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Requiem of a Fallen

Chapter 3

Naruto raced to his favorite spot in Konoha. He could make out the shape of Ichiraku's Ramen in the distance. As he closed the distance, another familiar face registered his thoughts.

"Sakura-chan! Oba-chan!" Naruto grinned.

Sakura turned around, and spotted the blond.

"Ehh? Naruto!" she pointed at him.

Tsunade sighed in annoyance at the Oba-chan name. She'll get him later.

Naruto continued to grin at the Hokage, and the pink haired teammate.

"So, Naruto... How do I look? Do I look more like a women now?" She posed slightly to show her curves.

"You look fine! You haven't changed one bit!" He placed his hands behind his head.

Jiraiya and Kakashi happened to arrive, and heard Naruto's comment. Jiraiya sighed at the blond, Naruto still doesn't understand a women's mind.

Sakura took a step closed to pulverizer the blond before she noticed a difference to the blond.

"You're- You're taller than me now!"

Naruto never noticed how tall he had grown. He examined the difference in height between Sakura and him.

"Hey! You're right!" Naruto noticed he was taller than Sakura by an inch or two.

"Naruto-niichan!"

Naruto, Sakura, Kakashi, Jiraiya, and Tsunade watched the poof of smoke from down the street. The smoke began to clear, and Jiraiya giggled when he recognized the attractive figure of a women.

Another poof of smoke, Konohamaru remained standing in the place of the woman that was there before.

"How was that? A real drool of a jutsu, wasn't it?" Konohamaru said.

Naruto chuckled at the jutsu.

"Konohamaru, I'm sorry but I'm not a kid anymore. From now on you shouldn't use that jutsu either." He replied.

Konohamaru blinked in confusion. Sakura smiled at the level of maturity her blond teammate has shown. Sakura would bet that Naruto had brought a lot of new and powerful ninjutsu techniques with him.

"Such a jutsu is now mediocre, Konohamaru! Behold! The new perverted jutsu I have been developing!" Naruto shouted.

Sakura let a smile adore her mouth. Lost in her thoughts to hear the blond's voice.

"Aha, new ninjutsu... You say... A new perv..." Sakura returned.

"A new perverted ninjutsu you say!" She lashed out at the blonde in a comedic fashion. Naruto crashed into the cement ground, and caused a small crater on the side walk. Sakura walked up to him and grabbed his shoulder.

"I was wrong! You haven't changed one bit! I haven't seen you for two years and within two minutes you jump into that same person! What about the feeling of respect I had for you just now? As if I could feel sad that I wasn't grown up like you." Sakura yelled.

"Ma, ma Sakura, calm down. Konohamaru is terrified," Konohamaru was indeed behind Kakashi. Kakashi dropped sweat at the exchange.

"Jiraiya..." Tsunade began.

"Naruto has grown more like you in the past two years, hasn't he?" Anger passed through the Fifth Hokage, and was unnoticed by Jiraiya. Jiraiya also noticed that hokage's apprentice Sakura had also turned like Tsunade too, but didn't dare express his thoughts.

"The nostalgia ends here... Kakashi," Tsunade nodded at the jounin. Kakashi shut his book with a snap, and he walked up to Naruto and Sakura.

"It's been awhile, hasn't it?" Kakashi began.

"From now on the two of you will come with me on team related missions. It different from before, as now we're no longer have a teacher and pupil relationship. Starting today, we're equal Konoha ninjas," Kakashi reached into his pocket, and pulled out two bells. A jingle reached the Naruto's and Sakura's ears.

"Well... First, I'm curious as how you two have developed. The rules are the same when I first met you. If you don't come at me with the intent to kill, then you'll never succeed in getting the bells."

"The Bell Test," Naruto and Sakura said in unison.


Inside the United Earth Directorates Capital Flag Ship, Aleksander, Vice Admiral Stukov was having a terrible time organization a small group of marines, and medics.

"Attention!" The squadron of marine immediately went into position, and the medics took an extra minute before the medic were in position too.

"I'm sure you were briefed on this mission before entering the docking station, but I'm here to explain the purpose behind the mission. Your major operation is to capture one of the planet's inhabitants," Alexei Stukov explained.

"Colonel Manide will be acting as your official for the duration of your stay on the planet."

A ghost entered the docking station. Stukov nodded at the man.

"This is colonel Manide. He will be your scout, and official leader," Alexei continued.

"As you may know our information regarding this type of Terran is low, but we do know that the Terran have an extraordinary amount of psionic levels that surpass the Ghost Unit Program, and our only advantage is our superior technology. It is your job to capture as I said, and find out the extent of the Terran's abilities," Alexei ended with a salute and exited the room.

Colonel Manide lifted his rifle canister above his shoulder, and he viewed his squadron.

Nine members, including himself, he noted.

"We leave immediately," Manide's monotone voice echoed from his helmet.


Chapter End