I DO NOT OWN NARUTO
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"People talking"
'Peoples thoughts'
"Kyuubi Talking"
'Kyuubi thinking'
'Rax Talking'
"ZAMPO TALKING"
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Naruto dodged the swing, he almost ran into. Sasuke jumped back to get some distance from Naruto, whom was running at him again. Sasuke noticed how fast Naruto was going. He didn't have the speed to match Naruto's. He took a couple of blows and dodged a few that came at him at a slower pace. He jumped on the side of a wall, but Naruto knocked him off with a jumping side kick. He flew through the wooden wall and crashed into the concrete wall. The wall cracked as he went deep inside. He stood up and waited for Naruto to appear, but was distracted as three men wearing masks appeared. They were definitely ANBU.
"What do you guys want?" He demanded. "You are in my property, which you have not gotten my consent." He waited now.
"We were sent down here because we got a track of high chakra concentration." Sasuke's face went to shock. How he didn't notice? The amount of chakra Naruto had was not possible, or at least not heard of before. "What were you doing, Sasuke Uchiha?"
"Training, now leave my complex." The ANBU walked out of his sight, but not too far. They were still in the complex, but Sasuke didn't need to know. "Where the hell did he go? Did he leave? I suppose I will see him tomorrow during training." He walked to see if the wooden sword was still there. "I figured he wouldn't forget it." He walked to his bed with a bored look. "I know why I can't beat him now. The speed he possess is far superior to mines. I must work on my speed in order to even challenge him."
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The Grand Hotel
Startled by the slam of the door, Mona and Konan sat up to look at an angry Naruto. "How dare Sasuke attack me when I am helping him out." He went straight to the phone. "I would like five dumplings and three bowls of Ramen please. Huh, what flavor? I don't care! Just get what I said!" He was most certainly angry. Konan and Mona sat on their own beds, staring at Naruto as he paced around his own bed.
"I didn't think you would be hungry again after that buffet." Mona said.
"I'm not surprised, seeing as he can eat the world and still be hungry." Naruto stared at him a with a flat look. A knock at the door got Naruto's attention off Konan. Naruto took a paper from a man outside and was ready to open the letter, but Konan stopped him. "Are you not going to check for any traps on that?" Naruto just shrugged and opened it without caution. Naruto's expression went from bored to worried.
"This letter is from the Tsuchikage." They looked at him with wonder. "It is a mission." When he said this they dropped their expressions to annoyed.
"Come one, this was suppose to be a vacation-like trip to me. Why can't he send anyone else to do his bidding?"
"Because we are the ones closest to the target." Naruto stated. "It is an assassination mission for the village of Suna." He paused and when he continued his voice became dry and he became nervous. "We must kill the Kazekage. I don't get why we would need to do that though. We have no part or quarrels with them." Konan and Mona looked at him. "But this is clearly the Kazekage's hand writing."
"Can someone have forged it?" Konan asked, clearly knowing the answer.
"Yes, it is still possible to forge his handwriting no matter how sloppy it is." Mona stated.
"I don't know anyone who can and will forge his handwriting. Maybe it is him and we are just overlooking things." Naruto said. He didn't want to believe this, but it was the strongest possibility. Naruto started packing his things while Konan and Mona watched.
"You said you control the spy network of the Tsuchikage, right?" Konan wanted to make sure this wasn't fraud. "Also, I don't see why the Tsuchikage would risk someone reading that message by sending it down like this." Naruto nodded.
"That's why we are going to Suna to see what can possibly be the threat. We must get there and back here before dawn." Naruto gave his orders without thought of the distance.
"Naruto, I don't think we can make it there and back before dawn. It is a three day march just to get there." Naruto's eyes went red slit and black marks expanded on his body.
"I know." He responded before they all went into a black hole. Mona and Konan, who have been in it for the first time, almost lost it when they seen things men would want to die before having to see it. They could not even put a name on what they were seeing while they flashed right by them. When the darkness faded, they were in a forest, which seemed like it was recovering from a natural disaster. Trees were knocked down and were rotting. New trees were growing to replace the knock down one. The lake nearby could hardly be called one now. They followed Naruto to a nearby cave.
"Where are we? There is not one grain of sand here, so this can't be Suna." Mona said while following. Naruto turned around and started a sprint. They followed.
"This place isn't too far from Suna. We go North, full speed." His sprint became faster and now Konan and Mona had to run close to their limits to keep up. "I want to check see why we need such a mission as this."
"Why we didn't just teleport to Iwa and ask him?" Konan asked.
"Because the Tsuchikage believes in complete loyalty and obedience. We would seem like we didn't believe he would order such a thing." Naruto finally uses his brain more. Naruto was in fact right, the Tsuchikage would have been very disappointed. The Tsuchikage don't like to be questioned much. "Also I never got the chance to see Suna, must be a gloomy place. I mean, they are in the desert." Right but wrong, he was. They traveled for three hours without a break so far. The land was changing and they spotted less water around. The temperature made a steep climb. They were now very close to Suna. They regretted not bringing water, but they managed without it as the saw a huge wall. Konan guessed it was the outer wall. They put on their latex mask, Naruto brought. They also took off their headbands. When they got into the village, they automatically asked a man for water. He immediately laughed and told them were they can get some. He told them where a hotel was and checked them for any weapons. It took at least two hours to get inside the place. He also told them not to wonder at night.
"Naruto, how are we going to tell if the Kazekage really needs to be killed?" Naruto face went surprised. This told Mona and Konan he never thought of that. They automatically went to annoyed when they seen that. Naruto walked around to a corner where he saw a man looking at him with the sharingan. Naruto followed by Mona and Konan approached him.
"You must be Uchiha, Itachi." He stated.
"You must be Uzamaki, Naruto." He replied. "I suppose you have gotten the message?" He asked.
"Yes, but why you forge your name?" He demanded.
"Because no one must know of this meeting besides you and your…..teammates?"
"What you want? I heard you have been in contact with Konoha and Iwa. Why you make contact with the people you betrayed and with my new village?" He demanded.
"Naruto-kun, sometimes its best to not demand, but ask nicely." He said camly. "Despite that I will tell you. I knew you were not dead and I am the one that gave you the information about the Uchiha massacre." Naruto nodded. He didn't know this, but he can take new news quite well. "I gave you that information because I knew your personality. Yes, Naruto-kun, you are not the only one with spies." Naruto was about to jump back in defence, but Itachi grabbed his arms. He pulled Naruto's face close to his and now he whispered. "I knew you would seek out Sasuke. I knew you like to help those with large amount of pain."
"How did you know I went to see Sasuke?" He asked.
"I told you, you are not the only one with spies. I want you to train my brother and keep him from Danzou's hand." He let go of Naruto. "If you fail Naruto-kun, I might as well have to kill you. Don't think you can beat me because of what you learned."
"Don't tell me you being the same stuck up Uchiha, Sasuke was being." He paused as he went into his mind.
"Kit, don't underestimate him. He is never stuck up and you can't beat him." Kyuubi wasn't liking how Naruto acted out. "Also, Uchiha's are actually the second best clan in the ninja world."
'Second best? Then who is the first best' He was shocked, but not too shocked.
"The First Hokage's kind is the best clan. The Senjuu clan. They use wood technique which are powerful. Don't worry though. They are all wiped out." Kyuubi started laughing.
'Wiped out? How?"
"If I knew that, I would have told you after I said it. Good night Kit. I am really sleepy now." With that the Kyuubi was gone. When he went back to reality, Itachi was so close to his face.
"Had a nice chat with Kyuubi, Naruto-kun?" Naruto stared at him with surprise.
"You can hear me and the Kyuubi talk?"
"Have you not noticed, Naruto-kun?" He paused. "I was right behind you while you talked to him." With that he walked away. Mona and Konan barely had a grasp of what happened. They didn't want to ask Naruto, because he would have told them, if he wanted them to know. They looked at the moon with happiness. They seen a boy sitting there though in fetal position. Then another person behind silently raised his sword over his head. Naruto started to run full speed to the man with the sword, but he saw the sword go down. Naruto stopped when the sword his some sand and was halted. He gasped when he saw the sand surround the man and crushed him, really quick with the command of the boy's hand. Mona and Konan stared with their eyes wide open. Their vision of it left when the darkness filled up. Then they were back in their hotel room. Konan and Mona realized they never changed out of their pajamas before leaving. They just laid in the beds and slept well. When they woke up, they got dressed quick and left the hotel for the training area. By their surprise, they three students were standing there.
"Mona you get to decide how we going to train first." Naruto offered her this because he knew she wanted to badly. When she heard this, she jump in the air with happiness.
"Alright, children. We will start some good running exercises. Two hundred laps!" Hinata and Sakura's mouth dropped and scream "What!?" Sasuke was just as shocked, but didn't want to show it. Mona put her hand to a chin to act like she was thinking. "No, we will do two hundred fifty laps instead. This is just the warm up. The rules are: You must hold at least a jog when going around. If you do stop, you have an additional one hundred laps to do There are no breaks ladies!" Sasuke got mad because she didn't mention his sex. Sakura smiled with success as she figured out an excuse.
"We don't have a long track around here, sensei" She said with a huge smile on her face.
"I guess we can use the whole village then!" She yelled. Their faces went worried. Hinata and Sasuke gave Sakura a glare for not keeping her mouth shut. Come on people. Lets go. They jogged to the outside rim of the village. This already tired the three of them out, but didn't faze the teachers. When they hit their second lap, they felt like they could faint, but didn't dare to. By midnight, they were finally done. They were all breathing hard and struggling for air. "Great people. We are done with the lap, but not done with training just yet." Hinata, Sakura, and Sasuke had their mouths open wide. The looks on their face made the teachers laugh. "The second, Konan will tell us to do."
"Taijutsu would be your most useful and used style of ninja techniques." The clearly meant they have to spar, but not regular sparing. "To help you be effective at taijutsu, you will learn to use chakra as a weapon." He ran to a nearby tree and punched a hole straight through it. They were not that surprised, since they saw Naruto do that. "Using chakra in your punches can be effective. You need to time your punch with contact and the burst of the chakra. Doing this wrong could cause your arm to explode right off your body. I suppose you all besides Hinata don't have the level of chakra control to do this. You will walk up that tree using chakra and then walk on that lake using chakra. Focus the chakra on your feet to do this. Do not use your hands. You may begin." They all ran to their own tree and started running up. Sasuke ran half way, Sakura ran ten feet higher than Sasuke, and Hinata ran all the way to the top easily. Sasuke took four times to get it down while Sakura took two. When they got down, they witnessed Naruto and Mona giving Konan money.
"Were they betting who would get up first?" Sakura asked. Hinata and Sasuke nodded. "I thought sensei's never compare their student to another except for sparring and challenges."
"Look like these three are not those types of sensei's." Sasuke said. Hinata giggled as she seen Naruto and Mona still giving money to Konan. When the three students got close, Naruto, Mona, and Konan acted like nothing was happening. "Figures. They did know they shouldn't do that, but did anyways.
"What are you three waiting for!? Get water walking!" He commanded with a yell. He smirked. He was able to command people to do something for him with no troubles. "I think they got the hang of it already." He said as he see them walking with little difficulty. "You think they are good enough to use chakra punches Naruto?" Naruto nodded. When the three got there Naruto gave them all a handshake.
"You must observe carefully. Even the slightest problem can make you lose your arm. Hinata use your byakugan and Sasuke use your sharingan." He paused and looked at Sakura. "Observe carefully." Once he said this, Konan Slammed his hand into a different tree and it fell.
"I see, you let the chakra out just a few centimeters from your target. I guess doing it late will cause it to back fire and go up your arm, tearing your whole arm up." Hinata said. Naruto walked up to her and gave her a good hug.
"Congratulations Hinata, your bloodline is pretty strong." He said. He didn't see her bright red blush because he was still hugging her. Mona took the time to grab Naruto off Hinata and get back on track. "Ok, since you guys heard what not to do from Hinata, you may begin with caution." Naruto sat on the cold grass and looked up at the dark sky. Konan and Mona joined him as the students practiced on trees. "We lost a lot of time during that warm up." He turned his head to look at Mona. She smirked.
"I wanted to get them to have a good amount of stamina. It even got me tired." She laughed.
"Yeah, but it almost made Hinata and Sakura faint from exhaustion!" Konan yelled.
"I said I was sorry! So leave it alone, please!" She yelled back at him. "Konan, I think your name is pretty girlish." Konan's face went annoyed.
"Don't state it to me. I can't do anything about it except accept it." He said He turned to his side, facing away from Naruto and Mona.
"Konan, I didn't mean to offend you by it. I was only joking." She said trying to assure him of her intention. "It was nothing to hurt you Konan-kun." They all looked at the full moon surrounded by a lot of stars. "Naruto-kun, we are leaving tomorrow, aren't we?" He only nodded. "By light?" He nodded again.
"He wants us for a couple important reasons, but I don't know why." He paused to think. "He did say something about a missing-nin from our village. I don't know his name, so don't ask please.
"Will we ever be able to come back here, Naruto-sensei?" Konan asked.
"I hope so Konan. I know we come here for chuunin exams, but only for that. I guess if we are not busy we can show up here." He heard a loud cracking sound. When the three of them got up, they seen a tree falling. The one on fell the tree was Sasuke. "I didn't expect him to be the first done." He then saw Hinata's tree fall with Sakura's following it. "Congratulation to all three of you. Any of you sustain any injury during this training?" They shook their heads. "Good. That's all for tonight. Its already two am."
"You barely taught us anything!" Sasuke yelled with anger. "You can at least teach us how to run faster." Naruto stared at him with a flat look.
"He means thank you, sensei." Hinata said, trying to keep conflict under control. She realized something that was wrong though. "Its two am? I am going to get in trouble when I get home. Father is probably looking for me!" He was looking for her with a few Hyuuga members, but they didn't think, she of all the people would be in the training field. "I am definitely going to be punished when I get home." She was starting to panic. "I guess I do deserve it. I shouldn't have disobeyed his rules." Naruto put a hand on her shoulder.
"Then don't go tonight." She looked at him stupidly. "I mean, you can stay with us tonight. When you want to go, you can fake like you trained all night. Wouldn't he be proud of your work?" She thought for a second.
"I am not sure if he will be happy nor angry. Probably both, since he thinks I am a failure. I also don't like to lie to father." She titled her head.
"That can't be true if you were able to master these things at your age." Mona stated. She was wearing a smile to cheer her up. Mona was actually very talented, but didn't show much of it. She did like to tease Konan with her skills though. "I can walk you home if you want. I will do the talking for your excuse. You won't be lying then." Hinata was lost in thought. She didn't like to be punished so this was worrying her. "I think Amoco-sensei's plan was better though." 'Even though I don't like that plan.'
"I would take up your plan, Amoco-sensei. But only if Mona-sensei tell me her back up story." She smiled when she seen Mona waving to Naruto. The wave was telling him "No" but he nodded anyways. Mona was now silently screaming. Her mouth wide open-like yell, but no sound came out.
"To tell you three the news. Tomorrow will be last time seeing each other for god-knows-how-long." Sasuke went wide-eyed and mad-looking. Sakura and Hinata had their mouths open in shock.
"What! So what you plan on teaching us on tomorrow?" Sasuke demanded. Naruto stepped closer to the arrogant goy.
"I am going to teach them basic healing ninjutsu. I will teach you nothing, if you do not respect me! I am only teaching you because your life has been very cruel to you. I am teaching you not to kill who you want, but just to help you protect yourself. Protect yourself from anyone who would like to kill you. You are basically the last Uchiha, a clan that's dead, as I am as well. Both my mother and my father's clan are relying on my children. If I get any. I can choose between two clan, but I do not worry about that right now." He turned to walk away, but was stopped by screaming.
"What about me! Sure you got a plan for her, but I will surely be punished." Sakura yelled out. "My mom don't like when I am out late. Training or playing isn't an excuse for her."
"You are a rival of the blonde-haired girl?" Mona asked.
"Yes, but what does that have to do with a-an-anthing?" She was now shaking because it was fall and the wind was chill. The rest of them wore nice sweats on, so it didn't bother them.
"Then ask her can you stay at her place. I would let you come to our hotel, but you would have to get your own room. If you choose to come, we will pay for your room." Mona said. Sakura nodded, while walking to them. Naruto stood still as they walked to the hotel.
"Sasuke, if you learn to drop your arrogance, I would have taught you more tonight. You are too strong in wanting power. I do not want nor care for power, yet I get it." He started walking toward the three, but stopped again. "Sasuke, I can teach you many things later if you learn to respect me. That type of arrogance is what killed many people; guilty and innocent." Sasuke put his head down. When Naruto caught up to them, he walked in the middle. "I don't feel sleepy yet. Lets eat at another place tonight."
"All the buffets are closed at this time, Naruto-sensei." Sakura wanted to have a good meal, but wanted sleep more than ever. "I am tired. Sensei, why do you want to teach us basic healing ninjutsu?
"I am going to teach you it because you might need it. Also, you both seem a lot more like a healer other than a fighter. If you are fighting someone strong, you want to heal your most deadly injuries." They didn't really see them needing something such as healing. He noticed Sakura looked bored. "Trust me, it is not easy to do. It is harder than learning fire jutsu. I was taught by, Mona. It was really hard to learn. I had fought a female ninja using healing ninjutsu. She was really hard to fight. If I had not my Zampo, I probably would have lost a couple limbs.""A female ninja using healing ninjustu almost beat you?" Sakura and Hinata said with shock voices. Naruto chuckled.
"Why, is this not possible? She was at least in her twenties I assume by her looks. She was really good in taijutsu. She screwed with my head to get me to release my Zampo. If I didn't charge her the way I did, I probably would have won." He chuckled some more in his memory. "That was only, I think eight months ago."
They were really close to the hotel now. Hinata felt good, knowing she can talk without stuttering now. She was more confident and fear was decreased. Sakura didn't change much. She had a lot of confidence and feared only death and the death of Sasuke. She need to work on her fear and self-esteem. She may act like she had a lot of self-esteem, but she had none, compared to Ino's. When they went inside, Mona changed her mind anf let Sakura sleep with her and Hinata. Hinata and Sakura slept in their training outfit, while the other three slept in their pajamas. "Healing ninjutsu training will take you the whole day to perfect. You will exhaust your chakra out. But when you are actually needing to use it, you will be happy you learned it." When they all went to sleep, Naruto climb to the top of the hotel.
'Kyuubi-sensei, you awake?' he heard moving in the cage.
"I am now, unfortunately. What do you want at this time of night? You should be going to bed Kit." Naruto ignored the great fox's advice.
'Are the Uchiha's actually that strong, or they just act it?'
"You kidding me? They are now the number one, powerful clan living today. Why do you want to know?" He was quite curious. Naruto never really cared about people being too powerful.
'No reason. I was just curious to how powerful they could possibly be. Even the Tsuchikage say they are incredibly strong, He said he would never like to go one on one with them.' He paused for a moment. 'He never usually worries to fight someone strong.'
"That's because he knows the power of the Uchiha clan is not exaggerated. He is indeed correct. I still don't see why you care so much about it." He thought for a second. Why would Naruto care about the Uchiha's now? "Kit, are you worried about something? Please tell me." He waited for an answer, which didn't come. "That was an order, not a request!" Now can see the Kyuubi's face close by the bar and his chakra moving around in it.
'I don't want tot train Sasuke, if he can easily kill me after I do. You know I dislike betrayal. When you say a word, you must go with it. That's what I believe. I have three ninja codes, they are: You must stick to your word, Never give up, and never betray. Even though I didn't tell them not to betray me. I shouldn't have to tell the obvious.' He thought for a moment. 'I guess I really cant talk about the betray thing, eh? After all, I did betray Konoha.' Kyuubi pledged loyalty to no one. People never betrayed him either, so he had no lesson on what it feels like to be betrayed. But he did know that betrayal is one of the most dishonorable thing to do.
"Kit, you never betrayed Konoha. You protect it from the outside. You were the one betrayed by Konoha. You are the victim, Kit, not them." He had to do this more than once. Naruto was in a decision-making phase. He had to choose before he went into the chuunin exams. This made it very difficult, since it was only four years away from him.
'I wonder what the Tsuchikage wamts us to do when we get there. He said we had six days to kill Orochimaru. We did that in three days. Hmmm-' Cut off by Kyuubi's talking.
"Kit, I don't think that guy died." Naruto's eyes went wide with shock. "I think he used some weird jutsu to make it seem like he's dead. Must have been a forbidden technique." Naruto's mind was in panic, and couldn't help show it on his face too.
'He's alive!? That's not good! We could have caused a war with the Sound village (What's the name of the Sound village in Japanese?)!. Thank Kami, we were wearing mask during the attempt! What now!?' All this time, he was yelling, Kyuubi was trying to get him to calm down. His yells were even higher than the Kyuubi's "Sush."
"Calm down, Kit! I said "I think" he's not dead. I am not sure. You probably did kill him."
'Either way, we are going to be in serious trouble. The Tsuchikage don't like mission this important to be failed.' He calmed down and kept shaking his head. 'We have to find, and kill him.'
"Kit, the chance of finding a person who almost been assassinated, is two million to one. I doubt you will find him willingly after what happened that day." Kyuubi was right. There is close to no chance of finding a person who almost died in an assassination attempt.
'The Raikage gave us the information of Orochimaru, being the maker of the Sound village. I doubt Kumogakure, is not going to care about this. Our failure could have started a three-sided war. Which could have made a Fourth Ninja War. We were too careless.' He took a deep breath for ten second, before letting it out. 'I will worry about that when I get news of it, I suppose.' He jumped off the building and headed for the room.
"Kit, don't worry about the Uchiha. He will be harmless once you become a strong ninja, like your father." Naruto stopped and looked at the fur ball in his mind.
'Kyuubi-sensei, do you know the hirashin? You told be about it, I want to learn it. Can you not teach me?'
"Sorry, Kit. Sealing mastery is not something I am known for. You should ask the Dark Lord, id you see him again. He uses a version like it, but without seals. You would need the knowledge from both the Shinigami and the Dark Lord. I doubt they will teach you….for free." Naruto sighed. He didn't like having to make deals with immortals. The deals were always hard and time consuming. He had to become strong because of a deal already.
'So my dad made a deal with them?'
"With the Shinigami, yes. He learned the Hirashin, illegally. Less consequences and more results."
'Then I should do that.'
"No! You need to make it legally, now." Naruto stared at him. Naruto's look made sure to say "That's not fair." "When the Dark Lord found out, he got mad. Remember, the Hirashin was a version of his Shadow Transport, which you use. Since it was originally the Dark Lord's technique, the Shinigami lost most of the claim to command it. Now you need three Lords to agree to you using the Hirashin. The Shinigami, Dark Lord, and Me. All three needs to agree. Even if one don't, you can't do Hirashin. I don't see why you want to learn it. You have Shadow Transport, which is much effective.
'Yeah, but when I use it, Darkness starts to take over. Why he chose me, of all people anyways?'
"He have chosen five people in total. I only know two though. You and Orochimaru. Orochimaru broke one of the Dark Lord's rules. That's why the Dark Lord wants you to kill him." Naruto's mouth went like "O".
'Its four o' clock, I should be getting to bed now. I will only have one hour of sleep.' Naruto ran into the hotel room to see Hinata near the door. "Oh, hello Hinata." Noticing something up. "Why are you up?"
"I wanted to search for you. I didn't see you in bed, so I wanted to make sure your ok." She said it quietly, but Naruto heard it perfectly. He scratched the back of his head with a large grin on his face. This reminded Hinata of her lost dreams. 'He reminds me of the dreams I have little memory on now. He's pretty cute and strong.'
"Thanks for the check up Hinata." He stopped scratching his head now. "The way Mona and Konan treats me sometimes make me forget I am still a kid. Lets go to bed before the others wake up from us talking." He said in a whisper. He lead her to her bed before going back to his. He laid down, yawned, then started dreaming.
They woke up with new energy, besides Naruto. He felt half as energetic compared to how he usually is. I am sure anyone would be after they done what he did that whole day and night. Naruto wanted to get it over with. "I suppose you sleeping over longer than you should have, screwed up our plan." Mona said. The all giggled as they seen her hair all messy. All their hair were messy and tangled. "Time for a brush and a comb." Mona said as she felt her hair. Mona gave Sakura and Hinata some new training cloths, she found in her bag. When they were dressed and nicely groomed, they went to eat breakfast. No one talked while eating because they were to busy thinking. They walked to the training area with refreshing looks. They seen Sasuke wearing new cloths too and looked well in energy. He also carried his new katana.
"What took you guys so long?" He had an unusual smile on his face. "Thirty minutes late, you all are." They were smiled when they got a little use to his smile. "What shall we do today, Naruto-sensei?" Naruto was suspicious of his generosity, but welcomed it anyways.
"We will do some katana practices, Sasuke." Sasuke was a little disappointed by the answer, but didn't complain. "I know you want me to teach you speed. It will take you months learning it though. It took me one whole year to reach the speed I am now. Your sharingan isn't developed enough to help you learn it faster." Sasuke nodded. Naruto, now turned to Mona and Konan. "You two teach them how to heal." They ran off to Naruto's right. Naruto swung his Zampo, which was katana-shaped into ready position. Sasuke did the same. "There is five levels to this: Attack, parry, counter, dodge, and reflex.." Sasuke nodded and activated his sharingan. Sasuke went in to attack. Naruto was able to parry all of his strikes easily. Naruto didn't even need to use his "eyes" to parry it. They worked on this until Sasuke's strikes were perfect and with the flow of the katana. This took one hour practice.
"Now parry, right?" Sasuke asked. His answer came as a blow from the Zampo was blocked by his katana. He was now blocking strikes from the dull sword. It had no sharp chakra running though it. He mastered this fast because of his sharingan. This he took two hours, due to the speed of Naruto's swings. Now both of them traded strike for strike. Sasuke was doing well, but had to parry more than he could strike. Therefore, Naruto was able to hit a part of his body a couple of times. Sasuke's sharingan made it possible for him to see the strike, but didn't help his speed. This level took four hours and ended with him getting knocked out. He was banged in the head with the wooden sword. He would have parried it, but decided to risk it for an attack himself. His katana was within and inch of Naruto's chest before he blacked out.
"He might be out of awhile." Naruto said to himself. He looked to where the other were. They were trying to heal two bird's wings. They are the ones that injured it though. He started his walk to them. "How you four progressing?" Mona looked up at him and looked back down. Hinata and Sakura had a whole lot of sweat on their foreheads, but didn't dare to stop for it. Concentration was a must when doing this. Their hands were glowing green, but was dying out. Both of their green light went off and they both fainted. Naruto caught Hinata, while Mona caught Sakura. If they had fell they would have met the soft cushion of the blanket they sat on. "Seems like they are running low on chakra." Mona touched Sakura on her back and told her to continue. Naruto was going to do the same to Hinata, but Konan insisted on doing it. He knew about Hinata's already growing feelings for Naruto. If he had touch her back, she wouldn't be able to concentrate on the task.
"This is incredibly hard." Sakura said in a low tone. She watched as more and more sweat fell down from her face. "I was thinking this would be a piece of cake. I mean, we are only healing broken bones." Mona and Naruto laughed.
"When you are done, we are going to start healing damaged tissue." Mona still had a smile on her face as she said this.
"Is it going to be harder than this?" Naruto and Mona didn't answer. Which she sighed and continued her work. She went smiled with relief and happiness when she let the bird fly into the air. "I thought I would never get done with that. Then the second bird flew into the air as well. They were done doing what they tried for three hours. They learned minor cut injury pretty quickly. "Can we have a break." Naruto nodded after seeing Sasuke still unconscious. Naruto left to get some more food. It would help them get their chakra higher.
"That was really difficult" Hinata said while taking deep breaths. "The concentration this requires seem impossible to do." Naruto smiled.
"Try creating a new jutsu. I created Chidori with the….. Someone's help." He chuckled. "Not easy keeping lightening on your hands for as long as needed. The concentration on doing that have to had been two times more." He sighed. Hinata and Sakura stared with awe. He looked at the sky now. "Crap! We were suppose to be going now. Sorry you all, but we must leave now and with haste. Tell Sasuke he can keep the katana and that our training is done." He ran with Mona and Konan following. "We have to get to the hotel, to get our stuff." They ran fast into the hotel, not even bothering to shut it back. They got their packed and rushed out. The door closed on its own this time, due to the gust that followed them. Within seconds, they were at the gates of Konoha. They ran past it and on to Iwa.
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In Kumogakure
"Raikage-sama, the is a messenger outside that door." A man with a mask said. The Raikage, signaled to let him in.
"Sir, here is your message. It is S-ranked in secrecy." The messenger said. He didn't wear a headband, so no one knew what village he was from.
"Thank you." The Raikage, took the message and ripped up the envolope. He read silently to himself with a smile on his face. "In invitation, eh?" The messenger just stood there, waiting for his answer. "I will join. Thank you for traveling all this way."
"The honor is mines, sir." He said before bowing and walking off.
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In Iwagakure
"Message, eh?" the Tsuchkage asked the messenger. The man nodded. He was a different messenger that the other. He like the other kage ripped it up and read with was in it, silently. He had no smile, but thought it nice and polite to go. "I will join." The messenger bowed and walked out.
"Tsuchkage-sama, you don't seem like you really want to go." stated on of his advisors.
"In deed I don't John, but I need to see what this "party" is about."
"You not going to go alone are you Tsuchkage-sama?" John had been an advisor for quite some time and didn't want to lose his job nor his boss.
"Me, go alone? No way! I don't trust them for my fravorite food. Naruto, Mona, Konan will go with me. I don't like the thought of this invitation."
"Where is it headed, Tsuchkage-sama?"
"I cannot tell you John. It is S-ranked secrecy. Only my bodyguards can know of the place." He answered. He did want to tell John, but he had sworn to be Tsuchkage. Which required him to keep his mouth shut about meetings such as this.
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I didn't know what to name this chapter. So I named it Invitation LOL. Please review and thank you for reading. Do you guys even read these Author Notes? Lol It would be funny if you didn't. that would mean I am typing this right here for nothing. AM I??
