Hello again! Well, I really don't have much to say but thanks for the review and hope you enjoy this chapter!
---------------------------------------------------------------------------------
'Well that was easy,' Shadow said as he appeared in an alley that was far from where the soldiers were.
'How about you change into a different appearance now?'
'Fine,' he formed a hand seal and then turned into a blonde that was wearing a grey t-shirt under a black hooded vest and loose black pants, the type of clothes that naturals wear.
"Now to find a place to stay…" he walked down the alley towards the street. There were shops on each side of the street, shinobi and naturals blended in the crowded street.
'Know any good places?' Shadow started to walk down the street, looking to one side of the street to the other.
'There's a nice forest that you could stay in for free, but it might be training grounds for genin or something.'
'Know where it is?'
'Somewhere near a bridge I think,'
"A bridge, eh…" he muttered under his breath as he came to a intersection, one way headed to a huge building, the other one led to a mountain side that had four faces carved into it.
'That's the Hokage Tower on your right and on your left are the faces of the first, second, third, and fourth Hokage.' Kyuubi explained lazily.
'Hmm,' Shadow stared at the faces of the Hokages, 'That reminds me, I still have to visit someone…' he turned around and headed back to the shops.
'Let me guess, you're going to visit Yondaime?'
'After I pick up something,' he looked around until he found the flower shop that he past by earlier and went in. A bell rung as he opened the door, there were flowers of all kinds in the shop, but there weren't a lot of customers there.
"Hi! Can I help you?" asked a friendly voice, a female wearing a dress under an apron came out from behind a bunch of flowers.
"Ano, well…I'm not really looking for anything. Any kind of flower should do," he said with a small smile. The person in front of him looked at him.
"Are you going to a funeral? Usually people like you wouldn't wear dark coloured clothing in this weather, unless they're going to a funeral," she stated. Shadow hesitated for a second to think up an excuse.
"Well…I'm kind of used to wearing black, but let's just say that I'm visiting someone that's not here right now…"
"Oh…... so what kind of flowers do you want?" she immediately changed the subject.
"Well…" he cocked his head to one side, "Any kind of flower should do I guess, know any good flowers?"
"Of course I do! There are roses, wild flowers…" the list continued as she went around picking up a few flowers that were here and there. When she was finally finished with the list of flowers, she was holding a whole bunch of flowers.
"Well, that should be about it!" she gave Shadow a huge smile that made him nervous.
'Think you have enough money to buy all that?' Kyuubi asked, 'No wonder why she was so cheerful when you asked about what kind of flowers were good…'
"That'll be…one hundred, twenty-five dollars and fifty cents!" she said cheerfully as she continued to give Shadow the same smile. Shadow started to sweat a lot, the corner of his mouth twitched.
"Ano…c-can I get just one of each?" the smile on the cashiers face turned into a disappointed frown. 'Demo that makes it less expensive!' she thought as she putted back half of the pile of flowers.
"Well, that'll be fifty-five dollars and thirty cents…" she sighed as she found out how much he had to pay. 'Still too much...' he thought and sighed.
"Ano…how much will it be if I buy half of it, I really don't want to carry a lot of flower with me…" he started to laugh a little nervously. The cashier looked even more disappointed, but still putted back the half of the flowers and checked to see how much he had to pay.
"Twenty-five dollars and seventy cents…" she said, looking even more disappointed.
'Why does he have to cut it down by that much?' she thought as he paid and left.
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
"Well, better get going…" Shadow left the flowers in front of the Yondaime's grave after saying a few words.
'Now…about this nice place I could stay in?'
'It's near a bridge or something,' grumbled Kyuubi. He crouched down a little and shot into a tree and started jumping through the trees in search for the place Kyuubi mentioned.
'You said by a bridge right?' he came out of the canopy of trees and started to move faster as he leaped from roof to roof so he wouldn't be seen.
'For the third time, it's near a bridge.'
'Hm, I guess it is a training ground. Three genins, and a jounin…or something close to that,' he stopped when he leaped onto the railing of the bridge.
'Hm, seems like they're doing a test or something…let's check it out,' he got off the railing and walked towards where he sensed the four chakras.
'Like I have a choice…' growled Kyuubi. When Shadow arrived near a clearing, there was a man with grey hair, a mask, and a leaf hitai over his right eye standing with a book in his hands. He immediately shot behind the tree that was beside him.
'Did he see me?' he didn't intend to be spotted yet, he wanted to watch them from a distance to see if they'd pass or not.
'I doubt that he spotted you, there are other people here, probably thinks that you're-'
"Now who do we have here?" a voice in front of him asked, Shadow whipped his head around and faced the man that was in the clearing.
"What are you doing here?" he asked with a questioned look.
'Crap, caught…'
'You okay, gaki? Usually you wouldn't be caught that easily…'
'Have to act like a natural if I look like one.'
"Ano…are you okay?" asked the guy in front of him. Shadows eyes widened.
"You're Kakashi! The copy nin right?" he spat out by accident, Kakashi blinked at him.
"How did you know?"
"An-ano I-I-I d-d-" he stuttered and without thinking, he ran without knowing were he was going. When he couldn't sense Kakashi's chakra signature that close to him he stopped, the whole time he was running, Kyuubi was laughing at him.
'What's so funny, baka kitsune?'
'The all famous Shadow runs away from a jounin. You've go to be kidding, anybody would never believe that you're really the Shadow. Ch.'
'Had to act like a natural, if I didn't act like one, they'd know that I'm a shinobi. Besides, I'm already on the wanted list for the naturals,' he looked around at his surroundings.
Trees, trees, trees, stone- wait a minute, a stone? He headed towards the stone that was in a small clearing.
'Hm, this wasn't here before, that is when I was here last time…' there were words on it, to be in fact, there were names.
'They're all dead…probably a marker to show that they died while they were on duty…' he started to read all the names on the stone.
"Who are you?" asked someone behind him. 'Genin…' thought Shadow and turned around to face a genin (1). He had brown spiky hair with a braided pony tail in the back and two long pieces of hair flopping down over his hitai (2) with grey eyes under it.
"Now what do we have here," came the familiar voice of Kakashi.
'Not again…' Shadow mentally groaned as he turned and looked up at the masked man, the genin behind him stiffened behind him.
"K-Kakashi-sensei…" he stuttered, Kakashi looked at him then looked at Shadow.
'What's he doing here?' he thought as he continued to stare at both of the boys.
"Well, better get out of here now before anyone finds me here…" said the blonde and walked out of the clearing, both shinobi watched him leave.
"Now, what to do about you…" Kakashi said at he stared at the genin, the genin looked around nervously and gulped.
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Once Shadow had walked far enough, he turned and headed back towards the clearing, but this time he hid in a tree. There were two more genins with them now, one with pink hair and the other had raven black hair. The genin from before was tied to a wooden pole, as for Kakashi, he was saying something about the names that were on the stone. Soon he said something about not feeding the genin that was tied up to the pole and then left.
'Probably giving them another chance…they'd better find out the whole meaning of this exercise or they'll all fail,' he was willing to help them but that would be considered as cheating. After a while the genin with the black hair held out his bento box, said something and then the pink haired girl did the same.
'Well, this is interesting. They'll most likely pass so better leave…'
------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Well, I guess that that's the end of this chapter and sorry for the long wait… please review…
Notes:
(1)In case you're wondering how Shadow knows that there was a genin behind him, it's because he did some really intense training. Besides, he could tell if a person is a genin, chuunin, or jounin by their chakra signature.
(2)I'm really not sure if that's how you spell forehead protector but it said in Naruto-kun that that's how it's supposed to be spelt…
(3)The guy with brown hair is a OC...In case you're wondering what's he wearing, he wears a black T-shirt with white shorts that has a black lining, he also has a chain coming from a pocket to his kunai pouch and another one going to his shuriken holster (there's a reason for that but I'm not telling). He's going to replace Naruto's spot temporally, but I might keep him in Team seven for the rest of the story...