Chapter 2

The three prodigious Suna nin's were still marvelling in their thorough defeat at the hands of an Academy flunkie from two days before. Their sensei, Baki had finally met up with them, and questioned the nearly one-eighty degrees of change in his students. Besides looking completely rested, Gaara was teetering between complete rage and utter fear. Kankuro was sporting a downcast look, which was quite different from his normally exhuberant self. And Temari, for the first time since Baki took her under his wing, looked unsure of herself.

Temari was the one who answered his questioned of what happened when Baki asked them. "All three of us were defeated by an Academy Flunkie. He even screwed up Shukaku for about two weeks, according to... him." Usually, him refers to Gaara, but this was different.

"Who is him?" Baki asked. Temari described him as an orange wearing, wraith like blond boy. She also said that he might be Konoha's Jinchuuriki. Baki sratched his chin as Temari regaled the events of the days previous. Half of his mind listened to what she was saying, the other half was adding his newly gained information to what he knew about Konoha.

'Mostly likely, he is the container of the Kyuubi no Kitsune. And has completely mastered his bijuu, if what Temari is telling me is correct. Not only that, though, I heard of someone fitting a similar description defeating a literal town of bandits. Definitely someone to look out for.' Baki thought.

Once Temari finished describing their run in, omitting the fact that Kankuro threatened the life of the Sandaime's grandson, Baki weighed in his own opinion and gave them their orders concerning the wraith like blond.

"Alright, my orders to you three, yes, even you Gaara," who gave a questioning, evil stare to Baki, "are to avoid conflict with this Yuurei at all costs. I'm issuing a 'flee on sight' order. Especially with our upcoming... mission."

Sakura and Sasuke were walking along their sensei, Kakashi and their other teammate, Akan Eda. Eda was pretty useless to their team, in an intellectual sense. His fairly long, brown hair stuck out all over the place, with a bandage across his nose. His green and brown ninja gear helped him blend in with the surroundings of Konoha, but were starting to tighten across his chest and arms. In battle, he was a physical juggernaut, but he was also stupid as a rock. Sasuke actually prefered it like that. Eda looked up to Sasuke reverently, since Sasuke told him what to do. And when Sasuke told him to do something, it usually saved all of their lives.

Currently, Sakura and Sasuke were wandering uselessly around Konoha with their teammates. Sasuke finally got frusterarted enough that he broached the subject that happened a few days ago.After describing the scene, Kakashi got a pensive look, or at least it looked that way.

Kakashi remembered a report from his old ANBU squad from about three weeks ago, before they took the Wave mission, about the near annhilation of a village on the outskirts of Hi no Kuni. It apparently was a town full of bandits, samurai, and nuke-nins of ill report that had taken over a town. When the ANBU group finally got there, all they could find were dead bodies and a haunted child dressed in orange. They tried to question the child after inspecting the area, but he had already disappeared with three of the highest ranking shinobi running the town. Said shinobi's heads turned up at the nearest bounty station, with said bounty station 300,000 ryo poorer. Needless to say, the kid was doing okay for himself.

"Hmm, that kid, Uzumaki Naruto, right?" He looked towards Sasuke for confirmation on the name, which he got. Good, he can tell his former teammates. "Yeah, umm, yes that's right. He apparently rooted out a town about fifty miles away from here, Juhi no Sato," here, Sakura's eyes widened. "Ah, I see you've heard of it Sakura. Yes, well, it was full of those you three should not keep for company, needless to say," Kakashi finished in a preachy manner, as he pulled out his Icha Icha book.

"How strong were his opponets?" Sasuke asked, thinking that maybe he could spy on the Dobe and either spar him or steal some moves with his Sharingan.

However, Kakashi guessed his motives. He stopped and looked each of his pupils squarely in the eye. "Do not antagonize that boy. He is ANBU level. Well, he would be if they knew who he was, since they're currently trying to identify and recruit him. If you piss him off, I can't guarentee you'll live." With that, he opened his book and continued on his way, with his students following him to the Hokage tower, which he circled three times.

AN: This chapter was pretty much just to introduce you to how strong Naruto got in his Six month span from leaving the Academy. You might think he is too strong, but I'll explain how and why he got that way in up coming chapters. Thius is most likely the last chapter with out an 'active' Naruto in it. The rest will focus predominantly on him.

Also I didn't really proof read this, or care about length. This story isn't one I want to succeed, just one to get out of my head so I don't put some of these idea's into my other fic that wouldn't make sense for that Naruto.

Dictionary:

Akan Eda: Useless Twig

Juhi no Sato: Village of Tree Bark

Yuurei: Ghost, Specter, or Phantom