***Flashback*
"Man. I can really see how much the villagers hate you." Chrono muttered after stopping by the Hokage tower.
Zabuza and Haku stood beside Emerald, Jaffar, Nino, and Kyushina under Hokage's orders. Since their return, Sarutobi told them that they could become Kohona ninjas if they were placed under house arrest while mentioning that Zabuza would be instated at a Jounin while Haku would be placed as a Chunin. The pair agreed.
"Naruto. I have a new home built for you to live in. Your landlord... let some people in." Sarutobi said as he placed the keys along with their payment for their mission in Naruto's confused hands.
"Well. I guess we should salvage what's left." Emerald said as she gripped Chrono's ripped wing which turnned to bone.
Thirty minutes later, the group walked out of Naruto's old apartment and followed the directions that the Hokage gave them on the keys. Soon enough, the house appeared. It came complete with a fence, garden, training ground, and everything else that came standard. Naruto smiled widely as he boldly proclaim that he was the landlord and everyone there stayed for free. Everyone moved in and got settled.
***Flashback end***
Chrono left his room and went downstairs to find Emerald and Nino with Haku in the kitchen while Zabuza and Jaffar sat at the table talking about various assassination techinques they used. Chrono scanned the room further and found Naruto with Kyushina sitting off to the side. Chrono went over to Naruto and smiled.
"Morning. What are you two doing?" Chrono asked.
"I won't talk to any God of War." Kyushina muttered.
"Ok. I get the idea that you hate my guts. But at least explain to Naruto and me how you got out of him." Chrono muttered.
"Yeah. I wanna know myself." Emerald said as she placed some food on the table.
"Do you remember when you and the God of War appeared to me the first time?" Kyushina asked.
"My name is Chrono. But yes." Chrono answered.
"Yeah. I wonder how he appeared in my mind." Naruto said curious.
"When he came into your mind, some of his chakra came with him. After I ejected both of you, I realized that his chakra had magical side effect to my jail. So I just utilized that part and broke out." Kyushina answered.
"Magical side?" Zabuza asked as he walked over to Chrono.
"What do you mean?" Haku asked as she and Nino brought the rest of the food over.
"Chrono is a dragon. So he can use magic like any other human can." Kyushina replied.
Slience ensued. Zabuza snapped out of it first and laughed.
"That's a good one Kyushina. What are you saying? Chrono is a summon?" he said.
"Actually. You are just about right." Chrono replied.
The laughter died.
"You serious?" Haku asked.
"Yes. I am a dragon. Kyushina is something along those lines. But I won't expose her identity. That's part of the reason I can freely manipulate elemental magic." Chrono answered.
"I guess I can relate. There has been legends about beings that took human form to aid others." Haku said thoughtfully.
"I don't understand it much. But Chrono is Chrono. He's my friend and I'll protect him and never back down. That's my nindo." Naruto said smiling.
"Either ways, let's eat. Afterwards, you have to go meet up with team 7 and afterward you and Hinata will train a bit more." Chrono replied.
After breakfast, Naruto, Zabuza, Jaffar, and Haku prepared to leave the house as Chrono, Nino, Emerald, Kuyshina cleared the table. Kyushina walked over to Naruto and poked him.
"Naruto. Now that I can walk on my own, you have my chakra. Chrono's magic only gives me a human form. The fox transformation bloodline that you had allows me to turn into a kitsune and merge with you. When we merge, you gain easy control to my chakra along with my form." Kyushina said.
"Really?" Naruto asked. Kyushina nodded.
"Naruto. Hurry up." Chrono muttered.
"Oh right. I'm off." Naruto exclaimed as he, Jaffar, Zabuza, and Haku left for the Hokage tower.
Chrono smiled as he walked back into the house. Nino and Kyushina went to the garden to water the plants a bit as Emerald went to her room a bit before pulling out Chrono's bone wing.
"Chrono. Is there a way to turn your bone into a weapon?" Emerald asked.
"I'm not sure. Why?" Chrono asked.
"I want to turn your wing into a bow." Emerald answered with a small smile.
"I'm not a weapon you know. Besides, you might want a blacksmith to do that. Not a mage. Although I can place some of my and your dragon energy into the bow so you can use it." Chrono replied.
"You would do that for me?" Emerald asked.
"Yeah. I would." Chrono replied.
Emerald smiled brightly as she siezed Chrono by his arm and dragged him out of the house until they reached the Ten Swords. They entered and saw Ten-ten at the counter.
"Hi there Emerald." Ten-ten said with a smile.
"Hi Ten-Ten. Can you make this bone into a bow?" Emerald asked as she placed Chrono's wing bone on the counter.
"I guess I could. But it'll take a week and... Chrono! What happened to your wing?!" Tenten replied as she eyed Chrono's wingless side.
Chrono's only response was pointing at the wing bone. Ten-ten paled as she realized what she had.
"You mean she wants your bone as a weapon?" the weapon mistress asked.
"Yup. My wings has special properties when they are turnned into a weapon and Emerald would like it confirmed...I guess." Chrono muttered.
"Either ways, it will take ten days to finish. Is that ok with you?" Ten-ten asked as the color started to return.
"Yeah." Emerald replied.
"I'll get started on it today. Nice seeing you again Emerald, Chrono. You two should have a night alone for once. You could be Kohona's cutest couple." Ten-ten joked as Chrono dragged Emerald out of the building with a completely red face.
"So when are we going to have our date?" Emerald asked playing on Chrono's current state.
"Not right now." Chrono replied as the pair started walking again.
Around noon, Chrono heard someone yelling, "Youth".
"What was that?" Emerald asked as Chrono looked around.
"Care to check it out?" Chrono asked.
Emerald nodded as they ran toward the source of the noise. Eventually, they reached a training ground with two green claded man and child trainned against each other. Chrono was very impressed at the speed both of them where going at until the older green man stooded and smiled.
"Great work Lee. The fires of youth burns brightly!" the older man yelled.
"Hai. Gai-sensei!" Lee exclaimed smiling.
"Now we shall do 500 push-ups!" Gai yelled.
"If I can't do that, I shall do 600 sit ups!" Lee tagged on.
Before Gai and Lee continued on their list of exercise, Chrono coughed loudly and walked towards them with Emerald in tow. Gai and Lee turnned to see the pair and smiled.
"Well. If it isn't Chrono. Did our flames of youth brought you here?" Gai asked.
"Not quite err... Gai. I just wanted to know who was making noise and Emerald and I happened to see your sparring match. You two are good." Chrono said with a small smile.
"Lee, why do you wear the same clothing as Gai?" Emerald asked.
"I want to be more like him!" Lee answered.
"Well. As far as I can tell, Lee can possibly learn some more from me and Nino. They will be somehwat similar like jutsus but not quite. But if you want to learn them..." Chrono started speaking before Lee rushed up to him at impossible speed and bowed to him.
"Please Sensei!" Lee said.
"Wow. That was fast. Can I ask why you are eager to learn what Chrono know?" Emerald asked.
"I can't use ninjutsu or genjutsu. So I worked on taijutsu for the chance that I can prove to everyone that you can be a great ninja with just taijutsu." Lee responded quietly.
"Hmm. Far enough. I guess we can even the field for you a little bit. But be warnned. You are not training with your body, but with your mind." Chrono said.
Lee nodded as Gai cried buckets of tears.
"Lee, you are lucky to be taught by two overflowing fountains of youth. Be proud of the wisdom that they pass to you Lee!" Gai said.
"Gai-Sensei!"
"Lee!"
"Gai-Sensei!"
"Umm. Lee, if you can find an orange claded boy, tell him that Chrono and Emerald invited you." Emerald said as she started backing away from the two green men.
Chrono followed Emerald as they left Lee and Gai. They managed to find a dango shop where they enjoyed some of Kohona's finest when they saw Hinata entering with Shino and Kiba. Hinata saw them and smiled as she along with her two teammates walked over to them.
"Chrono-kun. Emerald-chan." Hinata said warmly as she pulled up a seat beside Emerald.
"Hinata. What brings you here?" Chrono asked.
"She didn't want to see her father." Kiba brashly said.
"Kiba!" Hinata quietly whispered.
"Really? Why is that?" Emerald asked.
"Tou-san disapproves of the fighting style you are teaching." Hinata replied.
"In the end, a fighting style is how you fight. The best style is one that adapts to any situation that you may come across. Don't stop learning a style because someone else tells you not to." Chrono said as a waitress came by and placed a menu next to Chrono and Emerald.
A quick scan later, the pair ordered their meals and resumed their talk with Hinata, Shino, and Kiba.
"It's kinda like how someone grows. No one can cling to childhood ideas. So it grows. So does a fighting style. Be proud of how you fight." Emerald said looking at Hinata with a motherly like warmth.
"So does that mean you will teach us your jutsu?" Kiba asked.
"Nope. Learning from others can only go so far. You have to make your own if you want to grow stronger." Chrono said.
"Here's your order sir." The waitress said.
As Chrono and Emerald started to eat their meal, Naruto, Sasuke, and Sakura were coming back to the village from the bridge. Each held a piece of paper in their hand.
"Chunin exam eh. Are you going to take it Sasuke-kun?" Sakura asked as she looked at the said boy.
Sasuke didn't reply as he walked away from Naruto and Sakura, leaving a dejected Sakura for Naruto to deal with.
"Sakura-chan, how about we go on a date?" Naruto asked with a smile.
One punch later, Sakura huffed away as Naruto followed her while rubbing his bump on his head. They passed by the Dango shop when Naruto saw Chrono and Emerald leaving the shop with Hinata, Kiba, and Shino. The group spilt as Hinata's group left the dragon couple.
"Chrono, Emerald!" Naruto called out.
"Naruto, Sakura." Emerald replied smiling as she and Chrono walked over to them.
"What's with the paper?" Chrono asked as he saw the paper in his hand.
"Oh. This is my application for the Chunin exam." Naruto replied.
"Oh. Is that a ninja test?" Emerald asked.
"Well, I don't know." Naruto answered sheepishly.
"Of course it is, baka!" Sakura exclaimed loudly.
"Well, no use worring. Let's head back to the apartment and tell Kyushina about it." Chrono replied.
"Yeah. Let's..." Emerald started to say when a loud voice drowned out her words.
"What was that?" Naruto asked.
"No idea. Let's check it out." Chrono replied as the trio ran over to the commotion, which happen to be a pair and a kid.
The pair turned out to be the oddest couple Chrono ever seen. One of the pair, a girl with blond hair, had a giant fan while the other man had face paint and a package on his back as he started to tighten his grip on the kid.
"Konohamaru!" Naruto exclaimed.
"Naruto-nii-chan." Konohamaru grunted as he tried to pry his neck from the man's grip.
"Hey, drop the kid." Chrono muttered as his left eye glowwed blue.
"Eh. He needs to learn where he's going. I never thought Kohona ninjas would be so weak." The man said.
"You're right for the most part. But you forgot one simple thing." Emerald replied as Chrono looked at the pair once.
A sudden burst of killer intent drilled into the pair as the hand that gripped Konohamaru sliced off. The pair looked shakened as Jaffar grabbed Komoharmaru and leapt back to Chrono's side.
"I'm a netural party. You make me mad, I'll smear you across the pavement. Besides, the guy in red besides Sasuke would beat me to it." Chrono casually answered.
The pair stiffened as the red haired man and Sasuke appeared in front of them, both in front of their respective group.
'That man is good.' the red haired man said.
"Gaara, this isn't what it looks like." the face paint man said panicking slighly.
"Kankurou, shut up or I'll kill you." Gaara said unleashing a small blast of killer intent at the man.
"Ok. It was my fault. I'm sorry." Kankurou said backing up slightly from the man.
Garaa turned back to the group.
"I apologies for my group's behavior." Gaara said as he turned to leave.
Kankurou and the lady followed Gaara when Sasuke stopped them.
"What's your name?" Sasuke asked.
"Me?" The blonde haired lady asked.
"No him." Sasuke replied pointing to Gaara.
"Sabkou no Gaara." Garaa answered as the lady looked slightly dejected.
"What's your name miss?" Chrono asked.
"Temari." Temari replied.
Gaara stared at Chrono a bit longer before he pointed at him.
"Mother thirst for your blood. What is your name?" Gaara asked.
Jaffar prepared to attack Gaara when Chrono placed a hand on him. One quick look from Chrono disengage his sudden thoughts of attacking Gaara.
"He who seeks blood will die by the blade eventually. All you need to know is that I'm not someone to trifle with. That sand shield will not save you." Chrono replied as he pointed at Gaara.
In an instant, all the sand surrounding Gaara blasted off startling the sand sibiling but Gaara.
'No way. This guy took all of Gaara's Armor of Sand off without even moving.' Kankurou thought as the sand reformed around him.
'He is good.' Temari thought.
The sand sibiling left, leaving them alone in the streets.
"The chunin exam. This is starting to sound interesting." Sasuke said as he walked away.
"Emerald, we'll have to double the training soon. Things might get ugly now." Chrono muttered as he stared at the fading forms of the Sand Sibiling.