Those with Wings are Angels

Naruto left Her chambers hurridly to prepare himself for his mission. Stretching his wings (1) he prepared to fly to his rooms. The words of the last hour and a half whirled in his head. 'War. Sasuke. Humans. Me. Fight. Good. Evil. Sasuke. Too much.' A hand grabbed his wings bringing his thoughts back to the present. He turned around to face his friend Gaara.

"Naruto we've got time before you have to leave, let's go." Gaara drags Naruto backwards toward their friend and colleague Neji, ignoring his grumbles of discomfort before releasing him.

"That hurt, you know." Naruto pouts.

Gaara lifts a hand and waves the words away as if they were just pesky flying insects. "Yeah sorry." he said in a way that didn't sound in the least bit sorry.

Neji chuckles as Naruto glares at his friend. "Well now that we've got your attention let's go to the usual spot."

With that he and Gaara spread their wings and fly off to the east. Leaving Naruto annoyed on the ground.

"Hey! Don't just assume I'll follow you! Who put you two in charge!? Don't pretend you can't hear me!!!" He pants a bit after his outburst. "Jerks." He mumbles before followng. He quickly flew above a group of passing Angels delivering papers no doubt. Nearly crashing into a Power (2).

"Sir Naruto is it true that you've been chosen to go to Earth?"

"Yes it is, now if you'd just move to the side..." Naruto attempts to fly around the Power only to be blocked at every pass.

"That's incredible I know you'll succeed. Of course you will. You're a Seraph the oldest and strongest..."

"Yes thank you." Naruto takes another shot at escape. No luck.

"I just hope that one day I can be as useful to God and powerful as well." The Power beams.

"Yeah I'm sure you will be. Hey don't you have some sort of work to do?"

"I sure do. I'll see you when you get back Sir." She waves and flies off. Naruto gives a sigh of relief nad continues on his merry way. He shivers slightly. Angels of lower spheres always gave him chills. And not only because of their extreme hero worship of the Angels of the first sphere. He didn't know what it was exactly or rather he didn't want to examine why.

Naruto looked around. Taking in the Heavens. It's majesty. The Islands in their stationary spots. Every color,sound, movement brilliant. To protect this for Her sake he'd do anything. He would miss painting the world. Especially the sky. (3) He landed in the shade of the Tree of Knowledge. Gaara and Neji were already there relaxing. Neji lying on his back under the tree enjoying the sunlight being filtered by the leaves. Gaara sat on a branch exhibiting divine balance. Both turned to Naruto but nothing was said. Finally Naruto took his usual seat, back against the trunk eyes closed.

They sat that way for a good ten minutes enjoying the serenity and company. Then as the words that needed to be said began to bounce around impatiently in their heads the atmosphere grew thicker until Gaara broke the silence.

"Are you sure about this?"

Naruto's head swung upward to look at Gaara's perch incredulity showing on his face. "How can you ask that? I can't turn down a mission from God."

Neji sighed heavily lifting himself into a sitting position. "Naruto we just want you to be aware of the danger. She can't send you with her protection as she normally would. It would give away your divinity and you'd be an easy target for Sasuke. Without Her power the shock of going to Earth and hiding your power you could lose your memory if you aren't careful."

"Exactly." Gaara dropped down from his perch.You'd hardly be able to access your power. You may as well be human. Not to mention we have to assume Sasuke retained most if not all of his power. He may even have Him as a backer. If worse came to worse you'd be picked off easy."

" Oh come on you guys I'm not going to fight. My orders are just to find out if Sasuke has anything to do with the Human rebels. Besides Sasuke was one of us. He wouldn't work for Satan. No way. Never."

"Naruto at one point we wouldn't have thought that Sasuke would betray God either but here we are." Neji states bluntly.

"Even so I won't believe it." Naruto shook hjis head stubbornly.

"You can't just blindly push his betrayl aside. It's more than posible that Sasuke has joined Satan. He's beyond saving. Fallen Angels can never return here."

"Argh! Sasuke wasn't just any Angel. He was a Seraph. The strongest. There has to be something that can be done. He can't be beyond hope."
As Neji opened his mouth to argue Gaara interupted. "That's enough you two."

"Gaara you can't possibly believe that..."

"No I don't. Naruto just doesn't like the fact that the perfect example of a Seraph the one that bested him in everything could've done such a thing. I just wanted to know if either of you have evrer wondered how Sasuke betrayed God."

Naruto looked confused. "What do you mean? He had free will."

"Why?"

"Gaara I really don't like it when you go all monosyllabic on me."

"Why did She give us free will if she wants us to obey and never question? Jus to follow her every whim."

"To test us. To make sure we are worthy. And don't call them whims."
Neji looked up at the leaves and golden fruit of the Tree. "I've been wondering Naruto, how old are you?"

"That came out of nowhere but I'm three hundred and eight years old."
Neji shook his head. "You're just counting from the year you became a member of the first sphere."

Naruto shrugged and shifted his eyes away from Neji's. The thing about being friends with Neji and Gaara was that their direct gaze at times felt like it was looking through you.

"Can you remember further back, Naruto. I know I can't. In fact I remember only chunks of my time as a Cherub and an Ophan but only pieces of my time in the lower spheres."

Naruto shivered. No wonder angels of lower spheres gave him chills.

"It's true I can't remember anything before that either." Gaara said quietly. "Anytime an angel of a lower sphere talks to me about yearning to reach the highest sphere I feel so weird. I can't rememeber being that way but I must have been."

"Okay so it's weird but why worry? We probably didn't need those memories." Naruto said easily.

"I'd have liked to have had the choice of whether or not my memories were unimportant." Neji mumbled darkly.

Naruto stood quickly. "Stop it both of you. At this rate you'll end up like Sasuke."

Silence. Then Gaara stood beside Naruto. "You should bring your sketch book. You have sketches of all of us. Write our names in the book and the mission. Just in case it may help jog your memory."

"Gaara, thanks."

Neji stood as well. "It's getting late. Hurry and go so you can hurry and get back."

"Right. I'll see you later." Naruto flies away. Neji and Gaara watch him go.

"You can see why Naruto was chosen to go." Neji leaned against the Tree. "He's so...trusting."

"That's true but we were once trusting too. He's right though. We should be careful. You never know who's listening." With that Gaara flies off.

Meanwhile back at the farm.

Naruto walked purposefully into his room reached into his drawer and pulled out his sketch book. He thumbed through it affectionately. He looked over his sketches of Gaara and Neji and one self portrait. And one sketch of Sasuke. He wrote their names under each picture in the Angelic and Human language. Underneath Sasukes's name he wrote 'Mission'.

Then he gathered his power and allowed himself to drop to Earth. Warmth, Darkness. Then Cold. Then nothing. No sound, no touch, no smell none of his senses worked. Then his power imploded in him before sputtering out. Then his senses returned just in time for him to feel his blood boil. Then he blacked out.

The boy slowly returned to consciousness. He was in an alley. His black pants were covered in dirt his back flat aginst a brick wall. At his side was an orange back pack. The boy shook his head. His brain felt foggy. His joints ached. But worst of all he couldn't remember anything.

He stood slowly and caught a glimpse of himself in a window. He leaned in for a closer look. Slightly messy blonde spikes. Blue eyes, tanned three whisker marks on each cheek. He leaned closer wishing he could fall into the reflection and regain the past of the stranger he saw there. He bent down and picked up the back pack. Inside was a sketch book. He flipped through the pages. A red haired boy with an intimidating green eyed gaze (maybe because of the eyeshadow) gazed from the book. Underneath was the name Gaara. Then a brunette with very long hair and pale eyes a confident smirk on his features. Neji the name said. Then Another dark haired boy who looked even more confident than the last only lonely. His eyes were even darker than his hair. Of the three somehow just from the picture he seemed the most dangerous. His name is Sasuke. under that it read 'Mission'. The boy knew this was important. He needed to remember. He turned the page and saw himself.

"Naruto. That's me." He stared at the book hungrily wishing the memories drawn onto the pages could be absorbed into him. He turned sharply as he heard noises behind him. Instinctively he hid the book in his bag. No one should see it. He turned to see a man with brown hair and a scar across his nose turn into the alley.

"Hey kid what are you doing?"

"Nothing I'm fine."

"Are you sure? You look lost. I live nearby,my name is Iruka."

"I'm... I've got to go." The boy who now knows himself to be Naruto turned and began to walk away when he stumbled and fell.

"Hey kid are you all right?" Iruka reached down to help him up.

"Yes yes I'm fine..." The loud growling of his stomache cut his next words off.

"How about lunch?"

Naruto looked down and began to debate when another growl decided what he should do next. "Yeah I can do lunch. I'm Naruto."

"Nice to meet you." Iruka smiled.

~Owari~
1-Seraphim have six wings. Four are on their backs two are on their heads. Ever read "Juvenile Orion the Aquarian Age" like the Erasers.
2-There are nine classes of angels. In the first sphere are Seraphim, Cherubim and Ophanim. In the second sphere are Thrones, Dominions and Principalities. In the third sphere are Powers, Archangels and Angels.
3-The Kingdom of Heaven is sort of in the sky buildings and other such structures are on floating islands. Naruto's main job as a Seraph is painting the colors of everything Heaven and Earth from the trees to the sky. Dawn and Dusk etc.
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Finally I thought my muses would never get moving. PLease review I don't own these characters I'm not getting paid all I have are your reviews. Don't be cruel. Hope you enjoyed it. Until next time.