Chapter Nine: Return.

Disclaimer: I do not and will not ever own Naruto!

About two years after meeting Killer Bee and his team as well as meeting the Fire Daimyo, Naruto was on his way to Konoha to become an official Ninja there.

At first his mother was against the idea but after Jiraiya reminded her that Naruto needed to go there to master his Mokuton Bloodline, along with the fact that with the Akatsuki now starting to move around. It would be in Naruto's best interest to join Konoha where Konoha could help support him and even help protect him when they eventually come after him whether it was for his Mokuton Bloodline or the Kyuubi

Eventually after much arguing Tsunade finally agreed that Naruto would go to Konoha, which made Naruto happy as he had wanted to go to the place he was born and that was founded by his ancestors.

Currently accompanying Naruto on his journey to Konoha was Jiraiya, as his mother and Shizune along with TonTon were in Kiba no Kuni (Fang Country) currently dealing with a disease that had spread in a large town in the Country, where many people in the town had been affected by it. Once the disease had been dealt with Tsunade said that she would meet Naruto in Konoha.

Naruto was fairly tall for his age as he was about five foot two; he wore a Black sleeveless vest with a Green sleeveless zip up top over it. He also wore Green pants and Black boots with Green elbow pads and Green fingerless gloves, also on his back he carried the Katana that Killer Bee gave him in its sheath on his back with the sling to keep it there around his chest. (1)

Soon enough Jiraiya and Naruto could see the large gateway for Konoha in the distance; once Jiraiya saw the gateway he stopped and turned to Naruto.

"Ok brat this is where we part ways for now", said Jiraiya

"What do you mean Ero-sennin? ...Aren't you coming with me into Konoha and explain everything to jiji?" asked Naruto.

A tick mark appeared on Jiraiya head at being called the nickname as he hated being called that and he couldn't get Naruto to call him something else, plus it didn't help with the fact that Tsunade encouraged and praised him every time he called Jiraiya that.

Quickly deciding to ignore Naruto's nickname of him, Jiraiya decided to explain why he wasn't going to Konoha with him.

"Sorry brat, but I have somewhere I need to go first, but once I have that done I will comeback here", answered Jiraiya.

At this Naruto raised his left eyebrow as he didn't believe Jiraiya,

"Does this little side trip involve you going to some Hot spring to look a naked girls, because if it is Ero-sennin not only will I tell Kaa-chan about you leaving me to go off peeping. But I will also administer my own form or payback on you", said Naruto with a evil look and smirk on his face that he had inherited from his mother, which never ceased to freak Jiraiya out at how much Naruto was like his mother.

But what got Jiraiya really worried was Naruto mentioning that he would administer his own punishment, as Naruto was vicious when he was punishing someone.

"Hey…Hey…Hey now Naruto there no need to for that as I'm on the up and up on this…don't you believe me".

"Nope", deadpanned Naruto, which caused Jiraiya to fall on the ground after hearing Naruto's reply and muttered about disrespectful brats these days.

"Well I'm serious this time, I'm meeting a contact of mine who sent word to me yesterday that he had information for me and I have to meet somewhere. But once I have that done I will come back here….ok" said Jiraiya.

For a moment Naruto said nothing, but then sighed and then spoke, "Fine then! ...but I promise you Ero-sennin, if this is one of your "research" missions for one of your books. I will make sure that you pay for skipping out on me again and it will be worse off than that time at Crater city and I will reveal you "little secret" to everyone in the village".

At this Jiraiya audibly gulped at the threat as what happened there was second time he came close to being killed, the first being when he peeked in on Tsunade when they were younger and Naruto also had something over Jiraiya that he didn't want anyone in the world to know.

-Flashback One Year Ago-

Jiraiya was currently hiding in the leaves of a tree nearby the local Hot spring and looking through his telescope at the different young girls who were relaxing in the Hot spring.

As he was looking through the telescope a new young girl with raven like hair and bright green eyes who looked to be about in her mid twenties had just entered the Hot spring area, and was about take off her towel and enter the hot water with the other young girls.

"OOOOHHHH YYYEEEEAAA…that's it baby take it off…this is gold, you are so to be in my next book" said Jiraiya out loud as he lead forward to get a better look at her. But just as the girl was about to take off her towel, a voice suddenly cried out.

"HEY ERO-SENNIN, GET DOWN HERE AND STOP PEEKING ON THOSE GIRLS I NEED YOUR HELP WITH THIS JUTSU YOU SHOWED ME!"

Naruto's sudden shout had caught Jiraiya by surprise where he lost his balance and fell forward and landed flat on his face on the ground.

"OOOOOOOWWWWWW…Damn you brat what is it can't you see I'm busy", said Jiraiya as her picked himself up.

"I told you I need your help with this Jutsu as I still can't get it" said the eleven year old Naruto as he crossed his arms and looked down a the Toad Sage who was still on the ground.

"I already told it to you how to do it" said Jiraiya as he lifted himself up.

"No you didn't…all you did was show me the Jutsu once and just told me the bare basic's of it and the left to go peeking on those girls in the Hot spring, I need to know more and I don't know what I'm doing wrong" said Naruto with a frown.

"Listen brat I can't be holding your hand all the time you eventually have to learn to do things by yourself without someone always watching over you…besides I not peeking I doing researched for my next book" replied Jiraiya.

"It the same thing no matter how you say it and to be honest I don't know why you even write those trashy books", replied Naruto.

"They're not trashy they are a work of art" cried Jiraiya with annoyance, where he then took out one of hi s books from his pouch and held it up like some kind of Holy book.

"They're trash…" repeated Naurto, "…even Kaa-chan and Shizune Onee-chan say so and they even said that no-one really reads them".

"Hey, that not true! ...I have you know I have hundreds of loyal fan who eagerly look forward to each of my books", spoke Jiraiya with pride.

"Huh! …more like hundreds of pathetic men, that can't find themselves girlfriends and need to read your trashy books to escape reality", scoffed Naruto.

"Hah! ... Like a brat like you would know anything about finding himself a girlfriend" scoffed Jiriaya back.

"I know a lot more than you, as at lest I don't end up being attack and beating up by a mob of angry women every mouth for peeking on them like you. Besides I can sure as hell say that I won't stay a virgin until I'm forty unlike some people I know", replied Naruto with a smirk, which got bigger when he saw the shock look on Jiraiya's face, which turned to horror.

"WHO TOLD YOU THAT?" cried the panic Jiraiya, as Naruto had just uttered Jiraiya' deepest darkest secret that no-one should know

"You did when you got drunk after drinking too much sake at my Tenth birthday, luckily for you Shizune Onee-chan wasn't in the room at the time and Kaa-chan was asleep", answered a smirking Naruto. "Although I'm sure Kaa-chan will love to know that little bit of information…I think I go find her now and tell her as punishment for not helping me train and going off peeking".

"NO YOU WILL NOT!" cried the panic Jiraiya, as he chased after Naruto, as he couldn't let Naruto tell his mother. Since if Tsunade found out, she would never let him hear the end of it and would tease, torture and hold it over him for the rest of his life and probably the afterlife as well.

For the next ten minutes Jiraiya chased after Naruto through the forestry behind the Hot Spring, after which Naruto came to the edge of the forestry with Jiraiya hot on his tail. When he reached the forestry edge he saw the large group of girls that Jiraiya had been spying on a few minutes ago coming out of the entrance of the Hot Spring fully clothed.

Upon seeing them Naruto quickly came up with a cunning and evil plan that would have made a certain Snake Sennin proud.

Quickly Naruto got some water from his water bottle and spread some on his eyes to make it look as if he was crying. After which upon hearing Jiraiya nearing where he was Naruto quickly ran out to the girls coming out of the Hot Spring, started to put out the water works with fake tears and cries.

"WWWWHHHHHHHHAAAAAAAA, WHA, WHA, WHA…." cried Naruto as he ran up to a young blond hair girl who quickly bended down to Naruto to "comfort" him, while the other girls surrounded him to see why he was so "upset".

"There, there, there…Are you okay sweetie what wrong?" asked the Blond girl

"Hip! Hip, Hip….." sputtered Naruto as if he really was crying, "….there a big tall old white hair man chancing after me….Hip, Hip…He offered me sweeties to eat and brought me to into the forest and made me read some weird book with him that had pictures of naked men and ladies doing funny things with each other…..Hip, Hip…. He also started to touch me in places I didn't like, which was why I ran away and he still after me", said Naruto in a scared innocent voice to make him sound all the more convincing.

Upon hearing this, the women became filled with feminine rage and angry, where they were about ready to go and hunt down this man and make him suffer for trying to corrupt the "innocent" boy.

And as if answering their prays, Jiraiya appeared from out of the bushes looking for Naruto, "There you are!" he said and was about to go over to him, but the group of women quickly put themselves in front of Naruto.

"We won't let yet touch a hair on this little boy and try and corrupt him you fitly pervert", said the young raven haired girl that Jiraiya had been spying on earlier.

"Hey, Hey, Hey….now girls I don't know what the kid there has told you there, but don't believe whatever he told you as it isn't true….I can assure you", said Jiraiya.

The girls might have been willing to hear Jiraiya out had he not been still holding the Icha Icha book in his hand, which furthered to infuriate the girls and solidify Naruto's story, it also helped that Naruto kept his "innocent" look on so that the girls would side with him.

And if Jiraiya wasn't in enough trouble, then Naruto put the final nail in his coffin for him, "That him…"he pointed at Jiraiya accusingly, "He's the one who tried to make me read those books that he said he wrote…and I also saw him peeping on you in the Hot Spring when you were bathing".

Upon hearing all this flames or righteous female rage and anger filled the women's eyes and Jiraiya then knew he was a dead man as there was no way he could talk himself out of this situation.

When he realised this, he could also see from behind the group of girls, Naruto was smiling evilly at what he had just done, and waved good-bye to Jiraiya, knowing what would happen next.

"Damn you Naruto!" cursed Jiraiya inside his mind, although a small part of himself could not help but admire Naruto for being able to manipulate the girls so well into doing his bidding.

Quickly pushing that thought aside Jiraiya then did the only thing he could do and what any man in his situation would do…He Ran, where he was quickly followed by the large group of girls ready to lay a beat down on the Super Pervert.

After awhile many people around the city could hear the girly screams of pain and cries agony coming for Jiraiya.

-Flashback Ends-

Jiraiya could not help but wince at the memory of the pain that he felt after the beating that he went through from the girls, as there wasn't a part of his body that wasn't in pain after it. After a few hours he had somehow managed to get back to where Tsunade, Naruto and Shizune where staying so that he could be treated for his injuries.

Unfortunately, instead of receiving care from Tsunade, he received another beating at the hands of and wrathful Tsunade and Shizune. As they had heard from some of girls who had been among the group that had beat Jiraiya, who had come to them to heal some bruised fists. That a tall white haired man who was the author of the Icha Icha books was trying to corrupt a young blond hair boy by making read his books.

Needless to say that when Tsunade and Shizune heard this, they were less than pleased, when Jiraiya tried to explain that it wasn't true and that Naruto was lying. Naruto just played the innocent act perfectly, as he had both Tsunade and Shizune wrapped around his fingers, where they would believe anything he said to them. Hence both Shizune and Tsunade decided to "teach" Jiraiya a lesson about trying to corrupt Naruto.

Jiraiya could not help but shudder as he remembered the vicious beating that he received at the hands of Tsunade, which was only matched by the one when he peeked on her when they were young. He also could not help but rub his rear end as he remembered how Shizune turned his rear into a pincushion and shudder again at how close she came to turning his manhood into one as well.

After the beating Jiraiya was in for several months of long agonizing recovery and any thought of payback on Naruto was quickly pushed aside. When Naruto came to Jiraiya and told him when he was in his cast that he was put in after the beating, if he tried any kind of payback or try to skip out on his training again to go out peeking. Then he would prank Jiraiya back with equal force if not worse and he even threaten to tell Tsunade his little secret as well.

Jiraiya of course agreed to this, and ever since then Naruto has had Jiraiya in his back pocket.

"Honestly brat this is on the up and up, I be back in about two days' time tops, but I don't want you to tell Sarutobi-sensei about your powers or what you can do. I also don't want you to tell or show anyone them, at lest not until you become a official Genin and are fully integrated into your team by which time I should be back to explain everything to the old man, as its probably best that I explain everything to him", said Jiraiya.

Naruto just nodded, where they then separated, where Jiraiya went off to meet his contact and Naruto continued on to the village.

Soon after separating from Jiraiya, Naruto reached the main gate, where he quickly showed a sighed permission slip, that Sarutobi sent him a few months ago so that he could enter the village without trouble. After entering it Naruto headed to the Hokage Residence to see Sarutobi, as he headed there he looked around the village and saw all the different buildings and things in it, including the several Ninja's walking in the streets with the civilian and even leaping on the roof tops.

Not wanting to draw attention to himself, Naruto decided to walk on the street and take in the scenery. As he looked around he saw the Hokage monument in front of him, with the heads of his Great Grandfather, the Shodaime Hokage, his Great, Granduncle the Nidaime Hokage, his mother's teacher and his surrogate Grandfather the Sandaime Hokage and his Father the Yondaime Hokage.

As Naruto looked at the faces carved into the mountain, he knew he had a lot to live up to and both his parents and his ancestors left a long casting shadow over him. That he would need to overcome if he wished to be acknowledged, not as the son of the Yondaime Hokage and Tsunade of the Sennin. Nor as the descendant of the founders of Konoha and of the Shodaime and Nidaime Hokages, but as himself, where he wished to stand up on his own two feet and prove himself worthy of standing on equally footing with them and become Hokage.

Naruto had dreamed of one day becoming Hokage ever since he was five and learned about his ancestors, he became even more determined to become Hokage soon after he learned that the Yondaime was his father. But not only that he also wanted to surpass them all as he believed that it was the only real way that he would truly step out of the rest of his family shadow and for people to truly acknowledge as himself and not as the child or descendant of other great and famous Shinobi's.

Soon enough Naruto reached the Hokage Residence and entered it and went over the stairs that led to the Hokages' office.

When he got there he saw the Hokage's Secretary to his right, who was at her desk writing up something, when she looked up she saw Naruto to see what he wanted.

"Can I help you young man?" she asked.

"Eh, Yes …I would like to see the Hokage please", replied Naruto.

"I sorry….But the Hokage is a very busy man and you have to make an appointment to see him", said the Secretary politely.

"Well the Hokage will be expecting me, as he knows I'm arriving here as I'm not from this village", spoke Naruto although the Secretary did not look convinced as to what he is saying.

"Look…Could you just go into him a say that Naruto is here, he will know who I 'am and if he doesn't then I leave…ok", said Naruto. As he didn't want to waste any time on trying to convince the women to let him see his surrogate Grandfather for the first time, plus he didn't want to cause a scene in here which was why he didn't tell her his full name.

"Very well then" said the Secretary with a sigh, as she believed she was wasting her time asking the Hokage as often enough young children came here wanting to talk to the Hokage. But when she entered the Hokage office and told him that a young blond haired boy carrying a Katana on his back named Naruto was outside his office wanted to speak to him and saying that he was expecting him. The Secretary was surprised to see an eager and happy look appear on the old Hokage's face, where he quickly called his ANBU that were hidden in his room rafters and told them to leave. After which he then told her to tell the ANBU that where outside his room to leave as well and told her that she was dismissed for the rest of the day and she was to tell Naruto to come in.

After the Secretary and the ANBU left the Hokage's office Naruto entered it, where Sarutobi quickly went over to Naruto and went and gave his surrogate Grandson a long overdue Grandfatherly hug which Naruto was more than happy to return. "Naruto my boy it so good to finally see you… Look at you! ….. You've gotten so big! …" spoke the Sandaime as he looked Naruto over. "It seems like only yesterday when I last saw you, where you were just in diapers", he said, which caused Naruto to smile a little.

As Hiruzen looked over his surrogate Grandson, he could not help but be amazed at how he looked so much like his father despite the small differences he got from his mother like her skin colour and eye shape. "…You look so much like your fa-" spoke Hiruzen but quickly stopped himself from saying father.

"Like who? ...my father!" said Naruto with a smirk, shocking the old Kage.

"Y-Y-You know about h-him" said the surprised Kage to which Naruto just nodded, "Did your mother or Jiraiya tell you?" he asked to which Naruto shook his head.

"Nope I figured it out myself", replied Naruto surprising the old Kage further.

"You figured it out yourself!" repeated the old Hokage in shock, where Naruto just nodded again, "H-H-How?"

"That's a long story that I can explain if you would sit down first", replied Naruto to which both he and Sarutobi sat down on the two seats in front of the Hokage's desk.

Naruto then went on to explain how he discovered about the Yondaime being his father and finding out about how his had sealed the Kyuubi in him, which of course surprised Sarutobi at first but then started to chuckle, at how Naruto was defiantly his parents son. Naruto also then went on to tell how he had been doing over the years and what he had been up to, although he made it a point to leave out what his mother, Jiraiya and Shizune had trained him in as Jiraiya had told him.

When Sarutobi asked him what they had trained him in Naruto had told him that, Jiraiya would explain when he got here in a few days time from meeting his contact. Since Jiraiya had told him not to tell or reveal to anyone until he was fully a Konoha Ninja and was on a team, which Sarutobi nodded in understanding and accepted to wait for Jiraiya to arrive and inform him. Naruto also told Sarutobi why his mother and Shizune weren't with him, since Sarutobi had wondered why they hadn't come with him.

After explaining all this Naruto and Sarutobi spent the next few hours talking and catching up with one another, were Naruto told him many different stories about the different things he did. Including the different pranks he would play on Jiraiya which made the old Hokage laugh in a amusement, Naruto even told Sarutobi how he had befriend both Shion and Rurichiyo (Fire Daimyo's Granddaughter) and how he had saved them both (2). Sarutobi had of course heard about both incidents as he had heard from one of Tsunade's letters that Naruto had saved the High Priestess daughter Shion from a group of Ame-nins. While he had heard about Naruto saving the Fire Daimyo's Granddaughter from a Wild Bear from the Daimyo himself, both incidents made the old Kage very proud of the his surrogate Grandson proving for certain that he was his father's son. As just like with Minato Naruto put himself in harms way so to help save and protect others, he also could not help but chuckle to himself, as he had also heard that both girls had also been quite taken with him. Which will no doubt, cause Naruto much trouble and his mother many headaches in the near future if he continued with saving and attracting princess and other girls.

After a while the two stopped talking where, Sarutobi got off his seat and went over to behind his desk, and the came back and handed Naruto a set of keys and a note and told him that they were the keys to his apartment where he would be staying and where it was. As the old Senju Clan compound had been destroyed during the Kyuubi attack and Naruto couldn't stay in his father's home yet as it would draw too much unwanted attention to him.

Naruto of course understood this and nodded his head in understanding, after which Sarutobi then spoke.

"Now Naruto, the class graduation exam will began tomorrow at nine thirty and I have already explained to the teacher a Chunin named Iruka to expect you, although all he knows is that you're a new student who is going to take the exam who was trained else where. He doesn't know who you really are as I didn't want any leaks that you were arriving here, but that note will tell him who you really are, ok!" explained the Sandaime to which Naruto just nodded.

"Also you should know that tomorrow morning, I will reveal your existence and your arrival to the Council tomorrow morning and then to the rest of Konoha later on in the evening. Since as soon as the students learn who you really are, they will then tell their parents who in turn will tell everyone else. But your father's identity must be kept secret, since as you know if people learn your entire lineage then it was cause endless amount of trouble for you both inside and outside of Konoha. But even still keeping out who your father is, there are still many who will try and use you for their own means when they learn that Tsunade is your mother and that you're the heir to the Senju Clan" explained Sarutobi further to which Naruto nodded.

"I understand jiji, as Kaa-chan and Ero-sennin explained it all to me before I came here so I'm more than ready to handle them", answered Naruto. To which Sarutobi nodded and smiled at being called Grandfather and at Jiraiya's nickname since it fitted him perfectly.

Just as Naruto was about to leave the double door flung open and a small brown haired boy who looked to be about eight and wore a long scarf around him burst in holding a wooden Kunai in his hand.

"Prepare to be defeated old man" cried the boy as he charged forward with his wooden Kunai only to trip over his scarf and fall flat on his face, causing both Naruto and the Sandaime to have large sweat drops on the back of their heads. Embarrassed the boy picked himself up and then quickly pointed his finger at Naruto accusingly.

"YOU TRIPPED ME!" accused the boy.

"I did not, you tripped over your scarf", replied an annoyed Naruto as the boy was starting to annoy him.

"Yes you did!" cried the boy, "You ruined my super cool entrance".

"Huh! ...not much of an entrance if you ask me, with you being so clumsy and falling flat on your face", replied Naruto, simply which caused the boy to loss his cool and charged at Naruto with his wooden Kunai.

Naruto quickly side stepped the boy's attack and grabbed his hand with the wooden Kunai and slapped it out of his hand and then bonked the boy on the head causing him to fall on the floor on his rear and hold his head in pain.

"Hey! You can't don't that to me!" cried the boy has he held his swore head and looked up at Naruto. "Can't I?" said Naruto with a raise eyebrow.

"Yea….As I'm the Grandson of the Hokage", said the boy angrily, where he thought that upon hearing this Naruto would go on his knees and beg forgiveness. Unfortunately for him, Naruto wasn't intimated by this news a bit, where he just grabbed the kid by the collar and lifted him up so that he was eye level with Naruto.

Upon doing this another voice shouted out, "Let his Honourable Grandson go immediately you ruffian", where a tall man wearing dark sunglasses and a dark Shinobi uniform entered the office.

"Yea let me go or you will be in big trouble", said the boy as he struggled to get out of Naruto gripe, but could not.

At which point Naruto just brought the boy right up into his face and look directly into his eyes, "Listen Brat, I couldn't care less if you were the Hokage's Grandmother, because if you think that's going to scare me then you got another thing coming. Besides if you want to talk about social rank, then I out rank you, as my Great Grandfather and my Great, Granduncle were the ones who built this village. Not mention both of them were Hokage's as well, so there!" said Naruto.

Naturally both the boy and the man, who had entered the office, had been stunned and confused when they heard this, while Sarutobi just sighed and rubbed his head feeling a headache coming on, where he then decided to do some damage control before things began to go further out of control.

"Naruto could you please let go of my Grandson…..please, he didn't mean anything by it", pleaded the old Kage and sighed as his Grandson was always getting into some kind of trouble.

Naruto of course let him go, where the boy landed on his rear hard, after which he then picked himself up, while still ribbing his sore bum.

"Now before things escalate further I believe some introductions are needed", spoke Sarutobi, "Naruto! Allow me to introduce you to my Grandson Konohamaru and his private tutor Ebisu.

After which Sarutobi then turned to Konohamaru, Ebisu, "Konohamaru, Ebisu allow me to introduce you to Senju Naruto…. My former student Tsunade's son and as he said, the Great Grandson of the Shodaime Hokage and the Great Grand nephew of the Nidaime Hokage as well as sole Heir to the Senju Clan", spoke Sarutobi completely shocking Konohamaru and completing stunning Ebisu.

After a minute or so Ebisu regained himself, where he quickly bowed respectfully to Naruto, "It is an honour to meet you Senju-sama, please forgive my rudeness a moment ago as I had not known who your were", he spoke. As he had no idea what so ever that Naruto was the heir to the founders of Konoha and heir to the noblest Clan in all of Konoha if not the Shinobi world, let alone the fact that Tsunade had a child.

"Forget it… call me Naruto and don't bow as I hate people bowing to me", replied Naruto.

"Yes of course, thank you Naruto-sama", replied Ebisu, where he bowed again, much to Naruto's annoyance as he hated when people called him by those stuffy titles and bowed to him, as all he wanted was to be treated like a regular person.

"Hey jiji…." spoke Naruto surprising both Konohamaru and Ebisu at how he addressed the Hokage, "….I'm going to take a walk around the village and get my bearings here, so I can at lest enjoy being a normal person for the remainder of the day before half the entire village starts to treat me like the son of Kami or something like it", said Naruto

"Very well Naruto, I see you tomorrow", replied the old Kage where he then turned to talk to Konohamaru and Ebisu.

-Several Hours Later-

For the past few hours Naruto spent his time walking around the village and getting his bearings, during his walk around the village he saw things like the Konoha Hospital, the Konoha Hot Springs, the Konoha Library, the Memorial stone, the Ninja Academy and the different Training Grounds.

After he had fully looked around the village, Naruto decided to get something to eat, but just when he was about to go find a restaurant he suddenly heard some arguing around the corner.

"…..come on why won't you go out with me, plenty of other girls would love the chance to go out with me", said a young man's voice.

"Then why don't you go ask one of them, since I have already told you about a dozen different times….I' am not interested in you. Besides I heard plenty of things from girls you already dated and I have no interest in being one of your conquests for you to talk about to your friends, Gouzen", answered a young girl's voice.

Upon hearing this Naruto peaked around the corner to see what was going on when he did he saw three tall medium built boys, who were blocking the way of a medium tall brown haired girl, who was carrying a brown paper bag full of groceries in her arms. The boy in the middle, who was clearly the leader of the three, then grabbed hold of the girl's arm and pulled it slightly causing her to drop the bag and spill the groceries onto the ground.

"Now listen to me, you will do as I say and you will like it, because if you don't, I can get my father to make things very difficult for you and your old man and that run down of stand of yours", spoke the leader.

"LET GO OF ME!" cried the girl as she tired to get out of the grip of the leader, but could not as it was too strong.

Having seen enough Naruto decided to intervene and stop this, since if there was one thing that Naruto hated was bullies, especially those that gang up on a helpless girl.

"She said let go, so I suggest that you do it", spoke Naruto as he came out from the corner.

"Beat it kid this doesn't concern you", spoke the leader as he just gave Naruto a passing glance before turning his attention back on the girl.

"I'm afraid it does, as if there is one thing I can't stand it's seeing a bunch of thugs, ganging up on a helpless girl and forcing her to do something against her will by threatening her and her family", said Naruto.

"You got a big mouth kid and if you know what good for you, you will shut it and leave while you still can", said the leader as he glared at Naruto.

"Sorry can't do that", replied Naruto as he took off his sling and sword and held it in his right hand.

Upon seeing Naruto taking his sword off his back, the leader and the two others started to laugh, "Ha, ha, ha, ha…You actually think you can take on all three of us by yourself", said the leader.

"I don't think I can, I know I can, now let go of the girl and you and your boyfriends won't have to limp your way to the hospital", said Naruto.

The leader just sneered at Naruto threat, believing that Naruto was no threat to him and was just some punk kid trying to act the hero. "You got guts kid I give you that….but not a lot of brains and guts can only get you so far. Where they usually result in you getting into situations that are over your head….just like now", said the leader where he then turned to the two boys next to him "…..get him!"

The two boys quickly went over, where the first one to the left went over and try and grab Naruto by the Collar. But just as the boy stretched out his hand to grab Naruto, Naruto quickly grab onto the boys wrist with his free left hand, and twisted it causing the boy to fall onto the ground onto his knees and cry out in pain, has Naruto was a small twist away from breaking his wrist from the wristlock.

Upon seeing what had happened to the first boy, the second boy quickly raised his fist to hit Naruto and help his friend. Seeing the second boy, Naruto let got of the first boy's wrist and ducked under the second boy's fist and the hit the boy right in the stomach with the end of his sheathed Katana, causing the boy to double over in pain as he held his stomach.

Naruto the quickly raised his sheathed Katana up and smacked right into the bottom of the boy's chin, causing the boy's head to be smacked backwards and break several of the boy's lower teeth. The boy then fell backwards, where he held his bleeding mouth in pain and cried muffled screams of pain with his hand covering his mouth.

As this was happening, the first boy quickly got up off the ground and went to try and hit Naruto when his back was turned, but unfortunately for him, Naruto saw him and he quickly twirled around to avoid the hit. He then hit the first boy at the back of his head with his sheathed Katana, where thanks to his momentum from charging forward combined with the hit to the back of his head, the boy fell forward onto the ground. The boy then tried to turn around and get up, but just as he tried to turn his head Naruto kicked him right the face breaking the boy's nose.

The boy stayed on the ground as he held his now broken nose, unable to concern himself with anything else other than his now broken nose.

After seeing his "friends" being handled by Naruto, the leader of the three started to get nervous, but he quickly pushed that aside, as he wasn't going to let some "kid" intimated him.

After which he let go of the girl and quickly charged forward at Naruto, who just sighed when he saw the leader of the three charging at him like a fool and just muttered "Baka".

Naruto then let the boy come right up to him, where he then sidestepped the leader, when he tried to punch Naruto, after which Naruto then stuck out his leg causing the leader to trip over it and fall onto the ground.

As the leader tired to pick himself up, Naruto kicked him in the side causing him to fall onto his back, where the leader then tired to pick himself up again, but when he did he felt a foot stand on his groin causing the boy to howl in pain, after which he then found the tip of a Katana blade right above his neck.

When he looked up his saw annoyed Naruto looking down, gathering what courage he had left and sneered up at Naruto.

"Do you have any idea who I' am…I'm Furyoku Gouzen, son of Furyoku Kagato, who is one of the wealthiest and most influential men in all of Konoha, and is a member of the Council of Konoha and the moment he hears about this he will make you pay dearly for what you did to me".

Unfortunately for Gouzen, Naruto wasn't the lest bit intimated by Gouzen threat and just lowered his sword at bit more down at the boy throat and cutting the skin slightly and making it bleed.

When Gouzen felt the blade at his neck and causing it to bleed slightly he started to get scared and began to believe that Naruto was going to kill him.

"W-W-Wh-What are y-y-yo-you doing? ..." said Gouzen panic like, "W-Wh-Wheren't you-l-l-lis-listening to me?"

"I heard you quite clearly…..and I don't care…..even if you were the son of Kami himself I still would not care", replied Naruto, as he glared down at the now scared older boy.

"W-W-Wait d-don't d-d-do it…I g-g-give you a-a-an-anything y-you want…..money, jewels, gold ….I e-even d-do anything y-you what me to do…just please don't kill me" begged the boy.

Becoming disgusted with the cowardly older boy, Naruto then spoke, "Fine then….here's what I want you to do….. From now on, you're never to bother or even come near this girl ever again. Because if you do I will take away what makes you a man, despite how small it is…" said Naruto as he lowered his Katana between the boys leg, making him even more nervous. "…..And the same goes if I ever hear that you trying to force yourself on another girl again…am' I clear", said Naruto and then finished with a small Killing Intent, which caused a large wet spot started to form between his legs.

Not trusting his voice to speak, the boy just nodded, where Naruto then removed his Katana from between the boy legs and stepped away, he then told him to help his friends and to get out of his sight. The boy quickly helped the other two boys up and they then all ran off with their tails between their legs.

Once the three older boys were gone Naruto put his Katana back in his sheath and then slung it back on his back, after which he then turned around to the brown haired girl he rescued from the boys.

"Are you ok Miss?" he asked.

"Yes, I fine thank you", replied the girl, where she the started to pick up the groceries that fell to the ground after Gouzen had grabbed her.

"Here let me help you", said Naruto as knelt down to help the girl with her groceries.

"Thanks again….eh?" said the girl slightly embarrassed, as she did not know her saviours name.

"Naruto", he replied.

"Then thank you Naruto …and by the way my name is Ayame" said the girl named Ayame.

"It is nice to meet you Ayame", said Naruto as he held out his hand and shook her hand when she held it.

"I don't mean to sound ungrateful because I' am, but you should not have done that…as Gouzen will tell his father and can cause a lot of trouble for you" said Ayame.

"Don't worry about me I can handily the likes of them", said Naruto to which Ayame just smiled.

Once all the groceries had been all picked up they headed back to Ayame's father stand, as Naruto had insisted on carrying the groceries for her and escort back, in case Gouzen and his goons tried something else on her way back to her father's stand.

Soon enough they arrived at the stand, where Naruto saw that it was a Ramen stand, "Your stand is a Ramen stand?" asked Naruto, to which Ayame just nodded. After which Naruto almost yelled out in excitement as Ramen was he favourite meal in the world.

When they went into the stand Naruto saw a middle age man in the stand making some noodles with his hands, when he turned around he saw Naruto and Ayame entering the stand.

"Ah good Ayame your hear, I was beginning to get worried as I expected you back fifteen minutes ago", said the man who was clearly Ayame's father.

"Sorry Tou-san, but as I was on my way back here from the store I met Gouzen and his goons", replied Ayame with a frown. To which her father had his own frown as he knew all about Gouzen and his attempts to woo his daughter and make her yet another one of his conquests, but thankfully Ayame was too smart for his smooth talking. Where she politely told him each time he tried that she wasn't interested in him, although it had not stopped him from keep trying.

Ayame's father had been on more than one occasion been tempted to punch the spoilt punk as he continued to harass his daughter, but each time Ayame had calm him down telling him doing so would only cause him trouble from Gouzen father.

"Was he harassing you again?" asked Ayame's father, to which she nodded and told him how this time Gouzen had threatened to ruin their stand if she didn't do what he wanted her to.

When Tenchi (Ayame's father) heard this, he was furious and was about to go out and hunt down Gouzen and wring his neck. Fortunately for Gouzen, Ayame was able to stop her father and tell him how Naruto came and helped her and how he handled Gouzen and his goons. After hearing this Tenchi, smiled in satisfaction and thanked Naruto for helping his daughter and as a reward he offered Naruto a free meal at the stand, which Naruto quickly agreed, as he was hungry.

For a while Naruto talked to Ayame and her father as they made the Ramen and told him how he was new here and was entering the Ninja Academy for the finally exams. Since he had been training outside the village with his family and was given special permission by the Hokage to do the exam and skip the Academy years. This of course impressed both Ayame and Tenchi, as they knew that for Naruto to be allowed to skip the Academy years and to simply do the finally exams to become a full Konoha Shinobi he would have to be quite skilled. Although Ayame already had a fair idea considering how easily Naruto had handled Gouzen and his goons.

After a little while Ayame handed Naruto a large bowel of hot Ramen and told him to enjoy it, which he did for the moment that the hot noodles were in his mouth Naruto had stars in his eyes as this was the best Ramen he had ever tasted. Within seconds Naruto quickly ate everything in the bowel.

"That was great Ayame-chan", said Naruto, which made the girl smile.

"Thanks, my Tou-san thought me everything I know about cooking", she replied.

"Is there anymore?" asked Naruto as he was still hungry and was hoping to have more of Ayame's delicious Ramen.

"Sure as much as you like", said Ayame with a smile and went to get more Ramen from the large pot.

As Ayame turned around to get more Ramen Naruto started to get a dreamy look in his eyes as he stared at Ayame, "A pretty girl who can cook delicious Ramen for me whenever I want…I think I'm in love", thought Naruto as he thought about him and Ayame married and her cooking him lots and lots of Ramen every day when he came home. (3)

After about half an hour and twenty seven bowls of Ramen later, Naruto was finally full. The amount of Ramen that Naruto ate naturally shocked Ayame and Tenchi, as the only people that they knew that could eat that much Ramen were the Akimichi Clan members and Uzumaki Kushina.

Once he was full Naruto thanked Ayame and Tenchi for the free meal and promise to comeback again soon, both Ayame and Tenchi said that he was more than welcome to. Although Tenchi did joke that next time Naruto would have to pay, which caused Naruto to smirk a little.

After his meal Naruto started to head to his new apartment, which was in a quiet area with not to many people so that Naruto wouldn't be hounded by people once they knew he was Tsunade's son and Heir to the Senju Clan.

As Naruto headed home he felt that someone was following him, at first he had thought it was nothing but when he quickly turned around he saw a small figure hiding behind a corner. Deciding to find out who was following him Naruto quickly turned into the next corner that led to an empty street, where he then made a quick shadow Clone and had the clone continue down the street. While he jumped up to a nearby rooftop and hid himself so that he could see who was following him.

Soon enough Naruto saw that the figure that was following was the Sandaime's Grandson Konohamaru, who from the corner he was hiding behind, was watching the Naruto Shadow Clone walk slowly down the street.

Deciding to find out why the boy was following, Naruto quickly but silently jumped down from the roof and snuck up on the unsuspecting Konohamaru. Where he then grabbed the boy by the back of his collar and lifted him up in the air with just one hand.

"What the hell?" cried Konohamaru in surprise, before he then started to cry out and yelling to let him go, but when he saw that it was Naruto who had him a confused look appeared on the on the young Sautobi's face.

"YOU" he pointed accusingly, "But…But….But how? ...I was watching you and you were down there", said Konohamru. As he looked back down at the Naruto Shadow Clone who had stopped and waved at him with a smile before he puff out of existence.

"Huh!" said Konohamaru in confusion as he still did not understand what had happened.

Seeing this Naruto told him that it was just a Bunshin.

"I knew you were strong and this proves it" cried the boy, after which he started to say out loud about how he was finally able to find someone strong enough to teach him to beat his grandfather and be finally ride of his lame tutor Ebisu. As he started to say this to himself, a large sweat drop formed on the back of Naruto's head since the Jutsu he used was just a clone and although the technique he used was a Jonin level one, it still wasn't a big a deal as Konohamaru made it out to be.

Deciding to find as to why exactly Konohamaru was following, Naruto asked asking why he was following.

"Ok kid why are you following me and what do you mean by training you? You already have a Jonin training you, so you don't need me to train you", said Naruto.

"Yes I do! As you're the only one that won't treat me like a royal brat and keep calling me Honourable Grandson as well as all that other stuff", replied Konohamaru. Where he began to explain how people were always treating him like royalty just because he was the Grandson of the Hokage, where they never really acknowledged him as himself and were always comparing him to his Grandfather.

Upon hearing this Naruto was sympatric towards Konohamaru plight as he knew what it was like to grow up in the shadow of Great people where he had a lot to live up. Since his father was the Fourth Hokage aka Konoha no Kiiroi Senkō (Konoha Yellow Flash), hero of the Third Great Shinobi World War and Saviour of Konoha from the Kyuubi. His Mother was the Legendary Slug Princess, member of the Densetsu no Sannin and probably the world Greatest Medic whose skill helped Konoha win the Second Great Shinobi World War. While his Great Grandfather and Great, Granduncle were the main founders of Konoha and the Shodaime and Nidaime Hokage's of Konoha and the teachers of the Sandaime Hokage. Hence like with Konohamaru, Naruto had a lot to live up to as the rest of his family cast a long shadow over him, where he had no doubt that people here would soon start calling him Senju-sama and keep comparing him to his mother and ancestors. Which was why, like with Konohamaru, Naruto wanted to become Hokage so that he would finally stand out from the rest of his family and stand on equal or higher standing they had.

After thinking for a few minutes Naruto decided to help Konohamaru out a little, where when he told the boy that he help train him, Konohamaru then started shout and jump for joy. As Konohamaru did this a devious smirk appeared on Naruto's face, as he thought of something that would make for an excellent prank for both the Sandaime and many other people.

Once Naruto had calm Konohamaru down, he brought him over to a small clearing in the forest near one of the training grounds. Once there Naruto taught Konohamaru a Jutsu that he created that would be useful to him and that would allow him to beat his Grandfather, although it had taken several hours he eventually got it. Once he did he made Konohamaru swear never to tell anyone who taught him it.

-Later on in the Sarutobi's home-

After a long day of doing paperwork the old Hokage came home to relax and even spend some time with his Grandson who lived with him, ever since his eldest son and his Daughter in-law (Konohamaru parents) died on a mission together.

Just when Sarutobi was about to sit down in his armchair in the living room, Konohamaru came running into the room with a excited look on his face.

"Hey Jiji….I learned a new Jutsu that I want to show you", cried the boy as he was eager to try out the Jutsu that Naruto had told him could beat his Grandfather and nearly any guy in the village.

Smiling at his Grandson's excitement Sarutobi told Konohamaru to show him his new Jutsu.

Having his Grandfather go ahead, Konohamaru quickly did a hand seal for a Hedge and then cried out "Oiroke no Jutsu (Sexy Technique)" after which a puff of smoke appeared around Konohamaru. Where once it dissipated, a young attractive brunette women appeared where Konohamaru was. The women was naked and had long brown hair that went down her rear, the smoke although did cover certain key parts of her body, Sarutobi could still see her perfect hourglass figure and her attractive face.

When the old Hokage saw this, a geezer of blood shot out of his nose and blasted him across the room to hit the wall at the other end of the room and passed out from the blood loss, although he did have a perverted grin on his face.

When Konohamaru saw this he quickly turned back to normal and started to jump up and down shouting happily that he had finally beat his Grandfather. Where he then went over and took the Hokage hat from his unconscious Grandfather and ran off happily shouting out that he was the Hokage now, all the while leaving his unconscious Grandfather bleeding from the nose with his perverted grin still plastered on his face.