Hey guys! It's me again! I managed to type and edit a new chapter in early so I could get started on another one of my ideas. I have more dialogue in this chapter but the thing is, sometimes I get a little too carried away with the talking and the chapter ends up looking more like a script than anything so I tried my best to fix up the dialogue but let me know if it's too much and I'll fix it. On with the chapter!


"You presumed right...who are you?" Naruto looked up at the guy at the lip of the pit. A black and white katana hung on his right hip, a similar and much shorter wakizashi was strapped down in the white sash across his waist. Just above his head was the long hilt of a nodaichi and something that looked the end of a staff.

"I am who I am," seeing Naruto's confused face, he chuckled, "My real name is of no matter, but around the nations, I am known as Laughing Dragon, you may call me Laughing,"

Naruo felt his jaw drop, Laughing Dragon, the very shinobi who rose from a mere C-rank nuke-nin to a S-rank nuke-nin for a massacre far more worse than the one that made Itachi famous for. During one night, he killed ninety percent of the people in Oto, civilians and shinobi, women and children, all dead. Then when the dawn broke, he simply laughed at the bloodied village below and vanished.

"Seeing your expression, you know who I am. Now I have a proposal for you. One that will benifit you and me," Laughing looked around him cautiously before turning back to the trapped nin in the pit below him.

"Continue, I'm listening," Naruto frowned at this, even though he was a nuke-nin, he tried to keep his rap sheet as clean as possible. And this proposal that Laughing was offering didn't sound too much like it was going to do exactly that.

"I've been wandering about nations, looking for a partner for quite some time now, but I have found none that fits the bill, until you came along. You see, we're one of a kind, basically brothers, not by blood but by demons," Laughing seemed to grin demonishly at Naruto but he couldn't really tell because of the mask and all. "Here, how about an offer you can't resist. Join me and I'll help you improve your rasengan."

"Wait a minute, back up here, you're saying you're a jinchurriki as well?" a mere nod was the simple reply, "And how would you know the rasengan?," Naruto pondered skeptically, while the offer was tempting, this guy could simply be a Ne ANBU trying to trick him into trusting him and then backstab him later.

"I know every jutsu there is, there's certain perks to stealing scrolls..." Laughing admitted sheepishly, "But pushing all that aside, you can sit here and wait for the Ne ANBU to catch up or hurry up and get the hell out of here already,"

Naruto thought about this, pacing back and forth in the little space he had. Suddenly, he was assaulted by a whole bunch of memories due to his clones he had created earlier disspelling. Two Ne ANBU's catching up to him and then the 'pain' of 'dying'. Being found and then burned by a fire jutsu. Blown to bits by an exploding tag on a kunai. Death by any of those ways didn't seem paticularly appealing to him. "Alright, alright, I'm with you, now get me out of here!"

Laughing nodded and began forming handseals "Doton: Doryuu Heki!" the large earth wall began forming under Naruto's feet. With a sudden lurch, it rose to the height of the pit, allowing Naruto to step out. A large black dragon sat a little bit aways from them, at Laughing's command, it walked over silently and lowered itself so they could get on.

"Get us to Cresent Moon Island, fast," Laughing instructed as he leapt onto the dragon. He then bent down and helped Naruto climb on as the dragon's muscles rippled, launching into the air. "Sit down and use chakra to stick to Chisoku," Laughing stood in between the wing joints, not even slightly ruffled by the wind rushing past him. In fact it was somewhat like there was a dome around the flying dragon, repelling the wind and the drag, making them go even faster. With a shrug, Naruto dissmissed the thought and relished in the fact that he was flying. A much more different experience than running or riding on a toad.


Hours later, Chisoku disspelled without another word when Cresent Moon Island came into sight. Both of them began the long decent towards the clear blue ocean beneath them. Naruto flipped heads over heels in an attempt to land on his feet so he wouldn't sink into the water, eventually he gave up trying but continued flipping over cause he couldn't stop, instead he screamed the whole way down.

"First thing to do on my list, teach Naruto to fly," Laughing sighed and dove downwards towards Naruto, easily dodging the odd seagull who had ventured into their path. Rolling his eyes, Laughing hurriedly launched himself after Naruto, trying to catch him before he hit the shark infested waters below. "Wait, there aren't supposed to be sharks around these waters...shit!"


The situation in Konoha...

Konoha seemed a little duller after Naruto left, the sun never did seem to shine as bright nor did the birds sing as loudly. It was simply too quiet. Hinata had eventually locked herself up in her room for days and refused to eat. Sakura spent her time at the hospital or at a training ground where she would punch the landscape into rubble. Kakashi was later than ever, sometimes not showing up at all, spending much of his time at the memorial stone. Iruka, quit his job as an Academy Instructor and joined the ranks of Jonin and ANBU Black Ops. He's out of the village, on missions most of the time, barely staying in the village for more than one day.

Sasuke...well he was a different story, when he woke up, the civilian council threw a festival for him and the banishment of Naruto. When he found out Naruto was gone...he put more than half of the civilian council members on a four month or more medical leave with his cursed seal; level two, another two on a 'permanent' medical leave. It was an understatement to say he was pissed. Now he spent alot of his time at the memorial stone and ontop of the Hokage Monument as well, drinking more sake than Tsunade did.

Tsunade wanted to retire early and started training Sakura to be the new Hokage since Sasuke refused. Nowadays, all the paperwork is done immeadietly, and as soon as it's done, Tsunade vanishes for the night, only to show up the next morning, drunk.

Gaara's and the Subaku sibling's visits have been less and less frequent, the alliance between the Sand and the Leaf is still there, but it's on a very thin line. Gaara chose not to break it off out of respect for the blonde, it was Naruto's 'precious' village once. That was what was happening between Iwa and Konoha right now. The tension between the two is even thicker due to all the Ne ANBU disguised as Kumo nin going into Iwa's territory to hunt for Naruto. It seems Naruto was the one who kept everything in balance around Konoha, and without him, Konoha was in chaos.


Sneak Preview:

"T-that's what you call a shark? T-that's Kisame Hoshigaki!"


Well, there's the chapter, hope you guys enjoyed it and let me know on the dialogue thing. I also have another fanfic coming out soon and I don't really have a title for it yet so...just look out for it. See ya next time ~AnimeClouds~