Summary: After being frozen for four thousand years the remains of the final battle is uncovered and taken to the Jeffersonian. What happens when what was thought to be a corpse is still alive and kicking. Literally.

Disclaimer:Did the world end in December? No? Well I guess I still don't own Naruto or Bones either.

Warnings: I will be pairing Naruto with Lance Sweets sothere will be one maleXmale relationship. However canon pairings such as Hodgins/Angela, Booth/Brennan and past Lance/Daisy do exist. If this makes you uncomfortable but you decide to read anyways please do not complain about it. There is a possibility of slash but you will be forewarned and most likely not going to happen. In addition I'm extremely tired and so it may not make sense... Yeah.

-This chapter is a bit fillery but I feel it's necessary. I haven't really kept up with Bones but I do know enough to know the basics of what has been happening lately and I might set this in more recent times of the show.

Authors note: See bottom.

Chapter Seven

After the therapy session Naruto and Angela quickly went back to the Jeffersonian. Naruto would have loved to explore this new world he'd been brought in to but he understood the need for secrecy when it came to him. Despite being loud and vibrant during his time as an active ninja he actually had known the value of concealment and keeping important information on a need to know basis. It's why he wore a henge to hide his tail and ears to the therapy session and why he complied with Cam's request to keep what was bound to be some of the more suspicious things about his past to himself.

On the drive to and from the labs Naruto was amazed from the little he did see. It was so similar and yet completely different from his homeland that he kept feeling pangs of homesickness. Every time he thought he spotted something familiar and draw him into a comfortable complacency five new things would crop up and throw him back off kilter.

He was still skeptical though that this was as advanced as mankind had gotten in the last four thousand years and according to Angela most of these advancements were apparently relatively new. He tried to think of a few theories as to why it was like this but in the end decided to let it go. He was never one to think too deeply on something that in the end wasn't truly important. He was here now and this is how it was. It wasn't bad perse, just different and for now he would go with the flow.

When they finally made it back Angela was quickly swept away to get back to her work. Brennan and her interns had apparently worked quickly and there were skulls that were already cleaned and ready for her to work with.

Everyone was busy with the remains and artifacts brought in from the island so Naruto was quickly left to his own devices (while still being monitored) until they had more of a need of him.

For the rest of the day and a good part of the next Naruto did all that he could to try and improve his English. He didn't want to waste Angela's time or always be so dependent on her when he needed to communicate. With the help of some tapes Cam had managed to find while he and Angela were with Sweets and the Kyuubi, who had already had a startlingly grasp on the language despite how short a time they'd been there, Naruto was learning at an astonishing rate. He couldn't speak well or formulate his own sentences yet but he did memorize some basic ones that would help him get around and his vocabulary was ever growing. He decided he would put off the written language for a while yet as it wasn't his strong suit even in his native tongue and there wasn't a pressing need for him to learn.

When Naruto had gotten bored of listening to the tapes he would pop up to random members of the team and help identify some of the objects they were trying to catalogue. However he avoided the dais with the bones of his fallen comrades on it like the plague. Since this was the main station of Cam and Brennan he mostly only popped in on Hodgins and Angela whose work stations weren't on the raised platform.

Booth had shown up sometime during the next day and upon seeing Naruto practically vibrating from the need to move offered to take him to the FBIs gym. Cam had hesitated to let Naruto go with him if only to try and keep Naruto's presence as secret as possible but eventually took pity on the poor man when Naruto broke out with the Baby Fox Eyes ™.

You see BFEs were like Puppy Dog Eyes but ten times more effective because Naruto had incorporated his fox ears and tail to make himself look even more pathetic. It bruised his pride to do it but damn did he need to move! He didn't understand how these people could sit still for so long doing the same thing. It was that mentality that had gotten him whacked on the head with the chalkboard eraser thrown by Iruka when he was in the academy fairly often.

His pride was set aside though as Cam gave in and allowed him to go the gym with the promise that he would keep his disguise up at all times and not draw attention to himself. She was further relieved when he showed her that he was able to change his whole appearance rather than just being able to hide the ears and tail. She was relieved enough not to ask how it was possible and decided to hold her tongue once more on the issue of him being able to seemingly to the impossible once more. She had not forgotten the clones from the other day as Hodgins wouldn't let her try and pretend she hadn't seen them. Just another reason she knew this whole thing would make her go gray early.

Naruto followed Booth out with a smile on a different face. He was a little bit taller with non-descript brown hair and dark eyes, the fox ears and tail were obviously hidden. The whiskers were a thing of the past as he now had somewhat pale unblemished skin. It freaked Booth out a bit that he was able to change himself so completely and with such total ease but overall he wasn't all that surprised. He fought with the kid's clones for goodness sakes! Nothing could get much weirder than that.

When they got to the FBI training facility Naruto was intrigued at all the different methods he could train his body. He was mostly used to aerobic exercise with very little anaerobic as his muscle seemed to build themselves to be what they needed to be while he was sparring. Ninjas didn't need bulky muscles so much as they needed lean muscles that allowed them to run fast and far while still being flexible. Here however it seemed to be the opposite.

After Booth showed him how to use the equipment they worked out for a little while. Naruto mostly stuck to the tread mill as he usually felt the most relaxed while running. About half way through their session Naruto took up Booth's offer to spar. He didn't recognize any of Booth's style and while that made it a challenge for a moment Naruto quickly picked out the weaknesses of each move and they fell into a rhythm. Naruto could tell Booth was a bit rusty so he toned down his abilities considerably.

He was shocked that even this times warriors weren't using chakra. He understood in the lab that maybe they hadn't used it to do seals and such anymore so it was kept out of civilian's reach and therefore they weren't knowledgeable about it and often saw its uses as acts of magic when they came across it as it was in his homeland but to not use it to augment their own strength in the fighting class? What were they, Samurai?

He got an uneasy feeling about this. While he agreed with some Samurai philosophy they didn't generally get along with ninja and now he was apparently in some sort of headquarters. He hoped that they hadn't noticed his own augmentation and decided to refrain from using ninjutsu. Cam had told him to keep people from noticing him and using ninja moves in a Samurai training place would definitely get him noticed.

What he didn't realize was that this new world didn't use any chakra whatsoever. That they hadn't called out his use of henge and kage bunshin because they didn't know how to broach the subject to him. They were still somewhat convinced their eyes were lying to them. However Naruto was very dense in some things and this was one of them.

By the time they finished Booth had felt like de would drop dead from exhaustion while Naruto looked like he didn't even break a sweat and could probably go for a twenty mile hike and not even be winded.

"You're pretty spry for a kid whose been frozen for four thousand years," Booth panted. He gave a halfhearted glare but Naruto could tell it wasn't filled with venom.

Naruto shrugged. He was surprised that the man was able to speak Japanese* but he was grateful for it. While he liked talking to Angela it was nice talking to other people without a translator.

"What can I say? I've always been energetic. Maybe you're just turning into an old man." Naruto gave a small laugh at the glare went from halfhearted to heated.

Over the course of the last few hours they had bonded over a shared soldiers experience and a mutual respect for one another. The awkward silences that had plagued them in the beginning were a thing of the past as they traded friendly insults and playful banter. It all had all the makings of a great friendship.

He was having a great day and he should have realized it couldn't last. As they were walking back into the labs the tension in the room hit him like a ton of bricks. He saw Lance standing next to Angela; both had somewhat grim smiles on their faces. They looked like they wanted to put on a happy face for him but they weren't sure if they could. He had a bad feeling about this.

He was right.

TBC…

*Booth can speak Japanese. I forgot which episode it was but he can speak it fluently.

Author's Note: I will apologize for the lateness. I wanted this to be put up at around Christmas but then lots of stuff happened and I was really busy with school and such… I hope you understand. A lot has happened in the last year so writing has been put on the back burner. So if my writing isn't up to par and there's something amiss please let me know and I'll fix it.

The next chapter, and depending how much it translates to type, and the one after are already written. They were actually supposed to be part of this one but it would've made it way to long and I wanted to save it for the anniversary coming up. So fret not a long wait for the next chapter. Expect it in two weeks' time on the first of May.

I also want to thank all of you who have been so patient with me and stuck with the story so far. I also want to say special thanks to all my reviewers. This time reviewers get a nice tea and some pie.

Spoilers for next chapter? Hells no, wait two weeks. You've waited this long for this chapter you can wait a little while longer.

Published: 13 April 2013