Two days later
Naruto found himself, standing at the Gate entry of the Sand Village. The sand was blowing in his face, as he walked though the streets of the village. He headed for the Kazekage's office. Before anything, he used a transformation jutsu so incase Konaha had told the sand that he was banished. The blonde, orange wearing boy, was now a brown-haired, black and red wearing villager from the Hidden Rock. He wore his black outfit from the funeral of the third Hokage. He went to the Kazekage's office and asked for three strong and feared ninja to help protect him, with his stay here. The sand villagers were not on friendly terms with rock.
The Kazekage agreed, for a payment of 174 dollars. Naruto forgot you had to play for missions. Unwillingly, he pulled out his frog wallet and paid the Kazekage. He told Naruto to wait outside, as he sent two guards to go get Gaara and his siblings. Naruto didn't hear who they were getting, so he was still hoping that he would be able to speak with Gaara. He walked around for a few minutes. He walked back to the Kazekage's office and knocked.
"Come in." He said and Naruto walked in. Thankfully, is was Gaara's family. Trying to act like a normal villager, he asked:
"Are you serious? These punks?" He repeated the words Tazuna, from the hidden mist, had said to his team, on their first mission. "Well, okay lets go." And walked out of the room, with the sand siblings following him.
"May we ask what we are guarding you from…um?" Temari asked, not knowing his name.
"My names not important, at the moment. Do you have a place we could talk more privately?" Naruto asked, in his new improved form.
"Certainly, we can go to our house." And Temari led the way. Gaara looked at Naruto suspiciously, but followed anyways. Once they arrived at the house, Naruto sat down, while Temari asked:
"Would you like some tea?"
"Yes please" Naruto said, as Temari walked into the kitchen, while Kankuro went to check on him puppets. Gaara, on the other hand, looked at the brown-haired man. He was about three inches taller than him. He smirked.
"That a nice disguise." Gaara said calmly.
"Thank y—What?"
"I said that's a nice disguise, Naruto."
"How did you know?" Naruto said as he 'poofed' back to his normal self.
"I sensed your chakra and recognized it. Next time, try to mask it better."
"Will do. Well, I'm guessing you want to know why I'm here." Naruto asked
"That would be nice" So Naruto explained his entire story from not being able to retrieve Sasuke, which he already knew, to the part of his banishment, then to the whole disguise thing.
Temari and Kankuro had heard Naruto's voice, and entered the room. They were both surprised. Gaara explained the story to them, and now they understood.
"So I was wondering if I could stay here for a while, just until I find another place to stay." Naruto said
"Of course you can, you can stay here from the entire time, if you'd like?"
"If you can stand me for 5 years than sure." Gaara and Kankuro nodded in approval
"Thanks guys, I'll owe you for life. I'll stay as my disguise so people don't recognize me. I don't want Sand to let Leaf know I'm here. I'll train with you guys, if that's okay?"
"That cool." Kankuro said. Naruto sighed in relief.
"Come, I'll show you your room" Kankuro said. Naruto followed him to the end of the hallway to his room. Temari and Gaara stood in silence. "Your doing a good thing, Gaara" Temari said.
"What are….friends for?" He said. Temari smiled at his brother.
Two years later
Sakura and Kakashi were training at Training grounds 7. Sakura was throwing punched and kicks at Kakashi. Kakashi was blocking most of them, but got kicked a bunch of times. She threw a kunai at him, which was blocked by him throwing his. Both clanked to the ground.
"O-Okay, I think were done for today." Kakashi said, very tired.
"Okay," Sakura said. They both sat down and ate the lunch that Sakura packed. There was two sandwiches and rice. "So, three more years." Kakashi said.
"Yeah, I can't wait to see him all of the new jutsus you and Lady Tsunade have taught me."
"So you training with her is going well, I see." Kakashi said.
"Yes, with her I'm learning to become a med-nin and to be stronger. And with you, I'm learning taijutsu, ninjutsu and genjutsu more often." Sakura said. Kakashi smiled at his student. 'She's grown, from a pathetic girl to a very strong one.' Kakashi thought. Suddenly Neji appeared.
"Hokage-sama wishes to speak with you two."
"Thanks." Kakashi said, and both of them disappeared. They appeared in front of Tsunades door and knocked. "Come in." They walked in to find a much stressed Tsunade.
"Oh good, its you two. In six months, you two and Shikamaru will go to the Sound Village, find Sasuke and bring him back. We have reliable sources that say that they should be very weak at that point. So you guys train heard, okay?"
"Y-Yes Tsunade-sensei." Sakura said and vanished.
"Well, that went well" Kakashi said and also disappeared.
'Now you can prove yourself to everyone, Sakura.' Tsunade thought and went back to her paperwork.
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Naruto was outside, training with Gaara, Temari and Kankuro. Gaara was practicing his sand jutsus, Kankuro was working with one of his puppets and Temari was teaching herself a new jutsu with her fan.
Jiraya had fount out Naruto was in the Sand Village, and came by to see how he was doing about two weeks ago. Naruto was remembering that day,
In Konaha
Jiraya was remembering the last time he met Naruto for the first time in two years.
Jirayas POV Flashback
Jiraya was now entering the Sand Village. He had some reliable resources tell him that they had seen Naruto heading this way. He went to the Kazekages office, asking to speak with Temari. The Kazekage agreed, and sent someone to go get her.
Naruto's POV Flashback
Naruto and Gaara were having a conversation when there was a knock at the door. Everyone looked at Naruto, who was quickly making hand sign. Naruto whispered the disguising technique. Suddenly Naruto turned into his disguise. Them name they would call him when in this body was Natrumaru. Receiving a nod from Naruto, Kankuro turned to the door and opened it.
"Temari, the Kazekage had asked for your presence."
"Well, okay. See you guys later." Temari left the house and followed the villager to the Kazekages office. Naruto released the jutsu, because it cost him a lot of chakra, and continued with his conversation. Kankuro joined in.
Jirayas POV Flashback
Jiraya was waiting for Temari in the Office. After a few minutes Temari walked in. Once she saw that Jiraya was standing there, she froze. Naruto told her that Jiraya was an old sensei.
"Hey Temari, could we go for a walk?" He asked.
"Y-Yeah, sure." She said and followed the Sannin. Out on the streets, they walked for a good five minutes, until Jiraya broke the silence.
"Have you seen Naruto? I heard he was heading this way"
"Um, no, I-I haven't" Temari said nervously. Jiraya took notice of the this, and was getting suspicious.
"Oh, well, I just wanted to he how he was doing and show him a new Jutsu I came up with for him. If you see him, tell him I was looking for him." Jiraya said, and turned to leave.
'What should I do? Naruto, I know, would love to learn a new jutsu, before returning to Konaha.' She thought. "Jiraya-sama, would you like to come to my place for tea?" Jiraya turned around and accepted the offer.
Narutos POV Flashback
Kankuro was showing him all the moves that he could do with the puppets. Naruto was very fascinated with it. Kankuro moved him fingers in a certain way, which made the puppet move.
"So every different finger stance moves a differ-." He was cut off by two slow knocks. Naruto turned himself into Nartumaru. He masked his chakra level, just like Gaara reminded him to do when he first got there. Temari entered with a certain Legendary Sannin. Naruto gasped. Temari looked at him with a worried look.
"Hey Nartumaru, can I talk to you?" Temari asked. She walked towards a room with a door, so no one would hear. 'Nartuamaru' followed. When he entered, Temari shut the door.
"I'm sorry, he said he wanted to teach you a new technique, and I knew you wanted to learn some different ones. He said it was one just for you." Temari apologized and explained.
"Its okay, I'll talk to him." Naruto said with his low voice. They both exited the room.
"Yo, Ero-sennin?" Naruto said.
Jiraya turned around to the name Naruto had called him all the time. "Do I know you?" Jiraya said.
"You should, here let me give you a hint." Naruto unmasked his chakra. The level of chakra in the room skyrocketed. Jirayas eyes widened.
"Still don't recognize me? I'm hurt, Ero-sennin."
"Naruto? Is that you?" He asked. Naruto released the jutsu to reveal him-self, with a new outfit on. It was black and orange now.
"So what's this new jutsu you wanted to teach me?" Naruto smiled.
End of all Flashbacks.
Naruto was practicing the jutsu. Naruto yelled, "Kage Bunshin no jutsu!" and five Narutos appeared. The real Naruto moved away from his clones. Then he yelled. "Kage Bunshin Daibakuha!" Each of the five clones blew up. The jutsu was used to confuse the enemy and put them off guard.
Naruto also practiced two other ones, but he never got them ,mastered. He was only able to get one to work, but not so that he was really called mastered. He practiced until he was out of chakra. Temari and Kankuro had to drag him home.
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So I thought this would be a fun chapter to put up. I'll have the next one up in a few hours, or tomorrow morning.
Crystal
Glossary
Ero-sennin- Perverted hermit
Kage Bunshin no jutsu- Shadow Clone Technique
Kage Bunshin Daibakuha-Shadow Clone Explosion.
Hope that helped.