New Beginnings Part 2. Chapter 1.

New Beginnings Part 2.

It was a beautiful day in Konoha. All but one of the "Konoha 14" as they were called, were at Training ground 7. They had been there since early morning as was their ritual, missions allowing. They sparred, worked out and some goofing off. At the moment one of the female members of the Konoha 14 was resting under a tree. She had just finished weapons training with Tenten. Her long midnight hair was pulled back in a ponytail, her metal staff was resting over her right shoulder. It was made of a special metal the channeled elemental chakra. Her lavender eyes watched as Neji and Sasuke sparred. The Hyuuga and Uchiha clans were once rivals, that was until the Uchiha massacre. Sasuke had been a bit of jerk as a certain blond loud mouth would say after that, but that changed over his time with the other members of Team 7, which totaled 7 members now. There was Naruto, Sasuke, Sakura they were the original 3. Then Haku was added after they came back from the Land of Waves. After a while Sai was added. At first Sai was there to spy on Naruto for Danzo's Root organization. Now he is no longer with Root, It was disbanded after the downfall of Danzo and his exile. He had tried to take over the village when the current Hokage was gone. The quick thinking of Konoha 14 and others had warned Tsunade of Danzo's plans and it was stopped. Danzo escaped before he could be captured. He was now a missing-nin and has a kill on sight order placed on him. There was also their Jounin Sensei, Kakashi and Yamato. The former Anbu had been added to help Naruto and Haku with their Water jutsu and with controlling Kumara's power. The blond was on good terms with the tailed beast that was sealed inside of him, but his mother Lady Tsunade wasn't taking any chances with her adopted son.

The dark haired, lavender eyed young women was watching her cousin spar while she rested. Seeing Neji spar with Sasuke brought back the memories of the man she loved. Naruto had fought Neji in their first Chunin Exam. "Thinking of someone are you?" Hinata looked up at Ino Yamanaka, who had just finished her senbon training with Haku and Sakura. Ino had that "gossip girl" look in her eye and a big smile on her face. Hinata blushed a little and went back to watching the spar. "He has been gone for six months with Master Jiraiya for his Sage training. I miss him." The blond Yamanaka knew how much Hinata missed Naruto. Heck they all missed their loud blond friend. Ino sat next to her. "I don't see how you have time to miss him. Between training with us, your team, clan and missions, you should be too busy to sleep let alone have time to miss Naruto. Besides aren't you guys in contact anyway?" Hinata sighed. "Ya we are, but that is just letters sent through toad messengers. It not the same thing."

Ino was about to say something when a small toad puffed into existence in front of Hinata. Ino freaked and jumped up, causing everyone at the training field to stop what they were doing and ready for attack. They all laughed when they saw what had happened. "Gosh Ino, you should be used to toads showing up with as much as Naruto sends them to Hinata." Sakura said almost falling over from laughter. "Not funny forehead! I can't stand those things." Ino had never liked Naruto's toad summons. She tolerated them in battle, but that was about it. Hinata took the scroll off the toad's back and thanked it and gave it a treat. It quickly disappeared and she unsealed the message and read it. As she read her eyes lit up. It must have been good news, as she had a big smile on her face as she jumped up. She also noticed a small seal at the bottom of the letter. She quickly pushed some chakra into it and a silver necklace fell into her hand. It had a pendant on it in the shape of the Hyuga and Uzumaki crest. As she looked at it she noticed another seal on the back side of the pendant. She couldn't make it out. She had studied seals under Master Seto the same man that had trained Jiraiya and Naruto as well, but she wasn't as versed in them as those two. As she was looking at it the seal started to glow.

At the village front gate two men had just finished signing the entry book. They talked with the two gate guards and turned to continue on their way. The tall, spiky white haired older man looked over at his younger companion. The young blond had a smile on his face, and the older man knew what that smile meant. "I suppose she got your gift." He said looking back toward the Hokage tower. The young blond looked up at his Master and father figure. "Ya, she did. I feel the anchor activating." He then produced a three pronged kunai, tossing it to the older man. And then he disappeared in a yellow flash of light. The older man caught the kunai and laughed. He knew who his student was going to go see.