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Chapter 8

Okay people, Kiharu here. Be sure to check out my other story, Love Reborn. Now the plot thickens. There won't be a lot of Sakura or Lee in the story anymore, nor the mention of Temari or Kankurro much for the rest of the story. More intimate moments between Naruto and Sasuke! Chibi Naruto isn't going to play a big part just yet. He plays a big ass part in the end, so he'll see ya there!

My brother deleted the first copy, so I'm really pissed. I had just reached the 5 page mark and he fucking deleted it! So this is nowhere as good as the original, but don't blame me. Blame my asshole of a brother if you want someone to blame.

Last time on the Shadows Overhead:

"I'll make sure Naruto never leaves again. Naruto will stay and we'll finally live in peace."

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Sasuke looked around the dark room warily. There were many things he didn't expect to see. There were demons being tortured and laughed at and being forced to work.This is exacly like the Chapter Black tape, but Sasuke doesn't go homicidal. Sasuke looked around and noticed that many more demons were being killed for amusement. he looked to a corner and saw fox demons being skinned alive for their furs and manes. One was pale skinned and had amber eyes and he had silver fur. Another also had pale skin and had sunshine yellow fur. The demon looked up and Sasuke's heart froze in terror. Familiar sky blue eyes and whisker marks looked at him dead in the eyes. Naruto's eyes turned a bloody red and...

Sasuke woke up. He looked around quickly and saw Naruto still sleeping on the bed. Sasuke tried to calm his heart down, but then knocking on the front door sped it back up. Sasuke pulled his shirt on and walked over to the front door. He opened the door and glared at the person on the other side.

"You need to get down to your office and assign missions." Sasuke sighed and looked at Kakashi.

"How many missions do we have so far? One hundred? Two hundred? Come in for coffee." Sasuke made a cup and took a long sip.

"We have over a thousand." Sasuke sprayed Kakashi with coffee. "Thanks for the coffee, Sasuke. Every single one is a Class A mission, and we don't have nowhere near enough Jounins. Can you send a messenger to Naruto and ask if he'll make clones to go with the groups?" Sasuke nodded.

"Let's go wake up the lump in my bed." Kakashi blinked then followed Sasuke to his room. Naruto lay half out the window and half on the bed. He snored softly and occasionally mumbled something about Ramen.

"Ramen-covered Sasuke... mmmmmm..." Naruto licked his lips. Sasuke blushed, then kicked Naruto in the head. "Huh? Who am I? Naruto. What am I? Hungry. Sasuke, do you have Ramen?" Sasuke glared at Naruto.

"The Ichiraku burned down a few years ago, so Ramen prices have gone up." He inwardly smirked.

"WHAAAAAAAAAAT?! NOO!" Kakashi punched Sasuke in the back of hte head.

"He's joking. the Ichiraku is located at a larger establishment. Who's paying? Sasuke has more money than me."

"Then Kakashi is paying." Both men said together.

"Damn you two!" Kakashi growled. Once again, the 2 men answered together.

"You know you love us, so let's go. Naruto/I shouldn't perform jutsus on an empty stomach."

After breakfast at the Ichiraku --;;;;; Yummy...

Sasuke and Naruto were looking for something to do, since Naruto already made the clones. Naruto jumped up and down.

"What is Iruka doing today?" Naruto asked. Sasuke put his hand on the others' shoulder, making him stop his jumping.

"Iruka is testing his students to see if they are ready to become ninjas. Want to go judge with him?" Naruto grinned evilly.

"I want to make the midgets squirm with nervousness. Let's go."

Iruka's classroom

Iruka sighed. He was never going to test his students. They were too busy talking about the tournament yesterday to hear him. He heard the door slide open and looked up. Sasuke and Naruto stood there; Sasuke in his Hokage clothes and Naruto in his black silk outfit, minus the cloak. Sasuke held up a sign:

How about me and Naruto 'help' you grade your students? Could be fun...

Iruka nodded and stood up.

"Class, as you know, you will be tested today to see if you are ready to become ninjas. So far, you're failing as far as stealth goes." His students quickly quieted down. "Good. Now, I'll be needing assistance in grading you, so I called 2 of my former students to help me judge. Please come up front, and introduce yourselves to the class." Sasuke and Naruto, with serious faces, walked up to the front of the class. A few whispers could be heard as they walked past the children.

"I am Uchiha Sasuke, the Hokage. I was in Iruka's class and graduated 10 years ago." He then shook hands with Iruka.

"I am Uzamaki Naruto. Not sure of what to classify myself as yet, but I graduated 10 years ago as well." He walked up to Iruka and shook hands with him. Iruka smiled.

"Now, does anyone have any questions for them before we begin?" Every hand in the class rose.

"How did you become Hokage?"

"The former Hokage chose me to take her place."
"Why did you hold the tournament yesterday?"

"I wanted to cause a little trouble like I did when I was your age."

"Where did you go?"

"For the past ten years? The right question is where haven't I gone."

"Did you have to go through with this dumb test 10 years ago?"

"Yes, Naruto and I both had to pass it. I'm not sure if it's the same as it was then."

"It is in some a way, Sasuke. I just changed a few things. Would you two like to test it out?"

"Why the hell wouldn't we?"

"Crude as always, Naruto. But yes, why not? I want to see a few jutsu's that Naruto has learned. Maybe I can learn something from him, instead of the other way around."

"You bet your ass you will."

"First, make a clone. Naruto, I don't want you to. You were able to make more than 1000 clones before you graduated." Sasuke did this easily. "Now, I want you to run the obstacle course. You have to finish it within a minute. Sasuke, you first." Sasuke completed the course in 10 seconds. "Good. Now Naruto." Naruto just walked to the end of the course, which was two feet behind the starting line. "Uhhhh... good job Naruto. You beat Sasuke. Next, I want you to make as many elemental copies of yourself as you can. Sasuke." Sasuke made water, fire and air clones of himself. "Good. Naruto?" Naruto made a fire, water, earth, wind, light, and shadow copy of himself. He even made one in the shape of him from grass. "Wow. Now is a balance contest. Whoever can stay on their pole the longest wins." Naruto glared at him.

"I suck at balancing!" whined Naruto.

"Suck it up and get up here." Naruto climbed up and balanced himself. Within a few minutes, Naruto had almost fallen 3 times. He finally got pissed at Sasuke - who was taunting him - and threw a rock at his head. Sasuke dodged it and looked behind him to see where it landed. He turned back around to scold Naruto, but Naruto got a boulder from somewhere and chucked it at Sasuke. Sasuke caught it, but with the weight of the boulder suddenly on him, the strain made him fall over.

"Naruto! What was the point of that?!"

"A ninja must always be prepared for sudden attack from an ally who may have betrayed him." Sasuke glared at Naruto.

"Acting like children again on your first day back? Shame on you 2! Finally, time for the physical fight. Naruto vs Sasuke. Go!"

Sasuke performed the hand seals for his fireball technique, but Naruto had pounced onto him and ripped a few hairs out of his head. Sasuke yelped and glared at Naruto. Naruto just grinned and did a hand seal. The hairs twisted and formed into a Sasuke clone. Naruto and the Sasuke clone smirked.

"He knows everything you do Sasuke. Ready to fight yorself?" Sasuke answered by attacking the clone head on. Sasuke summoned the fire dragon and incinerated the clone. "Too bad he doesn't have as good of reflexes." Naruto finally leapt at Sasuke and tackled him to the ground. Sasuke landed on top and held a shuriken to Naruto's neck. Naruto smirked again. "I wouldn't do that if I were you..." The class laughed at the pair. Sasuke looked down and saw that Naruto held a kunai to a certain part of his anatomy. His eyes widened and he jumped away quickly. He gave Naruto a withering look and Naruto just grinned goofily.

"That wasn't funny, Naruto." Sasuke said.

"The audience certainly thought so. Even Iruka was laughing at us!" Naruto looked thoughtful. "How about we go after them?" Naruto whispered.

"Expect the unexpected..." Sasuke whispered back. Both men smiled sweetly and faced the students and Iruka. They didn't make a sound.

"I don't like the look you 2 are wearing. Go back to fighting!" Sasuke leapt at Iruka and he ran away. The students were laughing at Iruka, until Naruto jumped in front of them and gave them a crazy smile. Every child - boy and girl - screamed and ran away. Sasuke and Naruto were leaning on each other and laughing heartily. Iruka and the students leered at them from the classroom. One boy - Kanti, Ino's son - yelled.

"CHAAAAARGE!!!" The class and Iruka charged the 2 men. Both men yelled war cries and tackled the class, still laughing.

End of the school day.

Iruka looked at each of the children in his classroom. All had bruises and bumps, and scrapes. One boy even had a broken arm. He looked to Sasuke and Naruto, his fellow judges. Iruka chuckled at the scene before him; Naruto was nodding off and Sasuke was asleep against the back of his chair. Naruto fell into Sasuke's lap and both jumped awake. Naruto nodded to Iruka and stood up. The class stopped talking and were attentive to what he had to say. He glared at them.

"We have decided that each and every one of you have..." The students leaned forward, waiting in anticipation for the answer. Naruto smiled sweetly. "passed." This word sent the entire room into chaos. The students were jumping up and down, cheering. Naruto stared at the class, then turned to Iruka. "We weren't like that, were we?"

"You weren't because you didn't pass. Sasuke wasn't because he was still an icicle back then." Sasuke glared at him. "The rest of the class was. All right kids, time to go home! See you here tomorrow to give you your Jounin instuctors. Good night!" The kids all left the building quickly and Iruka turned to Sasuke and Naruto. "Ramen for dinner?" Iruka asked Naruto. Before he could answer, Sasuke spoke up.

"No. We are going to my office. We need to talk."

Sasuke and Naruto were heading to Sasuke's office, when Sakura and Chibi Naruto walked up. The Naruto's went on ahead to the Hokage Office while the 2 other members of Team 7 talked.

Mirai Naruto held Chibi Naruto's hand while they walked to Sasuke's office. They were discussing which jutsu Naruto would teach his younger counterpart when a man and woman jumped out from behind a dumpster and tied both up and ran off carrying the duo before either could react. Evil laughter filled the air.

Minutes later, Lee walked by and saw a note fall to the ground. He read it and ran off to find Sasuke and Sakura.

"Sasuke, what are you going to do about the missions?"

"We have sent enough clones of Naruto to take care of them."

"Sasuke! Sakura! Both Naruto's are gone!" yelled Lee, who was out of breath." Sasuke's chair toppled over when he stood up.

"What do you mean, 'Both Naruto's are gone'?! They were just here a few minutes ago!" Sasuke yelled.

"Read this note. It fell by my feet when I walked past an alley!" Sasuke read the note. It was hand written and hastily at that.

Dear Sasuke,

If you want to see your lover or his little friend again, you will do as you are told. You will bring me the Fox Ruby and the Dragon Onyx by midnight on July 31st of this year. Hope you don't mind if we have a little fun with them while we wait. Good luck!

Sincerely,

Anoventce Oo Where did I come up with that?!

Sasuke growlded, then shot off to his office. Once there, he sent a message to the Jounins that had returned from their mission.

"Rock Naruto and Uzamaki Naruto have been kidnapped by a person named Anoventce. Has anyone heard of him?" A few people raised their hands. "Speak."

"Anoventce is the leader of the operation that those people sent missions for. She is very dangerous. She almost killed a few of us on our way back. She is a damned woman who summons the dead to do her bidding. We were not informed that our opponents were the undead. Some of us had to fight family members who died 22 years ago at the time of the Kyuubi's reign of power."

"Really? Seems like the Mist country all over again, doesn't it, Kakashi?"

"Eerily so. Did any of you see a man named Tazuna?"

"He was one of the undead. His grandson, Inari, was forced to destroy his corpse." Sasuke glared.

"I'm hating her more and more. Have any idea what the hell the Fox Ruby and Dragon Onyx are?" The Jounin stiffened.

'Those jewels are vital to the fox demons and dragon demons. We will have to go to the Country of Time to gather information on the items and where to get them. Many of us probably won't come back alive." Sasuke nodded. Kakashi turned to a random Jounin.

"Tell Sakura and Lee of the situation and our decision. Then gather a few ANBU and wait for us at the gates to the village. have these tasks completed in less than 30 minutes. See you then." The Jounin quickly left the building and she jumped on the roof tops, waking a few who had been sleeping. Sasuke turned to Hinata. "Hinata, inform Neji of this. I want all of you to gather supplies to last a week. The Country of Time is more than a week away, but we may make good time and get there before any storms hit. It is across an ocean, but the whirl pools will help us along. Go now."

After the Jounin left, Sasuke looked out the window. The sun was just setting and Sasuke was a very unhappy camper. He hadn't even had Naruto for a day and already he was gone! He heard foot steps outside and turned.

"Sasuke! I just heard! Where is Naruto?!"

"We don't know, Gaara. I suppose we'll find out soon enough, though. I just hope they don't do anything to either boys before we get there."

What do you think? I will be introducing new characters next chapter. I'll skip to the first step into the Country of Time. The man was just an accomplice and the woman was Anoventce. Isn't her name messed up? I just pressed random keys. I can't wait to read the new Shonen Jump! Last issue introduced Ryou Bakura and Yami Bakura. I love them both! I can't wait to see the Yu-Gi-Oh! movie that's coming out on August 13th! I think that there is going to be a Dark Magician Girl Paladin or something... OH WELL! I'll see you people next chapter!

BYE BYE!!!