I am SOOOOO sorry! I know I'm really late, but I just got the Wii and it's so freaking cool! My mind hasn't exactly been on fan fiction much lately. Onward!

The boy known as Kaisharu was almost unrecognizable: His once ebon hair was now ghostly white like a pegasus's mane, but most surprising of all were the wings protruding from his back. "K-Kaisharu?" Naruto mumbled, for once in his life speechless. The boy tilted his head to the side and brought a wing to his face.

"I feel funny." He directed his eyes toward Naruto's still frozen form. "Did you do this, Naruto-alpha?" The blond blinked in reply.

"'Naruto-alpha'?" Kaisharu nodded.

"You're the alpha." Himaru leaned in and whispered in Naruto's ear.

"He's referring to you as the pack leader. The pegasus is still in there, somewhere."

"Oh. Uh yes, Kaisharu, I did do this. I'm so-" The winged boy grabbed Naruto in a powerful hug and rubbed the side of his head against Naruto's.

"Thank-you, thank-you! I feel BETTER funny." The feral villager leapt back, a silly grin on his face. "I feel smart and have bird-things!"

"Er…you mean wings?" Kaisharu closed his mouth and thought for a moment.

"Yes! Wings!" He shouted, flapping the new appendages for emphasis.

"Kaisharu-kun, would you mind waiting over there with the others while I speak with Naruto?" The gray-eyed boy saluted with the wrong hand before marching off to rejoin the confused group of villagers and foals, and then promptly fell over. Before Naruto could reach him, a light akin to the first shot forth, and the wings rose up and out of Kaisharu's back, slowly bringing a full pegasus foal with them who snorted in confusion before joining Kaisharu on the ground.

"What just happened?" Naruto asked, his voice dull with confusion.

"I-I believe your hanyou chakra fused them on a mental and physical level, but the combination seems to take a lot of chakra," Himaru said before walking over and checking Kaisharu and the pegasus for injuries. "This requires research." Naruto just nodded and stood there for a moment.

"So…should I keep going with the others?" Himaru shook his head as he heaved both the boy and the pegasus onto his shoulders.

"Leave them to get to know the foals. I want to know what exactly happened before we continue." With that, Himaru disappeared in a puff of smoke, leaving Naruto with the still confused villagers.

"Um…" even Naruto's steel nerve began to wear as the several puzzled eyes homed in on him. "Er…just go play with the horsies." There was utter silence before a chorus of happy shouts, both human and pegasus, came from the crowd. The group paraded across the plateau back down to the soon-to-be buildings, leaving Naruto to his thoughts. Silence.

"Guess I'll go help build." Naruto cracked his knuckles before pumping chakra to his legs and leaping into the air. Meanwhile on the shore, a certain group of ex-Oto ninja was resting on the hot sand.

"Why did Orochimaru-sama send us here again?" Sakon asked to know one in particular.

"Orochimaru-sama was fulfilling a debt to that raven-haired man," Jiroubu replied before throwing a kunai to knock a coconut into his hand. Tayuya snorted.

"Yeah, but that so called 'kage' kid hasn't been doing a whole lot of work."

"You were singing a different tune the last time you two "talked"," Kidoumaru said, earning a swift jab from the red headed girl.

"Shut-up!" Sakon hissed suddenly as his whole body tensed. "I hear someth-"

"Cannonball!" A blond blur crashed into the ground, scattering sand in every direction.

"What the Hell!?" came the unanimous shout of the Sound Four/Five. When the dust settled, all four battle-ready shinobi were surrounding a very dirty blond. Everyone sweat dropped as Naruto coughed up some sand, nearly gagging on it. By the time he'd stood up to his full height again, the ex-Oto ninja were at ease. Naruto blushed and grinned, rubbing the back of his head.

"Hehe, oops. Didn't see you guys down here."

"Idiot," Tayuya mumbled.

"The ears aren't for decoration, lady," Naruto said, earning snickers from the other ninja.

"Whatever, you blond dick. What are you doing here anyway? Don't you have more people to kidnap or something?" Naruto opened his mouth as if to answer, and blew a giant raspberry in Tayuya's face.

" Himaru-sensei's researching a little…problem and in the mean time I'm going to help build." Tayuya arched an eyebrow at him.

"Really? The great kage-to-be is actually going to grace us with his presence?" Naruto's grin never moved, but his hand did.

"Tayuya, Naruto-san, you both should really watch your manners," Jiroubu finally said, unable to take it anymore.

"So you're the nagging one."

"Huh?"

"Nothing, nothing." Naruto waved his hands. "I'm just feeling out who's who in your group." There were several blank stares. "You know, the immature one, the nagging one, the crazy one, the emo one, etc." The stares continued, and the tall fox boy was starting to feel uncomfortable. "I'm just going to go now." He ran off down the shoreline, kicking up a cloud of sand as he went.

"He's definitely a freak," the remaining ninja chorused.

"Naruto-sama? What are you doing here?" One of the few adults on the island asked when Naruto arrived on the modest construction site.

"To help, of course!" Naruto shot through three hand seals before anyone could respond. "Kage Bunshin no Jutsu!" In a massive puff of smoke, fifty blond heads dotted the area.

"This…" the villager stared in awe at Naruto's ability, as most civilians would. "…this should be very helpful, Naruto-sama."

A symphony of "What needs doing?" finally brought the attention of the rest of workers to the crowd of clones. The adult villager, seemingly flabbergasted, pointed dumbly to a pile of wood and stone. Before he could find his voice, the Narutos shouted in understanding. "On it!" The small army descended on the building materials and began working in a flurry of sand and limbs.

For awhile, the villagers could only stare, dumbfounded, until one by one they began to return to their own chores. "NARUTO!" A sudden, ear-splitting shout halted all work yet again. Even the flurry of movement in the corner halted, revealing several partially built huts. The real Naruto practically threw himself at the source of the noise.

"Sakura-chan!" He embraced the pink-haired girl who smiled lightly back.

"Hello to you too, Naruto. It seems like ages since I heard you shout last." Naruto released her and stuck his tongue out, but Sakura just grabbed it and pulled him into the sand. "Any particular reason you're making these people clear the sand the hard way?" She asked as the blond pulled his face out of the ground and spat out sand.

"Maybe." Sakura just sighed and wrapped him on the head.

"Just blow the sand away, baka." Naruto almost flew back onto his feet and locked his hands into a single seal: rooster. "Everybody stand to the sides!" Sakura called out; an order that was quickly followed as Naruto began to inhale, creating a small vortex in his mouth. When he stopped inhaling, his chest and face were both swollen.

"Gouzen Kaze no Jutsu (Roaring Wind Technique)!" A wave of gale-force winds plowed across the ground, blowing the sand back and into a huge dune, casting a protective shadow over the area. There was complete silence except for the occasional coughing out sand before raucous cheers came from the people as they descended back onto the now clear work site.

"The sand really is deep, isn't it?" Sakura surveyed the massive dune, her eyes flicking back and forth to the newly exposed bedrock.

"Uh huh," Naruto replied before cracking his knuckles. "Well, better get back to work." He took a single step forward before Sakura's hand tightened around his shoulder.

"You're clones can take care of this area. You should probably go drop off some more in the other districts." Naruto quirked an eyebrow at her.

"'Other' districts?"

"You have no idea how many villagers you actually got, do you?" There was a silent pause before Naruto found his comeback.

"Maybe." Sakura wrapped Naruto on the back of the head again before grabbing him by his ear.

"Come on, Naruto."

"Ow, ow, ow! Okay, guys, just keep working!" Naruto shouted as he and Sakura became little more than dots in the distance.

"So why are we here, again?" Naruto asked as Sakura finally managed to drag him to the middle of the island. Sakura tapped the small mountain in front of them with her green gauntlet.

"Himaru-sensei says that this is going to be the Kage Tower and the hospital." Naruto tilted his head in confusion.

"Eh? Why both?"

"It'll be good for the morale of the patients if their kage is near them." Naruto nodded in understanding briefly before speaking up again.

"So again, why am I here?"

"Jiraiya-sama taught you the Rasengan, right?"

"Eh? How'd you know that?"

"Himaru-sensei told me of course. Now start tunneling!" Sakura shoved a piece of paper into Naruto's hands. "That's the plan for the building. You're going to use your Rasengan to dig this place out." Naruto grinned.

"Sounds like fun training." Sakura shook her head and began to walk off.

"I have some students to teach, oh, and Himaru-sensei says that there may be some creatures living in there, so be careful."

"Sure thing, Sakura-chan!" Naruto unfurled the paper and scanned the complex maze briefly before stuffing it in his pocket. "Here we go! Kage Bunshin no Jutsu! Rasengan!" Naruto's fist plowed into the rock, and after about three seconds of tunneling, exploded, sending Naruto skidding across the ground on his butt. "Okay, guess I need a little bit more control." Naruto summoned two shadow clones to replace the one destroyed in the explosion before starting up again.

"Rasengan!"

Oh my god, that was pathetically short, I'm SO SORRY! Don't worry, I'll update on time next week, and the guys'll be heading back to Konoha. Please read, review and FORGIVE!