A/N: Alright my loyal readers I'm back and the votes have been tallied. Not to my amazement at all, the outcome for Haku's Gender is female in a landslide of 21 votes to 7. I got eight requests in the end for all three girls, Tayuya, Nii Yugito, and Tsuchi Kin, to live so I added eight votes to each of the girl's tally. The final result is 20 votes for Tayuya, 20 votes for Nii Yugito, and 16 votes for Tsuchi Kin. So Tayuya and Yugito will both live and because I don't want to disappoint those of you who wanted all three to live and those who voted solely for Kin, I will try to get her to live as well. Also, it seems that I've forgotten to put up the ages for our beloved Akatsuki members.
Zetsu: (Your guess is as good as mine); Kisame: 21; Sasori: 25(Was mid 30's when he appeared in Part 2); Kakuzu: 90(He fought Shodai Hokage he's damn old); Orochimaru: 43, Itachi: 9(He's still not a member but hey); Pein: 20(He looks young ten years from this point so… yea); Unnamed member: (I'll get back to you guys on that)
Now that that mess is taken care of let's get a move on to chapter 9! (Must I say it?)
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Chapter 9: Paths and Affinities
It's mid-morning of the day following the reunion of our every growing group of unofficial nukenin. Gaara, Hinata, Kimimaro, Naruto, and Temari are sitting on two logs as Tsunade, who stands about a meter in front of them prepares to explains what they'll be focusing on for training.
"After talking with Anko last night about the training you've all gone through over the past few months, I decided to drop the weights you have on your arms but leave the ones you have on your legs, though I think we'll increase the weight more slowly then what Anko was," the slug Sannin explained slightly turning her head to look at said snake mistress who stood behind her along with Jiraiya and a human sized bunshin of Kyuubi. Turning her attention back to the five kids in front of her, the busty blonde continued, "Also, it seems that apart from Temari, none of you know what your chakra affinities are." Tsunade then pulled five leaves out from behind her back and stated, "I want each of you to balance one of these leaves on your dominate index fingers and focus some chakra into the leaf."
"Hold up Tsunade," the white haired Sannin interrupted, walking over to his longtime teammate. "Before we start training the gakis, I have something that I need to give to Naruto."
"You were told not to give that to him until Sarutobi-sensei agreed he was ready!" the gambling addict snapped harshly yet quietly enough so no one else, apart from Kyuubi do to his acute hearing, heard.
"Well, Sarutobi-sensei isn't here and Kami knows when we'll be seeing him again," Jiraiya shot back, quickly ending the argument.
"Oi!" the golden blonde fox-boy shouted, "What are you whispering about, you said you had something you wanted to give to me, right Jiraiya-sama?"
The perverted novelist quickly looked at the blue eyed youth before reaching into his vest and pulling out a scroll. He lightly tossed it into to air towards Naruto saying, "Catch," which the Kyuubi container did. The golden blonde immediately noticed the seal on the slightly worn and stained scroll in his hands and before he could even ask, the toad master answered his unspoken question, "Just wipe some of your blood across the seal and it'll release, after all, it contains your father's last words to you."
This made everyone except for Tsunade, Jiraiya, and Kimimaro freeze; the most latter not knowing that Naruto's father had been the same person who sealed Kyuubi inside of him. Naruto could only stare at the scroll, as his breathing became heavy and deep. Shaking furiously, he bit his thumb and wiped the bleeding digit across the seal, quickly undoing it with a small hiss as the seal burned away.
The son of the Yondaime Hokage then slowly opened the scroll and read what it contained, "Dear Naruto, I don't know how old you are or what your life has been like up to this point, but the fact that your reading this letter means that Sarutobi or Jiraiya has deemed you fit to read it and that you know that I sealed the Kyuubi no Kitsune inside of you. I don't know what kind of life you've had up to this point but I can only say I hope the villagers heeded my request for you to be treated as the savior of the village. Unfortunately, if I know the attitude of the villagers as well I as I think I do, then you've probably had it rough for a very long time now. You should know that my wife, your mother, who only Sarutobi, Ero-sensei, and Tsunade, knew of died giving birth to you. After you were born she told me to live happily with you, but the Kyuubi's attack seems to have dashed those plans to nothing. I think you have the right to know though, that the method of sealing the Kyuubi inside of you wasn't an original idea. The Yondaime Raikage, Nii Yukoto, a good friend of mine from during the war with Iwa, passed the information onto me some time ago and told me her daughter Yugito is the container for the Nibi no Nekomata. She's ten years older than you are and hopefully, if you ever happen to visit Kumogakure you could give Yukoto my regards. I'm afraid I'm out of time Naruto, from here in the Hokage tower; I can see the destruction that the Kyuubi is creating. One last thing though, if you ever so much as look at one page from ero-sensei's novels I'll find some way of making you regret it. Just never forget Naruto, I love you; your father, Kazama Arashi, the Yondaime Hokage. P.S. Sealed in this scroll is the scroll for my Hiraishin no Jutsu which you should master before your twenty if you're really my son."
Thanks to Kyuubi, who read the words of the letter to Naruto from inside his mind, the fox-boy managed to comprehend the entire scroll and was very intrigued by the knowledge of another Biju contained along with the scroll for what was the Yondaime's greatest technique. The golden blonde then read the entire leader aloud to those present, who when he finished, were all gathered around him in a large group hug except for Kyuubi, who was only a normal bunshin and couldn't participate, and Jiraiya who was rather annoyed at his former student for calling him Ero-sensei and demeaning his masterpiece novels.
After about thirty minutes of comforting, crying, hugs, and explanations to Kimimaro about who Kazama Arashi was, Tsunade said, "Well thanks to the information in Naruto's scroll, it would be best to say that traveling to Kumo is what many of you are already planning," eyeing everyone but her apprentice, the toad master, and silver haired boy, only to receive a barrage of strong nods. Then, the gambling blonde continued, "It would probably be easiest to travel through the several lands north of the Land of Fire, since their checkpoints will be easier to pass through then the one between the Lands of Fire and Lightning. But we aren't going to rush there, since there's still your training to consider."
The master medic then walked up to each of the kids and handed each of them a leaf. "Now hopefully you five remember what I said before Naruto read the scroll from his father," Tsunade snapped lightly. They all nodded and quickly did as they had been told earlier, balancing the leaves on their index fingers and focusing chakra into the plant fragment.
The outcomes were much as Tsunade had expected after hearing Anko's observations of the kids from the three months of training they had endured. Gaara's leaf split in half cleanly, then as the two halves fell, the quickly turned to dust, indicating the sand boy as having both an affinity for wind and earth. Hinata's leaf only became soaked with water and due to the added weight, fell off the dark blue haired girl's finger. Kimimaro surprised even Tsunade as first his leaf crumpled then burned to ash not a moment later. The slug mistress also was surprised when the golden blonde boy's leaf burned after splitting in half. The blonde Sannin quickly concluded that the added fire affinity was due in part to Kyuubi's chakra that was constantly mixing with Naruto's chakra. Finally, Temari's leaf did nothing but uneventfully split in half, though one could've guessed her chakra affinity just by watching her fight with her fan.
"Three wind, two fire, a lightning, an earth, and a water," Anko summarized, intrigued that the group of five in front of her had all the elements covered along with enough members to cover taijutsu, ninjutsu, genjutsu, and medic. The snake mistress figured that if the five of them trained right, along with this Nii Yugito kid who seemed more then likely to end up joining them, without even adding herself, Tsunade, and Jiraiya into the equation, this group of rejects, outcasts, and runaways, would at some point be a force to be reckoned with in the shinobi world.
The slug mistress then said demandingly, "Now that we know your affinities, starting tomorrow you all will be told how you'll be training for at least next few years. You kids can have some fun doing whatever you please for the rest of the day, while Jiraiya, Anko-chan, Kyuubi, and I plan things out for you."
Unfortunately for the blonde fox-boy, hearing Kyuubi's name in that last sentence meant he would have to keep a bunshin up constantly for most of the remainder of the day and that he couldn't go more than a few hundred meters away from cap without the bunshin dissolving. Nonetheless, for the rest of the day the five kids enjoyed themselves since it would be a good long while before they would be able to do so again, and throughout the day, the five along with the other members of the group, were observed carefully and strategically, by a pair of yellow eyes that disappeared and reappeared among the many surrounding trees.
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Pein and a blue haired woman were standing on a balcony at their base in the Land of the Waterfalls, somewhere to the southeast of Kakuzu's home village of Takigakure. The other members bar Orochimaru and Zetsu were in their rooms attending to their own devices, while the snake Sannin slithered his way through the cold twisting halls of the lair in hopes of finding one of the organization's poison expert's younger appearing puppets, carelessly tossed aside or forgotten. The nukenin from Kusa was only now just returning to the hideout, as he emerged from the floor behind Pein and his female counterpart.
"Leader-sama," the two colored, two minded man began, "We now know the whereabouts of the Nibi; it to is contained in a Jinchuuriki, the Kumo Genin, Nii Yugito."
"Thank you for the information, Zetsu, for now though, we must wait at least until Uchiha Itachi joins us before we begin moving," the heavily pierced young man stated, "By then, we will have three Jinchuuriki together, and will have the chance to obtain them and remove a possible annoyance at the same time."
"Planning to kill many birds with one stone, Pein?" The blue haired woman asked the auburn haired man with little formality.
"If it's possible then yes," Pein answered. Then turning to Zetsu he ordered, "Zetsu inform Sasori and Orochimaru that they are to go to the Lands of Earth, Grass, Rice, and Rain to collect the sums from our associates and that you and Kisame are to collect to sums in the Lands of Water, Wind, and Lightning. Make sure that our newest member keeps a low profile while in his home land."
He was replied with the faintest of bows and a, "Hai, Leader-sama!" before he dissolved into the floor and went about carrying out his orders.
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In Konoha, the nine year old Genin and prodigy of the Uchiha clan, Uchiha Itachi, was in a forest alone training, his Sharingan in full flare. It was the same target practice he had been doing for a year now, hitting eight targets simultaneously, six in plain sight and two hidden behind trees. All the young Uchiha had on his mind was the invitation he had received from the hunched man, Sasori, to join the organization Akatsuki in a year and four months.
The raven haired boy was skeptical at least, but considering how this man managed to avoid his barrage of genjutsu, members of this organization must be exceptionally strong, and he had been invited to join them. He knew of the secret of the Uchiha, the Mangekyo Sharingan, having first appeared in Uchiha Madara close to a hundred years ago and in only a few others since then, he knew that to achieve it, his closest friend Shisui must die, though he had no such thoughts yet of killing his best friend for power. That however, would eventually change in the coming months.
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It was just after sunrise and the five kids had been woken up before the sun even appeared for breakfast. "Alright gakis, today we start training, but first Tsunade will tell what exactly each of you will be training as," the white haired Sannin said, finishing with a heavy yawn, still not completely awake himself. "Why the hell did Tsunade want to get them up this earlier, they may be kids but there's no way that they're going to have the energy to get through the whole day? Well except for maybe Naruto and Gaara, but they have demonic chakra backing them up," the toad master thought to himself.
"You're first Naruto!" the busty blonde shouted in order to make sure the golden blonde boy heard her. "You'll spend mornings training with Anko in taijutsu and learning katon ninjutsu; in the afternoon you'll either be training with me to get a better grip on chakra control or with Kyuubi on controlling his chakra. In the evenings, Jiraiya will help you with both Katon and Fuuton ninjutsu," Tsunade dictated, which Naruto only nodded repeatedly as she spoke.
"Next, Hinata," her voice was much softer now and the slug mistress was talking at a normal volume seeing that Hinata was the only one of the five kids who appeared to be fully awake. "You're mornings and evenings will be spent focusing on chakra control, medical ninjutsu and learning genjutsu. In the afternoons though, you'll train with Kyuubi who will be teaching how to dispel Jounin level and higher genjutsu," The lavender eyed girl shook a little when she heard that she'd be dispelling such high level techniques when she only knew a single genjutsu herself.
"Temari," the sandy blonde who had been struggling to keep her eyes open snapped to attention. "You actually have options since your well rounded in taijutsu, ninjutsu, and genjutsu-"
"Long range ninjutsu and genjutsu," the teal eyed girl said sleepily leaning on her fan.
Tsunade sighed and took a small pebble out of her pocket and flicked it lightly at the ex-Suna resident, hitting her square in the forehead and knocking her back a couple of meters. "Learn not to fall asleep when you're receiving assignments!" the gambling addicted blonde snapped. "Now you'll be spending mornings with me and Hinata learning chakra control and genjutsu. In the afternoons you'll also be with Hinata training with Kyuubi to learn to dispel upper level genjutsu. In the evening you'll be with Naruto training with Jiraiya but you'll only be learning Fuuton ninjutsu," the slug Sannin finished pulling another pebble out just in case she had to wake up Gaara, who, when she turned to him was fully awake after what had happened to his sister.
"Gaara, most of your training will be with Jiraiya learning Fuuton and Doton ninjutsu, though you will be training with Kyuubi in the afternoons to learn to better control Shukaku's demonic chakra. You also have the choice of training with Anko from time to time to learn Doton ninjutsu," Tsunade finished, finally letting out a yawn that she to, like everyone else, was tired, though she was more awake than anybody else in the group.
"Your last Kimimaro and you'll be spending mornings with Anko learning Katon ninjutsu and practicing taijutsu," another heavy yawn escaped the blonde Sannin's lips as she continued, "Afternoons and evenings you'll be with Jiraiya also training in taijutsu and Katon ninjutsu. Unfortunately for you and Hinata, none of us know Suiton or Raiton techniques, though I'm sure we'll pick some up while traveling to the Land of Lightning." The gambling addict then reached into her pocket again and pulled out a syringe that was filled with a clear liquid. She quickly uncapped it and injected the fluid into her right arm, surprising the few who were paying attention.
"Oi, Tsunade-hime, what did you just inject yourself with?" Jiraiya asked his fellow Sannin curiously.
As she stretched and loudly cracked the joints in her shoulders and elbows the slug mistress replied, "Pure adrenaline; if it wasn't for that I'd still be asleep like Shizune," pointing at her black haired apprentice as she finished.
"That is so not fair," all five of the kids thought lazily after hearing that Tsunade was really worse off than them and only awake because she had been using a stimulant.
The busty gambler turned to the five kids again and said, "After lunch we'll all meditate for one hour before continuing training and we won't train on Sunday so all of us will be able to enjoy ourselves a little." This quickly replaced the frowns that had appeared on the five trainees' faces as the slug Sannin gave out orders. The blonde medic then clapped her hands and said, "Now I'll let you kids sleep for another hour or so before we start training, this way we don't have anyone collapsing before we're even half way done. The five kids then cheered and ran to where the five of them had slept previously; against two trees that had grow into each other. Gaara slept with Hinata leaning on his left shoulder against the left tree, while Temari was against the right tree with Naruto leaning on her right shoulder. Kimimaro slept where the two trees joined, and smiled as he fell asleep surrounded by his new friends.
The bunshin of Kyuubi that had been listening to the orders Tsunade had handed out trotted up to the medic Sannin inquiring, "They have absolute no clue how tough this will be for them do they?"
"If they knew I'm sure all of them but Naruto and Temari would be running and hiding, they're a little headstrong so it would take more than threats to get them to back down, even if they're only four and seven," the blonde gambler replied. Kyuubi snorted lightly and attempted to hold in his laughter as Tsunade raised an eyebrow at him.
"Headstrong isn't a strong enough word," the demon fox started, "They're more like suicidally obsessed with not giving up. Anko had those two spar only once because even after the two were spent for chakra, they were still on their feet, Temari trying to hit Naruto with her fan and Naruto trying to punch Temari in the gut to knock her out."
"So, who won?" the slug mistress asked slightly intrigued by the chibi-kitsune's story.
"It was a draw; Naruto got her in the stomach right when she hit him on the top of the head with the broad side of that fan. They both slept like rocks for two days," Kyuubi finished still trying to contain his laughter.
"Let's just see how this first day goes, because if they take forever to learn what we got to teach I'm not teaching," Anko said dragging her feet as she walked up to the fox and medic. "But I doubt there'll be problems, they picked stuff up when we were in Suna, so they'll probably learn things even more quickly now that they have more than one sensei."
"We'll see," Kyuubi said coolly as the bunshin dissolved and he retreated back into Naruto's mind to catch some sleep himself before he had to get ready to help the gakis, as Jiraiya called them, master their control over chakra.
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It was almost ten in the morning and the kids had been training for almost two hours now. They had been split up into their small groups and gone to different clearings in the area surrounding where they had camp set, even though that camp was only a small fire which Shizune had lazily dismantled when she woke to find that her and Tonton had been left behind, not having any teaching assignments.
-With Anko, Naruto, and Kimimaro-
"What the hell was that?!" the snake mistress bellowed as Naruto had failed for the third time in a row at producing a successful Gōkakyū no Jutsu. Then out of the blue she said, "Let's focus on taijutsu now! Sen'eijashu!" launching a snake at Naruto and Kimimaro each, the former running for his life as usual, while the latter instinctively made a blade of appear out of his hand, created from one of the bones in his forearm. The pale skinned boy didn't even realize what had happened until he saw the snake sliced cleanly in half on the ground behind him.
The purple haired teenager let out a low whistle and said, "That's one hell of a bloodline limit you have there runt; what did you say it was called again?" then finished as she watched the bone retreat back into the silver haired boy's arm.
As the skin and muscle reconnected in his hand with some small amount of pain, Kimimaro replied, "I only remember hearing it called, Shikotsumyaku."
-With Jiraiya and Gaara-
Gaara had just attempted to use the Doton: Yomi Numa at Jiraiya's request, though he did manage to pull it off he was only able to make a small pool that was only about two meters and diameter and no even deep enough to swallow his gourd. Jiraiya looked at the container of Shukaku and said, "We have a long way to go gaki," scratching the back of his head.
-With Tsunade, Temari, and Hinata-
"Um, Tsunade-sama, you said you'd be teaching us chakra control right?" Temari said as she and Hinata ran from the blonde Sannin.
"That's correct Temari-chan," the gambling addicted woman answered.
"Then why the hell are you trying to smash me and Hinata-chan to paste with your superhuman strength?!" the sandy blonde shouted as she ducked out of the way just in time to avoid one of her sensei's punches, which connected with a tree and splintered it completely.
"That's easy, Temari-chan, you and Hinata-chan, without even realizing have been using chakra to increase your speed to get away from me. Both of you are subconsciously learning this whole time when you need either a small amount of chakra or a large amount. When it comes to genjutsu you need the precise amount of chakra otherwise it just won't work. When I think you're ready, and then we'll start learning genjutsu," the legendary medic finished with a small smile as she nearly flattened Hinata into the ground but missed and made a rather large crater in the ground.
"And here I was thinking Anko-chan was insane!" Temari screamed inside her head as she and her lavender eyed companion continued to run for their, still very young, lives.
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When the group returned to camp at noon, not one of the kids was in any mood to do anything other than eat and start to fear just what in the name of Kami their sensei were preparing for them next. Once the kids had their fish, which Shizune had caught and roasted while everyone else was gone, they sat near their conjoined trees and talked about what they had experienced in the past four hours.
"Anko-nee-chan had her snake eat me and Kimimaro! It ate us in one damn bite!" the fox-boy shouted remembering how if it hadn't been for the bone user's bloodline limit, both of them would still be inside that huge snake that belonged to the woman he called nee-chan.
Hinata then said, "Tsunade-sama tried to squish me and Temari-chan with that super strength of hers."
The sandy blonde nodded and continued where the young Hyuuga left off, "She broke about twenty trees and completely ruined that clearing we were using. If she had hit one of us we wouldn't be training for Kami knows how long."
Gaara just sat there in a slightly dazed state as he held his teddy bear tightly and rocked back and forth.
"Oi, Gaara, are you ok?" the golden blonde boy asked his fellow Jinchuuriki.Then, the sand boy started repeatedly saying,
"I don't like toads; I don't like toads; I don't like toads," for about five more minutes, setting a complete fear for whatever the toad master had put Gaara through during his training. Despite the experiences they had just endured and barely survived, Temari and Hinata feared training with Kyuubi more than anything, especially since he would be placing them under genjutsu.
They were all glad for one thing though: that tomorrow was Sunday.
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Following lunch, the entire group, including Shizune, meditated for an hour until the group once again separated and went to different clearings.
-With Kyuubi, Temari, and Hinata-
"I'm sure Tsunade explained to both of you that in order to dispel genjutsu placed upon you without the aid from some outside of it, you must expel your opponent's chakra from your system," Kyuubi explained receiving cautious nods from the two girls in front of him. "Good, now be ready for when the genjutsu is cast, otherwise you won't know you're in one until you're in too deep to easily expel my chakra."
Then Kyuubi just sat there staring the two girls dead in the eyes. When each one turned to look at the other, they realized that their companion was gone and they were alone. Temari quickly moved her hands to release the genjutsu, but tree vines shot out from nowhere and two wrapped around each of the sandy blonde's wrists, restraining her arms. That's when the teal eyed girl looked at the ground and saw a swarm of cockroaches surrounding her and begging to scurry up her legs. She then did what any other seven year old her age would do, scream like there was no tomorrow.
Hinata on the other hand, panicked from the moment her partner disappeared and even more so when she saw the wind mistress knocked out next to her. The lavender eyed girl was about to faint when she heard a loud, ear piercing scream.
The sandy blonde looked around her and noticed the bugs were gone, her arms were free and that Hinata was standing next to her again. All she could think of saying was, "How the hell did the genjutsu come undone?"
"You almost blew out my eardrums, that's how," Kyuubi replied holding his ears against his head with his forepaws. "You have one really huge set of lungs, you know Temari?" Kyuubi asked rhetorically and received a slow nod as a response. The Hyuuga beside the teal eyed girl started to giggle a little before soon her and Temari broke out in full laughter, causing Kyuubi to sweat drop nervously, wondering how long the sanity of these kids was going to last under this training.
-With Tsunade, Gaara, and Naruto-
"You know we're not getting a whole lot of training done like this, right Gaara?" the golden blonde said to his companion as they sat back to back inside Gaara's very protective sphere of sand.
"I'll take my chances in here rather than out there where I could lose a limb," the sand boy replied as there was another loud bang on the wall of the sphere. Gaara made a small peep hole and looked outside and almost passed out at what he saw.
"What's wrong Gaara?" the fox-boy asked nervously.
"Sensei has a tree, a very, very big tree," was all the tanuki container said.
Naruto immediately started digging into the ground like a dog almost as if he planned to tunnel his way out of the situation. Then without warning the top portion of the dome was knocked away and Tsunade looked in at two very frightened Jinchuuriki. She smiled a small evil smile and said, "Enough cowering like babies, you've wasted half an hour so you'll be making up for it with a little extra danger." The two boys did waste a moment and jumped out of the collapsing dome and ran from their sensei as fast as possible. Still smiling, the blonde medic cooed, "This should be fun," as she took a few practice swings with a five meter long tree that was freshly ripped from the ground.
-With Jiraiya and Kimimaro-
"Oi, gaki, watch where you swing those things!" the toad Sannin shouted as he continued to dodge the bone user's bone swords.
"I won't give you a chance to try anything fun like you did with Gaara-san," was all the silver haired boy said as he continued to swing the very sharp and pointy bones at his lecherous sensei.
"I didn't do anything funny! The worst I did was when I had some of the toads dog pile the kid," the perverted novelist thought to himself as he dodged another swinging bone. "What the hell did I do to deserve to be treated this way from a gaki like him?"
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By the time the first day of training was over, all five of the trainees were exhausted. As they sat and leaned against their conjoined trees, they talked about what had happened since lunch.
"I think me and Gaara now know just how short our lives have been," Naruto said to his tired companions.
"Why's that?" the sandy blonde inquired.
"We saw them flash by in less than half a second," the sand boy answered.
"We told you Tsunade-sama was scary," the lavender eyed girl added in.
"How long will we be training like this again?" Kimimaro asked feeling sleep starting to take him over.
"A few years at least," came the voice of Kyuubi who appeared next to the group unexpectedly. The chibi-kitsune smiled and said in his own dark and cheerful voice, "All of you have genjutsu and chakra control with me Monday afternoon and evening, Tsunade's orders." With that, the demon fox walked back over and started talking with Anko.
"Kami help us," was the thought that passed through the five kids minds simultaneously. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
A/N: There you have it, chapter 9 is done and over with, hope you enjoyed some of the humor in it along with the letter from Yondaime to Naruto. I may add a poll next chapter for who Naruto should end up with and it won't be Yugito or Hinata, Yugito's to old and Hinata has Gaara. So stay tuned for the next chapter later this week.
New Character's ages-
Nii Yugito: 14
Translations-
Hiraishin no Jutsu: Flying Thunder God Technique
Shikotsumyaku: Dead Bone Pulse
Doton: Yomi Numa: Earth Release: Swamp of the Underworld