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Season of Miracles	By : NinjaToadsAteMyBaby Category: Naruto > Yaoi - Male/Male Views: 2435 -:- Recommendations : 0 -:- Currently Reading : 2
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Chapter List
- 3
- 4
- 5
WARNING: Kissing and fluff as well as an ewww moment at the end of the chapter.
Disclaimer: I don't own Naruto.
Chapter 4 Santa Baby
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Naruto woke to the sound of celebrating and poked his head out his bedroom window only to jerk back inside in shock when he was spotted and a few villagers called him Naruto-sama and cheered loudly. He stood naked in his bedroom and wondered if he'd been transported to a parallel universe for a moment before shaking his head and moving to the kitchen. He paused in the living room to inspect the lines of the seal he'd created the day before. He made a Kage Bunshin to clean the floor up and went to make himself a breakfast of fish and rice. As he ate, he thought over the events of yesterday but still didn't have a clear idea of what he wanted to do about the fact that he had parents now. He stood, cleared the table, washed the dishes, went to get dressed, and left the apartment to go sit on the Hokage Monument. On the way every once in a while a villager would stop him, apologize for their actions in the past, and wish him well. By the time he got to the monument his head was spinning again. He lept up the stone faces to sit on top of the Yondaime's head, like he always did when he needed to puzzle something out.
He'd been sitting there roughly half an hour when someone chuckled behind him, "You come up here to think too huh Naruto?"
Naruto turned to see Minato standing a few paces behind him and nodded, "It's a good place."
Minato strode forward and sat next to his son, a couple feet between them, "Yes it is. Kushina and I spoke with Iruka-kun and Sakura-san last night after you left."
"What about?"
"About you. What you were like as a kid, how you grew up, your likes and dislikes, things like that."
Naruto tilted his head in curiosity, "I thought that spirits could watch over their loved ones?"
"Most can but because Kushina and I were bonded and half of my spirit was keeping the fox sealed we couldn't watch over you."
Naruto stiffened, "What about the seal now that you're back? Will it break?"
Minato shook his head, "No. The two swordsmen essentially replaced our souls with theirs so the seal won't break."
Naruto relaxed, "That's a relief, a second coming of Kyuubi would so not be good."
Minato laughed, "Very true and this time there wouldn't be a little blond chibi to contain the fox."
Naruto smiled then frowned in confusion, "Wait a sec, what did you mean by you being bonded with my m-mother?"
Minato ignored the stutter, knowing now that having a mother would take Naruto some getting used to, "Kushina and I didn't just marry each other, we wanted to be together even in death so we fused our souls together."
Naruto stared at the older blond, "I didn't know that was possible."
"It's only possible if the two bonding are soul mates."
Naruto looked towards an old mansion wistfully, "It must be nice, knowing that you'll be with the one you love forever."
Minato followed his son's gaze and his eyes widened when he recognized the Uchiha mansion, "Are you in love with Uchiha Sasuke?!"
Naruto jolted and glared at Minato, "If you're that observant than you should know not to announce it to the whole village! They're acting weird enough already!"
Minato blinked, "Acting weird?"
"Yeah, they're being, not just nice but respectful. They're even apologizing, it's weird."
Minato winced, "I think that's because some people who saw yesterday's debacle couldn't keep their mouths shut and told the villagers that you're my and Kushina's son."
Naruto blinked for a second and started laughing, "Oh man no wonder Konohamaru was such a little twerp before I met him!"
"Konohamaru?"
"Sandaime-jiji's grandson," Naruto subsided to chuckles, "When I met him all anyone would call him was 'honorable grandson' and wouldn't bother punishing him when he did something wrong because they were afraid of the old man's 'wrath'. It's amazing that Konohamaru didn't become a lazy bum."
Minato chuckled, "Would that be the young man I saw who henged into a naked woman in front of Ero-sensei after saying something about never keeping secrets from Naruto-nii-chan ever again?"
Naruto laughed again, "I'm surprised he didn't use the Double Knockout."
"Double Knockout?"
"Mmmhmm, the first jutsu he ever learned was Orioke no Jutsu, the one you saw. He combined it with a single shadow clone to have two girls about to...well you know."
Minato raised his eyebrows and put pinched the bridge of his nose, "Oh god that would have killed Jiraya-sensei."
Naruto snorted, "Probably. How'd you keep from becoming a pervert while training with him?"
"I knew Kushina even back then, she kept me grounded in decency."
Naruto raised an eyebrow, "The same way Baa-chan tries to keep Ero-sennin in line?"
"Mmmhmm." Naruto shook his head, "Why is it that most kunoichi resort to smacking their guy partners around?"
"I have no idea. But we've gotten off track."
"Huh?"
"You never actually answered my question about the Uchiha."
"Oh that."
Silence stretched between them until Minato crossed his arms, "Well are you in love with him or not?"
Naruto mumbled, "That's none of your business."
"I'll take that as a yes." Naruto started yelling, "So what if I am? It's not like anything's going to come of it! He's off getting revenge on his psychotic brother and even if he comes back he'd never...," Naruto's voice went from loud to quiet, "He'll never return my feelings. He has to revive his clan."
Minato hesitated then put a hand on Naruto's shoulder, "I wish I could tell you that he may return and that he might one day return your feelings but the only one who can do that is the Uchiha himself so I'll just say that no matter what happens you have people who love you."
Naruto raised a hand to his father's, "Thanks...dad," he stood, "You know it felt pretty good to say that. I gotta go talk to Baa-chan. See you around."
Minato blinked then grinned and went to tell his wife what Naruto had said.
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Tsunade looked up and dropped her pen when Naruto grinned and said, "Hey Baa-chan."
She scooted around the desk and caught him in a fierce hug, "I'm sorry. I really did just want to protect you from being hurt."
"Ack! Baa-chan, can't breathe!"
She let him go, "Sorry."
"It's okay. You don't have to apologize for caring about me. You had good intentions but bad logic."
She smacked his head lightly, "Brat."
He pouted, "Man why do you kunoichi always smack guys around to get your point across?"
She smiled, "Because we can."
"Oh well that explains it, not."
"What do you need brat?"
"Can you throw a couple of Christmas parties?"
"Where and why?"
"One at the orphanage and the other at the hospital, in the kids' wing. As for why cause the kids need it and as an added bonus, if you'll agree to me picking a Santa and Mrs. Claus anyway, I can pull a prank."
Tsunade's lips twitched, "Who do you want as the happy Christmas couple?"
"Kankuro and Anko for the orphanage and Genma and Shizune-nee-chan for the hospital. So how about it Baa-chan? Please please please?"
"Enough, I'll set it up. Besides I'd rather like to see Kankuro, Anko, and Genma try to get along with kids."
Naruto folded his arms, "Oh I'm sure they'll manage better than you think Baa-chan.
" "Do you know something I don't Naruto?"
"Sure, lots of stuff. Later!"
"Why you-," Tsunade broke off as he proved that he was indeed the son of the Yellow Flash, "Hmph brat." She sat to write out the Santa and Mrs. Claus 'missions' for the intended victims, though how she'd convince Kankuro to do it she had no idea.
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Shizune paced in her costume waiting on her 'jolly' escort to the kid's Christmas party. She didn't have a single problem with being Mrs. Claus, the kids needed some Christmas cheer while they were stuck in the hospital, but did Tsunade-sama have to assign Genma of all people to be the Santa? The senbon chewing jonin was such a perverted, disinterested bum that he'd probably ignore all the kids while hitting on the single mothers, which was decidedly counterproductive to the party's entire purpose. The young medic-nin sighed and prepared to head off as much disaster as she possibly could when a knock sounded on her door. 'The idiot probably won't even bother with a beard or stuffing a pillow under his shirt.' She opened the door and gaped at the Saint Nick in her doorway. He truly looked just like Santa right down to the big belly and snow white, fluffy, long beard, "Genma? Is that you?"
The Santa smiled, "Are you expecting another Santa at your door Shizune?"
She blinked and took in the seemless transformation in front of her, reaching out to poke the belly and tug lightly on the beard. The belly wasn't a pillow but felt like an expensive body suit and the beard looked to be glued to Genma's face. She smiled, "You really went all out Shiranui-san."
"Of course I did, the kids deserve a good Santa, my dear Mrs. Claus."
She shook her head and walked out of her apartment to join Genma on the walk to the hospital. He looped her arm in his, "So Shizune have you been naughty or nice?"
She shot him a withering glare, "Behave yourself Shiranui-san."
"I'm just practicing Shizune."
"Not with that tone of voice you're not," she said primly.
He chuckled, "Now now don't scowl, it wouldn't be good for the kids to see an angry Mrs. Claus."
Shizune grit her teeth and calmed down to place a serene smile of her face, "Of course Santa dear," as she said 'dear' she hit a pressure point on his arm that sent pain shooting up to his shoulder. He inhaled quickly and decided to stop teasing Shizune for the rest of the night. Santa writhing in pain would scare the kids half to death after all.
*at the hospital*
Shizune was passing out cookies and milk to the children and glancing at Genma from the corner of her eye. He currently had a little girl on his knee and she was chattering about what she wanted for Christmas and how boring it was in the hospital. He listened intently and pat her on the back while telling her that things would get better and she'd be home soon. The little girl hugged his neck and hopped off his knee to dash to her mother and chatter about all Santa had told her. Shizune smiled as another child tugged on Genma's sleeve and whispered in his ear. Genma stood up and picked the little boy up to spin him in a slow circle and let out a booming laugh as he agreed to sing some Christmas carols for the children. He motioned her over to join him and they struck up the music. Genma didn't have too shabby a singing voice but Shizune couldn't hold a tune in a bucket. 'Santa' laughed and slung an arm around her, "Well I didn't fall in love with Mrs. Claus for her singing voice obviously."
A little redheaded boy asked, "Why did ya fall in love with her Santa?"
Genma crouched down to the boy's level and tapped him on his nose, "Because she has the nicest heart of anyone I've ever known and that's the most important thing because a pretty face fades when you get old and a pretty voice can hide an not-so-pretty soul. Love is magic and for magic to work you have to be a good person, if you are then miracles happen all the time for you."
The little boy nodded and as Genma stood back up he noticed a scowling boy in the corner with a cast on his arm move out of the room. Genma put his hands on his hips, "Well now I think I need to go get your presents so I'll be right back."
A round of cheers met his statement as he left the room. After a few moments Shizune frowned, the bag with the gifts was in an empty room a few doors down so Genma shouldn't be taking so long. She smiled at the group of children, "It looks as if Santa is taking too long so why don't I go help him huh?"
She left the room and walked down the hall to where she heard voices. She stopped short when she saw Genma talking to a little angry faced boy, well the boy was shouting and Genma was listening.
"There's no such thing as magic or miracles no matter how nice or good you are! If there were miracles my brother wouldn't be dying from cancer!" The little boy hunched his shoulders and tried to hold in his tears.
Genma opened his arms and hugged the boy, "It's alright to cry when you're hurting."
The boy clutched at Genma's jacket and sobbed into his shoulder. Shizune watched as he gently rubbed the boy's back and murmured quietly, "I'll talk to my boss and see if we can help your brother but you need to keep believing in your brother's fighting spirit okay."
The boy sniffled, "You have a boss?"
Genma nodded, "Yes I do, she's an angel and she can ask the gods if they'll heal your brother."
The boy pulled back and rubbed at his eyes, "What if they say no?"
Genma took out an handkerchief and wiped the boy's eyes, "Then I'll do everything I can to help your brother get a miracle."
"You mean it?"
"I mean it."
The little boy nodded, "Okay if Santa says it then it'll happen," and he walked back to the party.
Shizune came out of the shadows when the boy was out of earshot, "Genma?"
He looked up at her and she gasped at the tears running down the battle hardened jonin's face, "His brother has leukemia and they can't find a donor for a bone marrow transplant." She knelt in front of him and cupped his cheek, "There's nothing you can do about that Genma."
He met her eyes, "The hell I can't, his brother has the same blood type as I do Shizune. How likely am I to be a match?"
Shizune's eyes widened, this was a side of Genma she'd never seen before, a side she'd never have guessed he possessed, "You'd donate your bone marrow for a boy you've never even met?"
He shrugged, "I've got plenty so how about it angel?"
The nonchalant attitude didn't fool her this time, she'd already seen underneath it to the surprisingly compassionate heart beneath, "It depends on whether your antigens match the boy's well enough but being the same blood type is a step in the right direction."
He smiled, "Good then will you run interference with Tsunade-sama for me?"
"Are you afraid of your leader Genma?"
"Me? Afraid of a woman who could punch me through a wall? You bet your sweet ass I am."
Shizune chuckled, "She'll melt like chocolate on a hot tin roof when she hears what you want to do," then Shizune leaned in and gave him a quick peck on the lips, "Now let's get those presents. The kids will think we've abandoned them." She got up and went to the room the bag was in. 'Genma may act like an uninterested bum but underneath he has quite a bleeding heart.' She glanced back to see him recover from the surprise of her kissing him and leer at her behind. 'He's still a pervert though.' However Shizune decided that she could live with him being a bit of a pervert.
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*at the orpanage*
Kankuro passed out presents to the kids, happy as Jiraiya in a hot spring. Few knew it but Kankuro actually loved kids despite his constant protests that he hates brats. He was just trying to uphold his manly reputation that was battered enough by the Kabuki make-up he wore. Because he liked kids so much he'd lept at the chance to play Santa for the orphans, shocking the hell out of Tsunade, but he'd also been worried about the Mrs. Claus. Mitarashi Anko? The infamous psychotic snake mistress of Konoha? The chick who reveled in terrifying dozens of genin taking the chunin exam? Not to mention that she seemed to be a little bit on the nympho side with the way she was always trying to get into his pants, not that he minded that too much, he was a guy after all and for all her psycho behavior she was damn hot. She was just too violent for his taste, he didn't think she knew how to be gentle. He'd been sure that she'd end up scarring the kids for life but it seemed that she was proving him wrong in more than one way. The moment she'd walked into the kid filled room she'd smiled gently, giving the kids that rushed her hugs and kissing the top of their little heads. She laughed, not the maniacal giggle she'd normally use, but really laughed as if this was all she needed in this world to make her happy as she'd passed out cookies and milk. The kids swarmed over her just as much as they did Santa and she sat and told stories, sang, or just listened to the children's chatter. Even the older kids, who'd long since stopped believing in magic and Santa were drawn to her understanding, empathetic eyes and kind voice. 'Since when has she ever been so gentle?' Kankuro shook his head as he realized that he liked this side of her but he also liked her other side now that he knew it wasn't the way she was all the time.
The headmistress of the orphanage got the attention of the children, "Alright everyone. It's time to turn in for the night and Santa and Mrs. Claus need to get back to the north pole and prepare for Christmas Eve."
A loud chorus of awwws echoed through the room and Anko went over to him to thread her arm through his, "Now don't be sad. On Christmas morning you'll wake up to presents and a wonderful breakfast."
A forlorn 'okaaay' coming from dozens of pouting children made Anko and Kankuro smile. They left the orphanage and walked towards the Hokage tower to report to the Hokage. Kankuro looked at Anko out of the corner of his eye and saw a look of happiness and contentment on her face, a very rare sight indeed. He tilted his head slightly, "You like kids."
"They're good with hot sauce."
He chuckled, "I didn't expect you to have a soft side."
"Oh? And why not?"
"I've never seen you acting in any way but psychotic."
Anko looked at him, "Yes you have."
"When you're flirting with me?" She nodded and he quirked a white painted eyebrow, "And that promotes the image of a soft side how?"
"Good point. I just know how those kids feel, no family and few friends. They don't know who to trust and both long for and fear being adopted."
He stared at her, "You were an orphan?"
She nodded, "Until Orochimaru took me under his wing I was completely alone and after I parted ways from him many in Konoha hated me and avoided me like the plague."
Kankuro moved closer to her as she hugged herself, "So you donned the mask of the queen of all psycho kunoichi right?"
She nodded and looked at him, "Yeah, how'd you guess?"
"Gaara, he got kicked around too much and just decided to bury his heart behind a wall of impenetrable sand. It hurt to see my little brother grow so cold to emotions and to know that I couldn't do anything about it."
Anko slid an arm around Kankuro's padded waist in comfort, "But he changed didn't he?"
Kankuro smiled and slipped his own arm around Anko's similarly padded waist, "Yeah he did," he pulled her to a stop and looked into her eyes, "So why not change yourself Anko-chan?"
She blushed, "Because I really do like terrifying the idiots of the world."
"Hmm, well then how about you just show your soft side a little more because the contrast of the deadly kunoichi," he kissed one of her cheeks and she chuckled at the tickle of his fake beard, "and the gentle woman," he kissed her other cheek, "is drop dead sexy," he kissed her right on the mouth like he'd wanted to since realizing that there was a kind heart under all that venomous armor of her psychotic personality.
Her eyes widened then closed as she finally got to taste the puppet master that had caught her attention. She opened her mouth and licked at his bottom lip, her inner pervert dancing as he let her tongue into his mouth. She rubbed her tongue against his in a little duel, traced the roof of his mouth and was about to suck his tongue into her own mouth when a little boy yelled, "Mommy mommy! Lookit! Santa's kissing Mrs. Claus outside our house!"
Anko and Kankuro pulled back from each other like they'd been scalded and turned to see the little boy being pulled away from the window by his mother who glared at the two costumed shinobi before closing the curtains. They looked at each other then burst out laughing before they began walking again, this time with their arms around each other.
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Naruto grinned at the crystal ball he'd swiped from the Hokage's library earlier as he watched the kisses between Genma and Shizune followed by Kankuro and Anko's kiss then laughed his ass off at the kid yelling about Santa kissing Mrs. Claus. He cancled the spying jutsu and leaned back in his seat, "That's two down and two matches to go." He decided to head to Ichiraku for some Christmasramen. The flavors weren't different but the old man used green noodles and red narutomaki and Naruto always did his best thinking over a bowl of ramen.
*at Ichiraku*
He paused when he saw his parents at the ramen stand, Kushina was staring at Minato in disgust as he inhaled the green ramen, "That looks utterly disgusting Minato, like you're vomiting the wrong way."
Naruto snorted as Minato slurped up the last of the green noodles and grinned at Kushina, "But it still tastes good."
She shook her head at her husband, "You are welcome to it. You know I can't stand ramen."
Naruto gasped and pretended to have a heart attack, drawing his parents' gazes, "No! My mother hates the wonder that is ramen?! How can this be?!"
Kushina squealed and dove toward him, locking him in a glomp, "You called me your mother!"
Naruto managed to keep her from crushing his wind pipe and mumbled into her shoulder, "Well yeah, that's what you are. Just cause I'm not used to parents doesn't mean I'm not glad to have them."
Kushina sighed happily and pulled him over to sit between her and Minato. He called out, "Oi old man one miso ramen, one beef, and one barbeque pork!"
Teuchi chuckled and set about making Naruto's order while the whiskered blond looked at his mother, "So you don't like ramen?"
She wrinkled her nose, "Ugh no I don't. I much prefer sushi and dango."
Now Naruto wrinkled his nose, "Ew raw fish, though dango's okay. But nothing will ever replace ramen for me."
Kushina shook her head, "Just like Minato, I swear even before you were born I knew you would be a ramen freak."
Minato chuckled as Naruto tilted his head curiously and Kushina exclaimed, "Ramen! That's all I craved when I was pregnant with you and not even normal ramen nooooo I had to go for the deluxe bowl with all that stuff. I'm surprised I didn't bankrupt Minato with all the deluxe ramen I ate."
Naruto laughed until he had tears in his eyes and was holding his stomach. Kushina smiled and ruffled his hair as he calmed down and his ramen arrived. He took up his chopsticks, "Itadakimasu," and started eating. Fortunately for Kushina's constitution he'd acquired some manners over the years, thanks to violent kunoichi teammates who pounded decorum into his skull, and ate slowly pausing between bites to ask and answer questions. Though Minato and Kushina had gotten his life story from Iruka and Sakura it was a different thing to hear Naruto recount his adventures and misadventures. By the time he'd gotten to painting the Hokage faces his parents were in stitches laughing at his antics and how Iruka had always managed to find him. He continued to tell them of his life's most significant events as the night wore on and asked them questions about themselves.
By the time he made it back to his apartment it was nearly midnight and other than Naruto the only one still awake was Tsunade who was trying to get rid of the evil paperwork that had piled up on her desk yet again. Naruto went to make himself some tea and saw a now familiar envelope on his table along with a velvet bag. He opened the letter, eyes widening as he read.
Merry Christmas once again Naruto-koi. I hope all is well with you. My gift this time is a little bit of safety and perhaps selfish on my part as well since I dislike the idea of anyone taking you from me. I and my group of villageless shinobi have removed the most pressing threat to your safety and soon I will be there to find out if you would like me to leave you alone or if I may stay in your presence. Take care of yourself. Merry Christmas from your Secret Santa.
Naruto frowned and opened the bag, upending it to spread the contents across the table, "No. FUCKING way."
There on the table was the ten seal rings of the Akatsuki each one adorning the handless finger of it's owner. Naruto gawked at the fingers and shook his head, "Okay ew. Why the hell couldn't this guy just send the rings and not keep them on the fingers?"
He reached out and grimaced as he picked up a finger and tugged on the ring only to find that it was fused to the appendage, "Well that explains it but still eeeeewwwwww."
Naruto put the fingers back into the bag and went to take them to Tsunade because he did not want them in his apartment. He huffed, "It may be the thought that counts but jeeze this guys seriously needs help in gift ideas."
He smiled though, knowing that the Akatsuki was gone was a big relief. So his secret santa was a bit of a psycho, at least he wanted Naruto to be safe. 'I don't know what this guy's gonna do next but I hope it won't involve anymore bloody gifts.'
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Tsunade signed the last paper and was preparing to go home when a pair of eagles flew in and dropped two severed heads on her desk causing the Godaime to shout, "WHAT THE FUCK!"
At the shout three ANBU appeared in the office and each one said the same thing at the same time, "Holy Shit!"
The heads on the desk belonged to Uchiha Itachi and Uchiha Madara and pinned to Itachi's ear was a note that Tsunade tore off and read out loud. "I would like the bounty on these two missing-nin to be given to Uzumaki Naruto as I have no need of it. The bodies have been disposed of and the heads of the other Akatsuki members have been delivered to their villages' leaders along with the same request regarding the bounty."
Tsunade looked at her guards in amazement and whirled when the door to her office opened to reveal Naruto, who stared at the heads and sighed, "You got a delivery too huh Baa-chan?"
The Godaime blinked at her honorary little brother and glanced at the bag in his hand, "Okay brat I think we need to have a talk. You three get out and do your job as guards while Naruto and I discuss what's going on." The three ANBU nodded and disappeared. Tsunade got her sake and sat down, "I get the feeling that I'm about to have more paperwork damnit. Start talking brat." Naruto nodded and began from the first letter.
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The young lord looked behind him at the village being slowly built then looked at his companion, "Are you certain you want to accompany me? You could easily stay here now that your condition has been delt with." The large man beside him shook his head, "No, I swore loyalty to you and I will remain under your command." The young lord nodded, "Very well then let's go. I want to be in Konoha by next evening."
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A/N: And I still haven't said who the young lord is! So how was this chapter? Please review and until next time take care. Ja ne!
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