Happy thanksgiving everybody: It's me, Dragon Ninja 1138 hot off the ending of Naruto Gaiden: Rise of a Shinobi, is the sequel! I know I planned to take the holidays off, but Ideas kept flooding into my mind that I just had to write down. I am sorry to say unlike my debut, this fic will be most likely updated at a slower pace. The events in this story take place 2 years after the events In Naruto Gaiden Rise of a Shinobi. I AM TERRIBLY SORRY FOR THE FIRST ATTEMPT TO POST THIS I DON'T KNOW HOW THE HELL HAPPENED HERE IS THE TRUE CHAPTER!!!!!!!!!!!

Naruto Gaiden

A Shinobi's Tale

Chapter 1

I'm home

Sakura Couldn't Work. It had been two weeks after a certain letter she was sent from her lover: Naruto Hayabusa made her jump with joy.

Flashback:

Sakura was in the Kitchen. She was wearing a red sleeveless shirt, tight black shorts and a leather skirt over the shorts and had a medical larger waist pouch than she had as a Genin to store medical tools and other things, she now carried the Tonfas that Naruto had given her strapped to her back and the handles were in easy reach. At the moment she was enjoying a nice cup of coffee that she had prepared. For the past two years, she was living at Namikaze estate, her boyfriends house, While Naruto was gone on his training trip, she had settled in as Naruto had offered to let her live with him and she accepted in an instant.

Sakura was drawn out of her reverie as she heard a tapping on the window facing the gardens. Sakura looked up to see a small dragon, the size of a large housecat sitting on the windowsill. It was this dragon she always awaited letters and an occasional package sent by Naruto from wherever he was. Usually it contained tales of training and his adventures with Jiraiya. However on her birthdays she was sent flowers, on Christmas she was sent Varying gifts, but Valentines day was what she most looked foreword to: a box of chocolate covered cherries, her favorite, but today was a letter she did not expect it had only five words written on it:

I'm on my way home

End Flashback

"Dammit," she muttered as she laid her pen from the paperwork she had to do and rubbed her temples. She got up and walked to the window overlooking Konoha, she opened it and leaned out to get a breath of fresh air, it was late spring, and things were very beautiful. With the window still open, she went back to her desk and continued to work.

TWO HOURS LATER…

Finally finishing off the last of the paperwork, and her shift officially ended, Sakura was about to get up when something came through the window and landed on her desk, it was a cherry-red paper airplane, she had seen Naruto make these when he was bored, it said on it For Sakura. Curious, Sakura unfolded it and read it:

Look out the window it said. Sakura looked out and her heart shot out of her chest and into her head. There on the roof was the unmistakable Jet-black, stealthy design of Naruto's ship The Nightsword." Sakura let out a cry of Joy as she saw Naruto leaning on the landing strut waving to her. Sakura Jumped out the window but didn't check the distance before she jumped and headed several floors down but started going up as she realized she was in the arms of a Naruto Shadow clone who brought her up to the roof of where Naruto stood. The moment her feet hit the roof the clone vanished. For several minutes they stared at each other, Sakura realized Naruto was now taller than her, but she liked it, he was still dressed for battle like always, the black bodysuit tight enough to see if he even has a slight erection, three kunai strapped to his leg, item seals on his utility belt where the standard issue waist pouch, the obvious Chunin vest that Naruto was given only his was black, the Dragon leaf headband his father had Muramasa make for him, and his trademark weapon: the Dragon sword strapped to his back.

While Sakura took all this in, Naruto was doing the same for Sakura, he examined her perfect hourglass figure, the new outfit she had provided her with a feminine look that not only suited her, but made her a goddess of Kunoichi that Made Naruto praise whatever Deities existed that made him as lucky as he was. After the few moments of checking out each other, Sakura made the fist move "Welcome home, Naruto-Kun" she said and flung herself into Naruto's waiting arms, she could feel his body was more muscular than it was when she first met him. As she held his body against him, it felt as though he was a sculpted work of art rather than a ninja.

"You were beautiful when I left, now you are an angel." Said Naruto, bringing her against him tighter, running his nose through her hair, it smelled of tropical fruits. "I'm home," he said and together they headed back to Namikaze estate.

ABOARD THE NIGHTSWORD…

"Geez… he has all the fun." Muttered Jiraiya "and leaves me to do the upgrades of this confounded piece of shit." He cursed as he added the specific coding to the control center's weapons control for the proton stream launchers that were sent in from the CIA. To upgrade the ship, as he entered the last part of the code, alarms started going off, and a stern male voice started calling out:

"INPUT ERROR 5168! INPUT ERROR 5168!" Jiraiya suddenly took out the ships user manual and skimmed to the error page.

"Dammit, why do all the error messages have complicated reasons for occurring, Ah, here we are, he said and entered the proper counters of the error, at this, the alarms started going off so loud you could hear them all over Konoha.

AT HOKAGE TOWER…

"What the hell is making all that racket?" snapped a very irritated Tsunade. As Naruto and Sakura stood before her, she was about to give him some very good news that he would be very impressed over, but then the alarms started sounding. And Naruto slapped hid masked face.

"Not again…" he muttered, the two ladies looked at him inquisitively. "I left Jiraiya to finish off the encoding of the new armaments of the night sword, a pair of proton stream cannons, it seems I can't leave him alone to finish some simple programming jobs without error signs popping up all over the ship, last time he nearly overloaded the computer base!" said Naruto in a long suffering voice. "I gotta see what he's done now." He said jumping out the window. Heading back to the Nightsword.

"I must say, he now sure knows a lot about technology." Said Sakura.

"So, Sakura, when's the big night?" asked Tsunade

"What?" responded Sakura, not understanding what her sensei was talking about.

"You know what I mean." Said Tsunade with a smirk.

Suddenly it clicked in her mind and Sakura blushed redder than her shirt, "We haven't set a date for it, but we did talk about it on the way here. She said.

"Well, make sure you make the first time count." Said Tsunade

Sakura smiled. "Hai Sensei." She said and went to see where Naruto was.