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Za Kaze Shokkou: A Naruto AU Fanfiction.
Written by: Cloud1239999
Disclaimer: Naruto does not belong to me. It is as simple as that. I'm only writing this story for both my personal and the enjoyment of others. I do not intend to make any form of money off of this story. If however you do see reason to sue you will find no money within my pockets. That's right; I'm a 21 year old with no money and still living with my parents. :P
Rated: M (For Swearing, Gore, and any other mature thing that may show up including a possible future lemon ((Don't know this one for sure)). Reader Discretion is advised.)
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Naruto was bored.
Now this wasn't anything new to the blonde boy. Then again, Naruto tended to be bored when doing anything other then reading, pranking, training, eating ramen, or talking to his friends.
Naruto took a look around as he and the group he was with walked slowly down the dirt road that was between Konoha and Suna. Team Nine met up with Old Man Sarutobi and his escorts in Oshiwa where they continued the next morning on their way to Suna.
The group continued on in silence for several more minutes until they hit the top of the last mountain between the two cities.
Looking down the mountain and into the desert on the other side a realization hit Naruto and he stopped in his tracks. Sarutobi chuckled when he realized why Naruto suddenly stopped where he was.
"We're going to take a break now." The old man spoke up. "I would take this time to change into something better suited for the desert Naruto." Naruto was wearing his all-black ninja outfit that he wore in the wave country.
Seeing Naruto's sheepish expression just before he dashed off into the bushes both Sarutobi's laughed aloud.
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It was five hours later when the gates of Suna came into sight, and there was only one thing that could be thought at that time by all three of the gennin.
'I hate the desert.'
The one least affected by the sun though was Naruto since after the first hour he started using his wind manipulation abilities to create a light breeze that ran over his skin helping to keep it cool.
After another minute of walking where they reached the top of the next dune both Naruto and Sarutobi placed their hands above their eyes to block the remaining sun rays as they looked into the distance seeing the gates of Suna there.
"It'll only be another half hour if we speed up a little." Sarutobi spoke up after a few seconds of calculating how far away they were.
"Hai Hokage-sama.""Hai Oji-san." Came the collective answer from everyone.
After that was said the group did speed up to a light sprint.
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"Damn messengers always having to wait until the last minute." Temari mumbled to herself as she was dashing across the rooftops towards Sunagakure's east gate.
She'd of just been told minutes before by a messenger-nin of the Kazekage's that since the Kazekage was still doing paperwork, he was expecting her to be at the gate to greet the Hokage of Konoha and his escort when they arrived within the next five minutes.
'And the messenger also said that the outpost spotted them coming too.' She thought as she landed on top of the said outpost right next to the gate. 'I guess it doesn't help either that I can't get that dream out of my head.'
The dream that Temari was thinking about was the one where she witnessed a single gennin massacre a mercenary army with very little help. It wasn't the fact that the boy massacred the mercenaries, but rather the method used to do so. It reminded her of the times she wound up watching as Gaara would do the same himself.
As her mind slipped back to the dream she was interrupted when she saw a group of travelers coming over the last dune before the gate.
"Heh, I guess I'm just in time." She mumbled to herself as she jumped off the outpost and landed on the inside of the closed gate. She waited as she heard the ninja on guard duty talk to the group outside of the gate and she used the opportunity to mentally prepare herself to deal with them. 'Well, it's time to put those acting skills from the academy to use.'
After another minute the gate started to open and she got her first look at her father's guests. The first one she saw was an old man who wore a white version of the robes that her father did except that it had the kanji for fire emblazoned on the front.
Deciding to save any further observations of the group till later since the group was now standing in front of her Temari bowed to the old man and spoke up.
"Greetings and welcome to Sunagakure, Hokage-sama." At this point in her welcome speech she stood straight again before continuing. "Kazekage-sama is currently indisposed and as such he has sent me to greet his guests."
"He's probably doing paperwork." The sandaime spoke up causing Naruto to have to hold back a snicker.
That action caused Temari's attention to focus on him. She wound up stopping in her tracks when she was about to speak to the blonde haired boy. She'd of just recognized the face from the dream that she had but she was quick to recover from her shock and she turned back to the Hokage. She smiled warmly at the old man before giving a slight cringe when she saw the amused look on his face. She had a feeling that the old man found her reaction to the blonde boy funny even if he didn't know the reasoning behind said reaction.
"If you'll please follow me then I'll show you all to the hotel that has been arranged for you to stay at tonight." With that she turned around and started leading the group of Konoha-nin through the streets.
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As Temari was greeting the Konoha-nin, Gaara stood atop the gate where he was able to look down upon the guests backs. He was actually staring at the back of one particular person within the group and it wasn't the man he recognized as Konoha's Kage from a previous visit that the elderly man had made.
The blonde haired boy in the group was the one that Gaara watched and as he did so he was in what was quickly becoming one of his more frequent sane talks with the demon within him.
'That is him.' The Shukaku spoke up within Gaara's head. 'I sense Kyuubi-sama's chakra coming from the blonde boy.'
'I wonder who he is.' Gaara thought to himself though the demon was able to hear the thought.
'If you really want to catch Kyuubi-sama's attention then refer to the boy as such if you decide to confront him.' Gaara remained silent as he listened to the demon's word. 'Kyuubi-sama is probably just scanning for threats from within the boy so that he can help ensure his vessel's survival. He probably isn't paying to attention for whether or not there is demon chakra around him and just whether it is a threat to him or not. By using Kyuubi-sama's name when referring to the boy you will catch his attention and if the boy isn't already aware of him, Kyuubi-sama will try to convince the boy to talk with us.'
Gaara turned from his inner-musings after he nodded to himself confirming to himself that he did understand what Shukaku suggested to find that the entourage from Konoha had of left with his sister. Deciding that he would confront the other vessel the next day, Gaara decided to start heading towards his favorite roof to have a more in-depth talk with the demon inside him.
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"So how is your family Temari-san? It has been too long since I was last able to visit with your father and your family." Sarutobi was now walking ahead of his group next to the blonde konoichi as they walked through the evening light towards their hotel.
Temari looked over at the old man before shrugging her shoulders. "Father is rarely seen at home anymore since he likes to remain at his office in case something comes up, but my brothers are doing well. They've both chosen their paths as ninja and are doing fairly well with their careers." She thought it was obviously a bad idea to go into details about her youngest brother.
Sensing that she didn't want to stay on the subject of her family for too long, Sarutobi decided to move onto a new subject.
"Did your father happen to mention when he would be able to see me?"
"No sir, I didn't talk to him directly. I was just told by a messenger-nin to greet you." Sarutobi chuckled hearing this.
"Sounds quite like your father. I guess I'll know tomorrow then." Sarutobi shook his head as he spoke. Then he stood up straight again. "Things never change."
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Naruto stretched as he lay upon his bed in the hotel room that he was sharing with Shikamaru.
"This has got to be the most comfortable bed I've ever been on." To Naruto it felt like a slice of heaven.
Over on the other bed Shikamaru was kind of confused. 'What is he talking about? This has got to be the stiffest bed I've ever been on.'
Naruto was totally oblivious to the Nara genius's thoughts as he continued to enjoy, what to him, was a great comfort compared to his bed at home which did more poking and prodding than any good bed should.
After a while of enjoying the 'comfortable' bed, Naruto looked over to his friend and noticed that he'd of fallen asleep during the last few minutes.
'It must've been the traveling.' Naruto thought to himself as he tried to get into a more comfortable position. After a while of tossing and turning Naruto finally decided to get up and go to the roof for a little while.
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A few minutes later found Naruto sitting on the ledge of the hotel's roof looking out over the sight that was a desert night. Mesmerized by the beauty of the sight Naruto never noticed the set of eyes that stared intensely at him from several roofs away before they disappeared into the night.
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"Time to wake up Naruto." Shikamaru gave Naruto another firm shake before sighing to himself in exasperation. Naruto was always tough to get up any time no matter what the circumstances.
The lazy Nara genius then took the time to rack his brain in order to think of the best way to wake up his snoozing friend while enacting a little bit of revenge for being so troublesome. This is something that is not normal for Shikamaru, but he found himself enjoying some of the ideas that were going through his head.
Finally with an almost evil smirk on his face, almost because he found it troublesome to give a truly evil smirk, he settled on one idea that he thought would be best suited for the situation with all scenarios considered.
Over the next two minutes, Shikamaru set up his idea using some of Naruto's 'emergency pranking supplies' and put it into motion.
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Several blocks away Temari woke up to a very loud scream that sent a chill down her spine.
"What the hell was that?" She muttered to herself before shaking the chill off and flopping back onto her bed.
After a few more minutes of lying in bed and not being able to get back to sleep Temari finally decided to get up. As she did that she swore to herself that if she ever found out who woke her up with that scream then she'd really give them something to scream about.
Temari forgot about her promise of pain though as she looked at her clock and noticed that she was running late.
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"I can't believe you did that." Naruto spoke to Shikamaru as he glared at his friend.
They were now walking side by side as they walked into the hotel's lounge where they were greeted by Sarutobi who was looking at the two gennin with amusement clear in his eyes.
"Yeah well, I thought I'd finally give you a lesson for being so troublesome when it came to waking you up." Shikamaru was positively smirking at Naruto enjoying every moment of Naruto's reaction to his own prank.
"Seriously though, you really have a knack for coming up with a good prank. We should team up and do a mass prank on a bunch of the villagers after we get back to Konoha."
Sarutobi shivered when he heard Naruto's idea. Oh how the villagers would come to rue the day they messed with the combined mental prowess's of these two genius gennin. He couldn't help though but to look forward to such an event if it ever happened.
"Or maybe we should just focus on that silver haired guy who is supposed to be the teacher for team seven. You know, teach him a lesson for being late all the time." Naruto broke Sarutobi's thoughts by suggesting.
'Oh how lively Konoha would be with the war that those three would have.' Sarutobi thought to himself while holding in a snicker.
"As troublesome as it is, I like where this is going." Shikamaru said as a glint entered his eye that was matched by the one that was in Naruto's.
And so another prankster awoke. (1)
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An hour later, the group from Konoha was in the lobby of the hotel just finishing up their morning meals.
As the Hokage was preparing to leave the hotel towards the Kazekage's tower he spoke up to the three gennin there.
"Hinata and Shikamaru you two will be accompanying me to my day long meeting with the Kazekage. We will be reviewing the peace treaty that we have between our two villages and your parents agree with me that this would be a good opportunity for the two of you to learn a few things about politics since you two will eventually be taking over as heads of your clans."
Hinata and Shikamaru nodded their heads as they glanced at Naruto. Seeing their curiosity as well as Naruto's he continued.
"I'm sorry Naruto, but you are not allowed into this meeting since you are not from a prominent clan in Konoha." At Naruto's downcast look Sarutobi quickly continued. "However, I have arranged a guide for you for the day to take you around the village. Please take this opportunity to enjoy a day away from the village, maybe even do a little shopping that you normally wouldn't be able to do in Konoha."
Seeing that Naruto was looking much happier relieved Sarutobi. Smiling at Naruto he patted the boy on his head.
"Now Naruto, the rest of us must be going. Your guide is supposed to meet you in about a half hour so if you'll please stay here until the guide arrives." At Naruto's nod the Hokage and the other ninja left the hotel.
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Temari was having a bad day. First she is woken up by a loud scream that apparently was heard throughout one third of the village, then she wound up beating the hell out of her brother Kankuro for trying to scare more little children on their way to their father's office, then she was told that she was to act as an escort and guide to one of the visiting Konoha ninja who would not be attending the meeting.
Thinking on the last thing as she walked, Temari couldn't help but wonder what Kami's sick sense of humor put someone who she suspected to be a demon vessel (oh how she hated the word jinchuriki) here in Sunagakure.
She shivered at the thought of what would possibly happen if her youngest brother knew that there was another person like him here in the city.
Based off of past reactions to strong ninja coming to the village then it was quite possible that half of the village would be destroyed by the end of the day from a clash between the two of them. She never thought of the fact that the blonde boy she thought might not be as insane as her little brother so her mind kept coming up with scenario's of possible meetings between the two vessels, and none of them were good.
It was at this time that she rounded the final corner along with Kankuro and entered the hotel that they were supposed to pick up the Konoha ninja at.
Temari froze when she saw who the ninja they'd be guiding around was. 'Ah crap.' She thought as she saw Naruto sitting at a table making marks and drawing in a scroll.
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'And that's my final modification.' Naruto thought to himself as he wrote down the last two numbers next to an arrow on his diagram. 'This'll be the ultimate throwing weapon for someone like me. I just hope that I'll be able to convince someone here to make a batch for me. Then when I get back to Konoha I can hopefully convince that weapon shop to finally make them for me, otherwise I'd have to order them from here each time I needed more.'
Naruto then closed up his scroll and looked around again as he was putting it back into a scroll pouch that was on his left arm. (2) There by the entrance Naruto noticed two people who must've entered the hotel only a few short moments ago. The male of the duo wore baggy black clothes and a hood that had Naruto wondering just how the guy survived each day out in the dessert. The girl Naruto recognized as the one that greeted them when they entered Suna yesterday evening.
Naruto smiled as he waved at the two. Standing up from his table he pulled out his froggy wallet and gave the person at the hotel desk a tip for the good service before making his way towards the two.
When he reached the two Naruto stopped and gave the two a shallow bow. "Hi, my name is Uzumaki Naruto. May I have the pleasure of knowing your names." 'Man were those manner lessons useful.' Naruto thought to himself as he waited for an answer from the two.
"Father wanted us to escort this brat?" Kankuro asked rudely as he looked down on Naruto condescendingly. Kankuro's reaction was making Temari a little nervous since she was still able to remember what this boy did to those bandits in the dream she had.
"I'll have you know that I'm not just some little brat." Naruto spoke up before Temari could shout at her brother for possibly upsetting someone who might be as dangerous as their little brother. "I may be only twelve, but I'll have you know that I quit being some random brat the day I became a ninja."
Temari was surprised that the blonde boy's reaction wasn't as violent as she expected. Coming to the conclusion that this must not be the boy from her dream and that it was just that, a dream, Temari smiled at the younger ninja before returning the slight bow that Naruto gave to them as she introduced herself.
"My name is Akira Temari (3), and this here" she smacked her brother on the back of the head "is my brother Kankuro." Naruto looked slightly amused from the head smack that Temari gave Kankuro. "If you're the Konoha ninja that we are to escort, then if you would tell us what you'd like to do then it would give us a better idea of how to go about the day."
Naruto gave a genuine smile to Temari which further pushed in her belief that she was mistaken about this boy.
"Thank you Temari-san. To tell you the truth I was hoping to head over to a weapon shop. I have some outdated equipment as well as a plan for a weapon I was hoping to have made today if possible."
"Alright then, if you want a weapon made, then I guess we'll make a weapon shop our first stop today. So if you'll please follow us." As she spoke Temari grabbed Kankuro's shoulder, whose owner was pouting slightly from the hit to the head, and started walking out of the hotel.
'I have a feeling I can get to like these two.' Naruto thought to himself as he followed after them.
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Naruto laughed as Temari smacked Kankuro upside the head again as they walked. Watching the two siblings as they walked along Naruto couldn't help but wonder if that was what it was really like to have a family.
Naruto was thinking to himself about what it'd be like if he actually had a family but he was broken away from his thoughts by Temari when she turned around and asked him a question.
"So Naruto-san, we have a few weapon shops here in Suna each specializing in different types of weaponry. They each focus on making and selling weaponry for shinobi of different specializations. So if you'll tell me what kind of weapons you were looking to search for then we can head for the right shop."
"Alright, I'm looking to buy a battle fan as well as to have a special type of Kunai made."
Temari's eyebrows rose when Naruto mentioned that he wanted a battle fan. She was thinking of trying to suggest he look for another weapon since fans were hard to learn how to use, but she decided to humor him for the time being and give her warning later.
"Okay, then the Aizu family's weapon shop should be the best for what you're looking for. It's where I go in order to have maintenance done on my fan." As she spoke she patted the base of her fan which could just be seen over her left shoulder. Naruto was surprised he didn't notice it earlier.
"We are fairly close to the shop so we'll be there in about two minutes at the pace that we're traveling at."
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Three minutes later, and it was only three because it took Temari a minute to smack her brother around a bit for trying to intimidate Naruto again, the three of them stepped into the Aizu family weapon shop.
As the door chimed Temari mentally counted down from five. As her countdown reached zero a voice spoke up from behind them.
"Ah Temari-san. It is good to see you again." As the voice spoke both Kankuro and Naruto jumped three feet off the ground and whirled around nearly ready to attack the old man.
"Good morning Aizu-san. How has business been since the last time I was in?" Temari asked as she looked over her shoulder smirking at her two companions.
The man who was about in his forties with long brown hair and green eyes also wore a smirk as he watched the two young men behind his favorite client.
"Business has been going well, but I'm sorry, that is enough pleasantries. How may I help you today? I didn't think you'd be back for more maintenance for another few days at the least."
"It isn't me that is need of your services today Aizu-san, but rather this leaf-nin with me who was interested in your wares." Temari gestured to Naruto, who was just relaxing from his basic combat stance, as she spoke.
"I see. Well Leaf-san, what may I help you with today." The man asked this as he walked over and behind the store's counter.
"Oh yeah." As Naruto said this, he reached up with right hand and grabbed a scroll from a pouch on his left arm that Temari remembered seeing Naruto stuff a scroll into earlier. "I was wondering if you were into making throwing weapons."
At the old man's nod Naruto continued.
"Well, I've made a design for a special type of kunai, but none of the weapon smiths in Konoha are willing to make them for me. I was hoping that I'd be able to have a batch made here." As he spoke Naruto spread the scroll open on the counter top in front of Aizu.
Aizu's mind raced as he looked over the detailed schematics for the design of the kunai. If it were to be summarized, the Kunai wasn't as much one, but rather a blade that was twisted so that it was more like a drill, or a corkscrew.
"This is quite an interesting design Leaf-san, but I have to point out that something such as this would be nearly impossible to use without an extreme grasp on wind manipulation, so that means that not many people would be able to use these properly outside of this city."
From a couple isles down where she was looking at a new batch of Kunai Temari heard what Aizu said and became curious about what it was that the boy designed.
Kankuro was just sitting in the corner of the shop next to a training dummy looking bored since the store didn't have puppet parts.
"How many do you think you'd be able to make for me by the end of the day?" Naruto then asked. He was hoping to get as many made as possible.
"You're only here for the day?" Aizu asked. Upon receiving Naruto's nod he thought about it for a few seconds. "Well, I'd estimate that I can have one made within the next five minutes. If you don't mind sticking around for that I'll make the first one free of charge, and then I'd like to see you demonstrate the use of this weapon. After that though, I'd say that I could make about one hundred before closing time if I don't get too occupied with customers."
"Alright, how much will the one hundred cost me?" Naruto asked as he pulled out his wallet.
"I'm not sure yet. I'll let you know after I finish making the first one." Naruto nodded his head in acceptance to Aizu's statement. "Please take your time and look around as you wait. Maybe you can get Temari-san to help you if you're interested in a fan."
With that said, the weapon maker went into the back of the store to make the first Kunai.
Naruto spent the next few minutes looking through the shelves in silence until after five minutes just as Aizu said, he was back with the kunai in hand. Temari walked up along with Naruto to take a look at the weapon that the man was holding and she found it to be quite odd.
Naruto took the spiral kunai as he decided to call it in his hand and checked the balance which he found to be just as good as his normal kunai.
"Wow. This has better balance then I expected it to. I actually thought that it would be a little top heavy." Naruto said as he switched between several gripping positions with the Kunai.
"If you'll please give it a try, I'd like to see it fly." Aizu spoke up to Naruto as he gestured over to the training dummy in the corner.
A smirk came to Naruto's face as he replied. "Okay!" He was quite enthusiastic for a reason that Temari didn't grasp quite yet.
That is however until the boy flung the Kunai quite hard towards the dummy. It was at that time that she noticed that Kankuro was still sitting next to the training dummy looking as bored as ever. The Spiral Kunai proceeded to fly through the air incredibly fast and literally went right in front of Kankuro's nose right before implanting itself into the dummy just on Kankuro's other side.
"WHAT THE FUCK!!" Was the immediate yell from Kankuro as he proceeded to mumble darkly in their direction as he went to pull the kunai out of the dummy.
What happened then surprised Temari as she realized the reason as to why Naruto's kunai was designed as it was. Kankuro was trying to stand as he went to pull out the kunai. Since he was expecting the kunai to come out of the wood without a problem he wound up pulling himself back down onto his ass, hard, when the kunai didn't come out of the wood as he expected.
Temari looked over to both Aizu and Naruto as they smirked openly in Kankuro's direction.
"Twist the kunai counter-clockwise a few times as you slowly pull it out of the wood. The kunai should be imbedded pretty deep and as you just saw, it won't come out of wood easily, but if that were to have been thrown into say someone's arm then they'd wind up destroying all of the muscle that it was imbedded into as they pulled the muscle out along with the kunai."
"Wow." Temari said as she thought about what Naruto explained. To her it seemed like quite the idea to have a weapon that literally did all that damage to a living target while being complicated to remove without doing more damage on removal.
"Now how about the cost for the one hundred?" Naruto asked as he turned back to Aizu who was watching amusedly as Kankuro was still trying to get Naruto's kunai out of the dummy, having chosen to ignore Naruto's advice on removing it.
Temari couldn't help but find it amusing to see Kankuro standing sideways on the side of the dummy pulling on the kunai with obvious signs of stress on his face.
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"What is your name?" Just hearing that voice speak as they exited the weapon shop scared both Kankuro and Temari shitless.
The two of them were frozen as the boy they were supposed to guide turned around towards the voice and spoke.
"Pardon me, but are you talking to me?" Naruto asked as he faced a boy no older then he was. Naruto was a few inches taller then the red head boy with black rings around his eyes but Naruto was able to sense the strong chakra that emanated from him. The other noticeable feature of the boy was that he wore a large gourd on his back that Naruto couldn't tell much about since he couldn't see most of it.
"Yes." The red head spoke as he continued to stare at Naruto.
"I'm sorry, but isn't it rude not to introduce yourself first?" When they heard Naruto ask that both Temari and Kankuro looked at each other thinking that the boy was going to die at any moment now.
"Sorry." Gaara didn't sound like he meant it at all. "My name is Akira Gaara."
Hearing the name Naruto looked over his shoulder at the other two that shared the same surname as this Gaara person.
"I'm guessing that you're related to these two?" Naruto asked gestured over his shoulder at the still frozen siblings. At Gaara's nod Naruto continued. "Well my name is Uzumaki Naruto. It is nice to meet you." As Naruto introduced himself he stuck out his hand for a hand shake. Naruto's name was ignored as Gaara turned around.
"Come." After a few seconds Gaara added. "Please."
Kankuro and Temari were gobsmacked now. Did Gaara just make an attempt at politeness? This was something new to the other two siblings.
"Alright, I'm coming." Naruto stated as he followed the red head. It took a few seconds but Kankuro and Temari were too curious as to why Gaara would try to be somewhat polite to this person out of all the ones in the world.
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AN: A fun chapter to write though a little shorter then I wanted it to be. I'm going to leave the prank that Shikamaru pulled off to wake up Naruto to your own imagination. As you might have realized, I decided to have Naruto be a good sport about it. Besides, the talk they have afterwards about teaming up to pull pranks on Kakashi more then makes up for it I believe.
I know that not much happened this chapter really. It is just that I decided to end it here because otherwise the chapter might of wound up being at least another 20-30 pages and I didn't want to make this one too long. I hope you will all forgive me for this but that's the way it is.
Next chapter is the big planned meeting between Naruto and Gaara. I plan on making it really interesting. Here Naruto will finally learn of his inner-demon as well as there being an interesting battle.
I can't help but laugh when I think of what Naruto and Shikamaru could do if they wracked their brains together to come up with pranks. Expect to see the fruits of their labor sometime just before the chuunin exams.
I didn't actually mention this but since Naruto uses so many scrolls to store his supplies and other things, Naruto has clothing that are covered in scroll pouches. His vest has three on each side. His shirt underneath has three on each side and one on each arm on the side, and his pants have three scroll pouches on each pants leg right under his two kunai holster. That makes a total of 20 pouches each capable of holding two scrolls in each. So yeah, Naruto does carry around a lot of scrolls.
This is a general notice for all of the characters that don't have a mentioned last name in the Naruto Anime/Manga. For all such characters I have made their last name the same as the one that belongs to their Japanese Voice Actor for the Anime according to the website naruto-kundotcom. In the case of Gaara, Kankuro, and Temari I used the last name as Gaara's voice actor since I couldn't use different last names for all three of them. The other thing that made me choose to use Akira as the last name is that it is very similar to Akirame which means Resignation, Acceptance, or Consolation. I'm choosing acceptance for this one seeing as it is something that I believe that all three of the Sand Siblings were looking for in the Manga/Anime.
See you all next time.