team 7's 4th member

Chapter 21

The reunion of an old team

Crash's P.O.V.

Me and my students continued on our way to the restaurant. Having a conversations

On our way there we saw Iruka covered in purple paint chasing Sarutobi's grandson. "Come back here Konohamaru! YOU'RE NOT GETTING AWAY WITH THIS!" I let out a small chuckle and made a lightning clone to help in catching him. And we went on my way to the ramen shop. When we finally arrived we went in I told the two that they can only have two bowls "One pork One meso." "2 beef." "2 chicken and mushroom." "Wait there are more flavors than I knew about why did you tell me Teuchi?" "Because their newly added.""By the way sensei thanks for getting us lunch." "Sensei I didn't even know you had it you Crash." A female voice pronounced making itself known.

I turned to see a familiar Kunoichi. She had sky blue hight tied up into a bun by a yellow ribbon. On her wrist were wrist protectors that had what appeared to be white fur sticking out of it towards her hands. She had white straps holding up her shirt. Her forehead protector was going across her chest (And no Crash is not a pervert, though, he does know a big one.) Below that was light Navy blue her pants short were the average Anbu pair. On her leg was a dagger it had the same white fur on the end of it's handle. On her other leg was a Kunai and Shuriken pouch as well as a first aid kit. Her eyes we a navy blue grey you could still see her pupils. Then I recognized her. "Oh hey Poppet long time no see." "Same how's your nephew?" "The usual. At the other end of Konoha "Nova? I haven't seen you since the time in ANBU. How have you've been?" a tan, red haired ninja said. "I've been fine Jey. I've got into an experiment along with Crash. It's to see if a second jonin sensei will help the genin grow faster." "That, sounds cool. Maybe I could get into it." "Jey, who's are you talking to?" A voice came from a side room. "It's Nova, Mira." "Well Jey I came buy to let you and your girlfriend know that the hokage called for a gathering of the 5 elementals at 2. I'm not exactly sure why but we're supposed to be in the meeting room in the tower in a few hours." "Well it's been good to see you again and we'll be there."

Back at Ichiraku ramen…

"...and that's the story." Crash finished wrapping up his story. Seth and Naruto had finished their ramen and left a while ago. "Well it's been great catching up with you. By the way did you get the message?" "No, what message?" "The elemental 5 are supposed to meet with the hokage at 2." "Oh thanks for bringing me into the loop. Well I got to go. I need to pick up my nephew from the academy today's his birthday and I already got his gift." Crash ended before he left for the academy.

With Seth and Naruto, outside the library…

"So why are we here?" Naruto asked. "I need to return that medical ninjutsu scroll I mastered what was on it. And I wanted to get some books on sealing." "Oh, well you do that then." Naruto stated as Seth went into the library later he came out with 3 books beginner, intermediate and advanced. Naruto was playing a game of shogi with Shikamaru it looked like a very even match going on. Then Shikamaru ended it with one move taking Naruto's leader (I don't know the pieces of the game or the rules so I'm going off chess.) "Hey Shikamaru." Seth had greeted. "Hey." Shikamaru lazily replied. He then looked at him noticing the books a what appeared to be a sleeping fox on his head.

"Ah whats with the books and why is their a fox on your head?" "Well the books are for a seal I never finished, my chakra storage seal, I managed to make a stable drain seal. And the fox on my head it's very, very complicated. I can tell you the story if you want to hear it." Shikamaru was about to say something but got interrupted before he even started. "Hey guys what are you guys talking about?" A very familiar voice followed by the bark of what sounded to be a puppy. The source of the voice was a dark haired boy who was was wearing a white hoody that the inside was lined with fur. On his face was fang shaped tattoos on his cheeks and on his head rested a white dog similar to Crash's "Kiba it's good to see you how you've been?" "I was doing fine taking Akamaru on a walk until we saw you. We over heard something about a fox and a story." "I was just getting to that." And with that the story is explained and both seemed satisfied Kiba especially.

With Crash…

"Happy birthday Troy." Crash congratulated "Thanks for inviting us to you birthday party Troy." Konohamaru gratefully said. "Actually thanks for coming. Then there was a knock at the door. "I wonder who that could be." Crash said as he went to door of his home. He opened it to see a tan skinned man. Wearing fishnet undershirt main shirt is a white tank top with a red collar. Pants were black. Plated gauntlets on his fists. Red belt going across his stomach. Orangish hair. His Forehead protector running across his bicep. Holding a long wrapped box.

Next to him was a blond kunoichi she had her hair tied up. And she had pink eye shadow right by her blue eyes. She was also wearing pink lipstick. Her chest was wrapped and she was wearing a pink cloak. Her core had a dark red cloth wrapped around it. On her back was a giant fan. Her forehead protector was red and tied around her neck. She also had on high black sandals that covered most of her legs what was exposed was covered in fishnet stockings. She was holding a small wrapped box. "Jey, Mira! How long has it been?" "Long time Crash long time, by the way where's the birthday boy we got him a gift?" "Come in and please follow me." Crash let them in and he lead them to his nephew. "Oh Troy to people came to see you." "Really who?" the three then walked into the " , !" Troy eagerly said as he got up and went to hug them. "I didn't know you two were coming." "We knew it was your birthday and so we got you something and brought the gift your uncle asked us to hold onto so you wouldn't find it."

"Thanks. You shouldn't have." "Don't mention it. By the way who are your friends?"

"I'm Moegi the sexist konochi in the academy." "I'm Udon I love algebra." "And I'm Konohamaru the grandson of the hokage. But don't call me honorable grandson." "Troy you're needed." Udon whispered to Troy. "And I'm Troy the weapon expert of the group. And together were…" "The Konohamaru Corps!" all 4 declared in sync in the end. A drop of sweat ran down the 3 adults foreheads…

With Seth and Naruto…

"And done." "Okay so what is it?" "If I did it right based off the book it should be a working chakra storage seal." "So how do you know if it works?" "I don't. I'm going to test it." "So what will happen if something goes wrong?" "Well you'll probably either get me to a hospital or find the hokage but, that's one is incase it explodes or a vortex that sucks everything in is made." "Okay then but, maybe we should test it not in the apartment." 1 hour later…

"And that's why you shouldn't be making seals like that without guidance!" The hokage barked at them. "Though your seal did create storage crystals which are very rare. Your lucky to be alive, more importantly unharmed!" "Sorry lord Hokage." "Now that's out of the way do you have anything else to say?" "Actually yes I did make another seal it was a chakra limiter seal. Though I used a premade filter seal as the base when I graduated from the academy." "That I'm okay with because the seal base for it was already safe. You are dismissed." With that Seth left the office with the 5 crystals in hand.

With Crash an hour earlier…

Troy had started to open his gifts. He had received a set of shurikens from his the pooled their money to get it. He was very thankful for it. Then he opened the gift Jey and Mira had brought. Apparently it was 5 silver amulets that had a different colored gem in each one. One for each of the elements yellow for lightning, red for fire, blue for water, brown for earth, and white for air. "Ah, Miss. Mira I have question. What are these?" "There special amulets that are supposed to be shared with your friends. As long as they are worn it means that you and whoever has one of the others will always be together no matter how far apart you may be." Mira had answered. Troy just had a question mark over his head.

"There similar to your uncle necklace." She said as she took out hers so did Jey. Crash then pulled out his. They were all shaped like a triangle that had a rounded base where they were attached on the string. Each one was different color. White was Mira's, brown was Jey's, and Crash's was a solid yellow. They then placed their pieces together Crash's in between the 2 creating three fifths of a circle.

"Cool!" Troy declared his understanding. "Well I guess it's time you opened your last gift. I hope you like it." Troy quickly went to the long box and opened it after using a shuriken to cut the bow holding it shut. He then slowly removed the lid what he saw inside brought tears to his eyes but, these were not tears of sadness, they were tears of joy.

Inside the box was a Wakizashi. (pretty much a short kattan.) The blade of the sword had a green tinge you could see lines in the blade showing how it was forged and cooled. The words "May the will of fire grant you strength when needed." was engraved on one side. On the other appeared to be black flames coming out of the guard. The handle of the blade was wrapped tightly in a special chakra conductive cloth the looked like red and black scales. The guard of the blade looked like the mouth of a dragon lining up perfectly with the flames on the side of the blade. The blade over all looked like it had a lot of care, precision and thought put into it. "The name of the blade is Doragon no ishi to shidō. (Dragon's will and guidance.) I hope you like it. I spent a very long time forging it with the help of a very special smith." Troy just stared at the blade his uncle gave him. When he looked up there were tearing running down his cheeks but there was a big smile on his face. He then ran over to his uncle and gave him a bear hug.

"Thank you. Thank you." Troy said while crying. "Troy that's not all so please pull yourself together."

"Well I think it's time for and Mira to get going we got the meeting were going to. You coming Crash."

"In a bit."

"Okay then we'll see you there."

"Uncle Crash what were they talking about?" Troy had asked. "It's just the reunion of the Konoha Elementals, but I think it would be best if I taught you how to use that sword I gave you before I left so you won't get hurt before you use it in combat." Troy's eye widen. "Come one you 3 can come to if you want to hone your skills." Crash said to the rest of the Konohamaru corps.

They all nodded and Crash lead them out back to the training area. Out back there was a few training dummy to practice Taijutsu a few logs for the same thing, another log that had a whole bunch of slash marks, and finally 3 full body ranged weapon targets that were on tracks. Most of the gang was impressed. "Okay troy I'll be teaching you the first 5 basic angles since that was how I was taught." "Okay." Crash brought out his sword, taking an offensive stance and swung from his top right to his bottom left. "That was angle one angle 2 is the same motion but mirrored. Understand." Troy had nodded. Crash then position his blade towards his right middle before swinging the blade horizontally from right to left. "That was angle 3. Angle 4 is the same thing just going in the other direct. You understand?" Troy gave another nod. "Good angle 5 isn't available to flail weapons. It is stab or thrust which ever you like to call it." Crash then thrusted his blade forward before retracting it. "I want you to practice these 5 angles and always add a cure to your swing it helps keep the momentum. I will adjust what you're doing to make it more refined, but everybody has their own variation of this style." Troy just nodded.

For the next hour and a half Crash was teaching his nephew the basics of swordplay. Then the time came for the meeting he was supposed to go to. He made a shadow clone to keep teaching Troy while, he was away.

At the meeting location in the hokage tower…

"So Nova how have you been?" a familiar blue haired kunoichi asked a raven haired nin.

"I'm doing fine Poppet. I got into an experiment with Crash." "Interesting, can you tell me what it's supposed to accomplish?" "Well it's to see if have two jounin senseis to a squad of genin will improve the strength of the students." "So what are the results so far?" "Well for me I've had some luck in strengthening the team I was assigned; in both genjutsu and ninjutsu. I'm not sure of Crash's results."

Crash. P.O.V.

I had arrived at the meeting room where we were supposed to gather. I soon walked in. And 5 faces had hit me one was the Hokage obviously he had put together this reunion or wanted to talk to us about something. The others were Jey, Mira and poppet. The last was Nova, he was wearing a fishnet shirt underneath his dark orange and black shirt, his forehead protector on his waist like a loose fitting belt, Kunai pouch on his right leg. Pants are lightly colored. There was the smirk that only his red eyes brown hair could produce.

"Nova. How've you been?" I asked wanting to hug him, I haven't seen him since the start of the experiment.

"I'm doing fine Crash good to see you're still in one piece."

"Alright now that all five of you are here I was wanting to inform you about what's going to happen in a month's time."

"I believe you're referring to the chunin exams." Nova spoke up.

"You are correct Nova. I was want to discuss what you 5 will be doing during this event. Konoha will be hosting them this year and I suspect a possible attack during the event. So I want you to be on duty especially because I heard that the jinchuuriki for Suna will becoming along with his siblings. So I want you to be ready for anything that might happen. Is that understood?"

"Kia." Everyone had said in sync.

"Good you are dismissed. Except for you Crash I have something want to talk to you about."

"Yes Lord Sarutobi."

Everyone left except for the hokage and Crash. "

"Crash I wanted to congratulate you one recruiting an A rank missing Nin along with Kakashi. You two did a great thing"

"I'm guessing there is more to it other than to congratulate me."

"Yes, in fact we might have a lead on your missing sister. I have a double agent in ROOT who I can't disclose his name."

"Okay? So what does this have to with my missing sister?"

"I was just getting there my agent had found her name in the members and the dates they join. Listen well she joined a month after your nephew was born around the time she went missing. Though there was a line going through her name and next to it was Mia Cooper."

I was enraged to a new level my lightning elemental chakra started to arc across my body I was pissed. I think I might have terrified the hokage a bit. Next thing I knew I had bolted out of the tower yelling "DANZOOO!"