Disclaimer: I don't own Naruto. This privilege goes to Masashi Kishimoto.

This is my version of the animie/manga story line.

Chapter 34 Chakra Control

That evening Naruto is sitting in his kitchen with a pair of his clones looking over the jutsu that they had been working on for Shino. Nodding his head, "looks good we will start field testing it Monday to make sure it works."

Out of the shadow of the closet walks a black two tail fox, "Lord Naruto, we have a situation at the Hyuga's complex."

Setting the strolls down all three Naruto look at the black two tail fox, "please explain Kazuko" asks the original.

Nodding her head, "Sukie reported last week that she had noticed an individual watching the Hyuga's complex when she was doing an outer perimeter sweep. I assigned two operatives to double check; they confirmed the complex was being watched; but, by two individuals not one. In addition, they were using several places as observation points of the Hyuga's complex. With this information, I dispatched a surveillance team to observe. The team noticed that the two people were using various observation points; however, the team noted that neither of the pair were using a hedge nor did they show signs of having any chakra signatures. Both individuals were using different types of physical disguises each time they were observing the Hyuga's complex."

Naruto looks at his clones, "using different physical look would be better then a hedge since the Hyuga's complex guards occasionally use their Byakugan which would see through a hedge or spot chakra. Seeing an unknown person with using a hedge would put them on alert and too many of the Hyuga's clan believes that you have to have chakra to be a threat. So now the million ryo question is why are these two individuals observing the Hyuga's complex?"

Clone on his right, "could Orochimaru have sent a team to steal a set of eyes or capture a female Hyuga to steal her eggs since he is now selling bloodlines?"

Clone on his left, "this is a shot from far right field, could it be a pair of thieves be thinking of breaking into the Hyuga's complex when a majority of them have left for the clan summit?"

Naruto tapping his finger against his chin, "Orochimaru wants the Sharingan to copy jutsu with; however, we cannot rule out strong possibility him wanting to sell the Byakugan bloodlines. And the thought of someone thinking of breaking into the Hyuga's complex is either very stupid or extremely good." Pointing a finger at the clone on his left, "you go with Kazuko see if you find out what the pair is up to, keep me posted."

Kazuko bows her head, "we will not fail you Lord Naruto" as she turns to reenter the shadow of the closet. The clone on the left gets up and gives the pair a two finger salute before following Kazuko into shadow of the closet.

Naruto stares into the shadows where the pair had disappeared before turning to the remaining clone, "got the supplies?"

The remaining clone smiles as he holds up a bag, Naruto smiles and both hold a single hand sign causing them to disappear in a cloud of red smoke.

Monday morning in Training Area 44 Naruto is lying on the ground with smoke coming off his entire body before turning his head towards a pair of clones, who are shaking their heads as if to be saying 'We Told You So'. "Ok, ok so the jutsu still might have a few bugs in it; but, we will never know if it will work unless we try it. You know one of you could have tried the jutsu," Naruto says as he stands up.

The two clones look at each other before they both say, "Do we look stupid?"

As they exit Area 44, a clone appears holding a box handing it to Naruto. Continuing walking towards to his apartment, "ok, I have to go change and meet up with Anko to start working on getting her chakra back under control. You two hedge and head over to the orphanage as carpenters to fix the leak on the dorm roof. You meet up with Kazuko and relieve your 'brother', keep me posted."

The first two clones nod their heads in agreement before hedging and disappears in a poof of red smoke. The third clone nods its head before also disappearing in a poof of red smoke.

Reaching his apartment, Naruto takes a quick shower before changing into a black pair of cargo pants with a red shirt with the message, 'Byakugan vs. Sharingan… The Eyes Have it.' Slipping on his standard tan trench coat, Naruto checks to make sure that he has all of his storage scrolls and his standard weapons before heading out the door and towards Anko's apartment complex.

Anko is waking up slowly in her bed and taking a deep breath she smiles, as she smells her favorite food. Following her nose, she slowly walks to her kitchen scratching her butt through the oversize shirt that she had slept in. The shirt has a picture of a smirking General Kang (General Kang is Princess Gale's eternal nemesis in the Princess Gale Movies Series) with his arms crossed with the caption, 'Join The Dark Side. We Have Dango.' She finds a steaming cup of coffee and a box of dango sitting on her table, pulling back a chair she sits down and slowly draws the box of dango in front of her. She smiles as she opens the box and inhales the fresh aroma before bring the first piece to her lips and savoring the first bite. Reaching for her coffee, she blows on it to cool it before taking a sip. Anko proceeds to eat several sticks of dango and washing it down with coffee. Finishing her fourth stick of dango, she hears a voice, "more coffee?" Without hesitation, Anko throws the dango stick in her hand at the sound of the voice.

"Whoa sensei, a simple yes or no would have worked," as Naruto walks over to Anko holding a pot of coffee in one hand and a dango stick in his other hand. "Note to self, sensei's Intel was correct, she definitely not a morning person." Refilling her cup Naruto places the pot and the dango stick on the table before taking a seat across from Anko and taking a sip of coffee from the cup in front of him.

Anko sipping her coffee before speaking, "you are lucky I was not aiming for anything vital." Munching on another stick of dango before looking over the table at Naruto, "say blondie, how did you get in? I know that I locked the door and all the windows are booby-trapped."

Blowing on his coffee Naruto, "clan secret, so sensei how are you feeling besides being grumpy because you still have not had enough coffee? You haven't tried to use your chakra since Friday morning have you?"

Glaring at Naruto Anko, "who says I'm grumpy, I'm just not a morning person if I can help it. And no I have not tried to use my chakra since Friday morning."

After refill her cup and his, "Once you are finished eating and change, we can head to Area 44 where we won't be disturbed. There we can begin to work on getting your chakra control back."

Getting up from to head towards her bedroom Anko looks back sultry, "want to watch me change, blondie?"

Smiling over his coffee Naruto, "as tempting as the offer sounds I have to pass on grounds of self-preservation."

Looking at Naruto, "Self-preservation?"

Nodding his head yes, "because if I did two people would be hunting me down to hurt me."

This gets Anko's attention, "who?"

Holding up two fingers. "Iruka sensei" lowering one finger. "And a certain female kunoichi, who will remain unnamed, because both are extremely possessive and territorial" lowering the second finger.

After hearing his explanation Anko walks back into her bedroom to change is thinking, "now which kunoichi could possibly put the fear and devotion into blondie? Maybe Kurenai would know, i will have to ask her." Then she smiles remembering blondie saying that Iruka was possessive and territorial.

As Naruto is waiting for Anko to change, he receives the memories from the clone that had joined Kazuka on checking on the two observing the Hyuga's complex. "So they are watching him… Interesting…So now what is their objective: blackmail or extortion? Kazuka thinks they will be making their move tonight and her team is ready."

Anko comes walking out of her bedroom dressed in her usual outfit, "so blondie let's body flicker over to Area 44 and get started."

Before Anko can make the hand signs, Naruto grabs her wrists stopping her, "with your present control and strength I think you would probably in up at the Clan Summit which would be very bad. So instead let's just walk over there this way we won't have to do any stretching before we start."

As they are passing the Hokage tower on their way towards Area 44 they hear a scream of pure horror causing them to stop and look towards the Hokage tower.

Kakashi Hatake is sitting with his feet propped up on the Hokage's desk reading his latest copy of Icha Icha novel and giggling much to the displeasure of the two female ANBU who have to guard the 'temporary Hokage'. Turning the next page Kakashi one visible eye goes wide before he throws down the book and clutching his hand over his eye and screaming, "destroy it, destroy it evil" as he crab crawls back into a corner.

You could almost feel the glee of the two female ANBU as they appear beside the book.

The first ANBU flips the book up in the air with her katana as she chops it into several pieces.

The second ANBU quickly does hand signs and calls out, 'Document Incineration' causing the cut up book to burst into flames before turning to her partner and exchanging high fives.

All through the Elemental Nations, women suddenly feel a moment of pure happiness; but don't know the reason why.

As men, who read the Icha Icha series suddenly feel a moment of loss.

Jiraiya is sitting at a bar 'reviewing' his latest 'research' notes when suddenly a feeling of loss passes through him. Clutching his hand to his heart, "I feel a disturbance in the 'Pervertism'. Like one of my precious works cried out before suddenly being silenced."

Kakashi crawls over to the pile of ashes that was his former book and clutches the ashes to his chest and muttering that it was now in a better place. Raising a fist towards the ceiling Kakashi swears that he will seek revenge on who ever desecrated his 'precious', causing the two female ANBU to roll their eyes.

For a brief second Anko feels a moment of pure happiness, looking over she sees Naruto with a fox like grin on his face, "would you know what just happened, blondie?"

Naruto still grinning, "let's just say our 'temporary Hokage' just found a picture of a member of his shinobi force, who is in a rather unique 'natural' pose inside one of his little books."

Anko chuckles, "do I want to know 'which' shinobi and what type of pose he was in?"

Naruto, "I think you it is better that you don't know that way you won't have to visit your coworker Yamauaku to have your memory wiped of that image."

Anko stutters at the thought of an image that terrible that it would require a memory wipe. As they enter into Area 44, they proceed to large clearing beside a pool of water. Taking a seat under a large tree the pair gets comfortable before starting mediation. A single tail appears behind Naruto and gently sways over and touching her forehead.

Anko finds herself standing in a meadow inside Naruto's mindscape and looks around, "say where Fluffy?"

Naruto appears beside Anko, "he had a date on Friday night and told me not to wait up for him. He'll show up sooner or later. So I take it your date with Iruka sensei went ok? So how was the new Princess Gale Movie?"

"It was your usual Princess Gale type movie, Anko says casually. Anko smiles at the comment remembering how well her date with Iruka went on Saturday night. And to be honest she did not remember much of the movie because she and Iruka were making out like a couple of teenagers in the back of the theater. Anko smile turns into a 'Cheshire Cat' grin as she touches the sides of her neck remembering how both she and Iruka 'marked' each other's necks.

"Ok, I don't want to go there," seeing his sensei smiling as she touched her neck. "Ok, I want you now to try to create as many Kage clones as you can so we can start on your chakra control. Last time you used this technique you were able to make five, let's see how many you can make now."

Anko nods her head and does the single sign before closing her eyes and concentrating. With a poof of smoke, Anko's eyes get large as she see twenty-five of herself standing checking each out and looking over at her and Blondie.

Naruto claps his hands to get the group's attention, "ok everyone it's going to be chakra 101. You all will begin with the Academy chakra training exercises. First will be the sticking of a leaf to your forehead and holding it there. Once one of you master the technique, remember to dispel thus sharing your knowledge with the group. After that move on to the next exercise and repeat the process. By the end of today's session, I expect you to have the 'five-twirling-kunais-on-the-finger-tips' down. After we accomplish that we will call it a day and head in town for all the dango and sake your boss can eat and drink."

The group looks over at Anko for approval before reaching for a leaf to begin training. Anko nods her head and hears several clones grumbling about how they will be doing all the work and she was going to be getting all the food and booze. Anko notices that Blondie had made several clones to work with her clones; but there were also several large groups of Blondie clones each doing training in something different. Walking over to the original, "so blondie what will we be doing while 'I'm' relearning control?"

Taking his trench coat off and starting to stretch, "I figure we will do a little sparring so that you can feel the difference now that you have a new 'upgraded' model to work with."

Smirking Anko takes off her coat, "the old model could kick your ass, and I cannot wait to see what the 'upgraded' model can do." After stretching, a bit Anko assumes her standard sparring position. Just before she gets set she feels the knowledge on how to stick a leaf to her head appear in her mind. "Man, Kage clones rule this is the only way to learn boring things."

Naruto relaxes his stance for a moment, "sensei, you probably will want to replace the clone that just dispel so that you can keep a full group going while you are training."

Anko makes the sign and a single clone appears before running over to join the rest of the group. Anko turns to Naruto, "say blondie why does this batch seem to have an 'attitude' verse the first group I made last week?"

Reaching up and scratching the back of his head and grinning sheepishly, "each Kage clone techniqually has a 'small' piece of the caster's soul attach to it, thus allowing for the experiences and memories to return to the original when they are dispel or destroyed. When you create five clones, they are obedient and don't question your orders. However, when you create more then five then they start to show personalities similar to the caster and a bit of free will. Which is not a bad thing since then you don't have to explain to them what you want done."

Looking over at her group working on the next step of chakra control, "do you worry that one might think at it's really the original and try to kill you?"

Looking over at the hundreds of himself working out, "nah, thought never crossed my mind. Lately though I noticed that my clones will not 'volunteer' to do any created or unknown jutsu. They prefer to sit back and take notes and if need be carry me home if something goes wrong. And if they do try kill me, then we will find out if the original is always better then a copy."

Anko feels a pair of clones completing the second step in chakra control as they dispel. Replacing the pair, "so blondie how many Kage clones will I be able to make in the real world?"

Holding his hands up and shrugging his shoulders, "I honestly don't know. Once you have your control back, I figure tomorrow that we use it to test your 'upgrade'. I guessing probably three will use up your normal supply of chakra, so using one 'refill' probably another three thus forcing you to use your last 'refill' to keep going. I must caution you don't take a 'solider pill' and expect it to fully your seal reservoir. Your seal reservoir has to be refilled naturally by you over time."

Getting back in their respective stances, the pair stares at each other before grinning and charge at each other to begin their sparring match. Anko noticed that blondie would give her a moment every time a clone need to be replaced before resuming their sparring match. After about an hour of sparring Anko jumped back and yelled, "time."

Naruto jumped back and relaxed his stance as Anko pulled out ten kunais and started spinning them with chakra on her fingertips causing her to smile. Smiling at his sensei, "I guess we can call it a day and go grab some lunch. Now remember dispel your clones slowly or else."

Anko grinning as she continues to spin five kunais on one hand as she dispels three clones every couple of minutes. As she is doing this Naruto is dispelling his group of clones after all clones are dispelled the pair leave Naruto's mindscape. Opening her eyes Anko looks at her watch, "if we hurry we can beat the lunch crowd and remember you promised to buy me all I can eat and drink."

Standing up Naruto offers his hand to help Anko up, "and I will keep my promise, just remember not to drink too much because you have to go meet up with Ibiki this afternoon."

This causes Anko to pout for a moment having forgotten that she had to report to the T & I department that afternoon, when suddenly an idea pops in her head, "Naruto?"

Naruto had his back to Anko when he hears her call him by his name instead of 'blondie' instantly warning bells to go off in his head. "This cannot be good, I wonder what she wants." Slowly turning towards Anko and before he could react, "crap she using the dreaded 'Lost Puppy Eyes' jutsu on me."

Looking at Naruto with her 'Lost Puppy Eyes' jutsu activated, "could I get a rain check on the sake…pretty please?"

Sighing knowing that he did not have a chance against this jutsu, "ok just this once." Causing his sensei to squeal in delight before grabbing his arm and body flickering them to her favorite dango restaurant.

Releasing his arm Anko looks around for a moment, "you know that jutsu seemed to work better and faster then last time I used it."

Reaching out to open the door for her Naruto, "that is part of the 'new upgrade' we have been talking about."

Iruka was sipping some tea when he feels a familiar chakra signature causing him to look up to see Anko and Naruto entering the restaurant. Walking over to the table Naruto asks, "Iruka sensei may I and my genin sensei join you for lunch?"

Iruka smile, "yes please join me."

Naruto takes the seat across from Iruka allowing Anko to sit beside Iruka. As the pair is seated, a waitress comes by with menus; but, Anko waves off the menus, "bring us five orders of dango and lap sing tea until we tell you to quit."

The waitress smiles at the order because Anko was one of her favorite customers and she knew that Naruto tipped well. Leaving the group to fill the order Naruto looks over at Iruka, "so sensei isn't it a little warm to be wearing a turtleneck shirt?"

Not wanting to tell the real reason, he was wearing a turtleneck Iruka, "my fault I have not done laundry and this was the only clean shirt I have."

Just then, the waitress returns with two cups and a fresh pot of tea. After pouring Anko then himself a cup, Naruto nods his head, "yeah, I been in that boat a time or two on not having any clean clothes to wear. So anything exciting happening over at the tower that you can share with us?"

Taking a sip of his tea before setting it down Iruka looks over at Naruto, "I haven't been to the tower today yet, I had to spend all morning over at the hospital."

Anko turns toward Iruka and places her hand on his arm, "why were you at the hospital are you ok.?"

Smiling at Anko as he pats her hand, "I'm fine, I just had to help the medical personal and administration over there, sorting out some problems that happened over the weekend."

"What sort of problems sensei, nothing serious I hope," Naruto says as he takes a sip of his tea.

Shaking his head Iruka, "no nothing serious just a group of patients who were admitted Thursday morning, their conditions and treatments charts were 'mislabeled' causing them to subjected to unscheduled procedures. We have established that the charts were 'mislabeled' and the procedures was done between shift changes Friday night. So the weekend crew didn't know that the charts or procedures were not real."

Naruto puts his cup of tea down, "that terrible, was it anyone that I might of know?"

Iruka, "it was the four from the 'Holier Then Thou' crowd that passed out when they accidentally insulted Ky in the market area. They had been admitted for routine observation over the weekend."

This peaks Anko's curiosity, "so what type of treatments did they receive?"

Iruka strokes his chin as if pondering if he should tell the pair what had happened at the hospital. Since it did not involve village security and plus it was members of the 'Holier Then Thou' crowd, Iruka decides to tell them. "Well, one of the patient was transferred to the psycho ward with a note on his chart stating that he was delusional and thought that he was someone else. It turns out that he was really the person he was claming to be. He spend the entire weekend in a straight jacket and in a padded room. Three of the patients were placed in full body casts with only their eyes were visible and several live cockroaches somehow got inside their casts. The procedure errors was not discovered until Monday morning during normal rounds."

Hearing the about the live cockroaches inside the body cast Anko smiles evilly as she takes a sip of her tea thinking that she would have to tell Ibiki about that procedure. Just then, the waitress brings the helping of dango causing Anko train of thought to stop as priorities change.

Naruto grabs a stick, "so sensei how are you treating this incident?"

Iruka grabs a stick of dango before Anko grabs the rest, "as far as I can see it just looks like a clerical snafu. There is nothing to point to this being a deliberate act. I mean there is no way one or two people could of possible done this in the time frame that was available. By my calculations it would of taken at least twenty people working in perfect harmony to have done something like that and nobody is capable of doing that."

Anko starts coughing as if she was choking, Iruka turns quickly and thumps Anko's back. Anko quits coughing and waves Iruka to stop, "thank you Iruka I'm fine now, just eat a little too fast." Taking a sip of her tea, she raises one eyebrow looking over at Naruto. Naruto taking a bite of his dango, just smiles and wiggles his eyebrows back at Anko. The conversation then turns to general topics after about twenty minutes Naruto excuses himself saying he had errands to run. Excusing himself and reminding Anko that he would see her tomorrow at 10 am to continue training. Anko and Iruka then spent several minutes just silently enjoying each other's company before Iruka glances at a clock and remembers he has to be at the Tower. Signaling the waitress for the check, she tells them that Naruto paid the bill on his way out and thanked them and told them to please to return. Leaving the restaurant together, they walk together until they reach midway point and Anko says she has to go see Ibiki. Iruka nods and promises to call her later that evening before the pair parts.

Anko smiles as she heads toward the T & I department located in the ANBU headquarters. Walking into Ibiki's office, she see Ibiki leaning back in his chair reading a scroll, "reporting for duty, boss." Anko gives Ibiki a two-finger salute and Ibiki lowers the scroll to look at Anko.

Ibiki, "so how goes your control training?"

Anko thinking she could milk her lack of control for week, "looks like it's going to take me while. You know having to deal with relearning control is a pain" as she crosses her fingers inside her coat pocket.

Ibiki nods his head before returning to read his scroll, "ok, you can take the rest of the week off, see you." Anko is silently cheering as she turns to leave, "I guess you will have to wait a 'whole' week before I can give you that gift Ky left for you."

This causes Anko to remember that Ibiki had told her Friday morning that Ky had left her a present. Twirling around and rushing up and place her hands on Ibiki's desk, "what did he leave me?"

Slowly turning a page on the scroll that he pretending to read Ibiki snickers to himself, 'gottcha' "well… Ky said not to give it to you until you regained your control, said it would help motivate you."

"Look…Look I got my control back," as Anko spins a kunai on her finger tip, "now gimme."

Ibiki slowly lowers the scroll and smirks at Anko causing Anko to start banging her head on Ibiki's desk knowing she just been had. After banging her head for a couple of seconds Anko stops and straightens up, "ok you got me now gimme" making the 'gimme' gesture with her hands. "Blondie this had better be worth it."

Ibiki reaches inside his desk and tosses Anko what looks like a crystal ball, "don't break it."

Anko catches the ball and does not even look at it until she see that something is in the ball. Raising the ball up, she see what looks like a small figure is inside the ball. Raising it up to get a closer look at the figure Anko's eyes grow bigger as she stares at the figure in the crystal ball.

Ibiki had gotten out of his chair and came around his desk grabbing a chair and gently pushes Anko down into the chair, "breath Anko, breath"

Anko grips the globe with both hands, closes her eyes and take several deep breath, 'it cannot be, it cannot be' before slowly opening her eyes to stare at a smirking miniature younger version of her former sensei Orochimaru. Looking over the crystal ball at Ibiki, "how?" Anko whispers.

Returning to his chair Ibiki smiles, "according to Ky, what you have there is the main reason that your former seal caused you so much pain was that he had injected a blood clone into the seal. The clone was trying to overpower your mind and make you a slave to your former sensei. The globe is almost unbreakable; however, the clone has seals on it to insure that no knowledge will ever be sent to Orochimaru if the globe is broken. So far the only thing I've done to 'it' was subject to continuous viewing of one of Gai Maito's workout video and letting a one of ANBU's puppy play with it."

Shaking the globe vigorously for a minute before stopping to see the clone staggering and holding it's head Anko slowly smiles at the globe, "bastard we are going to have so much catching up to do."

Hizashi internal alarm clock goes off causing him to sit up. As he sits up, he cradles his head in his hands because his head is pounding, "oh man what was I drinking last night."

"Here you go this will make you feel better," a female voice is heard as a cup of steaming coffee and a pair white looking tablets are placed on the coffee table in front of him.

"Thank you, " Hizashi says as he swallows the pills and takes a sip of the coffee. Leaning back to rest his head on his couch closing his eyes, 'man that just what I needed' for a moment before his eyes snap open, 'I don't have a housekeeper.' Hizashi jumps up to see a dark haired woman in a black and silver kimono standing beside a blonde hair male in a trench coat sitting in a chair across from him. Assuming the standard Hyuga's stance, Hizashi hears the man say, "I won't use…" before activating his Byakugan. The instant Hizashi activates his Byakugan searing pain explodes in his head forcing him to his knees forcing him to deactivate his Byakugan and hearing the man finish his sentence, "the Byakugan, if I were you." Kneeling in pain holding his head Hizashi hears, "Keko please help Lord Hizashi."

Hizashi sees a pair of black silk slippers appear before him before the individual kneels down in front of him. "Relax Lord Hizashi let me easy your pain," as a pair of glowing green hands appear touching the side of his head. Slowly the pain recedes to where it is no longer felt. Hizashi looks up to into a heart shape face of a woman with deep brown eyes, "thank you." When the woman smiles at Hizashi, he could have almost sworn that he saw a pair of sharp looking canine smiling back at him. The woman stands up and helps Hizashi back to his couch before picking up his coffee cup that he had spilled when he jumped off the couch earlier.

"I will get you a fresh cup of coffee," as heads back towards his kitchen. Pausing beside the gentleman sitting in the chair, "anything for you My Lord, more coffee?" nodding his head in agreement she proceeds out of the room.

Hizashi is watching the gentleman who smiles at Hizashi, "Lord Hizashi I know you have many questions and I will do my humble best to answer them for you; but, first let me introduce myself." Standing up Hizashi sees that he is about 6' with dirty water blonde hair with red tips, he is wearing a white trench coat with black cargo pants. Hizashi can tell that he is athletic build and moves like a predator; but the most memorizing thing about him is golden eyes. "Lord Hizashi, I'm Ky - The Mercenary Fox…"