NARUTO:The sealed shinobi.-Chapter 159: CH

Kankuro grinned, "He had spare bodies on him, sealed on a piece that you actually left intact."

Naruto nodded, "Of course he did. Well it's a good thing I hit the heart when I destroyed him isn't it? So Gaara's Kazekage, have you been promoted yet?"

If possible, Kankuro's grin got wider, "I'm a jounin now. Temari is too."

Naruto's eye twitched, "Because that's fair and everything. I can't get promoted by baa-chan to save my life and you guys just sleepwalk right past me in rank." He turned to Shizune, "When this is over I seriously need to put in for a promotion."

"Speaking of Temari..." Kankuro trailed off, looking at Naruto in amusement, "She's looking to have some choice words with you. You're so lucky she isn't here right now."

"Me?" Naruto asked, "What the hell did I do?"

Kankuro leaned against the wall near the bench as Naruto sat back next to Shizune, "Well you haven't even spoken to her since we left Konoha after the joint mission for your Uchiha kid. It's been two years since we've even talked to you kid."

Naruto almost face-faulted, "I've been busy! Between the ridiculous training I had to do to master my element, missions to other nations, and the long assignment to hunt for Orochimaru's bases I have had almost no down time. How could I have possibly visited?"

"And about that." Kankuro added, "Ever since Gaara's been Kazekage she's been Suna's liaison to Konoha, and she didn't know about your mission when she wanted to see you, and she's very pissed off for a myriad of reasons that I'm not going to go into right now. Besides the not seeing us part she's also mad because went off and got into a fight to the death with Suna's greatest puppeteer all on your own."

Chiyo was still standing there as the boys had been catching up, but it had finally swung back to a topic of her interest, "How were you confronted by Sasori anyway?"

Naruto sighed, "I didn't go looking for the guy. He came to me when I was perusing through my clan's ancestral village ruins, him and some bomber freak with mouths in his hands, Deidara was his name. Somehow I isolated Sasori and was able to kill him before the other retreated. If I don't see her before I leave you tell her that wasn't my fault I am a victim here."

Kankuro nodded, "Sure thing. But that will only work if you're going to be gone by sunrise, because she's going to be back tomorrow." Naruto sweatdropped, "You're an ass, you know that?"

"So I hear from Temari on a daily basis." Kankuro said as he started walking away, "See you later Naruto."

Chiyo turned to follow him out as well, "Before you leave be sure to allow the slug woman to let you collect your money young man. You're getting quite a hefty sum for it."

Naruto nodded in agreement and looked at Shizune as he had picked up on the way that Chiyo had referred to Tsunade. The dark-haired medic shrugged, "She doesn't like Tsunade-sama because she kept countering her poisons during the Second Great Ninja War. People seem to be very good at holding grudges."

Naruto sighed, "Old people especially... Oh man, if that lady is mad at you and baa-chan for her just coming up with counters to her poisons like thirty years ago then how pissed off at me is the Tsuchikage going to be after my old man single-handedly made their village his bitch sixteen years ago."

Shizune patted Naruto on the back, "It's okay Naruto-kun he might-." She cut herself off when she realized how accurate that statement could have been and laughed nervously, "Well maybe you could wear your hood for your entire time here?"

Naruto slumped in his seat, "Aw man, that fucking thing is hot!"

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(The Next Day)

Naruto, Shizune, and Tsunade were seated in a Suna café with Tsunade actually permitted to indulge in a little sake due to the vacation-esque feel that the entire trip had. Naruto was sitting and practicing his seal making speed on napkins while Tsunade drank, Shizune had a small cake for herself, and Tonton had a small bowl of corn, "Why did we get here so early? The fights aren't until tomorrow. And where is everybody right now? Can't we see them before the finals?"

Tsunade downed her saucer and looked at Naruto, "Brat we can't just run off to see them like that. My apprentice is in the damn thing tomorrow, don't you think I would like to see how she's doing before tomorrow? But I'm also the leader of the village and any interference from a kage on a competitor's training would be seen as some kind of favoritism, even if it was just to see how any of them are doing. We are in a foreign village after all, they would know and use it when it came time to judge on their growth and skill." She looked at the scowl on his face and realized his problem with a sigh, "You are so bored it's killing you right now aren't you?"

Naruto gave her a hopeless look, "Desperately. I can't even train and I can only work on so much fuuinjutsu stuff without Hamako-chan here, because if she finds out that I've been trying to freestyle seals without her permission again she'll kill me." He let out a small shiver, "She's so sweet, how can she be so damnably scary too? It's a paradox." He turned puppy-dog eyes to Shizune, "Can we please spar Shizune-neechan?"

Shizune quickly averted her eyes, "We can't fight Naruto-kun. We have to make sure we stay in top condition in case something happens. And from what I've heard from Jiraiya-sama about training you, you don't know how to hold back. I'm a medic ninja but I would still be less than 100% if a real battle were to break out."

"Okay." He said dejectedly before turning to Tsunade, "Baa-chan do you want to fight? Come on, you know you want your rematch with me. I can see it in your eyes, those big brown orbs are just screaming at you to tear me apart and get your win back."

Tsunade gave Naruto a dry look as she refilled her saucer, "As much fun as it would be to slap you around the desert, you are my bodyguard brat and I can't in good conscience cause the physical bodily harm to you that I would like to for that asinine remark... here." She then got a smirk on her face, "I will keep that in mind however when we get back to Konoha. I need a new human punching bag to spar with. I can't go all out on Sakura because I'm supposed to be training her, but you don't have that safeguard on you do you? And beating your ass would be the next best thing to beating Jiraiya's ass when I can't catch him for being a glorified pervert. With your healing factor you should be able to take it right?"

'Hmm.' Naruto thought to himself, 'This could either be really good or really bad, a fight with my own Hokage. In an effort to put this in the back of your mind for further thought, just smile and nod in agreement.' He then actionized his thoughts before he felt cold iron being set on top of his head, "Hello Temari-chan. Good to see you again, if I could actually see you."

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