Chapter 14

Ok people what's with the sudden 'You have grammar mistakes'? I have used single Quotations for dialogue for the last 12 chapters and now people are suddenly complaining about me using those instead of what everyone else does? Come on people, that is just stupid. Why wait after 12 chapters to complain about that? I am going to say this ONE time only: everyone has a different style of writing (and that includes punctuation!), this is mine, so if you don't like it, then GO AWAY! And for those of you who care more for the story, meet the OC I created, I had thought this guy up a long time ago and have wanted to put him in a story or two, hope no one minds.

Disclaimers: I don't own the manga/anime Naruto in any way, shape, or form.

Naruto looked carefully as his eyes adjusted to normal from the flash and he saw the man before them, he was about 6 ft., lean muscular build. His eyes were steel grey and had a bit of mischief in them, his hair was black with steel grey streaks that reached mid-back and was wild and a bit spiky on top of his head. His skin was slightly tanned and he had two katana strapped to his back, one facing upwards with the hilt by his right shoulder the other upside down with the hilt by his left hip. He wore a white muscle shirt under a white with grey edging trench coat and slate grey pants with a kunai holster on his right thigh. Naruto pulled out a kunai and stepped into a defensive stance. The man saw that and held up his hands, 'Whoa, hey kid, calm down! I'm no enemy! Look I'll even prove it.' The man reached down and removed the straps on his shurikan and kunai holsters and dropped them at his feet and then reaching under his trench coat he undid the straps for the two swords on his back and they fell to the ground (A/N the straps ran through small holes in the trench coat letting him easily take them off with his trench coat if he didn't want to take them off of it).

Naruto glared at him through his sunglasses, which obviously the man felt and sighed, 'Trench coat too? Fine, I'll take that off as well.' The man took off the trench coat and when it fell it landed so it covered the weapons. Naruto relaxed a bit, opening the neck of his traveling cloak, as everyone else relaxed when they saw him putting his weapons down, once they got their eyesight back they saw him holding his hands out to calm Naruto down and had pulled out their own weapons or in Neji's case taken up his Gentle Fist stance. The man saw everyone relax and he walked over with his arms out to show he had no weapons and he looked at Naruto, or more specifically, his hair. The man's eyes widened a bit, 'Wow, you look an awful lot like Minato.' Everyone looked at Naruto and looked at him and then recalled a picture of Minato and then looked at him surprised that he did look almost exactly like him. Naruto glared at him and he saw the message being relayed to him and he sighed, 'But I highly doubt the guy had kids, as far as I know he never even had a wife.' Naruto slightly smirked as he knew this man was lying, but he went along with it to protect his identity. Naruto put away his kunai and nodded it was alright for the man to relax and he did so, 'So who are you?' The man looked at Naruto as he rolled his neck, mumbling something about his neck and he looked at Naruto and looked embarrassed, 'Oh yea, I forgot. My name is Sosetsu, and you are Naruto right? Who're your friends?'

Neji was glaring at the man as he walked up and in front of Naruto taking up his Gentle Fist stance and Sosetsu looked surprised until he saw his eyes, 'Oh a Hyuuga! Oh boy, I take it you're still upset then? Look, it was the third Raikage, I left after he tried that see?' He turned to show them his Kumo head band, which had a slash through it, 'I did not approve of what the Sandaime Raikage did to Konoha, especially after establishing that treaty that was supposed to bring peace to our two villages.' Neji looked at him in disbelief and Sosetsu sighed, 'Look, if you don't believe me, then you can attack me right now.' He stood with his arms spread a bit and he stood there with a look in his eyes showing Neji he meant what he said and Neji backed down seeing the truth in his eyes. Naruto stepped forward, 'Yea I'm Naruto Uzumaki that is Neji Hyuuga, the pink haired Banshee behind me is Sakura Haruno, the emo is Sasuke Uchiha The man with only one-fourth of his face showing is Kakashi Hatake, our sensei. The girl with the buns in her hair and the white shirt is Tenten Higurashi (A/N I saw this name in another story, but I can't remember which it was, so I don't own the idea of this last name for Tenten even though I think it fits her). The man with green jumpsuit and the Jonin vest is Might Gai and his little clone is Rock Lee.'

Naruto wondered why he didn't hear any fussing over the nicknames, as did everyone else and they looked back and saw Sakura whispering to Sasuke and he looked shocked and he looked at Naruto and charged at him and Naruto dodged and Sosetsu jumped up and into a tree, confused by what was going on. Naruto glared at Sakura guessing what she told him and he saw Sasuke charging again with his fist drawn out and he dodged again but Sasuke managed to knock off his sunglasses and sent them flying where they broke against a tree and everyone gasped, except Sasuke, Sakura, and Sosetsu (since he couldn't see Naruto's eyes). Naruto was annoyed now, 'Ok what the hell Sasuke, do you know how hard it is to find sunglasses like that? I only have one pair left now thanks to you and they need to be custom ordered and that costs a hell of a lot of money!' As he said this he pulled out another pair making everyone sweat drop. Sasuke charged again, this time shouting, 'Why was I never told you dobe, why was it only you knew!' Now everyone was confused and looked at Naruto as he sighed, 'Simple, because you would react like this! And it would be discovered by later Itachi and he might kill her to finish what he started!' No everyone was clueless and Tenten spoke up, 'Ok can someone tell us what the hell is going on here?' Sakura walked up with a smug look, 'Oh its simple, During his training trip, though I doubt he did much training, Naruto found Mikoto Uchiha, Sasuke-kun's mother and brought her to the leaf but he didn't tell anyone.'

Everyone looked surprised and looked at Naruto shocked that he would keep that a secret from the Hokage until he spoke, 'Oh please Sakura, you are an idiot you think I didn't tell Granny Tsunade, besides if I didn't my mother would've probably kicked my ass and told the Hokage herself.' Now everyone was surprised again and Lee voiced their question, 'But Naruto, weren't you an orphan?' Naruto jumped and flipped over Sasuke, as said emo charged at him yet again, and kicked him in the back and looked at Lee, 'I thought I was but on my training trip we found her, ugh, hold on, let me handle the teme and I'll tell you about the training trip.' Naruto ducked under a fist and punched his armpit sending Sasuke to the ground in pain and Naruto then hit the back of Sasuke's neck and sent him into unconsciousness, much to the banshee's ire. Naruto turned to the group and when they started asking questions he held his hand up to silence them and then motioned to Sosetsu and everyone remembered he was there as he jumped down.

Sosetsu walked up, 'Ok, what the hell was that? Why would your own teammate attack you?' Naruto waved his hand in a way that said it wasn't important at the moment and he looked at Sosetsu, 'So you seemed like you were looking for me, why is that?' 'Because I heard about you two years ago, you were seen coming out of the Hidden Cloud Village with one of the Sanin and two others, I want to know if the Sandaime Raikage was replaced.' Everyone looked at Naruto in surprise as Neji thought, 'He went to the Hidden Cloud Village?' Naruto sighed and spoke up, 'yea I went there to receive training in controlling… a power I have had in me since my birth. However, the one who trained me was the Raikage's brother.' Sosetsu looked confused until he nodded, 'So a new Raikage, eh? What's his name?' 'A.' Sosetsu looked surprised and smirked, 'I see, so he's finally Raikage, I expect a few didn't like that.' Naruto nodded and sighed, 'Yea, he had an assassination attempt and the assassins had framed two Kekkei Genkai users. Due to that they didn't want to stay in the village and they were allowed to join Konoha and I've been thinking of asking the Hokage to form an alliance since they helped me get stronger.'

Sosetsu nodded and then jumped up as a shuriken was thrown at him and he landed beside Naruto as he looked up and saw a ninja up in the trees who was smirking at them, 'Well, Sosetsu I guess it's true you didn't support Lord Sandaime Raikage.' Sosetsu growled, 'Shirei, I see you're still alive, I thought those hunter-nin killed you.' Shirei laughed, 'Please, they couldn't kill me. I wiped them out really quickly and now you and those Konoha shinobi are next, though maybe not the girls, I might keep them around a bit longer to torment them a bit longer.' Naruto growled and held out his hand as the man looked at Sakura and Tenten, 'Bansho Tenin!' Shirei felt a pull and suddenly went flying towards the group, shocking everyone, including him and Naruto grabbed him and slammed him into the ground and he took off his sunglasses, 'What was that you bastard? You want to torture them? Well good luck with that you bastard!' Naruto threw the man into the middle of the group as Tenten pulled out several weapons and Sakura stayed where she was shouting about how only Sasuke can have her. Sosetsu also looked pissed off, 'Shirei, you always did know how to piss me off, and I always have to tell you, the only kunoichi who are weak, are the fan girls, the rest of the kunoichi are as strong as any male shinobi, you should know that because of my teammate Suiya.'

A few minutes later, Shirei was dead from Tenten stabbing him and cutting him without mercy, but then she went to a nearby tree and sat down, looking pale. This told Naruto that this was her first kill which surprised Naruto since she was a weapon's expert and had graduated from the academy a year earlier than him, so he had expected her to have already had her first kill already out of the way. Naruto looked over and saw Kakashi cut off and seal away his head and use a fire jutsu to burn the body and he looked at everyone like he was tired.

Sosetsu thanked Naruto for the info and he jumped into a tree and saw two others with him, but they left before the group could get a good look at the other two. Naruto walked over to Tenten and kneeled beside her, 'I'm surprised that this is your first kill, I thought you would've had that out of the way a long time ago.' Tenten shook her head and Naruto sighed, 'Look, you were defending your pride which he insulted because he thought you were weak, so it's alright that you killed him, as long as you don't feel nothing from killing then that means you're still human, like everyone here.' Everyone, but Sakura and Sasuke, looked surprised by Naruto's wisdom and he looked at them, 'What? I'm just telling her what my mom said, only a bit shorter and modified to fit the situation.' Everyone, excluding Sakura and Sasuke, nodded and Lee picked up Sasuke and tossed him over his shoulder and they resumed heading towards Konoha when Kakashi collapsed and everyone looked surprised, but they figured he was still tired from the fighting and the running towards Konoha so soon afterwards and he just hit his limit.

Gai proclaimed he would carry his eternal rival and Lee and Gai decided to race, Lee holding Sasuke and Gai holding Kakashi.

Three days later after leaving Suna, at Konoha Gates…

Kotetsu and Izumo were sitting in the little guard stand beside the village gates. Kotetsu was looking up at the covering that gave them shade and Izumo looked out at the clouds similar to a certain Nara. Suddenly Izumo saw a cloud of smoke and he got Kotetsu's attention, 'Hey, what is that?' Kotetsu looked and he shrugged when suddenly he narrowed his eyes and they widened as he and Kotetsu flinched as Gai, carrying Kakashi ran into the village followed closely behind by Lee who was carrying Sasuke. Both Sasuke and Kakashi had a dead look on their faces and were groaning as Naruto, Tenten, Neji, and Sakura ran up looking exhausted and Gai said, 'Hahaha, I am first now Lee you must practice more so that you can get better!'

'Yes Gai-sensei, but at least I came in second place!' 'Wrong my student, you did not come in second! You came in third!' Lee looked shocked and confused, 'How?' 'You see, while I came in first, Kakashi here was on my back so he came in second.' Lee looked shocked again and saluted Gai, 'I promise that I will work harder so that one day I will surpass even you Gai-sensei.' 'That's my boy Lee!' Gai did his 'Good Guy' and then him and Lee started hugging and saying each other's names and everyone in the area (even the civilians) realized what was happening, they all turned and ran to hide except Kotetsu and Izumo who hid under the table of the guard stand and covered their eyes when suddenly… the cursed Genjutsu, Sunset over the Ocean, appeared.

A few minutes later they stopped and people began to peek out of their hiding places as Gai and Lee looked around while wondering why the area was suddenly so empty when just a few minutes ago it was filled with people. They shrugged and walked off to their usual training ground. Naruto peaked out from the other side of the wall surrounding Konoha, 'Is it safe to come out?' Tenten looked into the village over Naruto's shoulder and nodded, 'Ok it's safe to go through now.' The villagers heard her and everyone walked out into the open, some were talking about how they saw their lives flash before their eyes and others just suppressed the memory of what just happened, like they always did when it happened in the past.

In Kumo sometime after Naruto encounters Sosetsu…

Sosetsu and his companions, Gotei and Suiya, walked up to the village gates and were surrounded by Kumo Anbu. Sosetsu stepped forward and dropped his weapons to show he meant no harm and the Anbu captain stepped in front of him, 'So, you've returned Sosetsu. Why come back now after you left the village over four years ago along with your comrades?' Sosetsu sighed and put his hands in his pockets, 'Simple, I did not like the way the Sandaime Raikage did things, but I recently heard that he was overthrown and now his son, A, is the Yondaime Raikage. I wish to rejoin Kumo so I can help the village regain its honor.' Suddenly A walked out from the other side of the village gates and smirked, 'Well, maybe you can do something to prove your honesty to me.' Sosetsu, Gotei, and Suiya looked confused when A suddenly held out a scroll, 'Deliver this scroll to Konoha, I wish to form an alliance with them so that we can regain our honor just as you want us to do.' Sosetsu smirked and nodded, taking the scroll and then, the three, former missing-nin bowed, 'As you wish Lord Raikage. We'll leave right away.'

A smirked as he watched them gather their weapons and supplies and then Shunshin away, 'It's good to have some of our greatest shinobi back. Anbu!' The Anbu captain turned and kneeled in front of his leader, 'Yes Lord Raikage.' 'Spread the word that Sosetsu, Gotei, and Suiya are no longer missing-nin, they have rejoined our ranks.' The Anbu captain saluted 'Understood, sir!' He Shunshined away and A was left to his thoughts as he returned to his office. A walked into his office and saw his secretary, Mabui, standing next to his desk with more paperwork, making him sigh at the sight and Mabui walked up to him, 'So who did you get to deliver the treaty request Lord Raikage?' A sat down at his seat, 'I sent some new shinobi who had left during my old man's reign to see if they could prove themselves.' Mabui raised an eyebrow, 'Who was it?' A chuckled, 'I'm sure you remember the three of our strongest shinobi, Sosetsu, Gotei and Suiya, right?'

Mabui's eyes went wide. She remembered them clearly, they had mastered every jutsu they ever come across, and had even managed to create a very powerful jutsu for each element that summoned a unique weapon. They claimed those jutsu to be the most powerful jutsu of the respective elements. She also remembered that Sosetsu had a unique Kekkei Genkai that allowed him to perfectly combine wind and lightning natured chakra that he called Thunder style. He could fill his body with both to move at incredible speeds, rivaling the speed of the Swift style Kekkei Genkai, possibly surpassing it, no one was entirely sure if his Kekkei Genkai did, not even Sosetsu himself knew at that time, but who knows how powerful he was now.

Mabui and A both remembered how all three of them had gone against the Sandaime Raikage's idea of stealing the Byakugan. They had left as soon as they heard he was going through with his plan and haven't been heard from since. When the Sandaime Raikage heard that his top three shinobi, especially Sosetsu and his Kekkei Genkai, had left he searched high and low for them, but after the attempt to capture the Hyuuga Heiress had failed he labeled Sosetsu, Gotei, and Suiya as Missing-nin, much to Mabui, A, and Killer Bee's ire.

Ok that is done now, I hope no one minded my own OCs like I mentioned before, I had thought up these characters a long time ago and wanted to put them into a story or two. Now one more thing, it seems people have been complaining about my co-writer's ideas, Darian and Lexi are his ideas, not mine, but even so stop complaining about them, it's not like other people use names like that and besides there is a non-Japanese name in one of the Naruto movies, a girl named Sara, is that a Japanese name? No, so stop complaining about names that aren't Japanese based and just get on with reading the story, and if you don't like it then stop reading right now.