Naruto: Fourth Hokage

"Look the sooner we find Gaara," Kankuro said, "The sooner we can convince him to change his mind about this whole thing. I'd hate for him to be seen as something far worst than he already is by our own people. We both know that everyone in Sunagakure look down at Gaara, and practically everyone fear and hate Gaara. These are factors that Naruto can not possibly understand, even if he is a Jinchuuriki like Gaara."

Temari didn't want to believe everything her younger brother was saying but she knew he was telling the truth. In truth, parts of her wanted to believe that Naruto could live up to his promise in fixing the seal on Gaara, especially since Naruto was the first person in a long time who actually sought to help Gaara without bothering to know about his past.

(Meanwhile Back At the Hokage Tower)

Naruto was sitting at the desk with a bunch of written and crossed out notes. For several hours Naruto, with Yondaime's assistance, worked round the clock studying the seals needed for Gaara's seal repairs.

"This is so frustrating," Naruto vented as he slammed his fist down on the desk, "I never expected that this ancient kinjustu ougi would have been this complicated."

'Welcome to the wonderful world of sealing,' Yondaime joked.

That wasn't very funny, Naruto remarked with frustration.

'Just trying to lighten the mood,' Yondaime replied, 'Remember you put yourself up to this. Think of it as part of your training to surpass me.'

You still haven't taught me the Hiraishin, Naruto shot back.

'That's because I don't see you ready to learn that jutsu yet.'

So as a substitute, Naruto argued, I had to learn to use and incorporate Shunshin into my style of fighting with ero-jisan's guidance and training. As you saw for yourself, it was no easy task.

'But you did it. Even without the Hiraishin you proved to be a capable ninja by developing your own style of combat. Life is about change Naruto; sometimes you can't rely on the old ways to fix new problems. That's way revisions of the old ways are often made to fit the needs of new generations.'

"That's it!," Naruto shouted as he shot up from his seat after receiving an epiphany.

'Huh?'

Revising the old ways, Naruto replied, That's the key! Dad you're a genius!

Sitting back at the desk, Naruto looked through the forbidden scroll again to analyze the ancient Shiki Fūjin.

I think I can pull this off, Naruto thought with a new vigor of determination coursing through him.

'Did I miss something,' Yondaime asked.

(Elsewhere In The Hokage Tower)

Tsunade had just return to her office from her meeting with the council. The topic that was up for discussion was Haku's entry into Konoha as a new citizen. Tsunade explained in detail everything Naruto, Kakashi and Team 7 told her about their mission and Haku. Needless to say, the council was most thrilled about Haku being accepted as a new member Konoha, especially with her bloodline limit. Tsunade saw how the council and elders were most pleased with how Naruto handled the situation with Haku and how he negotiated and offered her the chance to join Konoha and put her ninja and medic skills into good use as a Konoha nin.

The council saw this as a golden chance to create a whole new clan through Haku with her bloodline limit to strengthen Konohagakure all together. Tsunade however explained that Haku won't have to worry about that until she's old enough to marry. The Godaime also added that she gave Haku a place of her own and assigned her as Shizune's assistant.

The blond female Hokage sighed while sitting at her office desk before reviewing the documents for the Chuunin exams. She saw on her desk Anko's form stating her nomination of Naruto for the exam. The blonde Hokage sighed again to herself. She knew without a doubt that her son was more than qualified to be Chuunin. Hell, he was practically qualified to become Hokage she figured. But she knew her old sensei wouldn't approve of her just handing over the position of Hokage to Naruto in spite of the fact that Sandaime himself considers Naruto a "born Hokage." Jiraiya himself looks at Naruto as the new Yondaime Hokage.

The blond Hokage then thought about what her son was planning on doing in regards to Gaara's seal. If anything, she knew that Naruto was taking a very dangerous risk but it was a risk he consciously took, though he wasn't aware at first that the task he took on for himself was in fact an S-rank mission. It amazed her that the Sandaime believed in Naruto's capabilities enough to be willing to allow him to even read and use the forbidden scroll; a privilege that even the ANBU Black Opts were never granted. What was written in that scroll were very powerful, dangerous, and deadly seals, jutsus and kinjutsu from Jounin to Kage level of various ranks. All five Hokages have written kinjutsus and kinjutsu ougis in that scroll, however Yondaime never wrote how to create and perform the Rasengan or the Hiraishin No Jutsu in that scroll.

(Later That Evening; Back In The Study Office)

Concept prototype seals were in front of Naruto on the desk. Littered on the floor around his seat were crumbled pieces of paper that had previous concept seals and hand seals he tried to devise. After much effort though, progress started being made. It was after several more attempts in creating concept seals did Naruto finally thought up a way to incorporate the revised seal designs from the Shiki Fūjin, the Eight Trigrams Sealing Style and the Four Symbols Seal into Gaara's seal. The revised seal Naruto created was a new fūin kinjutsu ougi.

After putting down on a separate scroll the incorporated modified seals he thought up for the repairs, he rolled and closed the forbidden scroll. He then rolled up and closed the other scroll he wrote in. He got up from his seat and went over to the cabinet to place both scrolls in it. Locking the cabinet securely after placing the scrolls in it, Naruto, after placing a seal marker in the room, stepped out of the study room and locked the door. He decided to take a walk to clear his mind and take a break. When he saw that no one was in sight, bit his thumb and performed some hand seals.

"Kuchiyose No Jutsu," Naruto said as he slammed his right hand to the ground result in a puff of smoke to momentarily appear. After the smoke cleared, standing before Naruto was a small orange and white two-tailed fox with blue eyes, white gloves, and red and white sneakers. (A/N: Yes it's who you think it is; this is a borrow character from Sonic The Hedgehog)

"Naruto-sama," said the small fox in a happy childish voice.

"Tails," Naruto greeted, "I have a job for you."

Tails started propelling his two tails helicopter style until he was now airborne and looking at Naruto face to face. The flying two-tailed fox asked, "Really, what it is?"

Naruto took out his seal marked kunai and handed it to the flying fox.

"Find Gaara," Naruto said, "Place this kunai in an area close to the vicinity Gaara is at but don't make any form of contact with him. Report back to me immediately after the job is done. If you do the job right, I'll reward you with the highest quality youkan with gold leaves from Amaguiriya." (A/N: a youkan is a tasty chocolate treat; watch episode 178 and you'll see what I mean)

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