I had to think for a long time on the book title, although it doesn't really matter that much. I had a different title but it was too long. This would have been released on Tuesday morning but I needed to revise and edit but I had work and errands the whole day.
I don't think I own Naruto.
Book II: Composition of Betrayal
"Manita, hurry!" Fu eagered her sensei, as she was the one who was rushing back to her home village. It was usually Manita who was in the hurry, but it was the opposite after Takigakure was invaded. Through the beetle that was planted on Naruto, the worried girl had sensed that her friend was stabbed in the back by a missing ninja from her village named Suien. Fu and her sensei were already on their way back from their time in Kusagakure, but when Naruto jumped in to save a little girl and boy that were hostage, he was stabbed by the missing jonin in the back.
"I wish you were this enthusiastic to train," the sensei remarked, stopping just a second to catch her breath. Leaving Manita behind, she was running through the field of trees as fast they possibly could. She was eager to protect Taki, but she couldn't help to not have as much stamina as her apprentice. The student arrived at the secret entrance and didn't stop at the body of water. She immediately dove into the water and begun to swim to the base of water near the giant tree. The beetle was killled due to flying off of Naruto and getting hit by another attack, so she had no idea what going on. She quickly got out of the water, but didn't see anyone near where the battle was going on at. Leaving her sensei, she decided to head to Shibuki's residence. Sprinting fast, Fu couldn't help but bursting into the house.
"Shibuki?!" Fu didn't care about stealth at the moment, she needed to make sure the people that mattered to her were okay.
"Oh, hey Fu," Shibuki was just sitting there, as if nothing had happened. "Back from the grass village?"
"Is everyone okay? Is Naruto okay? I saw-"
"I guess you saw some of what happened the last hour. He and everyone else is okay. And the invaders were dealt with," the leader let out a reassuring smile. "So, you know of Naruto from your time in Konaha, I assume? He's a pretty interesting boy. But you probably already know that, from your worrying. No wonder you were spying on him."
"I was not spying! I was just.. Observing. Like you said, he's interesting." Fu felt a little blush from being figured out, but luckily it was hidden from her sensei, who just walked in. She didn't mean to spy, but wanted her interest got the best of her. The beetle needs to be in range to be sensed, and even closer for her to see through their eyes.
"Hey, Fu. I need to talk to Shibuki, everything seems to be alright after all. I think I saw your friend in the market with others from his village," Manita was basically ordering Fu to go away, but the excuse was enough for Fu who quickly made way after waving goodbye to her leader, who returned the gesture. After the farewell, Manita sounded more sincere. "Hey, Shibuki, I saw this strange man on the road to the grass village.."
The mint-green hair girl walked swiftly to the market, but didn't want to seem too eager. Soon enough she arrived at market and instantly saw the boy she was looking for accompanied by a black hair boy and a pink hair girl. That must be his team, and with them the two kids she saw through the beetle before it's death. Fu has seen them around, but never really talked to them. She didn't talk to anyone in the village unless she had to. Naruto's head was turned away, so she decided to try and surprise him. The black hair boy saw that she was sneaking up behind the blonde, but figured she looked harmless and decided to let her have the element of surprise, although he couldn't help his smile. When she was close enough, she encased Naruto's eyes from behind so he couldn't see.
"Guess who?" She was giggling after her mock as he couldn't see, but he knew who it was. He couldn't forget the sweet voice that brought him ramen. Naruto was trying to spin his body around to face the girl but she moved to correspond his spinning to keep behind him, along to keep her hands over his even though Naruto was trying to push them away. Trying to push away her hands. Sasuke, Sakura, and the kids were laughing at Naruto being teased.
"Come on, Fu. I know it's you!" The blonde was smiling as she let go to stand still and let them meet again. Naruto turned around to see Fu looking straight at him with eyes that smiled along with her mouth.
"Hi!" The greeting was a little higher than her usual voice. Fu was clearly happy, and Naruto was glad to see her.
"Hey.." Naruto calmed down from the surprise.
"Naruto, you gonna introduce us to your friend?" Sakura speaking at last, but not before taking Sasuke's hand to hold. One of the elders decided to come ask for the kid's assistance while Naruto was blindfolded.
Fu let out a big smile, as she put her hand out to Naruto's team. "Hi, I am Fu!" Sakura was pretty amazed at how energetic she was, almost as much as Naruto sometimes. Although her 'prank' was a lot less trouble making than Naruto's.
"My name is Sakura," the pink hair took her hand to shake. "This is Sasuke." She didn't let go of his hand, probably the jealous type. The boy didn't really seem to care, anyways, but he still nodded as if it was a hello. "We were about to go to the food bar, you want to come with us?"
Fu really wanted to, but she didn't want to risk getting the usual treatment from the villagers. "Actually, I ate not too long ago." The mint-green hair girl lied, "I think I'm gonna go find my sensei. I'll see you later, Naruto. Come find me before you leave, alright?"
"Oh.. Alright.." Naruto sounded a little upset that Fu won't be joining them, he wanted to pay her back for the ramen when they first met. It was only a moment before he went back to being made of electric and smiled, "Yeah, I'll come find you." Fu was already walking away, but had her head turned back to wave. After rotating her head to front Fu let out a frown before going to her favorite spot in the village, besides her apartment.
Fu was sitting to the side of the top of the waterfall. She loved this spot, it was so high up from the ground and no one came up here. Looking up the the clouds, her mind begun to wander about possibilities . 'What if they tell him.. What if he looks at me like the village does?' Fu hoped for that not to happen. 'I'm not a monster... I just wanted a friend.'
"Wow, what a view."
Fu sat up absolutely surprised to see Naruto to the right, "Naruto? How'd you know I was up here?" The girl prayed no one had told him.
"By following you. You seemed upset and I wanted to make sure you were okay," the blonde exclaimed, taking a seat next to Fu and laying to look up at the clouds, arms behind his head. The girl gazed at him, not knowing what to do. "It is a nice view, though. No wonder you come up here, I had a place just like it at my village." He gave a fox like grin, and Fu copied what Naruto has done by laying back down and laying her head on her palms. The two had a slight moment of silence to look up to the clouds.
"Yeah. It is.." Fu did not realize she glanced at the blonde when she agreed.
"Why don't you introduce me to some of your friends, you've met mine," Naruto questioned, wondering why.
Fu didn't know how to answer, her thought process couldn't figure out what to say. The silence felt like a storm as she was still looking up, "I don't know... I don't really have many friends. I guess I should introduce you to my sensei, Manita. She's like a big sister to me." What she said was true, Manita did act like a sister to her. Strict, hates everyone pun out of Fu's mouth, and was usually the pack mule. But it's worth the attention the sensei gives her.
"Yeah, alright. A nice person like you? You should have tons of friends."
The girl was a little surprised to hear someone say that about her, "Thank you, Naruto..." She looked to the blonde with a slight head tilt.
"Anytime," again with the fox like grin. "ever thought about becoming a ninja for your village?"
Fu has thought about it, however she would only expect to be put onto a team that would hate her and leave her to dead if given the chance. "I have but, I don't know.. I get plenty of adventuring with my sensei."
"Speaking of sensei, where the hell is mine? He left me and the others to clear up some trash at the waterfall after escorting your leader back here," Naruto sounded very annoyed. "Anyways, I think I should get back to them." Fu copied Naruto standing up.
The girl was enjoying the alone time with her friend without the stares of people, but she understood. "Oh, alright." Naruto was about to head down but decided to try and force Fu back down with him, with that in mind he grabbed her arm with a devious smile.
"Come on, I want you to meet my sensei whenever he gets his ass here!" He shouted happily while pulling on Fu's arm, making her laugh.
"Alright, alright, I'll come! Stop dragging me!"
Shibuki, Fu, Manita, and the team from Konoha decided to wait outside of the village for Kakashi's return. It took about an hour for him to make an appearance, the sun and clouds were now orange due to the sunset.
"Well, it seems like you three did a great job," Kakashi inquired, but not sounding impressed.
"You can at least sound impressed!" Naruto replied with a lazy tone, making the Taki's leader smile.
"Ah, who's this? I don't remember seeing you when I was here earlier," the silver hair jonin's eye wondered to the green hair girl.
"Hello... I am Fu. I visited Konohagakure not too long ago with my sensei, Manita." Fu usually sounded either innocent or ecstatic, but this time her voice sounded a little bit afraid of the man. Mostly due to not wanting to make a bad impression.
"Is that so? Well, nice to meet you, Fu," he was looking over to her sensei to see if he recognized her. He did not. "Well, we should be getting back, the chunin exams are soon but we have a few more missions that we are needed for before then."
Fu enthusiasm returned due to the chunin exams being announced, an idea came to her, "Chunin exams? Hey Manita, could we go watch? Our stay at Konohagakure was short lived, after all."
Manita sighed at the request, but tilted her head back to the leader. "Is that alright?"
Shibuki didn't ponder the request for long, the two have been to the allied village before anyways. "Yeah, that's fine. Just be careful."
"That's awesome!" Naruto cheered, Sakura and Sasuke were already walking towards their home. "I can show you around the village more, too!"
Fu was cheering, too, but on the inside although her face wasn't hiding her excitement. The walk to the hidden leaf will be much better with her friend. It's been a long time since she felt like she belong somewhere, unlike her own village. Even though it won't be forever.. But there, only Manita will know what she contains within her.
It was very early in the morning as Danzo was looking outside the window of his office, but his gaze halted as an masked ROOT member appeared behind him, "Sire, some of the genin from the other villages are already arriving."
Danzo took another moment for silence, "Very well. Keep an eye on them."
"Yes, lord," the root member disappeared after being given his orders.
The bandaged Hokage was still looking out of the window, 'It has been a while since the leaf village has hosted the chunin exams. Why was the sand village so eager to have the exams here?'
After ordering the Uchiha clan to stay clear of the demon fox attack due to possibly taking the power for themselves, he was approached by a badly wounded leaf chunin. "Third... Hokage... needs help." After sending another ninja for a medical squad, he charged into the woods. After a moment he saw his Hiruzen, severely injured with multiple stabs to his chest.
"Hiruzen, I've ordered for a team to follow me once assembled," Danzo told the retired Hokage after crouching down to talk to the man.
"The hidden leaf can still be saved, Danzo... our village.." Blood came from his mouth. It shouldn't have brought any sadness to Danzo to see his rival dying, but it had. "Minato gave his life to seal the demon within his son. You need to find him..." Danzo was a little surprised to hear this, but knows the new born baby needs to be recovered.
"Sarutobi, before I leave I need to know who did this..."
"It was a betrayal, they had masks on... Danzo, I know you're the most likely candidate to be Hokage, the fire daimyo will probably elect you to strengthen the village. Do what you must, but don't lead the village too far from the peaceful tradition.. " Hiruzen warned his old friend, but not without coughing.
"Your ideals are foolish, old man!" Danzo shouted to his rival.
"My ideals are what the village is made out of! We need to bring peace, not destruction." The Hokage coughed up blood again before wheezing out his next words. "The village isn't just an organization, it is home to hundreds of people. We might not be related by blood, but they are my family! Even you. The Hokage is the one who continues to act as the main pillar of the house, protecting it! He's the one who carries the will of Konoha, entrusted with it! If you won't inherit the will, you will make the village fall.."
The words only angered Danzo, "If you think your words will change my ideals when I become Hokage without anyone to even oppose me then you are fooli-" He looked down to the still Hiruzen, who gave up on their last breath. With a smile on his face. "Foolish man..." He dissapeared into the woods, knowing he must find the boy. What he hadn't known is that his rival's death will change him forever. Maybe not much at first, but over time.. For as long they have been rivals, and his rival was always ahead of him. Even dying first. 'Good-bye, my old friend..'
From the distance a rescue team came to Sarutobi's aid, knowing he was not long for death and there was nothing they could do, he told one of the members a message for his people. "When the tree leaves dance, one shall find flames.. The fire's shadow will illuminate this village, and once again, three leaves shall bud anew." He then closed his eyes to darkness.
Danzo was still overlooking out of his window before coming back to reality and heading to the doors of the office, "Damn, old man..." He softly whispered to himself as he shut the door with no one inside.
After Fu and her sensei checked into the village at the entrance, the group parted ways. Kakashi went to the Hokage's office, Sakura and Sasuke decided to go on a date to some restaurant, and Fu's sensei decided to check out the hot spring and then to rent a hotel room. Fu was more excited than Naruto, she was somewhere where she only had friends and people that didn't know what she contained. "So.. You growing your hair out? It's a little longer," Fu asked the blonde. Naruto now noticing took a strand of his bangs and pulled on it.
"Oh, yeah. I guess, I only shaved it so I wouldn't look like my dad and-" Naruto froze at that, knowing he shouldn't say something like bringing embarrassment to the Namikaze clan. He felt his head being hit by Jiraiya again, like a ghost.
"And what?" Fu was curious why he shouldn't look like his dad. "Oh, could I meet your parents?" She let out cheerfully, but it only made Naruto frown a bit. "Oh.. Sorry, did I say something wrong?"
Naruto noticing that made Fu feel guilty, raised his hands up defenselessly, "No, no! You couldn't have known, don't feel bad! See.. They were killed the day I was born.."
This shocked Fu, "What? I'm.. So sorry.. I shouldn't hav-"
"Like I said, you couldn't have known!" Naruto assured his friend, who was pouting to the ground. He came up with a plan, and quickly took her arm to drag her along again. "Hey, I know! Let's go to Ichiraku's!"
"Yeah, fine, fine. But you're paying!" Fu teased the blonde.
"Of course I am! I need to pay you back!" Naruto shouted, disregarding what she said with a wave as he dragged her to the restaurant.
Sasuke arrived home after his date with Sakura and noticed Itachi was packing up like he was leaving for a mission when he walked past his room. "Hey, bro. You leaving?"
"Yes, I have an important mission," Itachi wasn't usually so plain. "The chunin exams are soon. You think you're ready for them?" The older brother never turned away from his original pose.
"Yeah, Kakashi already signed us up for them but it doesn't start for another two weeks."
"I see, well good luck in case I don't return by then."
"Yeah, thanks bro," The young Uchiha told his brother before walking off, not being able to see Itachi's sad expression as he was turned away.
Naruto was already how his third bowl as Fu was just finishing her first of barbecue ramen, "So when are the chunin exams?"
"Oh, I think about in a few weeks or so. We'll probably do a few missions meanwhile." Although Naruto knew it was rude to talk with his mouth full, he knew there wouldn't be a moment that it wasn't full. He loved ramen too much.
"Maybe I could tag along?" Fu gave a innocent smile, as she waved for Teuichi to give her a second bowl.
"Yeah, Kakashi probably won't mind. It most likely will just be D rank missions, anyways," Naruto assured, not leaving his pork ramen. But gazing to her new bowl of barbecue ramen, "you really like barbecue, huh?"
This opened a new world to Fu's expression as she hugged the bowl, "I loooooveeee barbecue! It can be spicy, sweet, regular, whatever and I will eat it on anything!" Naruto thought her orange eyes turned into orange hearts for a moment when she started eating. He didn't notice how big her smile was when she ate. The blonde left out a chuckle before returning to his bowl.
Walking the young girl home, Naruto took the lead. He assumed it was to the same hotel as her last stay. "So you're gonna stay for the whole chunin exams?" Naruto let out a big smile.
"Of course I am! They only come around every once in a while, it's a good chance to see all types of genin from other villages! I also get to hang out with you and see you fight!" Fu was ecstatic, as always.
"Well it's good to see you, too. I wanted to buy you ramen to thank you before but you left, or that's what... Obito told me..." The two arrived at the hotel's doors, but Fu still noticed his change in voice.
"Yeah, sorry.. My sensei wanted to rush back to Taki for some reason. Speaking of Obito, how is he?" She wasn't as ecstatic like in her usual tone, but sounded rather sad.
Naruto put his hands in his pockets before facing away to walk home, "He's great.. I'll see you tomorrow, right?"
"Yeah, of course! Bye... Naruto.." Fu last sentenced sounded was worried as much as she was inside. 'I hope he's okay.. I upsetted him so many times today..' Fu looked back to see Naruto shoulders hung, before walking into the hotel.
Knock Knock
"Hold on! It's the middle of the night, give me a minute!" Naruto eyes were barely open, good thing the blonde kept his sweats on as he got home. All he had to do was put a plain white t-shirt on. After another knock he opened the door to see Fu. "Hey, Fu? Are you alright? It's almost one.."
"Ita-sensei is missing, I don't know where she is!" She green hair girl sounded extremely worried about her sensei, Naruto eyes widened with concern. "Apparently the last place she was seen was going into our hotel room. I ran to your sensei's house for help, but he couldn't find anything at the hotel." Naruto leaned to the left a little to see Kakashi with his hand waving to the tired Naruto. Did that man always wear that mask?
"Hey, Naruto. I think it would be a good idea for her to stay with you for now. The hotel is filled with genin from other villages, you know, for the chunin exams. Is that okay?" Naruto was glad to know Kakashi tok care of his friend.
"Yeah, that's alright.. " Fu slowly slipped in, as Kakashi waved off to disappear.
"I'm sure she'll be o-" he was cut off by an immediate hug as the girl started to cry into his shoulder. He hugged her back to comfort for a moment before pulling her arm to lead him. "Let me show you where you'll be sleeping.."
After walking her upstairs to his room, and getting a few sheets from his closet for himself, he looked towards Fu. "Alright, you get this bed. Wake me if you need anything, alright?"
"Wait.. Naruto.. Is this your bed?" Her eyes were wide, but Naruto couldn't see the redness for crying. Fu's voice was mixed with concern and sadness.
"Yeah, but the couch is pretty comfortable. So, I don't mind." Fu was still crying as she landed face down on his bed, making Naruto look back in worry before his closed the door and walking down the stairs.
"Ahh, the couch is pretty comfy, after all..." Naruto couldn't help but talk to himself as darkness quickly took over. Naruto didn't bother to lay down, as soon as he sat down, the boy was out of the real world. Until
KNOCK KNOCK KNOCK KNOCK KNOCK KNOCK
It wasn't but forty minutes since Fu came knocking, "Oh Come -!" He didn't even noticed Fu came back down and had her head on a pillow that was on Naruto's thigh, with her body laying across the rest of the couch. She was also awake now because of the loud obnoxious knock. He didn't bother to say anything because the knocking was non stop. He quickly stood up and ran to the door and angrily opened it, "WHAT IS IT NO-"
"It's Sasuke! Come quick!" Sakura was sobbing like no one he has ever seen, Fu quickly followed after the two as they ran their way down the street.
"Sakura?! What happened?!" Naruto asked the crying Sakura.
"Kakashi will tell you, he's in Sasuke's room at the hospital!"
"Hospital?!" This only made Naruto run faster, along with Fu who wouldn't want to get lost.
The three ran up the stairs to the room that the pink hair led them to see Kakashi standing over the Uchiha, who seemed uninjured.
"Kakashi, what's going on?" Naruto asked, while Sakura took Sasuke's hand and sat in the chair to the side of the bed. Sasuke was unconscious.
Only a dreadful silence rang across the room before he answered, "His brother had just massacred the entire Uchiha clan. Sasuke is the last one."
Both Naruto's and Fu's eyes widened, not knowing that to say.
Naruto didn't want to leave his friend, but Kakashi needed jobs to run as Sakura was told to go home and get some rest. Ino had heard the news and went over to help her cope. The nurses understood the conditions and gave Naruto and Fu a pillow and sheet to stay in his comrade's room. His sensei told Naruto a few anbu members will be watching the room in case if Itachi came for the last member. Naruto having slept on the floor while laying his back to the wall woke up. He wasn't cold at all, but that was because Fu was leaning on his side with her head on the blonde's shoulder. He sat his head to the wall not wanting to wake her, and noticing Sasuke had not move an inch there wasn't really anything to do but wait. Except to smile as Fu rubbed her head, trying to get deeper into his shoulder, not really achieving though.
After about ten minutes, he tried to get up but was pulled back down by Fu who only replied "no" like she was still asleep, but still soft as ever. He glanced back to Sasuke, who was still immobilized. Although within his mind was the night his whole life changed.
The Night Of The Uchiha Clan Massacre
Something seemed off. Sasuke woke up around the middle of the night but shugged off the feeling he was having. Not being able to sleep, he decided to get up to get a glass of water. He noticed Itachi's door was lit but thought nothing of it after just waking up. While bringing up the glass of water to his mouth too drink, he noticed his parent's doors were opened. Sasuke decided to walk to the opened doors to see them sitting up, as if they were sleeping like that. The lights were off, after all. He laid his back to the door frame, "hey why are you two sitting up like that? Normal people sleep laying down." Sasuke smiled, but was confused to why they hadn't retorted. "Mom, dad?" The Uchiha stepped closer to see their eyes gouged out with a chest wound. On the urge to scream but knew he had to keep calm, 'Shit, shit, shit... this can't be real. It must be a dream. I need to get out of here...' But his thought process were caught off when the lights flickered on and he rotated his body but was immediately grabbed by Itachi, who squeezed his arms tight to be sure he couldn't escape.
"Good morning, brother." His sharingan was awake, but they didn't look like normal sharingans.
"Brother, what the hell happened? We need to get hel-" He was immediately cut off again by Itachi gouging out his left eye, leaving him to scream as he gazed upon Itachi's twisted smile. "Itachi, why?!"
"They were just a test." Itachi was still plain like before. But within the plain voice was a sliver of power. "I had to test myself. To test my ability of power. "I had to test myself. To test my ability." Sasuke noticed his eye was not gouged out after all, and turned to see if his parents were still alive. They were not, what Sasuke experienced must have been a genjutsu. Realizing Itachi is about to kill him, he jumped out the window. Breaking it in the process. Itachi only stood there, knowing the escape was useless. Sasuke ran pass all the bodies in the pitch black street. All their eyes were gouged out as well, making Sasuke run even faster. He was stopped again by many crows, who all had the same eyes as Itachi's strange sharingan. They all flew around his as the young Uchiha raised his arms to defend, however it didn't stop a lone crow to forcefully go into his throat.
Sasuke began to choke, but it quickly calmed down as the urge no longer existed. 'Another genjustu?' The Uchiha thought as he continued his run, trying to get out from the compound but stopped to see red glows from the power unit above, only to intensify has he looked upon the eyes. His head started to hurt as visions of the clan's slaughter ran through his head.
Passing out for just a slight second, he sensed his brother standing over him.. "to test your ability... that is why you killed our people?" Sasuke's words could barely leave his mouth in a whisper, but his eyes angered although overshadowed by tears. He was struggling to get up, but was weakened due to the trauma.
"I'm gonna allow you to live, so I can test my abilities once more. You have the potential to be a worthy opponent, to have the same eyes as I do. I have slaughtered everything you loved to make you hate me, so you could hopefully seek to obtain power needed to kill me and gain the eyes I possess." Sasuke was looking up at him with disgust, he did hate Itachi. The clan was everything to him. "You can only be powerful enough if you have the sharingan I have. But there is a catch... you must kill your best friend."
Sasuke immediately thought of Naruto, 'No...'
"It's all for personal gain, so that I may test myself another time. Obtain the eyes I have, Sasuke, and then come and face me," Itachi's eyes widened to use another genjutsu, making Sasuke faint only for the memory to repeat for a hundredth time.
Hospital
Naruto didn't bother to try and get up again because Fu would just bring him back down. Apparently his shoulder was comfortable. The blonde didn't mind to lend his shoulder, especially after last night's news, after all. It was the least he could do, and she wasn't it letting it go to waste. The girl was latched onto his whole arm with both of her hands now. After a few more moments, Sakura walked in quietly. She didn't want to disturb Sasuke, but upon seeing Fu asleep she decided to keep her voice to a whisper.
"Any sign of him waking up?"
"None..." Naruto replied, also in a whisper. His answer made Sakura frown with her entire face.
"I'm worried about him, and there has been no sign of Itachi.. I can't believe he could have done this. I'm just glad Sasuke is alright..."
"Yeah, I can't believe it either..."
"So... you and Fu, huh?"
"What?! It's not like that, I, uh.." Naruto was blushing like a tomato, he was glad Fu was asleep still.
"I'm joking, calm down," The pink hair said in a loud whisper. "But what was she doing at her house? Where's her sensei?"
"She came knocking on my door about an hour before you did along with Kakashi, Manita is missing." Naruto still whispering, but clearly worried.
"What? Why is everything going so wrong now?" Sakura eyes widen and replied a bit louder.
The blonde pondered for a second before replying, "I don't know.. But I feel like there's a snake somewhere."
Naruto and Sakura kept quiet for a moment until Sasuke suddenly started to churn, making Sakura get closer to him in anticipation and Naruto to escape Fu's arms which woke her but quickly realized what was going on, also getting closer to the Uchiha with the others.
"Sasuke..." Naruto question the waking churning Uchiha.
The Uchiha quickly sat up in a sweat, much to a surprise to the others, and yelled with angry eyes and a angry tone, "I am going to kill Itachi!"
I'm working on showing Fu's personality, and I hope I am showing the progression of Naruto's and Fu's relationship fairly well. I hope I shed some light on Danzo, too. I have more flash backs planned. I wanted to show Sasuke's memory next chapter but I needed something to write as I was a thousand words short from my average. I don't really have much else to say. As I've said, many things will be different, things might happen at different times, at different time lengths. Anyways, the chunin exams will be a long ark that I'm very excited to write.
