Sorry I've been gone for so long, everyone. But things happened when I decided to go on hiatus as things got busy at university. Heck I was half way through writing this chapter when I stopped! Now 2 and something years later, I've graduated from university not once but twice and while I haven't written anything story wise, I have had many story ideas over the years due to me diving in and out of several fandoms. So this week, I am going to either update a story or release a new story as a bit of a welcome back week then try to post a chapter once a month for a story. But for now, enjoy this chapter of Naru Chara the re-write.

Please note that the two fandoms involved in this fic do not in any way shape or form but any OCs and this plot is mine.


Chapter 1 – It Begins

The next week passed fairly quickly. Both Naruto and Hinata were banned from missions and team training for a month, with Hinata having to do a lot of clerical work while Naruto was forced to clean up the mess he made and do any odd jobs Tsunade thought of. Naruto had complained about her being lazy and she'd included taking on the Tora mission at least once a day if it was available. Naruto thought this was borderline torture and had said so, getting him a swift punch to the head and Tsunade telling him if he said one more thing, he was taking on Tora for the whole of the duration of his punishment no matter what time or how many times it happened. Naruto had wisely shut up at that threat and the two had got to work. For Hinata, while the work was boring, she completed it dutifully as she knew it was a punishment for causing so much mayhem. Naruto was far busier than Hinata, having to run all over the place to clean up the mess, catch Tora and doing any odd jobs Tsunade needed doing. Naruto was also bored, as it felt like he was doing tons of D-ranked missions for free, but he didn't regret pulling all those pranks with Hinata. The memory of him helping her forget about her father for a while and have some fun kept a smile on his face. It helped him ignore the glares from people as he went about, as well as the whispers. He made sure to say 'hi' to her when he saw her at the Hokage's Tower, and though he could never stay around to chat, he at least didn't ignore her at all. He noticed she always was red around him, though he had no idea as to why that was. Hinata couldn't help blushing at Naruto whenever he came to say 'hi' but she was glad she didn't faint when he spoke to her. Sakura, who did notice this, kept trying to convince her to confess to Naruto, as while Naruto's crush on Sakura had waned since becoming team mates it wasn't completely dead yet and Sakura thought it might finally give him the push to get over it. Hinata, whose feelings for Naruto hadn't waned at all (in fact they'd got stronger if it was at all possible), was far too shy to do that, still unable to speak to him at all without stuttering. Though it certainly made her feel better that someone encouraged her to chase after Naruto, especially one of his team mates.

However, Hinata hadn't been the only one to have a waning crush on someone. Sakura's crush on Sasuke had also begun to wane, though she still liked him a lot, her feelings were definitely changing. It was due to this confliction, keeping her distance while she struggled to decide on how she was feeling that she noticed that Sasuke was acting odd around Naruto. He was slightly more talkative, and sometimes when Naruto did something stupid, the sides of his mouth would curl into a small smile and bits of laughter showed in his eyes. But he was also awkward and hesitant in some of his actions and Sakura could not, for the life of her, figure out what was his problem. Naruto, just like with Hinata's crush on him, was completely clueless to what their other team mate was doing. She wasn't even completely sure if Kakashi had noticed. He'd been noticeably distracted and seemed a tad frustrated recently, he'd not been reading his book as much and that was a sign she hadn't missed. But with so much going on, she hadn't exactly been herself either. She was worried their entire team was starting to fall apart and there was nothing she could do to stop it. She wanted things to go back to how they were before the Chunin Exams, where everything started to go wrong. Unknowingly to Sakura, Sasuke was fully aware of his actions towards people particularly that towards Naruto. He was no coward, but since the Uchiha massacre he had closed himself off to people and thought he had to do everything on his own. But as he trained in his backyard and reflected on how his perspective was changing, he realised he was becoming a better person thanks to his teammates. But change was something that came slowly to him, and even now he still kept his teammates at arm's length.

Tsunade sighed, massaging her head from the headache she currently had. A number of the Civilian Council were harping on at her for her punishment of Naruto, saying that it had been entirely too lenient for his crime. But his so called crime wasn't actually a crime just a bunch of harmless but annoying pranks which he had pulled for 'no apparent reason'. Yeah, he hadn't fooled her for a second but that didn't mean she knew his real reason, though she knew it involved her Hyuuga Heiress, Hyuuga Hinata. There were times she felt like she'd never understand kids like Naruto. Something another ninja in Suna agreed with, as Gaara also felt he had difficulties in understanding others. As he continued working through the papers he needed to read having just become Suna's ambassador to the Fire Country, he thought of his friend Naruto and how he easily accepted him. He pondered how easy it was for Naruto, despite his being the Kyubi's jinjuriki, to make friends with those around him. While Gaara's relationship with Temari and Kankuro had sufficiently improved, he couldn't help but wish for the ability to make more friends who were important to him.

That night, a meteor flew across the skies above Kahona and Suna; many chose to watch it for a while before continuing on with whatever it was they were doing. The meteor appeared to glow up in the sky above the two hidden villages like another moon and while for most people this was an unusual but harmless event, for some this was the beginning of a life changing adventure.

Naruto groaned as his alarm went off waking him from his pleasant dreams he'd had of an endless supply of ramen of kinds he could only dream of as he rolled off the bed in attempt to wake himself up. He crashed to the floor, groaning again as something bounced off his head having fallen with him. He looked up to glare at whatever had fallen with him only to be struck with some serious confusion because lying there in front of him innocently was an egg. It was larger than a normal egg, about the size of his fist, in the same bright orange colour of his jumpsuit with the Kahona swirl which appeared on the back of Chunin and up flak jackets. He sat up and picked up the egg which was warm to the touch and looked around to try and see where it had come from. Looking at the bed, he discovered there was a second egg precariously balancing on the edge of the bed which he quickly scooped up and looked at it, comparing it to the one that had fallen on his head. Again this egg was larger than a normal one but with a different design: this one was white on the top half and red on the bottom with the leaf symbol decorating the centre of the egg. Both were warm and appeared to have been left in his bed somehow. He couldn't think of how or even why someone would have dumped two large strangely designed eggs into his bed while he slept. His eyes drifted to his alarm clock and he yelped when he realised the time, dropping the eggs back onto the bed, throwing his jumpsuit onto his bed from where it had been unceremoniously dumped on the floor the night before he ran to put his morning ramen cup on. Forgetting about the two eggs entirely, he ran about getting ready, pulling his clothes on before eating his breakfast and rushing out the door to get to the Hokage's Tower for today's assignments. Never, even when he quickly zipped it as he shot out the door, did he notice that the two eggs were now sitting inside the shuriken holder strapped to his leg.

Elsewhere, Hinata was leaving the Hyuuga compound as quietly as she could so she wouldn't have to put up with the Elders or her Father's words and disapproving stares. Yesterday had been the last day of her punishment as it was generally accepted that Naruto had been the mastermind and she'd only done a few things he'd convinced her to do. As such she would be meeting her teammates at their usual meeting point. She'd left early today so she could have some time to think before they had training and she would have to concentrate. After all, it was not every day you woke up to find an egg in your bed. The egg was a large lilac with a lacy floral white pattern on it and she could not think of a reason for it to have been there. She would have left it at home, but something had compelled her to bring it along with so she had wrapped it in a handkerchief before carefully putting it into her shuriken holster. She'd have to check out the library sometime soon, perhaps today after training, to see if there was anything in the library about odd colours eggs randomly appearing.

Sakura was glad she'd stayed over at the hospital even if it was due to Tsunade stepping up her training within the hospital to help with the sudden surge of patients suffering from a strange new illness. Others like herself, training to become med-nins were being called in to cover shifts so the more experienced med-nins could try and figure out a cause and hopefully a cure. Patients with this new illness seemed lethargic, lacking in energy as well as settling in to a strange depression where things which had previously meant a lot to them no longer mattered as much, specifically their dreams. It had only been when Might Gai himself had fallen prey to this new illness, alongside Kakashi-sensei when alarm bells had truly begun ringing. But the main reason she was glad she'd been here at the hospital this morning had been she'd been able to keep from screaming when she'd woken up to find an egg in her bed. At first she'd put it down to a prank but it seemed rather unlikely the more she thought about over the course of the day as she did the rounds. The egg, which had been red in colour with pink sakura blossoms decorating it, was just odd. She hadn't had much time to think of how it had even ended up there, only to decide in her mind that it wasn't a prank by someone. But she had more important things to do so she pushed the egg, which she had left in her bag, out of her mind and went into another patient's room to check up on them.

Gaara continued to read the papers his predecessor had left him, and mentally thanked Temari who had brought him his breakfast a few hours ago and had promised to bring him lunch if he hadn't already finished. The job of going through all these papers to understand all the treaties should not have taken him nearly half as long as it had but this was nearly his third day stuck in this room in a row. His predecessor had been put in place by his father and was just as corrupt as many others who were slowly being weeded out, surviving much longer than most of fellows but he'd eventually been caught. Gaara highly doubted that any of these papers had been looked at by anyone other than the man who had come before him because the man's handwriting was so atrocious that reading each paper was more like de-coding a coded message which would probably take less time than trying to decipher the man's handwriting. To top it off, the man's papers were completely unsorted; several loose papers had even been scattered across the floor and probably stuffed between pages of books. He felt he was allowed, even if he didn't show it, to feel extremely fed up with the whole situation but he was most of the way done. He would have to suggest simply creating new treaties with the Fire Country and Kahona itself because more than half of these had some rather sketchy terms which were worded in such a way that they sounded completely innocent. He gave no thought to the odd egg he'd found hours earlier and placed in his pocket.

Sasuke sighed and closed yet another book and stood to put it back on its shelf. He'd been in here all day and still no answers. While the time spent searching the Uchiha library had been informative and he would need to take a better look at some of the books and scrolls later, he was still no closer to finding the answers he set out looking for in the first place. Sighing he looked again in annoyance at the strange egg he found when he woken up this morning. The egg started blue and faded into white at the bottom with the Uchiha symbol squarely in the middle. His stomach rumbled reminding him it had been several hours since lunch, so Sasuke decided to call it quits for tonight. But he would find the answer, though he thought as dropped the egg in his pocket, he should probably not spend all day in the library again.

Tsunade may still have been in the office, but she was certainly not getting any work done. She'd already nodded off after a couple bottles of sake. She'd been so busy all day with the new illness as well as her duties as Hokage that she'd never even noticed as an egg had fallen off her seat and rolled under her desk.

"It would appear I am too late, they've already begun their operation. I must hurry if I'm to stop them."


There, combined and improved the original chapter 2 and 3. Again, sorry for taking so long with getting this chapter to you guys and hope you can forgive me.

Please review and see you in the next chapter of Naru Chara the rewrite or in another of my stories.