Hey, I'm back once again with another chapter. Not much is to be said so I'll just right to it.

"Speech"

'Thought'

"Kyuubi"

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Chapter 10: Return

"Hokage-sama! Hokage-sama!" cried the jounin as the rushed into Tsunades office, only to see her with hear head on a stack of scrolls dead asleep. "Hokage-sama?" questioned the jounin as he walked up to her desk. "Er...ung..ph..." muttered Tsunade as she turned in her sleep. "Hokage-sama wake up, we need your leadership now," Said the jounin pushing on her shoulder to wake her up. Tsunade turned away from the offender after grunting in protest to being awoken.

"Hokage-sama! This is important! We have reports of Uchiha Sasuke in the area!" With this not only did Tsunade wake up, she sprung to her feet knocking over her chair and desk in the hurry. She grabbed the jounin by the collar and screamed in his face, "WHAT! WHY DIDN'T YOU TELL ME SOONER!" Not waiting for an answer Tsunade marched out of her office to call an emergency meeting of the council, this was big new indeed.

After living only one week in the Hyuga residence Naruto found that one could get into an amazing amount of mischief in such a big house. Especially if people rarely came down the same hallway within ten minutes of each other. He found scaring Hanabi to be his second most favorite pastimes right after Hinata giving his fur a good once over with a brush.

He really enjoyed the home and found that many of the branch members who had glared at him the first time they had met him now seemed either impassive or even smiling at him. He knew that the guards with the Byakugan had seen him once or twice in frightening the younger main house sister and they found it to be more then enjoyable.

He even got a request from one of the cooks for a very special illusion. It turned out the younger Hanabi was terrified of spiders and even more so, the bugs Shino had contracted into symbiosis with himself. It should go without saying that the cook got his wish and from that point on when ever Naruto wanted ramen he got it in force.

Meanwhile Naruto would spend at least a few hours a day with his scrolls and with Hinata, attempting to get his broken and animalistic voice tamed and fluent. He had made great progress but his voice still had that kind of rough edge to it despite how fluent it was.

During this time he also got to get to know Hinata better. During their talks she explained the whole situation with the main house and the branch house and how everything was slowly being patched up between the houses. She never really said much about herself but Naruto always made it a point to force at least one bit of herself out into the open while they talked.

After the day had done Naruto took to training under his Kyuubi-sensei and Kyuubi found that he was soon running out of things to teach his student that didn't involve his fifth tail. One night Kyuubi decided to tell Naruto the most important thing about being a kitsune.

"Naruto," Kyuubi said eerily soft for his monstrous past. "Yes Kyuubi-sensei?" asked Naruto as he looked up from the scroll his master had given him. Kyuubi paused for a moment to think, at first he had hated this kid, possibly more then the fourth Hokage himself. Kyuubi truly hated the kid but after a while he decided the kid wasn't to bad, especially if he had the grapefruits to force him to 'pay rent'.

Now that Naruto had his body he knew it was in his best interest to teach the kid everything he knew. However now he found that as time passed, him teaching Naruto was becoming less forced and more fluent. It was as if he was slowly but surely wanting to teach the kid. He respected the kid in some parts and found him a total and complete waste of time in others but overall he had to admit he had grown a liking to the kid.

Kyuubi sighed and said, "kid, when you get your fifth tail you know that's when the tough stuff really begins right?" Naruto blinked and smirked saying, "I understand sensei and I am ready for it." Kyuubi nearly laughed but was content with a grinon his muzzle. 'This kid was damn near born ready,' Kyuubi thought. "Ok kid, just remember that in the kitsune world the honor bound code that ninjas have is not that much different. It all depends on what kind of Kitsune you become which determines your code," Kyuubi said watching as Naruto soaked this up.

Naruto smirked and said, "No matter what Kyuubi-sensei I will keep to my nindo, I'm sure there's a kitsune color for that." Kyuubi nodded as Naruto returned to his scroll, 'yeah there is kid, I just hope you're ready for it.'

Naruto woke the next morning, his stomach feeling incredibly empty. He slowly got up from his little padded fox bed next to Hinata's and began his morning routine of taking a walk around the main house then going to the kitchen for breakfast. He decided to skip the walk around the halls finding that he was unusually hungry this morning.

He padded his way down the halls and into the kitchen where the cook he had done the great service to greeted him happily. "Good morning Naruto, how did you sleep?" Asked the cook as they began making Naruto's morning meal. "Pretty good," Naruto said with a yawn, "woke up hungry for your ramen though."

The cook laughed to himself but felt a bit of pride, the pure connoisseur of ramen had just complimented his work. He served Naruto his bowl and Naruto finished it, readily accepting the next bowl that had been placed by him. Naruto quickly finished several bowls and when he was full he bid goodbye to the chef and resumed his walk along the halls.

As he came to the corridor by the front entrance he heard a sort of hushed speaking. Deciding that he might as well listen in he disappeared into his fox illusion and crept up on the two speakers to find Hyuga Hiashi and an unknown jounin speaking.

"What do you mean?" Hiashi asked the jounin. "I mean that the Hokage wants Naruto to be protected so she's ordering his return to Hokage tower," the jounin replied. Hiashi sighed and said, "and this is because of..." "Uchiha Sasuke," finished the jounin.

Naruto's eyes sprung open and his kitsune illusion melted away due to the shock. The jounin spied Naruto and he said, "Naruto! Uh..." the jounin never got to finish because Naruto had disappeared in a golden flash, off to find Sasuke. "Oh...damn it," Hiashi said as he put his head in his hand to rub his temples, this was not good.

Naruto raced with all due speed searching Konohagakure for any sign of Sasuke, it could have been the smallest chakra spike he would be there. He never had a clear whiff of Sasuke's scent so anything unfamiliar he would investigate. "Damn..." Naruto growled, "where is he!" Naruto continued his frantic search running into several people on the way but he ignored them all completely focused on his target.

That's when he caught it. "This way..." he muttered as he followed a stretch of a scent he had never caught before but somehow, he knew. He followed the scent deep into the abandoned clan homes of Konohagakure. Some of the homes were left for the homeless, some were byproducts of clan leaders of the past being unsure of where to house their clans. The one Naruto was led to was where a great tragedy happened that caused the entire Uchiha clan to be killed.

"Sasuke..." Naruto said as he rushed into the building without a second thought.

"He...what..." asked Tsunade in an eerily calm voice. "He...ran off. We couldn't stop him Hokage-sama I'm sorry," said the jounin who stood before the Hokage in a bow. "Ran off...you didn't THINK TO CHECK IF HE WAS AROUND!" screamed Tsunade who slammed her fist into the desk.

"I'M SORRY!" screamed the jounin as they fell to their knees in plea. Tsunade took a few deep breathes and said calmly, "Shizune, get the an ANBU team to the Uchiha clan house." Shizune nodded and was about to leave when suddenly another jounin by the name of Genma ran in. "Hokage-sama, we have a problem..."

"Sasuke..." growled Naruto as he walked along the abandoned corridors of the old Uchiha home. "Where the hell are you..." Naruto said as he followed the scent that wound around the halls a rooms. Suddenly Naruto's ears perked up in attention and heard a very familiar sound, the chirping of one thousand birds.

Naruto jumped back just in time to avoid the blackened chidori that had been driven through the wall by his side. "Naruto..." came the dark voice from the cloud of dust, "it's been a while...friend."

Naruto simply stared into the cloud as from the darkness came Sasuke, his curse seal in prime level two form. His clothes a pure black and around his head a long banded sound head protector.

"So Sasuke, how does the power feel..." Naruto growled angrily as the dark chidori around Sasuke's hand dissipated. "It feels..." Sasuke began lifting his open palm to his eyes. He clenched his fist cracking his knuckles, "sublime."

Sasuke slid into a fighting pose and grinned, "care to take it where we left off?" Naruto growled out, "I thought you said you wouldn't obtain the Mangekyou Sharingan that way." "I hate loose ends," Sasuke said as he took off in a blur. Naruto felt the rush of air behind him and ducked just below the kunai strike to his head.

Taking advantage Naruto wrapped his tails around Sasuke's and pulled his around like a whip but Sasuke firmly applied chakra to his feet and stayed where he was. He grasped Naruto's tails and pulled him around, spinning him in the air before slamming him into a wall. He pulled Naruto from the rubble and repeated his action with another wall.

Sasuke smirked and proceeded to lift a heavy piece of rubble to find Naruto wasn't there. Sasuke sneered and said, "dobe where are you." "Right here!" screamed Naruto's voice as he leapt from his illusion in the rubble and slammed his burning paw into Sasuke's stomach. Naruto's paw exploded in an inferno and caused Sasuke to fly backward into one of the few indented walls.

Sasuke pulled himself from the wall with a grin on his face. "Not bad dobe," Sasuke said as he formed his hand seals. "You too you bastard," Naruto said just before he opened his mouth wide and in a flash came a burning red rasengan. Sasuke bent to one knee and held his hand, the darkness surrounding his palm and sounding like the chirping of one thousand birds.

Sasuke suddenly leapt forward, his hand dragging across the ground leaving a deep gash as it headed straight for Naruto. Naruto shot forth with equal speed, leaping in the air and spinning like a tornado. The pitch black Chidori and the bright burning Rasengan met mid air in a massive clash of chakra and wills. Naruto kept spinning like a massive drill while Sasuke kept forcing his hand into the tornados core.

The ground around the two powerful beings cracked and ruptured as if a major earth quake was beginning. The room the boys were standing in was slowly being destroyed with their pure power. Suddenly both boys ceased their attacks, leaping back and panting like animals.

"You...were holding back..." Sasuke said with a slight smirk and pant. "You too..." Naruto said with a laugh. Both boys smirked wide and began to circle each other throwing words between them.

"Why do you wish power Sasuke?" Naruto asked with a smirking growl. "I must kill my brother, I am an avenger," Sasuke said clenching his fist. "What if you were to kill your brother, then what?" asked Naruto who flared his tails. "I would restart the Uchiha clan," responded Sasuke cooly.

"How do you plan to do that if the whole of Konohagakure hates you," asked Naruto seriously. Both boys stopped in their tracks and Sasuke stared at Naruto. "You may never have known people who don't like you with your fan club and the whole village loving the last Uchiha. But when you joined Orochimaru, you gained many enemies. Soon he will try to take you over, he will try to become you so he can have your eyes," said Naruto with a grave look on his fox face.

Sasuke's face turned into a dark stare but before he could respond they both heard the call, "Naruto! Itachi's attacking the Hyuga mansion!"

End Chapter

Well thats it, I'd have Q and A time but I don't have any questions to answer from reviews so I'll go right to the teaser and be on my way, Later.

Suddenly the sheets were tossed into the air and from the covers came the body of a four tailed golden fox. Itachi smirked and said, "I see, the fox came to save his woman." "Brother," came a darkened voice behind him. Itachi didn't need to turn around for he recognized the voice in an instant, "Sasuke."