Its been awhile since summer and i plan to start writing again so i plan to finish this story by summers end. I have taken out my notes and i belive this possible so here we go.

AKAMARU: WOOF!

Naruto woke to a beautiful sunrise. The birds chirped and Aori snored with a bottle of sake in his hands.

"Where does he get all that stuff?" Naruto thought as he scratched his head.

"He is just a drunk bum, kid." Kyuubi said apathetically.

"Don't listen to him Naruto. This guy will tell you who he really is when he wants to. You may be surprised to hear the answer." Bajira added.

"Y'know I think that Bajira might just be talking out of his ass again." Kyuubi rudely stated.

"Son of a…" "BRING IT!" "You piece of…" "I can hear you, but I don't see you doing anything."

"GUYS!!! Please… it's early not now." Naruto said while yawning. Neither Kyuubi nor Bajira spoke.

Aori woke with a bad hangover. He stood up and yawned as he looked over at Naruto. "Hey kid, how are you?" Aori asked.

"Who are you? Really?" Naruto got straight to the point.

Aori was silent for a while. He thought about this question. "Who am I?" He said aloud. "Kid, I have a major headache. I just don't feel like answering stupid questions."

"Jeez. Well then I guess I better be off to Sound. Goodbye!" Naruto said as he began walking away.

"Idiot! Make this kid your student! Don't let him get away!" A voice beckoned Aori.

"Alright! Kid your going the wrong way. Sound is this way. I will show you." Aori told Naruto.

"Really? But I thought it was…" "It's this way. Come with me." Aori interrupted.

Naruto followed Aori. Neither of them talked to each other for a few minutes. However, both had conversations going on inside their heads.

Naruto's Mind+

"Are you guys gonna ever stop bickering? I am beginning to get tired of it." Naruto asked tiredly. Kyuubi and Bajira have been arguing about who was a better pillager for the past twenty minutes.

"I burned the Village Hidden in the Mountains to the ground. Twice." Bajira bragged.

"I had my way with forty virgins from Earth Country all in one night. Beat that!" Kyuubi boasted his manliness.

"I Defeated the Takikage from the Waterfall Village."

"I caused the fourth Hokage's death!" Kyuubi laughed.

"SHUT UP! GOD YOU'RE ANNOYING! IF I HEAR EITHER TALK ABOUT THE FOURTH AGAIN…I'LL…SMACK…DAMN…KILL…DEATH…DIE!" Naruto became incoherent.

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+Aori's Mind+

"Now tell the kid where we are really going. To the Hidden Village in the Clouds. And tell him you were the Raikage and you want to be his teacher." The voice said.

"I'll get to it later. Sometimes you are really annoying Makuzo. Sometimes I wish you would get out of my head." Aori told the voice.

"There is no way to get rid of me! All born into the Kenji clan have a spirit of an ancestor placed into their bodies at birth! I am an advisor to you and yet you never listen!" Makuzo said angrily.

"It's just my luck that my Kenji spirit happens to be my grandfather." Aori complained.

"ENOUGH! TELL THE BOY WHO YOU ARE AND MAKE HIM YOUR PROTIGE! MAYBE WE CAN USE HIM TO DEFEAT THAT DAMNED SEREYU CLAN!" Makuzo yelled.

"FINE DAMMIT! I will tell him that he can be my student and that I was a Raikage. But I am not telling him that we are going to cloud yet alright?" Aori questioned.

"Humph!" Makuzo grunted childishly.

"God you're annoying." Aori thought.

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Back to reality+

"Hey kid." AOri got Naruto's attention.

"Yea… what?" Naruto asked.

"Do you want to know who I am still? Or…who I used to be… I guess." Aori asked.

"Yea I really do." Naruto was intrigued. Ears perked up.

"I used to be the Raikage of the Cloud Village. Happy?" Aori said stubbornly.

"Yes." Makuzo said quickly.

"Told ya'." Bajira said.

"The real Raikage? No way. No way. NO WAY!" Naruto got overly excited but then realized something. "What the hell happened to you? If that is true and all." NAruto asked perplexed.

Aori frowned at NAruto rudeness. "Nothing happened I am just not Raikage anymore."

Naruto was confused even more. "Ok but why? Is it because you're drunk all the time? Why do you drink all the time? I mean what is the deal with that? Why are you…" "Quit with the questions kid." Aori sighed.

"I'll tell you what you need to know later or you might be able to figure it out on your own. I doubt it though." Aori said realizing Naruto's stupidity. "I want you to become my student and follow me to Cloud Village.

Naruto became excited at the fact of learning new shiny jutsus. "Are you gonna teach me some shiny jutsus?" He giggled apprehensively.

"Sure kid. So do you want to come with?" Aori asked not very excited.

Naruto almost answered an immediate "yes" but then remembered his quest. " No I can't. Sorry… but I have something I have to do." Naruto answered remembering Sasuke and his goal.

"Ask him what he has to do!" Makuzo ordered.

"Alright! Naruto what do you have to do?" Aori asked starting to get annoyed by the whole situation.

"Well I need to go to Sound and get my friend Sasuke to come home." Naruto said clearly emotionally affected by talking about Sasuke.

"Hahah… you would rather go find some guy?" Aori laughed suddenly amused.

"Whatever I am leaving. Which is the real way to Sound?" Naruto was upset.

Aori kept on laughing for seemingly no reason. Naruto began to walk away in a random direction when a loud explosion knocked both Naruto and Aori down.

"IT IS I! THE GREAT JIRAIYA! PROTECTOR OF WOMEN AND ENVY OF MEN!" Jiraiya shouted as he danced atop a house sized toad. "NARUTO COME WITH ME!" JIraiya smiled

Aori stopped laughing and began frowning. "ARE YOU THAT BASTARD KONOHA SENNIN?" Aori yelled to Jiraiya. "Goddam…Konoha…crap…trannies." Aori mumbled

"BASTARD? WHO ARE YOU?" Jiraiya yelled confused why someone was calling him a bastard.

"I AM THE REAPER OF CLOUD!" Aori yelled back.

"THAT EXPLAINS ALL THE SAKE!" Jiraiya yelled recalling the sake bottles and the reports of the former Raikage's drunken stupors.

"GO AWAY JIRAIYA! I AM NOT COMING BACK!" Naruto now yelled.

"You know this Konoha scum? If I get rid of him for you will you come with me?" Aori asked as he took out his bottle of sake.

"Sure. Just get rid of him." Naruto said secretly excited to see a battle between a former Raikage and a legendary Senin.

"Fight him! Prove your worth to the Kyuubi and Bajira vessel!" Makuzo urged.

"ALRIGHT KONOHA SCUM. LET'S DO THIS THING." Aori grabbed his large scythe from its resting place and charged at the man on the large toad. Aori also took a quick swig from his bottle.

"KUCHIYOSE NO JUTSU!" Aori screamed while performing hand seals. Suddenly, a giant crow, about the size of Jiraiya's toad, appeared with Aori on top. The crow had large red eyes and began to fly with a gigantic wingspan.

"So it's true what they say about the reaper." Jiraiya thought. "He carries a large scythe and rides a giant crow into battle."

Jiraiya braced himself as the crow began to soar close. Meanwhile, Aori took yet another swig and chuckled. "The Konoha Legendary Sennin. Not that impressive really."

"Distract him with your lightning shuriken and then, when he is off guard, hit him with your poisonous scythe!" Makuzo advised.

"Please, I know what I am doing!" Aori thought. "Kurokarasu! Fly directly above his toad!" Aori yelled to the giant crow. The crow listened and swooped towards Jiraiya's toad.

Aori made some more hand seals and yelled, "Tenshu Raikou Shuriken No Jutsu (lightning god shuriken)!"

Immediately five shuriken flew from Aori's chest directly at Jiraiya. Jiraiya quickly threw his own shuriken to intercept them. However, when the shuriken struck each other a burst of electricity blew up pushing Jiraiya far back and causing him to loose his balance.

"STEP ONE, KID, CREATE AN OPENING!" Aori shouted before disappearing.

Aori appeared behind Jiraiya with his scythe raised high. Jiraiya tried to tumble out of the way but was slightly scratched by the blade. Jiraiya winced and made hand seals of his own. "Earth Style! Earth Dragon Missile!" Jiraiya shouted.

Nothing happened. "What the…?" Jiraiya said nervously.

"STEP TWO! PARALYZE YOUR OPPONENT." Aori yelled. "My blades poison is the reason your jutsu failed. First goes your jutsus. Then you will hallucinate, and then you won't be able to move for days."

"What is this poison?" Jiraiya stumbled with his words.

"It is a modified version of LSD. Don't thank me. Enjoy." Aori smiled and chugged the rest of his sake.

Jiraiya began to feel queasy. His legs were numb and his heart pumped faster than the engine of a train. His toad disappeared into a puff of smoke and Jiraiya began hearing strange things.

Aori's face became distorted and his mouth moved but nothing came out. Jiraiya began laughing maniacally and started screaming, "The colors speak to me, and their voices are beautiful!" Jiraiya giggled some more and Aori frowned.

"FINAL STEP, ELIMINATE TARGET!" Aori yelled raising his scythe again. Aori began to swing but was immediately blown away by a strong gust of wind. Naruto stood by the nearly passed out Jiraiya.

"Don't do anything more!" Naruto threatened. "I agree to come with you to Cloud but don't you dare try to kill this man ever." Naruto protected Jiraiya.

Aori was shocked and enraged. "You said to get rid of him and now your protecting him you son of a…!" "Shut up! The kid agreed. Don't make him change his mind!" Makuzo ordered.

Naruto held a kunai in his hand and stood ready.

"Put that down kid. I won't touch him. Come on lets get going if we are going. We have to reach Cloud by tonight." Aori said while strapping his scythe to his back and releasing his summoning jutsu. "Thanks Kurokarasu." He said and the crow nodded before disappearing.

Naruto and Aori headed north once again leaving the incapacitated Jiraiya lying on the ground in the lush forest. Night slowly crept up on the two as they walked.

Naruto felt bad about leaving his old sensei behind for a new sensei. Neither of the two spoke to each other but both argued inside their heads about silly things. Hours went by until night covered the land like a dark blanket.

Finally Naruto broke the silence "So…um… can you teach me a shiny jutsu?" He asked.

"Not right now kid, my head hurts." Aori answered softly.

Disappointed Naruto decided to ask Bajira. "Bajira, can you teach me something?"

"Sure kid. I know this great jutsu that…" "I can teach you something better." Kyuubi interjected.

"Don't listen my jutsu is better." Bajira said annoyed.

"Mines better." Kyuubi taunted.

"Mine!"

"Mine!"

"MINE!"

"MINE!"

"SHUT UP! I WILL CHOOSE!" Naruto thought loudly. "Heads or tails?" Naruto asked.

"Heads!" Bajira quickly answered.

"Damn! I wanted heads." Kyuubi whined.

"Ok. Bajira is heads." Naruto said while flipping a Konoha coin. The coin landed on tails.

"Shit!" Bajira yelled.

"Alright kid this jutsu is called Bringer of Darkness. It is a high level genjutsu that shrouds your opponent in darkness. This causes him to not be able to see anything other than his body. Here are the hand seals." Kyuubi said.

Kyuubi showed Naruto the seals telepathically and Naruto nodded. "Thanks Kyuubi I will try this in my next battle. I think this might be cool to use." Naruto said excited that he finally learned a shiny new jutsu!

"Mine was better." Bajira whined again.

"NOT NOW!" Naruto thought. Bajira whimpered softly.

Naruto and Aori walked a little while longer with Aori drinking all the while. Both stopped when lights came into view.

"Is that…?" Naruto started.

"Cloud? Yes it is." Aori finished now completely intoxicated.

Naruto stared in awe at the metropolis that rivaled Konoha. Then Naruto read a gigantic billboard that read:

"ANNUAL RAIKAGE TOURNAMENT BEGINS TOMMOROW!"

"Well kid, let's sign up." Aori said casually.

SHIKAMARU: DAMN CLIFFHANGERS EH?

KIBA: YEA IM TIRED OF IT.

NEXT CHAPPIE COMING OUT WITHIN A FEW DAYS

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