Chapter 4
-Time skip 1 year
"You do not deserve to live. Die!" with a quick flash of lightning all the seven bandits were on the ground dead. On the other side of the forest, there were ten shadow clones finishing off the rest of the bandits. After the two were certain that there were no bandits left, they carefully approached the bandit's hide out, which was locked. With a quick seal they broke the lock and were inside the bandits' hideout.
"Kitsune, take the left and I'll take the right, if I find anything interesting, I'll seal it into my storage scroll"
"Hai! If you find any more hostages carry them to safety"
"Hn"
With a quick nod the two left to explore the hideout. After around 15 minutes the two were out of the hideout, with three hostages, but not before putting explosive tags all over the place. Once they were a safe distance from the hideout, it exploded. The masked duo was heading towards Kiri. They had just completed an A rank Mission for the hidden mist.
Around half a year ago the two has decided to rebuild Uzushio and sign peace treaties with all the great nations to form peace. But rebuilding a whole village was too much for them, so they decided to become allies of the as many nations as they could, this would mean that the villages will indirectly sign peace treaties with each other. Sasuke had come up with this idea, so far they had a peace treaty with the hidden hot water village and after the completion of this mission, and they will sign a treaty with the Mist.
Naruto was glad that they were finally starting to achieving peace. Another reason for this was that the two wanted all the information they could find about the Akatsuki and Orochimaru. As the Akatsuki were from different villages, signing the treaty with the villages meant that the two could get information about the past and the fighting style of the members, which would give them a slight advantage over the akatsuki.
After travelling for about an hour and a half, they were at the entrance of the Mist.
"State your names and what business do you have in the Mist?" A buff Chunin asked sternly.
"Kitsune and Neko, returning from an A rank mission, we have a meeting with Lady Mizukage" replied Sasuke in his monotonous voice
Meanwhile Chojuro, a swordsman of the mist recognized them and took the two to the Mizukage, after that, he took the three skinny kids to the hospital. They looked like they hadn't eaten in days. After the discussion between Kitsune and the Mizukage, and Neko's brooding, they finally signed the treaty. Although the Mizukage was hesitant in the five months ago, because they had refused to show their faces but after the number of tough missions and the risks the duo had taken for the mist in the past five months, she slowly started to trust them.
After staying a night in the Mist, the two started their two day journey back home. Over the past year the two had grown pretty close, so close that now Naruto understood the meaning of almost all of the hnn's and grunts of the Uchiha. And as a duo they were formidable in battle. Unknown to the two, they had earned a page in the Bingo book.
The two did not detect the chakra presence following. Two green eyes were staring at the duo. It suddenly jumped on Sasuke's shoulder and started licking his mask. The two had taken out their weapons but after seeing the cat, they put away their weapons. Naruto was a strong sensor but he did not detect a henge so he calmed down, though he was surprised at the amount of chakra the small cat had, but decided to let it go.
Throughout the whole journey, the cat refused to leave Sasuke's side. Whenever Naruto would try to pick it up it would hiss and scratch him and the cat's claws hurt. Once they returned home, Naruto asked Sasuke, what to do with the cat. Sasuke smirked and forced Naruto to take it in. Unknown to Naruto, he had a certain attachment to cats.
"Home Sweet Home!" Naruto exclaimed with a sigh.
"Hn" Sasuke said while walking to the fridge and taking out milk for the cat. The cat had grown on him.
The next day the two woke up at 5 and had a quick breakfast. After that the two sparred for about two hours. The two had brunch and then Sasuke went to work on his Fire style: Fire Dragon Flame Bullet and Naruto was working on perfecting his Rasenshuriken. He had perfected the one handed Rasengan and could do it under three seconds, but adding chakra nature to it was difficult, if he lost his concentration, the chakra would burn his hand. He was currently trying to speed up the process by using shadow clones. Two clones were working on one Rasenshuriken and Naruto had a hundred clones working on it, he was making progress, but it was exhausting him.
He left the clones to perfect the Jutsu while he went to work on his fuinjutsu. He was currently a level seven seal master and was finishing his level eight books. Fuinjutsu came naturally to Naruto, but Sasuke couldn't clear level five of his fuinjutsu. He was a level four seal master and knew a few level five seals. Naruto knew that his parents were level twelve seal masters and he would need to reach level ten to at least understand his dad's complicated scroll of seals that his mom and dad had worked on, and the Flying Raijin Jutsu. He also had to find a way to remove the curse seal Orochimaru placed on Sasuke; he had fully suppressed it but couldn't remove it. Jiraya was a level eight seal master, but still could not remove it. Naruto wanted to master fuinjutsu; the flexibility of fuinjutsu fascinated him. There were fifteen levels of fuinjutsu according to the Uzumaki. The First Hokage's wife, Mito Uzumaki was a level fourteen seal master.
The two trained until lunch and then decided to work on their teamwork and combination jutsus. The two were working on Thunderstorm Summoning. For this technique Sasuke gathered electrical energy between his hands, while Naruto at the same time gathered water vapor in the air to form clouds. Sasuke then had to send the gathered lightning chakra into the air where the vapor collected, creating dark clouds and causing a raging thunderstorm with lightning, thunder, and rain. This was the hardest combination the two had done till now. They had already perfected it but were trying to get this Jutsu down in less than ten seconds. They finally managed to reduce the time from fifty three seconds to twenty seconds. They had their dinner and then started discussing their next move while the cat purred in Sasuke's lap.
"So, now we have a peace treaty with the hidden Mist for seven years... And a peace treaty with the hidden hot water village for ten years, which village should we go for next, teme?"
"Konoha and Otogakure (Hidden sound village) is out of the question, how about the Hidden Cloud?"
"Tch, but it is hard to win their trust and they haven't exactly liked the Uzumaki. They also tried to kidnap my mother, so I am thinking about a small village."
"How about the hidden frost village, last I heard, the village was in need of allies. Its only other ally is the hidden grass village and its military strength is also not that high. Also if they are our allies they are also allied with the hidden mist and hidden hot water village. And we do not even need to convince them as much as the mist."
"So next destination, The Hidden Frost village!" Naruto exclaimed with a might guy pose.
Out of nowhere a messenger toad appeared on top of Naruto's head. Naruto jumped to the ceiling while screaming.
"Yo, Jiraya-sama has sent me here with a message from him."
"What does Pervy Sage want? If he asks me to review his Pervy books, tell him that I am not going to. And where is the old toad messenger?"
"Oh, you must be Naruto, Jiraya-sama sent this for you" The toad said while handing Naruto a scroll. "And the old messenger toad is away, so now I am your new messenger toad... Alright I delivered the scroll, so now I can go, bye" and with a poof the toad disappeared.
"Dobe, what is the letter about?"
"Hello Kitsune,
It's been a year since we last met. I have some Intel on the Akatsuki and Orochimaru. I can't write those details on this letter so I would like to meet you. Also I want to see how far Neko and you have come. Let's meet up in the land of waves, three days later from today and catch up.
The Toad Sage of Mount Myoboku and one of the legendary Sannin,
Jiraya"
"Guess we aren't going to the Hidden Frost, Pervy sage wants to meet us." Naruto said while scratching his chin.
"Hn."
"Well I better perfect the Rasenshuriken before I meet him, I got it down today, now I just need to learn to use it while in battle, you down for a spar, Sasuke? "
"No, not everyone has as much chakra as you do; and I finally perfected the Fire Dragon Flame Bullet"
"You scared teme?"
Sasuke scoffed "Of course not!"
After sparring for a while, the two went to bed. The two were so exhausted that they fell asleep as soon as their head hit the pillow.
A/N:
Alright, another chapter done. How was it? Please review. Also thinking about the ships, I decided to make this a NaruIno story, as I've always thought that the two would make a really good couple. That is all I got to say.
Peace!
