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Naruto/Final Fantasy VII
Lost Son of Konoha

Chapter 7
Introduction Arc Part VII

The early morning air was still as the sun revealed its ray to the town popularly referred to as Crater city. As the name suggested the city was located in the bottom a crater, no one was certain on how it had been created but there were theories some more outrageous then others. Despite that one of the things that made the town well known was the number of festivals that were hosted throughout the year. Today was the last day of the 'festival of the falling leaves' which would mark the end of summer and the beginning of the autumn season. Parked outside one of the towns many inns was a very familiar black motorcycle.

In one of the rooms our blond hero was seated by the window watching as the first signs of life returned to the town. It had been two weeks since he left Konoha in hopes of escaping the constant bombardment of memories that had been awakened within him, in that time he had been riding around Fire country and had arrived in this town in time for the festival that had been going on and upon learning it was going to be lasting for the next several days decided to stick around for it. Whilst Cloud himself was not one for big crowds and party's he did find the local customs and traditions of the people who lived in this part of the world interesting in how different they were then the ones back in the east. He imagined that maybe it had been like this at one point before it was discovered that the lifestream could be utilized as an energy source and Shin-Ra had practically taken over the continent. He was also wondering what his next destination should be, back home business had been so slow he felt no real desire to return in any great hurry. Besides he could think the last time he'd taken a vacation.

"Today's the last day of this festival, I might as well stay until it's over then I'll figure out what to do next."'

Meanwhile far away in Kaminari no Kuni a group of four Kumo nins were participating in a sparring match that had been carrying on through the night and despite all of them showing signs of fatigue and running on the last vapors of chakra showed no sign of ending. One of them was a blonde, well endowed kunoichi with cold blue eyes who went by the name Samui. The second was a tanned skinned ninja named Omoi, the team's taijutu user as well as a skilled swordsman in his own right. The third member was Karui, a tanned woman with red hair and was an even more skilled swordsman than Omoi who she would argue with regularly. Despite this the two of them were an efficient pair and were able to perform deadly combo attacks.

The fourth and final member of the group was the most mysterious, he wore a dark cloak with a hood that covered his head, his face bore a mask that had canine like features. Due to the mask the man was simply known as Kitsune. His clothing that was visible appeared to be more samurai then ninja, which was capped off by the katana that he was currently wielding, the hilt of which bore a canine head with the blade extending from its mouth, and the wakizashi that was at his side.

The four of them continued to glare at one another until both Omoi and Karui both charged at Kitsune.

"Eager to finish are we, you two wanna go make out or something?" Their masked teammate taunted them who then both lashed out at him with their blades.

Kitsune quickly drew his wakizashi and parried the pair's attacks, however they refused to let up. Karui managed to get in behind Kitsune and drove her sword through his back piercing his heart, seeing this Omoi follwed this up by driving his own sword through Kitsune's throat. The masked warrior made several choking noises before there was a puff of smoke and he transformed into a log.

"Shit, he used Kawarimi no Jutsu (Change of Body Stance Technique)." Karui cursed.

A chuckling was heard and looking round they saw Kitsune standing a few meters away from them. His sword still in hand he made a hand sign, "FUUTON: SHIPPU BURE-DO! Hurricane Blade!" Anyone who was familiar the Suna nin Baki knew of his wind sword technique, however Kitsune had his own variation where he instead focused his wind chakra to wined itself around his blade that appeared to come from the foxes mouth making it many times more deadly.

That done he flipped through some more seals, "FUUTON: DAITOPPA! Great Breakthrough!" He then swung his sword creating a large blast of wind capable of levelling almost anything in its way which knocked his teammates to the ground. Kitsune barley had to savour his victory as Samui lunged at him with a kunai.

"You won't defeat me this time you baka fox."

"I love you to." Kitsune replied as he block her blade with his own. The pair traded blows; Kitsune used another Kawarimi to replace himself with a nearby rock to put himself a good distance away from Samui. That done he made another hand sign, "SUITON: UZUMAKI BURE-DO! Whirlpool Blade!" Like before elemental chakra wound its way around the sword only this time was water chakra giving it a whirlpool like appearance.

"Are you four quite done?" the foursome looked round and saw a girl with long raven hair and grey eyes who looked to be 16/17 wearing robes baring the symbol of Kumogakure no sato.

"Raikage-sama." Samui said.

"The four of you have been at this all night, I know each of you are great ninja's however you are of no good to the village if you drop dead from exhaustion." The Raikage told them.

"We apologize Raikage-sama." Kitsune said as he cancelled his jutsu and sheathed his weapons, "Were done now."

"Very well, the four of you have the day off to recover." The Raikage told them, "However Kitsune could you please accompany me?" Kitsune nodded while the other three members of the team then vanished leaving the young kage with the ninja.

The pair then began walked back towards the village and through the streets, Kitsune quickly realised where they were headed and soon they were before a shine that was cut into a side of a mountain and inside were a group of five statues, the five previous Raikages. The current Raikage, who was named Aoi, sunk to her knees and began muttering a prayer whilst Kitsune stood back in silent reverence; his eyes fell upon the statue of the Godaime Raikage who had been the grandfather of Aoi. He had died fighting two members of the Akatsuki, Sasori and Deidara, if he recalled correctly, protecting his brother Kirābī who was also the Jinchuriki for the Hachibi. After his death Aoi had been the one to fill his role.

The two of them were silent for quite a while until Aoi finally broke the silence, "Tell me Kitsune, was staying out of the conflict between Konoha and Oto the right thing?" The young Kage asked.

"Raikage-same?" Kitsune replied.

"I want to change the direction of our village, for too long we have been viewed unfavorably and of which comes from our past involvements with the leaf, particularly with the Hyuuga clan. I know many of the clans think poorly of me however their obsession with acquiring the Byakugan has blinded them and their hatred of the Hyuuga has consumed them." she then turned to look at the masked nin, "I cannot allow this to continue, I chose to decline Oto's invitation because I believe it would only would have continued to simulate this cycle of hate."

"Raikage-sama, I am merely a soldier of the village, it is not my place to question your decisions." Kitsune replied, "I may have own feelings towards Konoha, however you are my kage and will support any decision you make."

"What are your feelings towards Konoha, these past 15 years that I've know you you've never really spoken about what made you leave" Aoi asked? Kitsune turned his eyes to the ground, seeing this a sad smile spread across Aoi's face, "I see, don't worry I won't push you if you don't wish to answer. Go on, go home. You need your rest after all." Kitsune bowed before using the Shunshin no Jutsu (Body Flicker Technique) to leave. Aoi stared at where the masked ninja had been, 'Kitsune, why will you not make peace with your past? Instead you hide behind that mask.'

In another part of the shinobi world Sasuke and his party were seated outside a shrine, they had spent most of the night travelling and were taking the opportunity to rest up before moving on. Jugo was seated in a meditative state, a technique he'd discovered that helped control his violent urges, with a bird seated on his shoulder, Suigetsu was sipping from his water bottle and Karin was by the door waiting for Sasuke to emerge.

Inside Sasuke like Jugo was also meditating, however unlike his so-called teammate he was not trying to calm his rage but focus it. After all Itachi had challenged him to live a life based purely on hating his older brother, it was what had shaped him into the person he was now and all he had to do to achieve it was by throwing away all his previous bonds and ties with his home and now live as an S-rank criminal wanted in every nation. On some level he was aware that the life he'd chosen was a self defeating one, once he had killed Itachi he would have nothing left to live for, however it was too late for him to turn back now.

He'd already abandoned his home, betrayed its teachings and violated the trust of everyone who had been important to him as well as killing several members of its military as well as civilians, associated with a known criminal and had committed several horrendous acts under his command. He'd also committed mass murder simply to test his strength. No matter what he did he was already dammed, the sins of his accursed ancestors coursed through him and he was making no effort to atone for them. Having had enough of sitting there he picked up his sword that was lying in front of him before getting to his feet and exiting the room to where the other members of his team were waiting. "Get your crap together, we'll be moving out soon." He told them.

"But we've only been here an hour, can't we rest a little longer?" Suigetsu complained. "Don't question Sasuke-kun," Karin snapped, "He knows what best."

"There you go again; you know something you never fail to amaze me Karin." Suigetsu scoffed, "Just when I think you can't act like any more of the stalker fan girl your devotion to Mr Sunshine there sinks to an even greater depth."

"Will the two of you shut the hell up." Sasuke snapped, "Now do as I say, remember that each of you is expendable and are easily disposed of once I have no more use for you." He then fixed both Suigetsu and Karin with a cold stared before sliding his sword into his belt.

"Just how much longer are we going to do this for?" Suigetsu asked, "We've been doing this for the last eight years and we're no closer to finding your brother then we were when this shit started. You promised that if I helped you then you'd help me claim all the blades of the seven swordsmen and after all that time how many do I have, one. One stinking sword, I'm tired of this Uchiha, we hate each other and we barley function as it is." Before the former Kiri nin could say another word Sasuke vanished and reappeared in front of him, the Uchiha's Sharingan was blazing and his hand was crackling with lightning chakra.

"One more word out of you and I shall reduce you to a puddle even you couldn't reform yourself from." The Uchiha threatened, he then backed off leaving Suigetsu silently cursing the raven haired ninja. To add insult to injury Karin gave a 'ha' of triumph before jogging after Sasuke. Nearby Jugo let out a small sigh, it was going to be another long day.

Two days later and we find the formidable sand kunoichi Temari leaping from tree to tree with her three precious little genin following behind her. The foursome were making their way towards Konoha, Temari had been given the task of delivering some important scrolls and since it was a straight forward job she decided to let her team tag along, after all it was good experience for them since this would be their first time outside of Kaze no Kuni and they would get to experience another of the elemental countries, plus they'd earn a little money on the side. It would give her the chance to catch up with her friends in Konoha whom she hadn't seen in a while. It had been a fairly uneventful trip, the only thing that had broken up the trip was when they discovered a family of farmers who'd been travelling to the next town to sell their wares at the market and were attacked by bandits. They had been on the move for a day and a half and it would take them another day before they would reach the lush forest that surrounded Konoha and already her students were becoming frustrated about the lack of anything to do, the excitement about being in another country had long since worn off. Temari led her team on for another hour before she decided to stop.

"Finally." Daichi commented.

"Hey don't complain, just because you're out of shape and can't keep up with Temari-sensei." Nene snapped at her twin.

"What you call me you little brat?" Daichi hissed.

"You heard me baka, are you going deaf in your old age." Nene retorted.

"Old age, I'm only ten minutes older then you." Daichi shot back.

"Will the two of you knock it off." Orion told the pair, however all this did was get the twins to turn on him.

Nearby Temari glanced over at the three of them and let out a groan of frustration, 'How did these three pass their graduation test again?'

She then took out a container of water and took a slip from it. The party rested up for a few more minutes before Temari decided to start moving again, she was about to leap onto the branch of the next tree when something caught her attention. Something dark was moving in the distance but due to the maze of green leaves and branches it was difficult to make out.

"Is something wrong Sensei?" Orion asked.

"I don't know." Temari replied, "Let's go but keep quiet and don't draw attention to yourselves." They then set off again; Temari was slightly ahead of the three genin for their own protection just in case what was hiding was hostile. After a few minutes they neared a small clearing in which were a dozen people who were clad in a grey flak jacket that lacked any pouches in which scroll could be stored as well as a zipper and underneath was a black undershirt that were missing one of their sleeves who had they had made camp there. Although she couldn't see their head bands Temari instantly recognized them as being ninja from Iwa, 'But what are they doing this far from Tsuchi?'

"Sensei, what should we do?" Daichi whispered.

"Let's move, as quietly as possible." Temari whispered back. She was about to lead her team away when six nin's with hitae-ate's with the symbol of Kusaga engraved on them appeared, 'Grass nins, what are they doing here?'

"Are your forces ready to move out?" One of the grass nin asked, we need to rendezvous with the others in time for the attack."

"Hey don't question us, we'll move as soon as we're good and ready." One of the Iwa nins responded, "Don't even know why we need you, the might of Iwa will crush any enemy." "And yet even with your so-called might you still lost the last ninja war." A second grass nin snorted which caused the Iwa nin to draw his sword.

"What was that you snivelling little cur? Care to repeat that?" he threatened as he pointed his sword at the grass nins throat.

"Alright that's enough." Another Iwa nin, who Temari guess was in charge of his group, barked as he emerged from one of the mud tents, "Save your threats for the enemy." He then turned to the leader of the grass nins, "What have you to report?"

"Just here to let you know that the support from Oto will be arriving by noon tomorrow, they wish to you to be prepared to move out once they arrive." The grass nin reported.

"Excellent." The Iwa captain replied.

Up in the tree Temari had listened and she did like what she was hearing, 'This can't be right, is this some sort of Oto Iwa Kusaga alliance? Whatever the case I need to warn Konoha.' Close by Temari's students had been silently awaiting their sensei's orders to move. Orion who had been leaning to try and get a better look suddenly fell forward, he grabbed hold of a branch as he fell hoping it would stop his decent however it broke but he managed to land on another branch. However this caught the Iwa and Kusaga nin's attention, looking up they saw Temari and her party.

"Spies." One of the Iwa Kusaga nins hissed.

"GET THEM!" the Iwa captain roared. Several of his men grabbed kunai and shurikens and threw them at the four Suna nins.

"Run." Temari yelled at her students, she then removed the fan from her back unfurled his and embedded it with chakra, "FUUTON: DAITOPPA! Great Breakthrough!" Imbuing her fan with her chakra Temari released a burst of wind which knocked the collection on flying weapons out of the air, if nothing else this would give her students enough time to get away. "DOTON: DORRYUU HEKI!- Earth Wall!" several of the Iwa nins flipped through seals before releasing a stream of what looked like of mud around the tree where Temari was, the mud then rose up creating a large mud wall. Normally this technique was used as a defensive move however it also made a rather effective way of cutting off an opponent's means of retreat. "Shit." Temari cursed.

"KATON: ENDAN! Fireball!" several of the ninja released a jet of fire at the tree causing it to ignite. Having no other choice Temari leapt from her burning platform to the ground, although she hated to admit it she was now at her enemy's mercy.

"Well ,well, well, what do we have here." The Iwa captain commented, he took a moment to study Temari's face before he spoke again, "Ah yes I recognize you now, Temari Sabaku, Suna's desert bloom and sister of the Kazekage." He then gave her a mock bow, "It is an honour to meet such a lady, now the question is what do we do with you now?"

"Oh I'm sure we can come up with something." The leader of the Kusaga nins commented, a sick looking grin spreading across his face.

Temari raised her fan, "Sorry boys but I'm not so easy." She raised her fan for another swing, "FUUTON: DAI KAMAITACHI! Great Cutting Whirlwind!" once more imbuing the fan with her chakra Temari created another mighty burst of wind, this one having incredible destructive power.

"DOTON: DORO GAESHI! Mud Over Turn!" the Iwa captain struck the ground with his hands, a large wall of earth rose up to protect him and his men. The wind struck the wall which cut through it like paper as well as destroy the camp site; however it did provide enough of a barrier for the enemy to get out of the way.

Nearby Cloud was riding through the forest when the sounds of battle caught his attention, thinking there might be someone in trouble he took off towards the sounds origins riding through the trees until he came to a clearing. In it he discovered over a dozen people, most of them wearing head bands with symbols on them he didn't recognize. However one amongst them was the blond woman he'd met in Suna, Temari if he remembered correctly. "Cloud." Temari said sounding relieved.

"Hey who are you, what the heck are you doing here?" One of the Iwa ninja demanded. "I don't know but if Sabaku knows him then he must also be a part of Suna's forces." His captain said, "Get him." Several of the Iwa nins drew their swords.

Flicking a switch the front part of Clouds bike opened up and he drew First Tsurugi from one of the compartments. Sliding off the machine Cloud engaged several of the ninjas using his large blade to engage, parry and block their attacks. One of the Kusaga made to strike at the blond swordsman only for Cloud to grab a hold of his arm in order to bring the ninja closer to him before nailing him with a knee to the gut.

"This guy is good," The Iwa captain commented, "But let's see how he handles this. DOTON: TSUCHI BUSHIN NO JUTSU! Earth Clone!" Several copies of the captain rose out of the earth; each one of them drew their weapons and charged Cloud. The clones proved to be quite a bother for the swordsman as they had access to all the justu of their maker.

On the other side of the clearing Temari, who was dealing with the Kusaga ninja, glanced over at the blond swordsman seeing the trouble he was in, "Cloud, earth jutsu are weak against lightning." Dodging another strike Cloud reached into a pouch on his belt and took out two small orbs that were glowing with yellow energy, he placed one in the band on his wrist and another in a slot on his weapon both his hand and his sword began crackling with energy.

"Thundaga!" he cried and raised his hand into the air, several large bolts of lightning were released from it striking the clones reducing them back to mud. That done he then raised his weapon and in a single swing used it to reduce two more of the clones to mud.

On the other side of the clearing Temari was also not being idle, the Kusaga nins and a couple of Iwa nins had engaged her. Whist she much preferred to use her long range skills allowing her to take out her opponents with wind jutsu over close combat didn't mean she wasn't totally unskilled when it came to it. Knowing that it had been her one major weakness she had developed her own simple style of Taijutus that was more focused on evading her opponent's attacks coupled with several offensive strikes plus when folded up her fan also doubled as a very effective club. She had just ducked out of the way of one opponent's strikes and delivered a sweeping kick to his leg knocking him to the ground before twisting out of the way of the next guy. The two of them continued for several minutes having dispatched almost half of the Iwa forces as well as several of the Kusaga.

"Stop right there." The Iwa captain commanded catching the two blond fighter's attention. To Temari's horror she saw a few more of the captains clones each of who had one of her students with a kunai to their throats. The Iwa captain was smirking as he saw the look on Temari's face, "I suggest to put your weapons down unless you want to see these dear sweet little children be gutted in front of you."

A shadow descended over the small party of remaining Kusaga ninja, it grew larger and then a large orange toad with purple markings wearing a dark grey shirt with a yukuza sword at its side landed on top of them. Standing a top of the creatures back was a man with long white hair. The man chuckled, "KUCHIYOSE: YATAI KUZUSHI NO JUTSU! Summoning: Food Cart Destroyer Technique!"

"Hey Ero-Sennin, I'm expecting some major compensation for that little stunt." The toad told the person on his back.

"No worries Gamakichi, I'll see to it that you're handsomely rewarded for this." Jiraiya told the amphibian.

"No way it can't be," one of Iwa nins said in a panicked tone, "Jiraiya of the Sannin?."

"I see my reputation precedes me." Jiraiya said as he jumped off the toads back, "Well well, what do we have here. A bunch of Iwa nin deep within the Hi no Kuni, I must say that I find this very suspicious."

"Shut up old man, I don't care if you are a Sannin. I'm personally going to dice you into little pieces." The Iwa captain told the elderly ninja, he then ordered several of his men to attack.

"TSUIN RASENGAN! Twin Spiralling Spheres!" A sphere of spinning energy appeared in both of the aged sage's hands which he used to blow away a pair of enemies.

"SUITON: TEPPOUDAMA! Bullet!" Gamakichi yelled and fired several orbs of water from his mouth at the remaining enemy ninja's.

Seizing the opportunity Cloud and Temari retried their weapons and whilst Cloud went on the offensive Temari made a beeline for her students. "FUUTON: DAITOPPA! Great Breakthrough!" Imbuing her fan with chakra Temari released another powerful burst of wind, this time at the clones who held her students captive.

"What is she crazy?" Each of them commented. Orion Nene and Daichi however had anticipated this, using the clones moment of confusion they quickly used a Kawarimi to substitute themselves with nearby objects to free themselves which their sensei's jutsu took out the clones.

"Are you three alright?" Temari asked.

"Hai sensei." The three kids replied. "Good, now go make yourselves scares whilst Cloud Jiraiya-sama and myself deal with this." The three genin then vanished. Between them the two ninja and blond swordsmen took care of the remaining ninja until only a couple remained including the Iwa captain. They went to make their escape however Jiraiya had other ideas, "I don't think so. KUCHIYOSE: GAMAGUCHI SHIBARI! Summoning: Toad Mouth Bind!" After forming the necessary hand seals, Jiraiya placed both his palms on the ground and the surrounding was transformed into a mass of soft pinkish flesh, the air around them becoming moist and carried a rather unpleasant odor. The feet of the Iwa nins sunk slightly and the flesh formed around them trapping them. "Now that I have your undivided attention maybe now we can have a civilized conversation." Jiraiya said in a solemn tone.

"No need Jiraiya –sama, I overheard them talking." Temari told the aged ninja, "They mentioned some kind of attack as well as having support from Oto, It doesn't take a genius to figure out that Konoha is their target. "Really, how interesting. However I have my own questions." Jiraiya told her, he then turned to the Iwa captain, "You know I've made an interesting discovery recently, many of my informants are turning up dead recently all of seemingly unknown causes. You wouldn't happen to know anything about that would you." The Iwa captain responded only with a glare. "I guess not, oh well let's move on shall we. This attack your country is planning has caught my interest so you're going to tell me what you know." Jiraiya said in a commanding tone. "Go to hell old man." The Iwa captain replied.

"Foolish youngsters, always got to do it the hard way." He flipped through a few more seals. "KAERU KAERU NO JUTSU! Frog Conversion Technique!" he then touched the Iwa captain's forehead and in a 'poof' of smoke he had been transformed into a frog. Off to the side Cloud's eyes widened in surprise, "Did he just…"

"Shh." Temari hissed silencing him. His task done Jiraiya moved on the next Iwa nin who was looking quite terrified, "Now unless you want to end up like your captain I suggest you start talking." "I…I don't know everything, all I know is that we're meeting up with the main force in about a few days time." The ninja replied. "When will the attacks start?" Jiraiya demanded. "Uh…I week, I think." Hearing this Jiraiya picked up the toad that had been the Iwa captain and thrust it into the ninja's arms, "Get out of here and take this with you." The second the jutsu was released the remaining ninja fled the scene leaving Cloud Temari Jiraiya and Temari's three students behind. "This is not good." Temari commented, "We have to warn Konoha and quick. But do you really think the city can be prepared for a large scale assault in less than a week?"

"I don't know." Jiraiya replied. Cloud listened to their conversation, and he was torn over what to do. Given all of the memories that he had seen part of him questioned why he should even care about Konoha given the way it supposedly treated him (and the jury was still out on whether he could completely trust them or whether the baka fox was screwing with him) but then memories of when Sephiroth massacred Nibelheim came to him, how many people had lost their lives whilst others had had theirs destroyed on that day? Maybe the images he had seen were correct but he could not bring himself to allow the lives of innocent's people to be destroyed as his had, to have their loved ones taken away and have to deal with the feelings that came with that which he knew all too well. His mind made up Cloud dashed over to his bike and placed his sword back inside its compartment, that done he jumped on the machine and started the engine into life and spun it around facing back the way he came.

"Where are you going?" Jiraiya asked.

"To try and buy you some time." Cloud replied before he raced away. Temari Jiraiya and Gamakichi watched as Cloud drove off, Jiraiya then let out a groan before flipping though some more hand seals. "Kuchiyose no Jutsu! Summoning!" Jiraiya summoned up another toad, "Take Temari and her students back to Suna and hurry." The toad gave a croak and nodded over to the Suna nin and her students. "What about you?" Temari asked as she helped her students climb onto the amphibian summon before hoping on herself. "I'm going to head back to Konoha to warn them, in the meantime you head home and tell Gaara, against the combined strength of Oto Iwa and Kusaga we'll need all the help we can get." he told her, "Oh and you may want to hold on, the ride is going to get pretty bumpy."

Temari nodded, "Alright, tell your Hokage I'll be back as soon as I can." The toad then let out a croak before bounding away. With that done Jiriaya looked over at Gamakichi, "Head back to and tell Fukasaku to get ready, it will be quicker if I use the Gyaku Kuchiyose no Jutsu (Reverse Summoning Technique) to get there." Gamakichi nodded then vanished in a puff of smoke.

Jiriya didn't have to wait long and soon enough he vanished from the clearing and found himself in the familiar landscape of Myōbokuzan. "Good to see you Jiriaya." Hearing his name the elderly ninja looked over his shoulder and saw an elderly looking toad complete with white hair and beard. "As it is you Fukasaku-sama, however I wish it were under better circumstances." Jiraiya replied, "I need to get to Konoha and fast."

"Yes, Gamakichi mentioned this." The elderly toad said in a serious tone, "I take it you may need our assistance?"

"With Orochimaru involved I wouldn't rule it out." Jiraiya said, his tone matching Fukasaku.

"Very well." Then we best hurry." Fakasaku said before leading Jiraiya to the pool that connected Myōbokuzan with Konoha. Without a moment's hesitation Jiraiya leapt into it finding himself instantly finding himself in Konoha, without a second to spare he dashed toward the Hokage's tower to find Kakashi.

AN Finally chapter 7 is fini, it's going up later then I planned however it was delayed because of tech problems. This chapter was pretty short compared to others I've written but it did what it needed to do and with it finally finished we move into the next phase of this story, The Konoha Invasion arc.

I also want to take a moment to thank everyone who's been leaving comments, the feed back I get is really apriciated and it makes me happy to know that so many people out there have taken an intrest in something I've written. Also sorry for the 'I'm sorry' thing, I try not to do those sought of things but what Kishimoto came up with for is Madara's plan is so stupid that I had to share my thoughts on it

On a more important note (well important to me anyway) Sakura confessed her love for Naruto (does happy dance) and he turns her down (happy dance stops), what really gets my goat is that Naruto said he hates people who lie to themselves when he's lying to himself and can't face the fact that for his goals of peace to have a chance of suceeding Sasuke has to die.

On a side note which when I read a fic not long ago called Five by Five which depicts Naruto holding onto a sugar coated image of the past along with this ideal versions of Sakura, still seeing her as the way she was back when she was 12, and Sasuke when in reality he was a complete prick as it ties in with nostalgic image of the past. He can't accept the reality of the situation cos if he did he would have face up to the face that Sakura is not the same girl she was at the end of part 1 and that Sasuke is his enemy.

First I truely believe that Sakura's feelings for Naruto are genuin, she'd gone from the love struck and weak liitle girl that needed to be protected to a mature strong woman and who has from viewing Naruto as an annoying pest to teammate to friend to finally to someone she could she spending her life with. She may be going to track down Sasuke now however I doubt its because she's magically fallen in love with emo-maggot again (she'd better not have Kishi), Sakura should find him tell him of the situation that the other members of Konoha 11 will be after him and that despite their history she won't allow him to pose a threat to Konoha and Sasuke, aknowlaging their history and seeing her growth, say's she understands and lets her go (or that's what should happen).

Other then that Twilight: New Moon came out, suddenly Transformers 2 is looking really good.

Ok that's me done, I'll start on the next chapter soon, in the meantime please keep sending me your reviews and a big thanks to Jokerisdaking for proof reading this.

Until then peace out yo.