Just like the name of the chapter, it's been quite some time.

Just if you are wondering, no I'm not dropping the story. Just got busy with studying and looking around Germany.

Well anyway, this is the last filler kind of chapter. I'm sure you are kind of fed up of it. So things will get serious from the next.

Time to answer some reviews,

Bloody Rogue dragon deity king: I'm glad you liked it.

TheWateringWizard: All in good time.

xhope14x: I won't call what I do in my chapters as bashing, since I only did those in the Omake's and technically never in the real story. But you are right I shall add that in the summary. For the longer chapters though, it's just that I tend to keep it as long as it needs to be. Chapters which have lot's of contents are long, but now I'm planning to make them in parts to keep some consistency in the chapter length.

GunBlade2018: Thankzz.

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Guest1: First of all, I don't know who you are, since you are a guest. But it's okay. As for me making up my mind, where you say and I quote 'Make up your mind dude. Twice now you said that Sasuke and Sakura were dead. Yet they're alive. Make up you're mind.' Please take some time and read the chapter thoroughly and look up the meaning of "OMAKE" in Google.

Guest2: Again sorry I don't know who you are. But that is exactly my point actually. They are kind of plot bunnies that hop around in my head. I may some day pick up on them and make them into different fanfictions. But till then any and everyone is allowed to take those if they want to and include in their stories.

Now there is a poll I want to hold. While I do have some idea on who to pair Rock Lee with, I would like to know your opinion on it. I'm keeping it free to be any girl as long as:

1) She is from Naruto universe, no matter filler or canon.

2) She is not a gender bended character. So no female cousin of Maito Gai.

3) There is at least some semblance of why you are suggesting her.

This shouldn't come as a spoiler, but I was planning to pair him up with Tenten, because she is the only one who can literally bear his 'Youthfulness'.

Enough of that and this, Naruto doesn't belong to me, and on with the chapter.

Chapter 15: It's been a long time

It had been a few days since Sasuke got to talk to his brother. Things seemed to have become better for the not-anymore last loyal Uchiha. At least on the surface. He still wanted to get revenge on the guy who killed his clan. But he was also aware of how hard that would be. So he had decided to, again, follow his brother's advice and not let his hate consume him.

But unfortunately, Hate was not a tangible person he could just ignore or defeat with sheer strength. It was an emotion, deeply rooted in human conscience. This hatred had the tendency to surface now and then, sometime it brought other emotions like envy along with it. These now-and –then-s were normally when he was either defeated by his rival's sister- she was indeed very strong- or when he saw them mingle with each other as proper siblings.

To curb at least this feeling of envy, he started to try and socialize with people surrounding him. He was, to an extent, successful in doing so. But he found, for some reason, that the only person he was truly able to be friends with was Naruto. He chalked it up as lack in practice when he couldn't do so readily with others.

Thankfully, his brother was a genius at a level far higher than him. Which was why, Itachi knew even way back when he had decided to spare his brother on that night that he had to do something to bring his brother back from the darkness that Sasuke would be left with after he kills him. Though he didn't have any plans of dying anymore, he still regarded his choice that night to be the right one.

That very choice was currently making its way towards the Hidden Leaf village. Covered by a grey full body cloak from head to toe, it was impossible to even discern what gender the person was.

Village gates

Contrary to the popular belief, Izumo Kamizuki and Kotetsu Hagane were promoted to Chunins fairly recently. But it was indeed true that since their promotion, they had spent most of their time guarding the gates of the village. Like any other shinobis, except the Naras, they also wished for a more exciting mission. But they would never wish it at the cost of their village's security. So even if guarding the gates was a boring job, they did it with most seriousness. Most of the time.

Currently only Izumo seemed to be doing his job, while his partner was off in the dreamlands while drooling on the table. Izumo sighed. He really did wish for a more exciting mission. But getting paid while being in the village was not bad either. It's just that he had to deal with many troublesome characters now and then. He looked at his partner and sighed again before putting his sights on the road that led out of the village, or in, depending on your position.

Instead of his eyes meeting the empty road though, he was greeted by the sight of a cloaked person walking towards the village. During his time as a gate guard, he had seen people wearing all different kinds of attire. A cloak was no exception. But this one seemed to give him a suspicious feeling. The way the cloak hid every feature of the person was very suspicious indeed. The sun was not shining hard enough to have to cover yourself as much as this person seemed to have.

So Izumo decided to wake his partner up, "Kotetsu, Wake up! There's someone heading towards the village."

He was somewhat successful. Kotetsu did wake up but went right back to sleep after saying, "Izumo we are guarding the gate, someone always comes."

Izumo got a tick mark on his forehead. He bonked his partner on the head before whispering, albeit heavily, "This guy is really suspicious. Wake up! We need to be ready."

Kotetsu begrudgingly did so. He did went on alert after confirming what his partner was saying. This person did look quite shady.

They waited for the person to reach them before Izumo said, "Halt! Show us who you are and state your business in the village." While Izumo was doing that, Kotetsu was ready to attack if needed.

The figure stopped and turned towards them. For a few moments it didn't do anything, making the gate guards tense, before reaching up for the hood covering their face and pulling it back.

Izumo and Kotetsu were taken aback by the beautiful, clearly feminine, face that greeted them from behind that hood. It was a face of a girl of around 17 to 18 years of age. Her face was framed on either side by bangs of her brown hair which went past her shoulders. It was accentuated with a beauty mark under the right one of her onyx eyes.

Getting a hold of themselves, since gender did not matter when it came to the protection of the village, Izumo repeated his question, "State your name and business in the village."

The girl looked at them calmly for a while before smiling and said, "I am Izumi. I have just come here to visit this village I've so much heard about." She put a finger to her lips and added suggestively, "And maybe fined someone suitable to settle down with."

Both the gate guards were flustered by her answer before Izumo continued, "R-right. So please register yourself here." He pointed to the register in front of him. Izumi did as was told, all the while with a sly smile on her face.

Once she was finished she looked up at Izumo with an innocent expression and asked, "Now can I go in?"

Izumo still flustered answered, "R-right. Enjoy your stay."

Izumi smiled before heading into the village.

Izumo breathed a sigh after she was gone. He looked at Kotetsu, who looked like he was contemplating something while looking in the direction Izumi went. "What's the matter?"

Kotetsu looked at his friend and said, "I think I've seen her somewhere before."

Izumo looked at his friend confusingly, thinking where could he have seen her, before grinning, "I don't think that lame pick up like will work with her. You should try and come up with something better."

Kotetsu looked abashed, "What? I'm serious here. I really think I've seen her before. In the village even."

Izumo didn't seem to believe him, "And I'm telling you no matter how serious you look, that pick up line is just lame and old. Besides, she seemed to be really interested in me."

Kotetsu gave him a challenging look, "Oh yeah! Just because you were the one who registered her doesn't mean she was interested in you. She probably knew you had no experience with women and was teasing you."

Izumo glared him, "Oh yeah! But at least she knows me now. She didn't even look at you."

And like that their argument continued. Kotetsu's query long forgotten.

Leaving the gate guards behind, Izumi continued to stroll through the village. However she wasn't able to decide where to head first. Should she go to the Hokage first? Or should she go look for the the person she came here for? After some thinking, she came to the conclusion that he would probably be hard to find in the village, so she'd rather just go to the Hokage and ask him where to find him. Her destination now decided, she walked a bit faster towards the huge building marked with a giant kanji of 'fire'.

Meanwhile around one of the training grounds

Today, Team 8 was given the infamous mission of catching Tora. The pet cat of fire Daimyo's wife, Madam Shijimi. Apparently it had a habit of fleeing from the clutches of its master and somehow end up in the village of Konoha, even though the capital of fire country was nowhere near the village.

Fortunately for the village, that one repetitive mission brought a lot of money, even though it was a mere D-rank. Unfortunately for the Genin, the cat, in its long history of escapades, had proven itself to be a master escape artist. Where most Genins did at least two to three D-rank missions per day, catching Tora proved to be difficult enough to take all of their time.

Again, fortunately for Team 8, they had more than one means of tracking. While Naruto could sense chakra, it was difficult to do so for a house cat, who had very little amount it. Still he was able to give a general direction to Kiba, whose sense of smell helped them the most, along with Akamaru's own senses to locate his natural enemy.

Currently all three of the genin and a ninken of Team 8 were scattered around a clearing, looking for the best chance to catch their prey.

"This is future Hokage, target in sight. Man it sounded so cool!" a voice was heard over the radio.

"Fangirl in position too. Next time I'm choosing the names!" exclaimed another clearly feminine voice.

A sigh was then heard over the signal, followed by, "Siscon ready as well. I still don't know why we needed to assign code-names to catch a cat."

It was quite obvious who came up with the names. Kurenai was also listening to the channel, trying to stop herself from laughing.

At some signal from Kiba, Akamaru jumped out of the bushes in front of the cat, which hissed on seeing him, then promptly turned to run in the opposite direction. Kiba was already waiting on that side to catch it. Sadly for him, the cat jumped up, clawing his face while at the same time using it as a springboard to jump further. Already in the air, Tora was unable to change direction when it saw it was directly heading towards the waiting arms of Sakura, who promptly snatched the escapee out of the air and immediately started petting it, to calm it down. It did seem to work as after some time, it started purring and settled closer to her.

Naruto leapt down from a tree and relayed over the radio, "Mission accomplished. Target captured."

"Confirm Identity." came Kurenai's voice over the radio.

"Brown fur, with a red ribbon on the left ear. It's not like it looks any different from the last two times though." answered Naruto clearly a slightly annoyed. From the cat or his code-name given to him by Kiba or some other reason, no one except him knew.

"Confirmed. Meet you on the way to the Hokage's office." Kurenai said before cutting connection.

Naruto turned towards his teammates, taking some time to savour the sight of Kiba rolling on the ground holding his face in pain, before saying, "Come on, let's get this cat to its owner."

"Senpai, it's a she you know." Sakura complained.

Kiba was the one who replied to that while still sitting on the ground, "Yeah, it's a she alright. A She-devil that is." Akamaru whined beside him.

"Kiba, you of all people shouldn't insult intelligent animals like her. What if someone calls Akamaru a demon just because he can walk up on straight walls? Which, might I add, you still cannot do correctly." Naruto said immediately changing the pronoun for Tora and taking a jab at Kiba's lack of chakra control.

Kiba just growled at him.

On the way to the Hokage tower, they met up with their Jounin sensei.

"Ne, Sensei, when can we go on more exciting missions, where we can really show off our skills?" Kiba asked.

"When I believe you have enough skills to show off. Right now, you are bleeding after capturing a single cat. And this is not the first time either." Kurenai told her genin, getting a few chuckles from Naruto and Sakura, whom Kiba glared at. Kurenai giggled a bit herself.

"Well jokes aside, missions outside the village are not simply about showing off your strength. Most of the missions Genins get outside the village are escort type missions, where you are supposed to guard an important figure from bandits and such. Not only the life of people we are escorting depends upon us, so does the reputation of our village along with our own lives. And not every mission go how they are defined on the file. You have to be ready for all kinds of dangers. And I'm not letting you go on those types of mission, unless I feel you are ready." Kurenai added more seriously. All of her genins nodded.

Naruto, not wanting to stay in serious mood, said, "Well next time we have to do this mission, we are not assigning code-names anymore."

Kiba smirked at him, "You are just irked that I picked the Future Hokage one, or is it because I picked the best one for you?" He ended slyly.

He was bonked on the head by Sakura, somehow still holding the cat, "Next time I'm picking the names. And I'll pick them better than you!"

Naruto retorted to her yelling, "Sakura, ' ' isn't a good name either. This mission aside, it is more liable to give our identity out." Seeing Kiba smirk at the embarrassed Sakura, Naruto added, "Well 'Future Hokage' was even worse, since it directly gave away which village we are from. At least 'Mrs. Uchiha' can be anybody who fantasize of being with Sasuke. I personally know someone not from the village, who is equally interested in him."

This brought a fire in Sakura's eyes. 'Even bitches from out of the village are after Sasuke-kun? But they will never be able to get him fro-' Her internal rant was broken by a fist on her head by Kurenai, who glared at her, "You just thought 'No one could take him away from me' didn't you? Haven't I told you to keep your fantasies away when we are on a mission?"

"Ne, Kurenai-sensei, we have already completed the mission. It's officially time for her to try and bag Sasuke, right?" Naruto defended Sakura. Now that Sasuke was out of his 'I'm an Avenger' mode, he thought someone who was as devoted to him as Sakura would be a good way to help him return to his previous attitude. Sakura meanwhile had stars in her eyes.

"Just because you don't give any outward appearance, doesn't mean I don't know what goes in your head and for whom, young man." Kurenai said making Naruto duck his head in embarrassment.

Kiba fell on the ground laughing while holding his stomach. For once he was not at that end of Kurenai's scolding. Except for the cat scratching his face, today was going great for him.

Hokage's Office

It turned out, that the Hokage was in a meeting with an important individual, which made team 8 stand and wait outside. Though, for someone to be more important than Madam Shijimi's cat, it had to be a bigshot. Apparently, even Madam Shijimi was running late because of a rather lengthy shopping trip.

At that time, the reason for the longer than normal shopping trip walked towards the Hokage's office along with her team and the very person whose cat was in Sakura's hands. Ino was leading the group while chatting with the Fire Daimyo's wife, while the male part of the team including Asuma, along with two of Madam Shijimi's handlers were carrying tons of shopping bags.

'Next time there is a mission with shopping involved, I'm rejecting it, no matter what rank.' Thought Asuma vehemently.

Team 8 sweatdropped on seeing them. Even Kurenai and Sakura were wondering, how a person, who literally had everything, can still shop so much.

As soon as Madam Shijimi's sight fell upon her cat in Sakura's hands, who was already trembling with terror, she darted towards her at a speed that should not have been achievable by someone who was not a ninja and swiped it from her hands and followed up by squeezing the cat to her. The others, including the handlers, got mixed feelings for the cat. Sorry, for it being in that position, also glad that it was getting its payback for tormenting them.

After she was done trying to kill Tora by squeezing, the Fire Daimyo's wife looked at the team who had brought it back. When she noticed Naruto and she turned towards him, "Ara, its Naruto-kun. Thank you for bringing my Tora back to me again."

Naruto bowed to her, "It was our pleasure." Only Naruto's calm nature allowed him to hide the sarcasm in his statement. Ino and Chouji though were shocked to know that the Fire Daimyo's wife knew Naruto by first name, while anybody could probably guess why Shikamaru wasn't.

They were interrupted by the Hokage's office door opening, from which a beautiful girl with brown hair came strolling outside. Asuma and Kurenai noticed her rather shabby appearance with the cloak and all. But her face was what got their attention. She seemed to be familiar to them. Before they could ask though she excused herself and walked away.

Madam Shijimi, not caring about the shabby looking girl, walked into the Hokage's office. The genin not understanding the looks on their senseis' faces shrugged and followed her, along with the handlers. Both the Jounins seeing they were left behind followed into the office as well before closing the door.

The Hokage was already notified of the presence of Team 8 along with the cat Tora, but Madam Shijimi's as well as Team 10's appearance did surprise him a little. But it was better this way, since both the team had the same client and looking at the myriad of shopping bags and the tightly clutched brown cat in Madam Shijimi's arms, it seemed they had completed their missions too.

"Welcome back, Shijimi-sama. I hope you had a nice trip today." The Hokage asked her.

"Oh! It was wonderful, Hiruzen-dono. Especially with this girl over here." She said pointing at Ino. "She has a great fashion sense and knew a lot of stores that sold quality material. I look forward to coming back and shop with her."

While Ino puffed up her chest in self-appreciation, Asuma, Shikamaru and Chouji paled at the thought of doing this again. Maybe catching the cat was a better option. But since she had already presented her desire to shop with Ino again, it probably wasn't an option anymore.

Team 8 looked sorry for the male part of Team 10.

"And Naruto-kun and his team were also able to find my Tora in the meantime, which was just the added bonus." She added.

Team 8 got tick marks on their foreheads, 'She was using us to take care of the cat while she shopped without care.'

"I'm glad you enjoyed your day, Shijimi-sama. Please do not hesitate to ask for our services again." The Hokage said which got him glares from the whole of Team 8 and Team 10 except Ino, who was looking forward to the next shopping spree with the wife of Fire Daimyo.

"Your carriage is ready to depart. Since they are already here, I'll ask both the teams to take your bags to the carriage." The Hokage said which intensified the glares on him.

After taking leave from the Hokage, Madam Shijimi started towards her ride back home. Both Naruto and Kiba asked to share the load of the bags. This time because of Kurenai's and Sakura's presence, even Ino was forced to carry a few to them. 'A woman shouldn't fall behind a man in responsibilities.' were Kurenai's words. Indeed while she wanted to prove that Kunoichis were as much capable as male Shinobis, she in no way undermined them.

Izumi was perched on a tree, observing her target. After getting his location from the Hokage, who told her that her target didn't get any missions today, so he must be training in his designated training ground with his team, she had immediately sought after him. Currently he was sparing one of his teammates, who was able to keep him on his toes quite well. Frankly though, it was not completely his fault. The girl he was fighting indeed fought with a grace of a strong Kunoichi. And after witnessing the destruction one of her punch caused, she thought it was prudent for anyone to keep their distance. That literally was a one-hit-kill for most people out there.

Seeing their Jounin-sensei call their spar off, she was going to announce her presence but stopped herself. There were many people there with her target who could question her existence, including him. She should probably confront him in private before announcing herself to the world. After all, she should be dead.

So she left to go to where she knew he would come once he is finished, his home.

Unfortunately, she had remained undetected only to the sole person she was there for.

Training Ground 7

Once Kakashi had called Sasuke's and Namiko's spar off, Shino joined his teammates in front of their sensei. Before his sensei could start Shino decided to enlighten him on an important fact he had discovered, that was, "Sensei, there was an unknown woman surveying on us while Sasuke-san and Namiko-san were sparing. I found it necessary to plant a female Kikaichu on her before she left."

Kakashi looked at his genin lazily, "Hmm, is that so? Very thoughtful of you Shino. Thought I'd sensed someone there. But it didn't look like she meant any harm so I let her be. It was probably one of the many fans Sasuke here has." That got an irritated look from Sasuke. Another fangirl aside, he didn't sense a thing. Though it was probably because keeping away from Namiko's devastating punches was extremely important than that.

Kakashi looked at Sasuke's scowling face, "Now now, no need to make a face like that. I'm sure even if she was serious she wouldn't do anything. Much." That got a few snickers from the blond Senju.

Stopping her snickering, Namiko decided to give her own intake on the woman, "This was a strong one though. She had really big chakra reserves. Almost as much as you sensei."

That got Kakashi to raise his eyebrow, the other one probably got raised too but no one could see it. While he may not be a chakra monster like say the very girl who informed him of this, but he had higher reserves than most Jounins.

Sasuke looked even more irritated at that since while he was dodging her blows, Namiko was still able to sense someone else. That meant that she fought him while not even fully concentrating on him. He still had a long way to go.

Kakashi shrugged after not coming to any conclusion of who it might have been, "Well, she was probably not someone important, but I will still advise you to be a bit careful. Anyway with this we are done here for today. Tomorrow we will be doing some missions again followed by training. Ja ne." Having said that he Shunshined out of there.

Without anything to say to his teammates, Shino took his farewell as well. Sasuke being Sasuke just grunted a 'Bye' before leaving. Namiko looked at the retreating forms of her teammates and sighed before moving towards her home as well. Somehow she got stuck with two highly asocial teammates. Well, making Shino more social was something out of her hands, but she could try it with Sasuke. But maybe it would be a better idea to take someone else's help there. So she locked on to where her brother was and changed her direction.

Sasuke's apartment

Sasuke was berating himself for again not being able to beat Namiko in the spar all along the way to his home. He was also upset about being the only one who could not sense the person who was apparently spying on them. No, upset was the not correct word, he was angry at himself. He knew he was not a sensory type ninja like Shino or Namiko, but so wasn't Kakashi. Even then he knew someone was there beforehand.

His anger, unfortunately, increased as soon as he opened the door to his apartment. There was a figure at the far end of the hall way in his apartment with their face hidden. But he controlled his anger and got into a fighting stance while bringing out a kunai.

"Who are you and how did you get into the apartment?" He asked angrily.

"Mou, Sasuke-kun. Is that how you greet family?" The figure whined while walking forward revealing it was a she.

Sasuke was shocked on seeing who it was. The face belonged to someone who he thought he wouldn't see alive ever again, like the rest of his clan. It belonged to a girl who, in the past, seemed very close to his older brother. It belonged to,

"Izumi…Uchiha." Sasuke uttered in shock.

Izumi giggled, "Wow! You look like you saw a ghost." Her expression softened before she added, "Though for you, that's probably how it is."

"H-how?" was the only other thing Sasuke could ask while still in a shocked state.

"Hmm, do you mean how I'm alive? It was your Brother." She said further shocking him, "Since you already know the truth behind that night, I guess it's alright to tell you. You see, I didn't like the idea of a coup' against the village but I also didn't believe that it was one us Uchiha who summoned the Kyuubi on that night. So I went along with it. Therefore technically Itachi-kun was also supposed to kill me."

It seemed she didn't want to give Sasuke any chance to recover from his shock. This time though, there was confusion added to the shock.

Izumi was already aware of his confusion, but it was hard for her to continue this part of her story, "He was already there standing over my mother's body. But before I could ask him the reason, he used Tsukuyomi on me. He explained everything to me in there, like why he had agreed to do what Danzo told him or why the coup' was a failed plan from the start. In there without a doubt if he wanted, he could have killed me. He even confessed that to me. But he realized something midway that made him spare me, just like he had decided to spare you. I didn't know then, but I know now what it was."

She closed her eyes before opening them again. Her normal onyx eyes were replaced by something akin to a red three petal flower in a black pupil. "He wanted me to either train you to be strong enough to kill him or to do it myself. He spared me for the same reason he spared you. He wanted his salvation by either your or my hands." She turned her Mangekyou off before continuing, "But I loved him too much to do that. Even though he had just killed my mother, I couldn't fault him for it. He did it to save the village he had pledged to protect. Unlike us other Uchihas, he was different. He thought beyond the clan, sometimes even beyond the village. I told him that if he left me alive, I would tell you everything as well and stop you from killing him."

Sasuke was now really looking for some time to calm himself. The surprises just kept on coming one after another without giving him any time to recover.

Thankfully Izumi was at the end of her tale, "I thought he would kill me after I said that. But instead, I was knocked out by the Tsukuyomi and the next thing I know I'm in a cave outside the village with a shadow clone of your brother's. Itachi had already completed his mission by that time. His clone told me about the other guy who killed the rest of the clan and how you were the last Uchiha in the village, also how he was now on a self-appointed mission to keep an eye on that guy. Since then I have been going around from village to village working as a mercenary while being in contact with your brother. He told me to prepare myself to be able to take care of Danzo before he could get his filthy hands on you. Thankfully it wasn't needed. Though I don't actually know why he was killed off, I'm glad he is dead. And now here I am, to train you like he had originally planned, except for the part where you or I kill him."

She took some time to breathe after finishing her retelling. It was quite long.

Sasuke thought so too. He was indeed confused when Itachi told him someone would be there to train him, but for it to be Izumi? Never did a thought of someone from the Uchiha clan being alive crossed his mind. Actually it did, but only in his dreams where everything was still good and his family was alive, but never in a real life scenario. He looked up at Izumi and asked before he could stop himself, "So you are here just to train me?"

The sadness in his voice wasn't lost on Izumi. After being told everything and even when he didn't know the truth about That night, while consciously unaware, his primary desire was to get his family back. To have someone with him to share his pain. So when he came to know that he could still consider Itachi as his brother, he was happy. But sadly Itachi couldn't stay with him. And now Izumi came into the picture, just to be told that she was here just because Itachi wanted her to train him. He was brought out of his sad mood by Izumi.

"Of course not. I wanted to come back on that very day knowing that you were still alive. But I could not do it because of Danzo. He had enough power to sway the investigation from Itachi to me. So I had to wait to come back. When I got the news that Danzo was killed, I wanted to return even then. But you didn't know about the truth at that time. And Itachi wanted to wait a bit longer to tell you that. So I had to wait until this day." She walked up to Sasuke and bent down to look him in the eye, "I couldn't let my Otouto live alone any longer." She said softly.

Sasuke looked at her wide eyed, "O-Otouto?" He asked, his voice breaking.

Izumi nodded, "Your brother may be aloof, but I will bag him someday. Till then, won't you call me Anee and cheer for me?"

Sasuke, after a long time, had tears in his eyes. He had promised himself after That night that he won't cry anymore. But after getting at least some part of his family back, he couldn't hold himself. He flung his arms around Izumi and hugged her.

Izumi smiled at him and hugged back. "When you were a baby, you never let me hold you. Always started crying when I tried. It seems you haven't changed much from then, eh Otouto?"

AN:

Just like I said before, no Omake on this one either. Because I didn't want to spoil the happy moment Sasuke had. I don't hate him THAT much. To some it may seem that I favour him since the last few chapters had been about him. Believe me, everyone is going to get their own times or arcs. I do not intend to neglect any character development.

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Next time the Wave arc. So stay tuned.