Jiraiya walked briskly towards the Hokage Tower. Not being seen since the Kyuubi attack 9 years ago, many people stared at him as he walked by. And by the serious look on his face, they knew he wasn't back with good news. Finally making it to the tower, the old, white haired man bypassed the stairs and instead jumped up towards the roof jutting out next to the Hokage's window. See the age worn man behind the desk, Jiraya pushed open the window, letting the Hokage know he was there. "Old Man, I got bad news." He said, forgoing pleasentries because of the urgency.
Lighting his pipe, the aged Hokage turned aroundin his chair to look at his one student still in the village. "Jiraiya, what news is that." The grandfatherly looked washed off his face as the serious, leader look took it's place.
"My spies have picked something up, something big. SS Class Big at least." He paused for a moment for the severaty of the situation to sink in. "They picked up Orochi's trail, but it seams he joined an organization. All Missing-Nin, all S class minimal. And there's another familier face there, Itachi Uchiha is in it, too."
To say Hiruzen was shocked would be like saying lava was freezing cold. 'A gathering of S-Class criminals, what kind of group is this. And what kind of man was able to keep them all in line.' When he voiced his thoughts to Jiraiya, he simply replied that the leader was still an unknown.
"Another thing we don't know is their porpuse. A group of that many talented shinobi would be after something huge, but no one was able to figure it out." He hesitated slightly before going on. "I want to make a team to combat them."
Hiruzen nodded and turned back to his desk grabbing a pen and piece of paper. "Good idea, I'll send three ANBU Divisions-" the aged Hokage was cut off before he could finish by Jiraiya.
"No Old Man, you don't understand. This isn't your avaerage rag-tag group of Missing-Nin. A few ANBU won't put a dent in these guys. What we need is an elete team made presically to counter-act them." He sighed, knowing he was going to sound idiotic. "I need a team od acadamy students." Judging by the wide-eyed look on his face, the aged Sarutobi was not expecting that, and no one blamed. Who would be crazy enough to reguest a group of kids to defeat a group of S-CLASS Missing-nin. "Now don't worry Old Man, I don't plan on leading a bunch of kids to their group, Akatsuki, is still building itself as it is. We could send in a group to hopefully destroy them, but we don't knw where their HQ is. What the spy saw was only four people. We don't know exact numbers, supplies, or even their location! Hell, for all we know their HQ could be on a giant Dragon's back!"
_Summoning realm_

In the realm of summons, a giant winged beast rested on a mountain top in his kingdom. Giant purple scales covered the majest beast's body. The great beast sneezed, it's reptilian eyes opening afterwards. Looking around, the dragon looked down at the mountain and said, in english supprisingly, "Father, I think someone is talking about me."
Afterwards, a rumbling was heard as an eye opened in the giant 'mountain'. "Who would dare talk about the Dragon King's eldest daughter?" he boomed.
Suddenly, an even bigger mountain next to the Dragon King shook. "Mabye it is a new summiner?" the mountain suggested.
The dragon King pondered this. "Mabye elder, but we will need to test him."
_Konoha_
The aged man nodded to slightly less aged man. "True, we don't know much about them, but that doesn't explain why you need KIDS for this group." Before Jiraiya could explain himself, the aged Hokage gave him a grandfatherly grin. "Then again, your ideas, no matter how unorthidox, have barely failed before. I grant you your team, I'll even let you pick them, but my only reqirment is that you take Naruto Uzumaki on your team. I believe it would be best for him if he could see the real world instead of villages hatred. Also, as a reguest, not a requirment, could you take Sasuke Uchiha with you. Ever since his Clan's massacre he has been slightly unstable. The Council let him join the acadamy non-the-less, but I think it would also benefit him to be put in his place."
Jiraiya nodded. "Good idea. I'll take those two and then head out to search for other canidates. Mabye one from Mist. The Clan's would gladly give me one of their children to continou their line." Jiraiya muttered the last part to himself, but Sarutobi caught it anyways.
"What do you mean from Mist? Don't you intend to fight Akatsuki with leaf trainies?" The aged Hokage was bewildered. Here was his one loyal student suggesting to join forces with the enemy. Seeing the look in his old pupil's eyes told him that Jiraiya was sserious. "I don't understand, why would you bring other villages into this?"
Jiraiya sighed. "Akatsuki is formed from the best of the best from different villages. They excel at their villages style and take it to a whole new level. Sure, we could probably handle Orochimaru and Itachi since we know their style, but Kisami Hoshigaki, Deidara the Mad Bomber, Sasori of the Red Sand? We don't know how they fight. It would be easier to enlist the help of other villages. A Kage Summit Meeting would be to obvious so that woun't work. we'll just have to do this the old fashioned way."
The aged Sarutobi knew what he was talking about right away. "Kidnapping Jiraiya, that could start a war!"
"Only if I'm caught," Jiraiya countered. Seeing he was about to say something else against him, he quickly added, "You can always say I was working alone. You can even mark me as a missing-nin if you need to make certain you can't be blamed."
The aged Hokage sighed. 'I'm to old for this stuff,' he thought to himself. "Fine," he consented. "I'll call the two up so you can leave. I'll even give you a three hour head start before you are declaired a missing-nin. And some advice, the Sand has a jinjuriki around Naruto and Sasuke's age. I don't have a description, but I do know that he is the Kazekage's son." Afterwards, he summoned two ANBU and sent them to get the two boys. ument here...