Disclaimer: I don't own Naruto, or Transformers, or Final Fantasy!

A/N: General Business: So I'm working on a few stories I'm not going to post until I have a few chapters done with them, by the way Naruto: The Game is a very good idea as well as all the stories like it.

Story Business: So if your up to date with the Manga you know that the seven swordsmen have been revealed, so hopefully the Kages will be soon as well.

Review Shout-Outs: Neuanfang: The first one to guess that Predaking was from Transformers here is your cookie.

Cmcwiki, Morriganna, Mwkillkenny84, Kreep13, Shin-Kai1017: Who all knew that Predaking was a Transformers.

Ruhiko: Ah yes tunnels, he must hate them by now.

Archmagelite2000yrs: Well if you can control a puppet, you can make it pull back the bow string to fire an arrow very easily.

By: ShadeBladeZZ


Chapter 9: PREDAKING

-x Cave x-

Walking over to the scroll, Naruto picked up the scroll and started to unroll it. Seeing that the only thing on it was a small letter and then a seal Naruto started to read.

For who ever found my hiding spot, I am Shishi Monzaemon one of the five Monzaemon children. In this scroll is my greatest creation Predaking. Now I'm sure that your asking why I would hide my pride in a cave in the middle of the forest, well that answer is simple. My brothers and sisters did the same with their finest creations, and when they are all found by someone truly worthy then a puppeteers true test will begin. Now you should know that me and my brothers and sisters each went to a different hidden village and had are own ways, for example I made puppets out of animals like my brother in Sand made them out of humans. What people don't know is that we all hid a book on our techniques in each village, mine is hidden in the face of the first Hokage. Find that scroll then fix, improve, and train with Predaking, for when the other four are found your true test shall begin.

Having to reread everything twice, Naruto sealed the scroll into his sealing scroll and started looking for a way out deciding that he would find this other scroll when he got back to the village. Coming over to an incline Naruto started to climb up towards the light and right out in the forest behind his team.

-x Fire Country Forest x-

Climbing out of the cave, Naruto could see his team frantically looking for him. That was before Hinata with her Byakugan on saw him and jumped up latching on to his shoulders.

"Naruto-Kun what happened are you ok?" She asked looking him over, making sure he was ok.

Rubbing the back of his sheepishly, Naruto answered her question. "Well guy's I saw a mark on the ground, that happened to be of the Monzaemon clan of puppeteers. Going over to it I fell into a cave, that had a pedestal with a scroll on it. In the scroll was a note from the brother that went to the Leaf village and his strongest puppet stored inside, I'll tell you what it said when we get back to the Leaf I don't want to repeat it twice." The blond said, before getting separated from Hinata by Anko.

"Hey gaki next time that you are going to go fall down a hole, give us a warning and then don't do it." Anko said before giving the young puppet user a hug of her own.

Walking over and ending the hug fest Shikamaru tried to regain some order. "Ok now that the hug fest is over, and Naruto is back we should really head back to the village."

"Ok Shikamaru just let me seal everything up for later use." Naruto said creating a few clones to seal up any supplies and bodies to be made into puppets.

-x Hokage Tower x-

Stepping into the Hokage's Office, the Hokage's Will started to give their mission report. First their report on the Fire lord, and then the bandit camps they had to face. In the end the Hokage sent them all to write their own reports to get used to the responsibility. Only having Naruto to stay, with him telling the rest of the team that he would meet up with them at a training ground later.

"Naruto, now what can you tell me about this scroll and cave you found?" The Third Hokage asked the young Genin.

Stepping forward Naruto started to explain his adventure down the hole. "The cave I fell in housed a scroll from one of the children of the Monzaemon clan, the founders of the puppet jutsu. This scroll was from Shishi Monzaemon one of the three brothers. It said that not only did it house his most prized puppet Predaking, but also told me the location of a scroll with his knowledge and techniques in it." The puppet user finished.

"And where might this scroll be, young Naruto." Sarutobi asked, with a raise of hi eyebrows.

"The scroll said that it was hidden somewhere on the face of the first Hokage, I'll be going there later today to find it." The young Jinchurikki stated.

"Now when do you think you will have this puppet up and running, it should be a great asset to the Leaf." The professor asked.

Tapping his finger to his chin thinking, shrugging his shoulders Naruto answered. "It should be done sometime during the Chunin exam, I have a few other projects in mind as well for around that time."

"Ok that should be good, I don't know but I have a bad feeling about this years exam." The aged professor said, before ushering Naruto out.

-x Training Ground Seven x-

Arriving to training ground seven Naruto saw he had a few moments before everyone else got there, so creating a few Shadow Clones he sent them off to unload his scrolls, work on the bandits for some more security puppets, and work on his mission report.

Only having to wait a scant few minutes before the rest of his friends arrived, not only did the rest of his team come but team seven and eight as well.

"Hey guys whats up?" Naruto yelled out, while waving his hands at the group.

"Yo Naruto hows it been man?" Kiba ran up, with Akamaru right behind him.

Sidestepping the tackle that was coming his way Naruto chuckled at the sight of Kiba on the ground. "Not much dog man, we just got back from our first C-rank mission. How have you guys been." Naruto asked.

Stepping over to the side with Naruto, Neji started join in on their discussion. While Shino and Choji went to join the other guys, and Ino and Sasame went to join the girls.

"Not much Naruto-San we are going to be going on a joint C-ranked mission, in a two days after we have some team work training." Neji said with a slight bow and smirk.

"Dammit Neji, you know I don't like those titles you ass." Naruto said, before walking over and attempting to punch Neji before failing.

Standing back up straight from laughing so hard, Kiba started to brag about their mission. "Yeah it's going to be a border patrol mission between here, and Stone." He said pumping his hand in the air.

"Yeah whatever man, we jut got back from border patrol from here and Sand. Even taking out two bandit camps along the way." The blond puppet user shouted getting right into Kiba's face, having a proverbial pissing contest.

The rest of the meeting went along the same, with everyone catching up before the other two teams had to go train and the Hokage's Will had their own training to deal with.

-x Hokage Mountain x-

Walking up to the top of the Hokage Mountain, Tenten and Shikamaru stated to set up a picnic they brought from the Citadel.

After having their small lunch Shikamaru laying down to watch the clouds with Tenten laying on top of him.

"You comfortable?" Shikamaru asked, while putting his are around her shoulders bringing her closer to him.

Smiling up at him Tenten answered his question. "Yeah it was just to troublesome to lay on the ground." She said with a small smirk on her face.

Looking down Shikamaru could only have his own smirk, before gazing at the clouds again. "You know for a woman, you're not that troublesome yourself." He stated with a chuckle, which earned him a mall slap on the chest.

The rest of their little date went about the same, with them not even noticing the blur that came out of the first Hokage's nose.

-x Citadel Garden x-

Sitting under a cherry blossom tree in the garden Lee gently stroked Sakura's hair as she curled into his side.

Opening her eyes, Sakura moved her head just enough to look up at Lee. "Hey Lee-Kun, how about after this little break we both go and do some training? I could use a little taijutsu training." Sakura asked innocently.

"Of course Sakura-Chan what ever you like, I have the perfect style in mind for you." Lee stated not even noticing the blush that crept up on her cheeks.

Curling deeper into Lee's side, Sakura started to go to sleep. "Thank you Lee-Kun." She said before drifting off, with a slight blush and a small trail of blood going out of her nose.

-x Ichiraku Ramen x-

Sitting down at his favorite stool in the Ichiraku Ramen stand, Naruto put his arm around Hinata before he ordered for the both of them. "Hey Ayame, me and Hinata-Chan here will have the usual if you could." He said to the smiling waitress.

"Of course Naruto-Kun, is their anything else you need Hinata-Chan?" The Ramen girl asked, the young Hyuuga.

"No I'm fine Ayame-Chan." She said to the girl.

Seeing the old man step out from the back Naruto started to talk once more. "Hey old man want to here about our mission?" Naruto yelled, waving his hand.

Chuckling he stepped up to the counter. "Sure Naruto you can tell me all about it, over your ramen." The old chef said with a smile.

About to start his story, Naruto stopped suddenly before turning to Hinata with a huge smile on his face. "Hey Hinata-Chan my clone just found the scroll, it was in the first Hokage's nose." Naruto stated, before leaning over and kissing her over this new discovery.

-x Citadel x-

Arriving at the Citadel roughly around the same time, the team was surprised to see Konohamaru and his group along with Hinata's sister Hanabi waiting for them.

Stepping to the head of the group, Naruto spoke to Konohamaru who decided to be the head of his group. "Hey Konohamaru what are you runts doing here?" Naruto asked with a smirk.

"Well boss I heard from my grandfather that you guys had to take on apprentices when you became Chunin, so we wanted to get in early." The young Sarutobi asked.

Walking up beside Naruto, Sasuke decided to take charge. "And just who do you guys want to be apprenticed under?" The Uchiha heir asked with a smirk.

Walking up to join their leader, Konohamaru started to point out who everyone wanted to be apprenticed under. "Well Udon wants to work with Shikamaru, Moegi wants to work under Tenten, Hanabi wants to train with Lee, and I want to work with Sasuke to be a ninjutsu expert." The young academy student stated out of breath.

Pulling the team into a small huddle, Sasuke started to make a plan. After about two minutes of talking the four who would be the teachers walked up. "Ok here is how it's going to go down, first off we're ok with you guys being our apprentices. But first off you're going to have train with a scroll we will give you before the Chunin exams, and if you pass a little test we give you afterwords we will take you on as our apprentices." The Sharingan user stated.

"Now go out and train, we have our own training to do. We'll come and give you your scrolls before the Chunin exam." Shikamaru said in a dull tone.

-x Puppet Room x-

Walking into his puppet room, Naruto started to work on his project that was closet to completion electing to save Predaking later.

Going over to his work table, Naruto stood in front of his new puppet. It was only the rough design right now, he had the body done which was that of a rather large panther or a bigger version of Pride but with a seat in it to ride in and now he needed to add the seals and weapons.

Putting the standard self destruction, fire proof, water proof, anti break, recall, and shocking seals on the puppet. He next added some poison claws, and a senbon shooter to its mouth. The next thing he added was a shield that would close over the rider in the puppets body, before he added a wind seal for speed and to lessen resistance.

Creating a Shadow Clone to finish the small details, Naruto went over to work on his next project that he wanted done before the Chunin exams.

Like the great master Sasori, Naruto wanted a way to control more than one puppet. He went over to two small black metal gauntlets about one foot long each, and pulled out a special super hot pen to burn the seals on to the gauntlets.

The gauntlets themselves had several needles that would go into his skin and attach to his bone, while a thin wire would go to his spine. On the left gauntlet he also had plans to put in a built in chakra shield.

He had the basic parts of them built now, all he needed to do was put the seals on and find a doctor to do the surgery for him. He went over and started to work on the right gauntlet first, adding in the seals that would create the chakra strings. Then he put on the seal that would link it to his spine so he could control it, afterwords he added one last seal to make them look like normal gauntlets with out any seals on them for the added surprise.

After adding the same seals to the left gauntlet Naruto also added the chakra absorbing seal that would absorb and contain extra chakra for the shield, and a chakra projection seal that would make the actual shield.

Finishing up for the day the blond puppeteer sealed up his new travel puppet for which he didn't have a name for yet into a scroll, and then put the scroll into one of his vest pockets before heading to bed for the night.

-x Citadel Training Ground x-

Meeting up at the training ground everyone waited for Anko before starting their own training. Walking up to the group the snake summoner motioned for them to gather around before she would tell them their duties for the day.

"Ok team here is going to be our training schedule up until the Chunin exams, as a team we will work on team work building and strategy along with some of the more standard jutsu you will need." Anko stated before walking over to Lee.

"You will finish mastering the Striking Snake and Hard Fist style." The Jonin then moved over to Hinata. "I want you to start some of the more advanced healing jutsu, along with poisons and adding your element to your Chakra Scalpels." The purple haired Kunoichi stated.

Going over to Shikamaru she had to hold her self back from hitting him to wake him up. "You lazy ass will be training in your family jutsu, as well as some long range jutsu that will help you for when you capture your opponents." Stepping over to Sakura she started once more. "We will be training you on your weapon, as well as a few more genjutsu so your not overly specialized."

Moving over to Sasuke next she started once more. "You will be learning some more heavy hitting jutsu, as well as a weapon style for if you run out of chakra." Going over to the bun haired girl next Anko started once more. "You will finish up on my sword style and then I'll let you pick another style to master and find you a trainer in it."

Finally going over to Naruto she couldn't hep but smile. "And you will not only be working on your puppets but also on a few more jutsu mostly close range just in case something happens to your puppets." Anko said before creating a few Shadow Clones to go and start everyone on their training.

-x Hokage Tower x-

Arriving at the Hokage's office in their full mission gear, the Hokage's Will was waiting on the Hokage for their next mission.

"Thank you all for answering my summons on such a short notice, and only being back for three days. But I have a very important mission for you, we have recently received a mission for escort and body guard duty for a bridge builder to Wave." The Third Hokage said before handing mission scrolls to the team.

Looking over hers Anko started to think why they would need a whole team like hers to do this simple mission. "Hokage-Sama, why would you need a team like ours for a simple mission such as this?" She asked her leader.

"Ah good job Anko, I have reason to believe that the bridge builder is not telling us the full story and that there is more to this than meets the eye." The aged leader said with a sigh, before lowering his head to take a puff of his pipe.

Taking a step forward Naruto coughed to get attention before talking. "Wave country is now ruled by a man named Gato, owner of Gato shipping and a bridge would ruin his franchise on the island." Naruto stated before getting weird looks from everyone.

"And how do you know this Naruto?" Sarutobi asked.

"I have a source in that area Jiji, trust me I'll tell you more when we're back." Naruto stated with a wink knowing that Karin had got him spies in not only each of the major villages but also other countries like Wave. "Oh and could you look over this for me, and find someone that could do it before the Chunin exams?" The blond asked tossing the Hokage the scroll with his gauntlets in it.

Catching it the Hokage decided to ask about Naruto's sources later, and took a puff of his pipe before calling in Tazuna the bridge builder.

"Are these brats the ninja that will guard me, ah well at least the hot purple haired one is a looker." He said in a drunken slur.

Picking Tazuna up Naruto saluted to the old Kage before he started out the door with everyone else. "Old man insult us again, or say something like that to Anko-Chan again and you wont make it to Wave." He whispered before letting him down at the gate.

Unsealing his mobile puppet, Naruto placed Tazuna in it before he and his team started on the road to Wave.


A/N: A day late but not bad, we saw a new puppet of Naruto's, caught up with the teams, you got a glimpse at Naruto's newest idea in the gauntlets, and we had some dates. So read review, and send your ideas for puppets, next time its the wave mission with a pretty big twist in my opinion.