Kay, I'm writin' this chapter same day as my last one 'cause my creative juices are still flowin'. I don't own Naruto.

"Sup"/'Sup' speech and thoughts of people

"Sup" speech of Kyuubi

Jutsu

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Naruto was standing outside the village with a look of excitement that they were finally leaving the village. A few hours ago they had trouble convincing the Hokage to let them take a C-Ranked mission.

Flashback no Jutsu

"Come on Hokage-jiji, let us do something outside of Konohagakure, you know that this team needs field experience and I for one need to get away from the village before I go on a killing spree..." He had a bored, tired look on his face when he said 'killing spree', his teammates were still confused but they let it be if it could get them out of the village and out of doing anymore D-Rank missions.

The Hokage had a nervous look as Naruto mentioned a killing spree, and he could tell Naruto wouldn't hold back on those words like he used to. So, with a heavy conscious he gave them an easy C-Rank mission. They had to escort a bridge builder back to Nami no Kuni, it was an easy and simple mission.

"Huuh, fine Naruto-kun, you win. But, realize that you won't be able to hang that over my head for long, I'll find a way around that one way or another. So keep your mind open for something smart..." The Hokage looked haggard and tired from having to deal the dangerous thirteen year-old.

"Thank you, Hokage-jiji. Also, may I have the Bingo Book that I ordered?" The Hokage took a moment for it to click, "Hmm? Oh, oh yeah. Here you are, Naruto-kun. I understand why now, and I must say...Did you have to get that much attention?!" His question was exasperated and concerned for his village's safety if this would be a regular thing, "Yes, I did, Hokage-jiji. I needed to make a name for myself somehow, the way I did it wasn't intentional, but my last two opponents were in high places and they were from two other villages. So, I inadvertently made myself known, through self preservation and a search for knowledge. It wasn't my plan, but I also have found my way around your law keeping me a secret, hehehe,"

Now that made the elderly man before them in white robes, pale to match his robes, "Now, that's leverage over you! I accidentally made a plan B!" The chunin in the room with Team 7 were now scared of the young man in front of them, he had without meaning to, found a loophole in the laws of Konohagakure. Kakashi was torn between pride at his student's antics and horror that his student was an espionage/ sabotage expert without any guidance from a human being.

"Oh no, you wouldn't,"Sarutobi's voice wasn't as powerful anymore, it was as if he were looking Shinigami in the eyes, "Not unprovoked, Hokage-jiji, you don't need to worry so much. I'm not the Old Naruto, I can wait a little more, I still miss him though...Huuh, he's gone, nothing around that." That conversation ended and the other two genin of Team Kakashi were confused about what they were talking, the an old man in his sixties at least with a straw hat and alcoholic drink in hand walked in. "You told me that I'd be protected by shinobi, not a group of brat-!"

Naruto was right in front of him and his eyes were what shut the man up, "Listen Drunk, I know we don't look like much, but we're all you're getting. Now, suck it up and deal, or you can walk all the way back to Nami no Kuni all alone...Which is it?" His attitude was for no nonsense, and to be frank, everyone was slightly scared by his demeanor. He wasn't leaving him any other options and the old drunkard wasn't that sober, yet he could see that he was in between a rock and a sharp, hard place.

He shook himself out of the funk he was in, but not without casting one last glance at Naruto, "I guess I've got no choice. That young man's nothing to sneeze at, if all Konoha shinobi are like him*shuddders*," He turned to look at naruto and could tell he was walking on thin ice, "I don't want to fight the higher ups."

Naruto calmed down and he went to get his stuff for the trip. The others in the room were silent for awhile as Tazuna, that was his name, signed everything.

Flashback no Jutsu KAI

The walk was uneventful for the most part, until the group passed a small puddle. The puddle didn't go unnoticed by Naruto and Kakashi as they exchanged a silent nod and signal with their eyes. Naruto quietly used kagebunshin no jutsu, to kawarimi if things got bad. And they did, out of the puddle emerged two men in black cloaks, gas masks, and clawed gauntlets. The two lept at the nearest member of the group, which so happened to be Naruto and Kakashi, "If you don't want your friends to be piles of body parts, we'd suggest you hand over the old man!"

The two men had Kakashi bound in a shuriken chain and Naruto by the collar. Naruto made a hand seal and smirked, before he disappeared in a puff of smoke. "The Demon Brothers, Gozu and Meizu," All of those present heard Naruto's voice as it echoed around them, "Missing-nin of Kirigakure, high C-Rank/low B-Ranked threat. Chunin in rank, so that explains why you two have a high C/low B-Ranking in the Bingo Book."

By now, the now named Meizu and Gozu, were looking around in frustration, "Show yourself, you brat! Tell us your name!" The group heard a dar chuckle as Naruto walked out of the shadows and the Demon Brothers looked worried, confusing the two genin, Kakashi, and Tazuna. Naruto smirked before attacking and Kakashi kawarimi'd away from harm's way.

Naruto made short work of them and tied them up as Kakashi came out of the woods,"Good job, Naruto. Now, about this mission's rank...We need to go-" "No, Inu-sensei, we're finishing this mission. We wanted out of the village, we aren't going back until the job's done!" The way he said this, there was no room for argument. Kakashi accepted defeat and looked to the tied up goons, "Well, we can't leave these two alone...Naruto, they're your catch, they're your charge."

Naruto nodded and took their gauntlets, putting them on for the time being and pulled out a sealing scroll, "Naruto, you realize how much chakra that will use up sealing them in the same scroll don't you? It might deplete your reserves, crippling you!" "No, Inu-sensei, I have large reserves remember."

Kakashi blinked then lightly hit himself in the head before chuckling, "Wow, I really need to remember who you are, or I'm going to be in trouble big time."

They continued without much chatter, the only conversation was how Naruto sealed the two missing-nin away, "It's simple, you make the appropriate seals and kanji to let the scroll 'know', what you're going to seal and then-Get down!" At that point, a giant sword embedded itself in a tree above them with a man standing on it. the man had camouflaged baggy pants on, he was shirtless, the lower half of his face was wrapped in bandages and his hitae-ate was of Kiri only it was crossed out, indicating he was a missing-nin.

"Well well, if it isn't Momochi Zabuza, Demon of the Mist, member of the Seven Swordsmen of the Mist, ex-ANBU, and high B-Rank/low A-Ranked threat with a run on sight warning. It's an honor to meet an honorable shinobi swordsman," Naruto's knowledge and behavior to the man was surprising to his teammates and Tazuna. Zabuza chuckled very darkly when he spoke, "I'm surprised that Konoha sent an A-Ranked jonin and high B-Ranked genin. Now let's see, there are eight parts of the body that kill the quickest, which should I use for each of you before I turn to Kakashi of the Sharingan and the Kitsunin Uzumaki Naruto?"

When the names were mentioned all assembled except for Zabuza looked to Naruto, "Well, I hate to break it to you Zabuza-san, but we have to complete our mission. We won't step back and let you do what you want without a fight. I would like to know something, Zabuza-san?"

Zabuza looked curiously to the young man who had made it among the ranks of the Bingo Book before responding, "And what would that be, young Kitsunin, Uzumaki Naruto?" Naruto looked the man in the eye as he asked the question plaguing him, "How did you know who I was before you looked in the Bingo Book?" Zabuza let out a short bark of laughter at the innocent enough question, "I ran into your last two opponents. One of them was Guren, a Tokubetsu Jonin of Otogakure and she was shaken by her fight with you, which I heard was incredible. The second opponent was Terumi Mei, she's a jonin of Kirigakure, leader of the rebellion against the current Mizukage Yagura, jinchuuriki of the Sanbi. Which reminds me of your other title,"

Naruto looked confused at the last statement, "What other title?" Zabuza looked surprised and nodded his head to the Bingo Book in Naruto's pouch. He opened it as Zabuza continued, "The Kyuu-kitsunin, which means, you are a lot alike to Yagura. Only, you aren't bloodthirsty and you have a code of honor. You have my respect, Kitsunin."

Naruto nodded his thanks at what he had learned and acknowledgement at the man of a higher caliber threat. "I also know of the son of Konoha's WhiteFang, Hatake Kakashi, Kakashi of the Sharingan and ex-ANBU. We are all dangerous shinobi and for that we are equals in combat as well as in society, I will enjoy fighting the two of you."

Tazuna, Sakura, and Sasuke looked to Kakashi who nodded in acknowledgement of his soon to be opponent. The battle started with the other two genin getting into defensive positions around Tazuna, who was beginning to think up an apology to Naruto for being such a prick to him. Sasuke and Sakura were starting to forget there was a missing-nin after their charge, they were forgetting was all the questions they had to ask. The afore mentioned Bingo Book-nin was having a field day with this battle. Kakashi was starting to get worried for his student when he saw the feral look in his eyes, "Naruto, you okay?! Naruto, snap out of it!"

Naruto looked up at hearing his name being called, but his movements were like that of an animal when it's frightened or exhilarated, "No, sensei! I'm fine, there's nothing to 'snap out of'! I'm having a blast, there are so few people in our village who can take my pain away like this, I'm savoring every second of it!"

Kakashi now saw that his student was actually enjoying himself and the pain in his eyes wasn't so strong anymore. He realized that if Naruto were to function properly in his team, he would need to hold nothing back including emotions. With this in mind, he made a tough call, "Fine Naruto, he's all yours for now. Just don't go too crazy, Zabuza-san, I'd appreciate it if you let him throw his pain at you for a few minutes?" Zabuza had a mixture of excitement of fighting a jinchuuriki and confusion on how he would be able to not let Naruto vent steam while fighting, "Hatake, how would I be able to not take his shitty life in stride?! I mean, he's using this time as a way to vent steam, I don't think I can prevent that! I will however, beat the living shit out of the little runt!"

At this moment, Naruto had run while the adults were talking(the "rude" little fucker, right? HAHAHAHA!) and attacked Zabuza. His strike was stopped by the flat of Kubikiribocho, the young man was sporting an eccentric and feral grin on his face. Zabuza was starting to wonder about why Yagura had become such a tyrannical Kage. Before he could start pondering this deeply, he was being attacked by Naruto, who was beginning to laugh hysterically, "Kid, are you touched in the head or something?! Why are you laughing like you just murdered the greatest rival of your life?!"

(It's the best I could come up with, don't hate me for the attempt) Now Naruto's laughter stopped, the silence was almost deafening, it unnerved everyone. Especially Zabuza, he had just seen that 'maybe' those choice words weren't the smartest to use, "OH, SHIT!" Just as that was said, a giant shurkien was thrown at his head before he caught it. When he caught it, his hand ached from the most likely chakra-infused throw of the weapon, "Damn, this kid's got some serious anger to throw this hard! Sonovabitch, that hurt! Ah!"

The next thing he knew, the shuriken was gone in a puff of smoke and Naruto stood before him, with a look of, 'Your about to get screwed with, BITCH!'. The mischievous gleam in Naruto's eyes was visible to everyone, there was no mist that Zabuza could use to hide, and those eyes were disturbing for the Konoha nin.

"N-Naruto...Maybe you should...Oh, I don't know, leave him..be?" Sakura was worried about Tazuna's safety, she didn't want to worry about her own from the look in her teammate's eyes. Sasuke was the other one to voice his concern, not for Naruto but himself, "Y-Yeah, you've shown how strong you are, now shouldn't you let the ex-ANBU of a jonin-sensei fight?!"

Naruto's response was to cackle like a madman, he had let so much pain and anger off his shoulders too quickly which made him light headed, "HAHAHAHAHA, YOU KIDDING! THIS IS THE MOST FUN I'VE HAD SINCE THE HOKAGE GRAFFITI! AND I AIN'T LETTING THIS CHANCE G-!"

Before he could finish his rant, Kakashi came up behind him after nodding to Zabuza to hold Naruto when he knocked him out with a swift chop to the neck. There was a collective sigh of relief that the temporary nightmare was over, Zabuza looked a little worse for ware from Naruto's damn-near immortal stamina fighting. After they laid the blond jinchuuriki down in a sleeping bag, with straps on it, to carry him later, Zabuza spoke with a haunted look in his eyes and a shaken tone in his words, "T-That, was horrible. I'm an enemy to you guys for the mission you're on, but...In the situation with his pain and anger being removed from him that fast-it made him very, very light-headed! Hence the insanity in his voice and actions, I still have to kill the bridge-builder," The Konoha-nin and Tazuna all tensed up, expecting another fight, "But! I'm having a hard time remaining sane after all his negative emotions and thoughts being transferred into me with each strike...He didn't even give me the brunt of the negative emotions he keeps stored. And, to top it all off, he probably isn't even aware that he was giving me those negative emotions he carries...Damn! He's had it worse than Yagura did, now I can say that the bloodthirst of Mizu no Kuni's current Kage isn't unfounded! I don't blame Yagura for what he does, I hate what he does, but I can't blame him if his life was anything like the Kitsunin's life..."

Sasuke, Sakura, and Tazuna exchanged looks of surprise, concern, and curiosity on what the Demon of the Mist was talking about. So unspokenly, they decided to have Sakura ask the question on their minds, "Why does Naruto have so many negative emotions at present to vent in the first place?!"

Her question awoke the jonin from their stupors of solemnity, Kakashi and Zabuza shared a look that carried more information than should be passed through a few moments, 'Don't tell them, there's a law against any knowledge of the Kyuubi being passed on to the younger generation!' Zabuza's eyebrows furrowed with irritation, he didn't care about the boy but he hated ignorance of any kind, 'The FUCK!? What kind of law is that? I get it's to keep him a secret from the outside world, but if he's going to be a shinobi, he's going to be able to trust his team! Ah, whatever, I don't care and it's none of my business'.

Kakashi answered Sakura, his answer was vague and very untrusting to the genin, "It's personal for him." The answer given didn't float the two genin's boat and they tried to continue the questioning. The answers they got weren't helpful and they basically said, 'Leave it be'. So grudgingly, Sasuke and Sakura dropped the conversation, but they swore to themselves that they would figure out why Naruto was full of hardship.

Zabuza and Kakashi made sure Naruto was out, not wanting the young man to interrupt them, they then got into battle stances. The battle went off without Naruto waking up, they threw jutsu after jutsu at each other and when it seemed Zabuza would lose, a hunter-nin came out of nowhere. The hunter-nin let loose three senbon that lodged themselves in Zabuza's neck, "Thank you for finding Zabuza. You three have done Kirigakure and we are thankful for what you've done. I must take care of this now."

With that, the hunter-nin shunshin'd away from the group. The group continued to Tazuna's village, Naruto was in the sleeping bag-pack that the bridge-builder decided to carry. They reached the village and made it to Tazuna's house where they rested for the night.

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Naruto was running, he didn't know why or from what, all he knew was he was running. His body hurt, his heart was bursting, his soul started to sear and leave him, but he didn't notice. all he knew was to run and never stop, so he didn't stop and he didn't question. He abruptly sat up and gasped, it was all a nightmare.

"Damn, I'm never going to be truly rested with my life the way it is, am I?" This question was to no one in particular, but he could tell someone was listening. His instincts were on high alert, his nails grew long and sharpened, his eyes were slitted and still blue. He jumped to the ceiling quietly and began to crawl, using his clawed hands and feet to stay on the ceiling. The person behind the door wasn't a shinobi, that was obvious, if it was a shinobi they wouldn't have been discovered. Naruto put two and two together, seeing as that left a civilian he was even more tense. The life he lead before 'dying' once, left him especially untrusting of civilians, even if they didn't know him or weren't from Konoha.

The door opened slightly, revealing a little boy around seven or eight years-old as he looked in. His face was one of disgust and an obvious amount of self-proclaimed superiority. That look made Naruto's blood seethe, to make a point to the little runt who entered his temporary accomidations, he released just a little killer intent. The affect was immediate, the boy gasped and knelt to the ground holding his throat. As the intruder tried unsuccessfully to breathe properly, Naruto took this time to look at him.

He wasn't that tall, he wore a white hat with two blue stripes on it, his hair was black and spiky, the clothes he wore were a farmer-like bib and a white shirt. Naruto dropped to the floor, startling the little runt as he failed at regaining his breathe. When Naruto looked into the boy's eyes, he saw loss and pain. He looked into the boy's eyes and showed him what he had endured, scaring the little kid into another gasping fit. A woman burst through the door at the sounds of gasps, the next moment she wasn't faring much better than the kid.

The lady had long blue hair, her shirt was a short-sleeved pink with red on the sleeves ends as well as on her collar, and a skirt going down to her shins. The door opened again, revealing Kakashi and Tazuna. Tazuna started gasping slightly, Naruto saw him as a threat because of his strength to stay standing, and increased the amount of killer intent. The two on the ground were gasping frantically as Tazuna fell to the ground and followed suit, "NARUTO, STOP! You're safe, they won't hurt you like the villager-!" "SO THE VILLAGERS HERE WILL ATTACK ME TOO!" He said it as a statement more than a question, "BECAUSE I'M NOT RELIVING MY CHILDHOOD, or lack thereof...I was treated like the very incarnation of the PLAGUE! Then that runt," He glared at the little boy as his voice and eyes became more and more demonic, "Mocks me with the pain he carries like a badge of honor in his eyes and the false concern or whatever it was to try and spy on me!"

At this, the child tried to speak, failed horribly but tried none the less. Naruto took notice and saw he was beginning to tear up and by the look in his eyes he was wanting to knock Naruto down a few pegs. This knowledge amused Naruto immensely, so he let up on the killer intent just enough to let the little runt speak, "*gasp* I'm not a runt! And I'm not carrying my sufferin-!?" He was interrupted by contemptuous and mirthless laughter from Naruto, "Suffering!? HAHAHAHA! You don't even know the meaning of the word...Tell me, runt, what's your name?"

The boy was surprised at his direct mockery of him and the sudden question, "I-Inari..." Naruto looked contemplative for a brief moment, "...Then tell me, 'Inari', what have you 'suffered'?" The way he said Inari's name and the word, suffered, rubbed him wrong enough to make him raise his voice, "I'm positive I've suffered more than you! You're a shinobi, you have it all; the power, the knowledge, the weapons, and the resolve to kill! I lost my stepfather, he was the hero of our town and he died! YOU NINJA WILL ALL DIE FIGHTING GATO IF YOU KEEP THIS UP!"

Inari was in tears at this point, Naruto looked unphased that this little runt doubted his skills and mad that this little runt was so cock-sure that he was superior in this situation, "Are you done?!" His tone was that of someone who didn't care whatsoever about Inari's problems as he reapplied his killer intent to Inari, "You're so pathetic, you think you're 'suffering'? HAHAHA! It's so sad, it's hilarious! You lost something, someone, but! You seem to think that if you are pitied that you'll be listened to! You think you'll be treated nicely and gently...You're lying to everyone, you lost someone and at this age you want all the attention, that's why you're acting like a total PRICK! AND DON'T YOU EVEN TRY TO DENY IT! I WAS YOUR AGE ONCE, AND I'VE BEEN AT SHINIGAMI'S VERY FEET PLENTY IN MY LIFE!"

The look of shock at Naruto's harsh words was evident on everyone's faces. Kakashi wanted to say something, anything! To stop his verbal torture to this little boy who had lost his father to Gato's thugs. But alas, no words came and none would come, for Naruto wasn't even close to finished, "Have you ever been starved? Have you ever been at Shinigami'sama's feet? Have you ever been in an apartment that was intentionally set alight? No? THEN YOU CAN SHUT THE FUCK UP! You don't have anything to be pitied for, Sasuke has lost his ENTIRE FAMILY in one night! And YOU, a lowly runt, think you have something to be pitied for?! HAHAHAHA!"

Inari was damn near tears from this verbal butchering, the killer intent was lifted for anyone else to speak against him and get the same treatment. Inari's mother got up then hugged a silently crying and slightly hesitant, Inari. She had mixed feelings about Naruto now; he had suffered through a living hell so he was venting his pain out on people, but he was emotionally killing her son. With an attempt at fierceness, she looked into Naruto's now red eyes, 'Red eyes?! His eyes were blue, and why are they slitted?!'. She steeled her resolve and looked to Kakashi, "Is what he said true?!" No response was given and wasn't even attempted as he looked at what he created through inaction. "ANSWER ME DAMN IT!" The whole room except Naruto jumped at her angry voice, "Is what...He said, true?!"

Kakashi could only look to her with empty eyes as he nodded slowly and solemnly, "Y-yes...it's all*sob*it's all true. Every word..." She looked horrified at his honesty, she had wanted to hear that this young man was making up things and being mean. She didn't want to hear this, this revelation of humanity's cruelty, "T-then...That monster must have deserved it!"

At that remark, there was an almost evil and truly sadistic laugh at her poor 'zealous' attempts to defend humanity, "HAHAHAHA, you...You really don't know what humanity will do, HAHAHAHA!" Just after he said that he ran at her, grabbed her by the throat and held her against the wall, "I have seen and experienced things a young man my age should never, NEVER, have," He leaned to her ear to whisper what he went through as a child, "The villagers didn't see a three year-old when they starved me in the orphanage, they didn't see a little boy who had no friends, they didn't see a little boy trying to buy clothing and food that 'suddenly' became too expensive! No! They saw none of those things...They saw a chance at a scapegoat for what they lost twelve years ago, they saw someone, no, something to blame. They even went so far as to, hehehehe, 'have their way with me'..." SHe couldn't believe what she was hearing, the civilians of Konpha had been that evil? That couldn't be! "Before you try to pitifully defend them, take into account, that I had no idea why they did this...Now, what's your name?"

She was shocked that after all he said, he would ask what her name was, "T-Tsunam-mi..." Naruto's smirk grew feral and cruel as he reached the climax of his musical, "Well then, 'Tsunami', if I'm a monster...Than humanity, is the mother of my monstrous nature! You should also thank Kakashi over there, if he'd done his job and not been so biased, I would've stayed happy and carefree, but..." He got up and spoke normally as he walked over to the open window to leave, "I'm how I am now, because Kakashi failed my dad by being so narrow sighted and biased like the civilians. Who, might I add, have no idea about anything shinobi related! HAHAHAHA! So long, I might as well get some training while I'm here...Have fun explaining this Kakashi, after all, the law circulates around me. If I tell the whole village when we get back home, I can't get executed. Everyone else on the other hand...HAHAHAHA, they're all screwed over if they try!"

He left so quick, they wondered if he had even been there. Kakashi, in his stupor saw that his student realized who his father was. Which meant he also knew who and how he had been failed. Kakashi slumped to his knees in his self-deprecating depression. He saw that to fix this mess, at least for awhile, he would need someone to level with Naruto fundamentally. He also saw that it would have to be either someone his age, or a team of them. Sasuke woke from his stupor to speak in a falsely-calm voice, "I'm not surprised he said these things. He's kept it all bottled up for twelve long years, he only lets it out in battles, which require strong opponents to survive. He doesn't kill if doesn't ave to, which means that his outlets are almost none. The last fight before Momochi Zabuza, was when he fought that jonin from Kirigakure trying to get help from Konohagakure for the civil war. The whole academy heard the fight, it was at gate in Kiri's direction. That's a lot of ground to cover, and yet, he did it with a happy-ish face afterwards..."

Sakura saw that it was her turn, "He has every right to hate Konoha, HELL, he has every right to hate humanity itself. But he won't attack with a blade or claw, not if he has to. He has the will, to protect the very place that is, for him, the Ninth Ring of Hell! No matter how we look at it, he was right about everything he said...He won't be acknowledged by Konoha-nin or the civilians of our village, not even if he were to save Nami no Kuni singlehandedly, he will forever be ostracized. Unless, he meets another such as himself... And the law he spoke of, although I don't know it, obviously is serious if anyone of our generation and under will be executed if we learn what is his torment..."

Kakashi saw that he needed to hurry, if he were to save his team and in that action, save Nami no Kuni, "I have to send a message to Hokage-sama!" With that he left, Inari was disturbingly silent, while everyone else forgot him. He then went through what he now knew; everything he said was true, so that meant...What he said to him was also...true. Inari began to tear up again, this time, because he realized he had unconsciously been trying to be listened to.

Kakashi wrote like Hell would burn the words if he didn't write fast enough, 'I've got to choose a team that Naruto has a few friends in...I don't know who that would be though, Yuhi Kurenai has Hyuuga Hinata, Aburame Shino, Inuzuka Kiba and Akamaru...He's friends with Kiba, but they might try and attack the others because of how volatile their personalities are. Let's see, Maito Gai's team are his old classmates from last year, but Gai's personality isn't in the least subtle. His protege, Rock Lee, isn't either...But he tries. Hyuga Neji is a definite no, his belief in fate would rub Naruto's fur the wrong way...I am way too used to the fox henge he uses, now Tenten and he are close. They're from the same orphanage, but, again her personality might add onto Naruto's already unstable behavior...Uuhh, I didn't want a team, and now I have a GREAT reason! That leaves...Sarutobi Asuma...He has two of Naruto's old friends, Akamichi Choji and Nara Shikamaru, they were his fellow drop-outs. I understand that Yamanaka Ino is a bit of a gamble, she's able to enter minds and that might let the fox out of the bag...Oh for fuck's sake, Naruto, you better damn well cooperate with them, I'm too used to your fox henge! Ino's personality is also a bit of a wild card; she's loud, domineering, eccentric and downright difficult to deal with...Minato-sensei, forgive me for what I'm about to do...I have little to no choice.'

Kakashi finished writing and found a messenger hawk. He strapped the message to the raptor's back and sent it off to Konoha. Hopefully, the request for assistance in team functionality will be a good enough ruse to get Asuma and his team there fast.