Chapter 10- Gamakichi, Jiraiya and Naruto: Training?
Naruto pulled Sakura through the village until they reached a secluded spot where he sat down and motioned for the pink haired ninja to do the same. As Sakura sat down Naruto ran a hand over his face and then looked at Sakura with a serious expression.
'I don't think the sand trio are here just for the chunnin exams" Sakura looked at Naruto like he had grown another head but then motioned for him to continue "and I need someone to watch them for the month that I'm training"
Sakura nodded in understanding "I get it, but I almost failed spying I'm just no good at it you know that" she said shrugging.
Naruto smirked and pulled out a beautiful necklace with a red dragon pendant on the end of it "I never said you'd have to spy" Sakura gave Naruto a confused look as he held the necklace in front of her. "I want you to spend the next month with them"
Sakura gasped at Naruto and then shook her head "Are you nuts like they'd let me stay with them, that Gaara guy would probably kill me the minute he saw me" she hissed at the blonde who had saved her life more times then she could count.
"No he won't, if you wear this necklace he won't be able to in fact I can swear that you will be in perfect condition in one month's time if you wear this necklace at all times" he said confidently, Sakura gave him a disbelieving look but then sighed and nodded.
'What will it entail?" Naruto gave Sakura a beaming smile before walking and putting the necklace on around her neck letting the dragon fall lightly.
"Do you have anything...seductive" Sakura gave Naruto a strange look but then nodded "Good let's go put it on" he said taking Sakura's hand and started pulling her to her house.
When they got to her house and into her room Sakura had Naruto wait on the bed why she changed in the bathroom, and when she came out Naruto smiled. Sakura was wearing a tight short pale pink and white Lolita style dress with white mesh at the front and a corset back which pushed her cleavage up so that the pendant rested their comfortably. On her feet were small little pink and white pixie boots. "Seriously why am I dressed in this?" she asked putting her hands on her tiny waist.
"Your gonna kind of seduce Gaara I guess" Naruto said putting his hands on her shoulders and gave her a very serious look. But no matter how serious he looked Sakura burst out into laughter and then looked back up at Naruto "I'm being serious"
"You're kidding right, that guy has no emotions and even if he did, why would he want me?" Naruto pushed Sakura in front of a mirror and smiled "Look at yourself Sakura, your beautiful and trust me Gaara was watching you before so just imagine what he'd do now" Sakura smiled shyly at Naruto through the mirror and pushed some hair behind her ear.
"Why aren't you reacting if I'm so beautiful?" she mocked and Naruto smiled softly and ran a hand over his face before sitting down on her bed and chuckled a bit.
"That's because ah, I'm gay" Sakura stared at Naruto and then hugged him "Your the first one I've told, I mean I'm not 100% sure but I find men more attractive to women so" he said shaking, "and anyway you're like my sister that's just weird if I found you attractive"
Sakura laughed and then sat down before sighing "Okay I'll do it"
Naruto smiled and then reached into his pouch and withdrew a scroll and when he smeared blood on it a beautiful black hooded cloak appeared. "Use this to get to their apartment without being noticed, and Sakura, I need you to do whatever it takes to keep Gaara interested In you" Sakura nodded and then hugged Naruto tightly.
"Will I see you at all this next month" She asked as she sat down looking at her hands and smoothed out her skirt.
Naruto shook his head and bent down in front of her and took her hands "No I have to stay away from you, now this is going to probably piss you off, but I need you to keep this mission a secret from everyone, I want you to tell no one" Sakura nodded and Naruto touched her on the side of the face softly "Don't worry I'll be checking up on you even if you don't know it" Sakura laughed and nodded.
Naruto stood up and sighed 'I need to find Kakashi sensei, I need to start training I need to beat Neji" he said before kissing Sakura on the forehead 'You'll do great" he whispered.
Sakura nodded "I have to start getting ready if I want to enthral this guy I have to be a knockout" Naruto nodded and then jumped out the window and started leaping towards the Hokage's tower.
When Naruto arrived at the tower he saw Kakashi standing talking to a chunnin who then nodded and ran off. "Kakashi Sensei" Naruto called out before running towards him "Good thing I found you we need to start training right away"
"Ah no we don't" Kakashi said in a distracted voice making Naruto totally confused, what'd he mean they didn't need to start training.
"What'd you mean?"
Kakashi sighed and looked up at Naruto "I'm not training you Naruto I have to train Sasuke and plus I don't have time for your annoying nagging" Kakashi said as he reached the end of his nerves not even noticing how harsh he sounded.
Naruto felt his whole life shatter as the words Kakashi just said ran through his head over and over, "Kakashi sensei?" he asked in a small voice.
'Look I'll find you a new teach-"
"No" Naruto snarled shocking Kakashi with the hate behind that one word "I don't want some teacher you just scraped up because you can't be bothered dealing with me, I'd rather find one of my own" the with one last glare he turned around and walked out of the tower leaving a really shocked Kakashi in his wake.
Zabuza who had been leaning on the wall just behind the small blonde genin shook his head as he walked towards Kakashi who was just staring at the spot his pupil had just been in. "You really screwed up Hatake" Kakashi looked at Zabuza confused look "That boy has a fragile trust issue and you just shattered yours, don't you think he has been insulted enough for one lifetime and I know for a fact that he really trusted you, and for you to go and say something like that...let's just say it would be like getting a knife to the heart" Kakashi stared at Zabuza for a second before he swallowed deeply and then shook his head.
"I didn't mean it like that, I'm frustrated and I took it out on him" he said in a sad voice, Zabuza sighed and clapped him on the back
"Who knows maybe he'll trust you again" Zabuza said before walking off to his lessons where his class were waiting for him.
Naruto started walking aimlessly and then sighed, never before had anyone's insults hit him as hard as Kakashi's had. He idolized Kakashi hell he thought of the silver haired ninja like he did Ookami: like a big brother he could trust.
"KIT, WHY DON'T YOU GO TO THE HOT SPRINGS AND START RELAXING, YOU HAVEN'T GONE IN AWHILE" Kyuubi said in a comforting tone as he sensed his 'Little Brother's emotional overload coming on.
Naruto tapped his chin and then looked down and saw how dirty he was before chuckling, "I think your right, I do need a bath and it's not every day that I get a hot water bath" he said jumping on the rooftops until he reached the hot spring.
Luckily for Naruto the lady who managed the hot spring actually like Naruto something about him looking like her dead grandson who had died at the tender age of fifteen in the 3rd shinobi war. So when he went the lady always treated him differently.
"Ah Naruto my boy come here and let me look at you" the woman said stepping out from behind the counter and rushing over to Naruto who just chuckled and let the woman fuss over him. "Look at you so tall, what have you been eating" the older woman said as she looked him up and down "Oh but I guess it has been awhile since we saw you around here"
Naruto nodded and then let Kikio lead him to a single hot spring "Thank you Kikio" Naruto said as he went to get changed. The elder woman smiled and nodded before yelling at the cleaners to get back to work.
Naruto sunk into the water and sigh letting all of his troubles float away from him as he soaked in the water washing away five days of dirt. "I'll find a great sensei and beat Sasuke during the exams and show Kakashi sensei that he was wrong to doubt me"
After soaking for a little while Naruto got out and quickly got changed but didn't pull his headband over his right as now the scarring was finally all healed and it didn't need to be hidden from view anymore. As he hugged Kikio goodbye and waved goodbye to all the spring helpers he heard a very familiar voice ring out. "YOU STOP YOUR PERVERTED ACTS NOW"
Naruto cocked his head to the side and walked around the corner and was just in time to see Ebisu get knocked out by the tongue of a large toad. When he started laughing the man sitting on the toad looked around and stared at him with realization and then smirked and directed the toad to leap over to Naruto who was holding the side of the building to keep himself standing upright.
"You thought that was funny?" he asked his long white hair flowing down his back in a ponytail. Naruto nodded and then lent against the toad that didn't seem to hate it and actually used it's tongue to keep him upright.
Naruto wiped his eyes before patting the tongue around him "yeah because that guy is a closet pervert himself" Naruto said smiling at the man who was wearing a headband with the kanji for Oil on it.
"You don't say" he said looking Naruto up and down "Who are you kid" he asked jumping from the toads head and dispelling it.
Naruto smiled and gave the man a quick salute "I am Naruto Uzumaki, most unpredictable ninja in the whole village, and you are" he said smiling happily.
The man laughed and thumped Naruto on the back making him stumble a few steps before rubbing his hands together "I am Jiraiya: Sannin of the Leaf village and sage of the great mountain toad sage" he said doing a big dance while Naruto just stared at him.
'Oh so you're a Pervy sage are you" He asked cocking his head to the side. Jiraiya fell to the floor and took out a book Naruto would know any where "I know that book I've read it"
Jiraiya looked at Naruto in shock and then smiled "Yeah right kid I wrote this book and I happen to know that it's for 18 years and over" Naruto nodded and then held up a finger.
"That is true but my sensei is Kakashi Hatake" Jiraiya nodded and then sighed "Hey mister"
The toad sage looked over his shoulder at Naruto who was smiling happily "because my sense is too busy with Sasuke to train me for the chunnin exams I was wondering if you'd do it"
Jiraiya stared at Naruto for a moment before frowning The Kakashi Hatake I know would never leave anyone out to dry like that, he thought before nodding "Sure" Naruto jumped up and cheered and then stilled when Jiraiya threw his arm around his shoulders "now to celebrate your achievement of gaining Me as your sensei I am going to drink sake with you"
Naruto scratched his head as the white haired man lead them to a bar "Ah Pervy Sage...I'm not legal yet" he said in an annoyed voice.
"Don't call me that you brat! And anyway you're a ninja your an adult in my eyes" Jiraiya said bopping Naruto on the head when he called him Pervy sage.
"Yeah sure Pervy Sage, I bet you I could drink you under the table and I'm not even thirteen yet" Naruto said as the entered the bar.
Shikaku Nara was sitting at the bar with Chouza and Inochi when Jiraiya and Naruto entered the room and then chuckled when he saw the two of them arguing "Hey Uzumaki" he called out in a lazy drawl. Naruto looked up from his seat and grinned at the elder Nara "I heard about you preliminary battle: Very nice" Naruto grinned and nodded back at him as the waitress put a bottle of sake on the bench not even caring that Naruto was basically five years underage.
Shikaku motioned for the others to join him as they moved over to where Jiraiya and Naruto were sitting and then clapped the toad sage on the back in greeting.
Naruto laughed as they shared old war stories and started knocking back the clear liquid with the elder shinobi, and then grinned at Jiraiya who was now locked in an arm wrestle with Chouza. "Hey wanna bet with us" Inochi asked the blonde who nodded and put 500 ryou on Jiraiya.
A few blocks over Sakura took a deep breath and tied the cloak Naruto had given her around her neck. It was sunset now, and she had spent all day getting ready for this moment, and it was finally time to put her mission into action. Pulling up her hood and keeping her head down Sakura walked out her front door locking it knowing her mother would be in the rain country for a good two months, and began walking down the street with her head down, a few minutes later she walked into a wall of flesh.
"Are you alright" Sakura inwardly groaned when she heard Sasuke's voice and instead of facing him bowed her head even further to the ground and curtsied "I am very sorry, I wasn't watching where I was going"
"Oh it's okay isn't it Sasuke, we were a little preoccupied ourselves" There was Kakashi but where was Naruto? Sakura shook her head and lifted her head a little so that he head was still covered but she would be able to see.
"Thank you kind ninja, but I really must be going" she said but before she could move Sasuke grabbed her wrist and inhaled.
"Why are you wearing perfume...expensive perfume" Sakura bit her lip and quickly thought up an excuse and winced when she came up with her most believable one. So turning to Kakashi she cleared her throat and stage whispered to him.
"I'm going to late for my...appointment" she hissed making Kakashi blush and nod.
'Sasuke this young lady is keeping a young man waiting and it would be very bad if she kept him so, let's go" Sasuke frowned and complied but not before spying a lock of pink hair as the woman floated by with all the grace of a panther. "Sasuke that girl was a hire girl, a very expensive one, probably for one of the visiting sensei's or even genin who haven't left the village yet" he explained.
Sakura took a deep breath of relief and then continued on her way to Gaara's house, and when she reached there she flung her robe back revealing her body but not her face and knocked on the door. "Coming" yelled a deep but boyish voice, and when the door opened Sakura was staring into the make-up less face of the puppet user who didn't have his car eared hat on revealing his head of messy brown hair.
Kankuro looked the young beauty's body up and down and then smirked and lent against the door frame "hello cutie you lost?"
"Not quite I was asked to give a message to Gaara, although seeing you well...that's a bonus" she said in a seductive voice making the man cough embarrassed and then turned to face the inside.
"Gaara you have a messenger" he yelled out before turning back and smiling at the girl who still hadn't revealed her face to him yet. "So what's your nam-"
"Kankuro, what are you doing" the puppet master froze and then smiled sadly at Sakura and gave her body one more longing look before walking back inside until Sakura was alone with Gaara. "Give me your message and then leave"
Sakura sighed and pulled back her hood revealing her face and noted that the red head's eyes widened slightly "Gaara, Naruto has sent me to you and told me that you are to take care of me for the month he is away training, he would trust no other"
The sand wielder looked at the pendant around her neck, pulled her inside and then began circling the pink haired beauty "why would he send you to me" he hissed as Temari and Kankuro came to investigate.
To say Kankuro was shocked and thoroughly pleased when he saw Sakura behind the hood was an understatement. "I don't know, he merely told me that he would not be able to watch over me this month as he is to focus on training the whole time, he's not even going to be in the village that much at all, and he would not have me unprotected this whole month so he sent me to you saying that you would protect me to the greatest extent" she said without pause not even stuttering as Gaara stalked around her.
"What are you to him" the red head hissed coming to stand directly in front of her, his jade eyes piercing her own emerald.
Sakura's eyes analysed his own and then she smiled a little before leaning forward the whisper in his ear "Sister" she said before leaning back and stared at Gaara expectantly "Will you do as he asks will you protect me?"
Gaara looked her up and down and walked towards his bedroom "Temari get her some Suna clothing, she will sleep in my room, Kankuro...you will be her guard from now on, where she goes you will go is that understood" he said glaring at his two siblings. Both of them nodded and then looked at Sakura in awe who just stood with her head held high her eyes stony before she turned and faced them and bowed a little which gave Kankuro a great view of her cleavage.
"Please take care of me for a while to the best of your abilities" Temari's eyes softened and she nodded while Kankuro smiled and looked her up and down again.
"This month is gonna be fun" he said and Sakura looked up and gave him a coy smile
"Oh you have no idea"
Naruto woke up the next morning next to Kotsue and found he was only in his boxers and that the whole night was fuzzy, as he tried to remember what had happened he got off the bed making the chunnin groaned and roll over but thankfully stay asleep. "Kyu can you jog my memory for me"
"AH KIT MAYBE YOU SHOULD GET AWAY FROM THE SLEEPING CHUNNIN BEFORE I TELL YOU" Naruto frown but nodded and when he was fully dressed he leapt out of the window until he was sitting on a water tank.
"Okay Kyu show me"
"OKAY KIT BUT JUST DON'T SCREAM"
Flashback
Naruto sat with Shikaku, Chouza, Inochi and Jiraiya and yelled out in joy as his new mentor once again won the arm wrestle and he was now two thousand ryou richer. "My Sensei is the best" he said happily as he high fived the sannin over the table who he split his winnings with.
The two of them had entered the bar an few hours ago and Jiraiya had gotten the young genin as drunk as he could be with the Kyuubi helping the alcohol burn through his system and then got him to confess what Kakashi had said to him making the white haired Sannin try to stand up to quickly and exclaim that he would teach the Sharingan wielding scarecrow a lesson when he tripped and ended up toppling onto Izsum and Kotsue's table.
'Sorry boy's your welcome to join us though" The toad sage said dragging their splintered table over to theirs. The two chunnin shrugged and sat down on either side of Naruto who was in a drinking contest with Shikaku and was winning.
"Wow he can really knock it back can't he" a half drunk Kotsue said as he knocked back another shot, and smirked at the elder Nara who did so albeit slower than he did.
"Yep my student, he's so very talented" Jiraiya said as tears leaked out of his eyes "Go on Naruto show them who's the sake king" he said.
Naruto grinned drunkenly at his teacher and gave him a thumbs up before knocking back another shot. But this time the elder Nara shook his head and held his hand out to Naruto who grinned triumphal and shook his hand before picking up another shot of sake and clinking his glass with Kotsue.
Flashback
Naruto frowned and shook his head, that was pretty tame but that doesn't tell him why he woke up in Kotsue's room with his clothes strewn all around the room with him lying with his boxer pulled on lazily so the hung off his hips. "Okay let's go a little further in the night" he whispered and shut his eyes again.
Flashback
Naruto leant against Kotsue stumbling, and laughing as they knocked over a trash can, and then he put a finger to his lips and began loudly sshing the chunnin. "Quiet ninja's are quiet" he whispered quite loudly making the chunnin laugh again as they stumbled into his house.
"yeah but now were home, we can be as loud as we want" he said loudly making Naruto laugh again, before jumping over the couch and running into the bedroom where he stripped his jacket and then used his chakra to stick to the roof above the door giggling quietly.
"Naruto, where are you?" Kotsue drawled as he walked through the door and laughed Naruto let himself fall so he fell on top of the chunnin and was looking him in the eyes."There you are"
Naruto laughed and nodded and then tapped the older man on the nose "You hair is soft" he muttered as he ran his hands through it. Kotsue nuzzled the side of Naruto's neck and then licked his whisker marks making the genin shiver.
"Your eyes are gorgeous" he muttered "And you lips...ravishing" he muttered before he kissed Naruto fully on the lips to which he gave back fully.
As their tongues fought for dominance Kotsue pushed Naruto on the bed and then began to help him out of his shirt why the blonde unbuttoned his grey jacket. Time past in a blur and soon they were both naked and he was filled with a burning heat and Kotsue was panting and groaning. Then white flashed before his eyes and he laid next to the chunnin panting and then pulled his boxers on lazily.
"So that's sex" he panted in a tired voice.
Kotsue laughed breathlessly and kissed him lingeringly "yep you amazing for your first time by the way" he said before he faded off to sleep Naruto soon following.
Flashback
Naruto's face burned bright red as the memory hit him full force, it was all clear to him now: he had gotten drunk, left with Kotsue and had given his virginity to him; all in all it was a big night.
"So how was he?" Naruto almost leapt two feet in the air and began clutching his chest in fear, and then glared at Jiraiya who was smirking at him "well, how was your first time?"
Naruto sighed and ran a hand through his hair before grinning "Well I can say this much, it's one of the best workouts I've ever had" Jiraiya roared with laughter and then slapped him on the back sending him tumbling forward where he caught himself and glared at Jiraiya who was walking towards the forest. "So what you teaching me?"
Jiraiya turned and smiled at him before clapping his hands "If your my student then you have to learn how to summon a toad" Naruto looked at him with stars with stars in his eyes and then yelled loudly. "YATTA!"
Jiraiya laughed and lead the boy to a secluded part of the forest near a stream and then looked him up and down and clicked his tongue "Okay seriously after this...I'm taking you shopping for a new wardrobe"
Naruto looked down at his worn clothing and then back up at Jiraiya and frowned "What's wrong with me clothes" he pouted "orange is awesome"
Jiraiya shook his head and pulled the fabric from between his two fingers "Your clothes are old and worn your due for a new outfit not to mention there a bit too small for them" Naruto smiled and scratched the back of his head before taking off his jacket and stepped out onto the water of the stream and did a flip and did a one handed handstand "So how do you summon?" he asked doing a flip on the water and landed on the shore in a crouch.
Jiraiya laughed and unrolled the large scroll on his back "first you sign a contract with you blood and then you put the your finger prints at the bottom of your name" he explained.
Naruto bit his thumb and started to write his name when he saw the name of the fourth Hokage and gasped the fourth...he was a toad summoner?
"THAT IS CORRECT YOUNG ONE IN FACT THE LAST THING I SAW APART FROMT THE FOURTH WAS THE BOSS TOAD HIMSELF" Kyuubi said happily as Naruto put his finger prints on the bottom on the name.
"Okay then you run through the hand signs like so" the toad sage said running through a series of hand signs which Naruto quickly memorized. "Then place the hand you sign the contract on the ground after smearing your blood on it" Jiraiya said demonstrated as he summoned the large toad that seemed to have taken a shine to Naruto because it licked him once again.
Naruto took a deep breath and ran through several hand signs before slamming his hand on the ground making a smoke cloud form, when it parted a small orange and black toad with a blue ninja vest stood there.
"Hiya" the toad said making Naruto laughed and bend down to the toad's level and smiled at him. "Are you my summoner, eh?"
"Sure am, I'm Naruto Uzumaki, and you?" Naruto asked holding his hands out so the toad could hop on. The toad smiled and jumped on his hands and tapped his chin before clicking his fingers.
"I'm Gamakichi, I'm the big boss's son, and he sent me to see if the new summoner is alright" Naruto laughed and nodded.
"So do I pass" Naruto asked looking at the toad with a bright expression. The small toad nodded and jumped so he was laying on top of his mop of golden hair.
"You kidding me, of course you did, your awesome finally a ninja who understands how cool orange is" Gamakichi said making Naruto and even Jiraiya laughed. "Oh hey old man" the tiny toad said to the sage whose eyebrow began to twitch.
"I swear between these two I'm gonna die of a heart attack or maybe stress" the toad sage mumbled before getting Naruto to sit down in front of him Gamakichi in his lap. "Okay kid, I found out what type of Jut-su's you know last night, and they are really great specially the elemental wolf ones, but the thing is I'm guessing your Demonic big brother didn't tell you about the higher level jut-su" Naruto shook his head making Jiraiya shrugged 'It's not that difficult, it's just a hand sign or two variation the harder part comes after that" Naruto and Gamakichi cocked both their heads to the side and Jiraiya just shook his head and pointed at Naruto and grinned "Come to me once you've master the adult wolf jut-su's and I'll teach you an awesome trick with them"
"Gamakichi you ready to get to work!" Naruto shouted pumping his hand in the air.
The tiny frog did the same and jumped onto Naruto's shoulder "Sure am kid, it's you and me together till the end"
Jiraiya watched Gamakichi and Naruto interact and couldn't help but laugh, it reminded him of when he and Gammabutna had first met, although the boss toad was a little older than Gamakichi and a little bigger but still, the relationship was the same. Kid your never gonna have a more loyal friend then Gamakichi I'll tell you.
Temari pushed Sakura into her room and threw some clothes at the girl and sighed "Come on Sakura we haven't got all day" she laughed. The leaf kunochi had only been in their care for a day but in those 24 hours she had somehow grown on the family-even Baki-and now she had turned into a semi friend to Temari, who loved dressing her to torment the boys of the village and of the house.
"Give me a second" Sakura said before coming to stand before the fan wielding kunochi taking her breath away "So how do I look" the pinkette asked
Temari nodded and pulled the girl in front of the mirror and grinned, Sakura blushed when she looked at her reflection but nodded. Gaara was very adamant that she had to wear Suna summer clothes which meant revealing a lot of skin. Hell the outfit she had on now was supposed to be tame. The top was a bright red and pushed her cleavage up to show the world and the hem angled down into a V showing her hip bones and part of her toned stomach, her skirt ended mid thigh and was made of light red material and had golden jewels stitched into the top to make it look like a belt why two bells hung from her waist making her jingle if she swung her hips.
"Come on" Temari said as she started Sakura's make up. When the pink haired girl had told the four of them that Naruto had made it clear no one could know she was staying with them Baki had made her a cover story making it sound like Sakura was a Suna dancer and good friend of Temari's who was of noble blood and was deciding over who she should marry back in the village so she came to see her dear friend. The cover fit perfectly because being of Noble blood, and unmarried meant that Sakura had to had a face mask that would conceal her identity on while a light material hood covered her hair and the mask was pinned to her cloak which was a bright red as well for the day.
"This Naruto guy must really trust Gaara or something to send you to us for a whole month" Temari said as she began placing the jewels on the corners of Sakura's eyes. "I mean I didn't even think Naruto knew Gaara"
"He doesn't, but Naruto sees a kindred spirit in Gaara somewhere and when he saw him fight he knew that out of all the competitors he would be able to keep me the safest, even if he was foreign, in fact he was a little worried, I was okay about having to fit into your customs, he of course was worried but I talked him into it" Sakura said as her dancer shoes were tied up till the ribbon almost reached her knees.
"You guys ready" Kankuro said leaning on the door frame, Sakura nodded and gave her cloak and mask to him so he could put them on her, when he finished he opened the door and held out his hand so Sakura could step out. As soon as she was out the door she was Sara from Suna.
Kankuro kept her hand and held it up poised while Temari stood next to her pointing everything out to her as if she had never been here before. And a few meters back Kankuro could feel his brother glaring at everything. "Kankuro" Sakura said in a fake voice which sounded so real it was unbelievable although this voice was a little more seductive than her normal voice. "Is my presence boring you, I know you never took a liking to me as kids but I'd really love it if we could make up for the lack of friendship now" Kankuro nodded and they group kept walking.
Sakura began to get very self conscious as every guy she walked past gave her lust filled looks and after an hour and a half of walking she stopped "I want to try the food here" she said stopping in front of the first restaurant she came to. Kankuro nodded and opened the door for her and as soon as she walked in hush fell and the owner of the store rushed forward and bowed to her.
"You must be lady Sara from Suna am I correct?" he said not coming up from his bow. Sakura took her hand from Kankuro's grasp and gave it to the man who kissed her knuckles before standing up. "The artwork on your hands is beautiful" he said bowing his head again.
Temari smirked and Kankuro took her hand again 'Miss Sara is training to be a high Priestess of the Suna temple, these designs are the markings she must carry for her life" he said to the restaurant owner.
"Wow" he whispered before shaking his head and motioning for them to follow him. "Please follow me I shall take you to your seat" When she was seated with Gaara and Kankuro either side of her and Temari and Baki in across from her the owner quickly gave them menus and then disappeared into the kitchen, Sakura's whole demeanour dropped and she sighed heavily.
"This is actually really hard" she whispered.
Gaara suddenly stiffened and gripped her wrist tightly making Sakura's eye widen a little when a smooth bored voice flowed to her ears "Sasuke we should go welcome the Lady to the leaf village"
Sakura sucked in a deep breath and nodded at Gaara who let go of her wrist and just crossed his arms. When Sasuke and Kakashi arrived at their table Sakura nodded at each one before offering her hand to them "I am Lady Sara from Suna, and you brave leaf ninja?" she asked
Kakashi chuckled lowly and took her hand and planted a mask covered kiss to her hand which made the pinkette kind weirded out that he was her sensei and here he was kissing her hand.
"I am Kakashi Hatake this is my student Sasuke Uchiha" he said giving her back her hand, Sakura looked Sasuke over and then Kankuro whispered in her ear to which she nodded before turning back to Kakashi.
"My friend here tells me you have another student in the finals, a blonde boy by the name of Naruto?" she asked giving Kakashi a searching glance "Where is he, considering if young Sasuke here loses to my Gaara Naruto would be his opponent in the second match if he wins his own"
Kakashi coughed and scratched his hair "Yes well he and I had a disagreement and he has gone and found another trainer until the exams are over"
Sakura made a humming noise and then offered her hand to Sasuke who just gulped and took it lightly, "Young Uchiha I'm not going to bite I have no training, I couldn't possibly hurt you" she said in an amused voice.
Sasuke sucked in a breath and then gave a quick kiss to her knuckles and then pulled his head back up his face burning "You have a infatuation already don't you" she said as their tea was served by a waitress before she bowed and left.
Sasuke's face burned even redder and he looked away embarrassed making Sakura laugh a little "Oh fear not young man I'm sure she is a lucky girl"
Sasuke shook his head and stuffed his hands in his pocket "I'm afraid I haven't told her milady" Sakura nodded and then sipped her tea from behind her mask "But I plan to after my victory in the chunnin exams"
Gaara tensed and Temari and Kankuro looked on in fear only to be totally shocked when Sakura calmed him down by placing a single hand on his shoulder "Yes well my Gaara here is quite the ninja don't underestimate him"
Kakashi who had been silent up until that point looked at Sara and then his eyes widened and Sakura knew he had figured out who she was, "Milady I'm sorry but Sasuke and I must take our leave" Sakura nodded and waved them away before turning to drink her tea.
When they both were gone Sakura took a deep breath and Kankuro laid a comforting hand on her shoulder "You did good"
One week after his drunken night with Kotsue, Naruto was still trying to perfect the elemental wolf Jut-su's but was having trouble. But on a better note he had finally summon Gammabutna who had invited him into the clan as soon as he saw how close Naruto and Gamakichi were.
"Come on Kid you can do it" Naruto slammed his hands on the ground and then collapsed on the ground in exhaustion. He had been going at the same wolf for the last two days and it was slowly getting there, he formed his first adult wolf around the second day of training but now as he was looming on the mid way mark he was beginning to get tired.
"Sorry Gamakichi, I'm just a little tired" he said as he pulled his shirt off and threw it into the pile on the floor with his jacket. When he turned around all he heard was Gamakichi's gasp. "What?"
"That is awesome" the tiny toad said pointing to the huge tattoo that stretched out along his back. Naruto laughed and then scratched his whisker scars, "I mean it's huge" the toad said leaping until he sat on Naruto's mop of hair which had become his favourite spot to sit on.
"Hey kid I was think-what is that" Naruto inwardly groaned and was going to turn to explain when Jiraiya forced him to look ahead as he looked at his tattoo "Naruto this is...amazing"
"Thanks a friend owed me one so he did for me" Jiraiya looked at the tiny toad who Naruto still hadn't dispelled since first summoning him and then back down at Naruto who was smiling happily.
"Okay kid come with me" Jiraiya said as he lead the two of them further and further away from the village and deeper into the forest.
'Pervy Sage come on I'm tired" Naruto complained as he pulled his worn jacket back on. "Gamakichi and I were up all night perfecting Tidus" he said as the tiny toad yawned.
Jiraiya's eyebrow twitched as he heard the blonde favourite nickname for him and then kept walking "Were going to an old friend of mine, you need new clothes and he'll make them for me" Naruto was about to complain again when he came face to face with a beautiful cottage with two beautiful Labradors sitting on the poach.
"Who was this friend of yours" he asked in awe of the small house.
"Blue Oi Blue get out here" Jiraiya called.
Naruto was about to comment on something when a elderly man walked out of the house on his face were two red fang tattoos: this man was an Inuzuka. "Naruto meet Blue Inuzuka, Blue this is Naruto Uzumaki"
The man who had pure white hair and kind brown eyes patted one of his whining golden dogs and smiled at Naruto kindly "So this is the young boy, my young Kiba is always talking about eh" he said his voice strong and bold, much like Kiba's.
"Kiba, you know him?" Naruto asked as they slowly walked into the cottage and sat on the man's comfortable couches.
Blue laughed and nodded before patting Naruto on the head "Yes young one, Kiba is my grandson, my son Sifeir was his father" he said pulling out a photo of two men. "The young boy with the small red pup in his hands was Sifeir, I'm the young man" Naruto stared at Sifeir and couldn't help but notice at how much Kiba looked like his father, the young Inuzuka looked almost exactly like his father. Blue himself looked a lot like Kiba as a young man, except unlike the dogs out the front next to him was a giant blue wolf that put even Tsume's Kodamaru to shame.
"Where's him" he said pointing to the large wolf.
Blue laughed and whistled softly and all of a sudden a deep irritated growl echoed through the house. "You better have a good reason for calling me Blue" Naruto stared in awe at the large wolf in front of him. This was a beast that you could tell was war worn.
"Naruto this is my partner: Auron" The great wolf walked over to Naruto slowly and put his large head on his lap, and groaned in relief when Naruto began scratching behind his ears. "Auron this is Naruto Uzumaki"
Auron looked up and Naruto could see the heaviness of life weighing in the wolf's eyes and he knew that the great wolf was merely waiting for his life partner to die before he too would let go. Naruto traced the large scar running along Auron's muzzle and then looked at the three scars which had rendered his left eye useless and then played with the tuff of fur which was his right ear. "This is the boy that Kiba is so interested in"
Naruto blushed and Jiraiya thumped the boy on the back "Hear that kid, you're not a total loser"
"Hey leave the kid alone" Gamakichi said coming to his friends defence.
Auron curled up at Naruto's feet and Blue put away his photo before coming to sit back down next to the blonde "So what brings you here?"
Jiraiya laid a hand on Naruto's shoulder and gave Blue a serious look "Naruto here needs new ninja clothes, I don't want any sleeves, they get in the way" Blue nodded and got out a sketch book and motioned for Naruto to begin describing what he wanted.
When he finished he held up a finished sketch and Naruto nodded then smiled at Gamakichi who nodded back "And colours"
The toad and Naruto exchanged large grins and then smiled at the cloth maker, "Black and orange"
Sakura stared out at the village and sighed, lately the force of her secret had been weighing down on her, playing the part of Lady Sara was beginning to become very hard, the fact that Gaara wouldn't let her go anywhere without him or one of his siblings made it very hard to act normally at all. But luckily for her Naruto had told Zabuza about the arrangement and he made sure to meet with tem at least twice a week and tell them about how the village was taking her deception, it turned out that some ANBU and only a few Jonin had figured out who she was but because there was nothing wrong going on, nothing was going to be done about it. Lately Gaara had began to lash out at his siblings over little things and it was beginning to get harder and harder to keep him from hurting them.
"Kankuro" The puppet master who was watching over her that night froze and looked at Sakura pleadingly as Gaara stalked murderously towards him "why do you always serve to piss me off" the sand ninja growled out as the sand started to swamp over his brothers lower legs.
Sakura bit her lip and she rushed towards Gaara and spun his around and as Naruto's words ran through her head she smashed her lips with Gaara's Whatever it takes she thought as she motioned for Kankuro to run as Gaara gripped her tightly as he kissed her back furiously.
Kankuro ran to Temari who could already tell what happened and let her younger brother curl up next to her.
"How'd she calm him down this time?" she asked as she stroked his hair comforting.
Kankuro clutched his sister and looked up at her with frightened eyes "She's given in to him" Temari looked at the door with sad eyes and then clutched her brother tightly back 'Sakura...thank you"
The next morning when the pink haired kunochi woke the first thing she noticed was Gaara's arm wrapped around her waist, the second then she realized was that her neck was sore, and thirdly thankfully she was still fully clothes.
"Your mine now" Sakura tensed and turned and faced Gaara who was looking her up and down and rolled until he was on top on her "For the next month you are mine, and then I will ask Naruto if I can have you forever"
Sakura gulped and nodded and let the sand ninja kissed her roughly, and then held back her tears why inside she felt her resolve strengthen don't worry Naruto I've got you back
After three weeks of continuous training Naruto had finally decided to take a break and was just lying back on the grass with Gamakichi sitting on his chest sleeping peacefully, Jiraiya who was writing in a small notebook looked over at the lump of orange and black and smiled fondly, after training for three straight weeks the boy had finally managed to master all the different elemental wolf forms and tomorrow he would start on the fusion jut-su's but for now the boy could sleep. It only took three weeks for the boy to grow on him but it was enough, Jiraiya was just waking the two of them up when three ANBU ninja dropped down from the trees and knelt before Naruto who just rubbed the grit out of his eyes why Gamakichi awned from his perch atop his head.
"Naruto Uzumaki, Lord Hokage would like to see you" Naruto sighed and nodded and let the ANBU ninja guide him there but not before dispelling Gamakichi for the first time and giving him strict instructions to rest.
When they reached the office the Hokage sat back sighing as he took in Naruto's condition and then folded his hands across his stomach "Hello Naruto it's been a while since you were seen in the village" he said kindly.
Naruto nodded and yawned again, he was just about to fall asleep when the ANBU had arrived "Yeah, It has I've been training"
The Hokage nodded and threw him a scroll 'I need Kitsune, many of the other countries believe him to be dead, and I need show them their not, it's one mission just a simple assassination, easy for you" Naruto took the scroll and then nodded before pointing to the two ANBU outside.
"You know who I am right" both of them nodded and Naruto grinned "Good then you know what I will do to you if you tell anyone right?" both of them nodded and Naruto smiled "Good" he said before turning and walking over to rat who was waiting for him at the end of the hall.
"You are aware that Panther and Tiger are some of my most trusted officers" The elder ANBU said as he transported them to the ANBU headquarters.
Naruto waved Rat's assurances away and then quickly changed before leaping out of the window and towards the gates. Shikamaru who was walking with Kiba laughed at something the loud dog Nin said when they both walked into a wall of flesh.
"Hello" when the two genin looked up from the floor they saw a foxed mask ANBU standing above them "I always seem to run into you"
Shikamaru nodded and Kiba just stared and before either ninja could ask the small ANBU where he was going he walked straight pass them. Shikamaru's eyes narrowed onto the thick black tattoo lines on the boy's bare shoulders and back of his arms "Kiba didn't Naruto have a huge Nine Tailed Fox tattoo on his back?"
Naruto sighed as his prey ran away from him and then appeared in front of him sitting on the tree branch "You know it'll be much faster if you just let me kill you ready" The Missing Nin shook his head and Naruto just sighed and then jumped down until he was right in front of the rouge ninja "Sorry but you don't get any say in it" the missing nin didn't know what hit him when suddenly his throat was cut and he was bleeding out onto the floor staining the ground red.
"Humph these are my good shoes" Naruto said as he looked at the blood pooling around them. Leaving the now dead missing Nin laying on the ground Naruto began to walk back to the village, and when he arrived and walked through the gates, many ninja stopped and bowed in his presence and when he bumped in to Asuma the eldest son of the Hokage smirked and crossed his arms.
"Well if it isn't Kitsune how you doing kid?" he asked as they walked to the Hokage's tower together.
"Bloody" he said in a sarcastic voice making the smoker laugh, "No really he ruined my shoes" Naruto said pouting behind his mask.
Asuma nodded and then saw Kurenai and bid the young ANBU goodbye. Naruto sighed and made his way up to the Hokage's office, and as soon as he entered Naruto glared at the old man and crossed his arms "You owe me new ANBU sandals" he said before taking his mask off "He's dead, now can I go back to training?"
The Hokage sighed and nodding. As The Hokage watched Naruto go he sighed, somehow the third had a feeling that the young blonde boy would be the first rookie to make chunnin in ten fifteen years.
As Soon as Jiraiya saw his student he pulled his aside "You want to learn the final part of the elemental wolf Jut-su?" Naruto nodded and smirked happy that he was going to finally master the jut-su completely.