Hey I'm back with the third chapter hope you like it. Also thanks to you few reviewers who are kind and tell me the truth of what they think and point out problems nicely.

Beta Read by dbtiger63.

WolfLeader-"Ok guys one of you distract the psycho bitch and then I'll steal the rights and forge her signature from one of the papers".

Rangers-"Why do we have to do it can't we just kill her like those other guys?"

WolfLeader-"No even though I want to kill her and slap Japan's god across the face for making such a thing." (Just then ten slightly fat guys dressed as the characters of Naruto jumped out with plastic knifes)

Sakura-"Good job my ninja now protect me while I put on my Sakura outfit and keep them alive I think I'll have my way with them all."

Seven Rangers and WolfLeader all vomited again.

Ranger-"Can we kill them now."

WolfLeader-"... yes..." (Shoots the person dressed as Naruto in the head)

Uzumaki clan in konoha and majority of the Uchiha clan survive (Mostly the women and young boys and girls)

I will not make the first chapter explain everything so I will give a short summary of what happens. Minato survives the sealing of the Kyubi into his three children the yokai yin and yang into his new born twins, Arashi and Kaumi (kaa-um-e is how I pronounce her name), and the spirit of the Kyubi into his one year old son Naruto. Minato and his wife Uzumaki Setsuna take favor of the twins and leave Naruto for the wolves. The village loves the twins and think of them as heroes while they hate Naruto because he is only a reminder of the lives lost and thought he was just the Kyubi without its power. Minato and Setsuna start to train the twins at age four while Naruto had to stay alone in his room or outside of the compound.

Teams will consist of nine genin and three Jounin. The team can also separate and form three teams. The reason the teams are so big is because the Uzumaki and Uchiha clans are there increasing the amount of ninja in the village.

"Talking"

'Thoughts'

"Jutsu"

"Demon Talk"

"Are you ready to start the exam?" Kakashi's voice asked from behind the group causing them to look back.

"Yes we are ready," most of the group said.

Naruto just nodded and stood with his arms crossed with his emotionless face. He didn't really care about what kind of test it was he was only focusing on trying to gain ranks as fast as he could.

"The point of this test is to get these eight bells from us before 3PM. If you don't get a bell by then I will tie three of you to those posts while we eat lunch in front of you." Kakashi said making Naruto's eyes narrow.

"Um sensei why are they're only eight bells when there are nine of us." Sakura asked making Kakashi eye smile at her.

"That's because one of you will be sent back to the academy and if none of you get a bell you will all fail and never be allowed to become ninja. Also there are no rules anything goes so come with the intent to kill." Kakashi says walking to the center of the field with the other two jounin and genin following. Kakashi then tied four bells to his waist and gave two bells each to Yuugao and Anko.

"Ready the exam starts, now!" At that the genin disappeared making Kakashi think 'They at least know when to hide', until they saw Naruto standing in front of the three jounin.

"Well aren't you the odd-ball in the-", Kakashi didn't get to finish as Naruto started to go through hand seals at jounin speeds.

"Oh shi..." Anko said but didn't get to finish as Naruto finished going through his hand seals stopping on the tiger seal.

"Fire Release: Fire Dragon Jutsu"

Naruto then blew out a massive dragon of fire and it then looped around Naruto once before it flew towards the three jounin hitting the spot where they were standing. Each of them land next to each other only to dodge the fire dragon that got back up and charged them again as if it had a mind of its own.

Naruto, seeing the dragon had done its part in distracting them, started running at them slowly then he flicked both his hands in a down ward movement and two five foot swords came out from under his sleeves. The two swords were the type that were a little thick but could be retracted and hidden easily.

Charging at the jounin, now only twenty feet away, he vanishes moving at low chunin speeds. He appears in front of Yuugao slashing down at her only for her to draw her own sword and block. Doing a 360 degree turn Naruto slashes in an arc motion with his second sword.

Yuugao jumped back but Naruto followed not letting up, going from academy level moves to high jounin moves then back making it impossible to predict where he would attack next. Kakashi sees Yuugao starting to be over powered. He jumped in to help and told Anko to go test Sasuke, Sakura and the twins.

Naruto seeing Kakashi turned around slashing at Yuugao to keep her at a distance while doing a side kick at Kakashi who blocked. He had to then jump back as Naruto was about to punch him in the face while still holding his other sword.

Naruto then put one sword behind his back to block Yuugao's sword. Turning around quickly he tries to slash at Yuugao with his other sword only for it to be blocked. Yuugao then swung at him making him duck and then he slashed upward. Yuugao seeing this did a front flip over the teen and slash to her side as she landed making him go on the defensive.

Naruto cursed 'Damn using my swords is useless now that I don't have the element of surprise, time to do something drastic'. Putting his hands together said one word "Kai", suddenly his body became very light as the gravity seal went from fifteen to zero. Naruto jumped at Kakashi punching him in the stomach making him skid next to Yuugao. He got up and slowly reached his hand up to his head band but before he could Naruto was on him forcing Yuugao to block making him jump back from the two.

Naruto made a hand seal and suddenly Kushina with her sword drawn and Natsumi with two kunai stood in front of him acting as a wall between him and Yuugao.

Kakashi was surprised at this kid who was supposed to be only average in the academy pulling off such a chakra consuming jutsu and then showing some of the finest swordsmanship. He may be better than Yuugao herself.

Naruto seeing Kakashi distracted made another hand signal and both Sukina and Mikoto appear with their Sharingans activated with one tomoe in each eye surprising Kakashi.

Naruto seeing both Jounin distracted started going through hand seals and on the hundredth hand seal, the sequence taking two minutes, stopped on the dragon seal.

"Elemental Release: Five Dragons' Wrath!" Naruto yelled.

Hearing this all four girls retreated into the woods confusing the two jounin. Suddenly the sky got dark over the training grounds and lightning flashed and the winds picked up. The only thing holding the jounin down was the chakra in their feet.

The lightning flashed and a single bolt hit a tree causing it to burst into flames. Rain started to pour but strangely the fire kept getting bigger. Naruto looked winded like he would fall over any second but forced himself up to see five dragons appearing. A dragon made of fire stepped out of the burning trees, a water dragon formed from all the rain water, a dragon made from earth in front of the two jounin, a wind dragon flying over head, and lastly a lightning dragon came out from the center of the clouds and landed in front of the two now scared shitless jounin.

Naruto smirked looking at the display. This was the first time he performed the jutsu successfully without falling unconscious. It was a jutsu only he could do because he created it and it requires having all the main elemental affinities. Just then Mikoto appeared next to him and held him up. Naruto looked at what was happening to see a water dragon fighting his water dragon while a lightning one fought his lightning dragon.

While this was going on Kakashi was running away and dodging the fire dragons' blows and it wouldn't disappear no matter what he threw at it. Yuugao wasn't doing much better as she was trying to outrun the wind dragon and failing miserably.

Just when the dragons were about to finish them off the timer rang and at that the dragons looked around before they simultaneously exploded into what they were created from. At this the jounin sighed and walked to the stumps and waited for the rest of the team to join them. After fifteen minutes the entire group was there with Sasuke, Sakura, and Arashi tied to the posts.

"Congratulations you all fail." Kakashi said cheerfully.

"The whole point of this exam was to show teamwork. The only people who showed this was Naruto and his girl followers. Arashi and Kaumi showed teamwork but only with each other and the rest I don't even want to talk about."

"Now that you're done with your explanation can I show you something?" Naruto said drawing all attention to him holding a bell shocking everyone. Before any one could say anything he pulled out four more and handed them to Kushina, Natsumi, Sukina, and Mikoto. Then he handed his own to Kaumi.

"Also for insurance I borrowed these from my father's personal library", Naruto said pulling out a scroll and unsealed three orange books.

Kakashi looked at the books with want in his eyes but noticed there were only three. "So Naruto you have insurance for eight of you but what about yourself and how do you know I want those when I have my own?"

"Don't be so sure about that", Naruto pulled out a fourth book making Kakashi, Anko and Yuugaos' eyes to widen.

"How did you get all of those bells and my book?"

"During my kenjutsu match with Yuugao when I did that side slash before I attacked you to get you to back away was really to cut the bells unnoticed. My shadow clones that I hid under the ground before any of you came grabbed them before you noticed. As for how I got your bells and book when you were being attacked by my dragons, didn't you notice that one was missing? My lightning and water dragons were already preoccupied, my wind dragon was after Yuugao and fire after Kakashi but the earth dragon was not in play." Naruto explained in his emotionless voice.

Just then an earth dragon came out of the ground under Naruto so that he was sitting on its head towering above them.

"I had my earth dragon go underground stealing your bells and book while the fire dragon was keeping you distracted." Naruto finished.

Anko looked up at him seeing one thing wrong with his explanation. "I think Kakashi would've noticed if a giant clawed hand was reaching into his pockets."

Just then the dragon shrank until it was the size of Akamaru and jumped on Naruto's head going to sleep making the girls squeal at how cute it was while Anko just shut up.

Kakashi smiled,"Good job Naruto but you still fail for not following orders. Now can you tell me why you told the team to eat and come late?" Kakashi finished seriously.

"I won't give my team orders that will potentially ruin the mission before it even starts as it could get us killed." Naruto finished.

"You know what we have to say to that... you all pass", Kakashi, Anko, and Yuugao said making the girls cheer and the banshee to ask Sasuke for a date to celebrate but got rejected.

"Naruto what was that jutsu that you used? I've never seen it before and it's obviously A-rank or higher." Kakashi asked.

"It's my own personal jutsu that I made. It first makes a storm that can create all the necessary elements to make the normal elemental dragons but instead opens a portal which the dragons you witnessed come from. I don't feel like sharing or allowing you or the Uchiha brat to copy it. If you could use it the dragons would probably kill you and the enemy because they are like summons and not ordinary elemental dragons like yours Kakashi." Naruto finished coldly.

"Dope I command you to teach me that technique and force your dragons to bow down to me and serve my clan." Sasuke said with his smirk.

Naruto looked like he was about to kill him but the small earth dragon beat him to it. It immediately jumped and swung its rock hard tail in between the pricks legs causing him to grasp his family jewels. Sakura screamed.

"Well we have to report to Hokage-sama so you're free to do whatever you want. Naruto make sure everyone meets up at the Hokage Tower for our first mission at ten in the morning." Yuugao ordered the team before she, Kakashi and Anko disappeared via shushin as fast as their feet could take them.

Naruto turned back to the group seeing the two red heads and two Uchiha girls looking at him, while Sakura was tending to Sasuke's balls to her pleasure while Sasuke was unconscious. Lastly the twins were staring at him intently which they happen to be doing a lot of lately.

"Sakura stop molesting Sasuke before he wakes up and tell him where and when to meet us tomorrow morning." Naruto said in his monotone voice then made his way to the gates before he stopped and motion his hands toward the girls he knew were following him out. But before he left he dropped the perverted books and let them on fire with a small fire jutsu.

Naruto walked through the village at a leisurely pace with the girls just walking around nonchalantly not caring where they were going. People looked at the group murmuring things like 'Poor girls the demon must have tricked them into following him', though Naruto really didn't care.

"Hey Naruto how come you never took any of us to your room? I'm kind of curious what it's like," asked Kasumi innocently as possible.

Naruto looked at her like she was crazy and the other girls got really quiet to hear his response. 'Why does she want to go see my room it's nothing special?'

"Why do you want to see my room? There is a bed, desk, book shelf, drawer, and a personal bathroom." Naruto was getting bored even though he didn't show it.

"Well that's boring and speaking of boring what should we do?" Kushina asked.

"I have any idea. Let's go and gamble, earning some money to go shopping," Sukina says as if she's done it before.

"That's a great idea lets go Naruto!" All three girls agree to Sukina's plan and got on both sides of Naruto grabbing his arms and dragged him to the nearest casino.

Naruto while being dragged was deep in thought. 'These girls are a bad influence on me and not to mention that "our" betting money is going to come out of my wallet... well more like Mizuki's'.

After ten minutes Naruto looked to where he was being dragged and to his surprise it was the Golden Leaf Hotel with a large casino on the upper floors. The girls then released Naruto in front of the counter to look at the manager.

"How may I be of service today Naruto-san?" The manager asked warmly giving them her best smile.

The girls frequently drag Naruto here when they were bored and the manager took a liking to Naruto, letting them go in for free. They always paid him back when they leave the casino. But seeing as they were officially shinobi meant they could go in without being questioned.

"The girls behind me forced me to come so I guess I'm heading into the casino." Naruto stated placing ten thousand ryo on the counter and walked through two double doors.

After ten minutes in the casino Naruto walked back out to where the girls were talking with each other in the lobby. Even though no one knew it Naruto was probably the best gambler in Konoha even though he didn't know how to play most of the games and when someone cheats they usually end up broke in front of him. The girls finally noticed Naruto just in time to catch four little bags. Each of the girls opened the bags and squealed from seeing fifty thousand in each of the bags.

"Well I'm going to go have dinner now, if you want to join me you can come." Naruto says walking out the door not waiting for an answer but the sound of the door opening four more times answered his question. After five minutes of walking they entered the business and richer side of Konoha.

"Um, Naruto where are we going?" Mikoto asked getting curious as to why they were going for dinner.

Naruto didn't answer her which ticked her off but kept walking until he stopped abruptly. Naruto turned to the right and walked into the building shocking all the girls.

"Naruto this is The Golden Leaf Restaurant. It's the most expensive place to go, why would you bring use here?" Kushina asked amazed as her and the girls follow Naruto to the check in counter.

"Why hello Naruto usual table today I guess... and who are the lovely ladies behind you?" the man asked.

"They're friends and yes usual table but for five and stop smiling at me." Naruto replied emotionlessly but had a hint of a smile out lineing his face.

"Why would I stop smiling when the kid I've known to be a social outcast brings not one but four pretty girls on a date here?" the man replied to Naruto while leading the group upstairs to the top floor.

"It's not a date it's a celebration slash dinner for becoming official genin and genin captain." Naruto replied.

"Congratulations to all of you! Well anyways here you are." He said pointing to a one person table confusing them all but Naruto and the waiter.

Naruto walked over to the table and started going through a few hand signs and then put his hand on the table and in a puff of smoke the table was large enough for six with chairs for all of them.

Naruto took his seat at the end of the table while the girls sat across from each other on either side. After a while Naruto saw yellow and red enter making him frown and look outside at the full moon.

"Hey Naruto what will you and your friends be having? Oh and sorry I took so long, all of the staff are trying to make your fathers meal perfect so they are kind of forgetting the other customers." The waiter stated apologetically while taking a pen and pad out.

Naruto ordered for him and the girls much to their discontent and then went back staring at the moon as if in a trance.

"Hey Naruto what are you doing here we were looking all over for you?" a voice that Naruto really did not want to hear. He turned around slowly and looked at his younger siblings and then went back to looking outside.

"Come on Naruto come celebrate us becoming genin with us, kaa-san, and tou-san." Kaumi replied hopefully.

"No," Naruto said in his usual voice right when their waiter brought all their food. They all immediately began eating their food ignoring the twins who gave up and walked back to their own table.

Namikaze Family Table (Rewriten part by ncpfan)

"So what did he say?" Minato asked his two youngest kids.

"He said no," Arashi and Kaumi said, almost a little too casually, as they took their seats and began to eat the meals that had just been placed before them.

Setsuna, thinking on everything Naruto said to her in his bedroom, had expected Naruto to reject their offer. 'I really hope that one day he won't feel like he needs to keep his distance from us,' she thought to herself, hopeful that he would, yet afraid that maybe they had pushed him too far away and done too much to him.

Since she left his room after their first real conversation in recent memory, she started to notice the truth behind the things that Naruto had said about the family. Arashi and Kaumi both looked at him with severe condescension, mixed with a little disgust, as though he was beneath them. She had also realized that she and Minato probably encouraged this viewpoint with the vast differences in how they treated Naruto as compared to how they treated the twins. She hoped that they would eventually grow out of this, and she vowed to herself that she would guide her two youngest to be better siblings to him.

When she noticed Minato's behavior towards Naruto, what she saw disturbed her. Even though his words to Naruto were kind and almost fatherly over the last couple of days, his eyes seemed to have a malicious glint in them when he looked at his eldest son. From her perspective, it was almost as if he had a sinister, ulterior motive in wanting to reach out to their estranged firstborn. Heeding the unsettling feelings that watching her husband gave her, she decided to keep it to herself for now, opting to continue observing his interactions with Naruto.

Thinking about the estrangement of their oldest child, Setsuna couldn't help but reflect on her relationship with him throughout his life. She remembered when Old Man Sarutobi first sealed the fox into Naruto and the twins; Naruto developed three whisker-like birthmarks on each side of his face, while the twins had not. She wondered what this meant, and as she listened to more and more of what other villagers would say when they didn't think she could hear, she began to believe the same things they did: her son was taken over by the spirit of the Kyuubi. As she continued to raise her family over the course of the next few years after this calamity, she began to distance herself from Naruto more and more; it happened so gradually that she didn't notice what was happening. As she distanced herself from him, her view of him became influenced more by the rest of the family and their friends, as well as the villagers as a whole. The lack of proximity to the boy had allowed these opinions to gain a string foothold in her mind and heart.

Things began to come to a head around Naruto's sixth birthday. Setsuna had by this time fallen into a severe depression, grieving over what she thought was the loss of her son. By that point, whenever she saw him, all she saw was a monster that killed her kin. Somewhere deep down, she still knew he was just a boy. She knew that he was HER precious boy, as she had thought of him when he had first been born, but she just could not forget the deaths of her relatives, nor could she see past the spirit of the beast sealed into his gut, particularly when those whisker marks and that vulpine grin seemingly continued to mock her! This affected her so severely that there were a few times where she would make her way into his room at night with a kunai in hand, intent on ending this evil monster's existence. As she was about to strike, she would see his sleeping face. It wasn't the face of a child that found peace in sleep; it was the face of a child in torment and pain, a pain so severe that even sleep didn't allow him an escape. She could only believe that her son was still in there somewhere, seeing as demons to her knowledge didn't have any sense of hurt or pain. She would break down into tears and quickly leave the sleeping boy in his room, before going into an empty corner of the large Namikaze house, crying her heart out at the conflict that she was feeling, not knowing if this was indeed the monster or her son. She eventually decided that she was going to simply leave him be; the turmoil of it all was just too much for her.

Minato, on the other hand, had motives for wanting to know his son better that were as sinister and ulterior as Setsuna began to suspect them to be: he wanted to be in a position to subdue his son should the need arise, and even eliminate him if it came down to that. Fully believing that Naruto was under the influence of the Kyuubi, he thought that, if given the chance to become too strong, Naruto would turn against the village and seek vengeance for the torment he had endured at Konoha's hands. Unlike Setsuna, Minato had full knowledge of Naruto's beatings by the villagers...and he purposefully turned a blind eye to it. The Hokage knew that they were hurt and angry over what they had lost in the Kyuubi attack, so he allowed them to make Naruto their scapegoat, initially believing that their anger would burn out in time. It didn't; the only reason they eventually stopped beating Naruto is because after the sword wound that he suffered to his stomach, he seemed to start fighting back in earnest. It wasn't much longer before it was the tormentors who ended up in the hospital instead of Naruto, and though Minato wouldn't punish the villagers for tormenting Naruto, he couldn't punish Naruto for fighting back, as it was only in self-defense, and more often than not, there were witnesses to confirm this. He also knew that he would be very heavily embarrassed and humilaited before not only the Fire Daimyo, but the other Kages as well, if word got out that he allowed the villagers to beat his son, all the while playing the "good father and Hokage". No, this wasn't the Land of Wind, and Minato knew that the Fire Daimyo would not look kindly at all on his actions or lack thereof. He wouldn't be able to get away with what was going on if it was ever made public, unlike the Kazekage, who publically and repeatedly commissioned several assassination attempts against his youngest son Gaara, also a demon container.

These thoughts caused Minato to shift uncomfortably in his seat. He looked at each member of his family that was at the table, his gaze coming to rest on Setsuna's sad and guilt-ridden countenance. He frowned as he noticed slient tears falling down her face. Following her gaze, he noticed that she was watching Naruto's table. It saddened him to think of how this was affecting his wife, and it saddened him even more to think about what it might do to her as he carried out his plan to subdue the Kyuubi. But as Hokage, his village had to come first.

The only question was how to earn Naruto's trust enough so that his guard would come down, giving him the chance to do what was needed. As Minato was pondering to himself he came to a conclusion, 'I will give the boy some training in the basics of the family arts to gain his trust. Then I can find out how he got so strong. He may not have shown it but he has to be at least jounin level, if not ANBU or even higher. If so, the fox has to be behind it. I'll have to take a look at his seal so I can either reinforce it, or alter it with a suicide seal so that we can take him out...I can only hope it doesn't come to that.' Minato returned his attention to his meal and began to eat, setting such thoughts aside for now.

Setsuna, however, couldn't seem to bring herself to eat at the moment. She had been tearfully watching Naruto and his friends for the past several minutes. She saw that he was much more relaxed and at ease than she had ever seen him at home. She watched in surprise as he would smile from time to time, chatting with both the girls that were with him as well as with his waiter, who seemed to like him as well. She thought about what Naruto had said to her about not feeling safe in their home, or around the family. Seeing the difference between how he was at home, and how he was right now, she could now understand what he was saying. Pangs of intense regret began to clench her heart as she thoguht again of how terribly she had treated her firstborn son. As she began to feel this, Naruto must have felt her gaze upon him, because he turned to meet said gaze. As they made eye contact, Setsuna's tears began to flow even more heavily. She saw that same flash of pain and isolation in Naruto's eyes that she had seen when she was in his room talking to him, but now it was much more pronounced. The cold anger that followed immediately after was also more acute than it had been previously. More tears continued to rool down her cheeks, making them pink and puffy while reddening her eyes. She saw Naruto frown, seemingly in thought, at this. She offered a weak smile, lifted her hand and gave him a single wave using only her fingers. Naruto seemed to sadden a bit at this, as he had closed his eyes, sighed, and turned his gaze away.

NShe could only hope that she was beginning to whittle away at his guard a bit. She noticed that he didn't just shake his head at her, or glare at her like he might have before she talked to him...and that would have been if he even looked at her at all. Even though she was hurt that this is where things were, she was grateful for the fact that this seemed to be a start of better things, at the very least. 'Naruto...I'm going to show you that I want to atone for my wrongs against you, and I'll do whatever it takes...for as long as it takes...to do that. I'm going to do all I can to help you feel safe in our home, and that at least one of us will love you, and treat you like family,' she thought to herself, with a determination that she hadn't felt in years. She also turned to her own meal and began to eat, deciding to leave Naruto be so that he could be as relaxed and as "not on guard" as possible for as long as possible.

Naruto

Naruto's gaze left his mother's own as he returned his attention to the ladies at the table. While they were waiting for their meals to be brought to them, Natsumi noticed that his demeanor had changed.

She leaned over to Naruto, placing a hand on his knee, and asked in a soft, low voice, "Are you OK?"

Naruto simply closed his eyes and sighed once again, realizing off-handedly that he was doing that a lot these days. He opened his eyes and offered a strained smile to Natsumi as he answered, "I will be…I just don't know what to make of my family wanting to 'reach out to me' all of a sudden."

Natsumi's face contorted into an incredulous expression, "Really? And just what prompted this, exactly?"

Naruto frowned at the question before answering, "I'm honestly not sure. Dumb and Dumber are jerks as always… but they have been trying to get along with me," Natsumi giggled at the nicknames that he gave Kaumi and Arashi, respectively, as he continued, "…I'm honestly not sure what Minato's game is, but I don't trust him at all it's like he's two people."

Naruto paused for a moment and took a breath, Natsumi not having taken her eyes off of him since he started talking. He continued, "But…my mother…she seems to really mean it when she says that she wants to reach out to me and draw me in. She…she came up to my room and talked to me a couple of nights ago…" Natsumi raised her eyebrows at this as he continued, "…she just asked me why I didn't talk to them anymore, or why I didn't eat with them. She even asked me why I didn't have any 'kid stuff' in my room, or why I put that seal on my door that I told you girls about."

Naruto paused for a moment, his mind going back to his conversation with his mother. Natsumi, seeing that Naruto was seemingly staring off into space, broke him out of his lack of focus on her, "Well…what happened, then? Did you answer her?"

Naruto continued, his tone belying his frustration with the whole mess, "Yeah, I did…and I answered her completely honestly."

Natsumi seemed impressed by this. She knew how Naruto would answer those questions, and she inwardly applauded him for putting it out there. She asked in response, "How'd she take it?"

"Well…that's just it! She just listened to me…and she…well…she admitted to her own wrongdoing, and she took responsibility for it! Then she told me that she wanted to do right by me, and asked me how she could earn my trust! You'd think that I'd feel great about that, but the truth is that…" Naruto lowered his gaze, collecting his thoughts before bringing his gaze back up and continuing, "…the truth is that I'm infuriated with it all! She's ignored me and tried to wish away my existence for as long as I can remember, and now she suddenly wants to be my mother? How would you react? But the worst part about it is that I know she means it…and I can't deny that. I can see that she regrets what she's done to me when I look into her eyes. I guess…it just bothers me that I don't want to give her a chance after all this time…but another part of me can't really help myself…I mean…she was crying in front of me; now when I say crying, I mean she was sobbing; at one point her legs wouldn't even hold her up, that's how bad it was…"

"Hmm…" responded Natsumi as she took in what Naruto was saying. She could certainly understand his anger, and even his hatred, but she also knew that Naruto was a better man than that. She decided that she was going to remind him, "Naruto…do you trust my opinion?"

"Well, of course I do," Naruto answered without any kind of hesitation, awaiting a response from the beautiful redhead that currently had his attention.

Natsumi continued, "Then I think that you ought to at least give your mother the benefit of the doubt, here. If she's sincere and wants to try to make things right…at worst, you're in the same place youa re now; at best, you've got yourself another person that you can consider precious."

Naruto, knowing that she was right in spite of the fact that he really didn't want her to be, simply closed his eyes, sighed, and then nodded, "I know…I'm just not sure I can let it go so easily…"

Natsumi squeezed his leg a little bit with the hand resting on it, offering him a warm smile as she responded, "Nobody ever said you have to let it go so easily…I'm just saying that I think you should give her the benefit of the doubt is all."

Naruto, after a few minutes of internal debate that felt like an eternity, simply nodded at Natsumi. It was true that his mother was the only one in the family to be genuine in her efforts to reach out, and he knew what Natsumi was getting at: holding onto his hatred would hurt nobody but himself. It was at this moment that their meals came, and all other talk was put aside in favor of enjoying their meal. 'You are right Natsumi but it wont work work in the longrun' He thought letting a smale smirk out which went unoticed to the other occupents of the table.

After they had finished their dinner, Naruto paid the bill with the money he won at the Golden Leaf Hotel earlier. He then led them out of the restaurant and walked each of the girls to their respective homes. After he had dropped off Kushina and Natsumi, he considered entering his family's home and going to his room, but found that he would rather enjoy the peace and stillness of the comfortable night are. He just wandered the streets aimlessly, not knowing where his feet were taking him until he stopped and looked up, seeing he was on top of the Hokage Monument. Taking a seat with his feet dangling over the edge, he continued to ponder the past 3 days or so, trying to figure out what he should do.

Naruto looked down at the village, noticing that it was full of lights, and showing just how large and widespread Konoha truly was. He noticed that some of the lights flickered and went out, indicating that it was quite late, and the villagers were going to bed for the night. He let a frown come over his face remembering how much he hated the village in front of him. His thoughts drifted back to his conversation with Natsumi, and he remembered that the only person his hatred would hurt was himself. This, however, was a completely different situation than his hatred for one person, or even a few people. He found Konoha's current existence as a whole to be offensive. Shallowness encouraged in a ninja village, where students are taught to look 'underneath the underneath'. People holding onto hatred that was founded within a single event for 12 years. People hating him over jealousy, over the Kyuubi, over greed; you name it! This was the only place he could go when he found it getting to him, and his mother had brought it out full force!

Deciding that he had thought enough angsty and depressing thoughts for one night, Naruto laid himself down so he was lying on his back and engaged in his favorite hobby: stargazing. As he was looking up, his thoughts once again went back to his mother, and to the chance to essentially redeem herself that she had asked for. Naruto couldn't get Natsumi's words out of his head. Hoping that it would quiet the voice speaking those words, he decided that as hard as it might be, would give Setsuna Uzumaki the benefit of the doubt, and allow her to at least prove how serious she was. Looking at all the stars and then at the moon, he drifted of to sleep without knowing it.

Next day (Writen by WolfLeader)

Naruto shifted in his sleep and he suddenly felt like he was forgetting something looking at the sun's position. His eyes widened seeing he was going to be late. Running to the back of the Hokage monument he eventually found a stream. Quickly stripping he jumped in and washed himself. Using a quick wind jutsu to dry himself he put his clothes on and rushed to the Hokage monument again.

Naruto saw the edge of the monument and didn't slow down one bit. He sped up and then jumped off the edge and sped to the bottom. Forcing chakra into his legs to absorb the shock as he fell through the roof of the Hokage tower and through one more floor.

Team Seven

"Where is Naruto? Everyone is here including Kakashi?" Kushina asked worried and her worries grew when the twins said he didn't come home last night.

Suddenly someone fell out of the ceiling and landed in between Anko and Yuugao making them jump to the side with kunai drawn.

The person was in a crouching position and then slowly stood up revealing him to be Naruto. Naruto walked out of the smoke wiping the dust off his shoulders and looked up and saw seven ANBU surrounding him with swords at his throat.

"It's only the demon.", one of the ANBU whispered which was heard by Naruto. Naruto's swords popped out of his sleeves and soon as they were drawn they were put back confusing everyone until the ANBU's pants slid to the floor. Trying to keep their dignity they turned to the Hokage sitting behind the center table who only nodded and the ANBU disappeared via shushin.

"I never knew ANBU went commando." Natsumi said staring at the spot where the ANBU were, the silence filled with snickering and then full blown laughter.

After the laughter settled down Anko went up to Iruka who handed her a scroll and she walked back to the group.

"Alright our first mission is to catch Tora the cat unharmed and return her to the fire lord's wife." Anko finished.

"What? Why must I an Uchiha do D-rank missions? I'm an elite I must at least do C-rank missions." Sasuke states.

"Because all new genin have to start off by doing D-ranks then once your senseis and captain think you're all ready you will be given a higher level mission." Minato said making his voice known with irritation for the so call rookie of the year.

With that the team left to complete the missions, splitting up into three groups to each do a mission.

Well what do you think not as long as I wanted it to be but I got bored and quite early.

Beta Read by dbtiger63 you rock he he.

Should I make Naruto use more cool ninjutsu (a variety) or make his swordsmanship be used mostly like this chapter or a balance? Answer in your reviews.

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