Uchiha Heiress Remix

by JGResidentEvil

They say that you can't expect everything, so what would happen when a crazy secret is revealed? You just have to wait and see! Pairings: Naruto x Hinata x FemSasuke, Neji x Tenten, Lee x Kin, more pairings coming along. Sakura and Civilian Council Bashing. Don't like, don't read.

48. Chapter 48

Chapter 48: Taking Down the Lightning Thief and dealing with the Beast of Chaos!

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Rain soon began to fall even heavier than before as Team Seven, the unconscious Team Nine save for Tenten as well as the unconscious Idate hid inside a cave for shelter. They had made a fire so that they would keep themselves warm.

Tenten had told the members of Team Seven that her team was assigned to capture Aoi or retrieve the sword of the Second Hokage, while the trio had explained to the weapons user about the the person they had to protect for their own mission.

"So the the runner here is actually Ibiki-sensei's little brother?" Tenten asked as she took a quick look at the unconscious runner, feeling better after she had the medicine.

"Yup," Satsuki replied as she looked at the fire. "It was a real surprise to us too." She then admitted.

"Gotta say though. . .he looks nothing like that scary proctor." Tenten stated offhandedly with a deadpan tone.

"Must be because of the major age difference." Satsuki then guessed.

"Not to mention all the crazy scars all over his face and bald head dattebayo." Naruto declared with his eyes closed and then nodded to himself.

"That too." Satsuki also agreed while she sweatdrop.

Hinata meanwhile was using her Byakugan to scan the area around them. "Well, no one seems to being coming at the moment." She revealed while deactivating her Byakugan. "Aoi is indeed over confident since he believes that we are all dead. . .I'm surprised he underestimated his former village the way he did." She then added.

"That damn traitor is gonna get it for underestimating us!" Satsuki soon stated with a fire behind her as she punched her a fist into her open hand. "I declare now that our missions are one now! We'll kick Aoi's ass and make sure Idate wins this race dattebakon!" She then added.

Suddenly before anyone could say anything, Idate's eyes began to slowly open.

"Oh! Looks like Idate's awake!" Naruto told the others and ending the previous conversation.

As the runner struggled to sit up right, but Hinata placed her hand on his shoulder to halt his actions. "You shouldn't move too fast, the poison may be gone, but your still injured from Aoi's last attack." She stated in a calm manner.

Upon hearing that name, Idate looked straight at the Hyuga with a worried expression. "What happen to Aoi!?" He quickly asked with slight fear in his voice.

Satsuki however took notice to that as she narrowed her eyes. "So you did know him." She soon stated in a calm manner. "Mind explaining how exactly before we beat the fuckin' crap out of him?" She then questioned in a slightly irritated tone.

The runner however didn't reply as he looked away. However after a few moments of silence, the other chunins also began to wake up.

"Damn. . .so that's what a lot of electricity running through you body feels like. . ." Kin got out. "It sucks. . ." She then bluntly added.

"Indeed." Lee agreed with a nod. "He may have gotten the better of us this time, but next time he will be defeated!" He then declared.

Neji meanwhile grabbed his head as he looked at the runner. "The traitor seemed to have known you before we had arrived." He stated bluntly. "The question is how exactly?" He then questioned in a serious tone.

At being asked again, Idate took a deep breath as he looked at the rocky floor. "He. . .he was a sensei when I was in Konoha." He finally revealed.

"Wait, your from Konoha?" Naruto asked with a surprised tone as he did not expected that in the slightest.

Idate then gained a defeated expression. "Aoi. . .betrayed Konohagakure and became a jonin of the Amegakure." He reveled.

And with that. . .Idate began to explain his past history with both his brother and Aoi as well as how he was forced to leave the village.

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Meanwhile at the Modoroki Shine. . .

"Ahahaha! I got this race in the bag!" Fukusuke declared with overconfidence as he was drinking of sake inside the shine and out of the rain while some women were accompanying him. "Hey! Drink! Sing! Let's have some fun!" He then got out in a drunken manner.

"Good grief. . ." Suddenly Aoi got out as he appeared near the drunken Fukusuke. " This is too much for. . .a pre celebration. . ." He stated.

The drunken Fukusuke then sobered up at hearing him and narrowed his eyes as he looked at the hired shinobi. "You took care of him?" He questioned.

This got an smiled to appeared on Aoi's face. "Yes. . ." He simply declared with confidence. "More importantly, the rain's starting to let up. Shouldn't you quickly put an end to this farce of a race?" He then advised with a calm manner.

Fukusuke let out a scoff of annoyance at that. "Fine." He started as he stood up. "Guess I'll go for a run!" He then declared as he headed out.

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Back at the cave at the same time. . .

After Idate had shared his past, a single tear fell from recalling how he felt pathetic and useless for not being able to stop the traitor and being a coward.

"Ever since then, I haven't returned to the village." Idate concluded his story. "I am an irresponsible man who can't do a single thing right." He berated himself as he then looked at the pocket knife. "But Boss Jirōchō believed in me. Even though I'd never been of any use to him. Boss Jirōchō had faith in me! And yet I. . .!" He couldn't say more as more tears continued to fall.

The group of chunins soon looked at Idate with sympathy for his past and for what happened, however Naruto didn't. He looked at him with understanding eyes. "He's. . .He's like the old me. . ." He thought to himself.

Then memories of how Naruto was fooled himself and almost gave up on everything if it not been for Iruku saving him, believing in him.

"I'm. . .a worthless guy. . ." Idate soon declared as even more tears began to fall one after the other. "Aoi was right. I have. . .no right to live." He finished in a defeated tone.

"Idate-san. . ." Hinata got out in a sympathetic tone.

As the other Konoha shinobi's felt the same way as the girl. One on the other hand grinded his teeth in anger and annoyance.

The blond suddenly stood up and gain an angered filled expression. "You stupid idiot!" Naruto however roared at the top of his lungs, shocking the others around him.

"Naruto-kun?" Hinata then questioned in confusion.

"What's up?" Satsuki meanwhile asked mentally.

The members of Team Nine and Kin however were left baffled at the outburst and they couldn't believe that someone like Naruto would ever say something like that with a sad past.

"Hmm. . ." Neji hummed out.

"Naruto-kun, what are you saying?" Lee then questioned.

However spite what the other were saying or feeling, Naruto did not waver in the slightest. "You think that no one trust you!? News flash! There is one person that does trust you idiot!" He roared with a mix of annoyance and conviction.

Then Naruto walked towards Idate and placed his hands on his shoulders, slightly startling the young man.

"One! One person is more than enough! More than enough to show that you do have the right to live!" Naruto soon declared.

Idate could only looked down as he just couldn't find the strength nor the courage to looked at Naruto in the eyes.

"So are you going to just sat down in you ass crying all day or are you going to win this race!? Unless you stand up and have the courage to keep going you never know how things will end!" Naruto continued, not once did he let go of the runner's shoulders.

"Indeed!" Lee soon enough agreed with a fire burning behind him. "Idate-san, you had basically let yourself be brainwashed by the ideal of a traitor! You should have not listened to his crude word!" He then declared.

"But. . ." Idate weakly say as he couldn't handle the emotions that the blond was hitting him with.

Naruto didn't even let him continued as he grabbed his arm and pulled him up. "Stand up! NOW!" He loudly ordered.

"Naruto-chan, Idate-san still exactly has his wounds." Tenten soon reminded, concern with the young man's injuries.

"If he can't run, then I'll fuckin' carry him on my back the whole way!" Naruto retorted, not once did his eyes didn't turned away from Idate's.

"He healed up the best he could, but it's gonna take a while for him to get be-" Tenten tried to reason, but she felt her hand being pulled.

The brunette then turned and saw it was Hinata as she and Satsuki's eyes didn't looked away from Naruto. It was as if they knew that Naruto was doing this for Idate's sake.

Idate briefly found some strength and pulled back his arm as he fell back to the ground. "The other runner must have already be at the Modoroki Shrine. . ." He tried to explained but couldn't say anything else.

The blond then grabbed his front shirt, instantly shutting the runner up. "Is that it? Your giving up?" Naruto asked with even more annoyance. "Does that mean your giving up on Jirōchō!? His waiting for you right now!" He roared.

At the mention of the man that had saved him, Idate was left speechless as all he could do was looked at the blond's eyes.

"If your not, then pull yourself together!" Naruto soon ordered with a serious tone and finally let go of him. "If you're giving up. . .if you run away now, the you will be a loser for the rest of you life! So if you can't do it because you can't believe in yourself, then do it for the people who do believe in you. . ." He then stated in a calmer tone.

"Naru-kun's right, if you don't try and conquer your fear, you'll always be a coward!" Satsuki then declared.

"Yeah!" Kin soon agreed. "I mean come on, never trust anyone? Rely only on yourself? That's all a load of bullshit!" She then stated. "It basically sounds like this asshole should be sent back to academy!" She then declared.

"Indeed," Neji calmly agreed with a nod. "All genin originally have to be trained in teams of three along with a jonin as the jonin has to teach the genin about teamwork." He then reminded.

Idate's mind then began to recalled all of the few people that did believe, Jirōchō, the old fisherman, the people of the Land of Tea and finally the words of his hero of what edged tools aren't for hurting.

At seeing the rekindle light in Idate's eyes, the blond nodded. "Then show them! Show them what Idate Morino's got and win the race!" Naruto finally concluded.

As if life returned in Idate's eyes, he slightly narrowed his eyes. "Naruto! Please take me there!" He demanded.

Satsuki soon smirked to that. "Thata boy!" She encouraged as she patted the runner on the back.

"Got it! Leave it to me dattebayo!" Naruto replied with a wide grin on his face.

Before anyone could even say another word, Naruto picked up Idate and placed him on his back and began to run straight towards the Modoroki Shrine as the two were determine to finish this race, for the sake of those that believe in the runner.

"Hold on Naruto-kun!" Hinata called out.

"Wait for us dattebakon!" Satsuki replied as the two girls gave chase.

Team Nine meanwhile was left just staring at the overzealous Team Seven ran in the middle of the rain.

"Hinata-sama. . ." Neji groaned out in an annoyed tone while he massage his forehead. "You are really letting Naruto influence you. . .and I most certainly do not mean that in a good way. . ." He then added.

Tenten meanwhile sweatdropped as she looked on before standing up. "Well at least they're active." She got out in a awkward tone.

"Yup." Kin simply agreed with a nod.

"LET US GO! WE SHALL BURN A PATH WITH OUR FLAMES OF YOUTH!" Lee roared in determination as he followed after the blond. "OH HOW I WISH THAT I TOO COULD CARRY SOMEONE IN SUCH A YOUTHFULLY WAY MYSELF!" He openly declared.

In that instant, Lee's teammates sweatdropped and groaned at that, save for Kin as was left giggling awkwardly as even she found that to be a bit much before they too went to follow Team Seven and the Wasabi runner.

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At the same time on the route to Konoha. . .

The crackling of a fire was heard as Kurama was watching out for the Viper Squad as he sat against a tree. Being more or less a shadow clone, he didn't had the need to sleep save for if he wanted to have a kinky night with his mate, so he decided to be on watch duty all night.

As the human transformed Bijū looked around, his attention was caught by something. "Hmm. . ." Kurama hummed out as he looked at the current sight.

"Mmm. . ." Nina murmured in a cat like manner as she was cuddling up to the purple haired jonin as they slept along with the O trio.

Kurama then smirked slightly at the sight. "Anko-chan's Viper Squad is really gonna be interesting in Konoha when it's complete." He lowly remarked.

Yami meanwhile was rest up against her own tree as she slept as if she didn't move a muscle, the characteristic of a true samurai.

Kurama then chuckled at that. "Snowflake really dedicated in the whole samurai's shtick." He commented.

The human transformed Bijū then couldn't help but think about the two girls and their abilities. "I gotta say though, both the little brats have very unique abilities. I, all my years, I never seen those that the two have, a kenjutsu/genjutsu fighting style and a little ball of insanity that can merge with animals. . .Man, humans are always full of surprises." He begrudgingly admitted to himself, he may not had the most. . .good impression to the human race, but even he is willing to admit when his was surprised.

Kurama then went deep into thinking. "Anko-chan's team at the moment is excellent and will continue grow to infinite potentials. . ." He thought with a serious expression.

While the current members of Viper Squad had indeed have a promising abilities, Kurama knew that it was still incomplete since it wasn't a full team.

"But she still needs one more. . .and depending on what Anko-chan's choice for the final member of the squad however. . ." Kurama contemplated as he narrowed his eyes.

The human shape Bijū then turned to looked at the girls once more and briefly thought back on their abilities/skills the two have. While true there were very impressive and unique, which is always a plus for any shinobi, he still saw a potential problem that could arise depending on the final member.

"At the moment, Anko-chan has two girls that have their fighting styles mainly based for close range combat and maybe a little mid range combat." Kurama thought with a serious tone.

Then the Bijū thought of Yami's abilities and skills he saw during the friendly sparring between his container and herself.

"More so for Snowflake as she is currently only have close combat and just learning one midrange kenjutsu thanks to the kit. . .well that's a given with her being a samurai kunoichi, save for that little trick with her genjutsu she has with that Mirage Blade style of hers. But that still falls into the close range category." Kurama then stated to himself.

The disguised fox demon then looked at the young girl with her animal companions as they cuddled up to the purple haired jonin.

"Meanwhile, Wild Child here has almost infinite possibilities with her unique Kekkei Genkai, she can easily be the most versatile of them because of her animal traits, not to mention her stealth skills could easily be assassination easily, if. . .properly trained that is. . ." Kurama thought as he still could feel his chin sore from the sucker punch. "Of course this was thanks her living here in the forest and living with animals for so long that played a major factor to add in her arsenal. But again. . .it still goes in the same category as Snowflake." He then reminded himself.

The Bijū could then easily see a situation where enemies could also notice these flaws on Anko's team and use that to their advantage, which would almost guarantee in them getting cornered or worst. Kurama knew that Anko saw this too, but he wanted to give her some input to help her choice as well.

Kurama then looked towards the sky as he looked at the stars as they shined much brightly thanks to being far away from any light source. Then suddenly, a falling star glided across the sky, briefly leaving a light trail before it disappeared.

At seeing such a sight, the transformed Bijū then closed his eyes and began to think of possible solutions. After another moment of thinking, he reopen his eyes and nodded to himself. "Anko-chan needs a long range to midrange user of some sorts to countered the two's weakness for long range users. . .and only then will her team be complete. . ." He finally thought out loud for what the possible final member of the squad should be.

Kurama then took in a deep breath as he looked at the three girls and let out a chuckle. "The Viper Squad. . .you know when to pick them Anko-chan, so you'll probably choose the right one without me saying anything anyways. . ." He muttered in amusement as he thought all this thinking was a waste of time.

With those final thoughts, the Bijū simply closed his eyes and placed his hands behind his head before he once more looked at the stars.

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Back in the Land of Tea. . .

The cloudy night sky was slowly beginning to illuminate as signs of the sun was slowly beginning to rise.

Naruto was still carrying Idate as they both stood in front of the large stairs the led to the Modoriki shrine. "Above here, huh?" He asked with a let then enthusiastic tone at the thought of having to climb all the stairs.

"Yeah," Idate responded with a serious expression. "These are the stairs that head up the shine." He then added.

"Those are really long staircase. . ." Naruto commented with an already tired voice.

"Well, they are called the Stone Steps that Tear Hearts Apart." Idate meanwhile pointed out.

Naruto just let out a sigh to that before he grinded. "Eh! Just another challenge for us to pass!" He declared with excitement as he readied himself to go up the stairs.

"Hold on Naru-kun!" Satsuki called out as she and the others caught up to the blond.

Then Tenten looked up as she stopped besides the blond in front of a long set of stairs before she looked up at them herself. "Whoa, that's a lot of stairs." She then admitted.

"Like I told Naruto here, they're called the Stone Steps that Tear Hearts Apart, it's suppose to be a challenge." Idate then stated his remark once again to the group.

"Ah! Enough talking! We got a race to win!" Naruto suddenly shouted as he charged up the stairs at full speed.

"Wow!" Idate shouted as he nearly fell back from the full sprint from the blond.

"Hai!" Satsuki agreed as she once more chased after the blond.

"YOSH! THIS WILL INDEED BE A YOUTHFUL CHALLENGE!" Lee roared with excitement as he too followed the two.

This left the more. . .calmer members of the group to watch the three ran up the stairs.

"Why do we always have to deal with our stamina freak of a teammates to lead the charge?" Tenten stated more than asked with a exasperated tone.

Hinata meanwhile giggled as she looked at the three running. "Well at least Naruto-kun, Satsuki-chan and Lee-san make things interesting." She responded.

"More like exasperating Hinata-sama. . ." Neji countered with a hint of annoyance.

Said girl could only giggled awkwardly at that. "Well at least Satsuki-chan keeps everyone motivated like Naruto-kun and Lee-san." She then countered.

"It's annoying dealing more people like Lee. . ." Neji then admitted, but not with any malice in his tone.

"Ah don't be so hard on Lee-kun Neji." Kin meanwhile replied.

"This is coming from the girl crushing on him." Tenten however rebuttaled with a deadpan tone as she looked at the Oto turned Konoha chunin.

To hearing that, Kin's face went a deep shade of red as steam started to come out of her ears. "T-Tenten-chan!" She exclaimed in embarrassment.

With that final cry from the kunoichi, the four went after the more energetic members of their team.

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At the Todoroki Shrine. . .

Jirōchō meanwhile was standing under a small area with a wooden roof held up by wooden support beams as he had his arms crossed while waiting patiently for his runner while his face never once looked like he was giving up on Idate.

Then two of the man's crew walked towards him. "Boss." He announced and gaining the man's attention. "It seems Idate is heading this way!" He then revealed.

"He hasn't run away, just like you said, Boss." The other commented.

This news and comments didn't affected Jirōchō in the slightest. "Of course. . ." He simply declared as if it was the obvious thing in the world. He then turned around and smiled. "I say potential in him." He thought to himself with great pride.

The Boss of the Wasabi clan punched his fist into the palm of his other hand. "Now, it's just a little more! Run Idate!" Jirōchō thought with excitement.

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Back with the the Konoha chunins and the Wasabi runner. . .

Naruto continued running up the stairs while having much vigor in each step, however Idate's eyes had an certain uncertainty in them as he looked at the boy's back.

"What's up Idate?" Satsuki then asked as she noticed the uncertainty.

Idate however didn't caught what the girl had just said as his eye were still on the blond's back. "Hey, you. . ." He suddenly called out to the boy.

"Huh? What?" Naruto simply replied as his eyes were still facing forward.

"Let me tell you. . ." Idate began to say.

A big tick mark appeared on the raven haired forehead. "Did he just fuckin' ignore me dattebakon!?" Satsuki meanwhile raged in her head.

"It's not like I trust you or anything yet, okay?" Idate continued as he was completely oblivious to the girls current rage.

"Yeah, yeah whatever. It doesn't really matter to me, dattebayo." Naruto simply retorted in a dismissal tone.

Idate merely scoffed at that as the words from the blond echoed inside of his mind. This made the runner's face soften as he looked down. "During the Chunin Exam. . ." He began to say with a hesitating tone.

This caught the other's attention. "What was that?" Naruto asked with a curious tone.

"You said that a tenth question appeared, right?" Idate finally asked as he eyes didn't gaze at anyone.

The Uchiha's eye in response twitched at being left out. "Hey! I'm here too dammit!" She exclaimed.

"Huh?" Idate got out. "Since when were you here?" He then asked with an uncaring tone.

At the question, the Uchiha nearly wanted to rip the runner's head off, but she decided not to as it was neither the time nor place. "And yeah, Ibiki-sensei gave us a tenth question at the end." Satsuki stated as she recalled what it was. "He really gave us a lot of pressure with that last one." She added.

"INDEED IT WAS! IT WAS A SUCH A DIFFICULT QUESTION THAT FORCED MANY TO QUIT AND NOT TAKE IT! HOWEVER WE ALL MANAGE PULLED THROUGH THANKS TO NARUTO-KUN'S YOUTHFUL SPEECH!" Lee suddenly declared as he suddenly appeared besides the group.

"GAH! Where the hell did you come from!?" Satsuki exclaimed in shock at his sudden appearance.

The blond could only sweatdropped at that as he then turned forward again. "Anyways. . .it was a take or not take question." Naruto clarified.

Idate didn't even bother to register what the other two had just said as his mind only caught what the blond had just said. "Three years ago. . .I got a similar problem. . ." He suddenly revealed.

This in turn gained the three's full attention.

"Nii-san made a situation where he asked; a battle with the three-man squad you were teamed up with. The three of you will compete against each other on this exercise. And that among us, one of us would had failed." He began as he recalled what his brother had asked.

The chunins simply remained quiet as this was a completely different question than the one they had.

"He then went and said that the one who failed the test would remain a genin for life and would never again allow them take to the Chunin Exams again." Idate finished explaining the tenth question he had. "He then gave us the option to either or not take the tenth question and try again half a year later." He added.

"Ok that was something he said for our test too." Naruto then replied.

"So what happen?" Satsuki then asked as she thought of something similar to what had happen to them.

". . ." Idate remained quiet for a few moments at that as he recalled what had happened on that day. "Myself. . .and some of the others decided to keep going. . .once it was time to answer. . .he failed all of us." He declared.

"Wait- WHAT!?" Both Naruto and Satsuki got out as that was completely different outcome to what they had experience while Lee surprisingly became speechless to hearing that.

"WHY THE HELL DID THAT HAPPEN!?" Satsuki then loudly asked in confusion.

"I couldn't just accept that, so I went and confronted Nii-san but he only replied that a true shinobi would see that it was a double bluff. . ." Idate responded as he gain a sad expression. "He then. . .he then told me to quit being a shinobi. . ." He added with a heartbroken tone.

"EH!?" Naruto and Satsuki then exclaimed.

"You gotta be kidding me!" Naruto then got out.

"No way!" Satsuki however replied in shock.

"How could Ibiki-sensei say that to his own brother!?" Lee meanwhile declared.

"I don't know. . .I simply said that if Nii-san wanted me to quit I would begrudgingly, but when I asked why though. . .he just said that I should figure it out on my own. . ." Idate clarified with the same tone.

"Wouldn't he had a reason for that though?" Naruto asked as like the others just couldn't think that a brother would simply say something like that.

"I didn't know. . ." Idate said once more. "To this day. . .I still don't understand the answer to that." He then added.

"So after that, you were fooled by that asshole Aoi, huh?" Naruto guessed as he more or less got the whole story.

Idate in turn nodded to that. "Yeah that's right." He then answered.

The young shinobi decided not to say anything more as they continued their run towards the shrine.

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At the top of the Todoroki Shrine. . .

All of the people that supported the Wasabi clan waited for the young funner. When they say said runner, their faces lite up with joy and began cheering for him.

Naruto finally reached the last steps of the stairs while letting a long sigh of relief. "We made it. . .to the top!" He manage to say as the trip on the said last step hitting the floor face first.

"Banzai. . ." Satsuki got out, out of breath from the trek up the stairs.

"THAT WAS A YOUTHFUL RUN BETWEEN COMRADES!" Lee declared passionately.

"Sure. . .forget about me why don't you. . ." Naruto whined as his face was bright red from the hit.

"Sorry Naru-kun." Satsuki then replied.

Then Idate stood up on his own and looked straight with a serious expression. "I'm going by myself from here. You all should just rest here." He declared

It was at that commented that Naruto stood on his knees. "What!? You still saying that crap!" He complained with an annoying tone.

"I can't be asking you guys to help any more. How can I show my worth if I don't win by myself, with my own strength!?" Idate then questioned.

This made Naruto let out an annoyed sigh. "It's ok Naru-kun." Satsuki suddenly say. "Idate's taking your words to heart." She stated with a smile on her face.

"Yes Naruto-kun!" Lee then started. "Your youthful words have inspired Idate-san to stand on his own two feet!" He soon declared.

This finally calmed down the blond as he decided to just looked at the boy with a smile on his face. Then Hinata and the other arrive a moment later as they waited for what is to come next.

Idate was running at his normal speeds as he headed towards the shine. "I can make it! It seems the medicine is really working!" He thought with joy in his tone, however he briefly stop as he felt a jolt of pain on his leg. "Damn! This doesn't hurt!" He declared to himself, as he did not stop as he finally reached the shrine.

Then the young runner quickly went and grab his respective sphere that had a tiger shape figure on it.

Idate looked at the sphere for a brief moment. "I'm back in the game!" He roared with pride and conviction.

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At a distance away from the shrine. . .

Fukusuke was standing in front of a large figure that both sides were connected by a suspended bridge.

"If I cross this suspension bridge, it's Ouzu Island, huh?" Fukusuke stated with an overconfident tone.

Suddenly, Aoi appeared and stood next to him. "We should hurry." The Ame shinobi advised with a serious tone, the runner getting shocked by his sudden appearance. "It seems Idate has made it to Todoroki Shrine." He then reported.

"What!?" Fukusuke shouted, startled by the news.

Aoi simply turned away from the runner and smirked. "It seems we may have underestimated those Konoha shinobis a bit." He stated while not sounding bothered.

"You idiot! Didn't you told me you finished them off already!?" Fukusuke demanded with a slight frighten tone.

Aoi then narrowed his eyes as he looked at the runner. "Now's not the time to be reminded of the past." He stated in a dismissal way. "Please cross the bridge quickly!" He then ordered.

Fukusuke simply scoffed at that. "What useless shinobi's are!" He declared as he began to walk towards the bridge.

However before the runner could even move a feet, Aoi suddenly held onto the his shoulder as he pulled him back and grabbed him by the throat while slightly suspended him. "You would be wise to remember that I'm only helping you because it's my job. I'll waste you if you keep talking like that to me." He declared in a threatening manner.

Fukusuke meanwhile couldn't even move from the intense grip on his throat. "I-I'm sorry. . ." He struggled out.

"Well if you do understand, then get going!" Aoi then ordered as he released the runner.

"Y-Yes!" Fukusuke replied with terror as he began running acrossed the suspended bridge.

Once he was gone, Aoi looked back and disappeared in a smokeless Shushin.

Idate continued to run as he reached the bridge, just in time to see the other runner going across it. "There he is! That Fukusuke bastard!" He declared before he was suddenly struck by lightning at his chest.

Aoi suddenly appeared in front of the fallen Idate while he deactivated the Second Hokage's blade. "This is quite something I never thought you'd make it this far." He stated with an amused tone.

Idate instantly recognized the object in the Ame shinobi's hand. "That's. . .the Sword of the Thunder God!" He thought to himself.

Without paying attention, Fukusuke had finally crossed the bridge. Upon seeing this, Aoi quickly used the blade to cut through the suspended bridge's rope, making it lose its balance.

Idate gasped at that as he quickly stood up, but before he could do anything, Aoi placed the lighting sword dangerously close to the remaining suspended rope, instantly stopping the runner. "Stop!" He shouted.

Aoi simply scoffed as he cut a minor rope of the bridge, causing it to teeter.

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At the finish line. . .

All of the leaders and lords waited passionately for the runners to arrive.

"Not yet? Idate hasn't come, yet?" Jirōchō asked with concern for the boy he cared for.

As they continued to wait, a servant walked towards the Tea Daimyō. "My lord, we finally found evidence regarding the matter we were investigating." The servant whispered onto the lord's ears.

"Oh, I see." The Daimyō simply replied as his servant gave him an envelope on his hand and then he placed it inside of his robe. "Mmn good work." He then praised and the servant simply left.

At seeing this, the minister turned towards the daimyō with a confused expression. "My lord, is there something amiss?" He asked with concern.

"No, it's nothing." The Daimyō calmly replied as they all continued to wait.

---

Back at the bridge. . .

"Stop it!" Idate shouted once more as he charged at the Ame shinobi, however he was quickly knocked down by another lightning slash.

"Enough of this foolishness. . .Nobody is a match against me while I wield the legendary Sword of the Thunder God, wielded by the Second Hokage himself." Aoi bragged as he placed the blade near his face while he made it charge with lighting for a moment. "You of all people should know this as well. After all, you're the man who stole it for me." He then reminded.

"Damn. . ." Idate cursed as he stood up with shaky legs, then a sudden gust a wind passed near him.

"LEAF HURRICANE!/Eight Trigrams Palm Strike!" Two voice roared.

Aoi however heard and saw this coming as made a vertical slash, this blocked the incoming attack.

"GAH!/Guh!" Lee and Neji got out as they were sent back a bit from the electrical currents on their respective limbs.

SHING!

The Ame shinobi instantly heard the sound of sharp metal heading at his direction and used a downward strike to cut through the kunais that Satsuki and Tenten had thrown.

Ching! Ching!

Then senbons were soon thrown at the enemy, Aoi already knew about the bell attach to the senbons, so he quickly cut both senbons and the bells. "I won't fall for that trick twice." He declared with a smirk.

SPLAT!

However Aoi become too distracted as some balls of mud splattered over his face. ". . ." He said nothing as he stood still for a moment.

"Hey buddy! You got a little something on your face asshole!" Naruto declared with a witty smirk as Hinata was standing next to him, surprisingly sticking her tongue out.

The Ame shinobi stayed still for a moment before he used his free hand to wipe off the mud as he face was angry at the childish attack. "Little brats. . ." Aoi got out in annoyance as he then went and rushed at the weapons user. "I had quiet enough of playing around. . .So, just die already!" He ordered as he charged at the Konoha shinobis.

Naruto quickly summoned two shadow clones and order them to attack him while he prepare another just meanwhile.

Aoi thought quickly and sent a horizontal strike, instantly dispelling the clones in an instant.

However this was a momentary distraction as both Lee and Neji got closed enough to attack at the traitor's sides. Not letting them get any closer, he quickly stab the blade down and send a electrical current to pushed back the close combat specialized.

SHING! VRN!

Satsuki didn't waste any time as she charged in with both her tantō and shield out and began a clash of blades. The Uchiha soon used a good balance of striking heavily yet quickly with her blade while just as quickly switching to her shield to defend against the enemies strikes.

Aoi however proved to be a bit better at swordplay and quickly pushed back the girl, forcing her to keep using only her shield.

Tenten saw this and summoned her Phantom Blade to tried and help her friend out as she fired some senbons.

The Ame shinobi quickly kicked Satsuki back as he then used his umbrella to block the incoming senbons and then sent it upwards. "NINJA ART: SENBON SHOWER!" He declared as the umbrella started to release many senbons at all directions but below it where he stood.

The rest had to used their best defensive jutsus to block the shower of senbons. Neji used his rotation to block and defend Lee. Satsuki used her shield to block and defend Tenten and herself while Hinata covered Naruto as she used the Protective Eight Trigrams.

As Aoi saw his jutsu being blocked, his attention was soon drawn towards the former Oto kunoichi that was forced to take to the trees to dodge the shower of senbons. "I've had it with all of you!" He declared as he rushed at the girl.

The other gasp at this as they were still busy defending themselves. Thinking quickly, Tenten then summon her chain blade and stretch it. "I'm good, go!" She declared as she began spinning it around herself to block the senbons.

Satsuki didn't even replied as she charged at incredible speeds toward Kin. "No you don't!" She declared as she got in front of the traitor's path and brought her shield up.

VRN!

Instantly, the Uchiha increased the output of her shield to block the incoming strike. Both the sword and shield battle for supremacy as sparks and lightning flew by the clashed. However after another moment, the blade prove to be superior as it manage to cut threw the blue chakra shield was slightly cut its metal base.

Startled by this, Satsuki jumped backwards to save her shield and her arm from being slice completely cut. "Shit!" She got out, however she growled at the cut of her beloved shield.

The shield then let out some electrical current from the strike, shocking Satsuki's arm a bit. She then quickly recovered and glared at the traitor. "Oh you are so dead you fucktard!" She declared while activating her Sharingan.

Aoi however just smirked as he looked at the girl. "So it's true, the last of the great Uchiha Clan is a whore with a mouth." He remarked with overconfidence.

To hearing that, Satsuki's eyes narrow with anger at the taunt. "Why you bastard!" She remarked as she held her numb arm while the shield still was producing feedback.

"Your open!" Kin meanwhile declared as she rushed in. "LEAF HURRICANE!" She declared as she began to mimic the taijutsu user.

Aoi simply looked at her with disinterested as he raised his blade and stopped her leg mid air, all the while sending a high voltage of lighting throughout her body.

"KYAAAAAAAAAAAAA!" Kin roared in agony from the attack.

"KIN-CHAN!" Most of the ground shouted at this sight, more so Lee.

"Weak. . ." Aoi simply declared with a smirk as he then threw her over the crevasse.

"KIN-CHAAAAAAAAN!" Lee exclaimed as he rushed to try and catch the girl as she fell.

"Lee! Hold on!" Tenten called out as she watched her two teammates go over.

"Bushy brows! Kin-chan!" Naruto and Satsuki exclaimed

Soon enough, the two then vanished from their sights as they began to fall into the whirlpools below.

"Hmph." Aoi scoffed out as he then looked at the remaining Konoha chunins. "Fools until the end." He declared with confidence.

"YOU BASTARD!" Naruto roared in fury as he took out his scroll ready to summon his blade and go all out.

"Your gonna pay for that dattebahi!" Hinata then roared as she took her gentle kicks fighting stance.

Satsuki meanwhile cracked her knuckles as she was coated in lightning chakra. "Oh your so dead now motherfucker!" She declared.

"Got that right!" Tenten roared with the angered at what he did to her friend as whipped her chain blade and made a slash on the ground.

Neji meanwhile narrow his eyes with anger, though he wasn't that close to Kin as Lee or Tenten were, he still care for her as a trusted comrade. "You will most definitely pay for that. . ." He declared with a hint of anger in his voice as he got into his junken stance.

Aoi then readied the blade once more as he looked at his opponents. "Fools, it doesn't matter if you all attack me at once, so long as I have the Blade of the Thunder God, I am the strongest!" He taunted as he prepared himself.

However before another fight could begin, Aoi heard someone land, he turned and saw that it was Lee with Kin in his arms.

Lee gently placed the unconscious girl down against a nearby tree and glared at the traitorous shinobi.

"So your still alive, huh? Well I'll just have to try harder." Aoi taunted with a smirk on his face.

". . ." Lee didn't said anything as he bent down and took off his legwarmers, showing his weights that looked very familiar in design.

Hinata's eyes meanwhile widen as she recognized them. "Weights. . .just like mine. . ." She got out. "B-But that amount. . ." She got out.

His teammates eyes widen at that, as they knew what was coming.

"Gai-sensei had told me. . ." Lee began to say as he unzipped his weights. "That I should never take them off unless a very specific situation happens." He then continued as he pulled them up to his shoulders.

"Oh. . .and what will a few weights could possible to against someone like me?" Aoi declared as he raised his blade and lighting sparked at the action. "How many time do I have to repeat myself? As long as I have this blade I'm the strongest!" He declared

Lee then walked away a safe enough distance from the unconscious girl while he still had his weights at shoulder height and did not cared for what the Ame shinobi had said. "Gai-sensei said to only remove them when the lives of very important people were at stake. . ." He declared as he then dropped the weights. "AND THAT MOMENT IS NOW!" He roared with passion.

Aoi could only watch this as he thought it was just a bravado talk from the boy. However when the weights reach the ground. . .

CRASH!

A loud crashing sound echoed through the land from where the weights had landed. It made everyone but Lee's teammates shocked beyond belief as Naruto and Satsuki jaws hit the ground from pure shock.

"E-Each of the rectangular seal has more weight than what I have on each leg. . ." Hinata breathed out, not believing the insane amount of weights.

"Eh?" Naruto and Satsuki got out, not sure if they heard that right.

"Lee-san has at least. . .a thousand pounds. . .in total. . ." Hinata then answered.

"WHAT!?" They got out in shocked.

Even Aoi was momentarily startled by the insane weight. "I-It doesn't matter! None of you are a match against me!" He tried to say with confidence, but he has a cold sweat running down his cheek.

Lee then got into a low position with his hands on the ground as his eye burned like flames. "NOW LET THE POWER OF MY YOUTH EXPLODE!" He roared as he charged forward.

To everyone around them, it looked like Lee had vanished on the spot. Aoi didn't even have an instant to reach as he felt a heavy punch landed onto his stomach. GAH!" He got out in pain as he was sent flying backwards like a ragdoll from the sheer force of the hit.

Aoi then readjust himself as he slid past the others, he was forced to held his stomach had it not been for the protection of his jonin uniform the hit would had been even more devastating.

However the Ame shinobi didn't had time to even refilled his lungs with oxygen as Lee reappeared right behind him spin in mid air. "LEAF HURRICANE!" Lee declared as he kicked Aoi on his back and was send flying like a ragdoll once more.

"GAH!" Aoi got out, but this time he was more ready the the initial attack as he quickly used his blade and stab it on the ground to stop himself from flying, just in time for Lee to appeared in front to him. "JUST DIE ALREADY" He roared as he send three electrical slashes at Lee.

As the waves of electricity were about to reached the spandex wearing chunin. . .

WHOOSH!

Lee had vanished once more, leaving Aoi momentarily baffled as the boy reappeared right behind him. Aoi turned around as quickly as he could, but Lee was already inside of his guard. "THIS IS FOR KIN-CHAN!" Lee then roared as he suddenly appeared behind the traitor before delivering heavy kicks and a punches to his torso and face.

With each of hit, Aoi felt like some of his ribs were beginning to break and his face battered and bruised from the sheer raw strength of the boy's hit. However he somehow manage to find the strength to then send another electrical charge, forcing the boy to retreat.

Aoi panted heavily as blood began to fall from his mouth and nose while his face turn one of pure rage. "DAMN YOU!" He then roared as he prepared to sent out another slash of lightning when suddenly, his arm was ensnared by a chain blade. "WHAT!?" He roared as he was to angry to even feel the pain of the chain cutting his arm.

"Didn't forget about us did you!" Tenten remarked as he pulled harder on her chain. "Lee! The sword!" She then called out.

Said boy nodded as even though he was angry, he did not forget what was his mission. "ON IT!" Lee roared as he speed forward once more and precisely kicked the blade handle out of the Ame shinobi's hand.

Aoi's eyes soon widen in shock as he saw the blade out of his grip. "NO! MY BLADE!" He exclaimed.

Tenten then dashed forward as she grabbed the blade handle midair. "Got it!" She called out.

Once the blade was out of Aoi's hands, Neji and Hinata took this chance and charged forward from their respective places as the two cousins took a familiar stance though it was slightly different than usual. "Eight Trigrams Sixty Four/Thirty Two Palms!" The two Hyuga members started.

Hinata was the first to strike as she readied her attack. "Two Palms!" She began as she struck at the enemy.

"GAH!" Aoi shouted from the hits.

Then Neji charged and sent the second strike. "Four Palms!" He continued.

"EIGHT PALMS!" Hinata quickly took her turn again to delivered the next set.

"SIXTEEN PALMS" Neji then took his turn as well.

At this moment, both Hyuga's took their final stance as Aoi couldn't even feel his most of his chakra.

"THIRTY TWO PALMS!" Hinata finished her attack and quickly leap back.

"SIXTY FOUR PALMS!" Neji finished his attack as a barrage of strikes were sent at Aoi.

Once the attack concluded, Aoi couldn't feel any of his chakra now. "No. . .you can't beat me. . .I'm the strongest. . ." He struggled to get out as his voice was full of denial at his defeat.

Naruto then appeared right in front of the delusionary shinobi. "Will! You! Just! Shut the hell up already dattebayo!" He remarked as he then channel chakra on his legs to jump and jumped forward, thus delivering a devastating headbutt straight to the face, breaking his nose and knocking out a few teeth in the process.

Aoi could only barely backpedaled as he nearly fall at the edge of the bridge while babbling nonsense from the intense pain his entire body was feeling at the moment.

"Aw it looks like you have a booboo. . ." Satsuki meanwhile started as she strutted up to the Ame jonin with a teasing smirk on her face.

"H-Huh?" Aoi managed to get out.

Satsuki smirk then turn into one with pure vile glee as she lifted her leg backwards. "Oh and by the way. . .NO ONE TALKS SHIT ABOUT ME, MY LOVED ONES, MY FAMILY OR MY FRIENDS!" She roared as swung her leg with her full force.

WHAM! CRACK!

Aoi's pupils shrank to that as tears began to fall from the strike. "GYAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!" He squealed like a little girl as he held to his little ninjas before he fell to his knees.

To that sight, everyone winced at what occurred, Lee even was forced out of his rage as he looked on.

"Oooh that's gotta hurt dattebayo." Naruto got out with sympathy from a male's point of view, but he didn't care for the traitor in the slightest.

"Hai. . .but it was well deserved." Hinata agreed.

"Hai. . ." Lee also agreed with a nod.

Idate meanwhile looked at his former sensei with a glare. "Aoi-sensei. . ." Idate called out to the squeaking traitor.

The trembling Aoi turned around and saw Idate looking at him with disappointment in his eyes.

"You once said that trusting was a weakness, that relying on others was just for weaklings to be together. . .but you now see that you were wrong. . ." Idate began to say with conviction as he turned and looked at Naruto who simply nodded.

"Just like Nii-san said. . .you basically never trusted anyone, you only cared about getting power and that's what lead you to your downfall. . ." Idate then declared. "Looking at you now, it made me realized how stupid it was of me to let your words actually affect me. . ." He then added.

"E-Eh?" Aoi babbled as the pain didn't let him comprehend anything anymore.

"I don't know what happened to you to make you this way, but I really don't care since you attacks your own comrades, my Nii-san and even betrayed your own home the way you did all for the sake of power. . ." Idate then stated.

Aoi then narrowed his eyes as he looked at the runner. "Y-You fool. . ." He babbled out in a squeaky tone, even in his current state his pride wouldn't aloud someone as weak as Idate talked to him like that. "M-My ideals are the truth. . .and your still a traitor who abandoned his village too!" He declared.

When Idate heard that, the memories of his time with Jirōchō, Naruto and the rest of the Konoha shinobi flashed to his mind. And finally his brother. "Yeah. . .But unlike you, I change, I was able to change because I have people that trusted me, people that believe in me." He replied with conviction.

"F-Fool. . ." Aoi barely got out as his pride forced his battered body to stand and ignored the agony of his injuries. "Fools fools fools!" He then roared. "YOUR ALL WEAK FOR GROUPING TOGETHER THE WAY YOU ARE!" He declared.

Idate however was completely unaffected by this as his expression didn't change in the slightest. "I rather be weak and have people believe in me than be strong and not have anyone at my side." He counter declared.

Naruto meanwhile narrowed his eyes as he looked at the delusional shinobi. "Can we please just shut this guy up now?" He then asked.

Hinata then nodded in agreement to that. "Yes, this man's claims are indeed annoying as hell and a pain in the fuckin' ass." She admitted as even she had reached the limits of her immense patience.

"Hinata-sama!" Neji chided for the curse that came out of the Hyuga girl's mouth.

"With pleasure." Idate replied as he spun in placed and kicked Aoi in the face, making him fall towards the crevasse.

Aoi's eyes then widen in fear as he knew he was going to die. "NO! IT CAN'T BE!" He denied as he continued towards the rocks and whirlpools. "AAAAAAAAAAAAAH!" He screamed as he fell to his doom.

The Konoha chunins and the runner didn't even have to the look down as they all knew the inevitable results.

Naruto and Satsuki walked towards Idate on the back. "Nice work dattebakon." Satsuki praised with a smile.

Idate only chuckled in dismal way. "Not really, I only got one hit in while you guys did all the work." He simply stated.

"Nah! You deserve that much after all the shit that asshole made you go through." Naruto rebuttal with a wide grin on his face.

This made Idate chuckle once more, but this time with a hint of humor in it. "I guess so." He simply said.

Lee then head towards his teammate and handed of the sword handle over to her so that she could inspect the blade. "Everything seems fine with the sword, thank goodness it wasn't damage, I would've fainted if I heard this sword would had been damaged or broken!" Tenten stated as she began to lightly drool at touching such a legendary blade.

"Tenten. . ." Neji said in a reproaching manner.

Lee however didn't said anything as he then headed towards the injured Kin. As he reached her, he was that Hinata was busy tending to Kin's injuries with her limited knowledge of first aid. "Will she be alright Hinata-san?" He asked with concern in his voice.

At hearing that, Idate, Naruto and Satsuki turned their attention as they looked concern for the injured girl.

Said girl could only let out a sigh after she finished checking the injured girl. "I believe so, however I believe it will be best if Kin-san be treated at Konoha hospital as soon as possible." Hinata advised with concern as she once again cursed her lack of medical know how.

"Well I'm just glad that your helped Kin-chan, Hinata-san." Lee stated with a sad smile.

This however didn't made Hinata feel any better as she simply stood up and walked towards her teammates. "My knowledge of medical herbs was completely useless in this mission. . .I need to to know more medical knowledge and practices so something like this never happens again. . ." She thought to herself, blocking out her teammates from hearing her.

Naruto saw that this victory moment was heading south fast, so he took a deep breath, placed two fingers in his mouth and whistled very loudly.

This got the desired reaction as everyone nearly jumped out of their skins.

"HEY! We can't be moping righting now! Idate! You still have a race to win!" Naruto then declared his reminder as he then turn towards Team Nine. "Bushy Brows! You and the other should just go take care of Kin and contact the village while we finish this so that we can head back to the village NOW!" He then added.

Though it was a bit. . .rough, the rest of the group regain their confidence and nodded in agreement.

Naruto nodded with a large grin on his face as he turn towards Idate. "Alright then, let's get going!" He declared.

"But. . .the bridge is completely . . ." Satsuki however reminded as she pointed at the barely stable bridge.

Naruto instantly fell comically at that statement. "CRAP!" He exclaimed.

Idate however didn't stop smiling. "No problem! Leave it to me!" He declared as he jumped to the last rope that kept the bridge from falling. "We'll cut the rope and go to the opposite bank in one swing!" He then added with completely confidence.

"HUH!?" Hinata and Satsuki exclaimed in unison to the idea.

"That is got to be the most reckless plan I ever heard, only an idiot would-" Neji began to say, but he was stopped his ranting when an orange blur passed them.

The blur jumped onto the same rope and stood on top of it. "AWESOME IDEA! LET GO!" Naruto shouted with his eyes shining in pure glee at the thought.

This made the rest of the group fall in a comedic fashion, expect Hinata and Satsuki because they were used to their favorite blond liking reckless ideas.

"I guess we have nothing to lose." Satsuki then replied as she also like the idea, though not as much as the blond.

"I'm afraid that won't be possible for all of us to do it." Hinata then stated with a sweatdrop as she looked at the remains of the bridge. "Hmm. . .however the rope might only be able to handle four people at best." She then suggested.

Satsuki nodded in response to that. "Ok, so our team and Idate will cut the rope to get to the other side and finish this race." She decided.

Neji just shocked his head. "I still find that to be reckless." He reminded in a disapproving tone.

"We're shinobis, everything we do is reckless." Hinata then reminded her cousin.

Before Neji could replied, Tenten placed a hand on his shoulder. "Well this is their mission, so we can't really say what we can or can't do." She stated as she then sealed the Thunder Sword in a scroll and put it away. "Besides we just finished our mission, we need to contact Konoha to get a ship for all of us and a medical team for Kin." She stated.

"Exactly! You get our transportation back to Konoha and we'll finish our mission!" Satsuki then ordered.

Not letting anyone say anything anymore, Satsuki pulled Hinata, then the two kunoichis jumped onto the rope as they landed in between Naruto and Idate, they then waited for the guys to cut the rope.

Once everyone was on the rope, Idate looked at the Team Seven members. "I thought the worst of myself." He began to say.

This gain the trio's attention but said nothing as they lead the runner continued.

"But Boss Jirōchō trusted in me." Idate continued as the memories of the man echoed in his mind. "It was the first time I was trusted by someone. So I want to win this race for the boss, no matter what." He declared with conviction in his tone.

The trio was left speechless at the young man's words that held such strength, compare to how he used to talked the first time they had meet him.

Idate then frowned as he looked away. "But in reality, I can't win just with such feelings. So many times along the way, I felt like giving up." He stated with a heavy heart as the memories of Team Seven and Nine always protecting him while he couldn't do anything. "But each time, you guys risked your lives to save a lame guy like me!" He then added.

The trio in turn looked on at the runner as he gave his speech.

Idate then turned back to looked at the trio, more so the blond. "Naruto, I'm sorry. I should've trusted you guys from the start." He then stated with a grateful tone.

"What're you saying? Say stuff like that after winning the race." Naruto replied with a true smile on his face.

Hinata meanwhile nodded in agreement to that. "Hai, this mission isn't over yet." She reminded.

Idate simply returned the smile with one of his own. "You're right." He simply replied.

"Though, it was rude for you to ignore me." Satsuki remarked offhandedly with puffed up cheeks as she was once again ignored.

Then Idate went to grab something from his person and pulled out his beloved pocket knife and threw it to the blond.

Naruto in response easily caught the knife and looked at it for a moment. Knowing what this represent, the blond smiled happily as he clenched it tightly. "Idate!" He said happily.

"Okay, do it!" Idate told the blond as he held the rope tightly.

"You know you could had pass it to us. . ." Satsuki whined as she was yet again ignored.

"It's ok Satsuki-chan, this is a male bonding thing that is happening at the moment." Hinata reassured. "Besides, we can have alone time when we get back home." She mentally added.

"Ok!" Naruto simply replied as he extended the blade out as he then proceeded to cut the rope.

SNAP!

After a few moments, the blond manage to cut the rope. "WHOHOOOO!" The two male shouted in enjoyment as they all swing across.

". . ." Neji meanwhile was left with a twitching eye at the display.

"Well at least the two are bonding." Tenten awkwardly got out.

Though Lee was still concern for Kin, he still couldn't help but smiled happily at the display. "Yes! Their share such a youthful bond!" He declared while giving a thumbs up of approval.

". . .Let's just go. . ." Neji simply ordered as he didn't want to waste anymore time.

His teammates simply nodded in agreement as Lee grabbed Kin in a princess style and the took the long way back as the morning sun finally was beginning to rise.

---

At the same that morning on the route to Konoha. . .

The Viper Squad member and Kurama continued to sleep peacefully, as the first sun morning lights reached the newest member of the group.

Nina's ears twitched as she narrowed her eyes from the bright light. "FWAAA. . ." She yawned out as she then slowly began to stretch like a cat, ears wagging all the while. "Bathroom. . ." She then sleepily got out while she rub her her eyes in cat like manner.

The young girl then got up from Anko's side and went to the closest tree, which just so happened to be the one that a certain sleeping human transformed Bijū was resting.

Once she reached it, Nina then sleepily began to raised her battered dress just above her navel.

Kurama's eyes began to squint as he let out a groan. "Huh?" He got out in a sleeping manner. When his eyes more or less adjusted to the light, he saw the little girl standing right in front of him and saw the position she was. ". . .Oh you have got to be shiting me. . ." He got out after he processed what was about to happen.

Then Nina's face squinted a bit before she relieved herself. "Mmm. . .ah~" She sighed out in relief.

Kurama's eyes then widen as he became fully awake to what was happening. "AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH!" He soon roared as he was covered in urine. "WILD GIRRRRL!" He then roared loudly.

The sudden shout instantly woke everyone else in a startled while the O trio literally jumped from their resting place.

"WHAT HAPPENED!?" Anko and Yami exclaimed in unison.

"NINA-ONECHAN!" The O trio animals shouted as they took a fighting stance and then looked desperately for their big sister.

Suddenly, the group heard heavy and slightly wet footsteps walked towards them. When they turn towards the direction of the sound, they thought they were about to face an enemy, however what they only to saw a wet and incredibly annoyed Kurama holding a sleepy Nina by the dress.

"I think this belongs to you. . ." Kurama grumbled out with immense annoyance as he slightly raised the sleeping girl to emphasis.

"Zzz. . ." Nina mumbled out with a relieved smile on her face. "Oppai. . ." She added to her mumbling.

"She's lucky it was a number one and not a number two. . ." Kurama then added with a twitching eye.

". . ." Both female human and animal alike did the most appropriate response to that. . .they sweatdropped. . .

Anko then sniffed the air as she realized what happened. "Ooooh. . ." She simply got out.

"Yeah. . ." Kurama simply replied in slight irritation.

". . ." There was a long moment of silence after that.

However, the the O Trio didn't realize this and only saw someone holding their big sister in a hostage like manner, so. . .their young, animalistic and sleepy minds could only come with only one thing. . .Someone was trying to hurt Nina.

"BAUW! RAAAH! CHIRP!" The O trio then roared as they launched themselves at Kurama and began to maul at him.

CHOMP! SCRATCH! TEAR!

"AUGH! WHAT THE FUCK!?" Kurama roared as he was forced to try to get the animals off him with only a single hand.

However the Bijū quickly regained his other hand when Okki bit the hand that held Nina, forcing him to dropped her and said girl somehow landed on her four limbs like a cat and then continued sleeping.

"KYŪ-CHAN!" Anko exclaimed as she tried to help her man, however as she did this, the O trio only saw this as another enemy. "WAAAA!? OI!" She roared as the two were now being mauled.

As this was happening, Yami could only look on with a blanked expression. "It's too early for this. . ." Was all she had to say as she when back to sleep.

While the O trio were continuing their mauling, Nina finally fully awoke as she stretched once more in a cat like manner. "Morning. . .what's to eat?" She asked with a carefree tone, completely unaware of the chaos she just unleashed in blissful ignorance.

---

Back in the Land of Tea. . .

At the finish line, everyone that supported either the Wasabi or Wagarashi lined up at the ends of the pathway as they eagerly awaited for the winner of this race will be.

Suddenly at a distance, the people could see a figure lightly running towards them, then when they saw that it was Fukusuke, almost all of the people became disappointed to this and began to booing at the runner.

Fukusuke however only smirked at this. "Now that's a rousing welcome." He declared with overconfidence as he then began to just jog to the finish line.

Those that were part of the Wagarashi smirked as their runner had passed them. "Run steady, Fukusuke!" One of them told him.

"Stay sharp until the end." Another then added.

"Shut up! I know." Fukusuke retorted with an annoyed tone as he passed them. "Geez. . .spoiling my good mood." He said to himself in an arrogant tone. However he quickly looked forwards and saw the shrine. "I can finally see the Todoroki Great Shrine." He added.

Just upheld, all of the leaders of Tea, Wasabi and Wagarashi waited for the winner. When the members of the Wasabi saw Fukusuke, they frown with worry.

"Boss! Blast it!" One of the Wasabi cursed as he could only see the other runner.

However both the leader of the Wagarashi and the minister could only smirked at their approaching win.

"Looks like it's our win." Kyūroku Wagarashi declared with a satisfied smirk.

"Idate." Jirōchō mumbled to himself as he had a worried expression, worried more so for the boy.

However before the despair of the Wasabi losing could settle in. . .

"Hey!" A watcher exclaimed.

"Look!" Another got out in shock.

Suddenly, the people began to mutter and shout as they saw someone from a distance.

"Here he comes! Idate of the Wasabi Clan is here!" One of the spectators shouted with glee.

True to that statement, Idate was running at full speed, instantly gaining more and more ground by the second.

"Go! You can still catch up!" Another spectator cheered happily and with excitement.

Idate roared with determination as he began to gain even more speed.

Fukusuke turned around after hearing this and was shocked. "What!?" Was all he could get out to this.

"Idate!" Jirōchō shouted with joy at seeing said boy.

"Idiot! What're you doing, Fukusuke!? Run!" Kyūroku shouted at his runner.

"Damn it!" Fukusuke cursed at this as he began running at full speed.

Idate meanwhile with focus and determination in his eyes continued running. "I won't lose. I will not lose!" He told himself in his head. "I won't give up until the very end!" He then shouted as he gain even more speed that he had ever before and was now catching up with the other runner.

Fukusuke was sweating in a cold sweat as saw Idate closing in on him. "Like hell! I won't be passed up after I've come this far!" He declared with a desperate tone.

"All right!" One of the Wasabi cheered.

"He caught up!" Another stated with excitement.

The two runners were running at their limits as Idate continued to slowly catching up and was a few steps of passing Fukusuke. "Blast this guy! I won't lose you little-!" He mentally cursed as he desperately ran even faster.

The two runners continued to ran at full speeds, however Fukusuke as still just a foot ahead of Idate and the finish line was getting closer. "Damn!" Idate cursed as he knew he was going to lose at this rate.

Jirōchō then stepped forward as he looked at his runner coming towards the shine. "Come on Idate!" He encouraged.

"Boss!" Idate thought as he was right at the finish line and felt tears escaping his eyes.

Just at the entrance of the Shrine, Team SEven landed on top of the gate.

"COME ON IDATE!" Satsuki cheered.

"You can do it!" Hinata encouraged.

"SHOW EVERYONE WHO IDATE MORINO IS!" Naruto cheered the loudest as he grinned widely.

Idate's eyes widen at hearing the cheers from Team Seven. "All right!" He declared as he began to go even faster than before.

Time seem to slow down as the two runners ran in slow motions just as they were a few feet from the finish line. The sounds of hearts beating echoed loudly as it became an incredibly close race. With the wind blowing off Idate's sweat, he slowly began to gain more ground and finally rushed passed the other runner and through the finish line.

Time then was restored and everyone started to cheer loudly while they all ran towards the winner.

Those that were on the Wagarashi stood by Fukusuke, while said runner fell to his knees and then fell flat on his face from exhaustion.

Both Kyūroku Wagarashi and the minister meanwhile were in a state of shocked, not believing what had just happened.

Idate slowly walked towards the altar of the shrine with a tired expression on his face. Then he pulled out his sphere and placed it on the altar.

"I did it!" Idate breathed out as he fell on his rear and then lay on the floor as all of the exhaustion of everything that he had experience finally took hold on his body. The young man panted with a proud smile on his face.

"Idate." Jirōchō called out as he and his men walked towards him.

Idate quickly roll over and took a kneeling position. "Boss!" He got out with a startled tone.

Jirōchō looked at the boy with a proud smile on his face. "You did well." He praised with proud tone.

This made the young man looked straight at the man's eyes. "Boss, I'm sorry. I'm truly sorry." Idate then suddenly apologized.

"You fool. What're you apologizing for?" Jirōchō then asked with amused tone. "You won." He then reminded.

"No, please let me speak." Idate interrupted. "I really want to apologize now. I'm truly sorry!" He apologized once more as he placed his forehead onto the floor.

"You're making no sense to me. What totally weird guy." Jirōchō joked in a good humor.

"Well done, Idate." Once of Jirōchō 's men praised.

"I was wrong about you." The other then stated with an remorse.

"Okay, Idate. Go receive the winner's blessing." Jirōchō then told the boy as he pointed outside of the shrine.

Idate then got himself up and nodded in response to the order. "Hai!" He replied and walked outside where we was greeted by the everyone cheering for him, making him embarrassed by all of the praises and cheers.

Once everyone calmed down a bit, Idate was now on top of a podium. "The winner! Idate Morino of the Wasabi Family!" The official declared while point at him.

The crowed cheered once more at the declaration while Team Seven was there as well in the audience.

"WOOHOO!" Satsuki cheered as she clapped her hands for their client.

"Well done Idate!" Hinata praised with a smile on her face.

"AWESOME WIN DATTEBAYO!" Naruto roared in excitement and a grin on his face.

However before the Wasabi runner could be rewarded.

"Hold it right there. . ." A voice suddenly started, halting the celebrations.

In response, Idate and Jirōchō turned towards their right. "Kyūroku." The leader of the Wasabi simply stated when he saw him and two of his men.

Said man then gave a smug face. "Along the way, he rode on the back of a hired shinobi. This is a violation." He declared as he showed a photo of Idate on Naruto's back..

The trio were left angered at that declaration. "Say what!?" Naruto roared in angered at this statement.

The minister then walked towards the group. "Racing until the end on your own strength is the rule of this race." He stated. "Therefore, Idate is disqualified." He declared.

Idate meanwhile was left shocked by this and was unable to say a word to this declaration.

"That's bullshit!" Naruto retorted as he wanted to clobber the man.

"Your the ones that tried to kill Idate with a shinobi first!" Satsuki then vocally remarked.

"How in the world did they get a photo of that?" Hinata meanwhile wondered with narrow eyes.

The minister soon smirked as he looked at the crowd. "The true winner of this race is Fukusuke Hikyakuya of the Wagarashi Family." He declared.

Jirōchō and Idate's faces turn into shocked and in disbelieved at the declaration. "No it can be." The older man got out in dismay.

"W-Wait! That was. . .!" Idate tried to explained but couldn't say any more.

"I'll hear no excuses!" The minister interrupted. "Jirōchō, you gave your word. I ordered the Wasabi Family dissolved immediately." He then ordered as he smirked with vile glee.

This of course didn't sat right with Team Seven as they were on the very verge of unleashing Kurama's chakra. ". . .Oh that motherfucker. . ." Satsuki and surprisingly Hinata thought in unison as they knew that the minister was siding with the Wagarashi.

"OI! They can't get away with that!" Naruto verbally shouted as he took a step forward.

However before the blond could do anything. "Just a moment." A another, more calm voice suddenly started, cutting the tension like a sharp knife.

Startled by the voice, everyone turned around and saw it was none other the Daimyō of Tea himself.

"There is no such rule anywhere. Do not speak nonsense!" The Daimyō declared with a displeased tone.

"M-My lord!" The minister shakingly greeted.

"Wait? What just happen? Did Idate lost or not?" Naruto asked with confusion.

The Hyuga meanwhile released of a sigh of relief to this. "Whew, that was a close one." She got out as she turned towards her confused fiancé. "The Daimyō has the final word on anything as his word in his country is law." She explained.

"Hell yeah dattebakon. . ." Satsuki agreed. "Though now it's pretty obvious what's going on with the Wagarashi and that asshole minister. . ." She then added with a smirk.

As if continuing the Uchiha's thoughts the Daimyō continued. "Or perhaps. . .you have a reason for wanting the Wagarashi to win at all cost?" The lord of Tea insinuated.

"ASSHOLE!" Satsuki vocally insulted.

"N-No, i-it's nothing like that." The minister quickly replied with a shaken tone.

The Daimyō then finally open his eyes and look on with the strength of a just ruler. "Could it be because you would not be able to do things like this?" He suddenly asked as he put a hand on his person and took out a photo. "Look." He said.

The picture was of none other than the minister himself being given a huge amount of ryo from the Wagarashi as they had some sake together. While the man in the photo gasped in shock.

"I FUCKIN' CALLED IT DATTEBAKON!" Satsuki once more vocally declared in a more satisfied tone.

". . .So that's why there was so much corruption in the villages. . .The minister took the brides of the Wagarashi so that they could do whatever they like. . ." Hinata remarked with an ice cold tone.

"I'M SO GOING TO TEACH THAT ASS LESSON HE'LL NEVER FORGET DATTEBAYO!" Naruto roared with pure annoyance.

As if wanted to fulfilled the blonds request, the leader of Tea then glared at the minister. "Your a fool! Retire and enter the monastery!" The Daimyō verbally ordered with anger.

The now disgraced and humiliated former minister's head fell in humiliation and shame. "Y-Yes sir. . ." He depressingly got out.

"Kyūroku Wagarashi." The Daimyō then called out the leader of the Wagarashi. "Word of you evil deeds has reached my ears as well. Your sins against the people of Degarashi Port are severe." He stated with a calm yet displeased tone, leaving the man in question very nervous. "Therefore, the Wagarashi Clan is to be dissolved as of today. Understood!?" He then ordered with absolute authority.

Now it was Kyūroku's and his men turned to lowered their heads in shame as they were forced to obey the angered Daimyō.

Then Daimyō began laughing wholeheartedly. "Today is an auspicious day." He said as he open his fan. "With this, the matter is settled." He declared.

Suddenly everyone in the crow began to cheer loudly and happily at the Daimyō's declaration.

"OH HELL YEAH!" Naruto cheered.

"SERVES THEM RIGHT!" Satsuki also declared vocally.

Hinata nodded in agreement to this as she gave off a smile. "Now the tyranny of another land has ended." She calmly declared.

---

A few hours later at the port. . .

The members of Team Nine were waiting at the port as they were waiting for regrouped with Team Seven so that they could leave together.

Neji was waiting with patience while Lee was simply at the injured Kin's side as said girl was still unconscious.

Tenten however was observing the Thunder Sword as she had been fascinated with the blade's ability to create lightning chakra from its base form.

This made the young weapon mistress to thought if the blade had some similarities with the Chakra Shield, which caused many theories and questions to pop on her mind. Could her shield could do more than just make a shield? Could it do much more than just that? This and such questions plagued her mind.

Tenten's face grinned widely as she stare at the base form of the Thunder Blade. "Dad would have a field day if he got a look at this. . .Because it's taking every ounce of willpower for me not to dismantle it now!" She thought to herself while panting heavily.

"Yo guys!" Naruto greeted with a wave.

The suddenly shout got Tenten to return to reality as he turned towards the approaching group along with Jirōchō and Idate. "Looks like Idate won." stated with a smile.

"Hell yeah he won!" Satsuki happily declared before looked around at the port. "Where's the ship?" She then asked.

"It should be arriving any moment." Neji simply and calmly replied.

Then the two teams turned and saw the boat finally arriving, once it was docked, a Konoha medical team got out and began tending to the injured Kin's wounds.

"Hmm. . .It appears that she was only shocked by an overdose of of lightning chakra." The medical shinobi examined. "However she needs to be sent her to back to Konoha's hospital to make a proper examination, so until further notice, she won't be able to do active shinobi missions for a while until she makes a full recovery." He then advised.

"I see. . ." Lee simply replied as he watch the medical team carry Kin on board by a stretcher. Though the boy was glad that his friend was ok, he was saddened that she wouldn't be able to do active for a while.

Tenten then went and place a hand on his shoulder. "It's ok Lee, she'll recover, I mean she endures training with Gai-sensei like you." She got out in a teasing tone to try and lighten the mood.

This got the desired response as Lee smiled and nodded. "Yes! You are right! Once she recovers, we'll train to recovered for the lost time!" He declared with excitement. "And I must also make sure that she properly learns the Leaf Hurricane as we train together!" He then added.

To hearing that, the entire group only sweatdropped at this. However, now it was the time for the shinobis to returned home as Neji and Tenten were the first to board the ship.

Idate meanwhile stood in front of the blond as he smiled kindly. "Naruto, thanks a lot for the help." He declared with a grateful tone.

Satsuki's eye began to twitch uncontrollably at that. "Hey! What are we!? Chop liver!?" She meanwhile shouted with annoyance as she was ignored right to the very end.

"Mah mah Satsuki-chan. . ." Hinata however got out as she tried to calm the Uchiha down while she pushed the annoyed and growling girl towards the boat to avoid causing a scene.

"Yeah. . .guess this is goodbye, huh?" Naruto replied with a sad tone.

"I've come to get the wounded." A loud and deep voice suddenly declared from the boat.

The girls meanwhile let out a gasp as they instantly recognized the man. "Ibiki-san." Hinata stated with a surprised tone.

"A-Aniki!" Idate got out at the sight of his older brother.

Ibiki however didn't even flinch or react in any way. "Where are the wounded?" He simply questioned once again.

"Ah! Yes! Here!" Lee answered as he pointed at the injured Kin on the stretcher.

Ibiki in turn merely nodded in response to this. "Very well, get her on the boat immediately." He then ordered.

"Right!" Lee replied as he looked back at the unconscious girl while the two got on the ship.

Once everyone was boarded, Ibiki turned around and was about also board.

"Wait, Aniki!" Idate called out to him.

"Who are you?" Ibiki simply asked as the man didn't even turned around. "The man who called be Aniki died three years ago." He then stated as he turned around and looked straight at Idates face.

There was a long pause of silence between the two as they looked into each other eyes

Then Idate smiled softly. "Aniki. . .I figured out the answer to the tenth problem!" He thought to himself as he then narrow his eyes. "I'll never betray a comrade again! I can trust others now!" He then declared with conviction.

Ibiki then turned around and began to walked back to the boat as Idate bowed as he left. However unknown to the young man, Ibiki had a proud smile on his face. "He's looking good now." He thought to himself.

The boats flag extended as the winds of the sea began to pushed the boat off the port.

"Bye, Idate! Let's meet again someday!" Naruto shouted as he waved at the runner.

"I hope we'll meet as well." Hinata agreed.

"AND YOU BETTER REMEMBER US TOO DATTEBAKON!" Satsuki however exclaimed in anger.

"Yeah. Hope to see you again Naruto!" Idate replied.

Well, that was the last straw for the Uchiha. . . "GAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH!" Satsuki roared with pure anger as she wanted to jump off the boat with her Sharingan activated.

"S-Satsuki-chan stop!" Hinata shouted as she was holding the girl trying desperately from letting the girl from jumping off.

"I wish you good health, Boss!" Naruto then told Jirōchō as he completely oblivious to the shouting Uchiha.

"Yeah. . ." Jirōchō simply replied with a kind smile on his face.

On the boat's mast, Ibiki was leaning on it as he had an amused smile on his face. "An interesting guy as always." He thought in amusement as he looked at the blond. "Him and his teammates . . .they really are Idate's heroes. . ." He then added as he looked at the girls on Team Seven.

Then the blond hero began to ran towards the back of the boat as he saw Idate running the port while running and waving his hand. "Naruto! Thanks!" He thanked once more.

"GAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH!" The sound of a pissed off Uchiha echoed in the boat.

"Enough already!" Hinata's annoyed voice soon followed.

"HINATA-SAMA!" Neji's voice called out in a chiding manner.

"Idate! Next time we see each other it'll be a battle with me dattebayo!" Naruto meanwhile declared with a wide grin.

With the sun fully up in the sky and the boat finally leaving the port, the adventure to the Land of Tea had come to an end. . .

---

Within sight of the gates into Konoha. . .

The Viper Squad and Kurama were close enough to see that large gates of Konoha. Though two had very annoyed expressions as they had scratches and tears all over their bodies and clothing.

"OOOOOOOOOH!" Nina got out in awe at seeing the gate while her ears wagged vigorously in excitement. "IT'S SO~ BIG!" She exclaimed in amazement and her eyes sparkling.

"Awooo!/Meow!/Chirp chirp!" The Os trio agreed in unison.

Yami meanwhile rubbed the little girl's head and smiled lightly. "It is an impressive sight." She agreed.

Nina in turn giggled at the rub. "Then this will be our new home!?" She exclaimed her question with excitement and a giddy tone.

"Not quite, this is the village we'll stay in, but our home is inside." Yami clarified.

"OOOOOOH!" Nina once more got out in amazement

"Yeah yeah. . .whoop de do. . ." Kurama meanwhile commented with an annoyed tone. "Let's just get into the village. . .I want this mission to be over with. . ." He then added as he began walking towards the gates.

Nina then tilted her head in a innocent manner to that. "Eh?" She got out in confusion.

Yami in response just sweatdropped while she let out an awkward giggle. "He's just didn't a nice morning wake up call, that's all. . ." She replied.

"Yeah. . ." Anko agreed with a small sweatdrop of her own.

The O trio simply only looked away, but didn't have even a shred of remorse in their eyes.

"Oh! Ok!" Nina cheerfully replied.

Then the group all began heading towards the gates while youngest of the group jumped on Kurama's neck and spun in place, a child like attempt to cheer the Bijū up.

"GET OFF!" Kurama shouted all the while.

"BAUW! RAAAH! CHIRP!" The O trio's roars soon followed.

At the gates, the eternal chunins heard the sudden shouted and turned to looked at the group.

"Looks like our free entertainment of the day has arrived." Izumo joked while he let out a chuckle.

Then the two chunin were welcomed with a very bizarre greetings. What they saw was an annoyed Viper Squad looking at a tall red haired man holding a struggling brown haired little girl while said man had three small animals mauling him from all sides.

"KAMI FUCKIN' DAMMIT! GET OFF YOU LITTLE-" Kurama roared while trying to swat the annoying little animals.

Izumo let out an amused chuckle to the sight, but Kotetsu however only let out a groan instead. "Great." He replied.

"Hey guys." Anko then greeted with a small wave. "Just getting back from a mission." She then stated.

"So we see. . ." Kotetsu simply remarked with a blank tone. "And it looks like you brought another. . .interesting people. . ." He then remarked as he looked at the man and little girl.

Suddenly, Nina manage to get herself lose as she began spinning around Kurama's neck, thinking that her little friends were playing with him.

"WILL YOU GET OF ME ALREADY!" Kurama roared as he continued trying to get Nina and the O trio off him.

"NO! TOO FUN FUN!" Nina exclaimed as she continued spinning.

Izumo was having a hard time not bursting in laughter at this while Kotetsu then recalled something. "Actually I never got a name for the red head when he left with you guys a couple of days ago." He then added.

Kurama then slightly stopped his struggling as he looked at the two eternal chunin with a deadpan expression. "Let's just say. . .I have a connection to the attractive and sexy purple haired jonin and leave it at that." He remarked before struggling to getting the animals off him.

"Anyways. . .He has permission to come and go as long as me or the blond gaki's team is with them. Now then we need to report back to Hokage-sama immediately." Anko declared as she knew that Kurama didn't like saying his name to those that aren't worthy or friends with him or his hosts.

Both Izumo and Kotetsu did found that a little suspicious, but they knew that they couldn't forced Anko as she was technically outranked them and since the Hokage wanted to see the team they wouldn't risked calling her wrath.

"Alright, move on." Kotetsu simply replied.

With that, the Viper Squad and Kurama entered the village while said Bijū was still trying to get the girl and her animals off him.

---

An hour later. . .

Both Team Seven and Team Nine walked alongside the medical team that was carrying the injured Kin.

"Jeez that was a long mission dattebayo. . ." Naruto got out as he rubbed his neck in exhaustion.

"Hai, though it was only a couple of days, it really felt long." Hinata admitted.

Satsuki meanwhile was still pouting in anger. "Mmmm. . ." She got out in annoyance.

The blond raised an eyebrow at that. "What wrong Satsuki-chan?" Naruto asked with a confused tone.

"I was constantly ignored Naru-kun. . ." Satsuki mentally replied.

To hearing that, Naruto blinked a couple of times in confusion. "Wait, you were? When?" He then simply asked.

". . .Don't. . .even. . .got there Naru-kun. . ." Satsuki replied in cold fury. "Tonight, you as Naruko-oneechan. . ." She then ordered.

"Uh. . .ok?" A very confused Naruto manage got out as he then looked at his Hyuga fiancé. "What's up with Satsuki-chan?" He secretly asked her.

Said Hyuga could only giggle awkwardly in response to the question. "That's. . .difficult to explain. . ." She then admitted.

Soon enough, the entire group finally reached the gate. Both Izumo and Kotetsu simply nodded as they really didn't want to talk to Ibiki.

Then Ibiki turned to look at the rest. "Alright, Team Seven you will go to the Hokage Tower and report your mission to Tsunade-sama while Team Nine will come with me to the hospital, you'll report what kind of injures did she received in battle and then you will go straight to the Hokage to report." He ordered.

"Hai!" The entire group responded in unison to the order.

Without saying another word, Ibiki began to walked inside with the medical team and the unconscious Kin right behind him.

Neji simply nodded towards Hinata and began heading inside.

"Well then," Tenten started. "We'll see you guys later." She replied as she followed her teammate.

Satsuki finally got over her pouting state as she nodded in response to that. "Yeah, stop by our place at any time Tenten-chan!" She replied while waving them off.

Lee meanwhile saluted to the Team Seven members. "WE SHALL HAVE ANOTHER YOUTHFULLY MEETING AGAIN!" He declared as he then rushed to follow the medics while leaving a trail of dust in his way.

The trio simply sweatdropped as they used their hand to blew away the dust.

"Yup. . .See you later Bushy brows. . ." Naruto simply replied even though Lee was already beyond hearing range.

Hinata then looked at her two teammates. "Well Naruto-kun, Satsuki-chan, we better go report in to Tsunade-sama." She then suggested.

"Yeah, we better not keep Obaa-chan waiting." Satsuki agreed with a giggle.

With a nod or agreement, the trio headed inside and report to their leader.

---

At the Hokage's office. . .

The Viper Squad and Kurama had just arrived at the Hokage tower as they had a slight. . .inconvenient issue to deal with that took an hour to resolve.

"Nina-chan, you said you would stop it with stealing food." Anko chided.

That was correct, the moment the group had reached the inside of the village, Nina and the O trio were so excited about the new things that they completely lost all sense of self controlled and began running into the stores and causing chaos at every unexpected shop owners.

Nina's ears fell in sadness at that. "Moh. . .but I couldn't help it Anko-chi! There was so many new things for us to looked and taste!" She then exclaimed with a pouting face.

"Arf! Arf!" Okki barked and growled at them. "Hey! Don't bully Nina-Onechan!" Was what Nina and the other animals heard.

"Meow. . ." Ora shyly meowed. "We did took too much enjoyment in such actions. . ." She admitted with an embarrassed tone as she was embarrassed for such actions.

"Chirp chirp!" Ori happily chirped out. "Enjoyment! Enjoyment!" She replied.

Anko in turn sighed to that as she kneeled down to the girl and looked at her straight into her eyes. "Listen. . .I'm not mad ok, just be more conscious that being in the village means that you just can't do whatever you want, you have to understand that some actions may cause trouble to others." She gently explained in a motherly way while she gently patted the girl's head.

In response to that, Nina held the battered dressed in a shy manner while her ears twitch a bit. "Ok. . ." She replied with a slightly embarrassed tone while enjoying the petting.

Yami meanwhile watched the sight with a smile on her face while she was next to the disguised Bijū. "I'm amazed that Anko-sensei can be like this. . ." She admitted in a whisper.

Kurama in response just chuckled amusingly. "Looks like wild girl see's Anko-chan like a mother figure." He stated in a joking manner, as he then looked at the woman in question with a rare kind smile on his face. "Though I figured my sexy mate had it in her to begin with. . ." He then thought as the image of the beautiful field appeared in his mind.

The group then ended the moment as they went into the tower and eventually arriving at the Hokage's office with Yami knocking on the door. "Hokage-sama, Viper Squat and Kurama have returned." The kunoichi samurai announce.

"Enter." Tsunade ordered from inside her office.

Not saying another word, the group entered the office as Yami gave a respect filled bow. "The Viper Squad have returned from our mission from the border of the Land of Earth." She declared with a professional tone.

The female Hokage always felt joy to have such respect from a friend of his godson. "She will alway be the water in this desert of this job when I have to deal with my gaki's friends." Tsunade thought to herself before she saw the rest of the group. "I see you brought some. . .friends with you." She stated as she stood up and headed towards the group. "Care to explain that?" She then questioned the leader of Vipers.

However before anything could be said, Nina's eyes suddenly widen as she stared straight at the Hokage with sparkling eyes.

"Hmm?" Tsunade got out with a confused tone while looking at the youngest member.

"Oh crap. . ." Anko and Kurama thought in unison, while the O trio let out a unison sigh.

"Nina-chan. . .don't. . ." Yami mumbled out.

However before they could say any more. . .Nina's face gain a huge and excited smile with her ears wagging at a rapid pace. "BIG OPPAIS!" She shouted in pure delight.

Tsunade then looked at the little girl for a moment as she registered what was said. ". . .What!?" She soon got out in shock.

But before the female Hokage could do or say anything else, Nina pounced and plopped into her massive breast.

Tsunade meanwhile was so shocked and startled by this that she didn't even move a muscle from this action.

"Big oppai! Big oppai!" Nina got out in delight while she rubbed her face in the breast.

"Meow. . ." Ora meowed with a tired tone.

The females of Viper Squad could only place a hand on their faces while Kurama had a blank expression. "We really should've seen that coming. . ." He declared with a deadpan tone as he watch the little girl continuingly snuggling on the breasts of probably the most powerful kunoichi of their times. "And she's really got balls. . .as a matter of speaking that is." He then added.

Then Tsunade's eye began to twitch uncontrollably as she yanked off the girl from her breast, while said girl tried to struggled to get herself free.

"BOUW! MEOW! CHIRP!" The O trio roared out at the action ready to attack the Hokage.

Suddenly, Tsunade glared at the tiny animals while realizing her killing intent, making them stop in their tracks while they lowered their head and trembling in fear as they saw the superior woman's fury.

Nina's head then looked up at the Konoha leader with a adorable and innocent expression. "Eh?" She got out.

When Tsunade saw this, she instantly knew that the girl was not a pervert like her former teammate, or the disguised Bijū, so with a long sigh she turned towards the embarrassed Anko and Yami. "Explain. . .now." She then order.

Yami then awkwardly scratching her cheek as she looked at the girl clinging to the leader. "Well. . .she's. . .the thief that was taking food from the people that requested our mission." She reveled with an embarrassed tone.

To hearing that, the blonde leader looked on at the group with a blank expression. ". . .What?" Was all Tsunade could say once more.

"Yeah. . .Hokage-sama, meet Nina Dōbutsu and her animal companions Okki, Ora and Ori." Anko then introduced the girl and her friends.

"Arf. . .Meow. . .chirp. . ." The O trio silently greeted with respect and a hint of fear in their voices.

"Oh that's just bullshit!" Kurama complained when he saw the animals submissive forms when he himself was the mightiest of all Bijū's, so found it very annoying that the annoying animals both respected and feared Tsunade instead of him.

This made Tsunade looked back at the cute girl in her hands.

"Mmm?" Nina cutely and innocently got out while she tilted her head.

To the sight in front of her, Tsunade instantly flinched at the adorable girl. "Cute. . ." She couldn't help but think to herself as she could just feel the aura of pure and innocence from the little girl in waves, which made her gently placed the girl down.

"Huh?" Tsunade got out as she then finally got to see the ears on the little girl's head, making her go wide eyed. "Wait, are those animal ear?" She got out at the sight.

"My ears?" Nina cutely got out as she did the same action of showing her human ears, startling the woman even more.

Anko then sweatdropped at that. "No Hokage-sama. . .those aren't cat ears. They're just hair." She clarified as she showed her that the ears were in fact just hair.

From this reveal, Tsunade just took a deep breath as she went and sat back in her chair, then she looked at the rest of the Viper Squad and Kurama. "You will just. . .give me a full report." She ordered with a tired tone. "Why do I get the feeling this is going to be a long day. . ." She added in her mind.

---

Thirty minutes later. . .

Team Seven had finally reached the Hokage tower and were now heading towards Tsunade's office as they wanted to give them the report and finally get some quality time.

"Finally let's just give in the report and go home! I want my Naruko-oneechan fun time!" Satsuki whined.

Just as the trio had reached the office, both Naruto and Hinata sweatdropped at that, but before they could say anything. . .

"And that's what the generally the report of what happened." The trio heard Anko's voice concluded from inside of the office.

"Huh? Anko-oneechan?" Satsuki got out when she heard that.

"Huh, I guess they got back from their mission too." Naruto guessed before she and Satsuki gained mischievous smiles.

Inside Tsunade then narrowed her eyes in a serious manner. "I see. . .so you planed to have Nina be on you team, so you decided it was best not to mention the merchants that she was the thief." She stated.

Anko flinched at the tone the female Hokage had. "Yeah. . ." She replied as the kunoichi was starting to get a bad feeling about this.

Tsunade let out a sigh at that, but before she could say anything. . .

SLAM!

The sound of the door forcely opening, which spooked the group while making the O trio jumped in startlement.

"Hey Obaa-chan! We're back!" Naruto and Satsuki happily declared as they forced the door open.

Tsunade in turn slammed her palm on the table hard, but not enough to break it as she glared at the Uchiha and Uzumaki. "DAMMIT! STOP CALLING ME THAT! AND WILL IT KILL YOU TO KNOCK!?" She roared with pure annoyance.

Hinata meanwhile politely walked into the room while giggling awkwardly. "My apologizes Tsunade-sama, however we have returned from our mission Tsunade-sama." She replied in politeness.

Kurama then turned to his jinchūriki with a smirk on his face. "Hey brats." He greeted with amusement.

"Welcome back sensei." Yami welcomed her fellow sword wielder and teacher with a bow.

"Hey furball, Yami-chan!" Naruto replied with a wave of his hand before he then looked down and saw small animals looking at him. "Huh, who are these little guys?" He asked as he bent down and when and tried to rub Okki's head.

"Aww~ They're so cute!" Satsuki squealed as Ora then went over to the Uchiha.

"What beautiful feathers you have." Hinata commented as she reached out to Ori

To this sight, Kurama smirked evilly at that. "Let's see how you guys like getting mauled." He thought with a vengeful tone.

Then just as trio was about to reached the specific animal, the Bijū's was on the edge of his seat when. . .

"Arf Arf!" Okki barked while panting in excitement as the wolf cub rubbed her head on the blonds leg. "Hey! You're nice! I like you!" Was what she said with a excited tone.

"Purrrr. . ." Ora purred out as tiger cub loved the touch from the Uchiha. "Ah~ That feel heavenly. . ." She commented with a satisfying tone.

"Chirp! Chirp!" Ori chirped as the chick landed on the brunette's shoulder and rub her face on the girl's cheek. "Pretty! Pretty!" She repeated with a happy tone.

To this sight, the Bijū's jaw dropped to the ground at the sight. "WHAT THE FUCK!?" Kurama roared with complete disbelieved. "WHY AM I THE ONLY ONE WHO GETS MAULED!?" He then complained.

Anko only patted the enraged disguised Bijū as she felt bad for him.

Nina eyes meanwhile widen as she looked at the interactions. "Wow! Okki-chi, Ora-chi and Ori-chi really likes you guys! I never seen them like someone like that other than me!" She stated with an amazed tone. "You must be really nice nice!" She then added with a smiled on her face, as she really wants to be friends with the trio because of it.

This got Naruto's attention as he finally noticed the young brown haired girl. "Uh. . .what's with the cat girl dattebayo?" He then asked.

Nina's ears wagged in happiness as she looked at the Team Seven members. "Nina is Nina! Nina Dōbutsu!" She cheerfully replied.

The two girls meanwhile looked on as they saw the girl as well. "Oh sweet kami she's so adorable!" Satsuki squealed in her head.

Hinata meanwhile nodded in agreement to that as she tried to hid a small blush. "Yes, very adorable indeed." She also thought with a hint of delight in her tone.

Then Nina walked towards the girls and stood in front of them. ". . ." She said nothing as she began staring at them with sparkling eyes.

"Huh/Eh?" Both girls got out in confusion.

Everyone else in the room gained blank stares as they has seen this way too many times now.

"OPPAI!" Nina suddenly shouted as she pounced at Satsuki and began rubbing her face on her breasts.

"HUH!?" Naruto exclaimed with his jaw dropping and a red face.

"Eh!?" Hinata got out with her hand on her mouth, not believing what was happening.

However before they could say anything else, Nina suddenly pounced at Hinata. "Nice oppai!" She declared as she rub her face onto her breasts.

"WHAT!?" Naruto then got out at this.

"Huh!?" Hinata got out with a shocked yet embarrassed tone.

"I apologize for this. . .Nina-chan seems to like. . .large breasts. . ." A very embarrassed Yami stated while having a blush on her face.

"OI! WHAT THE HELL!?" Satsuki roared with pure announce. "No one touches mine nor Nata-chan's breast but Naru-kun!" She declared as she yanked the girl off the Hyuga.

Though being suspended, Nina didn't struggle as she turned her head back to the Uchiha while she began to give off sad puppy dog eyes. "R-Really?" She then asked in an innocent and adorable tone.

To seeing this, Satsuki flinched at that as her eyes went blind from the cuteness. Her head then began to steam a little as her lower lip whimpered in trying to resist. "Ka. . .Ka. . ." She stammered out.

"Here we go." Kurama remarked while rolling his eyes.

Naruto then looked back at the disguised Bijū. "Huh?" He got out in confusion.

Suddenly, the wild girl was smothered into the Uchiha's chest. "KAWAII!" Satsuki squealed in pure delight and began twirling the girl in place. "Sorry, but you can't touch my breast as they're Naru-kun's, but I can at least hug you like this!" She declared while still hugging the flailing girl.

"Huh!?" Naruto and Hinata exclaimed in confused unison.

Kurama's eyes then twitched to that. "And that was so expected too. . ." He deadpanned.

"It's official. . .Nina can beat anyone with her cuteness. . ." Anko thought to herself as she herself had already fallen for the power of cuteness.

"How is it she can do that?" Yami meanwhile thought with curiosity, as she herself was secretly holding back her own urge to want to hug the girl too.

Tsunade was rubbing her forehead to everything that was occurring that was now giving her a headache. "I'm gonna need a lot of sake after this. . ." She muttered.

"MMMM!" Nina barely got out as she flailed her arms, while the O trio half heartedly tried to free the girl from the Uchiha's hands, but they knew that the girl was just being nice to their big sister.

"So. . ." Naruto began to say as he turned towards the purple haired jonin and the rest. "Anyone can tell us about Nina-chan?" He then asked.

"Sure gaki, but mind if you guys wait for the full explanation back at the house? Because we do need to talk." Anko replied with a slightly pleading tone.

Naruto turned towards Hinata and Satsuki. "Cool with you girls?" He asked via mental link.

Hinata nodded in response to that. "Sure." She mentally replied.

"KAWAII!" Satsuki on the other hand was too busy continuing smothering the girl to pay any attention.

Naruto and Hinata sweatdropped at that, but the blond then turned towards Anko. "Sure, I guess that's fine." He replied.

"Thanks." Anko simply replied as she turned towards Tsunade. "Well that's all for us, we'll be taking our leave now." She stated as her team and Kurama were about to leave.

"Wait a moment." Tsunade stopped the group. "I would like to hear the my gaki of a godson's report, but would also like for you to stay as I want all of you to stay before I tell you all something." He ordered the group.

The group looked at each other before they nodded, though Anko had a bad feeling about this.

Tsunade nodded as she turned towards Team Seven. "Alright, then let's hear your report then.

Team Seven nodded in unison as they all began to tell the events in Tea, each stating what had happen from their point of view on each event.

---

Underneath Konoha. . .

BAM!

BOOM!

CRACK!

CRASH!

WHAM!

Tayuya was sitting against nearby wall as she watch the green/pink haired girl continued her brutal training. She had already had her turn training the girl until she got bored and was now just waiting for the next turn.

"Dammit, , ,Makes me wonder if she's a masochist enjoying that massive beat down on her scrawny ass." Tayuya grumbled out.

"FUCK YOU TAYUYA!" Sakura's voice echoed back with fury.

BOOM!

CRACK!

However the sound of a booming hit soon interrupted as the sound of Sakura's bones cracking and her screams of agony soon echoed.

"Focus. . .or you will die." Jirōbō ordered.

"Hai~!" Sakura replied in a disturbing cutesy tone.

This change greatly disturbed the other girl. "Fuckin' psycho bitch. . ." Tayuya thought to herself as it always did found those personality changes to be disturbing. "She has problebly already lost her fuckin' mind. . ." She then added.

Then Kidōmaru appeared right beside of the girl as he had all of his arms crossed. "Looks like she'll soon be ready to leave." He commented.

"Good. . . I want to leave this dump. . ." Tayuya grumbled as she cared more for ending this mission and stop wasting her time with the psychotic girl. "Though this dump is way better then the fuckin' underground caves in Otogakure. . ." She thought to herself.

Kidōmaru then looked down at the dark pink haired girl. "Something troubling you?" He then questioned in a interrogating tone and narrow eyes.

"Yeah! Being on this waste of my life of a mission!" Tayuya roared with pure annoyance. "Though that sushi was good. . ." She unintentionally added in her head.

"Well. . .you'll have to put off with it just a little while longer." Kidōmaru ordered as she watched the other girl's shoulder blade being pierced by stone spike and then hearing the girl's screams of agony, which soon followed by her laughter. "Just don't forget about the last part of the mission after getting out of this village." He then reminded.

Tayuya in response tisked in annoyance. "Yeah, we got to make sure to get her ass to our base in one piece. . .I fuckin' get it already dammit." She answered.

"Good." Kidōmaru simply replied as he began walking forwards before he stop. "Also don't forget to use that if things go south." He added as he pulled out a container of shiny black pill before he put it back.

Tayuya didn't say a word as she looked at the container that held her own shiny pill with narrow eyes, she saw it more clearly as she was behind the light, she saw tiny organisms moving inside of the pill.

"Fuckin' hell. . .I hate these damn things. . ." Tayuya told herself. "That fuckin' four eyes and that damn virologist had to help create them. . . She said to herself as a vile and sick laughter echoed inside of her mind. "Just when I almost forgot about that psychotic bitch, I swear she's just as bad as that pedo. . ." She added in her mind.

As more and more screams and laughter echoed to the dark room, the dark pink haired girl then closed her eyes and lowered her head. "Its not fuckin' fair. . .why is it always those psychotic bitches that get to have all the freedom to do all those fucked up things that they enjoy doing. . ." She soon thought in depression and envy,

While the girl didn't have sick or twisted desires like some of the other people in Otogakure that couldn't even be called human anymore. She just wanted to do things she wanted to do when she wanted to do. Even if it meant doing questionable and maybe even hurtful things then so be it, some may called that self centered and selfish, but that was just how the girl name Tayuya was.

---

In the Hokage Tower, a half an hour later. . .

After Tsunade had listen to the report, she nodded with a satisfied smile on her face. "Good to hear that everything ended nicely then, I really owed much to Jirōchō much during my time wandering around the elemental nations." She commented with grateful tone.

"You mean avoiding Konoha, getting wasted and gambling yourself into a massive debt?" Kurama then remarked.

In response to that, Tsunade merely threw an empty sake bottle right at the face of the disguised Bijū. "Shut it." She ordered in annoyance.

"GAH!" Kurama roared in pain as the bottle broke and some shards got stuck in his face.

All of the girls began giggling while Naruto began laughing his ass off.

Then Tsunade's face became serious as she leaned on her desk. "Now then. . ." She began to say as she turned towards Anko. "I like to say something about your newest member and I would like for Team Seven to hear it as well, after all they will live with them." She declared.

". . .Eh?" Anko got out in confusion. "What's the problem with Nina-chan being here?" She then asked as she pointed to the girl in mention.

Tsunade sighed in response to this as she expected the question. "Like I said before. . .I would let you choose who you want to join your squad so long as the person in question accept and that you bear any responsibility to their actions they may or may not do." She stated with a serious note.

Anko simply nodded in understanding.

Tsunade returned the nod with her own. "However can you also deal with any consequences that taking her in may inflict?" She then asked.

". . .Maybe. . ." Anko hesitantly replied as she remembered the incident at the motel.

"What I mean is that I can't help but feel concern about this decision." Tsunade then revealed.

"What do you mean Obaa-chan?" Naruto then asked.

"Hey! Your not thinking that a cure girl like her is a threat? What the hell Obaa-chan!?" Satsuki accused.

Tsunade in turned let out a sigh. "It's not that I suspect or anything, you said that the girl doesn't have any memories and I can tell that she's not lying." She clarified.

"Then what are you implying Hokage-sama?" Anko asked as she and Yami were also worried that the Hokage was in fact thinking that and if she did they were worried that they would denied Nina the chance to be with them.

"What I'm saying is that, if what you said to me about Nina having this unique abilities, wouldn't that mean that she somehow is involved with Iwa?" Tsunade stated.

This statement confused the younger generation, but the older ones instantly understood.

"Listen. . .where or not this power she has is completely new or not, whether the girl is from Iwa or not. Nina was still found in Iwa, so if they someone from there knew about or had others like her in their village, they may think that Anko's team had kidnap her for her bloodline." Tsunade clarified.

"What's Iwa again?" Nina innocently asked while tilting her head.

"That's a load of bull Obaa-chan!" Naruto and Satsuki meanwhile exclaimed in unison.

"And I didn't kidnap her!" Anko then declared. "I'm not my old sensei dammit!" She then added.

"I know that Anko didn't capture her or anything, but we can't think that Iwa wouldn't use that card to try and get Nina to their side." Tsunade declared with a serious tone. "And Iwa could easily declare that, after all it did happen in their borders and it's so easy to accused that someone had kidnap a girl about eight years old just for the sake of their Kekkei Genkai." She then reminded.

To hearing that, the others were furious that someone would tried such a low move like that, but they couldn't think of what they could do if such an event could happen.

However before anyone could say anything else. . .

"Hey wait a minute!" Nina suddenly exclaimed while she was pouting.

"Nina-chan please, this is a serious discussion." Anko tried to calmed her down, but she was really worried for her.

"But I-" Nina got out.

"Sorry Nina-chan, but can you wait just for a moment." Hinata requested as she as well as the rest of Team Seven also began to think how to get out of this situation.

Even if the trio had just met the girl, Team Seven took an instant liking to the girl so they wouldn't let anyone take her like that just so that they could take her way.

"But I'm not-" Nina then tired to say once more.

"Nina-chan please let us finish discussing this situation." Yami then requested.

"BUT I'M NOT EIGHT YEARS OLD!" Nina soon shouted from constantly being interrupted.

This instantly got everyone's attention, but didn't felt that this was urgent.

". . ." Kurama said nothing as he looked at the girl. "Hey wild girl, if you feel the need to say eight and a half, you can just say it later." He finally got out with a deadpan tone as that's what he thought the girls wanted to say.

By this point, Nina's face was slowly turning red from anger as her cute pouting face looked even cuter. "I'M ALMOST THIRTEEN YEARS OLD!" She declared loudly while flailing her arms.

"ARF! MEOW! CHIRP!" The O trio got out in agreement.

". . ." There was a long period of silence when they heard that, as their brains were in the state of processing this information.

". . .What?" Kurama and Anko got out at the same time.

Nina's pout did leave as she looked at the group. "I'M TWELVE YEARS OLD!" She declared.

"ARF! MEOW! CHIRP!" The O trio got out in agreement once more.

". . ." Everyone continued to looked down at the girl as they still were processing this until. . .

"YOUR TWELVE!?" Team Seven soon exclaimed in unison in pure shocked as they realized what that meant.

"YOU'RE THE SAME AGE AS US!?" Naruto and Hinata then exclaimed in unison as they couldn't believe that the girl that looked like an eight year old was actually their age.

"No way!" Satsuki got out in shock.

"Y-Your just a year younger then me and Satsuki-chan?" Yami got out with disbelief. "H-How can that be?" She then asked.

Nina then calmed down as she puffed out her chest in pride. "Yeah!" She answered while her ears were happily wagging.

Tsunade on the other hand placed her hand on her chin. "Say I know this may sound a bit insensitive." She began to say as she gain everyone's attention. "But how long would you say you been in that forest? You don't have to be accurate, just a rough estimate will do." She then asked.

Said girl took an adorable thinking posed, which nearly made every female in the room to let out a squeal. After another moment the girl's eyes snapped open. "Hmm. . .I think when I was eight." Nina declared with insured tone.

"FOUR YEARS!?" Almost everyone exclaimed in surprise at the idea of a young girl living in the forest for that long with just a wolf cub, a tiger cub and a bird chick.

Anko on the other hand slightly closed her eyes while frowning a bit. "She's been alone for such a long time. . ." She thought to herself with a sad tone.

"How the hell!?" Kurama then questioned for both the girl's age and for her survival.

The O trio meanwhile gained sad expressions on their faces at being reminded of that.

Tsunade nodded to that. "I see and have anyone, other than the merchants that is, have tried to look for you? Say like shinobis?" She then asked.

"Nope." Nina instantly replied with a curious expression.

With that answer, Tsunade gained a smile on her face. "Well then, I guess that should settlers that manner then." She stated with a confident tone.

Everyone present in the room were left baffled and relief by such a declaration.

The Uchiha then looked towards the Hokage in confusion. "Huh? How you figure that Obaa-chan?" Satsuki then asked, not understanding what she meant.

The female Hokage scowled at that name, but decided to let that go for now. "What I mean is that if Iwa had lost a young girl with such an amazing abilities, they wouldn't had stop looking for her no matter how long it took." She declared with confidence, before she frown. "However that still doesn't eliminate the possibility of Iwa still trying at some point. So that's why I will asked again." She stated as she looked at Anko. "Are you willing to accept the responsibility for picking her for you squad?" She asked once again.

To that question, the woman being question couldn't deny what her leader had a point with everything she had said, it was completely unsure what could happen if she did had Nina join them. After all they didn't know the girl's past or if she did had any relation to Iwa as a whole.

Anko then quickly looked at the small twelve year old for a moment, she let out a small chuckle at the strained face on the girl's face as she was trying very hard to understand what the big words Tsunade said and then immediately given up.

The older woman then began to recalled her night she had spent with the girl as a kind smiled adored her face before looking at the leader. "Yeah." She replied with a calm yet determined filled tone.

The female Hokage could only let out a loud sigh. "Then, I have nothing else said." Tsunade simply said.

Nina turned from Anko and then to Tsunade in a rapid motion. "So I can stay Tsuna-chi?" then asked the blonde leader in an innocent tone.

Tsunade was left baffled by that. "T-Tsuna-chi?" She got out while her eye twitched from the girl's adorable expression, but couldn't say really get mad because she knew that the girl didn't said it with any bad or annoying intention like two certain chunins headaches. "Yes. . .You can stay." She answered. "I just need to get the proper paperwork with Anko and you'll be able to stay." She then clarified.

Anko let out an annoyed sigh at that, but she knew she just had to deal with it.

Nina's ears then wagged with excitement as she began to bounce around in happiness. "YAY! THANKS TSUNA-CHI!" She replied.

"Arf! Meow! Chirp!" The O trio shouted in unison as they too began to jump and fly around in joy.

Though Team Seven were equally happy about Nina being able to stay. Naruto, Hinata and Satsuki were struggling to not laugh out loud about the nickname Nina gave the Hokage.

"Do it. . .and I will make you regret it. . ." Tsunade threatened with a deathly tone as she knew what the trio were thinking.

In response to that, the trio gulped as they looked at the happiness young looking girl. "Welcome to Konoha Nina-chan." Hinata kindly greeted with a smile.

Anko effortlessly caught the bouncing girl and placed her down. "Looks like we got another odd ball for our place now." She remarked with a smirk on her face.

"Arf!" Okki got out. "Oi!" Was what she said, feeling offended to that.

Kurama meanwhile stretched his arms out before he placed a hand on his container. "Well, that's enough craziness for me." He remarked. "I need to get back to the real me." He declared as his whole body suddenly turned into red chakra and went towards the blond.

NIna meanwhile saw this and her eyes widen in in confusion. "Huh!?" She got out.

"Arf!? Meow!? Chirp!?" The O trio also got out in shock and confusion while jumping back a bit.

"Though it's annoying to be back inside, it's good to be back in my body." Kurama remarked from inside of the seal.

Then Naruto began produced a blue flare of chakra before it turn red and then a blob of red chakra came out of the seal on Naruto's stomach.

The next thing Nina and the O trio saw was the red chakra turned into a small fox. "Being a while since I been in this form." Kurama commented while he stretched his tiny paws.

"THE HELL!?" Okki exclaimed in shocked by the sudden change.

"A-A FOX!?" Ora stated by the sudden appearance of the animal while recognizing the voice.

"FOX! FOX!" Ori repeated in a surprised tone while flapping her wings.

To hearing that, the fox Kurama blinked to that as he looked at the three female animals. "Hold the fuck up, I can understand those three now?" He remarked.

This commented shocked all of the people present. "Wait what? You can understand the little guys?" Naruto asked with an amazed tone.

"How the hell did that happen?" Satsuki then asked.

Hinata meanwhile gained an intrigued expression to this development. "Maybe. . .because his in animal form?" She deducted her theory.

Suddenly the O trio then walked and landed next the the chibi Bijū. "You can understand us!?" Okki asked with a surprised tone while the other two simply looked at the fox with curious looks on their faces.

"Yeah. . .I can. . ." Kurama replied with an annoyed tone as he still was pissed at the little animals mauling him in the past. "I'm the Kyūbi no Kitsune, so you better show respect as a higher being that you." He demanded with an annoyed tone.

At this comment, the O trio instantly calmed down as they recognized who was Kurama. "Ah that's right! You're the asshole that dared mess with Nina-oneechan!" Okki remarked as she began growling at the fox.

"I see. . .then we don't care for you in the slightest. . ." Ora declared with a snappy tone.

"In the slightest! In the slightest!" Ori simply repeated.

"Why you. . ." Kurama growled out.

"I'll go in a limb here and say that the little guys don't like Kurama, huh?" Naruto started the obvious.

"Nope. . ." Anko simply commented.

"Hai sensei." Yami then answered. "And they are all females." She then reminded.

"No fuckin' respect. . ." Kurama growled once more.

Team Seven in response let out a chuckled at that as they then noticed the strangely quiet Nina. Said girl was still like a statue as her hair was covering her eyes.

"Nina-chan?" Naruto asked in concern.

The small girl's body began to slowly trembling. "C. . .C. . .C. . ." Nina got out in a low and barely able to hear tone.

Anko in response to this narrowed her eye. "You ok Nina-chan?" She asked with concern in her tone.

"Nina-chan?" Yami then asked as well as she too was concern.

Then in a slow manner, Nina's face began to slowly raise it as the light began to shine on her darken eye and revealed the biggest and most sparkling eyes anyone had ever seen in their lives.

"Huh?" Everyone got out in unison.

The O trio then suddenly sweatdropped as only they had ever seen the girl act like that. "Oh boy. . ." Ora got out with a deadpan tone.

"CHIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIBIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIII!" Nina squealed at the top of her lungs with pure delight as she ran past everyone at lightning speeds, nearly knocking everyone off their feet and blowing away all of the paperwork on Tsunade's desk out the window.

"Whoa!" Naruto got out as he had to catch the girls from almost falling.

"I JUST FINISH THOSE!" Tsunade roared with rage.

"What that hel-" Was all Kurama could got out as he was suddenly tackled by Nina and the two rolled around the floor. "OMPH!" He then grunted out.

"CHIBI!CHIBI!CHIBI!CHIBI!CHIBI!" Nina frantically cheered as she hugged him in a deadly bone crushing hug.

"AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH!" Kurama soon began screaming in agony as he struggled and futilely try to escape the deadly hug.

To this new sight, Team Seven looked on at the sight with shocked expressions until. . .

"BWAHAHAHAHA!" Naruto and Satsuki loudly laughed out as they held their stomachs while Hinata had a giggle attack.

"DON'T JUST STAND THERE! HELP ME!" Kurama roared in agony while he continued struggling.

Tsunade simply rubbed her forehead as she began to feel a headache coming. "Yup. . .a long day. . ." She grumbled out.

---

On the way to the Team Seven and Viper Squad residence. . .

After being allowed to leave, the group decided to head back to their home so that their newest member could get used to her new home, while Anko on the other hand was forced to stay as she need to work on the paperwork.

Now Team Seven and Viper Squad were walking through the shopping district that would lead to their home, while one of them was having a little too much fun.

"Oh~" Nina got out with sparkling eyes as she looked at a nearby store that sold food, all the while still holding the struggling Kurama in her death hug.

"Can't. . .breath. . ." Kurama struggled out as his face was blue from the lack of oxygen.

Team Seven meanwhile let out a stifled laughter at the Bijū's dismay while the O trio were walking close by with an annoyed expression from Nina paying more attention to the chibi fox.

Yami meanwhile giggled lightly as she petted the girl's head. "I'm glad you like it here." She replied.

Nina turned towards the older girl and nodded frantically. "Yeah! It's all sooooo cool looking Yami-oneechi!" She exclaimed.

When Satsui heard that bit, she faltered a little as she looked at the silver-blue haired girl. "Oneechi?" She asked with a raised eyebrow.

"She asked me to be something like a big sister to her." Yami basically explained.

"Ok, so how did you meet Nina-chan?" Satsuki then asked.

The silver/blue haired swordswoman thought of that for a moment before she nodded. "Hmm. . .I guess it would be better to explained everything." Yami declared with serious tone. "Well you already know that we had encountered her during our mission." She began to say.

The trio simply nodded as they did manage to hear that part when they had entered the office.

"Well after we encountered Nina-chan, you can imagine that we fell for her cuteness in an instant save for Kurama." Yami continued while letting out a small giggle, before her expression sadden. "Then after we heard from her that she had suffered from a very strange amnesia. . .we just couldn't leave her." She stated with a sad tone.

Hearing this shocked the trio as they turned and looked the happy girl and smiled sadly. "Guess Anko-neechan wanted to make the excuse of making her part of her team to give her a home, huh?" Satsuki guessed feeling proud of her older sister figure.

"Actually," Yami interrupted. "It was Kurama that gave us the honest opinion of taking her with us." She clarified.

"Huh!?" The trio got out in shocked as they turned to look at the Bijū in question.

The Bijū's entire body meanwhile was now blue as Nina continued running. "I'm. . .seeing. . .a light. . ." Kurama struggled out as his body fell limp.

"No way that ero-fox could ever give such a honest and not pervy opinion like that!" Satsuki declared with disbelief.

"Fu. . .ck. . .you. . ." The dying Kurama retorted while using the last of his strength to give them the middle finger before he finally fainted as a soul began to comedically leave his body.

Ora meanwhile let out a scoffed at that. "What a rude and vulgar creature." She insulted at the Bijū.

Nina then turned around to looked at the Team Seven members while Kurama moved like a ragdoll from the action and nodded happily. "Yeah yeah! Anko-chi and Kurama-chi offered to take me, Okki-chi, Ora-chi and Ori-chi to come live live here!" She declared in happiness.

The O trio let out happy cries as they were happy at the thought of living with Team Seven.

"Damn. . .who would had thought the ero-fox had it in him." Naruto got out as he smiled gently at that.

Hinata nodded in agreement to that as she looked at the little twelve year old.

"Though. . .They said that only if the owner of the house are ok with it. . ." Nina then shyly added as she looked at the trio with an adorable pleading expression.

The O trio meanwhile also looked at Team Seven with adorable and pleading animal eyes.

In response to the sight, both Satsuki and Hinata let out a squeal at that while the blond just chuckled. "Of course you're allowed to stay with us dattebayo!" Naruto replied with a large grin on his face.

Nina quickly raised her head and gain a huge smile on her face. "Yay! Yay! We get to living together!" She shouted in happiness as she and the O trio began jumping for joy.

Hinata meanwhile giggled as she looked at the girl and finally notice something. "Though there is one thing that needs to be taken care of." She admitted as she looked at the young looking girl.

Nina then tilted her head in confusion to that after calming down. "Huh?" She got out.

"She means that you need new clothes Nina-chan." Yami explained with a small smile on her face. "The dress your wearing is already passed it's use, so a change of clothing is necessary." She then added.

Nina's innocent expression didn't go away as she looked at the group while holding the blue Kurama. "Hmm?" She got out once again.

Satsuki nodded in agreement to this as she looked at the girl. "Yeah, you do need new clothes, but I'm not exactly Ino-chan, so I'm not sure what she should wear." She stated.

But before anything else could be said. . .

"Someone say my name?" A familiar female voice asked.

The group turned in unison and saw none other Team Ten, minus Asuma. Ino had her hands on her hips while the boys had many bags in each arms, while said they an annoyed expression on their faces.

Shikamaru meanwhile groaned a little as he held the bags. "Troublesome. . ." He grumbled.

"I'm hungry. . ." Chōji complained from the lack of snacks he had for a couple of minutes.

"Quiet lackeys!" Ino jokingly remarked with a teasing smirk.

Satsuki meanwhile sweatdropped to that as she awkwardly giggled at the sight. "Speak of the devil dattebakon. . ." Was all she had to say.

Ino then giggled back as she looked at the group. "Hey guys! Been a while." She happily replied as she walked up to them. "Did you just get back from a mission?" She then asked.

"Yup, both of our teams had just come back actually." Naruto answered as he placed his hands behind his head and grinned.

Ino nodded in response to that. "Cool, we recently finished a very intense training that Asuma-sensei had put as through." She replied in a pride filled tone. "And I. . .convinced my teammates have a little down time at the shopping district." She then added.

Shikamaru's eye then twitched to that as he looked at his blonde teammate. "More like conned us into carrying her stuff while she went shopping." He corrected.

"That. . .sounds about right. . ." Yami meanwhile muttered with a sweatdrop.

"No one asked you." Ino simply retorted to her teammate as she then noticed someone unfamiliar. "So. . .who's the cute little girl?" She then asked with a baffled tone.

"Huh?" Both of the girls teammates got out as they turned and saw the girl in question.

". . ." Nina on the other hand was looking intently at the platinum blonde while still holding on the the dead Kurama on her arms.

"Oh no. . ." The group got out as they had saw that looked before while the O trio let out a sigh.

Nina then blinked a bit before she smiled at the girl. "Nice to meet you! Nina is Nina!" She happily replied in a cute manner.

"Ah~" Ino soom squealed out at the cute girl. "It's nice to meet you too." She replied happily to that as she patted the girl's head.

Nina's group on the other hand were left baffled and conflicted at this as they looked at each other for a moment.

"Does this mean that. . ." Naruto began to say.

"Don't say it. . .Ino might kill you. . ." Hinata mentally replied.

"Oh yeah. . ." Satsuki instantly replied.

"Yes. . .it would be a heavy blow for any female. . ." Yami added.

"Gotcha." Naruto answered as he did not want to open that can of worms.

"Small. . .boobs. . ." The dead Kurama declared.

Ino finally got out of her trance as she recovered from the cuteness. "So who is the little girl?" She then asked.

"She's Viper Squad's newest member, Nina Dōbutsu." Yami declared as she gently rub the girl's head.

"Arf!" And annoyed Okki barked.

Yami let out a small giggle at that. "And this are also part our team, Okki, Ora and Ori." She then added while the O trio puffed out their chests in pride.

To hearing that, Team Ten was left shocked at this revelation. "Wait I can understand the little guys being shinobi comrades like Kiba with Akamaru, but is it alright to have such a young girl be on a shinobi team? " Ino then asked with a surprised tone.

"Yeah, shouldn't she be at the academy?" Chōji agreed.

"Well. . ." Hinata began with a awkward sweatdrop.

"You would think so but. . ." Satsuki got out while looked away.

"That won't be an issue." Yami simply stated.

"Got that right dattebayo." Naruto agreed.

This answers only confused Ino and Chōji, while Shikamaru took in all of the signs that Team Seven and Viper Squad were giving and used his genius mind to solve the puzzle. "She's older then she looks, huh?" He simply stated.

Nina then pouted as she looked at the members of Team Ten. "I'm almost thirteen years old!" She declared.

Ino's and Chōji's jaws then dropped as their eyes widen at the declaration, while Shikamaru only let out a sigh.

Ino then looked at the girl after her declaration. "WHAT!? BUT YOU LOOK SO YOUNG!" She exclaimed in shock and denial.

"Huh, it looks like Anko-sensei's team is becoming an interesting one." Chōji then admitted.

"More like troublesome. . ." Shikamaru grumbled out.

"Well it was good to see you guys." Naruto began to say.

"But we really do need to get going." Satsuki continued.

"Yes, we need to buy Nina-chan some new clothing." Hinata concluded.

Ino's body instantly jerked up to that as her eyes them gleamed like a predator. "Did you say. . .clothes?" She then asked in a more possessed tone.

To this sight, Nina and the O trio let out yelped in fear as Nina hid behind Yami while the little animals hid behind the trio.

Then Ino's face turn towards Naruto and frown as she pointed at the other blond. "NARUTO UZUMAKI!" She roared with pride.

Said blond head jerk a the sudden called out. "Huh?" Naruto got out in startlement.

"YOU AND ME! FASHION MATCH! NOW!" Ino ordered.

"Huh!?" Naruto shouted in confusion.

"You have disgraced my fashion sense back when I wanted to give you cool clothing! Now I want to restore my honor! By seeing who gets Nina-chan then best clothing she could wear!" Ino roared to the four wind.

". . ." There was an awkward moment of silence as the group and pretty much everyone near them looked at the scene with baffled and confused expression. While the platinum blonde's teammates face palmed.

"Troublesome. . ." Shikamaru got out.

"Hmm?" Nina meanwhile got out in a cute and confused manner.

---

At the shinobi clothing store. . .

"I can't believe I'm actually doing this. . ." Naruto stated with a annoyed tone.

The reason for the blond's annoyance was that he was lazily looking for clothing that could fit the newest member of Viper Squad for this ridiculous match from the Yamanaka. While his teammates and the two members of Viper Squad could only looked on with pity, from a safe distance.

Ino on the other hand was looking and throwing clothing in rapid succession as she still had an obsessed and possessed expression on her face, determine to reclaim her honor against the other blond while her teammates made a break for it as they did not want to deal with her at the moment.

"Lucky bastards. . ." Naruto complained as he wish he had done the same.

"I will get my revenge!" Ino declared as she picked out another set of clothing.

Nina meanwhile was innocently sitting as she looked at the Yamanaka while still holding the dead Kurama. "Ino-chi scares me a bit. . ." She whispered.

"Yeah. . ." Satsuki and Hinata got out while they sweat dropped in unison.

"Sorry about this Nina-chan. . ." Yami then apologized.

Nina however shook her head to that. "It's alright Yami-oneechi." She replied. "But what was wrong with Ino-chi?" She then asked.

"Lets just say. . .Ino-chan doesn't like losing and Naruto beat her before." Satsuki tried to explained in a tamed fashion.

"Oh! So she's like when Okki-chi loses to Ora-chi!" Nina stated with an understanding tone.

"Arf!" Okki annoyingly barked while Ora let out an amused purring.

"Yes. . .just like that Nina-chan." Yami simply replied with a deadpan tone while rubbing the girl's head.

With nothing else to say, the group simply turned and continued looking at the match.

---

Round 1!

A very proud Ino was standing tall while she had her first outfit in her arms. "Here you go Nina-chan~!" She happily declared with an obsessed tone as she tried to grab the little girl.

"Ep!" A startled Nina got out at this as she jumped and got behind Yami.

"Wait a minute!" Satsuki declared as she grabbed the possessed girl. "Me and Nata-chan will put the clothings on her." She declared with a dead serious tone.

At the declaration, Ino calmed down enough to back away. "Fine! Doesn't manner, I know she'll love it!" She declared with a confident huff.

"Is that alright with you Naruto-kun?" Hinata then asked the blond.

"Go right ahead. . ." Naruto replied with an uncaring tone as he lazily held just one piece of clothing in his hand.

With a nod, the three girls took Nina towards the changing room to put on the outfit.

After a few seconds. . .

"EH!?" Satsuki and Hinata got on in unison.

"Oh yeah. . ." Yami got out with a sweatdrop and a small blush.

Hinata then came out of the room with a small blush on her face as she went into the underwear section and got a simple pair of white panties with a pink bow on them before returning into the dressing room.

Ino meanwhile had her arms crossed as she had a large smirk on her face, confident that she already had won while Naruto just had a bored and annoyed expression on his face.

Then the sound of something crawling reached the blonds ears. "Huh?" Naruto got out as he turned around.

On the floor what he saw was a half dead Kurama that had finally manage to escape the clutches of Nina's death hug, while he only used his front paws to weakly crawled towards him, after a few moments he finally reached his container and weakly raised his head. "Damn. . .you. . .kit. . ." He breathed out as he turned into chakra and returned to the seal.

To hearing that, all the blond could do was sweatdropped at the comment, but decided not to say anything.

"We're back. . ." Satsuki got out with a conflicted tone.

Naruto turned around and saw what Nina was wearing. "The hell?" He thought.

The young girl was wearing a trendy black short sleeved shirt and a black and white checkered skirt. She also had a cap that covered her ears and a pair of dark sunglasses. Finally she had very stylish black boats.

"It is. . .different. . ." Hinata admitted while smiling awkwardly.

"I just don't feel that it would suit Nina-chan." Satsuki simply stated.

Yami merely nodded in agreement to that.

Ino had her mouth slightly open at that. "But it's really stylish!" She declared.

Nina then took off the hat and plop the skirt. "Nope." She simply stated.

"Arf!" Okki barked out. "No way Nina-oneechan would ever wear something like that!" Was what she said.

"Meow. . ." Ora simply got out with a huff. "Yes, the outfit doesn't do justice to Nina-oneechan beauty. . ." Her fellow animal friends heard.

"Chirp! Chirp!" Ori replied while flapping her wings. "Beauty! Beauty!" She simply repeated.

The self proclaimed fashionista meanwhile frowned as she point at the blond. "At least I choose more that just whatever I grabbed!" She declared with indignation.

Naruto simply shrugged not even bothering to deny it. "Um. . .I just got this." He simply said as he gave the girl a pair of dark blue shorts that reaches mid thigh.

Nina looked at the shorts for a bit, before she took them and when into the changing room once more with the girls right behind her.

Both blonds simply waited for the girls to returned, while Ino had a grin on her face, knowing that Nina wouldn't choose just some shorts over her stylish outfit.

A few moments later, Nina came out of the room and had her battered dress on as she happily ran towards the blonds. "Thanks Naruto-niichi!" She happily replied as she grabbed the ends of her dress and showed the shorts underneath it. "I like them! They feel nice to walk and run in!" She then added.

The girls simply smiled and giggled at that as they agreed with the girl.

"Arf arf!" Okki barked out while panting happily. "Yeah! They look nice Naruto-nii!" Was what she said.

Ora nodded in agreement to that. "Meow." She meowed out. "They suit her very nicely." She complemented.

"Chirp chirp!" Ori got out. "Nicely! Nicely!" She repeated as she landed on Hinata's head.

Naruto just chuckled awkwardly as he really didn't put any thought of whether or not it was practical. "Your welcome." He simply replied as he gain a sweatdrop. "Niichi?" He then asked in his mind.

Ino was left speechless as she heard that Nina like just a pair of pants over her entire outfit. "Wait! I still have others I just know you'll like!" She quickly declared.

---

Round 2!

Once again, the two blondes were waiting for Nina to come back, Ino was still confident that she can make a comeback, while Naruto was thinking what kind of ramen will he have later.

After a few moments later, Nina finally exited the changing room while wearing Ino's new outfit. It was a simple pink with white highlighting frilly dress.

". . .Ino-chan, Nina-chan's a kunoichi. . ." Satsuki slowly reminded with a twitchy eye.

The other two girl simply frowned, but they were in complete agreement with that statement.

"Bleh. . ." Nina got out with a pout as she stick out her tongue in a cute manner. "Can I take this off now?" She then asked.

"ARF! ARF! ARF!" Okki barked out in anger. "GET THAT OFF OF HER!" She demanded.

"HISS!" Ora hissed at the dress. "THIS IS AN INSULT TO NINA-ONEECHAN!" She roared in outrage.

"Chirp! Chirp!" Ori simply replied while flapping her wings. "Insult! Insult!" She repeated.

"But she looks so adorable!" Ino rebutted with a shocked tone.

"Again. . Ku! Noi! Chi!" Satsuki then slowly repeated.

Ino flinched at that as she turned at the chuckling blond. "Then what did you bring her!" She demanded with one or two hairs were standing on evenly.

This instantly shut the other blond up and chuckled awkwardly. "Well. . ." Naruto got out as he handed Nina a simply sundress shirt, however its skirt was much shorter than the standard ones as it only covers her thighs. "It was just this." He then added.

"Oh come on! Are you even trying!?" Ino declared with an insulted tone.

Naruto just slightly narrow his eyes to that. "Because I'm not. . ." he thought to himself.

Nina however simply took the sundress and walked into the dressing room, with the girls in toe. Then after a few moments, Nina came out of the room while wearing both the sundress and the shorts. "It feels nice! It's like my old dress, but better!" She declared excitedly.

"What!?" Ino got out at the girl picking such a simply thing over the stylish pink dress.

"Meow." Ora once more meowed with a nod. "Yes, this suits her well too." She replied with a smile.

"Arf! Arf!" Okki barked out. "Hell yeah! Way better than the other dress!" She agreed.

"Chirp chirp!" Ori chipped from Hinata's head. "Better! Better!" She replied.

"Why would you pick such a simply dress!?" Ino asked

Nina then pouted to that. "I already said why." She replied.

"Wait! Wait! I still have other outfit's that I know you'll like!" Ino quickly stated with a pleasing tone. "I am not going to lose to Naruto!" She declared in her mind.

---

Round 3!

Once more, the two blondes were waiting for the young looking neko girl to come out of the changing room while Ino was tapping her foot with impatience, all the while glaring at the other blond.

Naruto on the other hand had an annoyed expression on his face. "This is getting annoying now dattebayo. . ." He meanwhile thought with a sweatdrop.

"Yup/Hai. . ." Satsuki and Hinata mentally replied.

A fre moments later, Nina yet again came out of the dressing room and was now wearing a sleeveless black fur short coat over a pink long sleeve shirt, colorful wool pants, dark boats.

"Mmm. . ." Nina got out in an embarrassed tone.

To the sight, Satsuki smacked her forehead with her palm at seeing the outfit. "Again with pink?" She questioned.

Both Hinata and Yami shook their head in disapproval.

Ora also palmed her forehead with her paw to the sight. "Meow. . ." She got out in annoyance. "I'm starting to hate her. . ." She commented.

"Grr!" Okki growled out. "Can I bite her throat?" She requested with an annoyed tone.

"Chirp! Chirp!" Ori simply said. "Thoat! Throat!" She repeated.

"Oh come on!" Ino exclaimed. "Naruto's turn! Now! She then demanded with a slight twitch in her eye.

"Well I just found this?" Naruto stated more than asked as she gave Nina a light brown leather belt that had a cute paw print on its center.

Nina instantly smiled to that as she looked at it. "Cool paw print!" She exclaimed.

"What?" Ino could only got out as her face was turning pale.

Naruto then chuckled awkwardly to that. "Well since you got a thing with animals, so why not?" He then replied while rubbing the back of his head.

Satsuki giggled to that as she placed a hand on her's and the Hyuga's fiancé. "Well that was nice of you Naru-kun." She replied.

The young looking girl took the belt and ran back to the dressing room. It did not took even a few seconds as Nina come out while wearing the shorts, sundress and the cute belt on top of the dress.

Yami meanwhile smiled as she looked at her new team member. "Well aren't you adorable Nina-chan." She kindly complimented.

Both Hinata and Satsuki however had to hold back from squealing at just how adorable they thought Nina was.

"AWOOOO!" Okki howled out. "Looking good Nina-oneechan!" She replied in approval.

"Meow~" Ora meowed out. "I completely agree~" She replied.

"Tweet! Tweet!" Ori chirped out. "Agree! Agree!" She repeated.

"Haha. . .Not. . .yet. . .I can. . .I can still win!" Ino historically got out as her hair was in a total mess now and with a twitching eye.

---

Final Round!

Finally, the final round had came, this would be the decisive match that would determine the winner. . .

Ino was currently having a complete mental breakdown while her hair was ruined while she was sweating bullets "I can't lose, I can't lose, I can't lose. . ." She repeated in an obsessive manner.

Naruto meanwhile just stood there with a bored expression. "Are we done yet?" Naruto asked with a tired tone as he just wanted the stupid match end and get something to eat.

Thumb, thumb

The sound of heavy footsteps echoed from the direction of the dressing room. Ino quickly turned towards and smiled almost desperately. What she saw was Nina wearing a gray fur coat that looked like it was for winter, underneath the boat was a gray undershirt as well as tight pants and big fur boots.

". . ." Nina didn't say a word while she had a very unpleased and pouting expression on her face.

"Ino-chan. . .this is getting ridiculous now!" Satsuki then declared in what Nina was wearing this time.

"Not to mention it's an offense to animals." Hinata then added.

"HISS! HISS!" Ora hissed loudly while Hinata tried to calmed her down. "OFF! TAKE IT OFF NINA-ONEECHAN!" She demanded while the gently rubbing of Hinata's hands calmed her enough not to attack Ino.

"Hai." Yami also agreed with a nod.

"ARF! ARF! ARF!" Okki barked in anger while Yami was holding her. "THAT'S IT! SHE'S DEAD!" She roared while struggling to get free from the older girl's grip.

"Chirp! Chirp!" Ori got out while jumping in place. "Dead! Dead!" She repeated.

Crack!

Ino could feel her sense of fashion slowly being to crack as she head all of this. "Nina-chan. . .you like it. . .right?" She all but pleaded as she was on the verge of tears.

"I HATE IT!" Nina shouted as she took out the furry coat and threw onto the floor.

SHATTER!

The sound of Ino's fashion dignity shattered into pieces at hearing that as she felt on all of her limbs.

Naruto sweatdropped at that as he turned towards Nina. "O. . .k? Well I just got this." He got out as he gave two pairs of long sleeve gloves that could reaches Nina's elbows and had rings on their wrists section, one pair were normal while the other pair was fingerless.

Nina was still mad by the previous outfit that she simply took the gloves and stomped off to the dressing room.

After a little while, the neko girl finally got out of the dressing room with a huge smile on her face. "I love it!" Nina squealed in pure joy as she twirled and jumped in her new outfit that consisted of everything Naruto had chosen and blue shinobi shoes. "Thank Naruto-oniichi!" She then added as she gave the blond a big hug.

"Now that suits you Nina-chan." Hinata complemented with a smile on her face.

Satsuki nodded in agreement to that as she looked down at the girl. "Glad you like it Nina-chan." She happily replied.

Yami also nodded in agreement to this as she smiled kindly. "You look great Nina-chan." She complemented.

"Arf! Meow! Chirp! The O trio got out in unison as they ran and flew around Nina and Naruto with pure happiness.

WINNER! NARUTO UZUMAKI!

An imaginary confetti burst out of nowhere and imaginary applause echoed in the distance.

"Hehe. . .hehe. . ." The broken and soulless Ino got out to hearing that. "Naruto beat me. . .at fashion. . .he. . .he. . .he. . ." She then added with a crushed soul.

"Can we go now?" Was all Naruto got out in slight annoyance.

Nina merely smiled to that. "Sure thing Naruto-oniichi!" She happily replied with her ears wagging.

---

Back at the Team Seven and Viper Squad residence. . .

After the match, Ino's teammates returned just when the group had finished thanks to Shikamaru's estimate on when it would had ended. So they picked up the crushed Ino and apologized for the trouble the blonde had cost.

Then after saying their goodbyes, the group and the new clothed Nina finally reached their new home as night time had arrived and after having Nina beened registered in the gate's seal. With the exception of Kurama who refused to come out of the seal and risked being death hugged one more.

Though the group did had some slight complications for registering Okki, Ora and Ori as somehow they were registered in a completely new category named pets, much to their indignation. However with all this taken cared of, they walked towards the house.

"Oooooh~! This where we'll be living!?" A very excited Nina asked at the sight of her and the O trio's new home.

"That's right Nina-chan, this will be your new home." Yami answered with a kind tone, happy that the girl would finally have a place to truly call home.

Naruto placed both of his hands behind his head and nodded. "It always feels great coming home dattebayo." He admitted with a fox like grin. "Isn't that right Kurama?" He then teasingly asked with a witty grin.

"Not coming out. . ." Kurama meanwhile grumbled out after regaining his ability to breath normally.

Satsuki happily nodded in agreement as she smiled to that. "Yup, it really is good to be home." She replied.

"And nothing is better to call home like being with those you care about." Hinata then explained.

Nina gain the biggest smile she had ever had in her life as she nodded rapidly. "Hai!" She loudly declared.

"AWOOOOO!" Okki howled out in delight as she ran all over the place. "I can get used to this!" Was what she said.

"Meow~" Ora meowed out as she stretched her limbs. "Indeed it's like we didn't even leave the forest, it's really big area~" She agreed.

"Chirp! Chirp!" Ori cheerfully chirped as she flied around them. "Big! Big!" She repeated with happiness.

Nina and the O Trio then rushed into the house as they looked at the inside to get a good feel to their new home, all the while looking at each room and are with amazement. "Oooooh~! I can't believe this place is your Naruto-oniichi! Hinata-oneechi! Satsuki-oneechi!" She replied.

Hinata in turn giggled at her enthusiasm. "Why thank you Nina-chan, this is your home too now along with Anko-sensei and Yami-chan." She revealed.

Nina's ears perked up to that as she looked at the silver blue haired girl. "You live here too Yami-oneechi!?" She exclaimed with a surprised tone.

Yami simply gave the girl a small smile and nodded. "Yes, me and Anko-sensei will be living together with you and everyone else." She stated.

To hearing that, Nina went and jump hugged her big sister. "Yay! Yay! I get to live with Yami-oneechi and Anko-chi!" She cheered with delight.

"Someone called me?" A female voice called out to the group.

The residents turned and saw it who it was. "Anko-oneechi!" Nina called out in happiness at the sight of the older kunoichi, though what was surprising was that said woman had her hair down.

Satsuki meanwhile waved to the jonin with a smirk on her face. "Hey Anko-neechan." She greeted.

Anko simply giggled as she walked towards them while she held a large paper bag on her hand. "Hey there, looks like your liking the new place, huh?" She asked with a knowing tone.

Nina nodded happily to that. "Yeah! This place is awesome!" She replied.

"Oh, looks like you also got new duds, huh?" anko then asked as she saw Nina's new clothing.

"Yup! Yup! Naruto-oniichi got them for me!" Nina instantly replied as she show off her clothing.

Anko blinked at that. "Wait the gaki got you those clothing? Color blind gaki? Is the world going to end?" She asked with a very surprised and slightly disturbed tone.

"Oi!" Naruto remarked. "I was forced into a fashion match by Ino! I just pick those things at random and she just happen to like them. . ." He then added with a pout.

To hearing that, Anko shivered slightly as even she knew about the the girl's fashion obsession. "Ok, that I can believe." She retorted as she then pulled out the bag. "Here you go! A little present from me Wild Girl." Anko declared with a grin on her face.

Nina stared at the bag for a moment as she took the bag while her ears twitch a bit. "Hm?" got out while tilted her head in a cute manner. "This isn't something like what Ino-oneechi tried to get me is it?" She soon asked with a slightly worried tone.

Everyone in the room immediately gained a massive sweatdropped at that while the O trio let out displeasing sounds at being reminded.

Anko just chuckled a bit. "Trust me wild girl, I ain't nothing like her so I choice of gifts are a bit more. . .personal." She hinted with a slight embarrassed tone.

Nina then looked at the bag while tilting her head once more. Then she pull out the paper that covered the gift." Hm?" She got out as she took out and everyone saw it was a large piece of cloth. "Huh?" She got out in confusion.

Satsuki then got a closer look at what it was. "A coat Anko-neechan?" She asked.

The coat that was in Nina's hands was very simply in design. The coat was a slightly darker shade of brown than Anko's, in actuality it looked like a smaller replica of her the kunoichi's. However, unlike Anko's, the sleeves only reach up to the elbows, also coat only went down to the thighs, it had a small hood and finally on the right upper arm, it had a metal Konoha headband engraved onto it.

Anko just let out an embarrassed chuckle. "Yeah. . .Not very good at choosing gifts so I thought she may liked it." She explained.

Nina on the other hand was strangely quiet while she was staring deeply at that coat.

This reaction soon caused Anko to feel a bit nervous at that as she thought the little girl didn't like it. So she stood up and turned around "Hey, if you want something else-" She tried to say.

However before the leader of Viper Squad could respond, Nina, now wearing the coat on, jump hugged Anko as she began to grope her. "I LOVE IT ANKO-ONEECHI!" She happily declared while rubbing.

"O-OI!" Anko got out with an embarrassed blush on her face as she

Yami on the other hand closed her eyes and let out a sigh of annoyance. "I am still having second thoughts of this team. . ." She commented with a deadpan tone.

The O trio just began running and flying around Anko as they were just as happy at their big sister as she was.

Satsuki meanwhile grinned a teasing manner to this. "This is gonna be fun dattebakon." She got out in amusement.

Naruto just chuckled at that. "Got that right? Wouldn't you say Kurama?" He simply said as he then asked with a smirk on his face.

". . .Shut it kit. . ." Kurama remarked with an eye twitch with pure annoyance.

"Ah~" Anko then moaned out in a sexual matter

Kurama then had a nosebleed as he watch his mate being groped. "Tonight Anko-chan. . .to fuckin' night. . ." He then added to himself.

Hinata meanwhile giggled at the sight. "At least they are getting along." She admitted.

---

Underneath Konoha. . .

BOOM!

CRASH!

WHAM!

Heavy panting was heard as the area around was covered with open ground cracks and puddles of water.

Kidōmaru then looked toward the progress that was made before he nodded"Looks like she's ready." He then simply commented with a serious tone as he then looked at the other two members.

Jirōbō merely nodded to that as he looked at the girl. "Welcome to Otogakure. . ." He declared in a calm manner.

Tayuya just scoffed and said nothing as she really didn't care at all.

To hearing that, Sakura let out a sick smile as her curse marks glowed vile green while panting, but the marks soon retracted and she returned to normal. "When do we leave?" She questioned with an an arrogant tone.

"We're leaving immediately and make sure to. . .clean this place up." Kidōmaru then ordered.

Sakura's eyes then dulled as she looked at the Sound Three members. "Yes. . .Kidōmaru-sama. . .Jirōbō-sama. . ." She replied in a emotionless tone.

Tayuya meanwhile rolled her eyes to this. "Broken bitch. . ." She muttered in annoyance.

The malice around Sakura then increased as she looked at the other girl with a death glare. "I'll make you my bitch when we get to Otogakure. . ." She declared in the same emotionless tone.

"Try it bitch. . ." Tayuya retorted with pissed off expression.

To hearing the interaction, Kidōmaru narrowed his eyes. "Enough, we're leaving, now!" He ordered with a serious tone.

"Hai/Fine Kidōmaru-sama." The two girls replied as they look at each other while they wanted to cut the throat of the other.

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Outside of the underground base. . .

The group of four came out to be inside of the warehouse as they fully prepared to leave.

Once Kidōmaru made sure everything was ready, he then turned towards Jirōbō and nodded.

The large Oto shinobi returned the not and walked towards the entrance of the warehouse. Then he began making multiple hand seals and slam both of his arms on the the earth. "Earth Style: Sunken Earth Vortex." He calmly declared.

Suddenly all of the area around the warehouse began to shake as the are then collapse and it sank as if it was quick sand, destroying every trace that they were ever there. Before the sand solidified, turning the destroyed area into a normal earth surface.

Kidōmaru then nodded to the results as he looked at the walls of Konoha. "Right, move out." He ordered.

"Hai. . ." Sakura replied as she began walking towards the gate. "But before we leave. . .I have orders from Danzō-sama before his departure. . ." She then revealed.

Jirōbō then narrowed his eyes to that. "Is that so? And what would that be?" He questioned.

"I can't say as it's a mission for me and me alone." Sakura replied with an emotionless tone.

This did not leave a good impression, however they knew that Danzō was partnered with their leader so they were forced to accept.

"Very well." Kidōmaru simply agreed.

Tayuya meanwhile rolled her eyes to that. "Well don't take to fuckin' long." She then ordered.

Sakura in response gave the other girl the middle finger as she vanished from their sight.

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Near the main gate. . .

Sakura had suddenly appeared near the main gate to leave the village as she looked at the full moon. ". . .I am coming Danzō-sama. . Orochimaru-sama. . ." She muttered in anticipation. "My masters. . .those I swear my loyalty to. . ." She thought with a worshipping tone.

Suddenly on the deepest part of the girl's mind, an image of what looked like an older, mouth masked version of herself appeared as it gazed at the real girl evilly. "For now. . ." The image declared before she faded away.

Suddenly, the girl heard the sound of someone gasping in startlement. ". . .S-Sakura?" A voice suddenly asked, sounding surprised.

Said girl face didn't changed at all, then the curse mark began to activate with her eyes glowing yellowish-green as she slowly began to turn around.

Once Sakura got a good look at the other person, a warped twisted smile appeared on her face. "Hello. . ." She simply greeted as her eyes became snake like with her malice flaring "Ino. . ." She added with hiss in her tone as she looked at her prey.

As our heroes laughed and enjoy their current happy moments while welcoming the new Viper Squad member, none of them knew their happy times will be cut short as the approaching storm was now around the corner. . .which will soon bring some to despair, while others will unlock their inner rage and a power that is truly demonic. . .

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JG (JGResidentEvil)'s AN: What's everyone! JG here with fight2protect with the newest chapter of Uchiha Heiress Remix!

F2P (fight2protct)'s A/N: Yo! Been a little while but we're back! And so we bring to you all the conclusion for the Tea Arc. But. . .let's face it, you all probably only cared for the Nina parts of the chapter. XD

JG: XD Yeah! Doing Nina was great! Not to mention that we love her character, though it was my idea for the hyperactive personality for her and the way she speaks. XD

F2P: Though I came up with most of her insane/cute dialogue from her and the O trio. XD Anywho. . .with this chapter, we finally, thought small, we gained some light into Nina's mysterious past, so I have to ask. . .Who had thought that the little physical manifestation of insanity was actually 12? Because our favorite trio sure didn't! XD

JG: XD And that was my idea to make her a loli, for deception and even more adorable interactions from the girl! (Not in a pedo kind of way, that's Orochi-pedo!)

F2P: Though Nina may be 12, she's a bit naive in a lot of aspects, like that mate thing. XD

JG: Which is expected since she was a girl that was raised in the forest for four year.

F2P: And like she said, she was there since she was probably eight, so add that with not having any memory of her previous life and living with animals can make you a bit naive. Now the next part we like to add was that a lot of readers didn't like that Team Nine easily beaten and if we're being honest. . .we have to agree too. ^^"

JG: Yeah that was mainly to build up the story really. ^^"

F2P: HOWEVER! We hope that made it up with the final fight with Aoi! Lee kicked his ass so hard that he made him looked like a total scrub! XD

JG: Oh yeah! That was awesome in the end! And they even got the blade back from his greedy and overconfident hands! That's what you get for messing with Kin in front of Lee! XD

F2P: That and we wanted show off his weights because we didn't in the chunin exam preliminaries like he did when he fought Gaara in canon.

JG: Though the next part involving the fashion match between Ino and Naruto, that was all F2P's idea. ^^"

F2P: Hey! You got to remember that Naruto ISN'T a fashionista like Ino and he only relied on his insane luck to pick up the clothing that JUST SO HAPPEN that would fit Nina, her loving the outfit was COMPLETELY accidental. XD

JG: I know, I know. ^^" Though it was also due to Nina not liking Ino's overly girly outfits she picked. Basically she done goofed! XD

F2P: And that's what made that part so damn hilarious! XD

JG: Finally the thing about Nina and chibis animals, all mine! I mean come on, it was obvious that she would love them with Okki, Ora and Ori! XD

F2P: Which was a living torment for a certain Chibi fox! XD

JG: And by the ending for this chapter, oh boy it's gonna get rough. . . *coughs into fist*

F2P: Oh yeah. . .but before that, REVIEWS! XD

JG: Exactly! So I'll start it off with my review choice from harlequin320!

great chapter as always, interesting little date for Kiba and Tayuya, I wonder if that will go anywhere? anyways, great chapter, keep up the good work, I look forward to more to come

Well like I said earlier, it's gonna get hectic from here on out. For the Kiba and Tayuya, yeah that went as expected. ^^"

F2P: And as to where it will go? Well. . .you'll just have wait and see. :D And for my review from Kartikey:

Great as usual. But I think you should make team 7 more mature and more ninja like and hinata and satsuki less idiot and more serious than naruto. I mean sure it is fun for some moments but it gets annoying if they are like that all the time. Also, I don't know if it is intentional or not, but there is too much humour in the story lately, you should, probably, focus on bringing it to neutral side, or maybe a little dark side. Other than that, I have no complaints about your story, its really amazing. I also loved what you did with nina's hair, its cute just thinking about it. If you can tell me, I wanted to know what do you have in mind about naruto's bijuu chakra mode, kyuubi chakra mode, rikoduo sennin mode and rinnegan. And if naruto will have something unique like hinata's byakugan and satsuki's sharingan, not kurama, because they are also his psuedo jinchuuriki. Is it possible for kurama to get out of seal like that because I don't think minato designed a seal that would allow kyuubi to get out, even partially?

Ok though I don't really think that the girl are that idiotic, they are WAY more mature than Naruto. ^^" However your observation about having too much humour is 100% correct, it was intentional, but don't think it was without reason, as we said in other chapters, everything we do in the fillers actually DOES have a meaning and a purpose for the future of this fic, this also include the comedy parts. Whether you believe us or not, well that's for you to read and find out.

JG: In any sense, all the humor we've is just a calm before the storm and as for your comment to make it neutral or dark, I will flatly say this: IT WILL GET DARK! Just like how the current ending was with the encounter Ino is about to have with our mad Sakura. Despair and destruction are coming, both physically and mentally. (But nothing comparable to say. . .Madoka Magica that is) ^^"

F2P: But that's for next chapter to find out, now I'm glad you love Nina's hair. :D That's will be her thing so expect it to alway appear! XD Finally for you question about Naruto's and the girl's. . .sorry, but I can only say, NO COMMENT!

JG: Same here! Moving on from that, we also have to reveal that only one chapter got remastered this time for certain reasons. ^^"

F2P: Though. . .after you read it, you'll all see why ONE was MORE than enough. XD

JG: And here's the name for the next remastered chapter, so keep your eyes out for it!

Chapter 23: The Revelations of Naruto Uzumaki!

JG: And trust me, we really went at it with this one chapter. ^^" Lastly, Sakura is now on the move. . .

F2P: And this where everything will really change. . .like what you asked? Well find out on the next chapter of Uchiha Heiress Remix!

JG: And with that, we are done for this chapter! Until next time everyone, see ya!

F2P: Peace out!