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~Naruto POV~

I opened my eyes to see a dim light. It must be late evening based on the lighting in the room. I decided to make my presence and current reawaken known so I started to stir around and sit up. Once I was fully sat up straight, I realized that I was in Jiji's room and that my guess was somewhat correct, it was indeed evening but was more of a mid-evening. It was dim because the couch, that I was now sitting on, wasn't anywhere near the window. This must be Jiji's napping couch. I look around the room to find said man sitting at his desk stamping papers and sighing. I take another look around the room, but this time I did it while trying to sense any presence, or "chakra" as Kurama calls it. I found 7 in total. Three on the ceiling, one behind a potted plant, one next to the door, and the last two were behind Jiji on both sides. My guess is that the 3 on the ceiling and potted plant guy are the ones that belong to that mean man that Kurama warned me about, his name being Dango or something unimportant. Finally, Jjij notices that I'm awake. He puts down the paper he was reading and starts to make his way over to me with a smile on his face. Once he reaches the couch he squats down and places a hand on my leg. "How are you feeling?"

I give him a small smile then state, "I feel a lot better Jiji. Thank you for healing and helping me. I know I don't deserve it."

He lets his head hang, and after a few seconds, he starts to slowly shake it. He finally lifts his head to look at me. I noticed the frown on his face, did I say something wrong? "Naruto don't ever say that again."

I felt my head start to tilt as I grew confused, instead of just sitting there guessing I decided to voice my thoughts. "What can't I say again, did I say something wrong. If I did I'm very sorry Jiji." I start to feel fear rise in me at the thought of Jiji being angry at me. Beside him, Dog Andu and Kurama was all I had left. I could feel myself start to shake from said fear. Jiji notices the shaking pretty quickly despite it being only a small tremble. The awareness of a shinobi I guess.

He places the hand that was on my leg onto my shoulder and says, "Yes, you did say something wrong, but it's nothing that I will get mad at you for. You said you didn't deserve my help, never think like that. Out of everyone in this village, you deserve it the most and I'll always give it to you without a second thought. I love you Naruto, please remember that."

His words made my heart hurt in a way that I never felt before. Someone loves me. I didn't think that was possible. Jiji lifts his hand up to my cheek and rubs at it. "I'm sorry. I didn't mean to make you cry Naruto." Wait, I'm crying? I look down and watch as a tear falls off the opposite check.

"Jiji please help me! I'm not hurt but I can't stop crying! What's wrong with me?" I plead to him.

Then he gives me that look again, this time there is more pity than anger. He says, "Naruto, those aren't tears of sadness or pain. I'm guessing those are tears of happiness from hearing me say I love you."

Oh, that makes sense. No one has ever told me that before. I gave him a huge, real, smile and said, "I love you too Jiji, I love you so much." I jump into his arms, wrapping my small arms around his neck and start to squeeze him as much as I can. I hear him laughing as I'm doing so.

During mid hug, I hear Kurama say, "You know that I love you too, right?"

I start to feel more tears coming and try my hardest to hold them back as I say in our mind link "Mmm huh I love you too."

We hug for a little while longer as I then remember what I was supposed to tell Jiji when I woke up. I pull back only a little bit and say, "Jiji, can I ask you a favor?"

"Sure naruto, but you gotta tell me what it is first before I decide if I'll do it or not, okay."

I nod saying, "I understand. I have to tell you something in private. It is a super mega ultra-secret okay? So I was wondering if you could make all the Anbu leave the room so I can tell you it?" I finish asking my question while staring Jiji directly in the eyes so he understands that I mean business. I see the questions already forming in his head. Questions like, "How did he know? And where was this going?" I then started to look around the room in a way so that if you were an outsider you would have thought that I was just taking a look around but in reality, I looked every Anbu in the eyes in a way that was telling them that I knew they were there and I meant what I said about them leaving. I then looked back at Jiji and decided to say something before he could ask the obvious questions. "The way I know they were there is a part of what I want to tell you and I promise that it's nothing dangerous or bad." I then gave him another smile.

~Jiji's POV~

I couldn't do anything but sit there looking at him with straight confusion. After hearing that last part, I really didn't have any other choice but to agree, what can I say, I'm the cat that died from curiosity. "Okay, all Andu is dismissed for the next..."

I looked at Naruto wanting to know how long he thought it would take. "15 minutes?"

"For the next 15 minutes and that's an order from you Hokage." A sudden gust of wind came and I felt my three Anbus leave the room. I looked back at Naruto and was about to tell him to start talking, but I found him staring off in some random direction. I must remember that even though he can talk and think like an adult, he is still a child. I waited for him to finally look back at me, which he did after spending some time staring at my potted plant and then the ceiling.

When he finally gave me his attention, he had this look of seriousness that only an adult can have. Gosh, what happened to him while I was busy doing that kami forsaken paperwork? After a few more seconds he said, "I have decided to train to become a ninja."

"Wait, really?"

"Duh, Jiji. Someone that I trust stated that he wants to train me to become a ninja so I can protect myself. I know that I can't cause harm to the villagers nor do I think that I'll be strong enough to fight back against my mother and father any time soon but at least it's something." He stops talking for a moment and I notice that his eyes start to unfocus as he stares off into the distance. He randomly comes back and says, "I'm also going to leave that house when I turn 6 and move into a new home. Do you think you can help me make that happen?" He finishes with a cute little head tilt.

After his little spiel, I was full of questions and if my many years had taught me anything is to just go ahead and ask. "Who's the person that said they will train you? How far do you want to go with the ninja thing, is it just the basics or is it full-fledged? Don't you think 6 years old is too young, why not wait until you're 16 or 18? Where do you plan to move anyway, will you stay somewhere in the village or on the outskirts of it?"

He started to put his hands up halfway through my interrogation and once I was finished he said, "Woah Jiji, calm down. I'll try to answer them all but there were so many of them so please tell me if I miss any, okay?"

"Sure."

"The person who said they want to and will train me is Kurama, who I will tell you about later. We plan to start with the basics and if I want to continue after that then I will tell you. I would leave that house right now if I could, but Kurama said I should wait until I'm six because by then I would have a year worth of training under my belt. Kurama and I thought it would be best if we move somewhere the villagers would dare not go, so we came to the conclusion of moving into the Forest of Death. With your permission of course." For him to say he was overwhelmed with all my questions he sure did answer them all and in the order I asked. Wait, did he say he would move into the Forest of Death!?

"Okay slow down a minute, the Forest of Death, and who is this Kurama?"

"Gosh Jiji, I said I was getting to that," he said with a cute pout and a little bit of sass. I love this side of him, the side of him acting like an actual child. Or maybe that is just his personality? Sassy and moody? Who knows.

"Okay, okay sorry. No need to throw a hissy fit. Please continue."

"Thank you and it wasn't a hissy fit, I was just stating facts. Back to the point, the next topic may be surprising but please bear with it. Okay?

"Naruto, I'm the Hokage. I get surprising news twice a week, so please tell me something actually surprising."

"If you say so, Kurama is the nail tails fox that my father, an once strong shinobi, sealed in me."

I didn't need a mirror to tell that my face looked like a fish out of water gasping for air. "Wow, okay... um... how did you know and why the name Kurama?"

"I thought you would handle it better because you get surprising news two times a week," he said with a smug smirk.

"That's beside the point, continue please."

"Kay, kay. Well, I know about Kurama because I met him yesterday after passing out from blood loss. But don't worry, he is very kind... well to me... I don't know how he will act towards others. And his name is Kurama, I didn't name him that. He said that he wants to train me so I can protect myself from the villagers that were attacking me because of him. I told him that that isn't his fault and he doesn't have to train me if he doesn't want to but he's stubborn. Oh, and he didn't attack the village out of his own free will, some Uchiha named Madara had him under his control and was forcing him to do it. And yes the Forest of Death. I don't know if you knew but animals love me, and Kurama says that if me and him make a nice cabin in the Forest of Death the animals in there will either love me or just ignore me. I would like for them to love me but I'm okay with the other option."

Wow, he really had this all thought out. I knew Naruto was smart but to think this far ahead is incredible. I sigh and say "Okay I understand," I paused and thought about earlier and how he knew that the Anbus were in the room, "Wait Naruto, how did you know about the Anbus in the room?"

"Oh that, I could always sense people's presence, but when I  passed out earlier, Kurama took notice of that fact and we did some things to help me strengthen it. I thought I was just really good at noticing people around me but Kurama said that I just have naturally high chakra awareness which is good. I-I guess?"

"Okay then, well from what you're telling me and me not actually being able to physically stop you from doing any of the things you just said. I say go for it, I'll talk to the council about you staying in the Forest of Death but I can't guarantee that they will let you. Heck, I'll even try to use a few favors to try to make it happen, but still not a full guarantee." I stood up to go back to my desk when I thought came to mind. "Also, if you do decide to continue with the ninja gig then I'll use some favoritism and give you some good training or something along that line." I flopped down on my seat with a sigh. I can't wait to see where this will end up.

I watched as he got up and started to walk towards the door, as he grabbed the handle and started to open it he turned his head my way, and with a small blush says, "Thanks Jiji, for both letting me do these things and... for believing in me." With that, he slammed the door as I heard his rush footsteps down the hall. Gosh, he can be so cute sometimes.

~Naruto POV~

As I was walking out of the Hokage's tower I heard Kurama say, "Are you ready to get things started?"

I felt myself grow a nice smirk at this awesome transformation that was about to occur. "Let's do this."

"That's what I like to hear. Today is a rest day because your body really needs it, but tomorrow... let the action begin." He then continued to evil laugh. Okay, I'm not so happy to start this anymore.

Okay, okay. I know it has been a while but I have my reasons. School has started and since I'm a senior, I actually had to read the syllabus and get my stuff together along with trying to get use to actually going to sleep on time. But I made this one longer so please forgive me. I'll try to think of a schedule for this story. Thank you for the positive feedback. To be honest I almost gave up on it so I could focus on school but hey what's life without a few distractions. I also decided that the next chapter will be more of a montage of him growing up instead of me writing the whole thing and stuff.