Anbukyuubi here with my very first story well anyways lets get on to the story.

DISCLAIMER: I do not own Naruto

The dropped mask

"Five years, that's how long I've been away" I think to myself as I lay down in the grass with a breeze of cold air passing by me. I stand up as I hear ero-sennin walking into the clearing I was in laying in. As I turn around I look directly into ero-sennin's eyes something I had not been able to do before I left to train due to me being shorter than most my age , now I stood almost as tall as ero-sennin.

"Hey gaki are you ready to go?" ero-sennin tells me as he noticed he had my full attention. Ero-sennin hasn't really changed over the five years we've been traveling from place to place.

As I turned around and look to the moon I answered him "Hai, sensei I'm ready" I lied I don't think I'll ever be ready, are my friends ready to see how much I changed are they really going to see me for who I am and not the loud mouth idiot I pretended to be ? Ever since that mission I let my mask drop a bit by bit, but the training trip with ero-sennin made me drop my mask completely.

"Gaki don't worry you've changed for the better, and I believe your friends will see that." Ero-sennin told me with a small grin. "Anyways get ready Naruto were leaving when the sun rises it's a long trip back."

"Okay I'll be ready, don't worry" I said with the smallest smile. The trip back takes at least two days in those two days I'll have to prepare to face my biggest challenge , showing my friends the new me the real me.

Okay that's it for this chapter hopefully I'll continue if enough people like the story I promise to write more and more if I see that people like the story till next time - Anbukyuubi