Well, it's been awhile! That's all I can say for now. You can read for yourself what took me so long to update this chapter is you choose too. But thanks for all the support you have giving me so far and giving this story a shot. For all the reviewers and the silent readers, the ones that favorite this and have it on alert, you make my day in world where it's really hard to smile sometimes.

Hoytti- For real. If I was Naruto, I would want to know what other life can I live away from all the hate. Taking a chance on the unknown is better than what Naruto had to go through every freaking day. Naruto is pretty much a dark manga if you can see past the humor (bad forced humor) with Zombies and such. Just think if the manga was an 18 and up manga. It would be disturbing to say the least.

adngo714- Hinata will get trained the same way as Naruto. Naruto will get the most out of the training because well, Hinata knows more than Naruto does at this point. She was trained to be a ninja since the time that she can walk. Not so much with Naruto. And Itachi really doesn't know the gentle fist to be able to teach someone else. And some has to keep an eye on Hanabi. But Hinata will learn much with Itachi. And others on their journey.

Guest- You just have to stick around and find out. Whoever you are! lol!

SuperVegtioFan- On Naruto Wiki, it shows and says that her eyes are blue. But when the manga has their color pages, Ino has green eyes. I just went with blue cause many people watch the anime and she has blue eyes in the show and we hardly get to see Ino or her clan eye color in the manga enough. As for the training, Itachi is just going to teach the basics to Naruto and a couple of jutsu. Same with Hinata but she already knows the basics and already has a fighting style. Everything else, Naruto will have to learn on his own or with other teachers. Naruto will have to work hard like he always does to improve. With Itachi, Naruto is getting a fighting chance and ground work so he can start building his moveset from.

chaos267- Lol. Glad you like it. I know I did and I still don't know what made me think of that but I am not complaining about it! And yes, there will be drawbacks. Like he knows what to do and how to do it in his mind with Itachi's training, but his body sure doesn't! He has to train his body as well and there is no shortcuts with that. And that's all you are going to get!

gwellion- Glad you agree with me! lol

Shinnypichu- Well for bandits, I think I will take a kid that knows gentle fist and trained to be a ninja and a boy that goes into Kyuubi mode when his life is in danger or his friends than a bandit everyday of the week. Same can be said about murderers. And Ninja's well, Itachi touched on the subject last chapter and is the reason why he is training them to at least stand a chance. However small that chance may be. Nobody said that this journey was going to be a walk in the park.

Tsukuyomi11- Here's another shot-out! Thanks for the review!

Don't own Naruto.

Short chapter I know, but I am trying to get back into the swing of things.

Chapter 4: Walk the invisible line

"We cannot stay here any longer. We have to keep moving or others like these Anbu will show up and I'am sure you children would want that. There is an Inn not to far from our current location. Let us make haste towards that destination." Itachi called out to the kids while jumping down from the tree that he perched himself into while the kids down below were allowed to be well...kids for what it seems like to him, for the first time ever. Knowing the Hyuuga as well as he does, that poor girl was probably never allowed to be herself. Something that Itachi knows all too well. To live a lie just for an image that was forced onto you without caring about your feelings or thoughts in the matter. To live life not knowing who YOU truly are, only knowing what your clan wants the public to know of you. It is very difficult and Itachi would gladly switch roles with the people who wants, wishes, and will kill to be in his shoes. And he figured that Hinata will share his sentiments. Even more so with little Naruto. He has it worse of all. With Itachi and Hinata, they are told how to act. They can look at the older generation and follow their example on how to carry yourself. They always had a guide on how to live a lie. Naruto has no of that. However way he may acts, he is hated. He can't look at the older generation for guidance, Because no one is hated to that degree. There is Anko, but comparing the two in how they are treated is just silly to do so. There is no guide on how to live a lie for Naruto. That boy has to make his own. But at least he has someone to lean on now with his troubles...And another person that will slap some sense into him and has no problems with doing it. And if anyone was watching Itachi closely, you would see a small crack of a smile thinking about that slap. But it vanished as soon the kids focus their attention on him.

"How to you make haste? What is haste? Can you eat it?" Naruto question Itachi completely forgetting what Itachi just said about other Anbu closing in on their location in favor for a food that doesn't exist. You can say anything to that boy as long as you bring up food, you can get him to agree with anything you say. And Itachi wasn't the only one to pick on this. Judging by the look on Hinata's face, she is having the same thoughts. Little does Naruto know, Hinata will have him wrapped around her finger. Snapping his head to the trees, Itachi sensed people closing on them, he walks up and grabs the kids, and shunshin's away, missing Kakashi and Anko by mere seconds.

Konoha forest: 30 minutes earlier

Leaping from tree to tree with enough force of chakra pumping throughout his legs, breaking the poor unfortunate tree branches that happens to be on his way to find his sensei's son. The last remaining link to his past that he so desperately wants to hold on too. All this time of moping around, reminiscing about the ones he lost at the memorial stone, and a piece of his sensei was walking around under nose and he didn't think nothing of it. He was pissed at the Hokage for not telling him. No matter what his mindset was, even if he was stuck in the past and wouldn't be able to care for Naruto in the Hokage's mind, he still had the right to know.

'Did it ever occur to the Hokage that by telling me just who Naruto is, would get me to stop thinking about the past so much? How much of this pain I feel inside me will lessen? That I can pass on the knowledge of my sensei's, his damn dad teachings unto him? Does the Hokage even give a flying fuck about me and sensei's son?' Maybe it was his anger that was getting the best of him and in Kakashi's line of work, that can and will get him killed. But he can't stop all the negative thoughts that is creeping in his head. And Kakashi doesn't want it to stop.

'Hiding him from his mothers and fathers enemies. What a lame excuse if I ever heard one. And I heard them all from the enemies I've slain. What does the Hokage have to fear? If it's Iwa, doesn't the Hokage know that Konoha will fight tooth and fucking nails to protect Naruto if it was known to the public just exactly WHO Naruto is and what he does for them every day without his own knowledge?' Or course, they will be some that can't let go of the past, like himself, and will still hate Naruto for what he holds or just flat out say that it's a lie. But Kakashi has an answer for that...

'Nothing like a lighting hot raikiri up the ass will make them see the errors of their ways.' That mental image alone caused Kakashi to almost crack a smile. Almost.

Kakashi was walking that invisible and his foot just step on the side of evil. Wanting to cause harm on the people he swore to protect.

Or course it's easy to lay blame on someone else, but what Kakashi won't acknowledge, or chooses to not to think about is some of that blame should be laid at his own feet. The clues and the hints were RIGHT THERE in his face and for whatever reason, Kakashi choose to ignore them. Sometimes, it hurts to just hope for something that might not even be true. Kakashi has too much pain in his life and he didn't need or want the pain of hoping. So caught up in his inner inner monologue, he didn't notice that someone was was right next to him laughing her ass off at the faces Kakashi was displaying for the world to see for a good minute. Kakashi would be dead if this person was an enemy looking to score some respect from his peers for killing the famed copy-cat ninja. Having her fill of amusement of seeing Kakashi throwing a temper tantrum right in front of her, she decides it's time to make her presence known the best way she knows how...

"What's going on one-eyed willy!" She yelled out to him. Startled, Kakashi flings a Kunai at the voices direction. Always prepared, the yeller parries with a Kunai of her own making sparks fly with the impact of the two kunai's hitting each other.

"Whoa! I didn't know it was THIS kind of party! Was that your invitation? Cause I'll be happy to attend cotton eye joe" Finally knowing who it was, Kakashi relaxes somewhat but is not in the best of moods to deal Anko's jokes.

"What do you want Anko? As you can tell, I am not at my best of moods for jokes."

"Really?! I didn't even notice with all the destruction you're leaving in your wake and lets not forget about that kunai you flung in my face."

"Enough with your jokes and the sarcasm. What are even doing out here?"

"Surely you heard what's happen to them Uchihas? Well, we found out who did it. Well actually the whole Konoha knows who did and I wouldn't be surprised if Sunagakure heard it by now. That kid Sasuke yelled it out to the heavens as soon as he woke up from that coma. So now we are looking for Itachi and to bring him in for questioning." Looking to see his reaction, Anko is surprised to see that Kakashi still had that pissed look on his face that she so loves to crack jokes about.

"Well good luck with that. I have my mission that I must see through to the end." And with that, Kakashi picks up the pace in his tree leaping thinking he left Anko behind him... he should know better but he's not thinking with a clear head at this point.

"And what mission is that peak-a-boo kaka?" Knowing that Anko would not leave him alone if he doesn't tell her and plus, she has much right to know about his mission, she was one of the best in guarding Naruto. He has seen first hand in what lengths Anko will go to protect the boy from anything. A dirty look, or a bad whisper aimed at Naruto's way, Anko was on them and she is the only person that can relate to a small fraction of what Naruto deals with on the daily. She has every right to know. More than him really.

"Naruto has left the village earlier in the night." Now it was Kakashi's turn to see Anko's reactions to the news and was shocked that she didn't show any fear, anger, or worry on her face. In fact, it seems like she expected this to happen at some point.

"I see. I can't blame him for it that's for damn sure. I know this is hard for you, but you have SEE the whole picture here. That thought crossed my own mind plenty of times. The only reason for me not going through with it is well...because I would become what everyone already thinks of me. A Traitor. And I'll be damn if I proved the right! But there were times...many times. And one of those times, I wanted to just take Naruto with me and leave all the bullshit behind us you know? Did you know I went to the Hokage and ask him if I can adopt Naruto myself?"

No Kakashi didn't know about. She wanted to take care of Naruto even without the knowledge of who he really was. She didn't feel sorry about her past and didn't think about it. If she did, she hid it well. Unlike himself. She was the first to make a move in protecting Naruto, a kid that had no connection to her. Making him feel like an ass. He just did his job, and went on to mope leaving the kid on his own. She went one or more steps beyond the call of duty to help a kid in need. Which he now knows that Naruto was HIS responsibility to care for. Making him feel even more like an ass.

"And do you know what the Hokage said? He said that by me adopting Naruto, he won't be safe with me due to my past and my standing within the village. It will give the people more reason to hate us he said. He wasn't even willing to try knowing that poor boy was suffering and needed help. And at that time, I was going to take Naruto and leave the village. Just go into the boy's apartment and take him while he was sleeping. And I did just that but the Hokage must have been reading my mind that night because he was right there to stop me, and kicked me off the job in watching Naruto."

Anko walked that invisible line and lost.

Kakashi didn't know about this either! No wonder he didn't see Anko guarding Naruto up close anymore. Maybe that's why there was a spike in the village with number of times a situation happen because of Naruto. But she was always around in the same area Naruto was in, helping out in the shadows. With or without the Hokage's say so. But you can only do so much without getting into trouble. Kakashi guessed that was Anko's mission to herself. And it was really rare for Anko to open up the way she just did to anyone. So lost in his thoughts, Kakashi almost missed what she said next.

"Is that why you're mad? I thought you really didn't care about the kid. You just did your job and that was it." Looking hard into his face, Anko knows that he is hiding something from her. It's very rare that you see the aloof Kakashi not in control of his own emotions. "There's something more to this story that you're not telling me. Care to fill me in pop-n-fresh Kaka?"

"..."

"In order for this relationship to work, we have to trust each other. That's the first step in a relationship."

"What relationship is this? I wasn't aware of one."

"The relationship of us being partners! If you think I'am just going to sit back and do nothing while that kid is out there and leave it up to you, then you are fool! And besides, I don't trust you enough with the safety of Naruto." And Anko was dead serious with that statement.

"What do you mean by that?"

"You heard me. That's exactly what I mean. I don't trust you with Naruto. And when I found you earlier pissed the hell off looking for Naruto, that's not a good look for you in my book. But lets make this clear, if you even think about hurting that boy, you really will earn the nickname one eyed willy." Before Kakashi can retort, the sounds of a battle was whistled in their ears. Sharing a look, the headed off in which their ears were their only direction.

Konoha forest: Present time

"There was a battle that took place here. It seems like someone tried to clean up the battlefield but there are somethings that you cannot hide or just flat out miss." Kakashi summarized as he and Anko landed on the battlefield that their target just participated in. And he just has the means of finding out what was missed during the clean-up/

"Kuchiyose no Jutsu!"

It wasn't long before Pakkun was listening to orders from his summoner and sniffing around the little warzone once the smoke cleared from the Jutsu. And picked up on Naruto's blood on the ground right away. Concerned, Anko asked questions a mile a second that Pakkun could only answered that his scent was around this battlefield and that's it. He wasn't dead because there will be a scent that he can follow to the body. From what he can gather is that Naruto and three other people that was with him just vanished and only the people that was in mortal combat with Naruto is still fresh. With no other leads, Pakkun followed the scent of the men that Itachi and Naruto dragged with them to clean the battlefield only to lead to a river which Kakashi took as whoever was with Naruto, dumped the bodies in the river and the bodies are riding the currents right now. With nothing to go on, the question in both Anko's and Kakashi's mind is...

Who is with helping Naruto? And Where did they go? And what does this mean?

With the kids and Itachi: Present time

Checking in to the Inn was simple enough. Casting a henge on everyone so they won't get recognized and going with the alibi that Itachi is older brother of the kids while on a trip to meet up with their mother and father, they got one room with two beds. With the kids settling in, Itachi reminded the kids on what they had to do the next day.

"Make sure you are both well rested and ready to begin your training. It will not be easy. Be prepared." As Itachi began to walk to the window, Hinata posed a question to him that went unnoticed by Naruto. Reason being, he was too busy stuffing his face with the food Hinata made for them on her way out of the Hyuuga household. And of course Hanabi who was fast asleep in the bed that she will share with her sister.

"W-where are you going to sleep."

"I am not going to sleep. I will be on the roof keeping look out for any Konoha ninjas that happens to come across this town." He didn't want to say that he can't go to sleep with the faces of his parents and clansmen that he killed still fresh in his mind. That would be the last thing you tell kid. That you are traveling and learning from a murderer.

"What kind of training are we doing?" Naruto asked before he went back to stuffing his face.

Approaching the window and opening it Itachi answered Naruto's question in a deadpan voice that had both Naruto and Hinata confused.

"CQC."

Little did Itachi know, that his night is far from over as he is about to run into some of those Konoha ninjas.

A/N: Anybody that reads or has played the Metal Gear Solid novels or games knows what CQC means. If you don't well, you will soon. And to me, The Boss is the best fictional female character of all time. No other female comes close!

And sorry for the long wait. The Manga of Naruto was really making my blood boil with the whole Sasuke wants to be Hokage situation. And they way he went about saying too! Like it's going to happen and people are all smiles that he just pops up out of the blue except for Shikamaru and turning Naruto's dream into a joke with everybody in their mom claiming they want to be Hokage now. And with Obito getting power-ups every second it seems and the past Hokage's taking the glory from the younger generation, just made my head hurt. I mean, seeing all the Hokages like this is great, but I thought the younger generation always surpasses the old. That is what the manga preaches about amongst other things. So let the younger generation handle that. But then again, that's what happens when you overpower your villains at every turn. You need someone to match that and who better than the past hokages. You can overpower Sasuke (Clearly) and Naruto but not the others because that would just be silly to have a person like Ino become a powerhouse. And where IS Kakashi? That and well, summer. I was out doing summer things. And the next generation consoles that are coming out and hype around that! Got my PS4 already pre-ordered! And Capcom needs to make another Megaman game dammit! lol And again, sorry for the wait. Till next time.