Yin and Yang

Chapter 11

The smoke cleared, showing a growling nine-tailed fox, crouching low over Naruto, it's summoner. Gaara'a eyes went wide, amazed that he was finally meeting the demon that was sealed inside his freind. Naruto had met his under rather unplesant circumstances. Naruto lay a hand on the foxes side, and people then noticed that the fox was a lot smaller than he should be.

"Easy...these are not my enemies." He said softly. The fox relaxed, and sat down, eyeing the rooms occupants coutiously.

"The why have you summoned me?"

"They wanted an exclamation for what happened out there." Naruto said. "I made a pact with the fox, in return of releasing him of his bond, he agreed to lend me his power, perminatly. that is why, I suppose, my chakra turned orange, his red mixed with my yellow."

"So you cheated?" Marou exploded from the far side of the room. "You changed your power halfway through? That much? PLEASE tell me this is illeagal!!"

"Silence, pup!" The fox snarled. Naruto shushed the fox, petting slowly. The crowd berfore them were simply amazed.

"The last person to ever control the fox was Uchia Madara." The kage said, a hint of awe in his voice.

"Well, we were both a little sick of him hiding inside of me. Besides, I'm not ready to die just yet. The Akatsuki are after all jinnchuriki. Gaara Sama was lucky he had Chiyo Sama there." Gaara nodded in agreement at Naruto's comment. " Besides, if they try to seperate us, Kyuubi Sama and I have set it up, so that each of us die the moment they attemt to do so." Even Gaara was shocked at this. Silence filled the room as Naruto continued to pet the Fox's fur, more of a reflex now than to keep it calm. The Kage cleared his throat, coughing a little.

"Well, either way, you, Uzumaki Naruto, have also passed as a Chuunin. Congradulations!"

"HELL YEAH!" Naruto leapt up into the air, doing a series of large fist pumps. even the fox winced from his voice. Sai gave a small smile, glad the Naruto he had known was back. It was strange to see Naruto dpressed.

one step closer to Hokage! Naruto thought gleefully. The fires of determination had begun to burn brighter than ever before.

The group of six ninja walked out of the arena, talking happily. The clouds were still avoiding Naruto, who didn't really mind. Sai was sneaking looks at Saiya, his dark eyes flashing everytime, reflecting the torch light. He finnaly walked up behind her, lay his arms over her shoulders so that he could latch his fingers together infront of her, and smiled.

"Good job today, Yin-chan!" He said happily.

"What the HELL!" Senji yelled. The group had came out of the tunnel at that point, so Senji's movements were plainly seen. He grabbed Sai's collar, pulled him off of saiya, and flung him away several feet. Imeadietly, Naruto, Saiya, and the rest of the group was ready to defend Sai if needed. Saiya was standing stock still, her purple eyes wide and staring. Mauja was growling, advacing on Sai, as well as the other two animals.

"Don't you ever touch her again!" Senji snapped as Sai stood.

"Whats the big deal? He was just acting freindly, and telling her she did good today!" Opal snapped. "Do you have a problem with showing manners?"

"Stay out of this, Suna." Senji now rounded on her. Naruto flung out an arm between them, even though he knew she was capable of defending herself.

"She's right, Cloud." He said. "Sai was being freindly. There was no reason to be hostile."

"Shut your trap, freak!" Marou growled. "He souldn't do that unless he knows the person won't be uncomfortable!" Saiya was still stock still. Marou turned to her, and even though no one could see his expression, they could tell by his posture and body language, that he was being extreamly gentle.

"You okay, Sai?" Senji asked, directing his concern at his teammate.

"Y-yeah, I'm okay." She muttered. Naruto and Sakura went to Sai's side, making sure he was okay as well.

"Here." Marou tossed a white robe over Saiya's shoulders, and while she was adjusting this, the boys were putting on ones of their own. They turned and bowed to the others there.

"Have a nice life." Senji muttered sarcastically. Sai stared at the three, his eyes going wide. "Lets go home." And with that, the three were gone, their animals vanishing in the strange light that seemed to make up Marou's knife. Moments after the three had sped out of sight, Sai followed.

"SAI! Where are you GOING?" Sakura yelled. Sai didn't awnser, just continued leaping from tree to tree.

"C'mon, Sakura!" Naruto yeleld, gesturing over his shoulder. The rest of the gang looked at eachother, then Lee, Hinata, Ten-ten, and Neiji also followed. After all, who was best at speed?

The group caught up quickly, but couldn't seem to get right up beside the Clouds. Naruto and Sakura had a bad case of Dejavu as they concentrated on the fluttering white cloaks. About a mile out of town, there was a burst of light, and the three ninja vanished. The seven Konoha ninja stopped, coming up around Sai.

"Sai, what's wrong with you?" Sakura asked.

"Yeah, whats up? you really are acting odd." Naruto said.

"It was Yin-Chan, i'm sure it was..." Sai muttered. Neiji cocked his head.

"The transportation spell did..." There was silence as everyone realized what Sai had seemed to know for months. They looked in the direction that the three had been headed.

"This is WAY more messed up than it needs to be..." Naruto muttered.