hanging out these commoners." Neji exclaimed.

"We're not coming back with you, we are no longer Hyuga's we are now Uzumaki Clan members and you have no right to do this to us!" Hanabi exclaims strongly as they both continue to struggle. Getting desperate, and angry, Hanabi bites Neji's wrist, as he lets go of both of their wrists and glares at her a moment then raises his hand to hit her. Before he can act, her instincts take over and she delivers a lightning fast kick to his crotch with such force he's briefly lifted off the ground, then drops to his knees with both his hands clutching himself, he then falls on his side into a mud puddle.

Hinata then storms up to him, grabs him by the front of his shirt and lifts him up face-to-face, her's devoid of humanity. "If you ever attempt to harm me or anybody in my new family again I'll make you regret the day you were ever born... know this Neji Hyuga, the days of the week and shy little girl that you used to bully is gone and you can deliver that message to my ex-Father as well." She said so coldly it sent shivers down the spine of everyone there, then threw him face down into the mud. Turning to face the crowd behind her they erupted in applause, she smiled shyly and blushed brightly.

As they were cheering no one seemed to notice Hanabi, with a small, almost sadistic smirk, quickly move between Neji's spread legs, subtly, but forcefully stepped on his balls, briefly ground her foot down hard, then quickly moved back to her spot a few feet away from him with a subtle grin of satisfaction.

Naruto walked up to Hinata and pulled her into a one-armed hug. "That was great Hinata-chan, you know Kurenai is going to be so proud of you too." He said then looked at the rest of the group. "Now that Hanabi-chan and Hinata-chan have delivered their message let's go to the compound." He said then gave Hanabi a smile and slight nod that made her blush slightly, letting her know he saw what she did and was proud of her.

Before the group could leave a gruff male voice calls out. "What's going on here?"

Naruto turns in the direction of the voice and sees Ibiki Morino, Head of the T&I Division, along with 3 other ANBU behind him. and the moment Ibiki spots Naruto he takes his right hand and pinches his nose, which makes Naruto smirk.

"Why is it every time there's an incident in this Village you will always seem to be at the scene of the crime Uzumaki.?" Ibiki said.

Naruto scratched the back of his head. "To tell you the truth I'm actually starting to think that my family has a curse on it and we are just drawn to trouble like a moth to the flame. At least this time I'm not responsible, if you want the one responsible he's right there." He said and pointed at Neji who was still laying on the ground. "He attempted to take two of my clansmen by force and paid the price for it."

Ibiki makes a hand gesture, the three ANBU arrest Neji, putting him in chakra cuffs. "Just try to stay out of trouble at least until the finals are over and I'll treat you to a bowl of ramen, I don't need any more paperwork on my desk then I already do."

Naruto can hear him muttering under his breath 'how Anko finally managed to defeat it is beyond me.' Naruto starts leading his new family away and says over his shoulder. "By the way Ibiki, aren't Shadow Clones just the best for doing household chores and running errands for you... and the fact that you get all the memories when they pop is just a bonus."

Ibiki Morino, Head of the T&I Division along with being one of the most scariest men in the village, having obtained the nickname the Mind Reaper and a man who could make other grown men cry for their mommies just by walking into the room, stood there for a few moments thinking about what Naruto had just said then it hit him... and to the amusement of the people around him he walked over to the wall and started banging his head on it as he said over and over. "Stupid, stupid..."

===5:30 PM, Uzumaki Compound, Front Gate===

Naruto stood outside the main gate, uses a kunai to cut his hand, places it in the middle of the door and channels his chakra through the blood seal. Nothing happens for a moment then the doors swing open revealing the Uzumaki Compound. He looks to his left and nods to his parents who lead the way to the main complex. As they're walking through the streets seeing all the empty houses, stores and a small Park, he looks to his mom. "This kind of reminds me of the Uchiha District before it was abandoned."

Kushina, now safely inside the compound out of view of the villagers and shinobi, drops her hood and removes her mask. "Well there wasn't a lot of Uzumaki so we didn't need as big of a compound. After the last Uzumaki left shortly before the second Shinobi War the compound was sealed so nobody could steal anything that was inside of it, I would often come here from the Senju compound where I lived as a child and later my apartment and then I moved in with your father into Namikaze compound but sadly that was destroyed in the Kyuubi attack."

Naruto nods his head. "That makes sense I guess." He looks at the adults behind him. "If any of you see a house or a business that you want let me know so we can get you set up." He instantly noticed that the adults are now taking more interest in the buildings around them, one of the women looking at one that looks like it was a bookstore, walks up to her. "Would you like this one?"

The woman nods her head. "It would make a cute little book store."

Kushina walks up to them. "I remember this store, a cousin of mine used to run it... there's a little even a apartment above it."

Naruto smiles. "Well if you want it you can have it."

The woman looks at him. "You would just give me a store?"

Naruto chuckles. "We're family... and I have no use for it right now anyway so you might as well use it. Like I said that goes for everyone, if you see something just let me know so we can get it sorted out." Those not holding children begin looking through the windows of the empty stores or the houses, some calling out if they could have this one. Naruto noticed a bunch of the children had taken off their outer robes and ran off to the little park and are now playing on the equipment, laughing and having fun, that's when he noticed that the entire compound was in pristine condition as if the compound had only been locked yesterday, and looked at his Mother. "Why does everything look like the place was just locked up yesterday?"

Kushina smirked at him. "The entire compound is covered in seals that once the compound is locked... time is stopped inside of it, so basically it was just locked yesterday."

Naruto noticed one of the women walking up to him.

"Lord Uzumaki you may proceed to the main building, we will stay here and watch the children." She said.

Naruto smiles. "Okay, just remember none of this Lord stuff, we're family now and I will not have my family referring to me as such, you can call me Naruto unless we're in a formal setting where it's required to call me Lord Uzumaki."

===6:15 PM, Main Uzumaki House===

As the groups stood outside the main building admiring its beauty Kushina put her hand on Naruto shoulder. "Welcome home." Naruto put his hand on hers and gave it a squeeze. Over the course of the next hour Kushina showed them around the building, including all the bedrooms, the kitchen, bathrooms, library, the regular and formal dining rooms, and finally the Meeting Hall.

Soon Naruto and his parents were sitting in the main office talking and going over last-minute plans for his fight in the finals, Yoruichi was sitting in his lap in her cat form, having separated from the group to let them get settled in and some of the women had started in on dinner, happy to have a kitchen the size of an apartment.

Naruto stops mid conversation at a knock at the door. "Who is it?"

One of the men opens the door. "I'm sorry to interrupt you, but there are some people outside the gate who want to talk with you."

Naruto nods. "I'll be right there." He turns to his parents. "You'll have to go back to Wave now if it's who I think it is, they'll recognize you instantly, even covered." With a final hug Naruto opens the door for them back to the Academy, they promised to call the day of the finals.

===8:00 PM, Uzumaki Compound, Front Grounds===

Walking out the front door Naruto can see a large group of people standing outside, it's the Inuzuka's, Yamanaka's, Nara's, and Akimichi's, the Clans that have treated him as a member of the family since he was a little kid. Walking towards the group Naruto is on guard as Hana's three large dogs come rushing towards him, right as they jump in the air to tackle him Naruto performs the substitution jutsu and replaces himself with Kiba who is now laying on the ground with three large dogs laying on top of him making the entire group bust out laughing.

Naruto then saw something he thought he never would... Tsume, a woman Naruto always saw as a pillar of strength, a woman he once saw stare down half a dozen ANBU with no back up, drop to her knees and hug him as she began to cry.

"I'm so sorry I never saw it before Naruto. I always tried to suppress my memories of Kushina so I can't feel the pain, she was my sister in everything but blood, we both swore to protect each other's families if something happened to the other." Naruto responded by wrapping his arms around her and rubbing her back. "You have nothing to apologize for, since I was little you have always been there for me, you were always helping me whenever I needed it just like the rest of the people in this group, you have always been there for me at different stages of my life so I think you did end up keeping your promise to my mother." Naruto said.

"Now that I've got my clan heritage and am now the acting Head of both my Mother and Father's Clans, I hope our Clans can become allies..." Naruto said and looked over her shoulder. "...I hope that goes for all of us." Naruto said.

The other three Clan Heads nod in agreement, all smiling.

Naruto couldn't stop himself from teasing Tsume after seeing the very amused smiles on most of their faces. "Now stop crying, get up, wipe your tears and start acting like that alpha bitch I know and love or I'll have to kick your butt around the yard, maybe snap a collar around your neck and walk you around the village like my pet." Naruto said with a straight face.

Tsume stood up with a huge feral smile. "Try it and you'll have to sleep standing up tonight... and thank you." She said then took a step back so the others could get a hug in.

Naruto spends a few moments getting hugged by the other women, handshakes with the men and bumping fists with Kiba, he smiles. "How would you like to join us for the first dinner in our compound? You can meet the new Uzumaki Clan and we can discuss what has happened over the last month... such as why Akamaru has a pink tint." Everyone laughed.

Hana stepped up next to Naruto and her mom. "It would seem that Noriko picked up where you left off and has now become quite the little prankster herself, she's already gotten Akamaru, Kiba and Shikamaru."

Naruto looked at Noriko. "You pranked me, I'm going to get you back. We Uzumaki are quite the pranksters and I'm the King of pranks, there's not a person in this village I haven't been able to get..." He said then gave her his 'patented in Hell' grin that clearly said if you mess with me again I'll make your life a living Hell. "...so I suggest you forget about trying to get me back and leave the other adults alone too, understood?" He saw some color drain from her face and she nodded. He smiled and rubbed her head. "Good, then we won't need to have this talk again. Now go play." She half smiled, nodded and ran off.

With the group laughing they make their way back inside, stopping in the hallway because they hear shouting, then from around the corner comes the little boy that always seems to run his mouth and get in trouble with the girls, he's yelling I'm sorry while being chased by his sisters. As the group passed them Naruto reached out and grabbed Ashia, who was at the back, lifted and smiled at her. "What did he do now?"

Ashia gives Naruto a small grin. "We were sitting at the table for dinner, we asked him to help and he said he wasn't going to help do woman's work such a set a table. So we're going to show him what woman's work really is."

Naruto put her down. "Okay, have you fun."

But before she could run off Ashia saw Noriko and quickly ran up to her. "Hi, I'm Ashia Uzumaki... would you like to be friends?"

Noriko nods. "Okay, my name is Noriko Inuzuka, do you need help tracking that boy? My mom's been helping me with my training. I'm not too good right now, but I can help."

Before either girl could run off Naruto gets their attention. "Make sure to give him a good wedgie for me." He said, making both girls grin. As they run off Naruto turns to the group. "I don't know about you, but I have a bad feeling about letting them be friends. I can sense trouble coming from this. I just know it." Everyone laughed.

Before Naruto could say anything else Ino gets Naruto's attention. "Don't you have something for all of our mom's and Hana, Naruto?"Ino said as she begins tapping her foot, her arms crossed over her ample chest. Tsume and Hana, along with Yoshino Nara, Inoiki Yamanaka and Channa Akimichi all turned to look at Naruto with raised eyebrows. Naruto simply removes a scroll from inside his robe and hands it to her.

"There's a room down the hall, we'll wait here." Naruto said then they head down the hall.

Once the women were in the room Kiba turned to Naruto. "What's that about?"

"You don't want to know." Naruto replied.

Kiba gets up in Naruto's face. "You tell me what's going on right now what was in that scroll."

"Let's put it this way dog breath... you remember when we were 9 years old and we were sitting in your kitchen playing cards and your mom and sister came in with the groceries and started to unload them, you saw Hana take out a small box and started to bug her about what it was because she wouldn't tell you, then you bugging them until your mother and sister gave both us the talk and we had to find out it was her feminine products..." Naruto said.

Kiba, with Shikamaru and choji and the three Father's go white,

"Troublesome." Shikaku said, not realizing his wife was walking up behind him until she smacked the back of his head.

Naruto was suddenly in a bone-crushing hug, that he quickly realized was from Channa Akimichi from the arms and what he felt on his back.

Channa let him go and few moments later, turned him around and kissed his forehead. "Naruto. I want to thank you for what you have been able to make, it's going to help the women of my clan so much. I haven't felt this good since I was a young girl, I know it's going to take me time to get my balance back now that I'm not carrying around as much weight and don't worry I will make sure they don't mob you for it."

After Channa stepped back Naruto was giving a kiss from each of the Mothers and Hana. Before Naruto can say anything else one of the new servants approach them.

"Dinner is now being served in the dining room." She announced.

===8:30 PM, Dining Room===

Throughout the course of dinner Naruto began to tell those who didn't know, what happened in Wave, about the new Academy and giving little hints to his new training, and using the cover his parents helped him make, about how he met someone who recognized him and told him about his parents. Naruto had just turned down Kiba who wanted to have a sparring match when the door opened, it was Anko with a small duffel bag.

Anko looked at the large croup and grinned almost nervously. "I hope I'm not interrupting anything."

Naruto stood up, walked over and gave her a hug. "You're not disturbing anything, you're a member of this family and more than welcome in this house... after dinner we'll get you a room." He lead her back to the table and sat her next to Ashia and Noriko. "Girls, take care of your big sister, make sure she doesn't get in any trouble." Both girls giggle and Anko sticks out her tongue out at him. This made the rest of the group laugh. About 20 minutes later, after seeing Anko refill her glass with a bottle she brought with her, looked away a moment when someone asked him something, when he looked back Ashia's face was red and twisted, Noriko was taking a big gulp from a glass that she immediately sat on the table with a similar reaction... it only took an instant for him to notice it was Anko's glass they drank from. However the clear liquid in it wasn't water, but her favorite brand of sake... as it was too late to do anything, he just smirked as they would teach them a good lesson. A moment later both girls fell to the floor gagging, coughing and otherwise not feeling well, Anko grabbed her glass, downed what was left and starting laughing hard. He called a couple servants to help the girls up and to the bathroom as everyone began laughing, for many of the parents it wasn't the first time they'd seen this.

After time Naruto stood. "It's time for bed, we have the finals in a couple of days and if you want to see it you need to behave, so off to bed with you." As the children start walking out, minus Ashia and Noriko, they're complaining about how they weren't tired. to the amusement of the adults.

This left Naruto, the Clans and Hinata who was still sitting, after saying goodbye to the Clan heads and their families Naruto was alone with Hinata.

Summoning up all of her courage Hinata walked up to Naruto and gave him a kiss on the cheek with a bright red face then ran from the room.

With a smile Naruto heads to his room to go to bed, he knew that he was going to be very busy the next couple days.

===Aug 5, 7:00 AM===

As the sun shined through the window Naruto slowly opened his eyes and smiled, today was the finals when he was go to show everybody the strength of his new family. Looking to his left he saw Yoruichi who had insisted on sleeping next to what she called her fiance, feeling a small weight on his stomach he lifted the blanket to see his second bed guest sleeping in between them... Ashia, who since the first night back in Wave when she came into his tent she had snuck into his bed every night. While he really liked her company he needed to break her of this soon, because he knew that very soon some of his older, more developed female guests, permanent and temporary, would start doing the same, but not to sleep.

After getting them up and off to the bathroom Naruto went his private bathroom, after getting cleaned up he walked into the dining room to have a good breakfast with his family. "Yoruichi, did you get the equipment set up so the kids can watch the fights?" Yoruichi nodded. "I really like this equipment you guys had in the Soul Society... you'll be able to watch the fights, but until I'm sure it's safe for you to leave the compound I think it's better that you stay here and watch it with the equipment that I brought back from Wave." The children nodded excitedly.

Naruto turned to Hinata and Hanabi. "You want to stay here or come to the stadium and watch the fight?" Both said they want to go to the stadium and sit with friends. Naruto smiled and nodded.

"Can I please go big brother? I want to spend more time with my new friend Noriko, I'll sit with her and her mom and I promise I'll be on my best behavior." Ashia said then tried to give him the puppy eyes that she learned from Noriko.

Naruto had to suppress a grin, over the last couple of days those two had become inseparable, the duo had gone on a pranking spree trying to get as many people in the family as they could among what Ashia would call safe targets so she didn't upset him, but several of these pranks had backfired on them. "Fine you can go, and sit with the Inuzuka Clan... but no more pranks until the Exams are over." Ashia nodded immediately, he smiled back.

===10:30 AM, Outdoor Stadium, Konoha Shinobi Section===

Up in the stands the seats began to fill up with the people who had come to watch Naruto and the other finalists, including the Clans main families. After getting herself settled in Tsume looks at Ashia and Noriko who both have a large bucket of popcorn with a large cotton candy that Hinata just handed them. "You need to behave while we're here do you understand me?" Both looked up at her and said 'yes mom/auntie.' This brought a smile to her face, in the few days that she'd known little Ashia she'd taken to calling her and the other Clan head's wives her Auntie. Looking at the two little girls she could swear that she saw herself and Kushina and knew these two were going to be friends for a long time.

Tsume looks behind her where Anko is telling Kurenai about the new house Naruto gave her. There are also two new woman that she didn't recognize who introduced themselves as Yoruichi and Nemu, they explain that they met Naruto in the Land of Waves and had heard how Yoruichi had declared herself to be Naruto's fiance. But they wisely kept quiet knowing what an overprotective mother she could be because she saw Naruto as a surrogate son and did not want a fight to break out about her trying to take Naruto.

Tsume turned to Hana who just sat down. "Where have you been and is something wrong?"

"I just put down a bet with one of the Bookies so Naruto better win his fight... I bet my life savings. And nothing is wrong I'm just pissed off that they gave me lousy odds because of his status in the village, but even with the lousy odds I'm going to make 8 figures when he wins because they don't know how strong he is." Hana replied.

This makes the entire group laugh as they looked out into the arena, the only contestants that were missing, are Naruto, Sasuke and the sound Ninja whose name no one remembered.

Tsume would normally be upset Hana did something like that, but this time she couldnt... besides, she mentally yelled at herself for not betting on him as well, but she couldn't leave the kids to do it even if she had remembered. Tsume looked at Yoshino who has Naruto's book out. "How did you get your son out of bed and here before Naruto got here?"

"I told him if did he didn't get his ass here on time I was going to have his Father write up a marriage contract for my friend's daughter that drives him crazy and is always bossing him around." Yoshino replied with a grin.

Ino looks at Yoshino. "You're not talking about me are you, because there's no way I'm marrying that lazy bum."

Kiba leans in. "What about me."

"I'd rather marry Akamaru, at least he has a concept of what hygiene is." Ino said then she shoved his face away. Everyone around them started laughing as Akamaru jumps up on to Ino's lap, gave a little bark then laid down and gave an amused grin to Kiba.

===11:00 AM, Hokage Booth===

Hiruzen had the worst 5 days of his life, since the last War. After Naruto's stunt, the civilian Council had gone on the warpath, all of his kunoichi sent him looks of hatred whenever they would walk into the room or when he was walking down the street... included the women of his clan he had suspicions that they had found out about him using his orb the spy on the hot spring. He looked to the right as Naruto appeared using flash step.

"Let's get this over with, I want to get to my fight." Naruto said.

Hiruzen stood and walked up to the edge of the balcony where a microphone stood.

(Start of Hiruzen's Speech)

"First of all I would like to welcome you all to the Finals of the Chuunin Exams, today we show you the strength of our newest generation by testing the strength of all Nations. Before these fights start there is an announcement I must make... it's known throughout the Elemental Nations that twelve years ago the nine-tailed fox attacked our Village and we lost a great deal of people in that fight, Mothers, Fathers, brothers, sisters, and a great deal of friends. We also lost our beloved Fourth Hokage, Minato Namikaze, who sacrificed himself to defeat the nine-tailed fox. What isn't known except to me and a few others is why it attacked, over a century ago the fox was sealed inside a woman who contained it for most of her life, then that burden was passed to her niece until her death, when it attacked Konoha." Hiruzen said then paused to take a breath and judge the crowd's reaction.

Hiruzen mentally steeled himself as only a shinobi of his experience could as he cast a subtle glance at Naruto. "What isn't generally known is their names and bloodline... the first to take the burden of containing the nine-tailed fox was Mito, when she died it was sealed in her niece Kushina..." He heard some gasps as some people recognized her name. "...she died defending her newborn child after it escaped, attacking Konoha. Minato tried everything in his power to defeat it, but the bijuu can't be killed which left him with only one option, seal it within someone... unfortunately this could only be done with a newborn baby, and being the man he was he wouldn't ask anyone to do something he could..." Hiruzen stopped and sighed sadly. "...so he went to his wife and with her acting as a living shield bought him the time he needed to seal the fox in his own child at the cost of her life... her name was Kushina, wife of Minato Namikaze, niece of Mito Uzumaki who was the wife of Hashirama Senju, Princess of Whirlpool Country and Mother of Naruto Uzumaki, which makes Naruto the heir to the Namikaze Clan of Konoha and the royal family of Whirlpool, which also means he inherited not just the title of Clan Head for 2 clans, but also Daimyo of Whirlpool, formerly held by his Grandfather, Kushina's Father, the ruler of Whirlpool Country. Minato's last wish was that Naruto be treated as a hero...and I must sadly say that I failed both Minato and Kushina at my mission..." He glanced at Naruto. "...which I'll regret the rest of my life. I present to you, Naruto Uzumaki Namikaze, Sandaime Jinchuuriki of Kyuubi No Kitsune, son of Minato Namikaze and Princess Kushina Uzumaki of Whirlpool Country." Naruto stepped forward and waved.

(End of Hiruzen's Speech)

===Seating Area===

After this speech the crowd went ballistic, some yelling and screaming at the Hokage for lying to them, others yelling apologies to Naruto and begging him for forgiveness and then were those in the crowd that refuse to believe it.

===Lords & Ladies Area===

All of the Lords & Ladies of the different lands are shooting looks of murder at the Hokage for allowing the child of nobility, especially who was supposed to take a throne one day should be treated so badly... they would have words with the Hokage after this and offering Naruto his rightful seat on the Council of Lords.

===11:30 AM, Main Arena===

Naruto appeared next to Shikamaru using flash step. "You enjoyed that didn't you Naruto, you're too Troublesome for your own good." Shikamaru said in a normal voice, not the tired version he normally used.

Naruto put his arm around Shikamaru's shoulder. "Oh come on, cheer up, we have to put on a good show for the audience." Naruto said.

"Troublesome blonde." Shikamaru commented.

"My name is Genma Shiranui, we are about to begin but I have to tell you something, there has been a slight change in the lineup due to Dosu disappearing... he's been removed from the lineup which means that your second fight Shikamaru it is now been canceled."

"What about Sasuke, if he's not here for his fight is he going to be disqualified?" Naruto asked.

"If he's not here for his fight. Now I need everybody to leave besides Naruto and Neji." Genma said.

After a good luck from Shikamaru the rest of the contestants head up to the stands to the special booths reserved for the fighters.

As Naruto and Neji are facing off in the middle of the Arena Neji speaks. "Do not think that I bought that garbage the Hokage said, you are nothing but a peasant who is dishonoring the Fourth Hokage."

Naruto reaches into his trench coat and pulls out a bottle of sake, two small cups and pours sake into both. "It's a tradition in the Uzumaki family that before battle to have a drink with the person we intend to fight, whether it be a friendly fight or before going to war. We would even send a scout out to the enemy camp to have a drink before a battle to honor our ancestors and I now continue this tradition by offering you this sake."

All around the stadium the older generation of shinobi and kunoichi looked on with pride at seeing this.

Instead of taking the sake Neji did something that made the entire Stadium gasp, using his left hand he slapped it out of Naruto's hand to the ground before stomping on it.

Naruto shook his head, drank his sake and put the bottle away. "Neji, I'm only going to give you one chance to apologize for what you did to Hinata."

Neji's response to this was to slide into Gentle Fist stance. "I would never apologize to that failure."

Naruto shook his head in disappointment and took his own stance. "If you're going to continue to resist I only have one thing to say to you."

Neji hardened his eyes. "And what would that be Uzumaki."

Naruto smirked. "Resistance is futile."

Once the signal was given to start, to the shock of everybody in the stands Naruto vanished and appeared behind Neji holding his ponytail.

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End Chapter 15