Chapter 8

Since Team 7 didn't need to show the samurai around just yet, it gave said samurai a chance to sleep in. And sleep in is exactly what they did. By 11am the only one that seemed to be awake and coherent was Phoenix, who was making coffee for the others.

Sitting in a chair with his upper body on the table, and his head on his are was Wolf who had gotten up to keep Phoenix company. But he had fallen back into a light sleep while waiting for Phoenix to finish the coffee.

As soon as the coffee was finished,Phoenix poured Wolf and himself a cup. He also poured an extra cup in case one of the others woke p soon. Once Wolf smelled the aroma coming from the cup, he immediately sat up at drank half of it in one gulp.

After the red head sat down, Galaxy stumbled into the kitchen looking like something the cat dragged in. When he got to the counter he went strait for the extra cup that his older brother had poured. Before he had a chance to take a drink after he had sat down, there was a knock on the door.

The three awake, or rather one awake and two semi-awake, samurai looked at each other then at the door. After a couple of confused seconds on their part, Phoenix finally yelled without getting up, "Who is it?"

"It's us" Naruto yelled back though the door sounding surprised, after all who else would it be.

Team 7, who had come by to ask exactly why the strangers had been chosen to come to Konoha, heard someone from the other side of the door say "Come in". They opened the, still unlocked (A/N they had never locked it last night) door they saw that only three of the five were in the room. "So where are the other two?" asked Kakashi while reading his copy of Icha Icha Paradise. "Well we don't know where Earth is but Stubborn should be up in a few minutes." explained Wolf who was starting on his second cup of coffee and was now awake enough to make sense when he talked.

A few seconds of silence followed until the two siblings sitting at the table started counting down, muck to Team 7's further confusion, "3...2...1". As soon as they said "1" there was a loud thud that came from one of the rooms.

The door connecting the kitchen from the rest of the place open and Stubborn fell though. If Galaxy had looked like something the cat dragged in, then Stubborn looked like death warmed over. It was obvious that he was not much of a morning person. Something that may have been the word coffee came out of his mouth, which caused the three people that were used to his morning moods to point to the counter where it was located.

The still mostly asleep blond half walked/half fell over to the counter and blindly looked for a spare cup. Once he found one he filled it up, drank it all in one gulp, then refilled said cup. He at least looked more awake when he had refilled the cup. After about three cups of what may have been pure caffeine, Stubborn opened one of the cabinet to look for something to eat.

"Is he always like this when he firs wakes up?" Sakura had to ask. It was her first time seeing someone so out of it when they first got up.

The only answers she got here "Yep", "Uh huh", and "Pretty much".

The four ninjas and three seated samurai all looked up when they heard Stubborn's startled yell of "Damn it Earth. You scared the hell out of me. Try putting a damn sign of the door!" What they saw was Stubborn standing in front of the cabinet he had opened with his hand in over his heart like he was trying to keep it from leaping from his chest. The reason for this was easy to figure out, for sitting in the open cabinet was Earth, with a very large book in his lap.

At Stubborn's yell he just looked up from the book, shrugged, and went back to reading the book. "How does he fit in there?" asked Sasuke. He couldn't figure out how a guy who was over five feet in height could fit in a space that was barely three feet tall, even if said person was sitting cross-legged.

It was Galaxy who said "Don't ask you really don't want to know, heck we just figured it out ourselves. Anyway why are you here?" While he was saying this Earth had gotten out of the cabinet and sat down next to Wolf.

"There was something we wanted to ask you. But seeing that you just woke up we can wait till later." Said Team 7's sensei. After he said this he stood up signaling to his students that they should leave, and thinking about just how odd the samurai were.

"Well since their gone, whose up for some training?" Stubborn asked the remaining group already know their reply. In answer to his question the other four just grinned in a way that would send a chill down a sane persons spine.

--Hidden Sound Village--

Orochimaru and his subordinate Kabuto walked down the hall toward the room to here his newest ally rested. After knocking on the door and hear a noise from in the room that meant he could enter, they opened the door and entered a room that was pitch black. The only thing that could be seen were two cold pupil-less blood red eyes that held no mercy in their depths.

"I'm here to discuss our terms" said Orochimaru with caution. For he know nothing could save him if he angered this creature.

"I know our terms Orochimaru" a cold voice said from the room. When the shadow the eyes were attached to talked two bone white fangs became visible. Said voice continued "I help you win the up coming war with Konoha and you help me capture the ones I told you about.

"Yes I know that part of our agreement, but what I'm curious about is why want or even need help capturing them. They are after all only humans" Orochimaru said still cautious, one wrong word or sentence on his part and he's be dead before he could blink.

He got a blood chilling laugh that sent shivers even down his spine as a reply along with "They are no more human then I am. In fact the only thing they have in common with humans is that they fell guilty and mourn after they kill a human."

"If they aren't human then just what are they?" asked Kabuto. He didn't get a reply.

--Back in Konoha--

The rookie nine and Team Gai had meet up after they had been dismissed from their training and were currently walking around, talking.

They got the surprise of their lives when after 10 minutes or so after they got together. What surprised them was the feeling of shock waves, a loud boom, and a cloud of dust that rose from one of the old training grounds.

After they got over the shock of the explosion, they all ran toward it thinking it was Orochimaru's army attacking early. When they got to the location of the explosion the Konoha Twelve got an even bigger surprise then before.

There was no army. Neji and Hinata activated their bloodline and saw only a crater in the middle of the training grounds. After a second or two four figures came out of the smoke and dust with three of them coughing, and Wolf jumped down from his perch on a tree branch.

The wind finally blew the combination smoke and dust away, and the ninja saw that the four figures were just the rest of the samurai. So they stayed where they were and listened to whet they were saying.

"Damn it Earth. I thought you said that was one of your small explosives?!" This came from Phoenix who was still coughing out dust. The ninja in the area barely covered there sounds of disbelief when Earth said "It was in, fact it was one of the smallest I had. There was no danger in it, the explosive was full of harmless powder."

"Then what the hell was that noise?!" shouted Wolf while rubbing his ears which were still ringing. "Oh that. That was just the shell of the explosive going off." was the reply he got. Wolf simply growled at that.

At this point the ninja realized that they didn't need to stay hidden. So Naruto finally yelled out "What the hell are you guys doing?!"

The samurai didn't even move, as if they knew they where there the whole time. The five looked toward them and said "training". The Konoha Twelve were not was surprised as they would have been ,they had given up trying to understand the stranger.

It was TenTen who broke the silence "So what was the goal in your training? See who could get killed first?" The answer she got almost scared the ninja "Nope that was the warm up"

Needless to say the Konoha Twelve were almost to scared to stay and watch the actual training.

Well that's the end of this chapter. The next chapter is mostly the samurai's training. Hope the length of the chapter makes up for the long update. Chapter 9 should be up soon, it's almost finished.