December- 1991

It was the day of Christmas at the Stark mansion. While most other families would probably be gathered together by their Christmas tree, that was not so for this family. Instead, there were only two people in the family room. One was Naruto Uzumaki, family bodyguard to the Stark's, yet mainly his job was to watch over Antonia Stark.

The other person that sat next to Naruto on the couch was Antonia Stark. While Antonia may have believed that it was her father, Howard, trying to have someone watch over her and prevent her from doing anything to embarrass the family, it was, unknowingly to her, her father trying to protect her.

Regardless, Naruto and Antonia had become close friends and because of this, Tony invited Naruto over to the house for Christmas. Naruto graciously accepted the invitation as otherwise he'd have just been on a day off alone in his apartment.

Naruto still found the holiday tradition to be strange, celebrating a baby being born? That seemed a little ridiculous. Still, Naruto had taken to the holiday with great enthusiasm by wearing a horrendous sweater depicting snowmen, a fat man named Santa Claus, and some reindeer. To complement this terrible sweater was a red hat with fake white fur trim and a puff ball on the top. This was all under the recommendation of Tony who had a good laugh when he first entered the house.

Tony on the other hand wore the same hat as Naruto as well as a green shirt with pictures of prancing reindeer being depicted on the front. Both of the friends sat on the floor near the tree with grins on their faces. In the background was music playing by a guy named Frank Sinatra.

"So, what exactly are we going to be doing for Christmas? Your parents are going to be gone for a while." He asked as he got up to stretch. Both he and Tony had been sleeping on the couch together since last night watching some movie about a kid who wanted a BB-gun for Christmas. It got a chuckle out of Naruto when he saw it.

"I was thinking that you should make some of that delicious food of yours. You know, like that pasta you made that one night a while back." Tony began, "And then we could open some presents later on in the night." Tony answered.

"Seems simple enough. This holiday is so weird. Where I came from, no one would ever think of making a holiday like this." Naruto remarked as a pop was heard from his back which was followed by Naruto sighing in relief.

"Why wouldn't they have made a holiday like this?" Tony asked with great curiosity. She rarely heard Naruto talk about where he came from, she just guessed that it was from some Asian country due to both his name and some of his mannerism. She did find it strange that he didn't have any accent or issues with the English language.

"Because, they'd probably be trying to kill each other rather than give out gifts. Last time I was home, there was a war that killed a lot of people. Not exactly pleasant to say the least." Naruto quickly answered before he joined Tony once more in sitting on the couch. He fished through the couch cushions before pulling out a remote and turning the TV in the room on.

"Wow, I'm surprised that you are even up right now. I'd have thought that you'd be couch potato." An older man remarked as he walked into the room with a woman. Both of them were dressed up in clothing meant for business meetings compared to celebrating Christmas.

The man wore a suit and tie and had short white slicked back hair and a mustache. He was Howard Stark. The woman, Maria Stark, was dressed in a gray jacket and skirt had graying blonde hair. Tony took more after her mother in looks than she did her father.

"Guess that's another expectation of yours that I've subverted." Tony retorted as she got off the couch in order to not appear weaker than Howard. Naruto looked at Howard and noticed that he was carrying two suitcases with him. He waved it off as himself looking too deeply into things. "So, where are you off to?"

"Your father is flying us to the Bahamas." Maria replied.

"But we'll need to make a small stop before that." Howard added.

"Government meeting at the Pentagon? Super secret and all that?" Tony guessed.

"Something like that." He then looked to Naruto and spoke, "Naruto, please make sure that Tony doesn't do something like burn the house down."

"Got it, boss. I'll keep an eye on her." Naruto answered with a mocking salute. Howard nodded at the reply before walking towards the front door. Then Maria walked up to Tony and smiled.

"We're only going to be gone for two weeks. We'll be back after Christmas." Maria said in an effort to cheer up Tony. Tony rolled her eyes and was about to sit back down on the couch before she heard a coughing sound behind her. She turned her head and saw Naruto motion his eyes towards Maria in a silent order.

Tony silently argued with her eyes against the order, but she was eventually swayed by the deadpan look that Naruto gave her. Tony then turned her attention back to Maria and smiled before saying, "I love you, mom. I'll see you later." Maria smiled and rubbed Tony's cheek affectionately in reply.

"Take care of the house, and make sure to not make too much of a mess." Maria ordered with a smile, "Have a good holiday, Naruto." She added before she walked after her husband. The two friends listened as the front door to the house closed shut which let them know that the two older Starks had left.

"Hope mom enjoys herself. The Bahamas are nice this time of year." Tony remarked.

"Are the Bahamas nice? I've never been there before." Naruto asked as he flicked through channels on the TV. Tony quickly joined him on the couch.

"If you enjoy warm weather and beaches, then the Bahamas are great." Tony replied. "Where have you been in the world, if you haven't been to the Bahamas?" Tony quickly asked, she hoped that this would be the question that Naruto would let his guard down on, all so she could pinpoint where he might originate from.

"Well, I've certainly been across part of the U.S. I traveled around for a while as a hitchhiker. Other than that, probably that time I went to the United Kingdoms." Naruto answered. This disappointed Tony on so many levels, sure, it was interesting that he was a hitchhiker, but none of it pointed out to where exactly he came from.

"When have you ever been to the U.K.?" Tony let that question just slip from her mind.

"About a year ago when I had some vacation time. Thought that it would be a nice trip." Little did Tony know, but when Naruto had made his trip to the U.K., he'd done so while practicing with one of his Rinnegan's abilities. Warping through space certainly saved up on airline tickets.

"You are never going to tell me which country you originate from, are you?" Tony asked in defeat. Naruto chuckled and put his arm across Tony's shoulder.

"I'll tell you one day, and that's a promise. I just don't want to tell you now." Naruto answered…

Now

Sitting in a chair in a round spacious office was a woman with pink hair that was beginning to collect some gray strands due to stress. Her green eyes traced over numerous documents on her desk that she had to sign, read, or answer. On the left corner of her desk was a red had that had the symbol for fire in kanji on the front. On the right corner of the desk was a picture that contained her old team.

This woman was Sakura Haruno, Seventh Hokage of the Hidden Leaf. She was also very bored. The boredom mainly came from the constant assault of paperwork that she had to fight every day. She guessed that it was why her predecessor, Kakashi, handed the job off to her so quickly. The lazy pervert probably found slogging through paperwork to be hell.

She sighed in relief when she finally signed the last document in the stack that she was working on. If the paperwork that she finished everyday could be all added up and used as a weapon, she'd probably win a war with the veritable mountain that she had to complete every year.

Sakura set her pen down and began rubbing her hand to get the cramps out of it. Her hand was covered in green chakra which aided in relaxing her hand. Sakura looked at the photo of her old team that was on her desk. If she had issues in trying to do paperwork and she was extremely intelligent, then she wondered what Naruto would think of the position of Hokage with his less than stellar ability at anything involving office work?

She snorted at the thought, who was she kidding, Naruto would probably love the job, even with its faults. It was then that she heard a knock on her door. Probably either Shikamaru or Shizune with more or her hated enemy.

"Come in!" Sakura said as she pushed her finished stack of paperwork off to the side of her desk. The door to her office opened and Shizune came walking in with a shocked look on her face. "Shizune, is everything okay? You look like you've seen a ghost." Sakura joked.

"Almost, Sakura. It's-" Shizune's voice tuned off in Sakura's mind as she saw a very familiar blond walk into the room sporting a massive grin. He looked the same, slightly older looking with more handsome features, but those whisker marks on his face, and that massive grin. It was him.

Sakura leapt over her desk in a single second and rushed towards Naruto before cocking her fist back and letting it launch forward and make contact with his face. The blond flew through the doorway and made a crater in the wall outside her door. "You were gone for over twenty years and this is the first time you visit!? Why didn't you come sooner!?" Sakura shouted at a downed Naruto.

A clicking could be heard next to her and she turned to her right to see a woman with dark hair holding an armored hand with a glowing circle for a palm in her face. "You have ten seconds to explain why you just punched my husband into a wall before I decide to fire." A slow whirring noise could be heard from the woman's palm as an addition to the threat she made.

"Wait! Husband!?" Sakura's eyes quickly flitted from Naruto's groaning body that was still embedded into the wall, to the woman with the glowing palm in her face. Then her eyes spotted another mop of messy blond hair next to the woman. The boy had two whisker marks on each of his cheeks. "I-Is that his son?" Sakura asked in a hushed voice.

The woman quickly looked down to the boy, and then back to Sakura. "I would think that after nine months of carrying him around I'd know if he's my son or not." The woman replied. Sakura tried to regain her composure after this revelation before she looked at Naruto who had now pulled himself out of the wall and was trying to readjust his jaw.

"It's been more than ten seconds." The woman said before firing the energy that had been charging up in her palm. Sakura moved her head just as a beam of energy hit the ceiling and faded away to reveal a black burn mark. Both Shizune and Sakura were about to try and tackle the woman when a voice from the hallway cried out.

"Stop trying to kill each other!" A clawed hand made of gold chakra quickly put itself between the women in the room. Eventually Naruto came into the room where the chakra arm could be seen coming from his stomach. He rubbed a bruised jaw as he walked over to the woman and blond boy. The chakra arm sunk back into his stomach and Naruto spoke once more, "Not the welcome home that I was expecting."

Sakura rubbed the bridge of her nose before answering back, "C-Can I just sit down for a moment?" She walked over to her desk and dropped herself into her chair. "How long?"

"How long, what?" Naruto asked.

"How long has it been since you got married?" Sakura clarified.

"About fifteen years. We had Alex ten years ago." Naruto answered. Sakura leaned back into her chair and glanced at the woman and Alex. This was not what she was expecting for today. If she was Tsunade, she'd probably be chugging down an entire bottle of sake. Thankfully she wasn't, as Sakura expected that her liver would've given out much sooner than Tsunade's ever could.

"I'm still mad that it took you all these years for you to even come back here. Why didn't you come sooner?" Sakura asked. Naruto grinned and rubbed the back of his head in embarrassment.

"To tell you the truth, things have gotten a lot more hectic in the world I lived in. Did you know, they also call it Earth, just like this planet." Naruto remarked. "Mainly, when I first lived on my new home, I tried keeping a low profile. Later, certain events caused me to reveal my abilities to the public and I became more liberal with using my abilities." Naruto said before his smile slightly faltered, "I also thought that if I came back earlier, I might become too homesick and not want to leave."

"Oh." Sakura muttered in understanding. "You still could've tried sending a letter." She added in a more resigned tone.

"And you could've tried avoiding hitting Naruto. He may act like an idiot at times, but he's my idiot." The woman stated as she crossed her arms across her chest. Sakura's eyes were drawn to the glowing blue circle in her chest due to this action. Even though she would've liked to ask what that device was, Sakura knew that the woman was still quite tense, and she'd be more likely to not want to answer.

"I'm sorry that my anger got the better of me, please forgive me." Sakura said as she bowed her head in apology. That was one thing that her position had taught her, reining more of her anger in, and trying to be diplomatic due to incidents involving said anger. Though it didn't always help, case in point was seeing Naruto again.

"It's fine, Sakura. Or should I be calling you Lady Hokage now?" Naruto answered with a joking tone. Sakura rolled her eyes at the jest.

"Just Sakura is fine."

"I'm still not happy. But I'll take the apology." The woman answered. At least that was a start. Sakura's eyes then fell onto Naruto's son, Alex.

"You really look just like your dad. Seems ridiculous how spiky blond hair can create that resemblance." Sakura remarked to Alex. "Can you use chakra just like your dad, or did he keep that under wraps from you?" Sakura asked. Even she was curious about it. Naruto had said that he wanted to keep his abilities hidden, she just hoped that this didn't prevent him from teaching his son about chakra.

Alex held up his hand and a blue sphere spiraled to life in his palm. "Yup! I can do a lot of cool stuff like dad, though I can't do everything, like the stuff with Uncle Kurama and dad's Rinnegan powers." Alex stated proudly. Sakura smiled at this, if there was one technique that Naruto would teach his son, it would certainly be the Rasengan.

"That's great. You just need to keep practicing and eventually you'll become very strong." Sakura said in encouragement. She then looked at the woman, "I never heard your name."

"Tony Stark. I'm a rich genius and full-time smartass. Anything else you want to know?" Tony answered. As she said this, her arms uncrossed from her chest and the red metal armor that covered her right arm quickly refolded itself up from her arm and into her backpack. Sakura was completely amazed at watching this occur. Tony's technology looked more advanced than anything the science division had created in recent memory.

"At least you are honest about it. Shizune," Sakura said which caused the older woman to chirp up and say yes, "could you please fetch us all some drinks. I feel like we are going to be here for a while." Sakura ordered.

"Right away, ma'am." Shizune said before rushing off. This left the four alone in the room together.

"When did you arrive?" Sakura asked.

"Oh, over a week. We were barely here for a few days when Tony and I had to go to the moon to investigate why it was breaking apart." That was when Sakura's eyes widened.

Leaned her head back into her chair and sighed, "You were the ones that fixed that moon and stopped it from colliding with the Earth?" Sakura asked aloud. Naruto looked surprised when she said this.

"How did you know about it colliding with the Earth?" Naruto asked in interest. Sakura smiled at this, at least she knew something Naruto didn't.

"The five nations were alerted to this three weeks ago. We were trying to find a solution to the problem until just a week ago when the moon magically fixed itself and the crisis was averted." Sakura explained, "Now I'm curious as to why the moon was breaking apart to begin with. Any explanations?"

"It was another Ōtsutsuki. He went by the name of Toneri and was trying to have the moon collide into the Earth as some whole divine punishment for using chakra for bad purposes. We even found Hinata there and she was married to the guy. Even had a kid with him." Naruto explained.

"You found Hinata?! Why was she married to the guy and on the moon?!" Sakura asked in surprise.

"You'd have to ask Hinata about it. She's at the Hyuuga compound if you're interested. Other than that, I fought the guy and killed him. After that, I used my Rinnegan to force any of the larger chunks of the moon to come back to it and then we went back to Mount Myoboku for a week." Naruto stated simply.

"I'm going to need to see Hinata after all of this is over. Anything else that you need to cover?" Sakura knew that she was probably going to have a headache before this day was over. And all of it was due to Naruto coming back.

"Not really. We're just here for a few more weeks before we head back home." Naruto answered. When Naruto said that, Sakura became slightly saddened at how her friend didn't consider the village to be his home anymore. Not that she couldn't accept his mindset, he'd been gone longer from the Leaf than he had ever lived in it.

"If that's so, then would you need anything while you are here? Your old apartment is still around if you need to use it. No one touched it while you were gone, besides to clean it every once in a while." Sakura said with a smile.

When Naruto had left the Earth, the people of the village were immensely saddened. Out of their great respect towards their hero, they left his apartment vacant, no one lived in it, yet it was taken care of, the bills on it were paid, and people came by to clean it. They did so just in case their hero ever decided to come back and needed a place to stay.

Tony nudged Naruto in the side at the offer, "I'd probably take the apartment. It's nice staying with the toads, but their food is terrible." Tony recommended. Naruto nodded and then looked at Alex.

"What do you think?"

"It would be cool to see where you lived when you were younger." Alex answered. Naruto smirked and rubbed Alex's head before looking at Sakura.

"I'll take you up on your offer. We'll be here for a few days before heading off to the Sand to visit Gaara." Naruto answered.

"Is that the only other place you'll be going to? Or will you just relax in the Leaf?" Sakura asked as she opened a drawer in her desk and rummaged around looking for something.

Naruto grinned before replying, "Kurama and I plan to meet up with the other Tailed Beasts. Even though the big guy won't admit it, he missed his siblings."

'Annoying brat.' Kurama growled out in embarrassment. This made the grin on the blond's face grow in response. Even after all these years the old fox was still embarrassed at showing that he cared.

Sakura felt victorious as she pulled out an aged brass key from the cluttered drawer of her desk. "Here's your apartment's key. Figured you'd need it after all these years away." She placed the key onto her desk and pushed it to Naruto.

The blond picked up the key and flipped it in his hand. This wasn't the same key for his apartment. It was missing some of the scratches and nicks that had been collected from all the years of battle he'd done. The original had been lost in the war, namely after tanking that attack from the Ten-Tails.

"When are you planning on leaving?"

"In eight days. One of my buildings is being made and I'll need to oversee some of the construction since someone always screws up my designs if I'm not there to oversee some of the process." Tony answered. Then she sighed, "After that, boring business meetings."

Sakura nodded in understanding. The meetings that she had to go through were horribly boring at times, with trade deals that nobody could agree with, civilians wanting needless infrastructure that would be a waste, and worst of all, budget. Naruto was really lucky to not have gotten the Hokage hat since the paperwork and complaints never ended.

The minute Tsunade had given the hat to Kakashi, she took off for a year gambling and drinking her way across the country before coming back to work at the hospital. Kakashi was less obvious about his pleasure in giving Sakura the hat. Sakura believed it was because now he had more time to read his porn.

Sakura wished she had Naruto's chakra capacity, then she could just create shadow clones to do all the work for her.

"What job do you have which involves business meetings?" Sakura asked, curious.

"I was once the CEO of my own company until I gave the title to my assistant, Pepper. Now I'm just the majority shareholder who does some work on the side, besides fighting terrorists, criminals, and creating clean renewable power for the world at large." Tony said nonchalantly.

"Wait, you are rich and smart? How in the world does Naruto manage to attract women like that to him?" Sakura laughed.

"He's kind, funny, and always there." Tony then leaned over Sakura's desk and loudly whispered, "And Tripod isn't that bad in the sack." Naruto and Sakura's faces turned beet red when they heard this. Tony's innuendo managed to sail completely over Alex's head.

That was when Shizune came back into the office with a tray of drinks. She paused as she looked at how flustered Sakura looked right now before pushing that thought aside and walked to the desk and set the tray down.

Sakura immediately grabbed the glass of water off the tray and drank it quickly to cover her blush. Tony laughed as she grabbed the glass and began inspecting the contents before drinking it.

"How did the two of you meet?" Sakura asked as her blush faded.

"It was almost like a romance novel. Naruto was assigned as my bodyguard by my dad and we clicked together after a while." Tony answered. She didn't wish to go into the specifics with Sakura because she considered the specifics in how she and Naruto eventually became a couple to be private information.

Sakura smiled. Leave it to Naruto to seduce another heiress to a family fortune. Still, she reasoned that the family was probably getting tired of standing at her desk. "We should probably have dinner sometime to catch up on everything that has happened. Would Ichiraku's sound good?" Sakura asked.

"Sounds perfect. We'll see you tonight then." Naruto happily agreed.

"Great. I'll get off at seven and meet you all there." Sakura specified before adding, "You should also go tour around the village to see what's changed. The others will probably get a heart attack from seeing you again, especially Konohamaru and Iruka."

"Already was planning on it. Iruka still teaches at the academy, right?" Naruto asked.

"He's still there. Rumor has it that he's going to retire soon. Konohamaru is probably with his genin squad at the Barbeque. Ino's at the flower shop with Sai these days, Choji is at his compound, Shikamaru would-"

The Hokage was interrupted as the door to the office opened to reveal a man with black hair in a ponytail that made his head look like a pineapple along with a short goatee. In his arms were a few files. The minute he entered the room, he stopped and looked at the recent guests.

"N-Naruto!?" Shikamaru exclaimed in shock. Said blond waved in reply.

"Hey Shika, how's life been?" Shikamaru's shock quickly wore off as he began chuckling.

"How troublesome. I finish all this work, and then you show up out of the blue. What's the occasion?" Shikamaru asked as he set his paperwork down on Sakura's desk.

"Vacation. Family and I thought we could use one. Turned out that we had to save the world from some maniac trying to kill the Earth with the moon. Nothing that interesting." Shikamaru quickly eyed the two people accompanying Naruto. It was extremely easy to tell that the boy was his son while the woman was likely his wife.

Shikamaru was still flabbergasted over how none of the adults in the village were ever able to figure out that Naruto was the Fourth Hokage's son, especially with how Naruto's son was the spitting image of him. Must be the spiky blond hair.

"Of course you'd be fighting someone here. Everything involving you can get so troublesome." Shikamaru lazily complained before he and Naruto embraced one another. They let go and the lazy man grinned, "Nice to see you back. It's been real quiet with you gone. How long do you plan to stay?"

"Another eight days. But enough about me, how are you? Married anyone yet, or was it too troublesome?"

"You could say that it was a real drag. Temari can be such a task mistress. Got even worse when we had our son." Shikamaru explained.

Naruto patted his friend on the back in congratulations. "I'm surprised that you married Temari. How's it feel knowing that your brother-in-law is the Kazekage?"

"Stressful when we have a family reunion. It was worse when we first started dating. Gaara was quite specific about what would happen if I did anything to his sister." Shikamaru shuddered at the memory. "What about your family?"

"That's my son, Alex, and my wife, Tony." Naruto pointed out.

"Nice to meet you two." He waved to the two, "Sadly, I can't stay long, I have a lot more work to do, it's very troublesome. It was nice to see you again." Shikamaru said before he left the office.

It was quiet for a moment before Naruto broke the tension, "Never would've thought that Shikamaru would get a job working under the Hokage."

"Why's that?" Tony asked.

"That guy was one of the laziest people in the world when he was younger. He wished that he could be a cloud when he was a kid all because clouds didn't have to do work." Naruto answered.

"That is a big change. Wonder why?"

Sakura was the one to answer that, "He's still very lazy but he's kept from shirking off his duties because of Temari." Tony understood what Sakura meant and agreed with it. Sometimes people needed to meet the right person who would keep them focused and working. God knows how much she'd accomplish if Naruto didn't get her to do the work for it.

"It was nice to see him again. We'll have to have a dinner with all our old friends one night." Naruto suggested.

"That could work. Anyway, you should get going so that I can concentrate on finishing this paperwork. See you later tonight." Sakura stated.

"Okay. See ya later." Naruto replied as the family walked out of the office and closed the door behind them. "That was nice to see Sakura, Shikamaru, and Shizune again."

Tony's eyes just lingered on the person-shaped hole in the wall across from the door. "Your friend has some anger management issues." Tony stated. Naruto slipped his arm around Tony's hip.

"She's always had a temper. Doesn't help that she was trained by a woman with an even worse temper." Naruto explained. Even though he was stronger than Tsunade now, the last Senju still scared the shit out of him.

"Sakura seemed pretty nice after hitting you, dad. Does she have bi-polar disorder or something?" Alex remarked.

"No idea. Now, let's go tour the village. There are a bunch of places that I want to see with the daylight we still have left." The blond was very excited to see what changed and what stayed the same in his old home.

It was an interesting tour around the village. It had certainly grown since he'd last been here, but this was mitigated for civilians at least with the addition of a train system that traveled around the village.

After exploring parts of the village that Naruto did know and explaining the history and reminiscing about them to Tony and Alex, the group was taken to the white stone academy building. Naruto saw that the tire swing hanging on the trees across from the academy's entrance was still there, if very worn after all these years.

He could still see the lonely kid who watched all the other children get picked up from the academy by their parent wishing for the same thing to happen to him. It was why he had resolved himself to be there for Alex whenever he could to not repeat his own father's absence.

"The academy hasn't changed a bit." Naruto stated.

Alex quickly scanned the building in his mind. "So, this is the place that taught you to do all the cool stuff that you can do with chakra now?"

"In a way. I learned a lot of what I could do at the beginning by myself due to the prejudice a lot of my teachers had against me when I started." Naruto answered. It didn't matter anymore if they once hated him for containing Kurama as he'd earned their respect like he dreamed of when he was a kid.

"Why would you teachers have a prejudice against you? Did you pull too many pranks on them or something?" Alex asked.

"No, well, slightly. Most of it was because of me being the container for Kurama. On the day that I was born, Kurama was forced to attack the village which cause a lot of destruction. Since the villagers couldn't hurt him because he was inside me, they decided to treat me as badly as they could to get a form of petty revenge."

Being in the village while talking about his treatment as a child brought back his buried memories of what the villagers would do to him. Even though he had forgiven the villagers for their treatment of him, he had never forgotten what the immense loneliness felt like.

"But that's stupid. If Uncle Kurama was forced against his will to attack this village, then everyone should've understood and left you alone." Alex argued. Naruto smiled at this. His son was certainly the optimist.

"You're right, but it wasn't until years later that we found out that Kurama had been forced to attack the village. He was also a huge as-" Naruto stopped himself from uttering the profanity, "-jerk. And people aren't the most rational, especially if loved ones get hurt. That's just part of what makes us human."

"Doesn't mean I have to like it." Alex huffed. "Who taught you if most of the teachers in this academy didn't want to?"

"I had five people in life who taught me much of what I know now. One of these people is an instructor at this academy named Iruka, which is the reason for why we're here right now." Naruto answered. "Now let's hurry, I don't know how much Iruka's class is going to last."

"You certainly are excited. It'll be nice to meet another one of your old teachers. I wonder if he has any embarrassing stories about you?" Tony pondered with a grin.

Naruto rolled his eyes at his wife's teasing. "You may actually get your wish. Iruka was the only person who could ever catch me when I pulled my pranks. He had some inventive punishments for me when he did so."

The family made their way through the academy doors which filled Naruto with a sense of nostalgia. He hadn't stepped into this building in over twenty years, and even if there were some changes to the interior, it was easy to navigate where he needed to go.

With a quickly beating heart, Naruto found himself at the door to his old classroom. The Starks could all hear a man talking in the classroom. For Naruto, it was much older and wizened, but it was still the same voice of his teacher.

"This is it," Naruto said to the others excitedly, "Time for all of you to meet Iruka." Naruto turned the knob of the door and pushed it open before striding into the classroom.

"Is-Is that you?!" The man at the front of the classroom asked in shock. He looked much older now than when Naruto had last seen him. His face had many wrinkles while much of his hair had turned gray. But there were still parts of him that were unchanged by the ravages of time, the way he wore his ponytail, to the distinguishing scar across his nose.

"Hey Iruka, just wanted to stop by to visit." The look of shock on the teacher's face changed to one of joy as he walked over to Naruto and grabbed him in a hug. Then he turned to look at the young students in their seats. All potential shinobi in training.

Some were whispering to one another as they looked at the unexpected visitor to their class. "Well class," Iruka quickly fell back into his teacher persona, "today our unexpected guest is related to what you are being taught today."

"And what are you teaching them today?" Naruto asked.

"Famous figures of the Hidden Leaf." Iruka answered. "Now class, who can tell me what famous figure is standing next to me?" The class' mummering became much louder before a girl quickly raised her hand. "Hitomi, what's the answer?"

"That's Naruto Uzumaki, hero of the world and formerly the Nine Tailed jinchuuriki of the Hidden Leaf." The black-haired girl answered excitedly. "Mr. Naruto, how did you beat Madara Uchiha during the Fourth World War?"

Naruto felt a little self-conscious with all the attention he was receiving from the students before he answered. "Well, technically we never actually beat Madara. He got betrayed on the battlefield and instead we had to fight a woman named Kaguya." Naruto still didn't know if he and Sasuke could've beaten Madara. The man was an absolute powerhouse, and it didn't help that he managed to pull out unknown techniques from his ass like he did.

Sharingan was still absolute bullshit, not that he could complain that much with Sasuke's Rinnegan implanted into his head.

With his answer, a whole cascade of questions erupted from the students with too many for him to answer at once. He scratched the back of his head as he was overcome with embarrassment from all the attention he was receiving. If he had been a lesser man, or much younger, then the attention might have gone to his head.

"Come on, class. Mr. Uzumaki can't answer everyone at once. You get one more question, so make it count." Iruka ordered which thankfully settled the class down. Even in his older age, the teacher could still put the fear of authority into his students.

One boy raised his hand and Naruto pointed him out, "What's your question, kid?"

The boy seemed very nervous but quickly asked, "I just wanted to know, Mr. Uzumaki, where did you go after you left the Elemental Nations? What happened?"

Naruto grinned and replied, "First of all, that was two questions. Second, I used a space-time technique that transported me away from the planet entirely and onto an entirely new planet where they had humans just like us except they weren't able to use chakra."

"How couldn't they use chakra?"

"Third question." Naruto teased, "But, to answer that, it's because the humans on the planet I went to had extremely small chakra coils. They couldn't use chakra even if they knew about it." Naruto speculated that this was because of the humans on the other Earth never received a visit from the God-Tree and because of that they never found out about chakra.

After that, the many years in which humans didn't use their coils most likely atrophied them over multiple generation until now their coils just kept them alive and nothing else. It might change if Naruto introduced chakra and the ways to harness it to the people of Earth, but he didn't believe it to be the best idea.

The humans of Earth had weapons just as powerful, and some of these weapons were even worse than the abilities of chakra. Even now, revealing his power had started an arms race. The US might hide it, but they most likely had been researching into weapons that could possibly kill him.

It would be even worse if he were to reveal the full power of Kurama at his disposal. Naruto had to admit that he was a walking nuclear bomb that could destroy cities on a whim, and it was doubtful that even a nuke could stop him if he went on a rampage. Thankfully he had never needed to use Kurama's full abilities on Earth, though the old fox certainly didn't enjoy it.

Naruto was pulled out of his thoughts when another student, a red-haired girl who was very pudgy, Naruto guessed she was an Akamichi because of it, asked him a question, "Did you ever get married? And if you did, did you have kids?"

In response, Naruto put his arm around Tony's waist, "Wife is right here," Then he put his hand on top of Alex's head, "son is right there."

Before the family could be barraged with anymore questions, Iruka interrupted the class with a loud shout that caused both the students and even Naruto to flinch and remain quiet. "Now class, I'm sure Naruto is on a busy schedule and can't stay here all day asking questions." Iruka looked at Naruto and smiled.

"We'll have to catch-up sometime. It was nice to see you again."

"Likewise. Mind if we have lunch tomorrow?"

Iruka nodded, "We'll meet at the usual place." Naruto knew exactly where Iruka was talking about. The teacher probably didn't want to mention Ichiraku's because the students might tell everyone where Naruto was going to be.

"Great. See you then!" Naruto waved back to Iruka as the Stark family exited the classroom and closed the door behind them.

"Your teacher seems like he should have destroyed his vocal cords when he was younger. Could he always get that loud?" Tony asked with a grin.

"Yeah. And it was even worse for me compared to those other students since I got yelled at the most. I was certainly the troublemaker when I was younger." This made Tony laugh. "What's so funny?"

"I'm surprised that you never lost your hearing after all this time." Tony remarked.

"Hey dad," Alex spoke up.

"What is it?"

"If this school is supposed to train the military, and you were part of the military for this village, then what rank were you?" Alex asked innocently. Naruto's face blanched at the question. Even after all these years, the fact that he could easily blow up mountains if he wanted to, and that he fought the biggest threats to this world and won, and he was still a lowly genin that had never ranked up.

"Uh…I was in the military." Naruto simply responded. "Very top of the command chain and everything."

The blond could see Tony barely containing her snickering from out of the corner of his eye. "That isn't very specific." Alex said unimpressed.

Finally, Tony couldn't help herself and began laughing and said in between the laughing, "Your father never ranked up. He was the lowest rank of the military when he started and finished!" Alex had a grin on his face at hearing this. Naruto now regretted ever telling Tony about his rank. When he had first said it to her, she laughed so hard she almost cried.

"You're telling me that you are powerful enough to create holes on the moon, but you never got above the rank equivalent of a private?" Alex summed up.

"I was preoccupied at the time, so I was unable to do any of the tests required to get a higher rank." Naruto explained with embarrassment. If it had been up to him, Alex would've never known about his rank. Why did he ever have to ask?

"Dad, it's pretty sad that you couldn't get a higher rank." Alex stated with a laugh.

"And it would be pretty sad if you ended up getting grounded." That made Alex stop laughing which caused Naruto to smirk. "Yeah, parent outranks child. Have fun with that."

"Don't worry Alex, Naruto is just upset that he doesn't seem as cool to you as he did before. Also, wife outranks husband." Naruto stopped smirked and sighed. "Guess I win this round. Turns out that I don't need superpowers like both of you to be stronger." Tony mused.

The family left the school after this and walked across the village to Naruto's apartment. The group got many stares along with people running up to Naruto to get his autograph at times. Guess the news of his return was spreading around the village like wildfire.

Finally, the family walked up some steps that had the door to Naruto's apartment at the top. Sakura had been honest about the village taking care of his apartment while he had been gone. The building had a newer coat of paint on it along with his door.

When they entered the apartment, the older blond almost expected the place to be filled with an inch of dust like the last time when he left the village to train with Jiraiya for three years. It was a nice that his apartment had been taken care of.

"Nice place you've got here. Was it expensive to live here?" Tony asked while Alex walked away from his parents and started exploring the place.

"Not really. The rent was cheap compared to back when I owned an apartment in New York. My salary was good enough to afford this apartment after my stipend I got from the third hokage expired." Naruto answered. Looking at this apartment brought back a lot of memories. He walked over to his desk and picked up a familiar framed photo of him and his whole team when they were all much younger.

Tony made her way over to Naruto and looked over his shoulder to look at the photo. "Is the kid with the black hair Sasuke?" Naruto looked up from the photo and turned to Tony.

"Yeah. That was Sasuke. We took this photo after we were made a team. We didn't have the best of starts, but we became each other's best friend because we so similar after we looked past our differences."

"You looked cute as a kid. Though you look angry in that photo." Tony remarked. She looked back up to Naruto and kissed him on the cheek, "You look better when you smile."

"And you beautiful regardless of if you are smiling or not." Naruto complimented.

Tony fluttered her eyes and smiled, "You're such a flatterer. Keep talking like that and we'll have to test how sound-proof your apartment's walls are."

Naruto set the photo down and grinned. "Sounds like a fun night." That was the moment Alex walked into the room holding two different orange jackets.

"Dad, you must've really liked orange as a kid. All the clothes in your closet are the same color." Alex remarked. Naruto's eyebrows lifted in amusement.

"Orange is still my favorite color. I've just needed to wear more diverse colors over the years." Naruto responded. "You should probably put those back unless you plan on wearing them." Alex slipped on the smaller jacket in response and then zipped it up.

"The jacket is nice, seems a little baggy." Alex remarked as he pulled at the stomach area to demonstrate.

"Well back then, I didn't have that much money, so having baggy clothes which I could eventually grow into saved me money on clothes." Naruto answered. It had been many years since he'd seen that jacket, and it had a lot of memories in it. Some good, and some bad.

Tony stood beside him and inspected Alex. "Amazingly that jacket doesn't look bad on you. You must get it from your father since orange usually looks terrible on clothing." She remarked.

"Yeah, well, I prefer red and yellow to orange. Sorry, dad, but they just seem like better colors." Alex stated. Naruto's eyes widened in mock agony at the statement.

"Alex, I've never been as disappointed in you as I am now. What you've said is utter blasphemy." The older blond said in sadness.

"At least Alex gets his good taste in clothing from me. Sorry Naruto, but it appears that you've lost this battle." Tony bragged.

Naruto rolled his eyes at his wife's statement. "You may have won the battle, but that doesn't mean you've won the war." Naruto teased. The mock argument would've continued if not for a light draft in the room and a knock by the window.

All three Starks looked over to the window to see a man with gravity-defying gray hair crouching on the window sill. His appearance was odd to say the least. His face was mostly covered by a mask with his only visible features being his dark eyes with the left eye having a scar that went down past his mask.

He wore a dark shirt covered by a green flak jacket along with dark pants, sandals and gloves that bore metal plates on top.

"I hope I'm not interrupting anything too important?" The man asked in a friendly tone. Naruto grinned and shook his head.

"Not at all, Kakashi. You seem to have barely changed since the last time I saw you. Then again, your face was still covered by that mask of yours, so it's hard to see any visible change." Naruto said while walking over to the masked man.

Kakashi simply hopped off the window and onto the floor before standing fully up to match Naruto's height. "You certainly got a lot taller since I last saw you." Kakashi remarked as he gave the blond a quick up and down glance. "I heard word on the grapevine that you had come back. I just had to see my little genin all grown up when I heard."

Kakashi then looked over Naruto's shoulder and scanned the two other occupants in the room. "Your family I assume?" Kakashi asked after he looked back to Naruto.

"Yeah. Kakashi, this is my son, Alex, and my wife, Tony. Alex, Tony, this is my former teacher, Kakashi Hatake." Naruto introduced. Tony was the first to walked up to the masked man.

"From the photo I saw of you, I'm curious if you always had gray hair, or if you were just old when that team photo was taken of you and Naruto?" Tony asked.

"I've always had gray hair." Kakashi answered. "Are you always this forward with your questions?"

Tony shrugged. "If I wasn't, then I'd be going backwards." She replied. "Still, it's nice to meet you. Naruto told me all sorts of stories about you over the years."

"Stories?" Kakashi gave a side glance to Naruto which made said blond gulp in anxiety at what the masked man was thinking. "I wonder, did he tell you every story? Like, for instance, when he had to take my initiation test?"

Tony noticed how pale Naruto turned when Kakashi said this. The looked back to Kakashi with a grin on her face, "No, he didn't. I'd be very much interested to hear them if you ever have the time." Naruto's eyes widened at hearing this.

"That's a plan." Kakashi then looked down to Alex, "It's nice to meet you as well, Alex. You really resemble your dad when he was a kid. It's quite ridiculous actually." Alex smiled at the statement.

"I may look like dad, but I'm a lot smarter than him." He bragged. Kakashi chuckled at the statement and looked at Naruto.

"Your kid seems very spirited. Reminds me of when you were young and always saying that you'd be Hokage." Kakashi remarked.

"He can certainly back up that claim. Both he and Tony are smarter than me by a landslide." Naruto said. Kakashi nodded and looked back to Alex.

"So, your dad been teaching you any jutsu?"

"Yeah. I'm not as strong as dad is, but I can do some things like the Rasengan." Alex answered. Kakashi nodded in acceptance.

"That's good. Tell me, how old are you now?"

"Ten. I'm going to be turning eleven soon."

"You'll no doubt become strong like your dad when you get older. And, if your looks are anything to go by, you'll end up looking like a clone of him, just like how your dad looks like his father." Kakashi remarked what appeared to be smiling eyes.

"I've got a question, Mr. Hatake. Why are you wearing a mask?" Alex asked with great curiosity. It seemed so odd for the man to be wearing a mask. Even in this village, he hadn't seen anyone wearing a mask in public like Kakashi was.

Kakashi just shrugged in response. "I just like wearing masks. There's not much to it."

"That was anticlimactic. I was sort of expecting that it was because you got disfigured or something." Alex said in disappointment.

"Not every explanation has to be full of some type of drama or great answer. Some things are just explained quite simply." Kakashi stated. "And besides, all the mystery would be gone if I just told you everything about myself."

"How's Guy been over the years?" Naruto asked.

"He's been fine. Not as active as he once was due to being confined to a wheelchair, but other than that, he never lost his ability to be so," Kakashi took a moment to find the right word, "…absurd."

"At least he's still doing well. Is Tsunade still doing well? I didn't ask Sakura earlier when we were at her office."

"It was less than seven months after the war when Tsunade gave me the position of Hokage and then ran off to go on a gambling and drinking binge for about a year. Then she came back to help out at the hospital and teach more medics." Kakashi rolled his eyes before adding, "Personally, I think she came back so much earlier because she began racking up a large gambling debt."

Naruto chuckled at hearing this, "Yeah, Granny still has the worst luck." He then added, "Actually, she'd probably hate me because of her luck."

"Why's that?" Kakashi asked, curious.

Tony was the one to answer this question. "He once went to Las Vegas and managed to clear out most of the casinos there. You're still banned from most of them, right?" Tony asked Naruto.

"Yeah, but some rescinded that ban after we got married. Probably because they didn't want to lose your business. Even though that ban was lifted, I'm still not exactly welcomed to most of those casinos." Naruto answered.

"Sounds like you've been leading an interesting life." Kakashi said before walking towards the window. Anyways, it was nice chatting with all of you, but I've got to get going. The bookstore is releasing the sequel to a series I've been reading today, and I want to get in line to get a copy." He hopped onto the window sill and looked back at the family with a wave.

"Probably another one of your smutty books." Naruto said. Kakashi pretended to not hear the blond before hopping out of the window and upwards over the roof of an apartment across the street.

Tony at Naruto with a grin. "He was nice, in the way that a man wearing a mask, and from what you've told me of him, who reads pornographic novels in public could be. And you said that he was supposed to be a prodigy?"

"Trust me, Tony. In this profession, those that live long enough usually develop very weird quirks." Naruto said before his voice took on a dull tone, "And sadly enough, he is a pervert, just like most of my teachers except for Fukasaku."

"How strong is that guy, if he was the one to teach you?" Alex asked.

"Very. He was so good, that when my team was getting tested by him, he would read a book while we were trying to fight him. That certainly brought my ego down when he managed to barely pay attention to me while I was trying to beat the crap out of him and he still won."

Hearing her husband refer to that test peaked Tony's curiosity. Sure, Naruto had told her a bit about it, but from what Kakashi implied, there was a lot left out that she didn't get to hear. "What exactly happened in that initiation test that made you so tense when Kakashi brought it up?"

Naruto turned slightly pale at the question. "Absolutely nothing." Just as he said that, Alex disappeared in a puff of smoke. 'Thank God.' Naruto thought to himself.

"What just happened?" Tony shouted in shock. Naruto put his arm across Tony's shoulders in an effort to calm her.

"Nothing bad. The toads just decided to reverse-summon Alex. He's probably going to be getting some training for a few hours before he gets summoned back here again." Naruto answered. "He'll be fine, though he'll probably be sore by the time he gets back."

Tony heartrate slowed down after hearing this. "That certainly worried me. For a second, I thought that he'd been kidnapped or worse."

Naruto just scratched the back of his head, "Trust me, I've had a few times where the toads reverse-summoned me at the worst moment, like when I was trying to have some lunch." Naruto shivered at the memory, "Shima decided to feed me her 'food' when she learned this."

"Is this going to happen to Alex often?" Tony questioned, "And is there a real limit to where and when the toads can pull a vanishing act with you or Alex?"

"There's a limit. More specifically a distance limit. It takes a lot of chakra for me to summon the toads from back home, much more than would be feasible for the toads to produce without possibly killing themselves." Naruto answered. "Other than that, there really isn't a limit to it if it's on this planet."

"The more I learn about you, the weirder you seem to get." Tony shrugged, "It probably must be one of the reasons I married you after all."

Naruto smiled before saying, "Yeah, being a shinobi, and more specifically, a summoner, pretty much guarantees that your life will not be a normal one. Still, we have some time to kill until Alex comes back."

Tony looked at Naruto with a grin. "Really? Then maybe we should test out how soundproof these walls of yours are while Alex is gone." Tony said with a sultry tone. Naruto's eyebrow rose at hearing this. Then he looked at Tony with a matching grin.

"Sounds like you are trying to seduce me, Mrs. Stark. I would like to have you know, I'm a married man." Naruto teased as he slowly pushed Tony backwards until she touched the wall.

"The woman who married you must've been quite the catch if she managed to snag you." Tony stated as the began working at the belt on her pants with Naruto doing the same for himself.

"She is. My wife is beautiful, smart, and from what I hear, quite witty."

"You make quite the argument." Tony admitted. "But, strangely enough, I appear to fill all that criteria of your wife, and more. I wond-" She was silenced when Naruto's lips met her. Then, when they finally separated, Naruto was the first to speak.

"Maybe we should continue this conversation in the bedroom. It's much more comfortable in there, Mrs. Stark." Naruto recommended. Tony jumped up onto Naruto and wrapped her legs around his waist when he said this. Naruto grabbed her by the ass and held her up.

"Sounds like a great idea. Why don't you show me?" And with that said, the blond took Tony into the bedroom and shut the door behind them.

Earth – SHIELD Outpost

Off the coast of Iceland, a small brick house could be seen. While to most, it would seem to be an average house that was a little on the small side, what it contained was buried under the building, only accessible by an elevator shaft which was rigged with explosive set to detonate if the house were to ever be invaded.

At the bottom of this elevator shaft was a large room filled with multiple monitors, scientific equipment, and a fridge. There were two people working in this room, and, at the moment both were focusing their attention on the same monitor which measured seismic waves across the oceans of the world.

Right now, both scientists were completely baffled at what they were looking at.

"Jerald, this shouldn't be possible." A scientist with graying brown hair and glasses spoke. On the monitor, a map of the Earth could be seen, with a trail of continuous red blips snaking off from between Florida and Cuba, down through the Atlantic, and then past both the Indian and Pacific oceans to finally end at Peru.

All of this was in one long line.

"You can say that again, Vic." Jerald replied. "This type of tectonic activity shouldn't be possible." Jerald then pointed to the red blips in the Atlantic. "And, do you see this? It's moving." Slowly, but surely, the starting point between Florida and Cuba was slowly moving up the coast of the United States, yet also staying out of reach of the coast.

"When I transferred out here, I thought that I wouldn't be getting involved in anything weird. I'm getting too old for this shit." Vic complained with a dour look. "Call it in to SHIELD. At least then this will be out of our hands."

Jerald picked up a phone next to him and began punching in some numbers. As he performed his task, Vic started looking at the other sections of the map which contained these blips. He quickly noted that not only the blips starting from Florida and Cuba were moving, but those around the Indian ocean started slowly shifting towards the coast of Africa.

A small idea came to him, which Vic quickly acted on. He typed on a keyboard and a new window on the monitor appeared. With rapid work, Jerald eventually brought up live weather reports from Africa. Each of these reports showed massive storms and tsunamis hitting towns and cities located by the coast. He then checked on weather patterns by Florida and Cuba.

Same thing. Storm of the century was occurring today. Towns and cities along the coast were being ravaged, and humanitarian aid was already being dispatched to both affected areas.

"Jery, I think whatever is happening might be affecting weather patterns." Jerald quickly relayed the information through the phone

Whatever was happening, it was big, big enough that it was somehow affecting the weather. It also made Vic realize that if the storms that were happening in Africa occurred where their outpost was, well, he didn't think that a station like this was built to handle tsunamis as large as what was being reported.

Dark Space

Far beyond the vision of most, in a corner of the universe that few would even dream to traverse, unless filled with an utmost deathwish, was a dark ship of alien design. On it were only two inhabitants. One, the pilot, and the other, the rider.

The pilot was a being who had lived most of its life in servitude to the Mad Titan. It was a job few beings would wish for, and yet, it gave the pilot purpose.

The rider was different. He had a goal that he wished to accomplish. One that had consumed him so utterly, that he would even make a deal to the Mad Titan even if he knew that asking for help from the being would possibly result in something worse than he could imagine.

And yet, the rider, a former king, would do anything to retake what he felt was his by right. This was why he was traversing this section of space with an item gifted to him by the Mad Titan. He had a year of planning before he would begin his conquest, and he needed great warriors to do so.

This is what led him to this section of space, and with a quick jump through the abyss, the ship finally arrived at its destination. A planet that was filled with life with a moon that orbited it.

The rider found it the moon to be slightly odd. It seemed battered and scarred, as if a great battle had taken place upon it. A useless observation, he concluded. Instead, he focused on the task at hand.

He needed to recruit warriors from this world to assist in his invasion. Yes, the army promised by the Mad Titan would be enough to handle conquering normal subjects, but, the former king knew of a being that had taken residence upon the planet that could be an issue.

The former king would rather go through the trouble of recruiting warriors from this world to aid in his future conquest since the alternative of possibly failing to live up to his deal to the Mad Titan was something that he would rather not imagine.

And right now, there was a very specific person that the former king wanted to recruit. One that could possibly give him a warrior that could handle the being living on the world he wished to conquer.

He smiled as he tapped his fingers impatiently on his staff. He would be a king again, and he would make his brother suffer for dethroning him in his time of glory.

Victory would be sweet, and it was just within his grasp.

And as BP once said, "We're sorry" I say the same. I'm very late due to a mixture of writer's block, laziness, lots of work, and having to rewrite this chapter twice due to my computer erasing my work along with a lot of other stuff for no apparent reason.

Other than that, sorry about the wait, I'm trying to get back on top of all the things I've not been able to update.

Also, the other reason that pushed me to finish this gods-forsaken chapter was that Infinity War came out today. I felt that it was the right time to put this one up because of it.

I believe that next chapter will be the last in the Elemental Nations, and then we'll be starting the first Avengers movie after that.

Also, I enjoyed God of War (4). I wonder what the Asgardians in the MCU would feel about Kratos coming for them.

Food for thought.

Anyways, once again, I'm sorry.

Stay frosty my friends.