Hey guys, here's chapter thirty six, please read, enjoy and review.

The next day, Naruto's eyes slowly opened, his vision was extremely blurry at first so he blinked a couple of times until he could see clearly. And there sitting in front of him, was Itachi, meditating, or at least that's what it looked like he was doing. Naruto quickly jumped up and got in a defensive position, "Itachi!"

"So your finally awake?"

Naruto gritted his teeth, he quickly examined the area, Hinata and Brandon weren't anywhere to be seen. "Where's Hinata? Where's my Sensei?"

"Hinata's down by a river, most likely bathing, and your Sensei went out to find you a new trainer."

"What? Why?"

"Because your not strong enough to defeat Orochimaru, your close but your not quite there yet."

"Whatever! I can and will destroy him! I almost defeated you didn't I?"

"No you didn't. The Nine Tails did, you used the Nine Tails power. You need to rely on your own power, not the Nine Tails's, with you own power, you couldn't defeat Orochimaru."

Naruto gritted his teeth harder, "Even if that's true, why the hell do you care? I'm going to destroy Orochimaru to save Sasuke! So where do you benefit? You don't want to save Sasuke, you abandoned him, you killed his and your whole clan! If it wasn't for you, he wouldn't be like this! I'm more of a brother to him than you ever were!"

Itachi stayed calm on the outside, but on the inside he felt the full impact of Naruto's words, and they pierced deeper than any blade ever could. "I know."

"And you know...wait what?"

"I know. You've been more of a brother to him, than I ever have. And I regret that, I can't tell you why, but I had to destroy my clan, there was a reason behind it, it wasn't just mindless slaughter, it was my duty. And that's why I'm helping you, I want you, no I need you to pull Sasuke out of the darkness, if he continues on this path, he'll never come back."

Naruto was utterly speechless, Itachi then continued, "And until your new teacher arrives, I will train you and Hinata."

"Huh?"

"I will teach you two what you guys can actually learn within a day or two, and that along with your new training will help become extremely strong, stronger than the third Hokage, stronger than the legendary Sannin and in time perhaps even stronger that the Fourth."

Naruto was utterly speechless once again, he couldn't believe it. He couldn't help but wonder, out loud, what kind of training this was, "What kind of training can make me that strong?"

"You will be trained in the art of the sage, just like your teacher Jiraiya."

'You mean, I'll be trained the same way pervy sage was?"

Itachi just nodded his head, after several seconds of silence Itachi stood up and spoke, "Hinata will be back any moment, so let us begin training."

Naruto nodded his head.

Two days later, Brandon had searched almost every inch of this village, and he still hadn't found Jiraiya! Brandon only had several places left to check, two of them were, the ninja academy and the Hokage's mansion, which he was not going to check out. He didn't want to start a fight with the new Hokage, not yet at least. Besides he'd probably leave him for Naruto, Brandon was interested in having a sparring match with Jiraiya instead, compared to Jiraiya, the new Hokage was most likely mediocre.

Asuma, and his squad, along with Kurenai and her squad, were close to the forest of a quiet moment, thought it took them two days to get this far, which was because of traps that were set up for them. If it wasn't for all of the traps they had encountered, then they would have been there a day and a half ago. They were less than ten minutes away from the forest of a quiet moment, Itachi quickly looked to the tree's to his right turned back around and handed Naruto and Hinata their ANBU masks. As he did this, Naruto and Hinata gave him a questioning look, Itachi motioned behind himself and spoke, "Someone's coming."

Naruto and Hinata nodded their heads and put on their masks, Itachi then walked off, to find a place to hide, so he would go unnoticed. Squad ten and Squad eight quickly appeared before Naruto and Hinata, Naruto and Hinata remained silent as they were stared at by squad eight and ten. Shikamaru was the first to speak, "Well I guess these are two of them, so where's the third one?"

Naruto and Hinata still remained silent, Kiba, his cocky grin plastered on his face, spoke next, "It doesn't matter! Come on, let's take these two chumps down! And then we can ambush the third one when he gets back!"

At this time Jiraiya and Tsunade arrived, but they remained unnoticed, they decided to wait and watch what went down.

The masked Shinobi finally spoke, "All of you leave now, go back to your village. Your not strong enough to defeat us, so retreat."

Kiba gritted his teeth and then spoke, "What did you just say? Your looking at five Chunin and two Jonin, trust me you going to lose this battle! And I'll strike the final blow, just watch!"

The masked female Shinobi then spoke, "Just leave, if you stay then we will have to hurt you. And we don't want to do that, trust us. If you leave now, we don't have to fight."

Shikamaru was the one to speak next, "Not going to happen. We were sent here on a mission, and that mission is to immobilize you and take you back to the village, and we will complete that mission."

Everyone nodded at Shikamaru's words, Naruto brought his arm up and beckoned the group to attack him, "It's your mistake to make."

Kiba got in a fighting position and spoke, "Ok guy's, leave this guy to me!"

Kiba then charged forward toward the masked Shinobi, he got in close and brought back his right arm and shot it forward, going for a right hook. The masked Shinobi quickly caught the punch in his left hand, Kiba wasn't done yet, he quickly threw a left haymaker to make up for not hitting the masked ninja with his right hook. The masked Shinobi caught Kiba's left handed haymaker in his right hand, he then shot his right knee up, slamming it hard into Kiba's gut, knocking not only the wind out of him, but also causing him to cough up a bit of blood as well. This caused Kiba to hunch over in pain, and before he could recover, the young masked Shinobi brought up his right elbow and slammed it into the back of Kiba's neck, knocking him down onto the ground.

Shikamaru gritted his teeth, these guys were no pushovers just as he had said before. Kiba slowly stood up, immense pain in his neck and abdomen, he quickly wiped off the blood trickling down his chin onto his jacket sleeve. Before the young masked Shinobi or Kiba could make another move, Shikamaru spoke, "Kiba, you and Shino take the second one, me, Ino and Choji got this guy."

Kiba looked behind him at Shikamaru, and after a moment of silence he nodded his head. He then regrouped with Shino and the two dashed toward the masked girl. Shikamaru looked up at the clouds and then back at the masked Shinobi in front of him, "Ok let's do this."

Ino and Choji nodded their heads, and along with Shikamaru, charged forward at the masked Shinobi. As the three approached, the masked Shinobi just stood perfectly still. Ino got in close and threw a left hook, the masked Shinobi easily moved his head, effectively dodging her. Shikamaru then threw a right hook, and the masked Shinobi dodged that too, this was Choji's chance though, "Partial expansion jutsu!"

Choji's right hand grew to giant proportions and he swung it towards the masked Shinobi, this time he did not dodge. Just as it was about to hit him, he put his hands out in front of him and slowed Choji's hand down. Choji was surprised by this, but he just pushed forward with more of his strength, causing the masked Shinobi to almost lose his footing. But the masked Shinobi quickly gained the upper hand, he focused his chakra into his arms and was prepared to send Choji flying. But before he could, he was kicked in the back of the head by two different legs, one belonging to Ino, and the other belonging to Shikamaru.

Naruto couldn't help but think, "Did they really think that would work?"

The masked Shinobi stopped pushing against Choji, and Choji knew he had his chance at hand, so he pushed forward with a large amount of his strength. The masked Shinobi quickly disappeared, a log appearing in his place, he had used the substitution jutsu, because of this, Choji hit the log, Shikamaru and Ino, sending all three flying several feet away. The masked Shinobi appeared behind Choji and drop kicked him in his back, causing him to fly a couple of feet away and roll from the impact of hitting the ground. Shikamaru and Ino slowly stood up, while Choji did the same, the three not more than five feet from each other.

Choji looked over at the masked Shinobi, and after several seconds he made his move, "Spiky Human Boulder!"

Choji's body quickly formed into a ball, his hair expanding and covering his body so he could use the spiky human boulder, he began to spin and after several seconds he began racing forward toward the masked Shinobi. The masked Shinobi quickly jumped to the side, avoiding the technique, but Choji quickly turned around and rolled at the masked Shinobi again. He dodged this time as well, Choji didn't stop there, he came at the Shinobi several more times until he accidentally slammed into a tree. As the masked Shinobi approached the dizzied Choji, Shikamaru threw several kunai and shuriken at him.

The masked Shinobi dodged them without even looking, but this gave Choji the chance to get back over to Shikamaru and Ino. The three Chunin looked at each other and nodded, the three then all spoke in unison, "Formation Ino-Shika-Cho!"

The three then charged forward toward the masked Shinobi, Choji got in close, used the partial expansion jutsu on his right hand and swung it at the young masked Shinobi. He just jumped over the hand, Ino and Shikamaru then jumped up after him, they both threw multiple punches and kicks at him, but he blocked every single one of them. And when they landed on the ground, Shikamaru and Ino pulled out a single kunai each and began thrusting them at the masked Shinobi. He dodged every thrust, but this left him open for attack, Choji, who was right behind the masked Shinobi turned into a ball with his body, expanded and his hair grew until it covered his whole body.

"Spiky Human Boulder!"

Choji then rolled at a fierce speed towards the masked Shinobi, that was Shikamaru's and Ino's signal, the two jumped back, getting out of range. The masked Shinobi quickly turned around and stared at Choji as he rolled furiously fast towards him, but just as he was about to hit him, Naruto jumped to the side. But when he landed Shikamaru went into action, "Shadow possession jutsu!"

Shikamaru's shadow stretched towards the masked Shinobi, but before he could move, he was caught in the technique, hook line and sinker. That was Ino's cue, she put her hands together and formed one hand sing, a very unique hand sign, but before she could use the jutsu, the masked Shinobi spoke, "Your fucking stupid if you think you'll hit me with that mind transfer jutsu of yours."

Ino was speechless, she didn't understand how this guy had known of her family's signature technique. Shikamaru was surprised by this too, but they needed to end it now, "Don't waste time, do it now Ino!"

"Right! Mind Transfer jutsu!"

The masked Shinobi began to struggle with the shadow that bound him to Shikamaru's will, and he felt himself close to breaking free, Shikamaru gritted his teeth, he knew that he wouldn't be able to hold the jutsu much longer, the guy he was trying to hold was way too strong. Naruto felt himself slipping out of Shikamaru's shadow, and as soon as he was going to break free, Ino's mind transfer jutsu hit him dead on. Ino's body collapsed onto the ground in a state of unconsciousness, while the masked Shinobi's head hung low, and after several seconds it looked back up at Shikamaru. Shikamaru grinned, "Great job Ino, we got him."

Shikamaru dispelled his shadow possesion jutsu, and stood up strait, Choji gave a big grin and walked up behind Shikamaru and patted him on the back, "We did it!"

Shikamaru nodded his head, the masked Shinobi looked dead at the two, and Ino began to speak, using his voice, "Before we do that, let's see who this guy is."

Choji quickly gave his approval, "Yeah and then let's get back to the village for some barbeque!"

Shikamaru shrugged, and said, "Fine, but let's make it quick."

Ino made the masked Shinobi nod his head, she gave a slightly sinister laugh and then made his hand reach up for his mask, he grabbed it tight and was about to pull it off.