Okay, first I wanna thank you guys for your reviews. It's nice to see that I'm good at some thing.
Second, I wanna fill you guys in on my changes to the second series story line. In my universe, Tsunade was able to remove the curse seal from Sasuke, that led to him thinking more clearly. He left the village for one year for a training mission just like Naruto. The Akatsuki was pretty well mauled from the inside out as infighting between the different members (Dedria, hoped I spelled it right! And Kisame were spies for their respected villages. They died, but killed of Sasori, Kakuzu, and Zetsu). But Orochimaru is still after Sasuke and The remaining Akatsuki are still after the kuuybi. Other than that and some minor changes, it pretty much follows the established story line.
Chapter 3 Getting the Band back together Pt 1
Naruto and Sakura left the training feild after passing the Hokages test. All it really did was see how far the pair had increased their abilities in the last two years. Even though they were facing Kakashi, all he used were shadow clones. But, the pair knew that even though they were only clones and were only 1/1000 the strength of the original, they still possesed the Sharingan. After many battles, relying on their new techniques, they blew through the clones with hardly any damage.
After a few hours, Tsunade called the test to an end, congratulating the two, saying that they grew beyond all expectatons. That of course was true for both of them. Before they left, Tsunade had one more thing to do.
"Naruto Uzumaki!" She said in a commanding voice.
"Hai, Hokage-sama!"
"Two years ago, you left to improve yourself and your abilities. And you've more than done that. You've started to become the man I always knew you'd become. You've delt with your share of troubles and overcame them. You've fought for the lives of your teammates and won several times. And you've laid your life on the line for this village and all it's inhabitants. You've shown skills and abilities far beyond that of a genin." The hokage appeared to almost pull a Chunin vest from thin air, "As of today you are promoted to the rank of chunin. I expect you in my office in one week for your first mission. Until, then, little brother, get some rest." She smiled affectionatly as she ruffled his hair.
"Little brother?" He asked as he ran a hand through his hair, attempting to put some order to the chaos she had caused. It caused her to smile a little more.
"Well, you've kinda become a little brother to me." She said as if it didn't matter.
Suddenly, she found the fifteen year old boy hugging her.
"Thank you, big sister!" He broke away and ran to catch up to his team member. Tsunade stood in the middle of the training field, a tear running down her cheek as she watched him dissapear into the trees. She hadn't noticed Kakashi standing beside her untill he spoke up.
"Little Brother? Hmm...I had always though of him as a nephew." He said matter-a-factly, still reading the book.
"Yeah. That kid's like family. Almost like a grandson." A voice sounded out behind them, causing both to turn and watch as Jiriya walked over to them.
"It fits, doesn't it? He started life without a family. Now, he has one." Tsunade said softly.
"Yeah." Kakashi agreed. Jiriya nodded, smiling.
A breeze blew through the training ground as the three ninja continued to stare at the tree line where their Brother/Nephew/Grandson had dissappeared into.
Sakura and Naruto had walked halfway down the street before Sakura had to head to her house.
"Well, Naruto, I'll see you tomarrow. Again congratulations." She said, flashing him a smile.
"Arigato, Sakura-chan." He said with a smile.
"Well, I'd better get going. Sasuke's probably waiting for me at home." She said without thinking.
"You guys are living together?" He chuckled when Sakura started to apologize," Don't worry about it. Tell him hi for me. And," He said, suddenly remembering something," Tell him to get Neji, Shikamaru, and Choji and to meet me where the truth comes out." Waving good bye, he headed off toward the north gate. Sakura wondered what his rather cryptic statement meant, but decided to pass it along.
Naruto sat in the dark warehouse by the North Gate. Hearing the door open, he smiled as the sound of voices and footprints made their way toward him.
"Alright, baka. We're here. What do you want?"
Naruto smiled as Sasuke, Choji, Neji, and Shikamaru walked out behind a stake of crates. All four sat down on a crate like Naruto and watched their old friend, seeing how much he had changed.
He also noticed how much his friends had changed. Saskue was wearing a black version of the blue shirt he'd worn a few years ago. He'd replaced his shorts with a pair of dark pants. His hair was somewhat longer, but his face hadn't really changed.
Neji had longer hair and wore a loose white sleaved shirt that had two strapes at the shoulder and mid section with the opening going diagnolly. He still wore he head band over the curse mark that had been branded onto him by the Hyuuga Main Branch.
Choji was the most change. He no longer was a large boy. He now looked like the most well built of everyone here, wearing a tight black T shirt under his Chunin vest and and pair of black pants. He didn't even look like the Choji he remembered.
Shikamaru, though looked just as Naruto had remembered, only older.
"I thought it was a good time for another session, teme." he smiled as Sasuke smirked at him.
"It's been two years. We maybe a little rusty." Sasuke said, still smirking.
"Humph. I doubt I'm rusty." Neji stated with confidence.
"Oh yeah? Prove it." Challenged a smiling Choji.
"This is a drag. But, as a genus, of course I'm not rusty." Shikamaru said lazily watching his friends.
Sasuke smiled at Naruto.
"Alright, baka. Lets get this over with." He said.
Naruto removed his jacket revealing his black muscle shirt as Shikamaru and Choji removed their vest. Both Sasuke and Neji removed their shirts revelaing their white muscle shirts. Everyone of them were well built. None of them heard the gasp of surprise as took off their jackets and shirts. They started opening crates and pulling out music equipment. After a few minutes, they had setup the drums and amps and got into positon. Neji took the drums as Choji and Shikamaru grabbed bass guitars. Naruto and Sasuke both grabbed regular ones.
"Lets get wild." Naruto declared as he and Sasuke stepped into position. Unbekownst to the boys, Sakura, Tenten, Ino, Temari, and Hinata had followed them to see why they were gathering here. As the boys tuned their instruments, Sakura, Ino Tenten, and Hinata giggled softy as Temari said," This should be interesting."
The next few chapters will be them playing some songs. I always wondered what would happen if they had a band...