CHAPTER 2

12 years had passed since the unfortunate day the Kyuubi attacked Leaf village, but much had changed since that day. Young Naruto is the son of two strong ninjas, one a legend and the other a mystery. Naruto and his group were walking towards Leaf village, so that as promised, Naruto could take the genin exam.

Naruto looked to his side and saw Sasuke Uchiha. Naruto remembered the day that Sasuke was sent to them. The day Sasuke first arrived was when Naruto made his first friend and when his grandparents had started training him.

Sasuke had arrived when he and Naruto were seven. At first Sasuke was slow to open up. After some time being with Naruto, his grandparents and "big sister," he had slowly started to forget the pain of what happened before he was sent by the sandaime to be with them. Sasuke looked over and saw Naruto smiling at him he smiled in response.

At the main gate of Leaf village, Kotetsu and Izumo the eternal gate guards were talking about how boring their job's were and that no one ever passes by anymore. When Kotetsu was about to say something else, Izumo noticed five figures approaching the village. "Izumo can you see who it is?"

"No just wait a minute Kotetsu, they will be here soon." As the figures got closer Izumo and Kotetsu became awe struck. Walking towards the gate were the legendary Jiraiya and Tsunade with three other people. Once they were right next to the gate waiting to be signed in, Kotetsu and Izumo were able to come out of their stupor.

"G-Good morning Jiraiya-Sama. Tsunade-Sama." Izumo said. "How can we help you today?" Kotetsu asked.

"Alert Hokage-Sama that we are on the way. That will be all" Jiraiya said. "Right away Jiraiya-Sama" Kotetsu said. "We also have to make you sign in. This is standard procedure since you have traveling partners" Izumo said. "Of course" was the short reply from Tsunade. As Jiraiya and Tsunade were signing in, Izumo really started to notice the other people with them. One was a female, about 20 caring a pet pig, but the other two are what caught his interest. They were wearing shawls to hide their faces and bodies from everyone.

Sure it was weird and mysterious but they were traveling with two sannin. Izumo wasn't going to say anything about it. Once everyone finished signing in, the group took off towards the Hokage's office. On the way to the office Naruto and Sasuke were smirking behind their masks because every person they passed by was looking at them strangely since they couldn't see either of the boy's faces.

Once at the hokage's office the group walked right past the secretary and into the office. Sarutobi looked up from his paper work to see the group of five walk in. The first people he noticed were his students Jiraiya, Tsunade and Tsunade's apprentice Shizune. Next he noticed the two hidden people. "Hello Sarutobi-sensei" Jiraiya and Tsunade said.

Sarutobi let a smile slide onto his face; it had been a long time since he last saw them. "Hello Jiraiya-Kun. Tsunade-Chan. It's been awhile now hasn't it" sarutobi said. "Indeed it has sensei, but before we can talk more you're anbu need to leave and we need to seal the room" Jiraiya said. Sarutobi nodded in understanding before doing as asked, "Now what is with the sudden appearance?" Sarutobi asked.

After Sarutobi asked his question Naruto and Sasuke finally removed their hoods. Sarutobi could swear he was seeing Minato and Itachi right in front of him. Naruto smirked and looked right at Sarutobi "I thought I had to come back to konoha to become a ninja. Right old man?" Naruto said boldly. Sarutobi stuttered for a bit before the others started chuckling "N-Naruto, is that you my boy?" Sarutobi asked.

Naruto smirked again "sure is old man." Sarutobi quickly got up and brought Naruto into a hug. "It's been so long Naruto-Kun." Sarutobi then looked at the other person who had removed a hood "you must be Sasuke then. It too has been a long time since I have seen you. How are you both?" Sarutobi asked.

"It has been a long journey but I'm glad to be back hokage-sama" Sasuke said respectfully. "I'm just ready to be a ninja. So what do we do and when do we become ninjas old man?" Naruto asked. Sarutobi chuckled at Naruto.

"Well there is still about three months of the academy left so the two of you should go and meet your class mates and possible teammates" Sarutobi said. Naruto nodded before turning ready to leave before an idea popped into his head, "Hey old man where is my parents house?" Naruto asked. Sarutobi shot a quick glance at Jiraiya and Tsunade who just nodded before he handed Naruto a piece of paper.

"Sasuke why don't you come with me? Your house is along the way" Naruto said. Sasuke just nodded before the two put their hoods back on and left to go to their separate houses.

After the boys left, Sarutobi looked back to Jiraiya and Tsunade with a serious face "how strong are those two really?" Sarutobi asked. "Well I'm not absolutely sure since they did a lot of training together and by themselves away from us. Separately, they are probably mid to high chunin and together easily mid maybe even elite jonin" Jiraiya said seriously as well.

"I see, that strong? Very well, that will be all I need from you two. You can join Naruto at the Namikaze estate. Before you go, how long do you think you will be staying here?" Sarutobi asked. "This is Naruto's home, so we will be here as long as he wants to be here" Tsunade answered.

"Very well. That is all; you're free to go "Sarutobi said. A course of "hai sensei" and they were off.

"Hey Sasuke, when was the last time you saw your family?"

"It was about a week after that event."

"Well at least you were saved. Life would be boring without you" Naruto said while laughing. Sasuke smirked then lightly pushed Naruto "ass" Sasuke said. Naruto just smirked and kept walking until they came to the gate of the Uchiha compound. He turned towards Sasuke "you ready?" Naruto asked. "Yes I just got really nervous that's all" Sasuke said.

Together they then walked through the gate and towards Sasukes house. As they reached the door Sasuke knocked and waited to see who would answer. As the door began to creak Sasuke was so nervous, he hadn't been home in five years. He wondered how his family would react.

When the door finally opened Sasuke let a smile grace his face. His whole family had raced to the door. "Hello big brothers, mother." The door was open to show Itachi Shisui and Mikoto Uchiha, Sasukes family.