A/N: Holy crap guys. Seriously, I don't know if people are that interested in this story any more and I don't get reviews telling me how to do that. Also, only two people responded to the InoXNaruto thing I asked two chapters ago.

House (To the lamer man, the guy who is a Doctor on this Medical Drama called House) is interested in his patients illness, what causes it, why they lie, other people's behavior, along with many other things. That's what your predictions and reviews (Along with many other things.) are to me.

Enjoy the chapter dudes…

Orochimaru was pissed beyond belief.

Nobody knew what happened and the only person he found alive was useless and now dead. He smiled suddenly.

He did find out it was Huyu after all. Both Jiraiya and Naruto wouldn't have risked an early attack from sound like this by raiding the prison block of one of the Sound bases. So he knew exactly what he was going to do. After all, Orochimaru was one of the masters of revenge. And he knew exactly how to serve the cold meal of vengeance upon his opponents.

'Now, since he's on the run constantly and doesn't live in the village any more for obvious reasons, my opportunities are limited.' Of course this didn't faze the Snake sannin one bit. For he had already figured it out.

'In order to rightfully screw with Huyu's life as he has with me, I will do to one of his friends what he did to that guard. The only difference, my creation will be a punishment from me and resentment from the village.' He started cackling as he continued down the corridor. He had already picked the person he was going to use this on.

Kaida and Sakura had gotten everybody and everything ready. They were amazed at how quickly everything went when everybody pitched in to work on this.

Hide and Akiko had been invited to the party by Sakura, mainly because she thought the two of them could relax a bit and not worry so much about Sasuke.

They smiled and went straight to the Yamanaka residence, and when they arrived they found that none of the adults invited were doing anything outside of that house. The only thing they had to do was decorate, cook and fix up the house a bit. Now it wasn't the biggest house in the world, but it would be able to fit the number of people showing up for Naruto's sixteenth birthday party.

Sakura later went on to invite more people and get decorations. Kaida had gone to invite her list of people to the party and find a cake.

'Maybe he would like a ramen cake.' She laughed at her thoughts when she was buying the cake at the store. It was part chocolate, part vanilla and part strawberry. She got it specially made at one of the shops that the Akimichi clan owned. A few of the non-shinobi or ex-shinobi opened up cooking shops and restraints around Konoha.

Anyway, after everything was set up at the house, Sakura and Kaida stood in front of everyone as they did role call. Kaida was calling out the names.

"Momochi Zabuza!"

"Here." He bellowed from the back of the room.

"Haruno Sakura."

Said pink haired girl looked left and said. "I'm right here."

Kaida face palmed and continued shortly afterwards.

"Hatake Kakashi."

"Late." Gai had said to the crowd, which made most people laugh. Kaida marked Gai down as present and let him know that.

Suddenly someone spoke. "You say something Gai?" Everybody turned to the door to see Kakashi reading his book. Gai whined about how hip Kakashi was and they moved on.

"Sarutobi Asuma?"

Said man raised his hand and said 'here'.

"Yuuhi Kureni?"

"Present."

"Haku? Hey what's your last name anyway?"

Said boy shrugged. "Don't know, I just go by Haku anyway."

Kaida nodded and continued. "Senju Tsunade?"

The Hokage raise her eyebrow, but let her presence be known.

"Jiraiya."

"Here."

"Yamato."

"Here."

"Sai?!"

Said boy fake smiled and said 'here.'

Kaida just looked at him with a glare. Naruto had told her what he had said about Huyu. If it wasn't for her mom, dad, sister, and Sakura, Sai would be a dead man. That's not even the half of what she would've done.

She went through the list and checked all the names of the Konoha 14 minus Huyu and Sasuke, then checked all of the sensei's names off, including Anko's. Then, she checked off Hide's and Akiko's names, and then the Ichiraku family. They said they wouldn't miss their best customers birthday. Then she checked off her parents names and Shizune as present.

She sighed at the list. "That covers everybody then."

"Don't be so sure."

Everybody turned around to the door, again, and saw the Sand trio and Baki there.

Tsunade smirked. "I invited them to Konoha last week, telling them it was Naruto's birthday on the tenth."

"And we showed." Kankuro said as he collapsed onto the couch. "These guys felt the need to keep going without stopping once. For crying out loud it should have been a week long trip, but no, they had to keep going. Why? Because Temari probably wanted to bed Shikamaru and- OW!!" Kankuro was smacked on the head by Temari's fan.

Gaara shook his head as he explained the rest. "I came to spend time with my friend, who so happened to be a type of Hero in the eyes of Suna. Quite frankly I think of him the same way sometimes."

The adult's in the group weren't surprised by this information, considering what Naruto did for them. However, the younger ones were a little shocked. They knew that Gaara, his siblings, his sensei and maybe the council would have praised Naruto for what he did, but they never thought the entire country would think of Naruto as a Hero.

Zabuza quickly picked up on the shock and decided to stir the pot. "Really? Did you guys build a bridge and name it 'The Great Uzumaki Bridge'?" Even though that would bring up Huyu, a sore spot for most, it would make everybody completely stumped.

"Oh yeah, I remember that." Sakura said. Haku was standing next to her as he smiled.

"I would never forget that. They were what saved us from being on the run from the Mizukage and have to work for people like Gato." If it weren't for that, he would have never fallen for Sakura. Which by the way started when he was helping her with the Taijutsu training Tsunade gave her over the last two and a half years.

Shikamaru spoke. "Those two Uzumaki kids maybe troublesome in all sorts of ways, but you have to give them credit for being surprising and pulling through for you basically at the last second."

With that said, everybody thought about everything they have either witnessed or heard the Uzumaki Twins pull off. Everything from the pranks, to fighting off Orochimaru in the Forest of Death, to learning the Rasengan in less then a month. Then, they went on having conversations while they waited for Konohamaru Corp. to show up with the birthday boy.

Naruto was getting kind of annoyed with Konohamaru. He insisted on running through the streets, which slowed them down because of all of the people. Of course if it wasn't for that very decision, then he would have never have noticed that Ichiraku's stand, along with the flower shop were closed earlier then usual today.

He would have questioned Ino on this if it weren't for her speeding up.

'Is Konohamaru just leading us to the party or did something really happen?' Ino thought to herself. She was more convinced that the former was happening, but you never really know with shinobi.

Okay, now Naruto was getting a little ticked off. He had just realized Konohamaru was making them take the long root to the Yamanaka house hold, but it doesn't matter now because it was to late to turn around and take the short cut.

'What the hell Ko, obviously this mustn't be important enough to take the short root, or he didn't know the other way there.' He shook his head as he sped up, now running in between Ino and Konohamaru.

"So you're doing this to save, not just your friends, family, and village, but the entire world? Don't you think you are placing a lot of responsibility on yourself?" Deidara was kind of shocked and half amused. 'He seems really selfish, but you have to give him credit for doing all of this.'

Judas sharply turned around, his mask and hat back on his head. Deidara was talking with his mouth hidden inside his cloak. Just because a sound barrier was put up, doesn't mean anybody on the outside couldn't read lips.

He turned around because he was about to lift the barrier when Deidara said that. If he didn't stop fast enough… who knows what could have happened.

"Yes, now shut up, I'm taking the barrier off."

"Wait… first, happy birthday and second, I'm not calling you Judas."

Judas stopped and turned. "Your not calling by my real name Deidara. If you even mutter it while I'm hear I'll kill you… or you can risk your life helping me escape so that either we end up becoming a two man destroying machine or die trying to get me out of a situation that we wouldn't win on our own. I need to succeed in this."

Deidara nodded. "Don't worry I wont call you by your real name. You said nobody in Akatsuki knows your name is Judas, except for him, so I will call you something else." He grinned.

Judas was getting annoyed. "Well, what is it, we're taking too much time here."

"Your name doesn't even sound Japanese but you obviously are, so I'm going to call you Ryuuzaki. It sounds better anyway." Judas, now known as Ryuuzaki, just shook his head.

"Fine." He subtly moved his sleeve towards the wall and focused chakra near the seal.

Deidara took his face out of his cloak and asked. "What now?"

Ryuuzaki shook his head and answered in his cold tone. "Let's get this recon mission over with; it's annoying as hell, but necessary."

Deidara realized how much of a difference there was between the ice cold tone and the one that made him know that Ryuuzaki was human.

With that said they left the cave, taking their time walking to the mission spot. Deidara took notice to the figure that seemingly disappeared in the corner of his eye. 'So he was telling the truth about that.'

Konohamaru ran inside the house and slammed the door shut. Ino realized he was making sure that everything was ready. So when Naruto cursed loudly and was about to kick the door in, she did the only thing she could think of…

She grabbed his face and started rubbing his whisker marks gently. In turn, he started to calm down, and even purred. She giggled as she remembered that Kaida said she did that to Huyu once.

Apparently, her sister wanted to know what happened when they were touched and she got Huyu to purr and he apparently seemed like putty in her hands.

Konohamaru opened the door and abruptly stopped when he saw what was going on.

"What the hell are you doing to boss?" Both teens jumped a bit at his presence and blushed when they realized Ino was still holding his face… while being only inches away from each other.

She let go and Konohamaru just said. "Everything is ready." And disappeared inside.

Ino smiled as she wrapped her arm around Naruto's. "Let's go in." She basically dragged him inside.

Naruto took notice to the extreme darkness in the house, but it was only a little bit of a problem. He could make out some figures, but didn't know who exactly they were.

Suddenly the lights when on and something sounded like it exploded, then…

"SURPRISE NARUTO! HAPPY SIXTEENTH BIRTHDAY!!"

Naruto's jaw hit the ground. He was not expecting this at all, no one ever celebrated his birthday with him except for the Third, Iruka, Jiraiya on the training mission, and…

'Huyu.' He felt a little depressed that he wasn't able to spend his sixteenth birthday with his own twin. Knowing that Huyu was spending it alone, probably working, made him feel even more depressed.

But he wouldn't show it… not after what everybody was doing for him. Besides, he can still enjoy the party they were throwing for him. He can't let Huyu's… resignation… get in the way of enjoying life with his precious people.

But it didn't mean it won't hurt from time to time.

His thoughts were, quite literally, knocked out of his head when Sakura smacked him.

"Don't just stand there Naruto, say something!"

Naruto completely forgot what he was thinking about as he smiled and yelled.

"I can't believe everybody is here. Even Gaara, Temari and Kankuro!"

Everybody smiled as he was running around the room saying 'thanks for coming.' He eventually got through everybody and stopped.

He realized that nobody, not even Sakura, knew his birthday. Only the Third, Iruka, Tsunade, and Jiraiya knew. He wasn't sure though when it came to the senseis.

"So, how'd you guys find out it was my birthday." He sounded a little more reserved.

Ino frowned. "Well, my sister told me. She said she found out from…" She paused before she continued. She knew this might be sore for… well everybody here. "…Huyu."

Naruto looked confused. He looked over to said girl "Huh? When did he tell you?"

She smiled. "Long story, let's just say I caught him off guard with random questions." She lied, knowing fully well that in order for Huyu and Naruto to have the Hachibi and Kyuubi as… tenants, they would have to have been born on October tenth.

Naruto accepted that, mainly because he wanted to get the party started.

Some music was playing as everybody was chatting up a storm. Naruto had been talking with random people until he got to the siblings.

They talked about the training with the gifts Huyu sent them. Temari got better with her Taijutsu, learning how to cut an opponent with wind chakra if she missed with her punches. She also got some material for her fan that would make it so she could focus more chakra into it easily and making it sturdier.

Kankuro had the most enthusiastic face when he talked about his gift. It was the largest gift that could be given to a puppet master.

In the scroll, Kankuro had learned that Huyu was apart of the death of Sasori. He apparently sent every single puppet, even the ones that were damaged, which included the Sasori look-a-like puppet and the heavily armored one that was almost completely beyond repair.

Thanks to Huyu, he was able to get the necessary parts required to fix the puppets, and had all of them working at 100% capacity. This meant that, the next time they invaded a country, they would most likely win.

Gaara was amused with his 'gift'. It explained Huyu's theory on how the sand should work when he mixed it with his Taijutsu. Gaara could use his sand as if it was a way of shape shifting. It wouldn't be as efficient as Juugo's actual ability to shape shift, but pretty damn useful.

Gaara could either make an offensive weapon on his hands and feet, or defensive objects or armor. For instance, a shield made of sand on his arm while a drill or something like that on his other arm. He could also use it to make up for any missed attacks. He could throw a punch at his opponent while sending sand at him at the same time, but have it wait back a little, to see if he would connect. If he missed the sand would be right there to slam into the opponent or throw him off guard while Gaara attacked again. This would make it damn near impossible for his opponent to go on the offensive and regain his balance after an attack.

Naruto was amazed at this and wanted to spar with Gaara later.

Naruto thought back to the scroll that was received from Huyu in Suna. Gaara read out that Huyu was apart of Akatsuki, but remembered a scroll he found later on saying that during his training later said that it was a lie to throw anybody he didn't want knowing it was him off.

Of course, Naruto took upon himself to let his friends know this, just so they wouldn't freak out and put him on the S-class list and worry about having to hunt him down.

Everybody stood around for awhile, but soon got back into the partying mood. Out of nowhere the music stopped and one of Lee's favorite songs came on.

'Everybody was Kung Fu Fighting!

'Those cats were as fast as lightning!'

Lee turned to Gai. "Gai-sensei!"

"Lee!" Gai screamed

They both jumped into the middle of the room as they started fighting, at least that's what it looked like. After awhile, everyone figured out it was a martial arts dance thing. It was amusing and amazing at the same time. Nobody wanted to interfere.

Of course, Naruto and Kiba ended up jumping in and started to do the same thing, but used their more animalistic styles instead. This made it look like and awesome dance number or a well choreographed fight scene where everyone was equal in skill.

After a few minutes the song ended and everybody was laughing and cheering. Cheering because the show they put on was amazing and laughing because the four of them decided to pretend to knock each other out.

They stood up a couple of minutes later and Naruto was suddenly placed on the couch.

Jiraiya spoke. "I think it's time for my apprentice to open his presents."

Naruto raised an eyebrow, not thinking anybody even had time to buy him or make him anything. Especially since more than half of them didn't know it was his birthday today.

Shikamaru gave him a Shogai game, saying it is good to use for tactics sometimes and keeps the mind alert.

Chouji gave him over a hundred coupons to the Akimichi restraints and grocery stores.

The Ichiraku family gave him a bunch of those ramen cups you have to heat up. Naruto almost fainted at this.

Kaida and her parents said that they would update his garden and help him with all of the information on flowers.

Sakura gave him a scroll of medical jutsu, along with a comic that she found out he liked. Haku had bought the comic.

Jiraiya paid Naruto back for all of the times he borrowed money from him on their trip. Naruto cheered because his frog wallet wasn't going to be so empty. Although that wouldn't be a problem anyway, seeing as how he has the rights to his family fortune.

Tsunade gave him a bottle of Sake and agreed to not hit him for calling her Obaa-chan or Baa-chan for a month.

Zabuza told him that he had ordered a knew fridge and would get it to him by the end of the week. Naruto was grateful, because his milk wasn't staying fresh anymore.

Kurenai gave him the male version of her outfit. It had those white wraps, but underneath would be crimson red pants and shirt. She said he could use a new look. Naruto chuckled as he thought about it.

Anko and Hide had bought him those very expensive shinobi kicks he wanted. They looked like black sneakers with a red streak, but they were made for shinobi work as well as everyday civilian roaming. Naruto almost suffocated them in a bear hug.

Akiko said she would get him something another time seeing as how she didn't know it was his birthday.

Kakashi, Gai, and Iruka, chipped in enough money to buy him a book on shinobi history. Everything since the beginning of the villages. It was very expensive and Kakashi had to persuade a foreign merchant to drop the price.

Team Gai had the same predicament as Akiko.

Team 8 however had bought him movies that started Princess Yuki.

Ino was a little embarrassed by her present, but Naruto reassured her. She had made him a black long-sleeved shirt, which ended up looking like a fishnet shirt. What also came with it was a belt she bought that could hold kunai or various other small things ninja could carry.

Naruto smiled as he hugged her for his present while jokingly said. "This would go great with Kurenai's gift."

After that the Sand trio said that he would get his present tomorrow, for it was very complicated. Gaara said he would get it to the training grounds.

Konohamaru, Moegi and Udon came up with a very long scarf. Apparently they made it together and it had the Konohamaru Corp. Logo on it. It was dark blue and extremely long.

Asuma was the last one. He shrugged as he tossed a pack of cigarettes and a lighter towards Naruto, who caught said items.

"If you don't want to smoke them like I do… just keep them, they could come in handy." Naruto didn't know how but agreed to that. Tsunade kind of glared at him but he shrugged it off.

After awhile they started talking, but not for long.

Tsunade spoke. "I think it's time for the cake."

Ino grabbed Naruto and sat him down at the little table they had in front of the couch. Inoichi went into the kitchen and retrieved the cake.

Once he placed the cake on the table Kaida spoke. "I apologize for not being able to find a cake made of ramen." Everybody of course laughed.

Naruto smirked. "One time, Huyu and I decided to make an Ice cream ramen cake. It was awesome. All we needed was to melt some ice cream, then put ramen in, then leave it in the freezer for a few hours. It was excellent."

"EWW!" Most of the occupants said this. Chouji on the other hand was kind of drooling.

"So, make a wish Naruto." Jiraiya said.

Naruto smiled as he looked at the cake. His name was on it, and the shape of the number sixteen was formed with seven candles.

As he looked at it more he realized something, but blew the candles out first before saying anything. He didn't want wax to get on it.

He looked closer and drew a blank. "Hey, team Gai. Do any of you remember what that message was from that Akatsuki member?"

Everybody just looked confused. Some didn't know why he was thinking about this right now. It was his birthday after all.

"Naruto, my fellow youthful shinobi. You don't have to…"

"What was it?" Naruto seemed a little urgent with this.

Neji recited it. "Judas Mercedes is my name, Yuuhi Muzaku is the game. 67.' Then he just disappeared."

Naruto smirked. He had something, what was it, it will come to him. It was something Huyu and he used to use when they wanted to write notes to each other with out their friends or anyone else knowing what it said. Something Huyu taught him about.

"Shikamaru, what is it when you take the letters of a word or multiple words and switch them around to form something different." He looked at the Nara.

Said boy raised an eyebrow. "You mean an Anagram."

Naruto pulled a piece of paper out of his pocket and a pen off the table. He started writing the message down.

"Okay, first, look at the 67; I think it's supposed to be separated. Making it 6 and 7."

Shikamaru sat down next to Naruto and examined it.

"Why?"

"Because that is the only way for these numbers to be of any use to us. If it was 67 then I don't see how it would be relevant to anything, but separated they are."

Shikamaru looked at the message, thinking about how 6 and 7 would make any difference. He put his hands together as he closed his eyes.

Chouji whistled. "You've got him thinking now Naruto. Obviously you have something here."

Everybody wanted to watch the two boys work on this. For some reason it was interesting.

Shikamaru suddenly opened his eyes. "It must refer to the note. Let's see… it's probably the sixth and seventh word in here."

Naruto nodded. "Exactly, now I think…" He was cut off by Shikamaru when he spotted something.

"Wait… whoa. Hey, the sixth letter in here is M and that's in his name, while the seventh is the E right next to it." He stroked his chin.

Naruto looked and noticed this. "Huh, that most likely is relevant, but how?"

Shikamaru shook his head. "I don't know, but let's go back to this anagram first. Were you thinking that the sixth and seventh words in this message were an anagram?"

Naruto nodded. He flipped the page over to write the name Yuuhi Muzaku.

Shikamaru looked at it closely and started to try and figure it out as did Naruto. Suddenly it hit them both, really hard. Naruto quickly swiped his name off of the cake after removing the candles. He kept Uzumaki on their though.

He looked at Shikamaru who sighed heavily and had a really exasperated, confused, and worried look on his face.

"I can't believe it's him." Shikamaru stated.

"And the M and E resemble 'Me', confirming it is him." Naruto sadily stated. Then he asked the question.

"Why would he be apart of the Akatsuki though? It doesn't make any sense."

Shikamaru shook his head. "I don't know… but if it's true, then he was the one responsible for…" He stopped, realizing that this must be hard for Naruto.

Tsunade spoke. "What are you two talking about, who are you talking about?"

Shikamaru answered her. "Yuuhi Muzaku. Take the 'I' out of Yuuhi and rearrange the letters, then rearrange the 'I' with 'Muzaku'. The result is a name we all know too well."

Kaida started tearing up. 'No, not him.'

Ryuuzaki suddenly stopped, in turn making his partner stop. Deidara turned to Ryuuzaki.

Obviously confused he asked. "What's wrong?"

Ryuuzaki shook his head as he looked at Deidara. "I think we may have a problem."

Deidara's full attention was now on his partner. "What is it?"

Ryuuzaki chuckled a little, making Deidara slightly confused. 'I wonder what's so funny. He barely laughs unless he's hurting somebody.'

"I just had this weird… intuition… that tells me that he found out about my true identity." He shook his head.

"Do you mean Myuuhi Taruno?" Deidara asked, pretty worried.

Ryuuzaki nodded. "You know that means if he comes after us we could be screwed, right?"

Deidara nodded as Ryuuzaki started moving again.

"No way." The amount of disbelief in Tsunade's voice was very evident.

Shikamaru nodded. "I'm sorry but it's-."

Naruto looked at Kakashi. "Hey, give me your book right now."

Kakashi, surprised, asked. "Which one?"

"The new one." Kakashi nodded as he gave it to Naruto. "Jiraiya, you remember every single word in your books right?"

Jiraiya, noticing the seriousness and lack of his nickname, nodded and started going through every thing that would be relevant to the numbers sixty-seven, and six and seven. That included page numbers, words, letters and lines.

"Start with the first page, look at the sixth word, then seventh, then look at the sixth and seventh letter, then look for the sixty-seventh letter and sixty-seventh word. Look for the sixth line, seventh line and if there is one on the page, sixty-seventh line."

They went on like this for a while as Shikamaru got Jiraiya to only look at the sixth, seventh and sixty-seventh pages. Also, got him to look at the chapters and paragraphs for each chapter, as well as the sentences for each chapter and sentences for each paragraph. He wasn't going to risk missing something.

Jiraiya pulled out another book and gave it to Asuma and Zabuza to go through. Kakashi said he memorized the book and started searching himself.

After awhile, Tsunade went out and bought a bunch of copies and got everybody to search through the book and write down what they find.

After a few hours, they started collecting what they had and found that a lot of it was useless. They were running short on options and some were giving up hope.

Kurenai spoke. "This is hopeless, we need more to go on then just those two numbers."

Jiraiya was determined to find out what was going on with Huyu so he started thinking back to the training trip and the conversations they would have.

'Come on Jiraiya, think. There has to have been something that Huyu could have mentioned.' He was searching rapidly when he remembered something.

"Uh… I remember this one time, it was a few weeks before I finished the book, that I got stumped on something and Huyu mocked me for it. I was only joking with him when I bet he couldn't do better, but he took me up on that and wrote all of chapters 8, 9, and 10. I think we should focus on what we find there."

Everybody nodded and started searching. It took another 2 hours to go over everything and started relaying it.

It was 3:00 in the morning when they finally started coming across anything. The party was a few hours long and they only started searching when it was 10:00, then a few hours went by before Jiraiya mention Huyu writing chapters and it was 1:00, and then 2 hours went by and now it's 3:00.

Jiraiya started reading a few lines and found something. He read it out loud.

"Chapter 8 sixth paragraph, sixth sentence. He misspelled pain and put an 'E' instead of an 'A'. 'Pein is going to kill you.' The only reason I saw this was because of the misspelling. He doesn't do those things by accident… at least not anymore."

He searched again and found something else. "Okay, seventh word. 'Leader.' And, sixth and seventh letters from the sixth paragraph and the sixth and seventh sentence are A, K, T, U, S, K, I."

Shino said it first. "Rearrange it and it spells Akatsuki."

Everybody took note of this. They searched the rest of chapter 8 and found nothing else.

"So we have most likely the name of the leader of Akatsuki. The reason, is because of an informant telling me that there is a guy named Pein, claiming to be a god and rules Amegakure." Jiraiya explained this to everybody.

After another 20 minutes, everything that was relevant from chapters 9 and 10 were written down.

Naruto had figured that chapters 8, 9, and 10 were only relevant because 8 resembled Hachibi, 9 was Kyuubi and 10 was their birthday. Now the information itself didn't necessarily relate to the demons and the vessels, but they were the only things that had useful information.

"Okay, we have the sentence 'There is six plus the real one.' Don't know what that means. Then we have 'I am having an internal battle.' This might explain why Huyu went crazy and lost control when he was portraying himself as Judas and fighting Sakura, Haku and Chiyo." The fight was explained when Sakura said she noticed him have an extreme change after he twitched. Tsunade said it must have been D.I.D and explained the mental illness. She wasn't going to say she was sure because she didn't see it herself.

"Then we have the last sentence that was relevant. 'Sometimes, in war, the best offense is a good defense, but only until you are backed into a corner and forced to take the offensive.' Now, in the story, the character was referring to love, but since it's a message, we think he's saying not to go after the Akatsuki and strictly wait for them to show themselves." Nobody liked this, but since Huyu has been in the Akatsuki and know what they're dealing with, they were willing to listen.

"Now as for single words we have the following." He listed them off in order.

" 'I,' 'Wouldn't', 'Hurt,' 'You,' 'Unless,' 'It,' 'Protects', 'You.' Now we have all agreed that means Huyu is up to something and it's a single sentence. I am so glad I put that sound barrier over the house and closed the blinds." Because after all, who knows who could be listening.

"Now for the rest of them. 'He's', 'Not', 'Real', 'Anything', 'He's', 'Not', 'Traitor'. Now, I'm a little confused with this, does anybody have ideas?" Jiraiya asked.

Naruto spoke. "The 'He's Not Traitor' part is probably referring to Itachi." Everybody gasped… except for Hide.

Of course the gasp from Tsunade was surprising. Naruto raised an eyebrow.

"Do you mean to tell me that you seriously didn't know about him Obaa-chan? I thought that when you become Hokage you get updated on all of your spies."

Tsunade frowned and shook her head. "We do."

Naruto was now pissed. "Damn those counsel idiots, and Danzou. Those assholes and the Third were the ones to give him that mission. They never told you!"

Tsunade was quickly getting angrier and angrier. Those three in particular people seemed to make things harder and much worse for everybody. "I'll deal with that later."

"Well, here's a brief summary. Itachi and the Third found out that the Uchiha clan, except for Hide and Sasuke, were planning to form a coup de tat and take over Konoha forcefully. So, Itachi was given the mission of killing all of them."

Everybody had so many different emotions about this new information. It seemed that both Uchiha boys were willing to go undercover in the most dangerous places, even if it meant forsaking their name and shaming their clan. Well, if you could shame it even more then the coup de tat could have.

Anko however felt like she was hit by a train. She loved Itachi and although she was glad to here that he was just trying to protect the people he cared about, his brother and mother, and herself and the village, she was worried about his mental state about killing his family.

Naruto shook his head. "We don't have time for this, what's the single letters spell."

Shikamaru went over it and figured it out. "It says 'The Destined is going to fall.' What does that mean?"

Jiraiya had a pretty good idea but wasn't going to voice it at this moment. Besides, he wasn't entirely sure.

Naruto had basically turned the end of his birthday party into a information fiasco.

After awhile everybody started giving Naruto their farewells and went to their respected homes to rest. Gaara had told him he wanted to see him at the training grounds tomorrow. They were going to go over a few things and train together. They hadn't spent that much time with each other and Gaara still felt he should be closer to someone who basically saved him and his country on more than one occasion.

The only ones left in the house were the Yamanaka family, and Naruto. They had cleaned up the decorations and all of the party favors and finally got the living room to look like it did before.

Naruto smiled as he turned around. He was very generous towards his friends, and the people he considers his family.

"Thanks again for the party and the help you all gave me when I spotted the anagram." He sighed at the information they found. Tsunade and Jiraiya took it to the office and were going to go over all of it.

Aoi spoke. "It was no problem Naruto-kun. We were glad to do this for you."

Inoichi nodded. "Yeah, but now I'm going to go to bed so have a nice night, or day, Naruto." He went upstairs after saying this.

"I'll see you later Naruto." Kaida said as she left.

Aoi saw that Ino hadn't gone yet and smirked to herself. "Hey, Ino-chan, why don't you walk Naruto home?"

Naruto raised an eyebrow while waving his hands. "I don't want to impose."

Ino shook her head as he said this. "It's no problem, really."

Aoi didn't allow anymore room for argument as she basically shoved the two of them out the door. Ino knew her mother was up to something, but decided to leave it for now as they walked away.

They were half way there, no one had spoken yet. Ino looked over to Naruto and almost gasped to see his face basically glowing with the moon.

'Wow, he looks very handsome. Wait what?' She shook her head as she looked forward again. Something caught her eye and realized what it was.

"Hey, that's smoke!" She pointed it out to Naruto as she turned to him.

What she saw was kind of unnerving. He didn't show any emotion and so obviously faked a smile.

"I guess my apartment is being burned down again." His voice seemed almost completely void of emotion.

For whatever reason, Naruto didn't seem to care about this… it kind of scared Ino to see him that way. No emotion, none of that passion he always has, and none of the cheer.

She grabbed a hold of herself as she grabbed Naruto's hand and dragged him all the way to his apartment.

Nobody was there, no one to blame for the fire. The old man that owned the place was outside of the building, which apparently had caught on fire completely. It was going to have to be rebuilt with the damage done. It's a good thing Naruto always moves his stuff to a different location when he's not at home on his birthday. Well, only his garden, training scrolls and an extra pair of clothing. He had also gotten his training clones to bring the family scrolls to Tsunade's office and lock them up in her desk.

The old man turned to Naruto. He still didn't like the kid, but he didn't have that pure hatred for him either.

"You know, I shouldn't have let you live here when you got back. Some people didn't like the fact that the demon came back to Konoha." He sighed, he knew it was the kid's birthday, but he didn't think the building he owned should be punished for letting the 'Fox brat' stay there.

He looked at Naruto. "I don't know if I'm going to rebuild this, you were the only one I had in here. Those assholes decided to burn it up again, something they haven't done since the Third…" He stopped, realizing someone from the younger generation was there. "…Anyway, you're going to have to find a new place. Cya." With that he walked off.

Naruto wasn't angry or upset to tell you the truth. He was surprised though. The old man would have normally tried to hurt him for this, but maybe he doesn't hate him like that anymore. Naruto shook his head

"Where am I going to live for now then?" He wondered out loud.

Ino wanted to ask him about why he was the only one living in the building, and the whole 'Demon' comment. But, she decided to leave that for later. When she heard Naruto's question, she answered it.

"Come and live with us for awhile." She said.

Naruto turned to Ino, not realizing he had asked that out loud, and shook his head. "Uh… I'd rather not Ino-chan."

Suddenly, Ino looked angry. "What, are we not good enough for you? Do you dislike me or something?"

Naruto quickly put his hands in front of him defensively. "NO! No, no, no, that's not it at all Ino-chan, I swear! I just meant I'd rather look for my own place."

She instantly became cheerful and grabbed his hand. "To bad, you're coming with me and your staying in our house until you find yourself a place." With that said, she started dragging him along as he sent a clone out to get his clothes.

Aoi was okay with the arrangement and decided not to wake Inoichi up. He probably would want to kill Naruto. After all, he was sleeping in the futon in Ino's room.

Ino had just changed into her night gown and sat on her bed, pulling her hair tie out. Her long, flowing, blonde hair cascaded down her back and over her shoulders.

Naruto had just walked in with his pajama pants and t-shirt on. What really caught Ino's attention, was the frog looking night cap on his head. She started giggling like crazy at this.

Naruto scoffed. "SO, where is the futon?"

Ino pointed to the wall across from her bed. There was a handle where the futon was, so Naruto walked up to it. He grabbed the handle and pulled lightly, expecting it to come out. Instead, the damn thing seemed jammed. He started pulling harder and harder, to the point in time he put his feet on the wall. Ino was trying her hardest to keep her laughter stifled.

When Naruto pulled for the last time, the damn handle ripped off and he rolled backwards, right into Ino's bed. She started laughing into her pillow, unable to contain herself.

After awhile Naruto looked up to her. "Well… now what?"

Ino calmed down and thought for awhile. She smiled. "Don't try anything perverted Naruto." She moved her blanket and motioned for him to sleep in her bed. Naruto blushed a bit and went in. They lay next to each other, staring into each other's eyes. Finally, Ino says goodnight and falls asleep.

Naruto was about to do the same thing when suddenly, Ino snuggled into him. He liked the feeling so he wrapped his arm around her and instantly fell asleep.

A/N: Ha! How do you like that?!

NaruXIno, InoXNaru begins ladies and gentlemen. Or, is progressing more. Whatever, you know whats happening.

Anyway, I bet you can't wait to see what happens next. Well, you're going to have to wait for the next chapter.

Ha, I've got an Ibanez guitar for my birthday. It's awesome.

Ja ne!