Chapter 3 A new Home, Friends & Sakura's Change.
As the group where walking back to the village, Sakura following Sasuke like a love sick puppy, Kakashi's nose was in his book, Kai and Naruto where talking, mostly Naruto was Kai was nodding his head and listening "O..Oh yea when we get to the village we have got to have some Ramen, it's been a while since I had some Ichiraku's Ramen, old man Teuchi and Ayame I'm bringing my appetite." Naruto grinning, Kai chuckled at his friend's antics "Hey Naruto is the Ramen really that good?" Kai asked, Naruto draped an arm over Kai's shoulder as he smirked "Datte Bayo, you better Believe it, it's the food of the Gods, the food of Champions." Kai smiled "MMh sounds really good, I can't wait, hey Kakashi, think I could a bite before we go and see the Hokage." Kakashi looked up from his book "Sorry first the Hokage then you two can go and eat.", Naruto and Kai hung their head's down as Naruto suddenly perked up "Hey Kai the faster we reach to the village to see Ji-Ji Hokage then the faster we can eat, let's crank it into overdrive." Kai looked at Naruto and nodded as the two raced off leaving the others in a cloud of dust behind them, Sasuke frowned "What a bunch of loser's." Sakura agreed with Sasuke "Yea I know right Sasuke-kun." she said smiling at Sasuke, Kakashi just grinned at the two that race off 'Yup those two are pretty much the interesting ones.' he thought, Kuro and Hikari looked at the cloud their master and his friend left behind "That's not the way someone like the master should be behaving." Kuro said, Hikari sighed "Well with a friend like Naruto with him it's possible, and it should be fine, although he may be the master of the Shadow and Light Style's he's still allowed to cut back and have some fun Kuro, he's still a kid after all remember." Kuro just frowned as they rest of the group followed the dust trail the other two left.
Reaching the village gates they found Naruto and Kai leaning against a tree panting loudly as the two looked at the group "What took you guys so long." they asked simultaneously as Kakashi waved them off and walked over to the guards "Hey there Izumo, Kotetsu, what's up?" Kakashi asked, Izumo laughed "Well these two kept running until the crashed into the gate." he said as he pointed to Naruto and Kai who whistled and looked the other way, "Kakashi where'd you pick up that kid anyway, he looks kinda weird, Kami those are some large wolf's." Kotetsu said as he looked at Kuro and Hikari, "Hey we have name's you know." they said angrily as Kuro glared at Kotetsu who held up his hand's defensively "Hey Kuro calm down." Kai said walking over to the large black furred wolf and scratched behind the wolf's ear's the wolf in question wagged his tail before regaining his composure and went by Kakashi's side "Well it's kinda hard to explain, I need to explain it to the Hokage first." the two guards nodded as they let them pass through the gates as Kai looked around at the village "Wow this place looks cool." he said looking at the people civilians and ninja going on with their lives, Kakashi placed a hand on Kai's shoulder "First the hokage remember." Kai nodded as he followed Kakashi and Team 7 to the Hokage's Tower.
"H..hey Naruto." a voice rang out as Naruto turned to see Kiba waving at them, Hinata, Shino and Kurenai following them, Akakamaru poked his head out of Kiba's jacket and barked playfully, Kiba then saw Kai and the wolf's "Woah those are some nice wolfs, what's their names?" he asked grinning. Kai pet the wolfs on the head "Introduce your self's go on." The black one cleared his throat "I'm Kuro, the wolf of the Shadows." Hikari held out a paw to Kiba "I'm Hikari the wolf of Light, a pleasure to meet you sir." Hikari said pleasantly, Kiba shook her paw in his hand and grinned "You have some really cool wolf's who are you anyway." Kai grasped Kiba's hand in his own and shook it "I'm Kai, helped Kakashi and the other's on a mission but I have nowhere to go, so I came here with Kakashi and the other's." Kurenai looked at the boy curiously as Hinata and Shino introduced themselves, "Who is that boy really Kakashi?" Kurenai whispered to Kakashi "That's what I want to find out." Kakashi answered back softly as Team 8 bid Team 7 and Kai, Kuro and Hikari farewell as they walked of.
Entering the Tower as Kakashi led them to the Hokage's office, knocking on the door, they soon heard a voice say enter as they all entered the room and Kakashi closed the door behind them, sitting behind a desk was the old but wise Third Hokage, "Ahh Kakashi I see you and your team have returned from your mission and it seems you picked up a few extra's as well."
Kakashi looked at the Third "The mission was made into a S rank, the bridge builder lied about the particulars of the mission and to make matter's worse we had to fight against Zabuza Momochi and Haku both who where very powerful ninja's after defeating them, we where attacked by Gato, Zabuza using the last of his strength killed Gato, and we where outnumbered by the bandits who came with Gato, thankfully Kai here came in the nick of time and gave us a helping hand with defeating the bandits, the whole summary report is in the file." Kakashi said handing over a blue colored scroll to the Hokage, the Hokage took blew out some smoke from his pipe "Very well Naruto, Sakura, Sasuke you are dismissed for the day, Kakashi, Kai you stay we need to talk." Naruto was going to protest when Kai placed a hand on his shoulder "It's fine Naruto the Hokage probably is going to help me, so you go with the other's I'll try to catch up when I can." Naruto nodded as he looked at the Hokage "Ji-Ji, please let Kai stay and please help him out." Naruto said respectfully as he and his teammates left the office. The Hokage read the scroll as he kept his eyes on Kai and the wolf's "Very interesting so Kuro, Hikari what is your job?" he asked "We are to train our master in the way's of the Shadow and Light Style as he is the only one who could use both of them, other's can learn just one of the Style but Kai is the only one who can carry both of them and use their true forbidden moves." the wolf's answered, The Hokage turned to Kai "I understand you have Amnesia and you having these Style's make you powerful, but what is your goal?"
Kai grinned "My goal is to help my friends, I want to stay and be useful to this village, Kakashi Sensei and Naruto have been nothing but good to me, I want to help out I'd like to become a ninja of Konoah.I know you all have no real reason to trust me since it seems suspicious that I have memory loss but I really want to help out" Kai said, The Third nodded "Very well I'll send for one of the Yamanaka's to perform a sweep of your mind do you object." Kai shook his head "No Lord Hokage I don't." he said, The Hokage called one of the Yamanaka', the said light blond haired ninja arrived shortly as he told Kai to relax and just let him do his work, "Mind Walker Jutsu." The bloned haired ninja said as he sent himself into Kai's mind.
Kai found himself in a strange room which was dimly light by an odd looking light above him "There you." he heard someone say as he saw it was the Yamanaka as the ninja looked around the room as he saw some doors ahead of them, he led Kai towards one of the door's which was marked Memories of Old, the Yamanaka tried to open the door but it wouldn't budge an inch, Kai tried the same but the door still wouldn't open "It seems that the door, part of your memories is locked away I don't know why could be from trauma, or someone or something has erased them, let's try another door okay." The blonde hair ninja explained as they went to a next door that was marked Past but the door had no knob no way of entering, they tried the door that was marked New Memories. the door opened as the Yamanaka asked Kai to wait for him as he entered the door as he saw all that Kai had seen for the past few days from waking up and meeting Kakashi and Naruto, to the conversation in the carven, he saw the fight between Kai and the bandits, two when they arrived back to Konoha.
Leaving the room he saw Kai sitting down cross legged waiting for him, the Yamanaka tapped Kai's forehead as Kai gasped and found himself back in the Hokage's office "Well how did it go?" the Hokage asked, "Whoever he was in the past is completely gone, Lord Hokage, but he really is loyal to his friends sir." the Yamanaka explained, "Very well then Kai Smith I welcome you to Konoha as ninja, you are a genin though and you are assigned to Team 7, Kakashi take him by Naruto tomorrow we'll see about getting you a proper place to live." he said throwing Kai a leaf headband Kai placed it around his forehead as he looked at Kuro and Hikari who wagged their tail's in approval as Kai followed out Kakashi who led him to a shop with a sign marked 'Ichiraku's Ramen.' Kakashi and Kai walked in and saw Naruto sitting down eating a large bowl of Ramen. "Hey Naruto I got made a Genin and I'm on Team 7." Kai said pointing to his headband, Kakashi patted Kai's head as he handed him a simple brown leather wallet "Here Kai, this is for you, the Hokage sent it, it has some spending money for you to buy yourself some clothes and supplies tomorrow, and here Naruto." Kakashi said taking out some money out of his pocket and placing it on the table "That should pay off what you ate today." Naruto looked up at Kakashi and grinned "Hehe, thanks Sensei." he said as Kakashi waved them off and headed out.
Kai sat down next to Naruto as an old man came out from the back of the shop "Hey old man Teuchi, this is my friend Kai, the one I was telling you about." Teuchi smiled "Ahh so your Naruto's friend mmh." Ayame looked over from where she was washing dishes "So where's those wolf's Naruto said you have?" she asked "Right here." Kuro and Hikari said as Ayame looked over the counter and saw the two wolfs, rushing out to get a better look at them as she smiled "Aww they look cute, and awefully big for wolf's." Ayame said as she placed down two large bowls of Ramen for Kuro and Hikari to eat as they sniffed at the meat floating untop of the broth then began eating slowly, "Hey old man Teuchi, a lager bowl of Miso Ramen for my friend Kai here." Naruto said grinning, Teuchi nodded as he started to make the order, Ayame, Naruto, and Kai watched the wolf's eating as Kuro looked up at Ayame "I..I have to admit this Ramen is really delicious." "Yes it is." Hikari chimed in "Huh, really oh man I can't wait." Kai said anxiously as Teuchi brought over the large bowl of Ramen to Kai and handed him a pair of chop sticks, taking the chopsticks and picking up some of the Ramen as he ate it, Kai grinned and dug in eating the Ramen quickly as Naruto started to return to eating his bowl of Ramen, after a couple bowls both Naruto and Kai burped as they grinned "That was awesome old man Teuchi." they said at the same time as Teuchi picked up the money off the table and nodded "you both, and you two Kuro and Hikari are very welcome to come back anytime." he said as the two ninja's and the wolf's left the Ramen stand "Well what do we do next Naruto?" Kai asked, "MMh I don't know." Naruto said as he stretched "Master if I may, you should buy yourself some supplies and get someone to create more of your clothing for you." Hikari stated.
Kai nodded "Yea I should get those out of the way, you coming Naruto." Naruto nodded as he and Kai headed to a weapon shop the shop owner greeted them as his eyes wandered to Naruto he frowned and just as he was about to speak "You better hold your tongue sir, and trust me refuse to sell us anything or even try to jack the price up and I'll personally report you the Hokage." Kai said glaring at the shop owner, the owner gulped as he saw the wolf's glaring at him with their fang's bared as well after buying a black weapon pouch and strapping it to his right leg Kai bought a couple shuriken, kunai's, scrolls, wire and explosive tags, he then gave some to Naruto, "Some of these are for you Naruto." he said grinning "Naruto smiled "T..thanks Kai." he said as he took them from Kai nodded as they headed to a shop that sold clothes, Naruto and the wolf's waited outside while Kai went in and spoke the owner, she happily agreed to making Kai extra clothing like what he now wore and gave him some civilian clothing. Kai and Naruto headed back to Naruto's apartment Kai set down the clothing.
It was now late afternoon as Kai and Naruto where at the Third Training Grounds, Naruto had Kai surrounded with Shadow Clones, kuro and Hikari where off the side watching the two ninja spar against each other, one of the clones charged at Kai as he grasped the clone's left arm and swung him around before launching him into a couple of the other clones, Naruto rushed forward with a punch as he Kai began exchanging blows, Kai back away as he began performing handseals quickly, Naruto began doing the same as they both shouted at the same time "Shadow Style: Shadow grab Justu." they said as shadow like hand appeared at their feet the one by Kai shot out at Naruto while the one by Naruto shot out at Kai, the shadow hand grabbing Kai's left hand as the one from Kai grasped Naruto's own as well "Gotcha." Naruto said, "Heh, not bad you learnt the jutsu fast enough but it's not enough." Kai shouted as he made the hand tug at Naruto, Naruto made the hand tug at Kai as well as both ninja's went soaring into the air and smacked into each other groaning as they collided Kai rubbed his head as he got up shakily, Naruto doing the same as they stared at each other as they jumped away from each other "Shadow Style: Shadow Talon." Kai said as he flexed his right hand as a black chakra surrounded his fingers as the Chakra condensed then flew off his fingers as each took the form of a large talon, Naruto jumped out of the way the attack leaving large talon marks in the ground as Naruto rushed at Kai punching Kai in the stomach as he got in a few more punches before Kai regained his footing as he blocked Naruto's attacks and struck Naruto in the left side of his ribs with a kick, both ninja jumped away from each other as they started each other down smiling as they got back into the training.
Meanwhile
Sakura was walking slowly to the Third's Training Ground, what Sasuke said to her was still fresh on her mind.
'FlashBack'
Sakura held unto Sasuke's arm as she looked at him lovingly "Sasuke w.. you like to go out on a date with me?" Sakura asked Sasuke for about the tenth time, the Uchiha in question glared at Sakura "How about instead of wasting your time being a fan-girl you actually do some training, your even weaker than the dobe." he said walking off leaving Sakura feeling depressed.
'End flashback'
Sakura was lost in her thought's as she heard the sound of fighting as she soon looked up at the field to see Naruto and Kai, sparring with each other, Naruto ran infront of Kai as he shouted "Art of the Black Hand: Black Comet Blast." Sakura was surprised to see Naruto's hand's become engulfed in dark chakra as he slammed his fist into Kai's stomach making Kai kneel over as he then upper cutted Kai in the face as Kai flew back and crashed into the ground groaning, " o..owow damn Naruto that hurt, but it seems you learned that move now." Kai said as he sat up and rubbed his lower jaw "Man that smarts." Naruto ran over to his friend as he held out a hand to Kai, Kai grasped Naruto's outstretched hand in his own as Naruto helped him up to his feet Kai saw Sakura standing a few feet away "Hey Sakura what's up?" he asked, Naruto whipped around his head "S..Sakura-chan what are you doing here?" Sakura looked at the both of them as she walked over to them "I came here for a walk, and nothing much Kai you?" she asked, Naruto chuckled "Well Kai is teaching me how to use the Shadow Style." Naruto said excitedly as he grinned, Sakura looked at Kai amazed "You can teach people the Style's I thought only you could use them." Kai shook his head "I'm the only one that can use both a once and use them to their fullest, other people can learn one of the Style's Naruto opted to learn the Shadow style, I could teach you the Light Style if you'd like Sakura." Sakura's eyes widened as she ran up and hugged Kai tightly "Rea..really, oh thank you thank you Kai, this really means a lot to me if you can." Kai nodded "It's no problem Sakura we are teammates afterall." Sakura blinked "Teammates?" she asked confused as she then saw the headband around Kai's forehead "Y..you mean your part of Team 7." Kai nodded "Yup." he said grinning as he started to teach Sakura the Light Style.
Over the past few two weeks Kai, Naruto and Sakura trained tirelessly every time they finished a mission or when they had free time, they kept Sasuke out of the loop for now so Kai could effectively train Naruto and Sakura, Kakashi had already noticed the improvement in his student's and had spied on them as the Uchiha had opted to train alone at the Uchiha Compound, Kai had gotten himself an apartment with the money he earned on his missions, After a particularly troublesome mission involving a cat called Tora, Naruto, Sakura and Kai decided to skip training and just hang out, as they where deciding on where to go eat, they noticed a badly coloured box following them as Kai suddenly turned around "Stop following us, everyone can tell that it's a box, that's not a good camouflage." Kai and Naruto shouted "Hehe, Just like you boss to know." a voice said as the box was casted away revealing Konohamaru and two other kids, one boy and the other a girl "Hey Naruto boss, who's the new guy with you?" The trio asked "This is Kai Konohamaru, he's a part of Team 7 as well." Kai waved to them the boy standing next to Konohamaru fixed his glasses as he gazed up at Kai "Hi there I'm Udon." the girl smiled "I'm Mogei and together with Konohamaru we are the Konohamaru squad." Kai and Sakura chuckled "That's cool." Konohamaru looked up at Naruto "Hey boss you promised that we would play ninja when you came back." Sakura scoffed "Ninja's playing ninja that's just weird." Konohamaru looked at Sakura, "Hey boss is this your girlfriend, because if she is you can do a whole lot better." Konohamaru joked as Kai stepped back from Sakura as he saw her eyes darken, Naruto noticed as well and gulped "K..konohamaru r..run." he shouted as Sakura shot after Konohamaru who ran quickly screaming "Boss get your ugly hag girlfriend to stop chasing me." Sakura renewed her speed even more as she chased after him, Udon, Mogei,Kai and Naruto followed after them Konohamaru kept running as he crashed into someone looking up he saw a strange clad ninja wearing a black, baggy, full body suit with a red and yellow circle on the front, the suit had a black hood which covered his head completely, and had cat-like ears, he also had a triangular face-paint design on his face,he had something woven up with bandages slung around his back, standing next to him was a medium height girl with her teal eyes and blonde hair, which was gathered into four ponytails, her outfit consisted of a single light purple-coloured, off-the-shoulders garment that extended to halfway down her thighs, with a scarlet sash tied around her waist, with incorporating fishnet worn over her shoulders and legs, specifically on her right calf and her left thigh, her headband hung around her neck, the boy grabbed Konohamaru by his shirt lifting up as he frowned "You stupid little shit watch where your going." he said frowning at Konohamaru,
"Hey let him go you jerk." Naruto shouted as he glared at the guy holding his friend Konohamaru, Kai and Sakura caught up with Naruto as they looked at the two foreign ninja,
"what if I choose not to, huh, how about I teach you and this runt a lesson." he said glaring at Naruto, Kai and Sakura, the girl next to him decided to speak up "Kankuro, maybe you should stop you don't want to piss our brother off." she said, Kankuro smirked "He's not here so a little fun won't hurt." Naruto began to charge at Kankuro, Kanuro smiled twitching his fingers as Naruto then tripped and fell face first into the ground, "I told you to stay out of this runt." he said "Stop it now." Sakura shouted, Kai frowned "You heard her let go of our friend, that's the Grandson of the Hokage, and if you don't stop we'll be forced to fight and if possible eliminate you all as you pose a threat." Kankuro laughed "Let's see you stop me then." he said as he saw Kai holding a handseal "Shadow Style: Weighted Feather's Jutsu." Kai said as Kankuro saw black feather's falling everywhere even on him as he felt his strength leaving him he dropped Konohamaru who ran over to Kai and the others. "Release." Kai said as the feathers stopped falling and Kankuro was able to start moving again "So easy it was a Genjutsu by the way it makes the victim unable to act because of the feathers falling which seems to weigh down on the victim rendering them unable to move or act." Kai explained at the girl watched Kai in amazement 'He was able to lock Kankuro in such a powerful Genjutsu, and what did he mean by Shadow Style?' she thought as a pebble then smacked Kankuro in the face as he groaned "Heh, what kept you Sasuke." Kai said looking over at a tree on a side as Sasuke was standing on the bottom branch of a tree as he frowned "Well I was observing what you could do Kai." he said as he looked at the two "You to better leave." Sasuke started as Kai interuppted "Sasuke move from there now." Sasuke jumped away in time to see sand cover the branch as a fair skinned auburn haired youth with pale blue-green eyes landed on the branch, he had no distinctive pupils or eyebrows, he had weird black rings around his eyes and the Kanji for love etched in red on the left side of his forehead, he wore black full body suit with t-shirt-like sleeves, ¾-length legs, and an open neck. With this, he wore a white cloth over his right shoulder and the left side of his hips, and a wide leather band system over the left shoulder and right side of his hips. Attached to his back with the leather band was a large gourd. "Who the hell is he and thanks for the head's up Kai, I could feel him, but I didn't know where he would land." Sasuke said as he looked at his teammate, Kai nodded as he helped up Naruto , Kankuro and the girl looked frightened of the new male watching them "G..Gaara w..we where j..just playing." Kankuro stuttered "Shut up Kankuro you and Temari are useless, and an embarrassment to our village." the one now known as Gaara stated, "We are leaving but before we go, you two there what are your names." Gaara demanded as he looked at Kai and Sasuke "Sasuke Uchiha and who are you." Sasuke said "I'm Gaara of the Sand." Gaara replied, "Kai." Kai said as he stared down Gaara, he didn't know why but for some reason Gaara rubbed him the wrong way. "Very well Kai, and Sasuke." he said, Naruto spoke up "I'm Naruto Uzamaki and I will be Hokage." "I don't care." Gaara spoke back, Naruto glared at Gaara and was ready to attack him as Kai tried to hold back his friend "Naruto let it go."
"What are you all doing here anyway." Sakura said, Kankuro, Temari and Gaara began walking away "We are here for exam." they said as they disappeared in a whirlwind of sand. "Exam, what exam?" Kai asked at Konohamaru thanked them and ran off, the team began walking in town as Kakashi appeared infront of them in a swirl of leaves "Hello there my students, I have a proposition for you." Kakashi said smiling behind his mask "Hey Kakashi what exam are they having here, we met up with some ninja's from a foregin country." with that Kai went to explaining what took place.
"Well Kai there are here for the Chunin Exam, which is what I came to ask you all about, are you guys up for entering the Chunin Exam's all you have to do is meet me infront of the Academy Tomorrow morning 7:00 am sharp." Kakashi said as he then disappeared, the team split up as they went home.
the next morning.
Kai was heading towards the Academy Hikari and Kuro followed close behind him, as he heard someone calling out to him, it was Sakura she ran up next to Kai as she smiled at him "Are you ready for this Kai?" she asked, Kai grinned "Of course Sakura, how about you?" Sakura nodded "Yes I'm ready." they continued walking as Naruto and Sasuke joined them as they stopped infront of the Academy as Kakashi was waiting for them Kakashi smiled as he walked over to them "I'm proud of you all, especially you Sakura, if even one of you chose not to enter then none of you would have been able to enter the Chunin exams. That's also why I didn't tell any of you I didn't want any of you pressuring each other into entering." he said as they looked at each other and nodded as they entered the Academy.
sorry I took so long to post this chap, had to go and stay with my grandparents and take care of them for a while.