Fox In The Leaf

Truths revealed to the Rookies

"You guys have any idea what Naruto wants with us?" was the question Kiba asked the others.

Right now every single one of the rookies, including Haku, were walking towards a location that Naruto had asked them to go to. He didn't ask them personally, he just left a note for each of them to have a specific day free from any missions or anything else so that they could all meet. It had been a couple of months since any of them had seen the blonde and they were all wondering what he had been doing for al this time.

Neji was the one to answer the question "I believe he now wishes to tell us about what we had seen during the retrieval mission."

This made most of them understand what that meant. However, Tenten, Shino, Sakura, and Haku were a little confused about what they were referring to.

Sakura grew a little confused about this since she was unsure about what they were referring to. She assumed that they referring to Naruto's healing factor that she had witnessed during the mission. (*1 read authors notes please)

Tenten placed her hands on her hips as she glared at everyone "what do you mean? What did you guys see during the mission."

Neji looked to her and spoke, "it will be explained when we get there." Neji than looked to Hinata "although, I am surprised that you are bringing Hanabi-sama with us."

Hanabi was indeed with them as she was holding on to Hinata's hand as they all walked

Hinata looked to Neji with a small guilty look on her face "Hanabi-chan had been wanting to see Naruto-kun again and when she heard that we were going to meet him, she asked to join."

Shikamaru looked behind him at the girl "yeah but this is an important meeting. Don't you think that he wouldn't want her to know?"

Hanabi, in an act of rare childishness, stuck her tongue out at the boy

Hinata shook her head "he cares for Hanabi-chan a lot. I think it would be nice if he knew that he didn't have to hide this from her either."

Lee brought his fist up "YES! WE SHALL ALL HEAR THE YOUTHFUL STORY ABOUT NARUTO AND HOW HE …...mmmph mmmmm."

Ino had slapped her hand over Lee's mouth to make him stop shouting out not only because he was being loud but the fact that they were in public and this wasn't something that they should be saying out here. "Lee! We know, so don't shout it out for everyone else."

Lee grew sheepish as he nodded

Karin sighed at how Lee had gotten more enthusiastic now that he is no longer confined to a hospital bed which meant he was no longer her problem. "Anyone know how much farther it is?"

Choji paused his eating as he reached into his pocket and pulled out a slip of paper. Looking at what was written he nodded "yeah, from what this says we should almost be there. The address should be around here somewhere."

Everyone looked around and they finally noticed where they were exactly.

Sakura gained a looked of confusion "arent we in the high-class district? Why would he want us to meet him here? Wouldn't it make more sense if we met him at his apartment?"

Ino looked to Sakura answering her last question "his apartment was destroyed during the invasion."

"So where has he been staying?"

Ino and Hinata sighed as Ino answered again "he told me and Hinata that he has been living in the Forest of Death."

Kiba couldn't help but find this somewhat funny "Makes a lot of sense to me heh heh."