Nikopop: Ok everyone this is my new story about Kimimaro and (I haven't decided who else yet). Quite some time ago I have read a few stories about how Kimimaro's life would be if he would have been brought to live in Konoha and had this idea nagging in the back of my mind for far too long so I'm writing this! This is not a Yaoi fic! Rating will match the story in further chapters. I think first chapters won't be anything near M, but just as a precaution if my little mind decides to twist something. Ok here you go!

Disclaimer: I do not own Naruto!

To try and live again

He betrayed me…

"Not only you failed your mission, but you also will die in what?! One day two?!"

He said those awful words…

"You are but a pawn!"

I tried so hard…

"I have no place for such a weakling like you!"

He was all I had…

"You disgust me!"

He was all I ever knew…

"Get out of my sight!."

He was my purpose…

"I have no wishes to waste my time to kill you if you are completely capable to die somewhere without my help. Get out of Otogakure! I don't want to deal with your corpse!"

It hurts so much in my chest, no not my lungs, my…

Those were Kimimaro's last thoughts before he slipped in to unconsciousness with a strong hope that he would never wake up again as he lay on a field of grass far away from Otogakure.

We all know that fate is cruel and the poor fifteen year old Kaguya Kimimaro knows it more than we do since after only few hours of feverish restless sleep he wakes up in the cold night. Immediately the weakened teen falls in to a fit of coughing. Kimimaro hoped so much that he would simply die there and than. After coughing for what seemed to be forever the young Kaguya stopped, but he couldn't breath properly, since his throat was raw and sore from coughing.

Kimimaro was shaking. It felt as if he was burning in ice cold fire. Suddenly the world started to spin and Kimimaro mentally already greeted his death. Everything went blank in a flash.

A group of Chunin and their Jonin trainer were returning from a mission. They traveled in silence until girl of the group noticed someone not too far from them on the field they were passing. "Gai-Sensei there is someone in the field over there." The black haired Jonin stopped along with the rest of the teem. He looked in the far where his student Tenten was pointing. "Shouldn't we check if he is injured or needs someone's help."

Gai Maito, the group's sensei thought about it. "Hmm, people don't usually sleep outside at nights I suppose. It is too dangerous, but we should check before we go there. Neji could you please?" The raven haired boy nodded and used Byakugan to see who was there and if they needed any help.

The boy's expression quickly turned to that of surprise. "Hey what is it Neji? Is it something serious? Does that person needs help? What the hell are we waiting for!" Rock Lee shouted and was about to dash over to the figure on the ground, but Neji stopped him. "It is an Otogakure ninja, one of Orochimaru's followers. Though he does seems to be heavily injured and in deep feverish sleep, I still think we should be careful if we wish to take some action."

Their sensei considered it all and said. "An Otogakure ninja could have valuable information. I think we should bring him to Konoha and hand him down to the ANBU." They all nodded and approached the fallen ninja. Once Rock Lee got closer he immediately recognized the one on the ground. "Hey, that's the guy that almost killed me and Gaara. The one with bone wielding abilities." Tenten looked at her comrade questioningly. "But I thought you said that after Gaara buried him, he died."

"Yeah, that's what we both assumed, but it seems that we both were wrong." Gai seemed to rethink his decision, but came to term that if they bring someone who seemed to be especially close to Orochimaru, than that would be even better. "He was one of the few Orochimaru seemed to favor. This makes him even more valuable." Gai said as he expected the unconscious boy. There seemed to be no injuries, so judging by the fewer and almost too pale skin he must be really sick.

The Jonin got out a small bottle and a cloth from his west pocket. He poured some of the content on the cloth and tied it around the Otogakure's ninja's mouth. "This should keep him asleep until we get to Konoha." He than picked up the boy and slung him over his shoulder. Than they continued on their way back to the Leaf village.

Tsunade picked up the clipboard and checked the patient's state. She approached the machine and looked over the new readings. Tsunade shook her head. "I thought something like this was impossible, but I assume that this has something to do with his Kekkei Genkai." She said to her self.

The two ANBU that were standing guard at the entrance of the hospital room heard what the med-nin said and started a conversation of their own.

"That Kimimaro Kaguya, he came in only two days ago right?" The female ANBU nodded and said. "Yes, with a terrible fewer and nearly dead. His lungs were damaged beyond repair." The male ANBU seemed to fall deep in thoughts before speaking again. "Tsunade-Sama said that he was closing to his death really quickly, but than suddenly something happened and his condition started to normalize rapidly. Now as far as we know, the kid has only a small throat infection that is healing quickly and his lungs are better than a completely healthy person could ever have."

The female ANBU was about to say something, but a sound that wasn't from the med-nin in the room coughed their attention. "H-he betr-rayed me." They sighed. The boy says that phrase a lot during his sleep.

Inside the room Tsunade looked at Kimimaro. 'Hmm, from his sleep talking I at least know what happened to him and why he was on Konoha's territory.' Tsunade thought. 'This gives us a big advantage.' A silent moment passed.

'From what he had said it seems that Orochimaru made him leave because of his sickness and failed mission and didn't want to kill him for some reason. If what he said the night before about hating that snake are his true feelings now, than this is to our advantage. If my plan works than Konoha will not only have new information on Orochimaru and his hideout, but it also will have a new strong ninja.' Tsunade smiled.

In all honesty no one really wanted to kill the young Kaguya. They knew perfectly the usual story with Orochimaru and his followers. They were only kids when the Snake Sannin found them and took them in with false promises. Since just like everyone else they wanted to feel accepted and loved and with that Snake poisoning their young minds they simply had no other choices.

Kimimaro was no exception. Everyone knew that his clan was killed during the attack on Mist and the boy was left alone. Everyone also knew of his young life in a cage, since rumors about a Kaguya child, who was stronger than the entire clan all together, spread out quickly. Everyone immediately recognized Kimimaro as that same child that was kept in a cell by his own people out of fear from his power.

Tsunade had decided that maybe if they showed Kimimaro how life was in Konoha and what life was really like, than he could become one of them. Tsunade had to admit, she had always felt pity for those poor souls who fell victim for Orochimaru's lie and to help someone save his life from that hell hole was something the blonde woman was always up to. Especially when this someone was still so young and so powerful and could very well become one of the strongest Konoha ninjas. All she needed to do was get his trust and convince him.

The next morning Tsunade opened the door to find a couple of teal eyes looking right back in to her brown ones. For a moment she looked slightly taken aback, but than pulled her self back together and with a bright smile headed over to the sitting Kaguya. "How are you feeling today?" "Fine" was the only thing she instantly received. She cleared her throat. "I suppose you are wondering where are you and what happened."

An instant nod.

"Well, three days ago one of our teams brought you here in a heavy condition, but you healed quickly." Tsunade decided to just go straight with the truth. "You are in a Konoha hospital." She was ready for anything, but definitely not for the silence and the emotionless, blank expression that didn't even twitch at mentioning of Konoha.

"Are you sure you are fine?" Tsunade asked with suspiciousness.

Nod.

"Okay than before I start talking if you have any questions you can ask them."

Kimimaro only shook his head.

Tsunade nodded and picked up the clipboard. "We don't really know what happened when you came in, but from a 'hopeless' your condition started to normalize rapidly and in few days you were already fine. After running few tests and analyses we came to a conclusion that it is a hidden Kaguya clan ability of self healing in critical situations. I personally think it's a part of your Kekkei Genkai." Tsunade put down the clipboard and as her expression become more serious she looked the white haired boy straight in the eyes. "Kimimaro, we have absolutely no intentions on killing you if you cooperate with us. I know that you were close to Orochimaru and that you know a lot about him. If you tell us information you know it'll be a great advantage for Konoha. Also we are willing to let you become a Konoha ninja. We could always use someone with such a powerful and unique bloodline limit." She finished the last part with a smile.

Kimimaro only looked at her with those blank eyes. Tsunade sighed. "I'll let you have some time to think about it. You talk in your sleep, so I pretty much understood that Orochimaru betrayed you." Tsunade saw sadness mixed with hatred flicker through the Kaguya's eyes at the mentioning of the Snake Sannin's name. She left the room and Kimimaro to his own thoughts.

Kimimaro was left to think. 'She said I could be useful for them. I seem to have healed, but what if that sickness returns? Will they abandon me just like Orochimaru-Sam…'

Kimimaro trailed off not quite sure if he wanted to call him Sama any longer. Kimimaro looked at his hands. He pushed out a short bone dagger and after a moment of observation returned it back to his palm. 'Everything seems to be fine. Though it doesn't hurts anymore at all. It used to hurt somewhat when I was sick. Maybe this offer is worth a shot. Maybe this could be my reason to live.'

The young Kaguya looked out the window. It was sunny outside. 'But anyone I ever knew were Orochimaru…, Kabuto, Sound Five and few prisoners who hated me at the first sight. I don't even know how to be a human. I suppose I'll learn.' With that thought in mind Kimimaro had made up his mind.

After Kimimaro was let out of the hospital since his condition was hundred percent perfect, a team of four ANBU escorted him to the Hokage's office where he talked to Tsunade. He answered directly to all of her questions. Kimimaro was never the talkative type. After telling them all he knew about Otogakure and Orochimaru, Tsunade seemed more than pleased.

"This is excellent! With this information we can capture Orochimaru in a flash. Kimimaro you have been a great deal of help. This ANBU team is going to show you your new home and on the exit you will be given your forehead protector. I will also assign a Jonin instructor for you. You won't be having any missions just yet, since first you have to get used to life in Konoha. Your new instructor will be helping you at that." With those words said the ANBU escorted Kimimaro to his new home.

He had a small living room, the same size bed room, normal kitchen and a bath room. Kimimaro was completely fine with that, since he never liked to have huge space when it came to living area. The furniture was already there. He also was shown where to buy food and clothes.

From there on the ANBU team left, but Kimimaro knew that they were still watching. He sensed their presence. It seemed that after waking up his senses became ten times sharper. Kimimaro simply knew that these exact people were still watching him. Since Kimimaro was given some money to start with, first thing he did, was buy clothes. He considered it wouldn't be wise to walk around in his usual clothes, loose the rope everyone in Otogakure wore tied around their waists.

Kimimaro bought a fishnet shirt, a pair of black pants that were tied with bandages at the ankles and a short sleeve shirt that turned out to be slightly shorter than he expected thus leaving his stomach open. Also on Kimimaro it was a little bit tighter than he supposed, but the Kaguya paid no mind to either of these things anyway. Kimimaro also bought few kunai since he assumed he'll be needing them. It was half past two in midday and Kimimaro was instructed to wait for his sensei at his new home. So he went home and waited.

At the Hokage's office.

"I can forgive him considering the fact that he was one of Orochimaru's followers starting with his childhood, but I won't be trusting him." Said Naruto suspiciously eying Tsunade. The Hokage sighed. She could completely understand their way of thinking. Kimimaro was one of those who tried to take Sasuke to Orochimaru.

The Uchiha was quietly sitting on the couch. 'If Naruto and Sakura will keep acting the way they are, I might as well consider of going to Otogakure by my self.' He thought remembering all those countless times that Naruto made a complete fool of him self and all those times that Sakura was all over his neck making him want to kill the annoying girl. Not that he had anything against his teammates, as long as they didn't include him in their little dumb games.

Sakura on the other hand was infuriated. "There is no way am I going to be in a same team with some fat, ugly, dumb moron who tried to take my Sasuke-kun to that damned snake freak!!..." Tsunade smirked. Sakura had never seen Kimimaro before and Tsunade knew her weakness for good looking boys. The Hokage knew that the minute Sakura would see Kimimaro she would be all over his neck. Truthfully Tsunade her self wished that she would have been younger at some points. She had seen attractive men, but hell, Kimimaro was HOT!!

Kakashi was standing besides Naruto and thinking. After what seemed an eternity of Sakura shouting out to the world what she thought about Kimimaro and how she hated him, she instantly swallowed her tongue after hearing her sensei say "Ok, he's on the team." Sakura literally died on spot.

"Excellent! You will see him at this address right after this meeting." Tsunade said as she handed him the paper with Kimimaro's address. Sakura still lie on the ground motionless. Naruto peeked on the paper. "Hey is that guy going to be my neighbor?" He asked rather enthusiastically, though it was hard to place if it was in a good way or a bad way. Tsunade nodded. During this all Sasuke didn't move one bit. "Oh and while you are still here, Kakashi, I wanted to ask you not to make him go on missions just yet." Kakashi nodded not taking his eyes off of the paper. Truthfully he did hear that statement, but decided to pretend that he hadn't and simply nodded out of habit.

"Ok team seven let's go pick up our new team member." He said. Sasuke got up from the chair and exited. Naruto sprinted after him. Kakashi looked at Sakura and sighed. He took the pink haired girl by her ankle and dragged her out the door. Once in the hallway Sakura finally came back to earth.

Kimimaro was sitting at his table waiting patiently for his new Sensei. The white haired boy was mostly thinking about how complicated people here seemed. On his way back, there were a dozen of girls his age and some younger, some older, who came up to him and started asking him questions like what's your name? or are you single and saying that he was the hottest thing ever.

Kimimaro seriously didn't understand that. People here were so complicated. Kimimaro wished he could understand them more, but emotions, feelings and life as it is, was never really thought to him. It was something he had to figure out him self and he knew only as much as he observed from his teammates, but he really didn't think that any of their attitudes would suit him. So he was left to ponder on what he should be like in a society like this.

Kimimaro's train of thoughts was interrupted when he heard a knock on his door. 'That must be my new Sensei.' Kimimaro thought as he went to open the door. As he walked to the door, he heard someone climbing up to the ceiling in the corridor in front of his door. Kimimaro really didn't understand what on earth was the person outside doing. Maybe it was some prankster, or maybe his Sensei was simply weird, or maybe he thought he could surprise or scare Kimimaro. What ever it was, the white haired Kaguya didn't even twitch when he opened the door to meet with an upside down grinning, almost masked face of a guy who had white hair and a crazy hairstyle.

The expression on the guy's face turned to one of those with sweat drop when the Kaguya didn't so much as show a tiniest sign of surprise. Kakashi jumped down and stood up introducing him self. "I'm Hatake Kakashi. And it seems that I'll be your Sensei from now on." Kimimaro bowed at waist and after standing up said "Kaguya Kimimaro." Kakashi raised an eyebrow at the bowing, but smiled. "Well than Kimimaro-kun let's go introduce you to your team."

Kimimaro followed Kakashi outside to see two familiar faces and a back of what seemed to be a pink haired girl who was tapping her foot on the ground furiously. "Ok everyone this is Kimimaro Kaguya. I believe you are already familiar with Sasuke and Naruto, that leaves only to introduce you with Sakura." Kimimaro guessed that it was the pink haired girl who only humph-ed at them. "Great than, we still have half of day and since we didn't train in the morning, let's go." He said cheerfully.

Sakura didn't turn around and only continued to walk. During their walk to wherever Kakashi was taking them Sasuke was constantly observing Kimimaro out of corner of his eyes. Naruto was walking slightly besides Kimimaro, but kept his distance. Eventually Naruto being Naruto, couldn't take the silence any longer and said. "So Kimimaro-kun how does it feels to be free?" Kimimaro didn't slow down his pace and his only replay was "Fine".

Naruto edged closer to Kimimaro as if sneaking up to him. "I guess we'll be training together from now on. Just so you'd know that when we'll get a chance I'll challenge you and than I'll take you down!" Naruto shouted now all back in his little 'Naruto' place. There was no replay from Kimimaro. Naruto's expression fell. "Do you ever talk?" He asked all annoyed. "Sometimes" was all Kimimaro said.

Naruto growled obviously annoyed by the silent teen. Sasuke only rolled his eyes. 'I might live with him. He seems to be quiet and only gives a direct answer to questions without going in to annoying small talk.' Sasuke thought already liking the guy, plus he seemed like a worthy opponent during battle trainings.

Sakura was still refusing to so much as look at Kimimaro still imaging him as something that had just crawled out of some twisted nightmare. That was until Ino came running up to them. "Hey Sakura!" She ran up to the girl and whispered. "Hey I heard that your team is going to have a new member, is that hotty him?" Sakura stopped dead in track and looked at the blonde with murderous glare. Ino didn't understand what was the matter.

Sakura turned her head around for the first time to see what she assumed to be her worst nightmare, but her mouth fell open at the sight she saw. Inner Sakura on the other hand was drooling. "Wow he's HOT!!" Ino was officially confused. Naruto didn't notice anything, Sasuke didn't care, Kakashi only smiled to him self and Kimimaro was looking straight back at Sakura trying to figure out what was going on?

Ino shrugged her shoulders and said "Oh well, you don't seem to like him all that much." With that Ino ran up to Kimimaro almost knocking Naruto over in the process and smiled brightly at him. "My name is Yamanaka Ino, what's yours?" "Kaguya Kimimaro" Kimimaro simply said not slowing down his pace. "Nice to meet you Kimimaro-kun!" She said as they passed frozen to spot Sakura now gawking at thin air.

Kimimaro looked back at her briefly wandering what happened to her. Sakura, however, recovered quickly and, everything forgotten, ran up to Kimimaro's other side and said. "Sorry for acting so cold Kimimaro-kun, I don't know what had gotten in to me." She said while giving a death glare to Ino who was doing the same towards Sakura. Kimimaro just kept a straight face, while on the inside he was utterly confused.

Kakashi decided to say something before this turned out as a catfight. Not that he minded, he still liked to watch girls fight over guys, but this was not the time or place for this. Plus Naruto was boiling with anger at seeing that Kimimaro was getting so much attention from girls. "Ino we are kind of going to train, don't you have a training or anything else to do at this moment?" He said looking over his shoulder slightly. Ino shook her head happily. "No it turns out that I have absolutely nothing to do right now. And since you are going to train I thought that maybe I could stick around and watch Kimi… I mean how you train." Ino said with a bright smile.

Inner Sakura was already sharpening a kunai and growling 'Ino you are going to DIE!' Real Sakura was simply growling. Kakashi sighed. "Well we are here." They were in the forest. The group stopped and Kakashi turned to his team and the girl who decided to simply tag along. "Ok I suppose that since Naruto still hasn't mastered this training quite well…" Kakashi remembered the last time when Naruto fell off of the tree and on his head. "and Sasuke needs to learn it too, we are going to train the chakra control or in other words this training is going to be about concentrating your chakra to one certain body part, in this case feet, and leave a mark on the tree as high as you can get up on it. Sakura since you are master at this, you will be training taijutsu."

Sakura nodded although it seemed that she was too busy growling at Ino. At this point Kimimaro completely ignored them. Kakashi demonstrated what they were supposed to do and stood upside down on a tree branch once he was up all the way. "Well if you manage to get up here than that will mean that you have good control over your chakra and if no, than you will just have to keep trying till you master it. Good luck."

Kakashi watched as Naruto fell to the ground not getting anywhere too far. He shook his head. Naruto was too concentrated on physical strength instead of tying to control and increase his chakra level in order to aid him in battles. He usually used number and strength, instead of strategy and mind. Speed was also something Naruto lacked.

Kakashi turned to look at Sasuke who was already putting a third mark on a tree in an impressive height. Sasuke was very good with chakra control, that much credit he could give him. Kakashi looked to the ground where Sakura trained. She was very good at taijutsu, but needed to work on it some more.

Finally Kakashi looked at the bottom of the tree where Kimimaro was supposed to be training. He didn't saw Kimimaro at first and when no one came jumping down he slowly took his gaze up to find Kimimaro standing upside down on a tree branch that was higher than his. 'Impressive' Kakashi thought.

'I wonder if he will notice when I'll try to sneak up on him?' Kakashi tried to do just that, but the minute he moved Kimimaro's eyes seemed to look at him from corners. Kakashi waited while they returned to their normal state and was thankful to have his chance when Naruto distracted Kimimaro for him. "Hey how did you managed to do that so quickly?!" Kimimaro looked at the blonde on the ground and "Concentration on body and chakra cooperation and control" was his short and correct answer.

Naruto seemed dumbstruck, but that was when it clicked for Sasuke. This was not only about directing his chakra, this was also about making his certain body parts accept and use the chakra transferred to them. And in order to do that, he needed to have full control over his body. Next time Sasuke tried it he could feel that holding to the tree was a lot easier and he went a big deal higher up the tree. 'This is it!' He thought. All he needed to do was make his body accept and use the chakra flowing through him.

Meanwhile Kakashi was sneaking up to Kimimaro from behind, unfortunately when Kimimaro returned to concentrating, he immediately turned around to see Kakashi still a good distance away from him. Kakashi seemed to be deep in thought for a while after getting caught. "You have good senses." Kakashi said congratulating the young Kaguya. Kimimaro only nodded.

Kakashi walked all the way up to the teen to stand next to him. "You know I kind of noticed that behind that unreadable face expression, you hide curiosity and confusion. You obviously don't really understand human's emotions and feelings well." There was no point to hide it if his Sensei knew. Kimimaro looked straight forward. "It is true, I can't seem understand almost everything." He said in his usual clear, although slightly quieter tone.

Kakashi nodded and looked straight ahead as well. He thought about it for a moment and than snapped his fingers drawing Kimimaro's attention. "I have an idea. After this training is done I'll take you out on a night around the village and show you a few good things about life. Trust me, you'll like it." Kakashi gave him thumbs up with a cheerful smile. Kimimaro only looked at him, no longer hiding the curious expression.

Naruto kept on failing, while Sasuke was progressing rapidly. Sakura and Ino by this time were watching Kimimaro while he talked to Kakashi and sighing dreamily every now and than.

After Kakashi had decided that it was enough of training for Sasuke and enough of humiliation for Naruto, he sent them all home while taking Kimimaro with him.

"Ok first of all, let's go buy you one of my favorite books. While at home you can read it and I'm sure that it'll give you a lot of understanding for situations when there are girls acting 'strange' around you." Kakashi said as they entered a shop. Kakashi scanned through the books and once he found the one he was looking for he picked it up and bought it. "Consider this a gift." Kakashi said as he handed the book to Kimimaro.

The teen took the book and read the title "Icha Icha Paradise". He looked up at his Sensei and asked. "What is it about?" Kakashi smiled. "This book basically is about man's and woman's relationship. Mostly it's about people who already have a good relationship, but how to get such a relationship I'll be shoving to you tonight." Kakashi said holding out his hand and showing at all the ladies on the street. Kimimaro nodded and followed his Sensei.

The night went on with Kakashi having fun and introducing Kimimaro with all the pretty ladies. When the moon was high in the sky Kakashi was sitting relaxed on top of one roof and Kimimaro was sitting besides him in yoga style thinking over the events of today. He had learned a lot about human emotions that evening and understood a bit better why Sakura and Ino, hell why most of the girls, were acting as if they were about to tear each other apart.

"So Kimimaro, what do you think about life now?" Kakashi asked smirking satisfied under his mask. "I suppose it's great? I never actually knew all of this was possible for humans." Kakashi looked back up at the sky. "Yup life is good." He grinned. The kid was great, ladies liked him a lot and he learned quickly as well. He turned out to be interesting too. Kimimaro proved to have a lot of hidden secrets.

"Listen, Kimimaro, tomorrow we are going on a mission and I wanted to tell you few things about Konoha Shinobi." Kimimaro turned towards his sensei and listened. "You see, we will be sent to capture few bandits who have been disturbing peace of Konoha for few weeks now, and this mission is going to be slightly dangerous. I just wanted to tell you that in Konoha we value lives of our teammates a lot. I know that you are a lot stronger and skilled than the rest of my team, so in case if you see that one of them is in life's danger, don't hesitate and save them. This will bring you closer as well." Kimimaro smiled and nodded.

Tomorrow was going to be his first mission with his new teammates. After what Kakashi thought him about life and friends and how important it was to keep their friend's lives he started understanding why people did what they did in the first place. This was going to be an interesting experience.

When Kimimaro was nearing his home, he noticed a figure sitting on top of the apartment roof. Thanks to his sharp senses he was able to recognize the said figure as Naruto. Kimimaro thought about it for a while, but than decided to go and visit his teammate on the roof.

"Hey Naruto, what are you doing here alone?" Naruto seemed to get startled, by Kimimaro's sudden appearance. "Don't sneak up on me like that!" He shot at the Kaguya, but than it hit him. "Wait! You are talking to me!" Kimimaro looked slightly taken aback by that statement, but than remembered that he wasn't talking a lot previously. "Well yes, I was hanging out with Kakashi-Sensei the entire evening."

Realization downed on Naruto and the blond grinned widely. "Oh now I understand. So did he show you the best place in village where to get a decent meal?" Kimimaro remembered that ramen stand that Kakashi had called the best food place in the village. "If you are talking about that place where they cook Ramen than yes." Naruto nodded. "The best place in the entire village!"

Naruto looked at Kimimaro with a sly smile / smirk on his face. "Hey Kimi-kun, I saw how you mastered that tree climbing thing today and after you said something Sasuke started to progress a lot faster. Care to give me some tips at that?" Kimimaro looked deep in thought for a second and than said. "You have to concentrate on channeling chakra to your…" Naruto cut him off. "Yeah, yeah I know that part, but I need to know how to hold on to the tree." Kimimaro nodded in understanding. "That's easy, you have to use your chakra that is in your feet as a magnet to be able to pull and hold your self to the surface you are walking on. It's kind of like gravity, only in this case you are in the planet's place and it's your gravity field that has to pull closer."

Naruto had that look on his face as if Kimimaro had just said something in alien language. "Uh…" Kimimaro sighed. "Concentrate on the tingling in your feet and push it out of them. That would be the factor that creates the magnetic effect." At that moment realization downed on Naruto. "Why didn't you say so in the first place?! I must try it out." The blonde jumped up and looked around for a tree or some upside down surface high enough above the ground. Than he spotted a high tree. "Hey come see me walking on that tree!" Naruto motioned for Kimimaro to follow.

The albino teenager jumped off of the roof and went up to his friend who was preparing to run. Naruto closed his eyes and tightened his fists. Than the moment he opened them, Naruto dashed off and up the tree. In a flash he was standing upside down and looking at Kimimaro smiling up at him on the ground. "Yes! Woo-hoo I…" Naruto immediately regretted that he started to jump as he fell down. Fortunately for him Kimimaro caught him. "Hey thanks for catching me!" "Sure thing." Kimimaro said as he let Naruto stand on the ground.

"You know, tomorrow we will be having our first mission together." Naruto said enthusiastically. Kimimaro nodded. "So that means that we better go to sleep, or else we won't be in shape for it in the morning." Kimimaro added even though he was more saying it for Naruto's sake. Kimimaro could pull through four nights straight without sleep and be in normal shape for a bloody battle, but Naruto sure didn't seem like the type.

Naruto nodded and both teens headed to their apartments. Once Kimimaro was in bed he looked back at the events of this day. He only waked up this morning to find out all the shocking news and now…

Now he was already best friend with one of his past most hated enemies. This definitely promised to turn out as something truly interesting.

Nikopop: There you go! First chapter! Well I don't have much to say so R&R please! See you next time!