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The Champion of Clan Namikaze

Chapter 12: A New Addition

Naruto wasn't entirely ready to fight. He'd never thought he'd be under attack in the middle of the village; but he wasn't stupid.

Quickly reaching into his pocket he pulled out a scroll and summoned a number of Hiraishin Kunai along with a few strips of paper, readying himself for the conflict. He and Jiraiya moved forward a little, stepping out from under the protection of the porch that skirted the building.

"So you really do use Hiraishin kunai. I'd thought at first that the babble that has been spreading across this country was just a silly rumour. Maybe it still is, maybe you can't truly use those kunai the way they were designed to be," Itachi said as he assessed the situation.

Jiraiya seemed slightly drunk, but he was still a major threat and if Naruto could truly use Hiraishin no Jutsu then he would be much harder to obtain than originally thought. What happened to being dead last?

"Don't you worry about whether or not I can use these," Naruto said to the Uchiha, making damn sure not to look him in his eyes. He had one of the only remaining Uchiha on his team so he was used to sparring and training without making eye contact; he sure as hell wasn't going to make a mistake like that now.

"Kid, I might have to fill you in on some things if we survive this," Jiraiya said, his stance looked fine, but Naruto just had to hope that his reflexes were as fresh as normal.

"Yeah well fill me in then," Naruto said without taking his eyes away from the strange blue ninja, "Anyway, what are you supposed to be? A fish? And who even wraps a sword in bandages, kinda defeats the purpose doesn't it?"

"Hah, you know what you brat, I think you talk to much. Time to shut you up," Kisame had had enough of the standing around and talking and not one for subtleties attacked bluntly, swinging his sword horizontally.

He was fast, incredibly fast, and Naruto barely had time to react, disappearing just before the sword made contact before reappearing after the blade had passed the spot where he'd been standing. He'd used one of the many markers he had lying around to bypass the attack.

Jiraiya, not the target of the attack, simply backed out of the range of the strike.

"We are supposed to take him alive Kisame," Itachi almost facepalmed at the potential damage of the swing.

"Slippery little bugger aren't you? Even Samehada hadn't been expecting that. Maybe you'll be a challenge after all?"

Itachi was losing patience with his partner. As strong as he was Kisame just didn't seem to get what they were supposed to do. That or he forgot what his objective was as soon as he got excited.

But Itachi didn't have much longer to think about any of that when an assault from Jiraiya of the Sannin completely drew his focus.

Jiraiya wasn't dumb, you don't get to become on of the most powerful ninja alive by being stupid and you didn't have to look in someone's eyes to read their movements. If there was one weakness of the sharingan genjutsu, it was that someone had to look directly into your eyes. While a slight handicap, any battle-hardened shinobi could avoid doing so.

Itachi hadn't been expecting a fight with a Sannin, and while it wasn't difficult for the S-rank ninja to keep up, especially through the use of his sharingan, it certainly put a kink in their plan.

If they could capture Naruto they would. If they couldn't then they would get a measure of his strength, but just from his ability to dodge Kisame's strike in an instant at the age of twelve, Itachi knew that if they failed now the Akatsuki would have a hard time catching in the future.

Over with Kisame and Naruto the missing-nin was getting frustrated. He couldn't swat the fly that was buzzing around him. Naruto had never really needed to use the full extent of his ability with the Hiraishin no Jutsu to evade attacks until now and it was driving the Kirigakure missing-nin crazy.

The shark like ninja was coming at him fiercely, blazing through strikes with that weird bandaged sword that seemed to be able to move and bend toward its target. Naruto had at any particular time four kunai hanging in the air around the S-rank missing nin and was spending no more than fractions of a second at each one.

Due to the nature of the bandaged sword and the strength and speed of the much older ninja Naruto couldn't get close enough for an attack; he was stuck on the defensive for now, but it was only a matter of time before one of the kunai he was keeping in the air would present him with an opening.

Patience paid off for the smaller ninja. While Itachi duked it out pretty evenly with the older Sannin, Kisame was getting more and more frustrated that his strikes couldn't connect with a twelve year old genin.

He slipped up, swinging too heavily across his body at the blonde. Naruto hoped that the over aggressive strike would give him the time he needed.

Flashing to a kunai that had fallen underneath the swing and was situated in front of the raging ninja Naruto appeared crouched, slapping a seal to the inside of the missing nin's calf, right before he was smacked in the shoulder with a massive hit.

Even though Kisame himself couldn't make a counter-attack, Samehada had. The sword had curved around and down the ninja's body and slammed directly into Naruto, sending him rolling across the battlefield. The short time it took Naruto to recover Kisame used to push the slight advantage he'd gained, rushing after him and preparing a massive downward strike.

Naruto, righting himself from his tumble could only grin as he looked up at the sword swinging down at him from the large ninja above. Kisame must have figured that he'd left the four kunai back over where Naruto had taken a hit and that even if the blonde could avoid this there was no way for him to counter-attack.

The missing-nin of Kirigakure was dead wrong.

Naruto disappeared just as Samehada was about to connect with his head.

He reappeared crouched, in between the legs of Kisame and lashed out, reinforcing the punch with as much chakra as he could keep under his control before reappearing back with his other kunai, picking them up quickly.

Every single male in the village of Konoha, asleep or not, winced as the missing-nin was brought to his knees. Even Jiraiya and Itachi turned to see what impact had made the noise they'd heard before realizing, both of them going pale.

Kisame was reeling. He was wondering who the hell did that, punched a man in his balls. It was downright uncalled for. The fact that they were trying to kidnap the boy completely forgotten as he tried to recover from the attack before Naruto could do something else.

He looked down, realizing exactly what it was that had allowed the boy to attack him in such a cruel manner. A seal was attached to one of the white boots he was wearing; guess it was time to go barefoot. Naruto figured out what Kisame was trying to do as the missing-nin went to remove his shoes as quickly as possible.

"Not today,"

He disappeared.

Kisame didn't know what hit him. Naruto knew that he wouldn't get another opening like this and put everything he had into his attack.

It started with sending the missing-nin flying across the battlefield with a rasengan to the side of the head.

Instantaneously appearing in Kisame's flight path were two Naruto clones, a tightly packed rasengan formed between them.

Before the shark-nin could fully bring his sword around to stop the attack he copped the brunt of the chakra explosion, sending him rocketing upwards, Samehada flying from his hands and bouncing across the ground.

Naruto formed a clone that appeared above the ninja who, without his sword, looked to be going through hand seals. But it was hard to go through hand seals successfully when your opponent could go appear next to you instantaneously. Just one of the many advantages of the rasengan; Naruto could produce them almost as fast as he could Hiraishin by now.

The clone slammed the giant rasengan into the face of airborne ninja, directing him toward the ground with the impact. Not even a second passed before Naruto was above the ninja as he fell, tanto drawn and wind chakra coursing through it.

Just as the attack looked to land, the area around Kisame exploded with smoke and Naruto and Kisame disappeared; only a log remaining where two ninja had once been.

But Naruto's attack still landed, if only slightly amiss. Kisame, in desperation, had tried the one thing he could to get out of the situation he was in. Kamawiri no Jutsu. The only problem with that plan though was that with the seal still on him he couldn't completely escape his fate.

The time it took for Naruto to comprehend what had happened, mentally relocate the marker and Hiraishin to it, which in fact was only a fraction of a second, was enough time for Kisame to move, preventing the strike from Naruto from actually killing him.

The wind chakra enhanced blade still easily punched straight through his shoulder, cutting through a number of tendons, and bone.

Kisame was actually ashamed to think that a boy the age of twelve, even if he was a Jinchuuriki, was besting him. Itachi had told him to keep from using his flashy water style moves; they couldn't draw too much attention to themselves if they wanted to escape with the boy. But that was when they thought this would be easy.

Naruto and the missing-nin were now on the edge of the clearing that circled the house and joined onto the training grounds and forested sections of the compound.

Although the blonde had scored a solid hit, sending his tanto straight through the facedown Kisame, there was no way that he could overpower the massive nin.

Kisame threw the boy off his back as he got up enraged, ripping his shoes off during the lull in the combat and going through hand seals.

"Kisame no! Retreat! If he gets a seal on your skin you won't be able to do anything," Itachi called out, having put Jiraiya under a genjutsu after touching the Sannin during a block.

Jiraiya had come into contact with the Uchiha, and while Itachi couldn't use sharingan genjutsu that didn't mean he couldn't use regular genjutsu. While it didn't take long for Jiraiya to snap out of it, he did so almost immediately, it gave Itachi the break in combat he needed to communicate with his partner.

That snapped Kisame back to reality. This might have been a child. But he was no ordinary child. His ability to use the Hiraishin no Jutsu completely changed the dynamic of the fight and Kisame, enraged, had been ignoring this.

He was currently seal free, and they needed to cut their losses. They couldn't afford a setback so capturing the nine tails would just have to wait.

Even if they could capture Naruto the only way they could prevent him from escaping would be to knock him out and keep him unconscious until the sealing. There wasn't any way to do that right now. Not with Jiraiya there, and not in the middle of the village.

Before the Sannin or the blonde could make a move at either of them the two S-rank ninja retreated, jumping away and putting as much distance as they could behind them.

"I understand that he was a threat," Kisame said as he retreated, "But I have to go back for Samehada!"

"No," Itachi said as they continued their retreat, "You have no experience in fuuinjutsu, or not enough that would allow you to dispel that seal. If he got it on any part of you, you would never be able to escape the village. He would always know where you were, and would always be able to take you wherever he wanted.

He could do it so fast that you would have almost no time to react, or were you not paying attention to anything while you fought him?" Itachi said, annoyed that he seemed to have gotten more information out of that fight than Kisame. The Uchiha had been keenly watching the conflict even as Jiraiya had been trying to lay into him.

He guessed that while the Sannin's reflexes and speed weren't affected by his drinking, his subtlety might have been. The old ninja had simply blazed at the Uchiha in a fit of taijutsu, occasionally throwing in a hair needle attack to try and catch the experienced missing-nin of Konoha off guard.

The more the two of them thought about it the more they realized that the Hiraishin no Jutsu was not something to be trifled with. They'd need a solution before they faced the blonde again. And who knew how long that would take to come up with? The bleeding and battered Kisame was furious as the two Akatsuki members fled from the village to report their findings.

Naruto and Jiraiya were just glad that the fight was over. The young genin was puffed. He still needed to refine his chakra control so much, because that fight had taken it out of him.

He had to get his chakra use when using the Hiraishin more under control. He was running on empty, and if that fight had gone on any longer he probably wouldn't have been able to do much more.

Normally he'd have lasted longer, but he only had around a tenth of his normal reserves. He really didn't think that when he created those clones earlier in the day that two S-rank ninja would turn up on his doorstep.

As he was walking back over to Jiraiya and the front door of his home he noticed a white object on the ground. On closer inspection he realized that it was the strange sword that the fish guy had been using.

He picked it up and it squirmed in his hands, seemingly content.

Naruto and Jiraiya walked inside to be greeted with the sight of Sakura sitting down next to an unconscious Sasuke and Karin.

"Are they finally gone?" Sakura asked before she noticed the huge sword in Naruto's hands, "What the hell is that?"

"Something one of the ninja left behind, we chased them away," Naruto said, "I'll seal us in to stop them if they come back,"

"Get some rest brats," Jiraiya said as he went and poured himself another drink before sitting down on the couch, "We'll have to let the Hokage know about this tomorrow, and we still need to look for Tsunade don't we?"

It wasn't long before they were all in bed, hoping that tomorrow wouldn't be nearly as troublesome. Karin and Sasuke oblivious to what had almost befallen them.

xXx

The next morning Naruto and Jiraiya visited the Hokage's office. Sasuke was way too hung-over and Sakura was looking after him, and Karin was still sound asleep.

"Sensei, we have a problem," Jiraiya said to the old man once they'd gotten seated, "Up until now my sources would have me believe that an organization is after the Jinchuuriki,"

This made sense. The Jinchuuriki were great sources of power and if someone could take that power and weaponise it they could hold the shinobi world for ransom.

"They made a move to take Naruto last night," now this was news to Hiruzen and his surprise showed, "Two missing-nin Kisame Hoshigaki, and Itachi Uchiha attempted to kidnap him," Jiraiya was completely serious as he gave his report, this wasn't anything to joke about. He'd almost had his apprentice taken by a rogue organization of S-rank ninja.

"I managed to keep Itachi preoccupied enough that he couldn't or didn't want to interfere with Naruto's fight,"

"You fought an S-rank missing ninja Naruto?" Hiruzen knew that he was strong but his strength hadn't really been tested on that sort of level before.

"Yeah, it wasn't easy. If the fight had gone on any longer I'm not sure what I would have been able to do," Naruto was being honest with himself and everyone else in the room. He might have been great for his age, but there were still ninja that could pretty much wipe the floor with him if they went all out.

"They retreated after Naruto got a slight advantage on Kisame, I'm not sure how long the advantage would have lasted but it didn't matter. We were lucky they left when they did that's for sure."

"This is troubling, that they would make an attempt to capture him in the middle of the village. Thankfully your jutsu will make it hard for them to actually capture you, unless they can come up with a solution. Hmmm, did they mention why they wanted you?" Hiruzen needed to find out more before he could make any decisions regarding the matter.

"No, and none of my intelligence has indicated why either, it just seems that they are starting to become more active and that they are targeting Jinchuuriki."

"We need to let the other villages know. If there is a rogue organization hunting Jinchuuriki then if they get their hands on any of them it could cause serious problems for the entire shinobi world, upsetting the balance we've all tried to maintain. Jiraiya, I need you to visit the other villages and tell them of the threat."

"Got it,"

"And Naruto," the Hokage said as he turned to the young blonde, "You can't leave this village without being accompanied by myself or Jiraiya,"

"But if I get into trouble I can just Hiraishin away?"

"For now yes, but if they come up with a solution to your little escape trick you might not be so lucky next time,"

"Hai ojii-san,"

"In the meantime train, you need to be at full strength when the time comes that they make another attempt. Jiraiya while you are away, get your spy network in order, you'll be needed here once you get back, to train Naruto full-time."

The Sannin and the blonde nodded. To be honest Naruto was kind of excited at the prospect of full time training with the Sannin. So far he'd just given him tips, pointers, a few lessons here and there, but he was never really around enough.

"Actually I don't think he needs to sacrifice much of his intelligence gathering," Naruto had an idea, "If he just takes a bunch of my Hiraishin kunai when he goes to warn the other villages he can spread them across the world. It'll create a great fast travel network. I can just drop him wherever he needs to be at a moments notice. He can train me and still keep up with his research, or spy network, or perving, whatever it is he does for the village, sometimes I think you're just paying him to be a pervert."

An expression crossed their faces that said that both men considered it to be a dream job they wished they could have, even though Jiraiya was basically already living that life.

"First though ero-sennin, we need to find Tsunade. Most of my clones made good time last night and I sent out more to expand the network today. We can start searching tomorrow I think."

"What's this?" this was the first time the Hokage had heard of any plans to retrieve Tsunade.

"Naruto wants to enlist the help of Tsunade to help his friend Rock Lee, I honestly don't think it's a bad idea either. We could use the extra hands in the village, and she'll most likely be living at Naruto's, the stinge," Jiraiya ignored the "like you can talk," and continued, "so that's more protection for him if he needs it."

"I agree. Okay Naruto, you go and find Tsunade with Jiraiya, and when you return Jiraiya will head out to warn the other villages of this new threat," What a morning, and the Hokage had been hoping for a quiet day. You never got quiet days when you were the Hokage.

The two shinobi disappeared.

xXx

By the time they returned, Sasuke was looked in slightly less pain whenever someone made a noise, and Karin, looking as good as new was sitting on the couch playing with the bandaged sword that the blonde had left in the living room.

It was almost as if it was purring, as it sat in her lap.

"Hey Naruto-kun?" Karin asked, "Where did this come from?"

"Ummm well," Naruto didn't know what to say, he wasn't sure how to break the news of Itachi's arrival to Sasuke.

"After you passed out and teme went completely out of it we were attacked."

"So it wasn't a dream," Sasuke said darkly, "Goddammit! I missed my chance!" He was so angry he punched a hole in one of the cabinets in the kitchen. Hung over or not he was pissed enough to take action.

"I thought I'd had a dream about my brother and this other ninja arriving last night, I can't believe I missed my chance," the boy had made so much progress Naruto was afraid he'd revert to the teme that he'd used to be.

"Sasuke!" Naruto said, drawing the attention of the black haired boy, "You'll get another chance, don't worry. And it wouldn't have mattered. Jiraiya and I combined had trouble standing up to them, if they didn't have to worry about drawing too much attention to themselves they probably would have taken us easily,"

"How do you know that I'll get another chance?" Sasuke had missed a golden opportunity.

"Because they are after me. It seems they want the Kyuubi. So as long as you are near me you'll get another shot at your brother, count on it. And you won't be alone teme."

Sasuke looked up the blonde, a pained look on his face as he started to tear up. Sakura, Karin and Jiraiya could only watch as the two boys talked it out.

"You're the closest thing I have to family teme, you may as well be my brother. When you face Itachi, I'll be there with you, dattebayo!"

All Sasuke could do was nod in response. Man his best friend really did know what to say.

They'd take him together. Sasuke might have had a vendetta against his older brother, but it didn't mean he had to go it alone. Itachi was after Naruto as well it would seem. They'd take him down together.

"You still didn't answer my question,"

"Huh?" Naruto said turning to the girl who'd asked the question.

"Where did you get this from?"

"Oh the fish ninja guy dropped it in the fight and didn't get the chance to pick it back up. I think he called it Samehada once after he missed an attack. It moves and stuff so maybe it's alive?"

"Yeah I can feel it has chakra," Karin said on the couch, "It seems to like absorbing mine," She didn't really have a problem with the sword absorbing her chakra, it seemed content enough, and she had enough chakra to go around, she was an Uzumaki after all.

After lunch Naruto and Karin went outside to see exactly what this sword could do. Sasuke went back to sleep, Sakura went home, and Jiraiya went to organize some things for his trip.

Samehada was pretty heavy, but Karin was able to just wield it, even if she looked clumsy with it. It was a damn good workout for the girl that was for sure.

"Here," Naruto said to his red headed girlfriend, "give me a go."

She tossed him the sword only for it to do the strangest thing. As he grabbed the handle the scales in it expanded, cutting into his hand and forcing him to drop the blade.

"OUCH," Karin rushed over to Naruto when he called out, "It didn't do that to me last night, what's its problem?"

"Maybe it only let's certain people pick it up?"

"Yeah but I could pick it up last night?"

"Maybe it likes me more now?" Karin was just as confused as her boyfriend when she went to pick up the blade and had no difficulties.

"Hmph, stupid sword," Naruto glared at the thing, as he waited for the wounds in his hand to close up.

"It feeds on chakra, so maybe it likes mine more than it likes yours?"

"Yeah whatever, you get the cool sword because it likes you,"

"Awww don't be jealous Naruto-kun," Karin said as she walked over to her boyfriend and pecked him on the lips, "Just because I'm more lovable than you are,"

Counter-intuitively when she finished saying this she cackled madly and started swinging the sword around wildly, "FEAR ME! THE ALMIGHTY KARIN UZUMAKI!"

"Oi! Watch where you're swinging that thing," She'd just barely missed Naruto with her random attacks.

xXx

(Team 8 Training Ground)

While the genin teams were for the most part on a short vacation, Team 8 were training. They needed to get stronger. This time though it was Hinata that was the driving force behind the team.

Kiba and Shino could only marvel at what had happened to the shy and timid Hinata. She'd even pulled her hair back into a ponytail so that it wouldn't get in the way during training. They'd even noticed that we she was wearing mesh leggings now. They had no idea why, but she was a completely different person after yesterday.

xXx Flashback xXx

As Hinata stormed down the street with tears in her eyes a pair of red eyes locked onto hers.

"K-Kurenai-sensei!" Hinata said, feeling like she just wanted to run and hide from her teacher. That wasn't going to happen.

"Hinata? What's wrong?"

"It-It's nothing," She sniffled.

Kurenai was a kind teacher and she was always going to be there for her students.

"Come on, let's go somewhere and you can tell me why you're crying okay? Maybe I'll be able to help?"

Hinata didn't have the strength left to object, "Okay," she said downcast.

"So," Kurenai said as they sat on the roof of one of the surrounding buildings, "What's got you upset Hinata?"

"It's Naruto-kun,"

"That little snot nosed brat I'll crush him!"

"No!" Hinata didn't want to hurt him, "he d-didn't do anything, it's just he has a girlfriend now, and I told him how I felt about him. That I loved him, but he said that he doesn't feel that way about me," she started crying more freely now.

Kurenai's expression softened at hearing that; ahhh young love.

"Right now there isn't anything you can do Hinata. If he's so set on this girl then the only thing you can possible do would be to try and show him what he's missing out on."

"O-okay," she sniffled a little, "Maybe I can do that by becoming stronger." She started to regain her composure a little.

Maybe if she could get strong enough she could prove to Naruto that she was worthy of his affection all along, she wouldn't be the timid little girl that was so afraid of telling him how she felt. That girl didn't do anything. That girl couldn't do anything.

"That's not really what I was goi-"

"I'll become strong! I'll show him what I can do! That little hussy won't know what hit her!"

Kurenai was so confused at what had become of her shy little Hinata.

xXx End Flashback xXx

Holographic chakra projections of Itachi and Kisame stood in a cavern, surrounded by a number of other projections.

"What is the status of the nine-tails?" a man with rippling purple eyes and orange hair said, looking over to the shinobi pair.

"Yeah and what happened to your stupid shark sword, un" a voice echoed across the space, originating from a blond with a strange eyepiece.

Kisame seethed at the jab the fool Deidara had made. Before he could make a comment though Itachi spoke up.

"The sword was lost during the attempt at capturing the nine-tails. He was accompanied by Jiraiya of the Sannin, who seems to be apprenticing him, and he himself was formidable, putting up quite a fight against Kisame. We had to retreat due to the boy's use of the Hiraishin no Jutsu, yes, the rumours are true" Itachi said to the shocked members of his group, "the yellow flash of Konoha has returned."

xXx

Naruto had actually put up a fight against Kisame Hoshigaki. Hiruzen was still having trouble believing the boy had lasted as long enough to force the two to retreat, as well as gain the upper hand during the fight.

Yet why was the boy such a dead last in the academy? Did he not receive the attention he needed? Was the shadow clone technique solely why he'd made up for his lack of training?

Hiruzen needed to have a talk to Iruka about the standard of the academy training. Maybe there was something he could do to help improve the standard of ninja that graduated. Who was he kidding, he was the Hokage, of course he could do something about it.

xXx

The three genin and Karin all waited for the old man to arrive at the house the next morning. Sasuke had finally recovered from his experience with Mt. Myoboku sake and was feeling better. Karin had decided to leave her new friend Samehada at home simply because she couldn't effectively use it yet and Sakura had the day off from her family to participate in the search. Frankly she just wanted to spend more time with Sasuke.

It didn't take long for Naruto to lose patience with the old Sannin and forcefully remove him from the pleasant conversation it turned out he had been having with a major civilian hotty.

"Was she a model or something?" Naruto asked the man when they were all standing around out the front of his home.

"I don't know kid, but I figure I would have found out. Oh I would have found out so much," He giggle perversely and a dribble of blood ran down out of his nose, he then snapped back to reality and angrily hit Naruto over the head, "But you RUINED IT BRAT!"

"Yeah well we have somewhere to be, you know! FINDING TSU-NA-DE," Naruto figured he had to spell it out for the old easily distracted male.

Naruto created clones that grabbed each of them and they all disappeared, reappearing near a gambling town a little while out from Konoha.

The sheer number of casino's and gambling towns in the Land of Fire was ridiculous if what Jiraiya said was anything to go off.

So it looked like they had a long day of searching ahead of them, as they walked into the hustle and bustle of the town..

At least that was the thought going through Naruto's head until he caught sight of the largest pair of breasts he had ever seen. Sasuke caught sight of them as well, immediately activating his sharingan to better capture the image of them bouncing slightly as the woman walked down the street.

What he was doing wasn't lost on Sakura when she realized what he was looking at.

She had a younger woman with her, and a small pig. Naruto wondered who the hell kept a pig as a pet, but to each their own.

"Oi ero-sennin?"

"Yeah brat?" The old man already had dried blood on his face.

"That's her isn't it?"

"Yeah brat,"

"So what do we do now?"

"Yeah brat,"

"I think he's broken," Karin said, waving a hand in front of his face, only for him to pick her up and set her to his side so she wouldn't get in the way.

"Well dobe, I'd say you go and get her to willingly come back to Konoha."

"It's going to break your bank if her gambling habits are anything to go by, unless you can convince her some other way," Sakura said from beside her Sasuke-kun.

"Why do I get the feeling that's easier said than done?"

As they talked Jiraiya just stood taking in the scenery, it'd had been way too long.

So yeah! That happened! Glad you enjoy, next chap will be getting Tsunade back and shiznit, once again, I'm about to sit three pretty intense exams and have assignments so no guarantees on next chapter time :) And sorry for the cliffhanger hahaha I had to do it :P Read and review! Also if you like this story spread the word, the more that read the merrier :) if there are any inconsistencies or errors let me know and I'll get to fixing them :)

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