Author's Note; Sorry, took longer than I planned to get this chapter up. First off, I'm going to give translations now rather than later in the story;
Katon; Fire style
Suiton; Water style
Hyoton; Ice style
Youton; Lava style
Doton; Earth style
Raiton; Lighting style;
Fuuton; Wind style
Fuuin; Sealing techniques
Futton; Boil style
Now that that's out of the way, Naruto's going to be playing violin on and off in the story, it won't be constant since he's using another method of chakra control. Oh, and before I forget, if you want to know how it looks when Naruto defends himself against Kiba, watch episode 61 of Avatar the last air bender where Katara puts Azula in her place. Lol, that was an awesome move too!
Anyway, here's chapter 2 for Kowareta, and another warning, there are some bits that are similar to The True Horror of Konoha, and for the person that reviewed on my last chapter about genderbending someone ... who did I genderbend? Because I'm using an OC I used for another fan fiction that I haven't published yet. So, to clear the table, I gave Itachi and Sasuke an older sister by the name of Tsubaki. And she left the institution a year before Naruto was released since Jiraiya somehow managed to remove the curse mark she was branded with -that is not like the one Sasuke got in the show at all, whatsoever- and she returned to her normal mindset. Oh, and no, there's no Uchiha Massacre or coup-de-ta from the Uchiha clan after the accident since Fugaku comes to his right mindset as well. Anyway! On with the chapter before I reveal too much! :) Oh, and in the prologue, I messed up on my years ... it's Five, not eight. Lol. I'll change that later I think.
Chapter 2
Five Years Later … Regained Hope for the Insane Uzumaki, Naruto.
Hiruzen sighed as he walked the familiar white hallways with a woman in a lab coat behind him and Jiraiya, the only way that Hiruzen was going to get Naruto free of the seals binding him to his room.
He had just gotten done talking to his elder councilman and woman along with his old friend Danzo, and they all agreed that Naruto couldn't be kept under lock, key and seal another year. Because if his chakra reserves got any bigger, they'd have a major problem on their hands for one, two they knew that the seals would one day falter and he could break free.
Jiraiya had been in the meeting as well, and knew that they were right. The drawback on the seals being used on the boy were only there to make sure he didn't attack anyone else, even though he managed to learn somehow to use his new bloodline without hands or feet. How this was possible, no one knows. But Jiraiya had a hunch that Naruto trained somehow with the Kyuubi.
Either way, Hiruzen didn't like the idea of putting Naruto out in the world just yet, but he had no other choice. The boy turned twelve and it was time for him to be put in a team, especially with the only Uchiha his age graduating this year. So, Hiruzen was stuck between a rock and a hard place, and had no choice but to agree to let Naruto out.
When the three made it to Naruto's cell, Hiruzen stopped and turned to face it, looking through the window only to see a twelve year old boy, restrained in a orange straight jacket that had an added hood. The jacket itself having black markings for seals that were glowing blue at the moment along with a chain around his neck, bolted to the ground where the boy sat humming to himself. The chains, too, had seals glowing a light blue along with the room itself, glowing blue with seals.
This is the furthest they could ever go with chakra restraints, anymore and the boy would either die or gain even more chakra reserves.
"Naruto, how are you doing today?" Hiruzen asked, a normal question he asked the boy every time he came in, which was every day after the paperwork was finished.
"Have you any idea why a raven is like a writing desk?" The boy giggled, it was his new catch phrase that he simply loved to answer with for a greeting. At first, when it was said, Hiruzen thought that Naruto had officially lost all sanity he had left, but then Naruto explained, after a laughing fit that lasted ten minutes, that he simply came up with a catchy phrase that he liked.
Hiruzen smiled, knowing now that Naruto kept a bit of sanity inside him, but as he looked at the cell once again, he took note at the dried blood on the walls and floor from when Naruto attacked a male doctor that went in to talk to him. Boiled the man alive before using his blood line to cause the man to rip into pieces.
None of them know how he did it, even now, because Naruto refused to tell them.
"I have a proposition for you Naruto, so listen carefully." Hiruzen said when his attention went back onto the boy in question, and Naruto looked up, the grin still on his face as he tilted his head to the side, not blinking, which meant to Hiruzen that he had Naruto's full attention.
"You, Jiraiya, my elder council and myself, know that you can't stay in here much longer. So, I'm giving you the chance to become a ninja." Hiruzen explained. "How does that sound, Naruto?"
"It sounds interesting. Me becoming a ninja … can I kill people?" Naruto said, giggling at the mention of 'kill' since he hadn't killed anyone in three years, and was starting to become itchy for some blood shed a bit.
"To some degree, yes, you can kill people, as long as they're declared an enemy, you understand?" Hiruzen said, and Naruto nodded. "Now, before I let you out, I need you to promise me, that you won't kill, maim, harm, injure, mentally, emotionally and physically torture class mates, teammates, sensei, clients or anyone else in the leaf village. Can you do that Naruto?"
Naruto took a moment to think, but when Naruto started nodding his head yes with a small hum, Hiruzen smiled. "Yea, I think I can, but do they have to know all of my abilities?"
"That is up for you to decide, but I would rather you tell your team and sensei all of your abilities so they know how to be a team with you." Hiruzen nodded.
"That's fine with me." Naruto smiled, and it wasn't his grin, Hiruzen realized, it was a genuine smile and he nearly fell over at the sight of it.
"Alright, I'll be back in an hour to pick you up. Jiraiya here will be removing the seals a bit at a time so you won't be overwhelmed with your chakra reserves coming back to top notch." Hiruzen said, and Naruto nodded again. "And Naruto, that promise goes to Jiraiya and the nice doctor here who's going to supervise while the restraints are coming off."
"Okay jiji." Naruto said with a giggle, but Hiruzen and Jiraiya both knew Naruto wouldn't hurt anyone, now that the promise was made.
If Naruto was anything besides insane, he wasn't a liar, and they were all grateful for that.
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Iruka-sensei was annoyed, not only was the room loud, they refused to listen to him. He didn't care if they all graduated all ready, they needed to respect him, because if they respected him, then that'd mean they'd respect their new Jounin sensei.
So, bringing his hands to the ram sign, Iruka-sensei gathered chakra up to his throat and yelled, his voice having an extra boost because of the chakra he gathered to his vocal chords.
"Shut up you little rats, show some respect." Iruka-sensei yelled, which caught the attention of each new gennin and they all quieted down instantly.
"Alright, now that I have your attention, I'm going to announce the teams you'll all be in and which Jounin sensei you're all going to get. But, since that we're one student short, Lord Hokage is going to be bringing someone that he chose himself to fill in that gap. They'll be here shortly so you can talk amongst yourselves, as long as you're quiet." Iruka-sensei explained to the gennin , then took it upon himself to look at the list again.
"Hey, if we had to go through the academy and take the exam, why can't this kid do it too?" A boy with triangles on his face, who's known as Kiba Inuzuka, who had a small pup sitting on his head, asked as he shot to his feet and pointed an accusing finger towards Iruka-sensei.
"You'd have to ask yourself Kiba, not even I know of some circumstances that allow this." Iruka-sensei sighed heavily, the headache he started getting now starting to come full force.
Kiba only growled and sat himself back down in his seat, crossing his arms. The thought of asking the brat himself was a good idea.
"I wonder who the kid is." A dark haired boy, known as Sasuke Uchiha, who's also the most popular boy in school, mumbled out loud as he stared out the window in boredom. He had wanted to try and graduate a few years ago, but his father wouldn't let him graduate so early. Him wanting Sasuke to at least have some form of child hood before he's forced to become an adult in a blink of an eye. And for once, he was met with an agreeable mother who said the exact same thing. At least Itachi was Jounin … he wondered if he'd get his brother as his sensei.
After a few minutes of quiet chatter amongst the students, there was a knock on the door, which quieted down the room once again, all the gennin wondering who the Hokage would have picked to be the fill in for the extra spot as Iruka-sensei went to open the door.
"Oh, Lord Hokage, nice of you to join us." Iruka-sensei said happily as he opened the door and stepped back towards his podium where his list of teams sat as the Hokage walked in.
"It's great to be here Iruka." Hiruzen smiled, half making sure that Naruto stayed close to him until they were in the room with the door closed.
What shocked the students, was that the kid behind the Hokage was short, a couple inches shorter than he should be, with wild blonde hair that looked like it was just cut, a menacing grin on his face … and wore a straight jacket that had sleeves reaching down past his knees and was wearing a pair of black crop pants. What was strange about the jacket, was that it was orange with black markings all over it. And the fact that the child had no shoes on was weird. Even when they noticed he wore a huge flask buckled around his waist that looked like it was full of water. But, they didn't realize he was wearing two of them until he turned around to close the door.
When the class went to look at Iruka-sensei, they blinked at the now obviously terrified teacher, who was staring at the child with nothing but wide, fear filled eyes and backed against the furthest wall in the classroom. 'How could a child scare a teacher like Iruka-sensei?' was the thought that filled each students' minds.
Hiruzen, who noticed Iruka's actions, turned to face the young man with a raised hand.
"He's promised to behave, I assure you Iruka." Hiruzen said firmly.
"A-Are you s-sure, Hokage-s-sama?" Iruka-sensei asked, stuttering here and there -which shocked the students even more, because the man never stuttered in his life.
"I promise you, you have nothing to worry about at all." Hiruzen smiled. "Isn't that right Naruto? … Naruto?"
Hiruzen had turned around to see why the boy wasn't answering him, only to see the child had moved, and in a slight panic, he turned only to see the boy crouched down on a table in front of the youngest Uchiha, his face mere inches away from touching each other. And this shocked not only Iruka and the Hokage, but the entire class as well.
When Sasuke got over his initial shock over how fast the boy ended up in front of him, he scowled. "What are you looking at dobe?"
"Hey, why is your hair cut like a chickens' ass?" Naruto asked, and this question sent the student body into fits of laughter, save for Sasuke and a few of his fan girls.
But when Sasuke went to reach and grab the blonde boy's hair to bash his head into the table, the child was already gone and back behind the Hokage, giggling at the fact that what he said made everyone laugh.
"Naruto, I thought we agreed you'd behave?" Hiruzen sighed, pinching the bridge of his nose as his own headache was forming.
"No, you said I couldn't kill, maim, maul, physically, emotionally or mentally damage clients, villagers, teachers, classmates, teammates and ninja of the leaf." Naruto giggled, and the entire class stopped laughing. Was this kid serious?
"Just get on with your introduction Naruto so we can get a move on." Hiruzen sighed.
"Whatever jiji." Naruto scoffed with a giggle and moved to stand in the front of the class.
"Alright … my name's Naruto Uzumaki and I'm twelve years old. I like ramen and taijutsu, and if there's anything I hate, you'll know what it is because I'll kill it in a heart beat because anything that I hate never lasts …" Naruto said, giggling at the end at the shocked faces of his current class mates. "As for goals, don't have any. Dreams … never had one because they're all nightmares … as a matter of fact, I actually don't have a will to live."
By the time Naruto was done with his introduction, he was laughing so hard he fell to the floor holding his sides, and it took a few minutes for even Hiruzen to calm him down.
"Okay, that's enough Naruto, let Iruka-sensei put everyone in their teams." Hiruzen said, which caught Naruto's attention and he giggled a few times as he sat up, sitting on the floor where he fell and decided to stay there.
"Alright … well … team 1 will be comprised of …" Iruka-sensei started naming off teams, which took several minutes because some of the students cheered when they were teamed with some people they were friends with.
"Okay, team seven will be Sakura Haruno, Sasuke Uchiha … and Naruto Uzumaki." And with this, Iruka-sensei sweat dropped. "Your sensei will be Kakashi Hatake."
"Just keep going Iruka." Hiruzen said over Naruto's giggling, but then they suddenly stopped, and the Hokage's face paled … Naruto never stopped giggling unless he was to talk clearly.
"You said Uchiha?" Naruto asked.
"Yes, he did …" Hiruzen said, and sighed heavily when Naruto nodded and continued to stay where he was, picking at the hem of one of his sleeves to the jacket he refused to take off when the seals were released.
"Okay … um, team 8 will be Hinata Hyuuga, Kiba Inuzuka and Shino Aburame with Kurenai Yuuhi as your sensei." Iruka said to finish up the teams. "And since team nine is still in commission, team ten will be Ino Yamanaka, Shikamaru Nara and Chouji Akimichi with Asuma Sarutobi as their sensei."
"Alright, now that you've been assigned your teams, your sensei will be here momentarily to collect you." Iruka-sensei sighed heavily and left with the Hokage, leaving the blonde child in the room filled with students.
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"Kakashi, I know you know why I called you down here." Hiruzen said from behind his desk where he just sat down when Kakashi walked into the room.
"You assigned me a team … with Naruto." Kakashi said, the depression evident in his voice. "Along with a civilian's named Sakura Haruno and the youngest Uchiha, Sasuke."
"That is correct." Hiruzen nodded, blowing out a puff of smoke that he inhaled from his pipe. This was a long morning, and it was going to seem longer.
"Is it because I trained with Naruto that you put me as his sensei, and that I have the patience to train the civilian child, Haruno to make her a strong kunoichi and that I can also teach Sasuke because I have the sharingan. But, you could have put him on a team with his brother." Kakashi explained, rubbing the back of his head a bit as he shuffled on his feet. He was a little wary of being Naruto's teacher after he learned what he's done to the recent male doctors that talked to him. He had a feeling that Naruto might attack him if they came face to face. Which is why the silver haired Jounin never visited Naruto while he was in the institution.
"That is also correct, and to put to light on that last bit, Itachi was the one that requested he be under your tutelage, not his." Hiruzen explained. "Because, Itachi feels that he needs to learn from someone other than the family, and that maybe some time away from family will help him grow a bit more."
"I see, well, I'll most definitely take the job. And Naruto's made his promise to a T?" Kakashi nodded.
"Yes, and he always keeps his word." Hiruzen nodded with him. "Well, can't stay too long, he already went through most of the library by the time I left him there."
"He can read that fast? And retain that much information at once?" Kakashi asked, shocked that Naruto could learn so much so quickly.
"Yes, I know, but I think the Kyuubi has something to do with it. Oh, and one more thing … never read that book in front of him. He'll castrate you on the spot if he sees even a peek of it. He's already burned every copy the library holds and yelled at the librarian for having it on the shelves in the first place." Hiruzen warned, and Kakashi sweat dropped.
"I'll keep that in mind sir." Kakashi laughed lightly and disappeared to go drop the books he had on his person at home before meeting with his team.
"Oh … I forgot to tell him that Naruto doesn't like it when he's kept waiting past half an hour." Hiruzen said, then chuckled as he left to go make sure Naruto was entertained long enough for another hour before he had to take the boy to the academy.
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The whole classroom was silent, all of them staring at the blue eyed boy as he grinned up at the student body, giggling to himself once in a while until his eyes locked with the onyx colored eyes of the Sasuke Uchiha.
He was about to say something, when someone slammed their hands against the table before shooting up to his feet, catching the blue eyed boys' attention while the kid walked down the stairs to the front of the class. Naruto recognized him … if he remembered correctly, it's Kiba Inuzuka of the Inuzuka clan. Hiruzen had made sure Naruto knew who each and everyone in the class was before coming here.
"Alright, what gives you the right to become a ninja without going through the academy and exam like the rest of us? Huh? Are you too good for us or something? Hell, you don't even look like much since you're so small and scrawny." The dog boy said loudly when he stood a good three yards away from the blonde, which said voice was giving Naruto a headache. "Fuck, I doubt you even know what a jutsu is."
"What's a jutsu?" Naruto asked, the grin still on his face, but he knew he was pulling the boys' leash a bit when he said those words. He didn't read the whole library of Konoha in two days and not learn nothing. "Oh, that's right, a jutsu is something that combines physical energy and chakra to perform, Doton, fuuton, suiton, raiton, Katon, hyoton, futton, youton and a few others, though … I don't need jutsu." He added with a wider, more malicious grin than earlier, which sent a shiver down some of the kids' spines.
"Are you kidding me? You had to have read that from a scroll or a book!" Kiba said louder.
"I did." Naruto answered simply, which caused the dog boy to laugh.
"God, a kid who wants to become a ninja … that can't even perform one jutsu, let alone know one without repeating word for word from a scroll!" Kiba laughed, which caused the rest of the class to start laughing with him as Naruto slowly stood up from where he sat. "Where in the hell have you been these last five years huh?"
"In a mental institution for dangerously broken and insane ninja." Naruto answered in a whisper, the grin spreading wider, which caused the room to suddenly become quiet. Was this kid for real?
"Are you … for real?" Kiba asked, not noticing the killing intent radiating off the blonde becoming stronger, hell, he didn't even notice that Akamaru jumped down from his hood and ran up to Hinata to hide in her jacket, causing the girl to squeal in shock.
"Nope, and … Kiba is it? Do you know that your dog peed in your hood?" Naruto said, then burst out laughing. "I know! Your nickname is dog piss, just like chicken ass and pinkie over there!"
Kiba growled loudly at the insult Naruto sent his way, which was joined in by a glare from Sasuke and a yell from Sakura.
"What the hell! No one insults me! I'm going to fucking kill you for that!" Kiba yelled, and charged towards Naruto, who just stood there for a moment before opening both of the water jugs from his waist.
The next moment happened so fast, that they actually don't even know what happened, but they did see that Kiba and the blonde himself was frozen in a torrent of water coming from the jugs on the blonde's waist.
Next, they saw air bubbles coming from the blonde's nose as he suddenly was surrounded with them as he reached somewhere and pulled out a rope, then the air bubbles surrounded the Inuzuka boy while Naruto tied the dog boys' arms behind him.
Next, the water thawed and Kiba fell face first to the ground as Naruto moved his arms in a familiar pattern as the water returned to the jugs. And before Kiba could get back up, Naruto slammed a foot onto the dog boy's head, keeping him down as he bent down a bit to speak to him.
"I have killed people for attacking me, consider yourself lucky because I promised jiji that I wouldn't kill any of you." Naruto said, though loud enough for the whole room to hear before he kicked the dog boy back up into the air, then turned and did a round house kick on the dog boy, sending him back to his seat before Naruto sat back down on the floor.
As Naruto got comfortable on the floor, now sitting on his head, completely balanced and staring at the student body before him, while the dog boy's teammates were untying the unconscious piece of shit -in Naruto's words- the Uchiha boy suddenly stood up and walked over to the blonde.
"You said your name was Naruto Uzumaki … right?" Sasuke asked while Naruto flipped to sitting correctly on the floor.
"Yes, and?" Naruto nodded, then tilted his head to the side in wonder at what the raven boy wanted.
"My father … Fugaku, said that if I ever were to meet you … to say that we're all sorry for what Tsubaki has done to you … and to add on with my own words, I thank you for making my father see reason to the ways he was raising the three of us. We aren't forced to become something we're not anymore so we now can go our own pace. I thank you for that." Sasuke said, and the entire room was in shock. Sasuke … Uchiha … said thank you and sorry!
"Don't worry about it, I made amends with your father years ago, and I'm not mad at your sister either, she wasn't herself when it happened." Naruto said with the second genuine smile he had on his face that day. "I hold no grudges against you, your sister, or your family."
Just then, the door to the classroom opened and a couple teachers walked into the room. Team 10 left with a tall man with black hair and beard, Naruto took joy in ripping the man a new one for smoking. An average sized woman with curly black hair and red eyes who took team 8, and the rest of the teams had left, save for team 7 … who were still waiting for their teacher. That is, until Naruto stood up and walked to the wall behind Iruka-sensei's desk half an hour later, placing a hand on the said wall before punching through it and ripping a couple boards off to reveal a silver haired man wearing a mask, in Jounin uniform and his hitaiate covering his left eye.
"Kaka-sensei, you going to keep us waiting or what?" Naruto asked with a grin, making the silver haired man sweat drop and climb out of the hole in the wall that Naruto made.
"How did you find me anyway, Naruto?" Kakashi asked once he was inside the room and fixed the hole in the wall so Iruka wouldn't have a cow.
"Kyuu is having me train chakra control by steadily sending out pulses of chakra into the ground. By doing this, it acts like echolocation that bats and dolphins and whales use. I wasn't able to do this training in the institution because of the chakra restraints, but now that they're off, I can do this training as long as I want." Naruto explained with a wide grin on his face, causing his teammates Sakura and Sasuke to look at him like he was nuts.
"Alright, take a breath Naruto, lets all meet up on the roof and talk there." Kakashi said, both hands up in defense against the hyper Naruto and the four of them went up to the roof of the school, Kakashi leaning against the railing while Naruto, Sasuke and Sakura sat on the set of stairs.
The four of them sat there, quiet, save for a few giggles here and there from Naruto, but it was relatively quiet, until Sakura spoke up.
"So … what are we supposed to do now that we're up here sensei?" She asked, and Naruto became quiet.
"Well, how about we introduce ourselves first? I'll go." Kakashi said before clearing his throat a bit. "My name is Kakashi Hatake and I have many hobbies, I like to read, but that irrelevant, I don't hate anything but I do have many things I dislike … as for goals, I don't really have any."
"Just great … all we learned was his name and that he likes to read." Sakura thought as she whined loudly, and was about to say something until she heard a loud screech coming from her left.
Everyone turned to see that Naruto had pulled out a violin and was tuning it badly, according to them, until he was done tuning and took something out of his pouch from somewhere and started rubbing something onto the bow's string.
"Move along, ignore me." Naruto said, his concentration on the violin at the present time and Kakashi was just glad that it wasn't anything serious.
"Alright, I'll go." The pinkette said as she cleared her throat. "My name's Sakura Haruno. I come from a civilian family that runs a tea shop. I became a ninja to show that even civilians can become ninja just like anyone that comes from a ninja clan. I like …" She started saying until she looked over at Sasuke and squealed loudly. "I hate Ino-pig." She added angrily. "And as a dream, I'd like to …" She squealed loudly again. "And hopefully become a medical ninja just like the great Tsunade Senju!"
"Sakura … squeal like that again and I will rip your vocal chords out … and that's a promise." Naruto warned, which made the young girl quickly squirm away from her teammate that was sitting between her and Sasuke.
"I promise not to do that again!" She said in a small bow.
"Thank you." Naruto said, still rubbing something onto the string of the bow and Sasuke took it as his turn.
"My name's Sasuke Uchiha, I'm twelve years old and I like training, learning jutsu and reading. My strengths are Katon jutsu's as well as Raiton jutsu's. I hate sweets and my goal is to become an ANBU captain before I hit eighteen." Sasuke said, which earned a scoff from Naruto. "Do you have a problem pal?"
"Yes, and it's because you do not have what it takes to become ANBU captain!" Naruto said before laughing. "You do not have what it takes to have the burden of guarding fellow ninja, the Hokage and civilians from attacks nor are you capable of abandoning all your emotions. I swear, if you wanted to become an ANBU captain, you should have gone and done training under Danzo instead of the academy."
"Naruto, that's enough." Kakashi said, and Naruto quieted down after some chuckles here and there.
"My turn? Okay, I'm Naruto Uzumaki, twelve years old … I specialize in taijutsu as well as chakra element manipulation. I have a bloodline limit that's just that; Chakra no Yousa Sousa, which allows me to control any element I desire as long as I have the chakra to do so. I plan on learning fuuin techniques here in the future as well as become ANBU captain … because the only emotion I truly have is what I chose to show everyone. But, other than that, I have absolutely no will to live so I have no life long ambitions. Oh, and as for reading, I read the entire library of Konoha in two days." Naruto said, giggling at the end before he started playing the violin, which despite having his hands covered, sounded truly beautiful.
"Where did you learn to play?" Sakura asked after a few minutes of hearing the blonde boy play the depressing tune.
"Yesterday." Naruto answered, and all three members of his team face palmed.
"You can't be serious, really, yesterday Naruto?" Kakashi asked, incredulously shocked and Sakura and Sasuke couldn't even get the words out of their mouth.
"I learn fast." Naruto answered with a shrug, then suddenly stopped playing and put his violin away under his jacket. "Hey, we done? I need to ask jiji something."
"Sure, we're done here, meet at training ground seven tomorrow morning at six. Oh, and don't eat breakfast, you wouldn't want to puke." Kakashi said, then disappeared in a cloud of smoke.
"Don't listen to him, he's trying to put things inside your head. Eat breakfast like you normally would and meet at the grounds half past, because he'll be late anyway and I'll be dragging his ass there around then." Naruto said before he walked over to the railing and hopped over like it was nothing, causing his teammates to scream in panic, only to look over the edge when they get there to see that he's already gone.
"Sasuke … I think we're in over our heads with this teammate." Sakura sighed.
"I think you're right, I'm going to go on home and talk with Itachi, if he's home at all. And maybe get some answers from my father." Sasuke said as he waved good bye before walking down the stairs like a human being, following Sakura a moment later who decided to stop by Ino's flower shop to get her Mom a bouquet of daisies for the tea shop.
