Alright everyone. I am sorry for the extremely long wait only to get this... but it's getting real hard just to stay focused.

Itachi: If it's hard to stay focused, why don't you use the shockey monkey I got for you? There are children all over the world who whould give their left leg for that monkey!

I hate monkeys!

(The monkey walked by carrying a suitcase with its nose in the air, clearly insulted and left the house, slamming the door behind it.)

Itachi running after it: Monkey come back!

... Well... enjoy what I got...

Ch. 14: Filler this way comes. And a crappy one at that!

As it was, Itachi told the surprisingly calm Hokage how things where while in the Akatsuki and his reason for coming home, which the old man merely nodded to.

"Yes, I have realized that after I used my crystal ball to keep watch over these… questionable visitors of ours." Said the Hokage. "Imagine on how shocked I was seeing that child once he removed his mask."

"Wait, Naruto ishere? Where, and what mask?" Asked Itachi.

"Just a gas mask, and he's safe and sound in a nearby motel. What I want to know is when did you encounter him, and why he came back, but lets save that for later. Right now, I need to find out what to do with you…"

"I know, I'll stay at the family home with Sasuke, I'm sure he wont mind." Itachi joked. "Hey, how's he doing any way?"

"Living depressed and alone with the only thing on his mind is to destroy you."

"Then I think he needs a new hobby… And Hokage, did I do the right thing, all those years ago? And shouldn't we have told Sasuke that our clan was to…"

"Itachi." The Hokage said sternly, "I won't lie and say that I slept easy on the day I gave the assignment of their execution, but it was for the best of the village and probably for the whole land for their deaths. There was overwhelming evidence from the Hyuga elders about the Uchiha's ambitions. I do weep for the innocent, but we wouldn't need their revenge. Now, since you will be staying here, you will need to keep the Anbu disguise up and try to not interact with the villagers unless you must. The last thing we need is a riot because you decided do socialize. That goes for Naruto and double for Sasuke."

Itachi nodded and left the old man to himself.

'…Now what was I going to get? Oh yes…'

He quietly made his way to his desk and opened the drawer after making sure he was alone, and pulled out a copy of Make Out Paradise.

As he left the office with the book hidden, Sarutobi thought 'Kami I hate myself for this. Damn you Jiraiya for making this story so interesting.'

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And so, Itachi stealthily made his way back to the family mansion thinking 'It should be abandoned. I mean, who in their right mind would stay at the place that a few hundred people have been brutally murdered?'

Of course, after looking through a window, he found Sasuke there.

Sitting in the main hall with only a few candles lighting up the area, he just stared into space, old family scrolls scattered around.

'Look at him.' Itachi thought, 'Thinks he's truly alone in the world, and oblivious to the reason why… Maybe it is time I laid a few breadcrumbs to allow him to start searching for the truth, and possibly put his mind at ease. Or make things worse, but I think its worth a shot.'

With a small grin he walked off, ready to shine some light for Sasuke on his family's past.

----Meanwhile on the next day---

Naruto walked to the training grounds to brush up on his skills, and plan on what to do during the three month wait until the finals of the exams.

'I still see no meaning for you to wait until then.' Mumbled the fox, clearly bored out of his mind.

'You have to understand humans first. This I going to be a huge event that almost everyone in the village will attend. It is then things will be easier for me to make my appearance and take my revenge.'

'Ha, revenge. You talk of it, but I can tell your heart will not be in it. Whatever, as long as something happens.'

As the cloaked boy made his way through town, he noticed a box made to look like a rock (quite pathetically) with eyeholes stalk him. 'Now this is sad.' After drawing a lot of unwanted attention to himself, Naruto shouted to the box once they arrived at the forest;

"Alright, what do you want?!"

"Oh, so you could see through my disguise? You really are good." The boy came out from underneath and was at once recognized as the kid Kankuro was going to beat up. "Anyways, let me just cut to the chase, I want you to teach me how to fight as no one is as cool as you!"

"…Well I'm …flattered that you think so." Naruto said, a bit confused. "But I'm no teacher. And is it really smart to ask a complete stranger, who in the end could easily slash your throat and throw away your corps into the middle of the forest? I don't think so."

"It's not like you can." He said quite cockily, "After all, I'm Konohamaru, the grandson of the 3rd hokage so I'd watch what I would say."

With a sigh Naruto walked up to the kid, and kicked him in the head sending him flying into some trees.

Shakily getting up from the blow, Konohamaru rubbed his head, which was bleeding. "Wh-what you do that for?" the question on the borderline of fear and anger.

The emotionless mask looked at the child. "I need to know if I will be wasting my time with you, because I have better stuff to do. So if we train, before you punch, run, or crawl, you must learn how to DODGE!" And Naruto swung his fist out to Konohamaru's head.

He didn't dodge, but he sure could take a hit.

Naruto shook his head as the kid curled up in pain. 'Well, now I'll have something to do…'