This is Majin Hentai X bringing you chapter of Naruto Game of the Year Edition

Normal speaking "And that's that." MHX washes the blood off his hands after returning Murphy's eyes.

Thoughts/normal writing 'Now what to do solve world hunger begin a side project. Go to a strip club.'

Greater being/game writing "I'm in the mood for food and ecchi Hooters it is."

Techniques:Instant Transmission MHX phased into reality in front of Hooters only to find it on fire.


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Wave Arc part Two The Benefits of Repetitions
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Naruto had never been more terrified in his life until that moment. "AAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHH!!!!" he screamed. "This can't be happening!!! THIS ISN'T HAPPENING!!! I CANNOT DIE!!!" he punched, kicked, screamed, scratched at the enveloping blackness that he floated in. nothing happened, and that frightened him all the more. "I can't die!! I still have so much to do!! So much to see!!! I haven't become Hokage!!! I haven't fallen in love, I haven't gotten married!!! I have no legacy!!! I haven't stopped Orochimaru!!! I haven't stopped Akatsuki!!! I HAVEN'T SAVED ANYBODY!!!!" he screamed. "AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHH!!!!!!" he flailed about wildly, screaming for the impossible. "SOMEBODY SAVE MEEEEEEEEEEEE!!!!" he fought against the eternal darkness surrounding him, frantic, horrified, and hysterical. He continued until he could attack no more, before he fell like a puppet with its strings cut, sobbing helplessly. "Somebody… please… I don't want to die…"


Naruto didn't know how long he hung there in the darkness, weeping silently, slowly losing the will to fight. Nobody to talk to, nobody to hold on to, nobody to protect… he felt as if he had fallen into a fate worse than hell "I am completely alone. It wasn't until he heard faint voices, growing ever louder, that he knew he wasn't alone in the abyss.

"…HELL HAPPENED TO HIM!?!" a voice, female, if Naruto had to guess, shouted vehemently. "YOU WERE SUPPOSED TO BE WATCHING HIM!!!" suddenly, Naruto could hear faint snoring. "WAKE THE HELL UP, DAMMIT!!!" the sound of metal meeting bone echoed out.

"NYAAAAAAAAH I'm awake, I'm awake!" a new voice, male, shouted. "Dammit, sis, that hurt!"

"YOU DESERVE IT, YOU DUMBASS!!! LOOK!!!" the female screamed. "HE FUCKING DIED!! AND HE'S NOT RESPAWNING!! YOU FUCKING GOT US INTO THIS MESS IN THE FIRST PLACE, AND WHEN THE SHIT HITS THE FAN, YOU'RE TAKING A NAP!?" Naruto gaped at the female voice.

"Wha…?"

"What!?" the male voice exclaimed. "Holy shit, you're right!! Why isn't he respawning!?"

"What's going on?" a third voice, another female, asked. This one was much softer, and sounded much kinder than the first female.

"This dumbass of a man let Naruto die!! He's supposed to make sure that he doesn't have this shit happen to him, AND WHY THE HELL HAVEN'T YOU FIXED IT ALREADY!?!?" the first screeched. The sound of a furious clacking noise rang out.

"I dunno gimme a…"the man trailed off. "Oh, fuck me sideways and call me a daisy… he hit a glitch…"

"Oh my gods…" the second female breathed.

"You're kidding me, what happened!?"

"I dunno. I just know that the shit hit the fan literally just a few hours ago. It's one of the biggest ones we've seen yet in any of the avatars! Screwy environment, physical impossibilities, rapid multiplication of the source glitch, and… holy shit… there was even a white-out…"

"Sweet baby mama…" the first female breathed. "Is the avatar intact!? If there was a fucking white-out, that entire damn multi-verse could have been wiped! CAN WE STILL ACCESS STANDARD Naruto!?"

"I'm checking" more of the loud clacking. Then only silence "Oh, lord…"

"What…? Is it… gone?" the second female asked. Naruto was lost, but tried to commit as much of the conversation to memory as possible.

"It's intact!! We still have standard Naruto!!!" the man whooped. "YES!!! We're still alive and kicking!!!"

"Don't get cocky, dumbass!! We may have pulled our fat out of the fire, but that still doesn't change that fact that we're getting third-degree burns!! Find out what the hell happened and fix it, god dammit!! I don't want anything to ever get even close to this bad ever again!!" more of the clacking sounds.

"Let's see… it's reading the past… it's in wave…" silence. "Oh, you're fucking KIDDING me!!! How the hell does THAT fucking happen!?"

"What? What caused the white-out?" asked the second female.

"You know that one chick, Haku?" Naruto's eyebrows shot up. 'CHICK!?'

"Yeah, the one Zabuza rescued from mist the one with the ice?"

"Yeah, well, she pulled a gender-bender!!"

Silence.

"Come again?" the second female asked.

"According to these readouts, Haku kept switching between being a man and a woman every other life! And according to this, she was even a man in Naruto's actual life, which says a lot about how much we fucked up!"

"You're fucking KIDDING ME!!! How the fuck DOES that happen!?!?" the first female echoed. "And she didn't change her body's makeup every other life? No manliness at all?"

"Nope exact the hormonal makeup as her non-dangly-bits self, so even when she was a guy, she was an extremely girly one. Same with appearance, save for a few unavoidable rough spots that probably set the whole image off-kilter. That's probably the thing that set this whole firecracker off. Naruto got confused because of the switching, and finally told Haku to 'make up his god damn mind already' and 'pick his damn plumbing'. And after that, things spiraled down the crapper."

"God damn…" the first female swore. "I thought we had more time than this before the instability set in. can you fix the glitch so that this never happens again? And make sure you cover all of the avatars, because if it's happening in one multi-verse, it's happening in all of them!"

"Already on it I'd fix it even if it DIDN'T cause a white-out, because frankly, it freaks the hell out of me. She just doesn't look natural at all as a dude."

"Freaks me out, too set him back up at his last save. And for the love of dad, PLEASE don't fall asleep again!! If there's some even bigger glitch waiting in the wings, we may not have the luxury of a few years to nap!"

"But… but sis, I've been on Admin duty for the past 75 years! I'm about to drop dead from exhaustion!!" the male yawned. "Just a quick nap… five years, that's all…"

"NO!!!!" the first female screamed as the ringing metal sound was heard again.

"OWWWW!!! DAMMIT, SIS!!!"

"YOU are the only one, who knows how to run that damn contraption of yours, and YOU are the one who made us in charge while dad's on vacation, and YOU are the one who insisted on this video-game crap, so YOU get to do Admin duty!!" Naruto's eyes widened.

"What…!" he hissed.

"Ummm… Rasu… maybe we could take over for him. He does look tired… it doesn't look too difficult to run…" the second female voice mumbled.

"Tsuku, he's a man. He's supposed to do all the work for us delicate ladies." Naruto's head tilted to the side. 'Those don't sound like any name's I've ever heard of. Nicknames…?'

"There's nothing delicate about either of you…" the male mumbled. WHACK!! "OWWWWW!!! DAMMIT SIS!!! ENOUGH WITH THE FRYING PAN!!!"

"THEN STOP INSULTING US AND GET BACK TO REVIVING NARUTO!!!" Rasu screamed.

"Um… Rasu, don't you think you're being a little harsh? You could be nicer to him…" Tsuku mumbled.

"I'M being harsh!? The damn idiot here gets us up to our eyeballs in this crap, this avatar's loop is starting to become unstable, and dad is only a hundred years away from getting back from vacation!! I'M DAMN WELL ENTITLED TO BEING HARSH!!!!" Rasu shrieked. "I am NOT going to be the one to take the heat if this shit gets out of hand!!!"

"y-you'd really ditch me to dad? You wouldn't…" the man stuttered, the fear evident in his voice. 'Note to self. Don't get in the way of their dad, whoever the hell he is.'

"I would."

"That's harsh, sis…" there was the sound of more clacking, before the unnamed man spoke again. "So… have you found the others yet? That was you two's job…" Naruto heard Tsuku sigh.

"No… we didn't find them. Not in the entire Upper Lot. The blast must have thrown them into the multi-verses themselves. If we didn't get a grip on your chair, we would have been thrown away with them, and then who would watch out for Naruto?"

"Yeah… for once, your laziness saved our asses… thanks." Rasu added. The man was silent.

"It was my idea that we do this thing this way… it's my fault we got separated. If we'd gone with Shini's idea, we might still all be here."

"We'll find them. And while we look, they can handle themselves just fine." Tsuku said. Naruto was confused as all hell. 'So… there are more of these people? And what the hell's all this about a blast? Did something blow up?'

"I know… we aren't who we are without being strong… but I still feel guilty. OWW!!! LET GO OF MY HAIR!!!"

"Idiot stop being all gloomy, it's freaking me out. Fix Naruto, and then go get a beer or whatever it is you drink nowadays. I can never keep up with your booze. We'll take admin duty." Said Rasu the man chuckled.

"Are you kidding me? I swore off drinking until all this shit is done. The reason we're in this damn mess was because I can't stay sober."

"Wait, you mean you're sober NOW? Will wonders never cease?" Rasu snaked.

"Oh, shut up. I've pretty much got this wrapped up. I've got Naruto hanging in limbo right now, so we don't have distance issues to worry about when we send him back."

"Limbo isn't that right next door?"

"Yeah so what?"

"Do… do you think he can hear us?" said Tsuku. There was dead silence.

"Oh, fuck." Said Rasu. "He CAN hear us, can't he?"

"Yep… he can hear us." Said the man. "Damn should've thought of that. Should we edit his memory?" Naruto pin wheeled rapidly.

"WHOAWHOAWHOA!!! Don't screw with my head!!" he shouted.

"Yeah, edit out his memory of us. It's not time for us to meet yet. Leave the glitch, though. And the limbo. Maybe that'll keep him from doing any more dumbass stunts." The clacking sound multiplied at Rasu's words.

"Sure thing… almost done."

"You're finally useful for once. It's a miracle!"

"You're a real bitch, you know that, sis? Would it kill you to stay nice for more than five seconds?"

"Shut the hell up, Susanoo." Naruto's eyes widened.

"What!?" was all he managed before that flash of light that had swallowed the monsters reappeared, and swallowed him whole. Susanoo peered into the now-empty black hole.

"You better get your ass in high gear, Naruto… or we're all screwed."


"AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHH!!!!!!" Naruto screamed as he jerked up from his cot, flailing about wildly as he attacked the blanket covering him.

"What!? What!?!?" Sasuke shouted as he jerked upwards. "What is it!?" Naruto's head whipped about the small room, confused as everything. Kakashi grumbled sleepily and sat up.

"Hush… Naruto… it's too early…" Naruto merely sat there; panting heavily as he quickly stared around the room.

"I… I'm back… I'm alive…!" he breathed softly. Sasuke blinked.

"Alive?" Naruto whipped around at the sound of his voice, and was quickly at Sasuke's side. "HW-WHAT THE HELL, NARUTO!?!?" he shouted as Naruto pulled and stretched at Sasuke's cheeks.

"You're… you're real…" Naruto said slowly his face ever-so-slowly splitting into a shit-eating grin. "HAHA you're real I'm alive!" Kakashi blinked.

"Alive…? Naruto, did you have a nightmare?" Naruto wasn't even paying attention to him as he picked Sasuke up in a massive bear-hug, dancing around the room.

"HAHAHA I'M ALIVE!!! I'M ALIVE!" he crowed, Sasuke still squirming in his grip. "Oh, god you have no idea how GOOD it is to be alive!! If you weren't a guy, I could kiss you right now, Sasuke!!!" Sasuke erupted into a fiery blush of humiliated indignation.

"PUT ME DOWN!!!" he screamed. Naruto did just that roughly. "OW damnit, Naruto!!"

"Sasuke-kun…? What's going on?" Sakura mumbled, pushing open the sliding door into her separate room. Naruto whipped around towards her, eyes glinting.

"SAKURA-CHAN!!!" he shouted, tackling her to the ground.

"EEK!!!" she squeaked. Naruto DID try to kiss her, multiple times. She managed to squirm out in time, though.

"You're all real!! I'm free!!!" Naruto cheered. "HAHAH Oh, it is good to be alive!!!" Sakura, who was wearing one of the biggest blushed in recorded history, turned to Kakashi, who was watching the spectacle with bemusement.

"K-k-Kakashi-sensei? Who-what's up w-with him?" Kakashi rolled his visible eye.

"I think he had a nightmare, and now he's feeling rather affectionate. It'll probably wear off in a bit, though." Naruto leaped out the window whooping.

"HA!! IT'S FREAKIN' COLD!! I FREAKIN' LOVE IT!!!" he ran off towards a tree, running up and down it in victory laps. "Kakashi I'm gonna be out here for a while!" Kakashi snorted and rolled back into his futon.

"Oh, do what you want. I don't even care anymore." Tazuna slid open the sliding door, having heard the entire charade.

"…you ninja are bat-shit crazy."


"Oh, what a beautiful MOOOOR-NIIIING! Oh, what a beautiful DAAAAAAAAAY!" Naruto sang joyously, skipping up and down the trees like it was nothing. "Oh, what a beautiful FEEEEEE-LIIIIIIIING! Everything's going my WAAAAAAAY!"

"Wow. Apparently his control skyrockets when he loves life." Kakashi said sardonically, watching the spectacle. "Oi, Naruto! Have you been out here the entire night?" Naruto nodded, beaming. "Then, you've been tree-walking for the past… what, ten, eleven hours?"

"YEP and I am DEAD TIRED!!! IT IS GREAT!!!!" Naruto cheered. "Hey, Kakashi-sensei, look what I can do!!" three Kage Bunshin appeared and flipped over onto the bottom of high-hanging branches, hanging from their feet. Without warning, the original leaped out and grabbed the hanging clone's hands, using them as a swing. He flipped over himself in the air, and latched onto the next clone's hands. "Come on, Sasuke!! You got to try this!! It's WICKED fun!!!"

"Wow great. Now you can run off and join the circus weirdo." Sasuke grumbled, still pissed about the dangerously-close-to-yaoi moment in the night. Sakura stayed silent, too weirded out by the apparent 180 in Naruto's feelings for her. Naruto jumped down onto the ground, grinning.

"ALRIGHTY then So, we are working on chakra control today?" Kakashi nodded.

"Yeah I figured we could do tree-walking… but seeing as how you apparently have it down pat…" Naruto whooped and whistled. "I'll set you doing something else."

"Don't worry about, Kakashi-sensei! I've already got an exercise!" he plucked a leaf off of a small sapling nearby, and the leaf shot up in the air. "WAIT!!! COME BACK TO ME, MY BEAUTIFUL LEAF!!!" he shouted as he chased it into the forest. Kakashi could feel the sweat drop rolling down the back of his head.

"Man… that must have been one hell of a nightmare…"


"You'll catch a cold if you sleep out here like this." Haku said gently as Naruto snorted loudly, rolling over in his sleep… onto a sharp, pointy rock.

"YEOUCH!" Naruto yelped, leaping up and grabbing his afflicted body parts. "Oh, hell, that hurt!!" Haku giggled.

"Perhaps you should find a better place to nap next time?" Naruto whirled around at Haku's voice, instantly on guard.

"…before I say anything to you, answer my question." Haku looked at him as Naruto stared Haku straight in the eye. "…are you a boy or a girl?" Haku face-vaulted.

"And here I thought it was something important." Haku mumbled. "I am a girl. Can't you tell?" Naruto grinned sheepishly and helped her back on her feet.

"Sorry. Sorry. I've just met a lot of EXTREMELY girly men in my time, and that's not even getting into the cross dressers. I wanted to know if you had the right plumbing before I started hitting indiscriminately on you." Inwardly, Naruto's mind was a-whirl.

'Last time, Haku was a girl! So, he… she should've switched back to being a guy! Why hasn't that happened?' Haku blinked.

"I… see." Naruto cracked his neck.

"So, is there anything that I can help with?"

"Hey is it's this one, right, to help with paralysis?" Naruto held up a flower. Haku nodded.

"That's right. You know a lot about plants." Naruto grinned.

"Well, I have a garden of my own back in Konoha, and I like to think it's pretty big. It's got this little niche, right behind the Hokage monument, where you could only find it if you knew what you were looking for." 'Probably the only reason it hasn't been trashed to all hell…' Haku blinked.

"You're from Konoha?" she asked. Naruto grinned and flicked the forehead protector.

"Yep, I'm a ninja! Someday, I'm gonna be the Hokage!"

"Wow… you're incredible." Naruto laughed.

"Good to see at least someone appreciates my talents! Most everybody back at home calls me a dumbass or an immature idiot!" he stood and struck a 'heroic' pose. "But I shall prove them wrong! I shall proves that NOBODY gets away with fucking' with the future Hokage!! BELIEVE IT!!!" Haku blinked, before breaking out into an unstoppable set of giggles. "HEY you were laughing at my manly speech?"

"The-there's noth-hehehehe!! There's nothing manly about shouting 'believe it!' randomly-hehehehehehehe!!" Haku giggled helplessly. Naruto's face scrunched together clearly annoyed at her laughter.

"Well… I tried to come up with something that was less annoying than 'dattebayo!' and that was all I got." Haku laughed even harder, rolling around and clutching her sides.

"Dattebayo that's eve-HAHAHAHAH!! That's even worse!!" Naruto frowned and pouted.

"Well, ex-CUUUUUSE me, not everybody can come up with catchy catchphrases on their first try!!" Naruto tapped his chin. "Hey… that'd be a good goal for me. Find a good catchphrase… got to write that down somewhere." Haku's laughter slowly petered off as she wiped a stray tear from her eye.

"Oh, forgive me, Shinobi-san. I haven't laughed that hard in quite some time." Naruto smiled as he helped her back to an upright position.

"Hey, don't worry about it! You looked like you could use a good laugh. And none of that stuffy 'Shinobi-san' crap! Makes me feel mature! Call me Naruto!!" Haku snorted involuntarily. Naruto's eyes narrowed. "And no cracks about the name, either I didn't pick it, but I'm stuck with it."

"I won't make any promises." Haku replied. Naruto pouted. "So, what were you doing out here in the first place, Naruto-kun?" Naruto grinned sheepishly and rubbed the back of his head.

"Yeah, well, it's a long story…"

"I've got time." Haku said, sitting down. Naruto arched an eyebrow. 'Well, now. That's new. Come to think of it, this girl Haku seems… I dunno, happier, than her spear counterpoint? I dunno...' he glanced at her and blinked. 'And come to think of it… she looks a little different, too. Almost, more… natural, not quite sure what it is, though. I could just be imagining things.' He gave the mental equivalent of a shrug and gave up that line of thought.

"Well, it started when we fought these ninja…"


"You were out here because of a nightmare?" Haku summarized succinctly. Naruto shrugged.

"Heheh… yeah, if you want to put it that way, I like to think that I gained a new appreciation for life. You wouldn't know how freaky that dream was unless you were dreaming it yourself." Haku smiled, before her face twisted, like she had swallowed something bitter.

"I… I have to go." She quickly stood. Naruto squawked in protest.

"What, Come on, we were having a real good conversation here! Stay a bit longer!" Haku glanced around the clearing, almost fearful.

"I have to get back to him. If they saw who I was with…" Naruto suddenly understood.

'So, she's finally realized she was making small talk with the people she's been hired to kill. That'll screw with you.' He stood. "Aw, man! You have a curfew? Well, that just sucks ass! And I thought we were getting to be such good friends." Haku whipped around so fast Naruto thought he could hear the joints crack, her face struck with an indescribable look. Naruto did try, though. 'Let's see… that's fear, shock, sadness, some kind of wanting, joy, and… I'm not sure about that last one.'

"F…friends?" Haku repeated slowly. Naruto grinned.

"Yeah, friends! I mean, we had a great time just now, we made each other laugh, and we enjoy the other's company! That sounds like friendship to me! Though, I probably wouldn't know, since I don't have too many friends…" the blonde chuckled nervously as he scratched his cheek. Haku looked thunderstruck.

"I…I don't have many friends either…" Naruto beamed.

"That's great!!" he blinked. "Er, I mean, it's not great! Er, wait, I mean…" Haku laughed involuntarily. "Gah let me try that again! It's not great that you don't have many friends, but it's great because then WE can be friends!" the hodgepodge of emotions on Haku's face multiplied tenfold. "Um… of course, if you don't want to, I can understa-"

"NO!" Haku shouted, before blushing. "I mean… yes. It would be… nice, if we could be friends." Naruto beamed.

"Well, alright! Friends!" he shoved out his hand, which he took. "You know, this probably isn't the best time to bring it up, but… I don't even know your name." Haku blinked, and giggled.

"My name's Haku." Naruto grinned.

"Well, then! It's nice to meet you, Haku!"


"Where the hell is he? It's the fourth day he's been missing!" Sakura complained as they sat around the small table, eating dinner. Kakashi shrugged.

"I don't know. Maybe he's on a quest to hug all the trees in the forest?" Sasuke rolled his eyes.

"Whatever. He'll turn up eventually."

"But, maybe we should really be worried about him! I mean, that guy is out there, alive…!" Sakura protested and Kakashi eye-smiled.

"Don't worry, Sakura. Naruto's a lot stronger than he looks. Even I've been constantly surprised."

"I'm flattered, Kakashi-sensei." Said a voice from the door, the entire table turned to see Naruto, eyes crossed, and tongue clenched between his teeth, splattered with dirt and mud, floating an unsteady leaf in his hands. "And I stopped hugging trees the middle of day two. There weren't any more trees in the forest." Kakashi rolled his eyes.

"There you are. Where have you been? And why are you so filthy?" the blonde slowly sat down on the small mat laid out for him.

"What does it look like? I've been training! This thing is harder than it looks…" the leaf shuddered, and Naruto's cross-eyed look multiplied. "Whew almost lost it there. And you'd be surprised how dirty you get when you have to chase around a small leaf. My legs feel like they're about to fall off…"

"What about food?" Sakura asked.

"I met a new friend. She's been sneaking me goodies from her place when she visits. I just figured that since tomorrow is the day no-brow's supposed to show up again, you'd want me back here. That, and tsunami-san makes some mean teriyaki." Said woman blushed at the praise as Naruto sighed and let the leaf float to the ground. "Well, I'm pooped. What's for dinner?"

"Teriyaki."

"Sweet gotta love coincidences like that!" Naruto grinned. "Load me up!!"

"Since tomorrow is the last day, you three will join me in protecting Tazuna." Said Kakashi as he held out his bowl. "We have to be prepared for anything. Get some rest, because you'll definitely need it." Naruto whooped.

"YEAH finally, the good stuff!! I'm gonna kick so much ass!!"

"Naruto, people showing up is a BAD thing!!" Sakura shouted.

"Are you kidding me!? It's an awesome thing! How's anybody supposed to know how badass I am if I can't beat the crap out of anybody!?" he shouted. Kakashi snickered as his entire bowl disappeared in a flash. Naruto squinted. "Aw hell, missed it AGAIN!!! Stop eating so damn fast, Kakashi!!"

"Hahahaha Maybe next time, Naruto." Kakashi laughed. Inari, who was quietly sitting at the edge of the table, could stand it no longer.

"Why do you try so hard!?" he shouted, slapping his hands against the table. "No matter how hard you try, or how strong you look, you're all just going to die!!" Naruto clenched his fists, easily bending the metal fork in his hand as he barely restrained himself.

'I know the kid's had a hard time, but he can't keep acting like he's some damn tragic hero! Dammit, I forgot how annoying he was...' he calmed himself down and turned to the boy.

"Yeah, so, we're all going to die someday, so why not make the most of it while we can? If I'm gonna die standing on my feet, with a thousand enemies spread-eagled around me, instead of clamped to some hospital bed, stuck full of needles! Uzumaki Naruto is a man of action!!"

"DON'T BE STUPID!!!" Inari roared through tears. "Gato is stronger than any of you combined!! All you're going to get by fighting him is death!!! I hate people like you!!! You act all happy and smile all the time, but you have no idea how hard life really is!!!!!" the fork in Naruto's hand snapped in two, the head imbedding itself inches from Inari's head.

"I have no idea how hard life is ME!?!?" Naruto roared, angry beyond measure. "I AM UZUMAKI NARUTO!!!!" Sasuke blinked and felt that, different from all other times, this declaration was full of pain, full of sorrow. "I have been the target of over 43 assassinations since before I could even WALK!!! I'm lucky if I find my apartment hasn't been FIRE-BOMBED!!!" Sakura gasped, and the residents of wave could only gape in horror. "I am the most hated person in the ENTIRE fire country!!! I have had the one person I thought was my best friend ram his FIST through my LUNG!!!!" Sasuke's eyes shot open.

"What!?!?" he whispered.

"I have watched some of my most precious people be fucking MASSACRED in front of my eyes!!!!" Naruto didn't even care what he was screaming anymore. "I HAVE DIED MORE TIMES THAN I CAN COUNT!!! SO DON'T YOU FUCKING DARE TELL ME THAT I DON'T KNOW HOW FUCKING HARD LIFE IS!!!!!!!!" he smashed his fist down, snapping the table in two. He whirled around and whipped out a kunai. "Kakashi, I'm going to go destroy stuff. If you value your life, you won't come looking for me." He stormed out of the room, kicking the door off its hinges and disappeared into the night. Kakashi heard the bestial roar… and the sound of raging winds… and the sound of oh-so-many trees snapping like toothpicks, echoing all throughout the night.


Naruto lay in the middle of the crater he had made, surrounded by destruction on a grand scale. Kakashi stood over the lip of the crater, staring in with serious eye(s). "What do you want?" Naruto ground out, too tired to move.

"…this was the Kyuubi's doing?" he asked.

"…nah. Most of it was me. I found a new jutsu, and I figured I might as well get my destruction jollies out and practice it at the same time. Fuzz-butt didn't show up until I started getting tired." Naruto answered. Kakashi leaped down into the crater, standing by his side.

"You do know that you said some pretty damning things in there?"

"Frankly, I just don't even care anymore. Do with me what you like." Kakashi sat down beside him.

"…you want to tell me anything?" he spoke after some time. Naruto wearily rolled his head on the ground so that he was looking at him.

"I'm different. Not in the way that you're thinking, too… I've seen a lot of things."

"Kage Bunshin will do that to you." Kakashi sighed. Naruto looked up at him, confused.

"Huh?" 'I thought we were talking about my time traveler-ness… what's he going on about?'

"You said something to its effect back there, and I know that it's one of your favorite techniques, so don't pretend you don't at least have suspicions." Kakashi gave him a glance. "You know why Kage Bunshin was in the forbidden scroll?"

"Because it splits your chakra evenly and most people just don't have the chakra to spare." Naruto responded automatically. Kakashi scratched at his face.

"True… but that's not the only reason."

"Really?"

"Kage Bunshin… it, for all intents and purposes, creates an exact double of you. Not a person that looks like you, not someone who acts like you, another you." Kakashi held the cross sign, and another Kakashi proofed into existence. "They are another you, down to the very last mental tic." They intoned as one. Naruto shuddered.

"Man… that's really creepy, both of you saying that…"

"The technique is only as strong as the user." The original said. "If the original is a coward, and is afraid of dying…"

"…then that fear is transferred into the clone." The clone finished. "Sometimes, in order to try and 'save' it's existence, the clone would actually turn on the user and kill them, so that they would not have to be sent to die." Naruto paled.

"Y…you're kidding me…"

"And if the original dies, then all the clones die anyway. It's a fact of all Jutsu." Kakashi continued. "Then there's the fact of the clone's side-effect."

"Wait what side-effect?"

"The knowledge of the clone transfers to the user when they die. If the clone read an entire book that the original hadn't, the original would know everything the clone knew about the book when it dispels." Naruto's eyes widened.

"I… I didn't know that…"

"There's a flip side to that as well." Said the clone it pulled out a kunai and rammed it into where its heart would be. It dispelled, and Kakashi gained an intense look of pain. Naruto's eyes widened.

"No… no way…"

"It pierced right through the aortal valve. I would have bled out in seconds if that was real." Kakashi said, sitting back down. "That's the reason why so few people use Kage Bunshin anymore. Practically any Jounin you talk to knows how to use it, as it was fairly common knowledge back in our day. Then people started figuring out its side-effects. Only someone with immense chakra stores and was either suicidal…" Kakashi then looked Naruto straight in the eye. "…or was willing to give everything he had, a thousand times over, to protect what he cared about, could use it safely and keep a sane mind. I have no doubts in my mind which one of those you are." Naruto looked fairly green in the face as Kakashi stood up. "I'm not going to ask which precious people you saw killed, or what person betrayed you… god knows I've buried my fair share of best friends and dealt with more than my lifetime's amount of traitors." He held out a hand to Naruto. "Naruto… if you ever need someone to talk to, someone to vent about these kinds of things… remember that I've always got a willing ear." Naruto was silent, before taking Kakashi's hand.

"…thanks, Kakashi-sensei." Kakashi smiled as he hefted Naruto over his shoulder, eye-smiling.

"No problem."


"Kakashi-sensei, are we sure we want to leave Naruto behind?" Sakura asked as they walked away from the small house with Tazuna. Kakashi nodded.

"Yeah he wore himself out with his little spaz attack last night. He's more than likely torn more than a few muscles. Given his healing rate, though, he'll probably be up in a few hours or so. He'll catch up with us then." Sasuke was silent.

"So… Kakashi-sensei…" Sakura started on another thread. "Those things that Naruto said last night… are they true? Were all of those things true?" Kakashi closed his eyes and sighed.

"Sakura… do you really want the answer to that?" Sakura looked fairly green. "The ninja world is not exactly kind to those on the outside of the box. Naruto is not only a free thinker, which is an insurmountable obstacle in our world, but he is already cursed with a heavy burden which everybody hates him for. Our way of life is old fashioned, on the verge of being outdated, as are our views and beliefs. Remember that." They walked in silence to the bridge of course, that silence did not last once they saw the carnage. "What the fuck?" Tazuna exclaimed. "Guys, what happened to you!?!" he knelt down by a dying construction worker.

"M…monster…" the man whispered before breathing his last. Kakashi's eyes narrowed.

"Could it be…" he whispered as a thick fog bank rolled in. Sakura gasped.

"Kakashi-sensei this is that hidden mist Jutsu that that guy used before isn't it?"

"Well, well… looks like that blonde brat isn't here anymore. Isn't that a wonderful thing, Haku?" Zabuza chuckled darkly from the mist.

"Wonderful indeed, Zabuza-san. Now we can kill them easily." Haku spoke. Sasuke was trembling in his place. "Look, Zabuza. He's trembling. He's still a rookie."

"I'm trembling… with excitement!" Sasuke whispered as water clones suddenly appeared around them. Kakashi eye-smiled.

"Show them, Sasuke." The boy whipped out two kunai and dashed in, easily destroying all of the clones.

"Well. That was impressive. He destroyed all of the clones. Granted, the clones have only one-tenth of the original's power, but it's still an impressive feat." Haku nodded.

"Looks like a rival has appeared, eh, Haku?" Zabuza dispelled the fog surrounding them.

"Indeed… Zabuza-san." Replied Haku, wearing her hunter-nin mask.


Naruto cracked an eye open at the sound of tsunami's screaming. "No! Stop! If you kill him, I'll bite my own tongue off and bleed to death!!"

"They're already here, then…?" Naruto whispered as he slowly stood, kinking out the creases in his newly-fixed muscles. "Damn… really did a number on my arms back then…" he rotated his shoulders as he listened to the bandits leave. "What do you do now, Inari…?" Then there came an epic silence.

"GET AWAY FROM MY MOM!!!!" Naruto smiled.

"That's the spirit." And Naruto stood. He calmly walked out the front door, carefree-as-you-can-be, into the standoff. "Man, Inari. You really DO have a spine. Gotta say, kid, you've got real potential."

"Who the hell are you!?" one of the hired swords growled, shoving his katana dangerously close to tsunami's neck. "Get any closer and we'll kill the woman!! I mean it!!" Naruto laughed.

"Ooh, it's a big, scary man with a sword, threatening a helpless, unarmed woman! Man, that's gotta say something about your self-confidence issues… and the size of your balls." the mercenaries growled at the insult.

"Brat!!" the first mercenary shouted as he lunged forward, the second keeping his blade at tsunami. Naruto sighed and settled into his fighting stance.

"Man! All I'm getting to use falcon leg on are weak little toadies! I want to fight someone powerful, dammit!" and Naruto leaped. The man whirled around, looking for the orange ninja.

"What, where did he go now?"

"Right HERE!!" the jinchuuriki shouted as he slammed his foot into the man's side, knocking the wind and more than a little blood loose. The follow-up roundhouse kick to the face didn't help, either. He slumped to the ground, dead to the world. Naruto cracked his knuckles menacingly while smirking.

"So, what, you next?" the hired sword shuddered and lifted the blade higher.

"S-stay away from me, I'll kill her!! I'll really kill her!!!" Naruto's smirk widened.

"Oh, I don't think you will. I think you're about to meet my good friend…"

"A BOOT TO THE HEAD!!!" the clone shouted as he leaped off the roof and punted the man across the face, sending him flying into the water. The two Narutos laughed. "HAHAHAHAHA Oh, that never gets old!!"

"You're telling me!!" the original chuckled as he dispelled the clone. He walked over to tsunami's side and held out a hand. "You okay, Tsunami? They didn't hurt you?" the mother shakily nodded and grasped his hand, pulling herself up.

"I… I think so…" Naruto smiled.

"That's good. If they had, then I would've been inclined to punt them a little bit more." Naruto nodded to Inari. "Good job, Inari. You held them off while I woke up."

"You SLEPT through all that noise they made!?" Inari shouted.

"Well, I kind of woke up when your mom threatened to kill herself, so, not all of it. And besides, I was dead tired. It takes a while to reattach torn muscles!" Naruto pumped is fist. "YOSH I'm all fired up now!! Time to head for the bridge!!!" and he sprinted off before they could say anything about it.

"Now… what to do what to do." Naruto pondered as he leaped through the trees. "Last time I was here, we beat them, but both of them died. They're kind of nice people once you get past the 'I'll kill you for the fat-ass's money' thing, so I'd prefer that not happen. What to do…" he tapped his chin while leaping. "don't think I could get them to join Konoha… no idea what kind of shit that'd cause for the old man with Mizu… maybe get them to run away?" his face took a pondering look. "That might work… Zabuza's too prideful to willingly run away from a fight, but Haku has him by the heartstrings… so, if I convince Haku, then Zabuza's will have no choice but to go along with him!!" he slapped a fist into his palm. "IT COULD WORK!!!" he shouted… before slamming face-first into a tree.

"…thank god nobody saw that. That's gonna hurt so bad in the morning…"


Naruto watched over the fight with a passive gaze. "…right. What to do? If I just run and jump into there like last time, I'll get my ass kicked… I'm not too good with throwing stuff, so picking them from over here is out of the question… really, what else CAN I do? I don't like using time stop, since it feels like I'm cheating myself out of a good fight… that and I've already used it once out of necessity, and I don't like being a one-trick pony." He blinked. "Wow… running in blindly IS all that's left! I got lucky the first time!" and with that, he swooped out of the tree, chucking a spare shuriken at Haku's exposed face. Her head snapped to the side as Naruto threw smoke bombs to the ground. 'Ah, smoke bombs. A dramatic entrance's best friend!' he thought for a moment, then laughed silently as he quickly pulled a red magic marker out of unspeakable places and drew all over his face and struck a pose. As the smoke cleared, nobody was prepared for what they saw.

"YOYOYOI!!!" Naruto yelled striking multiple kabuki poses he'd seen ero-sennin do during his intros. In the One Piece universe Kumadori sneezed "I am the fear that strikes deep into your heart at night!! I am the feeling that pierces your mind!! The ladies love me!! The men fear me!! I am… NARUTO UZUMAKI, future Hokage!!!!" he shouted, feeling the kabuki markings on his face dribbling from the mist.

"Damn, nothing?" Naruto swore, rubbing the marker off on his sleeve. "guess I'm going to have to work on the speech a bit more… how the hell does ero-sennin do it!?" the entire group sweat dropped.

"Oi, oi, oi, oi, oi, oi!" Kakashi mumbled. "Aren't you supposed to help us instead of making a fool out of yourself?" Naruto cracked his knuckles.

"Hey! Shut up!! I was bored, so sue me!!" Haku turned to Zabuza's from inside her ice mirror, her unease hidden behind her mask.

"Zabuza's-san… this is…" Zabuza's eyes widened.

"You mean, this is the boy!?" Haku nodded, her face twisted by indecision. "The one you weren't certain you could fight?"

"Yes… him…" Haku started. Kakashi's eyes widened.

"Naruto's new friend…!" he whispered. Naruto, having heard the entire exchange, decided that now was the time to play the fool.

"Sasuke, you idiot, you went and got yourself captured!! Now I have to get in there and save your ass!!" and with that, he leaped through one of the cracks in the mirror and took a fighting pose around Sasuke.

"YOU IDIOT!" Sasuke screamed. "Now you're trapped in here too!!" Naruto grinned.

"So? I knew that right from the start! If I don't watch your back, you'll end up a pincushion. Oh, wait, that's right! YOU ALREADY ARE!!" Sasuke looked away, embarrassed. "I don't think you really have any right to complain about me saving you."

"Zabuza-san…" Haku pleaded, her voice almost taking on a whine. Zabuza growled as he took a swipe at an adventurous Kakashi.

"It can't be helped!! Take them both out!!!" Naruto smirked, though inwardly his was panicking.

'Crap… haven't thought this far ahead… how the hell am I supposed to convince them to leave!?' Naruto settled into falcon leg. "What's the matter, hunter? You chicken? You freaking' little sissy!! Come fight me like a man!!" Haku twitched, and Naruto knew the irony of the taunt was not lost on her.

"I do not wish to do this to you, but if you continue with these childish taunts…!" Haku warned.

"Bawk-CAW!! Bawk-bawk-bawk-bawk!!" Naruto walked around, flapping like a chicken. He could feel Sakura's rapidly growing urge to punch him all the way in the ice ring. "Quite acting like a scared little girl, and FIGHT!!"

"SO BE IT!!!" Haku shouted, annoyance finally winning out over emotion. Naruto smirked.

"What the hell was THAT!?" Sasuke shouted as he barely dodged a hail of senbon.

"Sometimes, the enemy needs a push in the right direction!! Ouch!! That was that push!!" Naruto replied as a senbon punched into his calf. "Damn, I forgot how much these things sting!! Sasuke, do you have THOSE yet!?"

"What? No!!" Sasuke shouted. "Why would I have them? Only Metsuki has them right now!!" Naruto swore.

"Damn! Now what am I supposed to do…?"

'Boy. Channel some of my chakra and get a grip on the Uchiha.'Kyuubi took the opportunity to speak. Naruto stopped moving, and received a senbon in the bicep for his effort.

'What? What's that supposed to do, and what, no fleshbag? I didn't know we were suddenly friends!'

'I have a… intimate understanding of the Uchiha. Know thy enemy, as they say. Their eyes are activated by activated by the more basic emotions in the world. Their initial activation is caused by fear, most of the time for you puny ninja that means fear of death. My chakra is the most potent source of Ki outside of the gods, so it will more than suffice. And we're in the middle of a freaking' battle, the least I can afford you is some courtesy.'Naruto blinked, before shrugging. He wasn't about to look a gift horse in the mouth.

"SASUKE, get over here!" The raven took a diving roll and arrived at his side. "Hold still!! This might sting a bit!!!" Naruto grabbed Sasuke on the shoulder and blasted outwards with the Kyuubi's chakra. Sasuke screamed and fell to the ground, clutching his face. "Well? Did it work!?"

"YOU DUMBASS!!!!" Sasuke screamed as he cocked back a fist. Naruto ducked to the side, only to be sent flying as Sasuke's fist followed him.

"OWW YOU BASTARD!!! And after I even activated them for you…" Naruto was rolling around on the ground, clutching his nose. Haku was just plain too confused to do anything other than watch the two slug each other out.

"LIKE HELL YOU DID!! I…" Sasuke trailed off as he realized what he was seeing. Naruto smirked.

"Bingo." Sasuke stared at his hands.

"This… this is incredible, how did you do it!?" Naruto smirked and waggled his fingers.

"I have the magic touch." Sasuke swatted at his head. Naruto stood and whipped out a kunai. "Hunter!! You think you can take on the future Hokage AND an Uchiha by yourself?" Haku's eyes widened behind her mask.

"An Uchiha…!" Haku ducked into another mirror. Sasuke tracked the movement and blasted a fireball in his general direction, narrowly singing his robes. Naruto smirked.

"LET'S GET WILD!!!!" and he charged. He punted off of a mirror, hands in a cross, precariously holding his kunai. "KAGE BUNSHIN NO JUTSU!!!" five Narutos charged off, bouncing off the ice mirrors, barely dodging the senbon that would dispel them. "Think, hunter!! The odds are against you!! You and your master cannot win!! Take everything you own and leave, and we will spare your lives!"

"I will never betray Zabuza-sama!!" Haku shouted as she bounced between mirrors, tossing out senbon. Almost instantly, the shadow clones were dispelled. Naruto smirked.

"Who ever said anything about betraying Zabuza? The offer extends to him, too." Haku blinked and hesitated. That was all the opening Naruto needed as he created four more shadow clones. "You cannot win. You are outnumbered four to two… or four hundred to two, depending on my mood. The odds are against you both. Leave now, and you can escape with your lives."

"But… Zabuza-sama…" Haku stumbled. Sasuke merely stood still and watched the exchange. He knew better then to interrupt a talk that might end the conflict.

"Can leave as well, I can NO will convince Kakashi to let him escape, and even if you somehow won, do you really think that Gato would actually go through with his end of the agreement?" Naruto pushed the opening in her defenses. "He's a black-hearted bastard. Zabuza knows this, you know this, and I know this. So why would he pay you when he could quite simply finish you two off once you've worn yourselves out destroying us?" Naruto made a fake hand sign and made a show of clutching his head. "I now know for a fact that he's headed this way with an army of mercenaries, all armed to the teeth. Now, what does that tell you?" Haku's eyes widened behind her mask.

"What?!" she shouted. Kakashi and Zabuza have paused in their duel at the outburst. Haku whirled around and leaped out of the mirror. "Zabuza-sama, we've been betrayed!!" the missing-nin's eyes widened, before swearing loudly.

"Why that no-good, two-timing son of a bitch!!" the icy cage melted to the ground, and the two genin stepped out, unharmed. Zabuza strapped his head-cleaver to his back and turned away from Kakashi. "Looks like our fight is over, Sharingan Kakashi, it's a pity. I would've liked to see it in action a bit more." Kakashi hefted his kunai higher.

"And what makes you think I'll let a bounty head like you go?"

"Let them go, Kakashi." Naruto shouted as he ran up. "We've got a common enemy, now." Kakashi arched his eyebrow.

"What Who?"

"Gato's hired help on the other side of the bridge." Naruto pointed in the direction he knew they'd be coming from. "They planned on double-crossing Zabuza's and Haku once they were weak and powerless." Haku's eyes shot open.

"Wh-you-" Naruto looked over at the girl and smirked.

"What, you thought I didn't notice? I knew the moment we met." Haku hung her head in humiliation. "Why do you think I tried so hard to get you two to leave? I'm not about to kill my new friend and her guardian." Haku jerked back up, her face showing both shock and happiness. Zabuza looked between the two and smirked.

"You do realize you just chose the lives of two missing-nin over your mission."

"Who says they have to be mutually exclusive, no-brows? We can do both!" Naruto retorted. He cracked his neck. "But first the goon squad!" Zabuza dispelled the mist, and the mercenary army, headed by Gato, was revealed.

"Gah Look at you Five minutes away and you turn on me! This is why I never intended to pay you in the first place!" the fat man shouted. Zabuza grinned evilly and fingered the hilt of his head-cleaver.

"You do realize you just sealed your fate? I don't like getting stiffed come payday." He charged forward. "Looks like I get to take it out on YOU!!!"

"GET HIM!! GET HIM, OR YOU'RE ALL FIRED!!!!" Gato shrieked. The mercenaries charged the man. Naruto turned to Haku, only slightly disgusted by the bloody massacre. Dying over and over had desensitized him to killing.

"Well… I guess that's that. We'll leave you two alone, but only if you clear out." Haku nodded. The Jinchuuriki held out his hand. "Well… it's been fun." Haku took his hand.

"Yes… yes it has." The two shook, before Naruto pulled her into a bear hug. Haku came away the color of a tomato. Naruto chuckled nervously. "Sorry. Still affectionate, I guess. Thought I'd gotten rid of that the third day." Haku nodded, not trusting her voice.

"I…I… yes." She turned and walked quickly to Zabuza's, hiding her face between her hands. Zabuza leaned over near Naruto's ear.

"I hope you realize that that was just about the only physical contact she's ever had with a boy her age." Naruto blinked, before his face lit up at the unfortunate implications. "If you ever hurt Haku, in any way possible… I'll kill you." He stood erect and walked to Haku's side. "So long. Let's hope our paths never cross again." Haku created an icy mirror behind them and placed a hand on Zabuza's shoulder. The two stepped backwards into the mirror, and were gone.


"Man… we got it done this quickly…" Naruto whistled as he stood alone at the foot of the bridge, looking over the clones doing the finishing touches. "Before, it took about two weeks… but with the clones, it's taken only five days…" a jingle sounded by his ear, and he turned lazily to watch the prize. "Finally, I was wondering when I'd get stats."

Boss Fight Completed! 'Zabuza and Haku' Charisma: +3! Agility: +1! Strength: +3! Experience Gained: 239! Chibi Naruto appeared and did a happy dance as the words flashed and grew. Level up! Level 7! Stats Gained:

Strength: +9!

Intelligence: +4!

Chakra: +13!

Control: +5!

Bonus: Accuracy: +4!

Bonus: Trap Skill: +3!

Bonus: Endurance: +4!

Achievement Completed! 'Zabuza + Haku alive!' Prize Awarded: New Avatar!

Naruto cracked his neck and yawned once the stats were done. "Huh gained a whole bunch of experience again. Now, why's that, when the last time I fought them, I didn't get a lot?" he looked at the achievement and blinked. "Huh New avatar. Wonder which one I got. Still haven't figured out why those are even there, though. Why the craps are there so many different avatars?"

"Naruto!" Inari shouted as he ran over the hill Naruto was sitting on into sight. The blonde smiled and waved him over.

"Hey, Inari, Get over here!" the boy sat down beside him. "I haven't really gotten time to talk to you guys, after the attack. That was a real good job you did back there, protecting your mom like that." The boy grinned.

"Thanks." The two sat in amiable silence, before Inari spoke again. "So… the bridge is almost finished.

"Yep, between my clones and your grandpa, we got it done in no time flat!" Naruto flexed his bicep. "I never would have thought construction had so much thinking in it! It made my head hurt just trying to follow what your gramps was saying!" Inari laughed. "But yeah. We never would have finished it with Gato still here." Inari's smile slipped… but only for a moment.

"Yeah, but now he's gone." Naruto smiled.

'He's growing up, if he's able to let go.' "That he is Inari. That he is." and they watched the construction continue.

"But… you know it's still not done yet." Said Inari Naruto groaned.

"Oh, boy, what do we have to do now?"

"Think of a name." Naruto's eyes widened, before laughing softly.

"That's right… it needs a name." 'Did they name it the last time around? I wonder what they called it...'

"Do you have any ideas?"

"Well…" Naruto stroked his chin. "It has to be a name that inspires courage. I mean, it was made on the courage of a few good men that risked their lives in order to break Gato's stranglehold. If another greedy bastard shows up, you've gotta be brave and fight back, instead of taking it lying down like before." Inari nodded.

"Uh-huh… courageous…"

"It's gotta be something to do with overthrowing Gato. Because really, that's the reason the whole bridge was made, you can't ignore its history."

"Has to do with beating Gato…"

"It's gotta be short, sweet and catchy. Because nobody likes a long-winded name that's like, 'the bridge where we became free men and overthrew a tyrant.' Nobody's ever going to remember that." Inari nodded a sly smile on his face.

"Is that it?" Naruto pondered for a moment, before nodding.

"Yeah, that's all I got. Did that help?" Inari stood, grinning.

"I have the perfect name. I'll go tell grandpa!" and he ran off. Naruto smiled.

"Ah, kids…" he blinked. "…there's something wrong with me saying that, seeing as how I'm a kid too…" as he stood, he realized something. "He never did tell me what name he came up with…"


"Thank you for everything you've done…" Tazuna held out his hand. Kakashi merely waved it off.

"It was nothing." Kakashi eye-smiled.

"We'll visit eventually!" Naruto smiled. Inari's bottom lip quivered. Naruto's eyes hardened. 'I will not cry I will not cry I will not cry…' tears started to leak out of Inari's eyes. 'Dammit!! I'm crying!!' Naruto whipped around before anybody could see.

"You… better…" Inari mumbled through the streams. Naruto walked briskly away before any of the team could see it.

"See ya!!" he shouted, careful not to blubber in it. As the team walked away, Naruto's ears twitched.

"By the way… we still need a name." Tazuna said off-handedly.

"Grandpa how about, 'The Great Naruto Bridge!'" Naruto froze.

"Heh… that's a good name… for a boy who gave us courage, Soon, it'll be a name, that'll be famous the world over…"

"AWW GOD DAMMIT!!!" Naruto screamed through the tears. "DAMMIT, YOU GUYS!!! DID YOU HEAR THAT!?!?! I'VE GOT A BRIDGE!!! I'VE GOT MY VERY OWN GODDAMN BRIDGE NAMED AFTER ME!!!!!" he both laughed and cried, he laughed until he cried. "God damnit, I knew I loved that kid!!! He was one of the good ones!!!" Sakura looked to Kakashi.

"I thought he was over this…!" Kakashi eye-smiled.

"Frankly, I don't blame him a bit."


And, wave is done! Majin Hentai X is now back in the seat from here on out.

Woo, plot! It's a shocker, I know! Cookies from both of us if you guess what we've got planned! (MHX:Foolish humans you can never discern the plot line.)

On Haku: yes, he is now permanently a she. After intense debating with MHX, (read: being bribed) we've decided that Haku is in. this is, however, still up for debat- (takes wad of cash from MHX) completely non-negotiable. If you don't like it, you can kiss my as- (takes wad of cash) politely bow out. Nobody's forcing you to read this. And yes, we said Haku looks different. Personally, we thought there was something a little off-putting with his appearance in the manga. We weren't sure what, but it was there. Just pretend Haku looks more like a girl than (s) he already did. (More feminine appearance curves in the right places softer voice etcetera etcetera)

On the harem: again, not for a while, pervs. (MHX: what!? Come on!)We have confirmed Haku, but nobody else yet. Until we confirm someone else, anything we may write is just us covering our bases. (MHX: Until Naruto's ready to round second a few dozen times.)

On the plot: we're getting there. It won't really become obvious until the end of the Sasuke retrieval arc, but we're dropping some pretty heavy hints as it is. If you ask me the right questions, I'll tell you what's goi- (takes wad of cash) throw it right back in your face and tell you to wait like the rest of the readers.(MHX:And for you damn time travelers no spoilers for everyone else you dirty temporal hobos)

Well, that's all I can think of right now. Now, if you'll excuse us, we have to get back to my day job. (Puts on snappy Armani strait-jacket)

Well this is Majin Hentai X signing off until next chapter good night and thank you for not supporting yaoi the power of Hentai compels you.

P.S.: I hope you all enjoyed wave arc because it will never be seen in any fic I write or story I am affiliated with again. As for why I will publically announce my deep inner secret of why once this sstory breaks 300 reviews.