True Power

Disclaimer: Naruto does not belong to me, I am just borrowing the characters for this story. Please don’t sue, probably won’t get much anyhow.

Looking up at the beast who was once a boy, Naruto could not help but feel a little sorry for the kid. ‘Oi….don’t get sentimental on me Kit, we have to beat that thing!’

‘I know, but how the heck are we going to get all the way up there to kick his ass?’ Unfortunately for Naruto he wasn’t given much time, Gaara unleashed his favorite move, “I will make you pay, I will make you pay!” Sand was collecting around Naruto and it was getting hard for the young ninja to move around, ‘Kit you better do something quick or were going to be crushed by the sand.’

‘I know, got any ideas?’

‘Call forth the old toad, maybe he can take on the big freak?’

‘Gamabunta?’

‘Is there another old toad I don’t know about?’ Going through the seals quickly Naruto was racing against the clock, or more accurately the sand, “Now die, Desert Funeral….”

“Summoning no jutsu” Appearing from a brilliant cloud of smoke was a huge frog that stood toe to toe as large as the sand beast. ‘Good work Kit, though I don’t know if you should cut it that close again, I literally saw my life flash before my eyes, or rather your eyes, there were some fun times though.’

‘Stop being perverted and let’s just do this.’

‘Fine, though I don’t think the froggy will want to do what you say.’

‘And why not? I thought I was his subordinate? I mean don’t bosses protect their subordinates?’

‘You’ll see Kit, you’ll see.’

“What the heck?” Looking around Gamabunta did not like what he saw, “Shukaku of the sand? What the heck is he doing here?” Feeling a presence on top of his head Gamabunta looked up and found to his dismay the Fox there, “What the heck are you doing up there?”

“I called you to help me, so fight with me Boss!”

“Nope.” Falling over backwards with surprise Naruto demanded the reason why, “I am your subordinate you are my boss, aren’t bosses supposed to protect their servants? It’s in your moral code right?”

“It is, but we haven’t even had a drink yet!”

“What! I’m not even over twenty yet, I can’t drink sake!” Just then a small frog popped out of thin air, “Don’t be like that pops, he’s a good guy, very interesting.”

“Huh? Pops? And who are you?”

“Gamakichi what are you doing here?”

“Oh I just came out to play pops, but that bully tried to pick on me, and this guy fought him equally.”

“What did you say?” Gamabunta did not like having his kid’s picked on, “This guy saved me!”

“When did that happen? I don’t even know you?” Naruto was trying to remember when he had saved a small frog wearing a coat like a person. ‘Kit don’t worry about it, might have been one of the clones, either way it looks like Gamabunta is willing to help us.’

“I see. Alright kid, I officially accept you as my subordinate. Now I will show you how the moral code works in this world.” Staring down the big sand raccoon, Gamabunta let one last remark out, “You will pay for what you did….you flunky!” With a strong push, the frog was off and running toward the sand beast, Naruto and Gamakichi were just trying to stay on the big frog. Moving at speeds that didn’t seem all that fast for a big frog, but were near supersonic for Naruto, they soon caught up to Shukaku and Gamabunta tried to slice one of Shukaku’s arms off. He succeeded but unfortunately lost his sword in the process, “Damn him, he’s as heavy as can be, it took all my strength just to cut his arm off.”

“Uzumaki Naruto, this is interesting, getting very interesting.” Watching as a figure seemed to form at the top of the head, Naruto soon saw to his horror Gaara coming out of the sand.

“Is that the medium?”

“This is your reward for entertaining me.” Soon Gaara was doing a number of seals, “He is using “it”, we have to go.”

“What are you going on about Temari?”

“He is going to use a very simple technique that will make that incarnation of sand infinitely more powerful.”

“So I’m guessing a strategic retreat is in order, but how bout Naruto-kun?”

“Don’t worry so much Hinata-chan, he will be fine with the big frog.” With that the women raced away to find a better place and not disrupt the battle or get engulfed in it.

“What’s going on Boss?”

“The medium is the person who is possessed by the incarnation of sand, that beast there, that raccoon is one of the most destructive of the group.” Looking closely Gamabunta saw circles around Gaara’s eyes. “Sleep deprivation is common, because if the medium falls asleep then he will lose a part of himself/herself each time. The beast consumes the medium’s identity until they are left as shells of their former selves.”

“Tanuki Neiri no Jutsu!” With that Gaara had fallen asleep, “When the medium falls asleep the incarnation of sand can fully enter into our world, he will become much stronger.”

“Yes! I am finally out here.”

“Seems kind of funky to me.”

“Don’t laugh at the big sand monster please!”

“I have someone I want to kill, yes I want to kill you!”

“Were going to fly kid, hang on.” As Gamabunta was preparing to jump Shukaku had a belly full of air to deliver at him, “Fuuton Renkuudan”, a humongous ball of air headed toward the frog. Luckily he jumped before it reached them, “Suiton Teppoudama”, delivering an attack of his own, Gamabunta released a massive sphere of water at the beast. But Shukaku was ready with another ball of air, and the whole area was filled with the feeling of rain from the combined attacks.

“Don’t go too close to over there Boss, my family is over there.”

“Fine.” Jumping away, the frog was again met with balls of compressed air, and he again launched his bullets of water at the beast. “No, Boss there is one more.” The last compressed ball headed toward the frog and impacted rather profoundly.

“Yes, I killed them, I killed them!”

“Ouch dammit, even I can’t take more of those balls of air. Those have a lot of chakra molded into them.”

“What are we going to do?”

“You are going to have to wake up the boy, then he’ll lose his power again.”

“How do I do that?” Delivering a cascade of water onto the beast, Gamabunta was trying to conceal his real actions, grabbing the beast Gamabunta told Naruto to hit the boy. Unfortunately for Naruto, Gamabunta was easily thrown off, “Hey Boss, I need more time then that, you have to hold onto him.”

“I am a frog I don’t have any claws or teeth to hold onto him with.”

“Then what are we going to do?”

“Were going to have to change into something that does have claws and teeth, though I’m not too good at transformation, so you’ll have to make the image and do the seals I’ll provide the energy.”

“What!”

“Here we go!”

“Wait, I’m not ready yet, dammit all!” Quickly doing the seals Naruto tried to think of something with teeth and claws, “Teeth and claws, teeth and claws.” Gamabunta wasn’t helping with his chanting, ‘Just use me as the example Kit!’

‘What!’

“I am a fox and I do have teeth and claws!’

‘Oh right!’ With that figured out, Naruto concentrated on the image of Kyuubi and soon with a puff of smoke Gamabunta changed into the Nine-tailed Fox. With that done, there was only one thing left to do, hold down the beast and wake the medium up.

But Shukaku wasn’t going to let that happen, he delivered series upon series of compressed air balls at the two, “Boss we need to finish this now!”

“I know, he’s getting stronger.” Picking up a few trees Gamabunta ran at the sand monster, avoiding numerous balls of air, Gamabunta threw the trees into the last of the balls of air and used his claws and teeth to hold onto the beast. “Go!”

“I got it.” With a poof, the transformation was over and Gamabunta was back in his original form. Leaping up, Naruto delivered a punch on Gaara, effectively waking him up and making the incarnation of sand lose power. When Gaara woke up he wasn’t happy and showed it by trying to encase Naruto in a pillar of sand, Gamabunta used his tongue to protect his subordinate. “That won’t work for long, it will only be a matter of time before he dies.”

“I will not die, I will protect everyone.” Using what remained of his strength, Naruto called forth the Fox, ‘I need your help, lend me some of you chakra.’

‘You only needed to ask, it’s yours.’ Pulsing in a orange hue, Naruto charged his most powerful punch and launched it at Gaara, the sand came up to protect the medium and Naruto struggled mightily to beat it but it would not budge. So Naruto did the next best thing, he used his head, literally, delivering a head but to the boy, Naruto knocked the remaining concentration from the boy and the beast of sand dissolved into what it formerly was nothing but dirt and sand.

Watching as the two fell, Gamabunta couldn’t help but admire the boy’s determination, ‘The Fox is lucky he got such a crazy kid, wish I could see the end of this but I’m spent.’

“Gamakichi were going home.”

“Okay pops.”

With that the two were left to their own devices, “I’m empty and you are too, so let’s finish this.”

Elsewhere

“It looks like I can’t take all of you soul away, but I will issue you punishment for drowning yourself in techniques.”

“What do you mean?” The third Hokage just concentrated on his final command, “I will take your arms away, and you won’t be able to do any jutsu’s ever again.” To say Orochimaru was scared was an understatement, he was petrified about losing his techniques, the very techniques that took him decades to learn. “The destruction of Konoha has failed, your ambitions end here.”

“Damn you old man, how dare you, give me back my arms!”

“I regret we cannot die together, idiot apprentice.”

“Come back here, damn you old geezer.” The third Hokage could not hear the last words, he was already dead. “Orochimaru!” The four who built the barrier around their master were scared for him, “It is over, we are done here, release the field.”

“Yes!” The four released the field and hightailed it toward their master, but the other jounin’s gave chase, they were easily disabled using spider web jutsu. With the field gone all the ninjas of Konoha knew that the battle against the Hokage and Orochimaru was also done. “How is the Hokage?”

“We saw see Gai, but I don’t think it is going to be pretty.” Arriving at the seen, more and more of the townspeople and ninjas saw to their horror the dead 3rd Hokage.

Back to Naruto and Gaara

Calling forth Kyuubi, Naruto handed over power to him, ‘Don’t kill him Fox, he’s too weak now. Actually I’m not feeling super either.’

‘Fine, but don’t forget I get some ‘fun’ after this.’

‘Fine!’ Unfortunately for Gaara, Kyuubi had lots of chakra to spare, “Let’s finish this.” Moving at speeds that a demon only could do, Kyuubi easily beat down the weakened medium, “How? Why are you so powerful?”

“The Kit’s pretty stubborn, protecting family is important to him, and now that the whole village is his family all the more so. Now go to sleep little medium.” Delivering a final blow, Kyuubi watched as Gaara lost consciousness. ‘It’s done Kit, though you should have handed over the reins sooner, he was no challenge whatsoever now.’

‘I wanted to try to defeat him myself, without your help for once.’

‘Nice try, but remember it’s our fight’s not yours anymore. We are one and we will destroy all who dare challenge us.’

‘Fine, hey I can’t sense the old geezers chakra signature. Can you?’

‘Nope, I wanted to tell you sooner Kit, but you were kind of busy, the old geezer, well…..he kind of passed away a while ago.’

‘What!’

‘Yeah, it wasn’t pretty, but that snake man got him good, though from the looks of it, the old geezer took the guy’s arms away.’

‘That bastard, let’s go get him.’

‘Can’t, need to heal our wounds and rest. Were just barely hanging on here.’

‘Dammit all, why did it happen this way?’

‘That’s a ninja’s life Kit, you have got to accept it.’

While the lives of the few are sacrificed for the greater good it still hurts the one’s left behind, a deep and burning pain that does not go away. All the times he had played pranks on the Hokage, all the times he had just talked to the old man, all the times when he felt comfort from just being there with him, it all felt like such a long time ago. Naruto couldn’t remember when he had felt so much pain inside, ‘It’s alright Kit, there is no need to be embarrassed you can cry.’

‘I am trying but it just won’t come, I don’t understand, am I a monster?’

‘No, it just hasn’t sank in yet, that is all, the tears will come, but it will be alright, remember the promise you made?’

‘To always protect the one’s I love?’

‘Yes, it is something that can never be taken away, not even by the snake of a man Orochimaru, and don’t forget you have me to back it up with. I will always fight for the lives that you and I hold dear, remember this always Naruto!’

‘I know Fox, I know, but it still hurts inside.’

‘I know Kit, but that will also fade in time, though it will never go away, the one’s that leave us are never gone, if you always remember them.’

Feeling like it was a good as time as any, Kyuubi headed toward the center of the city and found where the old man had fallen. ‘It looks like he put up quite a fight, damn that snake!’

‘It’s alright Kit, he did for the village, he wanted to protect everyone, that’s the Hokage’s job you know that right?’

‘I know, but to give your life for strangers, how can he do that?’

‘They were not strangers, he knew all of them, all of them were his children, he had to protect them all.’

‘I don’t know, he didn’t have to die for it.’

‘It was what he deemed worthy of death, he wanted to save everyone and he did, he stopped that snake.’

“Naruto, what are you doing here?”

“Kakashi-sensei, I was just here to see the Hokage. How did this happen?”

“He fought bravely, but Orochimaru was too strong for him.”

“Why didn’t you all break the shield and help him?”

“There was nothing we could have done, nothing any of us could have done against Orochimaru and the shield.”

“I just don’t know, we could have done something, we could have done anything, but we didn’t and now the old man’s dead.” Unable to take it, Naruto headed back home.

The next day

The crowds were gathering for the 3rd Hokage’s funeral, “Come on Naruto-kun we don’t want to be late.”

“I’m coming Kurenai-chan.” Dressing as quickly as possible, Naruto and his family headed out for the funeral. “It’s going to be alright Naruto, we’ll survive and then we’ll defeat Orochimaru once and for all.”

“I have no illusions of that Anko-chan, but I want to do it with my bare hands. That bastard is going to die very slowly when I get my hands on him.”

Arriving at the funeral, the group lined up to place a flower on the casket, ‘He did so much to help me, even though I wasn’t his son I sure felt like it sometimes.’

‘He believed in you Kit, let’s just leave it at that.’

‘I still can’t believe I am doing this, placing a flower on the old man’s casket, it just seems surreal and so, so wrong.’ After the flower was placed there was an air of silence before the other’s said a few words, “This funeral is in memory of all those who gave their lives to protect our village, unfortunately one of them was our great Hokage. Let us have another moment of silence for the dead.”

The women were using Naruto as a crying platform and he was getting soaked, and it wasn’t due to rain coming down either. Soon the ceremony was complete and the group departed, “Oi…..Naruto are you alright?”

“Iruka-sensei, I am fine, but I don’t know what to do now.”

“It will be alright Naruto, he wouldn’t have wanted anyone to be sad on his account, he knew what he was doing, he did it for the village, something he loved above all things.”

“I know, but it still hurts Iruka-sensei, it won’t go away.”

“I know Naruto, but it will fade.”

“Hopefully, well I got to go Iruka-sensei, good-bye!”

“Good-bye Naruto, keep yourself out of trouble.”

‘Kit your teacher is right, there is nothing left for to do but move on. And when we are done beating Orochimaru’s face into a nice paste I am sure we’ll feel better about it all.’

‘Sounds good to me.”

The next day was an unusual day for our resident hero, he was trying to extract himself from a human sandwich with himself in the middle. “Oh come on Anko, let me go.”

“I don’t think so, what do you think Tenten-chan?”

“I like where I am, don’t you Temari-chan?”

“I don’t mind it, but I wouldn’t mind being in the front for a while. How bout it Kurenai?”

“Nope, this is perfect for me, right Naruto-kun?”

“No, come on I got to go get some ramen, I’m starving.”

“If your so hungry I can make you something, you shouldn’t eat so much of that ramen.”

“Hey Ichiraku ramen is the best, isn’t that right Naruto-kun?”

“Ayame-chan? You have some on you?”

“Of course, I can make some for you now.” Having the daughter of his favorite restaurant making food for him was a dream come true for Naruto, “Don’t forget extra hot chili sauce!”

“I know Naruto-kun.”

“Well while she is making lunch, let’s all get a snack!”

“Sure, have fun girls, I’ll be waiting here for Ayame-chan.”

“Oh we weren’t talking literally, we want a Naruto snack.” At the look in the women’s eyes Naruto knew he was boned, ‘Nice one Kit, I wanted some exercise before lunch.’ Taking over for a little bit, Kyuubi wet his appetite with a little bit of everything, Kurenai’s peaches, Hinata’s cream, and Anko’s strawberries tasted all the more sweeter before a good meal. Screams could be heard as far away as the next 2 blocks, although the next 2 blocks were kind of quiet due to only men being in them.

The girl’s mother’s and sisters enjoyed Naruto’s flavor as well, and with the stamina of a demon it was easy to serve so many. ‘Let’s make this a nice and long snack…..’ Forming a number of seals, soon hundreds of Naruto’s were having the time of their lives and it all came into the original. ‘Ahh…..the sensations are incredible, you have to try this Kit….it’s so good.’

‘Enough, I want my ramen, leave the depraved women alone.’

‘Fine but let the clones have their fun too, though were feeling the effects.’ Soon more screams could be heard, “Mama why are you on top of Naruto?”

“Oh…..Ino…..I didn’t see you there…..ahhh…….it’s…..ahhh…..kind of hard……hard…..to expla….ahhh…” Watching as her mother had ‘fun’, Ino definitely went the other way.

Elsewhere

‘What happened to all the pretty ladies? Damn that Fox, he got all of them!’

“Still up to your usual foolishness?”

“I am gathering data, but I don’t think you just came up here for pleasantries, what do you want?”

“You should know what we want before we ask it.”

“No need to be so serious, didn’t the talks with the Sand go well?”

“The sand stated that Orochimaru tricked them, and they have surrendered to Konoha, that is not the issue here.”

“Good to hear, but you don’t have to tell me about it. Now back to work!”

“We have come from an executive meeting and they have stated that a new Hokage is vital and quickly. It has been decided by the counsel that you will be the new 5th Hokage.”

“I don’t think the job suits me, I’ll pass.”

“It is not a request, it has already been decided. And how are you not suited, you are a Sannin aren’t you?”

“There is one more……Tsunade.”

“Yes, she would be suited for the job, but we don’t know where she is.”

“I know where she is, and if you give me time I can get her here.”

“The counsel may object….”

“Do you really want a lazy ass like me being Hokage, or a witty person like Tsunade?”

Talking amongst themselves, Jiraiya waited for their response, “We will accept that, but we insist that you take along 3 ANBU with you.”

“Don’t worry I won’t run away, and the 3 will only slow me down. Although there is one guy I want to come along. He is an interesting person, I have found a diamond in the rough as they say.”

Back with Naruto & co.

Naruto was definitely having fun, or rather Kyuubi was having the fun, Naruto wanted his ramen. ‘Are you done yet?’

‘Don’t rush me, you should enjoy it you know.’

‘I am not as perverted as you, I don’t take 3 girls on at once.’

‘It’s fun and educational, though they might not know what the heck is going on.’

‘Fine, I think Ayame-chan is done with the ramen.’

‘Fine, go eat it.’

‘Uh…I can’t if you are controlling the body.’

‘Just become one of those clones or something.’

‘Idiot, just let go and let me eat my ramen.’ Kyuubi, although he was having fun knew that he didn’t want to get Naruto too angry, ‘Fine, let me just finish up.’ With a few more intriguing ‘moves’, Kyuubi finished and left the rest up to the clones. “Finally, Ayame-chan, you finished the ramen?”

“Yep, though I want some reward for doing it for you.”

“Uhh….I don’t have my wallet on me at the moment.”

“Not that kind, you know what I want Naruto-kun!” Sighing, Naruto created 2 additional clones and let Ayame have her fun. “Finally get to eat my ramen in peace. Or at least relative peace.” Naruto could not block out all the moaning and groaning that was happening right next to him. ‘Jeez Kit, let’s eat and join back in to all the fun.’

‘I want to eat it slowly not rush like you, anyways you had your fun.’ While Naruto was eating his ramen, Kyuubi was trying to understand why his senses were going haywire. ‘Hey Kit, do you feel a presence in the air?’

‘What do you mean?’

‘I mean something evil like that Gaara kid, only more vindictive?’

‘I guess, but it’s probably just the residue from Orochimaru, you know how evil he was.’

‘I don’t think so.’

Across town

“Oi…..nice to see you here, what you up to Asuma?”

“Nothing much, what are you doing Kakashi?”

“Just waiting for someone, going to eat.”

“Who?”

“Sasuke.” A twinge of movement in the back of Kakashi highlighted the problem at hand, when Sasuke arrived he was surprised that Kakashi was actually there first. “Kakashi you’re here early?”

“I do it sometimes.” Looking beyond his sensei Sasuke saw a empty table with dumplings on top. “I don’t like sweets.” With a nod of his head, Kakashi conveyed his message to Asuma. Within a blink of an eye Asuma was off and running to catch up with the two who Kakashi suspected of dark activities.

The two individuals that Asuma was following were strong and silent killers, when he reached them he asked their names. The shorter one showed his face and it was soon apparent who it was, Uchiha Itachi, the man who killed his whole clan except for the last remaining genius Uchiha Sasuke. The other introduced himself as Hoshigaki Kisame, the missing ninja of Hidden Village of the Mist, he was wanted for sabotage, murder and assassination of high feudal lords. The two combined were more than enough to deal with Asuma, but fortunately for Asuma, Kakashi came onto the scene. “Kakashi, the copy ninja, you have half of the Sharingan.”

“Itachi, how dare you come back here, after what you did.”

“You talk too much, let’s do this.” Kisame was eager to start the battle, and Asuma was more than eager to oblige. So the battle commenced and it seemed that Kakashi and Asuma had a fighting chance, they combined to take down the newest member to their village, Kisame, he was fooled with the Sharingan from Kakashi’s right eye. Unfortunately for them, they had forgotten about Itachi, and he soon had Kakashi in a world of living hell, it caused the once stoic ninja to become embroiled in pain and turmoil.

Asuma was now facing the combined might of both Kisame and Itachi, he was boned, with one final sigh, Kisame attacked the hapless Jounin. With Itachi watching his back it was a piece of cake to take down the chain smoking ninja, too bad they didn’t count on a certain blond coming to the rescue. “Fast.” That was the only word that came out of Itachi’s mouth, with a speed that Itachi had only seen in the mirror, Naruto had blocked Kisame’s huge blade.

“Who are you? And how are you blocking my Samehada, you little brat.”

“Oh this old thing….I thought it was a razor? Here you can have it back.” Throwing off the blue man like he was a feather, Naruto watched as he landed hard on the concrete. “Who the heck are you guys?”

“Who are you young one?”

“Oh, forgive me, I am Naruto Uzumaki and I will one day become the greatest ninja of them all. Now if you please….”

“We are Itachi Uchiha and Kisame Hoshigaki respectively, though I don’t think Kisame liked your remark about his sword.”

“I don’t care, now just get out of here before I beat both your heads in.”

“You are cocky kid, bad idea.” With a charge Kisame once again went on the offensive, and again he was thrown back by the little boy. “Ahh is the little fishy angry at little ole me?”

The blue man was livid he couldn’t explain why he was being thrown back, “Stop Kisame, he’s strong, very strong for a kid. Just come with us kid, we have need of your power.”

“Well I don’t really want to, so what are you going to do about it?”

“Well if you would be so kind as to look me in the eye and say that.” Naruto believing nothing could hurt him did just that, and Itachi activated his Mangekyou Sharingan attack, which was powerful in itself and Itachi looked into Naruto’s soul to find what most scared him. “Don’t go where you are not wanted boy!” A voice like a demon kicked Itachi out, and also added a little side effect, a sharp pierce in his eye, Itachi wouldn’t be able to use his Sharingan for a number of days. “I thought you were going to do something?”

“What are you?”

“Oh your average demon medium, only this demon is a bit on the wild side. Are we done or do you want a beat down?” Deciding that a healthy retreat was in order, Itachi and Kisame left the 3 Konoha ninja alone. “Thought they would never leave, hey you okay old man?” To say Asuma was surprised was taking it lightly, a boy the age of 12 beat two S-class bingo book ninjas. “Hey you alright old man? Need medical attention?”

“Uhh….I’m fine, but how did you do that?”

“Oh I had a little help from a friend, now help me with Kakashi-sensei, I don’t think he is doing that good.”

With the two of them carrying the injured Jounin they soon reached the medical center where they deposited him. “Okay, well I got to go, you take care Asuma-san.”

“Wait, aren’t you going to wait for Kakashi-sensei?”

“Nope, just came along to play with Itachi and Kisame, was fun but got better things to do now.” Watching the boy walk out the hospital doors, Asuma could not shake the feeling that he was seeing a legend in the making.

While walking down the street back home, Naruto found to his irritation he was being followed, “What do you want Ero-sennin?”

“I told you to stop calling me that, and how did you know I was behind you?”

“The Fox told me, now what do you want?”

“Well I am going to be gone for a couple of weeks and was wondering if you would like to join me?”

“Nah, I got to do some training, you know get stronger so I can use more of the Fox’s power.”

“Oh, but I am going to find a woman, and she’s hot, so do you want to come now?”

“I don’t think so, I am not perverted like you.”

“Ah well, I have something stronger than the Chidori. I guess I can ask if Sasuke wants to join me?”

“Wait…..I changed my mind I’ll come. Let me just get changed Ero-sennin.”

With speed that rivaled the Fourth Hokage’s Naruto headed home, “That kid has got to be one of the most interesting in a century.”

When Naruto arrived home he started to pack all his stuff and hoped to get out of the village before his family found out. Although it was unlikely Naruto took the chance, and he was not surprised when he was accosted by both Temari and Hinata. “Where are you going?”

“Ero-sennin said he is going to teach me a new technique, but I have to leave the village for a while to learn it.”

“Then we have to go with you.”

“How weird would it be for me to take over a thousand with me wherever I go?”

“We don’t really care about how weird it looks, you are not going without us.”

Seeing that this conversation was going nowhere, Naruto decided to just make a run for it. And out he went in search of Ero-sennin in hopes that the girls would not be able to catch up to him. Although with 2 Jounin’s helping them it was likely they could track him.

“Finally are you ready?”

“Yes, let’s hurry.”

“Why the rush, we don’t have to come back that fast.”

“Well, I just want to learn this new technique and get going.”

Still amused by the boy, Jiraiya instead just increased his pace and soon they were going at a nice run through the countryside.

“Where did he go Temari?”

“How am I supposed to know? How bout you use your brains instead of always using your chest to think?”

“Hey, I’ll have you know that Naruto loves my chest the best.”

“Shut up Anko, let’s just go find him and bring him back.”

“But he said he was training with Jiraiya-sama.”

“I know Hinata, but that doesn’t mean he has to train alone.”

“I agree let’s go find him before we all get depressed.” And with that a mighty army marched out to get back their stolen lover. Sneezing a little bit, Naruto knew that someone out there must have been talking about him. “Something wrong Naruto?”

“Nah, just thought I felt something probably nothing.”

The pair soon arrived at a quaint little town, as Jiraiya went to gather “information”, Naruto headed into the hotel to train in peace. ‘Why are we here Kit? I wanted to stay with the women, they were fun1’

‘Ah shut it Fox, we need to get stronger. And Ero-sennin said he would show me a new more powerful technique.’

‘I guess, but let’s hurry back I don’t want to miss anything.’

Jiraiya was having the time of his life, letting a girl pull him around the town for over 3 hours. ‘I can’t believe my luck, 5 minutes into town and I found a babe who wanted to show me around. What luck!’

While Jiraiya went to play someone else came to visit the young host body of Kyuubi. Hearing a knocking on his door, Naruto thought his sensei had already got dumped and was just returning home. What he saw when he opened the door was none other than Kisame and Itachi, “Oh it’s you guys again, didn’t you learn from the last time?”

“We need the Fox’s power boy, now hand it over.” Obviously the two had not learned from last time, thus they tried again to take the boy into custody. And again they were thwarted too bad it wasn’t by the power of Naruto, Sasuke just showed up and attacked his brother. “I will kill you, I am going to kill you.” Activating his Chidori, Sasuke charged at his brother to deliver the killing blow, but was blocked easily enough and had his wrist broken in two. “You’re a bother now leave.” Tossing his brother away like cardboard, Itachi next turned his attention to the holder of the Fox demon’s power. “I guess I have to take care of you guys. Here we go.” Gathering chakra into his hands, Naruto formed the seal to summon Gamabunta, unfortunately Kisame swung his sword, that is to say unfortunately for Kisame. You see, with the amount of chakra that Kyuubi has it could not be absorbed in to a tiny blade such as Samehada. Thus if the sword couldn’t swallow it up the charka had to go somewhere, and that somewhere was into Kisame’s body. “How do you like my power? Hurts a little don’t it?” With Kisame writhing in pain, Sasuke saw his opportunity to attack his brother once more, and once more he was thrown back, but this time he was driven into a world of pain and sorrow.

“Did you really think that the Great Jiraiya could be fooled by a girl? Girls fall in love with the Great Jiraiya, they can’t seduce him.”

Itachi saw that he didn’t have much of a chance against a Sannin and Naruto, but what made it even worse was when Jiraiya made the whole hallway into a frog’s stomach. “You won’t escape from here, the frog will digest you where you stand.” With Kisame in pain and writhing in his stupidity, Itachi had to think up a way to escape, retreating once more Itachi came face to face with a wall of meat. Using some of his most secretive of techniques he blew a hole through the belly of the frog and jumped to freedom. “Hmm….he escaped, but how? Black fire? A rock frog spits out fire and it’s internal organs were damaged by fire? I have to catalog this.”

Taking a scroll out he absorbed the fire and went back in search of Sasuke, Sasuke wasn’t in much better shape than Kakashi, the Sharingan’s power really did a number on both of them. Within moments a scream could be heard and then bruises were littered throughout Jiraiya’s body. “Uhh….maybe I should have taken a mirror, sorry Jiraiya-sama.”

“Gai-sensei what are you doing here?”

“I am here to find Itachi, what are you doing here?”

“I am on official Konoha business.”

“What has happened to Sasuke?”

“Itachi got him.”

“I will kill Itachi, then I will skin that blue man alive.”

“You can try but you will lose and die against them.”

“What would you have me do then? Wait here?”

“No, we must finish our search then we can rest.”

“Who is going to take Sasuke back?”

“Gai will, won’t you Gai?” Seeing the glare pointed at him, Gai readily agreed with whatever Jiraiya said. “Take care on your journey Naruto and always fight with the pride and youth of your generation.”

“Gai you really need to get out more.”

“What’s wrong Jiraiya?”

“Never mind, let’s get going Naruto.”

“Sure, remember to take care of Sasuke, thank you again Gai-san.”

Watching the two walk off, Gai knew that he would eventually bow to the boy, ‘How powerful is he?’ While Gai was heading back to Konoha, Naruto’s family was catching up to him. “Are we close Anko-san?”

“Yep, but it will still be at least another couple hours before we catch him Hinata-chan.”

“How are they hiding their trail so well?”

“Well he is with a Sannin, and you all saw what he did to my brother.” Temari was right, the girls did see what happened and knew that if Naruto really wanted to he could hide, run, and fight all at the same time. “Well they have to stop somewhere, and when they do, we’ll be upon them like locust on rice.”

It seemed the fates liked to toy with the young boy, just two hours later the Sannin and Naruto were at the next stop on the search for the woman named as Tsunade. “Alright, Naruto let’s head into town and see if we can’t find Tsunade.”

“Again? Didn’t you gather enough “information” already?”

“Yeah but I need more.”

Sighing, Naruto just followed behind the pervert, ‘We should have stayed home with our mates, it would have been more fun and more educational.’

‘True, but I want to learn that technique.’ Stopping in the middle of a bustling market, Jiraiya pointed to Naruto’s sachel and asked for it. “What are you looking for?”

“Found it.” Jiraiya had taken Naruto’s money pouch, “What are you doing? That’s my money.”

“Yes, but a little boy shouldn’t hold this much, now here you go.”

“800 yen? What the heck am I going to do with 800 yen?”

“Go buy something nice for yourself.”

“Give me back my money.”

“I will keep it for you, I’ll give it back later.” With that Jiraiya melted into the crowd, ‘Damn that pervert, he took my money, good thing that is not my real stash.’

‘I got to give it to you Kit, you are not as dumb as you look. How much was in that frog?’

‘Oh just enough to fool that pervert, my money is in my wallet. Now I just have to find a quiet place to get it.’ Naruto went around the town in search of a quiet area, what he found was a bunch of women looking for him, “Uhh…..how are you all doing? Did you get my note?”

“Note! There was no note, now what the heck is your problem Naruto?”

“Sakura, you don’t have to yell I can hear you.”

“What she means is why did you leave us Naruto-kun?”

“Kurenai-chan, I needed to train with Ero-sennin, you know how it goes.”

“We know, but you could have taken us with you. We could have helped you train.”

“I don’t know Anko, you usually are just a distraction, you are all so sexy and juicy……and well you get the point.”

“We could have still helped your endurance and stamina, now we have to do it the hard way.”

“What do you mean?”

“You know exactly what we mean, get him girls.” Facing a horde of women Naruto did what any normal man would do, he ran for his life, ‘I told you to take them with us.’

‘Okay I don’t really need your insight right now, let’s just run okay?’ While running through the woods is good training, it was even more worthwhile when being chased by over a thousand horny and angry females. ‘If we get out of this remind me never to make them mad again.’

‘I could have told you that Kit.’ During his little romp through the woods, Naruto came onto varying degrees of traps which seemed to be placed to slow him down, ‘Guess they were expecting us, why didn’t you tell me that they were here?’

‘Oh I thought it would be a heartfelt and tearful reunion, not a bloodbath like what is happening now.’ Soon with the number of traps Naruto could not keep up his speed and he was caught, and again like in days past there was a bunch of moaning and lots of cries of pleasure.

‘Told you to give up Kit, just go with the flow. Plus this could be considered as training I guess.’ What Jiraiya found on his return to his young ward, was a boy who was surrounded on all sides by about a thousand women. ‘Wow, I should be proud of the boy but I am just jealous, I wonder if I could get a piece of this?’

“Stop the staring pervert, what do you want?”

“Oh so your awake, I thought with all the screaming that you would be way too tired to actually hear me.”

“Yeah, yeah, what do you want?”

“Oh I was just going to tell you that we are going to start training now, if you could fit me into your ‘tight’ schedule.”

“Fine, but remember don’t touch any of them.” Using his most famous jutsu, Naruto created enough clones to keep the ladies warm and comfortable for a long time. “Alright let’s go.”

Author’s Notes: Well there goes the next chapter, hope you all liked it. Leave a review good or bad, it helps get my writing going. Thank you all again for reading and reviewing, see you next time.