Have you ever done something that you don't regret but everyone treats you like you should? For example we have a box of four drumsticks, four people in our family. I had one earlier in the day, and one later when my mother does as well as my dad. My younger sister comes downstairs and finds the empty box and pitches a mild fit. She gets over it, but the rest of my family acts like I should have spoken up and said I had, had one already. I thought they would have realized that when my dad went and got them when there were only three of them in the box. I suppose they might have thought my sister had her's or something like that but really it wasn't that big of a deal. I promised myself though that I wouldn't argue with her for this month in the spirit of the holidays so I placing this up so I don't feel snippy towards her later. Not that anyone will read this really, who ever reads my stuff?

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 Around five years ago I had just finished the fifth Harry Potter book and was depressed with the ending. I was searching through the Harry Potter dialogue center out of boredom and discover something interesting. A little story about the marauders in their school days. Now a days I can't remember exactly what it was about, but I remember being extremely intrigued. I didn't have much to do, it was summer and I at the time didn't have many friends so I began reading more followed by searching the site for more stories. Eventually I found two stories that enraptured me for different reasons. the first was a story about Lily and the Marauders (minus Peter) reading the third book. I adored the storyline although I eventually lost track of it (I still don't know what happened...) The other was Harry Potter and the Essence of Gryffindor, a story written before the fifth book and in my current opinion, I enjoyed it a lot more. I read it and it's sequel Harry Potter and the Vessel of Light obsessively that summer, driving my parents and my sister out of their minds. At the time there were two things I paid attention to. Harry Potter and Dragonball Z. That thanksgiving while we were visiting some relatives, I was showing my cousin Charlotte the site. I still have the old URL memorised though it's invalid now. Charlotte, after seeing the site told me of a more diversified and all together better site. Fanfiction.net. My younger sister still hasn't forgiven her for that I think. I checked out the site and found GohVi (Gohan/Videl) story that I found hilarious, A Sweet Surprise the story of Videl's pregnancy for Pan. At first that category was all I read, still going to the hp dialogue center for Harry Potter stories. Eventually as my interest in the late night anime extended, so did my likes in fics. I started watching InuYasha because I had found some intersting fics. (First little while I read them, I thought Miroku was bald) Then one day I found Lily and James: The Prequel by Kirbee Desiree. After that my interst in Harry Potter fics from the site was spun. There were no pages of BUMPS and comments, just the story and I loved it. In seventh grade my dad showed me a free internet radio site for me to listen to while I read called Pandora (Stupid new radio laws...) You see this lovely year was the year my dad gave me a laptop from his work. It was relatively old and eventually started dying and freezing but I still adored it. That year a friend of a friend of mine came out. So out of sense of curiousity and as to not feel ignorant, I looked up a slash story. It was Harry/Draco, Learning to Love a Veela. I found myself... Oddly facisnated by it. Still I was a hetero fan at the time and the the slash fics only occupied a small corner of my favorites closet. And then one day in one of my magazines I saw an advertisement for a show called Fruits Basket. I was in the eight grade by this point and had officially joined the ranks as a fanfiction.net member a year ago. While asking my dad to get the anime for me I subtlely started buying the magna. Vol. 1 captured my heart and I never looked back, diving head first into the fandom. I now own all 17 volumes out in Canada. After this i slowly began buying other magna; Forbidden Dance, CardCaptor Sakura, Fushigi Yuugi... End of that year I picked up the prettiest little magazine. Shojo Beat. Introducing me to the world of serial dramas such as Godchild, Nana, Crimson Hero, and Absolute Boyfriend I felt giddy. My eyes became open to even more new magna as I began combing through the Anime/Magna section of FF.net. And somewhere's along the line I discovered Naruto. The first fic I clearly remember reading was Downfall of the Light 1. Slowly I also began to take notice of other fandoms. My doom persay, came from Yu-Gi-Oh. I like many yaoi fangirls before me discovered the yami/hikari pairing and fell head over heels in love with the idea. I began reading more and more of the stuff it becoming a slow addiction. Eventually more and more animes feel into my repitoire. Gundam Wing, Yu Yu Hakusho, Naruto, Fruits Basket, Digimon, Full Metal Alchemist was a huge one for me, Gravitation, Descendants of Darkness(Yami no Matsuei) and with the discovery of an interesting crossover fic, Petshop of Horrors. Over the years I had even read a Sailor Moon fic or two. It was ninth grade when my view expanded to include two new fandoms that encompassed me. The new Doctor Who and Kingdom Hearts. I had bought KH2 and began playing it the summer between eight and ninth grade. I loved the storyline, the characters, the graphics... And the yaoi possiblities were almost too good to be true. As for Doctor Who, as of that summer I had only ever seen three episodes. The End of the World, The Empty Child and Fear Her. I got my dad to get the boxed set of the first season, then the second. I loved the characters to bits. I cried during Parting of the Ways and Doomsday, heck I admit it I bawled during Doomsday. I'm a die hard DoctorRose fan and with my knowledge of FF.net I automatically started looking for fics. Well now I write stories and post them on the site and read them with the same rabidness as always. It encompasses my life. I am I die-hard fangirl and yes I admit it!!

I know there are lots of people who read and write like I do but where I am it seems hard to find them. My parents get a glazed look in their eyes when I talk about it and my sister gets all mad. But really fanfiction has opened me up to soo many things that it can't be bad. Different philoshphies, insights to the human psyche, interesting moral viewpoints... The way people write fics reflects how they see life, people and the universe. By readin and writing as much as I do, I feel like I've seen the universe through thousands of different viewpoints no two exactly the same. Many people say that this kind of obsession is bad but considering how much I feel I've learned about life from it... How is it bad? Hundreds of thousands of people read it and love it as much as I do. it's a part of the world's culture. We have pictures, drawings, music, videos... It's a community of people interested in continuing the works of amazing authors and writers. It's a community I proudly say that I'm a part of.

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NARUTO

ANGELS WITHIN TEMPTATION

Saga 1: Embers of a Nation

Chapter 2 theme song "Broken" by Seether and Amy Lee

Chapter title:

What was Once Lost May Now Return

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'I wanted you to know, I love the way you laugh, I want to hold you high and steal your pain away...'

Chapter 2

Lorei smiled at her son who had come home in a rush talking about how his team had gotten their first C ranked mission.

She was worried, but she didn’t want to dampen his excitement.

She knew some of the supposedly C ranked missions Arashi took his genin team on sometimes ended up as much higher ranked missions but that was during the war, it probably wouldn’t happen nowadays right?

“So the guy we’re guarding looks like he’s a drunken fool Okaa-san. I kinda understand the mission ranking system, but it doesn’t mean the D-ranked missions weren’t boring, so I’m really looking forward to it… Okaa-san you look worried, daijobu?” Naruto blinked looking at his mother

“Oh it’s nothing baby, but be careful okay? I’m just a little worried because it’s the first mission you’ll be taking outside of Konoha. You’ll be traveling to Wave Country correct?”

“Uh huh, but it’s just a C-rank mission, the worst we’ll probably get is bandits Okaa-san.” Naruto looked confusedly at his mother

“As I said it’s nothing. It’s just the first time you’ll be going away and I’ll miss you!” Lorei smiled and gave her son a hug.

As her son packed his backpack to get ready for the mission she gazed around the small apartment.

It really was tiny, even compared to the shinobi quarters which everyone knew were cramped.

The apartment consisted of an open area with a small fridge, microwave, and kip oven\heater against one wall, two futons rolled up against another wall, a make shift table with two beat up chairs, a beat up looking metal cabinet with a padlock on it and a door leading to a small washroom.

The two of them didn’t own much furniture, because they both tended to get over-charged by almost all of the shopkeepers and sometimes people broke in while they were out and messed up the place.

The metal cabinet held everything important that they didn’t want wrecked so that no one but them could get it.

“It’s almost 9:30 sweetie. You should get some rest for tomorrow; you have a big day ahead of you.” Lorei smiled serenely at her son, ruffling his hair

“Daijobu, Okaa-san you’re right, g’night.” The blonde haired boy yawned as his mother got up to pull out the futons.

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The next morning Lorei quietly followed her son, staying just out of his sight, so he wouldn’t notice her.

After they got to the gate; Lorei still hanging back by quite a bit, both of them waited for Kakashi and Tazuna to show up.

The other two members of Team 7 were already there.

After awhile the other two showed up and left the village, Naruto at the last minute turning around to wave good-bye to his mother who gave a happy wave back, as the group disappeared from sight.

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As Team 7 got around 2 hours away from the village, Sakura turned and looked at Naruto

“How did you know your okaa-san was back there? I didn’t sense her or anything.” The girl said with an interested tone in her voice

“First of all I knew Okaa-san would probably follow me a bit so she could say good-bye, but she didn’t want to embarrass me or nothing. Second I’m pretty good at telling when people I know are around, always have been don’t know why though.” Naruto told a smooth lie at the end.

He knew now it was because the Kyuubi sealed inside of him that he could always automatically identify his precious people and his mother happened to take the top of the list because she was always there for him and she wasn’t shinobi so he had to get strong so he could protect her and become Hokage so the village would acknowledge him and be nicer to his mother.

Kakashi-sensei was giving him an odd look

“Naruto, what’s your okaa-san’s name? I think I’ve met her before somewhere, but I can’t remember where.” The lazy jounin spoke.

“Uzumaki Lorei” The blond boy said quietly. Kakashi’s visible eye widened

‘Sensei knew her, that’s where I’ve seen her before! She got along really well with Rin but she barely ever talked to me or Obito. She was found at the village gate and was deduced to be suffering from amnesia; she never got her memories back. Sensei was her friend; he sealed the Kyuubi in her child? The way the civilians and probably quite a few shinobi treat them, the poor woman… From how Naruto describes her, he obviously adores her, which I guess is quite reasonable considering she’s probably the only adult that treats him decently. But the way she acted it’s obvious he’s her world… I remember sensei having to deliver the news of Obito’s death to his family; I don’t want to have to do that.’

Kakashi quickly settled back into his lazy stance, the shock quickly wearing off.

Tazuna the bridge-builder would make occasional attempts at conversation, but at the moment the shinobi were too caught up in their thoughts

(Or in Sakura’s case fawning)

To speak to the man.

A little while later, Naruto blinked looking at an anomaly on the path

“Ehh, Kakashi-sensei? It hasn’t rained around her in awhile right?” the blond asked

“Hai, not for a couple of weeks, why do you ask?” the jounin answered, his lazy stance making a subtle shift to a guarded pose.

“Because if it hasn’t rained in a couple of weeks, why did we just pass a puddle?” As soon as Naruto finished the sentence two nuke-nin popped out.

The fight was relatively quick Kakashi getting the information out of the two that they had been sent to kill Tazuna.

This lead to the bridge builder explaining that he had lied about the mission rank because the country couldn’t afford it because a corrupt rich man named Gatou was taking over the country and running the people into poverty.

If Tazuna built his bridge they would be able to raise enough money through the influx in the economy to get their country back from the cruel businessman.

Of course Gatou had sent assassins to stop this from happening, which is why Tazuna hired them.

The group after a small period of thinking decided to continue on with the mission.

The group moved on heading towards where they got on to the boat that took them to Wave country.

As the group got off the boat and began walking again the genins noticed movement in the bushes and after flicking a kunai at the bush discovered it to be a white rabbit.

A figure hiding in the shadows contemplated his targets

‘The orange one is fussing over the rabbit even though he missed it. I thought only Haku did shit like that’

A few minutes later the figure swung a sword at the group, who ducked at the last minute.

The killing intent that radiated between the two jounins was intense.

The battle was an interesting one with Naruto proving he could use teamwork with Sasuke when he used the Fuuma Shuriken technique.

Before Kakashi was able to deliver the final blow a Hunter-nin used senbon to do so.

The Nin took the body away, after thanking the group for helping kill Zabuza.

Tazuna took the group back to his house to rest after Kakashi collapsed from chakra exhaustion.

Kakashi soon explained that the Hunter-nin merely put Zabuza in a death-like state and probably worked for the man.

It would take Zabuza at least a week to recoup from his injuries and during this time they would train.

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“Tsunami, Inari these are the shinobi who protected me on the way here.” Tazuna introduced the group to his daughter and grandson.

“Hi, I’m Uzumaki Naruto nice to meet-cha!”

Tsunami smiled at the group and Inari just gave a half-hearted ‘hello’.

The other two members of Team 7 introduced themselves.

Tsunami made the group some food and Kakashi promised the group to train them in some chakra control exercises to help them get ready for the battle.

Kakashi then sent one of his nin-dogs back to Konoha to inform the Hokage about the mission rank update.

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Meanwhile in Konoha word had just gotten back to Sarutobi about the mission status hike.

“Now who do I send to tell Lorei-san? I could get Iruka to do it except he’s rather protective of Naruto, like an older brother so I’m sort of afraid of his reaction… I know I’ll have Anko tell her, they are good friends from what I remember.” The Sandaime smiled and had a summons sent out for the Special Jounin.

About fifteen minutes later Anko showed up, brushing dust off her trench coat and glaring at what appeared to be a very stubborn blood-stain on it.

“I have a D-rank mission for you, before you complain it’s something I can’t think of having anyone else do. A genin team’s C-rank mission got upgraded to A-class. I need you to inform the mother of one of the genins of the situation. The other two are already taken care of. You’re good friends with the mother, so you are the best candidate for the mission.” Sarutobi calmly finished.

“You want me to tell Uzumaki Lorei, that her son’s first mission outside the village just got upgraded to an A-class because of… A-CLASS MISSING-NIN!!? Are you trying to worry that woman to death? She’s already fretting herself to pieces over Naruto-otouto, she’ll forget to sleep and eat if she’s told this!” Anko screeched at the Hokage.

“Maybe you should have someone you trust stay with her to make sure she remembers to eat and sleep?” answered the Hokage.

“Well she’ll probably do better if she has someone to fuss over… and she seems fond of the elder Hyuuga girl… Plus Kurenai owes me a favor!” Anko smiled

“I’ll do it Hokage-sama, Ja ne!” the sadistic Special Jounin practically skipped out the door.

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Anko tapped Kurenai on the shoulder

“You owe me a favor!” she sang

“What is it Anko?”

“There is a genin team whose C-rank got booted up to A-class, I’m asking for Hyuuga-san to watch over one of the genin’s mother to make sure she doesn’t worry herself to death. I have the illustrious job of telling Rei-chan what happened though.” Anko’s face scrunched up at the thought

“Alright, Hinata can you come here please? There is a small D-ranked mission that I want you to take care of. It’s a one person job though and I think you are best suited for it.” Kurenai called over to the lavender eyed girl.

“Al..right Kurenai-sen…sei” Hinata stuttered walking over to the two of them.

“Well you know that genin team that went out on a C-ranked mission the other day? Well the mission got kicked-up to A-rank. After I inform Naruto’s okaa-san of the situation I want you to watch over her and make sure she takes care of herself instead of worrying herself to death. She seemed fond of you and being able to fuss over someone should keep her mind occupied.” Anko explained

“Of course I would help out Naruto-kun’s okaa-san!” Hinata said rapidly not even thinking twice about her words.

“All right, meet up with me at Hokage Tower tomorrow at 9. I’ll show you the way to the Uzumaki’s apartment. Now I better be off to tell Lorei now, kami-sama let her take this well…” Anko muttered the last line as she walked away from the group

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Lorei frowned as she stood up to answer the knock on her door

“Now who could that be? I don’t really know anybody who would visit me right now….” She muttered, as her hand turned the doorknob opening it.

“Ko-chan, what are you doing here? Don’t you have work?” Lorei asked confusedly

“Well ano… A genin team’s C-rank mission got kicked up to A-rank…. Don’t worry they are okay as of the report we just got sent back!” Anko quickly reassured her friend as she watched Lorei pale.

“Naruto…” she whimpered, her knees going weak.

Anko caught her before the women collapsed

“Great, I broke her. Please don’t tell she’s been having those nightmares again, because if she is I am the worst person in the verse’.” Anko muttered helping her friend over to one of the chairs in the apartment.

A couple of blankets were half-folded on the floor next to a hamper of clean laundry indicating Lorei had been putting it away when Anko came in.

“They’re fine, Rei-chan. Kakashi collapsed from chakra exhaustion, but they are fine. I bet Naruto-otouto will come back at the end of everything with an amazing story about the mission and I can give him a quick wap upside the head for worrying you like this” Anko smiled wanly at her friend whose pupils had contracted as her mind went over every possibility of her baby being hurt.

“Oh kami-sama I can’t lose him too. Not my baby!” Lorei whimpered her knees curling up to her chest.

“He’s fine Rei-chan, barely even a scratch on him!” Anko reassured her friend who was hovering on the edge of a panic attack.

Lorei blinked “He’s… all right?” her voiced wavered.

Anko nodded “Hokage-sama thought I should be the one to inform you of it considering most people wouldn’t have reassured you.”

“Arigatou Ko-chan.” Lorei smiled sweetly the color in her face gradually coming back.

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“Okay today I’m going to train you three in chakra control. We are going to climb trees. With out using our hands.”

“How are we going to do that Kakashi-sensei?” Sakura asked

“What’s chakra Sensei?” Naruto asked

“Baka didn’t you ever pay attention in class!” Sakura whacked Naruto upside the head.

“Chakra is a combination of spiritual and physical energy used to power jutsus. This exercise has you channeling chakra in an even distribution along your feet to allow you to stick to a surface and walk up a tree, wall, or even on the ceiling.”

“Sugoi Kakashi-sensei!” Naruto grinned happily quickly turning to the tree and attempting to focus the chakra to his feet and began trying to run up the tree.

After he made it up a couple of feet he lost traction his chakra overcompensated and blew him off the tree.

“You used too much chakra dobe.” Sasuke grunted while giving himself a running start for his try at the exercise.

After getting a few feet above where Naruto got to he lost his grip and fell as well.

“Too little Sasuke-kun, the trick is not using too much and getting blown off or too little and slipping off. Sakura-san you try now.” Sakura took her start and made it up about a 1\4 ways up the tree before stopping

“Hey this is easy! Why am I able to do it so quickly Kakashi-sensei?” Sakura asked as she walked down the tree

“You have much less chakra than Sasuke or Naruto; therefore it’s easier to control. This is the main reason Naruto has so much trouble with his jutsus. He has so much chakra and almost no control. Sasuke while having better control has more chakra than you do making it harder.” Kakashi explained.

The group continued training until Sakura collapsed against a tree, exhausted. She looked at the other two who were still going.

Sasuke’s progress was becoming obvious, while Naruto was having a lot of trouble.

“Ano… Sakura-chan, you’re really good at this so could you give me some advice? But please don’t tell Sasuke!” Naruto whispered to the pink-haired girl.

‘Naruto may be doing the worst of them at the moment but once he gets this down he will be the best due to his insane amount of chakra. He has more than Sasuke, in fact his current amount of chakra... It’s more than my own’

Kakashi thought observing the group.

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A little while later at the bridge, Sakura had been assigned to guard Tazuna at the bridge while Naruto and Sasuke trained.

While she stayed there another one of the builders quit in fear of his life against Gatou’s men.

On the way back home at the end of the day the two of them went through town to get some supplies, Sakura feeling sympathy for the people of the land’s state swears she will do her best to help them. Later at supper she notices a family photo with a large part of it ripped out.

As she asks Tazuna about it he replies

“Kaiza, he was once known as a hero in this land.”

Inari quickly ran out of the room, his mother following him after yelling at Tazuna

“You know not to talk about him like that around Inari!”

Tazuna explains the story of Kaiza and how he was a hero to the village.

“He always said you should protect that which is precious to you with your own two arms. When Gatou came, to destroy the threat Kaiza represented he had his thugs destroy his arms and then publicly executed in front of everyone. Inari suffered the most and this land lost the word ‘courage’. This is why I have to finish that bridge. To bring hope back to everyone.” Tazuna finished

“I’ll do it, I will prove to Inari that there are real heroes out there.”

'You've gone away... I can't feel you, anymore...'

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Prologue

Okay I admit, at first when I woke up I thought ‘Oh god how drunk am I?’

Now mind you, actually voicing this was probably pretty stupid, but when I usually wake up I don’t have a pounding headache, amnesia and there isn’t a really hot guy standing next to the hospital.

He laughed; it was such a happy laugh, full of a kind of innocence and an absolute zest for life.

With that laugh, I fell in love.

He told me his name was Arashi Kazama, my name?

I don’t think much importance but it’s Lorei.

My last name I could never recall so the Sandaime gave me the general last name that most orphans take on; Uzumaki.

Arashi-san showed me around the village and I was granted citizenship.

Not as a shinobi or anything, just a civilian.

After that I figured I would probably never see Arashi-san again.

Then he started popping up at the ramen stand where I had begun working at.

I continuously kept telling myself ‘He isn’t here to see you, he just loves ramen a lot’ didn’t work at all.

We talked a lot, about almost everything.

After about 3 months, one day he just kissed me.

It was very nice and because of the whole amnesia thing it was basically my first kiss.

He apologized saying he was sorry but he really liked me and well actually he was talking really fast so I didn’t catch the rest of it but it was annoying me so I kissed him back.

We started dating after that, I met his sensei a couple of times.

I did not know it was possible for a man to be that perverted.

I told Arashi-kun if I ever caught him with one of Jiraiya’s books I would burn the book.

He told me that he never even touched his sensei’s Icha, Icha books. Arashi-kun was a jounin so I met his genin team quite a few times.

We never introduced ourselves as a couple, with the war against Iwa, it would be too easy for them to kidnap me and use me as a hostage against Konoha.

We got married; it was an extremely small ceremony, just the Sandaime and us.

Not even Arashi-kun’s students knew, Jiraiya, Tsunade-neechan, and Orochimaru-san did know of course but that was about it.

I got pregnant soon after we were married.

I was so happy and so was Arashi-kun.

The Sandaime had Arashi take over as the new Hokage, the Yondaime awhile before I showed up.

He always smiled so brightly when he came home.

He talked to my belly a lot while I was pregnant, it made me laugh.

I was almost at my due date the night the Kyuubi attacked.

The battle went on for days, so many shinobis died.

It was late afternoon of the third day when I went into labor, in an isolated hospital room, Tsunade-neechan helped with the delivery.

Arashi-kun came in to the room a few minutes after little Naruto was born, he drew something on his stomach that I couldn’t see, then laid Naruto back on the bassinet that he had been in.

Arashi-kun then turned to me, his face pale and unshed tears in his eyes.

He then mouthed to me ‘I’m so sorry’ and ‘I love you’ then he rushed back out in to battle.

I may only be a civilian but I’m not blind, when the power surge burst through the room and straight in to my baby, leaving three whiskers like scars on both of his cheeks; I felt it. Naruto started crying the minute that red chakra entered the room and started being sucked into the seal on his stomach.

A few minutes later Tsunade-neechan was informed that Arashi-kun had died sealing the Kyuubi away.

This is where my story begins; the story of the mother of the village pariah.


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NARUTO

ANGELS WITHIN TEMPTATION

Saga 1: Embers of a Nation

Chapter 1 theme song "Blue" By Eiffel 65

Chapter title:

Fallen in a Sense of Grief and Happiness


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'Yo listen up, here's a story about a little guy that lives in a Blue World...'

Chapter 1

The village council sat behind the long table, throwing looks that ranged between disgust and pity at the eighteen year old young woman sitting in a chair at the other side of the room who was holding a small bundle and rocking it back and forth; a detached smile on her face.

“We motion to execute the Kyuubi host to get rid of the demon once and for all. It is likely with the fox sealed inside him the gaki will be just as bad.” A middle aged man spoke up, many of other members of the council making nodding motions as well.

The young woman’s face shot up, her eyes panicked. “No, don’t kill my baby!” she cried, her hands clutching the bundle closer to her chest.

“The Yondaime, wouldn’t wish the boy to be killed, he wished for the boy to be seen as hero for being the Kyuubi’s jailer and can’t you see you are distressing Lorei-san?” The Sandaime protested.

“If you are going to kill my baby you will have to kill me first, I don’t care if I’m only a civilian you aren’t killing my baby! Don’t most of you people have children around his age? Please show him mercy, he’s my baby!” Lorei whimpered her brownish-blonde hair falling in her face and sticking to the tear tracks running down her face.

“We will leave the Kyuubi gaki alone for now, but we will not give up on this line of thought Hokage, we will follow the law you set down of never speaking of the jinchuuriki to the younger generation as well.” The council leader digressed waving his hand in a dismissive gesture.

Lorei nodded and quickly left the room, the bundle still in her hands.

“Shh, Naru-chan see they aren’t going to hurt you! Okaa-chan loves you enough to make up for all of the silly billies around here and don’t worry there will be other people who will love for just being you. Like when Tsunade-neechan comes back, she’ll adore you! You look just like her younger brother Natawaki, he died awhile ago. She’s really upset right now because of everything that happened but she’ll come back, I know she will! Now we got to go back to the apartment the Sandaime gave us. Know one knows who your father was, except me, the Sannins and the Sandaime, so we can’t stay at home. Sandaime-sama says it’s for the best because Iwa shinobi would probably try to assassinate you in revenge for your father’s action during the war and it isn’t likely that the ANBU would be very helpful in protecting us.” Lorei whispered giving a weak smile, smoothing back the blonde fuzz on the baby’s head.

The small child yawned and snuggled in closer to the affectionate touch and embrace “Okaa-chan loves you, Naruto sweetheart”

7 years later

A small spikey haired blonde boy ran out the doors of the academy smiling as he ran to his mother who was waiting just outside the gates

“Okaa-san, Iruka-sensei says we’re going to start working on jutsus tomorrow, isn’t that awesome!”

“Of course it is Naruto! Do you want to wait a little bit so we can treat Iruka-san to some ramen? I want to thank him for helping me with my groceries the other day, I now he’s busy with the Academy and all so it was very kind of him to help me.”

“Uh huh, Iruka-sensei is the best of course we should treat him to some ramen! Are we going to Ichiraku’s or are you making it Okaa-san?” Naruto smiled happily

“I think we should take him to Ichiraku’s, I want to save some ingredients to make some bentos for tomorrow’s lunch, I don’t want you eating ramen all the time, you’ll never grow any taller if all you eat is ramen!” Naruto’s mother laughed, patting her son on the head.

“You’re not that tall either Okaa-san!” Naruto giggled

“Ahh but I’m done all my growing anyway, so it doesn’t matter as much!” Naruto’s mother smiled, looking up as she noticed someone moving towards them.

“Lorei-san, what are you and Naruto-kun still doing here? Aren’t you two usually at home by now?” the brunet chuunin asked the two.

“Oh me and Naru-chan wanted to ask you if we could treat you to some ramen as a thank you for helping me with my groceries the other day, and for being so kind to Naruto.” Lorei asked gently, Naruto holding on to her hand and gently leaning against her.

“I don’t want to be a bother Lorei-san, but if you insist…” Iruka trailed off

“Of course we do, right Naruto-kun?” Lorei smiled her chin length bangs swirling around her face, the honey blonde bangs resettling next to her ears.

Most of her hair had been swept in to a bun at the base of her neck but her bangs wouldn’t stay in and fell around her oval shaped face.

The group made their way to the popular ramen stand at a sedate pace, Lorei naturally avoiding the roads that held a greater concentration of civilians, mainly the ones who could remember what happened seven years ago.

“Maa, maa Iruka-sensei you never mentioned what your favorite flavor of ramen was. You’re our guest so we should treat you to your favorite ne?” Lorei grinned as the three of them sat down.

“I’m partial to miso ramen, but really I’m fine with just about anything, you two are being very generous, all I did was helping you with the groceries Lorei-san. You needed help and as a shinobi it’s my job to help out.” Iruka said quietly

“Yeah but you’re the first person I can ever remember helping Okaa-san with something! I help how I can, but Okaa-san says she can do it herself” Naruto told the academy teacher.

Iruka turned and gave the young woman a half shocked look, then sighed “I see… I’m extremely grateful for this show of thanks, I accept it whole-heartedly” The three of them then proceeded to order their ramen and ate quietly.


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4 years later…


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“Team Seven; Haruno Sakura, Uchiha Sasuke, and Uzumaki Naruto” Iruka smiled as he read the last team on the list.

“Please wait here for your jounin instructor, don’t be worried if he doesn’t show up soon, he has a reputation for being extremely late.” Iruka then left the classroom giving the remaining students a wave.

“He better got here soon I know only one jounin who has a reputation for being chronically late; Hatake Kakashi. I wanna get home and tell okaa-san who my teammates are, I promised I would…” Naruto muttered staring at the door.

“Stop acting like a baby Naruto, you’re such a mama’s boy!” Sakura sniffed

“What, I’m a mama’s boy just cause’ I wanna keep my promise to my okaa-san? Okaa-san just likes knowing about my life, she worries. Being a shinobi is dangerous, but she respects that it’s what I want to do. She just wants to know who is in my cell because she cares.” Naruto retorted quietly Sasuke made an hn sound, turning his attention back to the door.

Uzumaki Lorei wandered around the small apartment she shared with her son worriedly.

Shouldn’t he be back by now? Well unless Kakashi-san got infected by Obito-kun’s lateness before he died…

“He’ll be home by suppertime at the latest; I should go get some groceries… I think I’ll visit Ko-chan too; I have some extra ryo to treat her to some dango” the young woman muttered.

Lorei grabbed her purse, walked out the door and locked it.

She quickly made her way to the ANBU interrogation headquarters where her friend worked at. Lorei slowly walked in to the building “Anko-chan, are you here? I have some extra ryo, I was thinking of treating you to some dango… I heard that nice guy that owns the stand and doesn’t glare at me is having a sale too…” Lorei called in to the building.

The hyper, dango-loving, genin sensei hating kunoichi bounced in to the room

“Rei-chan, you’re gonna buy me dango? Oh I heard Naruto-otouto finally graduated from the Academy, something about the Forbidden Scroll and Mizuki being a traitor?” Anko babbled.

Lorei winced, the movement barely showing on her face “Hai, he did graduate, I think his jounin-sensei is Kakashi-san and from what I heard he picked up Obito-kun’s…habit.”

“You mean being ridiculously late for everything and only showing up on time if you show up late?” Anko blinked, Lorei nodded

“Ouch, Naru-otouto still has that patience problem doesn’t he?” Lorei nodded again

“He has stopped sneaking in pet frogs… The landlord got mad about the ones he found the first couple of times; we aren’t allowed to have pets…”

“Does he still call his wallet Gama-chan?”

“Hai”

“Do you want any sake?”

“Iie, I don’t need any, but do you have any soda crackers?” Lorei beseeched her friend

“Yep, I keep some around in case I get really hungry and things are too busy for me to go get dango” Anko proceeded to pass her friend a couple of the square crackers, which she nibbled on quietly.

“You still love wearing that kimono don’t you?” Anko asked pointing at the padded white kimono her friend was wearing.

“Hai, it was a gift from my husband, it’s all I really have left of him…” Lorei muttered, staring at the ground.

“Yo, Kurenai-chan you’re a jounin-sensei?” Anko called over to the red eyed woman who was walking down the street with her new students.

“Yeah Anko-chan, oh and hello to you Uzumaki Lorei-san!” Kurenai smiled

“You’re Naruto-kun’s okaa-san?” whispered out the girl with the pale, pupiless eyes.

“Hai, oh and you would Hyuuga Hinata-chan right?” beamed Lorei “Naru-chan said you are a very sweet girl!” the shy Hyuuga blushed crimson at the compliment her crush’s okaa-san had given her.

“Arigato, Uzumaki-san” Hinata stammered

“Awww you’re such a kawaii girl!” Lorei cooed, patting Hinata on the head

(A/N Lorei isn’t being condescending, she’s just a bit eccentric and mentally she wee-wah’s do to the trauma of not having a past due to amnesia, her husband dying, never being able to grieve properly due to the secretism of her and Arashi’s relationship, the councils yearly attempt to have Naruto executed along with their assassination attempts and how the villagers treat her and her son)

After Kurenai and Anko talked for a few minutes the two groups went their separate ways.

After they got a little ways away Kurenai spoke

“Lorei wasn’t being condescending in anyway there. She’s eccentric, and she is a very sad person on the inside. From what I remember of her before Kyuubi’s attack 11 years ago, she was quite a bit like Hinata-san, but her husband; Naruto’s father died. No one knows who her husband was, except that he was a shinobi. Think kindly of her, that’s all I really ask.” The red-eyed woman sighed

“She doesn’t judge anybody, even if everyone judges her first.” Hinata nodded along with Shino and Kiba, who just shrugged shoulders not really understanding what, was going on.

“Uzumaki-san seems like a very nice person, and the thought of her being condescending never crossed my mind.” Hinata said quietly.

Naruto backed away from the door chuckling as he looked at the prank he set up for his jounin sensei.

“Baka, you shouldn’t do that!” Sakura yelled “He deserves it for being so late!” Naruto yelled back.

A few seconds later a silver haired masked shinobi entered the room, the eraser falling his head.

Naruto laughed, Sasuke turned his head away and Sakura, while laughing in her head spoke up

“Sensei, I told him not to do it!” her voice practically a whine.

“My first impression of you three…” the jounin said lazily

“I don’t like you.”

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