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Return
Ryuu stepped into the village and all eyes turned to him. He had had the sense to deactivate his Sharingan but despite that, not a single person around was doing anything except staring at him.
"Um, hello," Ryuu said raising a hand.
"Who are you?" someone asked.
"Um, that's a bit of a long story," Ryuu stated.
"I think he's an Akatsuki spy," someone else spoke up.
"Go about your business," a voice behind Ryuu ordered and he grinned widely turning around to see Yugao standing there. "He's an informant of the Hokage."
People stared at him for another minute before turning and continuing on their way. Yugao motioned for Ryuu to follow her and left the village and he followed, meeting her in their old training field. The moment she turned around, she threw her arms around him, mask falling away as she did. He hugged her back as she shook slightly.
"I was so scared," Yugao sobbed into his shoulder as he had grown as tall as him without realizing it. "I thought you were never coming back."
"Sorry about that," Ryuu smiled sympathetically. "I would have been back sooner but there was a bit of a...complication."
"What kind of complication?" Yugao asked.
Ryuu pulled his shirt off since it had long sleeves and a glove, hiding his arm from view. Yugao covered her mouth, eyes wide as she stared at the scare and then the arm. After a moment, Ryuu pulled his shirt back on and the glove out, holding his hand out, knowing what she would want. She reached out, tentatively, taking his hand and stared at it in amazement. It didn't feel like a normal hand, he knew that much. It was harder and smoother. It was hard to describe. After a moment she let go and he pulled his glove back on then turned around as Neji and Tenten stepped into the clearing.
"You're back," Tenten blinked then smiled. "Finally."
"Neji, Tenten," Ryuu smiled. "It's good to see you two. So, how much did I miss?"
"What do you know?" Yugao asked, the mood suddenly much more serious than Ryuu expected.
"I know that Gaara, the Hidden Sand, and the Hidden Sound all attacked at once while I fought my opponent," Ryuu stated. "Then, I killed him and Fu knocked me out."
"Well, we won that battle," Yugao stated. "Obviously. Fu beat me in a fight, though, not by much. Naruto defeated Gaara, who, it turns out, was the One-tail's Jinchuriki. He escaped with Temari and Kankuro, his siblings, and the remaining Sound and Sand ninja fled, along with Orochimaru, leader of the Hidden Sound Village. While here, he had been here, he fought the Third Hokage. The Third Hokage eventually sacrificed himself to seal the part of Orochimaru's Soul that allowed him to use his arms, causing Orochimaru to flee. After that, Naruto, Hinata, Kiba, Akamaru, and Shino left to find a beetle that would allow them to track you by smell but in the end failed. While they were gone, Sasuke left to train with Orochimaru. Neji, Tenten, Ino, Shikamaru, Choji, and Might Guy left to try to bring him back and had to separate to fight five Hidden Sound ninja that were escorting him, more or less. Lee later arrived after the new Hokage cleared him to-"
"Wait, what new Hokage and why would he be cleared to fight?" Ryuu asked.
"Oh, right," Yugao sighed. "Sorry. Naruto and Jiraiya left the village together to find Tsunade Senju to be the fifth Hokage. She's the best Medical Ninja in the world and was able to perform a surgery to heal Lee so he could be a ninja again. While trying to find her, Naruto and Jiraiya wound up fighting Orochimaru and Kabuto Yakushi, Orochimaru's top spy."
"Anyway, after being cleared to leave Lee cam to help us," Neji spoke up. "Choji and I both defeated our opponents and nearly died doing so. Guy fought the Sound Ninja team's leader, Lee chased after Sasuke, Shikamaru fought one of the others, and Ino and Tenten fought the other one. In the end, Gaara, now our ally, arrived and took over for Gaara while his siblings saved Shikamaru, Ino, and Tenten. Guy arrived after Lee and Sasuke had already fought, Lee only barely surviving, and saved him. A little while later, Naruto left on a two and a half year training trip with Jiraiya."
"Wow, we was gone almost as long as me," Ryuu whistled.
"Yeah," Tenten nodded. "Anyway, not much happened while he was away aside from us strengthening our ties with the Hidden Sand, oh except that everyone from your graduating year and our team became chunin. And Neji's a jonin. Gaara and his siblings became Sand Village Jonin and Gaara became Kazekage not long after. Anyway, so, when he got back, we found out the Akatsuki, a group of S-rank Missing Nin kidnapped Gaara and Naruto, Kakashi, Sakura, and our team went to help save him. We arrived just after they finished removing the One-tailed Beast from him, which killed him. The two members present, I think, Deidara and Sasori...what?"
Ryuu was clenching his right fist while his left drifted to his right shoulder.
"I met them," Ryuu said through gritted teeth. "They killed Fu."
"Oh God," Yugao breathed holding a hand over her mouth. "I'm so sorry. Did they..."
"Yeah," Ryuu nodded. "At least, Deidara did. Sasori tried to stab me with a tail."
"Yeah, Sakura said something about that," Tenten stated. "Apparently that was just a puppet body. Anyway, Sakura and a Sand Village Elder, Lady Chiyo, fought Sasori, eventually killing him, and Kakashi and Naruto chased after Deidara, ending with him eating a bunch of white clay and exploding. When we got back to Lady Chiyo and Sakura, Lady Chiyo used a Reanimation jutsu to bring Gaara back to life, at the cost of her own life. We came back here after that."
"A few days later Naruto and Sakura got a new teammate, Sai, to replace Sasuke," Neji stated. "He's a good guy, now. Naruto had to beat sense into him first but Naruto's good at that. Anyway, they followed Sasori's tip and went to the Tenchi Bridge to meet a spy working for him in Orochimaru's village and Kabuto met them there. Then Orochimaru showed up and they wound up fighting. Naruto somehow fought alone against Orochimaru and forced him to retreat but with Sai going with him. When they caught up, they found Sai and Sasuke fighting. Sai said he'd be taking Sasuke back here for Naruto and Sasuke attacked him, Sakura, Naruto, and the stand-in captain Yamato all at once. And he could have won. But, in the end, he, Orochimaru, and Kabuto all left. When we got back, Naruto began to train to use a change in Chakra Nature with his Rasengan. While he did, we all began hunting Akatsuki members. Shikamaru and Asuma found two, with a few others, and fought them but they were both immortal, one literally and the other because he stitched his body together with black cords and survived using five hearts stolen from his victims. The actually immortal one, had the ability to curse others by ingesting their blood and drawing a seal on the ground. When he stepped into the seal, any damage done to him was also done to the person he had cursed. In this case, he cursed Asuma then stabbed himself in several fatal points. Ino and Choji arrived in time to drive the two Akatsuki members off but by then it was too late and Asuma couldn't be saved. Shikamaru took it hard. But Kakashi left Yamato in charge of Naruto's training, since they had been training him together so far, and led Choji, Shikamaru, and Ino after the two Akatsuki members for revenge, as much as to stop them from hurting anyone else, and they began to fight.
"At first it was working until the one with five hearts revealed that each of those was stored inside a mask with a body made of cords and each mask had a different Chakra Element. Naruto and his team arrived in time for Naruto to use his new jutsu to kill that one and Shikamaru beat the other one, dropping him into a pit and burying him, all while the immortal freak was in several pieces."
"Damn," Ryuu snorted. "Remind me not to piss off Shikamaru. What else?"
"We were sent to seal the Three-tailed Beast," Tenten stated. "Well, actually, Team Kurenai, under Kakashi's leadership-"
"Why Kakashi?" Ryuu asked.
"Oh that's right," Tenten grinned. "Neji forgot to tell you. Kurenai Sensei is carrying Asuma's daughter."
"Wow," Ryuu grinned then it faded. "Too bad he can't be around for her."
"Yeah," Tenten nodded. "Anyway, Team Kurenai was sent to track down Sasuke but instead found Kabuto trying to draw something out of a lake. They sent samples of crystalized insects where even the insides like blood were turned to crystal. Me, Ino, Tsunade's secretary and student Shizune, Sakura, Naruto, Yamato, and Sai were all sent to help them and when we arrived, Team Kurenai was inside a massive crystal structure. Naruto summoned a toad and used a cooperation ninjutsu with it to blast the crystal to bits and we went to help in the fight. When we arrived, Hinata was encased in crystal. Naruto didn't seem to handle that very well, now that I think about it. We managed to get her away from the crystal style user, using Naruto as a distraction, but after a small, accident, the crystal began to crack. We knew that if it shattered she would with it but we couldn't stop it. When it did, however, Hinata was fine. She explained that she survived by covering her body in chakra and Naruto was ecstatic that she was alive. Anyway, the next time Kabuto managed to summon the Three-tails Ino, Hinata, Sakura, and Shizune tried to seal it. We would have if the crystal style user hadn't attacked and destroyed the seal. When we tried again after fighting the crystal style user and her team off the Three-tails broke free as the crystal style user got back to us and it fought Naruto and guren alone. Then it ate them."
"Ew," Ryuu blinked. "That's kinda sick."
"Apparently its insides were metal," Neji smirked. "Anyway, Kakashi managed to brake through the portal to whatever parallel dimension it was in and made a way for Naruto and the crystal style user to find their way out. and they fought it again, eventually driving it off before also driving off Kabuto."
"Then what?" Ryuu asked.
"That was about it actually," Tenten stated. "We tried to find Itachi to catch Sasuke but we didn't have much luck with it."
"I see," Ryuu nodded. "I'd better go see the new Hokage and then Naruto then."
"Probably," Yugao nodded. "Oh, and come see me when you're done. I have all of your mail."
"Mail?" Ryuu blinked. "Didn't think I was so popular."
Yugao smirked and Ryuu left with the body Flicker Technique, heading to the Hokage's office.
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