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"Talk" Human talking

'Think' Human thinking

"Talk" Demon talking

'Talk' Demon thinking

"Talk" Jagan Eye talking

'Think' Jagan Eye thinking

"Talk" Spirit talking

'Talk' Spirit thinking

"That man is a monster." Sasuke groaned out as he laid on his couch, an ice pack firmly placed on his head.

"What did you expect? The man is known as The Green Beast for a reason." Naruto responded as he sat on a chair, with an ice pack of his own against his back.

It was unfortunately true for the two pre-teens. After the day they spent together Naruto decided to introduce the Uchiha to Gai. Their first meeting was hilarious on his opinion, because when Sasuke first set his eyes on both Gai and Lee, he froze like a statue. His right eye twitching and him muttering about monstrosities, in fact he sounded like some guy in a mental institution. It took a literal kick to the ass to snap him out of it so they would get to the actual training.

Boy did he regret listening to his teammate, and he believed said teammate was regretting it himself. Fifty freaking laps around Konoha, two-hundred push ups, two-hundred squats, punches, kicks, jump ropes, leg lifts, sit ups, and chin ups. And that was only a warm up! After that they then sparred each other for an hour straight, and then they met up with Tenten at noon, ate lunch, and then did several more training exercises. And they continued to do it for the rest of their week off.

Little to say they both agreed that Gai was way different than Kakashi.

And ironically enough they both knew each other, or as Gai called them "Eternal Rivals". How their sensei knew the spandex-clad Jonin, they would never know, nor did they want to know.

"Thanks for inviting us to rest here for the night again Sasuke." Naruto thanked his secret cousin as Ichigo and Benihime were curled up on his aching lap.

"Better than your place, no offense." Sasuke replied as he pushed his ice pack into his head.

"None taken." the mask-wearer said to the unfortunate truth.

The other day he invited Sasuke over to his place, and never again would the Uchiha set foot into that hovel called a home. Squeaky and broken floorboards, chipping paint, a damaged ceiling, moldy and damaged furniture, rusty pipes, extremely cold water that bordered on frostbite in his opinion, and much more the Uchiha didn't wish to remember. That was nearly two days ago, and he unselfisly invited this creepy mask-wearing teammate to his place anytime he wished to come over.

Much to both their surprise.

But it wasn't a bad thing. The apartment was clearly big enough for two people, and while Sasuke wouldn't admit it he was starting to enjoy having Naruto and his two kits around. They were actually starting to rub off on him, he actually found himself talking more, forcing himself to not smile, and found himself getting stronger training with his teammate than training all by himself.

"Sasuke how far have you gotten on the Chameleon Jutsu?" the Kurashagan-user asked.

"As far as you have on the Fireball Jutsu." the Sharingan user replied.

"Damn, have you done that water walking exercise?"

"Yea, it helped a bit, but I'm still having a hard time maintaining it."

Shifting his ice pack a bit Naruto only nodded, he wasn't having too much luck on the Fireball Jutsu either. In so far he could make a tiny fireball fly out of his mouth, it wasn't like Sasuke's by a long shot, but he was no longer blowing smoke or burning his throat.

"I just can't believe we have to meet with Kakashi again." Naruto commented.

"Yea this week went by fast." Sasuke agreed, "We both have undoubtedly gotten stronger, we both learned a few new taijutsu techniques from Gai, and I'm even starting to get interested in swordsmanship thanks to that Tenten girl. You know we should have invited Sakura-"

Both of them couldn't couldn't take it when the Uchiha said that. They both laughed at the mere thought of Sakura training with them. Gai didn't pull any punches, he literally trained them into the ground. The gigantic eyebrow man punched them, kicked them, and practically broke them like horses when they sparred against him. Even with Lee and sometimes Tenten joining them in a four on one match the taijutsu master beat them without too much of a problem. And if Sakura saw the Jonin punch Sasuke she would have done her damn best to have the man stripped of his rank. It would have failed, but they didn't want to put the man through that.

After they were done, they both sighed in content at the much needed laugh.

"And weird enough his team will go on active duty tomorrow as well." Naruto remarked finding it odd that they were off duty the same week his team was.

"Well Gai did say their third teammate had clan business." Sasuke replied, knowing full well about that sort of stuff.

"Well lets not dwell on it, we need to see Kakashi-sensei tomorrow." the mask-wearer said knowing that it was getting late.

Nodding the Uchiha took the ice pack off his head, and headed off to his room leaving Naruto and the two fox kits alone.

Well not completely alone.

"Haha dude you made made the stick up his ass Uchiha laugh, you truly are a miracle worker." Ishikawa laughed after Sasuke went to his room.

"It wasn't that hard, all I had to do was bring up Sakura." Naruto replied to the deceased Kamizuru Chunin.

"Still man usually it would take months, if not years to make someone of his emotional stability to do that. Now you should get some sleep, you are still mortal after all."

"Don't remind me." the black-streaked blond muttered as he took the ice pack off his back, and got onto the couch, with both Ichigo and Benihime cuddling up at the foot of his "bed" for the night.

The next morning Naruto and Sasuke woke up, ate a light meal consisting of cereal and apples, dressed in their regular attire, and left for their training grounds.

As the two walked they both completed on what they've done, and what they've learned this past week. Naruto now knew why Sasuke seemed so haunted, and so angry all the time. He read The History of the Shinobi Nations and learned why he turned into a broody asshole. Once he got to the history of Fire Country he read how Hashirama Senju formed an alliance with the Uchiha Clan, used his ability to control the tailed beasts, and that he spread these beasts to other, newly-formed villages in an attempt to maintain peace and equalize the powers between the nations, but it did not stop the outbreak of The First Great Shinobi War. He also read about him becoming the the Shodaime Hokage, causing Madara Uchiha to be the first person in history to defect from his village, and later the famous fight between the two power houses with Hashirama coming out on top -though how he defeated Kyuubi was not written, and the fox would not comment on it either-. He would later die during The First Great Shinobi War but not before training Hiruzen Sarutobi, and passing the title of Hokage to his younger brother Tobirama Senju.

Naruto then learned that Tobirama was like his brother in every reguard. He was primarily known for his mastery of water style jutsu, being able to make use of powerful water style jutsu in areas where there were no bodies of water, making him known to be the greatest water manipulator that ever existed. He could manipulate it to form projectiles or tentacles, and could even perform the most complex techniques with only one hand seal. Also he learned that he wielded a legendary sword called the Raijin, a blade with electrical abilities, and was said to have mastered its use despite the lethality. The black-streaked blond also learned that dring his reign he was responsible for establishing Konoha's organizational system by setting up various organizations, such as the academy, the Anbu, the Chunin Exams and the Konoha Military Police Force which he created as a sign of trust towards the Uchiha Clan. He also learned that during a mission in The First Great Shinobi War, on which Team Tobirama performed with one of his targets Danzo Shimura, Kagami Uchiha, and Torifu Akimichi. They found themselves surrounded by twenty elite Cloud ninja, known as the Kinkaku Force. Tobirama, realized that the only way any of them could escape alive was for one of them to be a decoy and sacrifice themselves; therefore having faith that he had trained his students well, he chose to sacrifice himself after he selected his prized student Hiruzen for the position of Third Hokage. After giving the title of Hokage to Hiruzen, Tobirama went off to fight the enemies where he died a noble death in battle.

He completely skipped Hiruzen's section because he knew more than enough about him, and landed on his father. There he learned just what his father was like,, and it actually brought a smile to his face. From the tales of his single-man rescue of his mother Kushina Uzumaki; the last name confused him, but he would figure it out later, to the war stories of him literally decimating Iwa's army during Third Great Shinobi War, and his team consisting of his sensei Kakashi, a girl named Rin Nohara, and Sasuke's probable cousin Obito Uchiha. And his eventual demise against Kyuubi.

But all of that aside he learned why Sasuke was the way he was. He read the short biography of his brother; Itachi Uchiha. The man was praised by all as the best of his generation-a genius above all others. Even by the standards of the battle-adept Uchiha Clan, Itachi's prowess far outshone them. At age seven, he graduated from the ninja academy at the top of his class after only one year, mastered the Sharingan at the age of eight, passed the Chunin Exams at the age of ten, and became an Anbu Captain at the age of thirteen. Reading over his profile in the Bingo Book he learned the man was a master in the art of genjutsu, extremely proficient in both fire and water techniques; the latter being a rarity in the Uchiha Clan, and a master with his Sharingan bloodline. But then things didn't start making sense for the secret Kurashagan user. After he joined the Anbu he started acting strange, hostile even, and then committed the infamous Uchiha Massacre leaving only his brother Sasuke alive, before traumatizing him. It made sense for Sasuke to want to kill him, but many things still didn't add up.

Sasuke meanwhile was also deep in his thoughts. After spending a week with Naruto he felt better than he has been in four years, not only did he help him get stronger with no strings attached, but he also was lightening him up. The laugh last night disturbed him greatly, never before did he ever laugh like that. I felt...nice, and if was being honest with himself he was enjoying their "bonding time" as Naruto put it. And thanks to him he felt stronger than when he was training by himself, thanks to him he was learning a new jutsu, he learned a few new taijutsu skills from Gai and Lee, he felt his chakra reserves increase, and most of all the empty feeling in his very being was disappearing.

Any further thoughts the two pre-teens were thinking were interrupted with Sakura's screeching.

Looking up Naruto saw his former crush yelling at him, and Kakashi looking a little baffled.

"What are you screeching about now?" Naruto demanded the only girl on the team.

"You made Sasuke-kun late!" she yelled at him.

"Sakura my alarm clock died causing me to be late, and I met Naruto on my way here." Sasuke rebutted her, while training they made several plans of deceit to throw off nosy fangirls. Right now they were using plan number two: Lying. And like a loyal fangirl Sakura ate it up, but Kakashi wasn't buying it.

"Besides being a minute late, what's on the agenda for today?" Naruto asked.

"Today we are going to work on our teamwork skills, and get a D-rank mission." Kakashi replied, much to the boys displeasure. "Now come at me when you're ready."

The two pre-teens slightly nodded to each other and bolted at Kakashi with surprising speed. Kakashi however anticipated this and raised his arms to block their fists, Naruto used his other fist to try and punch the man in the face with Sasuke following suit. But Kakashi simply moved his hand back allowing the two's fists to collide, Sasuke winced a bit as his unprotected knuckles began to bleed, but he took revenge as he kneed Kakashi in the gut, and Naruto kicked the man in the charlie horse.

Kakashi's eyes widened at the unpleasant feeling of getting kicked in the stomach, and charlie horse. Quickly thinking he pushed the two away from him and jumped fifteen feet away to plan his next attack.

Naruto and Sasuke weren't going to let him, last time they learned the hard way if they allowed Kakashi to think. So going through his list of hand seals Sasuke brought his right hand over his mouth and thought, 'Fire Style: Fireball Jutsu!' causing the massive orb of roaring flame to shoot out of his mouth. The fireball tore through the ground setting the surrounding area on fire, fully planning on incinerating Kakashi.

The Copycat ninja fully saw it coming and easily dodged out of the way, but once he landed he felt his ankles getting grabbed. Soon enough he found his head above the ground.

Rising up from the ground Naruto smirked behind his masks. How delightful it was to have a little payback for the humiliation their sensei gave them nearly three months ago. Sasuke came beside him, a clear and pleasant smirk on his face. His knuckles may have been torn open in the attempt to slug him, but it was well worth seeing his sensei knocked down a peg. But their joyful moment was instantly shattered as the person they were fighting was replaced with a log. And they soon found their heads above the ground.

"Well you two managed to lay a hit on me, you both improved." Kakashi congratulated Naruto.

"But you both still need improvement." another Kakashi said above Sasuke.

The two pre-teens dead-panned before muttering, "Clones."

Both Kakashi's eye-smiled at the two before getting them out of the ground, while the real Kakashi walked towards them with a stunned Sakura in tow. The pink-haired girl couldn't believe what just happened, the love of her life, and the dead-last left her in the dust, teamed up, and attacked their teacher. When did they start working as a team? Barely a week ago they hated each other, but now they were as close as teammates get.

This could not be allowed!

Both Naruto and Sasuke brushed the dirt off their clothes, while they were both bummed that Kakashi beat them, it was a refreshing feeling. Sasuke gritted his teeth before covering his bleeding knuckles, honestly not liking that he now had dirt in his wound.

Naruto saw it and pulled out a small water vial from one of his pouches, since he failed to get a canteen, he just used a small vial for now. Grabbing his wrist he poured the water over the wound, the Uchiha winced a bit as the blood, water, and dirt fell to the ground. Kakashi looked on seeing the two interact, glad seeing that his sensei's son, and the relative of his long dead teammate were finally getting along. Seeing that the wound was still bleeding, the Copycat ninja reached into his back pouch and pulled out a roll of white medical tape.

A minute later Sasuke's fist was nice and snug in their wrappings.

"Well with Sasuke's fist incapacitated for the moment I believe we should call it a day." Kakashi said to the three Genin.

"No Kakashi-sensei it's just a small cut, I can easily do a D-rank mission." Sasuke protested.

"Yea all we have to so is pull some weeds, walk a dog, or paint a house. Easy stuff that we can handle with ease." Naruto agreed.

Sakura looked like she wanted to protest, but she was clearly outnumbered. So with great reluctance she nodded her head, but Inner Sakura was chalking down revenge schemes.

Shrugging his shoulders the last surviving student of the Yondaime motioned for them to follow him.

It took ten minutes to reach the Hokage Tower, but that wasn't long enough for Naruto. Even after an entire week he was still pissed off at the old man, both Shinigami and Ishikawa tried to make him understand, but you know the old saying, "You can lead a jackass to water, but you can't make it drink.".

When the team entered they were greeted by the secretary, a middle aged woman with no redeeming qualities. But they saw that her right eye was as black as night, and by her glaring looks at their certain demon-masked wearing teammate. Kakashi filed that information away for another time, since, after all that woman could grate the nerves. But his two teammates filed it under a simple question and demanding respectively.

Naruto however payed no attention to her and headed towards the stairs.

Climbing up the spiraling staircase took barely three minutes-for them at least. But Naruto halted them.

"Sorry guys but I got to use the bathroom." he said to them.

"Hurry up Naruto, it's impolite to keep the Hokage waiting." Kakashi replied before pulling out his perverted book.

"Should have went before you came here dobe." Sasuke commented.

Sakura would have spoken her mind, but Naruto already dashed towards the mens bathroom. Furrowing her pink eyebrows he repressed the urge to grit her teeth. During the last week she reported to her mother, who reported to the Civilian Council, and little to say they were unhappy with the results. The short, idiotic demon child they forged through painful years of allowing him to live was perfect, but then he died during his first C-rank mission. But in an unexpected twist the brat was alive! And what was worse, their hard work was completely destroyed. No longer was he short, weak, idiotic, and screaming for attention, now he was the polar opposite. After their secret meeting Sakura's mother ordered her to strike when she could, and to do anything to rid the abomination once and for all.

After three minutes of waiting the former full blond finally emerged, refreshed and satisfied.

Soon enough they arrived in front of the Hokage's door, raising his right fist Kakashi knocked on the hard oaken wood. Moments later he heard a ringing noise, and that soon made him stop in his tracks. Why did the Hokage buzz him in? And more importantly why did he have a buzzer at all? Using his exposed eye, while not as powerful as his Sharingan, was still keen from his Anbu days. And he noticed that there were slight cracks where the hinges were, there was some chipped paint showing that these were new ones, and when he looked closely Kakashi could have sworn he saw a small metallic light coming from the door.

Seeing his sensei observing the door, Naruto knew that he could very well get busted for what he did a week ago. So being his typical self he brought his right hand to the doorknob, twisted it, and opened it. Stopping his sensei's investigation he bought himself some time to make up an excuse, if he was questioned at all, on the slight "changes" he made to the Hokage's door.

Meanwhile Hiruzen Sarutobi was frantically working on the evil paperwork that build up for the passing week. Not only did he have to redo the papers Naruto destroyed, but he had to complete the ones that kept coming in! He was frustrated both mentally and sexually, the two things that gave him any sort of relief were either destroyed or still in need of repair. When he took his pipe; A family heirloom he might add, in for repair that, the owner that maintained it for years said that it would take nearly a month to fix the darn thing, so he had no nicotine fix for him. And since his loving wife Biwako died during the Kyuubi attack, he had to stick to porn to satisfy any urges, while rare, he needed to take care of.

Hearing a knocking on his door the old Hokage reached under his desk and pressed a button. While he was initially upset with Naruto destroying his most prized possessions, he was grateful for giving him an excuse to get a new door. It cost a pretty ryo, but with an automatic locking system that allowed him to buzz someone in, chakra enhancing steel that was expertly disguised as an oak door, now all he needed to do was install a secret camera above it; which would arrive in a few days, and he would be all set.

He greeted his guests with a smile to welcome them, but when he saw that it was Naruto it quickly turned into a small frown. Mentally palming himself, and cursing that he forgot that Team Seven went back on active duty today. When Naruto barged in, Kakashi and the rest of his students followed, so that meant that the former full blond was going to demand a mission.

But to his absolute surprise Naruto stopped near the door as his teammates strolled in. Instead Kakashi was the one who stood in front of his desk, and kindly asked for a mission.

"Lord Hokage, Team Seven reporting duty, and are requesting a D-rank mission." the Copycat ninja saluted the old Kage, much to his male students dismay that he was actually going through with it.

Nodding his head Sarutobi shifted his weight to the right, causing his comfortable reclining chair to easily turn to the mission shelf. Bringing his liver-spotted hand to the top of the shelf, completely bypassing the S, A, B, and C-rank missions he reached into one of the D-rank cubbies. From his years of experience he separated them into three categories from easy, medium, and hard. So bringing his hand into the left side marked "Easy" and pulled out a scroll. Carefully unrolling it he skimmed the writing and handed it to Kakashi.

Taking the scroll in his hand the one-eyed ninja looked it over and nodded. "All right team we have to pick weeds."

Suppressing their groans the team headed out the door. Kakashi was about to join them, but the Hokage held up his hand to stop him.

"Kakashi I have a favor to ask of you." he said to the man he knew since he was a child. "I need you to keep an eye on Naruto."

That came as a surprise to the last surviving student of the Yondaime, out of all the people the Hokage mistrusted he would never suspect that Naruto would be one of them. Sure he was different now, darker even, and maybe a little ruder. But he was one of the most trustworthy people in the village.

"He's changed too much Kakashi, you and I both know it. He's gotten too violent, and too strong too fast. Either it's because of all the drugs they pumped into him, or it's his real personality coming out from all the neglect and abuse from the village. I'm just worried about him, and since I can't always look after him, it's your job to do so." Sarutobi said to him.

"So he was the one to force you get a new door huh?" Kakashi commented.

"Just report to me if he displays any unusual behavior." with that said the Hokage dismissed him.

A few minutes later Team Seven were heading towards their destination. Usually they would jump on the roof, but this was a major job they were going to do. From the mission reports they were to assist an old man pick a few hundred weeds from his vegetable patch. Apparently he shattered his right foot when the head of his hoe fell off it's stick, and now he was incapacitated for the moment. So it was their job to pick hundreds of weeds that grew in the last month or so.

Sasuke yawned bordly, knowing that this was going to be useless grunt work. Looking over to his team he saw that Sakura had some sort of glazed look over her eyes -probably because of him-, Kakashi was in front of them reading his perverted book, but Naruto looked calm, too calm in his opinion.

His further thoughts were interrupted when he started to pass by an alley, when a gloved hand shot out and covered his mouth. He went to struggle but then he saw himself staring straight at his face, and holding his finger in front of his mouth to shush him. With his eyes widening Sasuke watched his look-a-like quickly dart out of the ally and merge with his team.

"Keep quiet Sasuke we don't want to get caught." a familiar voice whispered to him.

"Naruto?" Sasuke managed to mutter out.

"Who were you expecting? Zabuza?" Naruto questioned him before taking his hand off his mouth.

"What in the world are you doing? We need to be on a mission."

"No we are playing hookey today, plus it's only weeds. The clones I created will do the work for us."

"They will suspect something when I don't act like myself!" the Uchiha hissed at him.

"All my clone has to do is keep quiet, brood, and shy away from the other during the job. Besides you hate doing these crappy D-rank missions as much as I do." Naruto stated the truth.

And it was the truth for Sasuke. Ever since their first C turned A-rank mission he was restless, he wanted danger, he wanted to prove himself against multiple foes, and most of all he wanted to fight. So a regular, boring D-ranked mission wasn't going to cut it. With Naruto there was at least a chance for excitement, if not seeing something entertaining, or getting stronger. So with a reluctant sigh he said to him, "What do you have in mind?"

"Well first off I'm going to pick up my order, and then we'll get your hand healed."

"It's just a flesh wound. Now lead the way."

Nearly fifteen minutes later the two pre-teens stood outside The Higarashi Weapons Shop. But Naruto wasn't so sure that this was the shop he saw last time. Last time he visited it needed a state of repair, but now it had a whole new roof full of shingles, and a brand new coat of white paint. However this had to be the weapons shop since it clearly said Higarashi Weapon Shop on the sign. Shrugging his shoulders slightly he brought his hands to the doorknob.

And immediately knew that this shop changed quite a bit once he stepped inside. The lighting was brighter, there were more clothing on the racks and shelves, and a few more items were hanging on the walls.

"Naruto! Sasuke! It's good to see you two again!" Gai's voice boomed out, causing the two to wince.

"Hello Gai-sensei." Sasuke answered first once his ears quit ringing.

"Geez Gai couldn't you greet people normally for once in your entire life?" an unknown woman's voice remarked.

Turning towards the voice the two customers turned to see a woman. She appeared to be in her late late thirties, but she was still a sight to see. She had fair pale skin, that complemented her chestnut brown hair which was tied up into a bun, which was held together by two ornamental chopsticks that looked suspiciously sharp. Standing at five foot eight she looked to be graceful and sturdy looking for a civilian. Like Tenten she was wearing a Chinese-style blouse only this one was blue and trimmed in white around the neck and arms, and wrapped around her waist was a long blue dress that reached to her ankles with a long slit along her right leg. And finally finishing the look off were a pair of white foot fitting slippers.

"Now Tomoko let Gai be himself, no one has successfully made him quiet down." Hiroshi said to the woman.

Opening her eyes, revealing them to be a light brown color, she lightly laughed in response. "Oh one day he will learn his lesson dear."

"Unyouthful people!" Gai bellowed as anime-styled tears flowed down his face.

With both sweat-drops running down the back of their heads, Naruto and Sasuke sighed. Gai was an ok guy, but he really needed to act like an adult every once and a while. They weren't ungrateful, far from it actually, but the man could grate the nerves.

"Anyways, Naruto what can I do for you?" Hiroshi asked, though his left eye twitched a bit seeing his mask again.

"I came here to...oh sorry about that." Naruto apologized before removing his Hannya mask, and revealed his half-mask. He already had one bad experience with the man over the mask, so he didn't need another. So setting it on the near the cash register he continued what he was going to say. "I'm actually here to get that set of shuriken."

Visibly relaxing the retired shinobi nodded, "Actually I want to thank you for that."

"Thank me?" Naruto questioned.

"Thank him?" Sasuke asked.

"Of course Naruto-kun." Tomoko answered for her husband, "Ever since you convinced my stubborn husband to forge it, business has increased by fifteen percent. Now you may be wondering how that happened are you not?" she questioned.

Nodding dumbly he let her continue.

"Well after he forged the first set, he accidentally left them on the counter to attend to his other duties. And believe it or not it was it was Gai here, and a couple of Jonin who stumbled in. I won't bore you with the details, but his friends got interested and asked for the price. And after he sold them the Jonin told their friends, and now we've got this months best seller, all thanks to you." she then gave him a grateful smile that slightly made his cheeks flush a little pink.

"In fact we're so grateful that whenever you want a pair you'll get them for free." Hiroshi said before tossing him a boxed set, which he caught with surprise. "Now what else can I do for you?"

Setting his shuriken set onto the counter, Naruto asked for something that was quite surprising. "Well actually I was hoping if you could help my teammate out here." he asked pointing a thumb at a surprised Sasuke.

"All right let me see here." the heavily scarred man said. Getting off his stool he clutched his sturdy wooden walking stick, and limped over to Sasuke.

Sasuke was frozen stiff. Even though he knew this man was an ally he knew he was extremely dangerous. With his size of a great bear, and hands that could undoubtedly crush his skull, he knew that this man deserved respect. When he stood in front of him his eyes practically pierced his soul, it was like he was searching within his very being to make sure that he was worthy. Why he thought that, Sasuke honestly didn't know, but whatever compelled him to think that cased the man to chuckle after a minute of staring at him.

"I think I know what you need." he said before grabbing the collar of his shirt and dragged him away to the back room.

While Sasuke was getting outfitted, or whatever Hiroshi was doing to him, Naruto turned to Gai and Tomoko.

"I thought you said your team went to active duty today." he remarked.

"We are on active duty." Gai replied, "But I remembered that my weapon was repaired today, so I told them to spar until I got back."

"Didn't take you as the weapon type." Naruto remarked.

"I don't use it as much, but my last mission required me to use it. However it reached it's limit and broke after felling my last enemy, so I came to Hiroshi a few weeks ago to get them fixed."

"May I ask what your weapon is?"

Gai only smiled in response, reached behind his back to his pouch, and pulled out a pair of nunchaku. But these weapons were different, each handle of the weapon was intricately carved into the shape of a Chinese dragon-like creature, with scales engraved along their length and a head near the handle's base, while appearing to be linked together by a length of twisted cord.

"Nunchaku?" Naruto questioned.

"That is correct Naruto-kun, Gai here has incredible stamina, speed, muscle coronation, and flexibility. So it makes perfect sense for him to use this type of weapon. With his fast movements and careful timing he can make these more lethal than a sword." Tomoko answered for for the bowl cut Jonin.

"I'm sorry but I have to disagree, a sword can cut a person in half. Nunchaku are more of a blunt and strangling weapon." the former full blond replied.

"Oh one day you'll see what I'm talking about." Hiroshi's wife said in an all knowing voice.

"Wow dude this chick is sassy." Ishikawa's voice said within his head.

'What the hell are you doing in my head?' Naruto questioned the spirit.

"It wouldn't look good to see you taking to empty space, and have ya thrown into the loony bin. So I decided to pop into your mind and make sure to speak my mind at any point I wanted to."

"And he never shuts up!" Jagan complained.

"Oh lighten up eyeball I'm only going to be here for a while." Ishikawa replied before yawning.

"Just don't disturb my rest ningen." Kyuubi growled out before he laid his head down on his paws.

"Will do fuzzy, will do."

Any response Naruto would have thought up was interrupted when Hiroshi shoved Sasuke in front of them.

Gone was Sasuke's old outfit that he wore since the academy days. Now he was wearing a long-sleeved dark blue shirt with milky white vambraces on both his forearms, and black full fingered gloves with metal covering the back of his hand and all five fingers. He now wore white cargo pants with his kunai holster strapped to his right thigh, but his blue opened-toed sandals were still the same. Around his waist was a black belt that held his ninja pouch, but there was also a kusarigama; or better known as a chain scythe with a light weight attached at the end of the chain.

"Well that sure is an improvement." Naruto commented.

"It feels kinda weird." Sasuke remarked as he strapped his blue clothed hitai-ate back on his forehead.

"You looked like a pedophiles wet dream." the former full blond dead-panned.

"At least I didn't look like a traffic cone." the Uchiha shot at him.

Soon enough the two were throwing insults back an forth at each other, many of them being smart ass remarks, or simply insulting. But it was entertaining for the three adults watching it.

Unfortunately all good things had to come to an end when Hiroshi cleared his throat. "Arguing aside do you like it?"

"Actually I do, but I'm a little uncomfortable not having my family crest on my back." Sasuke replied.

"Oh don't worry about that, tell you what. Come back tomorrow with a few crests, and I'll personally sew them onto your shirts." Tomoko replied to Sasuke, giving him an assuring smile.

"And don't think I'm giving you that kusarigama as a decoration." Hiroshi piped up before limping to the counter. Reaching under it he pulled out a scroll, and a black leather holster to cover the sharp blade. "This will teach you how to use it to it's full capabilities."

"How much do I owe you?" the raven-haired pre-teen asked.

"Eight-hundred and fifty ryo."

Nodding Sasuke reached into a bag Hiroshi provided him with;which held his old clothes, after moving his hand around a bit he pulled out his wallet with his family crest on it. Pulling out the sum of cash he owed the man, he handed it to him, which was deposited into the cash register. And the pre-teen easily slipped the holster over the extremely sharp blade, and dropped the scroll into his bag for later.

Naruto wasn't idly standing by as Sasuke paid for his items, there were two pieces of clothing that he needed to get before he left. So after Hiroshi finished placing his teammates hard earned money away he asked him a question, "Where do you keep your pieces of armor?"

"Looking for what your teammate has?" the man asked pointing to Sasuke's vambraces.

"And greaves if you have them."

"Oh I definitely have them." he replied before going to the back room once again.

Barely a minute later he came out and tossed Naruto the grey pieces of light weight armor. Easily catching them he got to one knee and places the greave on his right leg first. Carefully placing it on his shin he placed the strap in his free hand and brought to the area where he snapped it in. Easily snapping it in he repeated with the strap below it. Moving his foot around to make sure his foot movement wasn't restricted, he found it satisfactory and went onto his left leg. After repeating the process he strapped the vambraces over the Shodaime Tsuchikage's lightweight guards concealing the deadly hidden blades within them.

Satisfied that they were a perfect fit he headed back to the counter to pay for it, but to his complete surprise Hiroshi tossed something that his him smack dab in the face.

"Gotta be quicker dobe." Sasuke managed to suppress a chuckle.

Rubbing his face Naruto bent down and picked up what was thrown at him. To his complete surprise it was a belt buckle, but this one was of a white skull with an angry or the classical psychotic look with narrowed black eyes.

"Consider that a gift Naruto." Hiroshi said to him.

"For real?" the mask-weared asked.

"I bought five of those things ten years ago, and not a single one was sold." the scarred man replied before grumbling about a waste of fifty ryo.

"Thank you." Naruto thanked him before undoing his belt, quickly attached the skull to the buckle, and the tightened it once again. "Now how much are the pieces of armor?"

"One-thousand." Hiroshi answered in a seconds notice.

Nodding the Kyuubi jinchuriki pulled out Gama-chan and saw that he was extremely short. A sweat-drop forming on his head he turned towards Sasuke. "Uh, Sasuke mind loaning me a thousand ryo? I'll pay you back as soon as I can, I promise."

"Hm." Sasuke knew that his teammate would keep his promise, and so he handed Hiroshi what was owed. Happily grinning the retired shinobi deposited his newly acquired profit into his bulging cash register. "Anything else I can do for you two?"

"Not at this time." Sasuke answered.

"Well I'll see you two later." Hiroshi bade them farewell.

"Oh we'll be back weh I get some income flowing, and tell Tenten we said hi." Naruto said his goodbyes to the three in the store and strolled out.

"Naruto you forgot your shuriken set!" Sasuke yelled at his retreating form. Palming his face he grabbed the shuriken set and raced after his teammate.

"Those two are interesting." Tomoko chuckled after the door closed. Shifting her eyes over to Gai she remarked, "I can see why you helped train them."

Giving her his shiny smile, that was not his hypnotizing jutsu, he replied, "Who am I to deny two powerful youths the right to learn?"

"As long as you don't put them in spandex they'll do fine." Hiroshi remarked.

"Don't mock the spandex!" Gai hollered at him.

Outside the shop Naruto and Sasuke sighed at the mans unhealthy obsession with his spandex outfit.

Armageddon: Wow three months, that is a very long time.

The fans and crew: What the hell took you so long!

Armageddon: Sorry about that there were complications and drama in my life. First off I got an apprenticeship job and am learning a trade, second I fell into my old life as a gamer after I visited a buddy for a month...man I tell you after beating Assassins Creed II, I just went on to other games, from Mass Effect I&II, Oblivion, Fallout 3, Army of 2 the 40th Day, and Dragon Age I just got wrapped up in it. Thirdly I did get this chapter done a month ago, but I lost power when I was about to save it...so that pissed me off and I lost inspiration on it and became lazy.

Lt. VFSNAKE: So in other words your being the typical author.

Armageddon: Pretty much, so my fans I apologize for being late, and if this chapter didn't meet your expectations, because it clearly didn't meet mine, especially the ending since I know I could have done more. But in the meantime I have a few things to complement on the manga.

I was actually proud of Kisame for going out the way he did, it showed that he would go as far to sacrifice himself to keep the information away from the enemy, and actually succeed in his mission so that was a double bonus. Konan dying...well I'm not surprised, Kashimono has been killing off quite a lot of characters lately, plus there was not much use for her anyways. Zetsu being a lab experiment or whaever the hell he is is just confusing in my opinion. Madara practically becoming a God among men...well I'm now wondering how in the hell can he be killed? I mean with that time warp jutsu of his, now using the five elements plus yin yang chakra, he's just going to be a pain in the ass. Kabuto being a freaky snake mutant...great another more evil Orochimaru. And Yamato being captured, my guess is that he's going to die and be infused with the Shodaime's DNA with that giant tree thing.

Well that's all for now, hopefully my next update will be earlier.

Oh and before I forget Happy Halloween

Idiotic flamer: You suck Satanist!

Everyone plus myself: *Shoots him with a hail or holy bullets combined with acid and incendiary powder* Don't disrespect Halloween!