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Two year time jump.
Tsunade was for the thousandth time wondering why on earth she ever took this job, the paperwork never ended, right when she was done with one pile, in came another one. She also wondered if anyone would be suspicious of her if all the paperwork suddenly disappeared in a mysterious fire.
While she was plotting her revenge against paperwork, she missed the fact that a golden eagle suddenly had placed itself in her window, looking at her with curious eyes. The bird was about 1 m in length and weighed about 5 – 6 kg, it had claws as long as adult human fingers, a black and very sharp looking beak. The bird was golden and dark brown, with some black and a few spots of white on its long majestic feathers.
Finally sick of being ignored by the brooding woman, and let out a loud piercing sound, that definitively got the woman's attention, since she almost immediately fell out of her chair in pure surprise. When she finally returned from the floor, she just stood and stared at the bird without blinking for a few minutes. The main reason as to why she stared at the bird was that she had noticed the letter that was attached to its leg and messenger birds was almost always a falcon, because of its great speed, and this bird was an eagle.
But not any eagle, it was a golden eagle, an extremely rare bird that was hard to find, and harder to tame.
When she finally managed to come out of her one-sided staring competition, she finally managed to think clearly enough to take the letter from the bird. At first she thought that taking the letter from the bird would be hard, since this type of bird was known for it's hostility against humans, but surprisingly enough the bird just put it's foot out, allowing Tsunade to tie of the letter.
Back in her own chair she opened the letter, still giving small glances to the large eagle that still hadn't left her window.
Hey Tsunade no baa-chan P
Long time no see, eh? I guess your wondering about the golden eagle in your office, I'll explain that later in the letter.
First, I am doing fine, and I hope that you are doing the same.
Second, I would like you to send my entire salary collection back to me using the eagle; I am still going to explain the whole eagle thing.
As I stated in my first letter, I was also leaving to find my family, which I did, the sad thing was that my entire clan on my mother's side was wiped out in the last war. Only my grandfather was alive, and he's dead now, so I am the only living Uzumaki left alive. Before he died he taught me our family's traditions, jutsus, taijutsu, history and our own special kekkei genkai, plus our own little family trait. The kekkei genkai I'm going to explain the next time we meet, it's too risky to explain in a letter. When it comes to the family trait, he's sitting in your office, for many years the Uzumaki clan has had an alliance with the golden eagles, each child from five years old, would receive it's own eagle. I received mine from my grandfather when I found him, mine wasn't a baby when he came, like they normally are, but a child reaching his adolescence, he's name is Chigiri (1).
He is quite intelligent, we of the Uzumaki clan can communicate with the golden eagles inside our clan, but this is not our kekkei genkai though.
I also found my fathers name; this is also too dangerous to tell in this letter, it is dangerous information if some villain actually managed to get it from Chigiri.
I have been pretty much everywhere now, ero-sennin introduced me to a known swordsman awhile back, he thought me some moves with my parent's sword, you see, my sword is quite special. It was made by my parents, and is infused with their chakra, it was supposed to be my "welcome to the world" present, at least that's what grandfather told me.
I do not know if you have heard of me back home, but around in the world I have gained the nickname "silent shadow", I would appreciate you keeping my true identity a secret, a little discretion can't hurt.
Well, well, I'm trailing of, if I was supposed to tell you everything that's happened to me during these two years, the letter would be too heavy for poor Chigiri to carry.
Please send all my love to my dear friends, and tell them that I miss them dearly, if they or you wish to send me a letter, send them back with Chigiri and my money, he will stay with you until you send him back. Treat him well, I'll be waiting for him, and don't worry about him getting lost, he will find me wherever I go.
Uzumaki Naruto.
"hmmmf" Tsunade couldn't do anything else but sigh in that moment, of course it had to be him that was "silent shadow" a shinobi that killed from the shadows so quickly that you didn't even realise he was there until it was too late. The only people that had gotten a glimpse of him all ended up dead.
The second thing she was worried about was he's money, she had managed to not loose all of it, but about half was gone, and now she had to hurry and collect the money again. "How troublesome".
Time skip: 5 hours.
Tsunade, with the entire konoha 12 and their sensei's behind her (except Sakura and Kakashi), Sasuke was actually there; together they watched as the eagle she had just given permission to leave fly elegantly through the air. When she told them about Naruto's letter everyone strictly told her that she was not allowed to send off the bird before they had gotten to write a letter, and it was because of that, that the poor bird was now carrying 14 letters (courtesy of Lee, Neji, Tenten, Hinata, Kiba, Shino, Shikamaru, Chouji, Ino, Kurenai, Asuma, Gai and Sasuke) and a bag of money, money that Tsunade had hurriedly scrambled together in the few hours since the letter came.
Especially Sasuke watched the retracting bird, he so much wanted too apologise to his lost brother.
Flashback:
"uugh", I opened my eyes and saw white, white and more white, after a few seconds I realised that I was in the hospital, and crap, I was still in Konoha. "That baka must have succeeded in bringing me back". After five minutes of brooding over the fact that I was back, something hit me, and it hit me big and hard.
I was becoming my worst nightmare, I was becoming Itachi. I had attempted to kill my own best friend for power, for the Mangekyou sharingan, that was the exact thing my brother had done, and he too had sought power in the wrong direction (the Uchiha massacre for those who didn't get that). In that second, my entire vision over life changed, I finally saw how wrong I had been, and from that moment I had a new dream, a dream I wanted to accomplish together and side by side with my new brother.
I was going too surpass my brother with the help of him (naruto), and I was going to grow as strong as him (naruto), so that I too could protect my precious people. I was so caught up in my own thoughts that I didn't notice someone trying to get my attention from my side. When I eventually noticed, I felt for screaming for my life. Not less than 1,5 m away from me, was my other worst nightmare, in all her pink stalking horrifying insanity sat none other than the undefeated horror queen Haruno Sakura herself.
End flashback.
Sasuke still had nightmares about her, she had told him that she had fallen down the stairs, later he had found out that she accidentally had met Hinata and Tenten on her way home, he had later sent both of them a bouquet of flowers and a "job well done" card. After he had found out what that crazy bitch had done to Naruto, he hated her just as much as the rest did. He just had a slightly bigger problem then what the rest had……she wouldn't leave him the fucking alone, every second of the freaking day she would be there. Even Tsunade had felt so sorry for him so that he would be let go with a very mild punishment, as she said herself, "Sakura is a punishment that no person should ever have to experience". Later he had received help from his newfound friends in the art of avoiding Sakura, and they helped him in creating escape routs and hiding spots. But the fact that he had almost killed his most precious person, had never left he's heart, and he hoped that this letter might give him some soul peace.
Chigiri might not have known it, but he carried a small hope of forgiveness under he's strong majestic wings.
1. Chigiri is Japanese and means "sky"
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