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Recap:
"SIX?" They all screamed. Kit took this moment to jump out of the Hokage's window and land right between the anbu and the rest of his genin team.
"Yo."
They almost fell out of the chairs.
Wait.
They don't have chairs… O-kay! Re-do.
They almost fell over. Kakashi and his team immediately recognized the similarities—the blond spikey hair, height, the fox wasn't here right now but had already confirmed that it had the same name and were both summons.
They realized, with emotions they could not describe, that Naruto was, indeed, an anbu.
He was not stupid.
He was not naïve.
He was not a gutsy idiot.
He was not Naruto.
He was a genius.
He had fooled them.
He did say he liked messing with people, didn't he?
He was not the Naruto Uzumaki they knew.
He was not Konoha's most unpredictable knucklehead ninja.
Who was he?
He was Kitsune, the Merciless Fox Chile.
An assassin.
A merciless killer.
But he was still a child.
Just not so naïve,
He must have realized when everyone thought he was just too stupid or naïve to realize.
He was not a stupid naïve child.
He was a poor, lonely child who had been forced to grow up too fast, one that had never understood love and saw things no child his age should have.
He was Naruto Uzumaki.
And all his life…
He had been alone…
But he wasn't naïve..
He knew it…
He kew how alone he was…
And he suffered…
Alone.
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Chapter Seven:
Meet Me at Training Ground Seven
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"N-Naruto?" Sakura asked timidly, almost as if unsure of herself.
Naruto looked in her direction and muttered a low. "Oh shit."
"Taichou?" asked Howaitoraio.
"Hai?"
"Do you know this girl?"
Kit sighed. "Unfortunately, yes. I do."
"I see…"
"Cap'n?"
"Yes, Hyou?"
"Erm… How da ya know 'em?"
Kit sighed—again—and said, "They're my new genin team."
Hyou's face immediately lit up whiles Kit's team (genin, not anbu) stared jaw slack. Their theory had just been confirmed by the man—err, boy—himself.
"Naruto," Kakashi interrupted, "We need to talk."
Sighing, again, Naruto just waved a hand and said, "Hai, hai." He nodded to his anbu squad and before anyone could respond, Naruto just said, "Training Ground 7, then?" and disappeared.
"Ah!" One of the anbu suddenly said, startling the two genin, and continued, "I just 'membered why we're here!"
"Well? Out with it!" said another.
"We 'ere getting a mission and 'ere suppose ta wait for Cap'n ta be done with his meeting with da Hokage!"
"Oh, shit!" And the three wide-eyed anbu were suddenly gone—not that they could tell they were wide eyed—masks, remember?
Kakashi sighed. "Off to training ground seven, then?" and he shunshined away, leaving the two remaining ninja to walk to the training ground.
Finally they arrived, and were only mildly surprised when Kakashi arrived about a second or two after them (Even though he supposedly shunshined there before they had even began walking).
Other than them, in the area, there was also the three anbu from before, as well as Naruto hanging upside down from a tree.
"Yo," said Kit, "What's up?"
Team seven slightly twitched but most of them managed to cover that up for the most part.
Hanging lazily from a branch about five meters away from them, casually greeting them while upside down, was Naruto Uzumaki, the famous anbu ninja fox, also known as 'The Merciless Fox Child'. He had the same messy blonde hair he always had, and as far as they could tell, his height was the same as always. He was wearing the standard anbu uniform, along with a sword on his back that had a neon orange sheath and guard. On each of his hips were six scrolls—twelve in all. They each had something written on them: キツネ (Kitsune/fox), 馬 (uma/horse), ヒョウ(Hyou/panther), 猫 (Neko/cat), 虎 (tora/tiger), ライオン (raion/lion), フェニックス (Fenikkusu/phoenix), ドラゴン (doragon/dragon), 地獄の番犬 (Jigoku no banken/hellhound), 悪魔 (akuma/demon), and two had 医療用品 (Iryō yōhin/medical supplies). He also had an orange scarf that would have been tickling his face—as he was upside down—if It weren't for the fact that he was wearing a mask; and on that mask, there was an eerily creepy grin whose lips only curved up slightly on the ends and eyes that clearly mimicked Naruto's well-known fox smile, whereas in his eyes are incredibly squinted, if not closed. A fox face indeed~.
"Naruto," Kakashi asked cautiously, "could the four of us talk alone?"
"We are alone." Naruto said—even though the two genin and single jounin were currently staring at three anbu all sitting against the trunk of the tree Naruto was in.
They noted that the first was a male with messy black hair to his shoulders, and was the one that was constantly slurring his words. He had on the standard anbu uniform, plus a choker that looked suspiciously like a miniature spine. He bore the mask of the panther—Hyou.
The second was a girl and had yet to talk. She had short white hair that was longer in the front, and bangs. Her anbu uniform was quite strange—all the parts that were usually black were black and white striped. She also had a black and white striped scarf. Panda, they all thought.
The third and final one had white hair in a braid that went down to his thighs. In one of his ears dangled three senbon dangerously. He had a standard anbu uniform and had the Nara clan symbol tattooed onto the backs of each of his hands.
Sakura spoke timidly. "N-Na-Naru-Naruto-k-kun…"
"Hm?" he drawled lazily, his mask turning towards her direction.
"Eep! W-we-wel-ll, I-I, u-uh-um-m… Th-we-oh-uh-umm… W-we-we-ll, K-k-kakashi-i, u-um, s-sa-said a-a-lo-one. A-and, th-th-there a-are a-a-an-b-bu o-o-ve-rr th-ther-re. S-s-so, t-tech-ni-c-c-ll-ly, w-w-we a-ar-ent a-a-alo-ne. A-and, um-"
"DOBE." Sasuke said sternly, finally having had enough of Sakura's pointless stuttering. Psh, so what if the dobe was an anbu—err, anbu captain. A-anyway, he's still a dobe…right? Maybe not…but still.
Naruto had to admit, he was kind of enjoying Sakura's terrified stuttering, annoying as it was—it was still entertaining to see her about to piss her pants.
"Sigh… Why did Sasuke have to stop her…*pout*."
"…"
"…Hello?"
"…"
"…I'm so alone…"
"…"
"…Sing a song, a happy song~"
"Sennen ko wa sagashiteru! Daiji no hatto sagashiteru! Anata wa atani, tashika me yo~!"
"…Kit?"
"Kyuu, you're back!"
"Obviously…"
"Psh, so mean…"
"Sigh…"
"Ah! You just said 'sigh'! And you made fun of me for that before! HA!"
"…I'm leaving…"
"Oh no you're not."
"And why not?"
"Because, you're in my MIND, and only I can get you out?"
"…Fuck you. I'm going to sleep, then."
"Pout. Meanie."
"Ha. And you just said pout. I believe I win."
"…I'm leaving."
"You can't."
"And why not?"
"Because this is YOUR mind."
"…Oh."
"Yeah, 'oh.'"
"Fuck you."
"I love you, too."
"Naruto!"
Naruto grinned sheepishly and laughed, "Heh, sorry Sasu-chan~! Little distracted, care to repeat?"
*Insert irritated sigh* "As I was saying—dobe—is that, like Sakura said, there are three anbu over there. Meanwhile, Kakashi said alone."
Naruto looked at him with an 'Are-you-fucking-serious?' look. "Sasuke… You do know they're asleep, right?" Naruto deadpanned.
"…"
"Thought so," muttered Naruto, removing himself from the tree he was just hanging upside down from.
"D-dobe…"
"Ahem," Kakashi interrupted, "Now that we have established that, can we please get back to the problem at hand here?" Kakashi may have sounded like he was actually worried about the battle, but he really just wanted to read the ending of his book.
"Right, right," Naruto started, "Now, where to begin…?"
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Chapter Seven: End
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