Lucky-sama: Sorry about the extremely late update! I had a lot of tests and Tensai-san wasn't helping!
Tensai-san: It's not in my job requirement...
Lucky-sama: Anyways, I'll be alternating my updates between this fanfic and my other one, Twin Hanyou so watch out for both!
Tensai-san: *Yawn* We don't own Naruto...yada yada yada...you get the drift...
"This is the life," Shikamaru yawned.
"Yeah, sure..." Reiten took a bite out of an apple.
"Hmph," Gaara snorted and continued making his sand castle on the large branch they were sitting on. Below them, Naruto and Koga were playing a gigantic game of soccer in the village square, it seemed every kid in the village had come to join them.
"Guys, go get Naruto and Koga, meet me at our training grounds ASAP," Shikamaru jumped, he didn't expect Itachi to sneak up on them like that and fell off the branch.
"Geez, you're a wimp," Itachi sighed and leaned over to check on his student's current condition.
What they all saw made them promptly burst out in laughter, Itachi sported a slightly amused expression like he had seen funnier. But then again, he probably had after spending all that time with a bunch of crazy S Ranked Missing Nin. Something was bound to go amiss. Anyways, Shikamaru was suspended off the ground about twelve feet. His pants had been caught by a branch and were the only thing lifting him up.
"Guys...a little help here? This hurts," Shikamaru winced.
"...?" Reiten raised his eyebrows in question for a minute but then understood.
Shikamaru's current position was giving him a major wedgie, and things weren't looking exactly too pretty.
"Gaara, go get him please," Itachi sighed at his students antics.
"Hai," but before Gaara's sand could start moving down the tree to lift him back up, the branch where he was hooked on gave away.
Shikamaru gave a yelp as he realized what was going on and started windmilling in mid-air as if it would help. Branches splintered all the way down and the three watched as Shikamaru left a trail of snapped branches all the way down to the base of the tree.
"You couldn't help?" Shikamaru groaned and rubbed his sore backside.
"That was funny!" Naruto walked over, all dusty and dirty.
"Could you do it again?" Koga grinned, just as dirty as Naruto.
"To the training grounds," Itachi ordered and prepared to shunshin, just when he was about to vanish, Reiten grabbed him and was dragged along for the ride.
"We have to run there?" Shikamaru got up painstakingly.
"Then I suggest you get started," Gaara intoned as he vanished in his blur of sand.
Curses could be heard through the village.
"I'm going to teach you how to summon," Itachi told them simply.
"Isn't this a bit advanced? We've done the Bunshins, the Kawamari and the Henge. Now we're jumping to Summoning?" Koga stared at him blankly.
"I want you to get as much experience as possible with your summons, you need to know them by heart," Itachi glared at Koga.
"Great, what are we going to summon?" Koga waved him off dismissively.
"These scrolls were taken from their respected places, we felt the villages did not deserve to have such a weapon in their arsenal, these are yours respectively," Itachi placed a scroll in front of each of them.
"It's big?" Naruto tentatively poked the large scroll in front of him.
Itachi ignored the interruption and continued, "Sign your name in blood on the scroll,"
The wind picked up around Reiten, who held his hand out, a small nick appeared in his index finger and he began writing. Naruto growled and unsheathed his kunai. A sharp stone leapt into Koga's palm who promptly dragged it along his finger and tossed it away. It was a little harder for Gaara, his sand kept protecting him, he picked at the scab below his eye and let some blood drop onto his finger. Shikamaru simply sat there until Itachi walked up to him and put a senbon into his finger did he begin writing.
"Good, now wipe some blood onto your hand that you wrote with and now do these seals, buta, inu, tori, saru and hitsugi," Itachi demonstrated to them.
They each followed the instructions exactly and created a chakra flare as they did so. Several poofs were heard as several beings poofed into existance. Gamabunta stood there, a pipe in his mouth and his eyes wandering over his surroundings. A large turtoise had now settled into the pond of their training ground, its head peaking above the surface of the water. A brownish tanuki about the size of a large horse sat there, constantly kneading the ground with its front paws. An orange tabby streched and bared its fangs at the sight of the tanuki, its tail flicking menacigly. Lastly a red dragon towered over all of them, calmly assessing the situation at hand.
"Who has summoned me?" Gamabunta boomed and ran his eye over the motly crew below him.
"Him," Itachi gestured to Naruto who waved meekly.
"You look alot like your father kid," Gamabunt squinted.
"You knew my father?" Naruto leapt up and down.
"Of course, I ought to tell you stories!" Gamabunta began shrinking until he was about the size of a car, "come on kid, let's have a little chat about your father, I think you and your summoner out to come too, Draco."
"Yes, now come along Reiten dear boy, I believe we have things to do and places to be, but I can always reschedule," Draco shrunk as well, his head clearing some of the younger trees.
"What are we gonna do?" Koga stared at the tortoise drifting around in the water.
"Talk with your summons for a bit, I'll be back with dinner later," Itachi waved and vanished.
With Reiten, Naruto, Gamabunta and Draco...
"That's pretty much the story kid," Gamabunta took a puff on his pipe.
"So now we're brothers?" Naruto pointed the the raven haired boy across from him.
"You were brothers from the very beginning, it just that his appearance and DNA is altered by Ryo Tsubasa's DNA, so technically, you're both Namikaze/Uzumaki but Naruto is the only true Namikaze/Uzumaki, Reiten is partially Tsubasa, therefore he is the Tsubasa heir," Draco let out of puff of smoke.
"Moving on, I believe your father left you something," Gamabunta held out the scroll Itachi had given him.
"Have you opened the case on your back?" Draco questioned.
"No," Reiten removed the case.
"I believe now would be a good time," Draco calmly stretched his wings a bit.
"Alright then,"
Reiten slowly opened the case, Naruto and Gamabunta leaned over to catch a glimpse of what the case could possibly contain.
"Wow! It's a-"
Lucky-sama: It's a cliffy!
Tensai-san: Sure...If you say so...
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