Chapter one: I see your face in my ramen.
"You're kidding me!"
Naruto sat in amazement, his hair standing higher than usual at the words of Tsunade-sama.
She sighed. "Yes Naruto, I'm only kidding. YOU BIG IDIOT! WOULD I KID ABOUT SOMETHING LIKE THIS!"
Naruto only sat there and thought. "I don't know would you?"
She dropped to the floor in astonishment of the blonde ninja's clueless ness. "I'm just kidding obaa-san!"
The hokage sighed in relief. "I figured it out when you yelled at me."
She dropped to the floor again. She would need a long drink after this meeting. She sighed for a third time.
"Well, either way. Yes, you are going to be hokage…" She was cut short as Naruto started whooping and running around the room. Screw the long drink, she'd skip straight to the hangover, it was a lot less painful.
"In two years." The blonde streak that was running laps around her office froze.
"Wha…?" He replied with a dazed look upon his face.
"You heard me, two years." She braced herself for the onslaught that was about to ensue. Instead there was silence. She opened her eyes expecting to see an infuriated Naruto, but instead found none at all.
"Naruto?" She looked over the front of her desk. He was on the floor having a heart attack. I never should have woken up today. She walked over and used her medical ninjutsu to help him recover. He shot up quickly and then proceeded to unleash his fury.
"WHAT THE HELL AM I GONNA DO FOR TWO YEARS?" He immediately began having a fit, running around her office again.
"If you would just calm down I'd tell you why and what." He sat down, still red in the face with anger. "You are currently sixteen, am I correct?"
He nodded. "Yeah, but what does that have to do with anything?" He asked with a confused look on his face.
"Two reasons. One, you have to be eighteen to be hokage…" Again she was cut short as Naruto restarted his shouting spree.
"Since when has that been a rule?"
"Since five seconds ago. Second, I want you to become stronger. A LOT stronger."
Naruto, still angry asked in retaliation. "Then get to what/how part already."
Her face began to turn red. "Naruto I want you to meet the people that will help you with that." With that she waved her hand and in walked four people, three of which he knew well, the other, he had never seen in his life.
"You already know the first three. Sasuke, Sakura, and Hinata. Neji was supposed to be here to but he's late." He smiled as he looked at his friends, he was finally able to get Sasuke back. And there was Sakura, and Hinata, who was staring at her feet the whole time, he couldn't figure out why.
"The final person is…" She was again interrupted, this time by Neji who stormed in the door.
"Sorry Tsunade-sama, I was training with Lee-san, and lost track of time." Naruto laughed, as did everyone else besides Tsunade.
"As I was saying." She rubbed her temples.
"The final person. His name is Katric, and he is from the village of hidden cats." She said as her finger pointed to his headband that hung around his neck. It had two cat ears embroidered on it.
"I haven't heard of that village, Obaa-san." He said thinking hard to remember. "You wouldn't have. It's a hidden village after all. It's actually older than Konoha is. I didn't hear about it until Katric hear approached me for a treaty. He's an elite jounin like you currently are."
Katric smiled at Naruto. Naruto frowned then whispered to Tsunade-sama. "He's not like that Sai bastard is he?" Tsunade laughed.
"No, no. He actually reminds me a lot of you personality wise, and Kakashi appearance wise." Naruto was a little shocked at this. He turned around to see Katric again this time getting a good look at him this time. Katric was wearing all black with a grey belt. He wore he headband on his neck like Hinata-chan did, only a lot tighter. He had on a black mask, and his snow white spiky hair covered his right eye. He did look a lot like Kakashi.
"Hiya, Uzumaki-sama!" Naruto frowned again.
"Uh…Hi?" Naruto gave a confused look.
"I've read your profile, but you can only learn so much from words. I want to get to know you over the next two years. I hope we can be friends." Even with his mask, Naruto could tell he was smiling broadly.
"Wait, where are we going for the next two years anyway." Tsunade raised his hand about to answer but Katric interrupted her.
"I think I should tell him Tsunade-dono. It makes more sense if I say it." Tsunade nodded and waved her hand. "Uzumaki-sama! The six of us are going to spend the next two years together…In my village!" All but Tsunade and Katric were shocked. Not even Sakura, who had seen him walk in the Hokage's office a week ago to talk to her, knew.
"Coool!" Naruto said out loud, while Sasuke and Neji thought it in their heads. "I have one last question Obaa-san." Said Naruto. "Why is he going to be apart of this team?"
"Two reasons again. The first because the Nekokage, the leader of his village, had long since known about this village, but preferred not to concern them selves with bothering another village. He wanted to finally open relations and have their village recognized finally. So they started with their closest neighbors. Us. He sent Katric here, to bring a treaty. He didn't want to bother us with his presence because he thought it might start something negative. Katric has also been instructed to gain trust with us no matter what the cost. I suggested this, and Katric agreed after I told him basic information about you and gave him a profile I made for this kind of occasion."
Naruto leaned in and whispered into Tsunade's ear. "Did you tell him…you know…everything?"
Tsunade smiled and stated. "No, I did not." Naruto gave a relieved look and then proceeded to give Katric a warm smile which was returned even with the mask. "Now, I want all of you to pack, you leave in as soon as Katric is ready to leave." They all emptied the office then.
They then proceeded to walk away from the office building when Katric broke the awkward silence. "If you don't mind. I would appreciate it, Uzumaki-sama, if you did me a favor before we left." Naruto, looked at Katric and said with a smile. "Only if you promise to stop calling me that. My name is Naruto. You don't need to be so formal, besides we are equal team members and rank."
Katric laughed as he responded. "Of course, U…Naruto…san."
"See! Was it that hard?" Everyone laughed. "Now what do you need, Katric-san."
Katric looked down a little embarrassed. "I know it's kind of awkward and rude, but could you tell me if you had a ramen shop, and where it was located? It's been at least a week since I've eaten non-instant pork ramen." Everyone looked at Katric with a surprised look, even Naruto. Katric looked at the ground and blushed. "Sorry, It was a stupid, selfish question." Naruto, did two things in that instance. First smacked the white haired ninja smartly across the face, then grabbed his hand and proceeded to drag him to the Ichiraku Ramen shop. The others tried to keep up, but were to busy laughing and holding their stomachs to run fast. Naruto stopped at his favorite place in all of Konoha and pointed to the booth.
"Sit!" Katric obeyed walking in, ducking underneath the red flaps. Naruto sat beside him and ordered twenty one pork ramen. When the bowls arrived, Naruto handed Katric chopsticks.
"Which ones are mine?" Naruto looked surprised at the question.
"Umm...how many can you eat?" There was a long silence till the reply.
"You don't want to know."
Naruto burst out laughing. "Hold on a sec. HEY! Ichiraku, I'll order another twenty-one bowls please."
Once the rest of the bowls arrived, Katric then proceeded to lift his hands behind his head to take of his mask. Naruto looked at him as he did it, completely unaware the others had finally caught up, had ordered their own ramen, and had now joined Naruto watching the cat ninja. Katric carefully untied his mask and placed it aside. His maskless face showed so many scars, that it looks that his scars had scars. His mouth and nose appeared to be over shadowed by the mere numerity and largeness of all the scars that covered his face.
Sakura gasped and placed her hand on his face feeling his scars. Katric had a more confused face than Naruto usually had. "Katric-san, what happened that you gained this many scars?" There was a shocked look in Katric's face. Then one of pure sadness and disappear.
He grabbed his mask and tied it back on. "Maybe ramen wasn't the best idea. Sorry for the inconvenience sir." He said as he placed a couple thousand Yen on the table. "Give the ramen to someone else." He stood up and walked away.
Sakura had a worried look on her face, as did Naruto and everyone else. "I'm sorry Katric-san. I didn't mean to…" He interrupted her mid sentence.
"It…It's ok. Sakura-san. Let's just get Naruto's things and head out. I'll meet you guys at the gate in an hour." And with that, he disappeared.