Naruto:Making Of A Hokage

A Shaky Alliance

"You ready?" Naruto's asked loudly enough for Ino to hear on their bedroom. He was in the living room getting ready to travel to Whirlpool by laying out a couple of large scrolls on the floor.

"I think we have everything..." Ino trailed off when seeing the condition the living room was in.

The couches were lazily moved aside, as was the coffee table currently standing against a wall. To say that Naruto cared about anything breaking would be like saying that he did not like ramen. It was no wonder why his old apartment was rarely clean.

"Hey Naruto."

"Hm?"

A tick mark formed on her forehead at his casual tone, "You better clean all this up when we get back!"

He waved a hand dismissively, "Don't worry, I'll have the clones-"

"Don't even think about it," Ino interrupted in a scolding tone, "You're relying too much on the clone jutsu to take care of chores. From now on you better stop that, otherwise you'll get lazy."

"B-But I train all the time!"

"You like to train though," she responded before raising a finger, "Tell me, when was the last time you cleaned without using clones?"

Naruto tried to argue but the words died in his throat when he realized that she was completely right. In his defense, anyone that could summon so many clones would probably do the same thing. Not only were clones huge time savers when it came to cleaning and other annoying stuff, but they always organized stuff the way he wanted them to.

But he had to admit that the more he thought about it, the more his reasoning started sounding like a big excuse to not do those things himself. Maybe Ino had a point, besides what would the person who invented the jutsu think if he saw it being used for household chores?

Ino placed her hands on her hips, "From now on you won't use clones to help your chores, got it?"

"G-Got it," he answered with a hung head.

"Now that we got that out of the way tell me about how we're leaving the village," she decided to change the conversation to what was eating at her curiosity for a while. Earlier he had promised to tell her all about some jutsu he would use to make them leave the village undetected.

Naruto nodded while scanning the scrolls one last time just to make sure everything was perfect, if it wasn't then he could blow up half the living room. "Some time into my training with Jiraiya-sensei, he told me all about my heritage and taught me how to use the Fourth's signature technique... the Flying Thunder God Jutsu," his eyes showed a hint of longing as he continued to explain, "By using this we'll be able to teleport to a set of seals I told the others to place in Whirlpool."

Ino nodded absently, watching the scrolls in silent amazement as Naruto kept on talking.

"Still, just because I know how to use it doesn't mean I can use it like the Fourth did. When I use it it takes a while to prepare and takes a lot out of me, that's why I rarely use it. Hopefully it'll get easier with time and with the others helping share some of the load."

She took in his explanation and quietly watched as her boyfriend looked over the scrolls while her thoughts drifted away. Truth be told, leaving the village without consent to form an organization made up of some of the most important ninja of the respective villages they escaped from was, without much surprise, something that could land them in a large amount of trouble. Thankfully Tsunade trusted both of them enough not to bat an eye when they suddenly asked for a week off, not that she hadn't asked a couple of questions but it was played off as Naruto needing more time off and her wanting to be there for him.