Author's Note: Thanks for the reviews, I know this chapter is short, but the next one is going to be worth it, I hope. I just want to clarify something about this story, there is no good and bad per say, everyone has different goals and some goals clash with each other which causes conflicts. It's complicated but later on it will make sense.

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As the sun rose on the fated morning, Sakura lay in her bed staring at the ceiling in her room; pondering over what was to come during that day. The Death Wind or so his name was, was coming today to Konoha. They were to show to him their strength as a nation. However, it would not be the Konoha regular shinobi that would deal with it, but rather it would be Danzo's Anbu Roots called Ne'. Only five regular shinobis would be there to serve as backup of which Sakura was included. She really wanted to know who this person was; The Death Wind supposedly was the most powerful Wind user ever to come in the ninja world. According to Ino and her gossip, the Mizukage and Tsuchikage both were terrified of him. He defeated Itachi! Not even Kakashi-Sensei or Konohamaru was able to do that! He was to arrive in the midday near the South Western gate. There would be an open area in which he would enter and they would surround him with 12 of the Ne'. Tsunade and Danzo will both be present watching. Sakura got up stared at the mirror before saying,

"Today's a big day Sakura, you better be prepared." And with that she got into the shower in order to get ready.

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It was close to midday and the sun was sweltering hot, the five backup shinobi selected by Tsunade were all waiting outside in front of the gates. They were the last line of defence just in case the 12 Ne' failed. The first to arrive was Neji, dressed in his white top with baggy sleeves that covered his hands along with his white pants. His byakugan was turned off, and his eyes were shut. For those who did not know him, it seemed like he was uninterested in the world around him and was probably sleeping. However Neji could have mentioned all the details in the area, around the area, behind the area, and even under him, nothing ever escaped his eye. The next to show was Shino, very quiet, he was dressed in layers with a grey jacket with a hood that covered his hair and the collar that covered half his face leaving only his sunglasses visible, he wore a black pants with bandages on both sides of his thighs. Next to appear was Chouji, in his red armour he was munching happily on a bag of chips. Though he wasn't as fat as he was before, he still was big but all that was hundred percent pure hard muscles. Next to come right after him was Shikamaru, dressed in the standard Jounin outfit, smoking a cigarette he took a long drag before muttering to himself, "Man why am I even here, this job is so troublesome."

Sakura was last to appear, she was in her standard pink and beige outfit. However this time she was wearing black combat gloves. She looked at the rest of them, smiling and called out,

"How is everybody?" Unfortunately, the only one to actually respond was Chouji, who waved and said, "I'm fine."

The rest completely ignored her, Neji had his eyes closed and was meditating, Shino was staring at a bug on his hand and Shikamaru was lying on the ground staring at the clouds while still smoking a cigarette. Normally Sakura would've felt annoyed and possibly would have thrown a punch to the nearest person, i.e. Shikamaru. However today was not that type of day. Everybody was concerned about the upcoming problem. After a few moments Tsunade and Danzo both appeared on the gate while waiting, for it would be only a matter of time before the enemy showed up. Sakura stared out into the front of her as if she could almost feel the two men coming. She knew that there were 12 Ne' Roots positioned strategically all around the area so that, once the enemies entered, they could not escape. Then all of a sudden, Sakura felt that, two chakra signatures, for some odd reason, they felt strange, yet vaguely familiar. She could not put her finger on it, but she knew that she had met this person before. In any case it would be a few moments before they knew who actually it was.

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The Roots Ne' lay tense. Any moment now he would appear, just then they heard a rustling of leaves, and then there they walked, the two of them in the middle of the open-area staring at the gates of Konoha. Now was the time to attack, so appearing from the hiding spots they surrounded them.

The Death Wind, stared out into the forest in front of them, he felt it, directly in front of them, stood some individuals. There were twelve of them, wait, there were a few more, ten more to be exact, all of which who had hostile chakra's. However there were also five additional chakras that were familiar to him; it was confusing, how could it be that those five be with these twenty two? He looked up at his sensei said,

"What should we do?" the teacher looked down upon and said, "Don't worry, they shouldn't be a problem,"

Death Wind then nodded. After a few moments walking he had reached the end of the forest and the beginning of an open space in which there was the gate to Konoha, he could see five individuals standing there in front of the gate, two more on top. And finally 12 of them all uselessly surrounding the area trying to contain him as if that were even possible. He then walked out into the open space, but before he could say anything, The Death Wind and his teacher were surrounded by the twelve of Ne'. The Death Wind looked at his teacher who shrugged his shoulders; he then turned to the lady on top of the gate and screamed out,

"I KNOW IT BEEN TEN YEARS, BUT IS THIS THE TYPE OF RECEPTION I DESERVE TSUNADE-BAACHAN!?"

Tsunade was shocked; the only person to ever call her that was someone that was missing from her village ten years ago. She jumped down from the gate along with Danzo approached and then softly asked,

"Is that really you Naruto?"

Naruto pulled off his hood to reveal his whiskers marks, blue eyes, flashy yellow hair, and his traditional wide foxy grin. Tsunade was about to turn towards Danzo and asked him what exactly was he doing, but just as she was about to move she felt a kunai to her throat; Danzo had appeared behind her and put a kunai there. When she had turned to see the five Shinobi she chose each of them had two of the Roots ANBU with swords to their throats. She turned back to Naruto, and Jiraiya, who had just decided to take off his hood. She saw that they were each surrounded by at least six of the Roots members. She growled at Danzo,

"What exactly is the meaning of this Danzo?"

Danzo calmly replied, "I knew that the Death Wind, was none other than Uzumaki Naruto, therefore I made this plan so that I could kill him, kill Jiraiya, kill these five Shinobi, and finally kill you along with the majority of the council, to take over the position of Hokage with zero resistance from the rest of them. After all to the world, it would be the Death Wind who killed you all before he was defeated by me. The council made a foolish mistake trusting me, and for that, all of you pay. Konoha has become weak, they need a strong leader, a leader that can take them to war and win. Shinobis were not made for peace, they were made for war, and for that reason I will bring Konoha to glory and none of you can stop me."

Naruto just stared at Danzo before calmly asking him, "And how do you plan on killing Tsunade-Baachan?"

Danzo looked at him and said, "Like this…"

SLAM!!!

"Like how again?" hissed Naruto, in a split second; he went from being surrounded to choking Danzo against the walls of Konoha. "I don't think you realize who you are up against" Naruto whispered. He then felt the cold metal of a sword to his throat, he turned to see a short Ne' member

"Get away from Danzo-sama or I'll chop your head off."

Naruto looked at Danzo before turning back to the ninja and said, "I wonder how easy it is to chop someone's head off if you don't have hands to do it."

The ANBU boy looked down, and instead of seeing his hands he saw two bloody stumps. He turned to the others, but to their shock and everyone else, they were all left without hands. They all screamed because of the pain and fled.

Naruto then turned towards Danzo, he stared at intently gazing into his dark eye he then quietly asked him, "Was it you the last time?"

Danzo gave a sinister smile before replying, "Who else could it have been?"

Naruto then turned towards Tsunade and said, "Old hag, I don't know what the rules are now in Konoha but I don't mind paying the price for killing this man."

Naruto then did a one hand seal, and with that Danzo started choke, and then all of a sudden his body went limp. Naruto dropped him, he turned to Tsunade and said, "And if you don't mind, I'm going to take the pain away of those others." He did another one hand seal and all of a sudden it was a huge cry of pain by the NE' in the distance and then the forest went silent.

Tsunade stared at Naruto, completely shocked that this man at the age of around 22 was the same boy who had left this village. Though he still maintained a slight boyish image, he was lethal. He mercilessly killed those Ne' and Danzo without breaking a sweat. How far has he matured? His physical aspect sure did mature. For one thing, his whole clothing attire was different, it was manlier. She turned towards her former team mate Jiraiya, he looked the same. He was wearing the same old hermit clothes and still carried the same perverted thoughts. She turned to him and asked, "How much?"

Jiraiya smiled, "If you mean by his progress, then he is strong, very strong, maybe he could give his father a run for his money."

Tsunade then replied, "Is he stronger than you?"

Jiraiya paused before replying, "Even though I have years of experience over him, he is much more skilled than I am, we sparred many times, however ever since I showed him my master technique he is something crazy."

They both then turned to Naruto who was at that moment about to approach them, "But you know what?" Jiraiya continued, "There are still people out there who are stronger, and he knows that. That is why he won't stop training till he beats them."

Tsunade nodded before addressing both of them, "Welcome home you guys, welcome home."

To this Naruto grinned and said, "You know Ero-Sennin, this wasn't the entrance I had planned, but you know what? I don't mind it at all."

Sakura was shocked. Her mind wasn't even functioning properly. Here in front of her, The Death Wind was none other than the team-mate who was supposed to be dead according to the peddler. And yet here he was, Naruto, looking so much more different than he was before. He was wearing black pants which had orange and white bandages around his shins; he had a black T-shirt with fishnet on his forearms that was also bandaged in red and white. He had a black headband, which had thick orange thread that had the Konoha leaf, sewn into it. His rugged face, still maintained some of the boyish features she remembered. The whisker marks were slightly faded and his eyes were no longer shallow blue like a pond, instead, it was deep blue like the ocean, where one could lose themselves in the experiences that he went through. If it was one-way to describe him it would be rugged beauty. It wasn't his looks that shocked Sakura, it was his character. Though he still retained that same foxy grin, when he saw Tsunade-Sama in danger, his eyes changed immediately and he retained a very serious and dangerous character. And what speed! Sakura could not even keep up with his movements; she didn't even know how he cut the hands-off those roots Shinobi. She turned towards Neji and Shino, and realized that they too, were unable to keep up with him. Chouji mutter to himself, "When the hell did he cut those guys, and how the hell did he do it?"

Sakura shook her head, she had no idea. All she knew that her team-mate was back. And he came back stronger than ever. As they all got ready to leave, Sakura walked up to Naruto looked up at him and said, "It's been a while Naruto."

Naruto stared at her, 'Holy smokes! This is Sakura'; he always knew that she would grow up to become someone pretty, but this was something else. Her eyes gave the sense of rose like characteristics; it's beautiful but if picked the wrong way, you get pricked by the thorns; he didn't even know how to respond to her. He scratched the back of his head smiled and said, "Yeah it has been a while, but I'm back."

He looked down at her and saw that she had water in her eyes. He put his hands in the air and asked, "What's wrong Sakura-Chan?"

Then all of a sudden, Sakura cocked her hand back and launched a chakra enhanced punch which sent Naruto crashing into the Konoha gate. She then grabbed him by the collar and continued to shake him violently while repeatedly screaming,

"WHERE THE HELL WERE YOU THESE LAST SEVEN YEARS SHANNARO!!!"

Jiraiya just stared, he turned to Tsunade and said, "I just thought she inherited just beauty from you not that freakish strength, she is CRAZY!" Naruto was completely dazed, 'Handling those Danzo dudes was much easier than handling Sakura-Chan,' he thought.

After a moment when Sakura had stopped rattling Naruto, she helped him up. Naruto when he saw this expected another punch, instead Sakura wrapped her arms around Naruto before whispering to him, "Welcome home Naruto, welcome home." Naruto didn't know how to react he turned to Jiraiya who just nodded, he then slowly, out of fear of another punch, put his hands around her. When he realized that nothing was going to happen he smiled, 'Yup, it's great to be back home.'

"Man that was troublesome."

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A/N: So was it good? I was nervous about getting the entrance right, I just wanted to make it natural and not too much drama, anyhow the reviews will tell me how good it actually was. Next chapter will be long I promise, Just for a sneak peak, Tsunade will test Naruto in the next chapter in a highly anticipated match against some very interesting opponents so stay tuned. By the way like I mentioned,though I am a fan of it, this is not a NaruSaku pairing, I already decided who Naruto is going to be with in the end. But it takes time to get there. Please Review Thanks