Chapter 9 Encounters

The entire Leaf village was in a panic as people rushed through the streets, even the untrained civilians could feel the evil force coming from just on the other side of a small hill located by the Northern gate.

"Everyone get inside!" yelled Sakura as she stood in the middle of the streets trying to make sure that everyone was getting off the streets. She couldn't help but turned her gaze toward the wall which marked their temporary persons. It was clear that the number of ANBU and Jonnin guarding the wall had gone up, it was stranded protocol for all ninjas to rush to the walls to defend them in case of an attack. That wasn't what was bugging her however what was the fact that instead of forming a defense line at the outer wall which marked one side of their prison camp they were forming around it leaving that part of the wall open to attack.

"They aren't protecting us!" yelled a nine year old boy as he pointed toward the ninjas on the wall.

"No they expect us to do it." lied Sakura as the boy ran into the shuttle.

"Nice cover forehead." whispered a voice as she turned toward the voice only to see her best friend Ino standing there.

"If they will not defend this place we will." explained Sakura as she felt a chakra spike she knew all too well as being Naruto's chakra, as she turned and headed toward the outer wall.

"You and I both know that one on one only Naruto-kun stands a chance against Sasuke." stated Ino as she moved to speed walk beside her friend.

"One on one yes but if we all attack together we can overwhelm him and kill him." explained Sakura not wanting to say that the only reason why they would have to fight Sasuke would be if he got past Naruto and there was only one way that would happen. As the two of them neared the wall suddenly Sasuke's chakra disappeared as both women stopped dead in their tracks.

"Ok, it can't be over already." said Ino

"It can and it is." said a soft voice behind them as both women jumped as they turned to see Shino standing there. "Sasuke surrendered."

"What how do you know that?" asked Ino

"It is my job to know as much as I can." explained Shino as he held out his hand as a small insect landed on his palm before a small hole opened in his skin allowing the bug to enter his body. "It's been confirmed Sasuke has surrendered his weapons and has allowed restraints to be put on him."

"Ok am I the only one wondering what the fuck Sasuke's plan is, he doesn't give up?" asked Ino

"Well Temari is with him, so she may have more information but it is a possibility." added Shino "It is also possibly that Sasuke has come to mate with Karin since their demons are mates."

"Are you a spy or something?" asked Sakura

"In a way, Hoshea is the master spy he devolved his life to gathering information his ablity has only grown since he joined with me." explained Shino "I know the movement of almost everyone here."

"Your spying on everyone?" asked Ino

"Yes, by the way if you are looking for condoms the shop owner Stan Lin has five boxes he is saving for the highest bidder." explained Shino as Ino's eyes widened.

"How did you know I was looking for those?" strutted Ino

"I didn't, but almost every woman here is looking for either condoms or birth control." explained Shino as he turned and walked away. Slowly Ino turned and looked at her best friend who was glaring at her.

"What?" asked Ino

"Really your worried about condoms now?" asked Sakura

"I was going to give them to Naruto to use on both on us." explained Ino as Sakura rolled her eyes before looking away.

"What?" asked Ino "Do you want to go without condoms right now because I personally don't want a kid for a little while?"

"And by little while I hope you mean a year or two?" asked Lydia

"I was thinking two or three but we will talk about it." answered Ino to her demon

"I don't want to talk about it right now." explained Sakura as people started to come out of the buildings believing that the danger had pasted.

"Well it is better to talk about it now because who knows what will happen next time the three of us are alone together." Explained Ino "I want to avoid hurt feelings, there are two of us and only one Naruto-kun."

"Yes, there is only one Naruto-kun and I am the first and you are the second." yelled Sakura as Ino took a step back as Sakura gathered her thoughts. "Sorry Ino, I just never thought I would have to deal with sharing a guy."

"Me neither forehead but we have to talk about his or else we will just be at each other throats." explained Ino as she placed her hand on Sakura's shoulder as she guided her to a small half destroyed bench "Well at least more often, I mean we are two women trying share one man and I don't care how much stamina he has he will get tired and someone will be left out."

"How was it step up earlier?" asked Sakura "Because Aella is just telling me it is our choice."

"Why don't we just keep it simple we rotate who goes first and we each get him one on one some time." offered up Ino "And we fix any other problems that come up when they come up."

"Ok, but remember I am first." reinforced Sakura

"You can be first all you want forehead, did you forget that Lydia is their daimyo which makes me the daimyo." explained Ino before leaning forward and kissed her friend on the cheek before standing up "But I may share something else with you, when Naruto-kun isn't around. On second thought he would enjoy the show."

"Are you hitting on me?" asked Sakura stunned at her friend

"This is a three way relationship forehead, we should all be attracted to each other." explained Ino as she walked off, for a moment Sakura just watched until she realized she was looking at Ino's but.

"Ok…what is wrong with me." thought Sakura

"Nothing, I find Lydia attractive and we had fun while Kyuubi was away." explained Aella

Elsewhere in the village deep underground a team of a dozen ANBU marched in two lines all with their weapons out and ready, walking in the center of the group with six ANBU in front him and another six behind him was Sasuke Uchiha. The last Uchiha had his arms restrained with chakra canceling handcuffs however it didn't remove the smirk off his face. It was the smirk which caused Naruto to worry more than anything.

"So he just dropped his weapons at your feet and allowed you to restrain him?" asked Lady Tsunade as she watched the young Uchiha move below her. The two of them here located on the upper catwalk which ran above the entire maximum security prison floor in the Leaf main military prison.

"And that is why I have to talk to him, to understand why in the world he would just give up." added Naruto as Sasuke was placed in his cell. The cell was a simple 10 by 10 by 10 concrete room with a slab for a bed and a toilet and sink.

"I would bet that the council will order his execute him." explained Tsunade

"Will not work." added Naruto as Tsunade looked at him.

"Sasuke wouldn't turn himself in if he knew he could be killed." stated Naruto as he looked at the restraints on Sasuke's arms. He knew that the chakra absorbing seals on the restraints and the ones which lined the walls of his cell had their limits, enough Chakra channeled into them and those seals would break. "Sasuke isn't imprisoned he is waiting for something."

"You can go talk to him, I need to talk with the council about this." explained Tsunade as an aid rushed up to her. "Let me guess the council wants to meet with me."

"No they are coming down the elevator right now." explained the aid as Lady Tsunade turned toward the elevator just in time to see the doors open as Homura Mitokado and Koharu Utatane step off the elevator.

"I guess I better stay around for this." stated Naruto as he crossed his arms over his chest and waited as Homura and Koharu rushed toward the two of them.

"Is it true Sasuke is captured?" asked Homura

"Yes, he is." Reported Naruto as the two elders noticed him.

"What is he doing outside of isolation, did you forget that he could infect us all." yelled Koharu as she pointed toward Naruto. As the blonde hair ninja simply rolled his eyes at the comment.

"And did you forget that Naruto is the only one who can go one on one with Sasuke and win." snapped Tsunade "And this isn't an infection."

"We should just kill him, we have him restrained." Offered Homura as he looked down at Sasuke though the harden clear plastic ceiling. The most famous missing ninja in the Leaf was currently just sitting on the edge of the bed watching them talk. "He is helpless."

"Don't fool yourself he isn't restrained." stated Naruto as he looked at Sasuke unlike the others who saw him restrained man, Naruto saw a snake coiled and ready to strike. He quickly turned back to the council "He is far from helpless; he could attack at any moment."

"I could but I don't have a real reason right now." stated Sasuke as the council members and Tsunade looked toward the Uchiha who was now standing up.

"How can he hear us?" asked Koharu "That has a sound blocking seal on it."

"He is a jinchuriki now." explained Naruto as he turned his head slightly to look into Sasuke's eyes as his former teammate rip off the restraints as if it was nothing. The fact that Sasuke's hands where free and that he could now do hand signs caused the blood of the two council members and Tsunade to turn cold "In fact he has the Kyuubi's twin brother sealed within him."

"The Kyuubi's brother?" strutted Koharu as he looked at Sasuke who was smiling.

"Yes, Katsu a rather interesting nine tailed fox. I have to say it having him is very interesting." added Sasuke as he crossed his arms over his chest "I think I will grow to like him, I mean he and I have our disagreements but overall he fits well."

"You won't grow because you will be executed." stated Homura as the jet black missing ninja rolled his eyes at the threat.

"How?" asked Sasuke "Dead last is the only one of you who stands a chance of beating me one on one. If you try to hurt me I will kill your whole ANBU core before you stood a chance of stopping me. Poison is out since I now have jinchuriki healing abilities, which saved Naruto when Kabuto tried to poison him. Basically you're screwed."

For a moment the council was stunned as they tried to think about what to do but Sasuke had them trapped, they couldn't kill him without risking the lost of a lot of the ninja core.

"If that is the case then why did you come here?" asked Naruto as he looked at his former teammate.

"I came to talk to you." explained Sasuke as he looked at Naruto.

"About what?" asked Naruto

"Believe it or not I am not your enemy here." stated Sasuke as he raised his hands.

"I don't believe it." stated Naruto "I mean how many times have we tried to kill each other? Three times in the past year alone?"

"Four, remember in rain country when you where investigating that human smuggling ring I was the one who set the place to exploded" corrected Sasuke

"That was you?" yelled Naruto "I was pulling splinters out of my arm for weeks when that house exploded."

"I would say I am sorry but you know me." explained Sasuke as he shrugged a bit

"I do know you, and that is why I am know you are planning something." explained Naruto

"I am, but not what you think. I am not out to kill you anymore." stated Sasuke "In fact I have reasons to keep you alive."

"What does that mean?" asked Homura as Sasuke grinned

"You didn't tell them?" laughed Sasuke "Of course not, you probably still consider yourself a member of the Leaf."

"Why wouldn't he?" asked Homura

"Since dead last here has the Kyuubi that makes him Kage of all Jinchuriki" explained Sasuke as everyone's part from Naruto eyes widened at the news

"What?" asked Koharu as she glared at Naruto.

"If you want to think about it, Naruto is the Kage for all Jinchuriki and their demons." restated Sasuke

"So what?" asked Naruto "You would still come after me after I become the Hokage why would me being a Kage matter?"

"Didn't the Kyuubi tell you how the Kage system works for demons?" asked Sasuke as he read Naruto's face "I see he didn't. See the strongest demon in a village is the Kage."

"How is that different then here?" asked Naruto "The strongest ninja is normally the Kage."

"A Demon Kage can only be replaced when they are defeated in combat by the new Kage." explained Sasuke as Naruto eyes widened "Normally this is happens in an arranged fight when the elder Kage throws the fight. If I kill you I would become Kage of the new Jinchuriki so I will not kill you."

"But you shorn vengeance on me." stated Naruto as Sasuke nodded his head.

"True but if I became Kage I would have to deal all those issues and that would be more of a pain then you are." explained Sasuke "I don't want that headache becoming a Kage was your stick not mine. I'll let you deal with all that stuff."

"So why are you here then?" asked Naruto

"I am waiting for you to see the truth that is all." explained Sasuke as he turned away before lying down on the concrete bed with his hands behind his head.

"What does that mean?" asked Naruto

"You will see." answered Sasuke with a grin

"Get him out of here." ordered Tsunade as Naruto blinked.

"What does that mean?" asked Naruto

"The closer he is to you the less likely he is to hurt anyone." explained Tsunade "Our strongest ninjas are with you and besides most of our ANBU is guarding the housing district so the village would be safer if he was with you all outside the prison."

"While I don't like it I agree." added Koharu

"Same here." said the old man Homura as he adjusted his glasses.

"Well I didn't see that coming, I thought I would have to wait." admitted Sasuke as he stood up and headed toward the door

It was just after noon in the Leaf village and finally the people in confinement in the prison camp were getting some food and showers. After long delays large tents which had been created to feed the armies in the field had been set up. This allowed most people to get their first hot meal in over a day; however most of the food was nothing more than different kinds of soups and bread. More welcomed then the food was the shower tent. This tent had 80 shower heads in small private stalls; this allowed the mostly female population in the prison to finally take a shower.

Waiting by the main get was Sakura and Ino each of them with a bowl of soup in their hands.

"This is mostly water." Complained Ino as she took an another spoon full of the chicken soup.

"Still better than nothing." added Sakura as she broke apart a small cracker before putting it in her vegetable soup.

"You know, I was going to have lunch with my mom today at the BBQ place." explained Ino

"Any word on your mom?" asked Sakura "Is she in here too or stuck outside?"

"No and Lydia is the last of her pack, so the odds that my mom is in here is very low." added Ino as the sound of the gate opening caused both of them to look up. Slowly the gate opened up as Naruto walked in, however that wasn't what was surprising it was the fact that walking beside him was the jet black hired man who they had been trying to kill for years and who both of them had crushes on when they where kids.

"What is he doing here?" yelled Sakura as she pointed toward Sasuke.

"Hello you two." said Sasuke Uchiha with a grin as he looked at the two women. "I am guessing neither of you two have Katsu's mates in you or else you two would be trying to jump me right now."

"Believe me, I want to jump you." Stated Ino as Naruto and Sakura looked at her stunned "And then cut out your throat with a dull knife."

"Nice to see you to." said Sasuke as he pushed past the two women.

'Where are you going?" yelled Naruto

"I just a day running with no sleep, I am going to go get bite to eat and a shower." explained Sasuke as he headed toward the food tent. He stopped for a moment before turning back to Naruto with a grin "And if I find either which ever woman has Rina or Chika sealed within them maybe some ass."

"Don't tell me they are putting him here?" asked Sakura

"Ok, I won't tell you." answered Naruto only to get a death glare from the pink haired vixen which caused fear to run though his body. "Alright, as Lady Tsunade puts it the closer I am to Sasuke the less damaging he can do. It makes some sense but they are putting everyone here at risk."

"I don't think they are worried about us." explained Ino as she crossed her hands over her chest.

"Sadly I think your right." added Naruto "However they did give me some weapons to hand out to some people incase Sasuke does attack."

"You mean when he attacks." corrected Sakura before looking at Naruto "I mean we all know what he is like, he only really cares about power and revenge."

"True and I know this sounds crazy but I believe his reasons for why he doesn't want to kill me." explained Naruto

"And why was that?" asked Ino

"Because if he kills me, he becomes Kage and he doesn't want that." explained Naruto

Flash Forward five years in the future

Masked ANBU from the five great ninja nations lined the walls of the former road side hotel turned the command center for the allied Shinobi force.

"I am telling you that we have the best shot of winning if we attack the southern road and take the coastal route." explained the Tsuchikage Onoki

"And I am telling you it would be suicide to attack that way, they have the mountains to the North to attack down from." explained an aid "Personally we already tried the direct approached maybe we should talk peace."

"Peace with demons?" asked Sunagakure General "It was that belief that the Kazekage holds luckily the Daimyo overrides his position. They all need to die as painfully as possible."

"We may not have too, this is a war to force them to fall into line not extermination." said the Hokage. "Shikamaru knew what he was doing when he built the defenses but if we just remove their defenses here and here we gain a small hole just wide enough to send a division or two behind the enemy lines. They have limited forces and will have to send forces to chase them down, with them off the line we will attack and more into the main part of the country."

"But then how do we get across that bridge onto their main island, that is where their village is?" asked Onoki

"Do not fear, we will cross that bridge when we get there." stated the commander of the allied Ninja force, Samurai General Mifune. "If we cut them off from the main land we can wait them off, that island is great defensive position but it can't sustain a population."

"But we don't know what the makeup of the island is like, all we know about is the mountains that run all the way around the coast, what about the interior?" asked an aid

"I must admit my estimates are based on other regions like it in the world but it doesn't change my estimates." explained Mifune

"So if we take the mainland we win the war." laughed the Sand General as suddenly an aid rushed into the room causing everyone to look at her.

"Sir message from Command." explained the aid before she took a deep breath "Sir, it's code red."

"Code red? Something must have happened." said the Hokage knowing that code red messages where used only when a major event happened, the last code red happened when they discovered the hiding spot of the demons.

"What is it?" asked Mifune as the aid looked down at the paper before starting to read, her hand trembling with each passing line.

"Lost contact with Konohagakure Military Command and Control Center half an hour ago, smoke seen rising from area of the village." Read the aid as everyone eyes widened at the news "We sent a dozen scouts to find out the situation, only radio message back it is as follows. "Konohagakure is burning.""

End Flash forward

Now I am back from vacation and I hope you liked this chapter and the relationship I am building between Naruto and Sasuke along with the relationship between Naruto/Sakura/Ino. Well I hope you don't mind the flash forward, I think I am going to do something like it every 10 chapters or so. Now until next time please keep reading. Thanks Wilkins75