Naruto Chapter 5

I am soooooo sorry for making you all wait for so long. A lot has happened since I last updated this story. But fear not! I am back. Onwards!

Disclaimer: I don't own Naruto, if I did then Kurama would've been more involved

Hiashi leaped beside his fellow ninja as the traversed the trees. Despite the small ANBU's looks, he was very fast. Hiashi had at first believed that the small stature he had would make him a liability, but he was not only keeping up with them, he seemed to be limiting himself so as to not leave them behind.

Naruto sighed as he felt Hiashi look him up and down again as they continued to move towards their destination. The mission he had received from Saru-jiji wasn't anything special. It was essentially a glorified patrol. They were supposed to scout their border between Konoha and Iowa. There had been an increase in skirmishes lately and Jiji wanted to make sure they weren't preparing to invade.

"Were nearing the border ANBU-san." Hiashi's voice broke through Naruto's thoughts.

Looking ahead, he affirmed that they were about to reach their destination. With one last leap, they reached the border and paused to catch their breath. Doing a quick survey of the area showed that their were marks of a battle that had long since came to a close.

"Hiashi-san, can you be a look out for a minute? I'm going to scan the area for any intruders."

"Hai." Came Hiashi's reply.

Naruto sat down and focused on the chakra surrounding them. The first thing he noticed was that there was four signatures moving towards them. The second thing he noticed was that they were being pursued but a single, yet powerful chakra signature

"Incoming north west, four people coming with one tailing behind. It seems as though they are running from the person following them." Naruto warned Hiashi.

Naruto pulled his standard issued tanto blade from its sheath. Not long after the four chakra signatures he had felt coming towards them came into view.

"Name and ID!" Hiashi quickly yelled out.

"Ark Green, shinobi ID #14527!" the now identified Ark replied with hast, "I have two injured genin and I'm nearly out of chakra! We're being chased!"

Naruto replied calmly, "You may pass. The outpost is three clicks south from here. We'll stop the pursuer."

With that said and done the team ran by. Hiashi looked at Naruto as if questioning if he would be useful in the fight. There was no time to reassure him as the person who was chasing the team down burst into the clearing. Naruto, taking advantage of the moment launched himself towards the man. This was not to be as another man came from above and launched Naruto out of the clearing into another area, out of sight.

"Take care of that one! Ill deal with the new guy." Naruto, despite his surprise, managed to get that out before falling out of earshot. With that settled, he turned his attention to the unexpected visitor. How this man had managed to avoid his senses he didn't know, but he knew that he had to be at the least Jounin level to do so.

Naruto shunshined behind his foe and attempted to stab him in the back of the head. His jab was parried and the man punched him in the gut. To the mans surprise however, it felt like he had hit a brick wall. Sliding into his guard he swept the mans feet from under him and slammed him into the ground by his throat. Without missing a beat he decapitated him, only to end up with a log in his hand.

Naruto was caught unprepared for this, and could only watch as the man appeared beside him and tried to take his head from his shoulders. This was not going to happen as mere inches from his neck a silver blur came from the trees and ripped the mans body in half.

Naruto could only blink as his vision was filled with silver. 'Oh so now she feels like appearing?' Naruto though bitterly.

Fang turned towards Naruto and smiled, "Hey Naru, long time no see?"

Naruto sheathed his sword and began to walk back towards the clearing.

"Naruto?" Fang starred at his back as he walked away without even looking at her.

Naruto decided that if she had ignored him for two years then she must not care about him and had long since giving up on her. It had hurt when she had completely cut her ties with him when he was placed into the ANBU recruits. He ignored her as she kept asking him to reply. Finally getting fed up at the lack of response she was getting she lunged at speeds that even a Kage level shinobi would have trouble keeping up with and pinned him down.

"Why are you ignoring me! I just saved you!" Naruto just turned his gaze at her and glared.

"Oh so me ignoring you now is unacceptable, but you ignoring me for two years- two years?! - is acceptable? Cut the shit, you never wanted anything to do with me! Your just like the rest of them, all you care about is yourself!" Naruto lashed out. In hindsight he should've known that lashing out at her was a bad idea, and insulting her was worse, but right now he was pissed and he didn't care.

Fang quickly went from a little upset and worried to extremely pissed and angry in an instant.

"What was I supposed to do? You came to me asking to help a dragon who was fatally injured, and then not even a week later you up and disappear! I didn't know what happened, but I would've liked to have been updated on why you never came back after you had been called to talk with that old man of yours!" Fang just about roared at him.

Naruto shrunk back at that. He had forgotten that he hadn't ever informed her what had happened. He heard the pain and worry that was masked by her anger. He silently berated himself for forgetting to such a simple thing.

"Well you could've reached out and asked me!" He cried back.

"I tried! But every time I did there was something stopping me! Do you know the fear I felt when I couldn't feel your presence anymore?! I though that you had died!"

That shut Naruto up. He hadn't really thought about it, but it did make sense that there would be seals to block out anything in ANBUs HQ. Pausing, he gazed at her and calmed himself. Reaching up he removed his mask to show her his eyes.

"I- I'm sorry. I didn't have time to warn you. It was so sudden and I- I'm so sorry!" Naruto cried out in frustration and sadness.

Fang let him get up before she moved forward and placed her large head against his chest. "Its ok. Now that we're together again we can catch up. I'm sorry for not trying harder to reach you."

Naruto sighed but wrapped his arms around her neck.

"Its fine, I shouldn't have overreacted. This is my second to last mission as an ANBU, after that we can catch up again. How's the dragon by the way?" Naruto questioned.

"He made a full recovery. We expected him to take off but he is apparently waiting for you." Fang told him.

Naruto sighed. It seemed he had a lot of catching up to do.

(Time skip - 2 years)

Naruto glared from underneath his mask. Ever since he had been released from ANBU he had a feeling of being naked. Without his mask everyone could see his face, and the scars that adorned it; He had quickly decided to ask Jiji if he could have his fox mask back. Due to the fame the mask held the old man had denied him, saying that people would realize who it was that wore the mask.

'He had a point...' Naruto mused, 'But then again, if I want it, then I'll get it, and he knows that.' Naruto chuckled softly. Jiji looked as if he was having a heart attack right then and there when he came into his office to find that his oh so precious book- ya know, the little orange one?- had all its pages ripped out and super glued to the walls. That wasn't the funny part, no, the funny part was how he reacted when he read the pages. Every single page had been changed to now read Orochimaru's version of "Icha Icha Paradise: Little Boys'... Naruto had shuddered slightly when Jiji asked him where he had gotten his hand on the book.

'Some things are best left a mystery.' Was Naruto's only response.

After mourning over his book for a few seconds, Sarutobi stood up and began to look around like a maniac. "Who did this?! If I get my hands on you you'll-" Naruto didn't give him the chance to finish his thought, appearing with a shushin in front of him crouched on the desk , wearing his mask. Making sure to keep his mouth covered, Naruto leaned forward and smirked.

"If I wants my masks, I gets its." Naruto grinned as Jiji started to back away from him. Naruto grinned wider underneath the mask and began to chuckle, causing shivers to crawl their way up Jiji's spine.

And just like that, he disappeared.

Naruto continued to chuckle at the memory, reaching up and rubbing the battle worn porcelain. 'I remember where I got this scar. Oh, and this one to! And this one, and this -'

"Ahem" Naruto's hand twitched as he was pulled from his thoughts. The teacher was standing a foot or so away, twitching nervously. Naruto blinked as he realized that the students had edged away from him. It seemed that chuckling while emitting a small does of killer intent was creeping the students out.

Thinking quickly, Naruto opened the window and leaped out.

"Catch me if ya can!" Naruto called over his shoulder as he sprinted away. Ahh, nothing beats the feeling of acting like a carefree child.

And that's a wrap! I'm sorry for the long wait, but I just moved to another state on my own. On better news, I have a higher paying job, making around 3k a month. I have more time to focus on the story, so look forward to that! Also I would appreciate it if some of you can give me name suggestions that I can use. They have to fit in with Japanese style names, but that it really. I suck at names if you cant see already. Thanks!