Disclaimer: I still don't own Naruto or anything related to Naruto. I am making no money off this story. Blah, blah, blah boring legal crap.
WARNING: Guess what this story is still going to be a Yaoi! Gasp! Don't worry it won't be till chapter 4, yeah I know I said 5 last time but it changed, so you can keep ignoring me for another whole chapter if the idea of boy on boy offends you.
I love to watch him like this, his chest rising and falling with each breath. When I first got out I thought that my attraction to this boy would soon fade. However, the longer I spend free of him to more I long to be with him in a different way. His bright blue eyes are so alive, so fierce and his hair seemed to be charged with energy. I long to touch him again, but fear of waking him stays my hand. For now I must be content to watch, but watch and wait till I have his trust.
Silence is second nature to a ninja, but even the members of Team Kakashi were surprised when the remainder of the trip home was silent. The normally talkative Naruto seemed withdrawn and wary. The quite that they had all longed for now set them on edge. Kuro could feel the tension is the group and chose to remain silent as well, even though he was dying to speak with the blonde ninja running not far in front of him. As they entered Konoha along with Kuro they received odd looks. It was not uncommon to see prisoners brought back from a mission, but Kuro walking freely behind Naruto was obviously not a prisoner.
"Come on Kakashi-sensei, we are going to drop of the mission report now so that Tsunade-sama doesn't get angry." Sakura commanded then she turned to the other three, "There is no need for us all to come, why don't you go get some ramen?" She smiled and made shooing motions till the boys shuffled off. She stood watching them go then she grabbed Kakashi's arm and towed him off towards the Hokage Tower.
The Hokage sat with her head in her hands.
"Are you sure?" She asked glancing at the two ninja who stood in her office. The girl nodded.
"When I was examining him I noticed that the seal was disrupted and I couldn't find any of Kyuubi's chakra." The Hokage's eyes traveled to the white haired man.
"And you are certain you did make a mistake?" The man shrugged.
"Hokage-sama the Sharingan doesn't make mistakes." The woman shut her light brown eyes as she massaged her temples.
"I haven't had enough Sake to deal with this." She muttered and then added in a clearer voice, "We will try to pass him off as a self-taught ninja, the elders let Kurenai in I don't see why they wouldn't let him in and that way he stays in the village where we can watch him." The two nodded. "Shizune!" The Hokage called.
"Tsunade-sama?" The young woman asked as she entered the room, clasping a little pig in her arms.
"Go find the boy named Kuro that came in with these two. He should be eating ramen with Naruto and Sai." Shizune nodded, too use to the Hokage's weird orders to question this one, and left. Tsunade turned to the two left in her office.
"You aren't aloud to tell anyone what you have just told me. Is that understood?" The two nodded, it was very clear that this wasn't something the world needed to know.
"Tsunade-sama, what about Naruto, and Sai?" The girl asked. The Hokage seemed to consider it for a moment.
"I don't trust Sai, and there need to tell Naruto it will only upset him. Dismissed." With a nodded the two turned and left the tower. Tsunade sighed and laid her head down on her desk this was not what she had wanted to deal with.
Kuro followed behind the strange pig lady who said the Hokage wanted to see him. He wrinkled his nose the last time he'd dealt with a Hokage it hadn't turned out well for him. The door opened to revealing a youthful looking woman with pigtails leaning back in her chair behind the Hokage's desk.
"This is Kuro Tsunade-sama." The woman opened her eyes and fixed Kuro with an intense stare.
"Thank-you Shizune." She said without ever taking her eyes off Kuro. Shizune moved to stand by the door; as she walked past Kuro the pig in her arms glared, as hard a pigs can glare, at him.
"Kakashi and Sakura tell you have no village; I would like to offer you a place as a ninja in Konoha." The Hokage said. Kuro gave her an uncertain look, he couldn't tell what this woman was up to; but he could see she was no fool. "Of coarse you'll have to go before the elders, and they aren't very agreeable people, but you should be fine." The woman's voice dared the man to decline her offer.
"I would like very much to have a village to call my home. Thank-you for your generous offer, Hokage-sama." Kuro said inclining his head.
"Shizune! Have Izumo and Kotetsu go tell the Elders that I would like to see them." Shizune turned at and left.
"Good luck Kuro." The Hokage said and as she moved to face the window Kuro heard her say softly, "You'll need it."
Kuro stood before two old ninjas, their faces worn and hardened by the years of war and conflict.
"The Hokage tells us you wish to become a ninja of Konoha, she was however rather unclear where you from." The old woman asked her voice still strong despite the years of use.
"I've never had a village." Kuro said calmly staring a spot above the elders' heads, he seem determined not to look at them. The old woman raised her eyebrow.
"Yet you are a ninja?" She asked doing nothing to mask the doubt within her voice. Kuro bit his lip and then took a deep breath.
"When you have no village you must learn to fight quickly; the weak don't survive long on their own." Kuro's voice was flat and cold and the elders' exchanged mirror looks.
"Konoha lacks forces Koharu; surely can see the benefit of allowing a young ninja to join us." Tsunade said she sat on a coach not far behind Kuro.
"Ninja, yes, but this young man is no such thing." The man said his stern face looked as though it had long since forgotten how to smile.
"Then test him, Homura, you'll see that he is just as much a ninja as anyone who has been formally trained." Tsunade challenged. Homura and Koharu exchanged a long look; Koharu gave a heavy sigh and nodded.
"The Hokage is right; we are in need of ninja." She consented. Homura's frown deepened considerably.
"Kuro may become a ninja of Konoha," Kuro's face brightened and he dared to look at the elders, "If he can survive in the Forest of Death for a week with only one ninja to help him." Kuro appeared unconcerned by the man's commandment.
"That's reasonable, if the ninja if the ninja is Naruto." Tsunade said.
"Why Naruto?" Koharu questioned her beady eyes fixed on the Hokage.
"It would prove dangerous for both Kuro and the ninja sent in if they were not familiar with each other and out of the four ninja that Kuro knows Naruto is the easiest to get along with. Beside Sakura is still in training and I need to spend some time working with her, there is a mission that we agreed would be best suited for Kakashi, and I'm sure that Danzo will have need of Sai seeing as he has been gone for so long." The elders glared at Tsunade for a long moment before consenting. With business concluded the Hokage and the Elders seemed eager to be away from each other so the meeting was quickly ended.
AN: Yay for Izumo and Kotetsu even if they weren't actually in the chapter they still kick ass! So I was in class the other day and somebody said ocean, apparently if you say ocean at just the right sped with just the right accent it sounds like "oh shit", just a brief insight into my completely twisted mind. So anyway I hope you like the chapter, and as always I enjoyed writing for you! The next chapter will be up next Sunday or Saturday-ish.