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Eight years have passed now so all the rookie nine are 25 while Gai's team is 26, All are jounin's now and a "mysterious character" comes in this chapter who could it be? Just wait and see, now let's start this chapter.
'Thought'
"Speech"
"Kyuubi"
Chapter 1 The Return
"Damn off all times to be ambushed by sound nins" said Kurenai as the members of team eight raced back to Konoha's boarder in the dead of night. Eight years have passed since Naruto left, during those years the sound regrouped and Orochimaru reappeared, stronger than he ever was before, wielding a new power. His power was so great that other shinobi villages dared not to interfere. Again Konoha was at war with the Sound, though with the help of the Kazekage Gaara of the desert and Suna, Konoha has been spared of Orochimaru's full force.
Tsunade had given a mission to the former team eight which consisted of Kiba Inuzuka, Shino Aburame, Hinata Hyuuga, and Kurenai Yuuhi. Their mission was to spy on the Sound and find out how many forces of ninja they had coming to the front lines and what their next move was. Unfortunately the group had been spotted before they had entered the Sound village to start their mission.
"Hey Hinata how come you didn't see those damn sound nins earlier" said Kiba who was on Akamaru's head.
"I figured we were safe from spies while we were head to sound country. It wasn't only until I activated my Byakugan that I realized we were found out" said Hinata. "They're closing in, we've got to hurry." Everyone pumped chakra into their legs and ran at full speed.
Just as they thought they got away from them Hinata spotted more sound nins in front of them. 'Damn they must have planned this so that we can't escape.' "Everyone turn to the right, now!" Everyone jammed their heels into the ground. Kiba was flung off Akamaru's head into a bush because of the quick stop.
"What the hell Hinata." Akamaru grab Kiba with his mouth and flung him over his head onto his back and began running in the new direction.
"They were coming from up front to block…" Just as Hinata spoke those words more sound nins appeared out of nowhere. 'Oh no they must be using sound to mask themselves damn.' "Damn there everywhere." Team eight stopped in their tracks as at leased 50 sound ninja surrounded them.
"Well, well, well, look what we have here boys, seems some Konoha nins got lost in our territory" said one Sound ninja
"No I don't think so, why would a team of Konoha nins enter sound territory, may be it's because they're spies" the sound nin smiled evilly.
"Yah spies make sense." He turned to Kurenai's team. "You know what we do to spies" he smiled evilly. We exterminate them. On cue team 8 got into a back to back formation. Shino had his hands in his pockets as his bugs started to come out of hiding. Kiba and Akamaru were both crouched and ready to spring into action at any moment. Hinata poised herself in the taijutsu stance of her clan Byakugan activate. Kurenai brought out a kunai and ready to use one of her many lists of genjutsu to distract the enemy.
Though what the team couldn't see was the sound ninja in front of them were shadow clones. Behind them several sound nins began going through hand seals to prepare their jutsu to defeat there enemy.
Without warning the shadow clones disappeared in a cloud of smoke and the sound nins had finished their seals. All off team eights eyes widened, with the exception of Shino. "It's over." "COMBO STYLE: VIBRATION DISRUPTION JUTSU" the sound nins yelled as the area surrounding team eight was engulfed in a wavy atmosphere. The sound nins raised one finger and increased the pitch of the sound surrounding team eight.
The sound was so intense that they all covered their ears. Kiba and Akamaru fared worst, with their enhanced hearing the screeching sound was unbearable, so much that they fell into unconsciousness with blood coming out of their ears.
'Kiba- kun no' thought Hinata as she watched her friend fall to the ground. Shino on the other hand prepared his bugs to go after the sound ninja and absorb their chakra to stop the sound waves. The sound nins reacted fast by lowering their pitch to a low bass immediately affecting the antenna of the destruction bugs, leaving them paralyzed on the ground. Shino also sub came to the same fate.
"Shino-kun." It was just Hinata and Kurenai left they had to stop this jutsu and save their friends, though the chances of that happening seemed bleak as the sound ninja's raised their fingers again into a different pitch.
Soon both Hinata and Kurenai were holding their heads in pain. "Hn this pitch of sound attacks the nervous system and disrupts the signals that are going through your brain causing a very painful seizer. Kurenai couldn't take anymore off the pain and fell down lifelessly to the ground.
'I've got to hold out but the pain is becoming too intense.' Hinata dropped onto her hands and knee's trying to find some inner strength to beat this jutsu, but alas she couldn't get up this was bad.
Mean while walking down a dirt path a man wearing a buttoned up trench coat with a high collar, and wearing a broad stay hat on his head which covered his face. He stopped and looked to the direction where the fight between team eight and the sound ninja's was happening. "Guess I better help out then" he said in a deep manly voice. And in a blink of an eye he vanished into thin air.
Back with Hinata she was still struggling to get up, but she finally fell to the ground exhausted and in pain. Before she closed her eyes a dark figure appeared in front of her and that's all she remembered.
The sound nins immediately stopped their jutsu when the mystery person showed up. "Hey who the hell are you, interfering with are game" said one sound nin. The man stood there unmoved by the ninja's outburst. He rose his head slightly, thought his eyes were still hidden; the sound ninja's had an eerie feeling about this stranger.
"You know you shouldn't attack defenseless opponents" said the man. The sound ninja's got angry at the comment.
"Hn well you're not defenseless so let's attack you instead." With that the sound ninja's went onto the attack, charging in with kunai ready to stab the mystery man. Under his coat he smiled slightly at their attempt to kill him. He jumped into the air before any sound ninja got close enough to hit him. He went through some very quick hand seals that the sound ninja's could not follow.
"RAIN OF KUNAI" yelled the mystery man as his trench coat opened revealing ninja gear and clothing but also the kunai that were spring out of it as well. Thought the strange thing was that these kunai were very different from the normal kunai. These kunai were three pronged and the holding part had a seal on it. The strangest thing was that the kunai missed every single sound ninja.
The sound ninja's looked around the area and laughed. "How do you expect to defeat us when your attack misses" said a sound ninja.
The mystery man smiled. "That the whole point." He flashed through another series of hand seals and in a flash it was over.
"Ugh where am I, what happened" said a confused Hinata as she opened her eyes to look at her surroundings. It was still night and the full moon shone its eerie light upon the forest. There was a fire burning to her left with roasting fishes on sticks. "Wasn't I and my teammates in a fight before" she said out loud.
"Yes you were in a fight" said a voice to her right. Hinata jumped back with a kunai in hand as she stared at the man in front of her. He was wearing a light olive trench coat that was buttoned up with a high collar covering the lower parts of his face and a straw hat covering the rest of his face and head.
"Who are you, are you from the sound." The mystery man looked at her. 'Wow she sure has changed since I last saw her, not as timid as before and a hell of a lot prettier to' the man thought (A/N: Have you figured who it is yet, causes if you don't you're very slow)
"Answer me."
The man sighed. "If this is that thanks I get for saving your life and the life of your teammates I should of just left you all to die." Hinata looked at him surprised. 'He saved us, so he was the dark figure I saw before I passed out.'
Hinata lowered her kunai, but didn't lower her guard; she still didn't trust this guy whoever he was. The mystery man went over to the fire and placed his newest catch of fish, and placed it on a stick to roast. He then took one off the fire and handed it over to Hinata. "Here eat this you need it."
He then took one for himself and started eating. Hinata looked wearily at the fish and then looked back at the man. He looked at her as well. "What it not like I poisoned the thing." Hinata turned away with a slight blush on cheeks for being foolish and began to eat her fish.
After awhile, the mystery man turned to Hinata. "You should probably wake up your friends, I healed tem already so don't worry about them. Hinata nodded and got up and walked towards her friends.
"Kiba- kun, Akamaru, Shino- kun, Kurenai- sensei, please wake up" Hinata said shaking them softly. A few seconds later they all woke up dazed and sleepy, except for Shino you couldn't tell.
"So you're all finally awake good." said the mystery man. Just then Kurenai, Shino, Kiba and Akamaru got defensive, pulling Hinata behind them to 'protect' her.
"Who the hell are you" Kiba said growling.
"Kiba please listen to m…" but Hinata was cut off by Kiba.
"If you did anything to Hinata I'll make you pay."
"Don't try anything stupid or you'll regret it" said Kurenai.
"Everybody plea…." Again Hinata was cut off by Kiba.
"Don't worry Hinata I won't make him get you, you can count on it." Hinata had enough, her team was ignoring her, and it was the final straw.
"WILL YOU SHUT UP AND LISTEN TO ME" she yelled, surprising everyone from her outburst. Kiba looked dumbfounded as well as Kurenai who in all her years of training Hinata, she had never heard her scream before. The only expression that could indicate that Shino was surprised was his raised eyebrows.
The mystery man was also surprised at her outburst. 'She sure has change from the timid girl I remember, so has her team. Yes Hinata had changed from her timid shy form to a confident ninja. She had kept her hair long and had made it to one long braid with her signature side bangs. She wore a blue open sleeveless jacket that stopped at her belly button. Underneath that she wore the traditional shinobi wear. Her black pants stopped a few inches from her ankles.
'Damn she changed a lot.'
Hinata sighed and looked at her team. "Listen he's not an enemy, he was the one that saved us from those sound nins just awhile ago." Her team looked at her surprised; this guy in front of them saved them.
"Yes I saved you from those sound ninja so you have nothing to fear." Kurenai looked at the man skeptically.
"What village do you come from," she asked.
"Why the Hidden Leaf village, I'm an informant for the Hokage. 'Hmm I still don't trust him totally, but if Hinata finds no fault in him I guess we're safe then,' thought Kurenai.
"Kiba, Shino, Akamaru at ease he's not a threat," said Kurenai. Kiba, Shino, Akamaru all relaxed and placed their kunai's back in their holsters.
"Oh yah I was roasting some fish just awhile ago, so dig in everyone," said the mystery man. Kurenai and the other looked skeptically at him again.
"It's ok I already had some and there fine guys," said Hinata. Her team looked at her dumbstruck.
"Hinata you should just eat what he give you it could have been poisoned or something," said Kiba.
"Hinata you should know better than that, you're a jounin after all," said Kurenai disappointed.
"Its fine I checked for poison so just eat." With that said the rest of team eight ate to their hearts content. After eating they decide that they should sleep for the rest of the night, Hinata had volunteered to keep watch so did the mystery man.
The man was sitting on a branch a few meters up from Hinata, occasionally moving head to signify that he was watching their surroundings. Hinata decide to join him on his designated branch. "Well is there something you want."
"You can sleep if you want Mr, and I can keep watch."
"No thanks I'm ok you should be the one that needs sleep we have a long day ahead of us." Hinata looked at him try to figure out who he was behind the hat and the high collar. She was about to use her Byakugan to find out, when a hand came in front of her face tell her to stop. "Please I like to keep my identity secret, an informant as important as me needs to be of top secrecy not even Konoha nins can know my identity."
Hinata closed her eyes and sighed, she was just curious about the man who saved her and her friends. "Now I think its time you go and sleep." Hinata looked up and when she did two fingers were pressed on her forehead. She suddenly felt sleepy, soon her eyes closed and she slumped over onto the mystery man. He held her close and jumped down to the ground with grace and step her sleeping form with her teammates.
"Ugh what the," mumbled Hinata as she covered her eyes from the sun light that seeped through her eyes. Then it hit her she was supposed to be on watch, but she slept how could she have she just let her team down oh no what the heck was she supposed to do.
"Hey Hinata your finally awake we're about to leave soon we don't want to hang around here any longer we may come into another fight with sound ninja's," said Kiba. Hinata looked around finding everyone trying to cover up the makeshift camp.
A few minutes later everyone was ready to go. It took a few hours but they had reached fire country border. "Everyone the Anbu scouting post is just up ahead," said Kurenai. Everyone looked ahead to see a two story building with a red flag on the top with the Konoha leaf symbol on it. They could also see figure dressed in black and some in armour.
A minute later they landed in front of it, and then two Anbu rushed to meet them. "Kurenai, you've finally returned. When you didn't show up last night we were worried," said the Anbu captain.
"Sorry we had you worried Uchiha- san." The mystery man looked at the man addressed as Uchiha, and the Anbu captain looked at him to.
"I'm surprised that you left with three other ninja and came back with four," said Sasuke.
"Sorry we got into a little trouble on the way back, he helps us. He is supposedly an informant for the Hokage.
Meanwhile the other Anbu member walked up to Hinata. "Hinata-sama, are you alright."
"Yes Neji-nii-san I'm fine you don't need to worry about me I can take care of myself.
"Good if there was even a scratch on you Hiashi would be angry at me for it."
"Neji I'm going to bring tem to Konoha, I need you to take command while I'm gone."
"Yes captain." Neji bowed to the rest of them and leapt to the top of the building and disappeared.
"Hey Sasuke how the hell are you going to bring us to Konoha any way, from here on it takes two days to get there," said Kiba.
"I'll show you flee bag." Kiba glared at Sasuke making a mental note to kick his ass when he's off duty. "Now flow me." They walked a bit further into the wood s then they stopped. "Everyone gather around me." They all gathered around Sasuke as he started making hand seals. Once done a blue flame erupted around them and engulfed them. The only thing left was a burn mark.
In Konoha a blue flame erupted out of nowhere scaring the living crap out everyone there. Soon six figures emerged from the flame. "That answers your question dog boy." Kiba gave Sasuke a dirty look.
"Alright everyone you can head back to your homes I'll report the mission later to the Hokage," said Kurenai. Her team nodded and went their separate ways.
"You, you're coming with me to the Hokage," Sasuke said to the mystery man. The man looked at Sasuke and nodded and followed him. They soon arrived at the Konoha Administrative building, as they walked in it was full of ninja going in and out. Sasuke guided the man through a series of hallways and stairs until they where at the top floor.
They soon found themselves in front of two large oak wooden doors, two Anbu were positioned on either side. They saw Sasuke and saluted to their superior. When the doors opened the mystery man thought he saw a lot of ninja's on the lower floors but this takes the cake. The room was packed with various shinobi. Some were analyzing codes and information. Others were developing strategies and so on and so forth.
Sasuke and the mystery man squeezed through until they came to a large desk there sat the Hokage Tsunade, beside her was her old teammate Jiraiya. Tsunade looked up to see her Anbu captain that was supposed to be at the border, and a stranger.
"Hokage-sama I'd like a word with you alone," said Sasuke. Tsunade nodded and stood up.
"Excuse me everyone." But people still were busy doing their work to hear. Tsunade tried a couple more times until he was fed up. "HEY YOU IDIOTS GET OUT." As fast as you could blink the room was empty except for Tsunade, Jiraiya, Sasuke and the mystery man.
"Now what is that you want to discuss with me privately Sasuke is it about him," said Tsunade as she pointed to the person beside Sasuke.
"Yes as a matter of fact he is a secret informant of yours Hokage-sama."
"You do know Sasuke that I don't have any secret informant."
"Just as I thought Hokage-sama." Soon the mystery man felt a kunai at his neck, and his arm pinned back by Sasuke. Tsunade and Jiraiya got up and walked to the Mystery man.
"There are only two things that you could be one an assassin from the sound or a spy."
"Heh heh heh, sorry but you're wrong," said the mystery man as he vanished. Sasuke was shocked for a moment then felt a presence behind him. He turned around to face his opponent. "It's best not that you call in the other ninja in here, you'll spoil the fun."
Tsunade, Jiraiya and Sasuke were ready to fight this man. The mystery man unzipped his trench coat and then removed his hat to reveal spiky blond hair, blue eyes and three facial scars on both cheeks. The three ninja in front of him stood shocked.
"Hey guys I'm back," he said giving them a foxy grin.
Tsunade was the only one to allow her mouth to function. "N-Naruto."
Finally done, the second chapter is done. It took me awhile but I finished it. The third chapter called the Reunion will be coming out next week. On the week of March Break to count on any chapters since I'll be going away for the week and won't be coming back until Tuesday. So chapter four will be late. No summary this time but there will be next time count on it. So all that's left is to review. Oh and thanks to all those who reviewed so far.