Naruto Of The Shadow Clones

Chapter 58 Homecoming

Story Start: Hokage Office

Tsunade had a migraine. Rubbing her fingers at her forehead, the fingers coated in green healing chakra, she said skeptically "Aliens."

"Yep, aliens, hence the communication silence. Either you didn't believe us and sent another team to try and capture us so that way we could be sent to the looney bin or you DID believe us and the information inevitably gets leaked causing a panic." Naruto said.

Tsunade gave him a gimlet stare and said "Just so you know, because I can easily foresee that second one have happening in a shinobi village, causing a massive load of paperwork, you get off on the lack of communication this once. You pull that stunt again though and I WILL hogtie you three with your chakras sealed and toss you to the paper pushers for a month as their gofers."

Matto and Heza showed the appropriate levels of taking that threat seriously. Naruto, the almost certainly screw slightly loose nutcase that he was merely snickered a little while giving her a thumbs up.

Tsunade gave a deep sigh before she straightened and said "Alright, moving on from the aliens bit, you said you managed to grab some new tech for our forces?"

"The engineers on the Infinity have been working on reverse engineering a few flying machines we grabbed, Admiral Matsuki was given a newly completed warship we swiped right out of the shipyard the night before its crew was supposed to start boarding, oh, and I brought back a few alien corpses for study that had honest to sage cloaking devices on them."

Naruto tossed a sealing scroll to Tsunade who looked at it with intense interest for a moment before putting the scroll into her pocket. She would be doing the autopsy on those creatures personally.

Putting her attention back to the others, Tsunade nodded and said "Excellent, now Matto, I believe that it goes without saying that your 'S-class' explosive seal is NOT to be passed around and only used in times of war."

"Of course ma'am. The only other person who knows anything about its design is Naruto since it was his clones that placed them at their targets." Matto said with a nod.

"Good, keep it that way." Tsunade said. She opened her mouth to say something else before her head cocked. A moment later she smirked and said "Ooh Naruto, it seems your fiancé knows your back."

Naruto was already turning to the door of the office, having picked up the familiar chakra signature rushing through the building at the same time Tsunade had. Indeed, moments later the door was quickly thrown open and a lavender and cream blur shot into the room and practically slammed into Naruto, the blonde swaying backwards a bit with chakra sticking his feet to the floor keeping him and his 'attacker' up.

"Hey Hinata, I'm guessing you missed me?" Naruto asked with a grin.

"Yes!" Hinata said, squeezing Naruto even harder before she looked up at him with wide eyes and continued "I was so worried, no one's heard from any of you for SIX MONTHS! Rumors were flying around that you wouldn't be coming back!"

"Rumors of our demise have been greatly exaggerated my dear." Matto drawled causing Heza to snicker.

Hinata though glared at the two as she said "It's not funny! How would you feel if the person you're supposed to marry, his team, and an entire Leviathan class ship's crew disappeared for no known reason for half a year?!"