The Shopkeeper of Konoha

Ohnoki was silent on his way back, and so was the usually chatty Deidara. Deidara was beyond excited to see his 'dreams' again. The last time they met, Urahara had assured him that he had a place in Aoto's plan and would join him soon.

Now that he was here, he was beyond excited and could see his dreams of learning those techniques and being beautiful at the moment and forever finally coming to fruition. Both of them were in absolute different mindsets. One was ready to do everything to learn the trade, and the other was ready to commit to any means to learn the trade. Both on different sides of the spectrum.

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Naruto, after running behind Jiraiya for a long time, finally got a bit tired. This man was a slippery slope, and the end of the slope was just a bad result. He found him peeking into the women's bath, and Naruto went on to expose him. He was promptly banned.

Jiraiya was more pissed off about it and made a run, and Naruto had to go after him like a boy whose parents had just abandoned him. This was frustrating, but it was not in his nature to give up and was ready to make a run and search for him, but he was stopped.

"Naruto, where were you? We have been searching for you for such a long time," Sakura said, incredibly angry, coming towards Naruto with big strides. Naruto then remembered that he was supposed to go and meet Sasuke and Sakura.

"Ah... I forgot," Naruto said, incredibly frustrated with himself because of his forgetful nature.

"How can you forget.. Sasuke-kun called you," Sakura said.

"You know I was searching for my sensei, and I was running around looking for him," Naruto said. As they were talking, suddenly they heard someone talking behind them.

"What kind of shitty place is this? Sensei being perverts? No wonder Konoha has gone down over the years."

"Right? And what kind of sensei leaves their students with no supervision whatsoever? Pff, there is nothing great here."

Both Naruto and Sakura were incredibly offended and started a small brawl. They were ready to start a fight and were at each other's faces. Of course, the two people didn't belong to Konoha. They were from Sunagakure. Kankuro and Temari.

"Naruto, they are our guests. We should not be starting a fight against them."

Sasuke appeared, sitting on a tree branch on the side. He had shown himself without the knowledge of Kankuro and Temari, which shocked them as they didn't expect someone to sneak up on them without their knowledge.

And from the looks of it, they belonged to the same team. This rattled Kankuro and Temari. But they were teenagers, and this slight wasn't something that they would just overlook. 

Both of them were ready to lash it out when they heard

"Kankuro.. Temari.. That's enough.. Did you forget where we are?" 

It was Gaara and he had appeared just on the underside of Sasuke, hanging by his feet. It went almost exactly like the way it went in the original story but there was a significant change. As soon as Gaara appeared and gave others a dangerous vibe, Naruto heard. 

"Kid, he is also a jinchuriki like you." 

"What?" 

Naruto was near the huge gate and there was Kurama lying down on the opposite side. The fox had never spoken to him voluntarily outside of his need for books to read. Over the last few months, Kurama was incredibly occupied reading the books and never bothered to talk. 

Today was the first time. 

"You.. You talk like a normal person?" Naruto, who was standing on the other side, couldn't help but ask.

"Tch... I am just giving you a heads up." Kurama spoke in an annoying tone. 

"Wait.. What does jin.. jinchurimi means?" Naruto asked as he didn't catch the word the first time. 

"Jinchuriki.. And it means someone who has a tailed beast inside their body. Someone like you." Kurama said. This stiffened Naruto as he now looked at Gaara. The interaction didn't take more than a couple of seconds so nobody noticed how Naruto's a bit of fear filled eyes were now filled with pity. 

He could feel the hatred. 

While Naruto was thinking that, Sasuke and Sakura were on high alert. Especially Sasuke, as even with his one tomoe sharingan he wasn't able to notice his arrival. This showed how silent and deadly he was. 

There was an awkward silence as Kankuro and Temari were more fearful of Gaara, then these two nobodies. They stepped back a bit but then they heard. 

"Meow." 

Garra, Temari and Kankuro turned around and saw a black cat walking over the fence silently. Normally this should not have bothered anyone, but it bothered the three as they didn't notice the arrival of this cat. A shinobi like them was always aware of their surroundings and for a cat to just casually come up, made the three of them, even Gaara a bit annoyed. 

And this was what prompted Gaara to move as sand came out from his gourd and attacked at the black cat with the intention of killing it. The sand appeared around the black cat in extreme fast speed and closed it on itself on the cat almost instantly. 

The three others were too late to react and just shouted. 

"Yoruichi-san!"

The sand had already closed but there was no red blood around beings splattered. The cat seemed to have vanished. 

"Meow." 

The black cat appeared again and this time it was on four legs struck to the branch upside down, hanging just as Gaara and on his side. Gaara was appalled when he saw the black cat near him. Sasuke and others sighed in relief when they Yoruichi all safe and sound. They also felt a bit embarrassed to think that someone like her could be killed so easily. 

Someone who took out Jonin anbu like it was a walk on the park. 

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