From Ninja to Shinigami

Chapter 46: judgment

By: jacke44

Beta'd by: Scheffinator

[Uzumaki compound, next morning]

Both Naruto and Hinata were both enjoying the show as Itachi was trying to get his daughter to eat something besides blueberry pancakes but Ashia was being stubborn. Naruto let out a laugh and says "if you don't eat something besides pancakes today, I will have to tell Eiko to ban blueberry pancakes from The Breakfast Table until I see fit to have them returned." Ashia, with a cute little pout on her face, begins to eat the scrambled eggs her daddy put on the plate for her.

Naruto looks at Hinata out of the corner of his eye and says "if you reach for that cinnamon roll, I will tell her to remove them from the table as well. If I have to stop eating ramen at every meal, I'm going to make sure all of you eat right as well." Hinata removes her hand from the plate and sent a pouting look at Naruto.

Naruto then looks at Ashia and asked "do you have big plans today?" Ashia smiles and says "daddy's going to teach me how to make Uchiha style curry and how to make Grandma's Mikoto Secret recipe for her sugar cookies."

Naruto looks at her and says "be careful with that curry. It is hotter than anything I've ever had." Itachi actually chuckles and says "I remember when you tried it. You ran around screaming your head off and drank a gallon of milk, trying to get the heat off your tongue, not knowing that milk made it worse."

Naruto shoots him a dirty look and says "that might be true but I also remember your mom smacking you upside the back of the head for not warning me."

[Front gate]

Naruto was greeting the guests who were coming in for the trial to act as witnesses, including all of the clan heads and the spouses, along with several civilians from the Red-Light District. Soon Akari arrived, along with her daughter Emi, who quickly wrapped Naruto in a hug and says "it's been a while brat. Mom's been telling me all sorts of things. Like how you adopted all those kids and how you are single-handedly paid for her next vacation with all the shopping you've been doing at her store and yet you haven't come to my store."

Naruto just laughs and says "if I had to come to your store for my clan's grocery shopping, we would end up emptying your store every other week due to the size of my family. It's just not good for you profit wise. It's easier for us to buy in bulk from the farmers along with other companies."

Emi gave a nod of the head and says "yeah, I guess you're right. With the amount of groceries you would have to buy, it would not be feasible for both of us." Before anything else could be said, two little girls ran up to Akari and give her a hug.

Emi looks at this and shakes her head and says "Mom told me she's been spending time here because she fell in love with these little girls." Naruto just grins and says "well they will probably be the closest thing she's ever going to get to granddaughters since a tomboy like you can't get a boyfriend." Emi takes a swing at Naruto but misses as he ducks.

Before Naruto could say anything else, Sakura and her family walk up as she asks "you want me to hold him still for you?" As she cracks her knuckles.

Before Naruto could say anything else in his defense, there is a puff of purple smoke and the sound of coughing as a silhouette of a small girl in the cloud can be seen. Naruto shakes his head and says "I've told you not to add that much gunpowder to the smoke screen." As soon as the screen disappears, revealing a girl dressed in a black leotard. With tights along with wearing white boots and gloves and a purple cloak. The girl, after calming down from coughing, says "I know, I know, I was just trying to make it bigger."

Sakura looks at Naruto with a look of confusion and asked him "is she supposed to be a magician or something?"

Naruto just replies "yes. She wants to be a magician, but don't worry the only magic trick she can do is to make her audience disappear." But he soon bends over, as the girl sucker punches him in the stomach. This made the crowd burst out laughing as the girl looks at him and says "I will have you know big brother, I can to do magic unlike you."

Naruto, after catching his breath, says "that is not true. I can, in fact, do a very cool magic trick. I can make your allowance disappear." Naruto could hear the parents laughing to themselves. He said "okay, I will humor you, you little brat. Let's see this supposed magic." The girls smiled big and says "okay! I need a volunteer from the audience and since big brother is being a big meanie, he's going to volunteer."

Both Ino and Sakura begin calling out ideas for a magic trick they want to see. As Sakura calls out "saw him in half that way he's only half as stupid." Ino calls out "good idea and if you can't put him back together, I called dibs on his lower half." But she abruptly stops as she can feel her father's eyes drilling into the back of her head, which sends a roar of laughter through the crowd.

Naruto looks at the girl and asks "what do you need me to do?" The girl says "ok, first big brother, I need something from you. Do you happen to have a 100 Ryo bill on you that I can borrow for the magic trick?" Shrugging his shoulders, he pulls out the bill and hands it to her. the girl smiles and says "now watch in amazement ladies and gentlemen as I make this bill vanish into thin air." She then folds the bill in half once then twice. Holding it clutched in her tight fist, she begins to wave her hand over the fist and then says "it's going, it's going, it's gone." As she takes off running for the gate.

The entire crowd burst out laughing that Naruto would fall for a simple trick like that but their laughter stopped dead, as the girl, who had managed to run 20 yards away, when she was suddenly enveloped in a shower of a bright yellow paint.

Naruto looks at the crowd while holding up one of his fingers and says "that ladies and gentlemen is why you never prank a prankster. That was a paint bomb disguised as a Ryo bill."

Hiruzen, who slowly had walked up during the show, shakes his head and says "you are so much like your mother it's not even funny anymore. That is so something that she would have done. In fact, I think she did once do it to a noble for calling her a tomato head."

Hiruzen, with a dead pan look on his face, looks at Naruto and says "your mother once put a seal on her teacher's chair that would only activate when sat on that acted like a whoopee cushion."

Naruto just laughs and scratches the back of his head. Sakura shakes her Head and says "you Uzumaki's are so weird. Can't you ever do anything normal?" One of the boys happen to be walking past her and says "not really. Being normal is so overrated and not as much fun." This comment sent the parents laughing again. Naruto smiles and looks at her and says "one thing you need to know about my family is we might be strange and a little weird at times. But here amongst the Uzumaki Clan, we welcome people from all walks of life and we will accept them no matter what their quirk is. This place I am trying to build is a place for people who are missing something in their life to come and try and find it because we are a family."

Sakura looks at him with a smile then asked "so, you really don't care what people think about the way your family looks?"

Naruto reaches out and puts his hand on her shoulder and said "if we allow people to define who we are supposed to be, along with always worrying about the what if's, we wouldn't be who we can be as we would only be what people want us to be."

Hiruzen, who was watching this, felt a great swell of pride knowing that if Naruto's family were alive, they would be incredibly proud that he was embracing his family's motto.

[Main meeting Hall]

Naruto led the party into the room. The large group looked at two sides of seats, one on the left and one on the right, with two small tables separated by a small wooden gate set up to separate the witnesses, and in front of the two tables was a long table with three chairs. Naruto looks back and says "the defense side is on the left and the prosecution is on the right."

Hiruzen watched with a frown on his face as every single person moved to the right and took a seat, leaving the defense side almost empty as the few people that he had brought as character witnesses. Hiruzen had walked up to the defense table as he would be defending Jiraiya and sat down. He then looks to his right at a man sitting at the prosecution table.

Once everybody was in the room and the door was shut, one of the men in a guard uniform, who was standing off to the side, rang a small bell which signaled the start of the tribunal. From a side door, came three people, two men and one woman. As they walked in, the security guard calls out "all rise." Making everybody in the room stand up. The three people who had just entered turned out to be the three judges. Both men took the sides while the woman sat in the middle seat. She then grabs a small gavel, knocks on the table and says "you may all be seated."

The guard walks up to the table and puts an envelope in front of the middle judge. After she opened it and looked at it, she calls out "bring in the accused." Once again, the side door opens and in walks Jiraiya, who is being escorted in by Naruto's little sister, along with two other men, with his hands shackled in front of him. Once Jiraiya had taken his seat next to Hiruzen.

The female judge looks at him and asks "you are Jiraiya, correct?" Jiraiya stands up and says "yes ma'am." For once letting go of his joyful nature, realizing that this was serious and that his normal behavior would not go over well.

The judge gave a nod of her head and says "we will now have the charges read." Looking to her left at a small table with a mousey looking woman, who was seated and says "please read the charges to the court."

The woman stands up with a clipboard and says, "charge 1: child abandonment one count. Charge 2: child endangerment 10x counts. Charge 3: failure to provide a safe environment for a child 10x counts. Charge 4: assault in the first degree on a child 10x counts. Charge 5: assault on a child with a weapon 10x counts. Charge 6: attempted murder of a child 10x counts. Charge 7: attempted line extermination of two Clans along with a Royal Line 10x counts."

As she continued to read the charges, Hiruzen stands up and calls out "excuse me but what does 10x mean?" One of the male judges looks at him and says "10x stands for when there was more than one count and the number was too high to give. It is easier just to put a 10x at the end signifying that there was more than one charge."

Hiruzen slowly sat back in his seat and begins to rub his forehead. After the last of the charges were read, he let out a breath knowing that this had just become harder.

The female judge then looks at him and asks "how does your client plead?" Hiruzen slowly stands up and says "my client would like to enter a plea of not guilty." The judge nods her head and says "let it be entered in your record that the defendant has entered a not guilty plea. We will now begin with the prosecution. Prosecutor, you have the floor."

The prosecutor that Naruto had hired stands up and says "thank you, your honor. I would like to begin this case by entering exhibit A."

He holds up a piece of paper. "This piece of paper bears the signatures of Minato and Kushina, my client's parents but also bears this signature of the defendant. This document states that upon the death of his parents that he would take up responsibility of my young client as his Godfather." He then walks up to the judge's table and puts it on the table so the judges could read it.

Once all three judges had looked at the paper, the judge in the middle once more looks at him and asks "is this your signature Mr. Jiraiya?"

Jiraiya stands up and says "yes, your honor."

As she looks at the paper again, the judge then asks "so, you admit to signing this paper of your own accord?" As she looks at him, she asks "and did you, upon their death, take up your responsibility as the Godfather to one Naruto Uzumaki as it is stated in this document, that you would care for him and raise him as if he was your own?"

Jiraiya looks down and says "no your honor."

The three judges whisper to each other.

She then says "please be seated." And she looks back to the prosecutor and says "please continue." The prosecutor, with a smile on his face, says "I intend to prove that this man, who's already admitted to not following through the responsibility that he promised to, but allowed a child to be beaten, starved, and neglected. I would like to call my first witness, if you'd allow me." Getting a nod of the head, he then says "I would like to call forth Naruto Uzumaki to the stand."

Naruto stands up from the gallery and walks up to witness box. As the prosecutor looks at him and says "please state your name for the court." Naruto replies "Uzumaki Naruto."

The prosecutor then says "thank you. Now Mr. Uzumaki, can you please tell the court for us who raised you?" Naruto replies "for the first 5 years of my life, I lived in the village orphanage until the matron threw me out one night."

The prosecutor looks at him and asks "did she give a reason for why she was throwing you out?" To which Naruto replies "she said that the orphanage was for humans not demons."

With the look of puzzlement on his face, the prosecutor asks "can you elaborate on that please? What do you mean by demon?" Letting out a breath, Naruto says "at the time I did not know what it meant but it is common knowledge now that my father sealed the Nine-tailed Fox inside of me and she was blaming me for what had happened to the village."

With a nod of his head, he says "thank you. Please continue what happened after she threw you out." Naruto then begins to explain how he wandered the streets all night until he collapsed in an alleyway behind a store.

Naruto continues saying "I was still sleeping in the alleyway when a loud scream woke me up. It turned out that I had fallen asleep behind the Silver Star Equipment Shop and the daughter of the owner, Emi, had come into the alleyway to take out the trash and found me sleeping. The loud scream had quickly alerted her mother and Akari quickly came running out to find out why she was screaming. As I had not had very many people be kind to me at that time, I was naturally scared and tried to back away but Akari was instantly able to see I was beginning to panic and she was frightening me and quickly got me to calm down. She then managed to talk me into coming inside the shop and I was able to tell her what happened the night before. She instantly sent her husband to inform Hiruzen. But she discovered that he was out of the village on a meeting and would not be back for a couple days."

Naruto then continued telling how he stayed with them for a couple days, helping out in the shop until Hiruzen had returned and that is how he had gotten his crappy first apartment.

Akari, who was sitting out in the gallery, gave a small laugh and says "that is also when he got his first crush on my daughter and followed her around like a baby duck." Making her daughter go red in the face, while those around began to chuckle. The judge smacks the gavel on the table and says "quiet in the courtroom please." Despite having a smile on her face.

The prosecutor then says "thank you Mr. Uzumaki. You can step down now." As he turns to look at the judges and says "I believe I just demonstrated my point. Had Mr. Jiraiya been in the village taking up his responsibility that he promised to do, this would not have happened."

The prosecutor goes back to his table and picks up a sheet of paper "I would like to point out that the apartment that Hiruzen got my client was in one of the worst neighborhoods in the village and yet, I hold in my hand a list of properties owned by Mr. Jiraiya here in the village. Including three apartments and two houses, all in way better neighborhoods. If Hiruzen was aware that Mr. Jiraiya was his Godfather, why did he not just move him into one of these apartments or houses instead of putting a 5-year-old child alone in the Red-Light District?" Hiruzen and Jiraiya both have the decency to look embarrassed.

As the judge turns her head and looks at them "I too would like to hear this excuse?"

Hiruzen stands up and says "one of the reasons why we did not move him into one of Jiraiya homes was because it would have drawn more attention to him, making people start to connect the dots. With Naruto looking so much like his father, people could have easily started to make connections that we did not want them to. And yes, while the Red-Light District was not the best place for us to put him, it offered something that other places didn't offer. Security. Most of the villagers tend to avoid the Red-Light District. We had hoped by placing him there, he would have been safer."

The prosecutor instantly stands up again and says "safer?! I have a report of over 250 different times he was attacked! Explain to me how that is safer!" Making almost everybody in the room send a glare at the two men.

As the prosecutor looks back at the judges, he says "if he was so concerned with safety, why was he not placed with a family? Would that not have been safer for the child?"

Hiruzen, with a look of sorrow on his face, says "it was decided that no family would be able to house Naruto due to his status as the Jinchuuriki. The village could not risk having one family having control of Naruto."

Instantly, all of the clan heads, along with the spouses, began to yell. Saying how they had all agreed to help raise Naruto together on more than one occasion. As the judge instantly begins to slam the gavel down saying "quiet! Quiet in the courtroom or I will have you all removed."

The prosecutor sent a look at Hiruzen. "I find that very interesting, seeing as I have found documentation that Kushina Uzumaki, who was the previous host of the Nine-Tailed Fox, was welcomed and raised amongst the Senju clan and yet you had no issue with them. But you have issues with Naruto being raised by one of the Clans and if I'm not mistaken Mito Senju was the host before her and there was no issue with her being part of the clan."

Those behind in the gallery begin to whisper to each other, making Hiruzen look down again realizing another mistake he just made.

The judge then looks at the prosecutor and says "I want you to tell me more about these attacks that occurred." The prosecutor opens the large binder and begins to handout papers to the three judges of reports of the attacks from Naruto's medical file.

The prosecutor then says "I would also like to point out that I have found out that most of the people who were behind these attacks were only slapped with a fine or given a small jail sentence and were protected by the Civilian Council." This instantly has all three of the judges turning to look at both Hiruzen and Jiraiya.

Hiruzen, doing his best, says "there was only so much I could do. I could not just execute everyone who tried to attack him. If I did, I would have been removed from office."

The prosecutor instantly swings around and looks at him and says "these attacks would not have happened if Jiraiya had been here in the village taking care of his duties. Instead, he was off sleeping with every woman he could get his hands on or peeking at Hot Springs."

The judge knocks the gavel and says "that's enough! Please call your next witness." Over the next 2 hours, each of the clan heads, along with their spouses, along with several others, came up to the stand and gave testimony regarding Naruto's childhood. Including several times when they had to be the ones to drive the crowd off him and get him to the hospital.

When Tsume had taken the stand, she admitted to being Naruto's mother's best friend. Believing that her son had been killed and that Naruto's name was given to him out of memory by the Third. She went on to explain how she first met Naruto. Retelling how on several occasions she had to fight off several groups trying to attack him. And how ashamed she was when she realized who he really was and blamed herself for not realizing it when it should have been obvious.

The prosecutor then went on to explain about the vicious attacks that had happened. Using a projector to display Naruto's medical records, including several pictures of the incidents, making a great many of the people in the audience go green in the face, adding the brutality that was done to an innocent child. He then called to the stand several nurses who had helped work on Naruto throughout the years.

Once the last of his witnesses stepped down, the prosecutor says "I have no more witnesses and I believe that I have proven, without a doubt, each single one of the charges having been proven."

The judge nods her head and says "thank you. You may be seated." As she turns to Hiruzen and says "the defense now has the floor. Please present your evidence or call your first witness."

Hiruzen stands up and says "thank you, your honors. I would first like to say my client has a great many responsibilities to this village as the village spymaster. He cannot be in the village constantly. That is why he did not take up his responsibility for Naruto."

Continuing, he says "shortly after the attack by the Nine-Tails, we both sat down and discussed how we were going to handle the situation. We felt it was best that we hid Naruto's heritage from him. We did not want him growing up in the shadow of his father, having the village constantly look at him as nothing but the son of the 4th Hokage. Along with his mother, who was equally famous, so we hid all of the information about his family, even removing his mother's family history from the academy text books. The both of us had seen what happened with children whose parents/grandparents are the Hokage. We had decided to hide him so his parents' enemies could not attack him. We had hoped the village would see Naruto as the hero he was. We knew this could be a long stretch but we had hoped, in time, the village would see him for the hero and not the Beast that was inside of him. One of the reasons Jiraiya did not take Naruto out of the village was he wanted Naruto to have bonds with the village. We had both hoped that Naruto would overcome the hate of the village and become stronger for it. We knew that there was a possibility this could backfire on us as it had on several occasions with several of the different villages and their Jinchuuriki having turned on the village. We had to just put our trust in the 4th."

Hiruzen let out a breath and says "there were so many times when I wanted to tell Naruto of who his family was but it would have been more dangerous for him to know. I know it seems cold but it really was for his own protection. The attacks on him would have only gotten worse. He would not have only had his own village trying to attack him. He would have had spies and assassins coming from other countries and villages."

Hiruzen then calls several of his witnesses to give character witness. Telling how much work Jiraiya does for the village and how many times he had gotten information to them over the years.

After the last witness steps down, Jiraiya stands up and says "your honors. I would like to say something. Yes, I was supposed to take Naruto as my godson, but the truth is, I'm not parent material. I will be the first to admit that I have no idea what kind of person he would be, being raised by me. Especially, at those younger years. He wouldn't have had a life traveling with me from village to village. What hasn't been told yet is that I was doing my best to help all of his rent and utilities, along with all the spending money that he had was coming from me. On more than one occasion, I did sneak back into the village and watched him. The first time I did, it was like watching a ghost of his father, which only drew me farther away. If people saw me hanging out with him, they would have instantly recognized who he was. By me keeping my distance, I was doing my best to protect him."

Once he sat back down, the judge looks at both judges next to her, and nods her head, and says "thank you. We will now deliberate and we will call you back when we had finished. For now, court is adjourned." As she knocks the gavel on the table.

[Conference room]

Naruto was making his way across the room, shaking hands, as he walks up to Ino and her parents, who appeared to be talking to one of his little sisters. Naruto walks up and wraps his arms around Ino and says "I see you met my resident troublemaker." The girl looks at him and says "I am not a troublemaker." Naruto looks at her and says "you are constantly breaking the rules."

She just looks at him with a blank face and says "I will have you know, big brother, I do not break the rules. I twist them. I will manipulate them and I will step around them but I do not break them." She then says "here is an example. We are told that we are not to have junk food for breakfast, and yet this morning, I had cookies for breakfast and there was nothing you could do about it."

Ino looks at her and asks "how did you pull that off?"

She just replies "because the cookie is the perfect food. It has eggs in it, so there's my protein. It has flour and wheat, so there are my grains. It has milk in it so there's my dairy and since I like raisin, there's my fruit. Meaning I have covered 4 of the five food groups."

This just makes all the parents around begin to laugh. Before Naruto could say anything else, he hears yelling coming from Sakura, saying "I'm going to flatten you like a pancake, you little brat."

The group looks over and sees that she is chasing none other than Daiki. Both Naruto and Ino walk over to Hinata and ask "what's happening?" Hinata looks at the blondes and says "he walked in the room, and upon seeing Sakura, made a comment about how she could rent out her forehead as a billboard for pocket money."

Naruto shakes his head and says "that boy is never going to learn. And as for Sakura's forehead, I mean yeah, it's big but it's not that big." He did not notice Sakura walking up behind him due to the fact Daiki had jumped over the wall to get away from her. Naruto freezes as he hears the sound of knuckles cracking. Looking behind him, and seeing a dark aura surrounding Sakura, he quickly looks to his right at Arisu and Saori and says "security! A little help please."

Arisu looks up at him from her sandwich and says "we are on our lunch break big brother, sorry." With a tick mark on his forehead, Naruto says "what's the point of having you for my security guards if you never protect me? You didn't protect me from Anko when she kidnapped me. Or how about back in the Land of Waves when I got whacked on the head by Ino and Tenten? You didn't help me then either and now I'm in danger again and you're not going to help me."

Saori, with a small sly smile on her face, puts down her sandwich and says "well big brother, if you have a problem, you can take it up with our union."

Naruto shakes his fist at them and says "you and your damn union. Who taught you about unions anyways? Because I swear when I find out who it is, they go on the top of my pranking list!"

[Land of waves squad 13 offices]

Sitting at a desk was Rukia, grading papers, when she let out a sneeze. Looking around, she shrugs her shoulders and goes back to grading papers.

[Back in the conference room]

Naruto was once again being laughed at when the voice of Tsume cuts through and says "their grandma would love them, and I can't wait to spend more time with them and help them become the little devils they would be if she was still around."

Naruto narrows his eyes and says "zip it Tsume. If you think I'm going to let you corrupt them any more than you already have, then you have another thing coming. Because I can release some dirt I have on you now."

Tsume gives a bark of a laugh and says "bring it on pup. I doubt you have anything on me that you could use that would embarrass me."

Naruto, with his Fox-like smirk on his face, says "oh really?" Looking to his left at Hana and Kiba, he says "did your mom ever tell you about the Land of Forest mission she had with my mom and how she got her ass kicked by a marsupial?"

Hana looks at him with a large smile on her face and says "no. No, she hasn't." Naruto completely ignores Tsume, whose face had gone red, and says "from what I was able to find out, they had a mission escorting a large caravan of animals and a kangaroo got loose. Your mom tried to grab it and ended up getting her butt kicked."

Tsume crosses her arms and says "I swear that kangaroo had to have someone teach it how to box." Before looking at him and says "and how did you find out about that? There are only a few people who knew about that and I'm pretty sure I never told you."

Kiba, after managing to calm down, looks at his mom and says "man that's pretty embarrassing Mom."

Ino, with her own smirk, looks at him and says "you're one to talk mister. From my informants that I have, wasn't it you who got saved by Tora during the invasion by dropping a flower pot off a balcony onto a sand ninja's head because you were not paying attention?" She then brought out a photo, showing the evidence that she had gotten from one of her informants. Which sent off a round of laughter at the poor boy.

Before anybody else could say anything, the security guard opened the door and says "the judges have finished deliberating. Please return to the courtroom."

[Courtroom]

Once everybody was back in the room and had taken their seats, the female judge, who had been acting as the spokeswoman for the three judges, looked at Jiraiya and asks "will defendant please rise?" Once he was standing, the judge looks at him and says "after hearing all of the evidence, we, the judges, have determined that you are guilty of the charges you have been accused of. Seeing as the Uzumaki Clan laws see the betrayal of family as one of the highest penalties, we are forced to administer the harshest punishment under their laws. It is the decision of these courts that you, Mr. Jiraiya, will hereby have all of your memories of Naruto's family wiped from your memory. You will have no recollection of ever meeting any member of his family. Every secret that you have ever been entrusted with will be wiped from your memory. You will be allowed to remember that you had once knew the family but you had betrayed them and had your memories altered. This is to teach you and to punish you. Further knowing that you had once had family but that you had betrayed them and lost your right to remember them. You will now be taken and have your memories erased by members of the Yamanaka Clan." She then bangs the gavel and says "court is now adjourned."

Hiruzen and Jiraiya had slumped in their chairs. As the punishment that was now awaiting him settled into their minds, but did not realize how extensive this was going to be, until the voice of Tsunade from behind them, making both of them turn to look at her, as she says "you do realize that since I am 1/4 Uzumaki on my grandmother's side, this means you're going to have all your memories of me will be erased as well. Because you couldn't pass along the responsibilities of your godchild. I understand that you wanted to protect him but you could have entrusted him with someone. To watch over him if you did not want to be a godparent. All I can say is goodbye." She then does something that she had never really done to Jiraiya. She leans in and gives him a kiss on the cheek before turning around and walking away.

Jiraiya, who now had tears running down his cheeks, finally realized what he had cost himself and was cursing himself for not doing more for Naruto. All because he could not bring himself to spend time with him due to the fact that it would have been like spending time with his father. And would bring up the memories that he was gone. He was then led out of the room to where he would have his memories erased.

Hiruzen looked down. While he was not happy that his student would be losing his memories of the people, he had considered family, he was relieved that he was not being put to death, as many families would have. Hiruzen slowly walks up to Naruto and says "thank you for not pushing for the death penalty. While I know it's going to hurt Jiraiya, knowing that he betrayed your family and lost his memories of both your mother and father, along with your family, but I ask of you, please do not take his memories of Tsunade."

Naruto looks down and says "I'm sorry. There's nothing I can do. Originally, I wasn't going to, but she's the one who pushed for it. She sees it as a betrayal of herself as well."

Before anything else could be said, an ANBU in a tiger mask suddenly appears before them they say "Lord Hokage, you need to quickly come to training ground 7. there is something you need to see!" This gains the attention of everybody in the room.

[Training ground 7]

As the large group of people, who had been in the room, suddenly appears, they are met with a site that both horrified them and amused them at the same time. There in the middle of the training ground, tied to the middle post, was the beaten and bloodied Kakashi Hakake. They could all see that whoever had done this had wanted to make a point. They could also see that his left eye, that he had always kept hidden behind his headband, had been ripped out of his eye socket and the word Traitor having been carved across his forehead.

End of chapter 46

[Omake: training from hell]

In training ground number five, one bright sunny morning, the forms of Ino along with Sakura, Hinata and Tenten were standing in the middle of the field. Sakura let out a giggle and says "I can't believe we are getting personal training from Lady Tsunade." Tenten let out her own laugh and says "I know right? I couldn't even sleep last night. This is going to be so awesome."

Just then, Tsunade herself appeared in the field. With a large smile on her face, she says "well, hello ladies, and welcome to Medical training 101. Now as future medical ninjas, one of the most important lessons that you will have to learn is that as a medical ninja, you never take damage. Because an injured medic cannot heal their comrades. So, today, we are going to be focusing on your evasion skills. And to help with that, I had Naruto whip these up for me last night." In a puff of smoke there was a large crate of what look like dodgeballs that appeared next to her. "Now you ladies are going to dodge as I throw these at you." Getting four nods of the head as the five of them stand off.

Tsunade picks up one of the balls and says "get ready." She then quickly throws the ball hard enough to fly past all the four. the moment it hit the ground behind them, it was like an explosive note went off. Making the four girls go white as sheets. As they look back at Tsunade and see that she had picked up another ball.

The only thought going through the four girls' heads at that moment was 'what did we get ourselves in for?'

Several hours later, Naruto was walking through the village with a large smile on his face. Clutched in his hands was a brand-new comic book that he had just bought. He was hoping to get home soon to read it when suddenly he froze as a sense of death washed over him. Looking around, that's when he saw behind him was the forms of four girls. Each with a black aura were surrounding them. He then says "hey girls. Did you have fun in your training with Tsunade?"

Sakura reaches over her right shoulder and grabs her large club.

Tenten activates her bow and readies an arrow.

Ino reaches into her pocket and dumps ink on her boots, activating them.

Hinata, who had seemed to have the scariest look on her face, looks at him and says "oh we had fun with our evasion training and now we're going to practice our capturing skills. Along with our Torturing skills as we play Wacka-Fox."

With that, Naruto quickly takes off running, being chased by the four girls. All four of them shouting death threats at him for making the exploding dodgeballs.

Up on a rooftop watching this was none other than both Tsunade and Kushina. Both with a large bucket of popcorn, watching and laughing but were soon joined by Yoruichi.