Hey guys. Sorry About not updating sooner. I've been having some account trouble. I forgot my password to fan-fiction, and my email. I just ended up giving up, but then I found my password on a piece of paper in my closet. So here I am. I will be rewriting the true Rinnegan soon, so be patient. So here it is, chapter three. This is gonna be a long one.

P.S., I need idea's for pairings for Menma. I already have a pairing for Naruto. I won't except suggestions from guest's, since someone can review over and over again. I'm sorry, but that's how it is.

The option's are as followed.

Ino

FemHaku

Tayuya

Karin

Kin

Tenten

Young Tsunade (I have a hilarious idea for this one, so don't dis it yet.)

Young Shizune (I'll just have her be younger. This is a slightly AU story.)

Temari

Harem

P.P.S., Remember that the kids in this story are currently FIVE. In this chapter there is hugging and crying. So just remember that they are very young and are easily scared.

Chapter Three: Friendship

Naruto woke up at about eight in the morning. He didn't sleep very well the night before, since he was constantly having to avoid the mind jutsu's Inoichi was using. Naruto wondered why Inoichi didn't just ask. It's not like Kakashi wasn't going to make him practice with it. They would find out more by asking.

Naruto got out of bed and took a look around. The only people that weren't still asleep were Ino and Kakashi. Naruto knew that Kakashi was going to take a look around the town early in the morning to try and find out about a new movie that was based off his favorite book series, but he didn't know where Ino had gone. He grabbed some breakfast and decided to go look for Ino. She had probably gone to play or look around. That, or she went shopping.

Naruto checked the park, the shopping district, the library, and had no luck. He didn't know what to do. He made his way back to the park, and found Gaara swinging there. Naruto was relieved to see his friend, and decided to pause his search for Ino to play with his friend.

"Hey Gaara! How are you!" Naruto yelled as he ran over to him. Gaara was wearing a red shirt and tan shorts. Naruto was afraid that he might be sad again today. He was really messed up the day before...

Gaara looked up at Naruto. Naruto immediately noticed the grin Gaara wore. "Naruto Kun!" Gaara practically cheered as he saw his friend. "Naruto Kun, thanks to you, some of the kids started playing with me!" Gaara cheered again as he went into detail about how he had made three more friends. They were wary of him at first, but had still gone and played with him. They had played kickball and Gaara had shown them just how cool his sand was. That had led to other kids being his friends.

"That's great Gaara! Too bad I have to leave today." Naruto said sadly. "But I know we'll see each other again." Naruto truly was sad. He had hoped to get some more kids to be his friends so he wouldn't grow up to be a crazy killing machine when he was older.

Gaara had tear's streaming down his cheeks. He ran up and hugged his first friend. "Thank you Naruto. Thank you for being my friend." Gaara said, and then let go of Naruto. Naruto just gave him his sheepish smile. Naruto and Gaara spent the next hour playing. Little did Naruto know, he had sent Gaara down a path that would lead to even more madness, and depression.

After they had played for awhile, Naruto told Gaara he had to leave. Naruto waved goodbye and went to find Ino. He was walking along the wall in front of suna, and looked up to look at the clouds. What he didn't expect to see was Ino on the edge of the wall. She was right on the edge, so Naruto decided to to get her to be more careful. So he did the most stupid thing possible. He yelled at the top of his lungs.

"Ino! What are you doing?" Naruto yelled. Ino was so surprised that she slipped, and fell off the edge. "Ino!" Naruto yelled as he made to catch her. Naruto slid under where she was about to hit the ground, and pumping chakra into his arms to keep from hurting himself, got the falling Ino. "Ino, are you okay?" He asked as she hugged him and started crying. She was shaking and was terrified. He just hugged her back and waited for her to calm down. After about five minutes of crying, Ino passed out in Naruto's arm's. Naruto hoisted her on to his back and started to carry her back to there room. Naruto smiled at the peaceful look on her face, and after about a minute she started to stir.

"What, what happened. Am I dead? The last thing I remembered was a fall and a sudden, soft stop." Ino said, the sleepiness evident in her voice. Naruto looked back and smiled at her. She was cute when she was tired. Naruto would have to tease her about that later. Or maybe he could use it in a prank…, well that didn't matter now. Ino had already fallen back asleep by the time he got back.

When he did get back, the only person still in the room was Shikamaru. He seemed to be playing shōgi by himself. Naruto already knew how good Shikamaru was at shōgi, but he wondered how he would fair against him. At least he would be better then thin air. He hoped.

"What happened to Ino?" Shikamaru said as he moved a black piece. Naruto explained what happened and Shikamaru nodded. "Troublesome blonde. Always ends up getting in trouble. But you shouldn't have yelled. She would have been fine otherwise.

Naruto scratched his head and smiled sheepishly. "Is that shōgi? Can I play?" Naruto asked, remembering a game similar to it that he played with his father, which was obviously used as an intelligence test. He had lost on purpose, but he had thought of five strategies to beat Kakashi on his first ten moves.

"Do you know how to play?" Shikamaru asked. Naruto nodded and sat across from him. He reset his side of the board and for awhile they just played. Shikamaru was surprised at his knowledge. The score was currently 14:15 in Shikamaru's favor. Naruto was winning there current game, but Shikamaru saw through his strategies and had him trapped, but Naruto had lured him in and captured his pieces one by one. Naruto laughed at Shikamaru's shocked expression. "What a drag. What strategy did you use?"

"I didn't use one. I came up with this on the spot. Why?" Naruto asked. Shikamaru just stared at him before sighing and putting away his shōgi set. He had never been evenly matched with someone not using pre-memerized strategies other then someone in his clan. This sure was a shock.

"Why are blondes so troublesome." Shikamaru said. "Your always so unpredictable and annoying. Why do I know so many people who are troublesome. All this talking is trouble some..." And then he went on and on about things that were troublesome, and 'such a drag.'

"What's going on here?" Inoichi said as he walked in through the door. "Playing shōgi I see. How much are you ahead by Shikamaru?" Inoichi asked. He expected Shikamaru to be dominating since he was a prodigy even in his own clan of geniuses.

"None. We tied." Shikamaru said with a frown. Inoichi just gaped. That had to be an impossible result. Were they lying, or had they not even started playing. Yeah, they had to have not played a game yet. That had to be it, right?

"How many games did you play?" Inoichi asked again.

"Hmm, thirty or so." Naruto said with a grin.

To say Inoichi was surprised was an understatement. "Okay. I want you two to do something." He pulled out two pieces of paper full of questions. "Answer these and I will buy you both something in the shopping district." Both boys nodded and Naruto decided he would answer honestly. There wasn't really a need to lie about his intelligence. They started and thirty minutes later, Shikamaru was done. Naruto finished about five seconds after. Inoichi looked over the answers and told them about there IQ's. "Naruto, your average IQ is 397. Shikamaru, yours is 418. The average IQ of a child your age is 100. That is insane!" Inoichi exclaimed. (IQ works like this, the average for any age is 100, because that is like 100%. If your below average, like an 86, that means your 14% below average. If your above average, you might have 136, meaning your 36% above average. So Shikamaru is 318% above average. Also, if a child who was five were to have an IQ of 500, he would be just as smart as a twenty five year old. Look up the average IQ of a five year old and click the top option. It has a way better explanation.)

"Okay, well when can we go shopping? There was something at the market I wanted to get." Naruto said with a smile. He was exited for what he was gonna buy, since it would not only help in the future, but it would also be fun!

"We can get it at Konoha. We have to go soon." Inoichi said. Thinking he wanted to buy a kunai set, or a sword or something like that.

"No, we cant get it in Konoha. We have to get it here." Naruto pouted. Naruto had seen a beginners puppetry kit in one of the stores. He wasn't going to make it into something he used for battle, but he wanted to learn how to use chakra strings. He had always wanted to be able to bind someone with what seemed to be nothing.

"Alright, but your gonna have to leave by yourself. We still need to get ready to leave. How much did this thing cost?" Inoichi asked as he pulled out his wallet. A little afraid about the cost of something that could only be bought in suna.

"I think it was around 20 ryo." Naruto said. (This is how I'm gonna do ryo. I'm gonna say one ryo= 25 cents in US money. So 20 ryo= 5 dollars.)

"Alright, here. Come back soon. There's some stuff that you need to do still." Inoichi said with a smile as he walked over to Ino, who was still asleep. Naruto put the money in his pocket and made his way over to the market. He past many stores selling a variety of things. When he found the stall he was looking for, he saw that there was only one more kit left. He made his way to the stall and grabbed the kit. The only problem he had was a boy with brown hair who grabbed it at the same time.

"Hey! I was here first blondy. Go find your own!" the boy with brown hair yelled. He wore a cat like suit and seemed to be a very sheltered kid. (LOL)

"What are you talking about, I was definitely here before you!" Naruto yelled back. Naruto knew that it was Garra's brother Konkuro. He could tell by the way he spoke. As if everyone was gonna fall at his feet and started bowing to him. Very arrogant.

"Oh yeah, well then how about we settle this!" exclaimed Konkuro. As he pulled his hand off and put it into a fist.

"Yeah, I'll take you on any day!" Naruto yelled as he took a hand off the kit and clenched his hands into a fist. "Rock paper scissors!" They yelled as Naruto put out paper and Konkuro used rock. "Victory is mine!" Naruto yelled. Jumping around and doing a dance.

"Damn, next time I won't lose to you!" Konkuro yelled as he ran off, thinking of how he would destroy that kid the next time he saw him. He already had several plans thought up before he was out of Naruto's sight. Most involving poison and knives.

"Yeah! I win!" Naruto said as he gave the chuckling man the money for the puppet kit. After that Naruto started walking back to the hotel. On his way back he saw a hunched man walking into the desert. Naruto realized after looking at him that it was Sasori. Naruto followed him, trying to find out what he was doing. From what he could tell, the akatsuki hadn't started looking for the Bijuu yet.

Naruto was just about to leave when a scroll fell out of the man's pocket. When he was far enough away from the scroll, Naruto grabbed it and read what was written. "In five days, Sasori is ordered to launch an attack on Takigakure! He got this order four days ago! The attack is today! I need to go tell Kakashi about this." Naruto said as he started running at full speed toward the hotel they were staying out. He shocked people as he ran at incredible speeds. He was actually using a move he learned from Zabuza. Flash step made him move incredibly fast, but it was very taxing on his young body. He was able to move nearly five times as fast, but every ten seconds of it took out about a tenth of his chakra. He quickly reached the hotel he was looking for and threw open the doors.

"Naruto, what is it?" Kakashi asked. Naruto took a second to gain his breath before he handed the scroll over to him. Kakashi read the message and his eyes widened. "Naruto, where did you get this. This is not good. Taki is our ally. We can't lose there village. We need to get back to the village fast! I'll carry Menma and Naruto. Inoichi you carry Ino, and Shikaku you carry Shikamaru. We have to hurry! Let's go." Kakashi said with urgency, as he hoisted his two sons onto his back, while the other two adults did the same.

"If we all use Shunshin in quick burst's, we can get there in an hour. We'll be exhausted, but it's our best course of action." Shikaku said. (Sorry I haven't mentioned Shikaku much. I actually forgot he was here for awhile. 8b)

"I agree. Let's go." Kakashi said as the group started making there way to Konoha. It would take them about two hours to arrive in Konoha if they moved as fast as they could. They wouldn't be walking anymore.

2 Hour's Later

Kakashi Inoichi and Shikaku fell on the ground in front of the hokage. Before the third could ask what had happened, Kakashi handed him the scroll. Opening it, the hokage's eyes widened. "This is horrible. I can see why you rushed here so fast. We need to help out our ally's in Taki. ANBU, I need you to gather up the strongest ANBU and jonin. This is an S class emergency!" Hiruzen yelled.

"Right away Hokage sama." The ANBU said as he Shunshined away. As he did this, ANBU started to force chakra pills down the throat's of the unconscious pair of jonin, much to they hilarity of there children, and Kakashi took his own since he still had some chakra left.

"Hokage sama, may I please go along with my father to Taki?" Naruto asked, hoping to talk to someone he met in the other life. He didn't remember much about her, but he remembered her green hair and orange eyes from a picture he saw before she was turned into an undead puppet. She was a jinjuriki just like him. Now that he thought about it, she was quite beautiful.

"If it's okay with Kakashi, then I don't see why not." The hokage said, the stress evident on his face. This was the first time in awhile that he had been scared about another village's safety. Most villages would turn away help, but Taki wasn't much of a village for fighting.

"If you stay behind the ninja's and watch, I don't care. But don't just charge strait into the fray." Kakashi didn't really want him to go, but he knew that he would come any way. One time he had told him that he couldn't come on a mission with him, and he had snuck into one of the jonin's backbacks.

"Thanks dad!" Naruto yelled. He was exited to see Taki. He hadn't seen it in the last world. There was an attack on Taki in the last life though. The akatsuki had taken some of the hero's water (I think that's what it was called. P.S. forgive me for AU.) and had left the village in ruin's.

An Hour Later

After an hour of preparation, they had about thirty jonin, and fifty ANBU member's. Plus one ecstatic Naruto. Naruto had to explain how he knew how to use Shunshin, to avoid riding on his father's back. He had told his father that he had reverse engineered it, and Kakashi just stared at him for awhile. It was very useful, and would be used several times in this trip.

Everyone was about to leave when Menma ran up to Kakashi and demanded that he be able to come. Kakashi tried to tell him no, but then he used the 'puppy eyes no jutsu,' a jutsu taught to him by Naruto. Naruto had always used it on the hokage, and it eventually been classed as a C rank genjutsu. Most would think it wouldn't work on anyone, but only the hokage knew it was a genjutsu. So…

"Fine, you can come to." Kakashi sighed. He further sighed when some ANBU whispered about how he was 'whipped' by his kids.

Later

Naruto was having trouble with this trip. Not because he was falling behind, but because only the best black op member's were able to keep up with him. He just had so much stamina. Naruto had even decided to try a new jutsu that would slow him down. He got it from a peek at the scroll of forbidden jutsu. It was called 'Gravity Seal,' and apparently it was invented by Jiraiya as a replacement for training weights. Naruto went through the twenty hand signs and activated it to times two gravity. He immediately had to pump chakra into his legs just to stay standing. He quickly started to fall behind some of the ANBU before he pumped more chakra into his legs. No wonder it said that it would help with both physical growth, and chakra growth. Naruto stayed on pace again and managed to stay up in front.

By the time they started to get close to the village, they could already see the clouds of smoke in the sky. They could also see several figures in the sky. 'Puppetry? So we are fighting Sasori. The smoke is probably Diadora's doing. Naruto was wondering why the villagers weren't fighting back. Then he saw them. A women, who was about thirty six, a boy, who was about sixteen, and a little girl, who was probably no older then Naruto. Naruto remembered something in Konoha's history books. The Takikage always seemed to have green hair. That's when he realized something. They had the Takikage, her daughter, and her son.

A/N: Finally done. That chapter was three thousand five hundred words. In the next chapter, there will be an epic battle. I just want to say that there is lot's of action and a little fluff. Naruto will either have a harem, or he will be paired with Fu. I always liked this pairing. I just feel like they have similar feelings and are an absolutely hilarious couple.

Until next Chapter!