AN: hey everybody! I am soooooooo sorry! Man, dumb internet!!!! Lost it this past weekend! Lucky I was able to watch episode 3 of Shippuuden at school. Sorry about the delay everybody.

Neji: Yeah, lucky you, what am I suppose to do?

Me: wait till it comes here in the USA.

Neji:……are you kidding me?! Do you know how many fillers there are?! It won't get here till next year!!!

Me: Oh well, patience is a virtue! Any way, (earns glares from Neji), from what I can get from Chapter 343, it will be a while before Akatsuki makes another show, so time for the old wing it plan! So enjoy!

Neji: Don't forget, you don't own Naruto Kiki-Chan.

Me: Yeah, yeah, I know. Don't remind me. Besides….(gets a cheeky look and pulls out a video tape) I got dirt on you! (waves tape around) I could easily post it on youtube…

Neji: OKAY OKAY!!! Just…don't play that tape.

Me: Goood, Neji. So anyway…Wanna play Naruto the TCG?

Neji: sigh…sure.

Together we are unstoppable! Believe it!

Chapter thirteen

Moving out

The sun was shining bright over Kohona. As it did, the blonde ninja known as Naruto woke up to the sun shining through his apartment window. Naruto yawned a large yawn and got ready to go. He packed his stuff, and then headed outside. Before he left, he looked up at the Hokage monument. He smiled his famous smile then thought,

"I'm about to follow you, so watch over us all…father." He then slowly turned and walked slowly to the gate.

Several miles away….

A place unknown to the leaf village glowed in unnatural light. A dark, red eyed figure sitting in a throne like chair glared at his underlings.

"Hidan and Kakuzu both failed. I want that nine-tailed demon before that boy of Yodmine's becomes even stronger than what he is now. He is now stronger than Kakashi Hayta. Unless you all wish to have the same fate as Orochimaru I suggest that you work quickly. This generation of leaf ninja is most strong…"

He glanced at the next to last of the Uchiha clan.

"Itachi, you have let your brother live on for far too long, while you are getting the kyuubi I suggest you get rid of him too. He is friends with that little pest."

The Uchiha nodded, though he and his fellow criminals were miles away from where their leader was.

"Understood."

"Now go, we have work to be done."

As his underlings left, the leader turned his dark face with a smile on his face.

"Well, well, the time has come Yodmine."

His tuned his face to reveal a long scar.

"For my revenge."

"Naruto!"

He turned to see his beautiful heiress running to him, her indigo hair shining in the early morning sun. She paused for a moment to catch her breath then said,

"I came to see you off, Neji would have come too but he had to go on a mission."

Naruto smiled and nodded. He took Hinata's soft hand and the two walked slowly to the gates.

"Are you still worried?"

"Uh?" she turned her head to look at the blonde teenager, who was looking at her with a soft face. She sighed.

"A little but, I know what it means to be a shinobi. Besides, if anyone tries hurting you, they will have to answer to me."

"That's my girl. With you as back up there is no way I could lose!" he laughed giving her a quick peck on the cheek and making her blush.

When the two got to the gate, they saw Sasuke, Ino and Sakura talking to each other, Shikamaru gazing up at the sky and Yamato and Choji having a light conversation. Only one that was missing…

"Eh, some things never change, Kakashi still not here yet?" he chuckled. Sakura sighed and said,

"Yeah, and if he doesn't get here soon he's really going to get it!"

"Tch, I'll say." Added Ino.

"Oh, I thought I saw him at the shrine." Said Hinata pointing in the direction of the shrine of the fallen ninja.

"I'LL get him." Said Naruto before Sakura or Ino could open their mouths. In a quick blink, Naruto went.

"At least if I get him I won't yell at him for twenty minutes." Sighed Naruto as he jumped down in front of the stone shrine.

The sliver hair ninja turned at the sound of foot steps to see his former blonde student.

"Hate to interrupt your "journey down the road of life" but uh, Ino and Sakura are getting a little on the touchy side."

Kakashi chuckled.

"Yeah okay, okay, I'm coming."

Naruto walked up to the stone tablet and scanned the names. He saw his father's, the third hokage, and Danzo's names engraved in it.

"Hey Naruto I want you to look at a name." Naruto glanced at him.

"Third name from the left near the middle."

Naruto searched then found the name….

"Uchiha Obito?" Naruto glanced back at Kakashi…for some reason his sharingan eye came to his mind…

"Who was he? Was he a teammate of yours?"

The sliver haired sighed.

"Yes he was. He, me, and our fellow ninja Rin, made up..." he chuckled, "Squad seven with our sensei, your father."

A smile smirk appeared on his face.

"How Nostalgic."

"Indeed."

"Why do I have a feeling this has something to do with your sharingan eye?"

The copy cat smirked under his mask.

"Yes, well, you see, this eye is Obito's eye."

Naruto's two eyes widen.

"Say what?"

"I guess it's time I told you about my team. Both of you." Said Kakashi turning to see Sasuke walking slowly up to them. Naruto turned to look at his teammate.

"Sakura ordered me to come and get you two for she said if she did, she'd pound you both."

Kakashi smiled and Naruto cringed.

"So, how did you end up with one of my relative's sharingan eyes?" asked Sasuke with a curious look on his face, folding his arms and standing beside his loud mouthed teammate.

Their sensei sighed again, and then looked back at his friend's name in stone.

"Just after I became a jonin, we were sent on a mission. Being overconfident, I bragged about it. Obito said that when his sharingan awakened, he would be able to out class me."

Naruto and Sasuke glanced at each other for a second then back to their sensei.

"Anyway, while we were on that mission, Rin got captured. I didn't want to save her for my father was sunned for saving his teammates a while before. All I cared about was finishing the mission. But, Obito was able to convince me to go save her. During the fight, I lost my eye but Obito's sharingan activated were able to save her… But then…"

Naruto and Sasuke let their sensei pause for a moment as he colleted his thoughts.

"In a last ditch attack, the rock ninja collapsed the cave we were at. Obito pushed me out of the way, and got caught under the rocks. As his last gift for me, he had Rin give me his sharingan eye. He died not long after."

Naruto and Sasuke both looked at the older ninja with wide eyed looks. Neither of them knew what to say.

"You two now see how lucky you are. You two share an even more special and strong bond now. You are blood brothers. Regardless whether or not you are related."

Naruto and Sasuke looked at each other and smirked.

"Never abandon each other. Look after each other and Sakura. You are all that each other have."

The two nodded. They understood completely.

"Speaking of Sakura…" said Sasuke.

"Uh? Oh yeah, almost forgot." Kakashi chuckled turning with Sasuke and jumping off. Naruto went to follow but stopped, and turned to look at the shrine.

"Come on Naruto!" came his Uchiha teammate's impatient voice.

"Alright! I'm coming!" he said running after his fellow male teammates. The wind gently made the grass wave around the shrine as he left. A peace coming over it.

"Took you three long enough!" complained their pink and blonde haired kunoichi as the three appeared in front of them.

"Sorry, we got lost on the path of life again." Said Kakashi closing his only visible eye with a grin.

"Yeah right you…!" started Sakura but stop when Naruto and Sasuke both gave her piercing glances. She gave the two questioning looks and Sasuke only muttered,

"We'll tell you later." Sakura glanced at her boyfriend then her other teammate and nodded not too sure what was going on.

"Yes well, shall we get going?" asked Kakashi placing his back pack on his shoulder and leading the group off.

Naruto kissed Hinata good bye and then ran to catch up with the rest.

Team 10 and Team 7 followed close behind Kakashi, Shikamaru walking slowly at the back of the group.

"Good luck, Naruto…" thought Hinata as she watched the group slowly walk out of sight.

On their journey to Kumogakure in the lighting country, first the group had to make a quick stop at Suna to check up for any more developments then head out to the village hidden in the clouds.

After a while, Kakashi had them stop. He then cut his thumb with his kunai and summoned a familiar looking dog.

"Hey Pakkun, need you to help keep an eye out for enemy ninja."

The dog nodded and started to sniff the air. He noticed two things.

"Hey, Sakura, you're using a different shampoo, and you the other girl…"

"Name's Ino." She told him not too sure about him.

"Yeah, Ino, you use the same shampoo I use!"

Sakura could not help but laugh her head off at her best friend.

"A-are you kidding me!?"

"No! Floral Green shampoo right?" Ino got a very humorous look on her face and sulked off after the others, mumbling about using the same shampoo as a dog, Sakura still laughing.

When it got dark, the group camped for the night. Dinner was a little hazardous for Sakura started to pick on Ino about using the same shampoo as Pakkun the dog and Naruto did not help matters much when he added that Sakura used to use the exact shampoo once upon a time. In the end, the men ninja jumped to various safe spots so they wouldn't get caught up in Ino and Sakura's fight.

"Had to mention the fact Sakura used the same shampoo didn't you?" grumbled Shikamaru who was sitting in a tree with Choji beside the one that Sasuke and Naruto had taken cover in. All the blonde could do was shrug as the two medical ninja had at it down below them. It got the point were Sasuke threaten to fire ball justu them if they didn't cut it out. The two quickly shut up but continued to glare at each other. When the others jumped down, Sasuke looked at the two and sighed.

"Either you two hug and make up without trying to strangle each other or I WILL fire ball you two got that? We are all tired from traveling today and the last thing we need is you two fighting. Save that for Akastuki would you?"

Sakura and Ino glared at each other one last time before hugging each other to make up. Choji chuckled at the two and earned himself a death stare.

"Yes, well, I think it's about time we turned in don't you think?" asked Kakashi in a light voice as he started to pull out his sleeping bag.

Naruto volunteered for the first watch. He sat in the tree that he and Sasuke had taken refuge in. After a while the fire that they had been around slowly gave out. The smell of smoke drifted in the air. Naruto sighed and leaned back against the tree's thick trunk. After a few minutes Naruto heard footsteps but didn't move for he knew who it was. The youngest Uchiha sat down beside him on the branch. He activated his sharigan so that they could talk without much worries. Not that they thought Akasutiki would try anything but better safe than sorry. For a few minutes the two just sat in a peaceful silence. Once in a while they would hear various night life but that was all. Sasuke glanced over at Naruto then asked,

"What do you think would of happened if I hadn't of come back?"

Naruto closed his eyes and said,

"Sakura would probably be going out with fuzzy brows."

Sasuke glared at him.

"Don't even KID like that."

Naruto chuckled at him then said,

"Don't think about what would of have happened if you hadn't come back or what would have happened if you hadn't of left. It'll just drive you crazy. Just be thankful your back and leave it at that."

"You know what Naruto, that actual made sense." Naruto shrugged and grinned.

"Hey, I gotta say wise stuff like that; I'm going to hokage soon."

"Then again, you still are you." He laughed quietly.

"What's that suppose to mean?"

"It was a compliment you dobe."

"Oh. Hey Sasuke why do you do you think Kakashi told us about his team for?"

Sasuke rolled his ebony eyes at him.

"Some hokage you're going to be."

"What did you just figure that out?" came a voice.

The two boys looked down to see their pink hair teammate climbing up the tree. She had Sasuke move over a little bit so she could join them on their branch.

Sasuke chuckled and lightly kissed her on the cheek.

"About two seconds after I learned he was the son of a hokage." He said grinning at Naruto.

"Yeah well, that proves that I suppose to be the next hokage!"

"How does that prove it?" asked Sasuke in a teasing voice. He forgot how much fun it was to mess with Naruto's head.

"Uh because….uh…."

"They are all somehow related?" helped Sakura.

"Yeah that's it!"

"I just can't believe that our load mouthed baka is going to be our hokage." Chuckled Sasuke.

"Why not?! I told you I would! Just like I told Sakura I would bring you back."

"Yeah, yeah, I know…"

"Right sis?" smiled Naruto at Sakura.

"Right bro." giggled Sakura.

"Sister you, love to me." Whispered Sasuke as he kissed her again on the cheek.

The three sighed and shifted to get more comfortable on the branch they were sharing.

"Well Naruto…" smirked Sasuke,

"To everyone else you'll be our sixth hokage, to me you'll always be our dobe."

"HA HA, very funny Sasuke-teme." Muttered Naruto as Sakura went into spell of giggles.

Naruto suddenly got a thoughtful look on his face and stared out back towards their village. Sasuke glanced at the look at his face then he too turned his glaze towards Kohona.

"Wondering why Kakashi told us about his teammates?" asked Sasuke after a minute.

"Huh?" asked Sakura looking between the two.

"No, I know why." Answered Naruto.

"Okay what are you two talking about?"

So about ten minutes, the two told Sakura (well, Sasuke told her mostly) the story Kakashi told them about his past. After they (Sasuke) finished telling her, the medical ninja got a thoughtful look on her fair face.

"Wow, history likes to repeat itself in strange ways." Said Sakura thoughtfully.

"What do you mean Sakura-chan?" asked Naruto.

"Well, I mean, just like Obito and Kakashi, the two of you were always arguing (and still do I might add), and it took something dynamic to make them come together."

Naruto and Sasuke both nodded.

"And not only that, the beautiful medical ninja gets caught in the freaking middle."

The two boys chuckled.

"Well, look at it this way Sakura."

"What's that Naruto?"

"This story has a happier ending." The blonde grinned.

Sasuke looked back over the horizon.

"For now, until Akastuki appears…" sighed the raven haired boy.

"Come on Sasuke, we'll kick there butts too." Said Naruto nudging him with his fist.

"Yeah…"

"And best of all, we'll fight them together." Smiled Sakura turning so she could look into Sasuke's deep eyes.

"Exactly. Together." Smiled Naruto. Sasuke smiled back.

So until Choji relived them for the last shift, old squad seven sat together, quietly. Not long after everyone else got up and ready to move out, (Choji and Naruto fought over the last of the ramen which Naruto won), and started again for the village hidden in the sand.

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Okay, sorry for the somewhat lame ending, but I really wanted to get it up. Now that I have temp internet I can get back on track.

Neji (eating Oreos): Yeah, lame sounds about right.

(Looks over at him)

Me: Are those my Oreos?

Neji: Uh….no?

Me: Watch it; I got you singing on a sugar high! I got the proof right here!(for full details read Pooh Bear is My Hero-san's story 100 kisses for Lee and TenTen, it is great. )

Neji: Okay Okay! Sorry! Just please don't play that TAPE!

Me: Goood Neji. Now, let's play Pokemon!

Neji: Aw man.

Me: Hey it's either that or braid your hair which I might add is about the same length as mine. I think mine maybe a little shorter but not by much. Oh and I have a bead thing too, where you can put beads in your hair.

Neji:…..Pokemon

Me: Heehee, that's what I thought.

Bless you all for waiting; hopefully it will NOT take this long for the next one if my internet works with me here.

LoL, Kiki

Next time:

The secrets hidden in the Sand: Things get complicated!