Me: Okay. I decided we should take a peek at whats been going on back in Konoha.

13 : It may help clear up a few things later on.

Me: As it turns out, I looked through the story and I think it would change too much if I were to have Itachi find out that there were no survivors and expose Danzo, so...there goes that idea.

13 : Hey why are you telling your readers our thrown out ideas?

Me: Hmm...I guess it's interesting to know. I mean I'd like to know these things.

13 : Alright. Well, enjoy.


Naruto POV

At first he'd been sad, his best friend had died. So he'd locked himself up in his apartment and eaten ramen for three days straight. Iruka-sensia had to bang at his door for two hours before he finally let him in.

Now he felt angry towards Itachi. He'd seemed like a great guy. Always being nice towards him and playing games with Sasuke and him.

When he'd heard someone say it was Itachi he didn't belive them at first.

But then he heard Iruka-sensia talking about it.

Why would he do that? He'd thought at first.

But now he didn't care. If he ever saw him again he would hurt him.

He never thought of really killing him, he was only seven, but he still hated him.

Because Itachi had killed Sasuke and now he was all alone.

At school the kids ignored him, they used to pick on him but they'd left him alone when they heard about his best friends death. The teachers tried to be sympathetic, but just ended up ignoring him too, except Iruka.

No matter what he did he was ignored. He couldn't remember when he'd felt so alone, and it hurt.

He just wanted to be seen by somebody again, to be recognized the way Sasuke recognized him, as a friend.

Naruto yawned and entered the classroom.

"Well, I'm glad you could make it to class Naruto." The teacher said as Naruto sat down late.

"Yeah, hehe. Sorry." He laughed it off.

"Hmph. Now as I was saying, chakra flow can be seen here and here." The teacher said pointing at a picture on the board.

Naruto started to doze off.

"Naruto Uzamaki!"

Naruto sat up quickly.

"I'm up!" He yelled.

The teacher looked angry, then he pointed at the board.

"Then could you please come up here and circle the main chakra points?"

Naruto looked at the picture showing all the lines of chakra drawn on the body.

"Uh...sure?" He went up and stared at it for a long time.

"Well?" The teacher asked smugly.

Naruto finally gave up and circled the whole picture.

"There!" He said happily noting the outraged look on his teachers face.

He went and sat back down as the teacher fumed and erased his circle.

"Now does someone here want to come up and show Naruto where these points can be located?" He huffed.

"Yes." A girl with pink hair stepped up and drew a circle around the areas they were located.

"Thank you, Sakura." She went to go sit back down and Naruto grinned at her.

She stuck her tongue out at him and he grinned wider and stuck his tongue out too.

"Naruto, keep your tongue in your mouth!" The teacher snapped.


After school Naruto found Sakura walking with some girl with blonde hair.

"Hey!" He yelled out.

"What?" Asked the girl with blonde hair.

"Do you guys like ramen?" He asked as he neared them.

"Yeah, I geuss so." Answered Sakura.

"Cool! You guys wanna go get some?"

"No." The girl with blonde hair answered rudely.

"Ino!" Sakura said. "Sorry we have to go home." She answered nicer than Ino.

"Okay!" He said loudly. "See ya at school then!"

He turned and went home.

Hmmm...What to do. Naruto thought. Oh! I know! I have some left over paint!


Naruto yawned. Hmm...I wonder what I was dreaming about.

He was about to drift off again when he suddenly realized what time it must be.

AHHH! I'm going to be late! He panicked.

He rushed out the door and made it to class before the teacher walked in.

Whoo, that was close. He grinned at his success.

The students all walked in and took their seats as time passed.

Sakura and Ino walked in and sat down in front of him.

Naruto brightened up and leaned forward.

"Hey! Sakura right?!" He yelled in her ear.

Sakura turned and accidentally hit him on the head with her elbow.

"Hey! Don't shout in my ear!"

"Oww!" He yelled out.

Sakura looked surprised then she smirked.

"I guess karma got you." She said triumphantly.

The teacher walked in and stood in front of his class.

"Excuse me everyone. I'd like to introduce a new student. Ouji, Riki."

Everyone looked at him. He had short dark blue hair and electric blue eyes.

He was wearing a green shirt with dark green pants.

Naruto saw Sakura blush as Riki looked at her.

"Okay, you can go sit down now. Class is beginning."

Riki sat down at a desk near the front.

"Now today we will begin by looking at the chart we were looking at yesterday." The teacher pulled on the string and rolled the paper down.

The chart that they'd all seen yesterday now had multi-colored spirals and squiggly lines all over it. On the corner there was a smiley face and on the other side was an angry face with the word 'teacher' under it.

Hehehe! I did it! Ha! Now how are you going to find the chakra points! Naruto congratulated himself.


Me: Hope that will help clear things up. Just so you know, Riki is sort of like Sasukes replacement so nearly whatever happens in between Sasuke and Naruto happens to them. Except, their relationship isn't exactly like his and Sasukes was, more...fighting I guess.

13 : Also...

Me: I would like to thank my wonderful readers for their inspiration. I have to admit, the creative buzz I had for this story isn't as strong as before sence I haven't thought about it in a while, but I'm not going to give up, it's just a warning that my chapters might not be as...creative, no...umm...

13 : Fulfilling

Me: Right, so any ideas or suggestions are welcome. Also I would like to thank the following reviewers...

13 : Specifically, Jinjagirl25, Ice Night, and Death Sender. (Also to Death Sender, sorry for the wait :) )

Me: And to answer your question Death Sender, I'm not sure how to integrate the brother and sister into the story yet. I was under the impression Gaara didn't interact with either of them much anyway. They'll be there though.