Naruto:Making Of A Hokage

Closer

' Crap! How could she improve just in one day!'
Naruto ducked under a punch aimed at his face, making himself a target for an incoming knee which he blocked by bringing up both hands to protect himself. He was stronger physically so it was easy for him to push the opponent's knee down before leaping away from the girl who was now standing with a smirk on her face.
"What's the matter Shithead? It's almost like you're too slow for me now," Tayuya crossed her arms and scoffed, "You're lucky this is not a real fight."
Naruto grinned. "That's a lot of talk from someone that fainted after a bit of sparring," he teased, making the girl blush in embarrassment before growling in rage. He chuckled before dropping into a taijutsu stance, now feeling more at ease to show a bit of his style, "Alright, I guess I'll kick it up a notch."
The former Sound ninja knew that he wasn't kidding as he was upon her in seconds. She managed to react just in time to block an incoming strike to her chest but realized she had set herself up for a kick at her side. A grunt escaped her lips, her side crying out in pain but she didn't let up and immediately retaliated with a punch aimed at his face.
Naruto ducked under the punch, throwing a hand forward to feint a strike. Tayuya fell for the feint, leaving herself open which he took advantage of and struck her stomach with his other hand, knocking the wind out of her and making her stagger backwards. He remained in a battle stance, knowing better than to lower his guard against such a stubborn person.
Tayuya glared at the Konoha ninja and charged in, swinging her right arm to deliver a punch to his face but he easily sidestepped. Now left exposed and with Naruto having a clear chance to hit her stomach once again, she did it. She made something so horrifyingly bad that she wished to die right there and then.
She let out a quiet whimper.
Naruto's eyes were wide in disbelief as the girl came to a stop right next to him, her head lowered and fists shaking. Of all the things to expect from such a hardened former Sound ninja, a whimper was not something the blond was expecting, so he did the only reasonable thing.
He laughed.
"Shut up already!" Tayuya roared in rage as the blond ninja clutched his stomach with tears in his eyes.
"But… But…" Naruto tried to speak but couldn't as he broke into a fit of laughter.
The former Sound ninja glared and delivered a hard punch at the blond's stomach, making his breath hitch in his throat as he continued to clutch his stomach but now for different reasons.
"W-What the hell was that?" Naruto glared as he held his stomach in pain.
Tayuya crossed her arms, foot tapping rapidly, "That's for laughing at me." She inched closer to Naruto and gripped his neckline tightly, "Nobody finds out about this. Understand?"
"No problem," he smiled, not feeling threatened.
With that settled, she let him go and took a few steps back, eyes still blazing in fury, "Good."
Naruto's gaze softened as he looked at the former Sound ninja that was avoiding his gaze and had the remains of an embarrassed blush on her cheeks.
"I think I was a bit too hard on you, sorry."
"Don't apologize Shithead," Tayuya replied with a frown, "I'd rather have you fight me seriously than take it easy. It means you see me as what I am, a kunoichi."
He grinned in return though he wasn't entirely happy with what she had taken to call him, "It's around noon now and I haven't eaten anything. Wanna go get some ramen? I'm paying since I'm that good of an escort."
She scoffed, "Fine I'll go but you're still an ass."
He chuckled in return before leading the way.
Ino sighed as she tended after her family's flower shop. It wasn't that she was upset about being asked to look after it, but she wanted to spend more time with Naruto. The two hadn't really seen each other since their date and what the two had experienced made her feel agitated.
She had wondered if he didn't like something about her after being so intimate with each other but she quickly dismissed the thought. The guy had been a flustered mess after she left his apartment that morning. Looking back, she had been completely relieved to arrive at her home to find her parents still asleep. It had been wrong to just leave for the whole night so she figured that she'd tell her mom of her absence if it happened again, she was a lot more lenient than her dad after all.
Her thoughts were interrupted by the chime of the store's bell. "Welcome, how are you doing today?" She instantly put on a smile, expecting a customer only to see Sakura looking at her with a grin.
"Good to see you're actually polite Ino," Sakura began in a teasing tone, "Who knew it was possible?"
Ino rolled her eyes, "What are you doing here?"
"I heard you were back and figured that I'd come visit you," she admitted before glancing around the store curiously, "Where's Naruto anyway? I figured he'd be with you."
"Don't remind me," Ino muttered a bit too bitterly for her liking.
A bit of worry showed on the medic ninja's face as she approached the store's counter, "Don't tell me you two got in a fight?"
"Of course not," she replied instantly. "I just…" she bit her lip before deciding it was okay to confide in her best friend, "Well… Naruto and I pretty much reached a new level in our relationship."
"Oh," Sakura nodded before understanding flashed on her face, "Oh!"
"Yeah," Ino leaned against the counter, worry showing on her features, "It was great and I don't regret it but we haven't seen each other since then. I really want to see him but I haven't had the chance. Every time I go to his apartment, it's empty."
Sakura frowned, "That idiot…" She couldn't understand why her teammate would just avoid his girlfriend like that, it wasn't like he had - She slapped a hand to her face, remembering something that she hadn't paid much attention too, "I can't believe I forgot about it."
"Forgot what?"
"Naruto's on a mission right now," she responded with a slight grin, "Lady Tsunade told me that he was on a mission that would take up a lot of his time without him really leaving the village. That's probably why he hasn't seen you yet."
Ino smiled, feeling relieved, "I guess it makes sense that he was put on a mission after becoming a Jounin."
"He's a Jounin?" Sakura let out in surprise.
"Of course," Ino smirked, "He's my boyfriend after all, it's no surprise that he would be a Jounin so quickly."
"For your information he was already a good ninja before he dated you."
Ino looked away defiantly, "As if. It wasn't until I was there to kick him into shape that he began to improve. I even got him to get rid of that orange jumpsuit."
Sakura smiled in return. She couldn't argue with that.
Sasuke frowned as he glanced at the approaching Orochimaru and his follower. They were in the middle of a large field so they were highly visible, so much in fact that he could notice something different about the much older man. That thing being the traces of white on his hair. He dismissed the thought though, figuring that the man was aging.
"It's been some time, Sasuke," Orochimaru greeted with a smirk on his face.
The Uchiha scoffed and crossed his arms before nodding at the snake summoner, "Orochimaru."
"It seems I'm pressed for time at the moment," Orochimaru began, "We have to keep on moving. I assume you have no problem with that?"
"Of course not," Sasuke responded flatly.
Kabuto approached the two with a polite smile, "If we move a bit faster, we'll get there before sundown."
"Very well," Orochimaru smirked as he and the others began to make their way to one of his many bases.
'…the current host was in an advanced age. A new one was needed which is why, in order to prevent the demon from being free, Whirlpool deemed it necessary to assign a new one. A young girl with special chakra that lived in Konoha.'
Naruto stopped reading over the scroll after that sentence, shock written on his features as he tried to process what he just read. There had been someone else, a girl at the time, that had been the fox's jinchuuriki. A scowl etched on his face as he came to a conclusion. His mother had been the jinchuuriki, he had no doubt.
Jiraiya had told him things about his parents, giving him the names Minato and Kushina. What he didn't understand was why his master had kept his mother's identity as a jinchuuriki a secret when he had gone into a lot of detail when it came to his father. Sure it didn't seem to matter much anymore but he deserved to know.
He ran a hand through his hair and let out a groan, feeling a headache coming. Pushing those thoughts aside he opted to read over the other scrolls he had gotten from his stay in Whirlpool. Some of the seals and jutsu the scrolls had could really help him out, like the Chakra Chains. He would be lying if he said he didn't think they were cool.
"Alright time for some training," he grinned to himself in the middle of the clearing he was in. The moon was high in the sky and even though he should be sleeping he couldn't. For some reason sleep didn't come to him so he decided to tire himself out doing something productive.
Thirty clones appeared before the blond on his command, "Alright guys you know the drill, I want to learn this one as fast as possible so twenty of you work on it, the rest are going to help me with something else."
The clones complied and went to work, the real Naruto knowing that it would be a long night.
Tayuya was glad to be out of prison. It had been a lot like her time in the Sound Village in which she had to take down any idiot that thought she was weak because of her sex. It always ended up with said idiots laying on the floor in a near death state. She had to be ruthless, not that she minded really, in order to assert herself as someone not to mess with.
The main difference were the interrogation sessions. She never thought that a place like Konoha could be so ruthless, not only inflicting physical pain but running through her mind and digging up shit she didn't like. It had taken a lot of herself not to spill anything but she could only take so much and those three years had her exhausted. But everything was different now.
For the first time she experienced what a peaceful village is like, boring but relaxing at the same time. She never put down her guard but found herself lowering it ever so slightly. This wasn't her village and it was full of ninja that would take her down were she to get into a fight. At that thought she glanced at the ninja leading the way.
It had been a few moments since he had come to escort her through the village and had insisted on changing the location of their spars. A part of her could stand the shithead, she could still feel the punch to her gut that started their first spar. The bastard hadn't held back at all in his strikes. She thought that side of him was respectable though it didn't really change the fact that she found the guy annoying.
"We're here," Naruto declared, breaking Tayuya out of her thoughts.
She glanced around the area with a frown, "What's so special about this place? Besides the waterfall, this place doesn't look any different than where we went yesterday."
The blond ninja shook his head. "See that there," he pointed at a group of rocks in the stream, only a few feet away from where the water crashed down. "I thought sparring in a clearing would get boring so I thought of some ways to mix it up. Today we have to spar while standing on those rocks, whoever falls the most times loses."
"Then make it more interesting," Tayuya smirked, "Whoever loses has to listen to one request from the winner. Anything goes."
"Except taking off your shackle, right?"
Her eyes narrowed at the jab from the smug looking blond, "Sounds good. I'll just think of something to wipe that look off your face. I'm thinking of humiliation on a public level."
"Aren't you cocky?" Naruto chuckled as he approached one of the rocks and stepped on it, careful not to slip due to how wet it was.
Tayuya knew she had it in the bag as soon as she stepped on her own rock, Shithead obviously didn't know that she was excellent at keeping her balance. Not even walking on ice could make her slip.
Feeling confident, Tayuya leapt at the blond, aiming a kick to his side but he easily caught it before throwing her behind his back. Her eyes were wide in disbelief as she tried to land on the nearest rock but slipped and fell on the stream.
"I wonder what I should make you do?" Naruto wondered out loud with a grin.
The former Sound ninja growled as she swam over to the water's edge before stepping on a nearby rock. She cursed herself for having been so confident and, to make matters worse, the fucking Hokage hadn't given her the best of wardrobes which meant that her simple white shirt that reached a little above her knees and the black shorts that peeked out of her shirt, clung tightly to her body.
"Maybe we should stop…" the blond muttered to himself with his gaze elsewhere.
Tayuya growled and leapt at the blond, this time throwing a punch that caught him off guard and made contact with his chest. She smirked and followed up by landing on his rock and pushing her body against his, making the ninja yelp, lose his balance and finally fall.
"We don't stop until I win," she declared smugly.
Naruto gritted his teeth as he used chakra to walk out of the water and step on the nearest rock. Why the hell had he come up with such a stupid idea? It seemed fun at first but he hadn't expected the girl's appearance to have such an effect on him. The freaking shirt not only outlined her figure but gave him taunting peeks at what she hid under the large shirt.
"You only caught me off guard once, calm down," he muttered back angrily before taking a deep breath to calm himself and getting ready for the spar that he would surely win.
Their spar had gone on for a few hours and, much to Naruto's horror he was losing. He found out the hard way that Tayuya was incredibly balanced and flexible, not to mention that the close proximity of her body had made him back off and fall into the water several times.
"Alright enough already you win," he frowned as he sat on the water's age, clothes soaked and hair slumped.
Tayuya grinned as she moved to stand near him and crossed her arms, "Don't forget our condition. You have to listen to one request."
He dreaded the fact but nodded, "Fine just don't make it too unreasonable."
She clicked her tongue, "Since getting the shackle off is too much to ask, then… I got it. You have to treat me to food every day since I don't want to eat that shit they give us at the probation place I'm staying at."
"That doesn't sound too bad," he grinned, "Wanna go eat ramen again?"
Tayuya rolled her eyes but nodded, "You better buy something other than ramen next time. I can see myself getting sick of it pretty soon."
"No problem," he shrugged as he stood up, "As long as we can still go there at least five times a week then I'm good."
She let out a sigh as he led the way out of the clearing. Her gaze rested on his back before she looked away with a small grin.
The shithead was okay.