Legion of a ghost child

 Ever since Naruto, Shikamaru, Haku, Hinata, and Gaara came to Kumo, they've been singing new ways to improve themselves all the time. 

Since Shikamaru came to Kumo, he's found a deep passion for music that he never knew he had. His love for music was the only thing that could ever calm him down whenever he got the urge to blow things up, E quickly found this out and put him on the Kumo demolition team. Whenever, he did need to blow something up, E made sure Shikamaru had on a set of headphones that was specially designed just for him, created by Gaara and Naruto, and styled by Hinata to match his personality. Shikamaru had also Incorporated his love for music with the Nara clans Shadow Paralysis jutsus making it his own, he made a fighting style with it called Melody of the Shadows. With his specially made headphones, when he puts chakra in them, he could turn his favorite song into a weapon to use against his enemies. He even has a special jutsus he made that took his Shadow Stitching and turned it into a shadow sword,  this sword, if an enemy is hit by it, their hearing will go into hypersensitive, this was the gateway for Shikamaru so that he could filter out his music into their surrounded and blow out the enemy's eardrums. He would only have trouble doing this jutsus if the person was already def. This jutsu can also mess with a person's eyes, with a high enough pitch, he could make a person go blind temporarily.

Since Naruto came to Kumo, he also found a love for music, but not as deep as Shikamaru. Naruto had taken more to bomb things, but at a more controlled level than Shikamaru, Naruto mostly liked to use his bombs for painting and such. However, he still likes to blow things up for the fun of it, like Iwa's mad bomber Deidara, but he doesn't do it because "art is an explosion", no it's just fun for him, pluses it's a good stress releaser. Along with his many uses for bombs like Shikamaru, Naruto fell in love with The Demon Gantlets, since he had an affinity in all five elements, the gantlets became easier to use. Using all the skills and jutsus head leaned during all three years in Kumo, he managed to come up with his own style of fighting as well, calling it The Elemental Force. Although Naruto's two-colored eyes are not a normal sight to see, they are in fact normal, BUT since he started training with The Demon Gantlets, his eyes had changed. Without the gantlets on, his eyes were still seen as it's blue and green form, but with the gantlets on, his pupils slit to become more cat-like in appearance, after about a year of training with the gantlets, they stayed like that, giving him the ability to see further and with more details than the Byakugan. His eyes also had night vision, witch an make the darkest of nights look like a bright summers day, he named his eyes The Seeker, because they could also tell a person's chakra levels with one glance, and sometimes, when he felt like it, he could see through walls and stuff, no big deal. He named the gantlets Ashira, for his left one, and Indra, for his right one, because just like the two, they were him and yang.

With Hinata, after training with The Heavenly Winds Ganbai, her hair turned from a black with a purple-ish tint, to a silver-white. Her eyes turned a dark purple. (Plus everything I said in the last chapter) she also named her Ganbai Rubi.

Haku found a love for sealing, within two years he became a seal master, the other others liked sealing too, but only Haku, Kohaku, and Hinata mastered it. Haku also learned medical ninjutsu from the other Hinata (Kitsune), she taught him everything she knew on the subject, some even said that her knowledge rivaled that of slug sannin, Tsunade. Due to Haku having not only a water and wind affinity from his bloodline, he had a strong earth affinity as well, which some thought was odd but cool for him to have it. They decided to give The Angel Sword to him because his earth affinity was stronger than the others, except for Naruto, he was on a level with Naruto's own earth affinity. Like Hinata, Haku's hair changed color to a mix between silver and platinum blonde, depending on how the light is hitting him when you see him, his eyes also changed to a golden-amber type look, his eyes were once said to hypnotize a group of well-trained shinobi. Funny enough, after training with the Angel Sword for half the year, he gained that ability, E and Kurama figured that the weapons they got from Uzu was the cause for these changes and didn't freak out about it after they saw both Hinata and Haku's hair change, and along with Naruto, the three's eyes changing was less of a surprise. With Haku's sealing mastery, he became known as The Ghost Needle Caption, because he was able to draw place a seal anywhere that would quickly shoot out needles when a certain amount of chakra came near the seal. He named the sword Elsa because the cold never bothered him anyway (lol xD).

With Gaara, he found that using the new gourd that Naruto gave him from there time in Uzu, made it easier to carry around his sand that he usually uses, he has strong earth and wind affinity. Hinata also came up with the idea of putting a seal on his gourd that would make more stand for him to use in a battle, this seal would essentially gather up dirt and other things from the earth that could be turned into a stand. Gaara didn't go under a lot of physical changes during past three years, he mostly got a little taller and he grew his hair out, now it barely touched his shoulders, he also secretly named his Naru after the one who gave him said gourd. Pluses Gaara had sort of an obvious crush on said blonde, it was more obvious than Haku's crush for Hinata, but that's neither here nor there.

Their affinities:

Shikamaru- shadow, wind, water, and lightning.

Haku- water, wind, earth, and lightning.

Hinata- water, wind, lightning, and fire.

Gaara- wind, earth, and lightning.

Naruto- water, wind, earth, fire, lightning, and somehow shadow too.

During their second year, E and Kurama had another child, a boy, who they named J. The triplets, Kohaku, Neko, and Menma, all turned four and thus began their training with the help of Shukaku, A, Killer B, and others, there was never a dull moment in Kumo again after that. The trio learned all the basics first, tree walking and water walking, then they did the floating leaf exercise and the spinning kunai exercise. While Kurama couldn't get up and show them how everything was done, he did plan out a workout routine that would push everyone to their limits and then break those barriers down so they could go even further in their training. No one was spared from Kuramas's hellish workout plan, no one, not even E, and he's the damn rikage! By the end of the year, the triplets were able to walk on the ceiling, Naruto, Shikamaru, Hinata, Gaara-, and Haku could now fight two or three battles in a row with little rest if needed.

A big thing that happened after the first year in Kumo was a ritual called Blood Bonds. Kurama was the one who came up with the idea, it was like the regular bonding ritual that Naruto and Shikamaru did with Kibo and Jim respectively, only this bonding allowed two people to be related to each other by blood if the name didn't give it away already. However, this bonding could be dangerous of the two involved don't really care for each other or think of one another as family, if that were the case, one or both parties involved would be...erased. Thankfully that wasn't the case here. When the blood bonding was down those involved gained a lightening affinity, plus a nice tan look to there skin. Shikamaru, Haku, and Hinata's hair got a slight wave to it, and it got a little longer too, it now reached past his shoulders. Naruto's hair got less curly but was still very curly, his hair grew out to bounce around his shoulders and frame his face, which became more round and also got lighter. Gaara's hair turned a blood-red as it grew to his shoulders, both his and Haku's hair took on a silky texture, while Shikamaru, Hinata and Naruto's hair had a soft and flawless look to it. After the bonding, Menma and Kohaku's eyes took after Naruto and Nemo's eyes, one stayed blue or green, while the other changed to blue or green (because I forgot which eye colors I gave them XP), their hair also became just as curly as Naruto's with lighter shades for all three of them. Kurama also took part in the process, mostly to become their blood 'mother', with his DANA added to the mix, they all got a boost in their chakra reserves that went beyond any Uzumaki.

Back in Konoha

3 years after Naruto and the others left

it was... Well, it looked the same, but for the Namikaze family, things were... Chaotic. They had twelve children altogether, who told them to have so many, no one can say, but twelve was a large number to have concerning children and you weren't a teacher. This number was alarming to the other villagers when some of them stopped and counted all of them, some wondered how and why their Hokage managed to have so may running around. They wondered how it was possible for their Hokage to still keep seine when he had so many, and only three were old enough to take care of themselves or move out if they wanted to. One was a jonin, one was an ANBU, and the other just made chunin, and all three were swamped in mission requests, so they were barely ever home. The fourth oldest child was still in the academy and needed to focus on their training, which, by the way, wasn't seeing very much results. Four children were still too small to do anything on their own yet, and another four that the villagers hadn't seen in almost over three years. What was going on? It was no secret that Minato Namikaze was sanding people to his estate to take care of his four youngest, the civilian council had even called him on it.

Flashback

"Lord 4th, forgive me if I'm wrong, but couldn't you have just hired a Nanny to take care of your children while you complete your tasks as Hokage?" Asked one councilwoman with pink hair.

Minato was expecting this from her, she is a Haruno after all, nosey, noisy, and so pushy it's annoying. He mentally sighed, "yes I could have," he said.

"So why haven't you?" Asked the nosey Haruno.

"Because all of my children are ninjas, not civilians, ninja children need a different type of care than a civilian child. For example, since all ninja, young and old, have chakra, they can also release Killing Intent, even a child that is only two years of age could do so. Subconscious or not, they release Killing Intent none the less, seeing as a civilian can't handle too much-Killing Intent at once, and I have four who can produce it at a medium amount each, sending a civilian into that would be like putting an egg into boiling water. You know as well as I do that civilians can't handle that amount of pressure for long periods, yet you want me to send them into that anyway?" Minato questioned, hoping that the woman would let the meeting go on from there, but sadly, the Haruno became pushy.

The Haruno's didn't like to lose, especially when they thought they had a point. "No, no, Lord 4th, I was thinking more along the lines of sending in people on shifts, an hour at the most, then they give the reins over to the next person."

Minato nodded, "yes, even though that sounds like a good plan in vertical terms, but then we would have to deal with mental health checks. I assume you remember the last time I had a civilian watch just one of my children before, don't you?" The Haruno woman looked at Minato for a moment, hesitant, he assumed that she either didn't read the report or didn't believe it. Either way, he had to tell everyone, mostly the civilian side, about what happened to that one civilian who thought they could take care of a baby ninja. "The civilian was caught trying to draw my son, Naruto, in the family pool when he was just one year old. The time before that, another civilian that was taking care of Naruto and Narumi, had to be sent to Inoichi to get them out of a stress-related coma before we could send them to Ibiki for knowingly locking Naruto out of the house for half a day. By the time I got there, he was starving and covered in dirt, so forgive me for not wanting to expose my children to that, if there is a civilian out there that can withstand Killing Intent for days, I'll rethink my decision. If not, then my answer remains the same, is that clear, Miss Haruno?" He asked making said woman shut up and silently fume to herself, Minato smiled, "Good, now what's next on the agenda today?"

Flashback end

From that day on, no one questioned Minato on his use of the new genin teams being babysitters for his kids again, seeing as the civilians do it all the damn time anyway. Now then, here we find Narumi Namikaze training with her favorite perverted godfather, Jiraya, he was teaching her how to summon frog since he had her sign the contract a few months before her third year began. For almost four months now, Narumi was able to summon... A tadpole... That's it.

"Summoning jutsu!" Narumi shouted for about the third time that evening, but it had no doubt been more since that had just come back from lunch. A puff of smoke appeared and when it cleared, "YATTA! Finally!" She shouted out, punching her fist in the air.

Jiraya looked up from the Bush's that he was crouching behind, looking at the group of girls playing in the lake nearby, and looked at his student. "Hm? So you finally made a frog appear?" He asked walking over.

"Yeah, yeah, look it! See, a FROG!" She said with joy in her voice.

Jiraya took a look at the said frog, then he looked back at Narumi who had stared in her eyes, back to the frog, then back to Narumi, he sighed deeply and took out a large paper fan. He lifted it slowly then... WHACK, Narumi fell onto the ground with a huge bump on the back of her head, he was about to walk away when... "HAY!! ERO-JIJI WHAT'S THE BIG IDEA!" Yelled Narumi, her face was red in anger.

Jiraya calmly took a deep breath before turning to let it out, now facing Narumi again, the urge to snake the redhead again was too real. "I told you to make a frog, did I not?" He asked calmly.

Narumi nodded, "yeah and I did that, what's your point?"

Jiraya sighed again, something he's been doing a lot since he took the girl under his wing, "look, I get your all about getting stronger through hard work and all, but for Kami's sake girl, please, please, try just a bit harder."

Narumi growled at her sensei, "I am trying harder, what do you think I've been doing all this time?!" 

"OH, YOU HAVE, HUH? THEN TELL ME, WHAT IN YAMI'S NAME IS THAT?" Jiraya asked as he pointed at the ''frog''.

"HUH?!, HAVE YOU GONE BLIND OLD MAN? ITS A FROG JUST LIKE YOU TOLD ME!"

Jiraya spluttered, "a frog, a frog! The little girl I think you better go and get your eyes checked because that there Isn't a frog, it's a TADPOLE!"

Narumi stomped her foot, "nuh-uh! A tadpole has a head and a tail and looks like sperm, this one has legs! Therefore, it's not a tadpole, but a frog!"

Jiraya hit Narumi over the head again, "that is not a frog and you know it!"

And thus the fighting of who was right or wrong went on as the tadpole sweatdropped at the human's foolishness.

Back in Kumo around the same time, the rikage thought it fit to take his family out on a family mission. It was a simple B rank, all of them didn't even need to go, but since it was so important to him to spend time as much time as he possibly could with them since he's always in the office, went with them. The mission was to pick up and drop off some important royal people to some country. The royal people were honored that the 3rd rikage himself was leading the journey with them, they felt well protected with him there. They were skeptical about the children with him, but E assured them that his kids were very well trained in the arts of a ninja, the royal people took his word for it. The king and queen of the royal group had brought their kids with them, two princesses and a prince, the three kids got along great with Naruto and the others, the king was impressed because no one they had taking care of their kids back home could entertain their kids for the whole journey. Once the group reached their destination, the king and queen thanked them and promised to give more missions to Kumo as a show of their gratefulness. 

It was on the way back home that things got rough, and E almost died.

They were all having a good time talking about how they would celebrate the new influx of missions when suddenly Kurama sensed something off in the distance. He growled, "what's the matter sweetheart, do you sense an enemy approaching?" Asked E.

"No, not an enemy, but menu enemies, and their coming in fast," said Kurama turning to the direction of a mountain a good way away. Everyone was looking at the mountain now, first, they saw nothing, but then suddenly, an army appeared, they all looked to be Iwa ninjas.

R saw this and knew that he didn't want his family to get hurt, they may have been strong during their training, but they were only ten. He knew that he didn't want them to have their first kill here, not when they were so young, he also knew that he couldn't take on these ninjas alone, he might die if he fights. He was turning around to his family, to say his goodbyes, to tell them to run and don't look back, but when he turned he saw...

"Don't even think about it dad, we'll never leave you!" Said Naruto with definite eyes.

E looked to the others who agreed with Naruto, "no, no, you can't just throw away your lives when you're all so young! You have everything to live for, you have your whole lives, don't want them on senseless fighting here."

Everyone looked at each other as they stood there, Gaara walked over to E after a moment, the army was still a good ways away from them. "Father, before I met you, I thought I was supposed to love only myself, live only for my self, but you and everyone else had changed my way of thinking. For that, I thank you, all of you, you have taught me what it to be a human being and not the monster I thought I was."

Hinata walked up next, "I used to have a father that thought I was useless, he kept me weak for his gain, I was so lonely and depressed that I thought of ending my own life. But then I came here, I met you all, and now I don't feel useless anymore, so long as I'm alive, I'm going to continue being useful and be useless again."

Shikamaru took off his headphones and smirked, "give it up to pop's, we've all come here of our own will, we found a home in where we all feel loved and where we belong. There's no way that anyone of us is going to give that up, not our new home, and not our new family."

"Besides, the home would feel the same without you there, dad," said Haku. 

E heard a chick next to him, "come on honey, you know once they made up their minds, there's no changing it," Kurama said still looking at the wave of oncoming enemies. "So, instead of getting all this gooey heartfelt stuff out in the open, let's fight like a family."

E looked at all the determined looks he was getting and he gave up, he turned back to the fight that was fast approaching and sighed, "if A finds out about this, he's going to have a fit."

"Not unless you hand over that hat to him like you were planning to do when we got back," Kurama chuckled.

"Ah, you got me there, Kura-chan," E chuckled back, when the enemy got closer, yelled out. "All right kids, make me proud and show me how much you love your home!"

"Yes, sir!" They all yelled back.

"Charge!"