DISCLAIMER:I DO NOT OWN NARUTO AND SUCH. I AM ALWAYS OPEN FOR SUGGESTIONS AND REVIEWS.

NOTE:THIS STORY OCCURS AFTER THE FIGHT WITH SASUKE AT THE VALLEY OF THE END.

"talking"

"thinking"

"unidentified being talking"

"Kyuubi or any other host demons"

'Sound effects'

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A blonde haired teen around the age of fifteen, wearing an orange outfit had appeared at the top of a hill covered in grass and surrounded by trees, with a white haired man a fair bit taller than the teen.

"Finally! Konoha, here I come!" shouted the teen.

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"Hmm, I wonder how Naruto's been doing…" thought a very bored Sakura while hearing a lecture from her teacher, Tsunade.

"SAKURA!" shouted Tsunade, "are you even remotely paying attention to what I am teaching whatsoever?"

"Sumanai, Tsunade-sama, I was just thinking…" Sakura said.

"About Naruto?" Tsunade interrupted, suddenly appearing right in front of Sakura face to face.

"Ahh!" Sakura backed away from her sensei.

"Me? Think about the idiot?" asked Sakura bewildered, "No way!"

"Yeah, I believe you," Tsunade said in a false tone of acknowledgement.

"I mean it, I wasn't thinking about him!" shouted Sakura, clearly blushing.

"Uh-huh, and I'm supposed to believe you with that blush on your face?" asked Tsunade mockingly, "you know Sakura, 'you know who' might arrive today, why don't you give him a nice big smooch for him returning?"

Tsunade then ran away laughing as Sakura charged after her like a raging bull.

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"Gah! That was one of the most back breaking missions yet eh Akamaru?" Kiba asked in exhaustion to his pet Akamaru.

Then, suddenly, Akamaru started to bark happily at a pair of people walking down the path towards the gate. One being a slight bit shorter, wearing orange clothing and with a black forehead protector that seemed to reach down a bit past the person's shoulder. Although the person was a fair distance off, Kiba had a great suspicion he knew who the person was.

"Oi, Naruto, long time no see!" shouted Kiba with a loud bark sent by Akamaru.

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In the eyes of the group (and maybe several others) Naruto had changed and matured a lot, something that they would never have imagined. He seemed to sport a new outfit (a sigh was given off even though the clothes that he wore still were orange) his forehead protector was longer, hair gotten I little linger, still disarrayed and all over the place. His eyes had somewhat had gotten deeper, and he grew. Although he did grow, he didn't by that much, perhaps a bit taller than the girls and in par with some of the guys.

"Naruto-kun, it's good to see you again…" said Hinata quietly slowly trailing off.

"Yes, it indeed is," said Hyuuga Neji.

"Naruto, I see you have been well…" commented Shino.

"Hey Naruto," said Shikamaru joining the others in with both Chouji and Ino.

"It's nice to see you again Naruto," said Ten-ten.

"Naruto, It's great to see you again, I never had a doubt in my mind of that you would come back," said Lee. Almost everyone sweat-dropped at this.

"Yeah it's great to see all of you guys again," said Naruto with a wide smile.

"Naruto!" greeted Sakura.

"Ahh, err Sakura-Chan, it's great to see you too," said Naruto as Sakura had jumped out and hugged him. She had to jump because Naruto had gotten a fair bit taller than herself.

"Jeez, you two should get a room!" said Shikamaru.

At this joke, everyone started to laugh out hard, except for both Naruto and Sakura, who immediately parted and blushed. Then, Sakura hit Naruto over the head, stomped over to Shikamaru and started to lecture him on how sick minded he was.

"It was just a joke!" said Shikamaru, cowering under the pressure that which Sakura was giving him.

"Jeez, women are so troublesome…" thought Shikamaru.

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Naruto had then greeted some other people such as Tsunade, Kakashi, Konohamaru's group of three, Iruka, and several others that seemed to be following him around wherever he went. But was called back to Tsunade's office to be sent for another mission. It seemed that He, Naruto, was the only one from the original genin circle, that was still a genin. Everyone had moved up a rank to chuunin, or in Neji's case, a jounin. Naruto had been brooding over it when he found out and arrived at Tsunade's office.

"Naruto, I have an important mission for you, just before you go looking for Sasuke," said Tsunade.

"What's the mission? And is it so important that it'd stall the search for Sasuke?" asked Naruto there standing with Jiraiya.

"Yes, it is, we have found a client who seems to have found the whereabouts of Sasuke," said Taunade.

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