Disclaimer: Naruto belongs to Masashi Kishimoto and Inuyasha is owned by Rumiko Takahashi. Plot belongs to whatever crazy being that gave me this idea.

Chapter 1

"-kun, come here you silly little kit!"
"You can't catch me kaa-chan!"

"-kun it is time for bed."
"But yawn I'm not yawn sleepy."

"Goodnight my little kitsune."

Naruto jumped up from his bed after feeling something touch his forehead. Panicky he looked around his messy apartment for the source, only to come up with nothing. Naruto sigh and fell back on his bed and looked up to the ceiling. Lately he had been having dreams of a woman who was radiating a calm feel to her and she would call him by a name he could not hear or call him a fox.

"This getting weirder and weirder every time I see those dreams," he thought, "are those memories or dreams? They are for sure not mine because no one has cared for me that way and the first one to care was Iruka-sensi, not a woman."

Naruto turned towards his window and saw that the sun was barely coming up. He sighed and decided to get ready any way and head towards the training grounds to train for any upcoming missions. He finally got Sasuke back, but it was not the same. Sasuke was more easily to anger and was totally different. He just very recently started to act the way he use to before going to Orochimaru. It is probably thanks to Sakura for the attitude change because she has been the only one that Sasuke actually let near him when he came back.

Naruto just sighed again.

He just had to go and remind himself of that failure. He could do the most impossible missions, probably defeat the Akatsuki (if he trains hard enough), but he can't get the girl he wants. How depressing.

"Naruto! Naruto!"

Naruto stopped his exercises to look at Sakura and Sasuke coming his way. Being sixteen had its advantages. For one he is now tall enough to look down girls shirts, if he felt like it, and another is that he was now the same height as Sasuke and taller than Sakura.

"What's up Sakura-chan?"

"Tsunade-hime-sama is calling for you. She said that she has a mission for you that is interesting!"

"Oh really so baa-chan is finally giving me what I deserve?"

"Pssht, what you deserve dobe is to learn how to fight." Sasuke remarked.

"What was that Sasuke-teme? I can beat you right here, right now!" yelled Naruto read to fight his friend and rival. Just because he was a little different, and they were separated for 3 years, did nothing to their friendship or how they interacted with each other. Before there could be a fight Kakashi appeared in between Sasuke and Naruto. He turned to Naruto and said,

"Naruto, if you do not want Tsunade-sama to reconsider her choice I suggest that you head to the Hokage Tower now."

"Fine but when I come back Sasuke you are going down!"

"Keep dreaming dobe."

Naruto glare at Sasuke before jumping to the Hokage Tower.

"So Kakashi-sensi, why are you here?" asked Sakura.

Kakashi just looked at Sakura and turned to Sasuke. He then turned to where Naruto took off and stayed that way. Before Sakura could ask what was going on or going to give up Kakashi answered.

"Naruto's mission is important and I wanted for him to go as soon as possible to complete it."

"What is so important about this one mission that has you acting like this?" asked suspiciously Sasuke.

Looking to Sasuke, Kakashi answered in two words, while turning around, before leaving two shinobi shocked, "My daughter."

Once Naruto got to the Hokage Tower he went to Tsunade's office. He barged in and screamed,

"Baa-chan what is my mission?"

A bottle of sake came straight to his face and hit him straight on. Tsunade and repeatedly told him not to call her that and after so many years of it he still didn't stop. So she resorted to hurting him.

"I will not repeat myself Naruto."

"Yeah, yeah so you say," this earned him a fist to his head, "Ow! Will you stop that? So what is my mission?"

"I will stop when you do. As for your mission you have to head towards the Sand village and on the way you will meet Gaara and another Shinobi."

"Eh! What is Gaara ganna be there for? Doesn't he have Kazekage duties to deal with?"

"Yes he does but by some crazy stroke of luck either he does a better job of paper work than me or does a better job of ignoring it and somehow keep the Sand Village in order. Besides in the message that Temari sent me she said that he does not trust any other shinobi but you and himself for the protection of this other shinobi."

"Wow than they must be really important!" Naruto said jumping up and down.

'You have no idea. She was the one who help me get over committing suicide.' thought Tsunade, "So are you ready to go?"

"Yes!"