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Disclaimer: I don't own any of the characters here that belong to Naruto that I put into this story except for my own OCs. Neither do I own any of the character in any of the crossovers I do. I'm just using them in this fanfiction and I have no money so don't bother suing me. You'll just lose money instead of gaining any. And remember to leave a review!

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Heading for Konoha –

The bridge linking the island of Nami no Kuni to the main land was finally completed within a week's time. With Gatou and most of his men dead, the villages were no longer had any reason to be afraid anymore. The entire village gathered to see off the ones who made everything possible for their village to be freed.

"I can't even begin to tell you how grateful we all are. Or how we can ever repay you for all you have done for us," Tazuna said to Niamh as she starts up her bike to the amazement of the villagers.

"You really should thank Naruto for befriending me when we first met. If he hadn't opened himself up to me like he did I would have never gone with you guys here," Niamh said as she pats a large trunk in the back of the cart attach behind her bike. "And don't worry about repaying me, Gatou already did that."

"With the money you took from his base we'll be able to rebuild our village," Tazuna said as Niamh had brought back from Gatou's base before she destroyed it, all of the money she could find that belonged to him. Not to mention the trade goods she took as well and the cargo ship she use to transport all of the stolen goods back to Nami no Kuni.

"That's the reason why you hired me. I do my job I'm hired for and if I can throw in a bit extra, I'll do so for no extra charge," Niamh smiles.

"What are you trying to do drive us out of business?" Kakashi ask as he and his team approaches their ride back to their village.

"Some competition in prices helps keeps the price down for the clients," Niamh said. "Like those books you keep on reading pervert. If there's only one place where you can get it then the owner of the store will be able to charge whatever they want for the books."

"How long are you going to call me pervert?" Kakashi ask as he's getting tried of being called that.

"When you stop reading that book of yours," Niamh replies.

"She has a point there," Sakura said as she moves next to the bike as she's going to be ridding in the front like last time.

"Hey why does Sakura get to ride in the front?" Naruto ask as he wants to be riding in the back of the bike since Niamh wouldn't let him try ridding her bike.

"Because I don't want arms of a guy's arms around me when I'm driving or his body pressing onto my back," Niamh said.

"Why are you coming with us? I thought that once this job was done you would be taking the first ship back to your homeland," Sasuke ask.

"Well I still haven't finished training Naruto in all of my fighting skills yet. I'm not about to leave a job half done so I'm going with you guys," Niamh said as she doesn't want them to know that she has nowhere else to go in this new world she found herself in. "I'll just set up camp outside your village and Naruto you can walk over for your training with me."

"Thank Niamh," Naruto said as he would have really missed Niamh if she would have just left him now. He would still have the gun she gave him but still it wouldn't replace her.

"Well since you're going to be staying around for awhile how about you stay inside our village," Kakashi suggested.

"That's an interesting offer, but won't you have a problem bringing in a stranger without documents into your hidden village?" Niamh ask.

"Even though it's called a hidden village, it isn't as reclusive as it sounds. Merchants enter and exit the village all the time. And documents can be easily created. I'm sure it won't be too hard to make a document for you in Wave. The people feel like they owed you something, after getting them rid of Gatou and saving the village," Kakashi said.

"You mean I can come and go as I please?" Niamh asked skeptically. The security of the mercenary guild sounded…lax. But if she knows anything about military types that are that serious like she has the feeling she gets around those types as she's getting from the pervert. They have something up their sleeves.

"Well, perhaps not as you please. We have to check everything over. If you want to stay in Konoha for a longer time, you can go as a freelance trainer for the academy or perhaps installed as our ninja," Kakashi added the last part suggestively, causing Niamh to snort.

"I can see your poor, sad attempt of a recruitment drive pervert though you don't really bother of concealing it, right? Having me who knows how to maintain the advance weapons that I have with me joining the ranks of your village, I'm betting that when someone as strong as me joins your ninja force it will give you guys a huge power boost to the other ninja villages," the silver haired ninja smiled underneath his mask. "Thanks for the offer, but I don't think I want to be a ninja, much less making an allegiance to a hidden village that I don't even know. I don't want to be bound by anything here besides Naruto who's going to be my student."

"I am!" Naruto shouted happy to hear this.

"Why does the dupe the only one that gets special training?" Sasuke ask as he doesn't like the fact that Naruto was the one who save them on the bridge.

"As long as you are as you are now there's no way that I'm going to train someone like you," Niamh answers.

"He's not that bad," Sakura defended Sasuke. But backed down when she saw the look Niamh is giving her.

"There's no way that I'm going to train him as long as he's like this. And there's no way that I'm going to let Naruto continue to have this pervert as your teacher while I'm around," the female soldier said to her student. "He might turn out like his pervert of a teacher. Reading dirty books all the time because he can't get anything close to a real woman, in any other way."

"Will you stop calling me a pervert already!" Kakashi growls in irritations. "And also I have been women before!"

"Paid women don't count remember and let me guess you don't even have a girlfriend back in the village do you," Niamh ask but didn't want to hear his answer. "No wonder being a pervert like that."

"How about I ride with you and we can get to know each other on the ride back to here," Kakashi ask as he places a hand on her shoulder.

Niamh looks flatly at him. Kakashi blinks as he suddenly found himself tied up by several feet of rope and stuff in the back of the cart. Feeling around as best as he could he found all of his equipment gone from his hidden pockets in his clothes, not that he could grab anything as bags are tied on his hands like how kids sometimes tie paper bags on a cat's feet.

"How did you do that?" Sakura ask as one second Kakashi was standing by Niamh and the next he's tied up in the back of the cart.

"My codename isn't Blink for nothing you know," Niamh said as she had used her new found powers to get rid of the pervert before he gets any ideas.

"Can you teach me to do that?" Naruto ask wanting to be able to do that.

"I don't know if I can," Niamh said. "It's something that you have to have to be able to use it."

"Like a bloodlimit?" Sakura ask.

"I guess you can call it that," Niamh said as she remembers what she learned about bloodlimits in this world.

"Is there any body that you know who has the same ability as you do?" Sasuke ask as he wants to learn anything that will help him in killing his brother.

"Well there is a fellow female soldier I heard about codenamed, Dominique the Cyclops. (1) She has this eye with strange powers known as the 'Demon's Eye'. Her left eye needs to be cover with an eye patch to control its power and the eye causes hypnosis and sensory paralysis in her foes, inducing a trance that makes her movements appears to be light-speed," Niamh said remembering she has to make sure people believe her story of being from lands beyond the sea. "She's been known to kill an entire enemy unit before they have the chance of pulling out their weapons."

"Interesting how there's a lot of powerful people where you come from," Kakashi said as he wants to learn everything he can about her so he can report it to the Hokage when they get back to the village. "Is that how you're able to move around without anyone seeing you?"

Niamh looks at him and suddenly she held a small live fish in her hand by its tail. "You be quiet or else."

"Or what? What are you going to do with that fish? Make me lunch?" Kakashi ask remaining calm as he could be. The knots she uses are very strong and well done.

She gave him a smug smile as she pulls on the front of his pants and stuffs the fish into his pants. The silver haired ninja started to struggle to free himself as the fish wiggled about in his pants. Everyone started laughing as they watch him wiggle around as a fish is doing the same thing in his pants.

"Well come on we're burning daylight," Niamh said as she hops on her bike. The three young Leaf ninjas got on board, Sakura behind Niamh and the two boys with their teacher.

"I hope to see you guys one day," Tazuna said.

Naruto smiled and said, "Now, now, old man, we'll visit you again one day."

Inari responded, "Promise?" As he been looking up at him ever since he saved him and his mom that day.

Naruto smiled, "Inari… You're going to get lonely, aren't you? You can cry, you know. Cry…"

Inari interrupted, "I'm not going to cry! You can cry, too, Naruto."

"Is that so…" Naruto said. He quickly turned around sitting in the cart, "See you later!" he responded as he began to cry.

"Now that's what I like to see a boy who isn't afired to cry," Niamh said as she started driving over the bridge. "Boys shouldn't bottle everything up and let it all out at once." (2) As they left, Naruto could hear Tazuna.

"That young man changed Inari's heart, and Inari changed the hearts of the villagers. That young man created a bridge, known as courage, which led to hope," Tazuna said as he began to see why Niamh said to thank Naruto instead of her as without him she would have never would have come with them.

"Bridge, eh? Oh, yeah. We have to name this bridge, too," a villager said.

"I forgot all about naming it with everything that's been happening around here, but I have a perfect name for this bridge," Tazuna said as he began thinking up a name.

"What is it?" the villager responded.

"How about, the Great Naruto Bridge?" Tazuna asked. To which everyone agreed.

Naruto smiled as the group drove over the bridge with Niamh's bike pulling the cart behind it making good speed. "Well, Naruto it looks like this is the beginning of a beautiful friendship."

"I'll like that," Naruto said as she's the first person who has ever gone out of her way to make friends with him.

"That's nice and all but will, SOMEONE GET THIS FISH OUT OF MY PANTS!" Kakashi shouted as the fish wouldn't stop moving.

"I'm not putting my hand down your pants!" Naruto shouted.

"Me neither," Sasuke agrees.

"Don't even bother in asking one of us," Niamh said with Sakura nodding in agreement with her.

"This is going to be a long trip," Kakashi said as the fish continues to wiggle around in his pants.

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Author's Notes

1 – From Trigun one of the Gun-Ho-Guns.

2 – It's okay for men to cry as bottling things up inside will only harm them later in life.

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