Yo! Back with a new one! Sorry I took SO friggin long, please forgive me and hope this chapters redeems me.

Chapter 36: Ring The Bells.

Title Page: A two scenarios are shown. One scenario is a Naruto looking up to the sky with Sakura, Sai, Kimimaro, and Kakashi. The other scenario is Sasuke looking down from top of Orochimarus castle.

Cipher Pol Mini-Arc

Kaku, Jyabura, Kumadori, and Blueno successfully got away from Enies Lobby. The four of them are now on a resort island. Before them is a man who tried to kill them with his devil fruit. The man and his co-horts now bow to them and ask them what they want.

The CP9 wanted a boat, and the four criminals agreed. Inwardly, the devil-fruit man luaghed as he thought of making these people pay.

"Yip-yip-yip-yip-yip!"

New Konoha - New Park

Hands put inside his pockets. The winds flows across his blonde hair quite nicely. Naruto casually ignores the stares from the villagers. He walks through the park and sits on one of the benches. He lays back and looks at the blue sky.

The news was out. He decides to join the invasion of Oto. He made a couple of friends from the village. The Konoha teams of...Konoha. They were all a pretty good bunch to him. Every one of them was weird and strange to the highest degree.

He's met higher.

Team 7 befriended him especially. Kakashi wanted to know how Naruto was doing since he was on of the blondes personal 'hidden' bodyguards. He also showed Naruto that the village of Konoha has forgotten their hatred of him. Mostly because they forgot about him.

Sakura had a slight pull to him. She, like Ino, wanted to know more about him. Especially when their Hokage said he might handle Sasuke.

Kimimaro took Naruto quite well. They both were kind of quite and Naruto respected that the boneman didn't wanted to talk much to him or anyone.

Sai...Well, he and Naruto got off on a bad start. Not really bad, but it could be. All he did was said that Naruto had no dick, in order to gauge his temper. Naruto shrugged and said, "Really? Cause your mother can so prove that wrong." One had to have a microscope to see the slight tinge of red in Sai's cheeks.

He also gotten to know of the other teams as well. Theres Ino, Shikamaru, and Kiba under Asuma. Kiba had replaced Chouji, who died from an Akatsuki member. Hearing Akasuki makes Naruto wonder to remeber something.

Another is Shino, Neji and Hinata. Lee, Tenten, and Udon is another. And the final one is Konohamaru, Hinabi, and Moegi. All four teams ocassionally hangs out in the Meeting Room. The one time Naruto went there really helped in changing his decision in helping Konoha.

He explained what happened during his times out of the continenent of Janapre. He didn't really got into details, but the gist of it. When he was done, they all were pretty intrigued by his story, except for Neji. The blonde just shrugged it off, thinking it must have been the stick up his arse.

Now, here he is, thinking on this invasion. 'I've got no worries. I've done this before in Ohfrag.'

"True. But you didn't face an army of ninjas before. That...and all you faced was a fatass."

'Thanks. Your support is always a peach.'

"Your welcome. But seriously, you'll need to up your ninja training in order to participate in this war."

'Are you kidding me? I'm not arrogant, but I think my Rokushiki abilities, my devil fruit, my elemental combined with my devil-fruit, and my already high ninjutsu ability is probably enough for this war.'

"True true. But then again, nothing is ever good enough, except for your stomachs. Who's to say what suprise might come in this invasion?"

'Yeah...but do I really have to?'

"Yes. So stop being so immature and train. You probably might want to ask the Hokage, Jyabura or whatever his name is. He might not help you, but probably someone else to do it."

'Alright. I'll go when I am ready.'

Naruto sighed after that tidbit with Kyubi. He opens his eyes to see the clouds. He then whispers,

"Troublesome."

Hokages Office

"So...you want some ninja training for the upcoming invasion, huh?" The Hokage, Jiraiya crossed his arms and asked the young boy in front of him. The blond nodded, standing across the desk between them.

The white-haired man put his hand to his chin and rubbed it. "Hmm...Well. With what jutsu you said you have, I'd have to say that you're on par...with a chuunin." This was about to earn an outburst from Naruto. The boy learned about ninja rank from his buddies, the Konoha Fifteen. "But, you're other skills put you on the rank of elite jounin or maybe even higher. Hell, your devil fruit automatically is like a Kage level power."

This earns a pretty cheesy smile from Naruto. Jiraiya rolls his eyes at the young boy and scratches his head. "Honestly, I don't who can teach you. Asuma, Gai, Kurenai, and Kakashi are eligible teachers, but the thing is that they already have enough on their plates. The other jounins are on missions to keep up our economy and others just suck."

Naruto sighs and says to the man in slight disappointment. "So theres nobody to teach me."

The hair covered Jiriayas face as he mutters, only which Naruto can hear. "No. I only stated that no jounin can teach you." The Hokage raises his head and points at himself. "Therefore, the only one who can teach you...is me."

...

"Wha?" A blunt, disbelieving word came out of the sunshine haired individual. An eyebrow arched up, in utter confusion. "You're going to teach me? As in, you, a Hokage, teaching me, a 'chunin/jounin?'"

"Yep. And I'm not really the only Kage here." The powerful figure saunters to his desk, traces his finger on a red button and pushes it. "Umi, dear. Would you kindly inform Tsunade-chan that she is to handle all my meetings, duties and paperwork." He then bends forward to the intercom. "And make sure to emphasize on the paperwork. Got it dear?"

A few seconds later an muffed female voice comes from the desk. "Whatever."

"There! All done. Now lets go before Tsunade gets here." He grabs Narutos wrist and then says, "Sunshin no Jutsu!" And a puff of smoke covers them and they disappear.

An hour later, all the citizens who were unluckily sleeping in broad daylight suffers the unfortunate and horrifying scream,

"JIRAIYAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!!!"

New Forest Area of New Konoha

"My god. You are so fucked."

"Language. And yes, I am pretty fucked."

Both ninja-assassin and Kage were sittingby a huge waterfall. The cliff that holds the waterfall is somewhat the border of Konoha-Kiri. Kiri knows that Konoha will never try to betray their alliance, because of Konoha doesn't have much resources to invade them alone. The invasion of Oto is a different matter.

"Okay. Now that we're here. Let's discuss about your training. We have little time since we have about a week to prepare for the invasion. Our ninja are already preparing for the war." Jiraiya stated as he crosses his arms.

Naruto raised an eyebrow at what the Godiame said. "Really? It doesn't really look that way to me."

This causes the Kage to chuckle. "Kid. We're ninja. We had a war for about a year one time, and nobody even knew about it."

The blonde had to nod at that.

"Now enough about the war. Let's see...you have good grasp on ninjutsu. Even have your own damned techniques I might add. Your taijutsu is about a jounins level with all the fancy tricks to it. And Genjutsu...you are about as proficient as that like a fish can walk." The large man deadpanned.

The blonde didn't even know about genjutsu, until that Kurenai woman asked him how he was with it. The woman had to sputter at how clueless he was at her mastery.

Jiraiya nods and stands up. "Okay. Now I know where we need to start. I'm going to teach you how to break apart Genjutsu."

Naruto just gaped at the man. "That's it?"

This earned him a whack on the head. He didn't even see Jiraiya move and the man was really far from him. "No you dolt. That is just the beginning. I will teach you more ninjutsu as that is my forte. And you don't really need to learn any water-walking or tree-walking as you devil fruit automatically makes you control the chakra of any jutsu."

Rubbing his head and cursing the Toad sage, he straightens himself out and stands at attention. "So how am I going to break genjutsu Jiri...ya-sen...sei?" He slows down his sentence as the Kage is distorted into faces.

These faces comes out to be CP9s faces. Each face are horribly disfigured, but Naruto can easily recognize any of them.

Naruto stares at it for a second and then he puts his fist on his hand. "Oh! This must be genjutsu! Wait a minute. He never told me how to break it!"

"But I do."

'Kyubi! You can?'

"Yes. Look above your so-called comrades."

Naruto does so and hes pearly wisps or cracks in the air. 'What are those?'

"That's you. Well, your devil fruit. The godly amount of chakra you have, its overloading the genjutsu. It's like a dam ready to break agains the coming flood. It should have broken by now, but it seems your sensei has lots of control, will, and chakra."

'I see. So how do I break this exactly.'

"Simple. Release your chakra."

'What? All of it? You sure?'

"No. But at least about a quarter of it. That should be enough for this type of genjutsu."

'Okay...'

Naruto closed his eyes and let out some air. He put his fingers together and opened his eyes. He could feel his chakra surging out of him, like a shaken up soda can ready to spray when open. Then, another second, chakra exploded out of him like fire. The world around him cracked all over and soon it shattered, revealing the real world and a stunned Jiraiya.

The man wanted to start off with a powerful genjutsu, see how the kid fares off, and then try weaker jutsu on him if he fails. But that plan is now in the trash. 'This kids like the god of chakra or something. I would love to see Pedochimaru's face when he sees what we got in our ranks. Booya!'

Naruto keeps panting as he puts his hands on his knees. Unleashing a huge amount of chakra usually cause him fatigue. If sends out all his chakra, he would have to sleep for weeks. And that is time he cannot afford.

Clapping was heard and both males turned to a now the only female in the area. Jiraiya pales as he sees who it is and put his hands up in defense. "Now Tsunade-hime I can explain."

Said woman puts her hands on her hips and glares at the Co-kage. She has blonde hair put into two pigtails. On her forehead is a blue diamond. "Jiraiya. I am not the type of person that would just hit people for every wrong thing they do." Her eyebrow twitches as she hears a small snort from the white-haired man.

She cracks her knuckles and says in a sickening-sweet voice. "Or do you disagree?"

As Jiraiya stammers out pathetically, Naruto just stared at one thing of the women. Well, two things. 'Jugs.'

"Kit. It's rude to stare."

'But jugs Kyubi. Jugs!!!'

"No, It's really rude to stare at the woman WHOS ABOUT TO PUNCH YOU RIGHT NOW!!!"

'Wha-' BOOM

His chest explods into pain as he is sent across the small lake of the waterfall and into a cliff. His body then falls forward to the water.

"Woah!!! Tsunade!!! What the hell!?" The Kage was suprised at what his teammate did. He was expecting her to him.

Smoke covered Tsunades fist as she just mutters, "Damn perverts."

She then feels Jiraiyas hand on her shoulder. "That was taking it a bit too far, Hime." She scoffed.

"He deserved it. Looking at my breast like they were a prize." Then, suprise took her face he she feels the hand from her shoulder touch her breast. She spins around and tries to deliver a kick to the Gama-sennin, but the man dodged.

When he is at a safe distance, he says in a serious tone, "That is what you should when someone actually does something. And you say you're not one who puches others at a slight mishap."

Tsunade just grits her teeth at the mans words. "Shut up. I don't need to listen to you." Her eyebrow then rose at something. "Wait. Where is the boy?"

Jiraiya also had to raise an eyebrow. "He's in the lake. He should get out by now. Unless he can't...swim. Shimatta!!!"

He runs to the lake and dives headfirst into the water. The Slug Sannin looks at the lake for a minute, and bubbles started appearing.

"Fwah! Cough Cough Cough!"

Naruto and Jiraiya comes out of the water and the Kage swims them to shore. The man sets Naruto on the ground as he himself gets up and puts his and on the blondes chest. He starts pushing it and blows air into the boy mouth until the boy coughs out een more water. Narutos eyes slowly open and looks at Jiraiya. "Yo..."

The white-haired man juts smiles that the boy is okay. The boys head looks around until it stops when he see his attacker. "Damn. You throw a really mean punch lady."

The woman just scoffs and crosses his arms. "Thats Tsunade-sama to you. And you get what you deserve for being a damn pervert."

"Told you." 'Shut up. But lesson learned, never be a pervert.'

Jiraiya gets Naruito up and crosses his arms at the woman. "So what are you doing here Tusnade-hime? Didn't you get the memo?" He asked, oblivious to the fact at how he should've known when she screamed to the entire world that she got the memo.

"Yes I did, in fact. But I ignored it." Seeing the glare, she chuckled. "Okay, okay. I let Shizune handled it."

The man shakes his head at the woman. Tsunade puts her hands on her hips again and asks, "So why leave in the first place, huh? Taking the boy on a date like Orochiphilo back in the day?"

The Toad Sannin was about to scream at her, but composed himself and just said, "No hime. I am simply training the boy for the upcoming invasion."

The woman raised both eyebrows and looked at the boy with a little haughtiness. "Oh? So this is our 'Golden Boy', hmm? And what if all your pampering doesn't get himself killed by just a simple Oto gennin?"

Jiraiya wasn't the one to answer, when Naruto smirks at the woman. "Well. If I'm such a weakling then how come you didn't kill me with that little old punch?"

A twitch developed on her eyebrow. "Tiny?" Then the pupils in her eyes disappeared as her face twisted in anger. "OLD!?" She charged the blonde again, ignoring Jiraiyas scream. Whe she was about to contact Narutos face, the boys head disappeared when it actually hit. Shock appeared on her face as the rest of the boys body turned transluscent and swerved near Jiraiya. The pearlness then turned back into Naruto, who was rubbing his jaw in phantom pain.

"Yeesh." He looks to Jiraiya in question. "Does she always explode like this?"

The old man just sighs and nods. He crosses his arms and looks at Tsunade, who is dusting her shoulders of invisble dust. The woman glares at them, specifically at Naruto, and walks away. This makes Jiraiya chuckle and shakes his head. He puts his hand on the confused boys shoulder. "That's a suprise. I guess she's warming up to you."

This earned him a blank stare. "She's warming up to me. Yes. Glares has to be a sign of affection, right?" Asked Naruto.

Jiraiya just nodded sagely. "Yep."

Naruto just looked on to where Tsunade left. 'It's settled. Woman are strange.'

A snort was heard from his mind. "Took you long enough."

Five days later - New Konoha - New Meeting Room

Blue eyes watch from behind the crowd. He looks on as the Co-Hokages are at the front, facing a crowd of ninja. He sees some familiar faces amongst the crowd, like the Konoha Fifteen.

His attention came back to the Hokages as Jiraiya raised his fist to his mouth and coughed to get their attention. Beside him, Tsunade only rolled he eyes at him. When all ninja had turned to him, the white-haired individual spoke, "Konohanians. Yes. That's right. I made up a name for us. Any one who has objections to the name, speak up now!"

Every hand in the crowd went straight up.

Jiraiya crossed his arms and pouted. "Meanies."

He was sent to the ground by an impatient Tsunade, who opened her eyes at having to close them at his stupidity. "Okay. Now that the clownish theatrics are over-" "-Hey!" "-we can explain what the plan is to invade Oto."

Ninja that weren't really paying attention and picking their nose, now stood in rapt attention. Jiraiya stood up and glared at Tsunade, who stuck out her tongue. Their antics amuse the crowd and try to keep the atmosphere as light as possible. In all seriousness, Jiraiya turned again to the crowd. "My people." He turned to Tsunade. "Our people." He turned to the crowd. "Ninja of New Konoha."

"We are about to go to war. A war that can very well change our lives. Hopefully...it can change for the better. We are going to invade Oto."

"Oto has managed to do the worst to us. And it kept going downhill. First, the death of Sandiame." Everyone bowed their heads, even Naruto. "Next, kicking us out of our home. Then, a trusted ally leaving us to its fingers." Kakashi, Sai, and Sakura had sadness in their eyes at that. "And finally, sending Iwa to attack us, just to test us."

"And now I say, fo all of us, this is enough!!!" He punds his fist on a nearby table that a black-haired woman with a pig brought in. "We are tired of the shit Oto put us through. So now, we're going to throw this shit right back at them!"

Cheers from the crowd erupted. Poor Naruto had to be pushed around. 'Jeez! These are ninja?'

Whe it quieted down, Jiraiya spoke again. "Now. We will speak of the plan. For starters, I will move half of our army to attack the village. I myself will try to get through and fight the trecherous Sannin, Orochimaru. Along with me, will be assassination specialist, Anko and captain of ANBU squad 3, Yamato." Naruto sees a smirk on a purple-haired lady and an ominous face of a brown-haired guy.

"Then, our ally, Kiri, will send part of its forces to help us. While this is going on, Tsunade and another half of its forces will fend off SPARK, led by Danzo."

"Now to get into detail of the officers of Oto. Intelligence has informed us of three of them. Gaara. The jinchuuriki of Shukaku and key part of invading us at the Chunin exams. Two people have volunteered to fight him. Rock Lee and Kimimaro. May their bravery serve them well."

"Another officer is Kabuto. A spy that infiltrated out ranks for seven years. He is in charge of the hospital. Tsunade here told me that Sakura Haruno should occupy the hospital. Save anyone who can be saved. I suggest that Kakashi should go with her, to fend off and hopefully defeat Kabuto."

"And finally, Sasuke Uchiha. A loyal ninja thats been tainted by the snake. He is arguebly the strongest of the officers and second to Orochimaru. Now, the only one who can stop him, except for me and Tsunade who are needed, is not of Konoha."

Whispers came upon the crowd. This makes Naruto sigh from under his new white jacket, with a hoodie on. Along with a black tape around his sleeves, it made him look like a ninja.

'Here we go.'

"This newcomer is of almost Kage-level due to his special powers. Now when I say he is not of Konoha. That is not entirely true. He used to be one of us, until he disappeared. Five years ago."

Some ninjas were trying to figure out who that one was, some didn't care, and some already figured it out.

Jiraiya smirked and motioned for a white-hooded figure to come. "Come here and let them see your face so they could trust of you are."

'Pfft. Like thats gonna happen.' He disappeared and reappeared beside Jiraya. His hand reached up to his hoodie, "Now I introduce Konohas Lost Fire. As Sensei called him. His name is..."

The hoodie came off revealing the full face and hair of... "Uzumaki Naruto!"

...

Silence filled the room. Naruto just shook his head and muttered, "Told yo-"

"Okay? Was that the suprise? Lame!" A ninja shouted out.

Another call rang, "Yeah! I thought it was going to be, like, the Yondiame!"

A record player broke and everyone looked at him. The man shrugged. "What? MY mommy says I have an open mind. What of it?"

Suprise took Narutos face. He was expecting some sort of outrage or something. Not immediate acceptance. Jiriaya smirked and walked to him. "Haha. Kid, the civilians may hate your guts. But our ninja kind deals with out of the norm. They never hated you at all."

The words seem to affect Naruto as a smile adorned his face. He closes his eyes and smile a big one, making Jiraiya to think that the boy looked like a fox. "Huh. So that's what you look like when you're constipated."

Cue animefall.

Jiraiya chuckles and Tsunade tries her hardest not to laugh. Though her apprentice is openly giggling.

At this time. a smirk appears on Jiraiyas face. He starts to clap to get everyones attention. Whe it was recieved, the smirk grew wider. 'How's this for upping morale.'

"Everyone! I'd like to make an announcement! If we successfully take back Konoha and defeat Oto..." He can see just picture their faces now.

"I WILL RETURN TO WRITING MY ICHA ICHA SERIES!!!"

WAM!!!

The Kages face was sent from the second floor to the first on by the female Kage. After the sounds of him groaning stop, it got immediately silent that a pin could drop.

Well, this time, a book dropped.

Everyone turned to see Kakashi, with his eyes wide open. His team that was near him walked slowly away. Naruto squinted his eyes to see Kakashis single eye turning blood red and that his mask shows his mouth into a smile. Not a happy smile either.

Oto is so going down.

Two Days Later - Oto

Sasuke Uchiha looks on at the old Konoha from on top of the castle/cathedral which is Orochimarus. Somehow, he felt at ease whenever he is at the height of all and especially when he looks down on everything. That doesn't mean he is arrogant though.

He closed his eyes and reopens them, revealing red eyes. He too had put up a name for himself when doing the bidding of Orochimaru. "Red Eyed Avenger." Everyone knew of his ambition to kill Itachi. His hatred grew on an on whenever he though of the man. Especially the time he appeared during the retreival mission with his own team to find Tsunade.

A small smile appeared on Itachis face as he grabs on of his brothers kunai and walks towards him. In an immediate second, he plunges the blade inside his kins stomach, eliciting a scream from the younger Uchiha. "That's it. Hate me more. You're hatred must reach it's peak, Sasuke." He bends forward to his brother's ear. "Or else you will never land a scratch on me."

His hands clenches so hard it's turning pale as the memory passes by. The pain from his curse seal increasing by the seconds. 'Damnit. I thought I can control this pain. I shoudn't feel this pain anymore, now that I almost acheive that level.'

He finally stood up and looks up to see the sun going down. He smirk on his face as the sky turned a dark-orange red. He looks down and sees something interesting with his blood-colored pupils.

An army stealthily moving through the trees.

His smirk widens as he sees hundreds of figures jumping across the trees. He then raises his arms up into a cross formation, and then he tips over the roofs edge, into the now ravaged city below. One can hear the sound of fire, screams, and the laughter of the Otokage.

The Invasion...

...has begun.

Old Konoha/Oto

The Invasion begins. Konoha succesfully makes it inside the village. As the ninja scour through the buildings, the night assisting their evasion. But, Jiraiya notices something wrong.

"Is anyone here?"

He cursed to himself. Did they evacuate? They knew about the invasion?

'Note to self, never tell Gai anything.'

He hears something on his mic. "Toad. No action as of yet. I'm starting to think they evacuated. Troublesome." A minute later. "Shit!!!"

This made Jiraiyas heart race. "What happened, Shadow? Shadow?"

"Damn. They are in the buildings. Each of them are holding a family hostage. I recognize some these faces. These are old citizens of Konoha!"

This made the white-haired man curse to himself again. 'So Oto still holds Old Konoha populace hostage. Damnit!'

He reached to his mic. "Everyone. Change of plans. Every Hyuga available must look inside the buildings. Anyone with them, formulate plans to save the citizens and escort them out. They are a top priority."

"Jir-Toad! I..have some news."

He looks around to see if anyone is there and hides himself in the alley. "What is it, Blossom?"

"I'm in the hospital with Bloom and Twin Akamarus. The patients at the hospital. It's...it's...

Old Konoha Hospital

"Horrible." Says Sakura, as she looks in horror at the grotesque scene before her. The people here are all forms of experiments. The moaning and the crazed laughter weren't helping either.

"This place...it's like an asylum." Her best friend and rival, Ino whispers.

Kiba nodded. "I know." He looks down and pats Akamarus head in his jacket. "Damn. He's terrified."

"I would be too. Poor thing." A condescending voice makes it to their ears. Across from the hallway of people with no limbs and half their faces mutated, is Kabuto. A smirk on his face and a hand on his hip, he saunters over to a shivering patient.

"These people suffer dearly everyday. Orochimaru just wants to make them more powerful. But, I wish to end their suffering." He says as he cups the patients chin. His glasses radiating a glare.

"Liar! You don't want to end their suffering. You revel in it!" Screamed the pink-haired girl. "To think. We were friends."

This causes the mad doctor to laugh. "Oh Sakura. My my. Such hateful words you send me. I don't revel in it. I do want to end it. Here I'll show you." He takes out a kunai and stabs the patient in the heart, making the Konoha team eyes widened. "See? I ended his suffering. And to the friends part, aren't we still?"

"Rrrragh!!!" Sakura couldn't take it anymore. She charges at Kabuto, intending to give him a massive chakra-enhance explosion.

The smile on Kabutos face only widens.

Instead of Kabuto she hits, a fist comes out of nowhere and stops her charge. When her fist collides with that fist, both of them skid back.

Suprise took over Sakura. "He blocked my punch!? Who is he?"

Kabuto laughs. "Who is he? You don't recognize an old comrade, Sakura? Tis a shame."

She only stares in confusion at him and turns to the unknown figure. Its hair sticks up to back. On its cheeks is a two burnt circles on its red skin. And it was large. Really large. In her mind, it was about as large as...

She gasps in pure horror. "No..." Behind her Kiba is the only one who looks at the figure in confusion now.

"I don't get it. Who is he? Ino do you...know? Ino..." Said girl was quivering. Tears were already coming out his eyes. She hugs herself and looks away.

Kiba was really confused now. He squints his eyes to see anything about the abomination that would have them so horrified. When he was about to give up and aska again, he finally saw. "No way..."

Kabuto claps in amusement. "Seems you found it out. Yes...your old buddy Chouji is back from the dead. It seemed so unfitting to just die for him so I took his corpse and...tinkered with itiht Orochimarus fobidden technique." He walks forward and puts a hand on the "Choujis" back. "Now my sweet pet. I think you have some catching up to do?"

The monster just roared, spitting out saliva, and charged. Sakura shook her head and looks on with determination. She too charges at her old friend.

"That fucking bastard." Kiba growls out. He turns to Ino. "Ino come on." Hearing nothing, he turns and shakes her shoulder. "Ino please, we gotta save Sakura!"

The blonde girl just shakes her head, making the boy curse. "Fine then. I'll go without you." He turns only to stop when Kabuto appears before him. "Wha-"

"Sorry. No dogs allowed." With his kunai out, he aims it at Akamaru. Out of the corner of his eye, he sees the Inuzuka smirk.

Poof

Instead of smacking metal with fur, it's metal on metal. The one holding the other kunai is Kakashi.

Kabuto pushes up his glasses. "Oh? Nice to see you too, Ka...ka...shi...?" His eyes takes up an emotion he hasn't felt in long while. The cause?

"Icha...Icha..."

Meanwhile - Old Konoha Park

"Yosh Ki-I mean Bone-kun! Nineteen for me!"

"Nice. Though I have about twenty-three."

"Ooooooh! Truly you are my senseis eternal rival's student. And that must mean we are Eternal Rivals as well!"

"Your sense of logic...doesn't have much logic to it."

Both ninja are currently fighting a surge of Oto nin that popped out of nowhere. Each of them had grayish ninja suits, with purple bows around their waists.

"Youth. Isn't the target supposed to be here? Twenty-seven." The bone user asked as he slices an enemy up with his spine.

Adding a punch to the face with his combo attack, the Blue Beast of Konoha turns to Kimimaro. "Yes! Our target was confirmed to be in th park. Twenty-seven! A tie!"

"Thirty-five."

Both turned to see a splattering of blood. Dropped from a cloud of sand is a dead Konoha-nin. Both looked from the corpes to see a boy with red-hair and green eyes. On his forehead is the Kanji for Love. The smile on his face sent shudders down the two spine.

"Mother is pleased by this number." He said.

Kimimaro stared coldly at the jinchuriki. "Youth. I think this should be our tie breaker."

"Souka. Then we shall see who Flames of Youth are stronger! Konoha Senpuu!" Lee vanished and reappeared behind Gaara, to deliver a powerful kick.

The red-haired boy turned around grabbed the kick with a firm grip. This suprises Lee as Gaara says, "Mother gives me strength."

Sand came out of his gourd and cover his other arm. He then punched Lee in the stomach, sending the youthful ninja flying. Then, sand immediately moved behind him to block a stab from the bone-user.

"Yes!" Gaara yells as engages Kimimaro and Lee. "Mother shall have your blood! The loss of your existence shall confirm mind!"

Kimimaro cursed and he two sharp bones slide out of his wrists. 'Fuck! This guys crazier than Lee!'

Old Konoha - Old Hokage Tower

He remembers it. He remebers it all. The park where all the kids play. The hospital he visits after the beatings. The alleyways he runs through. Now he's truly back in Konoha. A place he used to call home.

And now, he is helping his old village take it back. A mess that he wasn't truly a part of. Now he in this. For that group of kids just like him. For the ninja that accept him. For the citizens that hate him.

Okay, forget that last one.

Naruto runs up the Hokage Tower walls because who knows whats inside. He glances at the Hokage Monument and to the castle on top of it. One face he glances at. 'Oji-san.'

He remembers all the times he had with the Old Hokage. How the man comforted him when he was in pain. How the man gave him the love of the family he longed for. Naruto wished for a family long ago. But now he realized that the man was his family.

'And then I upped and left him. I come back and he's...dead. I owe it to him.' He thought somberly as he nears the roof. When he reaches the edge, he jumps on the roof. 'Oji-san...'

He looks up to another boy on the roof. One with black hair and onyx eyes. He wears a black vest and red bandages around his waist, along with a katana. Around his neck is a purple scarf. On his left ear, is a golden earring. On his forehead, is the black steel heaband of Oto.

Both boys looked at each other. Pearlish-blue eyes meet onyx. The one with the onyx closed his eyes and scoffed. "So this is the one they sent to 'handle' me."

The blue eyes closed his eyes as well. "So you are the one I was sent to handle. Sasuke Uchiha."

"Hmph. So you know my name, yet you still wish to challenge me."

"Sorry. I'm new to the country."

Both boys open their eyes in a very dramatic show. Naruto scratches his head. "Damn. Yours change color? I got to say, that's fucking awesome."

This causes the Uchiha to smirk at the colorful praise. "Thank you. But that doens't mean I won't go easy on you. No-name." He says as he takes out his katana, which is midnight black like his hair.

'Fuck. I forgot my sword at Enies Lobby.' "My name is Naruto Uzumaki. As to not going easy on me, well fuck you." He calmly says as he gets into his fighting stance of CP9. As both boys finished their talk, both disappears in lightning speed.

What happens next, will blow your mind...

FINALLY! HOLY SHIT THAT TOOK LONG!

Not much to say but thanks for reviewing and keeping up with the story.

Oh I almost forgot...

Some miles from Old Konoha

"Fuck, yeah! How in hell did we walk for a week, yeah!?"

"You could have used your bird. I prefer to walk alone anyways."

The two akatsuki members trek through the forest near Old Konoha. Itachi and Deidara has walked for a week straight with onlt a ration of food and water. Deidara thinks Itachi is batshit crazy, while Itachi just thinks nothing.

"What!? You could have told me earlier!"

"You could have thought earlier." "Argh! Fuck you, yeah!"

Deidara missed the smirk on Itachis face as he conjures up his clay bird and fly the hell out of there. 'Oh Kisame. You should be here now. Though I wonder where you ran off to.'

As he kept walking, his eyes then bled tears. 'This is...bad. I must get the Demon's Bane from Sasuke. To save the world. And...'

'...to save myself.'