Chapter 9

Arena

"BEGIN!" He roared as he then leapt back into the stands. All of the shinobi awaiting this interesting battle. Lee slowly formed his battle stance as Neji himself lowered himself into his Hyuuga style. Neji was run with amazing speed towards Lee as Lee was preparing to block. Suddenly both sensed it and leaped back from each other as the kunai flew with amazing speed between the too heading towards Shinsei. He sighed as he moved his head slowly and the kunai went flying past and imbedded itself into the wall. A large crack slowly formed up the wall as it imbedded itself within the cold cement.

"Well heres your new training" Shinsei said allowed, everyone turned and watched Shinsei.

"Find the one who threw the Kunai, BEGIN!" He bellowed allowed as all of the shinobi except the Jounin flew towards the bushes. Kakashi looked at Shinsei.

"You have no right to go that difficult on my stud…" Kakashi started but was soon cut off.

"He Is Not your Student Kakashi, he is a previous traitor to Konoha, and because of him, he could also be the destruction of Konoha." Shinsei said strongly as he slowly took the kunai out of the wall, examining the blade he saw what he knew was going to be there. He sighed loudly as the Hokage slowly appeared beside them all the Jounin stood at attention as Shinsei looked over to her boredly.

"Good Tests of there skills, I assume your going to have them train more Taijutsu when they get back?" Tsunade said with a smile.

"I'm being serious when i say this, it wasn't my test, it was the Uchiha Itachi's "Naito said boredly.

"NANI?" everyone said allowed. " AND YOU LET THEM GO AFTER HIM!" Tsunade roared. He had a calm look and stared at her as if she were stupid.

"You actually think Uchiha Itachi would be stupid enough to stay around after he left such a clear message" Shinsei said as he tossed the Kunai over to Tsunade. Tsunade caught it and saw the Uchiha symbol on the handle.

"He's telling you I'm right and your security sucks. I was wondering when he would come out though, he's been here since I bitch slapped his little brother around." Shinsei said boredly. Tsunade glared at him.

"No worries." He said still calm as then all the Genin appeared in front of the Jounin and Hokage. They stood at attention seeing the Hokage.

"SIR! No one is in the Perimeter, SIR!" Shikamaru spoke up loudly.

"Good, your all dismissed until three weeks from now. Train your chakra capacity, and your strength and stamina, if you need help or training tips ask me or the other Jounin. I expect you all will be able to have enough chakra to be able to summon by our next. Of course you will not learn it I want you all to be able to have enough chakra to be able too." Shinsei said loudly.

"HAI!" they all repeated. They all turned and slowly shuffled out of the arena.

"SASUKE! Stay behind" Shinsei yelled. Sasuke glared at Shinsei as the sensei leaped onto the dirt. Shinsei had his hand behind his back and began to slowly mumbling something as the palm of his hand started to grow. Sasuke walked over and stood in front of Shinsei.

"What?" he said blatantly the ANBU that appeared shortly after the Jounin left and the Hokage stared in awe. All curiously staring at the glowing palm.

"Show Me Your Cursed Seal" Shinsei demanded. Sasuke moved his shirt down and showed the cursed mark. "Happy?" he grumbled as suddenly Shinsei slammed the palm of his hand down onto the cursed mark.

"AHHHH!" Sasuke bellowed in agony as Shinsei used his other hand to hold the Uchiha up. The Uchiha's neck felt like someone was digging into it with a searing hot kunai, suddenly a green glow started to grow from Sasuke's neck and the marks of the cursed seal began to glow and it seemed traveling off of Sasuke's neck and onto Shinsei's hand, he removed his hand from Sasuke's neck as the Uchiha fell to the ground staring at mark on Shinsei's hand. The cursed seal seemed to rise from the palm of his hand like in a Three-D version in mid air.

"This Is what the Cursed Seal is Sasuke" he said sternly as suddenly the three marks began to grow largely as hideous faces seemed to stretch at the marks. Like something was alive inside. Suddenly the marks burst open to reveal three grotesque heads of demons facing Sasuke slowly slithering through the air towards him like they were to devour him. Sasuke suddenly felt the fear build up inside him as these hideous creatures moved there ways towards Sasuke, he quickly started pushing himself backwards sliding along the dirt.

"Tell me, do you want the power to kill your brother?" Shinsei said staring at Sasuke, the ANBU and Hokage quickly rushed up beside Shinsei with their weapons drawn.

"SHINSEI ENOUGH!" the Hokage bellowed out.

"No, Sasuke tell me… DO You Want the Power to kill Your Brother?" Shinsei said in a cold tone. Sasuke slowly swallowed the lump in his throat and stared from the creatures into Shinsei's eyes.

"YES!" He said in a shaky voice. Shinsei smirked.

"Fine Then" suddenly the creatures disappeared back into the seal as it suddenly burst into white light that soon evaporated and blew away into the wind. Sasuke looked on in rage as he got up and threw a punch at Shinsei while the ANBU and Hokage just watched in Awe, no had ever been able to get rid of one of Orochumaru's cursed seals. Shinsei grabbed Sasuke's wrist and then by the throat slowly lifting him into the air.

"If You Want Power to kill your brother, you WILL EARN IT! Your brother was foolish in the ways of trying to gain power from himself, he realized this and that's why he is now out of the Akatsuki, your brother learned well enough, but you still have along way to go. Sasuke if you want the power to beat your brother you will have to learn what true power is, even if it takes years for me to drill the information into your skull." Shinsei said coldly as he chopped the back of Sasuke's neck.

"you…bastard…" Sasuke mumbled before darkness consumed his vision. Shinsei gave Sasuke's limp body to one of the ANBU. They quickly left towards the hospital to get Sasuke treated. Shinsei sat down in a meditative state as the Hokage remained there staring at Shinsei.

"You haven't visited his grave since you have gotten back." Tsunade said sadly her eyes staring at the ground. Slowly a shiver ran down Shinsei's spine as he felt cold, colder than usual. He opened his eyes and looked up at Tsunade.

"He was one of my best friends, he saved me from myself. I was still surprised, that you didn't seek me sooner." Shinsei said lowering his henge revealing himself truly.

"We always considered you family" Tsunade said.

"He was like my older brother" Naito said as he stared back at the ground slowly standing up.

"I wont hurt Naruto, ill do my best to get him to be strong against the Akatsuki, and I promise, I will be strong enough to protect him…unlike when I was able to protect your little brother" Naito said quickly as he then disappeared in puff of smoke.

Training Ground

Hinata panted leaning against one of the heavy wooden poles in the middle of the clearing. Completely oblivious to her watcher. She whipped the sweat from her forehead and continued to train on the pole hitting it numerous times until a thought of Sakura crossed her mind and she drove her palm into the middle of the pole as hard as she could. The pole quickly splintered into numerous pieces of wood, as the chakra expressed from the "Gentle Fist" flew out and dented the tree some feet away. Naruto slowly walked out from behind the tree and smiled kindly at Hinata who was no blushing.

"N-N-Naruto-kun!" Hinata squeaked as she then began to blush, she turned to go but Naruto was already in front of her. With a smile on looking into her pearl eyes.

"Please don't go, we have to talk" Naruto said with calm tone as he sat down.

"H…Hai" Hinata said as she blushed and sat down in front of Naruto and started to twiddle her fingers. Naruto rubbed the back of his head as he looked up at her, she was avoiding his eyes trying to see how many leaves were in the bushes.

"H..Hinata-chan, you know when you said…" Naruto paused as Hinata was now as red as a tomato as she looked to him.

"H-Hai, and I'm sorry Naruto-kun" Hinata said bowing but before she did Naruto put his hand gently under her chin and raise her to face him. He stared into her eyes as he spoke.

"I never really knew what Love was Hinata, the only ones that ever showed affection to me where Sarutobi-sama, and Iruka-sensei. But I thought deeply about what you said Hinata, and now I realized, when I sensed all those unknown but yet familiar presences, they were you watching me from a far. Sakura had always treated me horrible, and I was completely oblivious to you liking me, and Hinata I realized after you told me , I couldn't stop thinking about you and I realized that I love you. Hinata-Chan, I'm sorry if I ignored you I just was to stupid to notice…please…forgive me" Naruto said as a tear slowly began to from in his eye. Hinata stared into Naruto's eyes until he finished where he then turned to face the ground.

'He was sorry? For what?' Hinata thought, not even realizing what she was doing, she slowly raised Naruto's head up and whipped the tear away from his cheek. She smiled but was yet still blushing.

"I love You Naruto-Kun" she said as she slowly leaned forward and pressed her lips against his.

Outside Konoha

"That was brave of you Itachi-san, coming into Konoha, you could've gotten me into a lot of trouble." Naito said in a voice that sounded like a child complaining, he then pouted. Itachi smiled as he came out from behind a tree.

"You did what I asked?" Itachi asked with a kind smile on his face towards Naito who pouted again.

"Of course I did, what do you think I am a child?" Naito pouted. Itachi scuffled his hair and laughed a little. Naito smiled.

"I knew you would be able to do it if anyone" Itachi said.

"So what do you want me to do about your brother, Itachi-san? " Naito said in a cheery voice. Itachi got a straight face once again.

"That is up to him, weather he wants revenge or if he's willing to see the greater good. But train him all you want, teach him what you helped teach me" Itachi said now smiling again. Naito smiled widely.

"HAI! Itachi-San!" Naito said loudly with a smile. Itachi smiled and scuffled his hair once again; he turned and then slowly disappeared into the forest. Naito slowly regained his straight face, he turned and ran back towards Konoha.

Sand Siblings House

Gaara sat atop the roof of his and his sibling's large house. He sighed lightly as the moonlit sky sparkled down onto the dimly lit streets of Konoha. Naito's cloak blew a little in the wind as he stood beside Gaara.

"How do you think this will go Naito-san?" Gaara asked curiously. Naito sighed, he stared out at nothing as he just said.

"I Honestly Don't Know Gaara, he needs all his friends to pull him through this time, if the villagers hate get to him, then Konoha is doomed. I found something more about the seal the fourth put on him. It has a fail safe. Though I wouldn't call it safe." Naito said as then Gaara looked up to him.

"What do you mean?" Gaara asked.

"Even if the seal was released like I'm going to do, Its up to Naruto weather or not the demon is vanquished and all his abilities are his, or weather or not….the Demon becomes a material form and destroys Konoha, and perhaps the rest of the world." Naito said calmly. He looked down to Gaara.

"I hope he is ready for this" Naito said in a caring tone. Gaara nodded.

"If anyone can control their demons, it's Uzumaki Naruto." Gaara said confidently.

"I hope so" Naito said worry obvious in his voice as he looked out into the night.

Graveyard

Tsunade stared blankly down at the tombstone. Tears slowly rolling off her cheeks and fell onto the rose covered ground. She shivered as a gust of wind blew past. Suddenly she felt someone's presence as someone wrapped a warm black cloak around her.

"You'll catch a cold if you come out here without warm clothing Tsunade-sama" Naito said calmly. She looked over to him tears in her eyes, he evaded her gaze and stared down on to his grave. He knelt down onto a knee and place three roses on the grave. One white, one Red, and one Black.

"For each part of your life…brother" Naito said as he stood up, Tsunade sniffled as she slowly whipped the tears from her eyes. Naito stared down onto the grave then he looked back to Tsunade.

"He shouldn't have had to do that for me" Naito said in a sad tone as the Hokage stared at him tears still welling up in her eyes.

"He always thought of you as a little brother" Tsunade said. Naito felt another gust of wind and none the less Tsunade still shivered.

"Come on, lets go inside" He said, Tsunade looked back to the grave and gave a quick goodbye as she turned and began to walk away. Naito watched her back for a moment then turned to the grave; he bowed and laid a dull kunai stained in old blood onto the tombstone. "I owe you everything Nawaki, and ill take care of your older sister for you" Naito said to the grave, he bowed again and then turned and caught up with Tsunade as they left the Graveyard.

The Next Day

Naruto slowly awoke to the chirping birds and the cold breeze on his face. Noticing the soft grass under him he slowly moved to get up but notice his right shoulder and chest was holding him down. Looking down he saw Hinata with his jacket covering her, cuddled up to his chest sleeping peacefully. He smiled remembering last nights events, they kissed and hugged, then they spoke and just sat out most of the night watching the stars till they fell asleep. Slowly the sun dimmed and soon was all together blocked out by a figure. Naruto looked up to see Naito standing there with a grin on his face.

"Its not what you think" Naruto said bluntly, the smile grew wider.

"How do you know what I'm thinking?" Naito said with a smirk.

"Pervert" Naruto grumbled.

"What was that?" Naito asked.

"Nothing" Naruto replied quickly.

"Anyways, to all seriousness, we shall start your training in two weeks time, understood?" Naito said dimly, Naruto nodded.

"And Tell Hinata her father said the tea was quiet good last night" Naito said smugly as he turned around and walked away. Naruto looked at Naito confused as slowly Hinata started to stir, until she was fully awake, she looked up to meet Naruto's eyes and she smiled, leaning down Naruto and Hinata kissed each other as then Naruto spoke.

"I'm not sure why, but Shinsei –sensei said that your father enjoyed the tea last night?" Naruto confused by this statement as Hinata giggled. Seeing his confusion Hinata spoke.

"Shinsei-sensei is staying at our manor for the time of his duration in Konoha, apparently he did my father a favor or something." Hinata said with a smile. Naruto looked confused but then shrugged it off and lay back down.

"You know Hinata; you didn't stutter in one word of that statement." Naruto pointed out blankly. Hinata gasped not noticing her shyness was quickly wearing off.

She like Naruto just shrugged it off and laid down her head comfortable on Naruto's chest. They both felt this like a dream, a very good dream that would never end.

Atop The Hokage Monument

Sasuke stood staring out over Konoha, the Konoha he swore he would never come back too, but somehow that dobe dragged him back here. He the sole survivor of the Uchiha massacre and he got dragged back by a loud mouthed, annoying blond haired idiot ninja.

Flash Back

"Nothing you could've done would've helped you beat me…because you are weak" Sasuke smirked as the tattoos on his skin slowly formed back into the three dots on his shoulder. His hand slowly choking the life out of Naruto, he smiled evilly as he then punched Naruto in the gut, spun around and kicked him into a tree. Suddenly red chakra began to flare up surrounding Naruto's body.

End Flashback

'that's when it happened, that surge of Chakra, that's how he was able to beat me, whatever it is, I still haven't figured it out, but it is too powerful for a dobe like that to control. I should have it, I should claim it. Maybe that's what Shinsei means by earning power' Sasuke thought to himself as the ANBU slowly approached.

"It's Time to go, a meeting has been gathered." The ANBU spoke coldly, Sasuke turned and glared at the ANBU, but soon followed them.

Arena

"Once Again you are all called here, this time on an A-Class mission. The Hokage has given me permission to bring everyone here for A-class training, as in Konoha to many people here are distracting. So you will have an hour to gather your things and meet back here. I will not tell you what you need because a Ninja should always be prepared for everything, its up to you. But no this, when this begins no one will return to Konoha for 2 months. UNDERSTOOD?" Naito bellowed out throughout the arena.

"HAI!" his subordinates cried.

"Jounins stay with me, now everyone else leave and gather your things." Naito said as the shinobi all disappeared. The Jounins gathered around, Shinsei sighed as he scratched the back of his head.

"We are going to be commencing Total Survivor Training, the teams can ally, betray and everything they want, the Jounins are on one side of the island while the teams can be spread out throughout the Island. Now this training is not an easy course, their will be real torture, real poisons, real deadly animals and other such stuff, we will have to build our own shelter and so forth. If any of you have any suggestions at whom probably cannot cut this type of training then speak now." Naito spoke sternly and knew that no one would call anyone back. He nodded, "very well, I will explain further details when we reach our destination" Naito spoke calmly as the Jounin's then disappeared in a puff of smoke.

"This is the only way I can make sure Konoha is safe…" Naito sighed heavily as he slowly started to draw a design on the ground throughout the arena.

A/N

"Really Really crappy lol, sorry i was really trying to get this done for you all and i kinda rushed it, but i promsie my next chapter will be really long, and it should cover about a half a months worth of trianing and such. As i said i would have it up so it is up lol. But anyways any question or comments just post them on the Review page and ill take a look and answer them in the next chapter. ;) thanks