Hell Of A Lot More To Me Chapter 25: Truth behind the lies, a naruto fanfic

A/N: Okay here's what's going down. I read a fantastic fanfic called She Who The Prophecy Foretold and it has totally inspired me to get open that word pad and write again. So go thank Sunset Miko for getting me back on the writing train. And it's really weird for people to say update soon, on like the third chapter when like 24 are up...?? O.o

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Naruto and his group went to a sushi restaurant and all ordered something different, the poor chefs. TenTen remembered what happened last time and she had informed the group in case it were to happen again. They all ordered tea for celebration instead of sake, since they were all under age. Neji raised his glass to toast.

"To everyone here today, winner or not we have all learned something and not to mention had a good time." Here everyone took a drink. Then TenTen stood up,

"And to Naruto, without him, none of use would even know each other!" The blonde blushed, getting the girls to 'awwe' and the boys to chuckled. They took another sip of their drink and enjoyed the rest of their meal. Even Naruto.

After that night they all went to their respected room in the chuunin building, even those who have been dropped from the competition, and they all went into a peaceful sleep, well, almost all...

"Itachi-san..." Naruto whispered.

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Chapter 25: Truth behind the lies.

Naruto tossed in his sleep throwing blankets about. He was cover in a light sweat and was panting silently. Bolting up grasping his sheets his eyes almost popped out of his sockets. Taking a breath realizing that he was in a bed in the chuunin exam centre he paused and remembered why he freaked.

Naruto was confused. He didn't dream. He wasn't supposed to dream. He was supposed to be drilled to the death by Diago. But the old fox wasn't around. Naruto panicked, something was wrong. Very Wrong. He looked around and saw he was in a room, within this dream of his, which was covered in blood, he had never been afraid of blood so it didn't bother him too much. He saw lifeless bodies littering the floor. Seeing no living being in the room he tried to open the door but his hand went right through it and he walked into an also blood covered hall. Taking light steps not even creaking on the hardwood he continued to walk until he started to hear voices. He stealthily moved up beside the door and listened in onto the conversation. Making out what he could.

"...come with me... No!... How dare you!" A dark slick voice said another responded.

"Leave... sink of death! This was a ... wasn't it... Die Now." A voice familiar to Naruto spoke. He couldn't make out much more of the sentence, apparently dreams liked to be vague. Quietly entering into the room he realize he was what could only be described as a ghost, unseen and unheard. Because he was sure he gasped when he entered the scene of a younger Itachi with a blade drawn against a younger Orochimaru also with a blade.

He watched the two fight until Orochimaru laughed and then vanished without a trace. Itachi wondered what Orochimaru's plan was, he turned around and Naruto could have sworn that he was staring into Naruto's eyes, but then the screen door slid open and revealed a younger Sasuke. Itachi's sharingan's started to spin madly knocking the littlest Uchiha unconscious. Putting his katakana away, Itachi walked up to his little brother and brushed a small part of his bangs out of Sasuke's face.

"This is for the best, if you knew the real murder you would go after him and get hurt. This way you will come after me and not him." Itachi said before Sarutobi entered the room.

"I saw what happened through the crystal ball, I am sorry we are so late." He spoke. Itachi nodded and picked up the youngest and handed him over to the Hokage. "Because of what has happened, I am going to ask you to leave Konoha. I am giving you a secret mission an SS rank one. You are to find a newly forming group called the Akatsuki and become apart of them and gain as much knowledge on them as possible. This will not be easy, since Orochimaru has become apart of them as well, you will find their leader and tell them of your killing the Uchiha clan and hope that it grants you admission into the group. Orochimaru will say nothing because he knows that you will be able to over come him in strength." Hokage took a slow long breath. "Finding them may take months even years. Throughout that time I want you to learn and improve your skill. I know that you had killed your father, since he was going to give Sasuke to Orochimaru, but he was the head Uchiha and one of the strongest people of Konoha, there is very little you can learn from here."

Itachi nodded and started to grab any necessary items he would need. The Hokage stopped him just before he left. "Oh and Itachi-kun, you have 2 hours before anyone from the outside will know about this. Your mission is between you and I so they will not know that you are innocent of this massacre. You will be marked as a S class missing nin. You will be hunted by Konoha Anbu for the Murder of the Uchiha clan. In case they do catch up to you, they will be told to bring you back, not kill you, as the head Uchiha now you will receive a 'special trial' in which I will explain what happened on this night. However Sasuke will be present as the last of the Uchiha line and he will also know the truth." Sarutobi calmly warned.

"Hai Hokage-sama. I will accept this mission and I promise to fulfill it to the best of my capabilities. Now I must get ready to leave, I would like as much as a time gap as I am allowed." He said with a bow and left to gather rations.

The ghost like Naruto was in shock and only one work could come out of his mouth... "Itachi-san..."

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Itachi awoke. He dreamed of the night of the massacre and now Naruto knew the truth behind everything. He tried to let the blonde think that Itachi didn't know he was there, but truth was, he did, and so did the Hokage. "It's already starting to unravel Hokage-sama, I would have hoped for another few more years." Itachi remained emotionless as he thought of a reasonable explanation as to why the Hokage would project that memory onto Naruto. Itachi then went back to sleep before his shift of watching over camp came up.

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Naruto sorted out everything he learned. "So Itachi had only murdered his father and not the whole clan. And Orochimaru had killed the rest of the clan before they even noticed what had happened. Orochimaru used Itachi to get the rest of them killed since they were in shock that Itachi murdered in cold blood, which actually turned out to be Itachi murdering for the safety of Sasuke, who thinks that Itachi killed the whole clan, because Itachi used his Sharingan to alter Sasuke's memory so that Sasuke wouldn't go after Orochimaru." He said in a quick breath to himself so he wouldn't wake Gaara, who was feigning sleep ever since Naruto first tossed in his sleep. "My god. I knew there was something behind them, yet, I still don't know if that was just a dream or if it was someone else's memory, it wouldn't make sense if it was a dream because I don't dream... but still I'll ask Hokage tomorrow." He just started to realize that Gaara was awake now that he was more aware of his surroundings. "What do you think Gaara?" He asked.

The red head slowly spoke, "I think that what ever you decide is the best idea."

Naruto nodded. "Good, now move over, might as well have a huggable pillow than this block." He said moving over to Gaara's bed snuggling up to the other demon vessel carrier.

"Good night." They said in unison.

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"Come in Naruto." Sarutobi hollered to the blonde waiting at the door. Naruto entered and bowed. "Now I believe you have some questions for me. Go ahead and ask."

Naruto sat in a chair in front of the 3rd Hokage, he put his finger against each other and stared at them, as if he was explaining something that required a lot of thought to a shrink. "Last night I had a dream, and normal people wouldn't be so alarmed, but I know for a fact that I don't have dreams, I haven't had a dream for over 7 years now. I am always with Diago-sama when I sleep. But it's not that I dream which has me disturbed it was what I dreamed of. I dreamed of the Uchiha massacre and it wasn't like a normal dream I was like a ghost, I couldn't be heard or seen but I saw everything." Naruto said rambling but the Hokage knew exactly what the boy was trying to say.

"Naruto, it wasn't a dream. I to explain every detail of it. I showed you that night so you could see what exactly happened. Now listen and listen well, I won't say it again. He has info projected that memory to you. I couldn't reveal the secrets of that night through speech with you because I don't have the time to tell you about everything that has happened. And I mean everything, including the back of your neck. Now I don't blame you for keeping your word to him, but it would have been nice to know at least that you spoke with someone on that trip. Even Jiraiya knew you talked with Itachi. Jiraiya has been watching over you during training because he was wary of where your trust is." Here Naruto froze. The Hokage noticed this and calmed the boy down, "However he has realized you are only following orders of the demon society. No one blames you, alright?" Naruto let a breath that he didn't realize he was holding go.

Sarutobi took a drag on his pipe. "Now the true reason why you need to know all that. I am thinking of calling Itachi to return back to Konoha. He has informed me on their future plans and he has done what he has needed to do. It's getting too dangerous for him there. And when he comes back the truth will be revealed. Now, since you are the only one close enough to Sasuke and Itachi, you will be the one to make sure they get along, and you will notify me if anything happens. I plan on Itachi returning in about a weeks time. Sasuke will be informed by then and how it goes even I am not sure, but I assume it won't be good. However I haven't finalized this yet."

Naruto stood in front of the Hokage. He stood firmly. "In my honest opinion that would not be the best choice of action." He stated the Hokage raised an eyebrow, "I believe you should allow Itachi back but under a genjutsu, he is capable of creating ones that even the Sharingan can't see through so it wouldn't be a problem if Sasuke tried to see past the illusion. Keep Sasuke in the dark a little longer. He is still mentally unstable, and I feel wrong saying this especially since I am not an Uchiha but it is my best choice of action for this situation." Naruto reasoned.

Writing down in point form on some choices of action the Hokage nodded. "But where would he stay? Certainly the Uchiha house is now out."

Naruto had a burst of genius. "Well, my apartment would be a choice, Haku, Azusa, Yukito, and Zabuza-Sensei will have left by then since they will need to return to Kiri, so he can stay with me if he so desires."

"We will see, now go, you need to practice for your next match." He said.

Naruto comfortably walked to the door twisting the knob he paused. "Oji-sama, I am not positive but I think we have a snake amongst us." The old man agreed and Naruto went on his way.

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Naruto and the other stood anxiously waiting for the matches. First it was Sasuke against Temari. Naruto was looking forward to this all week. And the Hokage said that Itachi would be coming back any day now. Now that Naruto knew the full truth maybe he could communicate with the elder a bit more easier.

Sasuke stood in front of Temari. She held her fan, he held his kunai. He gripped his weapon a little more tightly in excitement.

"Ready... and Go!"

Sarutobi looked to the supposed Kazekage, he sensed something was wrong and decided to act on it. "Ne, you have a very nice daughter, she is really strong, and quite the thinker." He said watching for any reactions.

"Yes, she is..." That was when the old man caught it, the slight change in voice. This was not the man he had been working with up until now, this was someone he knew all too well.

Deciding not to raise alarm just yet, he made a signal to the ANBU on guard to tell them that something was wrong but not to act yet. "I'm glad you think so as well..." 'Orochimaru...'

Sasuke slackened his grip so that if he needed to he could throw his kunai in a split second. Temari was a fierce opponent, with brains and bronze, she was tough enough, but she also had experience on her side. Temari reached for her fan. The two moved with the speed and grace of top rank Shinobi.

Sasuke tried to engage her into hand to hand combat, by throwing kunai to her hands to hopefully knock the fan out of her hands. Temari had fought against people who used the same tactic, and dodged effectively.

Naruto watched along from the side lines, but felt a slight chakra disturbance, and he immediately knew what was going on. Kakashi who was standing beside him was also tense, confirming his idea. "Kakashi-sensei, you seem tense, is there something wrong that we should know about?" He said trying to give Kakashi a hint he knew what was happening.

Kakashi looked to Naruto. "Iie, just getting into the match, it looks like it will be a knock out one." He said with a smile.

Naruto nodded understanding the message back, 'It's a sleep jutsu, they are trying to put the crowd to sleep... at least he doesn't want to injure the citizens...' Naruto thought.

Daigo's tails were moving about frantically. He was anticipating what was coming up and it wasn't going to be pleasant "Yes kit, be careful." Looking to his comrades he narrowed his eyes and nodded. Everyone except Sakura and Ino's team understood.

Orochimaru noticed that the old man had caught on to his ploy and gave his own signal to his team to start. He counted down the seconds. The the jutsu was in affect. Each citizen went to sleep, they were to troublesome to deal with anyways. They ran away screaming their heads off and it just annoyed him. Sarutobi just sighed.

"Finally decide to make your move my old student?" He spoke. Orochimaru snorted.

He stood up and ripped off the face of the old Kazekage, and Orochimaru showed his true self. "Yes, and Konoha won't have a chance!"

Sarutobi watched as Orochimaru ran off to find a more open space to fight, the Hokage just followed him until they reached the top of a building. Sarutobi knew that this was where the battle would be, he had a good feeling that this would be his last battle. He looked to the side and saw four men coming, he looked to Orochimaru and kept a straight face. 'Give me the strength to defeat what I could not before!' He prayed. Orochimaru's tongue just slithered about and Sarutobi narrowed his eyes, ready to give one helluva fight. Everyone should know, an old tiger is fiercer than ever when he senses the end. Orochimaru's henchmen set up at the corners of the building and made the barrier blocking any of the Anbu following from entering the battle. 'Good, at least I won't need to worry about the ANBU members getting hurt.' Grabbing his Hokage cloak he ripped it off revealing his shinobi armor. "It's time we ended this tango Orochimaru."

Orochimaru scoffed at the old man, " Came prepared I see old man, but you're still living in the past! To bad it won't help you! "

"Shut up and fight me Orochimaru!" He said with anger, energy, and adrenaline.

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The jutsu was activated, Naruto and Kakashi countered it, as well as everyone else that was accompanying Naruto except Ino, and Chouji. Shikamaru reached and caught Chouji as he fell, and Naruto raced and caught Ino. Then the sound nin came and started to attack some of the other Chuunin and Jounin that had also managed to disable the jutsu. Sasuke and Temari quickly rushed up to the group. Naruto woke up Ino and Shikamaru woke up Chouji by forcing chakra into them.

"Kakashi-sensei, what do you want us to do?" Naruto questioned to the Jounin who was talking with Gai. The group looked to the Jounin for an answer.

Kakashi narrowed his eyes. "Split up into your groups and dispatch around the town. Most of the civilians that have been in city have already been evacuated to the safe houses. Iruka and a few other Chuunin are guarding them. I want Neji's team and Shikamaru's team to go and make sure they stay safe, the rest of you are to accompany Gai and I to help out our comrades that are battling now. Dismissed!" He said, the two groups that were to help Iruka left immediately and the rest looked at each other with a nod. Kakashi summoned Pakkun.

"Team seven! Wake up any able shinobi that were caught in the jutsu, Pakkun will be with you, Team Mist, and Team Suna, follow Gai and I." The rest departed.

Naruto looked to Sasuke and Sakura, "All you have to do is force some chakra into them and they should wake up. Tell them what happened and then send them to fight. Sasuke, use your sharingan, it will help you out. Start with the shinobi with higher chakra levels. Sakura, " His eyes flashed golden. "You will follow me." Naruto moved quickly and advised Sakura on which shinobi to awaken.

Once most of the Shinobi were awake, they split up, around a 2/3 of them were gennin and went to help with Iruka, the rest was about 6 chuunin and they separated throughout the city to stop the snakes attacking.

Naruto looked around to see if anyone else was around. Sasuke and Sakura stood beside him, both boys were in deep thought, Sakura spoke clearly and assertively. "I'll go tell Kakashi-sensei that we have completed what he asked and see if there is anything else I can help with, you two should go help out anyone you can, and try to find Hokage, make sure he is okay." Sasuke and Naruto looked to each other and nodded.

"May we all return safe."

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Naruto spun around with a senbon in each hand successfully killing the two sound shinobi that were attacking him. He looked over to Sasuke who was panting hard after taking down two of his own sound shinobi. "Come on Sasuke, Oji-sama is close by, just around the corner." He said letting the raven rest on him for a split second. Then the two were off again, not caring about the blood that stained their faces, hands, and clothes.

Running across the roof tops they saw a mass of sound shinobi fighting against other Konoha shinobi who thought about going to the Hokage's battle. Naruto saw the barrier and that his Oji-sama was slowly dieing. Naruto's heart beat increased, he felt dizzy. "No, Oji-sama is strong, he'll make it through. Believe in Oji-sama!" He told himself. Diago was quiet letting the blond try and comfort himself. Diago couldn't say anything because he knew that Sarutobi was long for the land of the dead, but he couldn't bring himself to tell the blonde. He let his presence fill throughout Naruto's body, hoping to help calm him.

Sasuke gripped Naruto's forearm. "Come on, lets go help them." He said jumping off the roof face first with a kunai in hand, landing by a sound shinobi about to kill a Leaf shinobi. Naruto watched then breathed in, he too jumped off face first into the blood and gore.

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"HOKAGE IS DEAD!" One shouted, they all saw it, but none could believe it, they thought for sure he had the upper hand in the end. Naruto couldn't hear the panicked words of his fellow shinobi still fighting the sound, all he could hear was the one word repeating in his head 'Dead..." His body started to tremble. His eyelids closed and all he saw was the memories of the old man taking care off him...

"Naruto, it's late. You'll catch cold if you stay out any longer." The wise man said, kindness clearly evident in his voice.

The little blonde looked up to him, eyes half lidded with sleep. "I know Oji-sama, it's just the village is so pretty, I wanna stay," he spoke turning back to the village. The Hokage laughed. He bent down to pick Naruto up. The smaller boy just wrapped his arms around the Hokage's neck with no protest. Sarutobi started walking towards Naruto small apartment to lay the boy to rest.

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Naruto's face drop he continued, "Now you won't be kicked out of the Academy, You'll be joining in your final year, but for the next 7 years I want you to train with a friend of mine. She recently came into Konoha and I've already asked he to teach you. She has agreed. You will be training with her. She is your new sensei and I want you to treat her with respect. You will be leaving in a week, leaving you enough time to finish the school year and say goodbye to any friends you have made. Give them little information about why you are leaving." The third said. Naruto nodded. "Well, you to better meet, if you're going to spend the next 7 years together." The Third said pressing a button on his desk allowing the door to open.

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He closed his mouth and let a smile grace his features. "Hello Naruto, I've missed you my boy." He said letting the younger one hug him. Naruto did so happily. The old man just chuckled.

"I've gotten so strong!" He said with a grin. Lei-Fai just let the two have their moment. She placed the scroll on his desk.

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"Hokage-sama didn't mind, and he even said that it was nice of us to help fix it up."

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The Hokage walked into the room. "Naruto. It is okay. No one blames you." Sandaime said quietly. "You can stop now." He said

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No one knew what to say."ne Oji-sama, I had that memory again." Naruto said slowly. Haku, the twins and Sasuke where curious about what memory Naruto had, but knew better then to ask for answers at this time.

Sarutobi nodded. "As you do every time you wake up in a hospital. Remember Naruto. No one blames you for acting the way you did. You were scared. It's okay to be scared."

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Naruto knocked on the door, and entered after a come in was chimed. He bowed and stood in front of the desk, the old man puffing on his pipe. "Oh Naruto, what brings you here?" The old man said in a soft tone.

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Naruto's body started pulsing. His mind went into an uncontrollable rage. He saw red, he could feel power radiate off of him, his finger nail lengthened. and his pupil slit. His canines grew and his voice became more of a rasp than an actual voice. He growled to the nearest thing which was an enemy shinobi. Not even bothering with his weapons he plunged his nails into the shinobi's heart, shattering the armor he wore. Taking his hand out he looked at the blood on it and smiled a feral smile. A red-purple chakra surrounded his body and warned all shinobi, foe or friend to get out of the way. Many sound shinobi tried to run, however it was fruitless as Naruto just pounce and tore at their throats. Diago tried to connect with Naruto, but he was in a blood rage. There were few people who could pull him out of it, and unfortunately they had to be physical, and a demon, or hold demon-like qualities. Diago cursed the fact he couldn't stop Naruto. Naruto's body has hit with the shock and sent his mind into a rage unlike any other. Diago thought he could control the blood but no avail.

He did what was second best, "Shukaku, get Gaara over here now. He is the only one to calm my kit." He communicated through a mental link that the all demons had, Gaara then appeared on the scene with the wind trying to catch up. Gaara gaged. Bloodied bodies littered the ground and Naruto was currently on top of one slicing it to piece with his newly acquired claws. Gaara followed Shukaku's instructions carefully.

"Naruto-sama." He started showing to the demon mind of Naruto that he accepted that Naruto was the stronger demon. Even though Gaara wasn't a demon, to Naruto in this state he was close enough, any human who tried would end up dead by now.

Naruto turned around hands dripping in blood, face covered, clothes soaked with it. He growled. Gaara kept his emotions in check, slowly walking to him, as he would to a dangerous animal. Naruto's curiosity bested him and let Gaara closer feeling no threat. Gaara watched as Naruto stood and walked to him and met him half way. Gaara looked into Naruto eyes. "He's gone Naruto. But you don't have to leave too, come back. Back to me, back to Haku, back to Diago, back to Konoha... This isn't you and you know it. I know your upset, but you have to accept it. He's gone, and not coming back, but you are still here." Gaara said in a calm reassuring voice. Naruto's eyes narrowed and his growl became more louder, as if offended. "No one thinks your weak for getting upset, we all are upset. And we need you here with us, just as you need us with you. Now come on, we can get though this together." Naruto's eyes started to waver from blood red to blue. Gaara moved forward even though the red-purple aura was injuring him and embraced the blonde. "It will be okay. You will be okay." He soothed to Naruto.

The blonde finally returned to his normal self and buried his head into Gaara's shoulder and gripped the boy like a life line, the smell of salt hit the air and the others just appeared to the scene, lifeless bodies everywhere, stunned Konoha shinobi just watching the blood. Kakashi and Gai started a jutsu, which put the other shinobi asleep and made it seem as if Naruto hadn't done the killing in such an animalistic way, but like a true warrior. That way Naruto wouldn't be ridiculed, and it's not the first time they've used this jutsu on some of the Shinobi. The group just watched as Naruto cried his eyes out on Gaara's shoulder, other Konoha shinobi were also upset, but hid their emotions until they got home.

Gaara carried Naruto home that night and put him to bed, and stayed with the blond, for good reasons, in the middle of the night Naruto would wake up with blood red eyes and then when he saw Gaara they would turn back to blue, then close and he's go back to sleep. Gaara used to stay up all night, so he didn't mind doing it one more time, he patted and brushed though Naruto's hair with his hand.

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The next day was hard on everyone in Konoha, each person dressed in their mourning wear. Most of the shinobi in the chuunin exam that were visiting were sent home. Only the desert three and the mist three stayed. Naruto stood beside Haku and Gaara and looked over to Iruka holding a little boy, he assumed it was the Hokage's grandson, he saw the little brunette crying his eyes out and went over to the boy. "It may hurt now, trust me I know, but remember him and honor him by the good things he did, the things that made you happy. It's going to be okay Konohamaru." He said.

The boy glared at him. "How can you say that?! He's gone and not coming back, and I never got to spend anytime with him, and he probably never even cared about me! And who the hell are you to talk to me like you know me?! You ass hole!" Shouted the younger of the boys, as he threw a punch to Naruto, who has kneeled down. Naruto simply twisted out of the way and watch Konohamaru fall forward, the blonde grabbed the brunette and embraced him.

"Don't say such things." He said in a soothing voice, as he rubbed the brunettes back. "Oji-sama always talked about you when he was with me, he would always brag about how good you were doing in school, and how many tricks you played on Ebisu-sensei, and how each time you were with him, how little it was, always stayed with him and he never forgot. When I asked him about what it was like to have a family, he would always retell events with you and him. He loved you very much, and despite the anger you feel, you know he loved you." Naruto said rubbing his back up and down with gentle caring strokes.

Konohamaru sniffled. "But why did he leave me then, why isn't he here right now with me?! Why do I feel like he deserted me..." Konohamaru spoke with his emotions, and Naruto understood that. He let the boy cry into his neck, and let the younger hug the heck out of him.

Naruto let the boy get it out, until he stopped. When the crying subsided Konohamaru let go. He had a blush on his face, and was embarrassed Naruto stood up and looked to the sun, most of the shinobi went home to morn. "So Konohamaru, I'm Naruto, and from now on, we're going to be great friends!"

PHEW! Okay, Konohamaru is finally introduced :D , and Sarutobi died D: , but it's done, and I am sorry to keep you waiting forever for chapters, I'm trying honest!! Please review, it really keeps me going, even if you are just going to talk about you. It makes me happy to know that there are people who like the story!.. and read the AN's...

Much love,

Dei-chan