TADAM! I made this one rather fast. I so rock:D

Thanks for all the reviews guys! I'm glad you enjoyed the previous chapter. The Wave Country mission officially ends in with this one and soon more adventures begin. Without further to do, here's the next chapter of "Naruto Beyond":

Chapter #21: Wave Country Mission! Conclusion

Chapter Cover: Naruto is standing on a cliff, watching the sunset with Zabuza's sword attached to his back

Jun's finger moved. He made an effort to open his eyes, yet fail at the first try. In stead he slowly began to sit up and when he reached halfway, he tried to open his eyes again. This time it ended with a success.

As a scenery appeared before him, he narrowed his eyes due to the sunrays that hit them. While his vision was still blurred, he heard a familiar voice coming from his left: "Finally you woke up… I thought you where in a coma or something…"

"Shut up pinhead!" replied Jun without even looking in the direction the noise came. "That's not something you should say to a guy that saved your life… but now that you mentioned it, how long have I been out?" he asked as his vision got normal and he saw Naruto walking towards him with bandages here and there.

"Counting this one, three days…" announced the jounin. "Our stay stretched more then I assumed… but since you're fine now, we'll be heading back once we get something to eat… Kumiko-san is already preparing lunch, so you woke up at the best time I guess…" and with that he gave the boy a small smile. "Who would have thought that both of them will be able to awake their bloodline limits at their age… especially in Urusai's case, since no-one even told him about it… I wonder how strong they'll get…"

"Hey everyone, the meal is ready!" they all heard Inari's wife voice coming from the kitchen and slowly headed to stuff their stomachs.

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"It's kinda sad that you're leaving…" announced Inari, who decided to walk his old friend and his students to the end of the bridge. "I have a strange feeling you only came… are you sure you don't want to stay a bit longer? You did get rid of those missing-nins…"

"Sorry Inari, but we really should go…" replied Naruto with a apologizing smile. "I have to give my report to Kakashi-sama and pipsqueaks here have to train if they wanna make it for a special event that's only four months away…"

"Special event?" Urusai suddenly got interested. "What special event?"

"Wouldn't you like to know?" responded the jounin with an evil smile. "Everything in the right time, Urusai… patience is also an important feature of a shinobi… besides that way I can have more fun then if I'd tell you right now…"

"That's not fair!" announced the blonde gennin, pointing a finger at his teacher. "You're too cruel, Naruto-sensei! I need a hug…" and with that he reach out his hands towards Ayame, yet before he even got close to her, the kunoichi announced coldly:

"If those hands of yours will get as close a ten inches near me, I'll kill you…" and as she said so Urusai instinctually jumped away and froze observing his teammate walking before him for few moments before he continued his marsh as well.

"Ayame-chan can be really scary…" he thought with a sigh as he looked to his right where Jun slowly walked towards with hands in his pockets. The young Hanayaka noticed the blonde's stare and only threw him a quick glare before ignoring his teammate completely.

"So much for my thoughts they started to make a good team…" Naruto sweat dropped as he observed the sight and then turned to his friend again: "Thanks for taking us in for so long… you and Kumiko really have to visit Konoha sometimes, so I could repay you guys…"

"You'd bankrupt after the first dinner…" joked Inari and the two started laughing loudly. Soon they reached the end of the bridge and said their final 'farewell' to the swordsman of the Wave Country.

As they left the country boulders, Jun slowed down a little, thus he found himself walking next to Naruto. He kept throwing glares at his teacher from time to time, not sure as to how he should start the conversation, so he was pleased that Naruto was the one who started it for him:

"Is something troubling you?" asked the whisker-marks, looking at his student.

"Well…" began the young Hanayaka and lowered his head. He kept silent for a while before he continued: "You said you knew who that white-haired man was when he first attacked us on the bridge… and you seem to know things about that symbol he and those other missing-nins had… that's why I need to know… one of them mentioned Akusai…"

"I see…" the blonde interrupted him almost immediately at the hearing of that name. "You believe that they might know something of her whereabouts, is that it?"

"I think it's more then that…" replied Jun sadly. "The way they talked about her… what they said… it's almost as if they knew her… and quite well for that matter… Naruto-sensei, is that possible that… you know…"

"Well I'm not really the one to talk about the Black Flame…" announced the jounin as he looked forward. "My experiences with that organization… lets just say that besides the battle we just fought I only was… 'present' when it was formed… I fought the leader back then and almost lost my life… the only thing I can tell you about them, which is a certain information, is that they're extremely dangerous people… about their goals, ways or even members I know nothing… but from what Iruka-sensei told me… I guess the way you picture it is a possibility…" and noticing the boy's sad look he added quickly: "But what we do now is just assuming… you'll learn that in our world very few things are what they seem at first and shinobi know hundreds of ways to gain information… the best you can do now is believe that you are wrong… you'll know the truth once you'll find her…"

"Against that Genko guy I couldn't do a thing…" the boy reminded his teacher. "If she really has some connection to those people… if the only way to reach her is through them… I need to get stronger… and fast!"

Naruto only smiled under his nose. "And I thought Urusai was similar to me when I was their age… those guys really are exceptional…" and as he thought that Jun walked a little faster, trying to catch up to the blonde gennin.

Ayame, who was walking out front, looked back at her teammates for a second and the looked ahead again. "Why they were after Urusai? And why does Naruto-sensei doesn't want him to know even now? And what was that strange sensation I felt back then?" she raised her sight at the sky. "By getting assigned to this cell… what kind of dangers have I been exposed to?"

"Hey, Ayame-chan, is something wrong?" asked Urusai as he leaned on her shoulder.

The kunoichi instantly turned around and began beating the crap out of him: "I warned you, you dumbass, didn't I! What the hell is your problem, you don't clean your ears!" as she said so she was stomping the blonde to the ground with her foot. "I'm not interested in you!"

"Ayame, you should calm down…" announced Jun calmly. "If he dies we'll have to look for someone new for our team and that'd be just too troublesome…"

"Thanks, coz for a minute there I really thought you were worried about me!" Urusai, who instantly got back to his feet, yelled in the boy's face and Naruto just sweat dropped some more with a loud sigh.

"This is seriously like a twilight zone… I guess this is Iruka-sensei's idea of a joke…"

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"So, Genko failed…" announced a man with short, spiky, blonde hair as he stood on a tree tops near Inari's home village. He was wearing a purple t-shirt with a black waistcoat on that and black pants. On the back of his waistcoat he had the symbol of Black Flame. He had a hitae-ate with a slashed Kusa symbol on his forehead, but what really drew attention in him were his eyes, which kept changing colors. "I guess that should be expected from someone of such a low level…"

"Don't be like that, Reiko…" asked another man with a metallic voice, who was standing on another branch next to him. This one was bold and had dark blue eyes. The left half of his face was covered by a metal plate and he was wearing a jet black robe that pretty much covered the rest of his body except his hands and thanks to that you could see that his right hand was made of metal with claws in stead of fingers. He wore a headband with a slashed Oto symbol as a belt. "He did fought a Jinchuuriki after all… that's not much of an excuse since his opponent was still only a jounin, but you should give him some justice…"

"He was nothing…" interrupted the first man. "To lose such opportunity is unacceptable… even if he'd survive, I'm sure Uragiri-sama would kill him for failing anyway… after all we shouldn't allow such weak people into our organization if we are to realize our goal…"

"This is partly Tsurara's fault…" stated the bold man calmly. "He was Genko's partner, so he should've helped him… with the two of them there was no chance of failing… but I guess Uragiri-sama had his reasons for giving him different orders… so, shall we go after the brat now? With that… Uzumaki Naruto injured, taking him is going to be simple…"

"No, Kikai…" replied the one called Reiko. "We were send here with specific orders… if Uragiri-sama would wish for us to grab that blonde, we'd said so… I guess he has other plans… our mission is simple, so lets get it over with… we still need to stop by at your old home and the trip will take a while…"

"Yeah, yeah… I know that you hate long journeys…" assured the other man, Kikai. "Don't worry, I'll clean things up in an instant…" and with that he was gone.

Reiko looked at the setting sun and smirked to himself: "That Kodawari brat… Uragiri-sama was right, he's way more suitable then the one we have…"

And so this chapter ends. Hope you enjoyed it. Coming up: new arrivals in Konoha. The Leaf jounin have to make a decision that will effect their students lives. New challenges awaits as strong shinobi from distant villages appear. Chuunin Exam is about to begin!

No jutsu encyclopedia this time around, but considering that quite a bit of characters will be appearing in the nearest chapters, I suppose the character profile will return.

Take care and until next time.

Cya.