Kenta: Hey guys! Sorry about such a long wait for this chapter, but I got a little too attatched to 'Re-do', and before I could get back to this, I had to worry about school...sorry.

I've got finals coming up, so I really wanted to get this out to you guys before I go offline for awhile again. Sorry about such a long wait!

I'll try to keep up the writing for this story, as I've played up until at least the Goron's temple. (Had to return it to a friend, so...yeah...)

Anyway, I'll let you guys get to the reading! Sorry again!

Kenta Raikiri

Naruto shuddered, looking around from the forest entrance. Teleporting felt WIERD! Cracking his arms, Naruto heard panting. Turning to the side, Naruto found a golden wolf staring at him.

"Isn't that a..."

The wolf stared at him, watching his every move, making Naruto feel uncomfortable very quickly. It suddenly started growling, making Naruto jump back from it.

"What's your problem?" And where the hell did it come from?

The wolf suddenly jumped at Naruto, prompting Naruto to pull out his shield, but as he brought it up to shield himself, a blinding flash made Naruto cover his eyes. When he opened up his eyes again, he quickly looked around, the golden wolf now sitting in front of him. Naruto pulled out his sword, waiting for another attack, but a light blinded him once more. Pulling his shield down, Naruto stared forward, as the wolf was now gone, replaced by a tall man.

"Who are you?" Naruto demanded.

The tall man opened his cerulean eyes, smiling, before disappearing. Naruto, shocked at the man disappearing, didn't know how to react when two arms shot out in front of him, grabbing him.

"I MISSED YOU NARUTOOO!" The man cried hysterically.

"Huh?" Naruto's arms went slack as the man hugged him, tears flying from his eyes.

After a few moments, the man finally let go of Naruto, sniffling.

"I'm sorry, it's just..." The man started to blubber up again. "YOU'RE ALL GROWN UP!" He broke down crying again, hugging Naruto again. Finally calming himself, the man pulled away. "Sorry, I really should learn to control my emotions better, but I never was really good at it back in the Academy."

"The Academy?" Naruto asked.

The man nodded. "Good! So, let me ask you something really quick. How high can you jump?"

"What?"

"Just come on! Jump!"

Naruto hopped a little.

"No! No! I want you to jump! JUUMP!" He spread his arms up and down.

Naruto didn't know why, but he felt like he really wanted to impress this guy. He focused chakra into his feet and pushed himself up. The blonde swordsman shot up a good fifteen feet in the air, before coming back down and landing gently. When Naruto looked up, the man was grinning.

"Good! Excellant! You're able to access your chakra!"

Naruto felt proud for some reason. He didn't know why, he had been praised every now and again back in the village, but hearing praise from this man...he had never felt so excited, happy! He just couldn't understand it, but right now, he didn't care. It felt too good.

"Now, I don't have much time, but I want to teach you something. It's a very difficult technique, but I know you can do it. Afterall, you've done it before!" He smiled brightly, almost care-free. "Copy me. Put your hands like this," He put his hands into a cross-shaped sign. "And repeat after me. Kage Bunshin no Jutsu!"

The man put his hands down, motioning Naruto to try. Naruto frowned, but nodded his head. He put his hands in a cross-shape before he could feel his mind slipping a bit.

Scenes raced in front of him. A man with bones coming out of his skin, Kakashi in that wierd ninja outfit, a strange guy covered in sand, another silver haired guy, even a guy with orange hair and loads of piercings.

"KAGE BUNSHIN NO JUTSU!" Naruto shouted. He suddenly felt like he wasn't alone. Turning around, he found...himself. A WHOLE LOTTA HIMSELF!

"WHAAA!" They all shouted simultaneously. "YOU'RE ME!"

"And that is the shadow clone jutsu. You can create multiple flesh and body clones of yourself." The man smiled.

"ALL RIGHT! THIS'LL MAKE CLEANING WAY EASIER!" They all cheered, somehow unfazed by the fact that there were clones of him everywhere.

"Naruto,"

The group turned to him.

"I'll see you again."

"Huh?" A flash blinded the blondes. When Naruto gained conscious, Midna was screaming in his ear.

"WAAAAAAKE UUUUUP!"

"OWOWOWOWOWOWOWW! That hurt Midna!" Naruto shouted, covering his ears.

"I've been calling to you for the past five minutes! What the heck happened?"

Naruto looked at his hands, grinning maniacally. "I just learned one of the coolest techniques...EVER!" The blonde jumped up, bursting with adrenaline. "Let's get going! We've got to find more of those fused shadow thingies, right?" Naruto ran off, leaving Midna and a trail of dust behind him.

"Hey! Wait for me!" Midna flew after Naruto, trying to catch up.

Naruto stopped as he turned a corner, waiting for Midna to catch up. The only reason he had stopped running in the first place was because he didn't know where he was going. He looked ahead to see Rock Lee slumped over by his pot of soup.

"Uhh..."

"I'm bored..." Lee said.

"Well...why don't you DO something?"

Lee looked up. "Like what?"

Naruto scratched the back of his head. "Umm...I don't know, do some push-ups? Go swimming? Climb trees? I don't know, it's kinda up to you to decide." The blonde shrugged.

"Well...I've always dreamed of becoming a martial artist..." Lee blushed.

"The why don't you chase after that dream? What's stopping you?" Naruto crossed his arms.

Lee looked up. "I...I don't know..."

"WELL THEN WHAT ARE YOU SITTING AROUND FOR?" Naruto yelled, startling Lee.

"Wh-what?"

"If you have a dream, then chase after it! Don't let it slip past you! Or is it just something to do?" Naruto glared at the oil salesman.

"N-no! It most certainly is not!" Lee stood up abrutly. "I have longed to be a great martial artist since I was in the orphanage!"

"Then why are you just sitting around here selling oil in a spot that people rarely come through?"

"Oh...umm...well, I had thought of making some money so I wouldn't be starved and could pursue my dream..."

"But almost nobody comes through here..."

"Ah! W-well...since you pointed it out, I guess not...hahaha..." Lee laughed nervously, scratching the back of his head before slumping over. "I'm not a very good business man, am I?"

"Sorry, but no." Naruto sweat-dropped at the gloomy salesman. "Umm...Why don't you try going to Hyrule Market? I'm sure if you set up shop there you could pick up some money...if not you might find a teacher..."

"Oh! An Excellant idea Naruto! I will leave immediately!" In a flurry of dust and crap, Rock Lee had pack up his entire house...as in, THE HOUSE ITSELF...Naruto stared at the boy who showed only the slightest hint of being tired.

"Umm...you don't really have to..." Rock Lee snatched his hand.

"THANK YOU SO MUCH NARUTO! YOU HAVE RE-LIT THE FIRES OF MY DREAM AGAIN!" Lee was suddenly at the gate entrance. "FAREWELL MY FRIEND! MAY WE MEET AGAIN!" And with that, the bushy-browed salesperson was gone. Naruto could only stare at the trail of dust, even as Midna slowly floated up to him.

"Great spirits...(gasp)...you run WAY too fast..." Midna looked up to see Naruto staring off into the distance, the dust already having cleared. Turning to see what he was staring at, Midna sweatdropped as she squinted, trying to focus on an image in the distance. "Is that...a HOUSE?"

"That is one determined Martial-Artist..." Naruto mumbled as the house disappeared out of sight.

~Hyrule Field~

Naruto stood in front of the always intimidating door to the Twilight Realm, sweating a little.

'Oh man...I gotta go BACK into the twilight? It was annoying enough the first time...' Naruto thought gloomily. "Do I really have to?" Naruto complained to his shadow.

Midna appeared in front of Naruto, pouting. "Yes, you do. Now, would you like to enter the Twilight Zone?"

"Yeah..." Naruto sweatdropped. 'Why do I think of a telephone's Answering Machine when I hear her say that? Wait...what's a telephone?' Midna floated into the door, creating a rippling effect. A split second later a giant hand appeared and grabbed Naruto, making him scream as he was dragged into the twilight zone.

~Twilight Zone~

Naruto groaned as he stood up, his voice echoing. A strange feeling erupted from his chest before he crouched down, shards of twilight slamming into him making him transform back into a blue, nine-tailed fox. Naruto's fox ears twitched and he grinned. Quickly jumping to the side, Midna missed her seat and slammed onto the ground. Naruto started rolling around, laughing as Midna tried to dislodge herself from the ground.

"Maybe you should be a little nicer when you bring me into the Twilight Realm." Naruto grinned.

"Shut up..." Midna said as she popped up from the ground.

Naruto yipped, his voice once again lost. The fox's ears drooped again before Midna jumped onto his back. "Well, now that you're nice and quiet again, let's get going."

Naruto growled before he began to trot along the path. He stopped as he noticed something. It was his wooden sword! Naruto suddenly yipped, startling Midna, before running over to the broken weapon. The two pieces lay in front of him, but not a single one of the children were there. He began sniffing the sword before his eyes opened wide. An image of Konohamaru holding the sword appeared in his mind. With him were Moegi, Udon and Inari.

'The children!' Naruto suddenly howled up into the air, the sound echoing throughout the valley.

Inari, sitting in the chieftan's house, heard the howl. Konohamaru did too apparently, as the two turned to each other, nodding.

"So you heard it too..." Konohamaru said.

"Yeah..."

"Heard what?" Moegi asked, shaking a little bit.

Konohamaru and Inari turned to each other before grinning.

"We heard a hero!"

"A hero?" Moegi asked, before her eyes widened.

"Naruto." Udon stated, a smile on his face.

"Who is this Naruto?" The Chieftan asked.

Konohamaru looked at him. "It was about three years ago..." He started. "Naruto is a fighter from our home village, and he's one of the coolest guys around!" Konohamaru shivered in excitement.

"What happened three years ago?" The chieftan's son urged.

"Our village was attacked by a group of bandits. It's why there are gates you need to pass through to get to the village." Udon explained.

"They tried to attack the village, but Naruto and Rusl and Kakashi and Cheif Bo, they all stood up to them! Only four guys, and they beat all of the bandits back!" Konohamaru pumped his fists up into the air.

"Are you sure Naruto really did anything? Un." Deidara, a bomb-maker, pointed out.

"YEAH! WE ARE!" Inari and Konohamaru shouted in unison.

"There were twenty-four bandits, but seven of them got past Naruto and the others and tried to attack us." Udon said.

"Yeah! But Naruto ran in front of us and told us to duck!" Moegi giggled excitedly.

"And then Naruto went, WHOOSH!" Konohamaru spun around, swinging an imaginary sword in his hands. "And he blasted them all away!"

"Wow!" The chieftan's son's eyes sparkled. But he suddenly stopped. "But...how do you know it's him?" He asked.

Inari smiled. "After he would beat an opponent or find something that really made him happy, he would scream to the sky." He shook his head. "Me and Konohamaru thought we had heard him shout...I think he found the wooden sword that Konohamaru had."

"Which means he's on the way!" Konohamaru said excitedly.

The Chieftan smiled. 'This young man, who seems to have the ability to re-kindle these children's hopes with just his name...I would like to meet him. He seems to be a person without a single worry in his life.' He thought.

Naruto frowned as he watched the orb of light float towards his leg, which had the leaf anklet wrapped around it. He had talked to the light spirit, gotten the Vessel of Light, and had already started working on restoring the land back to the way it was. But he had found a electric bug and chased it into a house...which apparently had explosives, and a fire was lit...

Naruto frowned, his ears down as he stared at the destroyed house. 'Whoops...'

"Oh what are you staring at? So the house blew up, they can build again!" Midna scoffed. Naruto glared at her.

'Stupid imp...bet she doesn't care about anyone except herself...' He grumbled in his mind.

~Omake~

Rock Lee sat on his stump, staring up into the sky.

"I'm bored...Nothing interesting ever happens around here..."

The bushy-browed merchant slumped as his soup gurgled. Around him explosions erupted, cuccoos ran around frantically as bokoblins chased after them and Naruto giggled happily as he flew through the air thanks to his chakra-jumping. Inari was bawling as his fishing pole broke, Sakura was screaming at Ino, who was drooling over an irritated Sasuke, who kept getting hit in the back of the head by Konohamaru's bad aim with the slingshot. Moegi and Udon were running from bees thanks to Konohamaru's bad aim, and a tiny Kakashi was riding on Pakkun giggling over an orange book.

"I'm bored..." Lee said.