Chapter 8: Tiger and Snake

It had been nearly two years after Jiraiya and Shizune found out about Naruto's secret training and little Kyuubi-chan. Not wanting to get into trouble with a certain blonde woman, they told Tsunade...

To say the Sannin was angry was like saying Jiraiya wrote kids books. And as she found out about Kurama, she was beyond furious. The Slug Princess was ready to go back to Konoha just to destroy a certain Hokage's grave and rip into pieces whatever was left of him the poor guy.

It had been a lot of work to calm her down and it really helped that they were behind Kumo's borders, the farthest away from Konoha you could get, not counting the huge desert behind Suna.

Naruto never saw his mother more emotional before and kept a huge distance from her – all the time ignoring Kurama in the back of his head, who just loved to remind him that a couple of feet were nothing for a Sannin to cover.

It took weeks for Tsunade to finally calm down and about two more months to accept her son's will of studying the shinobi arts. She still held Jiraiya, Kurama, Minato, and to a certain extend Shizune responsible for Naruto's "stupid deathly" reason for learning something so "idiotic and vexing"… but she accepted it…

Well, not without a dozen of conditions, like him studying medic-ninjutsu first, to not just die on her or not staying up until midnight, just because he wants to learn something or eating all the vegetables at supper…

And so Tsunade started training him herself. She was just too suspicious of Kurama. After all it was not every day that you met a bijuu who had secretly been watching over your son, as well as training him. But both females connected rather fast after dealing with a certain pervert…

Naruto awoke to a loud smash coming from next door. Sleepy, he rubbed his eyes and looked into white-and-black fur, which his sister snuggled into. A year ago, Anko vanished for about two days and only seconds before their kaa-san could lose it, the three-year-old returned with a little tiger kitten, declaring it her best friend ever.

Back then, nobody had been sure how to react and Anko wasn't a really talkative child. So it took them a while to figure out what happened… and they still weren't sure if it was even possible for A) a tiger to think the lost Anko in the woods were one of her kittens, B) Anko to befriend with one of her babies, C) for that tiger-mom not to come back the next day, and D) Anko taking the cube with her back home.

Tsunade had been quiet after the explanation and left in the night, thinking Naruto didn't notice her absence. But he did notice, as well as the solemn look in her eyes after he asked about the tiger's mother.

"Nature can be cruel," were her only words…

Since then the tiger stayed with them and Anko took care of him… or better said- the feline took care of Anko. Now there was no morning any more for Naruto to wake up and not find his sister next to the big ball of fur she called Mukuro. For one year of age, that tiger was really big. It was nearly her size!

The blonde stretched once, before focusing on the arguing voices behind the wall, all the time ignoring his sleeping sister and Mukuro's open eyes watching him. If he was really silent, at least his sister could sleep a little longer. It was just dawn…

Naruto stood up and got into his orange yukata, throwing his pajama onto his pillow, and went to the door. Taking a deep breath, Naruto exited the room in less than a second and closed the door as fast and as quietly as he could… and that just in time. Not a moment later another smash was heard.

He turned around to look what was left of the hotel room. So far, only the table, two chairs and some plates were broken. That wasn't that bad, he had seen worse.

"Somebody is royally pissed," Kura-chan sang in the back of his head joyfully, seemingly enjoying the show.

"THAT GUY CAN F*CK KAMI FOR ALL THAT I CARE!" His Kaa-chan yelled at Jiraiya who looked three heads smaller than her, with his neck nearly vanishing between his shoulders. The blonde couldn't see his onee-chan anywhere and hoped she would be back soon, because he wouldn't want to get caught in another argument of those two Sannin again.

"I understand you, Hime-chan. Totally! But think about it and think about all your debts! And sensei asked me personally to find you. I can't just lie to him!" Naruto raised an eyebrow watching the two. At least his godfather was not stupid enough to raise his voice too much. Maybe that was the only reason why the couch was still in one piece.

"I AM NOT LEAVING THEM ALONE JUST TO HEAL A NOBLE'S B*TCH, WHO JUST GOT A LITTLE FLU!" Her fist killed the third chair.

"Ouch," Naruto tried not to sigh, while listening to Kura-chan's comments, "You sure that baka survives today? Not that would mind a perv dying…"

"Well, but it seems he wasn't a perv today", the blonde ignored the kitsune's "yet" and went on, "He hasn't received any bruises!"

Again the red furball finished his sentence with a "yet".

Naruto ignored it and went to their bags of food and looked for some breakfast. With his kaa-san's debts they never had much, but some onigiri or even dango you could always find in them.

"Please, Hime! Shizune can stay with them. That guy is the daimyo of Ta no Kuni and one of the conditions of the new alliance between our countries is, that our best medic-nin – being you – heals his second wife. Sensei even ordered me back to Konoha just to tell me in person how important it is. Konoha needs more allies! I don't want you to deny his orders and risk becoming a-"

He stopped dead in his tracks as he noticed Naruto with a couple of onigiri walking to the couch, sitting down, and watching them.

Confused, Tsunade turned around.

"Don't bother interrupting your argument," the small blonde said as he noticed them looking at him.

In a matter of seconds his mom calmed down and looked at him with a scowl on her face. "Didn't I tell you, that children are supposed to eat at the table?"

Naruto just nodded and Tsunade's eyebrow rose, while her son just kept eating.

"Sooo?" She asked raising her other eyebrow as well.

"And which table would that be?" Naruto responded and Jiraiya had to bite his lips to not start laughing. Even if his godson could get him in trouble four or five times a day – last time being just yesterday -, his behavior and Tsunade's face were just too hilarious to pass by.

Puzzled, the Slug Princess turned around just to notice the destruction she had caused. Mumbling a "shit, not again", she took the last remaining chair and the broken plates to the other side of the room and scanned through the destroyed furniture.

Sighing, she nodded at Jiraiya, who understood right away and burned it to ashes as she threw the plates away. They left the dust at the ground and Tsunade took some tree seeds out of their bags and handed them her son who just finished his meal.

"Sorry, Naru-chan," she said softly, but he just shrugged with his shoulders.

After all it had been his idea to reduce some of their debts with growing the furniture his kaa-chan destroyed and it helped him to master his mokuton. He could fasten the speed a plant grew, but he wasn't able, until recently to change its appearance or number of leaves and roots, not to mention the shape!

His kaa-chan wasn't to found about it at first, but after she destroyed a whole wall… again and Naruto tried to sum up all the debts, she accepted his help. Would anybody else, but her Naru-chan try to keep track of her destruction and all the money she owned a bunch of hotel managers, he would have met his fate. But even with her hot-headed temper, she would never raise her hand in front of her son.

Shizune was still a little reluctant about letting the little boy do all the work, but noticed the pros about the solution rather fast, even if she didn't want her otouto to "repair her shishou's deeds" as she called it.

"So, what's the problem? And where's onee-chan?" Naruto asked after finishing his last onigiri. Tsunade looked angry at her old teammate, but he ignored it.

"Shizune is out checking up on the pregnant woman two streets away," the older blonde said, while she watched him recreating the table.

Jiraiya wanted to pick up the other question, but was silenced by Tsunade glaring daggers at him.

Naruto looked at them, curious as to what they wanted to keep from him. He didn't know a lot about politics, because whether his godfather or onee-chan tried to speak about the topic, his kaa-chan started to create a new level of furiousness, but what Jiraiya said sounded… really urgent in a way he wasn't sure he understood. He was just a nine-year-old for Kami's sake!

"Sounded to me like the little monkey could get your kaa-chan and the perv in trouble," said Kura-chan quietly, "After all, she wasn't home for a long, long time."

"What kind monkey are you talking about?" Naruto asked back, trying to stay focused on the second chair. He didn't want his kaa-chan to know about their little chat, because he messed up his jutsu.

"A monkey-friend I didn't eat, but I don't think he tastes that good any more. Just a little too old for me," she purred in the back of his mind.

"He can't be possible older than Ero-sennin and you threaten to eat him all the time!"

"And you believe that? It's just for the filth to realize, that I am here and he dies a horrrrrrrrible death if he messes up," she purred and Naruto had to wonder about how that fox thought.

"But the monkey is going to annoy or hurt kaa-chan? What kind of friend is he?"

"Your mom's boss kind of monkey-friend," the boy could really imagine Kura-chan grinning from ear to ear as he blinked surprised. And surprised he was!

Of course he knew that his mom was a kunoichi, as well as his godfather being a shinobi… but they always talked about a sensei as their superior, but not as their boss. The guy was more a role model, they didn't follow. The only boss kind of shinobi he was aware of was a Kage… but none of his family wore any of the villages headbands! Sure, his godfather wore a headband, but he knew of no village with the kanji for "oil" as their symbol…

Simply said, he felt confused and was really surprised that with all of these thoughts, he didn't accidently made the last two chairs look weird…

"Shall I ask them?" He asked his tenant, he wasn't sure if it was a good idea… He ever really thought about it, but – through how many enemy countries did they already travel? Was that the reason, his mother didn't want him to train in the shinobi arts?

"Well, that would make the morning interesting!"

Sighing, he turned around and ignored the staring contest between the two Sannin. His kaa-chan wouldn't ground him for a couple of questions, now would she?

Seriously? He wasn't sure at all…

"Who is your sensei? And why keeps Kura-chan calling him monkey?"

His mothers head flew around so fast, she slapped Jiraiya with one of her ponytails. He would have laughed, if she didn't look so dangerously at him and – better safe than sorry - Naruto took a step back in fear.

But before she could start yelling at him or whatever else she had intended to do, his godfather blinked and started laughing… hard. He had to put his hands onto his belly and still couldn't stop. It was like he had just seen Orochimaru with pink hair. And even though his old teammate looked angry at him, her lips tried to smile as well.

"JIRAIYA!" She hit him on his head…

"Sorry," he replied, still smiling like a madman.

Naruto's eyebrows rose. "Okayyyy… Why did Ero-sennin just freak out like that?" He asked the red fur ball in him.

She just sighed, "No reason"

"What was now so funny?" the little blonde asked aloud. He really felt like he missed the joke… and he didn't like it at all.

"Well, sensei's name is Sarutobi, Saru meaning monkey and he summons them as well. I always thought of him as one – not in a bad way, in a nickname kind of way – but I would have never dared calling him that. Kami, no! Not to a guy who could torture you and get away with it by calling it training" He shook his head and started laughing again, ignoring the Slug Princess glares.

"I wonder if that's good for his health," Kurama commented quietly.

As if hearing her words and wanting to prove them, Tsunade hit him again, knocking him out cold. She sighed, before walking up to her son and kneeling in front of him.

"So, Kura-chan knows the old man?"

Before Naruto could respond, he heard the fox respond, "Tell her, that guy's just a decade older than her and I don't care about the politics. But sometimes it's better to just do the big guys a favor and be done with it. I'll be here."

"You heard more than I did, didn't you?"

"I was longer awake and my ears aren't that round and humanish"

"Humanish is no word"

"Now it is!"

Before he could respond with another childish remark, Tsunade cleared her throat. She was used to her son spacing out like this and she trusted the fox… to a certain extent, but she really wanted her answer!

"Kura-chan said, sometimes it's better to do the big guys a favor and be done with it and she would be here… and that the monkey is only a decade older than you," that made him wonder… how old was his kaa-chan anyways? He just realized… she never told him! That was just… weird.

Unknown to him the busty woman forced a smile onto her face for nearly exact same reason. That fox dared to comment her age. A damn fox… Even Jiraiya wasn't as suicidal as to even say something, anything close to her age. She saw her son putting up a confused face.

"How old are you, kaa-chan?"

Tsunade was said to be bad-tempered, really fast to become furious, as well as a happy drinker and sucker in all casinos you could find. Everything had one thing in common, her fast usage of violence if needed. Something she tried not to do in front of her kids. But sometimes, just sometimes she really had trouble controlling herself… now being one of these moments.

"My dear Naru-chan," she started trying to focus and not blow up the whole hotel, "I know you are just wondering, but we never ask a woman who is already past her twenties about her age, okay sweetie?"

Being a small child and all, the little boy totally missed the warning behind these words, and it wasn't like Kura-chan tried to stop him. So it couldn't be that bad to ask again, now could it?

"But what's the problem? You are my kaa-chan, it's not like I want you as a girlfriend. I'm just wondering"

"Gaki," he heard Kura-chan's voice in the back of his head. It sounded like a warning… a warning he couldn't quite get.

But before all could go south, the door opened, revealing his onee-chan with TonTon and food in her hands. Food that smelled like…

"RAMEN!"


It was after lunch, that the two Sannin argued again, this time without the female destroying half of the furniture and yelling around, while Shizune taught Anko writing kanjis and Naruto some theory about medical ninjutsu.

His onee-chan gave him just the second exercise for that day, which included healing a little blue bird she found without the need of equipment, like iryo-scrolls, which were used to better focus the healing chakra or to limit it to the injured areas, when the older shinobi came over to them.

"Short interruption," his mother grunted, looking angry at everybody and nobody in particular…

Shizune knew better than to complain, but Anko still gave her an icy look. The two just couldn't get along with each other…

Jiraiya, noticing that his old comrade wouldn't go on, decided to do so instead. "What Hime and I want to tell you is… Sensei needs Tsunade to heal somebody and it needs to happen fast. I need to be there as well, for whatever stupid reason ever. We will only be gone for maximal two days and-"

"And I will give you one of my slugs, you will stay out of the villagers sight, you will not cause any trouble, and I don't care what you do, but hell happens if anybody of you even has a scratch on him or her. Got it?" Tsunade interrupted the Toad Eremite. She locked her eyes with Shizune, who couldn't help but nod under the huge Killing Intent.

Still angry, the Slug Princess left, slamming the door behind her. Silence filled the room. Anko and Naruto looked at their frightened onee-chan, hoping for her not to pass out. She was already quite pale.

"How did you persuade her to… to accept… that?" Shizune stared at Jiraiya.

After all, the best medic-nin in the world was known in her family to hate the separation of her family. It was like she could lose them if she left them alone… like back then with Nawaki, Dan… and him.

"I seriously don't know. You should ask Kami," he replied and he sat down on one of the chairs, looking tired.

"So one day? One whole day without kaa-chan for sure?" Anko asked, her big eyes watching the old pervert closely.

"Yups. And you really shouldn't do anything stupid or it will be the first and last without any big supervision," he replied.

The message took a moment to sink in, but as soon as it did, the kids couldn't help but grin at each other. A whole day without their kaa-chan and only Shizune, a slug and the little pig to watch over them – it was like vacation! It didn't take much to keep their onee-chan busy with something and it was so long ago, that they could go into the woods or into a village and be just kids, not studying, not being with adults the whole time and certainly not having to behave the whole time.

Afterwards they could still cover up the damage, but before that they could have so much needed fun!


The two Sannin left the next day before dawn, but not after Tsunade nearly suffocated her kids with hugs and threatening everybody else with what she would do, if even one of her kids missed a hair when she came back.

And then, as the sun arose behind some of Kumo's mountains the two Sannin were gone. The two kids felt like they were still dreaming. Sure, it was weird knowing that their kaa-chan was gone for the day and not coming back until tomorrow, but the feeling of freedom was stronger. And so they decided to just be free… for at least a while.

"Where do you want to go, Naruto-san, Anko-san?" Katsumi, one of their kaa-chan's summon asked them as they wanted to exit the hotel room through the front door. Scratch the freedom part… for the next minute.

"There you are, Katsumi-chan!" Naruto exclaimed, like he hadn't seen the dog-sized slug before, "Onee-chan said, she needs your help in the bedroom and thought you were outside eating breakfast."

"Then I shall help her. Please stay inside, you two."

The two kids nodded, while the slug went to the other door, yet not knowing that the two kids surprised the woman and tied her up with some stolen ninja wire from Jiraiya and talked TonTon into keeping it quiet for a bit - if he wanted his favorite meal today.

Grinning, the two quietly went outside. Sure, they would get in trouble for it later and shouldn't do it… but they just wanted to go to the park or the playgrounds and play with some other kids their age, even if it were only for a couple of minutes…

"I still say, we should have left Mukuro back at the hotel with onee-chan," Naruto said for the umpteenth time since they came up with their plan. They just reached the park and all the other parents and kids alike watched them afraid.

"That wouldn't be fair!" His imouto exclaimed, "It's not his fault, the other people fear him!"

"What kind of feline is he?" Somebody asked behind them. Surprised they turned around and saw a little boy with silver hair pulled back in a ponytail. He wore a pair of glasses and was probably Naruto's age. He looked at their fur ball not with fear, but awe?

Upon noticing that, his nee-chan run up to him and hugged him. Her brother just blinked in surprise. "What just happened?"

"I'm Anko and that's Naruto-nii. And Mukuro here is a tiger, thought… I have no clue what race of tiger," she took hold of his hand and refused to let it go beaming still happily at him, "And you? Who are you? What are you doing here? I haven't seen you in the village before. Are you new? Or are you just passing by? Do you-"

"Anko, stop. Give him a moment to answer first," the blonde said laughing. Never before, did he saw his little sister that excited. She was more a quiet kind of girl, to see her like that was really refreshing.

"Onii-chan!" She looked at him with faked anger. Mukuro just purred, but in her ears it sounded like they were both laughing at her.

"Gomen," he replied, still grinning.

The other boy laughed heartily at them. "My name is Kabuto. I am just passing through with my uncle. And you two? You don't seem to be from around here."

But before they could answer, they felt some really angry Killing Intent directed at them, followed by a really sweet voice.

"I am wondering too, Naru-kun, Anko-chan?"

Slowly they turned around, just to see their current babysitter behind them, with something yellow and sticky in her clothes and hair.

"I am sorry, Kabuto-kun. But the two have to help me clean up a room. Have a nice day," the medic-nin told the young boy.

With that she took hold of the two Senju and dragged them back to the hotel Mukuro all the time purring, while he walked behind them. As Anko tried to argue with the older woman, Naruto turned back, trying to say goodbye. He stopped however, as he noticed Kabuto smirking.

Something didn't feel right.


It turned out that Katsumi used some of her acids to free Shizune from the wire. But the bedroom was ruined afterwards. So they had all day to clean it up under the watchful eyes of the summon, TonTon and their onee-chan.

It just wasn't fair! So, they had a day of vacation from their kaa-chan, but it turned out worse, than being with her yelling all day long! What kind of game did Kami play with them?

They had just eaten supper, when an urgent knock at the door interrupted them. At first Shizune didn't want to answer it, but as all the other occupants of the hotel room watched her with raising eyebrows, she gave in.

She shot a warning gaze at the kids, who just nodded in acceptance. It was like saying "Yes, mommy, we will be nice". They didn't want to know, what else their onee-chan was up to if they did something "stupid" again.

As she opened answered the door, Naruto strained his ears and tried to hear about the conversation. After all - it wasn't every day, that you had somebody knocking on the door after sundown.

"Midori? What is it?" he heard Shizune say. Midori… He searched his brain for any Midoris he might know, while the woman on the other side of the door replied. But it sounded more like crying.

"Her husband got hurt. He tried to take something out of a shelf in their cottage and it hit him instead," Kura-chan said bored, "And she was the pregnant woman your onee-chan checked up on yesterday. 39th week if I remember correctly."

He blinked in surprise. "Thanks?"

"No problem, Gaki. I'm totally bored anyways."

Shizune came back to the table they sat on. For a moment she watched them closely, staring at the dirty, but empty dishes, before sighing and grabbing her medical supplies.

"I will only be gone for five or ten minutes. If my patient is hurt worse, I will take him here. So, please behave!" She looked at them, a pleading look in her eyes.

Slowly, they nodded and Shizune ran out of the door, Midori following her. Sighing, Naruto took it upon him to put the dishes away. Anko stared at the door.

"Something's not right," Naruto heard her so quietly, he might have missed it.

"But it's going to be alright," he answered back, trying to reassure her. Even thought he felt it too, that nagging feeling in his stomach. Kura-chan just kept quiet.

Thanks to the weird seals on them, that somehow contained her in them, the two Senju couldn't just talk to the fox, but also to each other. Sure, it took more concentration, Kura-chan would hear it, and if they were tired only half of the "message" was "received", but if they focused enough they could also show memories to each other.

A puff interrupted Naruto's thoughts. Confused, he turned around, only to see a kunai next to the sink, where moments ago Katsumi sat. Blood covered the sharp metal and he took a step closer to his sister, who took hold of his left arm. Just now, he noticed Mukuro and TonTon glaring at the window.

"Kukuku… Hello little Naru-kun. Hello little Anko-chan"

Standing outside the window, grinning inside like the madman he was, sat the one man their kaa-chan cursed on daily basis.

Anko's father, Orochimaru.

Naruto could feel the fox in him growling at the Sannin. And just looking into the Snake Summoner's eyes was scaring him so much, he just wanted to curl up and hide somewhere.

"We don't want anybody else to get hurt, do we?" The man asked them, grinning even wider, "So you should probably just come with me. That Shizune won't come back until tomorrow, anyways."

Naruto felt his little sister quiver. She hugged his arm with an unnatural strength for a little four-year-old. He felt her depending on him, but at the same time, he felt the Sannin's Killing Intent, which clearly stated: "Come with me or die".

"I will teach you. Your abilities are too unique to rotten away in such a shame of a village. You can't even fight some KI"

The blonde ignored the words. Or at least he tried to. It was like they went directly into him and not just through the ears. He felt his body protesting. Moving? Not moving? He didn't know what to do, not anymore. He had to-

"SNAP OUT OF IT!"

His eyes widened only a millimeter, but it was enough for Orochimaru to notice. The Sannin tried to raise the Killing Intent, just for a wooden spear to nearly go through his abdomen.

Naruto didn't lose any time. He shook Anko and called her name, hearing Kura-chan doing the same, just for her to blink at him confused.

"No time. We need to go into the woods," he told her and seeing the fire coming at the window and his mokuton spear-something he created burn, the blonde took the bag with all the tree seeds, "NOW!"

Still confused, Anko hold onto Mukuro and followed her brother, TonTon bringing up the rear. The blonde knew they could never outrun a Sannin. All the time they won Hide 'n Seek or Tag with their kaa-chan or ero-sennin, was simply because they either let them win or weren't really paying attention to the games. So, what were their chances of getting out of this mess?

"You could summon me, but that would be like throwing oil into fire," Kura-chan told him quietly.

"What do you mean?" He asked back, while they just reached the first trees outside the hotel.

"Later. Keep it as plan B. Plan A is to go to the oldest tree you can find, throw out the seeds, and let them grow. Not the best way to hide, but hopefully the strongest and safest"

Ignoring her earlier comment, Naruto did as instructed. He stopped them at a old oak and let trees grow around them like a wall, startling TonTon and Mukuro. He also made sure to cover the top like a roof. He wanted to end the chakra flow, when Kurama's voice called out to him again.

"The roots! You need to create a floor with them or that guy will just dig his way through!"

"I'm on it"

It took him a little bit more concentration, but he managed anyways. He never really shaped the roots before, just everything else that grew above the ground. It was a new experience to say the least.

He felt something on his arm again. Looking down, he met the tear strained face of his little imouto. TonTon and Mukuro sat behind her looking as focused as animals could look. Probably trying to sense where that Orochimaru was.

"Onii-chan… What's going on?" Naruto felt pure fear with every word he heard in his head. He wouldn't, he couldn't be scared now. Anko trusted him. And she needed somebody to rely on.

"It will be alright," he told her quietly aloud. Keeping his own fear out of his voice was one thing… but keeping it out of his thoughts was an entirely different matter.

"I'm scared," she replied a little bit louder than him before, "I know, I've been happy as kaa-chan left… but now I want her back. Even if she is angry at us again…" Her voice became a little louder and Naruto hoped, nobody - meaning noOrochimaru – would hear her, "I feel so stupid for letting her go, for being-"

"Shhhh…" the blonde hugged her and tried to calm her down. But she just started crying again and snuggled into his yukata.

After what seemed like hours, her tears finally stopped. The two animals had lain down, but they still seemed rather awake. Naruto didn't know what to do. It wasn't like he wanted to go back to calming her down. He just didn't know, what they were supposed to do now.

Just then he heard Anko taking a deep breath in surprise. Turning around he saw a bright yellow eye looking back at him.

"Peek a boo"

The next things happened so fast, he was surprised his brain kept up processing everything. In surprise he jumped backwards and fell over one of Mukuro's paws, Anko stumbled backwards as well, and screamed. And with her scream, the trees around Orochimaru as well as parts of his hair caught fire and burned in a bright orange.

Surprised the Sannin jumped back, eyes wide. He put the fire on his head out, by simply slapping himself. But before he could attack them or Anko could stop her screams and the fire probably too, something white and spiky hit him from the side.

Naruto turned his head just in time to see his godfather kicking his old teammate to the other side of the woods. He dropped an unconscious Shizune next to them and summoned a toad just a head smaller than him.

"Stay here"

And he was gone.


Hi everybody!

Sorry it took me so long. First school, than a lack of motivation, than vacation and applications for part time jobs and university, and, and, and…

*sigh*

But now I'm back. Thanks to the new favorites and followers. And a really big THANK YOU to the last reviewer to my FF! I was really down that day, but after reading your comment, I was really happy again and decided to go into my room and start writing again.

It still took me a while to write and again I want to ask you guys if anybody of you wants or knows somebody to beta-read my story? Because I could probably write a lot faster than…

I got the story planned out until the last exam of the chunin exam. Two more chapters of childhood for the two Senjus and then I will bring Konoha back into the story. So, tell me what you think! Critique is welcomed as well as some praise – you choose ^O^

See ya next chapter!