Notes/Facts:
Naruto is fourteen in this story and is two years older then Sasuke and Sakura yet he is still the same size as he is in the anime (delayed growth spurt).
Orochimaru didn't abandon the village until four years after the Yondaime sealed away Kyuubi.
Mostly everything else is as it was in Canon.
I Do Not Own Naruto or Steel Angel Kurumi.
If there was one thing that Naruto hated about the new Hokage, it was that she made him due more trivial missions then anyone else. He was seriously considering on working on a way to kick her out of office, even though he just helped her become the Hokage.
"Damn that old hag." Naruto mumbled to himself. The next thing he knew, he was flat on the ground with his eyes swirling as a shattered chair was scattered around him.
"DON'T CALL ME OLD!" Tsunade's voice boomed from the Hokage's tower.
Both Sakura and Sasuke had beads of sweat falling from their heads as they wondered if Tsunade had some sort of super hearing as they were almost a mile away from the tower and they had barely heard him.
Sasuke being the most irritated by the mission simply kicked Naruto in the ribs. "Get up dobe. I don't want to do this as much as you do, but we're still being paid for it."
Naruto cursed at the kick before pulling himself up with a groan. "Ow… Damn you teme! Don't kick me!"
He was instantaneously put back on the ground as Sakura slammed her fist on the top of his head. "Don't call Sasuke a bastard!"
Sasuke winced as apparently Naruto didn't hear what he said and that Sakura probably just killed their teammate. Lucky for him the blonde was able to take such damage and easily picked himself up and dusted himself off. "Fine, fine. Let's fix this dump up… But I still don't see why we have to. This place was like this way before that snake prick invaded us. If anything, I think he improved it."
Shrugging as he didn't care, Sasuke answered. "Because she's Hokage and she can tell us to do whatever she wants."
Sakura nodded in agreement. "Yeah, so don't make her madder otherwise we'll have far worse missions like catching Tora…" All three gennin shivered at the thought of the fire lord's wife's cat, "Besides, how would you know?"
For one of the few times that either had seen, Naruto's face hardened and his eyes dulled over. "I rather not say."
Both wisely backed off as if there was something that Naruto didn't want to say, they weren't going to force him. It was just strange that the blonde wouldn't say something as he was so open about everything he did.
Shaking his head and wanting to get this done as fast as possible as he wanted out of here, Naruto went straight for the door. However before he opened it, his inner prankster had a devious plan and he couldn't help himself as he attempted to open the door. Only problem was that it wouldn't budge. "That's odd. This door was open before… WHAT THE…?!"
Sasuke didn't even wait and kicked the door down. Only problem, he was hobbling on one foot as the old, seemingly broken door held firm and left his foot throbbing in pain. Collecting his pride and telling himself the door was chakra proof, he gently put his foot back on the ground. "We'll find another way in."
Naruto snickered as he knew the door was always locked and Sasuke would try to break it down and would hurt himself in the process. Getting a glare from the Uchiha and Haruno, Naruto quickly stopped snickering before pointing to a broken cellar window. "Sakura can fit through there and unlock the door for us. I think she can fit…"
"Ooooohhhhh no! Don't even think about it mister! I know what you would be doing as I'm going through there you pervert! You have that jutsu, you do it!" Sakura yelled at him, feeling a little violated knowing Naruto would take the chance to get a look at her ass.
Naruto merely snapped his fingers before pulling out a key. "Oh, I do have this thing that Tsunade gave me…"
"YOU IDIOT! THAT'S THE KEY TO OPEN THE DOOR!" Sakura screamed and pounced Naruto as Sasuke shook his head, knowing Naruto was doing this on purpose. He wasn't sure why as she would always hurt him, but it seemed that he got a thrill out of pissing her off.
As Sakura was finished beating Naruto into mince meat, Sasuke took the key from the mangled corpse of Naruto before unlocking the door.
"I'll be cleaning the top floor." Sakura walked in without hesitation and up the stairs, wanting to be as far away from Naruto as possible as he was getting on her nerves.
Sasuke nodded as he planned on making Naruto work in the basement anyways as he didn't feel like having Naruto punch through the floor because he said something to piss Sakura off when she would come down. Looking at the said blonde as he gingerly pulled himself off the ground with a smile on his face, he shook his head. "You've got the basement. I'll take this floor."
To his surprise, Naruto's face dropped before he nodded at him. "Sure thing teme. I'm sure you don't want me being knocked through the floor and landing right on top of you."
The Uchiha was mildly surprised that the blonde easily figured out his motive of not wanting to work in the basement. But what was worrying him was that this was the second lapse in Naruto's regular personality within a few minutes. While everyone had their hiccups, Naruto was one of the most consistent and for him to have two lapses meant something was up. Seeing that Naruto was already heading down the stairs, he knew he would have to wait till later to figure out what was going on with the blonde.
Taking a look at his floor, a large bead of sweat fell from his head as he looked at the scattered junk and trash all over the place. He would not enjoy this mission.
There was one thing that Naruto was glad Mizuki did for him as he looked around at the now almost clutter-less basement. He made him steal the scroll that he eventually learned Shadow Clone from. Without that jutsu, he had a feeling he would have been down here for almost a week. Oddly enough it felt like a week as he had used up most of his chakra with the clones, but it was worth it.
The room overall looked like a laboratory with all the animal specimen, robot parts, glass jars, etc. He had set it up to the way he remembered it, which was astonishing as the last time he saw this room he was four. He had almost completely forgotten about this place and soon as he came, old memories began to come back about his old caretaker.
"Now just this corner to go." Naruto said to himself with a small smile on his face as an old, forgotten memory resurfaced.
(Flashback)
Four year old Naruto was happily sitting on a chair, content with the lollipop his caretaker gave him while watching him working on something. He wasn't sure what it was, but it had to be important as he was mumbling to himself about something called a Mark Two Heart. While he wanted to be outside and playing with other kids, it was fun to stay in as his caretaker showed him a lot of cool stuff.
"Naruto-kun, come here."
The raspy voice of Naruto's caretaker caught his attention and he quickly jumped from his chair and ran up to him. "What is it Oro-san?!"
Orochimaru chuckled lightly to himself as he looked down at the young boy his sensei gave to him to take care of. While it was surprising that he was allowed to do it over Jiraiya and Tsunade, he didn't mind it as the child brought him some happiness every day. He wasn't sure how as he was despised by almost everyone in the village, but it was welcomed as the boy was teaching him a thing about kindness.
Shaking his head, he looked down and couldn't help but smile as the blonde haired boy beamed at him brightly. Lifting him onto his shoulder, Orochimaru pointed at his table. "Take a look Naruto-kun; she'll be your guardian angel while I'm gone. I'm not quite finished, but I'm sure she'll awaken soon enough."
Naruto was mesmerized as he looked at the beautiful woman on the table. He couldn't tell much about her as she was asleep, but she really did seem like an angel with her long pink hair and perfect skin complexion. He didn't take into account that she was stark naked as he was only four and didn't notice such a thing.
"Whoa… 'hen will she 'ake up Oro-san?!" Naruto spoke in a hyped up tone as he turned back to his pale skinned caretaker.
Orochimaru only chuckled as he placed a hand on the pink haired girl's cheek and rubbing it softly. "Whenever you kiss her."
A choked sound came from the young blonde making Orochimaru chuckle more as he looked up at the young blonde that was glaring at him. "No 'ay! Girl's 'ave cuddies!"
This only made the pale man laugh a little more before he heard the door to his house open and a loud girl's voice followed. "Orochimaru-sensei! I'm here for my training!"
Taking a look at the time, it was indeed time for his student's training. But with Naruto still being mesmerized by his creation, he gently set the boy down. "You can stay down here with her if you like. I have to train with Anko for a little while, so you behave yourself."
Naruto nodded as he began sucking on his lollipop once more before he looked up at the pink haired woman and looked back at his sensei. "What's 'er name?"
Orochimaru looked thoughtful for a moment as he scratched his chin. Hearing that Anko was walking down and he didn't want her to see his newest creation, he blurted out the first name that came to his mind.
"Kurumi."
(Flashback End)
As the memory faded, Naruto only sighed and shook his head. That Orochimaru and the one that he ran into in the forest of death and retrieving Tsunade were vastly different. Maybe he was the same, but he sure didn't act like it. Seeing that all of his clones had dispersed, he would have to move the last box into the closet himself.
Walking over to them, he easily lifted the rather large and rectangular box. While it was quite heavy, it didn't matter as it was decent training and he was use to lifting heavy objects on his own. As he got to the closet, a large sweat drop fell from the back of his head as it was completely full. Knowing his clones were the cause of it, he sighed to himself as he set the box down. "Damn… I guess I'm going to have to set up whatever this is."
Shrugging his shoulders, he attempted to cut open the box only for it to dull the kunai he was using. Raising his eyebrow at this, he flipped it over to see a few seals arrays on it along with what seemed to be a blood seal. Only having been introduced to the blood seal when he went with Jiraiya to retrieve Tsunade, it was the only one that he knew among them. Having lived in the house for his first four years of life, he bit his thumb and rubbed some of his blood on the seal, thinking it might have been his blood that was needed to open the seal.
Naruto jumped back in surprise as the box began shaking as if it was convulsing. He was ready to run in case it exploded, but the box just seemingly fell apart catching the blonde off guard even more.
There was a young woman that was had to be about sixteen years old. She had a darker shade of pink hair slightly darker then Sakura's tied into a pony tail with a red bow and with a white scrunchie head band to keep her hair down. Her bangs covered her forehead and two long strands of hair covering her ears. She wore what seemed to be a skimpy blue and white maid's outfit that had a red bow tied at the neck and red trimming.
Naruto's eyes began to widen as he recognize her from the memory that he had just remembered. She was still as beautiful as he remembered her to be but this time she was clothed. He would never admit it, but the only reason he had a crush on Sakura was that she reminded him of her, even though he had long forgotten about the guardian angel that the snake had built for him.
"She looks like a doll…" Naruto mumbled to himself as he placed his hand on her cheek. Her cheek was surprisingly warm to the touch making him wonder if she was truly real or just something the snake abandoned.
"Hey Naruto! Are you finished?!" Sasuke's voice echoed through the room as he walked down the stairs and noticed the blonde hovering over something. Shaking his head, he walked over to him. "If you finished so quickly, you could have come up to help me. I have the biggest space of… Is she alright?!"
As Sasuke noticed her, Naruto was still looking at her oddly as he looked at her face, which to him seemed like that of an angel's. Not even hearing Sasuke or knowing he was right behind him, he slowly began inching his face towards hers. "Was he telling the truth? Is all that I need to awaken her is a kiss?"
"Naruto, what the fuck are you talking about? We need to get her to a hospital." Sasuke spoke in a raised voice, trying to get his attention but was failing miserably. He was ready to kick him when he noticed something in the corner of his eyes.
Naruto slowly pressed his lips against hers and gave her a soft kiss. Pulling back, he was disappointed to see nothing happened. "He lied to me… But maybe he never finished." As he turned from her, he didn't notice the small inhale of breath.
Turning away from her, a look of shock crossed his face as he saw Sasuke standing right behind him. He would have started yelling obscenities at him, but the two objects that had Sasuke's full attention had caught his as well. He quickly knew that they were robots as he had seen Orochimaru working on things like this before he betrayed the village. The only difference was that these were three times the size of a human.
"INTRUDER ALERT! INTRUDER ALERT! ALL INTRUDERS MUST BE EXTERMINATED TO PROTECT THE LAB!"
The blood washed away from both boys' faces as the two giant robots looked down at them. Hoping they would have him somewhere in their data banks, Naruto jumped in front of Sasuke waving his arms in a dramatic fashion. "Wait, wait! I'm not an intruder! My name is Uzumaki Naruto…"
When both robots held out their palms and they opened up to reveal a barrel with chakra beginning to gather within them, Naruto paled as Sasuke let out a rare curse. "FUCK!"
At that moment, an explosion tore through the house making it collapse onto itself.
Kurumi: Aw! It's over; desu!
Naruto: Who the hell are you?!
Kurumi: I'm your guardian angel silly, desu!
Naruto: …No, really. Who are you?
Kurumi: Master! Have you forgotten me, desu?!
Naruto: I never knew you!
Kurumi: Oh, master is so mean, desu!
Naruto: Stop ending your sentences with 'it is'. It is kind of annoying.
Kurumi: Will you not be mad at me if I stop?
Naruto: (sigh) Yes, I won't be mad at you.
Kurumi: (squeals) Yes master! Now we have something to say.
Naruto: And what is that?
Kurumi: Please make sure you're watching in a brightly lit room and your not sitting too close to the TV.
Naruto: …That was suppose to go before the chapter, not after it. Besides, this isn't on TV.
Kurumi: WHAT?! WE'RE NOT ON TV!
Naruto: (sighs) Both Sasuke and I are caught off guard and are in jeopardy. Everything seems to fail against the robots when a hero emerges in the next chapter of Steel Angels and a Blonde, The Steel Angel Awakens.
Kurumi: Yay! I save master! I think…
Naruto: …And the author wants me to remind you readers to review if you have any questions or if you just want to say good work.