The next day everyone was waiting at the front gates when Tenten came running up and said "Sorry I'm late, I had to run by my shop and get my stuff."

Sakura said "But you live above your shop."

Tenten said "True...but I slept at my cabin last night."

Ino said "Oh...with Naruto." with a devilish smile on her face.

Tenten blushed and said "What do you mean."

Ino seeing the blush said "Oh come on, I can't believe your still trying to trick us. We heard everything yesterday. We all know that your Naruto other fiance and he's madly in love with you."

Tenten said "He never said directly I was his fiance...did he."

Ino thought a moment and said "Well no...but.."

A female voice interupted anything else Ino cloud say "Excuse me." catching everyones attention and they saw a woman in her 20's with brown hair and brown eyes in a flower patern dress standing there.

Sakura said "Yes miss. Can we help you."

The woman said "I hope so. You see, I heard there was a man here from Wave country and I was hoping to speak with him a moment. Is he here or has he already left."

Kurenai said "Why may I ask are you looking for him miss..."

The woman said "Oh forgive me, where are my manors. My name is Inari. I'm originally from Wave and I was hoping to ask the man if I might be able to join him on his way back to Wave because I'm worried about my father Gibbs. He's a retired sailors who works on one of the docks there and I haven't heard from him in some time and I was hoping to journey back to Wave to speak with him but it's not a trip that safe for a woman to travel alone."

Tazuna frowned as he heard this and said "Do you know where he works."

Inari said "Last time I heard from himk was about 6 months ago and he worked on the northern side of Wave."

Tazuna grunted as he said "Sorry lady, I can't help you."

Inari looked hurt and said "But...but please sir, you don't understand. My fathers the only family I have left after my mother died giving birth to me. I can't take not knowing if he's still OK. If you had a daughter could you imagine if she didn't know if you were alive of not. Please..." as she began to sound like she was beging as she moved over to Tazuna and put her hands to his chest.

Tazuna saw everyone looking at them and Tazuna frowned and said "If you can wait another month things will get easier once the bridge I'm building is finished and you could come check on your dad then."

Inari said "Please...is...is there something wrong." as she lowered her voice "Is there something wrong in Wave. Please...if there is please tell me, even in a whisper. I won't tell but...I need to know...please." as she gave him the puppy eye no jutsu with tears before she placed her head on his shoulder and the sound of sobs was heard.

Tazuna frowned and whispered in her ears and after a few moments the woman sniffed and set up and said "I...I wish you luck and please hurry building your bridge so I can come check on my dad." as she wipped tears off her eyes and began to walk away sadly.

Ino said "What did you tell her."

Tazuna said "I just told her that I do have a daughter whose worrying about me and that I'm not sure if we had room in the boat for everyone already, much less more people."

Just then there was a swirl of leaves and Naruto appeared wearing a pair of black ANBU style pants and a black shirt with body armor underneath it. A sword over his shoulder, a black cloak with a hood that was down. A vest loaded with scrolls as well as 4 weapon pouches.

Naruto said "Sorry I'm late, one of my contacts got me some information I'll brief everyone on once we get started."

Kitsune smirked behind her mask and said "Really, was your contact a relative of the guy who builds boats in his basement." in an amused tone.

Naruto said "Yeah...so are we all ready."

Kakashi said "We were waiting on you and Tenten."

Naruto blinked and said "You were late also Tenten." as he looked at Tenten.

Tenten held up her hand and said "Yeah. I needed time to think so I slept at the cabin last night."

Naruto said "Oh, I see."

Ino said "Stop that. We all know that you are both together."

Naruto said "Are we...I thought Tenten was with Neji." as the group began to leave the gates.

Tenten said "I am...though I want to talk to him privately later and you also. We have much to discuss."

Sakura said "Your not fooling us again Naruto."

Naruto looked at her and said "Sakura, you will never see through all my tricks or even know when I am fooling you most of the time. So who is over all in charge and any plans of actions."

Dragon said "Kakashi-san is over all in charge of this mission, followed by me, then Hebi, Asuma, then Gai."

Kakashi said "Divide into teams, ANBU, Diamond formation, Team 7 and 8 front square formations, Team 10 and 9 back square formation. Hyuuga's I want checks every 10 minutes, sensors on full alert."

Naruto said "Yes sir." as he quickly moved into formation along with the rest.

After 5 minutes of walking Kakashi not looking up from his book said "So what was the info you were able to gather."

Naruto looked back and said "You want to tell us anything Tazuna. Anything you feel we should know in order to protect you better." in a questioning tone.

Tazuna said "Um...not that I can think of."

Naruto said "How about the fact your country is currently enslaved under the multimillionaire Gato of Gato shipping. How about the fact he has a navel blockade around your country where he is running slaves, drugs, and weapons through there. How about the fact that you and your bridge are a great threat to Gato control of Wave and he wants you dead and your bridge destroyed."

Tazuna eyes widen and he saw everyone looking at him and he gulped and said "I don't know what your talking about."

Kakashi frowned and said "Are you sure about that Tazuna because if we find out that you knowingly lied to us our contract is voided and we will leave you. If you want to change your story we can take a vote to see if we will continue at a small fee. It's your choice. Naruto information is usually pretty good."

Tazuna was sweating and said "Alright...Wave country is really poor. Gato has already killed our feudal lord and is currently running our country with me and those helping with the bridge his only opposition after he had my son in law publically beheaded several months ago for standing up against Gato. All the people of my land are suffering except for Gato and his men. Men are either killed or disappear and woman...you don't want to know...the worst part is the children...any child found out after dark is never seen again. Please...our people need help. All our funds are tied up in the bridge trying to break free...the only reason we even got the money to pay for a C-rank is several of the workers wives prostituted themselves out. Please...we sacrificed everything to get to this point, don't turn away now...please...I beg of you." as he got on his knees.

Naruto frowned and said "Why didn't you tell us this before. Why lie."

Tazuna said "We tried to get help before from Suna...Gato paid them to look the other way. We were afraid you would do the same if you found out."

Naruto looked at the others and said "How long will it take to get to Wave."

Kakashi said "Civilian pace...13 hours."

Naruto said "Is there anything else you can tell us. Anything specific, maybe the number of men, type of men, does he have ninja we may face. Anything you could tell us would be useful."

Tazuna said "Um...He's got mostly mercenaries. He has 2 guys who act like Samuri without the whole honor thing as his body guards. He's living in the Wave lords estate...The only ninja I seen were a couple with scratched hiate...and those guys with the musical note on it."

Kakashi asked "Musical note."

Tazuna said "Yeah..I think they said they were from the hidden sound village...but they only show up when it's time to guard a large shipment of illegal stuff like slaves or weapons and drugs...Wait...there was one other...What was his name...Oro-something. He isn't seen often and I haven't seen him myself but I heard others talking about him meeting with Gato when he arrives from the mainland before he heads out on a ship heading for Sea country or coming back from there."

Hebi grabbed her neck where her seal used to be and said "Sea country." softly.

Naruto said "How many men do you think he has on hand with Gato and was there anyone with that Oro-guy."

Tazuna said "Gato got a small army. I don't know how many exactly since so many come and go constantly. I can't think of anything else I heard about that Oro-guy."

Kakashi said "Anything else."

Tazuna bit his lip and said "Only a request...if you decide not to do this mission or decide to leave...will you take my daughter and grandson and escape with them. I don't care if I die but I don't want to see them hurt."

Kakashi said "We will see what we can do."

Tazuna sighed and said "That's the best I can get I guess...so will you continue on."

Kakashi said "Give us a few moments to talk privately, Naruto, have a couple of clones guard him."

Naruto quickly made a couple who took Tazuna over by a tree while the rest of the group moved across from Tazuna.

Kakashi said in a soft voice "So was there anything else you learned Naruto."

Naruto said "No, Tazuna just told my clone that Wave was currently enslaved by Gato of Gato shipping who was using Wave to hide his illegal activities. I used the info we had from the Hokage to fill in what the illegal stuff was to see if I could get more."

Sakura said "Your clone...that woman." with wide eyes.

Naruto smirked and said "Like I said Sakura, you will never be able to see through all my tricks." causing Sakura to glare.

Dragon said "So what should we do Kakashi. I know we will carry on the mission."

Before Kakashi could answer Naruto said "How far is it from the mainland to Wave. I mean how far is that channel."

Kitsune said "About 5 miles, why."

Naruto bit his lip and said "I've got something...It something I haven't showed anyone yet that will probably piss of the Yamanaka clan but if we can stop about a mile from the coast for the night by dawn I can give us a lot more info on not only the layout of Wave but also a general idea where most of the people are and Gato men are at as well as the general number of people who can use chakra on Wave and maybe thier strength as well."

Ino narrowed her eyes and said "And why would it piss my clan off."

Naruto said "I'd rather wait until tonight to hear you yelling at me about it. So can we get to that point by then."

Kakashi said "Yeah, but someone may have to carry Tazuna for part of it."

Gai said "I will do that my youthful comrad."

Kakashi nods and said "Let's travel at normal pace till noon and then after we take a quick lunch break we will travel the rest of the way carrying him...are you sure your idea will work."

Naruto said "Yeah."

Kakashi nods and said "Anyone else have anything to say."

Nobody said anything and Kakashi stood up and said "Well your lucky Tazuna that there are more gennins who are looking for action instead of adults so we will continue the mission. But if we find out you are lying again to us the consequences will not be pretty."

Tazuna gulped and said "I understand."

Kakashi smiled and said "Good, everyone back in formation, you have your orders. Let's go."

As the group traveled the next hour with everyone on alert nobody really said anything until boredom took over and it was Kiba who broke the silence and said "Hey Naruto, yesterday you said you tricked Neji into doing something and you also tried to trick your mom. Have you tricked anyone else here like that."

Silence was his answer and Sakura said "Yeah Naruto, have you tricked anyone else into doing something. I mean now that we are all starting to see the real you, we saw how you tried to trick Kakashi-sensei that day we rebuilt that fence."

Naruto frowned and said "Does it matter."

Ino said "Of coarse it matters. We want to know how much you used us."

Naruto sighed and said "Directly or indirectly."

Kiba said "What do you mean."

Naruto looked at him and said "Do you mean did I trick you directly by targeting you specifically or were you invovled indirectly in one of my tricks."

Kiba said "I guess both then."

Naruto said "Then I've tricked all of you." as he looked back down the road.

Tenten said "I think you should explain Naruto how you tricked them and why."

Naruto looked back at her and his face changed several times showing he was fighting with himself on what he should say or do and he saw the look on her face change to a pleading one and he sighed and said "Fine. I guess I can start with Sakura and Ino."

Sakura said "What about us."

Naruto looked at her and said "Before I answer I want you both to be quite until I finish. Do you both understand...good. Now first I want to say that I was greatly disappointed in both of you because you were the smartest girl in our class and spend more time in the library before we graduated then anyone else here Sakura. You claim that you love Sasuke and wanted to help him restore his clan but did you ever actually look up what that would involve or did you actually just think that you would lay down and pop out a kid or 2."

Sakura turned beat red and Naruto said "Don't answer because we already know you did. If you would have looked up the laws around the clans you would have found the clan restoration part was on the very first page of clan rules. THE VERY FIRST PAGE. If you would have seen that then you would have known that Sasuke would be required to have more then one woman to help him restore his clan...as for you Ino, your an hieress of a major clan. Where Sakura is guilty of not looking it up, you are guilty of not even studying the rules of your position. You think that just because your the hier or hieress it gives you the right to do what you want. Even if there are laws that say the Hokage and council can't interfere in clan business there are ways around those laws and also higher laws like the one I'm using to remove the cage bird seal from the Hyuuga clan. If you would have studied the laws reguarding the clans as any hier or hieress should then you and Sakura would never have broken your friendship all those years ago and nearly killed each other that one day."

At this everyone was looking at both girls who looked emberrased and shocked.

Naruto said "When I found out that law I was just going to tell you Sakura about it but then you said something that pissed me off so I decided that I would trick you so that you wouldn't have time to run your mouth without thinking and hurt others by being on perminant PMS. What I did was told you about the law so you knew that you and Ino didn't need to fight anymore...but then I went to Ino and told her about the law and tricked her into keeping your rivalry going so you would fight over the title of first wife but I made it where you both would start to try and prove who was the strongest and smartest so I told her I would become a spy telling her where you were in skills then I turned around and told you I had spied on Ino getting just a little higher so I set the bar for both of you to start actually training to become kunoichi instead of being useless fangirls like you were...don't you dare yell at me about it. Think about the weak little girls you both were before I did that and now think about how strong you are and how proud you are of all that you have accomplished as well as the pride others are giving you by becoming something more then a cock tease."

Both girls were sputtering while the others were all wide eyed.

Naruto said "Now you see, this had a side effect because I knew how Ino couldn't let Sakura get the better and Sakura couldn't let Ino get the better and I knew Ino would want to keep getting stronger and not be lazy like her team had been doing before so I knew that she would yell at Shikamaru and Choji to get thier butts training also just to shut her up and I know you already figured that out Shikamaru because your probably the smartest person here."

Shikamaru muttered "Troublesome."

Naruto said "Next we have Sasuke. I told you how I was selling information on your little fanboy back when I suspected that he was a spy. I also got you to agree to let me put the bloodline protection seal on you once it was finished. You know why I did that. It wasn't so I could use it free the Hyuuga. I used your clan rivalry against the Hyuuga to stroke your ego into agreeing to letting me put it on because the seal has a failsafe. Once I figured out the true purpose of Orochimaru curse seal and figured out the spy was interested in you it's easy to figure out why. I did the same thing I figured out Orochimaru was planning to do to you and offered you power and low and behold, you jumped at the offer without thinking about what it really was you were going to have to pay. I also told you, power comes at a price, ALWAYS."

Naruto took a deep breath and said "I figured out something that I can't believe nobody else has and it makes me question everyone higher in rank then me for not figuring it out for themselves. Orochimaru wants the Sharingan to help him achieve his dream of learning every jutsu in the world and compared to Itachi and Kakashi-sensei, you would be a whole lot easier to manipulate into getting your body and bloodline and you would be tempted to give him exactly what he wants because he knows the simple truth about prodigies. Prodigies seem stronger then they are because they look for the easiest way to get power and the curse seal would give you power and getting offered training by a sannin would also give you power while you trained your body for him to take over later so he wouldn't have to train it himself. I offered you power just like he would. You would do anything to kill Itachi to avenge your clan. Even use the curse seal when you know it would slowly destroy your mind every time you use it because you believe your better or stronger then the seal which would make it easier and easier for Orochimaru to get you to defect from the village to get in his hands and yes, I know your saying you wouldn't defect but Orochimaru would want a strong body to possess while making sure you didn't get to skilled to challenge him so he would get you to defect because in Konoha he couldn't control your training."

Sasuke said "You think your so smart. Well what's actually forcing me to get that seal you are designing. My word." with a smirk.

Naruto smirked and said "And that is why I said prodigies always look for the quickest way for power. Remember the seal I placed on you, the double chakra storage seal. While it is in fact the chakra storage seal as I promised. It's also got six other seals built into it. One of which is the actual bloodline protection seal."

Everyone's eyes widen and Tenten said "You already finished it."

Naruto said "Yeah but I guess I should explain how it works so you will know why I haven't already gave it to the Hyuuga's. You see, the failsafe that I built in the seal is made where transplants can't be done because the seal encodes the bloodline to the chakra signature of the person who gets it. In other words, you get a curse seal after you have the bloodline seal on, your bloodline is bye bye. Orochimaru cuts out your eyes and put them in a new body. New body, new chakra signature, bloodline bye bye. You sleep with a woman who accidently gets pregnant, hers and the baby chakra signature would be different then yours meaning the baby wouldn't have your bloodline...the only way after you get the seal for more sharingan user to come is if you put a special seal I am designing still called the spouse seal that I will also have to give to free the Hyuuga. The spouse seal will make it where a child could be born with the Sharingan but a one night stand or a rape wouldn't. That way you would know who could have the Sharingan and who couldn't while making sure Orochimaru doesn't get the Sharingan or later the Byakugan."

Sasuke frowned and said "What about the other 4 seals that you said are mixed in with the seal I have."

Naruto said "A tracking seal in case Orochimaru or someone else kidnaps you in hopes of trying to break my seal, a power regulation seal which will keep you from killing yourself from over using the seal. You can only use it once every 2 days to keep from destroying your body similar to what is happening to my body and the last is actually my pride and joy. Something that protects all my seals. I call it Kage. Every day it cast a genjutsu over the seal showing a different seal that has nasty side effects while the real seal is hidden in the shadow of the genjutsu and as I said, every day a genjutsu is cast over it so after the first day you have one genjutsu, the second day 2 and so on and so forth. Right now you have over 20 genjutsu over the real seal and while you can see the location of the seal with your Sharingan or the Byakugan, you can't see the real look of the seal."

To say everyone was shocked was an understatement.

After a few moments Kurenai asked "What about that whole doubting the Hyuuga clan, we know now that you were the one who caused Neji to ask Tenten out."

Naruto said "I said that to trick you Kurenai-sensei actually."

Kurenai narrowed her eyes and said "Me...why."

Naruto said "Hinata is stronger then people think. A few of my clones came across her a couple of times training secretly in the woods and learned she's creating her own style of gentle fist that looks like it will actually be stronger then the one the rest of the clan uses without using as much chakra since it incorpartes her natural chakra nature and once it's finished I bet she could beat every member of her clan with it...but she won't because she doesn't believe in herself which is part of why she likes me. She wants to be confident like I am. I know that your a mother figure to her just like the Sandiame is a grandfather figure to me. There are things I would do for him that I wouldn't do for others and there are things Hinata would do for you she wouldn't do for others...but you see her as a daughter and would try to help her while also trying to protect her. When I told you I suspected it was Hinata threatening to use the seal on Neji to get him to date Tenten so she could ask me out you instantly defended her like I knew you would even though I knew what I was saying about her was bullshit.

I also knew that you would sneak around and talk to her privately just to make sure and you would let it slip that I might be interested in someone else. I did that so Hinata would build more confidence in herself, especially with the scroll I gave you to help her get stronger in not just her clan style but also as a healer which is one of Hinata dreams just like freeing the branch family. I knew when she heard I was trying to free them as well as believed she could get stronger as a healer with that scroll she would dive into her own training and try to impress me enough to see her and with you encouraging her and showing her that her hard work is paying off then her confidence in herself would also improve which is why she was able to tell on all of you yesterday because her confidence has gotten better. I also knew that seeing Hinata getting stronger would cause Kiba to want to be the Alpha of his team and have to get stronger also and Shino wouldn't want to be left behind so he would train also."

Everyone was wide eyed looking at him and Kurenai whose eyes were darting back and forward let her shoulders sag and said "I can't believe you were able to plan that all out."

Naruto said "My stealth skills only took me so far when I was pranking. Being able to paint the Hokage monument in broad daylight without getting caught took more skills then just deciding to do it and be quite. I had to plan out the village security patrols, get my supplies prepared before hand where they wouldn't be discovered close enough to the target I could get them since I didn't know anything about sealing then. I had to have my escape routes planned as well as traps to counter the guys I knew would be after me all before hand as well as plans on what to do if I was discovered before I was finished and WHO discovered me. Theres a few I know who would have cut my rope and let me fall to my death and make it look like an accident if they could. The accademy is mostly graded on book smarts anyways and as you all know now, history is wrote by the victor and can be changed from the truth in order to make the victor look stronger. Take the Shodaime Hokage for example. Can anyone guess the easiest way to have killed him was and why he was so hard for Madara Uchiha to defeat."

Sasuke said "Because he was stronger Madara and you coulduse fire jutsu to over power him."

Naruto laughed and said "Nope, get him in the air and attack him there. Mokuton only works by being able to touch a plant or by being able to touch the ground since it is created from mixing earth and water nature together. In the land of fire there are plenty of trees for Hashirama to get his hands on to use. If you would have gotten him out at sea or in the desert, his ass would have been grass pretty quickly. That was how Madara was able to kill him at the valley of the end I bet. I had a couple of clones go there and look at it. Theres no plants down there for him to use and hardly any land since the river takes up most of the valley. Get him in the bottom jump to the top summon Kyuubi and have the fox...flame the valley..." as his face suddenly lost color as he looked back at Kitsune.

Asuma dropped his cigerette and said "That's how he did it...that's how he survived the fight."

Tazuna said "Is there something wrong...you all just stop walking."

Naruto shook his head and said "No, just an assignment from another mission a client gave us for an award to see if we actually had a brain instead of skills. We just figured out just another piece of the puzzle that fell into place. Anyways as I was saying, I knew getting Ino force Shikamaru and Choji to train more would make Asume-sensei train them better, you seeing the improvement in Hinata would want to train each of them fairly so you would train them better, with Sakura getting stronger to match Ino and Sasuke seeing my own growth would train harder so Kakashi-sensei would work on us more and Gai wouldn't want to be left behind by his eternal rival so he would force his team to train more to beat Kakashi. In the end I used you all to make yourselfs stronger and your respect for each other and me would increase."

Hebi said "You didn't use me."

Naruto looked at her and said "I used you and the others on your team indirectly. I knew village security sucked. I know how influential Kakashi-sensei was and so I knew that me revealing how easy I got past several security spots as well as info on the spy I found would cause him to want to protect his comrads and would have told the Sandaime even if I asked him not to so I wouldn't get in trouble and the Sandaime would then report it to Ibiki who would start ragging all your asses to fix those mistakes improving the village security. I even counted on possibly meeting Ibiki and telling him how I did it and where they were. I just never counted on the OTHER things."

Hebi said "You wanted to get all of us in trouble. I'm going to get your ass."

Naruto said "Leave my ass alone, you already tried to rape me once. Your a worst pervert then Hinata is. At least she doesn't directly attack me, just sabatoges my plumbing so she can use her bloodline to spy on me when I have to bath in the rivers."

THUD.

Everyone turned to Hinata and Naruto said "I swear, after 4 years I thought she would finally be able to stop fainting like that."

Kurenai said "Hinata wouldn't ever do that." as she moved over to Hinata who was on the ground

Naruto said "Oh really. What if I told you Hinata currently has a picture of me with nothing on in the river where I bathed after she broke the pipes to my apartment. What if I told you that picture was actually on her right now. Would you think little Hinata would be so innocent then."

Kurenai frowned and said "How do you know she's got it on her."

Naruto said "Because I detected her presence when I was bathing in the river and I remember feeling her chakra not to far away every time the pipes to my apartment broke over the past few years. She would always run away before I could see who it was but this last time I created a clone disguised as a fish that swam down river and came up behind her which is how I found out about the Hyuuga blind spot and the clone was disguised as another girl and Hinata was startled and the clone talked to her and got her to confess she really was spying on me and the clone decided to have a little fun and told her she was a photographer and was out looking for birds to take picture of, but for a little money she would take a picture of me bathing. Hinata agreed and my clone just happened to have met Hinata this morning as the agreed upon date for her to buy the picture."

Tenten said "You set her up and sold her pictures of you."

Naruto said "It's just my back from the waist up with me turned my head sideways while the river covered everything else. Besides, $25,000 was a nice little paycheck to get supplies for this mission."

Several eyes widen and Tenten said "$25,000 for a picture of you. I know your big but isn't that a little expensive."

Everyone turned to look at Tenten who suddenly realised what she said and Ino said "Oh, and how do you know his size. Hmm." as she got a chesire grin.

Tenten said "Oh um...well you see..."

Neko said "When Naruto-san was in the hospital in his coma, Tenten was in a chair by his bed and fell asleep and when she woke up her hand was on it." causing Tenten to blush as did Naruto.

Tenten said "How did you know that. Naruto was in a coma and I was the only other person in the room."

Neko said "That you knew of. There was actually 2 ANBU in the room just in case you were actually tricking Naruto-san to get close to him to kill him later or in case someone tried to assassinate him while he was weakened. I was one of them."

Neko said "Because Hebi here was the other guard on duty and she was the one who placed your hand there while you were asleep."

Naruto frowned and said "Why is it everytime you come near me I find myself being molested in some shape or form Hebi."

Hebi said "Because I owe you big time and told you I would become your slave, wife, bitch, or personal assassin for what you did for me."

Naruto said "But I was in the coma before that happened."

Hebi said "Buns needed her cherry popped to get rid of the stress of being on team green bean and I thought you might be desperate for some TLC because of you situation back then."

Kitsune said "Do you have no shame Hebi."

Hebi said "The question you should be asking is does your son have no shame."

Naruto said "Hey, I have you know I have plenty of shame, it was visible when I streaked through town in my boxers after you stole everything in my apartment including the cheese off my mouse trap."

A groan drew everyones attention to Hinata who eeped and covered her face with the front of her jacket as she rememebered what was said...unfortinately the picture she had hidden in her jacket fell out when she did that causing her to go red in the face even more.

Naruto smirked as he saw the shocked look on Kurenai face and said "Told ya."

Kakashi said "As amusing as this is I think we should continue on our way and we need to be on alert so no talking unless you detect something."

Reluctantly everyone got moving again.

Around 1, Kakashi said "Alright, I think we can take a small break."

Tazuna said "Thank god, my feet are killing me." as he walked over and sat under a tree.

Kakashi said "Team 8, scout the area for water, Team 10 get fire wood, team 9, I want you to scout a mile behind us. See if you see any signs of us being followed. Team 7, scout a mile ahead. Neko, Hebi, 2 miles east, Kitsune, Dragon, 2 miles west. Sensei will stay at camp protecting the client. Go."

Several "Hai's" were heard as the teams began thier duties.

After everyone got back to camp and began to eat the food the sensei's had prepared Kakashi said "Alright Tazuna, we are getting a little behind schedule. I want to get to the coast before dark so we can cross the channel at first light. In order for us to do that your going to have to be carried by one of us so we can pick up our pace. Gai has agreed to carry you so if you would get on his back after we eat we should make it to the coast in a few hours."

Tazuna said "I'm not some little kid."

Kakashi said "True, but you are a civilian and as Ninja we can travel a whole lot quicker then you and we can get off the main road which is where most enemies would set up an ambush to attack us not expecting us to carry you and instead you walking back to Wave."

Tazuna eyes widen a moment before he sighed and said "Alright...but he better be careful and not cause any accident's where my head hits the tree branches and limbs."

Naruto said "Damn, I was so going to pay to see that happen." with a smirk on his face.

Tazuna glared at Naruto and said "Your just a little demon child at heart, aren't you."

Silence was the answer he recieved as all joking left and all the joy from Naruto face left as well.

Naruto threw his food into the fire and stood up and said in a neutral tone "Sensei, I'm going to take point, see if I might detect anything." before he shushined away.

Before Tazuna knew it he found himself slammed into a tree by Kakashi who said "DON'T EVER Say that again about him." as he dropped Tazuna on his ass.

As Tazuna said "What the hell was that ab..." as he stopped as he noticed the area where he had been sitting moments before had several weapons stuck in the ground causing Tazuna to look at everyone there and saw that he was being glared at by the ninja. He then gulped and thought "Me and my big mouth." though if you look really closely you could see that Kitsune, Hebi, and Tenten were all just clones as the real them had disappeared after throwing the weapons.

2 miles away from the camp Naruto was glaring at Anko who had just captured him with the hidden snake hand no jutsu and he found himself now currently wrapped with snakes pinning his arms to his side. Anko took off her mask and smirked and said "Never thought you would be a coward."

Naruto said "I'm not a coward. The drunk didn't know what he was talking about." as he tried to get free.

Anko said "Yeah right. Listen gaki, don't bull shit with me. I know being called that hit a few buttons just like every time I am called traitor gets to me. You don't have to put up with it alone, you know that."

Naruto felt 2 presences land behind him as Anko looked over his shoulder and said "Looks like the calveries here. I'll leave him in your hands." as she released the jutsu before shushining away.

Naruto turned and saw Tenten and Kushina who had taken off her mask standing there and he sighed and Kushina looked at him and then at Tenten and said "I think I'll go back and make sure we didn't kill the bastard." as he shushined away also leaving Naruto and Tenten.

Naruto rubbed his arms and said "Damn snakes, I think they were trying to break my arms."

Tenten said "I rather have you with a broken arm then a broken heart." as she walked over and lifted his arms one at a time and checked them.

Naruto said "Why would I have a broken heart."

Tenten looked at him and said "Because you didn't have time to eat this morning since we both had to get back to Konoha and you just threw the first bite to eat you had all day away only after taking a few bites because of what that drunk said."

Naruto asked "And how would that make my heart break."

Tenten said "Because you were thinking the shadow of Kyuubi would always haunt you and you would worry about what others would do to those you care about like me in order to hurt you."

Naruto laughed and said "And people say I'm observant."

Tenten held up her left hand and said "Have you forgotten already what is hidden here."

Naruto frowned and said "No...I haven't...I just thought I could block those thoughts from you."

Tenten said "You did...but you couldn't block the feelings. Anko and Kushina may have thought they knew what you were thinking but thanks to this I know what you are thinking and feeling...you are my husband."

Naruto took her hand and kissed it and said "And you are my wife...you know everyone's going to kill us when they find out."

Tenten said "I still can't believe we eloped like that."

Naruto said "Do you regret it."

Tenten shook her head and said "I told you, you were never going to leave my side and I'll never leave yours. Everyday, for all eternity we are one. Your strength is my strength, My burdens are your burdens, and your pains are mine."

Naruto said "And my love is yours and yours is mine." as he leaned in and kissed her.

After they broke apart Naruto was slapped across the face by Tenten and she glared at him and said "And don't you ever do that with the photo's again. The only one who get's to know what you look like that way is me."

Naruto said "I'm sorry...but you see...I wanted us to live together now that we are husband and wife so I created a drain clone that is linked to the whirlpool seal that is powering mom and dad and he's using the money to fix the cabin up enough where we could move in. That was what it was for...I wanted us to have our home together."

Tenten eyes softened from the glare and said "Fine...I'll forgive you this time...but don't do it again."

Naruto said "Yes dear...thier coming." as he looked back toward the direction camp had been and a few moments later the group landed in the clearing where Tenten and Naruto was and Kakashi said "Are you both ready."

Naruto said "Yeah...why do women have to be so violent though. my face still hurts." as he rubbed where he had got slapped.

Tenten said "Because men never listen." as she crossed her arm.

Kiba sniffed and said "Hey, what's that smell." as he looked around.

Kakashi said "What smell."

Kiba sniffed and said as he looked around "I'm not sure what it is...I...know it but I can't think of where I smelled it from. It's something you don't smell in the woods though...in fact...I know what it is, it's incense. It's faint but it's here...but why would someone be burning incense out here."

Naruto said "Oh um...I think that was me Kiba. I was working on a seal to help mask a person scent. It must be on my cloths."

Kiba said "Hmm, yeah, that must be it, it just caught me off guard since I knew it shouldn't be...what's that boy...well she's been right next to him so I guess his scent and the scent from the incense must have gotton on her as well."

On the inside Tenten and Naruto both relaxed.

Kakashi said "Well, we should get going then, everyone in the same formation as before with the sensei in the middle guarding Tazuna and Gai."

As the group got jumping in the tree a few minutes into it Tenten missed a branch when she winced and she screamed as she started to fall to the ground when a yellow flash eveloped her and as everyone attention turned to the it there was Naruto holding Tenten bridal style.

Ino was the first to recover and said "What the hell just happened." as she looked where Team 7 was and then back to where Team 9 was.

Tenten said "Sorry about that everyone, I got a cramp in my leg when I went to make the jump and it caused me not to compensate correctly." as she stood up after Naruto set her down while also standing up.

Sakura said "But how did Naruto get to you like that."

Kitsune said "Hiraishin...but the question I am wondering isn't how he knows that jutsu. I'm wondering how he used it to get to her location."

Naruto said "Don't worry about it. It's just something I was working on that I haven't gotten down yet. It was just a fluke accident I was able to pull it off just then."

Kitsune narrowed her eyes and said "Well anyways, are you able to continue Tenten."

Tenten said "Yeah, sorry about that. I'll be more careful."

Naruto looked worried and Tenten shot him a glare and he said "Right, sorry about that. I heard you scream and reacted on instinct. Let's just get going." as he quickly got back up with his team.

Kakashi said "Well if the drama is over I think we should get under way again."

Soon the group was back in the trees jumping and Tenten saw several glances between her and Naruto and thought "Damn it, I can't believe I did something so stupid as that."

Tenten heard "It's not your fault your leg cramped up on you."

Tenten thought "It wasn't my leg that cramped. I got a cramp in my back from sleeping on the ground last night."

Naruto thought "Sorry about that. I thought we could make it back to Konoha last night but the wedding took to long to get organized and making it legal."

Tenten thought "Hey, it wasn't your fault and I had fun laying next to you...I'm sorry I'm not ready to give you a proper honeymoon though."

Naruto blushed and said "No, I understand...truthfully...I'm kind of glad you weren't ready to do...THAT. I mean, I know what happened that one day when I thought dad was taking over my body...but...that actually scares me some. I mean I've read so much about the female body for my research on seals that even though I know you could become a mother now...it isn't healthy for you or the baby because the baby is more likely to be born premature and it also would do a number on your body and would most likely end your carreer...if not your life... and I want to see you achieve your dream so if it means keeping you safe then I have no problem waiting."

Tenten blushed and thought "You are a dream guy Naruto-kun...thanks." as she withdrew the chakra from her ring finger along with Naruto doing so a few moments later.

Kitsune thought "Interesting, I wonder...I felt the chakra being used by both of them and based on Tenten getting red I think she got emberrased...are they talking to each other."