Yo Yo Yo! It's me again back with another story! Once again this a naruhina story =], as if that was much of a surprise ha ha. Well I'm not gonna give away anything else, so you'll just have to read to find out. Also, I'm not gonna get into the disclaimer as you all know it by now.

Whoa I can't believe that I'm on chapter 4 already, wow. Well on to the fic.

Chapter 4: Naruto?

It was a beautiful day, a few wisps of clouds across the sky; warm air carried itself across the fields. The rookie 9 and their respective teams began to gather in their usually training ground to begin they're normal routine of sparring, weapons training, and ninjutsu training.

The past few months in the hidden leaf have been quite busy. Not particularly for shinobi but more for ANBU and the higher ranking officials like head clansmen, Tsunade, and council members. It had been coming down to the wire on Tsunade's successor, Naruto was ideal, but no one has heard from him in 5 years and its possible he has died. Although, Tsunade was not one to believe he died but she began to worry about Naruto's succession. If he didn't return soon he would lose his position as hokage to Kakashi.

Tsunade was sitting in her office, behind her normal huge stack of paperwork to be done when a huge gust of wind came through a opened window, blowing over all the papers she had on her desk. 'It hasn't been windy all day' Tsunade thought to herself. 'hmm somethings going on, and I need to know what' Tsunade snapped her fingers and in an instant a masked ANBU member appeared in a puff of smoke.

"Yes lady hokage?" The ANBU member knelt in respect only looking up to speak.

"I want you to gather as many ANBU as you can an scan the village, something is going on and I must know what" Tsunade commanded, as serious as she has ever been

Tsunade had fear that another shinobi like pain had come to trample on the dreams of her forefathers, her brother, Dan, And Naruto. Whatever was going on she would not let it happen again.

"Lady hokage" The Masked mans voice sounded as if wanting to give away some type of secret. "We received information this morning of a massive yellow light about a mile away, I believe these may be connected"

Tsunade's eyes shot open, 'a yellow flash' she thought to herself, "He's back..." Tsunade's voice was just loud enough for the masked man to barely hear her.

"What do you mean lady hokage?" asked the curious ANBU.

Tsunade slammed her fist down onto her desk, splitting it in two. "He's returned, Naruto's here, somewhere. Tell every available ANBU to search for him, this is your #1 priority, now go!" and with that the ANBU member disappeared in another puff of smoke.

'To think he was able to use "that" jutsu' She thought to herself while looking out the window, hoping to see Naruto standing there, but he was not.

At the training grounds

All the rookie 9 were doing their normal routine with their teams until a misthrown kunai nearly hit someone who was asleep under a large tree. The kunai just missed the mans face, landing only centimeters from the right side of his face. The loud thud from the kunai caused the mystery man to slowly wake, stretching as he woke.

'What the hell was that' Naruto thought to himself. 'can't a guy sleep in peace for a little bit'

Naruto was completely oblivious to the large crowd that was staring right at him. Looking right he saw the kunai and without moving he pulled the kunai out with just chakra from his had that was nowhere near the kunai. This action caused a gasp from the young genin, which in turn caused Naruto to finally notice the large group.

Naruto finally got to his feet, brushing off any dirt that had collected on him from the ground. "That was a close one, huh!" Naruto said showing his signature grin while rubbing the back of his head.

"Who are you? I've never seen you before." Asked a curious but defensive Shikamaru.

By this time all of the rookie 9 had gathered in front of their teams, cautious as to what this man was going to do.

Naruto reached down, pulling out an interesting looking kunai. All the rookie 9 quickly jumped into a defensive position. Smiling, Naruto threw the kunai, but none of the captains dodge because of the mans poor accuracy, or so the thought. The kunai landed behind the captains and was lodged in the ground. This caused Sakura to laugh, "If you were foolish enough to attack 7 jounin at once, at least be able to throw a ku..." Sakura was cut off by Naruto doing a few hand seals and in a bright yellow flash, which when the light dissipated all of the 7 captains were tied together with a thin steel rope.

Nauro laughed, "Even after all this time you guys still underestimate me!"

The group of captains was confused, all with the same question in mind, who is this man?

Hinata began to think, her realization caused his eyes to shoot open. "N-Naruto, is that y-you?" her stuttering returning to her.

Once again Naruto gave his Signature grin. "Long time no see, isn't that right?"

Hmmm how will the rest of the rookie 9 react to Naruto's return? Well you'll find out soon enough ha ha R&R and enjoy!