ACGOMN: Here's the next part.

If I owned Naruto, I'd be rich and I own Itachi and Naruto, but sadly I don't.

ii.

Naruto and Sasuke traveled all the way to Ame, tried as hell for they had a race to see who got there first. Sasuke won, Naruto was angry. The bet that whoever lost had to find lodgings once they reached the town. Sasuke and Naruto flashed their passes to the guards to be let in. The passes were to state that they were not missing Nin, but out on a training mission.

"Damn, Sasuke-teme," said Naruto. "A hotel is fine right?"

"Yeah, will only stay a few days since Ame's weather is similar to Konoha; Yuki will be a great place to train for a few months," said Sasuke. "But I guess there was a reason you picked Ame, hn?"

"Yeah, later though. We have to find a hotel," said Naruto, loudly. They walked around town searching for a hotel that Sasuke liked. Naruto knew that Sasuke was picky but not this picky.

"Not this one," said Sasuke.

"Oh for the love of...," started Naruto. "Just pick a fucking hotel."

"This one will be fine," said Sasuke. "Stop complaining, dobe."

"Bite me, teme," snapped Naruto.

"Shut up baka, you are attracting attention," said Sasuke, hissing a little bit.

"Me, it's probably your pretty boy looks," said Naruto, with a glare.

"Shut the hell up," said Sasuke. As they were going to start another round of insults at each other a kunoichi walked up to them. She had short dark purple hair and eyes. She wore Jounin gear.

"You two are from Konoha? Well stop making scene," said the girl.

"Hoku-san?"

"Naruto-san, oh it's you. How's Sakura-san," asked Hoku.

"She's probably mad at us for leaving right now without telling her," stated Naruto. Hoku nodded.

"Do you have any plans for dinner you two? You can come over my place," said Hoku.

"Ah, we are just going to the woods for a spar first," said Sasuke.

"Alright, I'll see you later then," said Hoku, leaving the ninja way. Sasuke didn't know who that was but Naruto seemed to know. He was explained that she was Sakura's opponent in the Jounin exams. Sasuke was still in jail while that happened. Sasuke and Naruto reached a great spot for a spar.

"You ready, teme."

"Che." As Sasuke and Naruto sparred and beat the shit out of each other, back in Konoha a meeting between the Godaime Hokage and Kazekage was about to be under way. Gaara had some very important information to give to Tsunade and it required that they both make a plan of some kind.

"Are you serious about this Gaara-kun," asked Tsunade.

"Extremely, Tsunade-san," said Gaara.

"Shi no Yami an upcoming group. Do you know what they are planning to do," asked Tsunade. Gaara sighed.

"I sent one of my ANBU teams out to investigate when I heard on of the Wind Country's villages were attacked. Only one came back alive, but he lost his mind. He was no use," said Gaara, bluntly.

"I see, this is very troublesome indeed," said Tsunade.

"I'm simply warning you about this because Naruto and the Uchiha are out there traveling," said Gaara. "Maybe you should recall them."

"No, I can't they were very serious about going on this training trip, plus they will be fine," said Tsunade. "I'll make sure my teams are wary of anyone who calls themselves Shi no Yami."

"Death of Darkness doesn't sound too good for us at all," said Jiraiya, popping in the room.

"Not at all, yeah," said Deidara.

"Great just when things were getting quiet," said Kisame.

"Tobi will help," said Tobi.

"Jiraiya why the hell are they not with Ibiki," said Tsunade, demandingly.

"Jiraiya-san I would like to know as well," asked Gaara, in his no nonsense voice.

"Relax, Hokage and Kazekage," said Kisame. "We are going to help you with this Shi no Yami crap."

"It's better than sitting around doing nothing, yeah," said Deidara. "But I kind of like Konoha and its peacefulness, yeah."

"Tobi will help." Deidara whacked Tobi on his head.

"Shut up you, yeah," said Deidara.

"I'm taking them with me and make sure they won't get into trouble," said Jiraiya. "We don't what this new enemy is like, so we need all the allies we can get."

"Exactly, plus we owe you for not sentencing us to death," said the shark man.

"Alright, but Jiraiya I will hold you accountable for anything they do bad," said Tsunade, with a glare at the pervert. Gaara just glared.

"Thanks Tsunade-chan! Let's go," said Jiraiya. The four of them were gone in a flash with a steaming Tsunade, who hates when he calls her –chan and Gaara who was not happy that three ex-Akatsuki members were trying to be their allies. In one of the training grounds in Konoha, four kunoichi were training themselves. Sakura, Hinata, Tenten, and Ino were they mediating quietly.

Sakura had Kurenai and Anko help her come up with a training plan. Each girl would work on their own special techniques, then sparring, chakra training, and then mediation. Of course include, their jobs, eating, showers, and what not. Sakura was working at the hospital of course. Hinata was getting prepared to become the head of the family. Tenten owned a blacksmith shop. While Ino was running the flower shop that her family owned. And naturally they would spend the rest of their free time helping Kurenai take care of her and Asuma's child who was growing up very well with all this care and attention; Anko is living with her so that Kurenai wouldn't be alone with the child as ordered by Tsunade.

In Team Gai's training ground were Lee and Neji facing off against Gaara's siblings, Temari and Kankurou. Lee and Neji continually sparred hour after hour, improving their techniques and tactics. The two older Sand Siblings thought that they wouldn't mind helping them out in training. And of course the Sand Siblings were trumping Lee and Neji.

"I can see that Team Gai is really all taijutsu," said Temari. "At least Tenten learned some ninjutsu and genjutsu. Lee is good, but Neji you need to learn long ranged attacks."

"The Hyuuga are not allowed to," said Neji.

"Well, screw them," said Kankurou. "It'll help you get stronger." Neji blankly stared at them. Perhaps he would actually consider it. In another of the training grounds, Sai, Shika and Chouji were training together. Sai was working on creating new animals he could summon with his art. Shikamaru and Chouji worked on new jutsu that their fathers gave them. That's what they would do all day, unless they needed to eat or go visit Kurenai as Shikamaru insisted upon to do everyday. Sai also was getting better at reading people and actually smiled more, but he still has a long way to go.

Back in Ame, Hoku came to get Naruto and Sasuke. They were all bloody and beaten. Hoku rolled her eyes and told them that she would help them by getting some bandages and things. Hoku was no medic.

"Come on you two. I see what Sakura-san was saying about you two now. Brothers, best friends, and rivals," laughed Hoku. Sasuke and Naruto both scowled. As they walked through town Naruto noticed that Hoku was being glared at a lot, but she acted as if it didn't faze her none.

"Hey why do they glare at you," asked Naruto.

"My Kekkei Genkai is what they are afraid of," said Hoku, not caring.

"You didn't use your Kekkei Genkai against Sakura-chan did you," asked Naruto.

"No I wouldn't do that only to my enemies," said Hoku. "It's called Sumomo Chuudoku (Plum Poisoning)."

"I never heard of anything like that before," said Sasuke. They entered the apartment of Hoku and sat in the living room. She continued talking.

"It's different from the Byakugan or Sharingan in that sense. It's how, people that have similar powers of me, our parent's blood mixed. It's a defect. I'm the only one who has this," said Hoku. "I did meet two people similar to me before, the only ones to have this. But I could sense that they were evil. They wanted me to join them in making Shi no Yami. Their objective would be to cleanse the whole world of evil. That's a load of bull shit. So when you two are traveling you should be extra careful."

"Thanks for the information Hoku," said Naruto.

"If you are the only one, what happens if you have children," asked Sasuke.

"I can't have children, because of my blood it'll make them die inside of me. When I was recovering in Konoha after fighting Sakura, she did some blood work on me and told me this," said Hoku. "But it's not like anyone would want to be with me." She grinned.

"…" Sasuke and Naruto both didn't know what to say.

"Ah, I'll get dinner ready," said Hoku. She left and went in the kitchen. Naruto and Sasuke stared at each other.

"Shi no Yami sounds bad," said Naruto. "We should pick up some allies on our travels."

"We should ask Hoku-san," said Sasuke.

"Exactly my thoughts," said Naruto. After dinner Naruto asked Hoku if she wanted to come with them to Yuki to train and get stronger. Hoku smiled sadly.

"I'm afraid I can't go with you," said Hoku. "My grandfather is sick in the hospital and someone has to pay the bills. But if you need me I've got your back okay guys?"

"Deal," said Naruto. "Anyway, teme and I better get to the hotel to sleep. We are going to head up over to Yuki tomorrow."

"Good luck to then," said Hoku. Naruto and Sasuke took their leave and the following day they headed out to Yuki. They both took one last look at Ame, before speeding off. Unfortunately if they stayed a day later they would have been able to help Hoku…

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