A/N: To DarkAngel, first thank you for the review, second I may have it as InoXNaruto or NarutoXTemari, but apparently more people like InoXNaruto. So It will most likely be that. Kakashi will appear soon enough in this chapter or the next. His sword…well…I didn't give it thought much but it may be a nice way to go… I don't really get what you mean by, 'So that Naruto's chakra control far exceeds Sakura's and he becomes aware of being able to use the Kyuubi's power.' I couldn't understand what it meant. The Intense fight scene will probably come up in chapter five or six when he is in the Chuunin exam's.
all I got is four reviews... man that has got to suck for me. Oh well if no one wants to review I'm content with that and I'll make my own decisions. Also there will be a sand/sound war but I don't know yet If I'm going to write about it or have it a brief little history or…something. Review when you finish reading if you want. Though I already know you probably won't.
Small warning I guess: Time skips may be often in this and/or the next chapter. Also to the people who have read and are waiting to the second chapter to A Lifestream it'll be up soon. But since I haven't given it much attention It'll be small...sorry.
Disclaimer: I do not Own Naruto.
Thought: 'are here'
Speech: "Here" Demonic: "Here"
Inside of old scrolls: "Here -- (It's a font called Daedric)
Recap:
She was not distraught, not weeping, or at least, not recently. Not apparently, deranged. Four days in that closet to sort through her thoughts had left her composed, but for a certain tightness in her voice, a faint vibrato of fear or anger. Naruto looked around the bare hall, glanced at the man. "Bring us to where we may sit and speak. Some place apart. In the light."
They all walked to a room which was dimly lit Naruto got suspicious but made no comment and continued to walk silently, he noticed that both the girl and the man kept glancing at each other. Once they arrived in the room Naruto was the first to enter and right in the room he saw a shadowy figure standing by a window apparently looking at him. Naruto cursed as he realized that the two that came with him didn't come in and said, "Great...right into a trap."
"Not exactly a trap but you will die here anyways." responded the shadowy figure as twenty more people appeared into the room, "Interesting isn't it, Black Ops. set up this test just for you, my being here is just an added bonus. I as you may or may not know am a Shadow Lord, seeing as I'm not actually here it's just a shadow. I leave now and these ninja shall kill you. And if you somehow get out alive, let's just say you have gained the honor to live and I shall not hunt you down again unless I have to." It nodded to the ninja and they approached as the shadow disappeared.
All right, twenty against one...I'm in trouble thought Naruto and resigned himself to just dodging and finding a way to escape.
With Irashi
"What the hell?" exclaimed Irashi as the little screen disappeared.
"Trouble's brewing, sorry Irashi. Your student will not get out alive." Said Zirro smirking.
"What do you me-" Irashi stopped as Zirro punched him in the stomach.
"I mean, He needs to die." replied Zirro grimly as he stepped over Irashi and walked to where Naruto was at.
Two hours later
Zirro arrived at the house and walked into the room where Naruto was and when he entered he saw all the ninja that were supposed to kill the demon were either dead or out cold. As he looked towards the right a foot connected with his jaw.
A voice said, "All right you bastards. I've had it, I may have the Kyuubi in me. But I am dead serious when I say I am starting to hate this village and I may just leave the village and save you guys the hassle of more assassinations on me." and Zirro died as Naruto placed his sword through his head.
Naruto looked around the room and used Shunshin and left.
Hokage office
Naruto appeared in front of the Hokage and stated, "I want to transfer to another village."
The Hokage looked at him like he just proposed to him and said, "Why?"
Naruto rolled his eyes and replied, "You know very well why. I am tired of trying to be killed! I have had it, I want to go to another village."
The Hokage sighed and thought, 'I suppose I can't get him to change his mind, Since Irashi started teaching him it's harder for him to change his mind and to do what others would like.' (It may not make sense to you, but it kinda makes sense to me. What it means is: Naruto is not changing his mind.) "All right, Which village."
Naruto took some time to think and answered, "Kagegakure, The Village Hidden among the Shadow."
"Ah I see, the new small Hidden Village. Very well. I send a messenger to the Shadowkage. And see what he says. Until then just go home and relax." Naruto nodded and used the Shunshin and returned home.
A few days later
Naruto was back in front of the Hokage and the Hokage asked, "What happened to you?"
"Ino beat the hell out of me when I said I was transferring...I haven't healed yet." And Kyuubi got stubborn and didn't want to heal me' finished Naruto in his head.
The Hokage handed Naruto the papers and continued, "Well, The Shadowkage has accepted you as a transfer and you should go there as soon as possible. Leave your Konoha Hitai-ite with my secretary and good luck."
"Luck has nothing to do with it. See ya later Old man. I may join in the Chuunin Exams." said Naruto already leaving the room. He left and handed the Hitai-ite to the secretary and left and he just walked to the gates he didn't need anything else and his Katana was already strapped to his back so he was good and ready. Luckily for him Kagegakure isn't far from Konoha.
Kagegakure
A week later Naruto arrived at the gates to Kagegakure and when the guard asked him for his papers Naruto showed him the papers and was allowed in, and now was sitting in front of the Shadowkage. And the Shadowkage asked, "So you the one Sarutobi asked me to accept. An bit unexpected, but never unwelcome. So after reading the letter the old man gave you I see you had the ANBU Instructor Irashi as a sensei. Interesting for one so young but than again your background is a mystery to me. As usual the Genin team will be participating in the Chuunin exams this year in Konoha but I don't know about you since you don't have a team yet. Any questions?"
The Shadowkage wore a black shirt with a leaf spiral on it and grey pants covering his combat boot.
Naruto thought for a second and replied, "No, not really." The Kage nodded. and handed Naruto a Hitai-ite; it was odd looking; the metal part didn't look like metal it was on a white headband and the metal was blackened with a small spiral in the middle. Naruto shrugged at the odd design and placed it on his forehead.
"Come tomorrow morning at 8am I may have a team for you to join." said the Shadowkage sitting down in his chair.
Before the Shadowkage could continue something blared through the whole village, "Attention! All combat personnel, please report to your action stations!"
(combat personnel: Ninja. Everyone else: regular personnel)
"What's that?" asked Naruto curiously.
"Otogakure is assaulting us...Go to this area." The Shadowkage handed Naruto a piece of a paper and Naruto went off.
Traveling through the village another announcement fell over the village again, "Attention all personnel! We are reengaging the enemy! External and Internal Contact emanate!" (External: Outside the village. Internal: Inside the village.)
Upon arriving at the site he saw ninja wearing gray fatigues with metal around their legs, forearms and thick sheets on their upper arm, chest and back. A man stood in front and shouted to the men and women standing there, "You heard the lady, move like you got a purpose!" With that little announcement they all disappeared.
Naruto continued on and walked up to the only person who was still there and asked, "Where exactly am I?"
The man turned around and replied, "I'm Sado. Chief of the Medical Personnel, Personally I have no idea why you are here. But you are here, so you're going to help me with injured Ninja that come here."
A male voice came over the village, "Fall back to secondary defensive positions!"
Sado looked at Naruto and stated, "We're to fall back to the hospital, Otogakure have overtaken the first ten blockade's. Get ready we may have to go fight and we are going to have to protect the patients in the hospital...you run I'll kill you myself." he then started to pack up medical supplies.
"I don't run. If I did, I'd just die tired." said Naruto causing Sado to chuckle.
(Sado is wearing the equipment that I described earlier. Also if someone wants a better description just say so And I'll do it)
After ten minutes of getting it together the two made way to the hospital. They crossed paths with a few other teams and Sado had mentioned that the teams they passed were the best in the village and would either make sure no one got passed or they would die trying. Naruto following him thought, 'I said I wanted to leave, but a war is a bit too much'
They arrived at the hospital and Naruto noticed a man simply walking around near the hospital and he asked, "Who's he?"
Sado looked over at what Naruto mentioned, froze and ended up tumbling into the ground and once he regained his composure he answered, "He's with the ANBU Interrogation Squad. Usually they are sometimes friendly but him…let's just say five minutes with him and you will sing like a bird." Naruto's eyes widened and just nodded and followed Sado into the hospital.
Right when they entered Sado was called into the back to begin an operation and Naruto was left with guard duty. So Naruto stood by the door on the outside on guard duty with a few others.
Not even ten minutes later sound ninja began to appear and started to fight the guards and Naruto; Naruto dodged a few kunai and muttered, "Doton: Doryu" (Earth release: Earth dragon) a big dragon made of mud grew and charged to the oncoming ninja and collided with a few but some managed to escape. Naruto threw a shuriken at one and a Kunai and in another direction. The Shuriken was blocked but the kunai was planted into the ninja's back.
Now that his enemy was a bit wounded Naruto went over to help another person and before he could move he heard someone say, (Don't know if the first word is right) "Raiton: Raikaze!" (Lightning Release: Lightning Wind!) Naruto was blinded by the light that the jutsu made though once it died down. All the enemy ninja he had saw were falling to the ground...apparently unconscious. He looked over to the person who used the jutsu and saw it was the man from before.
The man stretched his neck and walked into the hospital.
Naruto's spine shivered and said to himself, "I wouldn't want to catch him on a bad day." He resumed his post along with the others.
Two hours rolled by with nothing much happening until an announcement came and it said, "Attention all Combat Personnel please resume your normal duties the enemy force's have been routed." The guards looked relieved and everyone gave a breathe of relief. Naruto went inside to see if Sado had come back out, but it was full with people and being short as he was he couldn't tell if Sado was there or not. He shrugged and just went back outside.
Naruto sat on a bench and decided to just relax, he viewed the flowers for a little while, but he didn't notice someone sitting next to him doing the same thing. He sighed and just closed his eyes until he noticed someone next to him and asked, "Who are you?"
"I could ask you the same thing," replied the woman with some sarcasm in her voice.
"I am Naruto Uzumaki, Former Shin-obi of Konohagakure, and now I am a Shin-obi of Kagegakure. Now your turn." stated Naruto with his eyes still closed.
She giggled and replied, "I'm Rin, I work in the hospital with everyone else Also I'm the same as you I am formerly from Konoha, too."
Naruto opened his eyes and looked at her and laughed inside his head and said, "You're Sharingan Kakashi's old team-mate are you not?" She nodded, and ruffled his hair before heading back into the hospital.
Before entering she shouted, "I'll see you later, little one." and went inside.
"...I'm little I get it no need to shout it to the whole world...Oh well." muttered Naruto under his breath.
Naruto than left and went to find a hotel to stay at for the night. While searching for one he noticed that there wasn't a lot of hotels here since he had been so far through half of the village and only saw the one in front of him, "This is odd. One hotel in the whole village," he shrugged and went inside.
Inside he walked up and asked, "Do you have a vacancy?"
The man at the front desk nodded , and said, "Yes. We do."
"How much for the night?" asked Naruto already reaching for his wallet.
The man eyed Naruto and replied, "50 Ryo, per night, your room will be Room A9 just up the stairs." Naruto paid the man and he handed the key to the room.
Naruto with key in hand went upstairs and he opened the door and after closing it laid on his bed and relaxed and said to himself, "I wonder what everyone's doing back in Konoha…?" After a few minutes of thinking on the subject he fell asleep.
Next day, 7:59am
Naruto woke up and looked over at the clock and he eyes nearly popped out of his head and said jumping out of the bed, "I'm going to be late. If he doesn't scold me for this time. I know it'll be next time." he finished getting his shoes on and bolted for the Kagekage tower.
Once there he knew he was late and was standing in front of an amused Shadowkage. Naruto sat down, a bit embarrassed.
The Shadowkage chuckled and said, "Don't worry if your late…your soon to be team mates are later than you are apparently." right after he said that two people showed up right next to Naruto.
"We are here, we just don't care about the time to be here." replied the female standing on the right of Naruto.
Naruto noticed her outfit it was the same as the others that he saw yesterday but it was different somehow he just couldn't tell what it was. Naruto after examining what was different about the outfit looked at her eye which after awhile came to the conclusion that they didn't seem to stay one shade for very long and he just gave up in confusion. Her hair though thankfully didn't change colors every few minutes and it was a light red, or pink, Naruto decided it was in-between the two.
"No need to get snippy. It's not like you need your beauty sleep, nee-chan." (Hope it's right) said the boy on the other side, "Now shadowy aspect, what do you want?"
"First of all, that is no way to talk to you're superior and second I'M NOT A SHADOWY ASPECT!" the Shadowkage punched him on the head and caused a bump to rise. "Naruto, meet your…eh…brother and sister."
Naruto raised an eyebrow in confusion and said, "How are these two my brother and sister?"
"Yes, that. Unlike other village's once you are in a team you are bonded with each other like a family is but it's a bit different. Seeing as no team has a Jounin Sensei, you teach yourselves and the others on your team…no shortcuts." (I don't want to make a long explanation but I probably have to so…) "Basically in this village once assigned a team you cannot and will not be moved to another team. And I'll say something just in case it may happen. Say you and Aria here like each other an in intimate fashion. Same goes with Sheo and Aria…though that would be unlikely." both said people glared at him.
The Shadowkage sweat dropped and chuckled slowly and carefully said his next words, "Yes, well. Even in terms of a team that you consider yourselves as a family. And if two of you liked each other that way. It…am I confusing you?" Naruto nodded. "Ok I say it as plain as I can. Even though you are considered a team and family in this village you can basically date each other...I'm giving myself a headache again."
Naruto took the information slowly and after thinking it over replied, "So even if we are considered a family and IF I end up liking Aria in a intimate way. We can date…" (I'll give an explanation at the end of the chapter to easily say this.)
"Yes, now anything else?" said Aria in a angry voice, she didn't like to be used as an example. The Shadowkage shook his head and Aria and Sheo dragged Naruto off.
The three arrived at a large house and they walked in and Sheo said, "Well welcome home I guess." he patted Naruto on the back and wandered off.
Aria knelt down and picked something up off the ground and when Naruto looked at it his eyes widened and said, "Does that fox have 8 tails or is it just me?"
Aria looked at the fox then at Naruto and replied, "It does. You have nine-tails though." she smiled and walked off.
Naruto thought, 'How did she know…… I'll ask later.' he walked around inside the house seeing everything amazingly for just kids living in the whole house it was spotless.
Kyuubi twitched as he saw the little fox from before and said to Naruto, 'Either that fox was summoned and doesn't want to go back or he got loose and apparently likes to live with her… This may be a small problem…go find that fox, and use a jutsu that allows me to speak with it or you speak with it.'
Naruto rolled his eyes Kyuubi always has a bad timing when it came to talking but Naruto had nothing better to do so he went off to find the fox.
After searching Naruto found it still in the arms of Aria and Naruto walked up to it and said, "Why are you here, were you summoned?"
Aria looked at him like he was an idiot and said, "Animals don't talk you imbecile."
"It has eight tails it isn't an Animal, it's a demon fox." replied Naruto now prodding the fox with a finger.
The fox snapped at his finger and spat out, "What do you want Human?"
Naruto chuckled, "My mutual ally I guess you can say; Kyuubi you're lord would like to know why you are in this realm."
"The other clan's booted me out of the demon realm, because I was related to Kyuubi. They don't seem to like Kyuubi anymore."said the fox lowering it head on Aria's lap, "I like it here, it's pleasant and no one's kicking me out…yet. And the girl is really nice." It got a evil smirk and continued, "She even lets me sleep next to her." Aria hit it on the top of the head, "sorry."
"Hmm…nice huh?" Naruto looked at Aria, "You sure about that?" the fox nodded, "Ok, have fun than I guess, Shunshin" he disappeared leaving an amused fox laying there and a very confused girl sitting on the bed.
Aria looked at the bright red fox on her lap and said in a stern voice, "You have some explaining to do." the fox cringed and resigned himself to his fate and started to explain.
Sheo outside ran into Naruto and ended up falling on the ground and said, "What the hell, you weren't there a second ago."
"Heh, Sorry about that. What are you up to."
"Follow me." said Sheo getting off the ground and walking towards the back of the house.
After a long walk they were in the back with targets lined up, "Watch." stated Sheo before started hand seals. When he finished all the targets broke apart and fell into pieces.
"So what happened." asked Naruto a bit curious.
"Shifter no Jutsu." said Sheo, "It only works on Inanimate objects It destroys the object and it crumbles in nothing useful. Quite useful in combat; shuriken and Kunai knives are no use against this technique, also good for destroying records of importance so enemies do not get their hands on it." Naruto nodded. "I saw you at the hospital earlier, know any medical technique's?"
Naruto replied, "No, I was just stuck on guard duty."
Sheo nodded taking the words in, and he said, "Well if you want to know good medical technique's that would Aria's Specialty. My specialty is unmaking stuff. Yours probably both, if I'm not mistaken. Right?"
Naruto replied, "I specialize in Kenjutsu, Ninjutsu, and Taijutsu. Genjutsu and the other stuff I'm bad at."
"Ok you're more into Unmaking then. Since it is getting a little late I guess I should show you your ro-"
"Tou-san, Tou-san." two small kids probably no older than 2 ran in front of Sheo and they continued, "Tou-san Where's Kaa-san?"
"Upstairs in her room as usual." replied Sheo. Naruto gave Sheo a confused look and after the two went upstairs he said, "Their parents were killed a year back. Aria and I found them in an alley, I have a soft spot for little kids." Naruto silently chuckled in his head and followed Sheo to his room.
Two minutes later Naruto was shown his room, 'I think I'm starting to dislike Sheo…' thought Naruto as he sat on his bed as the two little kids kept tormenting him.
A/N: Ok when Shadowkage explained things, it meant That they are considered a family but not in the usual way meaning they can still date each other and that kind of stuff. And If someone understood what I meant above this. I congratulate you on doing so. Complaints, reviews and flames are unexpected but never unwelcome.. Also when Naruto chuckled at what Sheo said it was for the part, 'I have a soft spot for little kids.'
Also for the Shadowkage since I couldn't find another name for shadow it'll stay like that. Also the Shadowkage is around 30, It is a new village, and I'll explain a few things later on in the next couple of chapters
