Chapter 1

6 years later…

"What a drag, why did I have to be stuck on gate duty." Shikamaru groaned. He and Choji had been chosen to do gate duty as punishment for failing their last C rank mission. "Cheer up Shikamaru, at least we can sit around and eat all day." Choji said finishing up his fourth bag of chips that morning. Shikamaru snorted at his friend's antics and lay back on his chair. He looked up at the sky and watched as clouds drifted by.

He was interrupted from his cloud gazing as a cloaked man walked through the gates. He wore a black cloak with a red swirl on the back. The hood was up, covering his face. "May we help you sir." Shikamaru asked suspicious of this man's appearance.

"I'm just visiting, I need to speak to the Hokage."

" Do you have some ID?" Shikamaru replied.

"No I lost it when I battled some sound nins a while back," the man said sadly.

"Can you tell us your name, village and rank, if you're a shinobi."

"No that is confidential." The man growled obviously a bit angered.

"Then guess we can't let you in."

" Oh well, guess I should've listened to Kyu." With that the man disappeared in a puff of smoke and appeared on a roof nearby. The man started running toward the Hokage tower.

"How troublesome," Shikamaru said, summoning an Anbu captain.

"Yo," Kakashi appeared in front of Shikamaru.

"Rouge ninja I think, headed toward Lady Tsunade." Shikamaru quickly told Kakashi, pointing to the form a few blocks away.

"Got it." Kakashi started chasing the cloaked figure.

The man sensing Kakashi behind him, quickly leaped up and turned toward the Anbu captain, "Summoning Jutsu!" he shouted biting his thumb. A large horse-sized four-tailed fox appeared and charged toward Kakashi claws outstretched. Kakashi dodged the first attack but then was stuck doing an intricate dance of locks and dodges as the fox clawed and bit at him. Meanwhile the man had reached the tower roof.

He landed on the windowsill and looked down at the sleeping Hokage drooling on her paper pillow. 'She hasn't changed one bit.' He smiled to himself.

"Lady Tsunade, WAKE UP!" he shouted into the Hokage's ear grinning to himself.

"WHAT THE HELL WAS THAT FOR!" Tsuande screamed punching toward the voice that had interrupted her 11:46 nap. "Orochimaru, Sound nins," He said calmly, leaping away from the punch, landing on the window again. "Ring any bells."

This immediately got Tsunade's attention, "What, when, how," she asked.

"Orochimaru is building up an army and bringing them here to take down Konaha."

She started digesting this information then looked over at the strange man, "Wait, who are you and how did you get in here."

"Well who I am," he seemed to think on it for a moment, "I don't feel like telling you, secondly, your window was open." This strangers words enraged Tsunade and she broke her desk in half.

"You little brat, you come in here without permission, wake me from my nap and then tell me Orochimaru is coming with an army of sound nins! Give me one good reason to believe a word you've said, oh and you owe me a new desk." She shouted.

"Oh please, you've broken more than four desks already, oh and you Anbu captain finally caught up."

Kakashi appeared behind the man holding a kunai to his throat, "Annoying fox you have." He murmured in his captive's ear.

"Well I would've taken you on myself but Kiro wanted to play." The man retorted.

The door to the Hokage's office burst open and Shizune, Sakura and three Anbu members entered. "We heard shouting." An Anbu member with a wolf mask stated.

"We have a visitor," Tsunade glaring at the man behind her.

The man pouted (well you can't see his face but if you could he'd be pouting.) "Humph, I come here trying to warn you about a possible war and this is the treatment I get, some pervert holding a kunai to my throat and hostile glares and insults, fine I'm outta here." He disappeared in a poof of smoke.

'Shadow clone!' Kakashi thought surprised. He turned around and scanned the rooftops for the strange cloaked man.

"There!" Sakura yelled pointing to a black blur near the gate. Kakashi and the other Anbu members sped after him.

After everyone left her office Tsunade thought to herself about the strange man. 'Should I believe him, he seems to know us. How'd he know I had already gone through more than four desks and how did he know Kakashi was a pervert.'

As the man approached the gate, he felt himself stiffen and unable to move. He felt himself turn around and saw his shadow connected to Shikamaru. "Dammit." He swore angrily.

"Where are you going so soon, you just got here?" Shikamaru taunted with a smirk.

"Good job Shikamaru." Kakashi complimented reaching the pair. "So are you going to tell us who you are or do we have to find out ourselves."

"Hmm let me think… I'll go with choice number two." The man replied with a smirk. (Still can't see his face.)

"Oh well to bad for you, Shikamaru." Kakashi said nodding at Shikamaru. Shikamaru reached up toward his head and grabbed where the hood would be if he was wearing one. The other man was forced to do the same. "Bastard." The man growled. Shikamaru just smirked and yanked his hand back. The man's hood was pulled back and the group was met with a pair of bright blue eyes and yellow hair.

Everyone gasped and stepped back, Shikamaru's jutsu was released. "Na…Naruto!" Kakashi gasped.

"Hey everyone, miss me?" Naruto replied with his infamous grin.