I know this might sound weird but I encorporated new characters... And even a new village!

I hope you guys like it.

And uhm, watch The Shippuuden Movie before reading..

Chapter 1: The Strange Shinobi

It's been nine months ever since the incident with the priestess of the Demon Country. Things in Konoha wre never better. Orochimaru had not bothered them and Sasuke is known to be safe. With the death of Zetsu, Deidara, and Sasori, the Nukenin association, Akatsuki, has been in hiding as well.

Jiraiya's death was never forgotten. Three ANBU squads are always searching for Pain and his comrades. They will not rest until all six of him are destroyed.

Economically speaking, Konoha has become the rival of most countries. Missions and products have been at their peak. The cloud village is at a run for its money. This was mainly because of a certain fox boy who wants to be Konoha's sixth Hokage.

Even with his master's death, Naruto's skills kept improving; he had two reasons for power now, Sasuke's redemption and Jiraiya's revenge.

Even though, an event is about to happen to Konohagakure that will leave a mark on all their young shinobi.

At the east gate of Konoha, four shinobi with strange marks on their headbands were being interrogated by the guard. After a few questions, the guard bowed to them and let them enter as he pointed to the Village Hall.

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Kiba, Hinata, Shino, Lee, Tenten, Neji, Ino and Chouji are all sitting at the same table in a restaurant. It was awfully strange that all of them would be together doing nothing ;like this. The only ones absent were Shikamaru who was still working with the Hokage-sama about the next chuunin exam, Sakura who's working with the other med-nins on a badly injured ANBU squad, since it would be about lunch, they'd be there as well. Naruto was also nowhere to be found, he was training in the woods since he'd be taking part in the upcoming chuunin exam.

A 15 year old boy was entering the restaurant. He wore a green chuunin vest. The lazy shinobi sat down beside Ino.

"Shika-kun! How was your guard duty?" Ino said lunging a hug at Shikamaru.

Shkamaru let out a sigh. "Pretty boring, except for those four shinobi."

All eyes were on the genius now. "What shinobi?" Tenten asked as she munched like a tiger on a piece of meat.

"Two men and two women. They must be about our age, they had a weird sign on their forehead protectors, kinda like two tipped 'L's…" he replied.

"Do you recognize it?" Hinaya said.

"No. I've never seen a village symbol like that."

They kept on pestering Shikamaru about it until Sakura came in.

"Welcome, Sakura-chan." Tenten gestured for the pinkette to seat beside her.

Sakura sat with her. "So, what you guys working on?"

"Nothing really. Shika-kun was just telling us about the weird shinobi he met earlier." Ino said.

"Huh, now that you mention it, four ninja were waiting outside Tsynade-sama's office before I left. Two males and two females." Sakura narrated.

"Hmm. Whoever these new shinobi are we have to see what are their intentions." Neji said for the first time.

All eyes were on the Byakugan genius, "You are so paranoid Neji-kun." Tenten said.

'Paranoid or not, Neji's right. We can not let what happened with the Sand Village happen again." Shino interrupted.

"Still, Gaara and his siblings are now our allies. We must forget about what had happened in the past and look to the future!" Rock Lee exclaimed as h stepped up on their table.

"Lee's right you know. The past is past." Sakura nodded.

"Sakura said I was right! She must like me more now too!" Lee spun around his mind.

The Konohagakure ninjas kept arguing to each other. They giggled and laughed at each other's stories for a few moments.

They heard voices arguing outside.

"You heard the lady; I still have to scan this place. You guys can go eat and sightseeing now if you want. I won't be done till sunset. Kira's in charge, okay?" they heard the voice say.

"But, sensei!" Two female voices exclaimed.

"No buts!" the first voice said firmly, "It's not like you'd rather examine a village than eat and relax the whole day."

"Well, true. But why Kira?" one of the females said.

"He's the oldest." The first voice said again just before the familiar 'Poof!' of shinsun.

"C'mon. Let's eat here." A new voice sounded.

Three people entered through the restaurant. Two girls and one boy. The kunoichi's at Neji's table were giggling at the boy. He was particularly handsome. He had brown hair and he wore a black version of Lee's clothing, without the vest though, and the dual sword on his back.

The two girls also caught the male half's eyes. One wore a green tank top and black pants, she had radiant red hair and a calm and gentle face. The other one had light brown hair and wore light brown clothing that resembled that of an archer's complete with the bow on her back.

They ordered and occupied the table that was next to Neji and the others. They must have felt that the ninja's were looking at them since the two kunoichi greeted them, "Konichiwa."

"Those are the guys I was talking to you about. Except the white haired guy ain't with them." Sakura whispered to her fellow ninjas.

"Are they, Shika-kun?" Ino whispered to Shikamaru.

He nodded.

"You know I can tell what kind of person you are just by how and what you eat?" Tenten proudly told the others silently.

"R-really, Tenten-chan?" Hinata asked with awe at the kunoichi.

"Yup. See that redhead? How she eats her dumplings? She eats slowly and gracefully. Not only that she has poise even when eating. I'd say she grew up refined and she's a silent type." Tenten explained to the others.

"What about the boy?" Ino giggled excitedly.

"Well, he eats silently, seriously and his eyes are staring into space, as if he's thinking deeply. I'd say he's the silent, strong and serious type who must have something he really wants why he became a ninja. He must be the strongest in their team. The other girl, eats fast, unpolished, many and talks much. She is talkative, loud, kinda like a more refined female Naruto." She finished with a smile.

"You're the closest female Naruto I can think of." Sakura reprimanded.

"C'mon then, Tenten-chan. I want to know more about them." Ino said this loudly while she stood up.

Ino grabbed Tenten by the hand and dragged her towards the other table.

"Konichiwa!" They greeted the occupants of the table.

"Konichiwa." The kunoichis replied cheerfully as the boy just shrugged it off.

"I'm Ino and this is Tenten." Ino smiled as she extended he hand.

They shook their hands. "You want to sit down?" the boy asrked after he shook their hands.

"Arigato."

The kunoichis sat down opppsite of them.

"I'm Misao." The brown haired girl said.

"Inoue Mika." The redhead said.

After a moment of silence, "And this is Kira." Misao said pointing at the boy.

"Pleasure to meet you. What village are you guys from anyway?" Tenten finally said.

"We're from the Hidden Cliff village." Misao said smilingly.

"I've never heard of Hidden Cliff. I thought there were only five shinobi villages?" Ino said.

"On your continent, yes. But in ours there are only two, Cliff and Lake. We're from the Shadow Country. It's about a hundred miles away from the out point of the Water Country. We share the same island with Star Country." Misao explained.

"Oh! You're from abroad!" Ino exclaimed.

"C'mon, let's join this table with ours. The others would like to know about you too." Tenten said as she stood up and called Neji and the others.

A blode boy stormed into the restaurant. "Bah! You guys didn't even wait for me!" he shouted as he pointed a finger at Neji and the others.

"Shut up Naruto!" Neji scowled as he, Lee Kiba and Kira were pulling a table towards the other.

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"Huh." Naruto said with the 'I understand, even though I don't' look on his face. "Cliif Village, Shadow Country."

"So, you guys are actually here to create an alliance between our villages? That's cool. We can hang out!" Ino said as she hugged Misao.

"I have to go. I'm already late as it is. Father'd kill me." Shino said as he stood up from the table.

"Shit! I totally spaced! Hana's going to kill me!" Kiba shouted.

"Hiashi!" Neji exclaimed.

"Kurenai-sensei!" said Hinata.

"Tsunade-sama!' Ino and Sakura shouted.

"Ero-sennin!"

"Gai-sensei."

"Dad!"

"The gate!"

Every one of the Leaf ninjas seemed to have forgotten something. They all bid goodbye their new friends and left hurriedly.

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That night the Konoha ninjas received a letter to converge on the 37th gate of the 44th Training Grounds a.k.a. The Forest of Death. The letter said that they were to bring all necessary ninja gear and weapons they need.

All of the ninjas that received the message were baffled by the order. It also said that other shinobi will be there as well.

'Why?' Shino thought as he read the letter. 'Weapons and gear? Is there going to be a battle?'

Shino looked outside the window of his room. Waiting for the kikai he had sent out earlier to gather information.

A black point in the night sky appeared. It headed toward the bug-master. Buzz. It landed on his shoulder near his left ear.

"What?! Tomorrow?!"