Chapter 11: The ticket

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"Blah"-someone talking

'Blah'- someone thinking

"Blah"- Demon talking

'Blah'- Demon thinking

So who thinks Gai-sensei and Lieutenant Armstrong are basically the same person in different worlds?

Here it is:


"How?! Why are you here?" Naruto asked shocked and a bit nervous.

"I wanted to thank you for helping my son receive a minimal sentence." The older man replied in a grateful and sincere voice.

"What's the real reason?" Naruto asked questioned more sternly.

The older ninja turned to look at Tazuna and Inari who were busy tending to the woman's wounds.

"Let's take a walk Naruto."

Naruto grumbled something about his arm and walked outside following the masked shinobi.

"Naruto I have a favor to ask you. A-" But before he could continue his sentence he was cut off.

"Woah, buddy before you ask me any more favors I want to know your name." Naruto yelled at the man, the blonde's face contorted in his annoyance.

"… Well Naruto I will tell you. You should feel privileged only three people know my name and you shall be the fourth. But before you learn it you must swear not to tell it to anyone without my consent."

"Okay, I swear I will never tell anyone you name without your consent." Naruto responded quickly, curious to find out this hidden name.

"My name is Adem-ru, Abudara" Naruto raised an eyebrow at the name but just shrugged it off.

"Alright Abudara what do you need?"

"There have been a growing number of ninjas who are forming a group dedicated to getting power just as powerful as the akatsuki."

"Who are the Akatsuki?" Naruto questioned while scratching his head.

"I'm surprised Jiraiya has not told you yet but right now it doesn't matter. The reason I'm asking you this is I have been ordered by my leader to amass new members into our group rising and powerful ninja's from all villages and I have nominated you as one of them."

"So what do I have to do?"

'Well we're not asking you to come yet after all you're only a genin but we will need your help in a few years so in the meantime we ask you devote yourself to training. We will have a messenger come and give you info every few months."

"Well I guess I'll do it if it will help me get stronger."

"Oh it will Naruto. The only thing you should be doing right now though is seeing Ryoku about your condition.

Naruto looked down at his arm for a moment "I will definitely get healed righ-" Naruto stopped seeing Abudara had vanished.

Naruto looked around for a second then with a sigh walked back into the house.

Tazuna seeing the boy re-enter stood from where he had been kneeling and administering medical cream to his daughters face.

"Thank you very much for protecting my daughter I am eternally indebted to you" Tazuna said bowing slightly.

"Aww, it was nothing." Naruto said grinning sheepishly, "In fact the only reason it happened is because Gato is no longer here to give them things to do."

"What do you mean?" Tazuna asked very confused, his emotions undulating on his face.

"He's dead, after I killed Zabuza, my sensei killed him."

Tazunas heart skipped a beat. "So wave country is free?"

"Well if you mean no more gangsters then yeah."

Tazuna leapt in the air "Thank you so much, er… I don't believe I caught your name before."

"The name is Uzumaki, Naruto" the blonde said readjusting the headband given to him the day of the mission by Tsunade. On the head band were two symbols the leaf symbol and the cloud symbol.

"I am so glad you have saved us Naruto because of you I can finished my bridge that will connect wave country with the main land."

"Why were you building a bridge?" Naruto asked curiously.

"To improve the economy by bringing in traders and tourists, of course." Replied, the grey haired man. "With this bridge the wealth of our village will increase exponentially.

Naruto sat their taking in the importance of the bridge.

"Naruto we should hold a celebration for you and the other ninjas." Tazuna yelled happily causing Inari to smile.

Then in a subtle motion Tazuna moved next to the blonde and whispered in his ear covering his mouth so Inari couldn't here. "You Naruto at celebrations the size we'd have everyone gets drunk. And you know what happens when everyone gets drunk?" he whispered mischievously.

Naruto could only shake his head. Tazuna was acting like a drunken teenager in his glee. Tazuna laughed again "You get laid."

Naruto blushed bright red at the comment. Lifting his left arm up, Naruto gave Tazuna two seconds to stop laughing, when he didn't Naruto slammed his fist into Tazuna's head, while the man was bent over laughing.

Naruto sighed at the figure of the man still laughing on the floor. "Well old man I'm on a mission right now so a celebration is out of the question in fact I have to go now, but do you think you could advise me on which ferry to take to the village hidden in the clouds?"

Tazuna outrageous laughter slowly was subsiding as he stood up and walked into another room. Naruto who wasn't sure to wait or follow hesitated long enough for Tazuna to return pencil and paper in hand.

"Here" Tazuna said writing down a message on the paper carefully so they could be sure to read it. "Give this to Eiden, Suto-mi be sure to ask for him at the dock only seven kilometers north of here, he is well known so you should not have trouble finding him.

Naruto raised his good arm to take the paper but as he grabbed it Tazuna held it still both their hands on the ticket to the village hidden in the clouds.

Naruto looked up at the old man who had a serious look on his face.

"Naruto this village will never be able to repay you for the good you've done to help this village. Please remember that."

Naruto nodded at the man. Naruto then turned and began to walk off. Naruto turned around about two hundred feet away from the house and waved good bye to both Tazuna and Inari who was hugging his grandfather.

Naruto turned around after seeing the relatives wave back. "Oh! And Naruto!" Tazuna yelled out. "We don't need YOU to have a celebration."

Naruto chuckled at the old man and right before he was out of hearing range shouted back, "True you don't need me to have a party but you do need me to have a good party."

Naruto grinned his foxy grin and waved to a few villagers who were staring at him. After a delayed reaction they nodded back before continuing on with their labor.

He saw his teammates as soon as he entered the towns main plaza, "Hey, Hinata, Shikamaru over here." Naruto called out spotting his friends walking towards him.

"Naruto-kun where were you?" Hinata asked, too curious to be nervous.

"Uh… Nowhere!" Naruto replied, grinning at what he thought was a smart reply.

"Dobe" Neji muttered shaking his head before turning around and heading towards the docks.

"Guess what guys! I found a guy who gave me a ticket to Lighting country." Naruto grinned holding up the paper Tazuna had given him.

Shikamaru smirked this was to good a chance to give up to laziness. "How'd you get that paper if you didn't go anywhere Naruto?" he questioned, his left eyebrow raised faking suspicion

"Uh, well you see..." Naruto said scratching his head. Both Tenten and Hinata giggled at the bewildered blonde.

Naruto gritted his teeth in annoyance. "Shikamaru always being so smart" he muttered to himself under his breath, unfortunately for him it was loud enough for the rest of the group to here and they began laughing even louder.

"Now, now what's with all this commotion?" Kurenai asked appearing in a cloud of smoke.

Naruto not waiting for anyone to embarrass him further handed Kurenai the piece of folded paper.

"I saved a woman from being raped and in return her father rewarded me by giving me this and telling me to find a man named Eiden, Suto-mi and Suto-mi will take us to Lighting country."

All of the group just looked at Naruto in silence for a few moments before Lee finally spoke up, "Naruto your flames of youth burn so brightly not even the wettest of waters could quench your flame."

"Thanks Lee" Naruto said acknowledging the remark for the sincere compliment it was.

"Tenten nodded hesitantly at first before giving Naruto a question glance. 'Who is this guy.'

"Not bad Naruto" Shikamaru said, clasping his arm respectfully.

But it was Naruto's hurt arm.

Naruto cringed slightly before watching everything start to spin.

Shikamaru pulled Naruto back up from mid fall, and with a sigh pulled Naruto's good arm around his shoulder and let Naruto's rest his weight on him.

'Sorry, Naruto.' Shikamaru thought, 'I didn't think your arm was that damaged.' The lazy ninja looked at Naruto,s hanging head.

Inside Naruto

Naruto slowly got to his feet. 'Where am I?" he wondered as he looked at the floor which was covered by a thin layer some sort of green liquid. Staggering down the hall he encountered an open door.

Naruto knew that behind this door lay the demon that spawned the village's hatred. Naruto also knew it was the only way to get an answer to why he was in so much pain.

"Kit you must see your sensei quickly!" The Kyuubi bellowed as soon as Naruto walked in the room.

"What??? The… HELLL????" Naruto shouted as he looked at the demon behind the bars of its cage.

Inside the cage was no longer a dark, black, abyss but a world teeming with life Naruto looked at the forest. The Kyuubi sat calmly on the ground a couple of foxes playing in front of his giant frame.

The foxes were the same size as regular foxes but with one important difference each fox had more than one tale.

Naruto gulped remembering the time Ryoku had created a world using chakra it wasn't just a place with a little vegetation but a world as big as the one they were in. In the distance houses sat on the smoke rolling from the chimneys.

"Kit I will talk to you another time but remember go to your sensei your affliction is getting worse."

Naruto nodded slowly beginning to feel dizzy and he closed his eyes. When he woke up he was flying across the ground.

The blonde weakly tilted his head in the direction of his carrier. "Hey, Shikamaru." Naruto said with a small pained grin.

Shikamaru grinned at his friend, "Man, and Chouji asked you to protect ME. hah"

Naruto sent Shikamaru a questioning look. "How?"

"I know my friends Naruto." He replied in a tired tone.

"Hey guys!" Lee shouted from up ahead of Shikamaru and the weary Naruto. "I see the port."

Naruto closed his eyes and began to embrace himself in chakra slowly easing the pain until the sharp sting was only a slight throb asking for attention.

"Alright every one this seems to be the place." Kurenai said looking at the bustling town much livelier then the southeastern coast where Tazuna had been the only reasonably, friendly person.

"Okay everyone, stick together I don't want to have to look for those who don't find the right ship when everyone else has got it!"

"Yes sensei." The genin chorused alright now where should we start.

"Biggest to smallest!" Naruto said quite energetically for some one who had regained consciousness five minutes ago.

"I disagree Naruto," Lee replied calmly, "The most youthful things are not always the biggest. Therefore I vote we go from the smallest to largest ships."

Neji smirked "You idiots are arguing over the order of which ships to look." He shook his head.

Kurenai just put her hand to her head and counted to ten. Surprisingly she felt a little better. "Alright we're going to go small-"

Naruto in a brilliant display of tactics cut her off. "Uh, sensei I could created a dozen or so clones to check the ships."

"… Well… Naruto I don't think it would be wise in your condition." Kurenai replied hesitantly.

"Sensei, I'm hurt physically I'm not out of chakra." He replied.

Kurenai sent Hinata a quick questioning glance. Hinata quietly turned on her Byakugan and then after a few seconds of closely examining the deterioration of Naruto's arm turned back to Kurenai and nodded. Then she quietly turned her Byakugan letting out a sigh of relief that know one had noticed.

"Alright Naruto go ahead and make it quick. We only have three days if we want to make it to Lighting country on schedule."

"Kage bunshin no jutsu!" Naruto yelled while fifteen clones popped into existence and immediately dashed towards the boats. As soon as the clones were completely gone from sight Naruto sat down his leg forming a pretzel in the dirt of the street. "Woah that winded me more than I thought," he said stopping his headd from falling to the ground while struggling to stay awake.

Shikamaru sighed before walking to the side of the road and lying down on a bench.

He looked up at the clouds as a content look settled on his face. 'Man it would be troublesome but if I learned that technique I could look at the clouds all day.'

After five minute Kurenai was growing impatient whan a blonde headed ninja ran into her. "Sorry sensei" the clone said pulling Kurenai to her feet, "We found the ship."


Okay I know this took a long time but school has been a pain please forgive me. Anyway happy mother's day. Review please!

Japanese names meanings:

Ryoku-seishin- spirit power

Suto-mi- Stormy

Adem-ru- noted fighter