~Alai~

"Wake up..."

"Huh?"

"Wake up!"

"Who's there?"

"Wake up, and you'll find out!"

I opened my eyes slowly to look at the source of the unfamiliar voice. He resembled Naruto in a way, with his bright spiked blond hair, and bright smile. He wore a typical green shinobi vest with black pants, a bright white cloak covered the outfit with it's edges red with a paint flame design. He smiled down from his place above me, holding his hand out.

"Need a hand?"

I took his hand as he lifted me up from my place on the ground.

"You look like Naruto!"

"Well technically, I think Naruto looks like me. I am older."

"Are you his brother? or maybe dad?"

"It's still so weird saying that I'm a dad." He muttered in a shy voice, rubbing the back of his head.

I began to circle around him, this was weird that a spirit contacted me through my dreams, or rather unconscious state.

"Um, how did you di- Your the fourth Hokage!"

I saw the words "Fourth Hokage" written in symbols on his back, note to self, thank Kashi for teaching me how to read this language. When I came back in front of the man he kept the same smile on his face.

"My name is Minato Namikaze.. very perceptive though."

"Alai Tyiadain and thanks!"

"Oh I know who you are, some of the spirits that cross over speak of a messenger of death."

"Messenger of death? That sounds scary!"

I frowned at the thought of having such a depressing title, he placed his hand on my shoulder and laughed lightly, trying to lift up my mood. It was failing...

"What would you rather be called then?"

"I'm a Beckoner!"

I stomped my right foot in front of me and turned to the side with my hands on my hips while pouting slightly. I'm a Beckoner and should be seen as one. At least to the spirits I should be.

"Right then, any spirit that comes in using the term, messenger of death. They'll be getting a correction."

He smiled brightly and it reminded me yet again of Naruto. I nodded a thank you quickly before the realization of where we were came to me once more.

"But, why are we here? I'm not performing a guiding!"

"I brought you here, I've been keeping a close eye on Naruto, I needed to ask you something."

He tried to be vague as to the reason, but I already knew how.

"Sorry!"

I turned my back to him and stepped a few feet away, before spinning back on my heels to look at him once more, his face held confusion.

"The people that are after Naruto are also after me. So I can't protect him."

"They're after you too?"

He looked at me, demanding an answer.

"Ah! no wonder you became the fourth Hokage! That look is kinda scary."

I said cheerfully while I rubbed the back of my head, he laughed again before speaking.

"Your a bit weird."

"I like to think of that as a good thing."

"Why are they after you?"

"Oh yeah, back to the point. I'm not really sure why they're after me exactly, but we figured it would have something to do with my powers."

He stood silently looking at me, waiting for me to continue. I turned around and started slowly walking away again, twiddling my thumbs while explaining.

"As a Beckoner, I can summon a spirit that I've bonded with, and use the element that they specialize in."

I turned around to see Minato's head snap up, meaning he thought of something.

"They want to use you to control the tailed beasts?"

I shook my head in protest. "I can only bond with one spirit, so I wouldn't be able to control any others."

Minato looked down in defeat, I wasn't sure if it was because he couldn't think of a reason, or because I couldn't save his son.

"Naruto's super strong! No one has been able to take him down, even when he was a kid! He'll be alright."

I smiled to Minato to let him know that everything was alright, but instead he looked up in question.

"You've known him since he was a kid?"

I nodded slightly. "I lived in the Leaf Village for a short time a few years ago, I was friends with a few of the villager's kids. Naruto was always happy and wanted to play. I felt bad that I was the only one who talked to him. I think he forgot me though..."

"Why would he forget a good friend?"

"I disappeared for five years, things have changed."

"He'll remember, one day. If he's anything like his mother at least."

I laughed, "I'll keep that in mind, but Lord Hokage-"

"You can call me Minato."

"Alright Minato, I'll do what I can to help Naruto."

"Thank you."

His body started to disappear back into the spirit world as everything started turning black again. The next thing I could recognize was the feeling that I was laying on a really hard and cold surface.

'Am I back?'

I snapped my eyes open and saw that Naruto had gotten back up and was working with Sasuke to try to take down the shinobi from earlier. There was smoke everywhere.

'How much did I miss?'

I struggled to regain my strength as I pushed myself off the cave's floor by leaning against the wall for support. I looked down and saw my bow and arrows placed down next to me.

'Note to self, thank Sasuke.'

I picked my bow up and looked at my hands, noticing that they were still shaking from my weakened state. I heard Naruto and Sasuke shouting in the distance, or maybe they were closer than I thought. I don't know, we're in a cave. Everything echo's...

"Your aiming is off!"

Definitely Sasuke.

"WELL YOUR GUIDING IS OFF!"

Yup, they're fighting...

I pushed myself off of the wall of the cave and started running through the smoke. It took a bit but I managed to figure out where the Shinobi was and aimed my bow.

"AH!"

'Yay!'

"SEE LOOK I GOT HIM!"

"Shut up dope..."

I wanted to correct him, but I figured I'd let Naruto have that little moment of happiness. He's always happy like I am anyway, but at least it get's Sasuke off of his back.

I ran across the floor and had to make sure I didn't go into that hole from earlier. It would be silly of me to fall down the hole that Sasuke previously saved me from.

When I saw a shadow speed across my line of vision I got my bow ready, noticing it was only one shadow there was no way it was my team-mates. I fired another shot and heard another yelp. But instead of feeling the person take off like last time, he stayed in one spot.

"Looks like your back into your old habit..."

The smoke was finally clearing enough for everyone to see each other in the cave. The shinobi was looking directly at me. When I looked down I saw that my arrow had managed to pierce his leg, making it difficult for him to move. Sasuke and Naruto stood at the other end of the cave. Naruto was scowling at the shinobi while Sasuke looked to me and smirked.

"Looks like your out of time..."

"I think that would be you."

Sasuke replied to the Shinobi's statement quickly before pulling on some wires that now gleamed in the cave as it caught the light. The kunai that they had previously thrown around the cave all came back and pierced the shinobi, adding more injuries to the one I had previously given him.

"YEAH!"

Naruto cheered as he realized that we won the fight. I went to stand up but began to fall, I was still weak from my talk with Minato.

Before I could hit the cold floor, I felt a pair of strong arms catch me again, when I looked up I saw my old friend Kashi smiling down at me. Reassuring me of the safety.

I looked back to the boys, Naruto running around happily as i nothing happened, I'll have to think later on whether I'll tell him about seeing his father. Next I looked at Sasuke, who was staring back at me, his arm looked injured. Just one more injury to add to his many I suppose. I looked behind Kashi when something caught my eye. It was Sakura with her bright pink hair still out cold against the cave wall. I smiled.

"Thank you."

~!~Yay! ok that parts over! I'm letting you know now, that I'm throwing some fillers. not because I'm waiting or whatever. I'm doing it on purpose because I want the team to bond more :) Everyone can't just up and magically become friends right? Well with me they can but I'm just weird like that. I'll be friends with random people on the street cus they look fun. Maybe that's not the best thing _ ... DOESN'T MATTER TO ME. -Makes friends with hobos- -Invites them over so they can shower- :) Some homeless people are nice, like this lady in the city I see all the time, she sells little roses everyday outside of this little deli OMG SHE'S SO NICE I LOVE HER 3 Anyway, ON TO THE NEXT PART Farwell for now, I'll try not to take too long with the next update 3 COMMENT, FOLLOW, VOTE WHATEVER LOVE YOU -DawnxAingeal ~!~