A/N: First off ... I hope you like the story so far ... Second off ... well if you want to know the second thing read the rest of the chapter.

As Naruto walked towards the park he thought over what had happened when he merged with the tree. He had sensed something with him inside the tree. This thing had a power much greater than Naruto had ever seen.

"It might even be stronger than the Hokage," said Naruto as he entered the park. Naruto looked around to see if Hinata was there but he did not see anyone. "I guess she's too busy training," said Naruto as he sat down and began to fiddle with the grass. Soon after he sat down a gentle breeze draped over Naruto causing his hair to sway.

Naruto then took out something from his pocket. He looked over a hand made ocarina and lifted it up to his lips. He began to play a beautiful melody that filled the park around him. The breeze that had enveloped Naruto carried the song throughout Konoha. All of the villagers stopped what they were doing and listened to the melody that was echoing through the village. The shinobi stopped training and lifted their heads to the sky. The melody was uplifting to all. Soon Naruto stood up and began to move around in the blowing field of grass. He kept his song playing for quite a while. As he stopped playing his song he opened his eyes and noticed that many of the forest's animals had gathered around him to listen to his music. Naruto looked around and a smile stretched over his face.

Sakura was walking home when she heard the song that Naruto had played. She too had stopped and listened to the song. She noticed that everyone else had stopped too. She wondered what could be making that music. She jumped up on top of a two-story building and listened as hard as she could to the origin of the song. She noticed that the song was louder in the direction of an abandoned park. She jumped from roof to roof to get to the park. She heard the song loud and clear when she landed in the park. She walked towards the source of it and saw Naruto dancing in the middle of a field of tall grass. No way can that bumbling fool dance that graceful thought Sakura as her jaw dropped. A few seconds later a few birds had flown near Naruto. Just then an assortment of other forest animals gathered around Naruto. Naruto had stopped playing and he began to look around. Sakura quickly hid behind a tree and began to walk out of the park.

"I guess Naruto isn't such a dork after all," said Sakura as she turned a corner and began to head home. "But he's still a dork," said Sakura quickly recovering from a comment towards Naruto. She continued to walk home in awe of what Naruto had done in the park. She never thought someone like him could do something like that.

"Ah well … I guess it's time for me to head home," said Naruto to the animals as he put away his ocarina and left the park. As he left the animals returned to what they were doing before Naruto had interrupted them. When Naruto left the park he noticed that a lot of the people in the village seemed to be really happy. I guess today is a good day for them as well said Naruto as he continued to walk home. By the time he reached his apartment he noticed that absolutely no one had said or did anything bad to him. Wow that must be a new record thought Naruto as he unlocked his door and walked inside. He closed the door and locked it behind him and put up a pot of water to boil. He then got out his table and seat cushions. As soon as his water came to a boil he opened up a container of instant ramen and poured the water inside. He set the ramen down on the table and poured himself a glass of milk. By the time he got back to the table his ramen was ready to be eaten. He grabbed a pair of chopsticks and began to eat his supper. He ate his supper in silence. When he finished he discarded the empty ramen cup and stepped into his bathroom to take a shower. He discarded his cloths into a nearby bin and stepped into the shower. He turned on the water and let it flow over him. He soon forgot about the world around him and just focused on the water coming out of the shower head. It sounded like rain to Naruto and he lost himself in this sound.

A moment later something happened that caused Naruto to jump. The water had stopped flowing from his shower head and the drops of water that had come out were suspended in mid air. Naruto took in a deep breath for he had unconsciously stopped breathing as he listened to the sound of the water. When he did this the water drops fell to the shower floor and more water started to come out of the shower head.

"That was really weird," said Naruto to himself as he began to wash himself. When he finished washing himself he got out of the shower and proceeded to dry himself off. He looked in his mirror and wiped off the steam from the hot shower. The image reflected in the mirror did not look like Naruto for a split second. Instead it looked like a different Naruto. The eyes were red, the whisker marks were more endowed, the hair much wilder than usual, and the face looked tauter. Naruto lifted his hand to his hair and felt that it was still like it usually is. When he did this the image of the other Naruto disappeared. Naruto just thought that he was tired so he got dressed and went straight to bed.

In the morning around nine o'clock Naruto woke up and quickly dressed for his first mission. He walked out into the morning air and locked his door behind him. He walked down the stairs and made his way toward the Hokage building. By the time he reached the building it was almost a quarter past nine. He would have a long time to wait but he did not mind since he was finally going on a mission. After a while his teammates showed up. They said their hello's and good morning's and waited for Kakashi to come by.

The deadline came up and Kakashi was not in sight. After about another thirty minutes Kakashi finally showed up.

"You're late again Kakashi-sensei," said Sakura with an accusatory look.

"Ano … gomen Sakura," said Kakashi as he rubbed the back of his head.

"I bet you were reading that smutty book of yours you pervert," said Naruto pointing and accusatory finger at Kakashi.

"Don't ever call Icha Icha Paradise smutty … it's a beautiful romance novel," said Kakashi as a mysterious light shown down upon him and angels began to sing.

"I still say it's smutty," said Naruto. The light and angel scene shattered and dissipated from behind Kakashi.

Kakashi just grumbled and began to walk towards the door that led to the mission assignment room. As he walked passed Naruto he thumped him on the head with his fist.

"God damn-it Kakashi-sensei … why'd you do that?" asked Naruto as he rubbed the back of his head.

"Someone said my book was smutty, and I got so angry that I had to take it out on the nearest person," said Kakashi as he walked into the mission assignment room.

"Idiot," said Naruto as Sakura, Sasuke, and he walked into the room behind Kakashi.

"Ah Kakashi I was wondering when you would come in to get your first mission for the group," said the Third.

"Yes we would like a D-rank mission please," said Kakashi, "Just to start them out on something easy."

"Alright then," said the Third as he filed through some papers. "Well it seems we've got a D-rank mission right here." He gave the file over to Kakashi who flipped through it.

"Alright then we'll take this one," said Kakashi as he gave back the file to the Third who stamped it as "in progress."

An hour later, in a nearby forested area, three genin were in hot pursuit of a shadowy figure.

"Target sighted," said Sasuke over the headset transmission device.

"I see him," said Sakura through the headset.

"I'm in position," said Naruto through the headset.

"Alright," said Kakashi into the headset. "GO!"

The genin slipped out of their positions and jumped the figure. The figure looked up in shock and tried to get away but Naruto was too fast for the figure. Naruto jumped onto the shadow reveling it to be a cat. The cat shrieked in surprise and tried to get away but Naruto held on tight.

"You're not getting away that easily," said Naruto.

The cat then began to scratch at Naruto's face.

"Damn cat stop it," said Naruto as blood began to trickle down his face. He then gripped the cat harder with one arm and moved the other out. He then pinched a certain spot on the cat's neck causing it to go limp in his arms.

"You're not supposed to kill it Naruto," said Sakura as she swung at Naruto. Naruto quickly dodged the blow by rolling to one side.

"I didn't kill it … I just made it more docile," said Naruto as he held up the cat who mewed lazily.

"From the reports I've gotten about you guys Naruto doesn't use that kind of sophisticated language," said Kakashi over the headset.

"Well when you have no one to hang out with as a child you tend to do other things like read books and train to pass the time," said Naruto. An awkward silence befell the team when Naruto said this. "Is this a forest or a cemetery?" asked Naruto as he got up with the cat and began to walk out of the forest. Sasuke and Sakura quickly followed suit and headed for the edge of the forest with Naruto to where Kakashi would be waiting. When they reached the edge of the forest they noticed Kakashi sitting on a tree stump reading his book.

"Alright Kakashi-sensei we've got the cat now let's get another mission," said Naruto as he handed the cat to Kakashi. The D-rank missions continued for a month after that before they finally got themselves a chance at a chuunin rank mission.

"C'mon Kakashi can't we get a better mission than walking someone's dogs?" asked Naruto as they headed into the mission assignment room.

"Naruto we can't get any better missions until we become chuunin," said Sakura through a sigh.

"That's dumb," said Naruto.

"It's not dumb Naruto," said Kakashi. "The mission assignments are set up that way so a genin doesn't get killed during a chuunin or jounin ranked mission."

A shiver ran up Naruto's spine when Kakashi had said that. "I guess that is a pretty smart thing to do," said Naruto as he folded his arms across his chest.

When they walked into the mission assignment room they noticed that someone was talking to the Third.

"Hey who's that?" whispered Naruto to Kakashi.

"Probably someone requesting help," said Kakashi.

"I'm going to need some help getting back because there are thugs and bandits after me," said the mysterious man.

"Ooi Kakashi-sensei can we take that mission?" asked Naruto, his eyes gleaming at the chance to fight some people.

"That will probably be a C-rank mission Naruto," said Kakashi. "And you're not ready for that yet."

"Please Kakashi-sensei," pleaded Naruto. "Those other missions are so boring."

"If you think you can handle it I won't try to stop you but since this is an escort mission I'm going to say one thing," said Kakashi as he held up his finger. Naruto was immediately silenced and the other two watched on curiously. "If you lose sight of the person we are supposed to be protecting I will drop you down to academy student faster than you can perform a henge. You got that?"

"H-Hai," stuttered Naruto.

"Hokage-sama my group will take the job of escorting him to his destination," said Kakashi as he walked up to the Hokage.

"Just those four?" asked the man.

"Is that going to be a problem?" asked the Hokage.

"Well … sort of," said the man as he fiddled with his hat.

"If you doubt my power then I will tell you that I am a jounin," said Kakashi as he placed his hand on his chest.

"I do not doubt your power," said the man as he placed his hat on his head. "It's just that I'm bringing with me a rather large amount of supplies to finish the bridge I am building and I wanted to make sure that all of it gets there in one piece."

"Oh you did not mention that you were going to be bringing a large load with you," said the Hokage.

"Yes my group has a large bundle of lumber and other supplies that we desperately need for the bridge," said the man.

"How many more will you need?" asked the Hokage.

"If your teams are as large as that then perhaps one more team should do it," said the man.

"That will double the price of our agreement," said the Hokage as he made some changes on the form that he was perusing.

"That's okay with me," said the man as he fished out a bundle of money from his pocket. He handed the second bundle to the Hokage just as the door to the mission assignment room opened.

All heads turned towards the door as four people entered the room. The first to enter was a woman around Kakashi's age with black hair, startling red eyes, red and white kimono-like clothing with a fishnet base. The second to enter was a boy around Sasuke's age. He wore a white coat that extended up past his face with brown pants that held a holster for assorted weapons. He wore black sunglasses and had his hair slicked back. The third to enter was also a boy around Sasuke's age. He wore a gray hooded sweatshirt that made his brown hair seem way longer than it actually was. He also wore gray shorts with the same holster for weapons. When he stopped next to the first boy a white puppy bobbed up from his sweatshirt and barked twice. The fourth person to walk in was Hinata who stood next to her team.

"Ah Kurenai just in time," said the Hokage.

"I did not know that you had summoned me Hokage-sama," said the woman.

"No, no I did not summon you it's just that your timing could not have been better to return from your mission," said the Hokage.

"Well we completed the mission fairly easily," said Kurenai as she walked up to the Hokage and gave him her mission report.

"I see," said the Hokage as he stamped a file "complete". "Now for the details of your timely arrival, we have a mission here that is too large for one ninja group to accomplish so I am asking that your group aid in the mission with Kakashi's group."

Kurenai looked to her left and saw that Kakashi's group was standing in the corner of the mission assignment room. Hinata glanced at Naruto then began to fiddle with her fingers. Sasuke took one look at the group and turned away with a "humph."

"What was that?" asked the shinobi with the dog. The dog started to growl at Sasuke.

"Kiba!" shouted Kurenai as she glanced back at the boy with the dog.

"Gomen Kurenai-sensei," said Kiba as he lowered his head and his dog whimpered once.

The other boy walked up to where the Hokage and the two jounin were discussing the upcoming mission. He stood to the right of Kurenai and looked over the mission report with them.

"This man asks for aid in returning his shipment of cargo to the wave country and assist in the final phases of the bridge production," said the Hokage.

"How much cargo is the man bringing with him," asked the boy. The Hokage looked from him to Kurenai.

"Shino likes to plan ahead for upcoming missions," said Kurenai sensei.

"The man is bringing with him a caravan of equipment probably ten to fifteen carts long," said the Hokage.

"If we place a Jounin at the second and twelfth carts and genin at the first, third, fifth, eleventh, thirteenth, and fifteenth and Akamaru at the eighth carts we can accurately guard them," said Shino.

"Actually I'm only bringing enough cargo for three carts," said the bridge builder.

"Then why do you need another shinobi team for this?" asked Kurenai sensei.

"The bridge is really important to the wave country," said the bridge builder, "if we get it built then it can finally be recognized as a strong shinobi country."

"I see," said Kurenai sensei as she glanced at Shino.

"A jounin in the front and back with the genin placed through out the middle will accurately defend the carts," said Shino.

"Then that's how will go," said Kurenai.

"Okay then," said Kakashi, "pack your things for an away mission and meet at the gate in one hour,"

"Hai," said the genin as they departed to get their things.

Naruto and Hinata were the last to leave the room. Hinata kept glancing at Naruto and blushed. Sakura looked back and giggled. This caused Naruto to blush a bit. They turned a corner to the door when Sakura pulled Naruto and Hinata aside.

"What do you want Sakura?" asked Naruto.

"I noticed back there that Hinata kept looking at you and blushing," said Sakura. This made Hinata blush a lot more.

"I noticed her blushing too but did you notice me blush when you looked away and giggled," said Naruto with a straight face.

"I just wanted to make sure you knew Naruto because I don't want you going around hurting other people's feelings," said Sakura.

"I would never do that to anyone," said Naruto. This made Sakura blush a little bit. She had not thought that Naruto knew that Hinata liked him.

"It's okay Sakura-chan he has not done anything to hurt me," said Hinata.

"I just wanted to make sure because this idiot does a lot of stupid stuff," said Sakura.

"I only did that because no one liked me," said Naruto. Both Hinata and Sakura were taken aback by what Naruto said. Sakura knew that Naruto always pulled pranks but she never knew why. Naruto then walked passed Sakura and headed towards his house. He packed a few essential things and anything too big or too much to fit in his bag he condensed down into scrolls. Naruto was never any good with chakra but he was grateful that he had a lot to use.

He left the apartment with his things and headed off to the gate. He got to the gate with plenty of time to spare. The caravan had not even arrived yet. Naruto set down his pack and crouched down next to the gate. He began to draw some pictures into the dirt next to him. By the time someone else had arrived he had almost drawn five bowls of ramen.

"I didn't know you liked ramen that much," said Hinata.

"Hehe yeah it's one of the best things in the world," chuckled Naruto as he scrubbed out the drawings with his foot after he got up. He then dusted the dirt off of his hands and leaned against the wall. "I missed you Hinata."

"I missed you too," said Hinata, as she blushed a bit.

Naruto walked up to Hinata and held her in an embrace. They locked together in a passionate kiss for a couple of minutes before Naruto sensed someone coming. He broke away from the kiss and tried to look nonchalant. Kiba and Shino showed up a few minutes later carrying two bags with them. Hinata started to blush but soon stopped. Kiba gave Naruto a weird look when he noticed that Hinata had been blushing.

"What did you do to her?" asked Kiba.

"What are you talking about?" asked Naruto.

"She was blushing. What did you do to her?" asked Kiba again.

"None of your business," said Naruto as he folded his arms and looked away from Kiba.

"It becomes my business when one of my teammates is involved," said Kiba. He walked up to Naruto and grabbed him by the collar of his jacket.

"Let go of me," said Naruto in a calm voice.

"Not until you tell me what you did to Hinata to make her blush," demanded Kiba.

"Geeze what are you? Her brother?" asked Naruto.

"No, but if you did something that she didn't want you to do then you'll be sorry," said Kiba as he clenched his other fist.

"Oh are you going to punch me?" asked Naruto in a mocking voice.

"That does it!" yelled Kiba. He brought his fist up ready to punch Naruto. Naruto sensed his intent and prepared a Jutsu. "Your ass is grass!"

Kiba threw his punch at Naruto. Naruto barely had enough time to perform the snake hand seal that he needed.

"Daton!" yelled Naruto as he dissolved into the wall that Kiba had held him up against.

"What the fuck," said Kiba in surprise. He did not have enough time to stop his punch, but he did have enough time to slow it down enough so that when he did hit the wall it did not hurt his hand.

Naruto appeared behind Kiba a few seconds later. Kiba whirled around to see Naruto branding a kunai right at his throat.

"If we were enemies you would be dead by now," said Naruto as he put away his kunai.

Sasuke and Sakura walked up to the group and looked around to see Naruto putting away his kunai Sakura then went up to Naruto and hit him on the head.

"Naruto you dumb ass what are you doing?" asked Sakura.

"He tried to punch me so I got out of the way of his attack and stopped him from throwing any other punches!" yelled Naruto as he pointed at Kiba.

Kiba just glared away from Naruto and walked over to the other side of the gate to be alone for a bit.

"He's not used to losing," said Shino as he walked up. "I'm curious though as to what Jutsu you used."

Kiba had walked back to the group after his moment of sulking.

"It was just a simple earth Jutsu," said Naruto.

"Where did you learn it?" asked Shino.

"Somewhere special," said Naruto.

"I don't know of any genin with that ability," said Sasuke.

"Well Kakashi-sensei knows it," said Naruto.

"I know what now?" asked Kakashi as he walked up to the group with Kurenai.

"That Jutsu where you become part of earth," said Naruto.

"Nope, can't say I do know that," said Kakashi.

"But then how did you pull me under the ground when you were underground," said Sasuke.

"That Jutsu just allows me to move through the ground for a short time. I can't actually become part of the earth," said Kakashi.

"This kid knows that Jutsu?" asked Kurenai.

"That and a few others that aided his group in almost completing the challenge of getting some bells from me," said Kakashi.

"Still doing that bell challenge?" asked Kurenai.

"Well it does teach the kids about teamwork," said Kakashi.

"What other Jutsu did he use against you?" asked Kurenai.

"Well he knows the Jutsu where he becomes part of wind, water, and nature," said Kakashi.

"Can he do the fire Jutsu?" asked Kurenai.

"I don't know … there really wasn't any fire around for him to do that in," said Kakashi. "Naruto can you enter fire as well?"

"Yeah," said Naruto.

"Where could he have learned all this?" asked Kurenai.

"Well Iruka's report of the day that Naruto had stolen the … certain item … stated that he had been using it all day to train," said Kakashi.

"Do you think he got that far into it?" asked Kurenai.

"Most likely not," said Kakashi. "I don't sense anything that might say otherwise."

"What do you mean "I didn't get that far"," asked Naruto.

"Oh nothing," said Kakashi.

"I hate it when you do that," said Naruto as he folded his arms.

"It looks like everyone is here then," said the bridge builder who was walking up to them with the three carts behind him. Everyone turned to look at him. The carts that he was bringing with them were quite longer than your average caravan cart. The carts were about five feet wide and eight feet long. He had used oxen to lug the cargo instead of horses because of the immense weight of the cargo. "Let's get going." Naruto quickly pulled Sakura aside.

"What do you want Naruto?" asked Sakura her face lit up in anger.

"Have you told anyone about me and Hinata?" asked Naruto.

"No. Why?" asked Sakura.

"Good keep it that way," said Naruto.

"Why?" Sakura persisted.

"Because I don't want anyone to hate Hinata like they hate me," said Naruto as he grabbed his pack. Sakura grabbed her pack as well and ran up to the group.

"Don't worry Naruto I won't tell anyone," whispered Sakura.

"Thanks Sakura-chan," whispered Naruto.

A/N: No there isn't going to be a Zelda crossover ... I just had Naruto have an ocarina because it's a beautiful instrument that easily displays emotions.