TLL Chapter 4

Border of Wind Country

Naruto, Shikamaru and Neji sat around a fire as they ate their food. They talked alot, mostly about Naruto's travels and training sice he was banished.

"So guys whats up with the rest of rookie 9" Naruto asked after briefing them about himself. "Tch Troublesome, me and Neji are jounins. Kazekage-sama's brother Kankuro and sister Temari are also jounin. The rest of rookie 9 are chuunins and are planning to take the jounin exam in 5 months" Shikamaru said.

"NANI" Naruto yelled. Out of all his friends, he was the only one who was still genin. "Dont worry Naruto, ranks don't mean everything. Judging from your chakra alone, you're at least jounin level" Naji said. "Arigato Neji, how about you two sleep while I take the first watch" Naruto said

After what seemed like hours, noticing that both Neji and Shikamaru were fast asleep, Naruto got up and walked through the forest. After finding a clear area, Naruto made his favourite handseal in which over 1000 clones appeared unsheathing their Fox Claw

" Let the training commence" Naruto whispeared as he attacked the clones.

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Next Morning

"So Naruto do you plan to tell us why you never woke us up after your watch" said a clearly upset Neji "Troublesome Neji, I could've gone with a couple of more hours of sleep" Shikamaru said with a yawn, Naruto began laughing at the two, he truly missed being with his friends.

"You see Neji, after my watch I didn't want to wake you up because were going to need all the sleep we could get. So I made a couple of kage bunshin to keep watch." Naruto said

"Naruto is right Neji" Shikamaru said with another yawn

The three of them had been travelling for hours now. They were slowly getting closer to Konoha, only two days away. After two days of constant travelling, they made it to the Fire Country. Not far off the three saw what looked like 20 Anbu.

"Neji" Shikamaru said

"Byakugan" After scanning the area for twenty minutes, Neji told them that they were Danzo's Anbu Root. "Tch Troublesome, what do you guys want to do?" Shikamaru asked.

"We can't fight them, we can't get noticed this far from Konoha" Neji said

"Yeah lets go" Shikamaru said taking off

Right before Naruto took off, he made his favourite handseal as five clones appeared.

"Hey Boss, what do you want us to do?" Before taking off, Naruto turned his back to his clones and whispeared.

"Take care of them" he said beofre vanishing"

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The three of them had to quicken their pace now to get back to Konoha. Even though they were still far away, there were clear signs that battles had occurred.

"Wow, these giys are pretty something eh" Naruto said. " I mean , to have so many shinobi on guarding duty this far from Konoha shows that the main forces are large in number. How the hell did this all happen"

Neji and Shikamaru were silent and agreed with Naruto. " I huess we should tell you from the beginning" Neji said.

FLASHBACK

The Godaime Hokage, Tsunade sat at her usual chair behind her desk doing her paperwork. It was not easy time for the Hokage espcially with Akatsuki on the movi with their global takeover and also not knowing anything about Naruto's whereabouts or location. She was taken out of her thoughts when someone knocked at her door.

"Enter"

Shizune entered the room with a letter in her hadn. " Tsunade-sama this is a letter from Kazekage-sama" she said

After reading the letter several times, Tsunade times, Tsunde asked Shizune to call Rookie 9 and Team Gai for an important meeting. Twenty minutes later, everyone had gathered including their senseis.

" I have called you all here because I received news from Gaara about the war, I will be leaving tommorw for Suna for an important meeting with him" Tsunade said.

Everyone was shocked, the Hokage was leaving her village at the time of war. "Kakashi you'll be in charge while I am gone. Asuma and Gai, you'll be in charge of defending Konoha."

"Hai"

Tsunade continued " My guards will be Sakura, Kurenai, Hinata, Neji, Shikamaru and Lee". The rest of you will follow Kakashi".

"Hai"

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Next Morning

The rest of Rookie 9 stood watching as the Hokage and her guards were leaving. Before leaving, Tsunade turned to Kakashi " Kakashi you are in charge of Konoha, watch out for Danzo and please don't fail me". She said

"Hai, Tsunade-sama"

Ok lets go everyone

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It took two full days for Tsunade and her delegation to arrive at Suna. After they arrived, everyone was dismissed as the two kages had there meeting. From what Tsunade got from Gaara's files were the identities of seven akatsuki members along with their general skills while the other three members were a complete mystery. They also discussed a bit about akatsuki's involvement in Ame which they had no idea about. At the end of her meeting, Tsunade went back to her hotel to meet the rest of her group.

After they meet, they all agreed to spend the evening enjoying Suna before heading back to Konoha two days later. The next day ealy morning, Tsunade woke up beofre everyone else. After breakfast she went to a mini bar for some sake. After the waiter gave her the bottle as she reached for it the bottle shattered.

"Tch something isn't right, damn my luck"cursed Tsunade as she ran back to the hotel to find Gaara waiting in the room full of people

"Tsunade this message was sent from Kakash"

Tsunade-sama,

Danzo is trying to take over! The defense can only hold so much without you.

Please return back to Konoha as soon as possible. Without you the Hokage Tower is only safe for a couple of days

Acting Hokage

Hatake Kakashi

"Everyone, we are leaving NOW" Tsunade yelled as she began to pack her bags. "We will leave Suna via summons, whoever doesn't have summons will hop on to Katsyu.

LETS GO

HAI

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Sorry for not updating

Flashback will continue in the next chapter