Hey Everyone, I know, I'm sorry I'm late again, and I'm even later than I had thought I was going to be, the only thing I can say in my defense was that I had a hard time figuring out exactly what to do with this chapter. However that is all over now, and my writing shall continue.

Anyhow, I once again would really like to thank everyone who reads and reviews my stories, I'm sorry for making you guys wait for this, after all the support you've all given me. But I would just like to say that I really appreciate all the support and suggestions you have given me, It means so much to me that you enjoy my story, and it is great to be able to talk with you all so that I know what you like and what you'd like to see, I hope you guys keep up with the reviews, I read all of them, and I use you guys suggestions to try and make this story as good as I can.

Now I feel that it is my duty to inform you all that Kishimoto is still ignoring my emails so I still don't own Naruto...

So now without any further ado, I present to you Chapter 10.

"Naruto" - Person/Summon Speaking

"Naruto"- Person Thinking

"Naruto" - Jutsu

"Naruto" - Boss Summon/Demon Speaking

"Naruto"- Boss Summon/Demon Thinking

Chapter 10 – Nindō

"SILENCE!"

A dead silence fell across the council chambers as the Sandaime Hokage's fist slammed down on his table. Sarutobi Hiruzen rubbed his eyes slowly before turning back to the council members sitting in the room. It had been two weeks since Naruto had let slip how he had somehow been listening in on the council meetings, and after several fruitless inquiries as to how he was getting into the meetings he invited Naruto to attend, as the clan heir of the Uzumaki. He had known that it would most likely cause an uproar with some of the councillors, but he felt that it was also the only chance some of the more reasonable councillors would have for asking for the rights to use the Uzumaki Crest again, he didn't really think that Naruto would agree, but at least it would mean they would stop pestering him about it.

Sadly as soon as the young mask wearing shinobi entered there was a general outcry from the entirety of the civilian council, as well as the elders. He couldn't believe that the council was still acting this way when it came to Naruto. He had made it clear recently how little he would tolerate the council acting against the young Uzumaki. He wished that the civilians would see the boy how his father had wished for him to be viewed, but as time went on he had grudgingly been forced to acknowledge that no matter what the Yondaime or he wished, he couldn't force the villagers to change their minds.

He looked over the gathered council again, and was pleased to see that at least the members of the shinobi council had not reacted poorly to Naruto's presence, but he felt that that might also be because the news as to Naruto being responsible for the loss of the spiral they once wore. Of course initially some of the shinobi councillors had spoken against the Hokage granting Naruto's request, but it had surprisingly been Hyūga Hiashi who had spoken in the young boys favour, reminding them that a clan's symbol was to be used as the clan saw fit, and it wasn't the right of anyone besides the leader of the clan. Of course the Hokage knew that Hiashi hadn't spoken out of goodwill to the boy, it was merely his way of reminding the majority of the shinobi council to not interfere with clan business.

Either way though, whatever his intent had been, Hiruzen was still grateful for Hiashi quelling some of the major outbursts from the shinobi councillors. Looking around again Sarutobi noticed that Kakashi had yet to arrive, but just shook his head deciding that it was best to just proceed with the meeting.

Naruto was getting kind of bored in the meeting room; he was a bit upset with himself that he had mentioned that he had been listening in on the council meetings. He was tempted to imitate his surrogate grandfather and sigh thinking back to how much less of a hassle it was to just have his clones watch the meeting for him. He hadn't been paying the closest attention to what the civilian councillors were discussing, he had decided it would be best to try and ignore them, that plan went out the window when he heard one of the civilians say something about the 'demon' again.

He had only recently started giving more thought to how the villagers treated him, and if it hadn't been so awful for him growing up, he could almost find their logic amusing. He was currently thinking back to a time when a mob had started chasing him, and he couldn't help but chuckle.

"What do you think you're laughing about demon?!" Naruto's eyes narrowed at this and he turned towards the councillor before replying.

"What's it to you?" Of course this caused some of the other civilians who had been supressed by the Hokage's outburst earlier to start being vocal again.

"How dare you speak like that to one of us demon!?"

"Watch yourself demon spawn!" And just like that the civilians were up in arms again, the Hokage was about to say something when he heard Naruto laughing. Even the civilians ranting died down after a minute or so realizing that the demon brat was just laughing at them, this of course only angered them further, but Naruto's laughter had gotten loud enough that they doubted that their yelling would drown it out.

After another minute of this the laughter died down and Naruto wiped a tear from his eye before turning to look at the civilian councillors and though it wasn't visible he had his trademark grin on behind his mask, "Man, I can't believe how stupid you guys are."

To say the councillors were shocked was an understatement, the only other sound made was by the Inuzuka clan head who seemed to be suppressing her chuckling at the young genin calling the civilians all stupid.

"I mean come on, you are all so scared of the demon but you decide that the smartest thing to do is to make his life a living hell? I mean wow, the one and only person in the village who you are all so certain could destroy the village an everyone in it, and you all think that it's ok to have him beaten and starved, you guys really thought that one through. Oh man could you believe what would have happened if I actually was the demon, oh Kami, you all would have probably been eaten or something, I dunno but I doubt a giant demon fox would take kindly to people beating on it or chasing after it with mobs. I can't believe that everyone calls me the idiot."

The young genin continued to laugh for a few more moments until one of the civilians councillors spoke up, "Who do you think you are to talk to us like that you demo-"Or at least he tried to speak when he suddenly felt something cold and sharp at his throat. The entire room gasped at the sight of one Hatake Kakashi seemingly appearing out of nowhere holding a kunai to the councillor's throat.

"Hm, sorry I was late but I had to help a little old lady with her groceries…" At this everyone in the room sweat dropped so Kakashi just continued, "Anyways though, you were about to start talking about a SS Class Secret, and if I remember correctly the penalty for speaking about that topic is death, so I figured I'd ask you, Hokage-sama if you would like me to carry out the good councillors sentence here and now?"

The room was once again silent, everyone was having a hard time deciding how to react to the silver haired jōnin's speech, from his horrible excuse to his discussing executing the councillor all while having his trademark eye smile and talking in an unsettlingly cheery voice. Finally the silence was broken by Inuzuka Tsume bursting out laughing and the Hokage sighing. "Kakashi, I ask that you release the councillor, I will speak with him later on this matter, but councillor please close the door on your way out of the meeting, I think it best if you leave, at least for now."

Kakashi just nodded at this and made his way over to sit next to his student and speaking quietly, "So Naruto I heard your little speech, I must say I'm glad you said that, I know it might have put some of them on edge but who knows maybe it could help some of the other councillors to see you more for you. Though in the future I would probably suggest skipping these meetings, and doing what you've been doing up until now…"

"How did you know about that Kakashi-sensei? The only person I told was Jiiji, so how did you know I've been listening in on their council meetings?" Naruto had been talking in a hushed voice to avoid anyone overhearing him.

"Oh, well actually I didn't know you've been doing that, but I guessed there was a reason you were invited to this, so thanks for letting me in on the cause."

"WHAT?! Are you kidding me?" At this outburst Naruto drew the Hokage's attention.

"Naruto, would you please calm down."

"Sorry Jiiji, I think I'll go now actually, I'll let you all talk about the 'interesting' stuff."

"Naruto you still should stay there are important things that some of the other councillors wanted to discuss with you."

"Ok Jiiji," Naruto said with a shrug, "I'll stay but the answer is still going to be no."

-Later, With Naruto-

Naruto was lying on his bed back in his apartment, he was thinking over everything that had been said in the meetings, and he was slightly regretting his laughing at the civilian councillors, he knew his outburst would probably have spread all across the village by now, though it would probably make him seem like he threatened to kill everyone knowing his luck.

It was only midafternoon but Naruto was still feeling drained, so he just rolled over in his bed and was shocked to see Kakashi sitting on his window frame, "Kakashi-sensei, can't you knock like a normal person?"

Looking up from his book Kakashi faced Naruto, "Hm, well I guess I could, but what fun is there in that?" Naruto just sighed at his sensei's antics.

"So what are you here for Kakashi-sensei, are you the beginning of the next wave of people coming after me for what I said in the meeting?"

"That doesn't seem like me Naruto; I just came by to tell you that I decided that team 7 would be going on a C-rank mission tomorrow."

Kakashi got the response he wanted with this, Naruto leapt out of his bed and was cheering and dancing around, the young shinobi had been bugging him for a more difficult mission since the first D-rank mission they took, he hadn't planned on taking them on any more challenging missions for a few more weeks, but looking back over what the first two weeks of team training had been like he thought that his genin would benefit from being on an actual mission, and it would probably be a good idea to get Naruto away from the village for a few days so that it could settle down after the young Uzumaki's outburst in the council meeting.

"Are you kidding me sensei, that's awesome, so what are we doing, saving a princess, or overthrowing a dictator?" Kakashi smiled at Naruto's enthusiast, "Naruto is just like you were Obito, I am glad that he hasn't let what he's been through affect him too much."

"Nothing like that Naruto, remember this is your first C-rank mission, we're going to be escorting a merchant back to their village, but our primary objective is to deal with the bandit group that has been terrorizing their town, usually bandits don't act up too much near Konoha, but something set these guys off, so far they've just been doing the usual stuff, but the Hokage decided that we should take care of them before they try anything bigger." Kakashi was watching his student's reaction, and saw him look worried when he mentioned the bandits, "Is everything alright Naruto, you seem worried?"

Naruto took a deep breath before he looked back at his sensei, "I'll be fine Kakashi-sensei, and it's just… I don't know, I'm worried if I'll have to kill again… I mean I know it's part of our lives as shinobi, but it doesn't make it any easier…"

Kakashi nodded at this, he was really proud that his student wasn't like so many other shinobi who acted without a care for others, "You're right Naruto, knowing what we're expected to do doesn't make it any easier, and it shouldn't, but Naruto think of it this way, I know you're not the best of friends with Sasuke and Sakura, but if one of them were in danger would you protect them?"

Naruto thought about his teammates, and couldn't imagine either of them being happy with him saving them, but he knew he still would, "Well yeah, of course I would."

"Ok, and let's say someone was trying to hurt Konohamaru, I know you've taken a liking to the kid."

"I'd do whatever it took to keep him safe, he's like a little brother to me." Naruto said it with more enthusiasm.

"Well Naruto that is how you have to look at our lives as shinobi, we do what we must to protect our precious people, it still doesn't make our lives easier, but it helps if you remember the people that you fight to protect. Just look at the Hokage, he would give up his life to protect everyone in the village, from the smallest child to the oldest woman, that is what makes him such a great shinobi Naruto, he has something precious he fights to protect." After that Naruto was silent for a while, he was thinking over his life and thought of everyone who had ever done anything cruel to him, "Would I really be willing to give up my life to protect all of them?" Naruto's mind flashed to the image of one man in particular, he remembered the night he got the scars on his chest, the man's face was blurred out of his memory, but would he be willing to give his life for people like that?

Finally Naruto smiled, he knew who he was, and he knew that no matter what the people of his village did to him, he would still fight for them, he may have many dreams, but he knew he wouldn't every be satisfied until his village accepted him, and if it took himself sacrificing himself to keep them all safe then he would do it. "I think I'd like that Kakashi-sensei, to be able to fight to protect everyone in the village, even if they hate me, it doesn't matter, I will still protect them, I don't go back on my word, because that is my nindō –ttebayo!"

Kakashi smiled at the red tipped blonde's enthusiasm, "You'll do just fine Naruto." Kakashi looked back at his student then out through the window, "Alright then Naruto, we're going to be meeting up at the North gates at 9 tomorrow morning, I'd suggest packing for a week long mission as a precaution. Anyhow I have to go, I still haven't told Sasuke or Sakura about this, see you tomorrow Naruto." With that Naruto watched his teacher jump out his window.

Naruto got out of his bed and summoned a few clones, giving them various tasks to prepare for the next few days, while he went over some of his recent seals; he had been working on a more practical way of carrying his weapons around with him for quick. Naruto had been racking his brains trying to come up with something, he had debated putting the seals on his weight bands, but he had looked into overlapping seals that had already been set, and he didn't like to look of what might happen. Finally Naruto decided he's just ask someone else for help coming up with an idea, he couldn't shake the feeling that he was missing something painfully obvious, but he hoped that his new highly logical friend could help him with it.

Naruto couldn't help but chuckle remembering the time he had met up with Shino after completing Kakashi's test, he had been strolling through the village when he noticed the young Aburame walking through the village, and he debated the best way to approach him, before realizing that he was overthinking it, something that he laughed at seeing as he wasn't really known for being the type to think about anything. He decided to just walk up and talk with Shino. After quite a bit of one word replies to almost anything he had said, he decided to ask Shino something about his clan's bug techniques. That had gotten the Aburame's attention, and he went into detail discussing the insects, and how his clan used them. After that talking to Shino had been relatively easy, and though Shino was still quiet, he didn't object to Naruto's questions.

In fact he had actually been very supportive on one of the ideas that Naruto had suggested the last time they spoke, Naruto had come up with the idea of having larger training sessions with the other rookie 9 and Rock Lee's team, he thought it would help them all work together, seeing as he figured they'd end up working together at times throughout their shinobi careers. And if they trained together, they would be able to help figure out where other people needed to work the most, as well as how to work together.

Naruto was making his way through the village looking for the bug user when he remembered the other boy mentioning having a mission in the afternoon, "Well I hope he's done, I want see if he has any ideas on what to use for sealing my weapons… I know I'll send a clone to the Hokage tower so that it can ask him when his team shows up after finishing their mission." With that thought in mind Naruto decided to head out to train at his team's training ground, he had become quite familiar with the area that made up training ground 7, and he liked it, it also had a large lake that allowed him to practice Fūdoken, without being interrupted, he still wasn't ready to use it in combat, but he felt that soon with help from his clones he'd be able to test it.

It was getting into the evening when Naruto felt a rush of information, and promptly lost his concentration causing him to fall into the water. After dragging himself out of the lake and coughing up what felt like a gallon of water he started smacking his head against the ground, "Baka, Baka, Baka, BAKA, how in the hell did I not think up of gloves?! I'm such an idiot!" With that Naruto flopped onto his back and started rubbing his head, he couldn't believe the reaction he had gotten from Shino when he mentioned the idea he was struggling with, Shino just looked at him with one eyebrow raised and asked him why he hadn't thought of using gloves. Naruto's clone had screamed out in shock and started smashing its head against a wall, causing it to dispel.

Looking up at the sky Naruto determined that it might still be early enough to ask Tenten for her opinion on the matter as well, he had started carrying his weapons in scrolls at her suggestion when he had mentioned he was studying fuinjutsu, and it seemed to work for her, so he figured he'd ask her in case she had tried it, and it hadn't worked for her.

Another twenty minutes of searching later he was facing Tenten, and he told her about the idea, her reaction was much less over the top than his, "I guess that would work, it would certainly make it easier than having to pull out a scroll every time you want a kunai or shuriken, I mean my way works for me, cause I'm a long ranged fighter, but someone like you who is more close ranged it makes sense for that, even so, it would still be a nice thing to have a pair of gloves like that, but I don't know if I'd good enough with fuinjutsu yet to be able to create a sealing matrix like you're suggesting using."

"Well then in that case, why don't I just make you a pair as well, I was going to make mine tonight, cause I'm on a C-rank mission tomorrow, but I could get a pair done for you as well if you'd like."

"Really? That'd be great Naruto, you're the best."

"Of course I am, Believe it!" Naruto couldn't resist the opportunity to adopt Gai and Lee's good guy pose saying that, and seeing Tenten's face vaulting was worth it. "Ok then Tenten, I gotta go, say hi to Lee and Gai for me, I'll send a clone with a pair of gloves for you tomorrow morning when we usually all train together."

Naruto took off heading towards the market, hoping that the store Tenten had showed him was still open. It seemed that luck was on Naruto's side as he made it just as the store owner was about to close up the store, after a few seconds of pleading the man let Naruto in, and helped him find some gloves. The store owner grumbled a bit when Naruto asked him if he could engrave the Uzumaki crest into the plate on the back of his gloves, but he still agreed and had Naruto wait a few minutes as he removed the plates and took them into the back room so he could engrave them quickly.

Later that evening Naruto was sitting in his living room looking over the sealing matrix he had prepared, it wasn't particularly complicated, having seals for both the kunai, shuriken and ninja wire in an interwoven pattern, he had a prepared a seal for both gloves, but it had taken him longer than he had hoped to get all four of the seals done. He was currently just making finishing touches on the seal matrixes. He decided to do a test run on the seal before imprinting them onto the gloves, so he gathered all of his tools. Another five minutes later, he was satisfied with how the seal functioned, he placed the matrixes over the gloves, "Fuin: Imprint."

After testing the seal's functionality once again, he began sealing his kunai shuriken and ninja wire into his gloves, he had actually decided to get a few more sets of kunai and shuriken when he was at the store so he wouldn't be as worried of running short. Satisfied with his work he put his gloves and Tenten's aside to be delivered the next morning.

-At the Uchiha Compound-

Uchiha Sasuke was standing panting in the training ground trying to catch his breath, his sensei had stopped by earlier to inform them that they were going on their first C-rank mission. He was glad that they were finally done with the stupid and worthless D-rank missions, "Who do they think they are, making me, an Uchiha do stupid chores for the villagers, well at least I finally have a mission more worthy of my stature, even if it is just dealing with bandits, at least it's better than painting old peoples fences..."

Sasuke's thoughts went back to the training sessions his team had been having, they were in his opinion worthless for someone like him, but he was starting to get frustrated with his other teammates, he had always hated how the pink haired girl always focused more on him than training, but the bigger issue was Naruto, he had always done so terribly in the academy, and now he was basically level with him, "Hn, no he's not nearly level with me yet, that dobe never could be, but still, how'd he get so powerful so quickly… I'll have to get the idiot to give me his secret, he doesn't deserve that power, but I need it so I can finally make Itachi pay…"

-With Sakura-

Haruno Sakura was currently lying in bed thinking about her team's next mission, she was actually really worried about having to fight bandits, she had been the top kunoichi in her class, but most of that was thanks to her studying habits, she knew her sensei would keep her safe, and she guessed that Sasuke would save her if she got in too much trouble, but Naruto was the problem. She still couldn't forget how she had been so humiliated when she had gotten tied up to that post because of him, "It's the baka's fault, if it weren't for him Sasuke-kun could have showed Kakashi-sensei all his amazing skills, I just hope Naruto doesn't get in the way of me and Sasuke-kun."

She had spent a week trying to figure out what was up with Naruto, but he seemed to be getting back to normal, well not entirely normal, he had stopped bugging her for dates, she was both glad of that and a bit upset because she had liked the attention, she had also had to stop herself from smacking him at anything she said because he had a habit of catching her hits and getting her told off by their sensei, he had embarrassed her so many times around Sasuke during the past few weeks she was getting really frustrated, she just shook her head at the thought of her teammate, she still couldn't figure out how Naruto had changed so much, he was even taller than her Sasuke now, "Ugh, I can't stand that baka, trying to look cooler than my Sasuke-kun!" She shook her head and got back to trying to sleep, she had packed everything she thought she needed for their mission, and just hoped everything went well.

-At the North Gates of Konoha-

The sun was shining, the civilians were working on their daily chores and a group of three irritated genin were awaiting the arrival of their notoriously late sensei, it was only 11 in the morning, but they had hoped Kakashi wouldn't be late on their first C-rank mission. Naruto was just leaning against the village wall looking over one of the scrolls he was carrying on him, Sasuke and Sakura noticed he had a new pair of fingerless gloves that he was wearing, but Sakura had noticed something that had made her smirk, she had noticed that Naruto wasn't carrying a backpack on him, she might have reminded him of it, but she felt it would be a great chance to get him back for embarrassing her, she was just getting frustrated with how often she was being shown up in their training, this chance to make him embarrassed was just too great of an opportunity to miss.

After another ten minutes the teams silver haired instructor finally appeared, "Hey guys, sorry I was late but the mask store was out of masks, so I had to go to the other side of the village to find one I liked." Sakura was about to call him a liar when she realized that that was most likely the most believable reason for his being late he had ever given them, granted it was still ridiculous but she let it slide.

Naruto walked up and spoke, "Well now that you're here can we get going sensei?"

"Soon Naruto, after all we still are waiting for the client."

"Are you joking, you mean that they're even slower than you… this is going to suck."

"Well it's not such a bad thing, it'll give me a chance to see how well you all prepared for the mission, ok guys, bring out your previsions and equipment for inspection."

Sakura smirked at this, it was finally her chance, "But Kakashi-sensei, what about Naruto, it looks like he forgot to bring his backpack with him." She had said it all as innocently as she could and she just watched as Kakashi smiled back at her.

"Well Naruto, would you like to show Sakura and Sasuke your equipment first then?" Much to his teammate's confusion Naruto just nodded at this and took several of the scrolls he was carrying out of the holsters on his pant legs. Unrolling them in order he began pointing out the different scrolls.

"Well this one has basic food rations in it, as well as some extra water bottles in case I'm in a place I need some water or something. This one contains some basic survival equipment, like rope a hunting knife, and stuff for making traps in case I need to set something up quickly, or need to set traps for food, and this one has a sleeping bag, a blanket and my tent." Naruto channelled some of his chakra into each of the scrolls, and demonstrated how he had everything he had said, both agitated and curious Sasuke spoke next.

"What do you have in the other scrolls dobe?"

"Well that's a secret teme." Naruto just chuckled at Sasuke's annoyed expression as he turned away, sensing something, he leaned to the side in order to avoid Sakura's fist. "Oh come on Sakura-san what did I do this time to deserve that?"

Sakura of course having acted out of instinct took a second to evaluate everything that had happened just sighed knowing that she had gotten what she deserved for trying to make Naruto look like an idiot, she finally turned back to her masked teammate, "Sorry Naruto… anyways sensei should I show you my equipment now?"

Another 10 minutes of checking over equipment later their employer arrived, he was riding in a wagon with another two people who Naruto assumed were his family, and the wagon was being pulled by a horse. Kakashi had a few words with their client whom Kakashi had referred to as Hito before turning back to his genin, "Ok guys, we'll be heading out, keep on the lookout for anything suspicious it'll be about a twelve hour trip so we'll be stopping once for the night, let's head out.

Nine hours later in a small clearing the group was setting up for the evening, the shinobi in the group could have easily finished the trip, but the merchant was insisting he was tired and his wife and daughter needed to rest. Kakashi had agreed willingly enough, they hadn't seen any signs of trouble and were only a few hours away from the merchant's home town. The group set up camp and ate dinner without any issue before assigning watch duty and going to sleep.

The first two watch's went fine, it wasn't until the third watch that anything happened, Sakura was sitting in front of the camp fire and was still mulling over everything that had happened the past day, she was still trying to figure out why Naruto was bugging her so much when she heard a scream. She turned to see the merchant's daughter being dragged out of her tent by a large man, "KAKASHI-SENSEI!" Almost immediately thirteen more men jumped out of the forest into the clearing.

"Get em, we can make a pretty penny off the girls, and it's been a while since I had any fun." He had said that looking directly at Sakura, the young kunoichi froze out of fear, she just stood there as the bandit's laughed and agreed with the one that had spoken out.

Naruto was out of his sleeping bag the second he had heard Sakura's scream, he saw his teacher jumping out of his tent and saw that the clearing was encircled by bandits, "Why can't bandit's ever attack while I'm awake?" Naruto turned to his sensei, he saw that Kakashi had concern in his eyes, and Naruto realized he was worried if he'd be ok, steeling his nerves Naruto nodded at his sensei before charging at the bandits.

Naruto jumped into combat noting Sasuke had also joined the fray, he charged at the first bandit and channelled chakra to the seals in his gloves, causing two kunai to poof into existence, he leapt at the man slashing at his throat before kicking off the man's chest and launching himself towards another bandit, this one reacted a bit faster and raised a blade blocking the kunai strikes, but wasn't fast enough to avoid the young Uzumaki rolling under his legs and slicing at the tendons in his legs before going after the next bandit.

Kakashi was watching impressed with how well Naruto was dealing with the bandits, he was worried that Naruto would be upset over what happened later, but he felt confident that Naruto would be fine this time.

Naruto had taken down four of the bandits when he noticed the one standing in front of Sakura, charging forward again, he dodged a bandit's sword swing leaving him to either his sensei or other teammate. Coming out of a roll Naruto channeled some chakra to his feet and rocketed himself at the bandit. The bandit having been caught completely off guard found himself launched backwards into a tree, he was fought to remain conscious as he saw the blue eyed boy stab his kunai into his chest, fading into darkness, the last thing he heard was the voice of the young shinobi.

"You will not harm my comrades, I will protect them with everything I have, and I won't go back on my word, because that is my nindō."

BAM, done with chapter 10, I hope you all enjoyed it, I can't wait to see what you all thought of it, I know that this mission didn't happen in the canon, but I liked the idea of having a proper mission before Wave, so to anyone who was worried/dreading/hopeful the mission to wave is still going to happen, it'll be pretty soon after they get back from this one, also I've started bringing in some other characters from canon, I don't plan on having any major OC's the only ones I'll have are people like family Hiruzen introduced Naruto to back in chapter two, or one off characters who are only named because it sounds odd to keep calling them by their title, essentially the only OC's will be minor characters.

Also to everyone who has been asking me when Hinata is going to come into the story, she will start making regular appearances soon, after all if Naruto has started hanging out with Shino, he's going to end up around Hinata a lot more too, so rest assured that I haven't forgotten about her. I should also mention to everyone who was maybe a bit confused by Sakura's character this chapter that that was my goal, Sakura herself is confused by everything that's happening around her, so she's having trouble figuring out how to act, her character has always seemed to make her decision based off of those around her, and with all the changes happening she's trying to figure out where she fits in, don't worry though, everything is written the way it is for a reason.

Another thing I should mention, because I have a feeling if I didn't I might get accused of stealing the idea of it, Naruto using his gloves to carry around his weapons is to me just a smart thing for anyone who can use fuinjutsu to do, I mean it is far more convenient than always having to reach for a weapon. But I wanted to mention it, because I know it is also something that is used by jbriz in his story The Uzumaki Tales: Return of the Whirlpool. I had thought of that before I read his story, but seeing as it was also used there I felt I should mention it, in case anyone was worried about my taking other peoples ideas.

But getting off the serious note, I hope you guys liked the chapter, and as always I ask that you leave a review and let me know what you think, or what you think I could improve on, I'm always happy to hear suggestions and the more input you give me the better I can make this story for you guys, so yeah, please review and if you have any suggestions or something you'd like to discuss with me personally feel free to send me a PM hearing what you guys think of my story makes my writing all the more fulfilling, so I look forward to hearing from you.

Anyhow, Ja Ne

~FeJazz