Chapter 9 - Granddaughter?

"Stop!!" the Third Hokage moved away from his spot and appeared behind Hikaru before taking the Drake Sword away from him to stop him from killing the boy down under him.

Hikaru looks at the Hokage in surprise and ask, "Hokage-dono, what are you doing here?"

Hiruzen then replied angrily, "Why are you trying to kill this boy?! What has he done to you?!"

Hikaru then pointed at the group of boys lying on the ground, twitching, and said, "They tried to kill Naruto, I was only protecting him from them."

Hiruzen widened his eyes and immediately knew why this happened. His eyes were as cold as ice because he knew, someone had just broken the rule he put on Naruto.

"Hikaru, return to your home for now. I will take care of the rest, " Hiruzen said with his voice seemingly cold.

Hikaru felt like he was staring at a beast, a huge beast. A colossal gorilla ready to tear through everything. Hikaru didn't notice it but sweat was dripping off his face due to being nervous. But he still did not go away.

Iruka, on the other hand, couldn't move a single muscle because of the aura that the Third Hokage is emitting.

"Iruka, " Hiruzen called.

His body stiffened as he replied, "H-hai?"

"Take these group of boys to be interrogated by Ibiki and get answers from them, why did they try to kill Naruto-kun, " Hiruzen ordered.

"H-hai!" Iruka quickly dragged away all the boys with his arms to take them to Ibiki. And he knew, these boys would have a hard time. If they didn't get enough from Hikaru, because, to be honest, almost all of their limbs are broken and when they wake up, a lot of screaming would occur.

Hiruzen looks at Naruto with his grandfatherly eyes, unlike his previous cold one, and said, "Naruto, you will come with me, you may get hurt by someone if I don't look after you."

Hiruzen saw that Naruto was still frightening and he waited for the time to past.

After some time past, Naruto was able to calm down and is able to reply normally. Well, as normal as he could.

Naruto, as if was in some deep conflict, replied, "No, I'll go with Hikaru."

Hiruzen seems to be interested when he heard that. This is the first time Naruto decided to with someone she just met.

"Why do you want to go with him, Naruto?" Hiruzen asked curiously.

"I-I don't know, it's just that, when I'm near him, I feel safe, dattebayo, " Naruto replied with her verbal tic acting up.

Hiruzen simply smiled and looked at Hikaru before asking him, "Do you want to go with us, Hikaru-kun?"

At this, Hikaru was confused as to why he decided to invite him, but, nonetheless, he agreed.

Naruto had stars all over his face when she heard Hiruzen asking Hikaru that.

"Really, jii-jii?!" She asked.

He chuckled and said, "Yes, of course. He's your friend, isn't he?"

Naruto ran over to Hikaru and held hot of his hands, "Yatta! Did you hear that Hikaru? We get to be together!"

'Why is he so excited? We are just going to the Hokage Tower and talk about something. Hmm, ' he thought.

Hiruzen rubs his goatee on his chin and said, "Let's go, we are going to the Tower, " he then looks at Hikaru seriously and said, "And Hikaru-kun, we have something to talk about if you want to stay friends with Naruto-kun."

Hikaru nodded with his sweat dripping off his face.

(At The Hokage Tower)

Hiruzen said to Naruto to wait at the door but he didn't forget to give her some protection. He ordered his Anbu guards to protect her as he and Hikaru talks.

Hiruzen sat in his chair, looking at Hikaru, who's in front of him. He then said, "Now, I'm not mad at you for beating those kids to pulp, but you should learn on how to hold back. You could've killed them if I hadn't come at the right time."

Hikaru looks down and he knew it was his fault too. If his emotions didn't get in the way, those kids would still be conscious and probably not in a coma-like state right now.

"Now, don't look so down. You saved my precious granddaughter, you should be happy, " Hiruzen said with a grandfatherly smile.

Hikaru's face brightens up when he heard him, but suddenly, he noticed something strange in his words.

"Granddaughter?" he blurted out.

Hiruzen's face grew serious and he said, "This is what I really want to talk about. Yes, Naruto Uzumaki is a girl."

"Eh?"

Outside the Hokage's office, Naruto sat in a chair with four anbus guarding her against all sides.