I just read over the previous chapter SO MANY MISTAKES. Also for some odd reason whatever I Upload goes funny. Like the last chapter turned italic in the middle. GEEZ! Anywho I kind of rushed the last chapter, but this one I'm really looking forward to.

Onwards then….wheeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee

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"I have said it before and I will say it once again, If your going to get ambushed, you should at least get ambushed after lunch." Naruto's voice rang out. The 1 Anbu knew that his three students where rolling their eyes at him, despite the fact that they all wore masks. "Why are you thinking of food at a time like this?" Falcon hollered over her shoulder as she ducked a kick and stabbed her opponent in the stomach with a Kunai.

"Foolish girl there is only one reason I'm thinking of food, because I'm hungry of course!" Naruto informed her as if she had missed some huge point. Hawk rendered several opponents unconscious with his long sword "Banter in the middle of battle is not very stealthy, or professional." He chided them from a few feet away. And in battle it was, while waiting for the other ninjas on their mission to arrive about 20 or so people and ambushed them.

Naruto had sensed the Warriors long before they had arrived, but out of lack of anything else to do he didn't tell his team. The enemy had hidden their presence very well and the relaxed 3 students had assumed their leader would tell them if they where in danger. He didn't, of course if they asked about it, he would tell them it was to test their skills in times of pressure. But it was mostly cause they were fun to bully.

Naruto took a death breath and looked around, it had taken them 7 minutes flat to take out this bad of mercenaries, judging by the clothes. Unconscious bodies where in a pile where Owl had stacked them in a somewhat orderly manner. He smiled to himself as he leaned against one of the side poles that help up Konohas Huge gate. "I have quite an impressive team." He complemented himself.

And it was true, facing 4 against 20 was not bad at all, especially when 3 of them where caught of guard, and on top if that they and handled it in less then 10 minutes. Not bad at all. "Phantom it seems that all of these men are trained in the art of the Ninja." Falcon pointed. Naruto nodded, it was kind of rare for a band of outlaws to be made of only ninja. "Hm that makes the victory even more impressive." Naruto muttered to himself.

"You really are shameless Phantom" Owl said, sweat dropping. Naruto turned his head away, holding it high as he blatantly ignored Owl, Owl sighed. "I've noticed this for a while, I know hat you call me by my code-name because of the mission, but why is it that you three hardly ever call me Leader, or sensei even though I am both?" Naruto asked pointedly.

The three Students glanced at each other through their masks. "Well, err isn't it kinda obvious?" Falcon asked. "No." Naruto said bluntly Falcon sighed, it looked like they where going to have to spell it out for him. "Phantom, its not that we mean disrespect it only that…you're 19." Naruto nodded accepting that. "And?" He asked. Hawk shook his head.

"Calling you Phantom seemed more Natural because calling someone younger then you "sensei" is…well it feels somewhat degrading. And calling you leader is the same basic principle. All of us are over twenty, sometime it feels like we should have you call us sempai. We have fought along side you, and you have taught us much about fighting, healing, teamwork, and other things we have nothing but respect, but calling you just plain Phantom seemed….more appropriate given your age."

All three watched for their leader reaction. He didn't move. "Phantom?" Owl asked hesitantly. Naruto jerked upward slightly. "Are you guys still talking? Sorry guess I toned you out about half way through." Hawk sniffed, he was obviously miffed that he got Toned out. Naruto smiled under his mask. "Don't worry I got the idea." Hawk sighed.

Naruto frowned as he felt his affection for his students grow again. He knew he had decided after many sleepless nights to think about what he was doing. Naruto sighed to himself, he had wondered if somehow getting so close to people was a mistake. "Phantom?" Naruto looked up as his thought process was interrupted. It was Hawk who had spoken but Naruto was rather surprised to see that the three had their Anbu masks off and the thick black hoods they wore were down.

Naruto studied the three faces that were facing him, he knew that right now there was no one around but taking off the masks still broke protocol. He couldn't help a small chuckle when he saw Falcon biting her lip. For all her prowess as a skilled Ninja her face could be read like a book because of bad habits of hers, biting the right side of her lip was one of them.

For most people lip biting would make them look cute, but with falcon it was different she had sharp features and straight midnight black hair that was always kept in an orderly manner in a ponytail near the top of her head. Her eye were a piercing green, and her over all appearance gave a orderly, no-nonsense vibe. Naruto had soon learned to his great amusement that her personality was nothing of the sort. She loved poking fun at people, and loved to be in on everything from gossip to pranks that where going to be played.

That was not to say she was obnoxious and unreliable, in fact if she was given a job she did it and she did it well, it was just that she had a few quirks, ask her to do paperwork and she would, in a very precise way, it was just that she had no problem doodling all over the corners. Or ask her a serious question like "Did anyone die on your last mission?" and she would look you dead in the eye and say "Just a little bit." And would calmly walk away. If it was serious enough she would drop the jokes, but if she could get away with it she would try.

Naruto had taken a instant like to the woman. His eyes roamed to Falcons left where Hawk stood, he had a serious face on his as always. It was not that he was a cold person Naruto has discovered, it was just that he was a by-the-book guy, he always told them that you'll always know what to do if you have the firm foundation of rules. He came from a family of swordsmen and was a excellent sword user. His specialty was calculating the opponents fighting habits and using them against the enemy.

He had dark blond hair that fell to his shoulders, and over serious brown eyes. He always stood erect his mouth in a thin line, but for all that he was a good comrade, he had subtle ways of helping a his teammate, whether it was a push in the right direction, good advice now and again, or even to crack a smile for you now an again, he was a good reliable person. An after a while he had grown on Naruto.

And of course there was Owl, Naruto had met him on his first day as a Anbu, at first Naruto thought that he seemed like a uptight quick to temper guy, as it turns out he was a go with the flow kinda guy. Mostly Naruto was shocked when in the middle of battle Owl had taken a hit and when he had gotten to his feet it seemed like he was a different person, he had started swearing violently and then started battling again in a to-hell-with-the-consequences way.

As it had turned out because his mother was abusive Owl had learned to repress all of the things he disliked but when something pissed him off enough it all came pouring out on one big black psycho rush. Naruto had begun calling the Black side of Owl "shadow" Because sometimes it was there and sometimes not. Naruto stubbornly called it this even after he said it once too often and "shadow" had come out and tried to attack Naruto. But with his short brown hair and black eyes, Owl was an over all great guy.

Naruto groaned, man he had some weird comrades! "You ok?" Owl asked. Naruto nodded focusing on the most important aspect of all three, all of them looked like they had something important to say, Naruto wondered if they where going to get to it, ah it looked like Falcon was going to open her mouth.

"Sensei….we know that you said that if we wanted to hear about you, you would tell us…and it we, well all three of us that is, together we were thinking that if you, I meant cause you said-" Naruto interrupted "Make a point or shut up." Even though an unsettled Naruto could already see where this was going he was going to wait for them to say it.

Hawk quick to get to the point broke in. "We know little of your past, and normally would respect you and not ask but it is clear by your behavior that it has something to do with our missions team members this time…also we really do care about you so in order to not jeopardize the mission with personal inter-relations, and also for us to be able to aid you in any way we can we now ask for you to tell us what you are willing to about your past……also we are curious?" Hawk added in response to the unmoving blank mask that seemed to be staring at him.

Naruto had known this was coming but he didn't think that it would be this, quickly. Also he was scowling at the idea that he would let emotions endanger a mission, Naruto knew better then anyone how to be cold and detached, it was part of what made him a good ninja in the heat of battle. Stupid dumb ass Hawk.

They had four hours until the other ninja were going to arrive they had time…and yet. Naruto was afraid, afraid to take a chance, he knew that within him, if he broke one more time if someone held his heart and broke it, he would shatter. Human where driven by emotion and Naruto knew that if his pieces broke once more he would be nothing more then a shell.

Within him he carefully nurtured the small light, it was what made Naruto, Naruto. But it was small just a reminder through the darkness, And Naruto knew that he couldn't touch that light, because if he stretched himself out to the light he would break into billons of shards. Now should he had over his light to be held in the hands of his three students? Would they break it, douse the light, or would they make it grow, Naruto truly cared of his students but to trust them so much? His light was already so small.

Naruto tilted his face up to the sky, looking at the blue sky through his mask. "I remember the first time I truly smiled." Naruto commented. Owl pointed out the obvious "You would have been too young." Naruto chuckled bitterly, as he slowly reached up and removed his mask turning his head to look them right in the eye. "No I was old enough, really you don't think they would let a monster run free do you?"

In the Anbu the nine tailed fox was a well known fact, but the Older Anbu had worked with the 4th so they trusted his seal and did not overly-worry. And after a few missions with Naruto the younger calmly disregarded the fact as well, besides they where trained only to do their jobs, picking on others wasn't in the job-description. So before he became overly well known he was mostly not bothered with. That delighted Naruto, his students had taken some time to adjust but had worked it out soon enough, following their co-workers example. But if they looked at it now there was no way it wouldn't have had a major impact on their leader.

"Listen all of you." The were startled to here their leaders cold war voice, the voice he used when the battle could go either way. "I will tell you this, I'm going to tell you everything for two reasons. One: my past my end up impacting this mission, I can't let that happen but because I have gone so long suppressing a lot of my emotions I cannot be sure I can trust my own emotional judgment this is where you all will come in, Second:….I have worked with all of you closer then most people I have ever met, I should know better by now, but….I want to…believe that there is someone out there that I can truly trust so with that, I'm counting on you."

Naruto swallowed hard although he kept his voice calm and level, he looked up to look at his students right in the eye, and his face flickered in betrayal of his surprise. By what seemed like mutual agreement all three students where smiling but their faces shown will fierce determination. "Well if that's all it is you may as well just leave it too us." Falcon said with a wave of her hand. Owl grinned and Hawk nodded but all three faltered in surprise when they saw their leaders face. He had a sad smile. "Alright then." He agreed, and oddly to the four of them it felt like a gavel had just swung down, pronouncing the finality. And with that Naruto began.

--Flashback-- (Authors note- I'm really excited for the next part, just wait for it to pick up a little.)

"Naruto will you hurry up." Naruto yawned tracking in after his Sensei and pink haired teammate. "Alright, alright I'm coming, lets just ignore that I've gotten no sleep for 3 days." Tsunade nodded at them as they filed into her office. "I'm sure, you all want to hear the news of how Sasuke is, after your last mission he was fairly badly injured and-" Naruto interrupted "Baa Chan will you please just this once drop protocol and just tell us flat out?" Naruto asked stifling another yawn.

They had been waiting for news on Sasuke for three days, They had been on a mission and Sasuke had gotten separated from them. The village they had been sent to investigate had been in ruins when the team arrived after battling what seemed like crazed villagers, upon arrival they had found Sasuke badly hurt, heading towards them a strange, beautiful brown haired girl hanging onto his arm. Sasuke had managed to tell them that she was a survivor and he had handled the crazed people here before he collapsed. They took the girl and Sasuke back to the village.

Naruto had been filling out paperwork, and waiting around since then unable to sleep because of a odd sense of foreboding. The brown haired girl was fine but unconscious, 10 minutes ago Team seven had been called, into the Hokages office to get an update on their team member, and now Naruto was too tired to wait out the news. Tsunade filled them in. "Sasuke is mostly fine now, and has woken up, he will be discharged in about 4 days." Sakura smiled "that's great" she cheered.

Tsunade, it seemed had more to say. "The girl that was with him also awoke." None of the listeners missed the frown Tsunade had at the thought. "Is their something wrong with her?" Naruto questioned. The Hokage shook her head. "Its not that, she told us her name is Kashia, but not much else." Kakashi tilted his head. "Is that a problem?" Tsunades frowned deepened. "No, in fact she is very sweet and polite, its just…..she well she feels…too perfect."

Naruto laughed "Do you mean she has a unusual feel about her or are you just being weird?" Tsunade scowled. "NO!…it's just that after they both woke up Kashia went to talk to Sasuke, and he seemed almost…obedient, I shouldn't be talking like that but…it feels like she Mmmm, put a spell on him. As I was talking to her it felt like she was going to invade my brain." Tsunade was interrupted by laughter.

"Hahahaha ha! Think about it! I kill Orochimaru breaking his hold on Sasuke, drag him back here, just so he can get a spell put on him by a witch girl! Hahaha I don't think so!" Naruto took a deep breath trying to calm his tired brain down. "Na that's not it maybe our poor Asexual friend finally got a crush on some poor victim." Naruto chortled until Sakura nailed him over his head with her fist. "Knock It off, as ninja we cannot out rule the possibility of strange jutsu, for now we'll be nice but carefully." Sakura said stiffly.

Naruto tried not to scowl at the girl for the mean whack and muttered under his breath "you just jealous cause the girl got to him first." Kakashi tried to hide a roll of his eye. "You may go see Sasuke now." Tsunade dismissed them, obviously feeling regret over telling them what she thought of the girl. "But like Sakura said be careful, we still don't know what caused those villagers to go crazy and start acting like rabid wolves." the Fifth called after them.

That sobered them up quickly, seeing what had become of those people had not been pleasant at all, in fact when they had seen the girl with Sasuke Naruto had been happy that there was at least one survivor. Naruto and Sakura nodded back at the blond woman, and with that in mind they went to go see their ex-missing nin teammate.

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Naruto twitched as he felt something give him a nudge, he mumbled at it and turned his head trying to go back to sleep, as he was nudged again. He brought his head up blearily and took in his surroundings. Let's see, White, white, white, Sasuke, more white =Hospital room. Ah that was right, after visiting Sasuke for a few minutes of him mostly ignoring them, Sasuke had fallen asleep so Naruto had been volunteered to stay with him because the other two had stuff to do. He must have fallen asleep with his head on Sasuke's bed.

"Idiot wake up!" The urgent voice hissed at him. Lets see the voice was arrogant, calm "Sasuke where's the freaking fire?" Naruto asked, shaking himself awake. He looked up to meet Sasukes searching gaze. "Where is she, is she alright?" Sasuke demanded. Naruto blinked, "What are you talking about what do you mean she….Oh! You mean that girl err Kashia!" Sasuke nodded vigorously, "well she's resting in the other room and whoa hang on there." Naruto cried as he held back a Sasuke who had been attempting to get out of bed.

"What's gotten into you? You still need rest, I didn't bring you back just so you could kill yourself." Sasuke struggled even though the drugs in his system made him weak. "I have too make sure she is alright!" "She's fine I just checked." Naruto lied. That seemed to calm him down. Naruto had learned long ago (it having been used against him) what button sent sleeping drugs into the system, Naruto hit the button off to the right of the bed about four times.

He breathed in relief when Sasuke started to slip into sleep. "She is so amazing Naruto you'll see, it'll be great when she is hear." Sasuke mumbled to him. Naruto eyes were wide, the 17 year old was shocked. Tsunade was right something is way off, did that girl do something to the bastard? Naruto thought to himself. He had better report this to Baa Chan.

Naruto quickly dashed around the bed and yanked the door open with the intent of telling Tsunade what had happened, so he was kinda surprised to find himself staring at the ground, with a groan he sat up and looked around to see what he had tripped over. His eyes widened as he spotted a brown haired girl sitting awkwardly a foot from him. She was the one he'd run into?

She smiled at him. "girl…K-Kashia?" Naruto gasped. Her shy smile seemed to light up. "Oh I see you already know about me. You must be Naruto Uzumaki, am I right?" she said in gentile voice. "H-how'd ya know?" Naruto asked. Was this girl Psychic? Naruto tried not to panic. "The Lady Hokage sent me to find you, when I asked if I could see the village she said to find you as an tour guide."

Crap, well at least she didn't have ESP. "Are you sure she said me?" Naruto asked for clarification, what had happened to Baa Chan not liking the girl? Kashia nodded, "Oh yes, the nice lady in charge and I had a long and wonderful talk, I'm sure her and I will get along just splendidly." She said sweetly. Naruto watched as Kashia picked herself up off the floor dusting off the nice white dress someone must have given her.

Naruto followed suit, he was confused The girl seemed nice, but the Hokage had been so wary of her, and now they were buddies? Naruto decided that for now he would just go along with it and show her around, he didn't want to hurt her feelings, she really did seem like a good girl. It was just…that didn't explain Sasukes behavior. Even Naruto knew that that had been way too much for a simple crush.

"So you seem to make friends quickly, you got the Hokage, and Sasuke too, if you've got Sasuke on your side you must have quite a gift with people." Naruto said conversationally. He felt an unexplained chill zip down his back as her eyes tilted to hid in the shadow of her hair, but when she spoke it was still in that honey sweet tone, "Oh yes I love meeting people, in fact while you give me the tour, id be very happy if you introduced me to everyone, you'd be surprised at how right you are when you said I have a gift for people you hit the nail on the head, in fact right now I'm even hoping that we can be very close."

Naruto smiled hesitantly at her. Maybe she just wanted to make friends, it seemed that she liked knowing people, she talked kinda odd but she really seemed nice Naruto twitched slightly as his eyes met hers, he felt kinda odd. It was almost like something was tickling his brain. "Yes we will be great friends." He heard Kashia said as if she was talking to him through lots of cotton. Out of nowhere a loud bang rang out. Naruto jumped in surprise breaking eye contact, he turned to look at the cause. A nurse as it turned out had dropped a tray of surgeon's instruments.

Naruto shook his head to clear it; maybe I haven't gotten as much sleep as I thought. Naruto told himself as he turned back to the brown haired girl. "Come on I'll give you an Uzumaki class tour." Naruto said to her. She looked somewhat disappointed but nodded and smiled brightly. "I look forward to it!" She said in a sing-song voice Naruto nodded and took her through the hospital, "I'm sure you'll like everyone." Naruto encouraged, she nodded still smiling. "I'm sure I will"

**************Ahhh sorry Im ending it here. I would like to just keep going on, I can't focus on anything else when there is a story buzzing in my brain. But I really hate reading too long chapters. So I'll end it here. But there will be more in the blink of an eye.

Honestly I make this up as I go, and I never feel like re-reading my stuff so sorry if it's a little rough,

It's an author thing.

Cheers

-Just Miki

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