Kage no hon'no: Hello again readers! When we left off, Naruto got an epic (At least I think so) bloodline, was about to meet his team, Kage's going to Wave, and I had a… physical altercation with Naruto about what was going to happen this chapter. Well, it didn't end well, for Naruto. Oh another thing. Unfortunately, there were not enough voters on the poll, so I had to render it null and void. I apologize to those that voted, but I have to decide on my own. However, the new poll that's up might change how some things will happen.

Tsuyo: *Comes in* Should we take him out of the yaoi fangirl pit yet? He's stopped screaming.

Kage no hon'no: I suppose so. Anko might get angry if we broke Naruto. I'll answer reviews while you get him out.

justin the constant reviewer: What do you mean I never said that I didn't mention Naruto in the four man team? It's right there…. *laughs nervously* okay, so I did. I guess I thought I did when I typed it. I fixed it though. Speaking about fixing things, I fixed Tazuna's name. About the Aburame clothing, it says in the Naruto wiki that Shino wears a sea-green jacket; I just changed it to green. I'll try to keep an eye on my chakra spelling, but no real promises there.

Lednacek: Well, if you read the chapter correctly, it starts out in the morning time. The clock in the kitchen is an analog clock, so it won't say if it's am or pm. How did you get evening from that?

sierra: Well, I'm glad you like my OC, but I think his name's Kage….

Cloud Strife6789: I'm glad you like the story, keep on reading, the major conflicts haven't happened quite yet.

demoninside2: I'm glad you like the humor in the story, I try my best.

Kage no hon'no: Well, that's all of the reviews. Let's have our newest member of the team do the disclaimer! Anko!

Anko: Thank you! Disclaimer: If Kage no hon'no had owned Naruto, all of the kunoichi would be extremely sexy and competent. Except for me, since I'm both.

Word Guide

"Hello" normal talking

"Hello" normal thinking

"Hello" Demonic/Summon talking

"Hello" Demonic/Summon talking

"Hello" Jutsu/Move

Chapter 9: Finally Meeting The Team

At Training Ground 49

"Where are they!?" the female member of Team Nine shouted. She let out an angry huff and sat down under a tree. She wore a sleeveless pink blouse and dark green pants. Her eyes were a dull brown and brown hair which was put up in a bun on either side of her head, her headband tied across her forehead. She also had several different colored scrolls hanging from her waist.

"Yosh!" shouted one of the other members, "I am also anxious that Gai-sensei return with our new teammate so I may test their Flames of Youth!" This member was an oddity. He was eerily similar to how Gai dressed, with a dark green camouflage spandex suit. He also had bandages wrapped around both of his arms. His hair was styled in the same bowl-cut style and had thick eyebrows as well and large, rounded black eyes. His headband was wrapped around his waist as well, the cloth the same color as the suit as well. He bounced around on the balls of his feet, as if he couldn't stay still.

"Clam down Lee!" the female shouted, "You shouldn't be so excited! We're being reformed into a new team, which means we have to do D-ranks all over again!"

"Then we will just have to do them twice as hard to prove that our Flames burn just as brightly with another member!" Lee replied.

Tenten let out a sigh, "Not everything is a challenge Lee." She turned to the final member of the team, "What do you think of this new member?"

Neji, who was sitting in the middle of the clearing, was considered the most serious of the team. He wore a khaki shirt and brown pants. He had bandages wrapped around his right arm and leg. His hair was long and black, reaching the middle of his back and tied off in a ponytail near the end. His eyes were a pale color with out any visible pupil, indicating that he was a member of the Hyuuga clan. He turned towards Tenten, "If we are to have another member on our team, then Fate has decided that we should. I am not against it."

Tenten just groaned, "Please let this new teammate not be insane!" Further away, Naruto sneezed. A rustling of leaves caused the entire group to immediately jump into defensive stances. Several seconds later, the bushes parted and Gai walked into the clearing. Tenten sighed in relief, "Don't scare us like that Gai-sensei!"

Gai chuckled, "My dear Tenten, how else am I going to keep you alert?"

"Where is our new teammate Gai-sensei?" Lee asked, "I wish to meet him!"

Gai sighed, "Unfortunately, our new member's Flames had dampened enough that he had fallen ill, and had to go home. He will be joining us tomorrow though." He notice Neji looked at him, Byakugan activated. "Is something wrong Neji?"

"Something seems off with your chakra," Neji answered, "it looks obscured."

Gai pondered for a second, and said, "I just did recently get a new suit made with chakra threads; they may not have yet adjusted to my chakra."

Neji paused, and then nodded, "Yes I suppose that could explain it."

Gai smiled, "It's quite fine Neji." Suddenly, dark tendrils sprung up around the three and bound them; several more had sharpened ends poised to strike at multiple fatal areas. Where Gai stood was a young man cloaked in black, "We all make mistakes." He said in Gai's voice.

"Who are you?" Lee shouted, "Where is Gai-sensei?"

The figure smirked, "He is otherwise occupied. I'm glad to see you're smart enough not to try to struggle, you would have died."

"Let us go you bastard!" Tenten shouted.

He smirked, "Now, now Tenten, insulting your captor is not a good idea." He walked over to her, "You are at my complete mercy, and I can do whatever I want to you." He licked her ear, getting a shiver from her and a tint of fear entered her eyes.

"That's enough!" everyone looked to see Gai coming into the clearing, a look of disappointment on his face.

The man sighed, "I wasn't going to do anything to her Gai-sensei, I am not that low of a person."

"I would prefer if you didn't completely alienate them though. Now please unbind them."

He sighed, "Very well Gai-sensei." The tendrils moved away, vanishing into the ground. Lee immediately lashed out with his leg, his foot slamming into the man's head and sending him flying into one of the trees across the clearing. He was surprised when Gai hit him on the jaw, knocking him back several feet. "Gai-sensei?"

"Do not attack your teammates outside a spar Lee!" Gai said harshly.

"It's okay Gai-sensei," the man got off the tree, looking unharmed, "He didn't really injure me, he acted accordingly to someone who just attacked them and threatened one of their teammates."

"Just who are you?" Tenten shouted, "Why are you here?"

The man sighed, "Of course I forgot to introduce myself, I am Naruto Uzumaki Kyoki, recent genin and newest member of your team." He bowed, "I am sorry if I scared you, but some of the personas I take on are not the most scrupulous."

Tenten stared at him, "You're our teammate? Why on earth did you attack us? And what do you mean by persona?"

Naruto looked at her, "I believe I just told you I am your new teammate, so why are you asking me again? I attacked you because I need to keep my skills sharpened. The personas are to help practice my infiltration skills."

Tenten opened her mouth to say something, but Gai spoke before she could, "Enough, Naruto is part of the team now and I want all of you to treat him fairly. Now, since Naruto is not all that familiar with all of you, we shall be reintroducing ourselves to him. I shall go first; I am Maito Gai, the beautiful green beast of Konoha. For me, training something I find extremely pleasurable and a great way to enjoy life. My dream is to help all of my youthful students help achieve their own goals. The only things that I dislike are those who refuse to help others and do not keep their word." He looked around at his team, who had sat down, though a noticeable distance from Naruto. "Lee, would you like to go next?"

Lee straightened as he heard his name and nodded, "I am Rock Lee, the proud blue beast of Konoha! Like my sensei, I enjoy training and pushing my limits as well. My dislikes are the same as my sensei and my dream is to become the world's greatest Taijutsu user and a splendid ninja!"

Naruto raised an eyebrow, "Why only a Taijutsu user? Shouldn't you attempt to increase your skills in Ninjutsu and Genjutsu?"

Lee's face fell slightly, "I unfortunately cannot use chakra and so those options have been closed to me."

Naruto nodded in understanding, "Ah, then you have quite the difficult goal then Lee. I wish you luck in achieving it."

Lee looked at Naruto, tears running down his face, "Thank you Naruto! You are quite the youthful teammate!"

Naruto waved him off, "No need to get so emotional, and don't judge me quite yet. Who do you wish to go next Gai-sensei?"

Gai gave a look at Neji, "Would you like to go next Neji?"

Neji nodded, "I am Neji Hyuuga, son of the deceased head of the branch family of the Hyuuga clan. I do not really like anything in particular, and I dislike the elders of the main branch, as they are the cause of some personal problems in my life. I am not really comfortable sharing what my dream is at this time."

Gain nodded, "Tenten?"

Tenten gave Gai a nod and took a breath, "I'm Tenten Isis. I've had a liking towards weapons, and specialize in them as well. I also like trying to learn new fighting styles and working at the shop that my family owns. My dream is to become a powerful kunoichi like Tsunade. I dislike people who laugh at my dream and look down on kunoichi."

Most of the males on the team looked slightly uncomfortable as Tenten pulled out a kunai, a devious grin on her face as her thoughts wandered. Naruto looked at her with slight interest, "Why are you bothered by something like that?'

Everybody else cringed as Tenten glared at Naruto, "You think that women should be looked down upon?!"

Naruto frowned, "You seem to be hard of hearing, I asked you why it bothers you that people look down on women."

Tenten's glare intensified, "It bothers me because people always think that women are weak and are meant nothing more than for producing children."

"Do you know why they think that?" Naruto asked. Tenten hesitantly shook her head. "It is because so many girls fail the academy, people look at that and assume that women are weak. However, I could connect the failure of so many girls because they are put in classes such as flower arranging and other useless classes. Nonetheless, it still convinces people of such thoughts. But you are not one of those who failed, you know that you are a strong kunoichi, so why should it bother you that people think that women are weak? Let think what they want, it does not change the fact of what you know what you are capable of. This can give you an advantage against enemies that think that way, as they will underestimate you, allowing a greater chance of victory."

Tenten gave him a confused look, "But shouldn't I care that people look down on women?"

Naruto shrugged, "You can do whatever you want, I merely made a suggestion. Anyway, I guess it's my turn. As I said before, my name is Naruto Uzumaki Kyoki. My likes are my father Kage, and my surrogate older brothers, Sukiru and Tsuyo. I love Anko very much, as we have known each other for some time. My dislikes are rapists, people who abuse other, those who use people for their own gain, the downsides of my bloodline, and that I cannot comfort someone. I have some hobbies, which are practicing my skills and techniques, listening to my father play music, and taking a bath in hot oil. My dream is to become a shinobi that my Tou-san will be proud of and eventually have a family."

"You have a bloodline?" Neji asked.

Naruto nodded, "You actually experienced part of it, those tendrils earlier? They are made out of shadows; the chakra aspect of my bloodline allows me to control shadows, though I am not that skilled at using them."

"It looked like you were pretty skilled with them." Tenten muttered.

Naruto nodded, "It may have looked that way, but it takes me time to gather them, especially for targets further away, that's why I disguised myself as Gai-sensei to distract you until I could gather the necessary amount of shadows."

"That's another thing I wanted to ask," Neji said, "what kind of technique were you using? Your charka moved exactly like Gai-sensei's. Had it not been that it looked obscured, I would have believed that you were Gai."

"It's an advanced Henge that Sukiru taught me," Naruto answered, "it is rather difficult to learn, as you have to be observant as to how someone moves, charka in a person's body flows similar to how they move. The obscuring was because I have not yet perfected the technique, it is difficult to force my chakra in a way it isn't used to moving, so some of it stops moving, which is why it looked obscured."

"That is an interesting technique." Neji paused, "You said that was the chakra aspect of your bloodline, is there a physical one as well?"

Naruto nodded, "There is, as of right now, I have scales that act as armor which cover my entire body, and grow stronger over time."

"Just how strong are they right now?" Lee asked.

"Approximately akin to wearing a suit of iron."

"What else will you get?" Tenten asked.

Naruto gave her a small grin, revealing his elongated canines, "That, you have to will wait to find out." A beeping sound rang out, startling everyone. Naruto pulled out a small watch, a small light blinking on it. He sighed, "I'm sorry, but I need to leave now."

"Why?" Gai asked.

Naruto looked at him, "Remember that I said I like to take hot oil baths? That's because I need to so my scales can be cleaned and prevent any defects in them. It was nice meeting you all, and I hope that our time together will be enjoyable." With that, Naruto turned around and headed out of the clearing.

Tenten blinked, "Naruto seems strange."

"How so?" Gai asked.

"He looked satisfied somehow. Like he was glad that he was here."

"Well, Kage did tell me that he failed the graduation exam twice. He might be glad that he's with a team his age."

"Who is Kage anyway?" Tenten asked, "We've heard you mention him before and you act like he could destroy Konoha with just a wave of his hand."

"That's because he can." Gai said, "Kage is one of the most powerful people you will meet. He took on the Hokage in his prime and won without even getting a scratch."

Everybody's jaws dropped, "He's that powerful?" Tenten asked. Gai nodded, "If there's someone that powerful in the shinobi forces, then shouldn't people be talking about him?"

"They can't." Gai answered.

"What?"

"They can't," Gai repeated, "When a shinobi tries to talk to someone about Kage being in Konoha besides another shinobi, they can't."

"Why?"

Gai shrugged, "That's something I would like to know too."

"Didn't Naruto say that Kage was his father?" Tenten looked where Naruto had gone, "Then just how strong is Naruto?"

Gai looked at Tenten, "I have no idea."

With Kage

"Achoo!" Kage wiped his nose. "Somebody must be talking about me." he muttered.

"Hey, don't be getting me sick now," Tazuna said, "I have a bridge to build, I can't do that if I'm sick."

Kage waved him off, "I'm not sick, so don't worry. Hey, can you hand me some sake?"

Tazuna looked at Kage warily, "You backwash?"

Kage gave him a deadpan look, "Everyone backwashes, I'll waterfall if that makes you happy." Tazuna mulled it over before handing the jug to Kage. Kage gratefully took the jug from him, "Been a while since I've had some sake." He lifted the bottle above his lips when a chain wrapped around him, causing him to lose his grip on the jug, where it crashed to the ground, shattering. Kage stared where the jug had been. Holding onto the chain were two dark haired ninja each with clawed gauntlets on their hands.

"What is this guy made of?" one of them asked, "Our chain won't cut him!"

"Just cut the chain Gozu!" the other one said, "The bridge builder is our real target!"

"Right Meizu!" the two disconnected the chain from their gauntlets and rushed towards Tazuna when black strands shot out from their shadows and bound them, causing them to fall to the ground.

"Excuse me," Kage called out, "Are you two the owners of this chain?"

"What the heck is this stuff?" Meizu shouted, struggling to break free.

"Answer my question please." Kage said.

"Yeah, we own the chain," Gozu shouted, "What about it?"

"Ah," Kage muttered, "So you own this chain, which caused me lose the sake I was about to have."

"Why are you so concerned about the sake?" Meizu asked, "We tried to kill you and your client!"

"Oh, I know that you tried to kill me and my client, which, perturbed me somewhat. But you destroyed my sake and I find that," a dark aura appeared around Kage, "Unforgivable!"

The two ninja felt themselves being dragged backwards, causing them to sweat, "Oh no!" they both thought.

(Some time later after much torturing, scarring, and a rubber ducky…)

"What have you learned?" Kage asked in an expectant tone.

"That sake is the elixir of life." The Demon Brothers intoned, both of them bloodied and beat up.

"And?"

"That preventing someone from drinking it is a sin punishable by death."

"And?"

"We are extremely sorry for preventing you from drinking of the elixir."

"…And?"

"We shall never do it again."

"Good." Kage patted the two on the head, "Since you were so unlearned, I shall forgive you this time." He turned to Tazuna, who looked visibly shaken, "Well, let's move on, shall we?" Tazuna nodded shakily and followed after Kage, glancing back at the Demon Brothers.

"Should we go after them?" Gozu asked.

"No way, I'm not going near that man again." Meizu answered, "Let's head back to Zabuza to warn him." Gozu nodded and they both ran off into the forest.

Later at Zabuza's hideout…

"You two are telling me that one simple ninja defeated the two of you?" Zabuza growled. Zabuza was a pale, muscular man with short black spiky hair and small eyebrows. On his face he wore bandages like a mask which covered the lower half of his face. He wore a Kirigakure headband sideways on his head, which had a line cut through the symbol, indication he was a missing-nin. He wore a sleeveless black shirt, black pants, and wrist and leg warmers. On his back was a massive sword that curved at the end and had a hole in it near the hilt and a semi circle near the end.

"It wasn't our fault!" Meizu shouted, "We accidentally destroyed his sake just as he was taking a drink, which made him mad and then he-, he-" Meizu curled up into the fetal position and started muttering about rubber duckies and that he would be good.

"This guy was pretty tough," Gozu said, "We had used our chain on him and it didn't do a single thing." He walked over to attempt to calm down his brother.

"Couldn't be cut huh?" Zabuza murmured, "Haku! Come with me! We're going to deal with this guy ourselves!"

End of Chapter Nine

Kage no hon'no: Alright, now for something a little extra…

Memories in the rain: Fox and Snake

Six years ago…

"Looks like it's raining again." Sukiru sighed as he looked out the window.

"Again?" Naruto whined, "It's been raining for almost three days now, I'll never finish my project."

"Look on the bright side," Sukiru said, "You get to spend more time with us!"

Naruto looked at Sukiru, "Yeah… I'd rather take my chances in the rain."

Tsuyo attempted to comfort Sukiru as he crouched in the corner, a cloud of depression hanging over him. "Give Sukiru a break Naruto, he just wants to spend time with you."

"You mean he wants to corrupt me." Naruto muttered.

"True, but that's why Kage's here," Tsuyo answered, "to prevent that." He turned to Kage, who was staring out the window, "Right Kage?" Kage did not answer. Tsuyo walked over to Kage and snapped his fingers in front of Kage's face, "Wake up Kage!"

Kage jolted awake, "I'm fine!" he shouted.

"What were you doing?" Tsuyo asked.

"Just taking a power nap." Kage answered, he stretched his arms, letting out a yawn similar to a cat's. 'Hey, Naruto, want to go get some ramen with me?"

Naruto's eyes immediately lit up and he leapt into Kage's chest, "Best! Dad! Ever!" he shouted.

Kage chuckled and got Naruto off of him, "Well then," he held out his hand and a black umbrella formed in it. "Let's get going."

Ichiraku Ramen twenty minutes later…

Kage's eyebrow twitched slightly as Naruto inhaled his thirtieth bowl, "No matter how much I see it," he muttered, "It still amazes me how much you can eat."

About five bowls later, Naruto finally finished eating, setting the bowl down with a sigh, "That was great!" he exclaimed.

"Yes it was," Kage muttered, pulling out a leather bag, "How much this time?" Teuchi handed him the bill, which Kage read and sighed, "I'm glad I make so much money." He pulled out several gold coins and placed them on the counter, "Let's go home Naruto."

"Okay!" Naruto jumped off his seat and grabbed onto Kage's hand and both walked out of the restaurant.

"Come again!' Teuchi called after them.

Kage turned to wave at him when a purple haired girl bumped into him. "Hey be careful!" he called after her. He started to turn around when he stopped and started checking his pockets. He whirled back towards the girl, "Give that back!" The girl turned around and stuck her tongue out at him. Suddenly, she slipped on the wet cobblestone and let out a cry of pain as her head collided with the ground. The money bag fell out of her hand and slid out of her grasp. She attempted to grab it again, when a sandal wearing foot came down upon her arm, breaking it and causing her to cry out in pain.

"Stealing from people again?" the chunin standing above asked. He kicked her in the side, "I'll show you not to steal!" He kicked twice when a crimson blade entered in through his back and pierced his heart and came out his chest.

"Gosh darn it," Kage muttered, "I made a mess." He opened up a scroll and sealed the dead chunin into it. He looked at the girl on the ground, who had curled up into the fetal position, trying to hide her sobs. She stopped crying as the rain stopped coming down upon her. "Well, don't you look miserable?" Kage asked. She looked up to see Kage standing above her holding an umbrella, Naruto next to him. Suddenly, Kage picked her up and gently slung her over his shoulder.

"Let me go!" she cried out, weakly beating on his back with her good arm.

Kage ignored her, "Naruto, we're going home." Naruto nodded and followed Kage, the girl futilely trying to get free.

Kage's house ten minutes later…

"Another kid?" Sukiru asked, "And a girl this time. Are you sure that you aren't a pedophile Kage?"

"Sukiru, shut up or I'll kill you." came Kage's reply as he set the girl down in the chair. "Sukiru, stop sulking and go tell Tsuyo to go make some food, I don't think she's eaten for some time." Sukiru got up from the corner he was sulking in and headed towards the kitchen. Kage's right hand glowed green as he checked the girl's broken arm, "Looks like a clean break." he muttered. He looked at the girl, "I'm going to have to set the bone before I heal this, so it's going to hurt, alright?' the girl nodded slightly. Kage took the arm and gently put it back into place, causing the girl to whimper in pain, with the bone set, he quickly healed the bone. "Alright," Kage stood up, "I'm going to get you some food, so wait here." He started to head out of the room.

"Why?" the girl asked quietly.

Kage stopped at the doorway, "Why not?" he replied, and left the room.

Naruto stood there in the room, looking at the girl, before walking over and sitting next to her, "Don't worry," he told her, "Tou-san is a really nice guy. He won't hurt you." The girl stayed silent. "What's you name?" he asked. The girl didn't answer. Naruto sat there quietly looking at the girl.

A couple minutes later she finally spoke. "A-Anko."

Naruto's grin could have split his face in half, "I'm Naruto. Nice to meet you."

Kage no hon'no: Well, that's another chapter done! I hoped you like the extra as well!

Kage: I have to admit that last part was slightly… touching.

Naruto: *sniffle*

Kage no hon'no: Are you crying?

Naruto: No! I'm sweating through my eyes!

Sukiru: You know, you really can't do that.

Tsuyo: Then what's running down your face?

Sukiru: Sweat. From my eyes.

Kage no hon'no: …

Kage: …

Tsuyo: …

Kage no hon'no: Okay then, Happy Holidays to everybody! Oh! I have a question to ask of you readers. Do you think any of you can draw Kage for me? My artistic ability is worse than a monkey that is drunk, blind, and handless. PM me if you can please! Alright, Anko! Take us out.

Anko: Okay! Be sure to Read and Review people! Or no more sexiness for you! Ja ne!