Naruto Fan Fiction ❯ A Life for a Life ❯ Plans for Chuunin Part 2 ( Chapter 45 )

[ Y - Young Adult: Not suitable for readers under 16 ]

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Moiya Hatake…If it helps I haven't either and the stories I pick to list as my favorites are the ones I find worthwhile reads. If it helps in plausibility, then this is advice from two favorite authors of mine…

The best stories written are the ones with little pieces of your heart in them…Wendy and Richard Pini creators of the Elfquest series.

I think that's why mine come out fairly decent, if I can't feel myself getting angry or sad or even happy with a situation I put a character in. Then it simply isn't worth writing. Or even if I do write it…it goes under revise list as something missing…

Chapter 45

It is said that Time allows six degrees of separation between all events. Six degrees, of emotional fate and change to occur, before settling on it predetermined path according to Fate. Sometimes Fate wishes it was more then that.

The Next day…

Arashi watched as his son sat in meditation outside. Having to go to the office earlier whether he wanted to or not, he had brought home a lot of paperwork with him concerning the exams. This time things would be different.

The teams will go into the Forest of Death as planned…but many ANBU from the Leaf as well as Sand will be allowed in as well. Those experienced at hiding in plain sight.

They will not interfere in any fighting or any of the tests unless absolutely necessary. And even then it will be only as a last resort… Rumors according to Tsunade have already spread thanks to gossipy merchants of his return and of Naruto's identity as his son. According to the Slug Sannin, some who are known in the bingo book as enemies of Konoha have already tried to infiltrate the village.

But luckily due to the close proximity of the ANBU patrolling the city because of suspicions this might happen. They had been successfully stopped and killed before they could attempt entry.

Hearing the sounds of a song, Arashi smiled somewhat sadly as one of the reports he had been given was by an ANBU that had followed a bird to ROOT headquarters from his home. According to Hawk's report, it was Umiko who released it from within her own grasp.

No matter how much the woman intrigues him, he is admittedly suspicious of this as there is no love lost between him and Danzou.

Danzou… That man had found out about him and Yukita, and nearly tried to destroy their relationship. He never knew why exactly, but the way his wife looked one day….

Flashback…

Arashi smiled as he wrapped his arms around a then four months pregnant Yukita. Her red hair pulled back into a bun, he couldn't help but nuzzle the skin of her neck. But when she pulled away fast and glared at him with a knife, Arashi had looked up at her in confusion.

Only to find her face pale and her eyes full of fear.

When she finally realized it was him as his voice reached her, she had simply whispered his name and then fainted dead away…

Flashback ends…

When she had come to the next day, Yukita had clutched his arm, so hard and so tightly. That he had asked Saurotobi to take his place for the day so that he could stay with her. After she had calmed down, and just stayed with him for a few hours of comforting silence, Yukita had spoke of seeing someone….

Someone speaking with Orichamaru…and it wasn't his former student.

She swore that whoever it was looked like Danzou, but because of the distance, she admittedly wasn't to sure. All she knew is that she had seen the snake and he her. The vile being had even approached her, threatening their unborn child.

It was through Orichamaru, that they had discovered he was having a son. Worse, he has always had this theory that it was he who inflamed the Kyuubi into attacking Konoha. But according to the Kitsune, he was planning on doing it anyway as to punish the Uchihas who had seemingly gotten a little uppity over the years in its opinion.

Speaking of that, he was puzzled by something the fox had said.

I wish to see that one-eyed Ninja guy….the one that brat refers to as Kakashi-sensei.

When he had asked why, the Fox just stared at him from his son's features and smirked.

That is between me and him mortal. All I will say is that he has earned my respect…

Earning a demon's respect?

Kakashi did that?

Considering his former student was out on a mission with the ANBU to act as an ambassador of sorts with Suna. The ninja wouldn't be back for a few more days, as he had gone to discuss the plan for the Chuunin with their ambassador Temari.

The genius ninja Shikamaru was already at work explaining the mission stats to the ANBU. The silent masked figures nodding their heads on occasion, a few of them would interrupt to ask a question leaving the genius to grown. Still it was encouraging when, they took out a map and alongside the Chuunin began earnest discussions over the places best to hide and observe the exam.

Looking towards Naruto now, as he let out a growl of frustration Arashi couldn't help but smile. He to when he had first started making this jutsu to be acclimated to his unique abilities had let out a few words of choice.

He had already spoken, to a blacksmith, with the aide of said blacksmith's daughter a girl named TenTen.

The young girl was training to be one like her father and would help supply the village with much needed weapons. The father was one who remembered Arashi quite fondly and set about making the kunais that the older man needed for when he battled using the Hiriashin.

But he was even more pleased, as he had asked for a second set to be made as well. TenTen who had just been returning from a mission, that day when she had run into the Fourth was stunned and then happy.

Since she was going to inherit her family's business, the young woman would be taught how to make the weapon for one of her family's biggest customers. And since Arashi had asked for nigh near 150 kunais to be made. It would go quicker if she aided her father. For so many to be made, Arashi was told to give him about three weeks. One week to teach TenTen and two weeks for the two of them to complete his order.

The Fourth agreed this, because something told him by the time the three weeks was up…Naruto at the rate he was progressing would be fully ready to learn the technique.

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Sound village

Sasuke was in a rage. Much to the efforts of Kabuto, the younger of the two Uchihas was now assured without having seen him fight that the Blonde had gotten stronger.

How?

A damn merchant who had been to Konoha recently had spread the rumors of the Fourth's return. The one considered the strongest ninja ever to walk the face of the earth, Sasuke had begun plotting how to get the man to come to sound.

But that was not what caused the rage and the near murders of several Sound Ninja, who without the skills of Kabuto would never have survived.

A side part of the rumor, that Kabuto had warned everyone to not say, was said anyhow. That the Fourth's name was one Arashi Uzamaki-Kazama…

The name Uzamaki had done it…somehow Sasuke knew, that the Fourth had to be Naruto's father without it having to be told. This was not a good day to be in the wrath of the younger Uchiha. His mind was barely holding on thanks to his need to see the blonde at his strongest…

To add the insult to the injury, Kabuto had seen the pain and the anguish in Sasuke's eyes as he wondered over and over how Naruto could be so lucky.

He had his family back…and he didn't. There were many times, during his stay, that Kabuto despite being the uncaring bastard that he was, couldn't help but feel a little sorry for the youth. That during the night, when the nightmares overcame him, Kabuto would enter the Uchiha's room and deliberately put him into a dreamless state.

It helped the young man to learn and to train harder under the Snake Sannin…but in the end it did something else.

There was a reason that humanity needed to dream…

It was our body's subconscious way of releasing pained emotions, and heartbreaks that troubled us in our waking hours. No dreams…means there wasn't any way of letting things out. Letting the pain and anger work itself out in our hearts, as we slept was a safe way to help us cope…

Dreamless states caused something to happen in Sasuke…

It drove him to the brink of insanity…

Orichamaru had manage to keep his new body from damaging itself, by continuously focusing the Uchiha's mind on the blonde. The one person whom Sasuke, could never truly defeat…

The one person whom the young man could not kill…

The one person, who was his best and truest friend, and to the point that Sasuke himself calls the blonde…his one true brother….

Naruto Uzamaki was indeed very important to the younger Uchiha. If Sasuke was to ever truly learn the importance of the Biju to his Akatsuki masters…

There would be nothing stopping the Uchiha from racing to save the one sole reason for his continued existence….

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Tee hee

We are getting close children...close to what I will call an important series of events involving the Akatsuki. I say within the next 10 or so Chapters…give or take a couple…

That all hell is going to break loose as the true reason for the Biju's presence is revealed…