The Sage of Six Path's and The Sage of Time

by GrandPuubaTikiElderMcTootTooT

Naruto Uzumaki is the last of his clan, or is he? Follow Naruto while he figures out that The Sage of Six Path's, and The Sage of Time were really just the beginning of it all, and sets out to rebuild Uzushio, as well as his once great clan. Epic length story, Bloodline Naruto (later on) NaruxHina, OCxHana, Lemons, Few OC's. Starts off after the wave arc. Read and Review Rated-M

6. The Two Sages Meet

(Authors Note)

First of all I'd like to thank everyone who has been checking out my story, and reading it this far. I've been getting A TON! of feed back on it, all of it good so far! So that's cool that all of you readers are checking this out. I think so far in just 3 days of writing, editing, and uploading the past 7 chapters in my spare time that i get (Thankfully last weekend I had no plans to do anything, and the girlfriend just wanted to stay at the house, and do crap around here.) and also that I have had to chance to do some writing as well as after i get off work. So yeah! 8 chapters now muwahahahaha... oh yeah in this chapter you'll notice that Kensei and Naruto are actually very much so alike haha you'll see what i mean when you read it. ok lets be serious now... who is in the kitchen with dina?

I don't own Naruto or any of its characters, I do however own any of the OC's that I have created for my story.

The Two Sages Meet

Upon descending back into the world below, and arriving in the now ruins of Uzu, and upon quickly leaving them. We find Kensei walking down a small narrow path, worn down by so many travelers on foot over the years, deep in thought, and if one could see the look on his face, one could tell he was clearly.. pissed off..

The birds were chirping happily in the trees talking with one another, small forest creatures were scampering about throughout the forest surrounding the small path Kensei was walking on leading even further away from the ruins of Uzu. And all was peaceful throughout the forest. Life was good for the creatures living there. Not a predator in sight, not a...

"GOD WHAT THE FUCK IS GOING ON!" Kensei screamed out as a dark red cloak of chakra outlined in black enveloped him, and his eyes flashing blood red, finally broke his deep concentration, and silence after several hours.

effectively scaring the living hell out of everything within the forest, and sending the once happy birds scrambling to get away from the area now.

After realizing that screaming out in frustration was killing his throat something serious, and feeling slightly light headed, he started to think out loud as he continued on to his next destination. "Stupid birds... stupid trees... stupid sleeping outside with nothing!... AGH! everything is STUPID!"

(Flashback)

Kensei finally arriving at a hill top overlooking one of the villages located outside of Uzu around 8pm as the sun was starting to set, his eyes bulged out of his head, and in a matter of milliseconds his Uzumaki short temper did something even scarier than normal.. it got even shorter.. "WHAT THE FUCK IS THIS SHIT!" Roaring to the now night sky flaring up his chakra into the sky brightly, pissed off at what he was looking at. Kensei said to himself. "This whole place is.. is.. t-t-totally destroyed! There isn't even ONE house or building still standing to sleep in!..." His emotions doing a complete 180 Kensei started crying anime tears while falling to his knees. "Why!? Why do you hate me so lady luck!?" Kensei started weakly pounding his fist into the ground of the hill top he was on. Stopping his little tantrum Kensei looked back to the desolate village and sighed to himself. "Guess im sleeping outside with nothing.. better go find a comfortable tree or a rock.."

(Flashback end)

kicking an innocent rock that laid in the middle of the pathway as he came up to it in his walking. "Of coarse all the stupid villages near by Uzu would just happen to be destroyed when i took the time to go to each of them! That's just my freaking luck..."

With his frustration growing even higher he started to get light headed from letting his temper get the better of him.. once again..
"Stupid family short temper..." Silent for a little while as he continued his walk he broke the silence in the forest once again with his outwards thinking. "Of coarse now that i have come to realize that the small villages outside of Uzu are destroyed.. and by the looks of them, they have been destroyed for almost as long as Uzu has.. that now I have to go to the Land of Waves..." grumbling under his breath about how he should of just gone there to begin with.

"Well at least the roads, and pathways leading to the other villages, and countries haven't changed very much since i was away, and I can still find my way around.. so far.." Noticing a worn out piece of wood sticking out of the ground about 50 feet ahead of him he quickens his walking pace to reach the sign to examine it.

Once Kensei reached the worn out piece of wood, and crouching down to look at it more carefully, he noticed it use to be a sign indicating that a village was up ahead. unfortunately for Kensei, the name of the village was missing from the broken weather worn old sign. Sighing to himself Kensei tried to recall what he remembered about the travel times to get to The Land of Waves. "Alright so its been about 7 hours since i left the last village i got too, and the land of waves is.. uh.. a day or so walk from Uzu.. so with me 7 hours outside of Uzu in a slightly different direction.. that means... that... GOD DAMMIT WHY DOES IT HURT MY HEAD SO MUCH TO THINK RIGHT NOW!"

Taking a deep breath to calm down before resuming his thoughts. "Ugh ok.. that means i should be about 11 or 12 hours or so away from The Land of Waves.. when i left that last village that was 7 hours out of Uzu. I've been walking for a good 9 hours now from it, its mid afternoon now, and with 9 of the 12 hours down i should be able to get to the Land of Waves, here in the next few hours if i continue walking, Or.. i could start... chakra..." Stopping dead in his tracks, and with a horrified expression on his face forming "sprinting..." Almost as if he was struck by a lightning bolt of stupidity "Ah son of a.. bitch... you is be reallllll smart shinobi aint is you Kensei?" He mocked himself in an attempt to find the humor in the position that he had put himself in. Without a moments hesitation Kensei took to the trees, sprinting through them with chakra enhanced leaps between the branches.

As Kensei was screaming through the forest's trees like a 12 year old girl chasing after Justin Bieber's limo on the freeway in the middle of rush hour traffic.. (and keeping up) Kensei calculated his now "actual" time of him needing to reach his destination. "I should be able to make it there now with in the next hour of I stay at the pace im going now. Hopefully all that soul bonding, body tearing, lack of sleep, lack of food, and mentally draining experiences that I went through with kami, and with the whole ordeal with Uzu hasn't drained me of all my freaking energy... that'd totally suck ass if i passed out right in front of the entrance to The Land of Waves..." Shaking the thoughts of him not having enough energy to make the trip Kensei upped his pace through the trees blurring into a black shadow that raced through the trees.
Little did Kensei know that lady luck was a bitch.. and old crusty hag of a bitch that obviously had it out for our handsome young or is he really old? oh fuck it it doesn't matter.. ehem.. as i was saying.. oh yes... who had it out for our handsome young Sage of Time reborn Uzumaki. And what he didn't know was that his earlier outburst in which scared the shit out of the forests cute fuzzy wittle cweetures, had in fact awakened one of the his clans secretly known gekke genkai's, and with it's awakening it drained nearly all 3/4's his chakra.. Yes.. Kensei will be screwed..

With Naruto and Team 7, Tazuna's house

After his conversation with Sasuke the other day, dinner with his team and Tazuna's family was actually one of peace and no clear signs of aggression. For that Naruto was glad. Even though he decided on not leaving, and going on a walk he still was a bit sore on the subject that was Sakura. And because of that he avoided talking to her or being near her completely.

Sasuke remained his usual self at dinner, which wasn't really hard to do. But with the feeling of not being completely alone in his life still, warmly made him smile on inside. But that smile would fade from his mind once Sakura would come up to him, and try to talk to him for god knows whatever reason. Only giving Sakura a "Hn" as a response for yes, and a "hmpf" as a response for no. Sasuke was able to quickly shake Sakura from driving him insane.

As night settled in the sky above the world, dinner at Tazuna's was finished, and everyone thanked Tsunami for the food, Naruto and Sasuke excused themselves from the table, and said they were going to bed so they could be ready for the next day. Taking Naruto, and Sasuke's lead Kakashi excused himself aswell, telling everyone that he was going to go keep watch on the roof for anything suspicious that may approach Tazuna's house over the night. Being the little lost puppy Sakura is she quickly said she was going to bed aswell, and went upstairs to her room for the night.

With Kakashi

As everyone went to sleep except for Kakashi to be ready to help Tazuna work on finishing the bridge in the morning. Kakashi went outside of the house and jumped to the roof. Making himself comfortable at the highest point of the house Kakashi sighed, and laid back with his arms behind his head and started to relax while occasionally glancing around the house every once in a while before going back to his relaxed position.

After about about an hour of being a top of the roof and starting to doze off Kakashi was only three or four nods of his head away from passing out. That is until he felt a very high chakra signiture, and what he thought he heard was yelling? In the very far off distance. Quickly bolting himself into a standing position while still on the roof he looked towards where the signature was. Being a shinobi of great experience for so long, and being dragged into the third great shinobi war as well as the thousands of life or death battles he's been in over the years of his shinobi career Kakashi immediately knew that who ever was emitted that chakra was pretty powerful, and pissed off. And that definitely was worth keeping note of. Filing the away for later he quickly sensed the chakra signature disappear completely as if it never appeared in the first place.

"Well that was definitely strange... whoever that was I would not want to be around them for very long." With a shrug of his shoulders Kakashi laid back down on the roof with the thought that the signature was about a little bit shy of a day away from where he and his team were at so he had nothing to worry about if the signature was coming for them. With that the veteran shinobi, and ex-anbu captin closed his exposed eye, and slowly let himself relax so he could fall asleep.

Next Morning at the Bridge

Team 7 woke up the next morning bright, and early and ate a good breakfast that Tsunami had made for them, and all of them followed Tazuna to the bridge to help him and his workers finish the bridge, so they can go home and complete their mission entirely. After getting to the bridge, and starting to get to work bringing supplies that the workers needed the team of genin Konoha shinobi were quickly getting bored and fed up relaying wood, nails, and whatever else the workers needed to work quickly.

After 4 hours of helping the workers build the bridge, Naruto was at wits end. He had enough.. he wasnt a pack mule dammit! Walking back to the supply pile with Sasuke and Sakura, Naruto snapped
"ARGH! I can't take it anymore! Why are we the ones just running back, and forth bringing the workers their crap! Bring me more wood! Fetch me my tool box! Get me some water I'm thirsty! Well you know what I say, PISS ON THAT! they can get their crap themselves..." Looking at Sasuke to see if he agrees with him sees Sasuke with with lips tightly held together as if he wanted to blow up along with Naruto but decided to at least attempt to hold the urge for now. Naruto being well.. Naruto.. see's Sasuke's in the same boat as him and decides to takes it even further.

"You know we are shinobi right? You know.. we fight and kill people? and yet we are stuck being pack mules for god knows how long until this bridge is finished..."

Kakashi hearing Naruto's outburst walked over to where his genin were, and sighed as he knew this conversation was going to be the cause of a migraine. Thinking to himself before he gets to Naruto and the other's, "This is going to be a long week, or so until the bridge is finished... i hope Naruto doesn't blow up like this every day.."

Getting to where Sasuke and Naruto as well as Sakura were Kakashi asks the obvious, "What's wrong Naruto?"

"I'll tell you what's wrong! Being reduced from a shinobi to a pack mule! That's what!" quickly fired from Naruto's mouth. About to reply to Naruto, and attempt to defuse the situation before Naruto gets on a roll and starts yelling about everything else as he has so kindly has done on all of their past D-Rank missions. But before Kakashi could speak Sasuke surprisingly spoke up.

"Kakashi-sensei, Naruto is right. Its not only annoying, but it's degrading. We should be training." Kakashi was about to speak but was.. what do you know interrpted by the less than polite at the moment Naruto.

"Yeah Kakashi-sensei! I mean I know we are on a mission to help Tazuna protecting him, and told him we would stay until the bridge was finished but I mean.. come on! Can't I just leave a bunch of shadow clones here at the bridge with Tazuna for protection and help, and you take us to go train?" After Naruto said that he noticed Kakashi was very quiet, and that his teammates were looking at him in confusion.
Kakashi with his mouth dropped making his mask look funny, completely enamored that Naruto thought of using shadow clones for help, and pack mules for the other workers before he had was in complete shock once again from Naruto's thinking. Deciding that it actually would be a good idea for Naruto to use his shadow clones, so the bridge could be completed faster, and that meant they could get back home to Konoha quicker. Everyone would be happy. Perfect. "You bring up a very interesting point Naruto. Go ahead, and make as many as you want, and Sasuke, Sakura, and the original Naruto will come with me to train for a while.

"THANK GOD!" Surprised by the outburst everyone on the bridge stopped what they were doing and looked over at the group of four Konoha shinobi curious as to who was that yelled out.

With Team 7

Kakashi looked on at a peculiar teammate in his little team with amusement in his lone exposed eye, that was bored straight at Sasuke who was the cause of the yelling.

Naruto nudged Sasuke in the side lightly chuckling and saying "HAHAHA! I knew you were just as pissed as I was at doing the grunt work from hell! Hahahaha! You really shouldn't hold it in like that when you are pissed, it makes people look at you like your a naked dirty fat diseased homeless dude on a fashion show runway full of super models! AHAHAHAHAHA!" Sasuke getting embarrassed at what is going on just glares at Naruto shutting him up for the time being.

"Can we please go train now Kakashi-sensei?"

Now it was Naruto and Sasuke who were just plain shocked... Sakura, actually wanting to train?

Quickly panicing in either seriousness or stupidity Naruto started racing around in circles screaming at the top of his voice "OH GOD THE SKY IS FALLING! HIDE THE RUM! GET TO THE BUNKERS! I DON'T WANT ANYMORE TOOTHPASTE MOMMY! THE CHEESE IS ALWAYS TWICE THE FENCE POST! AHHHHH THE WORLD IS ENDING! Umpf!" Sasuke quickly closelined Naruto to shut him up and end his hysterical chirade. Naruto quickly getting back to his feet quickly apologised to everyone while rubbing the back of his neck while grinning like a complete moron.

Sasuke was currently rethinking wanting to train with Naruto when they get back to the village if this was how he was going to act all of the time. But then again it was pretty funny. Mentally shrugging his shoulders he just continued watching what was going on before him.

"Sorry about that guys... I kinda freaked out there for a second.." Naruto said while trying to regain some of his sanity back. "I just couldn't comprehend that Sakura was willingly wanting to go train with us." chuckling a little at saying that out loud. To him it was like a sandwich made of apple slices, cut strawberries, a pineapple ring, and peanut butter on the bread... (AN: My daughter's mom would eat those when she was pregnant *Shivers*) "It kinda caught me off guard. Sorry."

Kakashi simple said "It's alright now make your clones Naruto, I'll go explain to Tazuna whats going on, and then we will begin." After he finished talking he walked over to Tazuna who was ordering a few other the workers around on what to do next.

Quickly putting his fingers in a cross seal Naruto called out "Kage Bushin no Jutsu!" creating 100 copies of the oddly dressed blonde haired, orange jumpsuit wearing character we all love. Telling his clones to do anything Tazuna orders them to do, and to dispel themselves after they are all done, he starts walking with Sasuke and Sakura over to where Kakashi is so they can figure out what kind of training Kakashi has in store for them.

After following Kakashi for 15 minutes the team stops in a cleaning perfect for training. Kakashi thinking its time that he give Sakura a little personal training for a bit orders out to Sasuke and Naruto to spar for a while while he and Sakura practice her chakra control and her ability to sense genjutsu as well as dispelling them.

After an hour of sparring Kakashi ordered Naruto and Sasuke to perfect water walking since they completed tree walking with chakra not too long ago, while he continued training Sakura. Speaking of Sakura, Kakashi was actually surprised that his little pink haired genin was a natural at sensing genjutsu and dispelling weaker ones, and her chakra control was fairly good for her skill level. Smiling at the thought of Sakura being a greast genjutsu user, and medic, flashed through his mind while Sasuke, and Naruto continued on become fearsome front line fighters able to wipe out hoards of enemies while Kakashi sat back at a safe distance and read his little orange book. Shaking the thought from his head he noticed his mask was slightly damp near his mouth... "Was i drooling?" He thought to himself.. oh well I can dream right? Turning his attention back to Sakura he saw her looking at him funny.

"What is it Sakura?"

"Um.. nothing sensei.." turning hear head away to avoid his lone viable eye.

Slightly confused and wondering what Sakura is thinking he was going to try and get it out of her, but instead it seems he didn't have to for Sakura spoke up a few seconds later.

"Kakashi-sensei? Do you really think i'll be able to catch up to Sasuke-kun and Naruto if I am able to pull this training off and actually get good at it?"

"Ah.. self doubt, that's the reason behind this." Kakashi thought

"Yes Sakura, that I have no doubt about, in fact I think you will surely pass them both up, if you work hard enough, and devote yourself to always betting yourself in any way you can. If you do that I know you will become an excellent kunoichi that will be well known everywhere for your skills." Kakashi said with an eye smile. It wasn't a lie, while he thought Sakura would indeed be a great kunoichi, the chances of a shinobi coming out of the dark from a civilian family catching up to the last Uchiha, and god forbid the kyuubi's jinchuriki were really not in her favor, but that wouldn't stop him from giving his other student the positive words of encouragement that she really needed at this time in her career.
As Kakashi was about to say something else something immediately caught his attention, very quickly, and suddenly a vaguely familiar, and very powerful chakra signature popped up, most likely the same person from last night when he was on watch duty from a top the roof. And this person was very close by too.

Whipping his to where the presence was coming from he noticed it was coming from the direction the bridge was. "NARUTO! SASUKE COME HERE!" turning his attention back to Sakura "Sakura, stay close, and as soon as we get to the bridge stay by Tazuna's side!" Seeing Naruto and Sasuke sprinting to their sensei upon hearing the tone of his voice filled with uncertainty moments before. "All three of you hold onto me, and don't let go." With that Kakashi shunshin'd his team to the bridge to get their as fast as possible, if whoever it was that was putting off that amount of chakra was going to do what he thought he was going to do they needed to be there, and fast too!

Arriving at the bridge in a swirl of leaves, the genin of team seven all let go of their sensei all with mixed reactions to the sudden feelings they just felt. Sasuke seemed to be just fine but on the inside he was feeling light headed from the sudden acceleration of his sensei's shunshin. Sakura, after releasing Kakashi's hand quickly found herself dizzy as all hell, and wobbling on her feet as if they were about to collapse beneath her. Naruto however had a slightly different reaction to the experience. "SENSEI! YOU HAVE. GOT! TO TEACH ME THAT!" Naruto said while grinning like a dumb shit.

"Maybe later Naruto, but now is not the time. I don't know if any of you three can sense chakra at all yet but I just felt one spike up, and is still very much so present." He paused for a second before continuing, "And its coming this way" he turned his body facing the opposite direction across the water, where the pathway leads to where the incomplete bridge was being built. In a very serious flat tone Kakashi advised.
"Be on your guard for anything, the amount of chakra I'm feeling coming this way is definetly not normal by any means. Do not take your eyes off of whoever comes into sight across the water on the pathway, Got it?" Turning his head back to his genin he looked at Naruto and Sasuke and gave them a stern nod. Instantly getting the meaning to what their sensei was saying behind the nod Naruto calmed his mind for whatever appeared beyond the incomplete bridge, and Sasuke quickly activated his Sharingan, and loosened his joint and muscles ready to react to any oncoming attack.

Kakashi looked to Sakura with the same look, and she struggled to comprehend it for a few seconds but quickly remembered her sensei's words before they left the clearing. Nodding her head she quickly took off in the direction of where Tazuna was standing with with workers, who were all quiet and alert from the shinobi's sudden appearance and demeanor.

With Kensei

Kensei had been tearing through the trees closest to the pathway so he didn't stray too far from his path for what seemed to be.. well forever! But in actuality it had been for about 45 minutes now. Focusing chakra to his feet all this time had started to become really hard for him to do for the past couple of minutes, almost as if he was running very low on chakra, and was having to force the chakra out of himself to keep going.

"Come on... Almost.. There!"

Trying to will himself farther faster he continued to drag more, and more of what little chakra he had left in his body as he jumped from seemingly the same branch endlessly (AN: Haha get it? Just like in the show..? eh? *Wiggles eyebrows*)

Feeling himself at his limits Kensei jumped down from the trees, took off at the same pace down the pathway hoping that running on flatter ground would help him get farther.

Back with Team 7 at the Bridge

Kakashi held his left hand to his kunai pouch ready to grab some at a moments notice focus harder at the pathway across the water. "He's almost here get ready!"

The seconds seemed to drag on forever as the figure had still yet to appear into the open and it was putting the veteran joinin squad leader on edge.

Kakashi's eyes widened at what he started seeing barely peeking over the tops of the shorter trees along the pathway. A strange red glow was racing along the path, the glow seemed to be dancing barely above the tops of the 15 foot trees.

Back with Kensei

Kensei was in pain as he raced through the trees, he started feeling like his chakra was burning the inside of his body. He recalled the very few times he had actually experienced chakra exhaustion, it felt very similar to what he was feeling right now. But this feeling wasn't the only thing he was noticing, he also felt a pressure from inside of him, almost as if a damn was in its way from coming out. These feelings were too confusing and in the amount of pain he was experiencing from his chakra being damn near gone and trying to focus on running so that he could get as close to The Land of Waves as possible before the inevitable of him passing out happened.

Then he felt a chakra signature in the distance, a pretty good one too. He was no genius at sensing emotions and intentions behind a chakra signature other than straight blood lust, but he could tell that the signature he felt was giving off a warning to those around. Almost as if trying to scare everyone off?

As he was getting closer and closer to the signature Kensei stumbled a little bit slowing him down to a quickened jog for a moment. Kensei started feeling that pressure that was building about to explode. Wincing at the even greater pain he was feeling from the presence that was pushing at his insides Kensei closed his eyes for a few moments as he jogged.

All of a sudden that pressure from inside of him burst, just like a damn exploding from having a massive amount of explosives on it. Letting the river it once held back flow back to its natural coarse.

As soon as the pressure erupted Kensei's eyes snapped open, and his chakra skyrocketed. Freaking out Kensei saw himself covered in a dark red chakra cloak with what looked like black flames? or was it mist? that outlined the red of the chakra cloak. Freaking out at what he was seeing, but not stopping his pursuit of reaching his destination he carried on until he started seeing the tree line thinning out. He started seeing shades of blue from between the trees indicating to him that he was nearing water.

"WATER! YES!" Picking up the pace he once again sped along the path almost as if he was hovering over the ground not even allowing his feet to touch the ground. Turning what he figured was the last bend in the pathway before reaching where he was trying to get to he sped around the corner.

General overview

Kakashi not really liking the red ominous glow that was approaching the other side, but ready for whatever happened non the less looked on as he bent his knees, ready to attack the person arriving to the bridge.

Meanwhile, Naruto and Sasuke were both looking at the same spot as their sensei in anticipation. They may not know exactly what to do, but if a fight is what this came to, they'd at least know how to do that to a certain point.

Naruto was starting to get ancy, well of coarse he was... people with ADHD tend to do that when in suspense haha, but Naruto was for some reason really curious as to what it was that got his sensei to start acting this way in such a serious manner, that he didn't even bring out when he was facing Zabuza.

Sasuke meanwhile was indifferent as he waited for whoever it was to appear. Sharingan ever present ready to help him attack or defend. But like Naruto, Sasuke was starting to get an anxious feeling. Almost as if yearning to battle whatever it is that got his sensei to act so seriously.
Meanwhile said red glowing mystery man aka Kensei finally reached the bend in the path and turned the corner before seeing a broken bridge that was being worked on, in which apparently the workers were working on it a little bit before he showed up, through the red glow that he was emitting from his body. He didn't know, nor did he care at the moment... he made it.. finally.. taking a deep breath of air.
"I FINALLY MADE IT!" Kensei yelled out as he pumped his arms above his head in victory, but the moment was lost for him as soon as his arms went up, as the world around him faded switching to a black nothingness. Sending the young black haired blue eyed Sage of Time reborn face first in the dirt of the pathway with a loud "Thud" that was heard by Kakashi and the others and kicked up small little dust clouds where his body had slammed into the earth below.

Team seven, Tazuna, and all of his workers all deadpanned at what had just happened before them all. None of them able to comprehend what it is they just saw. Naruto was the first to speak after seeing this mysterious red glowing guy show up, and totally eat shit in front of them all passing out.

"What the hell?!" Naruto asked

"Yeah I'd like to know that myself..." Sasuke put in his two cents

"Well it seems our guest over there has passed out from chakra exhaustion.." Lifting up his headband revealing his Sharingan eye, "I don't sense any chakra in his body right now with my Sharingan so I think it is safe to approach him and investigate. I'll go and check it out. You two stay with Sakura and protect Tazuna if anything happens."

Kakashi took off and ran across the water below with caution, upon reaching the other side of the bank Kakashi slowly started approaching the person who put in such a cautious state. Getting closer and closer to the figure Kakashi was able to hear small sounds almost like whispering. Closing the gap between himself, and the man who dropped face first into the ground below sooo stylishly, Kakashi was able to hear exactly what was coming from the guy out on the ground.

He was... snoring... what the fuck? The Kakashi heard Kensei mumble out in his sleep.

"Tell... Lady Luck... Shes a... a bitch..."

Kakashi finished closing in on the distance between the two of them, after not hearing anything else from him, and knelled down beside the fallen man checking his pulse. Finding his pulse normal Kakashi signaled for the two boys on his team to come across the water.

Naruto and Sasuke seeing their sensei's signal to approach took off to their masked sensei. When they reached him the slowly approached the fallen man as well, observing what they could see of what the guy looked like. All they could really see was that the guy was about 5'11" and had black spiky hair almost similar to Naruto's except they weren't as big as his, and that his hair almost long enough to cover his ears. The guy wore a black muscle shirt exposing his very toned shoulders, biceps, triceps, and forearms over fishnet armor. They also noted he had black anbu styled pants that went down to his ankles, that lead their eyes to the mans black ninja sandals. Also taking note of the man's katana, kunai, and shurriken pouches they were certain the guy was a ninja. The man also had a grey chuunin vest on covering the other parts of his black shirt and fishnet armor. He looked as if he was around 16 or 17 years old? It was Naruto who was quickly snapped out of his examination of the fallen male before him.

"LOOK AT THAT!" Naruto pointing to the back of Kensei's Uzu styled issued Chuunin vest. "That's... That's just like mine!" Pulling at the left arm of his orange jumpsuit doing a closer examination of the white swirling design that adorned his left shoulder. "Why would he have this on his vest?"

Kakashi obviously deep in thought after looking over the man on the ground, especially after Naruto pointed out that the man before him did in fact have the Uzumaki and Uzushio crests on his vest. Reaching farther into the back of his mind he tried to remind himself of what the Chuunin vests of Uzu used to look like back when he was told all about Uzu from his sensei back when he was younger. Kakashi was brought out of his thoughts as Sasuke picked up a stick from near by and handed it to Naruto. Maybe Naruto asked for it? Or Sasuke thought i'd be funny to poke the fallen guy who was emitting a serious amount of chakra. But it was more of the fact that Sasuke "did" want to poke the guy with the stick.. it's just that after seeing the amount of chakra the guy was putting out from his body through his Sharingan he didn't dare want to piss off a sleeping bear. So he gave it to Naruto knowing that he couldn't resist doing such a thing and would do it without thinking of the consequences, and handed Naruto the jagged stick, as soon as it was in Naruto's hands Sasuke bolted to a near by bush to hide in, observe in either amusement at the funny situation, or in horror as the sleeping beast wakes up, and tears his only friend apart in a mere seconds. (What a great friend right?)

Naruto took the stick from Sasuke still confused about the guy having the same white swirl on his vest as he did on his jumpsuit quickly forgot all about it as he smiled widely showing his teeth, and crouched down and started to proceed poking Kensei in the ribs with the stick a few times.

Kakashi fearing the worst went to pull Naruto away from the prone and passed out Kensei quickly seized all movement as he heard the prone figure speak in a muffled voice in between Naruto's poked to the guys ribs.

"Stop it Kuishina-neechan... Its.. not funny.."

The world stopped for Kakashi after hearing that. Kakashi staring at the figure on the ground went over in his head what he knew about Uzu in lightning speed. Uzumaki Clan crest, and Uzushio symbols boldly shown to the world on his vest, just like they all did when they were still alive. The figure said "Kushina-neechan" and he only knew of one Kushina, and she was his sensei's wife, and his blonde haired genin's mother.. Thinking even harder he remembered Kushina telling him about her having only one sibling but she thought he had died in the destruction of Uzu all those years ago. Even so this guy couldn't be the brother of Kushina in the first place, he was too young. If Kushina's brother was in fact still alive some how, he would be would well into his late thirties maybe early forties by his guess?
Breaking out of his thought process Kakashi ordered Naruto to stop poking him, and to step away. Taking the hint from his sensei's seriousness in his voice Naruto stepped away from poking the guy with the jagged stick slightly saddened by no longer being able to do so, and watched what Kakashi was about to do.

Kakashi reached for the back of his belt, and dug into one of the pockets. Finding what he was looking for he pulled out a pair of chakra restraining cuffs. Carefully getting closer to the downed, and now drooling Kensei.. he grabbed Kensei's right arm that lay motionless next to his body, and put one of the chakra cuffs on his wrist, after doing so he proceeded to do the same to Kensei's other arm.
After getting the restraints on him, Kakashi looked over to a seemingly innocent bush "Sasuke. Go over to the other side, find some rope quickly so we can tie him up." Seeing Sasuke emerge from the bush, take off to retrieve what he was asked to do, Kakashi looked over to Naruto, who still was holding onto the jagged stick in his right hand that dangled at his side. Sighing Kakashi said "Go ahead..."

Naruto didn't know if he was hearing things, or Kakashi was reading his mind, but he sure as hell wasn't going to waste the opportunity to jab the sleeping guy with the stick a few more times. Readying the stick Naruto walked back over to the Kensei, and started poking him in the back of the head, and cheek. "Are you sure he isn't dead Kakashi-sensei?"

Chuckling Kakashi just said "Yes Naruto, I'm sure he isn't dead."

"Well just what are we going to do with him? He could be an enemy or a spy." Naruto questioned.

"While those may be possibilities, but this proves to be a great opportunity to find out quite a few things about him, such as if he is an enemy or a spy. Thankfully the chakra restraining cuffs that I put on him will cut all of his chakra flow, so he wont be getting out of them any time soon, unless we let him go." Kakashi explained.

"Ok, I think I get it now."

Kakashi nodded in acceptance, and turned to the sight of Sasuke arriving with some rope just as Kakashi asked. "Thank you Sasuke." with that the silver haired closet pervert said. "I want you two to pick him up enough off of the ground so that i can tie him up properly. One cannot be too careful when subduing powerful enemies, remember that you two." Seeing them both nod their heads, Kakashi gave out another order for them to follow through with.

"Now i want the both of you to grab one of his legs, and i will carry the rest of his weight on my back as we go back to the other side of the water, and figure out a place for us to keep this guy." Hearing a "Hn" from Sasuke, and a "You got it!" from Naruto the three picked up Kensei's still form, made their way back to the other side of the water.

Getting Kensei to the other side wasn't much of an issue, and didn't take very long to do. When they got back to the other side of the water, Kakashi told Tazuna of what he knew about they guy they have tied up, and asked if he'd be alright with Kakashi bringing him back to his home, and keeping him in the spare bedroom he was staying in, telling him that he personally would be the one watching over the sleeping guy tied up until he knew what exactly to do with him. Tazuna debated in his head before telling Kakashi that it was alright as long as the guy never left the room unless Kakashi himself was present. Agreeing on the terms Kakashi told Tazuna that his team and himself were going to head back to his house for the day. Tazuna just bid them farewell, and that he'd see them later on tonight.

Arriving back at Tazuna's home with Kensei in tow tied up, drooling Kakashi's shoulder, Kakashi sweat dropped at how carefree this kid was when he was sleeping. The chance of one sleeping so soundly with the possibility of being captured by an enemy was not something that ever happened.. unless... it was a female enemy... one that just so happened to have a great body.. and nice soft round per.. no no no no no Kakashi quickly shook his line of thoughts from his mind opened the front door, and told the boys that they were heading to Kakashi's bedroom.

Once up the stairs, and into Kakashi's bedroom they all were a little worn out from carrying Kensei all the way back from the bridge to Tazuna's place, so Kakashi told the boys to just put Kensei on the bed.

Kakashi we trying to control putting Kensei down on the bed but Naruto and Sasuke apparently didn't think the same thing as they swung Kensei's legs out to the bed causing his body to rotate slightly while dropping to the bed, bouncing slightly, slamming the sleeping boys head against the wall, then the still body from the amount of energy and force he was throw slightly rolled enough to where his body unceremoniously rolled off the bed, and onto the hardwood floor below with a hollow "Thud" Naruto and Sasuke sweat dropped at what just happened seeing the the person who they just unconsciously threw into a wall then had him fall to the floor, didn't wake up at all. But they finally snapped out of it after hearing Kensei mumble while laying on his side in a jumbled mess of a heap on the floor.

"Stu..pid... floor..." Kensai mumbled out then continued back to snoring logs and slowly letting drool pool up in his mouth in his unconscious state.

Kakashi regaining his composure after everything that happened said to his two genin "I will be watching over this guy." Pointing to the snoring and now completely drooling Kensei on the floor. "Over the time that he remains with us. In that time I will figure out if he is an enemy or an ally. Now since i can't just up, and leave him here by himself, and seeing how he could wake up whenever and still be able to walk around even in his tied up state, I'm going to need you two as well as Sakura to take over watching over the house at night. You three will rotate in shifts, I'll let the three of you figure out how you want to go about splitting up the shifts. Also while I'm up here I'm going to need one of you three to bring me food and things of the sort. And whenever i may have to leave to room for a moment, i want the two of you both in here in my short absence. Understood?" Hearing them both said "hai" he told them they have the rest of the day to do what they like after they go back and retrieve Tazuna, and Sakura here shortly.

As Naruto and Sasuke left the house a little while ago to meet up with Sakura and Tazuna, Kakashi found himself wondering about the tied up guy still on the floor sleeping. With a sigh he dragged Kensei's body over to the corner of the room, and propped his body up against the walls so he can sleep in an upright position.

After finishing that Kakshi found himself talking out loud in his guest room all by himself with an unconscious temporary prisoner. "I can't make any sense out of you." Talking to the sleeping Kensei. "Why is it that you are wearing clearly standard issued Uzushio shinobi gear, and have that Uzumaki clan crest on your back... Only members of the Uzumaki clan can wear it. Also you don't have the red hair that every one of them seemed to have. You almost look like an Uchiha sleeping there like that, with your black hair, but i know that's impossible. But then again... nothings impossible in this world of shinobi." Turning to look out the window Kakashi see's that the sun is getting ready to start setting, so he made his way over to his once again free bed, and pulled out his favorite little book to pass the time.

Once team 7 and Tazuna made it back to his house and dinner was set at the table Naruto brought up Kakashi's food for him, and went back down, and ate with the rest of his fellow genin. Thinking about how long the boy upstairs was going to be out for, Naruto couldn't help be get an odd sense somewhere in the back of his mind that they boy upstairs was very familiar to him, but that's impossible. Clearing that thought from his mind he resumed eating dinner as usual.

And once dinner was finished everyone worked their way back to their respected rooms, and went to sleep for the night. Hoping that the strange guy from earlier will wake up and answer some of their questions they have for him.

(Author's Note)

Another chapter done, and another one to be started tomorrow. I need to stop staying up so goddamned late to post these chapters so frequently haha, but who am I to deny all of you readers who are following, checking my story out? oh yeah... that's right.. I'm the author of this haha I can do what I want! for I... HAVE THE... POWAAAAA!