I AM SOOOO SORRY THAT I HAVEN'T UPDATED! Kudas took longer than expected and the hotel was completely trashed so my mom was stuck pulling foriegn kids back to America to clean up their messes. Here's the story...


"Whatever. Lay the boy on the ground. Try not to hurt him the process though." said Tsunade urgently.

"Why can't we just shushin to the hospital?" asked Naruto, confused. "Wouldn't it be more convenient to work in the hospital than on the ground outside the city gate?" Tsunade blinked.

"You can shushin?" asked Tsunade, surprised.

"They don't call me Yellow Flashy for nothin' ya' know!" said Naruto happily. Tsunade stared at Naruto in surprise.

"I guess it would be easier..." Naruto flashed a grin, mock-saluted Itachi and Sasuke, and vanished in a cloud of thin dust with Haku. Tsunade rolled her eyes before vanishing after the show-off.


"How many missing nin is that guy going to bring in?" questioned a nurse quietly to another as the doors swung open and Naruto ran in with an unconscious Haku. He smirked at the nurses.

"I'm sure Tsunade-san would appreciate a room free of harassing nurses, if you don't mind." stated Naruto as Tsunade appeared beside him, cocking her head in distaste of the hospital.

"The place never changes..." she muttered. The nurses stared in shock.

"Lady Tsunade!" they exclaimed. She only strode down the hall to the right. Naruto followed after her, ignoring the yells from the nurses.

"Lay the boy on the cot. I'll be quick." Stated Tsunade as she entered an empty room. Naruto nodded and gently laid the unconscious boy on the medical-papered cot. Tsunade looked over Haku critically before cracking her knuckles. She bit her lower lip lightly as her hands began to emit a dark blue light. Naruto was forced to keep Haku from jolting upward as the obvious pain racked through the frail boy. Tsunade let the light fade slightly then diminish completely. She sighed tiredly and sat down in a chair next to the cot quickly, rubbing her forehead. "Who are you? You look like Minato-kun, but I know for a fact you aren't him. He wouldn't risk his life for a missing-nin. Who is the nin and what is your relation to him?" Naruto gave the prodigous woman a mocking bow.

"You are as smart as I remember you, Tsunade-san." began Naruto. "I am not Minato. I am Namikaze Naruto, Rokudaime Hokage. The missing-nin is my cousin, Uzumaki Haku." Tsunade nodded, letting the information sink in.

"And the two idiots that ran into the tree at the gate?"

"Uchiha Itachi and Sasuke. They aren't usually idiots...they must have hit their heads when we got here or something of that sort..." Tsunade blinked.

"Uchiha?"

"Yes. They are two Uchiha. Brothers in fact. I do believe their parents were Makoto and Fugaku Uchiha. They've been through a lot and actually very nice once you get close to them. They aren't really stupid; in fact, they are absolute geniuses. They are my advisors and best friends." Tsunade nodded in understanding.

"You used a time travel jutsu, because Itachi Uchiha is considered a rogue and Sasuke Uchiha should be around twelve years of age, not in his early twenties." This time it was Naruto who nodded. The young Rokudaime looked back at Haku worriedly. Tsunade noticed. "He will be fine. Just chakra depletion. Some sleep will fix that. Hey, that's mine!" The first hokage's necklace had slipped out from under Naruto's shirt so that it was hanging out in the open. Naruto fingered the familiar necklace.

"You gave this to me when I was twelve actually. It belongs to me and has saved my life more times than I can count. I know all about this necklace's past and previous owner's fates. Besides, you are wearing the one that belongs to you around your neck. It shows very visibly." Tsunade looked down and, sure enough, there the same necklace was.

"Still, please be careful. Well, I had best go back to where I was. Shizune-chan is probably worrying herself sick about me. Good bye, Naruto-kun. I hope to see you again,...soon." Naruto nodded and the prodigious medical ninja vanished without a trace. 'I should get Haku-san to the inn. Too many people own Bingo books here...baka book.' thought Naruto as he slipped his arms under Haku's legs and back and lifted the, now sleeping, missing-nin from the cot.


"Naruto-san!" Naruto turned from walking to look at Itachi, who had been the one to yell his name.

"Yes, Itachi?" asked Naruto, shifting the underweight boy he held in his arms. "Is there something you need?"

"Of course not. I was just wondering if Haku-san was all right. He was pretty injured back there. I thought Haku-san would all ready be at the inn; so I went there. But he wasn't there so I was worried that something had happened. Why didn't you just shun-shin there?" asked Itachi worriedly. "Is there something wrong with one of your legs?"

"No. I'm fine. I didn't want to wake Haku-kun up so I chose to walk to the inn." Itachi nodded. "By the way, what did you and Sasuke do to make Tsunade-san so angry?" Itachi rubbed the back of his head in slight embarrasment.

"She wouldn't come so we called her by the one name she hates the most, baa-chan. She, obviously, did not like the nickname." Naruto chuckled.

"Keep me company, Itachi. I'm bored." Itachi shrugged. "So,...where's Sasuke?"

"Asleep in our room at the inn." Naruto nodded. "You've managed to wear him out completely. You know,...he hasn't slept in days. He's been so worried about you. He doesn't want to listen to me, so I've had to give him two chakra IV's in the past three days to keep him from passing out on the mission. " Naruto frowned.

"That's not like Sasuke. I'll talk to him when he wakes up. How are you keeping up with things?" Itachi shrugged again.

"I feel fine. I mean, I miss life where we actually belong. You know, where people know for a fact that I would never betray the village. Here,...the villagers and even ninja I thought I knew better than anyone, treat me with contempt. The act as if I would betray them in the blink of an eye. No one trusts me here. Little Sasuke-outou'san is trying to fight me every time I am in his range of vision..." Itachi looked up at the sky.

"This village will change in the next few years, Itachi. We all know that very well." Naruto smiled at his close friend. "You look like a Nara now. Cloud watching while walking down a deserted street." Naruto shook his head, chuckling to himself. Itachi let a small smile show through his stoic face.

"Thanks Naruto,...for everything." Naruto grinned his trademark grin.

"You owe me no thanks, friend. Come on, Itachi. We're here." Naruto opened the door to the inn with his foot and lightly kicked it open, careful not to crack the wood. Itachi quickly caught the door before it could shut him out and followed after his Hokage.


Okay people, I am really sorry that I haven't added to this story in...pretty much forever! Please forgive me. I am personally very proud of this story and would love to have some suggestions on what to do in the next chapter besides what will obviously happen. If your suggestions involve me writing anything with yaoi, yuri, lemons, limes, hentai, or any thing along those lines I will completely, and utterly, ignore them. I have nothing against yaoi or yuri, I just can't write it to save my life. Only in America will you only find one definition of love when really there's more than seven. I'll try to update soon, but it's summer and most of the time, I have no access to a computer. Forgive me, please! This is a short chapter, I know. But I only have the computer for a few minutes.