First, sorry for taking so long, but my computer completely fucked up after my niese spilled soda on it, the letter "c" didn't work and many other things, and after a while I got a great idea, I have a second and much older computer, it's slow, but it works, and here you are, the fifth chapter. don't know why I didn't think of it earlier.
Second, the next chapter won't take as long, since almost the entire chapter is in my head, and don't forget to vote on if you want tenten and naruto to marry or not. it isn't really important, but still.
enjoy :)
It was like time itself had stopped and the world was holding in it's lifegiving breath, just observing the group of people and the single man standing on one of the many streets og Konohagure no sato. People where walking past them, but none saw them, many people where talking, but none heard them, all that existed was them, and them only.
Then, all of a sudden the world came rushing back and with a single scream from the majestic bird, Naruto was gone with the wind that was playing around them, and the only evidence that he was ever there, was 10 people staring at a spot accross the street with big eyes.
A couple of streets away, a man was sitting on a rooftop, hiding in the comforting shadows of the day. The man was looking down on the roof, looking like he didn't believe the things he saw, and was panting so hard it seemed like he had run several miles. Even the bird resting safely on his shoulder looked down on his master with eyes of worry and slight discomfort.
As like he noticed the look he recieved from his companion he started stroking the bird over it's long and soft brown\black feathers, "it's ok Chigiri, i'm okay, just got a little startled thats all. I really didn't expect too meet them this suddenly".
Naruto started too look up at the sky with eyes so deep and blue as the purest of oceans, the skyes above kept floating as the problems on earth did not exist, and the only thing was itself (the skyes), the blue sky and the gentle breese playing in a forever going dance. Naruto had for many years ago adopted Shikamaru's habit of skygazing, although he prefered the nightsky with it's endless beeing and protecting light, it soothed him and helped him think clearly, like a guiding parent that never left and was always there to protect him from his own head.
After a few minutes he got back to his feet and started on the way to the big and red hokage building that was located in the middle of the village, he consiously took the road over the rooftops so that he could avoid stumbling over more of his old friends and aquaintenses.
He didn't stop before he reached the window that led into the hokage office, and he had to chuckle mildly to himself as he saw the state Tsunade was in . "hehe, just like I left her"
Tsunade was lying face down on her desk, drooling at the papers beneath her, with a big and empty bottle of Sake lying halfway in her hand that was dangling by her side, while she was snooring loudly and ruining important paperwork with her drool, Naruto quietly sneaked in to the office through the open window by her side.
While he went and sat himself in the empty chair infront of her desk, he was plotting on the best method of waking her up, he couldn't decide on using a water jutsu or throwing her out of the window. He eventually decided on making Chigiri scream into her ear, but gave him a direct order of moving away extremely fast, since Tsunade wasn't just extremely fast, but also could give one heck of a punch.
Just to watch the scene take place totally was worth the risk, not only did it wake Tsunade up, but in the process she managed to break her desk in two, send half of her paperwork out the open window and position herself in and extremely flexible position on the floor with a look of utter confusion on her genjustu covered face. It took every bit of Naruto's selfcontroll to not fall down on the floor himself and laugh til the sun fell down, instead he just sat there in the chair and grinned like an idiot and memorising everything in the room for later blackmailing and laughing-my-ass-off moments.
After Tsunade eventually got up from the floor, she only stood there and looked weirdly at the grinning blonde infront of her, considering she just recovered from a rather brutal wake up call she wasn't quite there yet, so she of course didn't recognise the idiot infront of her. But then suddenly something in her mind clicked, THE BIRD.
She stared dumbfoundly at the large bird that rested peacefully on Naruto's shoulder, "isn't that the bird that Naruto uses for his letters?" Tsunade thought quietly to herself while she looked from the golden eagle and the stranger, back and forth, back and forth. She just stood there and did that for five minutes, Naruto just sat there and stared at the obviously confused woman, "I didn't think she hit her head that hard? Or has that sake she keeps drinking finally killed of the last of her braincelles? Maybe.." Naruto's internal rambling came to a sudden hault as Tsunade suddenly made a movement and pointed her index finger at him and started yelling..."YOU"..."ok? well well, now I atleast knows that not ALL of her braincelles are gone, she managed to point a finger and call me ´you" that was Naruto's thoughts while he supported a major sweatdrop as Tsunade continued to point at him with her finger.
In the end it appeares that Tsunade's brain finally managed to put the two pieces together, and a lightbulb appeared on top of her head (litterally), and as her new information sunk in, her eyes became as round and shocked as Konoha 12's had been, and she finally managed to utter something else then ´you, "n-n-n-n-n-n-n-naruto?"
Naruto on the other hand just raised his hand, made the peace signal and responded with a simple "yo".
This respons didn't take nearly so long as the first ones, in a matter of seconds naruto found himself with a sulking Tsunade around his neck, then of course, not long after that he also found himself stuck halfway trough the oposite wall with a very confused secretary on one side and a fuming hokage on the other.
He was just about to escape and come back later when he suddenly got sucked back into the office and came face to face with a woman that looked she was beeing torned between the urge to hit him again or to hug him until his ribs broke, she eventually decided on the hug, she managed to avoid breaking his ribs thanks to a chakra-shield that Naruto managed to put up in the last minute, but she did manage to squise all air out of his lungs.
After the bonebreaking hug, Tsunade decided that enough was enough and promptly put Naruto down in the spare chair and placed herself in the new hokage chair that some chunins had brought in while she pounded Naruto into the wall, "wow, I guess she does that a lot since they didn't even asked what happened" Naruto thought while he made a mental note to never mess with Tsunade's temper, unnless he had an escape rout nearby of course.
"well" Tsunade said after she finally grew out of patience, wich lasted for about five seconds I may add, "care to explain where you have been, what you've been doing and why you suddenly come jumping into my office and make me break my third desk and chair this week?" (it was Tuesday) "well..." Naruto started saying with a thoughtfull look on his face, "I've been practically everywhere, I have been training and collecting information and I came back because I began to think I had been gone too long. And for the breaking your desk part...it was just a golden opportunity" the last part was said with the same stupid grin that Tsunade had seen when the dust had cleared, but now he was also scratching the back of his head while he chuckled quietly to himself.
"fine, but I want a more detailed raport later, after all, youre trip was labelled as a training mission so that you wouldn't get labelled as a missing nin, and therefore I will need a raport of it" Tsunade said with a firm look on her face, Naruto just nodded in approval. "And the there is the matter of your rank of course, since you never took the chunin exams you are still a genin in rank, normally I would make you go through a test to estimate your abilities, but considering the raports I have been receiving from Jiraya while you have been gone and your reputation, I'll just label you as a chunin. I'm sure youre easily jounin level or higher, but i'm gonna make you take that exam on your own and prove your worthy of the title of jounin" Tsunade continued still with a firm look on her face, and Naruto just continued to nodd in approval, although he had a more thoughtful look on his face now, thinking of the possibly more challenging challenges he could recieve at the jounin exams.
"Naruto..." Tsunade started, now with a lot more gentle look on her face "as you stated in your letter, you have found out who your father is, and since you sent me that piece of information by sending that pervertet old sensei of yours, I have checked a little around and found something that I think may please you, hidden in one of the many old scrolls in the hokage library...I found your father's last will and testament" all this information came running out of her mouth while she was looking frantically inside one of her drawers after something, and finally pulled out a old looking scroll with some sort of seal on it. She handed Naruto the old scroll while she started explaining the seal, but got abrupted by Naruto who seemed to be talking to himself, "hmm, this is a blood seal, that means he was trying to keep it away from the council, but probably also in an attempt to keep my identity a secret from people who mean trouble". To say that Tsunade was impressed was a little of an understatement, the fact that HER little brat had managed to figure out that on his own and that he actually knew what kind of seal it was would be quite an improvement from the old him, the old him would probably just have tried to break it open and get angry and grumpy when he did not suceed.
"I will read the content of his last letter later" Naruto said while he put the scroll in an protected pocket inside the jacket "but if it was nothing more you wanted, I would like to go and rediscover my home, it is already late and I still have many things to do today" Naruto continued while he got up from his chair and started to walk closer to the window he had entered from. "Oh, and one more thing, if the old pack comes looking for me, tell them i'm at the place where all heroes of Konoha rest" and with that he jumped lightly out of the window and dissapeared into the village, leaving behind a hole in a wall and a very confused hokage.
And as if on que, a few minutes after the departure through the window, the other ten members of the Konoha 12 and their respective senseis came bursting through Tsunades door, all of them looked panicked and practically demanded the hokage to tell them where Naruto was, they had tracked his scent there after they had returned to the world of the living and got their sense of logic back, the reason as to why the senseis was with them was because they had gotten a little worried when they saw their old students stand and gape at a point on the other side of the street with big eyes. They where the ones that got everyone back to their senses, and after finding out what they had been gaping at they had demanded to join their search-party.
After making another hole in the wall with Kiba for trying to shake her by the shoulders in pure despair after information, she calmly told them what Naruto had said, "he told me to tell you that he would be waiting at the place where all of Konoha's heroes rests, thats all he said, sorry". The group was a little dissapointed over the fact that he left them a riddle instead of telling them where he was, didn't he want to meet them? Or did he want to test how much their skills had grown?
At training ground nr. 7The old training ground was quiet, the place was very little used anymore, the place had become more of a memorial to the hardships of team seven, and many stopped using it in fear or corrupting the memory of the important things that happened there. Friendships where made, love got crushed, some was ignored and one trained himself to greatness, with nothing but determination and drive.
To many this was a sacred place, and should remain in this state until the one day that team seven once again was a team of friendship, hope and future.
In the shadows of a big old tree you could see a figure, quietly keeping a lookout in case someone decided to drop by.
"I wonder if they will understand my riddle, i'm sure they will, and the time that they will use to accomplish that will give me more than enough time to inspect my fathers last will" Naruto thought while he looked with gentle eyes at the old memorial stone that stood on the outskirts of the training grounds, the old stone that was ingraved with the names of every shinobi that had lost their lives while protecting their home from harm.