Well I'm back and badder then ever! I have a mistake to report on my last chapter. I accidently began calling Taishou, Taishi which is not his name. Taishou means hearty laughter, not Taishi. Anyway, I got a whole new chapter for yah and this one has such a big twist...AGH! you're gonna hate me for it! Anyway, hope you guys enjoy and thanks for the reviews!

"Speech"

'Thought'

"Kyuubi"

(Standard Disclaimer)

Chapter 20: Gone

Naruto would have damn near killed the Jounin if he had been able to get his hand on him but as it was the Jounin had just a small upper hand on Naruto. Before any of them had even seen Taishou he had made several shadow clones that way if Naruto attacked him he wouldn't harm the real Taishou.

"Naruto, you have to calm down..." Zaiaku said to the nearly rabid fox boy. "HOW CAN I! HE'S FROM THE SOUND!" growled Naruto like a feral dog. "He USED to be from the Sound," Itami corrected. "It's true Naruto," came Taishou's voice from behind Naruto. Naruto swung but Taishou just barely dodged backward.

"Technically I am from Mist, but I defected to the Sound..." Taishou said with a serious face as he barely avoided yet another attack. "A double traitor!" Naruto yelled, the edges of his golden eyes glowing signaling the ignition of his Sekkagan. Taishou had heard about this from the Hokage when she warned him about Naruto, it was something he didn't want to mess with.

He quickly raised his hand and snapped his fingers causing a large crack of sound. Naruto was confused as he watched the fingers in slow motion as to what this could accomplish. When he watched carefully he saw that it was a cover, a mere distraction by making his ears hurt by the violent vibrations.

Naruto quickly blocked off his own ears with his hands and the great cracking sound passed him but this left a window open long enough for Taishou to form hand seals and open his wine skin. After he completed his seals he put his hand over the mouth of the wine skin and from deep within the pouch came a stream of water that formed a ball in his hand.

Taishou smirked and tossed the ball towards Naruto, who dodged it easily. 'This is a Sound Mist Jounin! A joke!' Naruto thought as he resumed his attack. He completely missed the ball of water slowing then hovering mid air, its circular spinning form floating as if waiting for something.

"Oh crap..." Itami said as she started to run. "I got it covered," Zaiaku said as his hands formed several seals in quick procession. "Besides, I wouldn't want to miss this little show for the world," In an instant his chakra flared and his jutsu began...

Taishou merely laughed his loud hearty laugh and formed another hand seal. Suddenly the entire area was covered in a mist leaving everything clouded in the thick fog. Naruto's eyes widened in surprise but it wasn't what he couldn't see what made him surprised. It was what he could see. The thick fog seemed to be nothing to his Sekkagan but in his amazement he had lost Taishou.

Suddenly he heard a loud snap of fingers followed by a loud explosion. Naruto turned to see a massive wave of blade like water flying towards him. That ball of water wasn't a distraction...it was an attack! Naruto slowed the world down with his Sekkagan and just slid below the blade of water, feeling it pass over him with a great gust of wind.

Naruto sprung up and returned the world to normal, deactivating the Sekkagan. "Very good Naruto," came Taishou's voice from all angles, "I see you'll have no problem passing the Chuunin exams." Naruto turned in circles, probably something that traitor learned in Sound.

"Come out and fight you traitor!" growled Naruto as the mist slowly dispersed. When the land was clear Naruto turned and saw Taishou standing with a wide smile on his face and his hands in the formation of a seal. "Traitor," Naruto growled as he took a step forward forgetting to take caution from the presented hand seal.

Taishou lifted his head to the sky and in an instant the entire clearing was rocked with a massive sound, like a water drum had been played into 500 consecutive megaphones. The ground shook and split from the deep and loud sound that carved a swath of destruction with incredibly loud bass sounds.

Naruto had to hold his ears and avoid the fissures at the same time but slowly the training he had earlier in the day and not sleeping all night caught up with him and he stumbled. Using his hands for balance his ears caught the full force of the deep bass sound and it made him dizzy to listen to. It felt like his entire head was being tossed inside of a spinning barrel that was going off a water fall.

Naruto was forced to his knee and suddenly the sound stopped. Naruto looked up at Taishou who was smiling same as ever and he said, "you pass the test Naruto." "What the hell do you mean?" Naruto asked having a hard time standing. Taishou laughed and said, "you see each Genin team is assigned...a sort of speciality. There are trackers, there are planners, there are general teams..."

Naruto thought back to his days with team seven. Definitely a general team. "And of course you have the teams like ours," Taishou smiled as he gestured to the far side of the field. Naruto turned his head to look and what he saw completely surprised him. As far as he could tell it was a massive orb shield...and it looked like it was made of metal.

Naruto watched as the orb came closer and just when it was about two yards from Naruto it broke into thousands and thousands of coins. The coins looked to be from all ages of time, some from the ancient days of the fire country, some brand new and off the mold. As the shield dispersed he watched Itami and Zaiaku appear from inside the orb. The coins flew straight for Zaiaku but instead of harming him they simply slid into the bandages in his arms and legs and all over the rest of his body and disappeared.

Zaiaku smirked at Naruto's open-mouthed gawking, it felt good to have that kind of shock and awe from someone as powerful as him. "I said I liked money," Zaiaku said as Itami smirked and added, "don't you mean love to the point of marriage?" Zaiaku glared at Itami from the corner of his eye but said nothing.

"We're a shield team," Taishou finally finished. Naruto blinked in confusion, with names like theirs he suspected they were the offense. "We head up the first wave of any attack and take out the enemy scouts and anyone else we run into," Taishou said with a smile, "gives you the shivers of excitement doesn't it?"

"Whatever sensei as long as you don't say that one thing..." Itami grumbled. "Oh you mean..." Taishou began as he held up his hand in a snapping formation. 'Oh crap not again...' Itami thought with a scowl. 'No, no, no, oh hell no...' Zaiaku thought with his same stoic look on his face. Naruto was confused beyond all reason, what the hell was going on? "SNAPTASTIC!" Taishou said with a snap of his fingers then a thumbs up with a hearty laugh.

Everyone, even Naruto had a sweat drop on their heads. That was just to lame of a line, it sounded like something Gai and Lee would say! "Never...say that...again..." Itami said with her head in her hands. "That's...embarrassing..." Zaiaku said with a shake of his head. "I think that line is too lame even for Gai and Lee..." Naruto muttered.

Taishou shook off the negative comments and said, "well that's it for the days training you are free to do anything you want." "You're only saying that cause it's getting dark," Itami said with a scowl. Taishou smiled and said, "think what you want." He snapped his fingers and like that he vanished in a puff of smoke.

"Well THAT was entertaining..." Naruto said sarcasm dripping from his voice. "Apparently, you haven't gotten up yet..." Itami said with a smirk as she took another drink from her 'scroll'. "I've been meaning to ask you about that..." Naruto said with a glare. "About what?" Itami asked 'innocently' as she put the 'scroll' back onto her belt.

"You're not 21! You shouldn't drink Sake! It's sick, it messes you up for life! Why drink it!" Naruto screamed. Zaiaku then showed the most expression he had all day, his eyes snapped open in surprise and he slowly inched his way away from a shaking Itami. "You wanna know..." Itami growled with such furry that Naruto began to feel sorry for asking the question.

"I DRINK CAUSE I FRICKING HAVE TO! WHY CAN'T YOU GET IT YOU LOW DOWN, BASTARD GOLDEN BOY! YOU THINK YOU'RE SO HIGH AND MIGHTY BUT HELL THIS IS THE ONLY THING KEEPING ME FROM NOT KILLING EACH AND EVERY ONE OF YOU IDIOTS!" Itami screamed at the top of her lungs causing Naruto to watch wide eyed and severely afraid. "If you EVER bitch to me again about this I'll make sure you DON'T HAVE KIDS!" with that Itami stormed off taking another deep swig from her 'scroll.'

Zaiaku walked over to the obviously freaked out and frozen Naruto still on his knee. He crouched down to Naruto's level and said, "that's why I never ask anymore." Zaiaku stood and left, most likely after the nuclear tempered Itami. It took Naruto a good fifteen minutes to get back into movement. 'God I'm just not having much luck with females...speaking of which,' Naruto thought as he began walking toward the Hyuga Clan grounds. The storm clouds began to gather once again and he didn't want to be stuck in the rain.

Despite his fatigue he made it to the Main House mansion just before the clouds broke and it began to pour. He supposed he could go see how Hinata was doing before he rushed home to the Branch House. Suddenly he heard a soft and sultry, "Kitsune-kun," sound from behind him. He turned to find that it was a Branch House girl, someone he had never seen before. She wore the normal servant uniform that all the Branch House women wore but it seemed far more open in the chest area the most.

Naruto blinked a few times having this register in his mind before shaking his head back into reality. "Uh...hello?" Naruto asked as the Branch House girl walked up to him, a seductive sway in her step. "I've been watching you Kitsune-kun," the woman said with a slight seductive tone that left Naruto just a little bit uncomfortable.

The woman walked around Naruto, brushing against him every so often in places he felt violated in. Had he not been so exhausted he would have called her for violation but as of now he just back away the best he could, slowly backing himself into a wall. The woman closed in on him quickly wrapping her arms around his neck and forcefully drawing him to her. His eyes dropped and closed, his body too exhausted from the day of rigorous training and fights to keep them open.

Hinata knew something was amiss, she could feel it. Maybe it was because that she broke her comb this morning while brushing her hair. Maybe it was finding her rice bowl for lunch had the chops sticks in it standing straight up. Or maybe it was because she didn't get enough sleep the night before.

Whatever the case was she felt something was off and she deemed it her duty to find out what it was. She was lucky to not have a mission today or it would be pure murder on her in her sleep deprived state. First she checked the house grounds, finding nothing she decided to meditate upon the problem in her room. As she passed the front door she saw something truly terrible. There was that Branch Girl, Hitokoe, her arms and legs like an octopus on HER Naruto-kun!

Then she saw something that made it a thousand times worse. The Branch House girl actually pulled Naruto to her and planted a kiss, right on his lips. At that Hinata's heart sank, she watched at Hitokoe passionately kissed HER Naruto-kun. Hinata looked to Naruto's eyes, finding them closed and seemingly off in a different world. Hinata's temper raged but then her eyes began to tear and she walked back into the hallway from where she came.

She knew the seal...she knew how to make that girl pay. She couldn't do it, she couldn't rush in there. It was painful enough to rush in thinking Naruto was in peril. It was something different if she found out Naruto was enjoying it. Hinata pulled her knees up to her chest, and she cried into her knees to muffle the sound, she didn't want to disturb the kissing couple.

Hitokoe smirked as she released Naruto's lips from her own. Her plan had worked, she saw it all with the Byakugan. She knew Naruto and Hinata had this little infatuation with each other which caused him to live in the Branch home but she never liked the fox boy. To be honest she hated him ever since the attack on Konoha so many years ago. Now that he was the fox it was only a matter of time for him to return to the ways of the Kyuubi.

He was a bad omen and a curse upon the house, all she needed to do was plant the right traps and choose the right moments and the fox would be gone. "Later, you dirty fox..." she muttered as she propped him up on a chair and turned to leave, purposely walking right past Hinata with a smug smirk on her face. Oh yes, the fox was as good a gone...

End Chapter

Oh god am I horrible to those two.Well I'll have some Q and A now!

Q: Why does Itami drink Sake?

A: That is in the next chapter

Q: ItamiSuiken?

A: Next chapter again...

Q: Why did Taishou leave Sound...well Mist now too?

A: It's a long story that will be told later on.

Well I suppose you want me out of here and working on the next chapter and fixing the Hinata Naruto situation. I'll leave you with a PREVIEW and then be on my way! Later!

"Ok, I'll grant that request but for now Itami and I will be watching," Taishou said with a great smile as he and Itami walked to the edge of the soon to be battle field. Naruto looked at Zaiaku and shrugged, "your funeral." Zaiaku smirked and his golden eyes flashed in the sunlight, "good luck Naruto."

"Ok! I will call the winner when I see one!" Taishou shouted from the side. Naruto and Zaiaku bowed to each other then Naruto took a fighting stance while Zaiaku stood like he was open to any attack at any angle. "And...GO!" Taishou shouted and in an instant Naruto vanished in a blur.