A Fox and A Tanuki Chapter 5, a naruto fanfic

Holy cow! Over 2,700+ viewers! I feel special now so thanks everybody, so in the first couple months of october, I celebrated my birthday which put me behind on my writing schedule so I'm really happy I got this chapter out on time a little shorter than normal, But I'm happy where it ended. This chapter mostly focuses on the early years of the academy, with a surprise twist(two actually.)

Anyways, onto the chapter review: Last time Minato and Rasa joined forces to strong arm Iwa into agreeing to some terms, during this a vote of no confidence was put against Oonoki and he lost his title as Tsuchikage. Iwa gave up one of their jinchuriki to Suna, and due to a bluff on Minato's part, Kiri asked for help getting rid of Yagura in which Shisui played a big part and Zabuza was named the new Mizukage!

Chapter 5 - The New Arrival

"Hya!"

"Ha!"

In a small field behind an imposing school, second year academy students could be found, partnered in twos, sparring with each other. Aside from the clan heirs, like Hinata, Kiba and Sasuke who had taijutsu specific to their family, there was nothing to write home about. But speaking of the second in line Uchiha heir, he could be found fighting against his rival, Naruto.

No one knew why, but Sasuke had been drawn to Naruto, always trying to prove to the blond he was better. Well most people knew why, Naruto's father, the Hokage, had hand picked Itachi to undergo training as the next Hokage. Itachi was a living legend amongst Leaf shinobi. After only just turning nineteen, he was an anbu black ops captain, before voluntarily taking a step back and becoming a jonin.

It was no secret that Sasuke was jealous of the amount of time Naruto spent with Itachi, as he always around Minato, learning everything he could. And even though Sasuke showed tremendous potential as a shinobi, so to did Naruto. Everytime one boy managed to accomplish a feat worthy of a genin, despite only being seven, the other had to accomplish something as well.

For example, Sasuke had already undertaken elemental chakra training, showing proficiency with fire style, Naruto had mastered the shadow clone jutsu. With how big Naruto's chakra reserves were, for obvious reasons, he would never have the pinpoint control needed for the regular clone jutsu, but through careful supervision of his father and Jiraiya, Naruto could use a forbidden jutsu with ease.

Another example, where Sasuke showed promise with genjutsu and throwing weapons, Naruto was quickly learning his way around kenjutsu, as he almost never went anywhere without his blade, which he kept on his left hip. And despite not having a unique fighting style to call his own, they both seemed evenly matched in taijutsu. Their teachers speculated that the position for top male would come down to those two, while top female was undisputedly Hinata Hyuga.

When she first joined the academy she had been a shy girl, but tooka quick liking to Naruto, who had done wonders for her self-esteem. Now she could be found hanging out with the likes of Kiba, Ino, and Shikamaru. From the side lines came a squeal. "Look at Sasuke go, he's sooo cool!"

"What? No way, Naruto is the winner here."

Iruka sighed, both boys being from such prestigious backgrounds had amassed quite a following amongst their female classmates. But they were getting a new student today, and she was sure to disrupt the flow of things quite a bit. "WHAT DID YOU SAY?" The teacher turned his attention back to the sparring, Naruto and Sasuke had all but forgotten their fight and where in each others faces. For such bright ninja, and good friends they fought almost as much as they laughed.

"Even if your dads the Hokage doesn't make you anything special!"

"What would you know of my dad huh?"

"Father says he only became Hokage because the Third liked him, that it should have been an Uchiha!" Sasuke blocked Naruto's (Sheathed) Sword with a blunt kunai.

"Of course the Uchiha think they should have been in charge, my dad says yours is an asshole!" Naruto ducked under Sasuke's kick and used the flat side of his sheathe to push Sasuke away. Both boys growled at each other, Naruto brought his sword back to his side, hand ready to draw as Sasuke reached into his kunai pouch.

Iruka could tell, the gleam that came off Sasuke's kunai, it was just as sharp as the sword Naruto was pulling out. They charged each other, Sasuke pulled out a second kunai, and Naruto threw the sheathe to the side, opting to hold is sword in both hands. Just as they were about to meet, Iruka stepped in between them, grabbing both by their wrist, twisting and launching them away from each other.

His head grew to comically large sizes "Enough both of you! What did I say about using real weapons in a spar!"

Both boys hung their head slow and said in a defeated tone, at the same time "sorry Iruka-sensei."

"You two, seriously, how is anyone supposed to take you seriously when you act like this? As punishment you two are going to clean up the classroom after school today."

"But Iruka-sensei" Naruto protested "my dad was going to take me out to eat after school."

"And my big brother was going to train me."

Iruka folded his arms, he didn't give in "well then, I guess they'll just have to wait won't they." Iruka called out to the rest of the class who had stopped fighting to watch "I guess since no one else is sparring the taijutsu portion of class is over. Let's head back to class everyone."

As everyone started walking back Kiba and Shikamaru joined Naruto and Sasuke. Kiba ribbed the Uchiha "hey man that was awesome, you would have totally wiped the floor with Naruto this time."

Shikamaru yawned "nah, Naruto had that, with is sword he had the reach advantage. But seriously Kiba, did you have to hit me so hard, I think my arm is going to bruise."

"Well you lazy ass, if you put in a little effort maybe you wouldn't have been hit so hard."

Shikamaru yawned again, looking towards the sky "man I'd rather be watching the clouds. Class is so boring. Hey did you hear, Ino over heard the teachers talking, apparently our class is getting a new student, some transfer from out of the village."

"Wow really?" Naruto grinned "I wonder how strong they are."

Shikamaru shrugged "you would know more than us Naruto, apparently your dad had to pull some string to get them in our class."

"What really? He hasn't said anything to me about it."

Back in the classroom everyone took their seats, Naruto despite his popularity sat near the back of the class and by contrast, Sasuke was sat right in the very front. Iruka coughed "alright class, I'm sure many of you have heard by now that we are getting a new student, but she won't be coming until tomorrow, so you'll have to wait until then, now texts books are being passed out, open it to page two hundred and seven and let's learn about what Konoha went through right after the inauguration of the Third Hokage, Kiba do you remember what his name is?"

After school let out, Naruto and Sasuke were still in the classroom, Naruto was clapping chalk erasers, trying to clear them, while Sasuke wiped down the class desks. Sasuke smirked as he picked up some loose rocks, took aim and threw them at Naruto. Naruto snapped around throwing the erasers in his hand, both times bounced back towards the original thrower.

There was a moment of silence before all hell brock loose, rocks and erasers turned into fake and blunt shuriken and kunai that the two were throwing non stop, and when one ran out all they had to do was duck down and pick some up. By and far Sasuke was winning this exchange, having hit Naruto a number of times on his arms.

Both boys head snapped to the door, Naruto pushed a large chunk of kunai under the lectern that Iruka used returning to wiping down the board, and Sasuke pushed shuriken under a desk. and used that as an excuse to start de-gumming it. Both boys did this just as Iruka peeked his head in to check on them, he smiled, unbeknownst to them that he could see a shuriken embedded into the chair behind Sasuke, and a tip of a kunai under his lectern.

He left and Naruto sighed "I'm sorry for what I said about your dad, my dad never said that and I'm sure he's a nice guy."

"Yeah, me too, I'm sorry, I'm sure you're dad became Hokage under his own merit. Hey wanna train with me and Itachi later?"

Naruto thought about it for a moment "I'd love too, but Dad is taking me out to get ramen."

There were stars in Naruto's eyes, Sasuke shook his head "do you think about anything other than Ramen? Seriously, I honestly think that's all you eat. How are you going to become a halfway decent ninja if you're diet is that poor?"

"Hey don't talk to me about diets, look how skinny you are, it's a wonder you have any fan girls at all, hell it's a wonder you can keep up with me at all."

"What did you say?" Sasuke was starting to reach for the shuriken again.

"You heard me, quackers" Naruto grinned and reached for the kunai before a thought struck him "Hey before we do this, how did I end up with all of the kunai? Do you remember how many you came in with?"

That got Sasuke, he stopped thinking about violence and thought about it "well I'm better with thrown weapons, so I think it's safe to assume at least over half."

"Now hold on, I'm pretty sure there's...five, six, seven...fifteen...like thirty shuriken here, at least half of them are mine."

"Bullshit, you bring like eight of each with you to school every day."

"Oh yeah and how would you know quackers?"

"Okay, why do you keep calling me that?"

"It's not my fault that hair cut makes you look like a duck."

"WHAT!"

"And so why can't i see my son right now Iruka?" Minato asked, beside him stood Itachi and behind him was Shisui who had bandages wrapped around his eyes.

"Yes and why can't I get my younger brother?"

Iruka sighed "because your boys got into an argument during Taijutsu training and pulled out real weaponry on each other during an argument. That's against the rules, so I have them cleaning the classroom, and I'm pretty sure they went at it again in there so I'm giving them some more time."

"If I may ask Iruka-sensei" Itachi said "what was the arguments about/'

"I don't know, something about you Lord Hokage, and Sasuke's father."

"Listen Iruka-"

Iruka cut Minato off "I am ever the loyal soldier Lord Hokage, but Naruto broke the rules, and he was punished accordingly. What lesson would I be teaching him if I let him off of the hook?"

Minato laughed "and that's why I had him put in your class Iruka, no special treatment. Of course, I'd never ask for you to go easy on him, I was simply going to ask if Naruto could help you out with something else another time, I have a reservation at a rather expensive restaurant in town."

Iruka looked at his watch "next friday the training field is going to need maintenance."

Minato nodded "okay then, Naruto is yours to use as you see fit on friday."

Sasuke was hopping along as Itachi and Shisui walked down the road, though because of the bandages around Shisui their pace was a little slow. "so big brother how is training going with the Hokage?"

"Oh it's going Sasuke, I hear you got into an argument with his son today."

Sasuke looked down "yeah" he kicked a rock "but we apologized later. He said my hair makes me look like a duck." he look horrified when Itachi chuckled "you agree with him!?"

"Well Sasuke, he's not wrong in a way." They stopped at the Uchiha compound, which in the last few months had gone back to their original housing near the middle of the village, instead of the outskirts. "Here go inside, mother is waiting for you, father is busy dealing with a ninja police thing." he smiled as Sasuke ran off but dropped it as he turned to Shisui.

"What is it Itachi, I can almost hear your frown."

"You tell me Shisui, what's with those bandages and" Itachi removed the bandages, Shisui's eyes, normally black had taken on a greyer hughe "what happened to your eyes?"

Shisui smiled sadly "come with me Itachi there is something we need to discuss."

Itachi didn't like the tone his best friends voice carried, but followed him into an old, and abandoned housing unit near the edge of the Uchiha compound. He knew what had happened to Shisui's eye's but not how. "You over used your mangekyou right it..oh hello Lord Fourth." Standing in the corner, arms folded was Minato. "What are you doing here?"

"I'm just here as a witness, so please ignore me."

"Witness?"

"Itachi, it's time for you to know something. Five years ago, do you remember hearing about how Kiri nin from Mizu had come to the village?"

Itachi was severely confused, but decided to play along "yes, and the way you left shortly after they did, then not a week later news comes about that the Mizukage had been assassinated, I always assumed you had played a part."

"Oh you, always thinking, always smart. The Mizukage was a strong ninja, but more than that, he was a fully realized Jinchuriki of the Sanbi, do you know what that means?"

"He was able to utilize all of his biju's power, why?"

"I had to use my Mangekyo on the Biju too, that was the start. I couldn't even activate my sharingan for a few months after that, because it hurt too much, then just last month when I used the Kotoamatsukami on the entire Uchiha clan, it all adds up eventually right?"

"Shisui what are you saying?"

"I'm dying Itachi, I strained myself to much and my body can hardly keep up."

"Is there anything the Leaf can do?"

"No, but there is something you can do old friend."

"Name it Shisui seriously."

"You can kill me."

"Wh..what?" Time seemed to slow down for Itachi, his friend's words echoing and bouncing around his head, not fully grasping it "you want me to kill...no, you want me to have..."

"Yeah now you get it, heh, you recently activated your own Mangekyo right? And as someone who is being groomed for the next Hokage position you should have every weapon in your arsenal available to you."

"Shisui, you can't ask me, you can't honestly believe I would ever..."

Shisui held up a hand and reached out for itachi's, holding it firm "Itachi I am dying, I-" the door opened every eye watched as Fugaku entered, wearing a solemn look.

"Hello Father."

"Hi son, Shisui, Lord Fourth" Fugaku walked over and stood beside Minato "you didn't have to be here for this Lord Fourth."

"One of my Ninja approached me, asking for one of our own to kill him, even if I'm just a clone, I had too see this personally."

"So you know father?"

Fugaku nodded "yes, Shisui came to with this request so you wouldn't get in trouble. I don't like this Itachi, Shisui is a good ninja and an even better Uchiha. But I've seen personally what happens when a mangekyo does this to a person. It's painful, your body hurts and you get these migraines straight from hell. The best doctors give it a month, at best, before the strain on Shisui's body kills him."

Shisui grabbed Itachi's attention "hey I've lived a good life, and even made history changing the course of an entire nation. My family died during the last war, but I was lucky enough to have someone like you, whom I would gladly call a brother, in my life. If my death can help you in any way, shape, or form then I can die happy."

Itachi's hands were shaking "What if I say no, or why do I have to be the one that does it."

Shisui shrugged "if you say no that's understandable. I knew this was a big ask from the jump, And I'm not asking you to murder me, Lord Fugaku?" Fugaku reached into his pocket and pulled out a needle "that will kill me. I just wanted you to be the one that does it. It'll be quick and painless, and fast enough I can die with my mangekyo activated."

"You want me to take your Mangekyo eyes and implant them into me, you want to give me the Eternal Mangekyo Sharingan."

"Yes, the Hokage is here to watch and make sure everything is straight, Fugaku is here to do the implant." Shisui took the needle from Fugaku and lightly placed it in Itachi's hands "All you have to do is give me a shot."

"Hey dad we're getting a new student in our class tomorrow."

"Really? That's exciting."

"Yeah people are saying you have something to do with it."

Minato held an innocent expression "what? Nah, I'd tell you if I was doing something like that." The Hokage sat a little straighter in his chair, the memories of his clone returning to him. 'Shisui' he thought to himself 'you were a true ninja.' He took a bite of his ramen "Naruto, slow down no ones going to take it from you."

"But dad Ichiraku's is the best!" Naruto slurped up the last of his bowl, and place it on top of a growing pile beside him. Minato rolled his eyes and pulled out a flask. It was silver, but the cap was gold and had an uzumaki swirl on it, it had been a wedding gift from Kushina, he took one swig of it. "What's that dad?"

"It's a flask son, meant to contain liquids and used to help conserve water on long trips." Minato explained.

"But what about your tea?" Naruto asked in confusion.

"This holds something special. I'll explain it to you when you're older, okay?" Minato stated. Teuchi the chef seemed to have caught onto the sad look in his eyes, having been a former shinobi himself. He pulled out two shot glasses and poured a clear substance in both. He had seen that look enough times to know what it meant.

"To those we lost, Lord Fourth" He said and held one up,

"And to those who would mourn us when we leave" Minato finished as they both drank the shots quickly. "Thank you Teuchi."

"Anything for a former teammate"

"Wow old man Teuchi and you used to be on a team?"

Minato smiled brightly "Haven't I told you before, he was a jonin when I was a chunin and he ran several mission I was a part of. Then when I became a jonin and later Hokage during the last war I trusted him with several important missions." Minato looked towards the Ramen stand owner "he could show you a thing or two about wielding that sword of yours."

Teuchi let out a boisterous laugh "Oh please Minato, the closet thing to a sword I've held in the last few years is my butchers knife. I might have a few scrolls laying around back at my place though, if you'd be interested. I don't mind helping out the next generation."

"I'll have someone come by and pick them up for you, now how much is the tab, because at this rate Naruto might bleed might pockets dry."

The next day found the students eagerly sitting in their seats discussing various things amongst themselves, though most conversations followed the same topic. Kiba, Shikamaru and Naruto were in their own group, and Sasuke was there sitting in the row in front of them. "So Naruto did your dad saying anything on whose joining our class?"

Naruto shook his head "no, he said he'd have told me. But I think he was lying, I wonder how strong they're going to be."

Shikamaru leaned back in his chair, just barely catching a glimpse at the clouds through a window "meh as long as they don't cause trouble like you or Sasuke. Man this is such a drag."

"You know Shika" Kiba said following his eyes "it confuses me you're like the smartest person in this room, probably smarter than a few of the teachers too. If you applied yourself you could probably be in your final year, hell maybe even be a genin by now. That'd put you on the same level as Sasuke's brother.

Sasuke snorted "no offence but your nothing like my older brother."

"Eh none taken, but all that work would be more trouble than it's worth. Besides if I did that people would start pushing their expectations on me and that's even more bothersome."

Everyone got quiet as Iruka and Mizuki entered the room, Mizuki immediately began passing around some paperwork. Iruka smiled "wow, it seems I have everyone's attention for once. Though I know why I think it would be astonishing how much you all could accomplish if you gave me this much attention in all your classes. So pop quiz" there was a collective groan "who here can tell me something interesting about Suna? Naruto" he nodded to the blonde whose hand shot up.

"Oh, oh, they have this awesome puppet technique where they use strings made of chakra to control a wooden puppet!"

"Very interesting Naruto, does any one remember what Suna's number one export is? Sasuke?"

Sasuke grinned "it depends, on the civilian side they export sandstone which is good for holding up in extreme weather but on the ninja side it's scorpion venom which many ninja villages buy for medicinal and practical uses."

"Good Sasuke, as I said yesterday our newest student is a transfer from Kaze no Kuni, more importantly straight from Sunagakure itself, why don't we her introduce her, come on in." Everyone gasped as a pale girl entered, she had short cut red hair, green eyes with no pupils, some kind of kanji above her left eye, which was obstructed by her bangs. But what got everyone's attention was the pale earthen gourd on her back "everyone this is-"

"GAARA!" Naruto bounded down the stairs in a few steps, leaping in the air to embrace his friend, but he was stopped midair as a clump of sand came from the ground, holding him in the air. "Oh come on really?"

Gaara, who had extended her hand dropped it to her side, Naruto falling to the ground "hello to you too Naruto."

The class immediately burst into whispered choruses, amongst those could be heard "who is this bitch" and "why are her and MY Naruto so friendly with each other." Not even two seconds into her first class and half the female population was giving her a death stare.

Shikamaru put his head down and groaned 'why couldn't she be a nobody? Of course she's going to be a troublesome redhead.'

"Alright Naruto, I'm glad you know Gaara here but please go back to your seat. Gaara, why don't you continue?"

Gaara turned around and gave a small bow to the class. "Hello, my name is Gaara no Subaku, I have an older sister and brother, it's a pleasure to meet you all."

"Oh Gaara, sit over here, move Kiba!"

"Don't push me you blonde idiot, all you had to do was ask!"

"Now, now students calm down, You can all introduce yourselves at lunch. There is a seat open by Hinata, why don't you take a seat Gaara, and we will continue our lesson" Iruka said, and wrote something on the board. "In honor of our new student, we are going to discuss the history between the Leaf Village and Sand Village."

Hinata glanced to her side, curious about the new student. Her and Naruto knew each other, that much was obvious. "Can I help you?" Gaara asked quietly so as not to disturb Iruka's teaching.

"Well I knew Naruto took trips to suna often with is father, but he's never mentioned you before."

"Really? I know about you, you're Hinata Hyuga, the loud one with the dog is Kiba and the one trying to sleep is Shikamaru. He's told me all about his class."

Iruka turned around "Gaara, care to tell use about the past Kazekage?"

Gaara stood up "the First Kazekage, Lord Reto was known for his unique sword and for gathering all the desert shinobi into one village. The second Kazekage, Shamon invented the puppet technique that Suna is famous for. The Third Kazekage, Lando, is considered the strongest Kazekage ever with his Iron sand manipulation. The Fourth Kazekage, Lord Rasa, is known for his use of golden sand manipulation."

Iruka nodded "thank you Gaara, now during the second great ninja war..."

Gaara ignored Iruka for the time being to look around at her new classmates, they were all fresh faced and to her a little naive, but that was to be expected after all. The Leaf was known to take it easy on their children, which differed from Suna. By the end of second year you were supposed to pick a specialization for combat, and by third year you were expected to be able to take on a lone giant scorpion by yourself.

She knew how strong Naruto was, being the child of a Kage you were expected to know how to defend yourself. Reports said that the Uchiha boy was someone to keep an eye on as well. This Hyuga was said to be an up and comer, so she might be interesting. But Gaara was confident that there was no one else in the class who could actually hurt her. Well maybe aside from the Nara.

He may not know about her sand eye technique, which was allowing her to look at him, but she was able to see that he was analyzing her very thoroughly. So too was the Inuzuka, but he was just staring at her. Naruto had that silly grin on his face, Gaara smiled, at least he hadn't changed so much. The rest of the class seemed average, with the clan heirs outpacing their fellow students.

She looked down, there was some form of bug crawling on the desk, the Aburame were known for their Kikaichu bugs. Was he trying to figure her out? She turned her sand eye too look at Shino, but gasped, there were two bugs flying in front of it, but they ate the chakra in the technique and she had to release it. Looks like this class was full of surprises.

"Very good, now five years ago our Hokage and the Kazekage signed a treaty declaring our two nations allies, Hinata can you tell us what that entails?" The history lesson continued for another two hours, before the bell rang "alright everyone break for lunch and meet back at the sparring grounds afterwards, Gaara could I have a word with you?"

Gaara approached Iruka's desk, and he motioned for her to follow him into a private room and folded his arms, Mizuki was there too standing behind Iruka. He was glaring at her. What had she done to draw his ire? "Yes Iruka-sensei?"

"Lord Fourth told me about your...situation, and that it's given you an automatic defense of sorts?"

"Yes sir, the Ichibi doesn't want me to be hurt"

"Right and according to lord Rasa, only ninja of chunin strength or higher can hit you, which is pretty impressive. That being said is there any way for you to take manual control over it?"

"I can use my hands to control it and make it faster, but if you mean slower than no I can't, why?"

"Well Naruto and Sasuke are already high genin ninja, but they're the strongest in this class. It's going to be hard grading your taijutsu skills if no one can hurt you."

"If it helps I don't mind sparring against an instructor. My father said I should tell others it's an inherited ability, like a blood line limit."

"I guess that will have to do, you're dismissed Gaara."

Mizuki scowled at her back and only spoke when she was out of the room "I can't believe we have another one."

"Another what Mizuki?" Iruka didn't mean for that to sound as harsh as it did but Mizuki caught on.

"Another demon brat Iruka, don't tell me they've fooled you too. It's an embarrassment that the fox has fooled our Kage, but it's downright stupid he would put another one in-ah!" Mizuki fell backwards, Iruka had stepped right into his face, he would have fallen on his ass had Iruka not caught him by his vest.

"Now you listen" Iruka said quietly, a dangerous look in his eye "and you listen carefully, you're entitled to your own opinion that's fine, but if you start letting it affect your decision making in MY classroom, I'll have you removed from it."

Mizuki pushed Iruka's hand away "tch big talk coming from you, the principle put both of us in charge of this class. Go ahead and complain, you know whose side he's on. And if you ever put your hands on me like that again I'll have YOU removed from this class. " Mizuki walked over to the door, but look at Iruka over his shoulder "I'm going to have fun fight that thing, after all I am in charge of the taijutsu portion of class. Huh?" Mizuki bent over, looking at the bottom of the door, there was sand receding from a small gap.

Gaara leaned back and sighed, her teacher was a bigot. Something to tell the Hokage later, for now she just had to get through the day. Most of her class had dispersed out of the classroom, Naruto, Shikamaru, the Akamitchi and Hinata had stayed behind. There was also a small group of five girls in the corner giggling to themselves and pointing at Naruto.

"Hey Gaara over here! Did you bring a lunch? That's fine if not you can have Kiba's sandwich.'

"Hey don't offer my food you ass! Why not share your ramen, seriously?"

Hinata giggled at there antics but pulled out two bento boxes "here I always pack two incase something happens you can have this one, I hope you like rice and red bean mochi."

Gaara was sceptical about the camaraderie but accepted the offered bento "Naruto, have you not told your friends about me?"

Naruto grinned sheepishly, grabbing the back of his neck "well um...you know why I didn't our dad's asked for us to keep it a secret."

"Well I'm here now, and your father is going to make a public announcement later today, so there's no need to keep it secret any longer."

Kiba looked between the two "what are you engaged or something? Seriously Naruto couldn't keep a secret to safe his life, haha...ha ..what?" He was confused by the look the two shared but Shikamaru was bugged eye.

"Well Kiba if you must know, Gaara's dad is the Kazekage and he and my dad signed an agreement last year arranging for us to be married when we turned eighteen or became chunin."

The silence that fell over the class was comical, the only sound that was made was the gasped of Naruto's fangirls, and Hinata's chopsticks dropping to the floor. A collective "WHAT" filled the classroom.

"Was that for Gaara's father or the other part?"

"What do you think you moron" Kiba shouted "I mean seriously, how could you go and get engaged and not tell anyone!"

Shikamaru chuckled to himself "well that explains Naruto's lack of interest in any of our female classmates at all. Seriously even Sasuke has his favorites. I always wondered why you ignored them."

"Well I can't be talking to anothe rgirl when I'm promised to someone else. Hey Hinata are you okay? You're mouth his hanging."

The Hyuga heir had chosen one spot to stare at and promptly broke, her mind trying and failing to reboot itself. "Naruto, you idiot, She'll be fine in a few minutes."

Hinata stood up "please excuse me. I need to use the restroom."

They're engaged!? Oh yeah, off screen things are the best story telling tool, but I promise more questions will be answered in the next chapter, and if you missed it Shisui was able to use the Kotoamatsukami on the Uchiha clan like he had originally planned! I think this is going to shake up the whole world as Itachi not going rouge really changes a lot of things and plans. What do you think? Also forgot to do a Question of the Chapter (QoC) last chapter so here's one, in all of Naruto, who was the best villain?

See ya next time and as always see you next week!