ok, well I know this might cheese some people off, but I'm starting a new story to be updated alongside the Digital sword, and this is going to be produced mainly by me, but with OC's, edits, and contributions from 3 other authors who are my friends in real life, G. Reaper, shadowronin and Takaondo, which are on my favorites list, The OC's go, Sanosuke to G. Reaper, Raven to Shadowronin and Kei to Takaondo, with Fumiko and Kenshin belonging to me. I thank these great authors and great friends in accompanying me in my endeavor and I promise to have updates on the other story, I pinkie swear, lol, so yeah. I don't own Naruto and never will, unfortunate because I'd have all this happen in the manga and anime. ok, so on with the fic!

Elements of order

"SASUKE!! NARUTO!!! NO!"……Her love was at stake

"I kept my promise, Sakura" … A hero discovered his destiny

"Sharingan!" *Shlickt**gurgle*…….A Dark Avenger was consumed with hatred.

"No, I won't let it end like this, don't you die on me Naruto Uzumaki! I would never forgive you if you leave me alone now, not after all that!"She pounded on his chest as she tried to heal him in the pouring rain, blood was everywhere and his heartbeat was faint……….. What was revealed that night?

"RASENGAN!" "CHIDORI!" A brother fell and love was revealed in the midst of grief. A hero met destiny and had overcome the final challenge, braved death itself and awoke to a guardian angel.

But that my friends, is a story for another day. Suffice it to say that Naruto became the Seventh Hokage, married Sakura and commanded great acclaim for his efforts in quieting the hate of the ninja world.

Konoha had a rough period after being destroyed, but it was rebuilt, greater than ever by everyone's combined efforts and due in no small part to Yamato's wood release techniques.

The rookie nine had grown into major contributors for the village. Shikamaru had grown, married Temari, and now taught at the academy as a ninjutsu instructor. Ten-ten taught along-side him as the primary weapons specialist. Genjutsu remained split between both and the head master, Iruka.

Neji and Hinata now serve as joint heads of the Hyuuga clan and are now affiliated with the Inuzuka clan through Hinata's marriage to Kiba. Hanabi and Konohamaru are current jounins with their own teams.

Ino has taken over her mother's flower shop and currently doubles as a combat medic and on-call physician at the hospital, which is now headed by Sakura. Tsunade has stepped down as Hokage and now leads a quiet life as the head of the maternity ward.

Kakashi is still taking on teams in his old age, even nearing 50; he's still as spry as ever, and even a little bit more perverted. He stopped reading make-out paradise around Naruto out of respect for Jiraiya, now however; he's been toying with the idea of writing his own series as homage to the old master.

Speaking of the old man, we find him sitting at the training grounds, perched on a stump. His wise eye was judging every movement made by his current team of 15 year old pupils and couldn't help but reminisce a little. They were all there in their own way, the original team 7.

Fumiko, Naruto and Sakura's daughter was the spitting image of her mother. Blue-eyed and pink-haired, beautiful but deadly, and already adept at chakra control and the Rasengan, gifted with both as a result of her inherited high chakra yield. She danced around the field, swiping at an energetic young man with dark brown hair and hazel eyes.

Kenshin Hinomoto, the definite naruto of the group, was currently avoiding the super-powered punches from a very angry girl. An observer might note that Fumiko's face looked a bit blackened and she knew just who to blame for that. Kenshin specialized with explosives and the poor boy had let one drop from his pocket during their pursuit exercise and it had exploded in the now-enraged kunoichi's face.

Sheathed sabers on his back, matted spiky hair with a flame bandana and a crimson and black outfit adorned the ninja as well as a belt of explosives and a knapsack above the sheathes. Also adept at the Rasengan, his father, the Crimson Comet of Konoha had gone MIA after an S-rank infiltration mission while the boy was young. Left with no mother after she passed during his birth, the Hokage took him under his wing and gave him his own place, checked up on him and taught him all he knew.

While the boy did not know it, he too was an inheritor of what had made his father special. Kakashi mused; the boy had abilities akin to his. Rare-colored chakra flowed through him, but it has been kept hidden. Kakashi was sworn to secrecy by Naruto, who had come into the possession of Isamu Hinomoto's crimson chakra sabers. While he hadn't introduced Kenshin's legacy yet, the boy was still schooled in their use. Not only this, but when Isamu had come to the village, he had arrived from an unknown village within the country of fire. It was discovered that this place had bred an unusual kekkai genkai. The people of this village were able to stream fire chakra from every chakra point in their bodies, however, after the village decimation, the only survivor was the sole heir and now his son was the successor.

Kakashi finished his musing and nodded, this one was very interesting indeed. The two had been raised very close, however this might have only added to the kunoichi's temper as he knew how to push her buttons and she knew how to push his when she wanted to.

"Fumiko, stop trying to kill me, it was an accident!" Kenshin kept dodging the monster blows as trees and earth were blown from the impacts.

"That little accident hurt a lot! You clumsy jerk!"Fumiko raged at her prey, leading him into another thicket of forest before an insane grin adorned her face. She had cornered him and she knew it.

Unaware of the pain that was going to be visited upon him soon, kenshin kept going until he was backed into a tree and he stopped cold "Oh hell!" he exclaimed before cringing in anticipation for the blow.

1 second……2……then 3 passed and there was no face-breaking. He opened his eyes to find Fumiko's face close to his own, a little too close for his own comfort. She locked eyes and looked dreamily into his before smiling sweetly "Gotcha!"

Kenshin looked puzzled for a split second before she bopped him on the top of the head, knocking the shinobi on his rear, quite painfully. "OUCH!"

Fumiko laughed and stuck her tongue out at him, winked and walked back toward their sensei. Kakashi shook his head, and sighed. She's going to be dangerous when she's older. He also couldn't help but snicker a little at her antics, mind games always worked on teenagers, no matter who you were.

Kenshin sat up and yelled "Hey no fair! You tricked me! "

"Idiot, it's your fault for making her mad in the first place." A cool voice came from up above the tree where he had been pounded. Ken directed his aggression at his teammate sitting in the tree.

"You could have helped you know!" Kenshin complained at the raven-haired boy in the tree. "You're such a jerk sometimes Kei."

The young man shrugged. Kakashi sighed, and there was the sasuke. Dark hair, sapphire eyes, spiky black hair and pale skin. He was very like him in appearances, but Kakashi noted a lack of vengefulness and hatred. Sai had raised the other orphan as a part of his gifted child program, the only reason Kenshin and Fumiko weren't from the same roots was because they were under the Hokage's watchful eye. Armguards with removable swords and a white outfit were his style. Also an inheritor of a Kekkai genkai, he was able to control wind and water to a degree, simply called storm, his abilities were impressive as well. He was a noticeably lazy shinobi, but did what he was told. He acts very distant from the other two, for some unknown reason. Kakashi deduced that it could be from his mysterious past.

Kenshin growled and stalked off after Fumiko, but before he did that he let an explosive slip out of his belt at the base of the tree, and as he walked away, he secretly let a tiny fire spark ignite the fuse and waited for the flash bang to go off before he groaned "Oops, I'm so clumsy."

"Yes you are" he heard next to him, Kei walked past him and smacked him in the back of the head. Kenshin grimaced again, that was the third time this week he'd gotten away from a flash bang.

"You may not pay attention to what you're doing but I certainly am, especially when there's a pyromaniac playing with bombs near me." Kei said all of this, giving Kenshin an even stare, which angered the shinobi even more.

"Why I oughta!" Kenshin reared his fist back and coated it in flame, while Kei manifested a wind shield. He was about to swing before Kakashi rocketed off the stump and caught his arm.

"Now, now, let's stop all of this childish bickering. You wouldn't want to end up tied to the post again, would you Kenshin?" Kakashi aimed his singular sight toward the fuming young man.

Kenshin yelped and shook his head vigorously, he'd remembered being tied up and tales of his mentor didn't help in his dislike of it. Kakashi chuckled and let him go. "There's a good lad, and Kei, stop picking him, he can't help his clumsiness sometimes."

Fumiko put her hands on her hips. "That's for sure; he's going to get us all killed one day." Kenshin stuck his tongue out at her. "Hey, I just mess up sometimes."

Kakashi sighed. Kids these days, I'm getting too old for this.

"Ok then CHILDREN," Stressing his point and catching glares from all three. "We're done for the day, now go home and get some rest; we have some work to do tomorrow."

Kei raised a brow. "What kind of work sensei?"

Kakashi smiled. "It's a secret!"

The three groaned, secrets never boded well for them. "Well, just don't be late again sensei!" Fumiko lectured the copycat ninja.

Kenshin scoffed. "You know he will be hehe." He grinned mischievously at the indignant look on his teacher's face.

"Yeah, whatever, I'm on my way home then. Oh and kenshin, try and work on those little slip-ups. I won't like having to help Fumiko exact horrible vengeance. Oh who am I kidding; I'd enjoy it very much." Kei cracked a smile as his teammate huffed.

"Stop calling me an idiot and you'll stop getting bombarded!" Kenshin fired back. "Then stop being one!" Kei snickered as he once again got the best of Kenshin.

Fumiko laughed. "Give it up Ken, he's got you beat again." Kenshin growled at Kei and was about to lunge again, but Fumiko restrained him. "Come on, let's go home, and leave the cool person alone." She began to drag him off. "Bye sensei, bye Kei."

Kenshin was outraged. "How can you say that? I'm way cooler!" Fumiko cuffed him over the head. "Not in that way you moron, cooler headed." They disappeared around the corner.

Kakashi felt a sigh of relief leave his body. At least there wasn't going to be any of that "oh sasuke-kun!" fawning this time around. Thank Kami.

Kei just chuckled. "I know what that sigh means sensei. I couldn't agree more. The thought of having a woman like that following me around terrifies me."

They both shared a hearty laugh. "Ok sensei, I'm off home." Kakashi nodded and Kei vanished. Kakashi then strolled off in his own direction, it seemed like he needed to visit the memorial more and more, and this relative peace was slightly unnerving, already three years with this team and nothing like Zabuza had happened. That meant that he was getting paranoid about something FAR more troubling on the horizon, he just couldn't place it.


Meanwhile, with Fumiko and Kenshin…….

"Why do you have to treat me like I'm some bumbling idiot? I do my best." Kenshin wasn't too happy right about now, he had his arms crossed and was pouting after his comrade.

Fumiko sighed and shrugged. "I know, I know. You just drive me crazy sometimes with the way you act." This earned a smile from her companion.

"Oh I know, I think it's cute when you have that vein popping out of your forehead." Kenshin quipped and cracked an eye open to catch her reaction before chuckling.

Fumiko had stopped rigid and he had gotten a few steps on her. "That's payback for today. You're not the only one who can play mind games."

Fumiko frowned. "You know I don't like it when you do that, now I feel bad, thanks a lot."

Kenshin raised a brow. "Is that so? Well then, let me cheer you up with THIS….." He moved and succeeded to tickle her, which wound up with her laughing hysterically.

This earned some odd stares from the denizens of Konoha, but a few who knew the pair knew this was natural and smiled.

"STOP, STOP! HAHAHAHAHA! I can't take it anymore! HAHAHAHA" Fumiko laughed until she cried, all the while trying to shoo her friend away from her ticklish areas.

Kenshin heeded her cries for mercy. "Alright, I think you're cheered up enough."

Fumiko giggled and punched his arm, a little harder than necessary probably. "You play around too much."

He rubbed his sore spot. "You play too rough!" He gave her a wide, wide grin.

She returned it full force and they both laughed all the way to the Hokage's mansion. They walked up the steps and knocked on the door. Sakura answered and beamed with pride when she saw her daughter and Kenshin. "Well hello there, kids!" their cringes at being called such went unnoticed

Fumiko rolled her eyes playfully. "Hi mom, what's for dinner?" Sakura stepped aside and ushered them in. "I'm making barbecue pork ramen; you know how your father demands it at least once a week." The two women nodded and laughed.

They continued into the house, passing all the memorabilia from Naruto and Sakura's battles, it was like a super hero's lair in here. Swords, kunais, masks, and even the occasional scroll adorned the walls. It would have made any other boy have to swallow his fear if he were here to meet Fumiko's father.

Kenshin let out a low whistle. "I almost forget how decorated this place is. It's almost breath-taking."

Sakura smiled. "Always appreciated to have your handiwork praised."

He went-wide-eyed, "A place this big has to take a long time to decorate!"

The elder woman chuckled. "No Kenshin, that's not what I meant, you know Naruto wouldn't have gotten as good if I weren't around to bail him out at times."

Kenshin grinned. "Of course, every great man has an equally great woman behind him."

Sakura nudged Fumiko, who shooed her mom away from her side, but this exchange went unnoticed by Kenshin who was still looking around and walking behind them.

"So Ken, are you staying for dinner? It's been a few days since you have." Kenshin looked at the clock on the wall and then heard his stomach grumble. He blushed in embarrassment. "Uh, sure thing Mrs. Uzumaki, thanks a lot!"

She grinned. "I think Naruto's upstairs relaxing, why don't you go and pay him a visit? He sure likes to see how your training is progressing."

He beamed and started for the stairs. "Of course, I love visiting with Hokage-sama, I'll see you ladies for dinner then!"

Fumiko snickered. "Don't tell him what that bump on your head is from ok?"

He gave her the thumbs-up." Of course not, and then I'd probably get in trouble for what I did in the first place. "They both laughed.

Sakura shooed him out. "Off with you, Ken, I need to speak with my daughter. Woman business, you wouldn't be interested."

Kenshin paled and did as he was told, there were so many things that that could mean and he didn't want to be around for ANY of them. He ran up the stairs until he came upon a set of decorative doors. A spiral on each with gold handles, oh yeah; this was a Hokage's study door.

Kenshin knocked on the door, but found it opening on its own. The room was dark and the window was open with the curtains billowing in the night breeze. Kenshin narrowed his eyes, something was off.

He drew his sabers and scouted the room, shutting the windows and probing a few corners. He deduced that there was nobody in the room, but did not bother to look up and see the pair of fox-like eyes staring down at him. A cheeky grin spread across the shadowy face and he released his grip on the ceiling, he pounced on the unaware shinobi.

Kenshin looked up when he heard a rattle and was face to face with his assaulter. He was forced to dodge as the attacker landed with a powerful blow where he had been. A blue ball was formed in the assailant's hand and he charged for Kenshin, who parried the blow and immediately swept his leg to trip his opponent. The ninja stumbled, flipped and was on his feet again, only to meet with the small, ignited package of a smoke bomb.

Kenshin caught him in the gut and leveled him. He then flipped on the lights and laughed at the very surprised face of the Hokage.

"Not bad Hokage-sama, but the Rasengan gave you away." Kenshin smirked and sheathed his sabers. He then went over to help his mentor up from the ground.

Naruto chuckled. "Impressive my young pupil, but you let your guard down!" Naruto pulled him on to the floor and pinned him down like a cop. The young man was now in a helpless position with the older ninja on his back twisting his arm. Kenshin relented and sighed. "With you Uzumakis around, it's a whole new spectrum of pain. You keep catching me off guard. "Naruto laughed wholeheartedly and picked the ninja up and put him on his feet.

"I take it my daughter was a bit rough with you today?" Kenshin pointed to the small lump on his noggin and Naruto started giving him a noogie in that EXACT spot. "OWOWOWOOWOWOWOWOW. Sensei! That really hurts! Cut it out!" Kenshin struggled against his master's grip but to no avail.

"Hold still, this is an old remedy." Naruto kept rubbing at it until it started wearing away a little. When he was done, he relinquished his hold on the boy and patted him on the back. "There! All better, now you won't have proof that a girl kicked your butt." Naruto snickered at the look on his pupils face.

"Hey, what was I supposed to do?! Hit her?" Kenshin still rubbed the sore spot. He had to admit, it worked. He was grabbed roughly by the collar by his master.

"NO! That's the last thing you want to do, believe me. But the fact that you put up with it does my heart good. You're a good kid Kenshin, maybe she'll see that one day" He put his pupil down and dusted him off. "Now shall we eat? Smells Like the misses has quite a good dinner going."

Kenshin nodded, but froze when he saw a dark spot on the wall the size of a fist. When we parried the Rasengan, it must've breached a wall. That wall just happened to be the conjoining one to Fumiko's room. "Uh, sensei……" He gestured in the direction of the void and Naruto blanched. There was one thing that could still put fear into the Hokage, his wife in a rage over destruction to their house. "Not a word to the women-folk or we'll be running or our lives before dinner ends."

Kenshin shook his head and sighed. "Yes sir, but my guess is they'll get it out of one of us." Naruto struck a pensive pose for a moment and snapped his fingers. "I'll lead them off with shadow clones of the two of us, it's brilliant!" Satisfied with the idea the two departed the study, down the stair and into the kitchen.

"Naruto honey, is everything all right?" Sakura caught them as soon as they entered the kitchen. The Hokage stopped only for a split second. "Just fine dear, I was teaching Kenshin some new moves." Naruto gestured at the younger ninja and they sat with Kenshin next to Fumiko and Naruto next to Sakura's seat. As he was sitting Kenshin noticed a quizzical look on Fumiko's face, and felt a tad nervous.

"What is that look for?" She leaned over and whispered in his ear. "The new moves? I wasn't aware dad trained in his study." Kenshin smiled. "Wasn't so much training as him ambushing me in the dark."

Fumiko rolled her eyes. "If I find any sword damage to my room, I'm hunting you down."His smile lessened to a smirk. "Of course there's no sword damage to your room, of that you can be certain."

She narrowed her eyes. "How about OTHER damage?" she reared her fist back and her voice had an edge to it. He turned to her and winked. "Now now, not in front of your parents, they think I'm a nice boy."

She scoffed. "If only they knew what a klutz you could be." He chuckled. "Don't make me klutz ramen into your face tonight."

"You wouldn't dare."

"Try me." This actually caused Fumiko to stop threatening him and he sighed in relief. I'm so glad that bluff worked. Kenshin reclined as Sakura sat down with a huge pot of delicious smelling Ramen. The family started digging in with Sakura telling Naruto to go last, even smacking away his hand to remind him of his manners.

Kenshin snickered at this exchange until Fumiko did the same thing. "Ladies first Ken, mind your manners." She playfully stuck her tongue out at him.

"Aw, that's just mean Fumiko, let the poor boy eat. After all, you did give him a nasty bump on his head today."Sakura reprimanded her daughter. The younger woman grumbled and did as she was told.

Kenshin whispered. "Not my fault you can't keep your temper in check, hehe." She just kicked him under the table. "Ouch!" Kenshin bit back the brunt of the exclamation.

Naruto rolled his eyes. "Yeah, I took my patented remedy to Ken's head, it seemed to work." Fumiko tapped the ninja's head. "I don't know dad, I don't think you got all the foolishness out."

Ken just huffed and then laughed along with the family. The rest of the night passed with pleasant conversation and some funny stories on Naruto's part, of course, it's to be expected with the former number one knuckleheaded ninja.

The clock dinged midnight and the dinner was long done, Kenshin looked at the time and chose to excuse himself. "Well thank you Uzumakis for another wonderful time, but I really have to be going home. " He bowed respectfully and picked up his plates, put them in the sink, picked up his stuff and headed for the door.

Sakura intercepted him and gave him a hug. "You can't leave without a proper goodbye Ken. I'm glad you joined us and I hope you enjoyed it."

He nodded and smiled. "Very much so Mrs. Uzumaki, it's nice to know you people treat me like family." She smiled sweetly at him and hugged him again. "You're welcome any time."

Naruto passed by and patted him on the head. "Nice to see you again, Kenshin, you should come around more often. By the way, training at 6 AM tomorrow morning, so go get some sleep." He smiled at his apprentice's reaction and continued on his way upstairs.

He rolled his eyes."Gee, thanks a lot sensei. I'll be there." Kenshin groaned at getting up at 5 AM but was consoled by the fact that it was training. "OK thanks again for the dinner, and I'll see you tomorrow right Fumiko?"

"Yeah, sure, can't let you get a leg up on me now can I? I'll be around your place to vault you out of bed." She snickered.

"Wonderful, it'll be the highlight of my day." Kenshin deadpanned and proceeded to go out of the door.

Unknown to him, Sakura eyed Fumiko and the younger woman sighed. "I know mom, I know."

"Hey Kenshin wait up!" He stopped at the bottom of the stairs and was suddenly thrown for a loop when she embraced him. "Thanks for putting up with me today."

He was hard-pressed to come up with a coherent reaction, but managed to hug back. "No problem."

She ran back up the stairs as quickly as she'd come. "Later."

"Later." He mounted the first rooftop, but hesitated. For some reason, that hug made his heart flutter. He thought not about why he felt that way but focused on how he felt. He then dashed off home, not noticing the figure watching from a distance. Kei had dropped by the area on patrol and caught the last little exchange, which he noted with amusement.

"Well this'll be a fun mission tomorrow, I have some entertainment!" He hopped off to resume and kept smiling. "Maybe there'll even be some peace and quiet." He laughed. "Fat chance with those two around, but at least there may be a little less explosions."

Night engulfed Konoha and the residents slept peacefully for another night. However there was trouble brewing in the ninja world.


Currently in the land of lightning, a dark-skinned, dreadlocked, and brown-eyed ninja, clad in a navy outfit was pouring over a map in the rain, unfortunately he had no shelter as he had left his home village.

Just my luck to leave during a thunderstorm, well, I suppose I have to get moving regardless. Now let's see…….where am I taking off to?

His fingers lingered over the large map and his gaze hovered on the land of fire.

Bingo, I think we've found a winner here, I'm off to Konoha! Hmm, I hope there are some sexy kunoichis there.

He smirked slyly to himself and then picked up base camp. He was then running through the mountains and avoiding all the torrential downpours brought on by the angry sky.

I'll have to be careful, I'm not sure if I should cut through the former land of sound, a lot of bad blood in that area, it's a warzone, but I'll definitely hit the river and the valley at the end.

The young ninja, whose name was Raven, cut through at the speed of lightning. He arrived at the land's border and paused if only for a moment.

15 years old was not an ideal age to be in enemy territory alone, but he forged on. Through trees and rain and wilderness, all of those uncomfortable things he'd gone through, he's just made it to the border short of midnight and the rain had stopped.

He breathed a sigh of relief. "Well thank goodness for that, my head was getting heavy with all the water in my hair." He proceeded to ring out his dreadlocks and then shook his head in a ridiculous display akin to a dog shaking water out of its fur. (I'm having too much fun.)

Raven camped for a few hours, recently having experienced some insomniac tendencies and he was sure he wasn't getting to sleep in the middle of the wilderness in possible enemy territory. He ate what little he had, some roasted chicken which he'd roasted with his lightning jutsu. "This chicken is damn tasty, shame it couldn't just come along quietly."

Raven then took out a thermos full of hot chocolate. "Bottoms up! Mmmmmmmm, that's great hot chocolate if I do say so myself. My Compliments to the chef, of course haha." He then packed his small gear back up and kept going, if he was fast enough he'd be at the valley of the end by morning.

Lucky I don't have to sleep or else this would be a real pain in the ass. I think I'll just crash when I get there, assuming I can find a nice place to stay, I am a rogue ninja now, hmmm. Maybe this might be harder than I thought.

He continued across plains and rivers, uneventful really because travelling by night through a country without a ninja village can be really boring. He stopped for sleep when he hit the river.


At the same time in land of rock. An emerald clad ninja was currently trekking out of his own village. Sandy hair, well-built frame, blue-grey eyes, looks of a man fitting of the earth element. He carried an abnormally large claymore on his back.

What was even more unusual was that the claymore was made of graphite. Quite unusual but considering he was a ninja of the earth, maybe not so much. Making something out of your given element was just good thinking.

He grunted and took a look back at his village. "Something's wrong in this country, possibly even this world, and I have to get to the bottom of it."

He gripped his sword, tugged his headband taught and started off toward fire country. If there was anyone that was still with the purest intentions for ninjas left in his thoughts, it was Naruto Uzumaki, Konoha's Hokage.

"He'll know what to do, and maybe even give me a few good ninja to rectify these scandals going on behind closed doors. The honor of Iwa has been sullied and I will not rest until it has been restored!"

He had much land to cross, but would soon reach the borders of the land of rock. He whipped out his map and took a look. "Hmm, looks like the best way is to skirt the border of grass and waterfall until I enter the land of fire and then straight to Konoha." He dashed off as fast as the sword would allow.

"Hopefully I can catch the border of those two countries free of conflict, even with all the peacefulness between countries, there's still some petty squabbles that erupt on the borders. I have to keep in mind that this is for Iwa, I can't let anything stand in my way. Look out Konoha here comes Sanosuke Kazeyama!"


SO what did you think?! I liked it personally, but I always value input, so R&R and help me be better for both stories if you like them ok? laters!