Son comes... home?
Kurama, Hati, Hidi, Kibo, and Naruto were sitting around a large table with a variety of food before them, Hati had taken a human form once they got to the table. Naruto asked why he was in a fox form all this time if he had a human form too, Hati just replied that he uses his fox form to gather information and battle, plus he likes fox form. Naruto nodded and they started eating, after they ate their fill, they talked about what they were going to do now since Naruto was all healthy again.
"Why don't we go to-"
"I' ma stop you right there, Hidi, because if you say anything about going to some freakin' elders... we will physically fight, and you know how I am when I fight." Kurama said with his eyes closed as he rubbed his temples, Hidi huffed as she folded her arms and leaned back in her chair talking about how Kurama was a 'meanie'. Said man sighed and turned to look at everyone else, "so Naruto, what would you like to do? You could stay here and recover your legs and arms strength before you leave, or we could run away from the leaf to a better place, somewhere that'll treat you better."
"I would have to agree with that, however, I think you should also start training a little when you're back to fighting strength." Said Hati after drinking some wine, "if Kurama was sealed inside of you before you came here, it would also be a good idea to learn the basics of Fuinnjutsu while you train."
"Fuinnjutsu, that's the art of sealing right?" Naruto asked.
"Whoa, where'd this kid come from," Hide asked getting into the conversation, "I don't think I've ever met a human kid your age that was half as smart as you."
Naruto blushed, "no, I just read a lot."
"Don't sell yourself short, Naruto, most kids you age know more about what's for dinner than the different types of jutsus there are in the ninja world. Though there are some kids, like clan heir, that have learned this around your age, but to the barest extent and wouldn't know all of them," Hati said sagely.
Naruto nodded as he took in the information, "alright, so why do I need to learn fuinnjustu now?"
"Because I've seen what it can do for a person in the heat of battle or everyday life, it just depends on what you want to do with it," Kurama said.
"Plus, if you go back and someone was to find out that you no longer contain Kurama within you, the thing may not turn out so well, for both of you," Hidi added.
"So, what will I be learning, since I guess that one or all of you will be my teacher," asked Naruto.
Hati chuckled, "we'll be teaching you much, young one."
With some physical exercise, Naruto was able to gain back most of the strength in his legs so he could walk around on his own, however, that didn't mean Hidi did pick him up and cuddle him like a baby from now and then. It took almost a full three weeks to get back to Naruto back to his prior strengths, after that, it was time to start training, even though he had already started his ninjutsu training with Hidi while he was getting his leg strength back. The physical train was done with Hati and Kurama, with the former teaching him simple genjutsu and gave tips on info gathering, while the latter taught him low-level ninjutsu and how to escape the villagers when need be. Kurama thought he would take it easy on the poor kid since in the clan he was known to be a tough sensei that always gets results from his students, he only came up with (what he thought) was an easy workout regiment:
10 Laps around the palace-like house
20 Sit-ups
35 Squats
27 Kicks to a tree (each leg)
27 Punches to a tree (each fist)
Breakfast
40 Laps around the house
50 Push-ups
35 pull-ups from a tree
Fuinjutsu practice with Hadi
Genjutsu practice with Hati
Lunch
14 Laps around the house
15 squats
30 Punches to a wall (each)
30 Kicks to a stump (each)
40 Push-up
Dinner
2 Laps
Bath and then bed
Of course, when Kurama presented this scheduled to the others, Hidi beat some sense into him so he would cut all the numbers to at least half so Naruto didn't die. Naruto also yelled at the fox-man telling him "I'm only five years old, why are you trying to kill me?" Naruto then began to anime tears which maid Hidi beat Kurama up more while Kibo and Hati consoled him.
It's been about two whole months in the land of the foxes, Naruto found out that they called the place 'Trickster Ally' because foxes are natural tricksters. It was now time for Naruto to choose whether he went home, or went somewhere else. He sat and thought about it all day a few days beforehand, if he went back there was a chance that nothing had changed and his family hadn't even looked for him, let alone if they had come back to the village yet. But then again, there was a chance that they had changed and did look for him after he left, he didn't want to believe that they had forgotten about him for so long without them noticing or trying to look for him. He had hope that they had changed and would include him in things more, so he made his choice, much to Kurama's displeasure, but he too also had hope for change. Before leaving Trickster Ally, Hidi and Naruto helped make a modified version of the Seal that Minato had made and put it on Naruto. This seal would allow Naruto to summon Kurama out of the seal in his human form whenever he wished, Kurama could also go in and out of the seal whenever he wanted, but he couldn't go more than half a village length away or else he would get sucked back into the seal again. With everything all ready to go, Kurama taught Naruto the hand signs for a reverse summoning before hopping back into the newly made seal, Naruto said goodbye to Hati and Hidi before placing Kibo on his head and poofing out of there.
Konoha- Namikaze house
Minato was in the shower thinking about what had happened in the past month, he was about a month pregnant with his and Kishina's new's kids and Kushina didn't seem to want to leave him alone about it. She's the same as always, but as soon as she sees him, she gets this pervy look on her face that always makes him shiver, it only got worse when she stumbled upon his yaoi porn the day after they came and he was now carrying their children. It happened so quick that it was almost a blur to him now, he was sitting in their bed reading since he was sore from the procedure to transplant their children into him, Tsunade told him that after he got home, he couldn't go back to the office for a few days. This news almost made him jump for joy, but he couldn't because the Senju medic would scold him for it, so he just smiled, after they got home, Kushina went down to the kitchen to make him something to eat. Minato thought it would be a good time to take out his secret books, he was just right in the middle of the part where the main character was about to have sex with the bandit leader to free his friends and save his village, when Kushina and Shio burst into the room trying to tell him something. However, when they saw the orange book, they were about to give him a talking-to until Shio spotted the title and started to blush feverishly. When asked what was wrong, she just pointed out the title to her mom, Kushina's eyes widened and she appeared next to her husband, snatching the book away from his hands and read the page in a matter of seconds. Minato knew that it was too late to escape, not that he could run in his condition anyway, as he waited for the inevitable to happen. During his little wait, which wasn't long at all, the rest of his kids came in trying to say something that seemed extra important at the time, but they were all stopped when they heard Kushina's perverted giggling so they asked what was going on.
Minato sighed as he turned off the water, that was the day that he found out that Ryu was gay and was dating Itachi in secret so they wouldn't be caught by the Uchiha's. M.J. told them that he too read those books, but he was fully straight. He also mourned at the way Kushina had turned their current youngest, Narumi, into a major yaoi fangirl, there was now no escaping the weirdness that was Kushina's favorite pass time, yaoi paring with her daughters. He asked Shio how she knew about the yaoi edition of the Icha Icha books, what she told him had shocked Minato even now a month later. It seemed that Kushina thought that it would be okay to OUT LOUD all the yaoi edited romance books she had to Shio starting from when the girl was barely two years old.
"She's corrupted them too soon," Minato said to himself as waterfall tears streamed down his face as he dried off from the shower. He went into his and Kushina's room and got dressed when he had the clothes on his body he made his way down to the kitchen, passing Kushina and their two daughters along the way. He anime cried when he heard Narumi asking her mom if she had any more stories about her father falling in love with other guys (Kushina only gave her yaoi fluff to read since she's still only five).
"Sure thing sweety, what story would you like to read?" Kushina as sweetly holding up an extra copy of some stories she wrote about Minato.
Minato quickly went into the kitchen to block them out, not wanting to hear he baby girl talk about him doing other guys. Once in the kitchen, he made himself a large sandwich with everything on it but the kitchen sink, he was halfway through the said sandwich, thinking about making another, when he heard something go 'poof' and a few loud gasps. Not wanting to abandon his work of delicious art, he took the sandwich with him to see what was happening, when he got there and saw what or more over who it was, he very nearly dropped his sandwich. Tears fell from his eyes, these being of joy, and ran over to the person that was currently being gawked at by his family. When he got closer, he fell to his knees and wrapped his arms around the small boy, for this was his son, so everyone else joined in and it became a group hug.
"Naruto where have you been for the past month, I've been so worried about you," Minato said after a while, tears still rolling down his eyes.
Naruto looked up at his father with his mismatch eyes, "really? Then how come you guys left me all along?" He asked bluntly, but also curious.
"There was a man, he snuck into the village and kidnapped Narumi, he didn't expect to be gone as long as we had, but we just had to find her," Minato said.
"Oh Sochi, I'm so sorry I left you all alone here, i'm so sorry that you were alone. I shouldn't have gone with them, I should have stayed here with you, but I didn't and I'm so so so sorry," Kushina said through her sobs.
"Are you alright little Prince?" Shio asked forgoing her usual nickname for him.
"Yeah, I'm fine," Naruto said as he was continually crushed by his family.
After a little more crushing, they left him breath and backed up a little, that was when they saw the little fox on his head. "Oh, hello, Naruto why do you have a fox on your head?" Minato asked looking at the golden fox on his son's head.
"Oh," Naruto took Kibo off his head and held him in his arms, "this is Kibo I... found him, in the woods... and he kinda led me here after a while."
"You're such a good little liar, aren't ya kit?" Kurama sarcastically thought to Naruto.
"Shut up, I've never had to lie before," Naruto thought back.
"Naruto, what kind of fox is he? I want one too, then we can match!" Narumi said happily as she petted Kibo's head.
"Uh, a special one," Naruto said not sure what to say to here.
Minato looked at his wife, she looked back at him, they were wondering the same thing, "could it be a summons?"
Wait, is that a summons?" M.J. asked looking at his youngest brother.
"Uhhh," Naruto didn't want to tell them that he got a summons at only five.
"If it is, you'll be so lucky, I wanted to get the toad contract like dad and grandpa, but dad said I'll have to wait until I get to the academy," Narumi pouted.
"Don't worry, Narumi, it won't be long until you go to the academy," said Ryu.
"Yeah, and before you go, you can train with us some more. You both can," Shio said with a big smile at her two younger siblings.
"That's right," Minato said while Kushina nodded, "we can start training you guys tomorrow morning, bright and early."
Narumi cheered while Naruto was silent, he didn't want to give up hope so soon, so he let things just play out. When Narumi finally stopped jumping around the house, Kushina suggested that they go out for some ramen, this time they didn't forget Naruto. They ate bowl after bowl of the stuff when they came back him it was a little past midnight (Minato had finished his sandwich while everyone was getting ready to go), they went to bed late and woke up just as late. Minato kept his word and made sure that he woke his son up for his first official day of training, he taught them tree and water walking, some basic jutsus, and left all the other physical stuff to Kushina since he couldn't expend too much chakra. They continued this for a few more months, Minato's growing belly meant that he couldn't get up and help out as he wanted, so he was forced to just watch. Naruto had never been happier than when he was training with his family, of course, he also got extra training from Kurama whenever his family wasn't around. Though they all hung out with him, things started to go back to the way it was before, if not worse after the triplets were born.