PROLOGUE

DISCLAIMER APPLYING TO EVERY CHAPTER PUBLISHED IN THIS FANFIC STORY: I do not own Naruto.

'Naruto Uzumaki-Senju' Tsunade read before sighing as she knelt down tracing her finger over the grave stone that had been laid in honour of the memory of her husband. The memory of his death still fresh in her mind as pictures of his wounded form charging towards Hanzo played over and over again in her head, wondering why in Kami's name had she allowed him to sacrifice himself so she, Jiraiya and Orochimaru could escape and live.

"Kaasan," Tsunade heard a soft voice call out breaking her from her thoughts as she stood up and turned to look at her daughter Kushina whose eyes had watered looking at her father's grave. "Minato-kun and I have decided to name the baby Nawaki Naruto Uzumaki-Senju if it's a boy or Toka Mito Uzumaki-Senju if it's girl. If that's okay with you?"

Tsunade couldn't help smile as she gazed at the beautiful red haired woman in front of her who been the product of her love for Naruto, now eight months pregnant and ready to bring her own child into the world.

"I would love that very much Kushina-chan, the names sound perfect for my granddaughter or grandson." Tsunade commented smiling at Kushina.

"I knew you would like them dattebane!" Kushina said enthusiastically, happy to have made her mother smile knowing how hard today was for her.

Tsunade couldn't help but chuckle at her daughter's enthusiasm she truly was her father's daughter having inherited his violet eyes, red hair and even Naruto's mother Toka Senju's verbal tick.

"Do you think he would have been proud of me?" Kushina shyly asked, her enthusiasm fading as she inquired about the one thing about her father that she had always truly wanted to know but never had had the courage to ask.

Tsunade sighed, a distant look overcoming her features as her mind drifted to the night she and Naruto found out she was pregnant and the ecstatic way he had reacted.

"Your father loved you since the day he learnt I was pregnant with you Kushina-chan and I'm more than certain he would have been proud to call you his daughter." Tsunade answered sincerely as she drew her daughter into a comforting hug knowing that this day was just as hard for her despite the fact that the younger woman had been born after her father's death.

"Thank-you Kaasan." Kushina thanked, her voice breaking as she heard the words that meant so much to her.

"How about we get some ramen?" Tsunade asked wanting to lighten the mode. Giggling as she saw her daughter's excited reaction from hearing the word ramen just like her father would.

"Kaasan can you tell me how you and Tousan meet?" Kushina asked curiously, realising she had never heard that story before despite having heard so much about her father Naruto from her mother.

"Well," Tsunade began her mind drifting to the day she had meet Naruto.

FLASHBACK

"So Tsunade-hime any idea why sensei called us here?" A twelve year old Jiraiya asked wanting to start a conversation with his beautiful blonde teammate.

"I don't know Jiraiya," Tsunade answered with a forced politeness, wanting to snap at the dobe of their team but stopping herself as she remembered Hiruzen's words that she had to be nicer to her teammates if she wanted to grow as a ninja since they would be the very people who had her back and who she relied on when they went into the field or on dangerous missions.

"Teme," Jiraiya called to Orochimaru wanting to embarrass him in front of Tsunade, "any idea why sensei called us here?" Jiraiya asked grinning sure his teammate would react to being called 'teme' before frowning as Orochimaru shrugged ignoring him.

"Team Seven you're here good," A deep familiar voice said that Team Seven knew belonged to their sensei turning their attention to their sensei Hiruzen, who approached them from the edge of the training ground, a red haired boy behind him. "There is someone I would like you to meet. Your new teammate Naruto." Hiruzen announced before turning to the boy behind him.

"Come forward Naruto there's no need to be shy." Hiruzen gently encouraged gesturing to the boy behind him who shyly stood next to the jounin. The boy glancing at Orochimaru and Jiraiya before looking at Tsunade who was staring at him intently causing the boy to grow nervous and turn his glance away as an embarrassed blush spread across his cheeks.

Tsunade frowned as she stared at the boy her sensei said would be placed in their team. From what she could see she was not impressed the boy seemed ordinary, shy and boring. Tsunade was sure she would want nothing to do with him just like she wanted nothing to do with her other two teammates Jiraiya and Orochimaru.

FLASHBACK END

"So you and Tousan never spoke that day?" Kushina asked a smile playing on her lips as she listened to her mother.

"No I barely said more than one or two words to him for months after that and each time he tried to approach me he would shyly blush and run away." Tsunade answered her voice full of emotion as she remembered days she and Naruto had been distant in their genin days. Him shy and reserved, her spoilt and snobbish.

"He kind of reminds me a bit of Minato-kun," Kushina said remembering how her husband Minato Namikaze kept watching her as though he wanted to say something but didn't approach her until she was kidnapped by Kumo nin.

"We're here," Kushina announced her mode bubbly as she excitedly made her way forward to meet the Ichirakus, the ramen cooking family that didn't treat her as the daughter of the great Tsunade Senju and the legendary Naruto Uzumaki-Senju but rather as Kushina, a ramen loving customer.

"Hey Ojisan!" Kushina greeted her favourite ramen chief leaving behind her mother who stood at the stand entrance, a sad smile on her face as she remembered the times she and Naruto had eaten here.

One Month Later: Night of the Kyuubi Attack

"I'm sorry sensei but I have to leave, there's too much pain from me here." Tsunade croaked, her throat raw and her eyes red as she stood by the village gates in front of Hiruzen who was trying to reason with her.

"And what about you granddaughter Tsunade-chan?" Hiruzen asked his emotionally broken student gesturing to the bundle he held. "She has no one, her mother just died, her father too Toka needs you."

"I'm sorry sensei but she would be better off without me," Tsunade answered her eyes watering again as she looked at the whiskered face of her granddaughter. "Everyone I have ever loved has died because of me: Naruto, Nawaki now Kushina. My love is a curse sensei, nothing good can come from me loving this girl."

Hiruzen sighed as he watched his student walk away from the village, wondering if letting her go in her current state was a good thing or a bad thing.

Eleven Years Later

Toka Uzumaki smirked as she finished learning the Kage Bunshin no Jutsu from the Forbidden Jutsu Scroll she stolen from the Hokage's office.

Her heart pounded in excitement as she stared at the list of other advanced jutsu she could learn to impress Mizuki and graduate early from the academy. Bringing her a step closer to becoming Hokage and earning the acknowledgement and respect of everyone around her.

"Toka you brought the scroll I see." Toka heard from behind her causing her eyes to widen in fright. Before calming down as she recognised Mizuki.

"Hai sensei," Toka answered proudly grinning at Mizuki as she recalled his promise of early graduation if she retrieved the scroll and learnt a jutsu from it.

"Toka," Mizuki began darkly eager to reveal his plans of using the girl and the reason why the village hated her but stopped as he felt a massive spike in chakra that matched that of the kyuubi's the night of the attack eleven years ago.

"Mizuki-sensei," Toka said frightened, looking to her sensei as she felt the incredible power surge in front of her, not knowing what was going on and looking at the instructor for help. "What's going on?" Toka asked her voiced laced with an undeniable fear.

Hokage Tower

"Can you feel that Hokage-sama?" Yugao asked her body stiffening as she felt a mammoth of a chakra spike, surging from the forest just outside of the village.

"Toka," Hiruzen said worryingly ignoring the ANBU agent Neko as he feared that something had happened to Toka resulting in her releasing the Kyuubi thus explaining the massive chakra surge he could feel.

Bolting out the office window the Hokage wasted no time as he pushed his legs to the limit and ran in the direction of the surge, removing his Hokage robes that slowed him down as he did, revealing his battle gear underneath.

"Neko!" Hiruzen called out to the ANBU agent struggling to keep up to him as he jumped from one roof top to the next. "I need you to s-" Hiruzen began ordering Yugao on what to do but stopped as a blinding light flashed from the direction where the surge came before a deafening explosion followed it.

'Toka!' Hiruzen thought worryingly as his senses returned to him, his orders to Yugao long forgotten as he used his chakra enhanced speed to swiftly arrive at the location of the explosion leaving behind a frightened Yugao who continued her chase of the fast moving Hokage.

"TOKA!" Hiruzen yelled his eyes frantically searching the area where he thought the explosion came from.

"HOKAGE-SAMA!" An ANBU agent yelled turning Hiruzen's attention to an area in the distance where several shinobi gathered.

"Toka-chan," Hiruzen called out relieved as he spotted the girl he had made it his personal mission to protect.

"Jiji!" Toka called back pushing past the shinobi who had surrounded her, hounding her with questions as she moved to her grandfather figure.

"What happened Toka-chan? Are you okay?" Hiruzen asked as he pulled the frightened girl into a hug.

"I don't know Jiji." Toka answered truthfully pulling back from Hiruzen. Her mind a blur as she tried to process what had happened moments before the Hokage arrived. "I felt this weird and scary feeling in front of me before there was this bright flash and loud bang." Toka frantically explained but the Hokage managed to catch everything. "And when the light was gone I opened my eyes there was no Mizuki-sensei but a man wearing this funny black sui-"

"Mizuki-sensei? Funny black suit? Toka wha-" Hiruzen questioned but was interrupted by an ANBU agent who respectfully bowed in front of him.

"Hokage-sama." The man said respectfully. "I think you really need to see this." The man added gesturing to where the group of ANBU and jounin stood starring at something in shock.

Seeing the Hokage approach the crowd respectfully parted granting the Hokage access to the centre of the gathered shinobi where Hiruzen's eyes fell onto something that nearly gave him a heart attack.

There in the middle of a small crater lay a young man with a mane of wild red hair, the man wore bits of black Senju armour that seemed severely damaged and had multiple wounds that covered a large amount of his muscular body.

"Naruto," Hiruzen whispered his being filled with shock as he ignored the multiple grasps that sounded from the ninja around him who had heard the name he said. Slowly Hiruzen approached the injured form of his supposedly dead student and knelt over it, roaming his eyes over the body making sure it wasn't an illusion or a lookalike of some sort.

Standing up Hiruzen morphed his face into an impassive expression as he remembered he was the Hokage and need to act like one before barking out orders to ensure the survival of his student and the safety of his village.

Several Days Later: Tanzaku Town

Tsunade sighed as she lost another large amount of her own personal money, making sure to remain away from the Senju and Uzumaki accounts that she had left for her granddaughter Toka.

"Cash me out," Tsunade said as she glanced at the tiny pile of chips she had gathered in front of her wondering why she had bothered to come here in the first place, leaving with less money than she had going in.

"I can see that you are still living up to your name of being the Legendary Sucker, Hime." A perverted voice said from behind her causing Tsunade to sigh as she instantly recognised whose voice it was.

"Jiraiya what are you doing here." Tsunade asked her voice agitated as she took a swing from her sake cup.

"Sensei sent me." Jiraiya answered his voice losing its playfulness as he sat next to her.

"What does he want with me?" Tsunade asked thinking of the man she had been secretly grateful to for sending her messages that Toka was doing okay over the past eleven years.

"He needs you to come back to the village Tsunade." Jiraiya answered noticing his teammate's fists tightening in anger.

"Why?" Tsunade asked between clenched teeth wondering what had changed her sensei's mind when he had respected her wishes all these years ago.

"I don't know how else to say this so I am just going to say it." Jiraiya said pausing as he braced himself for Tsunade's reaction. "Naruto is somehow alive." Jiraiya told Tsunade who swiftly turned wide eyed to Jiraiya. "But he's dying and needs your help to save him."

A/N: So basically here is a bit of background for this fic: Naruto was born the son of Toka Senju, Hashirama's close associate and an Uzumaki male whose name I might reveal later on when I make one up. In the story Toka moved to Uzushio after the founding of Konoha and fell in love with this Uzumaki man, the two had a son, Naruto and lived there for several years until both died and Naruto moved to Konoha at the dying wishes of his mother. Naruto then joined Team Hiruzen and fell in love with Tsunade, who became pregnant with his daughter Kushina. Naruto then 'died' a hero in the Second Shinobi War saving his teammates from Hanzo and his army of shinobi.

Also for those wondering the scroll incident with Toka, Naruto and Tsunade's granddaughter, did not happen in the cannon year when Naruto steals the scroll. It happened a year before where Toka is tricked by Mizuki into stealing the scroll when he lies to her she could graduate a year early if she did. So basically the year of Team Gai's graduation.

The Pairing is set for the story: The main being Naruto/Tsunade/Mikoto. Initially I didn't want a harem but apparently those make a story popular so I'm going the H route.

The only other pairing I see for this story will be Toka/Hinata. Why this pairing? I'm a HUGE Naruhina and a Hinata fan. So I needed her to play a bigger role in the story and I needed to pair Toka with someone. So hate it or love it pairings are set so don't ask me to change them, please don't because you'll be wasting both our times and what's SET is SET.

Bashing will not occur in the immature way I sometimes see of people calling characters things like Sasugay. But some characters will have attitudes that aren't really likable, like Sasuke will be arrogant/evil but won't be bashed by being called silly names, being a complete snob or stuff like that.