This fan fiction is a hurt/comfort love story between naruto and hinata. The story starts at the time period of around when he is 12, instead of all his friends being beaten when they fight the sound 5 they beat them barely and carry on and sasuke is brought back. (I know they weren't beaten but they still all passed out…)
in this chapter I'm most likely going to be writing about naruto and his training but don't worry I'm hoping to put some hinata scenes in. for all you people that want to see hinata some more :P I'm not gonna keep you any longer. Plus I usually put 3000 words into each chapter should I do more? Or does it comfort you knowing you don't have to read as much? Hehehe…
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Chapter 3 enhancement-jutsu!
Naruto awoke in a blur of confusion of why he was here and what he did last night. "I didn't get wasted last night did I fox?"
Hahaha I wish young pup, you went through an immense tra… the fox was cut off by Narutos outburst
"Whoa I feel really strong! And fast too! Hey… I remember now I went through all of that training yesterday to learn that enhancement jutsu huh?"
Yes that's what happened. Anyway young pup. You still have training to do! I can see you're all refreshed and a little bit stronger than yesterday. So set your clones out to the plumbers to work and get to training yourself!
"Yes sir!" Naruto exclaimed as he produced the following handsigns and shouted out "kage bunshin no-jutsu!" 5 narutos appeared and ran towards the village at a fast speed that made Naruto take pride in his clones and his day of work yesterday.
What are you waiting for boy! Make some more clones and make them do the same as yesterday… oh wait… one more thing before you do that go to town with the money you have and buy some leg weights. They will help in training immensely.
Naruto sighed "ughhh… leg weights… why do I have to use them?" naruto pouted.
Because can you remember that Rock Lee boy? He is as fast as he is because of those leg weights. Now to become strong weights are your key… well at first anyway… speed and strength are only a few of characteristics that you will need for your upcoming greatness that I will mold from you
"Hehehehehehe... well let's get going fox I haven't got all day to become a brick wall to my opponent's hehehe…
Damn right,
Naruto ran towards the village also with a look of confidence and courage to succeed in his training.
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Hinata woke up in her bed; she didn't get much sleep last night because she had been worrying about Naruto so much. As she thought about him she blurted out chocked sobs which were heard outside by her cousin Neji.
Neji ran towards the door and burst it open fearing someone had hurt his cousin. But as he saw her sitting up crying into her hands he too felt like crying but he held it in.
"Hinata? Are you ok? Come on you can tell me anything I'm your niisan" Neji said as he kneeled next to her holding her and making hushing noises.
"No Neji-niisan… I'm not… I…it…it hurts so much!!" Hinata managed to shout out before embracing her cousin and crying into his shoulder for all she was worth.
Neji was speechless. He didn't understand why she was crying. But then memories of Naruto came back to mind and he had remembered her cousin's actions around him and he suddenly realized why she was crying.
"It's ok Hinata, Naruto will return and then you can talk, laugh and play with him all you want" Neji said to try and lighten her mood
Hinata looked up still crying slightly but a look of surprise on her face "how… how did you know?" Hinata spoke slowly as she thought that if Neji knew maybe others knew also.
"It's quite obvious Hinata… I mean I am your cousin I can tell who you like… who you love…" Neji said trying to reassure her that it will be ok.
Hinata looked surprised and blushed all over. "I...I…I..." she started but couldn't finish as her throat felt like it had clogged up and she began to brawl with utter sorrow onto her cousins already drenched coats shoulder.
"That's right get it all out of your system and after that I'm holding you to your promise young Hinata-neesan" Neji said with a grin on his face as if to say come on…
Hinata looked up for minute with confusion all over her face "what promise is that Neji-niisan?" Hinata spoke with a confused tone of voice
"the one you said yesterday at the training grounds… you will become strong for Naruto so I guess seems as though no one here is able to train you I guess I can teach you all you need to know and from then on out you can create your own jutsus and fighting styles"
Hinata gasped and then happily hugged her cousin "thank you so much Neji-niisan" Hinata spoke softly
Neji looked surprised as she hugged him but happily returned the hug with as much enthusiasm as she did. "You are welcome Hinata-neesan"
Hinata got dressed and then quickly walked out of the room following Neji to the training grounds for her byakugan, eight trigrams sixty four palms, and rotation jutsu training.
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It has been 7 days of training for Naruto and he had finally met his deadline.
Well young pup it seems as though you have completed your training. Your chakra has tripled, your strength and speed has 10 folded and it looks like you've grown braver and smarter too. As well as knowing how to handle others unplesenteries too… the fox stood there with a mischievous grin on his face
"Shut up damned fox!! But also thank you for your training. So is the darkness element inside of me or what? And how come my chakras gone up when I'm using your chakra? Hmmm?
One, yes the element is inside of you and is fused along with your chakra. Two, due to my chakra seeping through your body as soon as the elemental chakra was released my chakra strengthens yours whenever you use mine for a long period of time.
"Cool, cool. So are you gonna teach me how to do this enhancement jutsu or what?"
Yes hold on one second…
All of a sudden Narutos mind was filled with the information needed for this jutsu.
"Aghhhh sweet!!" Naruto exclaimed as he jumped for joy
Ok to activate it simply feel the chakra in your arms and legs and in your stomach… ok feel it?
"Yeah… yeah I do… now what"
Notice how the chakra isn't active… activate it by pulling your chakra from there into its needed location which is arms, legs and stomach.
Naruto felt this force and quickly activated it. "Wow! I can feel the strength and speed inside of me! Hey watch this!" Naruto said as he ran full force up a tree using his chakra in his feet to the run up the tree horizontally.
Impressive young pup. It is to seems that you have successfully activated this trait that we sages know. Well done. Now from here on out you need to pack up your stuff and head north east towards the mountains. We're going to start sage training with the master toad sage.
"Hey come to think of it wasn't my perverted sensei a toad sage? You know Jiraiya sensei?"
Yes, he is one of the few humans accepted by the toads to become a toad sage. Seems as though you have already signed the sheet of paper that Jiraiya gave you that allowed you to agree to be a master of the toads and summon them to do your bidding.
"So that sheet of paper gives me access to be taught by these crazed frogs? Cool!!"
Yes young pup, they will know that you are one of the few that has signed this sheet because you used your blood to sign it… now whenever they see you they can tell that you are a toad summoner.
"So how will the test go? Will it be like the darkness element training?" Naruto said anxious to know the answer
No, all element training types are different so this may be harder or easier depending on what they try to teach you. Even though I have already taught you a demon sage jutsu I didn't put you through full demon sage training. And I don't think you will be ready until you master toad sage.
"What! So that week of training was just to learn one jutsu!" Naruto exclaimed loudly in his head
Well that and the first part of sage training which is to have darkness element within you. So yes it was for something. At this moment we call you a 'darkness apprentice' because you only know one darkness jutsu
"Ok I guess so, so how long a trip is it until I arrive there?" Naruto asked questionably
It won't take us long. About a 3 hour run if you set off now. The main reason I chose this town is one, because of its easy money making abilities. And two for its closeness to the toad sages training grounds. Let us continue young pup we have a destination to get to.
"Hai" Naruto said before he jumped into the air as fast as he could activating the enhancement jutsu he had learnt and sped off into the distance.
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Meanwhile Sakura was training hard with the hokage as they tried to perfect a jutsu Sakura was trying to learn that could heal someone with a medium level or lower poison instantly. But it was very hard work and she had been practicing for weeks.
"Sakura you need to slow down… you're going to exhaust your chakra reserves." Tsunade said in a concerned voice and had a concerned face.
"I can't… stop… hokage-sama I need to train hard for Naruto-kun… if I am ever needed to heal him I want to do it fast and without fail.
Tsunade grinned and allowed her pupil to continue in her training.
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Meanwhile Hinata and Neji are practicing their rotation jutsus with each other.
"Hinata would you like to take a rest now? You seem to be panting and breathing heavily." Neji said with a concerned voice
"No I am fine Neji-niisan; please don't take a break I know Naru-kun wouldn't. And I have to keep strong for him… I couldn't live with myself if he was killed because I couldn't protect him." Hinata said fighting back tears as she thought about Naruto and dead in the same sentence.
Neji nodded and reassumed his stance "come on then Hinata-neesan let us battle!"
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While the rest of the konoha 11 trained and spared with each other Kakashi took note at how much they had improved over the past few weeks since Naruto had left. "There all working so hard huh Kakashi…" Kakashi turned around and noticed Iruka. Iruka was looking a bit sad in his eyes but he tried to put on a happy face.
"Yeah, yeah they are. So umm what brings you here?" Kakashi said waiting for an answer."
"umm you know just wanted to hang out a little you know… since Naruto has gone… you know, you were his teacher as well as I am so you know the feeling knowing that he ran away… it's pretty painful." Iruka said with a look of pain sketched across his face
"Yeah, but remember he WILL return so we really have nothing to worry about and just wait for his return." Kakashi said trying to reassure his obviously hurt fellow jonin.
"Your right… we can only look towards the future. And in 4 years… I'll bet he will kick both our asses and have energy for reserve huh?" Iruka said a little bit more determined."
The two of them smiled and turned to the training ninja while they worked on becoming the best they could.
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Naruto had finally arrived at the mountains as he gaped at how big and pointy they were.
"Oh my god! You want me to climb this… this… thing!" Naruto shouted inwardly as he imaged getting a long stick with a sharp edge and poking the demon with it.
Hrrrmmmpphhh! Stop that! It's annoying. And yes I expect you to take that pathway and in one hour you should make it into the frogs swamp and will be greeted by guards
"How come you know so much about all this sage business hmmm?" Naruto said curiously and a hint of anger from still having to climb the mountains.
Well the fact that I'm immortal and have lived since the beginning of time might explain that I know almost everything there is to know
"Well yeah I guess that does explain a lot… anyway off we go!
Yes that would be wise young pup.
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One hour later after jumping from ledge to ledge and slowly circling upward of the hills until he hit a pathway that led in a straight line for as far as he could see.
"Hey fox, is this where I need to head into?" Naruto said unsure if he should venture into this icy abyss.
Yes continue to go down here and then eventually you should find the swamp
Hey, but aren't swamps often hot places that reside in wet places not freezing cold glaciers…
One, that makes it so no one will venture up here. Two, it just adds to the mystical vibe the place gives off. Hahaha
"The first one makes sense but the second is kinda stupid hehehe…"
Yes I guess so but think about it. where other place would you learn to master a toad sages training than in a mysterious place that makes no sense…
"A mysterious place that MAKES sense… god damn all these sage training places best not be as fucked up as this one…" Naruto looked amused by his words
Hahaha! your gonna have worse than this trust me kido…
"What!! There are more stupid ones than this!" Naruto looked shocked and amused that he would get to call the next stupid sage training area names too
Yes, yes small things amuse small minds young pup
"That's why I always secretly laugh at your manhood" Naruto bursted out laughing at his 'oh so original' joke.
Smart mouth bastard… the fox mumbled while he sat back down and calmed himself before he ate the boys head from the inside
"What are you thinking fox?" Naruto asked not knowing what the fox was thinking
Oh err nothing… nothing at all why do you ask? The fox said in a quick innocent tone
"No reason just wanted to make conversation… hey is that…" Naruto started but then confirmed his thoughts as he very clearly felt warmer and he saw a rain forest tree up ahead.
"Were here damn fox wake up!" Naruto said but there was no need the Kyuubi was wagging his tail as he saw the first tree visible. Naruto began to run full speed in that direction and finally jumped down onto the warm murky, hardly stable ground.
"Awww shit I had to stand in the frikin mud didn't I? I mean seriously this stuff is nasty and is going to ruin my trousers!"
You mean your bright orange jumpsuit trousers? Come on they were ruined the day they were made and then even more ruined when they placed them on you the Kyuubi seemed to laugh hysterically as he mused over his joke for a minute.
As soon as the fox had stopped laughing and Naruto had stopped shouting at him telling him to shut up and damned fox this and that. No sooner did too big frogs jump towards the young boy.
"Ahhh it seems you are young Jirayas student arnt you? Well come with us we wer'nt expecting you at the age you are but oh well. Lets get you to the grand master toad sage huh?" the first toad said to him
"yeah, ok shure. Ive been wanting help to train as a toad sage that's why im here." Naruto said proud and brave.
"yeah we know that's why you're here. What other reason could anyone have? I mean it's a god damned swamp. You humans don't seem to like that so get on my back boy and we will take you to the grandmaster" the second toad said in an impatient voice
"ok sure thanks" Naruto said whilst grinned to the toad as he jumped on its back
It was a 30 minuite ride before he finaly arived at a training ground with stone houses meant for humans.
"the grand master toad sage will be allong shortly please wait here for him. Naruto waited for him for 40 minuites and still he dident show up. So Naruto about to destress on how much longer it would take the fox quikely spoke up
It would be wise not to move, shout, talk, or even breath loudly. This is a test I can tell. You see toads and frogs are scared of sound and movement so if you stay still without saying anything for a bit longer im shure he will show up.
"good idea fox I will stay quite and be still for a while." Naruto said inwardly as he got comfortable and stayed in the position for 5 minuites. finally all of a sudden a small skinny toad appeared befor him with a grey goetea and grey haid around the edge of his head. He also wore a black cloak with a strange symbol on the back of it with a wooden cane.
"hello young trouble maker what brings you here? Well I already know what but why do you want it?" the grandmaster said in a croaked voice with a hint of curiosity in it.
"I am here to train under your hands the arts of the toad sage. I am here because I feel I am weak and that I cannot protect my friends. I am here because one day I seek out to become hokage and to never give up. I believe there will be a day when people truly understand each other and live in peace. I wish to train under you so I may protect the village" Naruto said with a lot of courage and after he said his speech he lowered his back and bowed to the grand master toad sage while his knees were on the floor and his plams spread across the ground as he looked down.
"please, grand master toad sage. I cant return to my village until I have become strong enough to protect it. Can you help me become stronger sensei?" Naruto said with all the respect he could muster up.
The toad sage touched by his words and actions nodded. Even though Naruto couldn't see it he felt it and returned to his standing position and bowed "I will not fail you toad sensei!"
The grand master toad sagejust nodded "please call me Jaba-sensei it is so much shorter to say" (and type too :P)
Naruto just nodded and followed him into a training dojo. Iniside were rock pillers (stalagmites or stlagtights witch ever points upwards) that were quite long and on top of them were rock slabs placed onto them balanced.
"pay no attention to them at this pressent moment they are no concernt to you at the present." Jaba said as he continued to walk out of the door and towards a pond that had liquid black tar bubleing up from its surface.
Naruto just nodded and followed him out of the door and towards the black liquid death that looked as if he would be swallowed by it.
"this is the start of training. As you can see it just looks like tar. But it is actualy toad oil. It helps let nature out. As you can see it also super charges the watar element." Jaba said in a proud and high brow tone of voice.
"so what do I have to do?" Naruto said wishing… NO… praying it wouldn't be to eat or drink the stuff.
"you have to rub it over your body and it will let the energy of nature surge through you. Eventualy you will accept the first part of the element and be able start the next half of the training. Although it may take a while because the first half is to battle off the oil from mutateing you, which don't worry I can stop by hitting you with my stick." Jaba said in a convincing way
"Well I guess so yeah. Let's get to training. I'm gonna make 4 clones. Can you stay at a ready pace if I do it like that?" Naruto said I little bit worried about the mutating part but reassured that it wouldn't happen
"Yes but only 5 of you ok? I can't keep up with this wakaNaruto at my age…" the toad sage not listening to what he had just said.
"How do you know my name sensei?" Naruto asked curiously
"Well… your sensei spoke of you all the time to me" the toad said covering up the whole story but still not telling a lie
"Oh I see" Naruto said reassured and happy that his sensei talked about him
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A few weeks had passed but he finally completed the first half of his training.
"Well that is something. It took Jiraiya months to learn the first half but this kid…" jaba said proudly and confidently about his new pupil.
"Well come on Naruto you still have more training to be done. Now you can't always count on the oil to do this. So we need to complete this next half of the training or all of this would have been pointless.
"Yes sensei!" Naruto exclaimed while he followed the toad sage
"This boy's chakra is incredible… I wonder if I take a look at it… oh…. My….god….." the toad sage had just noticed that Naruto had been fused with dark chakra.
"Boy! How did you adapt to dark chakra! How can you use it?!" the toad sage said amazed that this boy had it.
Its ok boy you can tell him… just tell him not to tell anyone else ok…
"Why shouldn't anyone else know and how come he can know?" Naruto asked dumbfounded
Because boy! He is your sensei and he disserves to know. And no one else should know because there is only you and the sage of the 6 who have ever had the element. Other than us demons anyway.
"Well… as you may or may not know the kyuubi is inside of me… and he taught me the dark element. The way of the demon sage. But I haven't completed my training Naruto said to jaba in a light voice trying not to scare his sensei away from him.
"I see… you boy are looking for a bright and shiny future… I mean you're learning to become a sage of the 6 aren't you boy? Well I'm not going to stand in your way. Follow me my boy and I will make you strong!!" jaba said with absolute respect for the boy standing in front of him.
"Thank you sensei!" Naruto said as he followed his teacher.
As they both began to stand on the stone and balance on it the toad sage started to talk
"My boy what you have to do here is very simple and very hard at the same time. It is simple because all you have to do is stay absolutely still. The hard part is that you have to stay perfectly still while it happens. You can't budge an inch not a millimeter. Jaba said with an amused look on his face
"God damn that sucks… but oh well… guess I'll get to it.
Naruto stayed still for many an hour sometimes he had fallen asleep and he would stay there so long and every now and then he would slip off. But he felt that he was improving.
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A few weeks went by and Naruto was finally starting to get the hand of it. Never falling off anymore and very rarely falling asleep either.
His master was very pleased with his new found abilities and knew that this boy would become the chosen one…
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A few more weeks had gone by and suddenly chakra that 10 folded his surged into his body as he stood completely still. His master was amazed by what he saw. The chakra he saw was amazing, and he knew that this kid had great amounts of chakra without help from the sages' chakra… on his own his chakra was that 100 times an ordinary chunin. This is about 10-20 times more chakra than a jonin. And already he had as much chakra as his sensei Jiraiya.
His master just awed in his chakra. It was actually physical and he felt he could touch it. The chakra washed over him and helped rejuvenate his own. "Naruto… you have finished your element training… my boy you kicked ass!!. Jaba said in a nice yet exited voice.
"Thanks jaba-sensei!. So what training is there now?" Naruto said excited too
"Well there is the water training. But first you know how you have to be completely still in battle for the chakra to come in and out of you… well this symbol that I will stitch onto your vest is chakra encased and will allow you to access the chakra at any time. Without having to stay still for an hour. It renews the chakra every hour so that you can instantly access it easily and the symbol is un-stichable and can be placed onto new clothing."
Naruto looked awed at how cool that sounded "sweet! Everyday I'm getting stronger I can feel it!!" Naruto said proudly and excited
"Yes my boy you are, now enough of this time wasting let's get to water sage training!.
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Meanwhile in konoha
"It's been 2 months since he decided to leave" Sakura said as she looked off into the distance but still looking towards the floor.
The rest of the group all looked sad and sorrowful as they all stood on the north east wall of konoha that Naruto decided to jump over that day and run off. Even Shino looked sad. A few of the girls had tears in their eyes for the temporary loss of their comrade and the suffering he could be going through.
Hinata who was standing behind Neji not wanting the others to see her sadness as she cried into Neji's back as silently as she could.
Tenten noticed her crying into Neji's back and went over to try and sooth her. Making shushing noises as she tried not to make this into a scene.
Sakura was the first to speak up again "it's all my fault he left!!" Ino saw this and quickly grabbed her friend and pulling her into her embrace and letting her sob into her shoulder.
"It isn't Sakura it was those damned villages fault. And the fact that he just felt alone I guess" Ino tried to comfort her friend to no success.
"You were there Ino! If I had been… just not so nasty then…then!..." she couldn't finish her sentence as she broke out in another fresh load of tears that plagued her face.
Sasuke looked down at her and tried to comfort her best he could. "Shhhh Sakura-Chan I am sure Naruto is fine. And he told us that he wasn't mad at anyone in the letter he left…"
"the note said he was going to go and train so when he came back he would have respect and that people would see him for what he really is… except for what they see him as now…"
Everyone looked shocked and curious "what do they see him as Sakura?" Tenten said looking suspicious "yes I was wondering that too" Neji said in the same level of suspiciousness.
"I…I… can't tell you… remember when Kakashi said that 'those who know why they hate him keep it to yourselves its up to Naruto to say' I think it is up to Naruto to say!" Sakura said as she brawled some more this time on Sasuke's shoulder.
"Sakura I don't give a damn tell me what is Naruto!" Kiba shouted and Akamaru barked as if to agree.
Mind your own bastard business! It doesn't concern you about this at this time!!… Be patient!. Sakura said as she stood up hands clenched very hard and teeth gritting.
Kiba looked scared and quickly backed off saying he was sorry.
Hinata looked curious at this but she let it go as she went on to think about Naruto and if he was ok
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2 months later – at toad sages training area –
"Well Naruto you seemed to have been taught all there is to know about sage training. Here… this ring proves that you are a master toad sage… and yes Jiraiya also has this ring as you have noticed. It isn't anything magical just a sign that says you're messing with a sage bitch back da fuck up" jaba said as he laughed at his remark and Naruto too had a hardy full stomach laugh as he heard it.
You have learnt every jutsu the toad sage has including, water dragon spirit no-jutsu, which allows you to control two big ass water dragons which will 'consume' there target and encase them with paralyzing water that will drown your opponents. Ice spike no-jutsu, allowing you to freeze the ground and using it as a modeling area where you can spike up ice spikes as big as houses! Just with a swish of the fingers. Toad army summon, allowing the caster to summon armies of gennin-jonnin toad sages to battle. Allowing to turn a ball of water into oil and then combusting it and making it spit out tentacles of lava that will consume anything and everything it comes to contact with (I know I stole this off of something :P) and the many many other s-rank jutsus he now held in his arsenal.
"Well… it's been fun jaba-sensei… but I have a life and a dream to fulfill. You can inform Jiraiya sensei if you wish. I won't return to them just yet. But please keep the demon sage thing a secret for now please." Naruto said in a mature excited but also sad he was leaving tone
"Ok Naruto, I won't tell Jiraiya about the demon sage… but my boy… remember to live out your dream and stop at nothing to complete it… unless it's a good thing that's in your way Hahaha!" jaba laughed but was also sad the human was leaving he had actually grown close to the boy.
Naruto laughed as well and saying his goodbyes to the rest of the toads he had gotten familiar with. And with that he left.
Well it's been a while young pup… so now that you're a master toad sage it looks like we need to get you started on demon sage training huh? Hehehe…
Yeah sure… let us leave this place and start my demon training… I have a lot I wish to learn.
They both laughed inwardly as this 12 year old master toad sage and apprentice demon sage left the swampy mountains and headed to their previous town to pick up the job and continue training.
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This chapter was revised to change the story a tad to correct spelling mistakes and change the niisan's to neesan's when they were directed Hinata. Thanks to Kitsune135 for the information needed about the update.
So what do you think of my third chapter? Please review. I as always accept criticism and flaming so long as it isn't spam flaming. This was an extra long episode. Instead of 3000 words it has 5000 words… yeah I just thought that it was needed. Also please review to show what you would like to see in later chapters… I have a very good idea where I am going with this but could also use ideas. I will type your names down saying that this person helped me. I'd like to thank Shadowfox32459 because he helped me with one characters spelling changing it from jiriah to Jiraiya. Also P5yCH0 because he helped with the same problem and he also helped me discover I hadn't put caps on my characters names. So thanks for the help guys. I don't know when the reunion will happen but I can tell you it's gonna be awesome!! Keep reading and reviewing peace out.
Next chapter back to the festival town!