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Chapter 1: Unwelcome Return

"Back at last…" the silver haired Jonin said with a sigh, it was a long distance from Konoha to the valley of the end and then back again, he scratched at the back of his gravity defying hair with his free hand, his other arm was occupied on carrying the blonde genin over his shoulder, he was still worried about the boy's condition – he was no doctor but someone with a Chidori hole in their body should probably get medical attention.

He sighed again unknowingly and strolled towards the hospital, Tsunade wasn't going to be happy with this, somehow it would turn out to be his fault– although he did feel guilty for not arriving at the scene sooner, to think the attack that he taught his former student ended the death match, even when pitted against the Rasengan.

He pushed open the clinically white hospital double doors, and told the first nurse he saw that Naruto needed urgent attention, before being ushered into a room that Naruto was seen in too often. Tsunade rushed through the doors of the room along with Shizune and the two started the healing there and then, Tsunade was looking down at the boy with concern and she wasn't about to let him die.

The healing jutsu soon got some assistance from the Kyuubi's chakra, despite being sealed away he wasn't going to take death without a fight and the wound began to close up at a rapid rate – soon all that was left was for the nurses to apply bandages, which actually ended up taking a long time seeing as Naruto was torn up pretty bad. Tsunade grunted at the discomfort the boy was in, that damn Uchiha was going to pay.

The blonde awoke the next day, body aching, he looked around to see where he was – expecting to be lying at his battleground or even dead. For some reason however he wasn't surprised to see the bleached white walls and the bandages that encased his body, he was in hospital.
Naruto looked around the room checking to see if he was alone, he let out a sigh, he hoped for a clue to the mystery of who had brought him back from the valley of the end so he could at least thank them.

The door slid open and his Jonin instructor came into the room, sitting down on the visitor's chair.
"How are you feeling Naruto?" he asked, concerned for the blonde – not just for his physical state, Kakashi knew the psychological effects of losing a friend to be much worse than any physical pain.
Naruto just showed the man a weak smile, he didn't really feel like talking about it and his throat was still sore from coughing out blood.

"Get some rest; you look like you could use it." Kakashi advised. Naruto just nodded before Kakashi took his leave, while walking through the corridors the silver haired Jonin couldn't help but frown remembering the feeling of when he arrived near to the valley of the end, he sensed that Naruto was using the Kyuubi's chakra and quite a lot of it to say the least, so, how did Sasuke manage to beat him, he'd have to consult Jiraiya – if anyone knew about Orochimaru it would be him.

Tsunade let out a grunt, this was not a good day for her so far, her Gaki had come back broken along with several other members of the team that were sent to bring back Sasuke Uchiha, apparently they had encountered some of Orochimaru's elite guard dubbed 'The Sound Four.' Reports from the squad sent on the mission stated that the enemy used a strange power where strange black markings would appear all over their body granting them a boost of power, Shikamaru reported that the enemy had referred to it as a 'cursed seal.'

The fifth Hokage wasn't looking forward to this meeting; she didn't feel like being nagged by a bunch of senile old geezers that think they know how to run a village, she considered disbanding them, or ending their lives – it all depended on how angry she was. The blonde started rubbing her temples trying to relieve her stress- this usually happened at the thought of the civilian council.

After letting out a defeated sigh she headed towards the meeting, not wanting to be late or she would suffer intolerable nagging from the geezers that called themselves the village elders, after entering the room she sensed seriousness in the air – 'probably something to do with the Uchiha runaway' she thought.

She took her seat in the middle of the room, while sitting in this seat she could see every other member of the room, without even having to turn her head. The meeting was about to begin and the empty seats were soon filled, many of the civilian council members arriving late – they sure knew how to piss people off.

Tsunade soon gave her speech announcing that the meeting had started, there were a few coughs until one of the village elders cleared their throat and began to speak.
"The first matter will be that of the failed mission to retrieve the Uchiha boy." She stated.

'Here we go.' Tsunade thought ready for the room to fill with annoying sounds, which it soon did.
"What do you mean the failed mission?" one member of the civilian council yelled.
"How can you shinobi just let the last member of the Uchiha clan escape our village?" another cried.

The room was soon in an uproar over the topic before they were silenced as the Hokage looked as if she was about to massacre the whole of the civilian council. A large vein had appeared on her fore head, she just couldn't understand how these people could be so stupid.

"More importantly…" stated Danzo, he was clearly up to something, in fact every time he spoke it was safe to presume that he was up to something.
"The penalty for this mission failure will be dire." He said still no emotion present in his voice; he was backed up with a nod from both of the village elders.

"As far as the council are concerned, each of the squad members completed their mission successfully in defeating the enemy they were given to them during the mission, however one of the members of the squad failed, resulting in the loss of the Uchiha." He stated still attempting to keep up his emotionless tone.

"Uzumaki Naruto is to be punished in a way that will make sure that he will never be a burden to Konoha ever again." One of the council members stated, all of them knowing the report of the mission. Tsunade now had a deep frown on her face, she didn't like where this was going.

"I will have you know that he is no burden to this village! I didn't see any of you chasing after the Uchiha boy! If you wanted him back so badly why didn't you go get him? Speaking of which – I'm sure you could have spared a few ROOT members to assist the mission Danzo." She bellowed before recollecting herself towards the end of her rant, they should have known by now that Naruto was favoured by Tsunade.

The council members seemed to take no notice of the Hokage's words and continued anyway.
"I suggest that Uzumaki Naruto is exiled from the village of Konoha, with the addition of a seal which will assure that he will not be able to access the Kyuubi's powers." Followers joined the idea, a vote was held and it turned out badly for the blonde.

"It is agreed…" one member stated, Tsunade started to panic – she wasn't going to sit by and let Naruto be exiled. 'There has to be something I can do to stop these senile old bats!' she thought.
"With no family ties to the village Naruto Uzumaki is to be…" suddenly the Hokage's eyes widened,
'That's it! That's how I can save him!' she though suddenly confident in her idea.

"Fine, you leave me no other option…" suddenly the council members all turned to the Hokage confused on what her next move was going to be, perhaps she was finally going to agree to exile the blonde.
"With Uzumaki Naruto having no current parent or guardian, and as the Hokage of Konoha." She stated, letting out a breath, she wasn't sure on how the Gaki would take the news, but it was better than him being exiled, besides she had always thought of him in that sort of way.

"I will adopt Uzumaki Naruto as my own son and from this day forward he is to be considered a member of my family." She announced, she had thought of enlisting him as Senju Naruto, but the two names didn't seem to fit together very well.

The council was speechless, that last bold move the Hokage had made had just foiled their plans, they were so close to being rid of the boy as well as the nine tailed fox, and in one move she managed to take that away from them.

"I object!" one member cried out, only hoping that she would somehow change her mind on the matter.
"You don't have the power to object to such a thing, know your place!" Tsunade shouted, the council would often forget their position and their rights – most of them being power hungry fools that were only positioned on the council for things such as financial support.

Danzo sighed he knew the rights and power of the council, as well of those of the Hokage, he had to in order to take every advantage he could get, seizing every loophole in the system in order to benefit himself in some way, despite his motives the man was no idiot when it came to politics and war.

"She is right, that is the end of the matter. With family ties as important as the Hokage it is no longer up for discussion, only the Hokage has the power to exile the boy now." He stated with a frown.
Tsunade smirked she had defeated the council, and apparently she had a new son, with that she brought the meeting to a close, and immediately left towards the hospital.

The bandaged male stirred a little when feeling a soft hand stroking his forehead, his eyes suddenly popped open at the sound of tears.

"S-Sakura-chan…" he said in a defeated tone, he had expected this at the very least, although he expected the encounter to be a lot more painful, tears rushed down the girls face as she sat in the visiting chair looking down at the hospitalised boy.

Naruto shakily lifted his arm to her face, wiping the tears from her cheeks, her eyes widened a little at his sudden movement.
"S-Sakura… I'm sorry… I couldn't bring him – " he said weakly before being interrupted by the girl almost throwing herself on him, her arms wrapped around his waist tightly as her tears fell onto his neck.
"Baka! I don't care about that! I'm so glad you're okay!" she shouted causing the blonde to wonder if he was dreaming, he was almost sure he was until he received another squeeze from the pink haired kunoichi.
"B-But what about Sas-" he whispered out before being interrupted by her.
"I was wrong Naruto, I was wrong all along – He's not the one for me…" she spoke softly into his ear.

A sudden blush stormed across Naruto's face – the boy now considering that he was in a coma, a coma with a very nice dream, whatever it was he decided to seize the moment and wrapped his bandaged arms around the girl, she let out a chuckle although tears were still flowing down her face. She pulled back to look at the blonde she held in her arms.

"Look at you, you baka! …" she sniffed in a few tears before continuing, a smile now on her face
"I bet you held back didn't you, I know you would never want to seriously hurt him… besides how else could he of beaten my Naruto-kun?" she said nuzzling into his chest. Naruto's face was once again a bright shade of red until thoughts of their battle came back to him.

Flashback.

"NARUTO!"
"SASUKE!"
"RASENGAN! / CHIDORI!"
Naruto looked down at the two blasts colliding, the Rasengan spinning straight through the Chidori, causing the lightning to spiral around the sphere, he looked towards the Uchiha, his one true friend, pain in his eyes as the attack was tearing away at the skin on his hand causing blood to surface, Naruto winced at the sight and attempted to push the blast away from the two of them.

Sasuke, seeing his one opportunity of winning this fight, pushed back using all of the chakra given to him by the level.2 Cursed seal, navigating the Rasengan straight into Naruto's body ripping a clean hole in his flesh, and a blast of light washed over their battleground.

Sasuke – now back to his normal state looked down at the blonde panting heavily, before smirking, the blonde had saved him from that blast and brought on his own downfall but that blast would of probably killed him, looking down at Naruto one final time he decided to spare his life on a whim.

Flashback End.

"Naruto-kun? Naruto-kun!" he heard the cherry blossom girl calling out to him, he turned to look at her.

"Sakura-chan?" he asked a little confused, the thoughts of his battle ending as he realised he was in hospital.
"Don't scare me like that" she said worried "What were you thinking about?" Sakura had no doubt it was of his battle with Sasuke but only hoped that the memories weren't too bad, especially since Sasuke has the sharingan – she knew first-hand how scarring genjutsu could be.

"I couldn't do it… I couldn't hit him with it …" he stated almost sounding like he was in a trance.
"Couldn't do what? What's wrong Naruto-kun?" she said starting to panic at the blondes actions.
Naruto clenched his fists, how could he tell her, he frowned before looking over her shoulder towards the white tiles that suddenly became more interesting.

"My Rasengan was pushing back his Chidori…but if I hit him with it… he would have died as soon as it hit him… if I kept going it would have gone straight through his heart." He said with pain in his voice, but what else could he have done, it was his best friend's life or the success of the mission.

Sakura just smiled before hugging him tighter trying to reassure him.
"Well…he'd be no use to anyone dead would he…I'm sure the squad would be angry if they worked so hard to bring him back only for you to kill him." She said, a snigger escaping her at the thought of an angry squad shouting at Naruto for killing the mission objective.

"Thanks Sakura-chan…" he said relaxing into her hug, and pulling her closer to him to save the strain on his poor bandaged arms. She nuzzled against his chest as a warm feeling washed over her.
'I can't believe I ignored this for so long, I wish I could have just said 'yes' the first time he asked me on a date.' She thought, although the thought of his many attempts of asking her on a date made her giggle.

Suddenly the door opened and the two turned to look who it was, suddenly Sakura was out of Naruto's arms and sat upright in the visiting chair, the woman before her would kill her if she thought that she was causing Naruto discomfort while he was still healing.

"It's good to see you Sakura…" the Hokage smiled towards the girl "Would you mind if I talked to Naruto alone?" sensing the tone Sakura gathered that it wasn't really a question and she now had to leave. "Hai Tsunade-sama." Sakura said before bowing slightly.
"I'll come back to see you later Naruto." She smiled at the blonde before leaving the two alone in the room.

"What's up –" Before Naruto could continue Tsunade held out her hand instructing him to stop.
"The council were planning to have you exiled from Konoha." She stated to the blonde, his eyes widened before sorrow came about him, his fists clenched and he looked away from the current Hokage.
"But…" she said gaining his sudden attention as his eyes glistened with hope.
"Well let's just say…" She let out a sigh; this wasn't as easy as she thought it was going to be.
"Well…" she scratched the back of her head, she was really struggling with this one.
"Well… I kinda adopted you, and now you're my son." She said in one quick statement before she lost her courage.

"EHHHHH?" He shouted rising up from his hospital bed to sit forward and stare at the Hokage like she was crazy.
"Are you serious?" he asked not sure if she was finally getting revenge for all the time he has called her 'baa-chan.' If this was her revenge it really wasn't funny.

Tsunade started to panic, she knew he wouldn't take it well, of course he could never see her as a mother, she should of listed herself as a guardian or something like that.
"Yes Naruto…I'm serious." She said a little down hearted on how he had received the news.

Suddenly she felt two bandaged arms wrap around her tightly, almost pulling her onto the hospital bed, at first she was confused but she felt tears drenching her neck where the boy was nuzzled.
"Okaasan…" he whispered in between sobs, tears of happiness staining his face as he cried into her neck he felt a pair of arms return his embrace and he almost instantly relaxed into it.

Tsunade couldn't help but smile and a few tears even came to her eyes when she heard him call her 'Okaasan.' She released her grip around him and eased him to lie down in the bed once more, he looked up at her with a huge grin present on his face.

He turned his head to look at her as she was now sat in the visiting chair to the right of him.
"I can't believe it…" he sniffed "I have a family…" he laughed between sobs
"I'm actually going to have a family…" he said a little more confident in his words, Tsunade smiled – this had been a good thing to do after all, she took his hand in hers and softly stroked with her thumb.

"That's right Naruto…" she sniffed "We're going to be a family." He smiled back at her before his eyes struggled to stay open, each time he blinked they were open a little less and soon he fell into a peaceful slumber, if he had known getting a hole punched into his body would get him the girl of his dreams as well as a family of his own he would of thought about it years ago.

"Naruto-kun…Naruuutooo-kun…"a certain cherry blossom girl said softly trying to wake him, she sighed and brought a bowl to his nose, a familiar smell rose up his nostrils and a smile came across his face before his eyes opened sleepily and the bowl was withdrawn and placed in a hiding spot.

"Huh?" he looked around the room "I could have sworn I smelt ramen…" he said still surveying the hospital room before laying eyes on the pink haired kunoichi.
"O-Oh Hey Sakura-chan…" he said before blushing and shaking his head "I had the strangest dream…" he said under his breath, Sakura tilted her head in interest hoping that he'd tell her about it.

Seeing that he wasn't going to tell her she joined him on the bed and gave him a hug, ready to use the puppy dog eyes if necessary.
"Pleaasee Naruto-kun?" she pouted, Naruto was now shocked and started itching the back of his head "It… wasn't a dream?" he asked himself only for the pink haired girl hug him tighter
"Baka! Do your dreams normally involve me Naruto-kun?" she teased only making the blonde blush harder, she got off the bed and turned to the bag she had brought with her.

"Sakura-chan?" he asked curious of what she was doing, and what was in that bag that she was holding, suddenly his eyes lit up and his mouth was wide open almost drooling at the scent of the dish, then the bowl was handed to him.
"S-Sakura-c-chan a-and R-ramen…" he said in disbelief subconsciously pinching himself to see if he was having a series of dreams, this one had to be too good to be true he thought.

The pink haired girl just giggled before unwrapping the two bowls snapping him back into reality.
"Sorry if it isn't the right one…I asked Ayame to make you what you usually order." He gave the girl besides him the biggest foxy grin he could manage "Thank you Sakura-chan" but before digging in like normal, he decided to eat slowly in order to talk during his meal which shocked Sakura, after insisting it was his favourite flavour, the two finally went back to a slightly more normal conversation before Sakura remembered Tsunade's visit.

"I almost forgot to ask, but what was it that Tsunade-sama wanted to talk to you about?" she asked curious of what was so important that she was forced to leave the room, they are both members of team seven after all and she figured it was something to do with Sasuke or a new team member.

Suddenly the blonde shot up into a sitting position, his eyes wide as if he had just woken up from a nightmare.
"Okaasan…" he said before looking around and shaking his head back to reality, Sakura eased him back into a comfortable position and then the questions came.
"Okaasan? What do you mean Okaasan?" she asked, she thought that Naruto's mother was dead, but decided she would let the blonde explain before she asked any more questions.

"When you had to leave the room, Okaasan told me that she had adopted me, if she didn't then I would have been exiled from the village for failing the mission." Sakura frowned deeply.
"What do you mean you would have been exiled?" she asked angrily, 'how could they even think about doing something like that to him? And who was it that adopted him?' she thought.
"So who is your Okaasan Naruto-kun?"

"Tsunade is my Okaasan." He said with a huge smile on his face, hoping that Sakura was surprised.
"T-Tsunade-sama is…?" she stuttered, completely shocked by his last statement, he couldn't be serious, but then she heard the door open and someone came in and before she could turn around they spoke.
"That's right Gaki, he's my son." She stated with a smile, although with her loud voice it was almost like she was declaring it to the world.

The hokage sat down in the chair next to Sakura, the pink haired girl seemed to zone out while the two blondes were talking before she erupted in a giggle.
"What's so funny?" Tsunade asked daring the girl to make a wrong move.
"W-Well it's just that you two look pretty similar, you really do look like a family." She said still smiling at the two, Tsunade looked at the boy in the bed and then stole a glance of her reflection in the hospital mirror before she started to blush a little. She was surprised to say the least, they did have a few similar features.

"Of course we look like a family! We are a family aren't we Naruto-kun?" she said turning to the hospitalised blonde who just flashed a grin towards the two, Tsunade smiled before she let out a sigh.
"Well Naruto, you have to receive some Senju blood from me so that we are officially blood relatives otherwise we won't be classed as a real family and they could still take you away from me." After realising what she said she lifted the boy up out of bed and ordered Sakura to bring a wheelchair hoping that they didn't pick up on how much she sounded like a mother.

Naruto was soon being carted down the hallways of the hospital towards the blood transplant room, when they arrived they suddenly stopped outside the room.

"Alright Sakura, you are to leave until Naruto is finished with the blood transplant." Tsunade stated as the cherry blossom went to leave she felt a hand clutch her wrist and Naruto was looking towards her.
"Please don't make her go Okaasan…" he begged to the woman who was now a member of his family.

Tsunade let out a sigh. 'he better not ask for everything like that or I'm screwed.' She thought, it was too easy for her son to convince her to allow Sakura to stay.
'Fine… but I'll have my own little victory.' She thought and with a menacing grin she turned to Sakura and smiled evilly.

"Well of course your girlfriend can stay Naruto-kun, I didn't think you would miss her so much!" she said innocently to the blonde, which made their faces light up a bright shade of red.
"Okaasan!" He exclaimed, although he didn't mind the idea of Sakura being his girlfriend.
"Well come on then!" She said to Sakura before the three went into the room.

Tsunade sat down in the chair in the middle of the room, while Shizune came over with a needle to take the blood sample needed, after the blood was drawn a few tests were done which Naruto didn't really understand, he looked over to the new needle that Shizune presented, as if on cue Sakura wheeled him into the centre of the room for Shizune to begin.

After a few tests on Naruto, seeing that everything had went as planned the three were about to leave before they heard a beeping from one of the machines, alerting the four people in the room that an error was taking place, suddenly Tsunade panicked and ran over to the machine checking what had went wrong.

She saw that the blood sample of 'Uzumaki (and secretly Namikaze.)' which had been mixed with 'Senju' blood was starting to mutate, she continued to watch the blood sample evolve before turning back to Naruto who now had panic written all over his face.
"What is it Okaasan? Is something wrong?" he said quickly hoping that it hadn't all gone wrong, the Senju blood was already implemented into his body, meaning if the sample had went wrong, it couldn't be good sign.

"Your blood has mutated Naruto-kun." Shizune said calmly hoping not to cause the boy to panic even more than he already was, although she didn't know what was going to happen and turned to look at Tsunade who would hopefully explain what was going on.

"Naruto…your blood has changed…and soon the change is going to happen in your body." She said calmly. "Is he going to be alright?" Sakura asked panicking over the safety of the boy, she had just got him back she wouldn't let him be taken from her so easily.
Tsunade looked back at the now finished product of the mutation and ran several tests on the 'new' sample of blood.
"Impossible! … This is…" she said in shock.
"What is it Tsunade-sama?" Shizune said joining in on the panic, Naruto was silently hoping it wasn't anything bad as Sakura clutched his hand in hers.

Suddenly the Hokage flipped out an old book skimming through many pages before looking back up towards the blood sample.
"Naruto… Your blood is mutating…and the blood that it is mutating into… is that of the Sage of Six Paths." She said trying to remain calm as best she could but this was something big.

She flipped through a few more pages before turning back to the boy wide eyed then looked back at the book and read a little more.
"Of course! … Naruto! Did Sasuke's blood at any time come in contact with your own?"

Naruto held his hand to his chin thinking before it suddenly came back to him, of course it came in contact.
"Yeah his hand was bleeding a lot when he punched the hole in me." He said calmly not really understanding what was going on, Sakura was now squeezing his hand harder than ever and he was sure that soon it was going to shatter.

"It seems that your blood was already mutating since then…since the Uzumaki clan's possess Senju blood but it isn't as thick as the real Senju clan's, so when I added my blood it must of have completed the process.
Naruto suddenly clutched at his head crying out in pain which startled everyone in the room.
"Quick! We need to get him back to his room, we don't know how long this will take!" she said before hurtling down the corridor with his wheelchair.

She carefully lifted him onto his bed and made sure he was comfortable, he had stopped clutching at his head and seemed to have lost consciousness, though his breathing was irregular and it was almost as if he had a fever.

Tsunade took one of his hands and smothered it in two of her own, holding on to it and not daring to let go.
"Come on Gaki, you can make it through this, you have to! We're a family remember?" she said sobbing onto his hand, Sakura sat silently along with Shizune, the two looked at the boy with pained eyes, the room was silent as the three of them concentrated on the blonde who was tossing and turning in the bed- every now and again he would let out grunts of pain.

Hours had passed but the three were adamant not to leave the boy's side despite it now being late, they had been talking for what seemed like forever trying to distract themselves from the time, Tsunade would squeeze one of hands every so often, hoping for a response, and when Shizune and Tsunade had been pulled out by an ANBU member Sakura planted a kiss on the boys fore head hoping that he'd wake up. Now though the three were just staring at him as if they knew he was about to wake up.

Then he did. He tossed and turned before letting out a groan then he slowly opened his eyes, his body ached all over in pain – it wasn't every day that his blood mutated and he'd never felt anything like it, he looked over to three who were still by his side, they were looking at him with shocked expressions but he couldn't understand why.

"Okaasan…?" he asked hoping that the Hokage would be able to fill him in on the situation at hand.
"Naruto…your eyes…" she said looking towards her son still in shock at what she could see.
"What about my eyes?" he asked before looking into the hospital mirror across the room.
"What the hell happened to my eyes!" He shrieked "I want my blue eyes back!" he shouted and closed his eyes tight, when he opened them, they were blue once more, like they had never changed.

The three still looked at him in shock not quite sure of what to make of it, Naruto however decided to experiment and thought to himself 'Okay I want my eyes like they were when they woke up' and without shutting his eyes – the blue pair were gone and had transformed into the new set.
"Awesome!" he shouted much like a child.

"What happened to his eyes Tsunade-sama? Is it like having the Sharingan?" Sakura asked hoping that once again the hokage would explain everything to the occupants of the room.
"It is similar to the Sharingan yes… but it's said that they are even stronger than the Sharingan." The three looked at the hokage with disbelief until she pulled out the book she was reading earlier.
"The sage of the six paths was said to have the same eyes … Its known as the Rinnegan."

"What can they do Okaasan? I want to train to be able to use them when I'm better." He said merrily.
"Kakashi would be able to tell you more about it than I would…"Tsunade said before turning to Shizune who then let out a sigh of defeat "Fine…I'll go get him…" she muttered before heading to the door.

"Wait Shizune-nee-chan! Could you bring me something to eat please? The hospital food is really bad." Naruto shouted to her, Tsunade let out a sigh "It's okay I'll go get you something, besides a mother should know what food her son likes" she said with a smile.
"Oh and no ramen, you had some earlier!" she stated to him expecting an argument.

"I really feel like eating a curry of some sort …hmmm beef or chicken…beef or chicken….chicken or beef." He said, starting an argument with himself.
"Well Naruto-kun you had beef with your ramen, why don't you get the chicken?" the cherry blossom suggested pulling him out of his argument as he agreed with a nod.
"What would you like with your curry Sakura?" she asked.
"Erm…I'm not really hungry…" she said before her stomach let out a loud growl, she hung her head.
"Chicken please…"
"Oh and Naruto turn your eyes blue before I leave." She stated "people walking into see the legendary Rinnegan might cause a commotion." He nodded to her and turned his eyes blue once again.

Tsunade chuckled before leaving the two alone in the hospital room, when she saw that the Hokage was a safe distance away she sat on the bed and wrapped herself around the blonde.
"I was worried sick!" She said nuzzling into his chest, he pulled her close to him and gave her a hug of his own, adding a slight squeeze letting her know that everything was okay.

"Sakura-chan…why did you say you weren't hungry when you were hungry? I don't get it." He asked curiously, the pink haired girl let out a nervous laugh but soon saw that he wasn't joking after all she decided to tell him.
"W-Well my figure isn't exactly the greatest…" she said in a sad tone, she felt a squeeze again and looked up at the blonde.
"W-Well I erm… I was kind of worried earlier when you jumped on me… you were so light It was kind of weird and when I hug you I can feel that you're really thin…" he said hoping that she wasn't upset.
"Is it really that bad? …" she said disheartened.
"Sakura-chan… I love you more than anything…" he said blushing deeply as he said so "but I think it's a little unhealthy…" he said again hoping she wasn't hurt – a woman's weight was a touchy subject sometimes.

'Wow he must really be concerned…' she thought and nodded in agreement, she had lost a lot of weight recently "It's okay Naruto-kun I understand, it means a lot that you care enough to tell me that your worried about me…" she said 'Wait. He said he loved me.' She had to wait a second as her brain processed the piece of information.

Suddenly she let out an excited scream much to Naruto's surprise and she hugged him tightly.
"Do you mean it Naruto-kun? Do you really love me?" She said still holding on to him for dear life.
"Of course I mean it Sakura-chan… I've always loved you." He spoke softly while stroking the pink locks that were framing her face.

She looked him in the eyes and he stared back at hers, sapphire meeting emerald as the two locked their gaze on each other, Sakura leaned in towards him and Naruto followed her movements, their noses touched and their lips became ever closer to locking in what would be their first kiss.

"IT'S CHICKEN TIME!" the hokage bellowed as she entered the room, the door had been kicked open by the blonde when she saw the perfect moment to enter.
"Awh that's too bad… you two nearly had your first kiss." She sniggered as the two blushed heavily, she took her seat before handing the two their meals, seeing that Shizune wasn't back yet she wondered what was taking her assistant so long.

Tsunade turned when hearing the polite knock on the already open door, only to see that her assistant had finally arrived with the silver haired jonin Kakashi, who then gave his trademark eye smile before wandering into the room. He had been filled in by Shizune before the two headed to the hospital, however looking at Naruto he became a little confused, his eyes were blue like they normally were.

He let out a nervous cough before speaking giving his usual greeting "Yo." Still looking at Naruto who was now digging into his meal he wondered if he had been pranked, seeing that Naruto's eyes were in fact normal – this may have been some kind of set up for an attempt to remove his mask.

"Well, it looks like what ever happened to Naruto's eyes has blown over, they look perfectly normal too me." He stated in his usual tone, the hospitalised male now looked a little confused and scratched his head.

"What do you mean they look normal Kakashi-Sensei?" he asked the jonin, the rest of the room also awaiting his answer, after all Tsunade had said that he would be able to tell them more about the Rinnegan.
"Well, your eyes look perfectly normal at the moment." He said looking back at the boy now confused about the whole situation, until Naruto figured out what he meant and activated the Rinnegan.

"Unbelievable… so just like the sharingan it can be activated or de-activated at will." He said a little shocked to see that Naruto did in fact possess the Rinnegan, he wouldn't have believed It if he hadn't seen it with his own eye.

"What can you tell us about the Rinnegan Kakashi-Sensei?" Sakura chirped looking towards the jonin; Shizune was also intrigued, as she had never come across the Rinnegan before.

"First of all, the Rinnegan allows the user to use Fire, lightning, Wind, Water and Earth jutsu but also has many unique abilities, although the only one that I know of is that it has the ability to manipulate gravity." Kakashi explained to the room.
"Manipulate gravity?" Naruto asked hoping for further explanation.
Kakashi nodded "It has the ability to repel or attract objects; the move to repel things is called 'Shinra Tensei' if I'm not mistaken." Naruto let out a sigh; he'd probably have some serious training to do just to get these techniques to work.
"Another ability of the Rinnegan is to see Chakra, much like the sharingan. Why don't you try it Naruto?" said the masked jonin, Naruto nodded and activated his Rinnegan only to stare back at the jonin and he was in fact able to see chakra.

Although suddenly he got the urge to try some something, he lifted his palm and looked down at it closely, then pointed it towards the door only for the occupants of the room to give him funny looks.
"Shinra Tensei." He said with low expectations, but as soon as the words left his mouth, an explosion of an invisible force took place and collided with door, after the dust cleared there was a sizable hole where the door once was.

"What the hell was that Gaki?" Tsunade bellowed to the blonde who looked puzzled.
"What! I just wanted to open the door; he said it could repel things! not blow them up!" he retaliated before a sweat drop fell down kakashi's head.
"I guess something as simple as that would require a lot more control Naruto, but still it is amazing that you were able to use the technique to that extent on the first time."

That's when they heard footsteps coming down the hallway, a man who looked to be in his mid-fifties peered into the room; he had long white hair and wore green robes with a red overcoat.
"I hear you're having Rinnegan troubles! Never fear the great Jiraiya is here!" He said announcing himself to the room.

"Ero-Sennin!" Naruto cried out happily- completely ruining the man's moment,
"What are you doing here?" he asked, happy to see his godfather again, Sakura wondered who the man was – Shizune bowed and Tsunade had a knowing smirk on her face she had a feeling he'd show up.

"Well to train my prized student of course! …" Jiraiya said in a happy tone before he became a little serious "Besides I've had experience in training someone with the Rinnegan." He said shocking the room, well except for Tsunade that is. Kakashi nodded in a thinking pose.
"This is a good opportunity Naruto, Sasuke will be training under a Sannin, it would be a good idea if you were to do the same."
"What do you say kid? Me, you and some serious training for 3 years." Jiraiya asked but before Naruto could answer he was interrupted by the other Sannin in the room.
"I Refuse." She stated to Jiraiya – she'd just got a son, there was no in hell she was going to let him go away for 3 years, she made that known as she was gripping Naruto's hand in her own, he squeezed back before speaking.

"Okaasan… This training will make me stronger…" he said doing his best to resist begging her to let him go, although he didn't like the idea of being away from her or Sakura for three years, and he'd miss Konoha – but training with Jiraiya for that period of time would definitely make him strong.

"Okaasan?" Kakashi and Jiraiya said in unison-that had come as quite a shock to the two.
"Yes, Naruto is my Son from now on…" She stated "That's why I…" suddenly she felt Jiraiya's hand
on her shoulder which eased her deep frown, she was excited to be a mother after not having children of her own, she was looking forward to finally have a son.
"It's for the best…" Jiraiya spoke softly only to get a reluctant nod of agreement from the Hokage
"Three years. Don't you dare let anything bad happen to him." She said quietly with the promise of pain, Jiraiya only nodded.

"We leave tomorrow, the sooner we're gone the sooner we get back." The Sannin said with a smile before exiting the room.
Sakura huffed "How come everyone else on Team Seven gets to be trained by one of the legendary Sannin?" Tsunade perked up at that, she could have an apprentice of her own. She let a smirk spread across her face.

"Oi Gaki, How would you like to be my apprentice? You'll need to be strong enough to keep him in line!" She said with a chuckle, maybe the three years without Naruto wouldn't be so bad after all, or so she thought until the next day.

Naruto was headed to the gates with Tsunade closely behind him, making sure he had everything he needed and generally fussing over the boy, Sakura had also came to see him off and the two were holding hands as they walked down the streets.

When at the gates they met Jiraiya who had a smile on his face at the sight of Naruto being nagged by Tsunade 'to stay safe and stay out of trouble.' Along with other motherly phrases.
"You ready kid?" He asked Naruto only to receive a confident nod, after the two had disappeared from view Tsunade let out a heavy sigh.

"I need a drink."

Authors Notes: Another new story! I should probably just focus on one – but I doubt that will ever happen XD. Hope you enjoyed reading, Favourites, Alerts and Reviews will all be appreciated.

Hmmm… Should I add training chapters or just go for the time skip? Tell me what you think.