Naruto Fan Fiction ❯ Rocks of Change ❯ The Reunion ( Chapter 2 )

A/N: Sorry for taking so long with the update. Things happen, and I've hadn't been really inspired to right the next chapter, but here it is, though it's shorter than I wanted it. By the way, this chapter was tough to write. Not in the sense that I didn't know what to write, but the sense it was much shorter than I anticipated. It took a lot out of me to stretch this chapter out without adding in what I had planned for chapter three.

I Do Not Own Naruto

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Mourning had come by quickly, and a certain Uchiha was not happy about it. After the roller coaster of a night, he was willing his eyes shut while mumbling at the sun to go away as he was still very tired. He was still trying to determine if what he saw was the truth or it was just an illusion by Kyuubi. He wouldn't put it past the kitsune to do that, but from what he noticed about Naruto outside and inside in his mind, pointed to that what he saw was real. Yet, some part of him was just finding it hard to believe that someone could travel time.

As he was debating on the physics and logic of time travel, Naruto had woken up cursing the sun's existence. He slowly got up and dressed himself, figuring Itachi to already be awake, only to see that he wasn't. He blinked in confusion at this before shrugging as he tried to light the fire, only to realize that his body didn't know how to do so. He cursed at this and mentally reminded himself to start training soon as possible after he and Keisha had reunited. Sighing as he didn't have any matches or some flint, he walked to Itachi's tent to wake him up.

Unzipping the tent, Naruto barely managed to dodge the kunai thrown at him. He glared at Itachi as he glared right back, pissed at the fact that now he was forced to get up. Neither back down from their glaring contest, not wanting to give in and give the other victory. As the two glared at each other, Itachi took the time to search through Naruto's eyes.

The reason being that the eyes were the gate way to ones soul. Looking into his electric blues, he noticed the same sorrow, pain and joy that was always in his eyes, with hints of uncanny wisdom that wasn't there before. But what surprised him was a look that he knew because of Anko. The look of betrayal.

He shivered at that and looked away from Naruto, knowing what he saw last night was true. Naruto looked at him with some confusion before realizing what caused his reaction. He closed his eyes and nodded lightly before walking back outside to let Itachi get himself dressed decently. He sighed as sat down next to the burned out fire. He sighed once more as he looked at the horizon, remembering the day before he lost everything.

(Flashback)

Naruto was wondering through the camp as he felt something was off, he just didn't know what. He sighed as he continued walking through the camp, ignoring the looks he was getting. None of them were looks of hate, which he was glad for, just respect, some loyalty and a little bit of fear. What was odd was that most of them were coming from Iwa shinobi.

Fear wasn't anything new as he was the jinchuuriki of Kyuubi no Kitsune, but they feared him more of being the son of the Yondaime Hokage and the fact that he could use Hiraishin. Though the respect and loyalty puzzled him, he figured that he somehow managed to gain it during the course of the war.

Shaking that off, he continued by them till he was at the edge of the camp, looking at the sunset. He sighed deeply, wanting to know what went wrong between him and Tsunade. He didn't understand it at all. From everything she had shown him throughout the time they knew each other, she had shown him nothing but kindness and love. But now, for a reason he didn't understand, she hated with him with a passion beyond all possible reasons.

It was also confusing as to why Sakura hated him. Sure, in the beginning she was spiteful, only because that was how she was raised and that he was kind of annoying, but they came to understand each other after Sasuke left.

As he continued thinking about what went wrong, both Gaara and Sasuke walked up to him. Once there, Sasuke was the first to speak up. "Figured you'd be out here. So what's up dobe?"

Naruto turned back at him and scoffed at him. "Nothing teme." Sasuke rose his eyebrow at this knowing that it was a lie while Gaara looked on impassively, though a little worry could be seen.

"Naruto." spoke Gaara as both Sasuke and himself gave Naruto death glares.

Naruto sighed as he turned away from his two brothers. "It's nothing really."

Both increased their glares at him before Sasuke spoke up. "I know you better than that. Something is eating at you, now what is it, or do I have to beat it out of you."

Naruto sighed before turning towards them. "You two don't give up do you.

"No." Gaara quickly responded as Sasuke snorted in response. He sighed before looking up at both of them and noticed Keisha walking towards them and silently cursed. For some reason, she could manage to get him to open up, and he really didn't want to right now.

Once she arrived, she noticed the somewhat tense atmosphere, but knew it had to deal with Naruto. "Brooding again?"

Both Gaara and Sasuke nodded as Naruto glared at all three of them. She sighed before sitting down besides him. "Alright, now tell us what's wrong. Otherwise we're never going to stop pestering you about it."

Both Gaara and Sasuke nodded at this, making Naruto scowl at them before sighing as he looked up at the horizon. "I was just thinking about why all this had to happen. Why the old hag turned her back on me after everything we had been through. Why Sakura suddenly changed after brining teme over here back home."

Keisha's eyes softened at this while both Gaara and Sasuke looked the same as always, but understood him perfectly. Sasuke nodded as he placed his hand on Naruto's shoulder. "None of us our sure, especially seeing how she cared for you before Jiraiya died. As for Sakura, there is still too much that is unknown."

Naruto sighed at this, but knew it was true before nodding at Sasuke. Keisha smiled softly at him and was about to get up when Gaara spoke. "Well, it's time to get ready. Be in the command tent in ten minutes."

Naruto nodded as both Gaara and Sasuke left with slight smirks on their faces, leaving Keisha and him alone.

Keisha's eyes widen as they left her behind before mentally cussing them out. She turned to Naruto and blushed lightly before shaking her head. "Naruto. I was wondered..." He looked over at her with curiosity on his face, making her lose her courage. She sighed a bit before asking a different question. "Why do you look at the sunset?"

Naruto looked at her for a bit before looking back at the setting sun. She sighed as she figured he wasn't going to answer when he spoke up. "I've always have. It's something I can't explain, but every time I watch it set, it feels like all my problems go away with it."

She was slightly shocked by this response, but nodded as turned and looked at the setting sun. "I guess I understand. It is kind of soothing to watch."

Naruto nodded his head slightly as he continued watching, but continued to steal glances at her. After a few moments, he pushed himself up and offered a hand to her. "Well, time to go. Don't want to piss Gaara and Tenshi off again by being late."

She smiled a bit and nodded as she accepted his hand. As they walked to the tent, he couldn't help but notice all the shinobi looking at him in a knowing way. He blinked in confusion at this, as though he may be smarter and stronger, he still was slightly dense. Shaking their looks off, he looked at Keisha and noticed the light gleaming off her. He quickly turned away, not wanting to be caught staring before he sighed as they reached the command tent.

'It's not meant to be anyways. It's not like she doesn't have plenty of suitors anyways. Don't need to add to the number.' Shaking that thought off, both Naruto and Keisha entered the command tent with a slightly irritated Tenshi as he looked at a stoic Gaara and Sasuke.

Sighing at both of them, he held out his watch and started counting down on his watch. "5... 4... 3... 2... 1."

In a poof of smoke, Kakashi appeared as he pocketed something in his pouch, most likely the last version of Icha Icha Paradise that Jiraiya had wrote and left with Naruto to publish. Both Koharu and Homura glared daggers at him, but the cycloptic man seemed immune to it.

Shaking his head at the tardy man, Tenshi spoke up. "Now that we are all here, we can go over our strategy for the dawn assault."

Everyone in the room nodded as Gaara stepped forward. "As we did in the mist, we are going to send Naruto and Keisha to Konoha, but without me this time. Our intelligence says that they are planning for a sneak attack on us soon, so I must stay behind to give our forces a chance."

Kakashi nodded as he continued off for Gaara as it was odd for him to talk so much. "Their forces their will be minimal and should bring the remaining forces to it's knees as we have them cut off from Kumogakure."

Both Keisha and Naruto nodded in understanding. Tenshi nodded at them as he turned to Kakashi. "Kakashi, you will be leading our secondary defense line as Gaara, Sasuke and I will be leading the first. If we should fall, you are the new field general."

The Copy Cat nodded his head as he knew the ranking well. It was the two kage's and Naruto, Sasuke and then himself. Tenshi nodded as he turned back to his advisors and nodded. "Go get the forces and tell them to be prepared for a strike in the middle of the night. Go."

His advisors quickly left to rally the troops as he quickly turned back towards Naruto and Keisha and noticed them holding hands. "You two will leave in ten minutes. Keisha, I would like to have a word with you before you leave."

Keisha nodded lightly at him as Naruto spoke. "Meet me at the eastern camp entrance."

She nodded and watched Naruto vanish in a swirl of leaves. She turned back around and walked over to where Tenshi was in the back of the tent. When she arrived she looked at his stoic form and spoke as he seemed not to notice her. "You wanted to see me ni-san?"

Tenshi snapped out of his thoughts as he looked over at the slightly curious Keisha and nodded. "Yes I did. Keisha, you know your like a sister to me right." She nodded slowly, not really understanding what he was getting at. Tenshi sighed as he continued. "I would just like you to know, that I love your squirt, and that I give you my blessings, if you wish to continue see him after today. I know your father would."

Keisha's eyes widen as she started chocking in surprise. Of all the things she expected, this wasn't it. Was it that obvious to everyone that she had fallen for him.

The Gondaime Tsuchikage could only smirk at her reaction as he patted her on the back. Once she managed to get her breath back, she looked up at him and was about to speak when he cut her off. "You best get out of her imouto. You have a mission."

She was about to say that he was changing the subject, but the look on his face left no room for argument. She nodded lightly at him before turning around and walking out of the tent before heading towards the eastern entrance. As she reached their, she noticed Naruto filing his nails with a kunai. Noticing her, he put up the kunai and nodded before both took off heading towards Konoha.

But for some reason, Keisha felt a large weight was lifted off of her as she followed Naruto.

(Flashback End)

As he was lost on memory lane, Itachi had walked out of his tent and put it up before lighting the fire to cook some breakfast. He noticed the far off look on Naruto's face, but shoved it aside believing he was thinking about the past. Sighing, he looked off in the distance as the water in the kettle boil so Naruto could eat his ramen. "So, Naruto. Why is it exactly why you wanted to come out here. I have a good idea, but I'm not totally sure."

Snapping out of memory lane, Naruto turned to Itachi before sighing. "I'm looking for Keisha as she'll be somewhere around the border."

The Uchiha prodigy nodded at this as he pulled out a stick of pocky and started munching on it. Naruto saw this and couldn't help but twitch uncontrollably. 'What the hell. It's like he has a never ending supply of it. I swear one day I'm going to find out where he keeps it and steal it.'

"So how exactly are you going to find her. It's not as if she's going to be wearing a bright neon orange jumpsuit saying here I am." Itachi asked between bites of his precious pocky.

Naruto twitched even more at this and muttered darkly at the smirking Uchiha. Sighing, he answered his question. "That's were Kyuubi and Gobi come in. When they can feel each other, they're going to send their youki into our systems so we can sense each other. Then we are to escape then elude our guards and meet each other."

Itachi twitched at this. "So... you were planning on ditching me." Naruto nodded as the kettle whistled and started pouring it into his cup. He twitched even more at this and used every ounce of his will to refrain himself from strangling the young blonde haired jinchuuriki. And he was having a difficult time as he was inching closer to him.

Naruto refrained from smirking as he saw this and quickly slurped his ramen before throwing the cup in the fire as he was finished. He quickly got up and quickly took down his tent and got it packed before looking at the still twitching Uchiha prodigy that was glaring at him with intent to kill. Naruto easily shrugged that off as he spoke up with a semi amused voice. "Now then, can we continue or do I have to ditch you now."

A small string of curses later, they were ready to leave, though Itachi was still trying to glare a hole through Naruto's head. Naruto just smirked as he lead the way in an taunting fashion making the Uchiha scowl even more. He really wanted to strangle the blonde hair abomination in front of him right now. Naruto smirked knowing this and did his best not to laugh.

Pissing people off was one of his all-time favorite hobbies after all.

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On a dirt road heading towards the Hi no Kuni border, Tenshi was currently trying his best not to strangle the girl in front of him and the seven tailed creature within him. The reason being that he barely got an ounce of sleep as every time he came close to falling asleep, Keisha tried to sneak off. Of course he caught her, but then Shichibi decided to start annoying him once he managed to get her to 'sleep' once more. And then once he managed to get it to shut up and nearly fall asleep again, Keisha made a break for it once more.

So at the moment he was contemplating about just knocking her out and bringing her back to Iwa as he was sure another night like last night and his sanity would probably slip. He mentally sighed as Keisha was looking slightly happier than normal as they neared the border. He instinctively knew that he was going to have even more problems than last night seeing the smirk crossing her face and was ready to do what he need to do for his sanity.

"Oh. What's the matter Tenshi-kun? Tired already?" The said jinchuuriki cursed darkly as he heard his annoying bijuu taunt him once more. He really wondered how he managed to stay sane with it inside him.

'No thanks to you asshole.' Laughing was heard on the other side making him narrow his eyes and was getting ready to perform a weak seal just to shut it up.

"Ha. Sorry, but I couldn't help it. It's so fun to watch you squirm. And don't you even dare think of sealing me off! Without me you would have already passed out by now."

Tenshi narrowed his eyes at this and started muttering darkly about having beaver stew. Needless to say Shichibi shut up. One thing the seven tailed creature didn't like was when it's vessel threatened it with that. Tenshi mentally sighed in relief as he looked at the bright glow coming off of Keisha as she was zoned out, probably talking to Gobi again.

"Child, I can sense them." Keisha's eyes went wide hearing this.

'Naruto-kun is close by!' Gobi nodded at Keisha's statement.

"Yes, Kyuubi's presence is close by meaning he is here." Keisha smiled brightly at this.

'Alright then! Let's ditch Tenshi...'

"Not yet child. Wait till tonight." Gobi interrupted her. "Shichibi is going to distract him so you can get a head start on him and I can flare my youki into your system."

She nodded as it seemed to be a good plan and Shichibi was going to be helping them, making everything easier on their part. 'Alright, just tell me when.'

Gobi nodded before laying down in it's cell and falling asleep as it was going to be a hectic night tonight.

Tenshi sighed as she zoned back in as they neared a large town that was separated due to it being in both Iwa and Hi no Kuni borders. Keisha's eyes widen as she remembered the town. It was where she and Naruto first met.

(Flashback)

Keisha growled low in her throat as she slit another Konoha's shinobi's throat, only to see five Kumo shinobi take his place. She quickly pulled out another kunai and deflected the shuriken thrown at her. She rushed towards the closes one and threw the kunai towards him and quickly took out two more. The shinobi blocked it easily, only to have her stab him in the heart.

Using his body as a meat shield, she deflected the kunais thrown towards her before throwing hers and ending an unsuspecting chunin's life. She reached in her pouch to pull out another kunai, only to find that she was out. Keisha growled in frustration as she threw the lifeless corpse at invading shinobi and went through a quick series of hand seals.

"Doton: Doryudan!"

A large earth dragon erupted from the ground and quickly slammed into the Kumo shinobi before they had a chance to recover. She jumped to the ground as she barely avoided having dozens of shuriken embedded themselves into her. Suddenly, her father's voice was heard on the town's loud speaker.

"Retreat! Head to recovering point C!"

Keisha growled at this, but seeing the devastation the sneak attack had, she knew they wouldn't hold up for much to longer. She quickly rushed away from the invading shinobi and headed towards the said recovery point. 'Dammit! Where is our reinforcements?! I knew those Konoha shinobi couldn't be trusted!'

As she thought that, she noticed her father on the edge of the village, facing off against a blonde haired woman and a pink haired teen, and was getting severely beaten. She growled deeply at this and called upon a tail of Gobi's youki to help him escape. She kicked Tsunade in the face and back handed Sakura before landing besides her beaten up father.

He growled in irritation seeing her. "Dammit Keisha! Leave! This is my battle."

Keisha glared at her father. "Look at yourself tou-san. You'll won't last another minute in your condition. Let me handle this."

Arashi growled at her, as he knew that she was strong, but facing off against a sannin along with her Hokage apprentice wasn't something she could do. Seeing the look on her father's face, she spoke trying to give him reinsurance. "Don't worry. I'll only hold them off for a bit before retreating myself. Just get to the recovery point. Our people need you right now."

Even if he didn't want to admit it, she had a point. But he would be damned if he was going to admit that. He growled out a bit before speaking in a commanding tone. "You better come back."

Keisha nodded at her father as both super strength woman got up and looked at their new threat. Arashi seeing this, took off not wanting to force his daughter fight them for long.

"Hm. Seems we have to deal with a jinchuuriki now." Tsunade spoke glaring daggers at Keisha. Sakura nodded as she was readjusting the plan she devised to counter Naruto when using Kyuubi's youki. Both quickly rushed Keisha with speeds that she couldn't keep up with. Her eyes widen when she felt the wind leave her and flew back through a building, only to be kicked back in by Sakura.

The small structure couldn't take the stress and collapsed with her inside. Both Sakura and Tsunade waited patiently for her to come out, as they knew it would take more than that to defeat a jinchuuriki. Just as they predicted, an eruption of green light and the rocks where blown away as a three tailed Keisha stood in the center of the rubble.

She quickly rushed Sakura and started to wildly slash at her as she didn't have to much control of her battle style since her animalistic side was in the one thinking for her. Sakura parried most of the blows, but the chakra claws were giving her trouble. She was forced to self heal herself due to the poisonous nature of Gobi's youki. She brought a quick knee to Keisha's stomach before delivering an upper cut to her jaw, rocketing her into the sky. At a waiting Tsunade who axed kicked her back to the ground.

Keisha hit the ground creating a large crater from the force of the blow. She slowly picked herself up, only for Tsunade to land on her and pin her to the ground. She struggled with every ounce of strength she had and even was beginning to pull on the forth tail, but Tsunade's strength outmatched hers by a landslide. Sakura rushed over there with her hand glowing before she rammed it into Keisha's stomach.

"Gogyo Fuin!"

Her eyes widen as the pain hit her like a truck as Gobi's youki left her system. Tsunade smirked before throwing her against another building. Sakura looked towards the retreating Iwa shinobi before speaking. "Should we follow?"

Tsunade shook her head. "No, it might be a trap. We'll rest here tonight before giving chase."

Sakura nodded before turning to a panting Keisha as she struggled to get back to her feet. "Well we at least have a prisoner..."

"RETREAT! IT'S THE NIDAN KIROI..."

The man's voice was cut of as a flash of yellow light went by him and a jet of blood gushed out of his neck. A kunai suddenly landed between Keisha and the two Kage level shinobi. Tsunade's eyes widen as she recognized it as in a flash of light, a young man with spiky blonde hair wearing clothes reminiscent of the late Yondaime Hokage was standing there. He looked like a mirror image of the man. The only differences were the three whisker like marks on his cheeks and his hitai-ate since it had a scratch through it.

"It can't be..." Was the only thing that came from Tsunade. Unfortunately for her, it was. Uzumaki Naruto was standing in front of them looking at both coldly.

He quickly pulled out two more tri-pronged kunai and threw them up in the air while going through a set of hand seals.

"Kage Kunai no jutsu."

The two suddenly multiplied in nearly a thousand as they started to rain down on the small town. Tsunade's eyes widen as she grabbed Sakura.

"RETREAT! GET THE HELL OUT OF HERE!" In a swirl of leaves she was gone, not wanting to face off Naruto if he was going to be using that technique.

Naruto looked back at the shocked form of Keisha before looking up. "Kakashi-sensei. Get her to the recovery point and tell them we're going to take the town back."

The masked jounin jumped down and picked up a still shocked Keisha and headed off towards the now confused and slightly scared Iwa shinobi that were still in the area. Naruto looked up to see Sasuke smirking at him. "Now teme, let's see who kills more."

"You're on dobe."

In the end, the invading force of Kiri, Kumo and Konoha shinobi retreated with heavy loses. Mainly because two shinobi calling out the number they had each time they killed one of them...

The score was Naruto 172, Sasuke 43. It was a landslide victory.

Though it wasn't really fair. I mean he was using Hiraishin...

(Flashback End)

Shaking that memory off, she turned to Tenshi. "Can we stay here for the night Tenshi-kun?"

He looked down at her and was about to say no when he noticed the puppy eyed look on her face and it was enhanced drastically due to her being Gobi's jinchuuriki. He tried to resist it, but couldn't help but cave in as the look was just too overpowering. "Alright. We'll stay the night."

Keisha smiled brightly before she started to skip in front of him making the teen sigh. 'Dammit. I know I shouldn't be doing this. I'm going to get screwed tonight.' From within him a large smirk was seen on Shichibi's face.

Oh he didn't know how close to the truth he was.

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It was early in the afternoon and Itachi and Naruto had reached the Konoha side of the town. They would have reached there earlier, but certain things slowed down their progress. The reason it took so long was the fact that Naruto had pulled a few pranks on the now smirking Uchiha, but he got his revenge.

Naruto on the other was scowling as he rubbed his butt. 'I swear. When I find the person that invented that technique, I'm going to give them the modified Kaze Rasenshuriken version of it.'

Of course he was talking about the most powerful move in Konoha's archives.

The Sennen Goroshi.

Shaking his head after mumbling a few choice cuss words, he looked up and recognized the town. He smiled lightly when Kyuubi spoke up. "Alright kit. She's somewhere in this town. I liked it better when it was rubble."

Naruto twitched at the last statement. 'Kyuubi. You want everything to be rubble.'

The giant kitsune shrugged. "True, but alas it's not meant to be. Unless you've decided to accept my proposal." He spoke gleefully at the end.

Naruto's twitching began to increase. 'Fox. I'm not going to become like Gaara was. So stop asking!'

Kyuubi mentally pouted. "Fine then, take my fun away. Just remember that it's always a possibility. Ku ku ku."

Naruto rolled his eyes as he ignored the kitsune. He turned to Itachi who was drooling heavily. Blinking in confusion, he looked around until he found what it was causing Itachi's state.

A pocky stand.

He could only restrain himself from sweat dropping at the scene when Itachi grabbed him and dragged him to the stand. Naruto sighed as there was no way to stop him know.

He was a man possessed... by pocky.

Twenty minutes and forty-five sealing scrolls later, they finally left the stand with a very, very happy Uchiha prodigy. Naruto could only shake his head. He swore he never seen anything like it before. Apparently he never paid to much attention to himself as he had a very similar addiction himself.

Shaking his head off that thought. He turned back to the happy Uchiha. "Well, as I was trying to say before you where hypnotized and spent all our money on your pocky, Keisha-chan is here as Kyuubi can sense Gobi."

Itachi nodded as he pulled out a blueberry flavored stick and started munching on it. "Alright. I'm figuring your plan is going to happen at night."

Naruto nodded making him smirk wickedly. Naruto paled at this and was thinking of flaring Kyuubi's youki right now to get away from the lunatic in front of him. "Then in the mean time, I'm going to be training you."

Naruto could only gulp. He was sure that this wasn't going to fun. In fact he was pretty sure he was going to be needing Kyuubi's youki by the end of this seeing Itachi's grin grow.

May Kami have mercy on his soul.

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The sun had set a few hours ago and Keisha was waiting patiently in their hotel room. She knew that she had to wait till Tenshi was distracted to make her getaway, yet he seemed to be expecting her to do it.

Of course he was put on guard since she was being patient, and she was never patient. He knew he was being paranoid, but he knew something bad was going to happen tonight, he just didn't know what.

Shaking that off, he wondered why Shichibi had been so quite of lately. The normally annoying as hell bijuu hadn't said a word since he mention eating beaver stew. Now this wasn't to odd, but Shichibi could never be quite for to long, unless sleeping, and he knew it wasn't sleeping. 'It's planning something. I know it! The damned beaver has never stayed quite this long for any reason.'

From within him, Shichibi just smirked to itself as Tenshi mentally was prepared for it to pop out and do something. Which is was it wanted exactly. Shichibi's plan was simple, make Tenshi worry so much about it that he would take his attention of Keisha so she could escape. Sure, it wasn't perfect, but that was what it's back up plan was for. And if that didn't work, then well...

It had no clue.

Keisha watched the TV, which had a boring anime that she had seen every episode to, even though this was technically a brand new episode to them. She noticed Tenshi being off edge and knew it was Shichibi that was causing it, just didn't know how, nor did she want to.

She kept a stern eye on him as she faked watching Evangelion. Suddenly, Gobi spoke from within her. "Child. It's almost time."

Keisha mentally nodded at her tenant as she stood up and walked to the bathroom. Tenshi looked at her oddly, but shook his head as he wasn't really interested to keep watch on a seven year old girl going to the restroom.

Shaking that disturbing thought out of his head, he turned to the window and looked outside sensing was off. It wasn't that Keisha trying to ditch him over and over again or the fact that Shichibi was being unusually quiet. It was something else, a familiar presence. One he hadn't felt in a few years yet he could quite place it.

Sighing, he looked out to the moon as it was somewhat calming to him. Though he didn't understand why as Shichibi was a beaver, it would have made more sense for a forest to calm him down, but he wasn't complaining. He took a deep breath to calm himself down, as he was sure that nothing bad would happen and he was just being a worry wart.

That's when his vision went pitch black and he found himself in front of a caged beaver. It's cage bars wasn't any where near as strong as Kyuubi, but strong enough to keep Shichibi from breaking through. Except there was one problem with this picture.

The bars were behind him.

Swearing out loud at his horrible luck, he started to slowly back up. Shichibi noticed this and smirked devilishly at him. "Oh Tenshi-kun. Where do you think you're going."

Not thinking twice about it, Tenshi turned his back to the bijuu and rushed out of the cage...

Well, tried to.

One of Shichibi's tails wrapped around him quickly and dragged his screaming form back inside the cage. "Tsk, tsk, tsk Tenshi-kun. Are you trying to run away from me when I'm trying to show you something?"

Tenshi not being sure on what to do, nodded slightly as it was the truth before closing his eyes as the tail wrapped around him tightly. Expecting himself to be crushed, he was expecting to be put back on the ground and released. And he was certainly not expecting to hear a feminine laughter. Quickly opening his eyes, he saw something he wasn't expecting.

In front of him was a twenty-seven year old women with dark brown, almost black shoulder length hair with to larger than normal front teeth. She had hazel colored eyes with dilated, onyx colored iris in each eye. She stood a little under six foot, with an athletic figure and larger breast than he had ever seen, and he'd seen pictures of Tsunade in the bingo book. Though, he tried not to look at those, but found it hard not to.

Because it was hard not to stare at a naked woman, especially when she wasn't trying to hide it.

She smirked happily at him before placing her hands on his shoulders. "This is what I want to show you Tenshi-kun."

Suddenly everything began to crash down on Tenshi as he realized who this was. It was none other than Shichibi.

That was all his brain could handle and a stream of blood shot out of his noise, rocketing him into the bar behind him, knocking him out cold. Shichibi sweat dropped at the scene before shaking her head. "Well... didn't expect it to be that easy. I swear all men are perverts."

From within the bathroom, Keisha sensed Tenshi crumble to the floor and was about to go check up on him when Gobi stopped her. "Child! Go now. That's the distraction." 'One hell of one as well... I'm pretty sure I would have fallen for that...'

Keisha's eyes widen in realization before she bolted it out of the bathroom and into the lobby before heading outside and began following Gobi's directions.

'I'm almost there Naru-kun. Just wait a little more.'

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From a building not to far away, a figure with long blonde hair smirked as they saw the young girl rushing towards her destination. The person's hands twitched in excitement as they thought about the revenge that he could get on his old rival.

Oh this was going to be the perfect way to extract his revenge.

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Naruto slowly made his way back into the town with Itachi not to far behind him as Kyuubi sent youki into his system, not to alert Keisha and Gobi, but to heal all the burn, cuts and scrapes covering the poor boy. The young boy grumbled as he looked back at the somewhat pleasant looking Uchiha.

Itachi's training didn't seem so hard at first as he had him practicing tree walking. He was getting the hang of it pretty quickly as his chakra reserve weren't as large as it was when he tried this when he was a gennin, but still pretty difficult as he could only get twenty feet up.

But that wasn't the hard part. Oh no. The hard part was when Itachi started throwing kunai at him, seeing if he could keep his control under pressure. Needless to say he fell to the ground and got cut a few times. Just as soon as he managed to start dodging the kunais every now and then, Itachi upped the anti by using Katon: Hosenka sending dozens of controlled fireballs at him.

So Naruto wasn't in the best of conditions as of right now. In fact, he was pretty sure this was worse than some of his beatings he had when he was younger. At least he was lucky that Itachi had called it quits when the sun started to set. The only bright spot for him during the training was that he was pretty sure he could use Katon: Hosenka from watching Itachi doing it so much.

Itachi was impressed, but he wouldn't dare show it. He had done a little worse than he had when his father had put him through the same training. Then again, he had his Sharingan activated during the exercise so he knew where the kunai and fireballs were going to be. Naruto didn't have that advantage, so he was impressed at the display.

Then he remember Naruto was older than his body showed. He had the knowledge of what to do, but executing it in a young, much different body was more difficult. Sighing in resignation, he followed behind Naruto watching the slight injuries, in his opinion, that he gave him heal.

It was unnerving, yet fascinating seeing the red youki wisp around the wounds and slowly stitched up the cuts and shedded the dead skin from the burns before replacing it with new, unblemished skin. Now normally unblemished skin would be the signs of a novice shinobi, making the enemy drop their guard a bit, but with Naruto it was another advantage he could exploit, even if only for a moment. Because a moment in the shinobi world, was all you needed to kill someone.

Shaking that thought off, he turned back to a completely healed Naruto, how was currently holding out gamma-chan and counting his Ryo. His eyes nearly bulged out of his sockets seeing just how much it was. 'WHAT THE HELL! How does he have that much?! That's more than I get on an A-rank assassination and a B-rank guarding mission combined!'

Ignoring the shocked look on Itachi's face, he continued continuing his ryo as he noticed a ramen stand and was going to get him a few bowls when he noticed an object in the sky, but paid no heed to it as he figured it was a large bird.

Walking to the stand with a shell shocked prodigy behind him, he paid for three bowls of Miso for himself and one Beef for the gaping Uchiha. His thoughts turned to Keisha as he waited for the bowls to be served. As his thoughts roamed, Itachi managed to regain his composure. The said Uchiha noticed Naruto had a far off look in his eyes and shook his head as the stand owner served them their bowls.

(Flashback)

Naruto smiled lightly at Chouji as he chowed down on another plate of bar-be-que before he guzzled down three bowls of ramen within a flash of an eye. Tenten blinked in surprise as she looked at the two food eating machines. 'Where in the hell do they put it all?! I mean this is Chouji's tenth plate while Naruto is on his thirteenth bowl! Not even Lee can eat this fast when he challenges Sasuke to an eating contest!'

As Tenten tried to figure out where both of them put it all, which was harder to do with Naruto as he hadn't had an ounce of fat on him since he was a gennin, Shizune shook her head as she called the waitress over and asked for the bill. When the waitress handed her the bill, a large bead of sweat rolled off the back of her head. 'Twelve Fucking Thousand Ryo! That's it! This is the last time I'm taking Naruto and Chouji out to eat together!

While Shizune screamed her head off mentally at the price of the bill, Chouji and Naruto had finished their final plates making both Ino and Temari slightly grateful as they had lost their appetite during the competition they had going.

Shino looked stoically at them, but inside his bugs were raving, trying hard to figure out the same question Tenten was. 'This makes no logical sense. Neither of them should be able to hold more than two, maybe three servings in Chouji's case. I can understand Chouji as he eats constantly, but Naruto has barely been able to eat without going hunting for himself due to Sakura's law. And now she's just past one where he can't hunt. Just what happened between you and her Naruto?'

Naruto rubbed his belly happily before burping and covering his mouth. "Sorry... It was just that good."

Chouji smiled at his eating partner as he could tell his complexion was considerably brighter compared to what it was before they took him out to eat. Both Temari and Ino smiled a bit and nodded at Naruto, not caring about the laws. Shino nodded lightly at him as Shizune smiled sadly at her adopted brother. Tenten wasn't the only one to give an initial reaction, but that was due to her still trying to figure out where they put it all and how the hell Shizune was going to pay for all this.

Smiling a bit more at them, Naruto stretched a bit before standing up. "Well I better get out of her before I get you guys in trouble. Take care."

They all smiled at Naruto before saying their goodbyes as he disappeared in a swirl of leaves. Once he did and everyone pitched in to pay the bill so Shizune would have to pay off a debt to the owner, they all began to head out of the dinner when they were surround by three five man Anbu squads.

The new Anbu captain that took the place of Yamato when he stepped down to train team seven spoke up. "The six of you are charged for breaking the laws of the Rokudaime Hokage and hereby to be immediately executed for your treasonous actions."

All six of them narrowed their eyes and pulled prepared for battle as they might be out matched, but they weren't going out without a fight.

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Naruto had cloaked himself in an invisibility jutsu to keep people from seeing him as he jumped roof top to roof top as he didn't want to deal with them right now as he was worried. His friends and family had practically dragged him from his apartment as he hadn't been able to eat for a week due to Sakura's newest law.

He was happy that he had such close friends that they would risk putting their lives in danger for him, but it also worried him deeply as he felt that they were being watched the entire time. He just couldn't help but shake that feeling as it became stronger and stronger. 'Dammit. I have to check and make sure they're okay.'

Quickly changing directions, he headed towards the dinner as he figured everyone would be saying their goodbyes to each other before separating. As he got closer and closer, he could feel all of them still there, but something was off. They seemed weaker than normal. In fact all of them seemed to be on the verge of...

His eyes widen as he pushed as much chakra into his legs and rushed towards them with one thought on his mind. 'Please be okay! Please be okay! Just let this be a figment of my imagination!'

Naruto speed seemed to increase even further as he rushed towards their fading signatures and even let his genjutsu drop, not caring if people spotted him now. Of course most chunin probably couldn't see him move at the speed he was going at, but it made little difference as he arrived at the dinner and was routed to the spot as his blood chilled.

Shino and Temari were both panting heavily with the other leaning against the others back as bruises, cuts and gashes covered their bodies. But this wasn't what made Naruto's blood cold. It was the fact that his other four friends were lying on the ground in their own blood pools.

'Chouji...' He looked at the enlarged young man as he laid on the ground with a dozen kunai in his back and one that severed his spinal cord from his head. Memories of the two of them along with Shikamaru and Kiba skipping classes and the two them having ramen eating contest began to flood his mind.

'Ino...' Looking over towards her skinny form, he nearly vomited as her good looks were gone as her body was covered in burns and gashes and nothing but a few strands of her pale blonde hair were left. He didn't have many found memories between both of them, but as of recently the two of them had become close friends.

'Tenten...' The weapons mistress body laid besides Ino as it seemed that she had tried to protect her in the dying minutes as she was covered in burns and gashes as well. The few memories of the two of them together flooded his mind as he remember having to help her get over her break up with Neji.

He finally turned to last and final figured and his body began trembling in rage. 'Shizune-nee-chan.'

Compared to hers, the others didn't look half bad. Almost every inch of her skin had been cut making it seem like she went through a blender. Both of her arms were snapped, most likely to keep her from doing medical jutsu to help the others. Her skin was charred on a level that made Ino and Tenten's burns look like they were nothing. She had dozens of kunai embedded into her, front and back and even one right between the eyes.

Not thinking twice, Naruto jumped down between Shino and Temari and the remaining five members of the Anbu squads sent to execute them. Both the bug user and the wind mistress' eyes widen seeing this and were about to yell at Naruto when the Anbu captain spoke up again, seemingly unharmed from the entire encounter, probably since he didn't get involved other for the death blows.

"It seems like the demon decides to show himself again and in aid of his 'friends'. How heroically noble of you. But it seems your to late." He emphasized his point by kicking Shizune's already desecrated body. He would live to regret doing that for the final two seconds of his life.

Soon as Naruto had seen the motion to kick his deceased foster sister's body, his anger, his rage, his primal fury rose beyond his threshold as his hands quickly slipped into his pouch. Ero-sennin's wishes be damned. He wasn't holding back any longer.

In an instant, two kunai flew towards the Anbu captain and embedded into the ground on both sides. He would have tried to make fun of Naruto's aim seeing how he missed, when he noticed a streak of golden light where the blonde haired jinchuuriki should have been. He wasn't able to think much after seeing this strange light as blood erupted from a gash in his neck.

The other four Anbu, along with other spectators eye's had nearly bulged out of their sockets as they could recognize the technique from anywhere. It was the same that had made the Yondaime Hokage a legend.

Hiraishin.

Before the other Anbu had time to recover, three more fell as blood gushed from their necks. The last one back up in fright as he stair at the blonde hair jinchuuriki, being covered in the blood from his fellow comrades. Somewhere deep in his mind, it clicked that they had been wrong the entire time and had force the teen to this point.

He didn't get much time to ponder this as the chirping of a thousand birds was heard before a hand punctured his chest, leaving him heartless. The hand removed itself as the body slumped to the ground, revealing it's owner had a calm face and spiky, yet smooth raven colored hair. Another man with gravity defying silver hair walked up behind him.

Naruto instantly recognized him and the man walking behind him with a hitai-ate covering his forehead protector, but it was different than normal. It had a scratch through the Konoha leaf. "Sasuke... Kakashi-sensei... What's going on?"

Kakashi showed no visible emotion as he checked the pulse on Chouji, seeing if there was a chance the he was alive, but to no avail. Closing his one visible eye, he slowly turned to Naruto and answered him. "We are leaving this village, and we are taking you and everyone we can with us."

The young jinchuuriki's eyes widen hearing this and looked from him to Sasuke and back again before nodding slowly as he knew he was no longer welcomed in this village. Kakashi nodded as he created two kage bunshins and had them pick up the Shino and Temari as they were to worn out to leave on their own power. "Alright then, Gai, Kurenai and Anko and whoever else they managed to get should be waiting for us. Let's go."

Both Naruto and Sasuke nodded as they followed their jounin sensei out of the village, without any reasons, mainly because Kotetsu and Izumo where some of the ones heading toward Suna.

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Sakura grumbled as she worked her way through the paperwork on her desk. She should have told Tsunade to shove it when she declared her the Rokudaime. That way, she wouldn't have to deal with all this paperwork. 'What the hell?! Tsunade-sama and Sandaime-sama never had to do this much paperwork before! Why am I forced to do all this!'

Little did she know that this was Homura and Koharu's work as they had strongly protested her becoming the Hokage and decided to give her their paperwork as well. And if she did know, there was little she could do as they weren't doing anything illegal. The maximum punishment they could get was the paperwork thrown back at them.

She growled a bit more as she heard someone rush through the door and was about to punch them through the wall when she noticed it was a panicking chunin gibbering away at something she couldn't quite understand. A tick mark developed on her forehead as the man continued and she didn't hear a single word of it. Refrain from bashing his skull in, she spoke out in a polite tone. "Slow down. I didn't understand a word you said. Now what happened?"

The Chunin blinked at her for a few minutes like she was crazy, but the irritated look on her face told him to speak. "Sakura-sama! The demon just slaughtered four Anbu as Sasuke-sama killed another before the two of them along with Kakashi-san left the village caring two of the traitor that you had order to be executed!"

Sakura's eyes widen in disbelief hearing this, along with Koharu and Homura as they watched with through the all seeing ball Sarutobi gave them. She honestly believed Naruto wouldn't fight back until he rotted away, but her eyes quickly narrowed. 'How was it that all of them were able to get out so easily.'

Just then, another Chunin ran into the room panting for breath. Sakura quickly stood up as she looked at him, using the desk as a crutch as she looked at the man. Once he regained his breath, the man spoke up with a panicked expression. "Hokage-sama! Over half of our jounins and a few gennin have left the village!"

At this, Sakura's eyes widen and nearly bulged out of her head. Half of the jounins had abandoned the village. If that was true, they were in trouble other villages heard this. Plus it would explain how Naruto, Kakashi and Sasuke had gotten out of the village so easily. She gritted her teeth in anger as she punched her desk, shattering it in half and sending it to the room below. "Gather everyone that is left and call them here. NOW!"

The two Chunin nodded and fright and rushed off, not wanting to stick around as the pink haired Hokage was oozing killer intent like it was nothing. She quickly turned around and looked over 'her' village and gritted her teeth. 'I should have know. I bet he was planning this from the start! I swear I will kill you for this Uzumaki Naruto.'

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Having seen the whole thing viva crystal ball, both Homura and Koharu quickly disappeared in a swirl of leaves to join the leaving shinobi population.

(Flashback End)

Feeling a nudge to the side, Naruto saw the bowls had been served and quickly polished his bowl off as Itachi finished his single bowl in the same amount of time. Stretching out a bit as he jumped off the seat, Naruto looked around and noticed there was a lack of people up, which was strange due to this being a pretty big town.

Shaking that thought off, he and Itachi started to head towards their hotel, when Kyuubi spoke up. "Kit. It's time."

Naruto's eyes widen as he felt Kyuubi's youki flare into his system almost soon as he said that and a light sheet of it surround him. Itachi jumped back in surprise at the sudden outburst and was ready to fight, but noticed Naruto's eyes were still blue and had nothing to fear as he slid his wakizashi back into it's sheath.

"Guess it's time then." Naruto nodded at Itachi's statement and was about to take off when he was interrupted. "Alright, I'll come with you, just to make sure this isn't a trap."

Naruto nodded again and headed off towards the direction Kyuubi was leading him to. Itachi quickly followed, yet kept a good distance away as he didn't want to alert anyone else of his presences. Like Tenshi, he could feel something was off, and he wanted to know what it was.

His Sharingan eyes searched around as he silently followed Naruto.

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Nearby, Keisha was rushing towards Naruto's position. She no longer needed Gobi's directioning as she could sense both Naruto and Kyuubi's youki as they were close. Sending her chakra and youki to her legs, she jumped up onto the building and front of her before she continued running towards where she felt him, until she felt someone grab her shoulder.

She jerked around to se a bemused Tenshi with a cotton ball in his nose to stop the bleeding. Her eyes widen as she struggled against his grip and tried to call upon more of Gobi's youki, but was denied since her body couldn't handle it.

Tenshi narrowed his eyes as he noticed her continuing struggling and was thanking Shichibi for that short rest as it allowed him to recover a bit. "Keisha, you are not crossing the border, and that's final."

Keisha growled loudly at him before biting down on his wrist with her enlarged canines. If Tenshi wasn't a shinobi, he would have released his grip as it seem liked he was bitten by a wolf out for flesh. But instead of releasing, he just held her tightly while allowing her to slash and kick him as he held on to her. The reason why he try to knock her out was due to the fact that his other hand was grabbing her ankle as she tried to kick his jewels.

She continued struggling against him, but it seemed useless as she couldn't get free. After a few moments of resistance and a firm knee to her gut, Gobi's youki left her as she had used all of it. She slumped down to her knees as she panted for breath before looking up at Tenshi as he spoke. "Are you done, cause if not, we are going home."

Keisha growled at him, though due to her lack of air, it wasn't very intimidating. "I... hate you."

Tenshi flinched at her words, but paid them no heed for now. He was tired with everything that had happened on this short trip. He grabbed her wrist and was about to drag her with him when he noticed something red out of the corner of his eye. His eyes widen when he sensed youki nearby and looked around for it.

Taking this advantage, Keisha stood up and brought her foot straight up, into his jewels. It didn't matter that he was a shinobi, no man could stand up to a chakra empowered kick to the groin. As soon as he doubled over, Keisha jumped over next building, crossing the border between the two lands. Now inside her head, she knew Tenshi would follow her as he would not to tell her father that he had lost her. But she didn't care at the moment. All she cared about was the boy in front of her as the red youki faded around him.

"Naru-kun."

"Keisha-chan."

Both smiled lightly at each other as they stared for a few moments before rushing over and embracing the other. The two held each other tightly for a few moments before Naruto moved in and kissed her on the lips. She kissed him back quickly as her hands wrapped around his waist tightly. After a moment or two, they broke their kiss and smiled lightly at the other.

After a few moments of silence, Naruto was the first to break it as he hugged her tightly again. "I thought I lost you. I'm sorry for not being able to stop him. If I had..."

She placed a finger at his lips and pushed him back a bit before hugging him lightly. "I know. I thought I lost you as well, but now we're here."

Naruto nodded lightly as he held her tightly to him as he rubbed the back of head. He smiled lightly as she buried her head into his chest. From within them both Kyuubi and Gobi rolled their eyes and quickly fell asleep as their jobs were done.

Getting up from being kicked in his manhood, Tenshi looked across the building and watched the scene strangely. It was kind of heart warming, yet at the same time he didn't understand it at all. From within him, Shichibi sighed in annoyance. Her container never listened to her, and nine out of ten times, she knew exactly what was going on.

Not to far away, Itachi refrained from smiling as he saw the scene. From the little that he saw of her from Naruto's memories, she was probably the person that he held more precious than anyone else. Then suddenly he caught a surge of charka in a small object closing in towards the two children.

Naruto smiled lightly as he separated from Keisha. "So, are we going to Iwa or Konoha?"

Keisha looked up at him before thinking about it. On one hand, everyone loved her in Iwa and would treat Naruto with respect, as long as they didn't find out he was the Yondaime's son. The down side was that she knew in the future there would be assassination attempts on him from her suitors and shinobi from Konoha sent by the hateful members of Konoha's council. Plus, her father wouldn't want her to be wedded from Konoha, civilian or shinobi.

On the other side, if they went to go to Konoha, they would both have to endear the treatment Naruto had gone through his entire life. On the plus side, she wouldn't have to deal with many suitors as most people wouldn't know who she was and they would be protected by Anbu from any attacks on them till they became shinobi.

After a minute of thinking, she looked back up at him and gave Naruto her answer. "Naruto, Let's go... What's wrong?"

She didn't have time to answer as Naruto grabbed her as a small clay bird flew towards them.

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Ryo Tenshi - Jinchuuriki of Shichibi no Kaku.

Age - 16, 25 when he died in future.

Height - 5'8"

Skin - Tanned, a bit lighter than Naruto's.

Home - Iwagakure

Hair color - Dark brown with light brown highlights

Length - To his shoulders if not wearing a pony tail.

Style - Straight, kind of spiky in the front.

Build - Lean, has more of a Neji like build.

Fighting Style/Status - Very High in Doton Ninjutsu, High in other Ninjutsu, High Taijutsu, Mid Kenjutsu and Genjutsu. Likes to fight up close.

Parents - Neither as know as both died in the Iwa/Kono war.