Thread: Renewal

Huh? This is...the address, but... Naruto blinked. He scratched at his head, trying to recall what had been written on the slip of paper. In true Uzumaki Naruto fashion, Tsunade had handed it to him this morning, instructing him to arrive this afternoon, and in that short span of time he'd managed to lose it. Well, maybe not lose it lose it, as he knew where it was. Aah! Stupid Akamaru, Naruto exclaimed, bringing the hand down from his yellow spikes and balling it into a fist. Complete with a stomp, he recalled how he'd been arguing with Kiba, stupid Kiba was winning, Akamaru barked a response, and when Naruto bunched up the paper he'd been holding and threw it at the dog's nose, Akamaru ate it! Stupid Akamaru, he repeated, grumbling the words now with narrowed eyes. But, just as the emotion had come it was then gone, and Naruto found himself staring past the front double gates of a brand new, enclosed complex. Eh, this's gotta be it... But, wow! Granny Tsunade's been busy! As he pushed open the large door and stepped through his eyes darted from one thing to the next. There was a large mansion-like complex straight forward, but before that a gorgeous pond! To the left were a line of houses. To the right were a line of houses. And it looked like the place reached back a bit beyond the center area too? ...This was just as big as the Hyuuga family's area of Konoha, or the Uchiha's! The blonde barely remembered to close the door behind him before darting excitedly over to the first of the houses to the left. Popping his head in, Woo! Hellooo? Naruto grinned. He poked his head into a few rooms quickly, all of them finished though unfurnished. WOW, he said, grinning more now at the echo, this sure beats my apartment! Is this one...? Stopping, thinking, for as long as Naruto ever stopped and thought, two seconds later he was running right back out of the house, leaping off the single step from the front and darting left, poking his head through the front door of the next one. Or is this one mine? Hheeellloooooo? The Hokage had been vague. Following the end of all the fighting recently, and the alliance between the various ninja villages, Tsunade had announced two things first, that all offensive missions would be ceased until further notice, with a focus on Konohagakure's defense, rebuilding, growth, strength, and most importantly, its peace, and second, after that announcement almost a week ago to all of the village she had pulled Naruto aside just this morning for something private. She'd mentioned she was going to make a follow-up announcement tomorrow, but for today she wanted to inform him of it first. All she'd spill ahead of time was the address she'd written on the slip of paper, that he was expected there this afternoon, and that he was going to be given 'comfortable living arrangements.' And how! Grinning, Naruto stopped and knelt by the pond to watch a frog. This place sure was somethin'. Was Tsunade really giving him one of these? Everyone in Konoha had been wondering for awhile now what she was having this all built for. He surmised that the big place in the center was for her, and the rest...people she liked? Maybe for some of the higher-ups in the village? Naruto shrugged so long as he got one, he didn't mind about the rest! Maybe she's not all that bad, he said to the frog, holding his hand out, fingers crooked. If she's really gonna give me a place like this to stay, I guess I can put up with living so close to her, heheh... But he still had to find her. Where was she, anyway? Naruto could feel several sources of chakra in the building up ahead, all of them familiar. She's not alone? His head tilted some, but he paid this little mind. Standing, scooping the frog up with him, Naruto walked up to the large center building and ascended the short staircase. A moment later he was inside its doors, frog in hand, walking down a corridor. When he entered the main room he found it to be just as large as you'd expect for a building of this size, and very open, with only a few columns on either side for support. The long, open mat of the floor was perfect for everything from taijutsu sparring to holding meetings. But, what he saw had the teenager stop completely in his tracks, surprise and confusion painting his face. The place had been decorated with colorful, sheer silk scarves, stretched out all over the floor, hanging from the columns, the ceiling, forming a small, sheer 'room' with several people inside. There were small, flickering candles everywhere, and interesting scents of incense burning all around. Naruto took a few steps over so he could see inside this sheer tent, standing at its entrance now, dumbfounded, just looking to the people inside. Sakura-chan, Ino, Hinata, and...Temari, were all sitting on pillows? And there was Tsunade in the center, sitting on a bed of about a dozen or so of those same, decorative pillows. ...Uh...Granny Tsunade?...