Hello again good reader! How are you doing? School has started, so I have more time to think and write, (don't ask) so chapters should be slightly more often now. Fun eh?
Anyway, here is the next chapter of my epic story, MWHAHAHAHAHA!
Disclaimer: I don't own anything except my ideas, so in short he storyline, and the few weird ass concepts I threw in.
Reunion
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Kakashi walked up to the Hokage's office, looking up from his book to nod at the two guards. He gave himself a once over before knocking "Come in Kakashi, you're late already." Kakashi put away his book, and walked in. Tsunade was sitting at her desk and a representative from the council was seated to her left. "Sit down Kakashi." He did so.
"Now Kakashi, do you have any idea why we have called you here tonight?" Kakashi looked upward to think. "Let's see, could she have found out about that, nah, I covered my tracks, and that monk wouldn't have said anything, so probably just a mission."
"I have no idea Hokage-sama, would you please inform me?" Tsunade reached across her desk and handed a form to Kakashi. He picked it up, and glanced over it. He got to the end before looking up. "You want me to lead another group? I thought I screwed up the last one I led. Or is this an exercise to know where the next traitor is coming from?" Tsunade smacked her head, before telling him to reread it, fully this time.
"Ok, um let's see, lead group, yatta yatta yatta, commander of equals, blah blah blah, Sakura and Na… what? I'm getting back Sakura? That is odd you'd think that wouldn't work without Naruto or Saus…" Kakashi finished reading the sentence he had stopped on. "Sakura and Naruto… Well that explains it. So when do I start?"
Tsunade looked at him with surprise; the council representative took her chance and interrupted the conversation. "So you knew he was coming back! You helped him in didn't you? Admit it!" Kakashi looked up at the representative blankly, and then spoke.
"Well, with the exception of Sakura and Sauske, the only ninja who got a good look at Haku or Zabuza at our fight, whom I encountered clones of, was Naruto. That is of course ignoring the fact that only someone like him would be able to use that many clones in the first place. Anyway, shouldn't a ninja not show any emotions?" The council rep. sat down, glaring at Kakashi as she scribbled notes. "So… as said, when do I start?"
"We are announcing Naruto's return tomorrow, so you can start with them the day after. When should I tell them to be ready?"
"Tell them at eight o'clock in the morning." Kakashi grinned under his mask, time for the bell test to make its return. His ear twitched, he thought for a second he could hear something outside.
"Ok, and remember, tell no one…" It was at that point that Hyuga Hiashi burst into the room.
"Hokage-sama! I need to have a word with you!" He was breathless, breathing fast, flustered, and pissed. "That monster you have let back into the village has already caused problems!" Tsunade sighed.
"You know, I didn't expect this from you Hiashi, maybe one of the other council members, but not you. Hell, you even voted him back into the village." Tsunade glared at him. "But I won't let you pin some trumped up charge on him just because of what is in his stomach." The Hyuga clan leader was now shaking, his face red.
"Nothing is trumped up! I have very good reason to believe he has stolen information of the highest importance from my clan!"
"Really? Already? How'd he do that exactly? Did he just so happen to find a scroll titled "The Hyuga Clan for Dummies lying around?"
"No! I think he might know just what our clan has been protecting for generations now! The secret!"
Tsunade, now interested, sat up. "Secret?"
"Our eyes damn it, our eyes."
Tsunade was taken aback. The secret to the Hyuga clan's special eyes was kept secret from all outsiders, even her. It was said it was handed down from leader to leader, so how had Naruto got it? "Do you have proof of this?"
"YES! He mentioned something that relates to it to one of the branch house, who then asked me. I immediately saw what it was, and came here! We must get rid of him!" The council rep. was smiling, and giggled with glee as she wrote down the story.
"Well how do you know it was about your eyes, maybe it was just a question, can you repeat it?" Tsunade asked, now gesturing to an empty seat.
"Of course not! And give a hint to every ninja who is envious of us? We can't let him repeat it at all!" Hiashi refused the seat, still standing, and still furious.
"Well in that case, you can't do anything." The people in the room all looked toward Kakashi. "You can't evict a ninja without a court order or a council degree. Being as he was let in, I assume that most of the council likes him where he is, in this village. And without giving the real evidence, you can't possibly win a fair trial. No "directly connected to this" crap is going to work." Kakashi, seeing the look in Hiashi's eyes, decided to stop talking.
"He is right Hiashi, so if you want him out convince the Council at our next meeting, of give up the information to the courts. We can't do anything else." Tsunade's outside appearance was the same as normal, slightly considerate even, but on the inside she was all smiles.
Hiashi glared at both Kakashi and Tsunade, and left the room. "This isn't the end of this!" He shouted. Kakashi shrugged, and looked back at Tsunade.
"May I go now?"
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It had been a day since the announcement, and Sakura was still shocked.
Naruto was back.
The news was given first to the ANBU, who then went around town delivering the information to the ninja teams in town and to the various authorities and stores. This had been done at nine in the morning. By ten, over one hundred people had crowded the Hokage's office to complain, all over the same thing.
Naruto was back.
After an hour of listening to them bitch, Tsunade had announced to the crowd that unless if they had a real complaint, she would personally remove them. They were still shouting out that he was an evil being as she threw them out windows and through walls. She hadn't seen her do that since before He had left. But it didn't matter.
Naruto was back.
And now she was leaning against the log Naruto had been tied to during their test, waiting for him to arrive with Kakashi.
Yes, Kakashi was there before he was.
"Are you sure he is coming?" Sakura asked, looking up toward the lazy ninja perched in a tree on the other side of the field. "It's been thirty minutes since he should have been here."
"Well since he knows me, he might not be coming yet." Kakashi sighed, sometimes his tardiness was problematic. "How about we start and then he can go at it by himself?" Kakashi blushed after hearing that, no matter how innocent his intentions were, that sounded wrong.
"Sure, why not?" Sakura stood up and put her gloves on. "Time to show you I'm not the little girl that needs protection anymore."
Kakashi jumped down from his branch, put his book away and lifted his headband. "Ready when you are."
And so an epic battle began.
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Sakura and Kakashi were facing each other, panting, sweat coming down their foreheads. Both were covered in mild scratches and cuts, and Kakashi had a bandaged gash running up his lower left arm. Sakura smiled, she had worn him out, and it was time to finish him. She ran forward, drawing two kunai as the distance between them lowered.
Kakashi jumped backwards, taking out several shuriken and throwing them at the kodachi. Sakura threw her kunai at her opponent, before slamming her fist into the ground, creating a mighty earthen shield, which she followed up with a spinning kick, sending the chunk hurtling toward her Sensei. Kakashi smirked, before jumping toward the rock. Using it as a spring board, he got into a jumping position, and started to extend his legs.
That was when the explosive tag went off. Kakashi was sent flying toward the smiling Sakura, whose hand leapt forward, grabbing the bell tied to his jacket as he fell. Kakashi, coughing, rose up against a nearby tree.
"Very good, using the rock both as a shield and as prevention for my vision was truly genius." Kakashi continued to catch his breath as Sakura came over and started to heal his wounds. "I'd say that once you finish your training, you'll be able to take on one of the Sanin with little problem."
"Thanks a lot Sensei, but do you think you can take on Naruto in this state?" Kakashi's face contorted into one of sudden understanding.
"Ah crap, let's hope he got the day wrong or something, cause I don't think a solider pill will get me up enough." Just as he said that, an orange blur jumped out of the foliage. "Why speak of the devil, hello Naruto." Had Kakashi been in a better state of might, (AKA not just having gotten he shit beaten out of him) he would have noticed he had once again invoked Murphy's law.
Sakura turned from her healing to see Naruto, standing just ten feet away, grinning broadly at the two of them. "Started without me eh?" Several veins started to pop out of Sakura's head, and she ran up and socked Naruto in the jaw.
"YOU COLOR BLIND PIECE OF BLOND CRAP! YOU VANISH FOR ALL OF THESE YEARS AND THAT IS WHAT YOU SAY!" The noise was so loud that it must have messed up Kakashi's sense of vision, for he was almost sure he has seen another Sakura next to the one in front of him, bitching just as loudly. Naruto was now sprawled on the ground twenty feet away, his arm at an odd angle and his eyes just little spirals. Sakura, realizing what she had just down ran over to him.
"I'm so sorry! Let me get that for you." But before she could reset the bone or heal the wound at all, there was a soft crack and it went back to its normal position. A second after, Naruto jumped up.
"No problem, so how's it going?" Sakura's fist instinctively rose up to hit him again, but she stopped herself.
"How about you debate those things after you" Kakashi pointed to Sakura, "finish healing me, and you," pointing at Naruto, "explain why you are late and finish this test." Sakura blushed, and went over to finish healing Kakashi. Naruto just smiled and began his story.
"Well, you see, it started at 5 this morning when I was attacked in bed by a hoard of electric rodents, which were trying to trap me in a red and white ball or sorts, and then after I evaded those, a weird pink-ish purple floating cat thing came over and poked my nose…
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"…And that is why you should never trust people who are named after colors! Any questions?" Kakashi sighed, and cracked his neck.
"I get the point Naruto, and I am also somewhat tired, so let's make this quick." Kakashi tied a new bell to his jacked, and Naruto nodded. The two faced off, Kakashi slipping into a defensive stance, while Naruto got into a stance very familiar to Kakashi.
"I see that when Hiashi was bitching about you stealing family secrets he wasn't kidding Naruto." Naruto looked at him with alarm. "Who the hell is Hiashi?"
"It is the leader of the shiny eye people nit-wit." The Kyubi answered mentally, causing Naruto to nod in acknowledgment, and slip back into his stance. "I don't know what you are talking about Kakashi, I thought you wanted this to be over with, so shall I start?"
Kakashi nodded. "Let's do this." Naruto ran toward him, his arms blurring into the normal positions for a Hyuga opening strike. Kakashi, familiar with the style, moved his arms into position, intent on keeping Naruto's hands well away form his skin. The four arms met in a flash of flame, as a second before they touched Naruto released bursts of fire from his arms. Kakashi, taken aback took a step back, and the battle continued.
Naruto gracefully, with a small amount of uncertainty, pushed the attack, sending bursts of flame toward Kakashi with each trust, each kick surrounded by fire, each chop filled with heat. Kakashi ended up jumping back into the forest and unto a tree, and started pummeling Naruto with kunai and shuriken. Naruto smirked, and jumped back.
"Catch pirate man!" Naruto threw two throwing knives at Kakashi who, noticing the explosive tags attached threw his own projectiles at them. They exploded, and that is when Naruto's hand shot forward. Kakashi looked puzzled, but didn't have the chance for long.
As soon as Naruto's hands went forward, the flames from the throwing knives, now like long serpents, followed. Kakashi jumped to the side, but Naruto spun his arms, following his moves. Kakashi danced around the flames, as Naruto's arms spun and moved with the flames, sending them around and toward him. Kakashi, seeing that avoiding the attack wouldn't work forever, thought out some possibilities. "Okay, 1, I use a water jutsu, but with the lake so far away I'd have to take off my mask. 2, I attack him directly. 3, I go into the forest and hide, he wouldn't start a forest fire just to hit me." Kakashi, deciding on option 2, jumped forward toward the startled Naruto, who hadn't thought of this.
"Drop those flames and send out new ones! Quick!" The Kyubi roared, and send Naruto out of his trance. Once again sending his armed forward, Naruto shot two small streams of fire from his wrist, as the two serpents of fire dissipated. Kakashi flipped over them, and hit Naruto hard in the chest. Kakashi, now depending on option 3, leapt back into the forest and hid, hoping to recuperate some.
"You brought this on yourself sensei." Naruto formed two clones, which formed a triangle formation, with the real Naruto at the back, holding his hand together to his side. Kakashi looked on in wonder as Naruto formed the Rasengan. Kakashi had never seen Naruto make one, but believed from what he had heard he needed a clone to help.
"Naruto, are you sure you can use that without killed me? I know I said last time that you should attack as if you were going to kill, but I don't have a death wish." In case Naruto wouldn't listen, Kakashi got prepared to use the Chidori.
"Who ever said I'd use that? Naruto smiled as a complete Rasengan now floated an inch above his hand. His two clones each faced each other from about five feat away, their arms in each forming a half orb. Flames spurted out of their hands, crating a constant line of flame in between them. The real Naruto smiled, before rushing forward, Rasengan in hand. "Spiraling Flame Shot!" The orb met the fire, and all hell broke lose.
Now when you release a Rasengan, it forms a mini tornado what goes on for about twenty feet. When you put a large about of fire into it, you get a flaming tornado.
Kakashi's open eye widened as the flames met the forest, and the leaves started to light up, falling to the ground as they burnt to ash. Smoke and flame drawing nearer, Kakashi went back into the forest, using a round about route to get closer to the lake. As he jumped out of hiding he blurred through hand signs. "Water Release, Water Dragon Blast Technique!" A dragon of cold water rose from the depths of the lake and flew forward into the forest, dousing the flame Naruto had made. Looking around, Kakashi couldn't see his opponent. Finally, he saw the boy walk, smiling broadly, into the field. "Ready to finish this Naruto?" "Already did Sensei!" Naruto rose his hand, revealing a bell. "You see, all those flames damaged the string, and then you got it caught on a branch. But I'm sure you would've done better if you hadn't tired yourself out fighting Sakura here." Naruto tossed the bell back to Kakashi, who caught it and threw it back. "Keep it, you deserve it, tired or not, beating me is no easy feat. I'd say that at my full strength, you'd only be a little more powerful than me." Kakashi smiled. "It appears, just as Tsunade thought, that you both are ready to be on Jonin level missions with me. As of now, we are once again Team 7, but now as equals, not as leader and followers." Naruto jumped in the air, yelling out. Sakura just smiled, but her smile receded as she thought of the other member of her team, the one no longer there. Sauske… "Now as for your Chunin exam Naruto, that will be a different problem. But don't worry, we are doing our best to sort it out." Naruto stopped screaming mid jump and mis-landed, falling on his ass. "WHAT! How can't I be a Chunin! I just kicked your ass!" Naruto was now sitting on the ground, finger pointed at Kakashi's head, as if aiming at it. "Yes, hence you are allowed to go on the missions, but until you pass the test, you are still technically a Genin." Kakashi smiled. "Don't worry, I'm sure everything will work out." "Hehe, this is great! You annoyed, me happy, you annoyed, all is great here!" Naruto Screamed and started hitting himself in the forehead. "Don't worry Naruto, it's not like you are the only one who is still Genin." Kakashi said reassuringly. Naruto looked up; a possibility of redemption had appeared. "Actually Kakashi-sensei, he is the only one who is still a Genin. All of the rookie nine and Lee's teams made Chunin since he left." Sakura added from the sidelines. "Ah damnit." -0-0-0-0-Now you got to see the power of Naruto's flames, which should have proved at least entertaining.
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