I do not own Naruto or any characters in this story (Except Ryuuyami) if I did Naruto and Hinata would have been together already
The Ryuu and the Kitsune
Gates of Konoha
A ninja and konuichi are sitting in the guard's booth talking. "So, Kumiki, I heard you were single now" the ninja says. "Ya but not to you
Harugawa" the Konuichi says with a sigh. Harugawa winces, "ouch, that's cold. Hey whose that" he point down the road were they see
someone walking toward the gates. Kumiki raises her eyebrows as she looks on the mysterious silhouette. "I don't know but he sure is
cute". She looks at him up and down, he is about 6'4" with long uneven brown hair, going down to his waist in a wild looking way, he were
an absolute black outfit, with loose black pants with several different pockets, his shirt, hugs tight against him, with 2 pockets at the chest
and several straps going across, over the shirt he had a long trench coat so black it almost seemed to absorb the light around it, on his back
the can see a cleave whose blade shape resembles the head of a dragon, other than the edge it too was black. Kumiki looks at his face
noticing a strong handsome with a 5 o'clock shadow, making him look roughish. But the one thing that hits her are his eyes, they are red
with vertical slits for pupils, not evil or ugly eyes, but dangerous nonetheless.
Both guards jump out of their seats and flash in front of the stranger, kunai drawn. Harugawa was the first to speak, "This is the entrance to
konohagakure, Ninja village of the fire land, what is your business here stranger?"
The stranger reaches into one of his various pockets, the guards raise their kunai in defense but are relieved when he pulls out a letter instead of a weapon; they lower the kunai a small amount.
"I wish for an audience with the kage of the village that contains the ninja Uzamaki Naruto."
Harugawa reads the note and quickly says "get Tsunade-sama quick"
Icharaku Ramen
"Naruto you baka, we're going to be late for the meeting." A pink haired kunoichi yells as she enters Icharaku Ramen. Naruto looks up from
his bowl of extra spicy beef ramen, the last few days of stress showing on his face. It's been four days since the prodigy of team 7 Sasuke
ran to join the sound village in his quest for revenge. Naruto's wounds are healed from the fateful battle between rival rivals and best friend.
"O hi sakura," Naruto says in a low tone," sorry I lost track of time". Sakura looks at her remaining teammate and notices that the only
ramen bowl he had was the one in front of him, which was half full. "naruto how long have you been here?" naruto takes a glance at the
clock, "about three hours" Sakura sighs knowing how hard on the blond haired boy sasuke's betrayal has been, it's been as hard on her.
"Come on naruto tsunade wants us lets go" she says in a soft voice. Naruto gets up and sets the money on the table, "ok, let's go"
Hokage tower
Naruto and Sakura enter the Hokage office was they see Kakashi reading his usual book. Tsunade sits behind her disheveled desk looking at
a piece of paper. Upon the genins entrance she looks up "about time you two," they mumble their apologies, tsunade stands up and clears
her throat, "ok you two, I know that it's only been four days but you have to move on, the village needs funds for repair from orochimaru's
attack and we need all the ninja we have on duty. I've been looking through the papers for a fourth person on your team, but everyone else
already has teams. Lucky for us I was still able to find a person." At that she calls in someone from the hall. A tall guy dressed in all black
enters the room. Tsunade continues to speak," this is Ryuuyami, an independent ninja, he belongs to no village. But he has come to this
village to serve us for awhile; he is the new ninja on your team."
The stranger speaks in a kind, almost jovial, voice "I'm Ryuuyami, you can call me Ryuu-kun if you would prefer, I hope I can help you, and in
the end leave you with a good impression of me" he bows deeply his long hair almost touching the ground" Naruto looks at Ryuu with an
incredulous look, " You've gotta be kidding me this tall dobe is our new teammate. What did you do baa-chan pick a random bum off the
street."
Tsunades vein shows in here head when naruto used his nickname for her, She's about to yell at naruto about respect when they hear Ryuu
burst out laughing "that's hilarious kid, I know we'll get along now, always liked it when people are blunt about their opinions" Everyone
around him sweat drops.
Tsunade recovers and clears her throat to gain the attention "Now as for your mission, with all other teams out on missions we are force to
give you an A-Rank mission" Naruto jumps in the air yelling yes, earning him a stern look from the both ladies in the room, Ryuu chuckles and
leans against the wall.
Tsunade continues " you will be working with two more genin and a chuunin, the genin are Shino Aburame and Hinata Hyuuga, and the
chuunin will be Shikamaru, the official briefing will tomorrow at 8 am don't be late this time dismissed" As she watches team 7 leave Shizune
enters the room and closes the door, leaving the two women alone.
Shizune looks at tsunade, " Are you sure you should trust him, for all we know he might be part of the akatsuki" Tsunade sighs and reaches
in her desk taking out a bottle of sake and taking a swig. " I don't know, but if he is the person I think he is, he'll be the best person for
naruto to know, but still have an Anbu shadow them and report. " " Ok ill get it done, any particular anbu?" Tsunade looks at with a serious
look "yes, one from the darkness squad" shizune looks at Tsunade in surprise but bows her head "i'll get it done" She leaves the room to
deliver the message.
Tsunade takes another swig of her sake and looks out to the third Hokage carved in the mountain. "Saratobi-sensei."