Chapter 4
"You always thought I had less talent than that Uuchia moron" Naruto's words echoed throughout the grounds as Sakura stand back farther away by the training posts. Suddenly three Anbu teams poofed out of thin air. One wearing a white cloak stepped up, his wooden mask hiding his face. Naruto didn't care he was still paying more mind to where Kakashi was.
"Clarify who you are" The Anbu said stepping up further. Naruto stared at him like he was stupid.
"Uzamaki Naruto, baka" Naruto said with no hesitation. Slowly he sensed it, sniffing some more he located him.
"THERE!" Naruto cried out spinning around and throwing a Kunai towards a tree, the Anbu with the white cloak with amazing speed ripped a Kunai out of his holster and threw it with rapid speed. The kunai's intercepted, the Anbu's catching Naruto's through the hole implanting it onto a nearby tree. Kakashi poofed out of thin air beside the Anbu, several kunai's embedded into non vital parts of his body, mostly arms and one or two in the back.
"Kakashi, are you alright?" The Anbu asked cautiously.
"That cant be Naruto, he's too powerful" Kakashi said as he slowly back up out of the circle, he ran over to Sakura quickly taking her off. Naruto sighed as he watched this.
"You made me lose my revenge, that bastard deserves what he gets, this whole village does. Except a few people at least…Anyways, move out of my way" Naruto said slowly moving forward towards town. The Anbu members all quickly surrounded him.
"No, we cannot let you leave until the hokage arrives to verify who you are" The Anbu said.
"I am curious, your saying you guys didn't even notice?" Naruto said laughing.
The Anbu members quickly looked around. Then back to Naruto who was still laughing.
"The Grait Anbu's didn't notice? This forest is a little crowded don't you think? Even some of the rocks on the ground are out of place" Naruto said laughing. Suddenly he disappeared In a puff of smoke as loud popping noises were heard, the Anbu quickly took their defensive positions. As the fog slowly cleared they then realized it. As they face thousands of Naruto's.
"I have No Time For Games, I must speak with the Hokage" One of the Naruto's said loudly. Suddenly about three hundred Naruto's leaped at the Anbu members putting on a little fight as the rest quickly scattered. The Anbu members quickly disposed of all the Naruto's attacking them and quickly scattered after the others. As the training grounds quickly emptied a figure appeared from behind a tree.
"Stupid Anbu" Naruto said, suddenly the Anbu with the white robe came out from behind another tree.
"You have gotten smarter Naruto, but still some things are obvious tactics" The Anbu said.
Naruto quickly threw a Kunai at the Anbu; the white robed man drew one of his own and deflected it as both charged at each other. The Anbu rapidly thrust his kunai towards a non-vital part in Naruto's body, but Naruto swung around stabbing at the Anbu's chest, the Anbu quickly dropped to the ground, one hand propping him up as he quickly swung his leg around trying to trip Naruto. Naruto seeing it coming quickly leapt backwards into the air and landed on his feet.
The Anbu quickly rose and dropped to a fighting stance, Naruto's purplish eyes began to search around the Anbu. There. Naruto quickly drew a shuriken spinning around and threw it far off target from the Anbu. The Anbu heard the thud of the Shuriken hitting wood but suddenly he leaped back after hearing the whistling sound of two kunai's being launched at him. The kunai's embedded into the ground in front of him, noticing the two explosion tags on the kunai's the Anbu leapt back farther. The two explosions sent dust and soot into the air, the Anbu quickly moved forward using the fog to his advantage, he came through and quickly caught Naruto off guard. The Anbu guard quickly came up dodging Naruto's kunai and swung around and hit Naruto in the back of the skull with the ring on the end of his Kunai.Naruto quickly dropped to the ground, unconscious. The Anbu suddenly realized his mistake as the Naruto lying on the ground suddenly disappeared in a puff of smoke.
"KAGE SHURIKEN NO-JUSTU!" Naruto yelled allowed as 4 shuriken's quickly flew towards the Anbu member. Dodging two of the Kunai's and having two of them hit him in the arm. Naruto jumped out of the tree and stood still watching the Anbu member.
'Interesting, Naruto could easily become Anbu with the tactics he's using.' The Anbu thought quickly.
"MAJIKKU SAIKEN NO-JUTSU!" as the Anbu heard these words he quickly turned around but before he could move he had three tight rings of chakra around him. The clone behind the Anbu slowly clenched his hand into a fist as the rings grew tighter slowly starting to cut down the circulation of air to the Anbu.
"I'm going to see the Hokage Now, so how bout you stay here and.. Reflect, ON your actions" Naruto said as he quickly ran off and leaped high into the air and quickly took off through the forest.
"Damnit" The Anbu member cursed as he lay there. After a while the clone disappeared and he was free of the rings of chakra.
Hospital
"K-Kakashi-Sensei?" a nervous Hinata asked dumbfounded as she watched Kakashi and Sakura walk in being escorted by two Anbu members. Kakashi was slowly bleeding from several non-vital wounds. The nurse quickly ran around the corner of her desk checking Kakashi immediately, medical-nin ran into the room and began treating Kakashi's injuries. As the medical-nin's scurried off after accomplishing their job Kakashi turned to see Hinata.
"Hinata? Why are you here?" Kakashi said curiously
"i-I came to see N-Naruto-kun" Hinata said hesitantly. Kakashi shuddered a little bit at the thought of Naruto. A serious look quickly appeared on his face.
"Hinata you must stay away from Naruto for the time being, there is something wrong with him" Kakashi said a tone of urgency in his voice.
"He better get killed, I hope the hokage executes him for attacking fellow ninja's" Sakura mumbled slightly. The Anbu flinched a slight bit as they heard this comment, controlling them from hitting her. Hinata heard and gritted her teeth, a rage she never knew she had quickly grew to much for her to handle as she walked over and reached back and pushed her hand forward as hard as she could slapping the taste out of Sakura's mouth.
"He Has Been Nothing But Kind to YOU! AND YOU SPIT ON HIM! SASUKE DESERVED TO DIE! He betrayed his people and most of all He BETRAYED YOU!" Hinata said, everyone in the room including Hinata herself was shocked at what she had just done. Sakura to speechless to say anything just watched as the angry Hinata pushed past the Anbu guards and walked out of the hospital.
"He protects his Special People, The people that are close to him. You used to be one of them, Sakura of the Leaf. Naruto has made a choice on which he can't turn back." all the figures in the room quickly looked towards the hallway. A figure leaning against the wall stared at them, his eyes cold and emotionless. His red hair slightly came down into his face, but not enough to cover the insignia of "Love" on his forehead.
"Gaara Of The Sand" The anbu said staring at him behind their wooden masks.
Ninja Monument
The dark clouds slowly began to cloud the sun, blocking its gentle rays of light out from the village of Konoha. Tsunade stood, staring at the monument for fallen ninja's. She stared their with water slowly forming in her eyes as the rain began to slowly poor and a lightning bolt blazed across the cloudy sky, followed by a tremendous roar of thunder. Her hair completely damp and soaked dripping down in front of her face, stared at the name that had been bugging her for so long.
"Yondaime, please forgive me if I must kill your only son. Our savior, this village's one true hero" Tsunade said slightly muffled by her deep breaths. Tears slowly streaming down her cheeks and dripping down onto her chest.
"You know, I know I'm the container for the Kyuubi, but you don't have to call me a hero. I didn't really sign up for the job you know" Naruto said slowly walking up behind Tsunade. Hearing his voice she turned around to look at Naruto, but was taken aback from his change in appearance.
His new clothes were now soaked from the rain, but his hair remained spiky as ever. His Hiatate gleamed as it now was tied tightly around his arm, just under the sign of the fox head.
"N-Naruto?" Tsunade stuttered as she stared at him, her eyes then rested on the black lace around his neck, leading down it stopped to a greenish jewel. Tsunade smiled slightly as she saw it.
"I'm still me Tsunade-baba." Naruto said with a sigh as Tsunade twitched a little bit at the comment. baba. She moved forward and hugged Naruto Tightly and Naruto slowly gave her a reassuring pat on the back.
"It's me, but you didn't have to send the entire village's Anbu squads at me" Naruto said with a little tone of annoyance in his voice. Tsunade looked at him curiously.
"You know better then anyone how dangerous Kyuubi is, what would you have done if you were Hokage?" Tsunade said impatiently.
"True" Naruto said honestly as he slowly scratched the back of his head.
"By the way Naruto…Where are the Anbu I sent after you?" Tsunade asked curiously. As she slowly looked around. Naruto opened his mouth but before he could let out a word a large "POOF" was heard. Looking around all the Anbu in the village were surrounding them. The white robed Anbu slowly stepped forward but before he did he saw Tsunade wave him off.
"He's fine" Tsunade said impatient.
"Hokage-sama, we must issue a full squad at his side at all times, he has attacked and injured a fellow nin of the leaf. He must face consequences. His victim was Hatake Kakashi. He is currently waiting to brief you on what happened in your office Hokage-sama" The Anbu said almost emotionless. Tsunade suddenly looked at Naruto a bit taken aback.
"Some Wrongs Had to be Corrected" Naruto said staring blankly at her. He slowly turned and walked off. "I'll come talk to you later" Naruto yelled back as he walked back towards his apartment, one group of Anbu followed him quickly at his heal.
"The rest of you are dismissed" Tsunade said now stern.
"Hai" They all said as they all disappeared in a puff of smoke.
Tsunade turned her head back to look back at Yondaime's name. She sighed heavily and suddenly disappeared in a puff of smoke.
Hokage Office
"Glad to see you both, Kakashi, Gaara" Tsunade said. She then looked at the two behind Gaara, his siblings Kankuro and Temari. Gaara stood arms folded as Kakashi from time to time glanced over at the sand-nin.
"I see you have asked for an asylum. To be let stayed in the village of Konoha and to be a fellow Leaf-nin. As Hokage of the village, your actions against Konoha have to be taken into account, from attempting to destroy this village with the help of the Sound. So I'm afraid to say that we can…" The Hokage began but shortly was interrupted by Gaara.
"The Bond With Kyuubi will take more control of Naruto, If you don't let me help him your entire village is doomed" Gaara said emotionless. He stared emotionlessly at Tsunade as she slowly registered what he had said.
"Y-You can help?" Tsunade stuttered.
"Yes, but only if you make me and my siblings Leaf-nin." Gaara said. Kakashi's eyes moved from Gaara's to Tsunade. Trying to guess what she was going to do.
"Very well. Kankuro, Temari, and Gaara you are now all leaf-nin. Gaara, you and your siblings are to report to me after you have gotten settled in. Here's a note to the Leaf hotel owner, you will have a room available until we get an apartment situated for you three." Tsunade said, she quickly scribbled something on a piece of parchment handing it to Gaara. Kakashi quickly spoke up.
"Hokage-sama, are you su" he began but was quickly interrupted.
"QUIET Kakashi" Tsnuade said harshly.
"Yes Hokage-sama" he said as he submitted in defeat. The sand trio turned in their Sand hiatate's to receive new ones with the leaf symbol on them. Kankuro and Temari quickly bowed and left the room, Gaara merely nodded and his eyes quickly shifted towards Kakashi.
"You are not the one who should be training Naruto" Gaara said annoyance in his tone as he then left the room. Tsunade turned to Kakashi.
"Kakashi, Naruto has now been promoted, him and the new leaf-nin's are a group, you can continue to train students or you can take more missions. It is your choice but until that time you will keep the information of the transfer from the sand-nins classified until the announcement.
"Hokage-sama, if I may I don't think Naruto is rea…" Kakashi was quickly cut off with Tsnuade's temper quickly rising.
"NARUTO! Is more ready then most Jounin, Gaara will train him in ways of the demons, now if you wish to continue training them ask them, or Jiraiya. Otherwise my patience is getting lower leave, I must finish this paperwork." Tsnuade said her hand pointing towards the mountain of paperwork laying on the desk unfinished.
"Hai" Kakashi said defeated, he then disappeared in a poof.
Naruto's Apartment
Naruto lay in his bed his impatience rising.
"Stupid Anbu, not letting me go anywhere" Naruto cursing as his previous attempts at leaving his house had failed in the same dull tone of 'You are to wait here Until Ordered To Come To The Hokage Offfice'. He sighed loudly as suddenly a knock at the door was heard. Naruto sprung up excitedly his energy still the same. He ran to the door and yanked it open and then turned white as a sheet when he saw the sand Siblings standing there. His eyes quickly looked then over but he noticed the Leaf Hiatate.
"Hello Gaara, what brings you here? Looking for another ass Kicking?" Naruto said excitedly. Gaara just stared at him blankly as Kankuro and Temari stood behind him now moving infront of Gaara with a smile. They hugged Naruto tightly and they both mumbled.
"Thanks, what you did to Gaara really changed him, he's not as…ferocious." Naruto smiled and accepted the hug even though it was fairly awkwardly.
"The Hokage Wishes your presence" Gaara said blankly.
"Good I've wanted to speak to her for about 3 hours.