Naruto Sedai 7, Puraimaru no tatakai (Battle of the primordial Forces)

by The Storyteller and his Books

World Wars, Natural disasters, supernatural assaults, what have they together? Death and destruction! And those who know what comes forth out of this combination, have already made their move to save the world. The war has finally begun, the worlds stands on the edge, will the Light win, or the Dark triumph? Will the Humanity be saved or will it perish in the flames of hell? ( 16)

16. The Kage s Job, Revelations

Naruto Sedai 7

Puraimaru no tatakai

Battle of the primordial Forces

Chapter 16: Attack of the three-headed, the girl from another time, Leeten and a peek into Demonology.

Part 1: The Messenger of dooming News:

Konohagakure, Hokage office, Naruto´s Pov:

It has been now a half day since my Children and my wife had been away with their respective groups and the village seemed to be a bit more boring without them.

I was sitting in my office, once again at fulfilling my boring paperwork, while my Shadow-clones helped out in the town.

"Does something more boring than Paperwork even exists?!" I asked myself, for the felt thousand time, without expecting an answer.

I was startled as suddenly the door of the office was practically ripped out of its hinges, by one of my more stormy Jonins.

"Hokage an urgent message for you from the Gate-guards, a man has been found in the forest with an important message from Yumegakure!" the Jonin stated in a hasty manner.

"Yumegakure…, wasn´t that Taisa, Ryuka and Yumito´s village?!" I wondered, as I stood up and followed the man.

The Paperwork had to wait, this here was most likely more important.

The Jonin led me to the hospital towards a room.

"In here Hokage!" he said, as he stood guard at the door with another Jonin.

"Thanks, well then here we go!" I stated, as I inhaled a big amount of air to calm down from running.

I opened the door and walked into the hospital room, where I found Kakashi-sensei and Tsunade sitting at the bed of the man who was found.

"How is he Kakashi-sensei?" I asked, as I walked up.

On the bed laid no one else but Taisa Amagiri, the friend I once made, before the war, in the Yumegakure case.

"He healed well thanks to Tsunade-sama!" Kakashi-sensei state with a worried mine.

"Has he spoken something so far?!" I asked.

"Nothing comprehendible at least, the only thing I have understand so far, was that it has something to do with the Three-headed beast we once fought!" He said with a worried glance in his eyes.

"I see…, you think this thing was once again unleashed?!" I asked him.

"That's the question, but it seems that it was not strong enough either to save Yumegakure from being attacked, at least the way Taisa-san looks like!" Tsunade stated.

"Uuuh!" Suddenly Taisa stirred and slowly, under minor pain and drowsy from the medics, opened his eyes.

"Where am I?!" He asked.

"You are in the Hospital of Konohagakure!" I stated.

"I see good thing…, is that you, Naruto-san?!" Taisa asked confused, as he tried to focus on me.

"In the flesh…, say what happened to you, who attacked you?!" I asked.

"I don´t know, all I know is that they came at night and attacked the village, everyone tried to defeat them but they were near invincible, with their swords, as if their weapons were living beings.

They devastated the entire village, as last resort we summoned our Guardian but this was a fatal mistake, they somehow managed to take control over it, and turned it against us, most of my clans-people died.

Ryuka, Yumito and I managed to flee and hide, but both were heavily injured, we need a medic, but foremost we had to know more about these attackers, so I went to spy on them, there I heard that they wanted to attack Konoha next.

I tried to go back where I came from but they found me, I ran away but was blasted off by a massive explosion behind me, fell down a waterfall and drifted away by the river, I was soon far away and I swam back at land.

I knew I had to warn you guys, that's why I travelled, despite my injuries, towards Konoha, I had to warn you, telling you that they somehow managed to amplify the three-head´s power…, it´s way stronger, but also a lot more aggressive than before….

Please Naruto, you guys have to defeat it a second time, we cannot control and defeat it anymore, and I need help for Ryuka and Yumito too, I can´t let them die, they are my best friends!" Taisa stated, trying to sit up but gently being pushed back by Tsunade.

"Of course, naturally we will help you, but you got to take it easy, I will see what I can do for you!" I stated and he nodded lying back down.

"Kakashi-sensei on a word, please!" I said and he nodded.

Together we went back to the Office.

"Alright I need you to stay here and take upon the rule for some time until I come back!" I stated, as I began to pack my Ninja-tools together.

"You think I can easily let you go now, especially after that attack yesterday night, you are the Hokage now Naruto, you can´t just come and go how you like!" Kakashi-sensei stated, trying to reason me.

"I know that Sensei, but that´s exactly why I have to go, I won´t let Konohagakure being endangered once again, not like yesterday night….

This time I have been warned beforehand, about the attack and I shall be damned, when I let this beast coming any closer to the town!" I stated with a stern voice.

"I need most of the Jonins in town, in case something happens, I cannot send them all to a certain death so easily.

You know how strong it has been, you once fought it alongside of me and when not even the Village from which this beast originates, can keep it in check anymore, then I have to go, I became a lot stronger in the past 19 years, and you know that.

The last time, we barely were able to defeat it, and now, according to Taisa, it shall have become even stronger and aggressive and it´s on the way to Konoha, seeing that Taisa was surely a bit faster than them, it is surely not far away anymore.

Also, it bugs me what Taisa said about the attackers!" I explained.

"You mean the thing with the sword as strong as being living things themselves…, you think about the Five Scourges of World-conquest we once spoke about, am I right?!" Kakashi-sensei asked.

"Indeed, it all sounds like that, and if I have just one chance to take out a severe threat before it strikes, it´s my duty as the Hokage to do so!" I stated stubbornly.

"I guess you are right, as hard it is for me to admit, but you might probably be the only one who actually can defeat them anyways, beside of Neherit and Sasuke perhaps!" Kakashi sensei stated.

"Probably, but I also know I cannot do this alone, I need strong comrades on my side who got my back!" I stated, as I thought about who to ask me to accompany me.

"I would like to take Chouji with me, his giant form could come in handy to restrain the beast long enough, to strike against it.

And perhaps Yamato-Sensei for the same reasons, but then we only have maybe taken care of the beast, leaves the Attackers with these Swords…, geez what to do!" I asked myself.

"It would be best to defeat Sword-masters with Sword-masters, so why not asking Kirigakure to lent us their five Swords-man, that would also be a nice opportunity for them to proven their claim of being the strongest in Kenjutsu!" Kakashi-sensei suggested.

"You´re right I guess, but it will last a bit until they arrive, at most 6 days, and I cannot wait so long, knowing this thing and the attackers most likely could attack the town at any time!" I stated.

"That's indeed true.., geez what to do…!" Kakashi mumbled and we both thought about.

"As Kenjutsu-masters I almost only know Sasuke or Killer B, but Sasuke is already near the borders of the Land of the Demons, and Killer-B is already back in Kumogakure, he would need most likely as long as the Five Swords-man from Kirigakure!" I explained.

"That's indeed true!" Kakashi stated.

"Well if you need some of us, we would likely help you!" A voice came from behind.

I looked up and saw Tsunade standing there with the other Ex-Kages, Mei-san, Oonoki-san, A-san and with Shizune and Tsume Inuzuka.

"We might be Old, but we still have a lot of fire within us!" She said.

"Well if you think you can do it, I will greatly thank you for your help!" I stated and they nodded.

"Alright with them on our side we might most likely win this!" I stated and Kakashi-sensei nodded.

"Alright I will handle things here, just look that you are back home soon, got it!" he stated and we nodded.

"Roger, well then I just have to bring Yamato and Chouji here!" I stated.

"Meet me at the gate in 30 minutes!" I said and they nodded.

I walked out of the office and speeded down to the Akimichi villa.

"Hello Hokage-sama, what are you doing here!?" Chouji´s mother asked me, as she just walked out of the door.

"I´m here to ask Chouji about a Mission!" I stated truthfully and instantly I saw the worry in her eyes, which had intensified ever since her Husband died during a mission.

Chouchou-chan had been just 5 years old to that time, the poor girl adored her grandfather, who constantly pampered her beyond all measures behind Karui´s back.

"I see…, is it dangerous?!" She asked and I felt with her.

"I wouldn´t ask him if it weren´t, he´s most likely the only one who actually can restrain the enemy long enough for me to strike!" I stated truthfully.

"You will accompany him?!" She asked confused and in wonder.

"Yes, the situation requires it, I will not lie to you since it's about your son, it looks like a new attack is directed towards us, as strong as a year ago during the same time!" I stated and she gasped, we both were remembering Momoshiki´s attack all too well.

"No way, we were attacked only yesterday night, how can this be…, say are we already in a war perhaps?!" She asked.

"I don´t know, at least we don´t completely know the enemy yet, so we cannot truly say that he´s a warlike threat, but if we cannot stop him right now, it most likely will come to a new war, but I will do anything in my power to prevent this!" I said and she nodded.

"I see, well I hope it doesn´t have to come this far, the last war was worse enough!" She stated, shuddering.

"Yeah I know!" I stated, knowing this claim all too good.

"Well then, I got to go, I have to go to the market, we might have some people less now, due to Karui and Chouchou´s mission and Chouji´s now too, but I have to get a full food-chamber for when they come back!" She stated with a sad and worried smile and I nodded in understanding.

"Yes that would make them happy for sure when they come back, and I promise you they will!" I said.

"I know, thank you very much, well then, see you later!" She stated, as she bowed and walked away, I wonk her goodbye.

"Chouji, are you there?!" I shouted, as I turned around towards the front door to the mansion.

"I´m in the garden, come on in Naruto, I mean Hokage!" Chouji shouted from beyond the walls of the house.

I, knowing the way since my childhood, entered the house and made my way towards the tall man, who was giving his Zen garden a new style.

"What gives me the honour, Hokage?" He asked.

"I need you for a mission, remember the Yumegakure-case from before the war?!" I asked him and he thought for a while before nodding.

"Yeah I remember, Konohamaru-san had been abducted by those Shinobi and they released some kind of Guardian beast because they thought you had destroyed their village, wasn't it…, what´s with it?!" He asked.

"Well as you might know has later on being proved, that one of their very own Ninjas had been responsible for all the misery, using a fake Kurama…, we defeated the beast and resealed it.

Later on, the alliance with them had been refreshed and we became friends with the ones who attacked…, anyways, it seems that the village was lately attacked by a group of people which most likely can be classified as s-rank threats, similar to the Akatsuki, according to their power at least.

We have a witness.

We don´t yet know what their reason is, but it seems to us, means me and the other Kage, that they might want to wage war against the five nations and they might be most likely responsible for last Night's attack as well.

Well the thing is, they attacked Yumegakure, devastating it and killing most of the inhabitants, letting them, as their last resort, unleashing their guardian Beast.

They captured it, overtook control about it, amplified it´s power and turned it against Yumegakure, destroying the village.

Not even the Shinobi of Yumegakure could keep it in check anymore, and most of them died during the attack.

Taisa, a friend and member of Yumegakure, has been found in the forest not far from the gate, to deliver an urgent message and seek help for his friends.

According to him the beast has set in motion and comes here to attack Konohagakure alongside of the group!" I explained the current situation to him.

"No way, but why, why would they attack us, how shall they even bring such a beast under their control?" He asked.

"Dunno, we probably will find out after defeating them, our mission is to find Taisa´s friends, and bring them to Konoha to help them with Medical treatment, should Tsunade not be able to heal them at place, furthermore do we have to stop the beast and the attackers!" I explained.

"Our mission, you mean you accompany me?!" He asked dumbfounded.

"Well to defeat a Beast as strong as a Bijuu, it takes most likely a Bijuu to defeat it, I would say!" I said.

"Sounds logic to me, alright, if I can help you in anyways am I already glad, so you can count on me!" he stated with a determined tone.

"Alright then prepare yourself and meet me at the gate, we will go in about 20 minutes!" I stated and he nodded.

I left the house and made my way over to Yamato-sensei´s house in a rush.

"Well nice to see you Naruto what can I do for you?!" The elderly man asked me, as I knocked on his house-door.

"It´s nice to see you doing well, anyways I need you for an important mission, to prevent the Town to be attacked once more!" I explained.

"I see, two attacks in nearly one day, geez…, and I hoped that after the war it would finally become more peaceful around here, oh how much of a foolish wish that was.

First the case with the Tobishachimaru and the Ryūha Armament Alliance, then the Moon-fall case, the case with Gengo and the Land of Silence and then the plot of Suna´s elder-council against Gaara-san, Orochimarus reappearance in the land of rice-fields, then the attack of Momoshiki a year ago, and all of these little conflicts here and there…

Anyways if you think I can help I will logically not hesitate, count me in!" He said, despite of his old look was he still strong and agile, an after effect of being Orochimarus experiment.

"Nice, I appreciate your courage and passion, then see me in ten minutes at the gate, next to you and Chouji also Tsunade, Mei-san, A-san, Oonoki-san, Shizune-san and Tsume-san of the Inuzuka clan will accompany us!" I stated.

"Wait you are coming with us, who´s going to take upon the village?" He asked.

"Well obviously Kakashi!" I stated.

"I see…, poor guy!" He only stated and I knew what he meant.

"Kakashi hates paperwork, the very same way as I do!" I thought with a snicker.

"I guess that counts to all the Hokages, but after all one has to do it!" I stated and Yamato nodded.

"I´m lucky I haven't to be the one!" Yamato-sensei only said, while he grabbed his backpack full of Ninja-tools, always prepared in case of a mission.

Together we rushed towards the Gate where the others were already waiting.

"Alright I will tell you the details on our way, since we don´t know from where exactly they will attack from, it would be easier to start by looking in Yumegakure´s direction!" I explained and they nodded and so we rushed through the Konoha-forest, following Tsume-san´s Ninken, who followed the trace of Taisa back to where he came from, means towards his friends, I hope we aren´t too late though.

"Why didn´t you took one of the Hyuuga clan with us, they could be of great use!" Chouji asked.

"Maybe, although the clan has greatly changed ever since this morning, are there still many frictions between both former parties, they first have to solve their own problems before taking upon those of others, also don´t I want them to know that I am currently not in the village, if they do know about it, who knows what the elder-council´s sympathizers will pull off again!" I explained to him.

"Sounds logical to me, well then we better hurry, the tall man stated, as we ran through the forest towards our first mission, finding Taisa´s friends and help them with medical treatment, provided by Tsunade and Shizune-nee-san.

That was one of the reasons, why I was glad to have Tsume Inuzuka with us, it was good thinking from Tsunade to ask her already before I had even the thought for it.

I was thankful to have my predecessors on my side, they always helped me out when I needed them.

Parts 2: My Sand-rose and a girl who leapt through time.

Sunagakure to the same time, Gaara´s Pov:

Flying on floating sand was quite handy, especially if you have a way which usually lasts 3 days long, this way we only needed until late Afternoon, to arrive back in Sunagakure.

"Home sweet Home!" Kankuro stated, as he looked over the large dunes down a circular cliff under which a giant plateau lied, in which my Sunagakure lied.

It had been a little over 20 years ever since I became Kazekage, and currently I was the oldest-in-duty of all the Kage and mostly the one who had the lead.

Due to our position, surrounded by huge rock walls and only with one entrance we were fairly good secured, also thanks to Naruto´s Shield jutsu which we held alive with so called Chakra-monoliths, giant rocks which were connected by a wall, which lets the Chakra constantly circulate, similar as within a human body.

This way it didn´t died out so easily, only after some years, also lied in these monoliths a formula to store a Technique.

Naruto just had to renew the jutsu for every 6 years and our town was near impenetrable.

I got to hand it over to Naruto, he had a lot of handy Jutsus in store.

The town was defended and I didn´t had to force it under eternal shadow by using sand as a shield, also would the sand always dissolve when I would get too far away from the town, which was most likely a really bad thing for the people, when suddenly tons of sand rains down on them, covering the town under it.

I was glad that Sunagakure finally accepted me as Kazekage, I had never been easy especially not after the war, so many families lost members in the war and for each had to be made a financial help, for this I needed greater funds, with which the daimyo always had a problem and I always had to make him clear that without the sacrifices these man had made to ensure peace to come, we would likely not even have this annoying conversation and that it would be the least we could do to honour their sacrifice.

It had also not always been easy politically, since some members of the elder councils had problems with my ways to rule, due to this I had to almost completely exchange their members.

At some point they wanted to even force me to marry, like the case with Hakuto showed, in the end she and Shigazane had been a pair and eloped, with mine and Shikamaru-san´s help towards Konoha.

But alone with this was the talk about marriage long not over, they were right, even I got to admit it, we needed an heir for if I ever would die early.

But different from my Siblings had I neither a sense for romance, nor did I ever had contact to woman beside of Temari as my Sister and Matsuri as my protégé.

Matsuri meanwhile became more and more comfortable and acknowledged with weapons under my guide, which made her a quite capable ninja.

I liked her but don´t you think I didn´t went hard on her, just because I liked her for being the first one to come to me as my student that time.

People should never say that I as Kazekage would have no time to train my Students or that I went easy on them and favour them, she became a great addition, out of my guide and her very own determination, to the village, same as Shira and his teams.

He and Yome came back after his parents died on their sickness and ever since they were in a large raid team consisting of 6 special Jonin, who always accompanied me when I had to go out.

Both teams were strong and had been succeeding in their Chunin-exams.

It were Ameno´s team, which acted as main-medic and her partners as attackers, due to their ability of manipulating sand similar to myself and even camouflaging us.

The other three persons were Shira´s team, Yome-san had the duty as 2nd medic next to Ameno and as Scout, and Shira had the duty as my personal bodyguard with his insane skills in Tai-jutsu.

Even after all this years, he still could always defeat me if we trained in mock battles with Taijutsu alone.

Sen on the other hand became a stronger addition to the team after she got some special training from Temari, before the same went to Konoha and married.

This way she could use wind-style Ninjutsu in addition to her Genjutsu, with a second, larger fan, which means that she was responsible for confusing and defending us with both Nin- as well as Genjutsu.

In the years before our marriage and pregnancy, Matsuri had been a member as well, while Sari, her best friend, had to care and raise Shinki and Mikoshi-san became a teacher at the academy.

Yukata-san, Matsuri´s teammate, unfortunately died during Madara´s attack, something which threw Matsuri and Mikoshi for several months out of the line, I tried my very best to comfort her somehow even though I didn´t knew much about that skill, it was more Temari and Kankuro who could calm them down.

It was the first time I saw Matsuri being enraged over me, which got my respect, she completely scolded me with all her might, as I made mistakes over mistakes in my pathetic attempt to find the right words, she even slapped me across the face, screamed at me before running of cring.

I hadn´t felt more miserable in all of my live than at that moment.

Of course she apologized later on, after she had calmed down, for it, but I told her that I had deserved her anger.

I admit, I saw Matsuri always only as a dear student, but during our time together, before and mostly after the war, I found many things out about her, her strength and weaknesses but also her deepest thoughts, things she didn´t even told her friends and teammates.

But since 5 years she´s now even more to me, she became my wife last year, but obviously not without many obstacles between.

First off due to my lacks of knowledge, about interpersonal feelings and acts, about how to set a romantic mood, or about romance in general and how to flirt with girls and mostly how to smile without creeping the people out, which was the hardest part I got to admit.

As a second, Matsuri had to fight with many hardships, for example as the council only allowed me to `marry a woman of a respectable clan and bloodline´, so they said.

Also it gave some severe cases of excessive fangirls who stalked, psychically terrorized her, hurted her and at some point even attempted to kill her, for her infatuation to me and her state as my student.

But despite of being almost constantly pushed in the line of hatred of these fangirls and stalkers, she never told me once that she hated to be near me, but only in that one outburst during her mourning-phase.

I admit, maybe I was a little drawn to her, since she was the first girl, outside of my family, who ever considered to be near me from the very beginning.

I still remember our first encounter, while everybody chose instantly Kankuro or Temari as their sensei, she had been the only one who had chosen me without hesitation, and this impressed me greatly.

Also her will to learn and to become a good student amazed me, despite having a fear of weapons, because of a trauma from the past, in which her parents were killed by various weapons as she had told me, she went to the one entitled, as the most dangerous and ultimate weapon of Sunagakure.

She trained hard and eventually could even shield Naruto from Seimei´s critical attack after only a few hours, having almost mastered the Jōhyō, years and much training later, she became even so strong as to force Shira into using his ultimate Taijutsu techniques during their Chunin exam´s second round.

She even disobeyed orders from the higher ups to safe her comrades and she never chose the easy way but wanted to become strong on her own.

I never understood how people could hate her, I even admired her for her resolve and a little she remembered me on Rock Lee and Naruto, determined, a will to never give up and to defend her friends no matter what.

Coming back home and seeing her greeting me at the gate to the village always made me happy, even when I didn´t really showed it on the outside before she became my wife and had to stay in the Village, also to help Sari with Shinki.

She was one of these people who actually cared and who also knew my dark past, the other fangirls mostly only liked me because of my looks and my, how they called it, coolness, traits I couldn´t care less about, if I shall be honest.

It was only a matter of time for me to feel good in her company, whether we were in a group or alone together.

"It sure is nice being home!" I said approving of Kankuro´s claim, as my glance wandered over the Village.

"It has been too long, I hope Sari´s alright and no too mad about our longer absence!" Kankuro stated, in fear of the wrath of his wife.

She was Matsuri´s best friend, with a temper like a the desert, calm at most time but as harsh as possible, it was plain to see who had the lead in their home.

Matsuri often stated, and so does Kankuro, that she was like a Sandstorm itself, beautiful to see from afar but definitely a horror when you get on her bad side.

"Well we had some good reasons for staying longer, she cannot complain much more about it anyways, as she probably intents to!" I stated weakly, knowing these good reasons were futile to explain to her, if she was pissed.

I walked with him towards the entrance, while he looked rather worried.

"Sure you have married a nice girl but I got a fury back home, whenever I make a mistake I get to hear her rant for about an hour!" Kankuro whined, despite the lots of fights, over the most trivial arguments, which they have, they love each other dearly, which was plain to see.

As a result and evidence of this love, Sari gave birth to a healthy boy, Shinki Sabakuno, who has meanwhile participated as well in the Chunin Exam and has come pretty far, he was actually to fight on the second Day of the last Exam, which now has been postponed to next month where it hopefully can occur.

It was plain to see that Kankuro loved Sari the way I loved Matsuri, but due to my work as Kazekage and due to my lack of romantic oriented feelings, it lasted a long time for us to finally get married, less to get intimate with each other.

In the end we married last year after a, at times quite complicated, relationship of 4 years and now she´s finally pregnant since five months.

"I hope she´s alright!" I mumbled, as I thought about her.

"Hey dad do you think mom´s angry?!" Shinki asked his dad, our still-Genins trotting behind us.

"Probably, we will see!" Kankuro stated sighing.

"Guys!" We heard it from afar after we passed the gate, which surrounded the entire old natural entrance, to the passage between the Desert and the village, for better security.

Only to see Matsuri, Sari and other mothers patiently, or in Sari´s case rather impatiently, waiting for us.

"Sari-chan, my love, how have you been?!" Kankuro stated as he rushed to his wife.

"How I have been, I was worried sick…., suddenly I hear about several attacks in Konoha and then I hear how our son fell into coma for a night, my heart nearly stopped as I heard about it, that's how I've been…., so now tell me, explain me, in every detail what happened?!" Sari asked with narrowed eyes and raised voice, while towering over a cowering Kankuro.

"This is a long story!" He said weakly.

"Well I got a lot of time, Mister, you gonna explain me loud and clear in which danger you brought my son there!" Sari stated with a murderous glance, as she took Kankuro and pulled him away by his ear.

"Oooow…, but…, Sweetheart…, my.., my…, my Sand-blossom…, that hurts a lot you know!" My poor brother whined, as he was pulled away back home.

"Geez why do they have to fight already, we are barely back home!" Shinki, who walked past us, muttered in annoyance.

"Be glad that they love each other enough to fight and to later make up for it, I had never real parents, my mother died shortly after my birth and my father, until his death, always just saw me as a weapon and even tried to let me being assassinated 6 times.

Only after his mortal death we finally learned to get along, and I also finally learned that my mother had loved me all along, instead of, how I always thought, hating me and cursing me due to what happened to her.

Now you see, I rather would have had parents who might fight a lot but equally love each other and me…, you should consider yourself lucky for that.

I know people who never even had parents in the first place, who lost them after just being born, the Hokage for example.

He never had parents, as they died on the day of his birth in order to safe him and Konohagakure, he was hated and despised by the village for most of his earlier life, not even knowing why, until the day he defeated me in our youth.

Ever since, he earned their recognition little by little, training much to become stronger, until he was called a hero due to him defeating strong opponents and always levelling up in his abilities, but as I said, this he did all by himself.

You see, you should really be glad to have parents, who are by your side and who help you getting stronger!" I explained to him and he nodded in understanding.

"I will take the effort to overlook their flaws, uncle Gaara!" Shinki stated, before he trotted behind his parents.

"Do that my nephew!" I stated with a smile, before I walked over to my own wife.

"Good afternoon Gaara, it´s good to see you being back home safe and sound!" she said, as she carefully embraced me.

"I missed to see you…, my love!" I stated, as I kissed her lightly on the lips.

"Well look at this…, you´re getting better at it, this really just melted my heart, my cacti-heart!" She stated, as she pulled me in an embrace.

"My cacti-heart?!" I asked amused and a little confused.

"Well yeah, Cacti, they can be stingy and hard to handle sometimes, but they are worth to grow and blossom, for when they do, they are just plain beautiful!" She stated, as she cupped my face in her hands and gave me another even more passionate kiss.

"I see, Hahah…, so how´s the baby doing?!" I asked her with love as I put a hand on her belly.

"Kicking every now and then.., and I got a surprise for you…., it are twins!" Matsuri stated and I was buff, I was as flabbergasted and happy as I could be.

"Are you serious?" I asked almost breathlessly.

"Yes, the second ultra-sound picture showed it to me, here, look for yourself!" Matsuri stated with a smile and droplets of joyful tears in her eyes, I was captivated by the happy look in her eyes and the photo she showed me.

She had greatly changed in the past years, her hair became a brighter shade, she said it was due to all the stress she had, of living alone and the hard work for that and being harassed by my fangirls on a daily base didn´t helped her either.

After some point I even got her a Bodyguard, mostly to defend her, after she became pregnant.

Still to be honest I knew that it was due to a hereditary disease, that her hair colour paled.

Still, I liked this colour as well, they were gold brown and long, longer than before.

"…Name…, Gaara are you even listening?!" She asked, after a while, while I was admiring her beauty.

"Oh i´m sorry, I was just captivated by your beauty!" I said and she chuckled.

"Oh you sweet-talker, anyways I just said that we should start to search for a name for them already, according to the Doc it will become a boy and a Girl!" Matsuri stated.

"A Boy and a Girl…, I see, that might get difficult!" I stated, as I thought about.

"I thought maybe Sachi (Child of bliss) and Seiko (Force / Truth)!" Matsuri stated.

"Hmmmm, nice…., it sounds good and i´m not saying this, just because I can´t think of names myself!" I stated and she chuckled.

"I guess no matter what we call them, as long as they´re healthy and the name only resembles them a little, it should be fine!" she said and I nodded smirking.

"However, tonight i´m gonna make you a child of bliss!" I whispered with a grin and she blushed as I intended to make her, she´s always so cute when she blushes.

I learned the dirty talk from Magazines and Kankuro, so I was not too oblivious about sex, still Matsuri was probably the most patient woman I ever saw in my live, she never pushed me forward for such things, and even after I told her all about my past she didn´t turned her back on me, something I was most thankful to her.

However wasn´t this the only thing, which made me falling in love with her.

She was always concerned, even as she still was a Jonin, even when she knew of my powers, she never stopped being honestly concerned about me.

And she always defended me when I was injured, even if she risked her own health and life with it, I found this admirable and brave, maybe even a bit stupid.

Yet, her determination to become a strong and skilful Ninja, and her concern for other people reminded me of Naruto and let me see past her fan-girlishness and see a person which was, under the shell, vulnerable and weak, but also gentle, kind and honest, who needed guiding and someone to look out for her.

So I decided to offer her a hand, same as she did to me, the only question had been who of both of us would make the first step and grab it.

Whenever I was on mission I took her, Ameno-san´s and Shira´s team with me, sometimes, when he could politically afford it, also Kankuro, even despite of having many more talented shinobi in my Village, were these 7 the only ones I fully trusted, beside of my Siblings.

However with Matsuri´s pregnancy she left the team, as her replacement Kankuro fully entered.

Even today, after all this time, I was regarded as monster and unstable existence by some of the people in the village, mostly the eldest who still knew me how I was during my Childhood.

As I once asked Matsuri why she fell in love with a monster, who brought so much pain even at the age of 4 years, she said that she could understand me.

A being, be it animal, human or even Bijuu, as long as hatred and mistrust is directed at it, it´s only natural that it will become wild and untamed, a danger for others but also for itself, mostly mentally.

However if this being…, has only one friend in this world, one other being that can look beyond all shells, all hatred and darkness, towards the light and the need for warmth, who is kind to it, give it true honest love, the being, which had turned to a beast, maybe can be redeemed from the Darkness, being tamed.

This remembered me on Naruto, he told me that his wife once thanked him, in their Childhood, for saving her from bullies and that these honest words, made him leaving his suicidal thoughts behind and let him becoming strong, strong enough to someday be told these words again.

Long time after I heard this story, I asked myself what might have happened, if I would have met Matsuri in my childhood, before the Village began to register me, as more than just a monster or a weapon.

Would she have been afraid of the Gaara from back then or would she still have seen past his walls.

"Maybe I would have become as optimistic and friendly as Naruto, instead of a being only living for the next kill!" I thought, as I looked into Matsuri´s gentle eyes, who smiled up to me.

"We probably should go home, I can tell you might be quite hungry and tired!" Matsuri stated and I nodded.

"Kazekage-sama, I have an important message for you!" I heard it behind me.

"What´s the matter?!" I asked as I turned around.

"A Message from the Gate-guards, a Girl has been found in front of them just a few minutes ago, in strange unknown attire, she was dehydrating and has weakly fallen unconscious, she does not bear any belongings, expect the clothes on her body, or anything that identificates her, but this medallion.

Also the scouts near the border to the Blaze-desert reported, that a massive sandstorm, stronger and bigger than ever before, is on collision course with the village.

Assumedly 300 meters high!" The shinobi stated, and gave me the medallion, I was buff.

Such a storm could likely cover the whole town, luckily we have the shield, but to dig through all this sand will be a pain in the butt.

"Alright let the Wind-users go into Position at the outer borderline and here on our borders in front of the village, they have to blow this sandstorm away with all might!" I stated and he nodded.

"As for the girl, bring her in the hospital and guard and observe her in a team of four people, I will come over later, keep me reported about the wind-user-squads success, understood?!" I asked and he bowed.

"Of course Kazekage-sama!" The man stated and vanished.

I looked at the medallion and decided to open it, what I saw shocked me to my very core.

Inside was a picture, of me and Matsuri only a little older and next to us stood each a child with red hairs.

In the lid of the medallion stood a name and a date of birth.

"Sachi Sabakuno, born the 19.10, 19 Y.a. NWWIV (19 years after Ninja World War 4)

Beloved daughter and sister, for that you never will forget us, even if we die before you!" I read together with Matsuri.

"This is impossible…, we only decided for the name five minutes ago, but the date is from 3 months in the future, how someone could possibly know about this!?" I asked myself without knowing any plausible explanation.

"We…, we should probably talk with this girl, a soon as she wakes up!" Matsuri stated.

"Yeah I think this would be better, it could be a Space and time ninjutsu which she used to come here, but still… why…., why now!" I mused and she nodded.

"We will see, at least we know it is no ambush, since the name couldn´t possibly be used for something like that, after only five minutes of deciding on it!" Matsuri stated.

"My words dear, my words!" I nodded.

Things seemed to go crazy, and with the world holding its breath for unleashing it, stirring up the illusion of peace like a cloud of dust, this here didn´t seemed to be the most craziest what might happen in the next time.

We rushed over to the hospital to look after the girl, inside we could see that I gaves much trouble.

"What´s going on!" I asked a passing nurse.

"Oh Hokage it´s good that you are here, It´s terrible, the new girl which was brought in here from outside, began to attack the doctors and the guards, screaming frantically after her father and mother, that she has to warn them from a great disaster!" The nurse stated worried and we ran after her.

Already from afar we could hear the shouts and screams.

"Let go of me, you don´t understand, great disaster is coming upon us, I have to speak with the Kazekage where is my father, tell me!" She screamed, her tone sharp but if calmed maybe angelic.

"Stop it or I kill you!" I heard a guard saying, I rushed forward and was about to enter to stop the man, but before I could the same was pushed against the wall of the corridor.

With nothing but a fist made of sand.

"Sachi, let him go!" I shouted and suddenly all blood vanished out of the girls face and made place for endless sorrow.

"D-d-daddy!" She shouted, as she stretched her arms out, her hands trying to get a grip on mine.

Her hair was as red as mine, maybe a nuance brighter, she had the same eyes as her mother but I could see enormous force within her.

"Calm down, I am here, let the man go!" I stated as I grasped her hand and pulled her in an embrace.

If I was sceptical before, then this sceptics has been blow off almost instantly, the feeling of holding her in my arm was amazing and I felt a heavy sorrow within me.

"Are you really called Sachi Sabakuno?!" I asked her and she nodded.

"Yes as an evidence I have this Medallion and …. Wait oh no I have lost it…., where is it….., I can´t lost it…., I absolutely can´t do that!" she shouted, as she frantically searched it.

"You, you took it from me, ADMIT IT!" She shouted at the guard with rage in her eyes, as she stretched her hand out again and once again the guard was almost squeezed to death by Sachi´s sand forces, which I recognized as similar to my own.

"Sachi enough, you haven´t lost it, they brought it to us due to identification matters!" I stated, as I showed her the medallion, instantly she let go of the guard, her rage flawed off in seconds, as she practically stormed, like a predator on its prey, onto the medallion.

"My Medallion, you are back, I missed you so much!" she shouted, crying tears of sheer happiness and true sorrow upon having the piece of metal which was so precious to her, back in her possession.

I gave the guard a wink to get everyone but us out of here, in safety.

Part 3: The Suna After-war-Chronicles: The Sand-storm-Bird, harbinger of calamity / part 1

"Sachi, are you really…., our Sachi!" Matsuri asked, tears rolling over her cheeks.

"I know…, I know it´s hard to believe but yes, I am…., if you don´t believe me, maybe you believe him!" She said, as she placed her hand upon mine and suddenly I was pulled in the mind world, my body falling into trance.

"Gaara Sabakuno, it´s nice to see you again!" A voice said and I recognized that it was the voice of no one else but Shukaku.

I looked around to see us standing on an oasis, right in the desert.

"How's it old Pal!" He said, as he looked with these giant eyes at me.

"It has been a long time, since I last saw you…., 20 years long.

Believe me the time in 5 years is hell, the world is scorched, everywhere darkness and demons rule, shadows creeping and evil lurks everywhere, evil even stronger than we Bijuu.

You die, 5 years in the future from now, as you tried to defend you nomad folk, in your last moments you gave me over to your five years old daughter to save at least her and the rest of your folk.

Your son, Seiko, dies shortly after you managed to get out of the fallen Sunagakure, killed by a massive demon, same as your wife and ¼ of the village´s population.

During the next few years you are traveling through the lands in order to find a safe place to live, you come across a devastated Konohagakure, which has fallen because Sunagakure could not help to defend them as they had been attacked, while the Hokage was away.

On your way you meet three children who are traveling with you, the last survivors of Konohagakure, Himawari Uzumaki, and Katsuo Uchiha…!" Shukaku stated and I instantly remembered the two, kids as nice as their mothers and as bright as the summer sun.

"… Rinko Uchimaki and Tsukino Senju!" Shukaku ended his report.

"I see…, what is this great catastrophe which comes upon us!" I asked.

"I don´t know, I slept during this time and was only woken as it was much too late!" Shukaku stated.

"It has been the sandstorm coming up on you, though it is neither a normal sandstorm…, nor does it coincidently hit us, it has all been planned, by the Lord of Calamity, one of the last Jackal-Sages of Inferno.

He has send out his servants, the Five Scourges of World Conquest in order to devastate the whole town of Konohagakure, while the Hokage is away fighting a massive demon, who is about to attack Konoha and who was send as a bait by the Five scourges of world Conquest.

The being that is about to attack right now …, is a Wild-Sage!" Sachi, who appeared in the mind world as well, stated.

And now I was sure this was no Genjutsu, for the things with the Wild-sages was top secret and only very few people who either encountered themselves, or got told by us, knew about them, this girl couldn´t knew about it, unless she encountered them herself.

"Sachi…, tell me, how did you travelled through the time!" I asked her.

"With the secret of Rouran, the Ryūmraku!" She stated.

I was buff to say the least, I heard about this mighty source of powerful ancient Chakra, somewhere in the desert, as I became Kazekage and I also heard about the old kingdom of Rouran.

It got devastated around 40 years ago, but we never could find it after we heard about it during the Mukade-case, as if it´s position had shifted, or maybe the desert didn´t wanted it to be found.

"How did you found it?!" I asked her.

"On our way through the desert we encountered a nomad clan, there I met Princess Sora, the granddaughter of the old and last queen of Rouran, Queen Sāra.

She travelled with us, knowing that we could defend her folk better, as when they travel alone.

We travelled through our devastated world, hid us before the darkness and the shadows, eventually me and her came better in touch, became friends and so we spoke about various things until we came on the idea of traveling somehow back in time to redo all what happened since that day.

She than told me about the histories her mother told her, that there was once a hero, as if out of a dream, who came from far away to help my grandmother against an evil man who had taken control of Rouran, for getting access to the Ryūmraku.

The only thing she later, as he vanished in a bright light, had from him was a blade, she showed it to me and I saw the mark of Konoha on it.

She then showed me a picture of her mother and herself posing before a sculpture of the hero, which had been created out of her memories of that dream, which once stood at the entrance of Rouran before it was devastated.

I recognized the man as Naruto Uzumaki for I saw many pictures of you and him back home, Himawari did recognized him too as her father.

But according to what I heard, this was over 60 years ago, long before Naruto Uzumaki had been born, around 4 years before to be honest, I then knew I had to go to the ruins of Rouran, now I knew, that time travel-jutsus were reality.

The ruins were to give me answers, however no one of the folk of Sunagakure wanted to follow me, they all were embittered about their losses and lost faith in our family.

I could understand them thought, however others said that it was your fault, dad, for not having taken precautions, something I couldn´t let sit upon me, in a massive fight they threw me out of the caravan.

No one could help me, Uncle Kankuro, aunt Sari, they all died during the travel.

Even Cousin Shinki hated you and so also me, all in all I knew I had no help from them to await.

So I was about to go alone, but I got help from my friends from Konohagakure and Sorahi´s folk.

Together we travelled back to the desert and made our way to the ruins of Rouran, there we unsealed the Ryūmraku and travelled all together for 25 years in the past, expect of Sorahi who went back to her folk later but wished us all the luck of the world.

However somehow we were separated, at least I arrived all alone in the desert, I had an old map with me who showed me the location of Sunagakure and so I travelled, until I arrived here to warn you!" Sachi explained and I listened to her every word.

"I see, alright I believe you, so you are saying that what is to come upon us is a Wild-Sage who was send somehow to destroy us, so much I can approve, indeed someone seems to use them as weapons.

You said it was the Lord of Calamity, the last to of the Jackal Sages of Inferno, but what is his objective?!" I asked.

"No clue, but I have heard some rumours about his helpers, the Five Scourges of world Conquest, originally each of them had been strong warrior from over 600 years ago, who proved their worth during the last so called Demon-war.

They were Demon-slayers themselves, until one day one of them, the sixth, went berserk and killed many of their followers and almost them too.

According to what I heard he has been corrupted and possessed by a demon and it lasted long time until he could be defeated, the trail of Blood he left was massive.

The remaining Five friends swore bitter revenge on him, after he fled, however their hatred gave access to their hearts and made it easier to corrupt them through malevolence and dark Chakra, making them sooner or later puppets of evil.

That's all I know about them!" Sachi stated.

"Alright, then we will simply defeat this Wild-sage and then travel towards Konoha to defend it against them.

Sachi I am most thankful for your help and warning, I will take precautions instantly, you made a good job…, my daughter!" I said to her and she teared up.

"I´m so glad…., I longed to hear these words again!" she stated, as she ran up to me and embraced me mentally, before I woke back up from my trance.

"Alright, Matsuri please stay here with Sachi, I will take upon the enemy!" I stated and she nodded.

"Father, please …., promise me to come back!" Sachi stated with teary eyes and it ripped my heart apart.

I walked over to her and Matsuri, I sat myself on the bed and took both in my arms.

It felt right…, so right.

"I promise to all three of you, Seiko included, that I will come back, I will defeat this being, all together we are going to save the world and then we can live as a happy family!" I assured them.

"I believe in you!" Both said in unison and each put a hand to my cheek, I took them both and kissed each of them on the forehead, before I stood up and made my way into my office, there was no time to lose.

We were warned, what we do with this warning is now up to us.

"Kankuro, I need you at the office, quick!" I stated as I dialled his number.

"I hope we make it in time!" I mumbled as I rushed through the streets at the way to my office.

Now came the time for me to test my skills once more, as Kazekage of Sunagakure.

Part 4: Old but not obsolete, Grandma knows best.

Deep within Herim Tarun, Grandmother Chika´s Pov:

The situation was worse than I expected, everywhere it seemed that Battles began to erupt.

"Kaminari no Kuni, Kaze no Kuni, Hi no Kuni, everywhere minor wars have been started by the dark side, it seems to be only a matter of time until the whole world falls into Chaos.

Also thanks to Nasrith´s cowardice we have not even an Army to fight them, sure there are many skilled warriors in the Six Nations, but the problem lies that most of our enemies are invisible to human eyes.

How can you fight an army of beings you cannot even visualize, less localize?

It seems to soon become an useless struggle against a storm we aren´t prepared for, we have 2 months at most, before they awake and after that it´s only matter of time until they fully break free yet again.

Oh how I wish our ancestors would have never created these beings.

And now the Cursed Five have appeared to wreak havoc in Konohagakure…., even with Sunagakure´s help it will be hard to defeat them, they have the power of five of the strongest weapons on this planet.

Five of the six Draconian-Spirit-gears, forged by the Dragon-clan, fortunately, the sixth is in the possession of that Uzumaki boy.

However, in wrong hands this can have fatal consequences.

The Dragon-blade must not ever be obtained by the dark side, Lord Vidadrac's Power on the wrong side can cause our army to fall like stones from a cliff.

We must find the Cursed Five and get the control over these blades!" I thought in deep trance.

These weapons are like sentient beings, if they consume even more hatred, miasma and evil force, they might be strong enough to break the Hell-gates open and the more often that happens, the more demons will attack us.

They already have possessed these five…, this is going to cause Tir-Ehen another incurable scar, which he definitely will blame himself for.

"Just what is your objective Kasai, are you and the others here to take revenge on Tir-Ehen, even though you saw what happened to him first hand, from the entire squad back then, you five have been the only ones to survive, you Six were the strongest demon-slayers back then.

But now, what is your objective, how do you intent to take revenge…. After all this time…, why now.

Tir-Ehen must know about you, ever since he heard about the name of your Weapons, from this assassin you send towards him, 4 months ago!" I asked myself.

"The Five-scourges of World-conquest, so you called them once in a joke because of their immense power, the real Name, Kōgenryū no Goken (Five swords of the Light Dragon) have been gone over in the simple description of them.

Swords in which lies the power to shape and destroy worlds….., no…, could it be…., are your Objectives, the five Colossus, the last of the 27 Demon-lords?" I thought in fear, as I looked into my Bibliotheca.

Here in my own private room, I could research in all peace, it was one of three so called Hidden rooms, rooms which only the old Inhabitants of Herim Tarun know about.

"Ah here we have it:

The Five Colossus of World destruction, ancient beings from a time long ago, sleeping for over 1.000.000 years and woke long before our ancestors even thought about creating the three Titans.

The Council of the Elements defeated them and put them into an eternal slumber, then they put them under massive seals and they were to never woken again.

As the Three titans were sealed the first time, they were sealed with him and Armageddon into the Hell-circles, they are dormant ever since, even when the Hell-gates are broken.

Hephaistos the Fire Colossus, who scorched lands and Kingdoms alike, had been sealed within the northern Ocean´s deepest point at the North-pole.

Orion the Storm Colossus, who ripped lands apart with his typhoons, had been sealed deep within a closed mine.

Zeus the Lightning Colossus, who set many forests and towns ablaze with his lightning, had been sealed within a mountain.

Tartaros the Earth Colossus, who let continents and mountains shatter to pieces with his earthquakes, had been sealed into the southern Ocean on the South-pole.

Poseidon the Ocean Colossus, who let floods wash away whole islands and Continents, had been sealed within the greatest of all active Volcanos on this Planet.

All five of them have Powers stronger than even the three Titans, however are we not able to control them, back then the Wild-Sages were barely able to defeat them, but only after losing almost all members of their respective Clans, human as well as Edemah Ruh!" I read in the book I found.

It had been a gruesome war against them, the whole worlds' surface was destroyed beyond recognition, this has happened long before my time and I knew about it only by my own great-grandfather

And there aren´t many records about this time anyways, it happened before the clan of us Crows had been come to existence as one of the main Clans and the other Wild-sages don´t speak about it, whether they know about it or not.

"I have to warn Tir-Ehen and Rughian…., but I cannot let these rude vandals up there all alone in here, I bet the Castle won´t stand anymore, someone has to keep them in check…., geez I guess I will have to send some of them to get him the Message.

But then again, Tir-Ehen is not the only one in trouble…, I know this Gaara guy might be able to defeat that maddened Wild-sages, but when that Uzumaki Boy is occupied with this three headed beast, it is only a matter of time when Kasai and his Gang would annihilate his entire Village!" I mumbled, as I stood up and made my way outside of my room to walk into the main living room of the Castle.

"What we need are powerfull allies with whom he is able to defeat this beast faster, return to Konoha, defeat Kasai´s gang and to afterwards rush over to help Tir-Ehen.

I can tell that this isn´t going to get as easy as he thinks, I have currently no ability to contact him, that's why he doesn´t know that his revengeful sister is on the way, with some gruesome and powerful comrades in her pack.

Even as strong as he is, he cannot fight against all four of them and it is foreseeable that his comrades have to fight against the demon-hordes which they will unleash to keep them occupied.

I won't be able to imagine myself how he stands alone against his sister and them others, the hate she feels for him is immense…., ever since Nasrith told us that she wasn´t there anymore, I searched for her.

However to find her among our enemies, as one of them, I never would have believed, it pained my old soul, but I knew Tir-Ehen´s heart would break, I need to be at his side when this happens, I know he won´t be able to fight with that new mental crush.

He would be an easy target for them, he needs strong friends on his side to defeat them, that's for sure!" I thought.

"I guess it can't be helped, I should go out myself and travel as fast as possible towards the Land of Demons, but who to keep in Charge…., Yota is too young and I need all of the other ones who are awoken…., we have no one here at the moment…, Ah I know, the Spell of the Living Home, that's how I should do it!" I mumbled, as I used my forces to create a powerfull spell on this Castle, if someone of them inside of here, or from the outside, tries to destroy in any way, then the Castle defends itself and restrains them.

Makes them a part of the Castle until we decide to redo the spell.

We have momentarily many resurrected in here and not all of them like it, the sole ones who aren´t awoken yet are Reika Senju in her now adult body, constructed by myself, Meiko Uzumaki, Itachi Uchiha, Shisui Uchiha, Ryuuzetsu-san, the Taijutsu masters Master Chen and Might Dui and Ashura Otsutsuki , whose soul i gathered after his battles with his brother, i looked a bit out for him, knowing that someday his succesors would become senjus, as in the times before, and so also Our Blood Partners to created the Uzumaki clan, the ultimate symbiosis of Edemah Ruh and Human, before he died i used the Jutsu of the Soul-twins on him, in order to copy his soul, this way the tragic story of his and his brother´s incarnations could unfold and still no one would be able to get his soul for the dark side.

Unfortunately couldn´t i gather Indra´s soul as well, she had been reincarnated already by the time i searched for her, i just hope she hasn´t meanwhile fallen into dark hands and copied same as i did with Ashura´s, if Anubis is behind the last Demon war, it might be most likely that it could have happened.

In the end this is as much as i can do for them all, even fro the Problam Childs, Like the Gold-and silver brothers and the quite uncooperative Tobirama.

Since we need more power and after all also Tobirama´s help, we have ressurected his entire family, he by now gets more forced by the other Kage, but when we give him something he has to defend, other than his son, then i´m sure he freely will help us.

Its cruel but at the moment we are not to be prissy with our means and actions if it´s for the greater good.

"Hello…, who are you!" I heard it behind me, I turned around to look at a young girl with long blond twin tails and ice-blue eyes.

"I´m Chika Mezakan…, you must be Sanaruko Uzumaki if I am not mistaken!" I stated and she nodded.

"How do you know?!" She asked confused.

"I can see anything which happens in this Castle, I am Tir-Ehen's Grandmother!" I stated.

"Tir-Ehen?!" She asked and I rembered.

"I mean Neherit, Tir-Ehen is his rightful name, Neherit… is more like a title!" I stated uncomfortably, I didn´t like to call him this way even if he insists on it.

"Oh I see!" She stated.

"Sanaruko-san…!"

"Please just call me Sana!" She replied.

"Alright, well Sana-san do you perhaps know where I can find your Parents, Menma Uzumaki and Hinata Hyuuga?!" I asked.

"Sure they are currently in the Living room!" The lively girl stated.

"Alright let´s go, I got to talk with them!" I stated with a firm tone.

"Sure, please let me lead you towards them!" She stated, as she led the way.

We came before many old Oil-Portrayals, most of them showed my Ancestors, one of the bigger ones showed Tir-Ehen´s mother.

Unbeknowst to him I used a jutsu on his mother back then, to catch her soul before she could vanish, ever since she silently observes him, through the portraits in this Castle, which i have connected toward her own, even though he has no idea about it.

She sometimes whispers to him in his sleeps to ease his pain or to erase the nighmares he has, only due to this he was able to stay sane for all these centuries, despite having experienced the most gruesome thing ever.

Her Portrayal was, next to his sisters´ the biggest one, it was the portrayal before which he often even slept, eyes puffy read from crying, it is the only time he shows feelings.

It´s not like he isn´t able to show them, but in order to deal with demons and bad souls it is better to not show them, since most of the enemies we have to deal with as demon-slayers, fight massively with psychological warfare and not rarely they try to lure him with empty promises or torture him with memories of his awful past.

This has often made him wanting to quit, and believe me when I say, I would like nothing more than to help him, but I am as helpless as him, I have no idea how to make him feel better, I am since millennia alone, my Husband died 20.000 years ago during the first Millennium War, so I know how he feels.

But I can barely contain my own feelings without getting weak.

I mourn the dead of my Daughter-in-Law, I loved her, she truly was like the daughter I never had, her death stroke me hard but even more the fate of her son beated me down, most of all, because I was the one to curse him with it.

"Sanaruko!" I heard it in front of us, as we arrived in the Living room.

"Mom Dad, this is Mrs. Mezakan, Neherit´s Grandmother, she wants to speak with you!" Sana-san stated.

"I see, what can we do for you.

"I need you to help a certain person!" I stated and observed their every move.

"Aha and who?" Menma Uzumaki asked.

"Your counterpart of this world, Naruto Uzumaki, is in trouble, a being known as the Three headed beast is on the way to attack his village…, however is this only to lure him out of the village, the real attack is being held by a group known as the Five scourges of world conquest, who send the three heads.

They want to destroy Konohagakure, the this-worldly equivalent of your Kagamigakure, in order to decimate our power during the war, or to perhaps later use Edo-Tensei to turn them all against us!" I stated and all who were inside of the living room listened up.

The twins Kinkaku and Ginkaku, Konan and Nagato, as well as Yahiko, Minato, Kushina, Sheena and Marui, as well as her twin-sister Sarui all looked our way.

"Again this Jutsu!" Nagato stated.

"Indeed as you know we can only defeat them by sealing them, but that isn´t so easy by such a large number, also is Sunagakure shortly before being attacked as well.

And the Kage of Kumogakure is out to defeat a cursed Wild-sage, that´s why I have to send out teams who help them.

We need each men we can, when the three titans…, or even worse the five colossus, awake!" I stated.

"Therefore I need you, Hinata-san, Sanaruko-chan, Marui-chan and Sarui-chan, to travel instantly towards Konohagakure and help them defeat the Cursed Five, Minato, Kushina, and you Menma, you have to help Naruto and his men defeating the three Heads!" I stated and I saw Minato and Kushina nodding, same as the kids, the only ones who looked quite sour were Menma and Hinata.

"Why should we, we were brought here against our will and now we are forced to fight for you, this isn´t really what we would call a happy cooperation!" Hinata asked with a snarl.

"Good child I think you still don´t understand do you?!" I asked her, taking her hand like a good old Grandmother.

"When Naruto Uzumaki dies, your world dies as well, after all your world only exists because he does, his soul created your world!" I stated, with a nasty smile to which she looked shocked.

"I think you should know where i´m going aren´t you?

If you don´t care what happens to him, then you will sooner or later never be able to travel back home!" I stated and I almost saw how her entire world broke in shards before her.

"So now that you understood this I will continue.

Sheena, Konan, Yahiko and Nagato, you need to travel towards Sunagakure and help Gaara and his folk against the Wild-sage who attacks them momentarily.

However don´t kill him, try to release him from the curse he´s under and I am sure he soon will become our ally.

There is also a girl there, which is bound to become a Sage of wind, find her and defend her no matter what!" I stated and they nodded without a word.

"Kinkaku and Ginkaku, I need you two to travel towards Kaminari no Kuni and help the current Kage in the Village of the Lightning manes against their wild-sage opponent, once again, don´t kill him, but free him from its curse!" I stated and they were to object.

"Neherit was my student, so don´t you dare thinking that I am only an old granny, he might be stronger than me by now, but I still have some tricks he don´t know.

If you really want to know them first hand, you are free to object and attack, but believe me, I won´t go so easy on you, like Neherit, no matter what, even if I kill you perhaps!" I stated sweetly, but they felt my deathly aura because they backed away.

"Are we having a deal, for food and lodging you gonna do some missions conducted and surveyed by us and as you know most of you are alive for only one year, so it lies on us, Neherit and myself, to decide whether this life you are living, is worth to be extended or not!" I explained and they nodded slowly in agreement.

"Alright, meanwhile I will travel towards the Land of demons to help Neherit and the others, however always think on it, I see anything you guys do, my eyes are constantly watching you!" I stated, as one of our crows flew on my Shoulder, i smirked evily and they all shivered.

"Now go, my Crows are standing prepared outside in the main-court, they gonna bring you to the location I told you, now go, we have no time to easily give, time is precious!" I stated and they nodded, as they walked into their rooms to get their Ningus and clothes, I enlarged some of our crows and send them to the outer court after telling them where to fly.

"I Hope you are alright Tir-Ehen, wait for my arrival!" I thought.

"Nairuna!" I shouted and through a window a crow appeared, she was the sister of my Eterna Rugh-on, who´s souls co-exist with my own and comes out at night.

"How may I help you my mistress!" The Crow asked.

"I need you to travel towards Rughian and Tir-Ehen, I want you to tell them, that I am on my way and that I ordered others to come later after us and that the objective of the Cursed five might be the Five Colossus!" I stated and the crow paled.

"Are… are you sure my mistress!?" She asked in shock.

"Dead-sure!" I stated.

"I will go instantly, I will bring the message to Rughian-sempai, I hope he is alright!" She stated, as she flew out of the window to search for her love-interest.

I always saw Nairuna observing Rughian with this sempai-notice-me look in her eyes.

I knew that she was in love with Rughian for a long time, but for Rughian she was more like a Little Sister which he cared about, also was she no Eterna Rugh-On and had no human form, like him or her sister.

I wanted to make Nairuna Chikara´s Eterna Rugh-On, but then I was chased and banished, I ask myself who they made to her partner.

"Well then, I should prepare myself…., but with this body I am no real help, sorry to say that Regania!" I stated as I contacted my Eterna Rugh-On, my most precious friend, who even sacrificed her own body for me to survive so long, that's why I gave her eternal life.

"No offence taken Chika, but what will you do?!" I asked.

"Well as much as I have heard and seen last night, through your sister, has Chikami´s soul going over towards this Uzumaki girl…, which would mean that the body in the cave has no purpose anymore, so I might as well take it for myself…., before it goes to waste!" I stated.

"I guess you are right!" Regania stated in thought.

"Then let us go, this might last some hours for transferring my soul and as I said before, time is precious!" I stated and I felt her approval.

"Wait for me Tir-Ehen, I will come to save you from this!" I thought, as I opened the secret door to the Crystal-cave under the Castle.

Part 5: Leeten: A Punching romance!

Senpou´s Pov:

The time had come, finally, after many hardships, I would finally get to know how my mother and my father came together, since both never really talked about it and when they do, they only always speak vaguely about it, not enough to get a clear picture.

"Alright then, here we go Senpou, my eyes are rested and as you know, I hold my promises!" Bolt stated, about an hour after he read the past of Akihito´s parents.

"Finally!" I stated, as I eagerly took one of my kunais and slit lightly in my hand, they were always bruised due to my training, so it was not really a big deal.

I took out a Handkerchief, which I had with me ever since I knew about bolt´s ability, and dripped some of my blood on it, before giving it over to Bolt, while Sarada healed my hand again.

"Alright be quiet and patient, I got to concentrate, this might last a bit so calm down and do something meanwhile!" Bolt explained and I nodded urging him to begin.

"Alright then, here I go!" Bolt stated and he began to concentrate, before his eyes changed to pitch black with that strange iris

"Finally i´m going to see what really stands behind my birth!" I mumbled joyful, as I observed Bolt, while he was in trance.

Inside of Senpou´s blood-memory, Bolt´s Pov:

I dived again and this time I arrived at an old building, it was old and looked rather forgotten, however I could see light in some of the windows.

"Naruto, come back here, how dare to run away, take your punishment like a man!" I suddenly heard it and I was buff, I saw how my dad, not older than 4 years at least ran out of the front door, an angry elderly woman at his toes.

It was the least I expected to see in Senpou´s memories, but then it hit me like a brick.

"It´s the orphanage my dad grew up until the age of six!" I said inwardly, as I put one and one together, rather quickly.

The vision before me flew up to one of these windows, in which a girl with long hair stood and watched outside, it seemed, according to the calendar at least, to be the day of the Rinne-festival.

"What do you think, he has done now?!" A boy´s voice in the background asked.

"No clue, probably something stupid again, no wonder he never gets presents!" A girl's voice stated.

"Just forget him he´s not important, I mean he is just a nuisance anyways, Mrs. Haru says the same, and every day he makes things and life worse for everyone!" The voice of another boy stated.

"You guys have just no idea…, behind his smile and Stupid acts lies a sorrow and a need for recognition…, any kind of it, to at least have his existence being proved!" The girl on the window muttered under her breath, looking at the group out of the corner of her eyes, with a sour expression, she didn´t liked them, not one bit.

"Tenten, what´s the matter?!" A boy, whom I unmistakeably recognized as young Rock lee, asked worried.

"I can't stand these suckers anymore, why do they always have to pick on him, can´t they see that he just want to have a friend…., someone who acknowledges the efforts he makes…., who acknowledges his existence as a human being.

However I am long not better, I guess…., whenever I want to ask him I hesitate myself, why…., what is it on him, which should make me feel this way?

As if something malevolent radiates out from him, but he´s nothing but a normal boy, isn´t he?!" Tenten-san asked Lee-san, who could only shrug his shoulders.

"I don´t know, I know not enough to judge about him, therefore I cannot really help him either, it does not seems like he actually even searches friends, all he ever does is fail in doing things or pranking the adults and bringing their wrath upon himself.

Still I think they do are taking their anger way too much out on him, other kids of this Orphanage make exactly the same amount of pranks, mistakes and other chaos they bring…., but Naruto is the only one who gets constantly punished and who never before got even the glimpse of a present for the Rinne-festival.

Also it seems to me that the kids just have to blame Naruto, for their very own mistakes, and the grown-ups believe them.

It seems to me as if they just search for some reason to punish him!" Lee-san stated worried.

"But he´s strong I never saw him crying before!" He stated with respect.

"Yeah but he´s crying on the inside, I can see it.

Beside of us three, everyone in here had once parents for at least more than 2 years of life, they either died during missions or during the Assault 4 years ago!" Tenten-san stated.

"Ass-…., what?!" Lee-san asked confused.

"Assault, means an unexpected attack!" Tenten-san explained.

"I see…, you are so smart…it´s awesome you know!" Lee-san complimented the young Tenten-san who blushed.

"I just…., like to read…., Baka!" She mumbled embarrassed.

"Anyways I can understand how he feels, still it is not really a good way to make so much trouble, he should rather do other things, good and positive things which gets him recognition…, I guess I should talk to him a bit about that!" Tenten-san stated.

"If you think this helps, you should go for it!" Lee-san stated with glowing eyes, making Tenten-san blushing yet again.

The scene changed and some time had passed, it was summertime as much as I could see.

"Tenten…, you said you are my friend aren´t you?!" A tiny version of my dad asked a tiny version of Tenten-san.

"But of course I am!" The same replied.

"Then promise me, a promise and vow never to be broken…, promise me that we will always be together and look out for each other, like a family!" Dad stated with glimmering eyes.

"Of course I promise!" Tenten-san stated with a happy smile.

The scene changed yet again.

This time it has been a few years later, it seemed to be in the winter and I was so close to Tenten-san that I heard her thoughts, it though was as if I was Tenten-san herself, this never happened before.

"Its now a month since Naruto was thrown out of the Orphanage at night, without us all knowing…, I couldn´t even hold my promise to him…, I honestly couldn´t understand the world anymore, all this cruelty was raised to a whole new level.

Naruto, like all of us, needed help, guiding and care…., maybe even more than we do…, but to me it looked as though the matron was more than eager to get rid of him.

I know he was a troublemaker, but throwing him out, with nothing but the clothes on his body, out on the street on a rainy, snowing and ice-cold night was just plain cruel!" I (Tenten) thought in full sorrow, as I looked outside towards the street where a month ago, a friend vanished.

I made it, after 6 years of distance, ever since we both were raised here in the orphanage together, despite me being a few months older than him, I managed to finally come close to him and talk a bit with him and even came as far as to befriend him a year ago.

Of course he was not as the matron always said, he was actually quite sensitive under the shell, he often cried and, even though he tried to hide it behind a mask, was terrified by all the hatred directed towards him.

"However he also was glad and full of joy, that I decided to become his friend.

Lee-kun also wanted to be friends with him but before he could do that, the Matron suddenly told us that Naruto was no longer one of us.

I could not even help him, even as I wanted to go warn him, I was enclosed in my room by the matron.

And so he was chased out for no reason.

What kind of friend was I, if I didn´t even could help him, less share his pain with him, seriously what is wrong with this place?!" I (Tenten) thought for the millionth time as tears pushed hurtfully in my eyes, to be released.

"Ever since that day I haven´t seen Naruto again, only 2 times indirect, as he looked with a hurt and terrified glance at the orphanage from the corner of a house.

And another time, a few weeks later, as he walked past and gave the orphanage a glance full of hatred in his eyes.

I saw him from my window, and I think he saw me too, but he averted his eyes and went away.

I had to admit, as I saw his glance he showed me, I nearly pissed myself.

That was the moment as I knew that he would never forgive me, even if he would know that it wasn´t my fault, he wouldn´t forget that I couldn´t help him, or better said that I didn´t fought enough to help him.

How much wrath he must have inside of him, not that I didn´t understood this wrath.

I have seen it often when we all went into the centre of the village.

The glances the people gave Naruto were terrifying, as if they denied him his very right of existence.

And now he was thrown without a halt into this world of hatred, he looked wasted and beaten up, but still he stood strong, as much as I saw, he fought, harder than I ever could imagine anyone doing.

And still here I sat and worried about my own, how selfish could I be, I should think about how to help Naruto as soon as I can get out of here, next year I finally could enter the Ninja Academy, maybe I than learn how to help people like Naruto!" I (Tenten) thought.

"I´m thinking way too much about him!" I (Tenten) mumbled and blushed, as I recognized that he haven´t gone out of my mind since his disappearance, even if I tried to focus on my own business, it was not a second that I didn´t worried about him.

Was this what Friendship means?

"I hope he´s okay, I wouldn´t even dare to imagine, how it should be to live on your own with no one who cares about you, I definitely underestimate the pain of it!" I (Tenten) mumbled.

"That does sound harsh I would say!" I (Tenten) heard a voice from behind, startling me to death.

"Lee what are you doing, sneaking up on a woman from behind?!" I (Tenten) asked him, after I pummelled him in anger.

"I´m sorry, you seemed deeply in thoughts, I called you but you didn´t answered!" Lee-san explained.

"Ooooh…,I see, i´m sorry for beating you up I was in deep thoughts!" I (Tenten) stated.

"No need to be, the punishments from Gai-sensei are way more intense!" Lee-san stated.

"Gai-sensei again, lately you are only hanging around with that crazy guy anymore, where are the times when we had fun together?!" I (Tenten) asked him.

"Well he helps me to become strong enough to still enter the Academy next year, then I am finally 7 years old, old enough to be accepted, despite everyone saying I wouldn´t make it.

He also once only knew Taijutsu and still he was allowed to enter and he became a great Jonin, I aim to become a great Ninja just like him and eventually to surpass him one day, so I go to train much!" Lee-san stated and I could understand him.

I trained too to become strong enough to enter the Academy, but despite Lee still being my friend I found myself lonely, someone just missed.

I really would have liked it to train with Naruto too, I knew he had the same wish as me, to become a great Ninja, he, before he was thrown out, had the even crazier wish to become the Hokage.

All in order to become a person, respected and liked by everyone, of course for him, as a boy hated by practically anyone, it would be the ultimate achievement.

However now it looked as well as this wish was something unreachable for him, now that he was all alone and without anything to hold on to.

"I miss Naruto!" I (Tenten) stated openly towards Lee-san.

"Me too, however he had to have done something so terrible that every grown up hates him, something we kids don´t know, I mean there is no other explanation to why he was thrown out!" Lee-san stated in thought and I looked at him in shock, I didn´t even wanted to believe such a crap.

I remembered the cheerful sensitive boy I liked as a friend, what could he possibly have done to get him the hatred of everyone in the village, I simply could not imagine it.

"What do you mean, what do you want to say with that?!" I (Tenten) asked Lee-san in disbelieve.

"Well there have to be a good reason don´t you think so, otherwise I cannot understand it either, I mean those few pranks cannot truly be what makes them this spiteful against him, maybe he has committed an unforgiveable crime, I mean what exactly do we know about him anyways?

Nothing, we know less about Naruto than about anyone else here, so if he has done something terrible in his past, why should we get involved with it, it could be that we later only get problems if we keep being on his side.

Besides do you honestly think he will remember you as his friend, the way you were before, you honestly think he would still be friends when we are here in the warmth and he out there in the cold of December, with nothing in his hands to call his own, but the clothes he wears.

His hatred towards the Orphanage won't just be directed to the matron and her helpers, but surely also to us, the orphans who are still here in that comfy home of ours.

I mean, when we ever meet him again, would he even look at us as his friend, hardly I would say, am I right?!" Lee asked to make his point clear, and as less as I wanted to hear it and admit it, he was right.

But still I didn´t wanted to feel the same way he did.

"How can you say that Lee, what kind of friend are you, even if I know I can´t help him the way I am, doesn´t that means that I can just simply forget him and his misery.

I´m sure someday I can help him and I know he would accept it!" I said to him.

"You honestly think he would accept that help of yours?!" Lee stated with a glance outside in the winter hell.

"Lee…, how could…!"

"I met him…., it was as I came back from my training with Gai-sensei last month.

He stood there and was about to walk away from the orphanage entrance.

I wanted to speak with him, but he simply ignored me and went past, I called out for him, I even grabbed him at his arm as he didn´t answered.

He glared at me, I tell you I never saw more empty eyes and still there was a dangerous fire in them, almost inhuman.

I nearly pissed myself and I admit I backed away.

He spat before me and said that I should return back to my comfy warm home and leave him alone.

Do you know how I felt myself Tenten, I knew I was never as close to him as you had been, but I felt worse, uncomfortable in his surroundings.

When I asked him, if he at least wanted me to give you a message, he only said that he had nothing to say to you.

I quote `why should I ask a traitor for help, less speak to her?´, that's what he said and that is about how much he cherished your friendship to him, face it Tenten, he long has forgotten about your friendship!" Lee stated and I was shocked to the core.

I had to laugh about this absurdity, of course, who was I kidding, if I would be in his place, I would might feel betrayed as well and maybe even full of hatred.

"I knew it… hahaha…, I knew it ever since I saw that glance he gave me back then, that he will never forgive me for not having been able to help him, for not keeping our promise!" I (Tenten) thought, as I tried to hold my feelings back, before I burst in tears and ran away to my room.

I threw myself on my bed and cried the whole night ignoring the howling of the winter storm outside, but I could not ignore the pain in my heart for the boy who was freezing out there, that's why I was opening the window to let the coldness envelop the room, I pushed my blanket away wanting to freeze the same way as he most likely did.

But it didn´t lasted long before the door was thrown open and the Matron stormed inside.

"What the hell are you doing Child, you gonna catch a cold and we ain't paying the bill to have us freezing aren´t we!" She stated as she ripped down the window and closed it.

"Look at you all shivering and cold, what were you thinking?!" She asked me (Tenten).

"I wanted to freeze, to shiver, to feel that I am alive and suffering, just like him!" I (Tenten) mumbled.

"Like who, who´s suffering?!" The matron asked.

"Like Naruto, he´s suffering out there, why didn´t you left him here, why did you had to throw him out, what did he do to you and everyone for him to deserve to suffer, if he does I want to suffer the same as he does!" I (Tenten) stated.

"Stop it Tenten, you are out of your mind, why would you suffer for such a nuisance?!" The matron asked with hard voice.

"What did he do to you?!" I (Tenten) asked with equal hard voice.

"It doesn't matter, he´s not here anymore and we should be glad about it, as long as we don´t be involved with him anymore, we can live our live in peace, so come now we got to heat you up, I don´t want you to catch the flu!" She stated, as she tried to grab my arm, but I dodged and jumped into the corner.

"No, no, I want to suffer, why can´t you understand this, why do you care so much about me but so less about Naruto, what did he do to make you hate him so much?!" I asked.

"It´s complicate to explain and also it doesn't concern you, so stop asking me, come now!" The Matron shouted in loud voice, startling me.

"O-okay!" I stated quietly.

"Very well off to the bathroom!" She stated faking friendliness.

I (Tenten) sighed and went with her, knowing I wouldn´t get to know anything from her.

The scene changed once again, a few months later, the snow had vanished and we seemed to have summer in this memory, perhaps a half year later, and this time I seemed to be again a mere spectator.

It was a few months later, the day of the Ninja Academy entrance exam.

"We can do this Tenten, today we finally can show how strong we actually are!" Lee-san stated excited, but Tenten seemed to care less about it, au contraire, she was fidgeting and also looking around.

"Have you seen him anywhere?!" Tenten-san asked Lee-san.

"If you search for Gai-sensei, he´s over there?!" Lee-san stated.

"Why would I look out for that creep, what I mean was, if you saw Naruto?" Tenten-san stated.

"You are still going on with him, geez that borders near to obsession lately, you know, why does it interests you so much what he does or how he is anyway…, wait don´t tell me you fell for him?!" Lee-san asked shocked.

"Don´t be stupid, and why are you so dang cold towards what happened to him, you know it wasn´t right…, and just so you know, I just want to know if he´s here to take the exam!" Tenten-san stated enraged, as she kept looking around.

However I didn´t seemed that my father was out here, as much as I heard he came a year after Team Gai to the academy.

"Well it would be highly doubtable that he would take the exam this year, he just has no chance at all to enter!" Lee-san said confidential.

"What makes you saying this…, as if you have more chance?" Tenten-san stated enraged.

"Some kids of the town which I know told me that he´s been seen training all alone, to throw shuriken which he found at places all around the village, or he trains Taijutsu with other things he found, but according to them is his training going as well as nowhere.

That´s why it´s hardly doubtable that he would come this year!" Lee-san stated.

"Perhaps they are mistaken!" Tenten-san stated with a hiss.

"Believe what you want Tenten, but I tell you, Naruto isn´t going to make it!" Lee-san simply stated.

"Why do I even bother with you?" Tenten-san muttered under her breath and walked away.

"Tenten where are you going?!" Lee-san asked as he was about to follow her.

"Don´t follow me you creep!" She stated, with hard voice, which made him flinching and stopping dead in his tracks.

Tenten walked a bit away before she spotted suddenly someone behind the fence to the academy.

From above I could see that it was none other but my Dad.

Tenten-san put a hand before her mouth in shock and then extended it as to try to grab him.

"Naru….!" She called, however, before she could call him, he vanished and ran away.

"Naruto!" Tenten-san thought, as she let her hand falling and looked to the ground in sorrow.

The scene Changed once again and this time it seemed to be another few years later.

"Geez how often do you still want to try it Lee, you never going to defeat Neji, he´s invincible for someone like you!" Tenten-san stated, as she bandaged Lee-san´s arm.

"I swear someday…!" Lee-san began but was interrupted by a furious Tenten.

"Someday what…, believe me, just because you have labelled him your rival, doesn't that mean that I will always keep on patching you up…

Just forget about it, Neji is an impenetrable wall, he´s arrogant, a plain asshole and still he is way too skilled, more than both of us.

You cannot defeat a prodigy like him!" She explained with an annoyed hiss.

"If I keep on believing it, I will someday defeat him!" Lee-san stated.

"Geez, even Naruto might have more chance there than you!" Tenten-san thought, as she kept bandaging and patching Lee-san up in the silence that came after this claim.

Lee-san looked at Tenten-san, only to see her having again the typical far-away look in her eyes, which she often wore these days, ever since she heard that Naruto managed to absolve the Academy a year after her.

"She´s probably thinking about Naruto again…, well it´s not like I can still say he´s a loner and loser, he do had some success as much as Gai-sensei stated!" Lee-san thought.

"I heard Naruto has made it through his first dangerous mission!" Lee-san stated out of the blue, glancing aside.

"Wait seriously?!" Tenten-san asked in shock, her face lit up and her eyes literally shone.

"I had the suspicion she´s in love with him, but I guess it is just genuine care and worry which she feels for him!" Lee-san thought.

"Yeah as much as I heard from Gai-sensei it should have been a C-rank mission but in the end it has been a mission with A to B-rank dangers.

I think I heard him saying that some guy called Zabuza Momochi shall have played a role in it as well.

But according to him they all came back without much injuries…., it might be too much to say that they would attend the next Chunin-exam, but it could be!" Lee-san stated sighing.

"I see, so maybe we can see each other again, I hope he remembers me!" Tenten-san stated with a happy glance.

"I guess it might better he has forgotten you…!" Lee-san stated.

"What the…!"

"Let me continue, you still know how angry he was after he has been thrown out of the Orphanage, you honestly want a continuation of that…?

I´m just saying that it would be better for him to have forgotten you and so be able to start to get to know you from anew!" Lee-san stated sighing, giving up his resistance to speak about this theme.

"Lee…, why, I though you always were against it?!" Tenten-san stated confused.

"He has been your first friend, of course I could understand your resolve to help him, but you wrecked yourself more and more, knowing you had no means to help him somehow.

Hell how often were you caught, that you wanted to go out of the orphanage at night, to search for him and it always ended with you getting in trouble with the matron.

Also…., after having seen him being so mean to you, as of calling you a traitor of friendship…, I felt that I had to preserve you from his wrath.

I just didn´t wanted him to hurt you, physically or psychically, that's why, despite the fact that I knew it would hurt you not to know how he was doing, I felt that I had to keep you from harm somehow.

I had to keep every news, which I got about him, to myself, because you were about to rush into obsessive worry and concern about him and might get hurt over it sooner or later!" Lee-san stated fidgeting.

"Obsession you say.., goddamit Lee I was just worried about a friend…, I admit I was sorry about him and I was constantly concerned about the fact, that I didn´t knew how he was doing and if he needed help…. He´s like a little brother to me after all.

But that doesn't mean that I was obsessed with him, obsession is what you could call your relationship to Gai-sensei.

All I want is for Naruto to finally be happy and have luck in his life, instead of the constant hatred directed to him…, so as it should have been, ever since the time he stood in front of the Orphanage entrance I haven´t seen him anymore, I just wanted to know if he was alright, that was all.

Still…, now that I know that he became a Ninja and even managed to succeed in his first dangerous mission, I am all glad for him!" Tenten-san stated going over from cold and enraged to warm and concerned in an instant.

I was glad for Dad, to have had at least another person beside mom, who cared about him this much.

"I hope I can see him at the Chunin-exam this year, I want to know how strong he has become!" Tenten-san thought.

The Scene changed once again, this time it seemed to be shortly after the Chunin exam and the Suna-Oto attack known as the Konoha Crush-case.

"Naruto?!" Tenten-san asked, as she spotted the Blonde shinobi at Ichiraku.

"Ah…. Tenten was it, am I right?!" Dad asked.

"Yes, you´re right, I wanted to talk to you!" She said.

"First off I wanted to congratulate you for beating Neji and thank you for having defeated Gaara!" Tenten-san stated.

"T´was nothing, I mostly did it because I had to safe Sakura and Sasuke, defeating Gaara was only a bypass to achieving this!" Naruto stated happily slurping his ramen.

I could see plainly that Tenten was nervous beyond believe.

"I wanted also to talk to you because I have an important question…, do you… remember me?!" She asked after a while.

"Remember you, what do you talk about, I mean I do know you are Lee and Neji´s Teammate and…!" He began.

"That's not what I meant!" She interrupted him.

"What I meant is….., do you… remember me… from the… past?!" She asked fidgeting and looking aside nervously, but only got a confused look out of him.

"Until 7 years ago, we both were living in an Orphanage, do you remember me now?!" She asked and saw how Naruto´s mine darkened for the blink of an eye.

"I don´t know what you mean, but anyways you see ever since Iruka-sensei acknowledged me as a Shinobi and further more as a Human being, I told myself to not dwell in the past, but to live only for the future and the here and now!" Naruto stated and Tenten-san understood what he meant and still she didn´t wanted to give up.

"Naruto i´m sorry how this had all happened back then, believe me I wanted to help you and to follow you, but I couldn´t, whenever I was able to slip away in order to search for you, I was soon found and beside protest being brought back to the Orphanage.

Then I was sat under arrest for several weeks, I had no means to meet up with you since you never came back to the Orphanage and I did not know where you lived, or where to find you…, but I never forgot you…

If you still feel anything for me as a friend, I want to resume our friendship!" Tenten-san stated with a begging expression, but my Father remained silent, looking down on his ramen.

"I see, I-I think I should go now…, I-I´m sorry for bothering you…., bye!" She stammered, as she was about to rushing out of the restaurant, tears pushing hurtfully in her eyes…., but she was stopped by his words to her.

"I honestly don´t mind being your friend Tenten…, but I beg you to forget about the past….., it only brings me and you pain, so let´s live in the here and now…

I´m glad and appreciate it that you never stopped thinking about me, but still, the past is one big black hole for me, having gobbled everything up from back than until a month ago, as I met Gaara for the first time, with him I remembered all the darkness of the past.

In the past I hadn´t much things or memories of worth, to be remembered, sure there were some memories I had treasured, like this girl who thanked me for helping her against bullies, on the winter night, 4 years ago….

But I still know those who tried to help me, who made my life, even if just a little, better and easier to live.

That's why I still know who you and Lee are and still I want you to forget about the past, about those bad things that happened between us, they aren´t able to be redone anyways, so just leave it at that.

I am all glad that you decided to become here and now my friend, that´s all I care about Tenten!" Dad stated and Tenten-san nodded, still facing in the opposite direction but she had droplets of tears in her eye, but this time out of joy.

"I see…, well I guess it might be for the best, at least I am glad that you still consider me and Lee as your friends!" Tenten said.

"Are you kidding, Lee is nice and all, but he is still my rival and he´s somehow weird…., but I guess in a good way.

Still, I won´t lose Sakura towards him, never in a million years!" Dad stated with a huff and I saw how these words stung Tenten for a second through her heart.

"Anyways I got to train some more, if I want to beat Sasuke and his Chidori, I hope Kakashi is going to teach me, lately he had only eyes for Sasuke!" Dad stated.

"I bet he will, anyways I too have to go…., Naruto I am glad we still are friends and I hope your training is going to bear fruits, who knows maybe someday we can hold a mock battle against each other!" Tenten-san stated.

"I bet we will!" Dad stated.

"Alright got to go, see you later!" He stated before he paid and ran off.

"Yeah…., see you later Naruto!" Tenten-san stated with a smile and a small blush.

The scene changed and this time it were Tenten and Neji together, they seemed to sit on a bench near the hospital.

"This sure was a harsh battle you had there, who would have known that Naruto could beat you…, then again he always had been up for a few surprises!" Tenten-san stated highly amused.

"Could you at least try to have a little bit of pity for me?" Neji-san stated annoyed.

"Why should I, he only proved what I always knew, that someday someone would come and wipe that smug grin of your face, serves you right Neji.

Maybe you learn to get that Stick out of your ass and be a little more friendly and kind to us, especially to Lee!" She stated amused.

"Geez, glad you have fun!" Uncle Neji only stated, annoyed to no end.

"Well but it really do came as a surprise, I wonder how he did that?!" Tenten-san asked herself.

"I don´t know…., but there was this sudden feeling I had, as I looked at him through my Byakugan, the moment he became suddenly so strong…, shortly before his last attack he ran and punched frontally into my Hakkeshō Kaiten (Eight Trigrams: Palm Rotation).

I seemed to saw a giant beast within him with a tremendous Chakra, I never ever saw something like this, until the second Battle with Gaara…., as he hid himself in that Sand-sphere, it was not so strong as by Naruto but just equally as nasty!" Neji stated in thought.

"It ran an ice-cold chill down my spine, that´s for sure!" He mumbled.

"What do you think it could have been?!" Tenten-san asked.

"I don´t know, however if I should guess I would say that there is something sealed within Naruto, some kind of power, and his words…., as I said to him, that he had no idea what it meant to wear a Juin for one's whole life, he said that he do knew it, very well.

This and the tremendous power like no other in our village has, made me think about something…, something quite silly but also quite understandable if true.

However what I tell you is by now only my suggestion and I haven't been able to prove any of that by now…., I could be also terribly wrong!" Uncle Neji stated.

"What do you mean?" Tenten-san asked.

"Well I thought I felt a Beastly force in Naruto…, and I always asked myself what happened to the Nine-tailed Fox after it has been defeated back then over 12 years ago.

As I said it´s silly, but…, what if it has been sealed within something…, or rather…. someone?!" Uncle Neji said.

"I understand what you mean, and it would make sense, but it is highly doubtable that Naruto would have let this done to him freely!" Tenten-san stated while thinking about the same.

"If he however never knew about it, until recently, it would be an explanation why it is so, I've heard through whispers and rumours of the adults back in the Hyuuga district that this has happen also long time before.

The wife of the First Hokage and the Fourth Hokage shall have been containers for the fox before it attacked the village over 12 years ago.

And in the other Nations it shall exists similar cases, and regarding what has been told from Naruto about Gaara, it is highly imaginable that Gaara indeed is someone like that!" Uncle Neji stated.

"…. Naruto,…, the container of the Nine-tailed Fox…,, it would explain why the adults always hated him…, even as he was only a child….

No one ever spoke about it, they always only told us not to get involved to him and no one even ever cared to explain us why!" Tenten-san stated and she began to laugh, no nasty laughter but a maddening laughter, full of disbelieve and anger.

"Hahaha… and Lee said that Naruto might have committed an unforgivable crime to the village, that it was the reason why everybody hated him…, if anything the crime has been done towards Naruto by the village, not vice-versa.

How dare they hating on an innocent child, who never had a say in this at all…, of course I can understand that people would hate the Nine-tailed fox…, I do to, thanks to him I had never parents.

…. But how dare them hating on the one, who has been made against his knowledge, to the containment of this beast!" She stated with a murderous glance at the passengers.

"Stop Tenten…, as I said I have no prove that this even is the truth, as I said before, I could also be completely mistaken here!" Uncle Neji tried to calm her and it helped.

"If it´s true however, this is hardly forgivable!" he stated with a nod.

"It definitely is!" Tenten-san stated, as she tried to calm down.

"I cannot believe this…., but even if…, Naruto is my friend, he has suffered for so long…, even if I should hate the fox…, I never can hate Naruto!" She said determined.

"Neither can I after hearing this!" A new voice stated.

We all turned around to see Lee-san walking from behind a tree.

"Seems like I owe him a real apology then!" He stated smiling.

"Whatever might happen, Naruto is our friend, and we should never forget that!" he stated.

"…You´re right…, he definitely is!" Tenten-san said as she wiped away her tears.

The scene changed yet again and we could see that Tenten-san and Sakura-san were out shopping.

"It has been quiet lately, without Lee and Neji!" Tenten-said to Sakura who looked at the cucumbers at a vegetable-market.

"I know what you mean, Sasuke lies in the hospital and Naruto is away with Jiraiya, and that at a time like this, even Kakashi has landed in the hospital.

It´s not only boring but I am constantly worried, the same goes for Hinata, ever since her match with Neji she is resting in the Hyuuga-manor, we didn´t even had a real ladies-night lately, I really could use one to build down some stress!" Sakura-san stated.

"I guess you are right….., I heard Naruto and Jiraiya are going to search for Tsunade-sama, as much as Gai-sensei said at least, to heal Lee, Kakashi-sensei and Sasuke, is that right?!" I asked curious.

"Indeed, they departed yesterday at noon, no fear Tenten, I know they surely will bring Tsunade-san back, so she can help Lee and the others.

I mean it aren´t just those three, there are a lot of other injured from during Suna and Oto´s attack.

If not for Jiraiya, I am certain that Naruto won´t ever let them suffer this way, especially not Lee and Sasuke, for Naruto Lee is a precious comrade and rival.

He told me that Lee surely has a long way to go, for becoming the best ninja in just Taijutsu, but with his determination Naruto was certain, that Lee could pull it off.

His journey just cannot end here already!" Sakura-san stated, as she looked in the Hospitals direction.

"I know you can make, it…., I.., I believe in you Naruto!" Tenten-san thought, as she looked in the sky.

"Obviously, just trust me, Dattebayo, Tsunade-san will be back soon with us!" She imagined him saying, which was making her blushing.

"Naruto sure is cool and nice, he´s amazing, he has changed so much ever since that day!" She said absentmindly.

"Tenten…, this sounds as if you know him since a long time!" Sakura-san asked in wonder and awe.

"He and Lee as well as I have been raised in the same Orphanage, back then it was shortly after the Attack of the Nine-tails…

It is to assume that our parents are dead even though we don't concretely know it, since they vanished without a trace.

I tell you it was a dark time, and Naruto seemed to stand in the centre of the mutual hatred of the adults, so also of our matron and her assistants.

I couldn´t understand it, all the other Orphans had parents before the attack and had only lately become orphans.

Lee, Naruto and I were the youngest back then, but all of them seemed to have a hatred in Naruto, they either totally avoided him or made fun of him… for no reason!" Tenten-san told her.

"I heard about him having a harsh life but this is far over what I imagined!" Sakura-san stated in awe.

"I tried to befriend him and after a long time of talking to him we finally became friends, after his sixth birthday, Lee wanted to become friends too, but before they could, Naruto was thrown out of the Orphanage by the matron and out on the street with nothing but the clothes on his body.

It seemed as well, as if she was relieved to have gotten rid of him.

After that day I only saw him a week later briefly out of the window, which has been the last time I saw him before our Academy days, but he barely came to school and I was in a class above him anyways.

He got other friends…, I thought there was no place for me anymore.

Back then as I saw him through the window he noticed me…, and he gave me a horribly angry and hateful glance.

Lee saw him that day too and confronted him, but he barely listened to what Lee said…, he even called me a traitor and said to Lee that he didn´t needed our help.

I knew it was just his wrath of feeling betrayed by everyone, including me, but it hurt much to know how much he hated the orphanage and its inhabitants to that time, from that one moment on.

After that I tried often to sneak away and to search for him to somehow help him, but it only brought me a lot of trouble when I was caught!" Tenten-san told to Sakura-san.

"I see and then…!" Sakura-san asked, they long had decided to sit down on a bench.

"The next time I met him at the introduction of the new students, I was glad to see him among the new students but worried that he might still hated me.

I saw that he was strong-willed but clumsy, it made me quite happy to see that he, beside of his failures never gave up.

I can´t say that Lee and I didn´t failed as well, we only graduated a year before you guys, but only a few months after he graduated, I heard from Lee about your Mission, the one with that Zabuza Momochi!" Tenten-san stated and Sakura-san nodded.

"By the way, did something happen back then, any kind of change with Naruto, some kind of tremendous hidden power perhaps!" Tenten-san asked.

"No I didn´t felt something….., although….., only for a moment I thought I felt an immense amount of chakra, it was quite evil, at least it felt so, but it soon faded away!" Sakura-san stated in thought.

"I thought it was one of our enemies back then but i´m not sure, our battlefield was wrapped by strong fog and I had to concentrate to defend our client!" she stated after a while of thinking.

"Apparently Gai sensei knew more but hadn´t told Lee much.

I was glad that you all survived the mission without injuries…, Lee then said that it could be possible, that you come to the Chunin exams this time.

I was glad as I heard it, I thought that this was my chance to finally make up with him, to apologize about for what happened back then!" Tenten explained.

"And…, did you?!" Sakura-san stated.

"Indeed, some days after Suna and Oto´s attack I met him at Ichiraku and spoke with him, I apologized and he said that the things which happened to him in the past he had chosen to forget and to live only for the present and the future, he stated that he still knew us and that he gladly would remain our friend.

You can´t imagine how glad I was to hear that…, and now he´s on the way to bring us Lady Tsunade in order to heal my Teammate…,, Lee sure can be glad to have such a friend…, so am I!" Tenten-san stated.

"He sure has become strong, I really thought it was Sasuke back then who defeated Gaara, I was really surprised as he told me that it was Naruto who did it!" Sakura-san stated.

"Yes he has become a gorgeous Ninja, strong, trustworthy and reliable, simply a man to admire, i´m so glad…, just promise me to keep an eye on him, will you?!" Tenten-san asked Sakura-san with a smile.

"Sure thing, someone has to do it after all!" Sakura-san replied with a smile as well.

The scene changed yet again, we seemed to be in the hospital this time and it seemed to be some weeks later.

"So it´s true, Sasuke really left on his own!" Tenten-san asked Lee-san who sat in the hospital bed.

"Unfortunately yes, even Naruto couldn´t bring him back, no matter how hard he fought for it, in the end Sasuke left!" Lee-san said, his eyes casted downwards.

"How are Naruto and Sakura?!" Tenten-san asked.

"Well obviously aren´t they all too happy about it, Naruto is really mad and heartbroken that he couldn´t fulfil his promise to Sakura and bring Sasuke back, also he feels himself too weak.

I heard from Gai-sensei that he was assigned to go train with Jiraiya for some time, so it could be that we won't see him for a long time, but I can tell already that when we meet him again, he will be a different person!" Lee-san stated.

"I see…, well I hope he´s gonna be alright!" Tenten-san said worried.

"As for Sakura she is equally sad and heartbroken, but I heard that she wanted to become the Fifth´s apprentice, to become stronger as well!" Lee-san said.

"I saw her running up the hallway every now and then!" he said.

"I see, so that's why she was in the hallway!" Tenten-san thought.

"I have to train as well, I cannot sit around and do nothing, I have to become stronger, so I can support you guys better!" She stated determined.

"Sure thing, I got to train too, I won´t ever dare to stay behind Naruto!" Lee-san stated.

"Obviously!" Tenten-san smiled.

"Well then get well soon, I will meet you at the training field then!" She stated.

"Sure thing, see you then!" Lee-san replied, as she departed.

"Naruto…, I hope you gonna be alright!" Tenten-san thought, as she rushed to the training field.

The scene changed again, this time I ran through a forest together with Team Gai.

"I can´t believe it, the Kazekage has been Kidnapped and Naruto is on the way to get him back…, but if these Akatsuki people, which Gai-Sensei spoke of, are as strong as he said, then Naruto might be in severe danger.

Come think of it, Gai sensei said that the Akatsuki had been once in Konoha, a few years ago, to look for Naruto, they managed to defeat Kakashi-sensei…, can it be, is he really the Containment for the Nine-tailed fox!" Tenten-san thought, as she speeded up a little, though not as fast as Lee-san and Gai-sensei.

"He´s barely back home and already the things turn upside down once again!" She muttered.

"No fear, Naruto surely will be okay!" Lee-san stated, as he recognized Tenten-san´s worried and sad expression.

"Hope you are right, Lee!" Tenten-san stated.

"Naruto is strong, stronger than anybody of us, if someone can bring Gaara back, then it is definitely him!" Uncle Neji stated with confidence.

"I would say the same, I don´t know him as well as Kakashi does, but I can tell he is full of the Power of Youth, maybe not as much as Lee but close enough!" Gai-sensei stated.

"Well if even Gai-sensei says so, I should no worry so much!" Tenten-san stated.

"At ease, something´s coming!" Uncle Neji suddenly said alarmed.

"Alright no more worries, right now I got to concentrate on the here and now!" Tenten-san said with determination.

The Scene changed again.

"Poor Naruto, I can´t even imagine how it would be to loose someone so precious as his sensei!" Tenten-san stated to Lee-san who sat next to her on the ground.

"I know right I mean it would be the same as if Gai-sensei wouldn´t be there anymore, simply vanished, it would be horrible!" Lee-san stated.

"And once again I cannot do anything for him!" Tenten-san mumbled with sadden mood, letting her head hanging.

"That's not true, sure you cannot bring Jiraiya sensei back…, neither can I…, but you can support Naruto, mentally and physically, if he knows that his friends are there for him, the world might seem at least a little brighter to him!" Lee-san stated and Tenten-san looked at him in wonder.

He gave her a Nice-guy pose.

The scene changed, this time it seemed to be during the day as Pain destroyed the village.

"So Naruto managed to defeat Pain, i´m so glad that nobody has died, what a relief!" Tenten-san stated, as she and her companions helped with rebuilding the village.

"Indeed, Naruto seems to be so out of reach lately, I wonder how much stronger he can get?!" Lee-san stated.

"He´s already on the level of a Hokage, when not even Jiraiya could beat Pain and his six bodies together and most of the Jonin lost to just one of his six bodies!" Uncle Neji said with a nod.

"No one of us would have thought that after he has become a Genin!" Ino-san stated.

"But now I've got to say he has really become a man to admire, no to say that he is some real kind of eye-candy, if you look apart of his dense personality!" She stated.

"I think Naruto-kun is just awesome!" Mom stated.

"Sure he is, even I got to admit it, he is, by means of power at least, the closest to the title of Hokage!" Kiba-san stated.

"From a strategic mind we cannot speak, there he definitely needs help, but Kiba´s right from power and determination he definitely is the strongest out of all of Konoha, beside of perhaps Lady Tsunade.

Temari once had witnessed the whole match between him and Gaara and she said that Naruto´s chakra only changed shortly before the last blow, as Gaara had trapped his feet in sand to hold him away from him.

And it also only have been for a brief moment, which means that he basically fought the entire battle with his own chakra, which is amazing when you think about a single ninja fighting against a Bijuu, it sometimes reminds me of Hashirama Senju, the first Hokage!" Shikamaru-san stated.

"It´s true, he might have that tremendous power of the Nine tails in him…., but he does not use it all too often if he can avoid it, he achieved most of the things he did with his on powers and determination.

That's what I like on him, his will to never give up no matter what or how hard things get!" Tenten-san stated, well more gushed, well mom nodded strongly.

"Tenten…, that almost sounds as if you fell in Love with Naruto!" Ino-san teased her in mild shock and amusement, while Mom looked shocked, same as Tenten-san.

"What…, no…, that´s not true, I-I only like him as a friend and I admire the strength of his heart and his determination, that´s all…!" Tenten-san stated blushing deep red, while Ino grinned.

"Also hasn´t he still a crush on Sakura?!" She asked with a tiny bit of hurt in her eyes almost unseen to the others but by mom.

"Possible, however I think he slowly realizes that he has not the ounce of a chance, same as I do, she is completely infatuated with Sasuke after all!" Lee-san stated.

"Geez you guys, it does not really matters who´s infatuated or not, I know we all admire Naruto, but still, the main theme which we had to discuss is what we should do with the news about Sasuke defeating and kidnapping the Eight-tails, that is far more important right now!" Shikamaru-san stated dryly, as he sighed.

"Yes…, Sasuke, hard to say what to think of that…, if it´s true that he helps Akatsuki to gather Bijuu´s, it is only a matter of time when he attacks Konoha and perhaps even Naruto…., we have to deal with him sooner or later…!" Shino-san stated.

"We cannot let anybody else do that, this burden should only remain on our shoulders…, no one else can bear this burden and no one else should be allowed to deal with him, at the very least not some other village.

It´s natural that we won't take it, if some other Nation would kill him, I bet Naruto would run berserk and attack no matter wo would stand in his path to stop him, we cannot let it come to a war just because of Sasuke!" Shikamaru-san continued.

"Unfortunately you are right…, in the end, if Naruto nor Sakura can bring him back, our only option is to kill him, he definitely won´t let himself be imprisoned, that's for sure!" Uncle Neji stated the worst but most rational truth.

Of course every one of them knew this theme would someday come up and it was clear that Ino-san could not take it, neither would Sakura-san or even Dad.

"I know…, I just hope it doesn't have to come that far, more due to both, Naruto and Sakura´s psyche…, and because of Ino too!" Tenten-san stated, worried as she held her friend in her arms for comfort.

"We all hope that Tenten!" Lee-san stated.

"The question remains if we are even able to do so, remember, each three of them have trained under a Sannin…., their level of power is far greater than ours, especially that of Naruto and Sasuke.

I heard Sasuke managed to defeat the Eight-tails with his group consisting out of four people, something not easy at all as we know.

And it is very believable that Naruto would definitely not be happy about it if he knows, he would stop us with everything he has, even if he has to break every single bone in our body.

I´m sure he would let no one else but himself shoulder the burden of killing Sasuke, if it comes so far, especially not Sakura!" Sai-san stated and everybody nodded.

"I think we still should first ask Sakura and Naruto, how they think about this, we cannot simply decide this behind their backs, what kind of friends would we be…, after all they were his comrades and furthermore are they…, or better said, they were his friends, they should know the best how he feels, or at least can think of it…., at least better than we do!" Tenten-san stated.

"Naruto…, Sakura… Ino, I don´t want this, I don´t want to force you to make a decision…., but we have to, or else the situation becomes even more awful!" She thought, as she comforted a crying Ino.

The scene changed again, this time we seemed to be right in the war.

"Neji…, why would you go so far for me…, even give up your life!" Dad asked, as he held Neji in his arms.

"Because…., you called me a genius!" Uncle Neji stated.

"Neji…, noooo…., this cannot be…, this cannot be true!" Tenten though, as she watched how Neji died in Naruto´s arms.

"Ooooh nooooo, Neji!" Lee-san cried, as he took Neji in his arms and cried, mourning his death, as my father, after being brought back out of the dark thoughts by mom, began to share the Kurama´s Chakra between the ninja´s of the Alliance who still were able to fight.

"Naruto…, it was me who once told you the words: I won't let my Comrades die.

I tell them to myself every time, that I will save them this time, but I always have to see, that in the end so many of my comrades die.

I will bear these wounds…, these scars…, for the rest of my life!" Kakashi-sensei stated, as he looked towards Lee-san and Uncle Neji.

"That's why we are Ninja, we are those who endure.

They never let you forget, but they also help you to let your friend live on…, in here.

Our friends are still alive…., in our hearts!" Father said, as he put his fist on his chest right above his heart.

"Friends which you create within a dream, just so you won´t get hurt aren´t real.

That only means that you erase your real friends!" Dad continued and now even Lee-san listened.

"He´s right…, he´s absolutely right!" Tenten-san thought, as she wiped the tears away.

"Be it a Curse or not, i´m gonna safe the real ninjas, right in here!" Father ended his speech.

"The real Neji…, right in here…, you are right Naruto!" Lee-san thought, as he remembered scenes from the past, like whenever he fought against Neji.

Or when Neji told him to someday have a real fight with him, to finally, once and for all make clear what´s better, Uncle Neji´s gentle fist or Lee-san´s wild fist.

"We got to win…, we got to fight on and win this war, so that Neji´s death was not futile…, for the safety of everyone, I will stand by your side, Naruto, Lee, Gai-Sensei, Kakashi-Sensei, Hinata…, everyone, let us beat up Madara´s and Obito´s ass…., for Neji!" Tenten-san though, as my father shared his Chakra with her.

The scene changed again, this time we seemed to be in a dark lit apartment room, apparently a bed room.

On the bed I could see Tenten-san, wrapped in a blanket, staring at an old photograph of her team, with a near empty glance.

It was clear to me that it must have been shortly after the war.

"It has been two months now since Neji was buried and we held the funeral…, and still I cannot bear to see the light of the sun.

There is an eternal rainy night within my heart, and nothing can make it better…., not even the thought of Naruto´s survival after a near death, as happy as it is!" Tenten-san thought.

"It´s crazy…, I never could stand Neji in the past before the Chunin exam, I only could bear with him because he was my teammate and we could more or less count on each other during battles, but his personality back then really pissed me off most of the time.

Then…, after Naruto changed him on a 360° turn, his personality suddenly began to become better, he became friendlier, kinder, be it with us or with Hinata.

Naruto changed Neji, this was an undeniable truth and for that I would forever be grateful to Naruto.

Neji became a real friend to me and Lee, a comrade worth dying for, I had to admit that his skills were admirable and that his concern for us did good to me, but I wouldn´t say that I ever truly was infatuated to him.

If at most I respected him.

But in the end, he was the one who died for us, for saving Hinata and Naruto on his very own accord!" she thought further, as big tears rolled down her cheeks unto the secured picture.

"I wonder…, if Neji wouldn´t have changed…, would he have even considered to have done that…, would he had left them to die….?

Before that time back then, everything was irrelevant to him, but himself and his born talent.

He was egoistic, self-centred and from destiny practically possessed.

That was however also before I got to know about his harsh childhood and the death of his father, something he never even bothered to tell us…, after hearing all that, it was quite understandable, how it came that he ended up being so worse of character.

Hearing it coming from himself, I was in shock and speechless for the time being, I knew the Hyuuga clan had some harsh rules, but I never could have imagined how hard they were exactly.

Neji had so much grudge and anger in himself, so much hatred for the main-family of the Hyuuga and for Hinata.

I wonder, if Naruto wouldn´t have changed him, would he still have hated her that much?!" Tenten-san thought.

"But you too Lee…, even you changed a bit, for a long time I thought you didn´t cared about Naruto at all, mostly after he was thrown out of the orphanage…, but it was just you, showing how much you cared about me, wasn´t it?

You were mad at him, after having seen Naruto with so much hatred in himself, for everything and everyone who ever hurt him, physically or psychically.

You were mad at him, after he was, in his anger, insulting me as a Traitor, although there was a bit of truth in his claim, there do was nothing we could do for him, no matter what I tried it never worked, I was either caught vanishing out of the orphanage, or stealing food.

You were mad at Naruto, because I constantly got myself in trouble, to somehow be able to get through with my plans and be able to help him and that in the end, so you thought, he did not even appreciate it.

But the more you were mad at yourself, because of your helplessness, you knew we couldn´t help him and that I suffered because of that.

You said you didn´t cared about him, but in reality you didn´t wanted me to get hurt, that's why you hid the truth from me, about your meeting and his words, for so long.

But his words had a bit of truth in them, I was a traitor who betrayed our friendship by staying in the Orphanage.

I couldn´t help Naruto, no matter how often I claimed it and promised it to him in the past and no matter how often I promised myself, that I would someday surely help him…, I never could back then.

…, You didn´t wanted me to suffer, that's why you acted as if you didn´t cared about Naruto and tried to make me do the same…, to hide the truth that you too were worried about him…, or else you wouldn´t have gathered all the information about him.

About what he does, how he lived, about his Training or even about his graduation, his missions and his possible participation in the Chunin exam.

You constantly gathered information about Naruto to know what he does, to make sure he´s alright, until he can care about himself… until he finds new friends he can trust.

You even tested Sasuke, if he would be able to properly shield Naruto in times of need, covering it up as of testing his strength and skill.

You always worried about Naruto, even if you never truly showed it…, but I knew you long enough to eventually see through you!" Tenten-san stated with a sad smile.

"You even pretended to have fallen in Love with Sakura, to see Naruto´s reaction, to test his honesty and determination towards the one he would love…

Not that you didn´t liked her for real…. I guess though that you love her more like a friend than a potential girlfriend…., I know an act of you when I see it, even if nobody else gets it, not even Gai-sensei!" Tenten-san smiled a bit brighter.

"And yet I haven´t seen you in a long time, even Naruto came often here to speak, but I just hadn´t the strength to open the door and let him in, even though he knows how it is to cope with the loss of beloved people.

He sat before my door and kept talking about various things, relevant or not, about what the others do, what has happened so far and how he feels so far.

He did it to keep me company, despite me enclosing myself in my room, he even bought me groceries without anyone telling him to…, that´s just how he is.

He knows how I feel and tries to ease my pain at least a little, that's why I love him so much for his kind heart…, not like one would love a boyfriend, but he definitely is more to me than a simple friend.

He lost many of them…., his parents which he never could meet before the war….., his friend Yota….., the third Hokage, to whom he was quite close as much as I have seen….

Even Menma, the ninja from the Land of Rice-fields, who died to save a Village from being flooded…., Naruto still has his Ocarina as memorial.

The death of Gaara, before he was resurrected which was resulting in the later death of Lady Chiyo, struck him very hard…., the near death of Hinata ripped his heart apart, as much as the death of Jiraiya…

It even forced him to go berserk and almost completely transform himself in the Nine-tails, as much as I heard from Lady Katsuyu and Kō Hyuuga….!" Tenten-san thought shuddering, as she remembered the feeling of all the wrath and hatred in the air, as well as the massive Chakra of Kurama.

"The death of his Jinnchuriki pals, even though he didn´t knew many of them, he knows how they felt all their lives and even I find their deaths cruel…, killed to be resurrected and being used as mere tools, as puppets of war…..

All these deaths marked Naruto and sent his heart in a constant whirlpool of regret and iron determination of not letting anyone dying again.

Neji´s death was just the drop to overflow the barrel, but Hinata made it clear to him that he has to go on, that he has to show the will to fight the evil, for no one´s death, until this moment, to be wasted!" She thought.

"I guess that was the moment, when I knew I had no more chance to ever come closer to Naruto than a simple best friend, or maybe an older sister-like figure…, not like Hinata, who was sure about her feelings…, her borderless love for Naruto.

I know I always tried to deny it, but deep down I was craving to be closer connected to Naruto, ever since the day as I thought I lost him for good.

I knew it was not meant to be, ever since that day in the winter 10 years ago, as he was kicked out and I was staying in the orphanage, even when I tried to warn him I was enclosed in my room, I couldn´t help nor even say him goodbye.

Days long they left me in the room, after I finally was able to get out two weeks had already passed!" Tenten-san thought, her eyes filling back with tears.

"Maybe he has forgiven me, that I couldn´t hold my promise we once gave each other, the promise to stand to each other´s side, no matter what, just like a real family, just like an older sister to him.

I disappointed him beyond all measures, as I didn´t went with him…, not that I could back then…., but he never could hate me, as much as I hated myself back then.

Knowing he was left out to die, I wanted to die too, I wanted to suffer like he did, but not even this was allowed to me.

During this time out there alone, he found new friends, Yota, Hinata, Shikamaru, Chouji, Kiba and Akamaru…, friends he could trust far more than me.

All I could do was worrying over him from afar.

And eventually this worry and care had turned into infatuation, as I watched him growing up…, out of the little weak boy back then, who I had often to look out for, has become a strong man, the strongest of all, who looked out for others.

A man who´s back has become so large from all the muscles and who began to shoulder the fate of the world or the village more than once, ever since he was born.

And still, even after I once promised to care for him and stand at his side, all I ever was able to do was to run behind him, desperately trying to catch up to him, to take some of the load of him!" Tenten-san, continued to drown in loneliness and inner pain.

"All I ever could do was to try to keep at least Lee in check, which I more or less managed to do, but in the end I am useless, i´m sitting here even though Lee is probably in even much greater pain than me, and still I have no power to stand up and help him easing the pain.

To Lee, Neji was like what Sasuke was for Naruto, a rival and a friend, losing him must have been even harder for him, than almost losing Gai-sensei, whom he admired beyond rational thinking!" Tenten-san thought with a tiny sad smile.

"I should stand up and just go over, more than being rejected to enter, might not happen anyways!" She told herself, after suppressing her emotional Chaos within her.

She was about to rise, even though she felt not an ounce of force left in her body, as suddenly a sound shrieked her up.

"Knock, knock, knock!" The door suddenly knocked.

"W-who´s there?!" Tenten-san asked, with hoarse voice.

"It´s me, Naruto!" Dad´s voice sounded from behind the door.

"N-Naruto…, why?!" Tenten-san asked, as she went to open up the door, she almost rushed.

"He came again…, Naruto!" She thought, as she looked at him with happiness and admiration.

"Hey there i´m glad you let me in, figured you might want something to….., ghosh Tenten, you look awful, when have you eaten the last time?!" Dad asked in shock.

"What do you mean I….., oh…, I see…, guess this do looks quite unhealthy to others…, didn´t even though anything about it!" Tenten stammered, as she looked into the mirror in her corridor, only to shriek back from a face, as pale as a sheet, with cheeks sunken, she looked more like a ghost.

Her hair was messy and her eyes puffy red from crying.

And now she could even hear the constant growling of her stomach, which she had blended out for so long.

"Geez you have to take care of yourself, aren´t you but at least half a year older than me and on top of that a pretty girl?!" Naruto asked, as he sat down some groceries he had picked up at the market.

"Naruto…., why…, again you did this…, why?" Tenten asked again.

"I figured out you wouldn´t eat properly…., believe me Tenten, I know that feeling when everything you usually were hot for, seems to suddenly taste like sand and water.

When you have no power to move a single millimetre, when even the light of the day seems to have become a traitor to you, mocking your misery.

I felt the exact same way as Jiraiya-sensei died, days long I couldn´t get a grip on me, until Iruka sensei helped me and reminded me of something…, that I was Jiraiya´s student, instead of falling into darkness and a slump, because of my misery, I should rise up and finish what he hasn´t been able to finish, as in defeating Pain and bring peace back home to Konoha.

He entrusted the future to me, so I had to stay strong for it.

Similar as Neji did, he too entrusted the future to me and Hinata´s safety and I gave him my promise to watch out for her.

That's why I helped her and Hanabi-chan to recover for the last few weeks, after I managed to get out of my own slump as well, I send my Kagebushin here to somehow keep you company, knowing you could need it.

Still i´m sorry that I couldn´t come myself, I would have loved to comfort you.

I know it is late, but I came here myself this time in order to make you feel better somehow, not that most of us hadn´t tried it before by both of you, Lee and you.

However, Lee doesn't even answers us…

I asked Hinata at one point to look if he at least was still alive, which he luckily was, since the last week we constantly took a tour to bang at his door, to at least get him to open up to one of us, less to answer us…

But I figured out that the only one, who might get him to open up the door, would be you!" Dad stated, as he entered with a worried glance, leading her to her couch.

"You think so?!" Tenten-san asked.

"I know so, everybody else is momentarily occupied with missions, during the war many bandits and criminal organisation have gone active and raided villages in different lands, we have to get them under control or things soon will escalate again.

However since Sasuke is still in prison and nothing has yet been decided about him, they cannot send us away on missions, also because we don´t know how dangerous it is so shortly after the war.

From the former Jinnchurikis are only I and Uncle B remaining, and for the time being, we are kept in our villages, until the situation has calmed down.

There are still frictions between Kumo and Konoha regarding Sasuke and his attempted kidnapping of Uncle B and I cannot tell when they might end.

Sakura is at the hospital to tend the injured and as I said, I have to stay here in the village…., so I figured out I might as well come and cook for you!" Dad stated with a comforting smile.

"You…. can cook?!" Tenten asked in, what could be called, amusement.

"I learned it during my time at Myoubokuzan through Grandma Shima, although I only got insects and Caterpillars to eat, believe me I was glad to be back in Konoha after it was build up again, I missed Ichiraku so much!" Dad stated with an embarrassed smile.

"Ewwww…., and you could eat that?!" Tenten-san asked disgusted.

"It was the least I could eat in a long time, so I had to get used to it!" Dad replied, as he began to prepare the cooking utensils, wearing a black apron with the face of a toad on it.

"The trick is, to not shew it too much but to simply choke it down!" Dad said, nodding to himself, as he began to cook.

"I see!" Tenten-san stated, a she observed Dad fascinated.

She herself couldn´t cook for a long time, not that she didn´t constantly tried it though, eventually she asked Chouji for lessons in cooking and so improved.

Mostly because Lee constantly insisted on eating curry-rice, which Tenten soon got tired of.

"After I got my Apartment back, after we came back from war, I began to train with normal food…, it took my mind of so many sad things for a while, that and my gardening-hobby!" Dad said, as he washed the rice.

"At the moment however I can only cook various Ramen and Onigiri and they are not as good as Ichiraku´s but at least they are eatable!" Dad joked.

"Why….., why Naruto…, why are you doing this for me… why are you so friendly to me, I could never do something for you back then?" Tenten-san thought.

"You are like an older sister to me Tenten, and even if I cannot do much, I want to at least help you this way if you are in need.

Back then in the orphanage…., I would have been lost if it weren't for you helping me and holding out your hand to me, you saved me….

And i´m sorry to ever have called you a traitor…., back then I was angry and full of wrath because I was thrown out so easy, I was heartbroken…

But as I became older I figured how foul and silly these thoughts were, I figured out that there was nothing you could have done, I knew that the matron most likely wouldn´t have let you out alone, especially not to meet me.

I don´t want you to feel forever guilty for it, especially not for the rest of your life…., I told you once but I will tell you again, I long have forgiven you…., Ten-nee!" Dad stated and Tenten-san seemed shocked at this old nickname, the flood-gates slowly began to open.

"So if you can forgive me, to ever have doubted you like this, I would really appreciate it!" Dad stated still having his back turned towards her, not seeing Tenten-san´s tears falling at these words.

"NARUTO!" And so she practically jumped in his arms, as he turned around in shock of her outburst.

She cried for a long time, of joy and of sorrow alike, crying for the loss of her friend and teammate, and crying for he recovered family-like relationship to Naruto.

She stayed in Dad´s arms for a long time, crying as well as nuzzling in his embrace feeling the warmth of siblings-like love, while he petted her head and back and holding her close.

"It feels just like back then, as we were little and innocent!" She whispered with a faint chuckle.

"I know right!" Dad whispered his reply grinning.

"Naruto…, I …., I had fallen in love with you for a long time now…., but I figured out that it is a different kind of love as I thought….

I-I-I wanted to… keep worrying about you, always…, I wanted to know how you were feeling, how you were walking through life…, I-I just wanted to remain your older sister for a little while longer.

I always was worried about you ever since you left back then…, Lee called it obsession…, maybe he was right, I was obsessed with the thought of caring for you as an older sister, maybe it was because I had no family myself!" Tenten-san stated, as she nuzzled in his embrace with a happy and satisfied face.

The heat of the food was decreased, so that it slowly cooked, before they sat on the couch, still embracing.

"I had no one back then, no parents and no siblings…, caring for you helped me to find a purpose in my life!" she continued, as he held her close.

He closed his eyes and sighed.

"You know Tenten…., for a long time I was infatuated with Sakura…, I thought it was nice to be together with a girl I loved and I thought myself to love Sakura…, but in the last few years I felt that there was something different about this kind of love…, I loved her, but not as much as I did as I was young, I felt different about her, I began to love her more like a sister.

However, the feeling for her was not as strong as the feeling for you…, I always saw you as my only older sister back then and this won´t change…

So if you let me…, then we still can be like Siblings…, you know, I always thought that when I really would have had a sister, when my parents wouldn´t have died, then she would have to be at least similar to you!" Dad stated with a smile.

"Oh Naruto…, of course, I want this too!" Tenten-san stated with tears in her eyes, nuzzling deeper in his embrace.

"I´m sorry I bet I smell terrible, I didn´t cared to bath in a long time!" She stated blushing.

"No need to be, as I said I know how you felt!" Dad said.

"You know, Hinata is like a sister to me too, and it´s obvious that she likes you much…, you two really match together well, if you ask me…, the hyperactive surprise Ninja and the reversed but fierce Lioness.

I wouldn´t mind to support you, you know!" Tenten-san stated teasing Dad.

"Maybe…, I got to think about that, for the moment my life is way too unstable for any kind of deeper relationship, such as long lasting interpersonal love.

I just jumped of Death´s blade by a hairs breadth…, being a man with a target-mark drawn on my chest, isn´t really healthy for those around me you know!" Dad stated worried.

"I know…., but I hope that someday you can find your love!" Tenten-san nodded smiling.

"Well at least I have made my mission complete, I managed to comfort you and made you smiling again…, you shouldn´t let tears wounding that pretty face of yours, you know!" Dad stated, as he wiped a few tears away, making her blushing deep crimson.

"Damn you, you old sweet-talker, if I wouldn´t love you like a little brother, I might fall for you, for real!" She stated blushing but smiling, as she kept embracing Dad.

"Well…., I honestly wouldn´t mind thought…, anyways let´s first get you back on the track and afterwards you got to help me with Lee, deal?!" Dad asked blushing.

"Deal!" Tenten-san replied, happily smiling.

The scene changed and the next scene seemed to be a few days after, we, Tenten and I stood before the front-door of an apartment.

"Lee, are you there….., Lee if you are there then at least answer me!" Tenten-san shouted, banging on the closed door.

"C´mon Lee, don´t do this to me, all I want to do is to speak with you!" She stated annoyed.

"Go away!" A voice stated from inside, faintly but still audible.

"Alright, that does it, you are not the only one who suffers you hear, I suffer too…., do you honestly think this lets me cold, all I want is to help a friend, but you keep telling us off…, how do you expect to get out of your slump if you aren't even trying!" Tenten-san shouted, her voice breaking.

"Then why don´t you go and bother Naruto?!" Lee-san responded out of the room with a weak voice.

"I want to be together with you right now, Naruto has enough problems on his own and still he helped me to come out of my slump, now it´s my turn to help you, I cannot always rely on him!" She stated quite annoyed.

"Why not, hasn´t bothered you in the past either, hasn´t it!" The weak voice from behind the door stated.

"Grrrr, you are not the only one who seeks comfort or is hurt or suffers, I do too, but you, since a month you don´t show up, you don´t even call me, less send me any other kind of message.

If I wouldn´t speak with you right now, I might have believed that you would be dead, aren´t we friends, shouldn´t we stand together in times like this?!" Tenten-san stated.

"I wish I were dead, maybe this pain then stops!" Lee-san´s weak voice stated.

"You selfish brat, what would that do, it would only make me feel even worse, do you honestly think I would like that…., answer me goddammit…..!

Alright, I had it enough, open that damn door or I kick it open, I give you 10 Seconds, from now!" She replied in sheer rage, while she suppressed the tears with all might.

"10….9…..8…..7!"

"You´re wasting your time Tenten, I won't open!" Lee-san´s voice echoed through the door.

"6…5…4…3!" Tenten-san counted without an ounce of doubt.

"Give up Tenten!" Lee-san stated.

"2…1…0.5….0!" Tenten-san shouted before she took a small start.

With a mighty kick she literally broke the whole door out of its hinges.

"What the hell are you doing there?!" Lee-san´s voice sounded from his bed-room.

"I told you I will break in, didn´t I…, uuuuuh, good grief, it smells like ass in here, when have you cleaned up the last time….., uuuuh Kami…

This is worse than back in Naruto´s old apartment, when he was younger and less clean!" Tenten-san stated, pinching her nose in disgust.

"If you don´t like it then go away!" Lee-san´s voice stated.

"Haha, as if…., stop joking, you going to get a grip on you, whether you like it or not!" Tenten-san stated annoyed, as she opened up the bathroom and let water crashing in the bathtub.

"All this garbage…., Eeeeewwww…, you really need to clean more, you know…, they say a healthy soul lives in a healthy body and a healthy mind, but as much as I see, your soul must be really full of mildew and garbage lately!" She stated, as she cleaned, with hard feelings, the pigsty which actually should have been the floor of Lee-san´s apartment.

Packing everything in large plastic bags, the floor was soon cleaner, at least better than before.

Tenten-san walked back in the bathroom, feeling the temperature, before pouring bath-mousse into the tub, merging it.

"Alright Lee, Bath´s ready!" She stated.

"What do you mean?!" The same asked.

"You smell like coming right out of a cow´s ass, so you going to take a bath, c´mon!" She stated, breaking into Lee-sans bedroom.

"Can you please refrain from breaking every single door in this apartment?" He asked annoyed.

"Then open the fuck up, easy as that!" She replied with an angry stare, as she dragged Lee-san towards the bathroom.

"Alright undress, get in and start washing the dirt of you, if you aren´t inside of the tub in 5 minutes, I´m going to throw you inside with your clothes on and wash you with this steel-brush, it´s your choice!" She stated, threatening him indeed with a steel-brush.

"Geez, as if that helps!" Lee-san muttered.

"Don´t get out until you shine like a diamond, got it, if not…, well you know!" Tenten-san, stated showing him the steel-brush again, with a terrifying smile, before walking back into the dark lit living room.

"Geez, you need to open the covers, it´s so dark inside of here!" She said.

"Now that I see all this, I really am ashamed of myself to have let myself go in a similar way, what of an unsightly sight must I have given Naruto, as he came to save me!" Tenten-san thought, as she opened up the covers and the windows.

Cold air flooded the room, as well as the light of the winter-sun, reflected by the newly fallen snow.

It was shortly before the Rinne festival would begin at evening, and she would be damned if she would allow Lee-san to miss on this special day, where they all wanted to go to Neji´s grave and the Hokage memorial.

"Are you washing yourself Lee, or do I have to come with the steel-brush?!" She asked with a happy smile.

"I´m almost done!" She heard Lee-san shuffling in the bathroom.

"Good to hear!" She said with a evil smile.

"I´m gonna get you all clean and respectable for tonight, don´t forget to wash behind your ears, by the way I brought some clothes for you, which I lend from Naruto…, I won´t allow you to wear your green suit tonight!" Tenten-san stated.

"Is that really necessary, I like my suit!" Lee-san asked.

"I won´t allow you to wear such a dirty and sweaty suit to the memorial of your friend, are you nuts or what?!" She asked annoyed.

"…Guess you are right, I haven't washed them in days!" lee-san stated lamely.

"I smell it!" Tenten-san stated, as she, disgusted, threw the suit in the basket with the clothes to wash.

"Seriously I feel like a newlywed couple, only with an immature boy as Husband!" Tenten-san thought, as she put the old clothes in the washing machine, put wash powder to it and put the machine in motion.

"Geez and now to the floor, we still have around 8 hours before we got to meet up, until then I want this apartment to look like licked-off.

It shall be as clean as to be able to eat on the floor, unless this goal hasn´t been achieved I won't go, and neither will you, you hear me Lee!" She stated, as she took out a broom out of a side-locker.

"Loud and clearly!" Lee-san stated sighing in defeat, as he dried himself off.

"Here have some fresh undergarments, long boxers and winter-socks are in the little bag, wool-Pullover, warm pants and winter indoor-shoes are in the bigger bag!" Tenten-san explained, as she sat the bags behind the door of the Bathroom with closed eyes.

"Oh c´mon it´s nothing you haven't seen before, Tenten!" Lee-san stated and I really wanted to facepalming myself.

"To remind you my dear Rock Lee, we were kids from 5 years the last time I can remember that we bathed together, that´s 11 years ago, now this would only be improper.

We are neither husband nor wife, nor are we even a couple at all, although it kinda feels like that, whenever I have to deal with you like this.

When was the last time I had to cook for you, because you ran out of money, because you kept spending too much on the curry-shop?!" Tenten-san wondered.

"Ah yeah, a week before the war started!" She stated sarcastically.

"Geeez…., I even have to wash your old clothes because you still have no idea how to use a wash machine, less a dishwasher.

To be honest the only thing you know about house-keeping shores, is how to build up your furniture…., after many attempts!" She sighed in annoyance.

"I wouldn´t…., really mind to have you as my wife though!" Lee-san stated, blushing as he walked out of the Bathroom, freshly washed and dressed.

"C´mon, stop Joking…., aren´t you in love with Sakura….?

Although that´s even more of a joke isn´t it, you really fooled anyone, even Neji believed your act…, me almost too!" Tenten stated angrily.

"Well I am not really joking, but i´m impressed you knew that I was only pulling an act with my infatuation to Sakura…, how long do you know it?!" Lee-san asked.

"You are strong Lee, no matter what, you wouldn´t have given up to fight and defend the girl you love, you would have gone all out for her, same as you have been going all out against Gaara.

Therefore…., as you let yourself being beaten up by the Oto-nins, I knew instantly that you only pulled an act, after all you know how to fight against Neji.

Whenever I tried it I was beaten, and whenever I watched you two fighting in a mock battle, I got dizzy from watching his speed.

I never held out long against him, but you, you just kept on fighting, even without much of orientation-sense you would have still been able to fight and defeat them.

And you are smart enough to know how to take on other opponents when you cannot instantly defeat the first one right before you.

So instead of attacking Dosu twice, you would have gone for either Zaku or Kin instead, before later dealing with Dosu.

For the girl you love you would have died…, that's just the kind of guy you are.

And I refuse to believe that you wouldn´t have used the reverse Lotus on one of them, if you truly would have saved Sakura from near Death, admit it…, similar as before the Chunin-exam even started, as you fought against Sasuke, you wanted to test Sakura´s strength and determination, didn´t you.

You used the frontal Lotus to put yourself in a situation where you would look all helpless, you recovered way too fast from it, without even opening one of the Hachimon Tonko Gates.

I bet that your jutsu hadn´t hurt as bad, as when you used it against Gaara on massive concrete, after all you fell even relatively soft thanks to Zaku´s airwave jutsu, am I right?!" Tenten-san asked.

"Even Gaara survived the Frontal lotus back then only because he somehow managed to slip out of his shell, before you hit on the ground!"

"…., Geeez, guess I've been busted there… you are as smart as ever…., you are right, it didn´t hurted as much as when I used it against Gaara.

That time I had to defeat not only the speed of Gaara´s sand but also his Sand-skin-armour, which greatly decreased the power of my Beats.

Dosu would have been so easy to beat, he wasn´t even half as fast as Neji or Sasuke, I admit his Soundwave attack was quite nasty, but if I would have been dead-serious, I would have strike him down before he could attack me the second time…., because I then would have taking off my restrains.

As you know I can reach with unleashed forces, nearly the speed of sound, maybe even break through the same, when I get serious.

But as you rightly said, I wanted to see how strong Sakura truly is, her determination to defend her friends, so I made as if I had fallen unconscious, while actually listening to what was happening.

I have good ears thanks to meditating often with Gai-sensei and Neji.

If things would have gotten out of control, I would have surely attacked them again, my balance-sense had been recovered pretty fast, but in the end, Shikamaru´s team interfered as well as Sasuke who woke up.

But I got to admit, his Chakra back then was nasty…, anyways…, eventually I fell asleep, but then I was roughly woken by you!" Lee-san explained.

"I figured that out…, I saw the Oto-nins during the preliminaries and they weren´t so strong, okay Zaku had his arms broken as Handicap, but Kin and Dosu were still alright…. and still they, beside of Dosu against Chouji, simply were defeated by their opponents.

They would have been no match against Gaaras force and still you acted as if you had been beaten.

Dammit you would have almost beaten Gaara after getting serious, so I figured that you hadn´t shown much a few hours before that time and that it was once again one of your acts.

It was silly and still, I found it also amusing, to see how hard you tried to cover your worry for Naruto up, behind silly, stupid acts!" Tenten-san stated smiling, as she put the filled plates on the Table, filled with steaming hot curry a la Tenten.

"Yes I admit it…, I too was worried about Naruto for a long time and I only said I didn´t cared for you to stop searching after him, since you always got in trouble, I feared that the matron might really throw you out someday, I wouldn´t have known what to do without you!" Lee-san stated.

"That sound´s quite romantic you know, but I already have a little brother, sorry that place has already been token!" Tenten-san joked.

"Well I loved you more than just a sister anyways, so maybe I can become your lover, there isn´t a girl but you, who can handle me anyways!" Lee-san replied, embracing her from behind in a loving hug.

"C´mon Lee, stop this…, I´m not in the mood for your Jokes!" Tenten-san replied angrily.

"We still have only a bit of time and…!"

"I am not joking Tenten!" Lee-san stated in his most serious tone, laying his cheek on hers.

"….eh what!"

"I am not joking, I love you more than a sister and far more than a simple friend and teammate, I thought you figured out that much at least!" Lee-san stated, as he began to hug her even tighter.

Before letting go of the speechless Tenten, to sit down and eat calmly.

"…. How the hell can you throw out such a statement at me and then eat in all peace!" Tenten-san said unbelieving.

"Well I wouldn´t want your cooked meal to go to waste, so sit down and eat with me, we haven´t done that for so long!" Lee-san said.

"And whose fault was it?!" Tenten-san stated annoyed, as she sat down and began to eat.

"Yeah I know…, but seriously Tenten I´m not joking, I have felt for you since a long time, sure I had to keep up the act but I still liked you far more than Sakura, although you two are quite similar in a way, you both have a harsh temper at times!" Lee-san stated to the irritated Tenten-san.

"I see…, anyways, it´s good to see that you are finally back on the track and out of your shell, I tell you the others were at the edge of despair.

They hadn´t any idea how to make you listen to them anymore, Naruto meant, that I might be the only one you would at least listen too!" She stated ignoring her own feelings, which ran havoc inside her right now.

"And how does your gorgeous plan looks like?!" Lee-san asked suspicious, eyeing her over eating.

"To keep on going as usual, it´s of course unbelievably sad that Neji died, but still, he wouldn´t have wanted us to become wasted, constantly mourning shut-ins…., he would have wanted us to keep the future safe instead of looming and, day after day, mourning his dead, locked up within our rooms.

It´s something Naruto showed me, the same happened to him when Jiraiya died, though he didn´t locked himself up in his room, but he wasn´t the same for days, you remember how he had been, no one of us could cheer him up.

But suddenly he was all better again, it was thanks to Iruka-sensei telling him that Jiraiya-sensei wouldn´t have wanted him to mourn forever, he had entrusted his plans and wishes for the future on Naruto, to let him fulfil them.

Same as Neji did, he wanted to keep Naruto and Hinata safe, even dying for their safety, so it´s our mission to keep doing that in his place, that´s the least we, as his friends and old Teammates, can do to honour him.

However for that we have to get out, we also have to watch out for Gai sensei, I heard he´s all better now, I was visiting him lately and he said to bring you along someday, when you are better.

I once swore to myself, to always be there for Naruto and to keep him safe.

To Neji, if he someday wouldn´t be able to anymore, I swore to also keep Hinata safe, just like an older sister would do, but I cannot do this alone…, Lee will you help me with that, I really need your help or else I cannot fulfil any of these promises?!" Tenten-san asked.

"But of course I will!" Lee-san stated.

"Alright…, hmmm, the room still need more cleaning and we still got some time before the festival starts, alright let´s go, and let´s clean up the place!" She stated enthusiastically.

"Tenten about what I said…, I just want you to know that I truly means this, even if you don´t believe me right now.

I will someday show you that I really love you, and I would feel honoured if you would become my girlfriend then!" Lee-san stated, while Tenten-san stopped dead in her tracks, her back turned to Lee-san.

She blushed and I saw droplets of tears starting to form.

"What…., do you like then on me…, I am not as beautiful as Sakura, I neither am easy to handle nor do I care so much about clothes or make-up, all you would get would be me, the brash and short-tempered me…, all I got are muscles and weapons…, I am not really dating material you know!" Tenten-san stated, as she put some plates away.

Her eyes shimmered with growing droplets of tears, still her back was the only thing that faced Lee-san right now.

"It's hard to tell because I love everything about you, but if I shall name my most favourite traits on you….., well I love your cute smile when you are happy, or when you eat your favourite food…., I love your whole character and the most…, I love our determination, your will to keep pushing yourself to the limit and obviously your fierceness in battles.

As I said before, there are a lot of things that I love about you Tenten, and you are beautiful just the way you are, I don´t know what you mean that you are no Dating material.

I never believed that I would ever end up with a top-model on my side anyways… this is wishful thinking of the silliest kind…, au contraire, I always longed and dreamed of marrying a strong female warrior, a Valkyrie, a woman worth to create kids with.

Who would not be too shy to spare with me from time to time, who can bend me back in line when I´m in danger of walking the false way.

And you Tenten…, you always have been there for me…, no matter how annoyed you were with me, I always could count on you no matter what and you always got my back.

I trust you with my life and I don´t know any better girl than you, who I would rather have as my girlfriend and…!"Lee-san stated with so much passion, turning her around, but he was harshly interrupted.

"Shut up….!"

"….Tenten….?!"

"…. You speak too much, dummy!" A flustered and overjoyed Tenten-san threw herself in Lee-san´s arms.

"You are careless…, idiotic and sometimes…. a pain in the butt, but I won´t ever want to miss you…, you are the best I know, and beside of Naruto the only man anyways, with whom I ever saw myself with in the future…., even if it only had been dreams back then.

So stop speaking about me as if I were a warrior-goddess you worship…., you dummy!" Tenten-san stated blushing deep red, as she cried in Lee-san´s arms.

"There, there, I didn´t intended to make you crying though!" Lee-san smiled.

"Dummy…., I´m crying because I´m just so happy right now!" Tenten-san stated, as she was embraced by Lee-san´s strong arms.

"I could do this all day, I will never let you go again!" He stated with a pleased grin.

"Dummy…, we should tell Neji about this, I bet he will be happy for us!" Tenten-san stated with a serious tone.

"Definitely, I´m most certain he will!" Lee-san stated, as he smiled down on her.

Tenten-san blushed and with a quick motion kissed him on the lips in a rush of the moment, making him almost fainting.

The scene changed and we seemed to be in the Hospital a few years later.

In the Hospital bed lied Tenten and next to her lied a cute little baby Senpou.

"Tenten…, I´m here, I´m sorry I came so late!" A sweaty Rock Lee entered, it was plain to see that he had rushed all the way to the hospital and he seemed to come right from a mission.

"You came back alive, that´s all what counts to me…, I knew you had a dangerous mission, they needed your force, I knew that…, still she came earlier than thought!" Tenten-san stated, as she looked with a loving glance right next to her at her daughter.

"She came to the same time as Ino´s son Inojin and a few months after Hinata´s son and Sakura´s daughter, I bet they will be best friends!" Tenten-san stated with a loving glance.

"She´s gorgeous just like her mother!" Lee-san stated as he picked her up gently.

"She has your eyes!" he said to Tenten-san.

"And your hair colour!" Tenten-san laughed.

"She looks much like you!" Lee-san countered.

"But even more like you and she has a strong grip, which comes definitely after her father!" Tenten-san stated with a smug grin,

"I can feel it…, i´m the happiest man alive…., thank you so much Tenten, thank you for everything in my life!" Lee-san stated while tears streamed down his cheeks.

"It was my pleasure, my lovely power-pack, my Bushy-eyebrow-super-sweet-talking-super-man!" She stated affectional as she caressed Lee-san´s cheeks.

"I love you my red Lotus, you wonderful woman full of love and compassion!" Lee-san countered, equally affectional.

"Senpou and you, you are the best that ever happened to me, I have to thank Naruto… and I guess Sasuke too…, for making it possible, for opening up and securing the path to future.

Let´s thank them both, but mostly Naruto!" Tenten-san stated.

I felt that I saw enough, as a pull took me back into my own sub-consciousness.

"Who would have known, that Senpou´s mother would have felt this way, all her life long, for your father, it´s quite amazing, isn´t it?!" Kyūbiko stated.

"Indeed, it´s surprising…, as much as Senpou told me about her father´s conversation with her, from right before her first date with Inojin, she was of the impression that her father and Mother had forgotten about my Dad, by the time he was thrown out of the Orphanage.

These memories however are evidence that they never stopped worrying over my dad, just like siblings!" I stated.

"Well you never know where you find love, Humans sure are as amazing as they are difficult!" Kyūbiko replied.

"I guess I should wake up now, I bet Senpou is already impatiently waiting!" I stated chuckling.

"Do that…., however Bolt…, be careful, I can feel a strong rise of dark chakra and malevolence at where you are heading, it must be quite strong at it´s location, when I already feel it that much from here.

Wherever it leads you, there, I can surely tell you this, chaos and destruction rules and maybe you will find things far over your Believe…., gruesome, nasty things will await you, and they are all definitely Life-threating!" Kyūbiko warned me.

"I will be careful, thanks for your concern!" I stated.

"Say hello to Sarada from me!" Kyūbiko stated blushing.

"Will do so, see you later, bro!" I said, as I woke up out of the trance.

"And…, what did you see?!" Senpou instantly bombarded me with her questions.

"Woah, woah…., wait a second Senpou, calm down, and let me first become one with this world again!" I stated, as I tried to calm down.

"Yeah he´s right, calm down Senpou!" Sarada stated, as she embraced me protectively.

"Well look at this, someone´s quite protective here, as soon as you admit your love to him, you drop all shyness, am I right?!" Chouchou snickered.

"Be quite…., you are all so lucky, damn you!" Sarada stated with an angry expression.

"You already had your happy first dates after you admitted your love and all I get is a dumb mission to a land in a supposed-to-be-near-war-like state, of cause I am pissed and protective over Bolt, unless I haven't had my happy date with him, I won't let him out of my sight anymore!" She stated angrily.

"But you were alone at the festival, weren´t you?!" Senpou stated confused.

"Right after we admitted our love to each other, Dad interrupted us and the day after we had only several minutes alone, while we tried to figure out our tactics and strategies, before we had to fight against Dad and Bolt´s mother.

Then we were for only 2 Hours truly alone, before we were attacked by the assassins, so tell me in which kind that shall have been an enjoyable date, Rock Senpou!" Sarada stated with blazing eyes full of fury.

"I guess… you are right there…., there is nothing that sounds like an enjoyable date!" Chouchou stated sweat dropping.

"We had to fight hard for those 2 hours of peace and love alone, they were magical but then again only 2 hours…, all of you got days to spent in love, Chouchou and Shikadai even years.

Why do always we have such misfortune?" Sarada stated, as she heartily embraced me.

"There, there, I swear when this mission is over I ask my dad for a break from missions to spent some days in love together, days where we do what you want!" I stated to her, as I caressed her cheek.

"You…., you mean it?!" She asked with a cute blush.

"But of course!" I stated, as I smiled at her and she almost overheated on her blush.

"Then I guess I can wait a bit!" She stated nodding, trying to act cool.

"Seriously you kids completely confuse me, to my time we didn´t showed affection so much…., then again I died before anybody of my pals really fell in love with one another!" Uncle Neji stated, eyeing Senpou and Chouchou´s parents.

"Anyways to your memories Senpou, I saw a lot of things which mostly involved your mother´s private thoughts about the harsh life of my dad.

As you know they had grown up in the same Orphanage and your mother acted like an older sister-figure for my father back then, who was already as little kid being avoided by almost everyone especially the matron of the Orphanage.

Your mother however never abandoned him, I honestly, beside of my mother, never have seen a woman with more compassion and love in her heart than your mother!" I stated and she slowly nodded.

"Even after Dad was thrown out of the Orphanage by the matron, the worst person I ever had seen before, your mother worried without a single break over my father, she often tried to sneak away to search for him and keep caring for him, but she always had been caught and got in trouble.

She was desperate in her worry but she also feared that he might hated her because she could not help him to that time.

Your father on the other hand acted as if my father's situation didn´t interested him, at least he did so to the outside, to make your mother stop to get herself in trouble, but deep down he worried just as well about my father.

He didn´t showed it to the outside but your mother eventually saw right through him and his acts, he even tested Sarada´s parents of their capability as Dad´s teammates before and during their Chunin examen, to make sure that they were able to defend my father in dire situations!" I stated and Sarada was buff.

"I heard that Senpou's father had been in love with Sarada's mother for a long time, at least mom said so!" Inojin stated.

"Apparently that was just an act to see if Dad was true in his love to Sarada´s mother, he thought that a little concurrence might be just what my Father needed, to test himself in how serious he is about defending Sakura-san, as well as make her see how much he feels for her.., but in the end it all came different and not to the worst as you know, we are the living evidence that everything became right.

Anyways, Tenten-san and Lee-san always worried about my Dad, but Lee-san also developed strong feelings for Tenten-san which later, bloomed into love, over the time they spent together as friends and Teammates.

Most of all he was worried about her, always, however he also knew that she was strong, and your father has been always like a boyfriend about whom she has to worry and care for, especially because he´s so reckless at times, but she also had the greatest respect before him!" I explained and Senpou nodded in awe.

"It though had lasted quite long for your father to admit his love to your mother, about two months after the war at the Rinne-festival, as she helped him to get out of his slump about Uncle Neji´s death, with a good portion of daily antics…., he finally admitted his love during that noon.

I tell you, your mother was quite unbelieving about what she heard, but eventually she saw his honesty and it moved her to tears, she asked your father if he would help her to keep my father and mother safe, just as Neji would have wanted!" I stated and Uncle Neji nodded.

"It sure was my wish, after all I didn´t died for nothing, i´m sorry I couldn´t tell them anything anymore, but I guess I had retaken that task lately, I thought your dad wanted to suffocate me with his hug!" He stated nodding with a side glance to Senpou´s parents.

"Well the last memory I saw, was shortly after your birth, your father came right from a mission and both were happy that you were born, they compete to whom you resemble more!" I stated smiling.

"I knew that both were amazing but I didn´t knew how much!" Senpou stated with tears in her eyes.

"Thank you very much Bolt!" she stated and embraced me surprisingly, before scooting with Inojin over to her parents.

Part 6: The world outside, the warning.

Halfway to the border of the Land of Demons, Sarada´s Pov:

It was quite amazing to ride on Neherit´s…., I mean Tir-Ehen´s back, we were sitting in kind of a dome made of some force by Rughian, so we could neither fall nor being blown off by the strong winds up here in the sky.

But seeing the world from above was a sight for itself, an amazing experience.

"Alright everybody I will go down now, night time´s coming we going to have our camp over there on the clearing, by the foot of the mountain, everybody get ready to jump off, I want to rest my body as soon as possible, and be careful when you slide down my wings, understood!" Tir-Ehen stated.

"Sure thing sir!" We stated with a laugh.

"It´s nice here!" I stated in awe of the beauty of this place.

"It sure is, for untrained eyes, I can see that the miasma of the world began to swap in here, though it's not so strong that it could be a danger to us momentarily, and still, I want you to always keep the Spirit-clock near you, just in case!" Tir-Ehen stated as he, after he landed and everybody slid down from his body, retransformed into his usual human form.

"You always talk about untrained eyes, what you mean with this?!" I asked.

"Let me rather show you!" He stated, as he stepped behind me, he gently laid his hands on both sides of my head.

"Close your eyes, I will now share my sight with you!" he said with a gentle, almost lovely, tone.

"Now concentrate, take a deep breath!" He whispered.

"Karasugan!" He mumbled and I felt a slight change with my eyes, a little sting even though it did not hurt that much.

"Now open your eyes!" He stated, I nodded and opened my eyes as demanded, he still held his hands to my head.

What I saw was as amazing as it was frightening, I could see the forest before me, but I has changed much, I saw some purple like mist floating here and there through the forest, I saw beings, creatures I never saw before, tiny and bigger light-spheres floated around and illuminated the forest, they reminded me on ghost lights out of a child's picture-book.

"What are all these?!" I asked amazed and in awe about this new sight.

"These are the so called Maboroshi (Phantoms), the inhabitants of the Otherworld as we call it…., you could say that the world as you know it, is within a Glass-bubble, just like the ones you can see at Souvenir-shops.

The Otherworld is the world outside this Glass-bubble, it surrounds your world, wraps itself around it, but both worlds are separated Realms, held apart by the Wall of perceptible Reality, or how we call it, the Veil of Illusions, it is like a massive Genjutsu, similar to the Tsukuyomi, only without any side-effects.

It works on all the five senses of all living beings of your world.

Only a few, for example we Edemah Ruh as well as the Crows, the pets and some are even the Eterna Rugh-Ons of our Clan, have a special iris, which we call Karasugan (Raven eye), which we can activate when we are not in our usual body.

In the Uzumaki Clan it once existed a mask, which enabled the normal population of this world to see the world through the veil.

It has been used by the Leaders and the wise elders of your clan to contact deceased persons, or communicate with other supernatural beings living in this world!" Tir-Ehen stated.

"I can feel something dark deep in this forest and yet I feel even more good things!" I stated.

"That's the way when you see and feel with our eyes and senses, the humans call it the Sixth Sense, the power to feel or see the supernatural!" He replied.

"By the way, when we are back in the castle, I would like to show you something, may I?" He asked.

"But of course, I would like to!" I stated, knowing what he means me no harm and what he shows me might be wonderful.

"Good, good well then, time to open up the camp house!" He stated as he put his hand on the ground, dissolving the connection and my eyes, accompanied with a light stinging, changed back.

Suddenly the ground shook and under his hand I could see how roots began to grow all over the place, getting thicker and thicker before forming a tree.

The same rose higher and higher and bigger and bigger, it was an amazing view.

The tree build up some kind of Tree house, consisting of the entire tree, with branches and trunk.

"This looks so awesome, how did you do that?!" I asked in awe.

"In the ground under my hand has been a tree seed, I just helped it to grow a bit, into the shape I wanted to!" he stated.

"Amazing, you are so amazing Tir-Ehen!" I said to him and I thought to see a blush on his face.

"I´m not that Amazing you know!" He stated looking aside in embarrassment, which was so unnatural for him that it amused me greatly.

"Everyone let´s get inside!" He stated and we did as told.

"Uwwwaaaah this is awesome!" Chouchou stated, as she stood in awe before the grandeur and beauty of this Tree-house.

It looked more like a villa than a Tree-house though.

"Indeed, I never saw anything like this!" Great-grandfather Ashina-dono stated.

"Let´s check it out!" Inojin stated.

"Yeah let´s go!" Bolt nodded in approving.

"Wait for me!" Senpou and Sarada stated in unison while Chouchou ran after them, pulling Shikadai after her.

"Geez what a drag…, but impressive indeed!" The same stated.

"It´s really beautiful Tir-Ehen!" I stated and snuggled up to him.

"You think!" He stated blushing even more.

"But of course…, and to think that right around us beings live, which we cannot see…., by the way do they see us?!" I asked him suddenly worried.

"Only as grey shadow, as long as no one has a born ability to see them, or even interact with them, they don´t really care, though these are mostly only the good ones, the bad ones always try to force contact.

However both sides have a common trait, they are lured by strong auras, it rarely happens that people getting dragged into the Otherworld by coincidence, the veil is usually quite thick.

However there are some places where the veil is quite thin and where every now and then some inhabitants of the other side walk across, as Sage of Spirits, but even more as the Watashimori, I also have the mission of monitoring these supernatural creatures who walk across and observe them, so that they don´t make any problems.

In case they harm the humans, I am to send them back and seal the entrance!" Tir-Ehen stated.

"Some of them even managed to disguise as humans and live under us, others disguise as ordinary animals, It gave many cases in which one of them began to control and later possess humans, or they possessed objects as mediums, in order to scare the humans to death.

In the past era of humanity it existed an old and secret Order created by some of the human side of the Light-fox-sages, called the Golden Order of the Vatican, who took it upon them to exorcize these humans, means breaking the connection from human towards the phantom.

Most of these dark phantoms made a fun out of scaring the humans with their believes from Heaven or Hell, they used names which in different human languages meant something scary and played their trick on the humans possessing them without regard for the human or the ones around them.

Sometimes when the Phantom had enough fun they left their host without any regret the human has later never been the same again, their personality turned completely upside down, some even committed suicide.

It is a gruesome experience when you are no longer master over your own body and still are conscious enough to see what happens with it!" Tir-Ehen stated and shuddered in terror before the memories of those ten years.

"They have fun by terrorizing the humans step by step until the moment they take their host fully over to give the final touch to their sick games.

Exorcising for the humans meant to repel the Phantom which they called demon, most of the times these demons are but simple spirits of darkness or twilight, they are dangerous because they don´t know the human sense of right and wrong, but they are rarely purely malevolent, nothing seriously dangerous for us Sages of Spirits.

The Demons we mean however, are really demons creatures of evil, Oni, Youkais, Ogres, Shadow-walkers, you name it, they don´t simply play with the humans, they simply possess them and let them bring death and destruction without any regard about the humans condition, if the body dies or gets ripped in shreds like with these suicide-bombers, they simply walk to the next until the entire human population is dead.

For them the Humans are a nuisance a waste of space, a worthless existence.

For the humans Demons are a real danger even if they are banished into their realm of fantasy and tales.

Humans and most of the animals cannot see them, animals can feel them though and they absolutely panic when something highly malevolent arrives.

In that case, you feel it when the temperature reaches, all of a sudden, deep under zero degrees and when you feel eyes being fixated on you, when you think to hear steps behind you but there is no one around.

Spirits usually cannot touch you but Demons hurt you enough for them to grab your soul and rip it out of the body in order to consume it.

The Life-force of a human is immense, the more they experience the stronger they get and the more souls a demon consumes the stronger he gets, as you have seen, our exorcizing is a little different from the humans version, we use it to either directly seal the demon out of the Humans body or in order to kill the demon while he is still inside, in both cases the human himself is mostly not getting endangered.

But it needs a hell lot of experience to actually pull one of them off.

What I have learned in 200 years of training, I have to teach you guys in one night in order for you to survive the coming battles.

For this reason, i´m going to create an area around us, in which I will stop the time, beside of our own, for a while, this way I can effectively train you guys without even losing more than a few minutes perhaps!" Tir-Ehen stated and I was amazed.

"You can do that, you truly can stop the time?!" She asked.

"No, no one can fully stop the time, I can only create a certain field, in which I stretch the time to the extreme, however this causes the space to be distorted as well and that's why I first have to create a barrier, before using that spell!" I explained to her.

"The spell I´ll put on us allows us in this distorted time and space to move freely around, as I said this way I can teach you without wasting time, in the real world, I could hold you in there for years, one second in the real world could feel like an entire day in the barrier.

It's the only way to get you the needed knowledge in order to survive at least more than 100 minutes in this upcoming war.

During the month between the second and the third Chunin exam I used the time to clean the area around the village and the neighbouring villages, I cleaned whole Hi no Kuni and the mountains around my Island, but unfortunately I hadn´t had the time to come across the Land of Demons, even though I should have do that first thing after being called to Gensan No Kuni, 5 months ago.

But maybe I also feared to remember what happened the last time, you must know back then it all began in the Land of demons before it began to spread across the world towards Gensan no Kuni.

Even before my birth the world lied in various battles with demon hordes, the Saigai Kane, the Disaster Bell of Gensan no Kuni began to ring as the second Gate broke, so I had been going to war rather late to be honest, it lasted over 1.000 years until we finally managed to kill or seal all the demons, most la nded back in the hell-circles, under them also the 6 released Demon-Lords.

As much as I remember from back then, in the last few years, I fought against a group of two people, which most likely had been responsible for the breakdown of the gates, but I cannot remember who these guys had been, I had much better things to do afterwards than to think about such trivial matters!" He explained and I knew what he meant.

"I defeated them and almost killed them, but right before I could Nidhog´s influence forced me to retreat and they could flee, in the same night it happened that he overtook my body and started his bloody massacre.

The people thought that I had shown mercy on the two persons and that we had been accomplices all along, they made me responsible for the Gates breakdown and cursed my existence.

Only Rughian, Regania and Grandma believed me, for Rughian knew me since I was a kid and Grandma exorcized me, she tried to pull the demon out of my body but he was too strong and had his claws stuck deep in my soul.

In the end Regania, Grandma´s Eterna Rugh On and my Mother restrained me long enough for Grandma to free me from the possessed body, by driving a light crystal into my back which paralysed Nidhog for a second, long enough to free myself from him.

Afterwards we fled the battlefield and hid in this castle behind strong and thick barriers from the mob!" Tir-Ehen stated, after we brought our things towards our room.

The Body we put into a crystal made with Light-forces, in order to purify and weaken Nidhog, although this needs a long time, even after 600 years his influence is still strong, but it should soon be weakened enough for me to fight him again,

If I have back my body I also have half of my original strength back, this Body here, which has been created out of mine and a humans DNA, restrains me too much, if I am not carefully it will rip in shreds, and without a body I am even more helpless!" Tir Ehen stated and I nodded in understanding.

"But now enough, i´m gonna tell you everything another day, for now you guys should rest a bit and take a bath in the Onsen, afterwards i´m going to create the Barrier!" He stated.

"Onsen…., which Onsen?!" I asked confused.

"The one Rughian is about to build right now!" he only replied before it gave a sudden explosion behind the tree-house.

"What the….?!" I asked as I ran behind the giant tree, only to find a large crater where once trees stood.

The trees were chopped of and neatly placed on a staple right next to the big crater.

"Alright, here we go!" I heard someone stating faintly, I waved the dust away to see Rughian standing right in the crater.

"Hiiiiaaaaaahhh!" He shouted as he punched his bare fist on the ground.

He jumped out and suddenly a fountain of hot Water broke out of the ground and in a matter of minutes filled the crater halfway.

"Alright and now to the Fence and the Bathhouse!" He stated as he stepped over to the tree staple.

He took one trunk and lifted it with an easiness as to pick up a fork from the floor.

"As I said we are different from you humans, by manipulating the nature force, means the Sen-chakra directly in the atmosphere, we can bring forth wonders.

"To be honest Rughian is a High sage same as me, but due to being a crow it´s hard to tell in which way he could do the work of a Watashimori, he´s more the man for the raw things as for the difficulties of soul guiding.

But he has an extraordinary sense for finding Soul- and Hell-pots!" Tir-Ehen stated with something like pride in his voice as he watched Rughian working.

"Soul-… hell-pot what do you mean?!" I asked confused.

"Soul-pots are places with a massive outcome of spiritual energy, either due to mass deaths of people or due to a dying nature Spirit like Nymphelia.

During their life, a Forest-spirit creates as well as consumes the souls of all beings living in the forest, when a being dies there, its soul gets consumed by the Mother-tree, the nature-spirit.

It´s resuming life-force however gets used to cultivate the forest and give birth to new life.

Soul-pots in a village however are places where many humans died and where their souls are floating, unseen to the humans untrained eye, among the living, they are bound by something, and as Watashimori it is my mission to help these souls to cross over to the other side.

Sometimes I have to act as spiritual welfare to these lost souls!" He explained and I nodded in understanding, while I began to note everything heard in my notebook.

All of this was terribly interesting and I was willing to learn enough, to be a better help for Neherit in the future.

"On the other hand, Hell-pots or like I call them Melting-pot of Malevolence, are places where the massive outcome of Spirits gets tainted by miasma and used by dark mights to accumulate enough malevolence to give birth to something evil.

It is mostly happening at places where the whole village has been murdered by someone, just like the villages where Nymphelia got her forces from as she was under evil influence.

I can tell you that tainting a Spirit of nature is quite hard work, as much as I have learned out of the books and scrolls back home.

It lasts often years, the stronger the spirit is, the longer it lasts and it has to be a dark spell with extreme power, since most spells, over the course of time, lose their influence.

Anyways, in short Hell-pots are so to say the breeding ground for demons and vile ghosts!" He explained.

"I see…., but say what is the difference between a Spirit and a Ghost?!" I asked him curious.

"A spirit is an existence of good will, or at least they grow out of the souls of good-willed to kind-without-regard-for-themselves-minded people.

They are most likely to become what we call the Phantoms of Light, fairies, nature-spirits, guiding animal spirits, such beings!" Tir-Ehen explained to me and I wrote it down.

"Ghost on the other hand are growing out of bad souls, from violent to rotten to the core, as long as these existences are unstable they can bring much harm towards their surroundings.

They are what people call a Poltergeist, going from harmless noise-making towards violence against humans and other beings.

The stronger their hatred grows, the more likely they are reborn as demons and monsters, unless they are completely exorcized, at least if purifying is futile to them!" he explained.

"Geez but now enough demonology for today or else you will get Nightmares, we should now go and prepare us, I will prepare the barrier and the field, this way we are able to relax without losing precious time, I wonder should we also make a mixed Onsen?!" Tir-Ehen asked and I blushed deep red, I looked at him only to see the attempt of a sly grin on his face.

"Baka, Pervert!" I stated with stuck out tongue before I rushed back into the tree-villa.

Tir-Ehen´s Pov:

"Well I hope she does relax for some time now, she had much to see and experience in this last night!" I said to myself as I walked away in mild amusement.

To build up the Barrier.

I was almost done as suddenly Rughian appeared.

"Hey bro, everything running smooth?!" He asked.

"So far yes, I haven´t used this spell in a long time though but I am sure I pulled it off rather good!" I replied.

"That´s not that I meant Tir-Ehen, I meant if everything is going smooth with Sarin-chan, you seem to finally be more comfortably around her, I always had the thought that you looked quite forced and uncomfortable in her surrounding!" Rughian stated.

"Well I wouldn´t say I was uncomfortable it was just strange to have someone who cared so much about me without even truly knowing me!" I replied honestly.

"Well I guess now things should be more easy for you to comprehend, it´s plain to see that she loves you, and, even when you always tell yourself that you don't deserve it, you do need love, or else you someday become a being which lives only for the next war, in order to stop being consumed by self-hatred and darkness you need someone who could judge you without prejudice, Sarin has been that person and she´s eager to help you the best she can…., do you want to try it?!" Rughian asked.

"I hope to never have to though!" I replied knowing what he meant.

"It would be nice if we have some more Sages of spirits though but I guess you are right the risk is quite high, maybe too high for Sarin, at least yet, maybe after this mission!" He stated in thought.

"Perhaps, but it´s too early to think about that now, we should go inside and relax as well, I am almost done, only the finishing touch and…..!"

"Rughian-sempai!" I was interrupted by a high pitched voice.

"Huh, I know that voice, Nairuna?!" Rughian asked before the female crow flew right through the last Hole and crashed right against Rughian.

"Whoa, whoa calm down Nairuna what´s the matter?!" the same asked.

"Hehehe, I finally found you Sempai…., I've been flying for the entire time since early morning so far, to find you, then Lady Chika told me where to find you and she gave me a message for Tir-Ehen-sama as well.

I've been flying as fast as I could over here, this was awesome right, right?!" The crow explained, well more gushed, while eyeing Rughian with these eyes full of admiration and the want /need of being praised and noticed by her Rughian-sempai.

I guess before Rughian should worry about my love life, he should get his own straight.

"I see, nice to hear that, so what kind of message is that, which you were send with!" he asked without going on about what she said, nevertheless he petted her hair while she enjoyed it with an expression of pure bliss.

"She said that the Cursed five might be after the Five Colossus of world destruction and that she comes down here because someone is on the way as well, I think she said something about those from last time, do you know what she means?!" Nairuna asked.

"I know that very well, shit I always knew it was bad that they survived, these wretched two, I should have killed htem as I got the time, and Kasai…,., what the hell are you even think you doing?!" I stated in worry as well as in borderless wrath.

"Kasai knows exactly what it would mean to wake these things up, they are sealed within the last Hell-circles, in their dormant state, which means that they are as strong, maybe even stronger, than the Three Titans should they ever wake up.

But that you even help him, Moku and Mizu, why…, why you of all people.

By Rai and Kaze I could have think of it, but you two, why would you release the entire demons just to free a being you are neither sure to reactivate nor that it would even listen to you, I know demons are sometimes dumb, but I thought you would be wiser!?" I thought in pain and anger.

"Things have gone once again worse, but when these Two come with their own army, then things definitely get ugly, we have to prepare Sarin and the others as best as we can!" I Stated to Rughian.

"Indeed but let them relax first they had a worse fight only yesterday night and then they had to burry one of their comrades, they might seem strong to you, but they are all in unstable mental states, they first have to calm down, before they even have the attentiveness as well as the strength to go through our training!" The same explained to me

"Alright then I should stretch the time even further, as far as possible.

1 year I can pack in one real day at most, this must be enough…., this has to be, we cannot let them fight unprepared against demons.

Especially not when they have send them, sooner or later we will have to fight against them, i´m worried, very worried!" I stated.

"I Know what you mean but we have to go through this, at least Grandma and Regania are coming to help us!" Rughian stated optimistically.

"For now we too have to relax or else we cannot teach them their living daylights out!" He said and I nodded in understanding.

"Well then off to a nice Onsen session!" I said.

"Yes, time to relax for once!" Rughian nodded excited as he ran off to the tree house followed by Nairuna.

"In the end all of the darkness I created and all the hatred I sowed comes back at me!" I though as I too walked towards the tree.

"Will you stand by my side when you see what darkness I have created….., Sarin!" I thought.

A/N: Another Chapter is done, in this one you find some references to previous Naruto Games, Movies and Novels, such as Kakashi Hiden, Shikamaru Hiden, Naruto, The Last and Naruto Chronicles Kizuna drive.