Kumo
It's been about three weeks since they got to Uzu and started training. Kurama, being the little fox he was, trained the kids in taijutsu, taught them genjutsu, and some ninjutsu. Shukaku took pleasure in teaching the triplets, who were still too young to train, in history, he also taught the others the history of both humans and demons, tailed beast, the sage of six path (who he calls 'the old man'), and told them about all the wars that he's either been in or was around to see. Now it was the last day they were spending in Uzu and Naruto wanted to take another look around the place, he wanted to see if there were any scrolls that he could take so he could learn fuuinjutsu, and if they wanted to learn together in the future, that would be fine by him.
Everyone was either packing things up to go or was helping him look around. Naruto, Shikamaru, Haku, and Hinata (it Hinata Hyuuga because the other one went back home) were the main ones who were interested in learning about fuuinjutsu, while Gaara, who stayed back with Kurama and Shukaku, also wanted to learn a little on fuuinjutst, but stayed behind to watch the triplets. The triplets wanted to go with their big brother to explore the village again, but Naruto told them that he was only going to find jutsu scrolls and the like, not to play about, they were sad that they couldn't go too but perked up when Gaara said he was going to play with them. Gaara could control sand and make it as well, he just needed a soft patch of earth to turn into sand, Killer B helped with that by using some of his training methods to break up the dirt, since Gaara didn't have anything to carry his sand around with him.
Anyways, Naruto and the others went into the abandoned village to look around again, they started their search in the smaller buildings first, Naruto used his shadow clone jutsu to help them look. They went from small buildings to big buildings all the while Killer B watched them from a distance. It was around noon when they made their way over to the tallest building, the kage tower, it was a beauty in vintage red stone that towed over everything, the highest point in the whole village. This tower was what Kurama used to train them to control their chakra after they passed the water and tree walking techniques, the small group of four found their way to the front door. On the first day that they arrived there, they couldn't get inside, but thanks to Gaara tripping over a rock while playing with the others and scrapping his arm, they found out that the said tanuki holder somehow had Uzumaki heritage. It was by a complete accident the way they found out, after Gaara had scrapped his arm, he had leaned onto a door because he was out of breath from all the running around, but imagine his surprise when the door swings open and a voice from within the building said, Welcome, fellow Uzumaki", which actually scared the crap out of the poor insomniac. Naruto chuckled at the memory of Gaara running to Shukaku, who was nearby and jumped into his arms, shaking like a leaf.
"What's so funny, Naru?" Asked Haku.
"Nothing, just remembering the time when Gaara found this door," Naruto chuckled
Shikamaru chuckled too, "yeah, I hear ya, I never thought that he would be scared of a door like that."
"Right," Naruto contained his giggles for another time, he bit his thumb then whipped it onto the swirl imprinted on the door. There was a soft clicking sound, barely audible before the door opened.
"Welcome back, Prince Uzumaki," said the voice from last time.
Hinata furrowed her eyebrows, "didn't it say, 'welcome, fellow Uzumaki' last time?"
"Yeah, it did, I wonder why it changed this time?" Shikamaru looked at Naruto, "was Lady Kushina a princess here before she went to Konoha?"
Naruto turned back to him, he shrugged, "even if she was, she didn't tell me or anyone for that matter, I guess she didn't care to." He turned back to the door, "But there's always a way to find out, now that we're here," he moved forward into the first floor (just image the Hokage tower but covered in vines). Naruto found the stars, they seemed to be still new everything within the tower seemed like it had just been left as is, almost like the people had just left for lunch and would soon return. He walked up the stairs to find the kage office, the door was shut with another swirl on the door, just like the one outside. He put some blood on the door again before it opened, inside the office looked just like Hokage office but instead of light brown hardwood floors, it was oak, the walls were a light brown with the ceiling matching the floor color. The office was bigger than the Hokage's office, instead of one desk, it had two of equal size across from each other on different sides of the room, and one larger one at the far back of the room in front the wide window. Naruto guessed that had to he the Suzuka's desk while the other two were the desk of his helpers? Advisers? Naruto walked over to the biggest desk, he took a seat in the chair, his hand brushed a seal on the desk and book popped up from the wooden surface, curious as to what it held, he opened it and began to read for a bit.
Hinata and Shika smiled, they knew that once Naruto picked up a book, he was dead to the world until he reached the end of it, they started walking out of the room, "where are you guys going?" Haku asked, "aren't you going to wait for him?"
Shika shook his head, "no way, once he sits down with a book grass can't grow where sits," he chuckled, "come on, let us go look around, he'll still be here when we come back."
Haku wasn't sure, but he knew that they knew the blond longer than him, so he followed them out. About an hour and a half went by, Hinata, Shika, and Haku came back to the uzukage's office to see Naruto still reading and Killer b was writing something down in his notebook. "Huh? When did you get in here?" Shika asked, B didn't answer because he was also mumbling to himself as he wrote, the three sweatdropped at the older male.
Suddenly Naruto's head shot up, "hay guys, you won't believe this, it seems that Lady Kushina was a princess here," he said with a smile.
"Really?" Hinata said as they all walked over, except for B who was still writing.
"Really, but the uzukage didn't like her," Naruto said closing the book.
"Why not?" Haku asked.
"Well according to this book, all Uzumaki's liked to play pranks, you couldn't go a day in the village without finding someone that had been pranked once or twice that day. But even though they did pranks and joked around a lot, they still got things done, their mouton was 'family first always' and since the villagers were the same, I guess it worked out pretty well."
"But why didn't the uzukage like her?" Asked Hinata.
"Because she always took it too far," Naruto said with a frown.
"How so?" Asked Shika.
"Well, this was the Uzuakge's dairy, she recorded everything that lady Kushina did over the years before three out of the five nations attacked Uzu. It seems that not only were her pranks taken over the edge most of the time, most likely, someone would always end up really hurt or too badly injured to continue working for a while." Naruto twisted up his face in disgust, "there was even one incident where someone died," the others gasped and B looked up from his notes to look at the blond. "When the uzukage confronted Kushina about the accident, she said she didn't mean for anyone to die, the prank was meant to be funny, just something to just 'paint the town red for a day' as she put it, but it went wrong, very wrong."
"W-what was the prank? How was it supposed to work?" Asked Haku.
"It was a prank that would have taken all night, from what read, it would have taken alt ten hours to set up, but Kushina cut it down by just five minutes by using shadow clones. This prank was the way they had painted the village before when Uzu was first built, but for safety reasons, everyone had to be out of the village when it's set up, for at least three house max while doing wind jutsus to help dry the paint. However, what kushina did was that she set it up on a larger scale and included glitter in the paint when she set off the prank the next morning, there was a lot of damage, people had to be rushed to a hospital that was quickly starting to overflow." He let out a sigh and leaned on his elbows on the desk, "out of everyone there, at least twelve children were temporarily blinded, and five kids permanently without sight in either one or both eyes."
"And the adults?"
"For the adults, the type of paint she used, some had allergic reactions to the paint... most were able to block the paint from hitting them, but... there was one child. Um, he was about five or so, when the paint went off, he was the closest one to it, he had a weak immune system and couldn't get away fast enough. He was the one how died, but that wasn't the worst part..."
"What do you mean, Naruto?" Killer B asked, he didn't even rap it, he just said it, it surprised everyone for a second.
"The boy that died was named, Kumi Uzumaki, he was Kushina's little brother."
"What did...What happened when she found out about her brother?" Shika asked.
Naruto picked up the book and opened it to a page and read out loud, "because Kushina Uzumaki had gone so far with her resent prank, we have no choice but to banish her from the village. I know that she didn't mean to kill her baby brother, but because her pranks were increasing in danger, it would have been a matter of time before she had taken the life of someone else's child. For that reason, I'm sending her to Konoha to become a ninja of the village and also carry on the responsibilities of Mito Uzumaki as the Kyuubi jinchuriki, my only hope is that she will learn from her mistake to live up to the Uzumaki name as our princess." He looked up from the book to look at the others, "about a year this was written, the village was attacked by Kiri, Iwe, and Kumo, but Kumo didn't fight."
"Huh? If they were there for the attack, why didn't they?" Skip asked, Hinata and Haku also wanted to know.
"This was before my time, but from what I found out, Pops didn't go come here to attack Uzu, he brought his troops to help," It was B who answered the question, which surprised Naruto, as well as everyone else in the room.
"If Kumo went to the battle, why would they help? All the history books I read in Konoha says that Kumo also attacked Uzu alongside Kiri and Iwa." Hinata said, "what changed?"
"Pops," said B, "when he found out that Uzu was about to be attacked by Kiri and Iwa, he led an army of Kumo ninja's to Uzu to help. He told me that years before the attack, some Uzumaki's found him when he was a little boy and helped him train to get stronger, way before he joined Kumo ranks, he had gotten separated from his parents a year before and got lost. He was wandering around near where the Uzumaki clan was camping out, they found him and helped him, after two years with the clan, he went to Kumo and became the next rikage, so when he found out that Uzu was being attacked, there was just no way that he could stand back and let it happen."
"Wait, if he helped the Uzumaki clan..." Shika raised his arms indicating to their surroundings, "where are all the other Uzumakis, besides the ones in Konoha, Naruto, his brothers, and now Gaara, I didn't see any other Uzumaki's here."
B nodded, "during the battle, Pops could see, that even with his help, there were only a few Uzumaki's that would survive the attack. If they continued to fight, they would be whipped out soon, so he met with the uzukage and told her this, she wasn't very happy about it, but she agreed to evacuate most of the Uzumaki's. As much as she wanted all Uzumaki's to get away safely, very few actually made it out alive, whether they're still alive now is questionable at best." he finished, seeing the depressed looks on everyone's face, especially Naruto's, he added, "but they are Uzumaki's, I'm sure they're alive somewhere, they spread out all over the elemental nations, I even saw a few of them on one of my missions outside the village."
B walked over to Naruto and held his fist, Naruto looked up at him and smiled, he pumped fist with B, "thanks B."
B smiled, "what are brother's for, fool ya fool," he bumped fists with everyone else making them smile. "Alright, about we get back to the camp, yo the kiddies must want to prank, whee," he rapped with a big grin.
The kids giggled at the bad rapping, they were about to walk out the room when Naruto remembered something, "oh! Wait, there's in here that I want to check out."
The others looked at each other for a moment before shrugging their shoulders, they followed Naruto over to a wall a few yards away from the uzukage's desk. He bit his finger and put it on a portion on the wall, a white outline of a door lit up on the wall before it vanished to reveal a pathway with stairs leading up, which was odd to them because they were on the top floor. Not sure what else to do, they started climbing the steps, they climbed the steps for ten minutes until they reached a door at the top step. Naruto, who was leading the way, reached out to the knob but stopped when the light fell upon his hand, he stayed like that for a few seconds before a loud click sounded through the stare case they were standing in. The door opened wide enough for them to see what was inside, the green light faded away then, Naruto looked back to the group before entering the room. Inside looked to be a dojo of sorts with weapons of different types: from katanas to gunbai, various other swords of all sizes, kunais, shurikens, a mini version of the chakra diffusion cannons, exploding tags, and other weapons that most of them hadn't seen before now.
"What is this place?" Haku asked.
"I think this may be where the uzukage hid most of the weapons," Shika answered.
Naruto walked over to some gantlets, they were black with claws for fingers that were silver, he picked it up and put them on. They seemed a little too big for him to his disappointment, he was about to put them back when he saw a note where they gantlets were, he picked it up and read it. It was a letter from the uzukage, he started reading it out loud to everyone there.
To the surviving members of the Uzumaki clan.
I can see that this will be the last time I may get to give you words of wisdom. In this room are my most precious collection of weapons, the ones that I used to protect the village, my most three most prized weapons are The Heavenly Winds G Mumbai, The Angel Sword, and The Demon Gantlets. These three weapons helped me win many battles in the past and I can only hope that you can find a way to use them in your way to win your battles, whatever they may be. Now allow me to explain how these three weapons work, unlike normal weapons, they will only let you use their full power when they feel that your worthy and ready, I know many of you are wondering if these weapons are sentient when I said 'they will allow you to you their full power when they think your ready'. Well to be honest with you, at first, when you start using them, they may seem like an ordinary weapon, don't be fooled, these weapons are alive, they can't talk back like you nor I, but they are.
First, The Heavenly Winds Gunbai, to use this weapon, you must have a caring heart and a strong will. If your heart is not caring in any way for something, no matter what it is, the gunbai will reject you instantly. If you still try to use it after that, it will steal all your chakra and you will die. However, if you are pure of heart, but you will is not as strong, the gunbai will only steal bits of your chakra when you use it to fight, not enough to kill you, but enough so that the chances of winning become slim at best, this will continue to happen until the person strengthen their will to iron. Once the gunbai senses your will as changed, it will no longer steal you chakra but in turn, give you strength when needed. The same goes for The Angel Sword, it would also help to have an affinity in either water or wind chakra to get even more out of the gunbai.
As for The Angel Sword, the wielder must have an affinity in earth chakra, wind or water chakra would help as well but is not required. I have left a book on the fighting style I used whenever I would use The Angel Sword, it's a bit of a tough style for most. Some can use the style I used, but few masters it, the style needs someone with agility, speed, fast reflex's and flexibility, if you can mast this style then you will become a powerful ninja in the future. The reason that The Angel sword needs someone with an earth affinity is that this sword was said to be a sword that was made from both heaven and earth, it was said that the hilt of the sword was made by Yami so he could make a weapon of pure evil. While Kami found out about this, he took the hilt before the evil sword could be finished, he then made the blade of the sword from a single angel's feather to balance out the in-pure powers of the swords. It was also said that anyone who wielded The Angel Sword, if their heart wasn't pure and will be weak, they would be taken over by the sword and go on a rampage, killing many people in their wake, my only warning to you is to be careful and use with caution.
Lastly, The Demon Gantlets, also known as The Demon's Hands, this weapon may be the most powerful of all three. With this gantlet, the user will be able to use all the elements of chakra, but at a cost, if the wielder isn't strong enough, the gantlets will take control of the person and turn them into a demon of unimaginable power. I have also left a few books on how to use the gantlets, the previous wielders and how they overcame the gantlet's powerful influence, and also the fighting style I made while using them. Be warned, the gauntlet is only as evil as you let it be, so beware of the demon inside, it may try to way your good nature. The Demon Gauntlet was a gift to me by the Demon Lord of the western lands, Taishou, himself. Anyways, my time draws near, I must go now.
Sincerely Uzukage
Izaya Uzumaki
Naruto looked up from the letter so see everyone, Hinata was holding a sword with a red hand that with red flame carved into it and there was a small silver skull missing its jaw at the base of the handle. The blade had carve to it that made it almost look like a feather, the left side of the sword looked to have more feather-like qualities, making the blade as a whole look soft to the touch. Shikamaru went to pick up the gunbai, it was near twice his size, thinking that it would only be slightly heavy, he tried to lift it but it wouldn't move, B walked over and picked it up with less trouble, he put it on his back before looking about the room. Naruto made note that the gunbai looked like the normal battle fan it was seemed to be, but it was colored in white and silver, the cama markings were replaced with the shapes of three small feathers going around in a half-circle. Naruto looked around the room and saw a gourd, it was a light brown color with a red cloth going around it, it had the kanji for the word love in red markings on the side, he walked over to the gourd and looked inside, it was empty.
He looked at the tag next to it, "Earth style gourd, used for earth bast attack," was what it said, he smiled, "this would be perfect for Gaara. He picked up the gourd, putting it on his back, he walked back over to the gantlets again and placed them into his sealing bag, he turned around to see everyone again, "Is everyone ready?"
"Hmm, hay Naruto, you think it's okay if we take some of these?" Haku asked.
Naruto shrugged, "don't know, maybe, you see something you like?"
"Yeah, I think I see a few that I would like to try my hand with," Haku said looking around the room before turning back around to catch a scroll that Naruto tossed over to him.
"Okay, but any sharp or pointy ones into that sealing scroll, the ones that aren't pointy can go into the sealing bag," Naruto said. Pretty soon everyone was packing away weapons that they liked or wanted to try, Hinata wasn't sure about wanting to use The Angel Sword or not, but she defiantly wanted to try using The Heavenly Gunbai. Shika took a few of the explosive and a few books that were there on the different weapons that they were taking and wanted to learn about, he also took some books on how to make seals for battle and homemade explosives, Naruto also had an interest in the subjects as well. They all left the room, they were going to leave the regular weapons, leaving them behind because they didn't think they would need it, but B said (in a very bad rap that I'm not even going to try to attempt) that they could use them to practice aim and accuracy, see no harm in it, they took the weapons and left.
When they got down to the first floor and went out the door, they found Gaara and the triplets waiting for them, "Naruto, where have you guys been, we've been looking all over for you guys," said Gaara.
"Yeah nii-san, we've been ready for almost, uh... how long have we been ready?" Menma counted on his fingers for a second, because Shukaku had taught him how to read the time on a clock and not the position of the sun yet.
Kohaku facepalmed because Kurama had taught him how to tell time from the sun, "almost two hours."
"Two hours! I could have sworn it was way longer than that!" Menma yelled.
Neko sighed at his brother's antics, "Naru-nii, what on your back?" He asked looking at his big brother.
"Hm? Ah! This is something for Gaara to use," Naruto said turning to Gaara.
"F-for me?" Gaara asked because he's never gotten presents or gifts before now, Naruto nodded and handed over the gourd, "I-I don't know what to say, thank you," he said with tears in his eyes.
Naruto scratched the back of his head, "aww Gaara, you know you make the cutest faces when you cry," he somewhat tested the redhead.
Gaara blushed with the tears in his eye, "sh-shut up...I'm not cute," his voice got softer at the end as he pouted, unknowing of how cute it was to Naruto, Hinata, and everyone else in the group.
"KAWAII!!!" Squealed Hinata as she wiped out her camera and started taking pictures of the adorable pout.
"Ack! Stop blinding me with your camera!" Gaara said shielding his eyes.
"Stop blinding us with your cuteness!" Naruto and Hinata said at the same time while everyone giggled,
"So, since everyone is here, let's head off to Kumo, B, you said there will be something there that would help us across the water?" Kurama asked.
"No doubt, no doubt, it's a flip and a swim, this ship doesn't sink, yeah" Killer B rapped causing everyone else to sweatdrop.
"Riiiiight, so there's most likely a boat at the docks waiting to take us to Kumo once we get there, is that right?" Shukaku asked, somehow understanding what B said.
B nodded, "okay let us get a move on, we're burning daylight."
"Oh no, the sun is burning, hold on Sun, we're coming," Menma yelled with anime tears coming down his face, he was about to take off in the wrong direction when Naruto whacked on the head making said boy pass out.
Naruto sighed as he picked up the down boy, "Shika, please make a list of all the things that I may need to beat into my little brother's head before he can become a hyperactive knucklehead. Hyperactive I can stand, knuckle-head, I don't think so," he said slightly irritated, "seriously, what happened to this kid when I wasn't with him? It's like he must have fallen on his head when he was a baby or something." Unbeknownst to Naruto, after the triplets were born, Kushina had accidentally dropped Menma was he was only three months old, it was only through his Uzumaki blood and his parents being ninja's that the kid didn't die right then and there. "We might as well get going while he's asleep." The group nodded and got on there way, they made it to the docks in three days, there was a boat that would take them to Kumo, they were to reach Kumo within three weeks, but the winds were in their favor so they made it to Kumo in no less than two weeks.
The rikage, when everyone arrived, planned a feast and a tour around the village, he showed them where the ninja academy was, they went out for Longo's and tea, Nnaruto's number one favorite (ramen is his second favorite). They walked around some more, upon entering the shopping district, they stopped at a few stores to get everyone some new clothes. Hinata was so happy to finally get out of boy's clothes that she charged into each store so fast that it rivaled Minato's famed jutsu, the Flying Thunder God. Everyone raced to catch up with her, she was like a tornado as she went through the store, but she made sure that she never left a mess. It became clear that shopping for cute things was Hinata's other weakness, aside from taking pictures of cute moments. Once Hinata was done looking for things for herself, she proceeded to shop for everyone else, she 'certified' all the boys, and helped Kurama look for things to 'to look professional' for the rikage, as he put it, Hinata knew what he meant.
When everything was done, they went up to the rage's office to quickly finish the paperwork needed. Somewhere along the way Kurama and E had disappeared for almost an hour before coming back to the office, Kurama's clothes were rumpled while his hair was a little messy, E walked in with a smile on his face while Kurama was slightly blushing. Naruto and Shika could only guess what happened between the two, Shika more than Naruto since he forgot the experience he had that day in the ally way, but he still had a pretty good idea. Mainly because he had walked in on them once while they were still in Uzu before the rikage and A left, Naruto had shuddered at the memory. By the time they left the office, Naruto, Hinata, Gaara, Haku, Menma, Kohaku, Neko, Shikamaru, and Shukaku were the younger brothers and sister of A, Killer B, and Yuugito Nii, and the sons and daughter of E and Kurama, while Kibo and Jin were the family pets.
Kurama and E just decided that they might as well try the married life since they could not keep their hands off of each other, when they told the kids, no one was surprised, Kurama mopped in the corner because he wanted it to be a surprise but got over it. However, he got over it when he announced that he was pregnant during dinner, it shocked everyone but Hinata, because she already was told while they were shopping, they were so shocked that they froze, they were frozen long enough for Hinata to get up from the table, set up a timer on her camera, and get back to the table in time to take a group photo of everyone's reaction. She then took a selfie with her and Kurama pointing to the rikage, indicating that he was the father, the second f
"What?!" Everyone had yelled at the expecting fox man.
Kurama gave them a big smile, "yep, I'm having your little brother or sister."
Naruto looked at E and Kurama, "uh, Kurama....um" he said as E started come out of his shock.
"Yes, kit, what is it?" Kurama asked.
"Does this mean that you're our Mama now, Papa?" Neko asked the question his brother was trying to ask himself.
"Uh, in a way, yes, but you can still call me Papa, if you don't mind," Kurama said.
Neko smiled brightly, "okay Mama!" He said then went back to eating.
A was at a loss for words, so bespoke instead, "brothers and sisters, a hearts delight, with a new mom, my night takes flight, fool ya fools," he rapped with a smile.
"Mhm, this is good news, we should celebrate with cake!" Shukaku said, mostly because he wanted cake, everyone stared at him for a minute.
"I'll make it!" Naruto said rushing off from the table to the kitchen.
"I'll help!" Shika said running off after Naruto.
"We'll help too!" Said the triplets.
"Party in the kitchen, yeah yeah," B said following the kids into the kitchen.
Hinata gasped as she watched them go, "the triplets may make a mess, I have... no!" She shot up from her seat with her camera in hand, "I MUST CATCH IT ON CAMERA!" Then she ran off into the kitchen.
Haku looked at Gaara, they shrugged their shoulders, "might as well join them."
Shukaku jumped ten feet into the air, "Cake!" He yelled and dashed into the kitchen in mid-air, defying the laws of gravity.
A shook his head as he stood up, "and where are you going son?" Asked E.
"I'm going to make sure that they don't burn anything down or blow something up with all the people that went in there," A said as he walked over to the door that led to the kitchen. "Oh and dad," A turned to look at his father.
"Yes, son?" E asked.
"Try not to make another one before this group graduates the academy," A said knowing that it wasn't possible.
E grinned and chuckled, he put a hand over Kurama's, making said man blush, "that's a tall order son, but we'll try."
A hung his head knowing that would have been the answer, "figures," he said walking into the kitchen with a rain cloud over his head. The first thing he saw when he walks into the kitchen, was B teaching Menma and his brother how to rap, he sighed, the older sibling responsibilities were all on him now. The two left at the table laughed at his misfortune since they heard the bad rapping.
Back in Konoha
1 Year later
Naomi had been asking around for where her brother was, but no one had seemed to notice that he wasn't there, no one but Narumi. A month after searching the village for Narut, because they knew that he didn't have any training by his parents to escape the village by himself, and Shikamaru barely had any clan training himself. Once the month came to an end, they decided to get the Hokage, Minato, involved. He had quite the shock after giving birth to his newest kids, something went wrong with the seal, not in a bad way, no, it was all good, however, after giving birth to what he thought would have been twins again, he got a set of quadruplets! Minato was happy to have so many at one time, but he was mad at the same time, it turns out that for the seal he used not only can meld three people's DNA to make one child, there was also a very high chance for multiple births. He thought it would be just two or three, but not four! What made him mad was the fact that Kushina knew that he would be having so many and planned for it, he was so mad that he hadn't talked or slept with Kushina for a whole year after the four babies were born. Now that it's been a year, he started talking to Kushina again, but he still refused to sleep with her, whether it be in the same room or bed, his trust of her sexually was very low still. The two had also been so busy trying to take care of the quadruplets that they just barely made it to an hour of sleep at night, which made them kinda delirious most of the time, Inoichi had to come over to give them a mental health check a few times to make sure that it was because of the babies and not because of something else.
Shio, M.j., and Ryu tried to help them out as much as they could when they were off of missions. Minato had even started commissioning new genin squads to take some of the responsibilities so he could get at least two hours of sleep. He had just cried one day when he saw the first genin team that would take the first shift, not to mention he had worshiped Kakashi when he got all four babies to stop crying for an hour. An Hour! Minato was too happy that he broke down in front of his former student crying as he watched the scene play out, he thought it was a genjutsu, even if it was he didn't, they were quite. When Kakashi saw his former sensei crying, he felt uncomfortable, it was weird to see a grown man cry, but then he put the tired my to bed and went on his way, Narumi remembered that day well. She had walked in on her dad crying on the floor, a man with gravity-defying hair trying to get him to stop, it was the weirdest scene that she had ever walked in on, so doing what any other sensible person would do, she slowly back out of the room to let the thing play out. From that day on, genin teams had been going to the house to take care of her little brothers and sister, she thought about her new siblings for a minute, she thought that they were the cutest things on the earth, but she didn't like all the attention they were getting. Her father had three boys and one girl this time around:
Kaji, a boy, blond hair, blue eyes like their father.
Ami, a girl, blond hair, blue eyes look like their mother's face.
Arashi, a boy, blond hair, green eyes like their mother but with his other father's face.
and Inojin, blond hair, green eyes, and look the other father.
Narumi didn't know why two of the quadruplets looked like Inoichi, but she didn't bother to ask because she knew that he had wouldn't hurt her mom like that. When they told Minato that Naruto couldn't be found within the village, he looked at them as if they had lost their marbles, he called all of his available ANBU and told them to look for his son.
Flashback
"Is everyone here? Good, I want all of you to go out and find my son," Minato said, the ANBU in front of him hesitated for a second, which he noticed, "what's wrong?"
"Uhm, Lord Hokage, forgive my rudeness but, which one of your sons would you like us to track done for you? Seeing as how one of them is here with us right now," said an ANBU with a cat mask.
Minato blinked for a moment in surprise, he squinted his eyes at the ANBU members who were in front of him, he had just woken up when he called them here so his brain was still half asleep from all the lack of pills. He also couldn't take coffee in any form because his Namikaze pregnancy bloodline wouldn't allow him to, this added to the ever-growing hatred he had for said bloodline, subconsciously he growled out making some of the ANBU go on the defensive, he liked coffee now more than ever since the triplets were born. "Naruto, I want you to find, Naruto."
"Do you have a picture we can go off of?" Asked dog mask guy.
Minato growled again, "blond hair, with curls, whisker marks on his cheeks have blue and green eyes, somewhat looks like a girl for some reason, and HAS THE YANG HALF OF THE KYUUBI SEALED WITHIN HIM!!! HOW do you NOT know what he LOOKS LIKE?! Yelled the hormonal Namikaze in rage while leaking massive amounts of KI.
Dog-san bowed his head, "my apologies, Lord Hokage, we just haven't seen much of him since he turns three, sir."
"Stop apologizing and LOOK FOR MY SON!" Minato yelled.
Yes, sir!" Said the ANBU before disappearing
Kushina came in then, "Minato, you shouldn't get so worked up, it's n-"
"Oh shut up Kushina, I want to calm down but I can't, you want to know why? Because my systems are overflowing with hormones from caring FOUR FUCKING CHILDREN for nine damn months, going through twenty-one-hour labor, and the mere fact that I can't have caffeine for a whole other YEAR because-"
"HAY! Don't blame this on me! I'm not the one who forced you to spy-"
"NO! You were just the one who got me and Inoichi super drunk, then you drugged us up, making sure you gave HIM something to make him RAPE ME!"
Kushina gasped at the accusation, "where's your proof?!"
"I have at least four up stars and two more being tested in the lab, don't test me Kushina, I'M, NOT. THE ONE," Minato then stopped out of the room, leaving behind a fuming Kushina, a confused Narumi, and an unconformable Yoshino, seeing as how they had been there the whole time.
Flashback end
Six months later, they still had no leads, they expanded their sear further out, they hadn't gotten anything yet. Now it's been a whole year since Narumi noticed that her brother wasn't really on strike, she had entered the academy almost seven months ago now, she was wondering when they would find her brother, or if they ever would. "Poor otuoto, he must be so lonely and cold out there all on his own, I hope that nothing bad had happened to him," thought Narumias she stared out her window.
The week after Naruto and the others had arrived in Kumo
A month and 1 week since they left Konoha
After a week of being in Kumo, taking in the sites, going out to eat at the local restaurants, buying things for the new baby and planning a wedding between Kurama and E, because Hinata always wanted to go to a wedding. The others were wasn't interested at first, but after thinking about how much of a family were becoming, the wedding would seal the deal, so they helped out. Naruto and Shikamaru were on food and cake duty, Haku took care of the seating arrangement, with help from A, B was charged with getting the music set up, but he could only do one rap performance at the wedding, the triplets were on decoration duties, with help from Shukaku, under the watchful eye of Kurama. Hinata was the flower girl, Yugito was the maid of honor, A was the best man while be would groomsman, Shukaku would give Kurama away as the bride, E was the groom of course, Neko would be the ring-bearer because Menma was too hyper to stay still and Kohaku was scared of big crowds, and everyone else would just be there taking pictures to savor the moment. Now, as ninja's, they did jutsus like multi shadow clone jutsu and earth style jutsu so they could lessen the amount of time it took to set things up for the wedding, it took them a total of a month and a half to get everything ready for the event.
It was now the day of the wedding, it was set up for late in the evening around sunset, Haku and Hinata had both agreed that Kurama would look great in the light of the setting sun. The groom wore the traditional black kimono and gray hakama, but instead of black it was a dark green to match his eyes, the best man the groomsman wore a dark orange version of that outfit, the maid of honor wore a bright orange traditional kimono that faded into a bright yellow at the bottom. Her obi was white with a red string going around the middle with a patter of paw prints going in a diagonal line up to the obi. The flower girl wore a light pink kimono in the same style as the maid of honor, but hers was faded into white towards the bottom with a pattern of butterflies, the ring-bearer had the same set of clothes as the others, but he was a light red the triplets all had on the same colors. It was getting close to the time for the wedding to start so everyone took their seats, meaning close family and friends of E, A, and B, plus the few friends that Naruto and the others had made since coming to Kumo and their families. It wasn't a full room, but good enough for them to be happy with the turnout.
Hinata had someone there to take pictures of everything while she was doing her part in the resection, she wanted to the one to take pictures, but Kurama widdled her down to do it after. After a minute, the music started playing and it was time for the bride to come out, Shukaku came out first wearing a darker version of the kimono that the girls were wearing, but his a dark purple with swirling wind patterns in a diagonal line, his hair had somehow grown out all the way down to his mid-back which allowed him to style it into a tasteful bun. A purple flower holding it in place, as he walked out there whispers of 'she looks good', not knowing that the 'she' they were talking about was a guy. Next came Kurama, he wore a show-stopping bright red and orange kimono that was so long it trailed behind him a little, his slippers were half a foot tall, black with red straps, E was still taller than him though. He wore a white long-sleeved jacket that flowed around him as he walked, (think of the captions jacket from bleach but much longer) it showing yellow on the inside. It stretched down to the floor to trail behind him for a good two and a half feet, where it was being held by Kohaku and Menam, holding up a corner of the jacket, respectively and had a light orange nine-tailed fox one is surrounded by butterflies of every color of the rainbow. Kurama's hair was always long, but today it was longer, almost reaching his waist now, the top half was pulled into a professional bun held by two chopsticks sticking out towards the left side and a golden bell was hanging from one, while the rest of his hair flowed around him in waves of red.
Naruto, Shikamaru, Gaara, and Haku stood around with everyone else as well, E thought that it wasn't right for them to put in so much work to not be apart of everything they worked for. So, Shikamaru and Gaara stood next to B, matching his clothes, while Naruto and Haku were forced into wearing kimonos by Hinata, Naruto's kimono was a baby blue that faded into white, with paw prints. Haku's kimono was a darker pink than Hinata's, fading into white with butterflies, his hair was wrapped into a bun and covered by a pink cloth that matched his clothes, while Naruto's hair was pulled back into a curly pony that looked like a curly bun.
Kurama made it to the altar, he turned and gave his brother a quick hug before turning back to the guy that was going marry the fox off to the rikage, "who here gives this bride away?"(I don't know how they get married in Japan, so we're doing it American style, kinda).
"I do," said Shikaku, his voice had managed to change into a feminine one for this occasion, A was still a little freaked out that Shukaku could do that at will.
The guy nodded, "very well," (I also haven't been to many weddings in my life so bear with me)
Shukaku gave his brother another hug before going to his seat, E held out his hand to Kurama, who took it and helped him up the two steps. When he was standing next to E, Kohaku and Menma took there place next to Neko, who was in front of Naruto. The marring guy read some stuff from his book and then asked for vows, "do you have anything you would like to say to each other at this time?" They nodded, "then you may speak now."
E started, "Kurama, I know that we haven't known each other very long, but I feel as though we have known each other for a thousand years," some of the kids held back their giggles at the irony. Kurama gave them a sharp look, they shut up and E continued, "where ever you have been all my life, I wish I had been there with you, to help you through the lone times. The sad times, to be your light when it got dark, and to never leave your side, even when I die. I love you and I'm grateful I have finally found you."
Then it was Kurama's turn, "E, our time may have been short, but I know our lives will be long and filled with happiness. I know that there will never be a dull moment," someone in the crowd whispered 'with that many kids, she'll wish for a dull moment'. Kurama heard this with his enhanced hearing and smiled, "and if times do get dark, then we'll stumble around together," some of the kids in the crowd giggled at the thought of the rikage stumbling around in the dark.
The marrying guy nodded once the vows were down, "very well, do you, Lord Rikage, take Kurama Kitsune, to be your wedded wife?"
"I do," said E.
"And do you, Kurama Kitsune, take Lord Rikage, to be your wedded husband?"
"I do," said Kurama.
"Then by the power vested in me, I now pronounce you man and wife, you may now kiss the bride."
"No tong, sis, there are children present!" Shukaku said chuckling from the crowd, everyone laughed.
"Hmph, it's not your wedding, is it?" Kurama said in a huff before turning back to kiss E, with a tong, the kids in the room went 'eww' before E and Kurama finally parted lips.
The after-party started soon after, B did his "Enka Rap" for all to hear, without being interrupted for once, it started badly as usual, but towards the end, it started to sound good. Either that or their ears had just got broken by how much bad rapping they were exposed to. The cake that Naruto and Shikamaru made looked like the best wedding cake in the world, so good that words could not describe it, after one bit, Naruto and Shikamaru were offered jobs at bakeries as well as requests for other events like, birthday parties, sleepovers, or more weddings. The two were so overwhelmed by the requests that their mother and father, the newly married Kurama and E, had to save them, E told the crowd that any request that is being made must be made at least one day in advance. Hinata was offered a job to take pictures at events and such, she was thrilled to do it, Haku and Gaara were approached to become event planners, Haku accepted as well as Gaara. However, everyone was made aware that the jobs would all be part-time because E had already enrolled them into the ninja program, which started the following week after the wedding.
3 years later: Kumo
Shikamaru, Naruto, Hinata, Gaara: 11
Haku and Yuugito: 12
Menma, Neko, Kohaku: 6
It has been a wonderful four years living in Kumo, Naruto, Hinata, Yuugito, Haku, Gaara, and Shikamaru all entered the academy and had lots of fun there. Menma, Kohaku, and Neko all started their training after their third birthday, they just couldn't wait until the four to start. Unlike the academy in Konoha that would teach history for about two years with some sparing mixed in before getting to the good stuff, in Kumo's academy they would learn useful things like ninjutsu, genjutsu, taijutsu, kenjutsu, and about different weapons that can be used in different ways and how to use them. They also learned how to make explosives by adding chakra to the mix, Shikamaru and Naruto took a real shine to make explosions since they like making things, they became master bomb makers after they turned nine. Everyone called them The Bomber Brothers, they also discovered the art of painting to be cool as well, but their canvas was always much bigger than some piece of paper, no most of the time they would paint a large area that wasn't being used that day. It usually ended up being an unused training field, the next day when someone comes to train, they were greeted by the beautiful sight of Shika and Naru, it was so beautiful that most of the time people would try to find another area to use to train, but by the end of the third year, all training grounds were hit, although the duo told everyone that they could still train there because the paint would have dried by now.
Some people didn't think they should, but when a few people actually took their word for it, they found a surprise waiting for them, under the paint were seals filled with traps and weapons that would refill/reset themselves at the end of the day and switch locations every few hours so the attacks weren't predictable. When the news spread about the painted training field improvements, all the training grounds were in use again in no time flat. Hinata always made sure to get pictures of their art before the training grounds were used again, adding it to the scrapbook collection. Naruto and Shikamaru's creative skills in the kitchen and with the bombs were highly regarded as the best of the best, they could make any kind of food or bomb, paint, gas, flash, pepper, stink, explosive? You name it, they can make it, their work was so good that people started to request their bombs as much as their food, Hinata even came up with a cute way to let people know what bomb was what, and the duo agreed to teach some of the students that were interested in bomb-making to improve their fighting style. Speaking of Hinata, she was given the name of Sneaky Eye because of how she could take pictures of people doing something, whether it be ordinary or ninja related, she got them on camera wherever they tried to hid. She even invented the camera, with some help of Naruto, Shikamaru, and Gaara, she made a camera that worked with some chakra and her byakugan, she named it Peek-a-Boo, because no matter where that person hid, she found them.
The great thing about Peek-a-Boo was that it helped with her weakness, in fact, it would help with all byakugan users. It was a well-kept secret that the bone that sticks out in the back of everyone's neck is a Hyuuga's one blind-spot, it was a small blind spot, but a weakness none the less. If a person was able to get an arrow to hit that one spot, they would win the fight, BUT with Peek-a-Boo, Hinata could put chakra into the camera, the chakra would fall around her acting as not only a barrier but as an extension of her eyes. With this camera in play, as long as there is chakra in the camera, and it's activated, Hinata wouldn't even need to use her byakugan on a faraway enemy, it's was only in close-quarter combat that they would need it. Not to say that the camera wasn't perfect, it was, but it was like a water bottle, once the water is gone, it's gone until you can refill it, but other than that, the camera was very useful for scouting. A person could go to sleep with the camera on and still be able to see what was happening in the world around them, this mode is a specialty that Hinata thought us when she found out about Gaara not being able to sleep because his seal was purposefully faulty, the term "sleep with one eye open" came to her mind and she thanked Gaara for giving her the idea.
This model of the camera was put into play once the user of the camera went into REM sleep, after putting chakra into the camera so it would allow the person to see all around them, all the user has to do is fall asleep and the camera would extend the barrier outwards in a dome-like shape. Also, if the user wanted, she could take the stress off her eye, because this mode does tier someone's eyes out after a few hours in this mode, but only if it's it been more than five hours, if she allows someone from her team take over the next five house, then her eyes won't feel tired when she wakes up. The way this works is that the person that Hinata chooses would be allowed temporary but also full use of the camera until she wakes up, she called this mode, The Sandman's Eye, because of Gaara, who is the only other person that she allows full use of the camera's functions when needed. But Hinata is not the type to just allow a camera to do all the work for her, no! While they were in their first year at the academy, she was placed into her first real taijutsu match with someone that wasn't either a Hyuuga, or a member of her new family, she had lost the match and that prompted her to train her taijutsu skills further than it already was at that point, she also took up other taijutsu styles until she made up her style which she calls Hidden Fist. The Hidden Fist technique was a style that involved speed, agility, and some acrobatics, it sues fast movements to strike and disable a person, it could also be used for attack, turning all the disabling hits into deadly ones. Those foolish enough to get this girl mad would regret it soon enough, and let's not forget her gunbai skills.
Along with her taijutsu skills, jujutsu, ninjutsu, kenjutsu, even though she doesn't use a sword that much to fight she still knows a thing or two about it, and also small know-how on genjutsu, her skill with a gunbai was legendary. After coming to Kumo and settling in, Hinata went to the library to find books on gunbai fighting techniques, she found a small array of them, much to her displeasure, so she read what she could on the matter and made her style. She became well known around the village, and even outside the village whenever she went on missions, as The Heavenly Winds Gunbai user, it was after one rough mission that suddenly changed from an easy C-ranking to a whopping almost S rank mission with Killer B and A as her only back up. They were outside the village escorting some rich guy to the land of tea, which was very far away from Kumo, but the guy had come from a conference and already had an attempt on his life since Kumo was closer than Konoha, he went there. Hinata was curious about going and did the puppy dog eye thing to get E to let her go. E knew about how good she was getting, but he also knew that she didn't want to go back to Konoha since the Hokage had finally noticed that not just his son was missing, but others were too, after a whole year I might add. So E let her go on this mission, even though they would be passing through Fire Country, but he made her promise to wear a cloak and mask so her identity wouldn't be accidentally discovered, Hinata agreed to these terms as long as she got a cute mask. While on this mission, that would take near a month to complete because the rich dude was the type of civilian to just stop and look at just about everything they passed, Hinata taking pictures wasn't helping much, they wouldn't get to their destination as soon as A would have liked. But A wasn't worried about how long the mission would take after they had been ambushed by twice by over a dozen bandits and crossed paths with a group of head hunters, they made it out of there alive thanks to the team efforts of A, Killer B, and Hinata aka The Angel of Death, or just H Wing for short.
It was only her second year at the academy, but with all the training that he saw all of them put in, not just Hinata, to get them this far, he thought that she deserved to see the outside walls of the village. The other kids pouted about it until he gave them missions as well, plus a mask of there choosing because both Konoha and Suna were looking for the runaway kids, Haku also got a mask but mainly because the others persuaded him to take one. They all went on a mission that started from D rank, some went up to C or B rank, and there was one that turned into a SS rank with all of them there, except for Shukaku, the triplets, and their newborn sister, Maya. This mission, E had a feeling that he would die on this mission, he thought that he would break his promise he made to Kurama about being there by his side forever, he thought that he wouldn't be able to see A take his hat, or see Naruto take the hat after. He thought he wouldn't see the day that Hinata and Haku finally realize that they like each other, even though it was clear to everyone else that Haku liked the girl and she liked him back, He thought he wouldn't see the day that Gaara finally confessed his true feelings to Naruto, even though the boy was smart, he clueless in love. He thought that he wouldn't see the day that Menma, Neko, Kohaku, or even Maya enter the academy to follow in their brother's and sisters' footsteps, he thought he wouldn't see the day that Yuugito finally found to one she could fall in love with. And he thought he wouldn't see the day that all of his kids climbed the ranks from genin to chunin, to jonin and maybe even split up into special jonin or enter the ANBU ranks to protect the village as he had.
He thought all this and more with a heavy heart, there was an arm of Iwa ninja's closing in on their location. They had come out of nowhere and the chances of escaping with his family seemed slim, he had turned to them, intending to say his final goodbye's to them when he saw...