Honor and protection

Chapter 1: a new look and a council meeting

Disclaimer: I don't own Naruto if i did Itachi would be alive and Sasuke would be six feet under

As team seven made it's way back to Konoha nobody uttered a word, as if speaking had become taboo amongst the group. When they were about half a mile away from Konoha they stopped to catch their breath. However while they were regaining there barings from running for so long Kakashi decided to scout ahead so they could avoid any surprises if their were any.

"Dobe, give me that sword," the raven haired Uchiha demanded as soon as the silver haired Jonin was out of sight but Naruto just stayed quiet, "are you listening to me dobe, I said give me that sword."

"Yeah Naruto no Baka give Sasuke-Kun the sword." The pink haired banshee of the group yelled as Sasuke and tried to rush at the unusually quiet blonde boy. But before Sasuke could even brake into a dead run towards Naruto, Said blonde boy had already drawn Kubikiri Bouchou and held the abnormally large blade at Sasuke's throat just below his jugular in one quick fluid motion. This caused the raven haired brooder to stop dead in his tracks or risk beheading.

"I may have let you and Sakura push me around before, but I'm not the same Naruto that you knew so don't expect me to take your guys' bullshit lying down, got it." Naruto said, his voice completely monotoned as he spoke. Sakura however didn't heed his warning and went to go punch him over his head as hard as she could, for trying to hurt her 'precious' Sasuke-Kun, only for her hand to become acquanted with the metal that Kubikiri Bouchou was made up of, resulting in her getting a broken hand. A large wail soon startled everything within a thirteen kilometer radius of there position, after a few seconds Kakashi came back into the clearing asking what happened.

"I asked the dobe nicely if I could see his sword and he attacked me, when Sakura tried to get him to stop he broke her left hand." Sasuke said with a smug look on his face while Sakura nodded in agreement.

"Naruto, is this true." Kakashi asked asked the blonde haired boy.

"No, what really happened is the second you left the clearing Sasuke rounded on me and demanded me to give him Kubikiri Bouchou, he tried to rush me when I didn't say anything at which point I drew KB an...""KB?" Kakashi asked inturupting Naruto's explaination.

"It's short for Kubikiri Bouchou," Kakashi nodded showing he understood as Naruto continued, "as I was saying, I drew KB and held it at Sasuke's throat so he wouldn't rush me, you can see the small cut I left on his throat." Sasuke's hand shot up to his throat and sure enough there was a cut.

"Afterwards I told them i wasn't going to take their crap any more, then Sakura went to punch me in the head, at which point I moved KB and it and Sakura's fist became acquanted. Oh and she broke her right fist not her left fist Sasuke, get your facts right." Naruto admonished while Kakashi rounded on Sasuke and Sakura.

"When we get back your both going on record," the silver haired scarecrow said in a voice that left no room for arguement, he turned to Naruto and threw him some wrappings causing the blonde to raise a questioning eye brow, "they're to wrap your sword in until you can find something more appropriate."

Naruto nodded and quickly wrapped up KB, before him and the rest of team seven continued on their way.

(Hokage's office one hour later)

Kakashi gave a quick debriefing to the aged leader, never did he leave a single detail out including what happend on the way back from wave, by the time Kakashi was finished the third hokage was glaring heavily at the dark brooder and the bubblegum banshee.

"At this moment you both will be charged with negligence, and attacking a comrad. Your punishments will decided later today at the council meeting at 6, now scram." he said making them run out of the room lest they incure the Hokage's wrath.

"How you holding up Naruto?" The third hokage asked as the blonde haired demon container walked over to the closest chair and after taking of the giant slab off metal called a sword and setting it down he slumped down in the chair and letting out a depressed sigh.

"I feeling okay, I just wish they didn't have to die." The normally energenic blonde said somberly, the hokage stood up from behind his chair and walked over to the distraught jinjurikei and wrpped him a hug and lightly patted him on his back as naruto let out a few tears. After a few minutes they separated and Naruto dried his eyes while the old leader went back to sitting behind his desk.

"Now two things, first you and Kakashi need to be at the council chambers before six, I'll send an anbu to go get you," Naruto and Kakashi nodded in understandment, "second, Kakashi here is going to take you down to the Dancing Blade weapon shop so you can get what you need for your knew weapon, and I trust that it came with some kind of instructions on a specific style or how to use it correct."

Naruto nodded in agreement with the Hokage's words as Naruto picked up his sword and resituated it on his back and Kakashi ushered him out of the hokage's office, As soon as the two left the hokage's secratary came in with a small pile of paperwork, thirty papers at the most.

"Well atleast its not to much." the Ancient man said as he reached into his drawer and took his eye's of the stack of papers for less then a second and when he turned back to the stack it had to quadrupled in size.

(outside the Hokage's office on the street below)

"Well I Guess we should g..." "DAMMIT" The hokage yelled from his office, turning to Naruto he saw the blonde was rolling around on the floor about to die of laughing. "What's so funny Naruto?"

"I just can't believe that he hasn't found the multiplier seal I put on the bottom of his paperwork stack when was little," Naruto said between laughs, "When you look at it nothing happens but when you look away it multiplies the number of objects placed on it by a random number, it only multiplies the objects put on it once and the copies of the objects only last an hour and a half after that they dissappear leaving behind the original objects."

To say Kakashi was astonished would be like saying Naruto only liked ramen, meaning it was a huge understatment, Kakashi was absolutely flabbergasted that his student had come up with so simple yet complew when he was younger.

"Well, if your done trying to laugh yourself to death we half to get to The Dancing Blade weapon shop." Kakashi said as Naruto wnet from full blown laughter to a small giggle every so often as they traveled to the shop.

Twenty minutes later they finally arrived at the place in question, it was a small little shop with a small sign sitting above the door that read The Dancing Blade with two Kunai that crossed each other in an 'X' formation underneath the words. entering the shop they saw a man behind the counter, he had brown hair, grey eyes, and looked to be in his forties.

"Welcome to the Dancing Blade, my name is Kan Dabura how may I help you this fine evening," Kan asked before noticing the two that walked in, "ah Kakashi how ya' doin', and whose behind you."

"I'm doing pretty well Kan-san, Naruto and I came by so he can get some supplies and things to take care of his new weapon he got in wave, I also think he needs some new clothes." Kakashi said while ushering Naruto infront of him. Kan stared at the blonde demon container for a moment before opening his mouthe to ask a question.

"So what weapon did you get?" He asked as Naruto took the wrapped up KB of his back and proceeded to take off the bandages and revealed the blade to the man.

"Ah, so you got Kubikiri eh. well why don't you go pick out some clothes while I get you a sharpening and polishing kit." The man said as Naruto head to the clothing area to pick out some clothing.

"Good kid, to bad he has to carry such a large burden." Kan said with a sad look as he pulled out a small box with various things in it.

"Yeah, hey I was wondering if you could put a seal on the pommel of Kubikiri so that if he puts chakra into the seal it will retract the blade the hilt or have the blade come out of hilt." Kakashi said as Kan adopted a look of deep thought before nodding.

"I have a seal like that but it takes a while to bond to an object, usually around thirty minutes."

"That's okay we have about an hour until we go anywhere so we have time." Kakashi said as Kan picked up KB and took it into the backroom behind the counter. Turning around and saw Naruto returning with a pair of black steel toed boots, six sets of black skin tight yet flexible pants, and three sets of black and gray camoflage fingerless gloves that went up to his elbows, and some black face wrappings (a black and grey version of Zabuza's clothes with Haku's mask on his hip). putting them on the counter they waited for Kan to finish with the seal.

Thirty minutes later walked out of the back room with the sealed hilt of KB to see a miniture blond version of Zabuza Momochi sitting next to Kakashi, letting out a small cough to gett their attention they stood up to pay for the stuff.

"How much?" Kakashi asked pulling out his wallet.

"For the clothes three hundred yen, for the sharpening and polish kit as well as the seel nothing, just make sure you come back here. Also to Make the blade come out or to retract it just put chakra into the pommel." Kan said as Kakashi paid for the clothes and they walked out of the sword. As they stepped out of the store an cat masked anbu appeared in front of them.

"Hatake-san, Uzumaki-san the hokage requests your presence in the council's chambers." The anbu said.

"Thank you neko we will be there as soon as we drop Naruto clothes off." Kakashi said, the anbu known as Neko nodded before disappearing in a swirl of leaves.

Twenty eight minutes later and a trip to Naruto's apartment later they finally arrived at the council chambers. As they stepped into the room the first thing they notice was the way the seating was set up, on the left side was the shinobi half of the council along with the Hokage and his advisors and on the right side of the table was the civilian council with Sasuke and Sakura standing behind them.

"Ah, Kakashi, Naruto-kun your here, nice new look," the hokage said as everyone turned to look at them, Sasuke and Sakura paled for a moment thinking Zabuza had come back to life to kill them but then saw the yellow hair and relized it was just Naruto, "now that they are here we can start the proceedings."

"Uchiha Sasuke and Haruno Sakura you are both here today because you have been charged with negligence and attacking a comrad, which is in most cases considered treason. We will be deciding your punishment." The god of shinobi stated.

"with all do respect Hokage-Sama could you tell us what happened for them to be charged with such acusasion." A women with pink hair asked, the hokage nodded before telling them exactly what happened minus the parts with Kyuubi.

"And now to the punishment." He finished.

"I believe we should give Uchiha-sama the sword and let him off with a warning this time." The pink haired woman spoke once again.

"Well believe what you want but this is a shinobi affair therefore you have no say as it states in the village law book law number 157 section 3 sub-section D." Naruto stated causing the shinobi side along with the hokage and his advisors to smirk as Inoichi Yamanaka, a blonde haired man, looked through the law book then gave them the thumbs up say Naruto was right. The pink haired council woman gave a huff of anger before sitting down and glaring at the shirtless blonde, Sasuke's and Sakura's smug grin also faltered at this piece of information.

"Now as I was saying I think we should Suspend their ninja licenses for three months, in that period they will not be aloud to train an anbu watch will make sure of that, if they are caught training their chakra will be sealed for the remainder of the suspencion and Sasuke's Bloodline will be sealed off forever, he will be able to pass it on but he won't be able to use it ever again," the Sandaime Hokage said, "all infavor say aye?"

Everyone on the shinobi side from Shibi Aburame to Danzo Himura said aye.

"The aye's have it anbu take them home." Danzo said 'You demanded that my daughter marry you, well, this'll show you' Danzo thought as the anbu escorted the duo out.

"So Naruto my boy what are you going to do for the next month." Sarutobi asked.

"I'm going to train so I can use this," he said gesturing to the hilt of the sealed KB, and hopfully I'll be ready for what ever comes my way."

"That boy is Severly interesting, council dismissed." The age leader said and every one left for their homes.

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