It was a dismal overcast day within the village hidden within the leaves, there were no birds singing, no sunlight shining down on the people, not even a warm breeze blowed within its walls. It was as though the world was holding its breath. As though it was the calm before the storm, not many people took notice of the eerie stillness of the world around the village but all that did were waiting with bated breath because they could feel it with every fibre of their being that something was about to happen, something big.
Naruto Uzumaki sat, legs crossed, in training ground 7.
His home away from home, when it wasn't being used by genin, chuunin and jonin for training.
It didn't look like he was doing much but he was in fact doing one of the most important things that could happen within the elemental nations as they recovered from war.
Dozens of ninja hopefuls and ninja of various ranks walked near training ground 7 where they saw Naruto meditating, many went to call out to him or walk over and talk to him but they were all stopped by the various ANBU and his jonin team leader Capt. Yamato.
They were in the middle of something that could make or break the alliance between the hidden ninja villages. Naruto Uzumaki was in the middle of hosting a meeting between the 9 Tailed beasts that had placed a portion of their chakra within him during the war.
"I can't understand why we can't just go back to our own villages and territories like we have in the past" Complained Isobu, the three tailed turtle.
Naruto and Kurama groaned in unison, not for the first time during the meeting.
Matatabi spoke first "Because, you slow turtle, some of the world has been changed where we used to live before we were placed into hosts."
Isobu turned to look at Matatabi pointedly "So? What do I care! It was my home before it was theirs!"
Naruto channelled some chakra into his throat to enhance his voice "SHUT UP!"
His sudden outburst caused Matatabi and Isobu to shrink back slightly. Although they were tailed beasts until they had reappeared into the world they were currently stuck within a plane of existence between the world of the living and the dead until they were strong enough to break through the wall between the worlds.
Sighing Naruto continued talking without his enhanced voice "As I mentioned before everyone here other than Kurama and Octo-pops have been left without any definite place to call home when they reappear. Kurama, if he ever finds himself in the same position as you all, will be reforming in the senju forest that surrounds the village we already made him a home, of sorts."
This caused a small murmur among the other Biju.
"None of you are welcome to visit, so stay the hell away!" Kurama clearly stated.
Son Goku, the four tailed Monkey, scoffed "Like anyone here would want to be around your horrible attitude more than we had to"
"Son, behave" Kokuo simply said, staring at the four tails.
Grumbling to himself Son Goku stopped his verbal assault against Kurama. Kokuo turned to face Naruto.
"My apologies for speaking out Naruto-sama" Kokuo bowed slightly while apologising. "But I do have a request of where I would like to be allowed to stay once I reappear in the elemental nations."
Naruto smiled softly at the Biju "There is no need for apologies Kokuo, these two need to learn how to handle themselves when we're trying to have an important meeting."
Kokuo lifted its head and looked at Son, who grunted softly.
"I remember you saying that you wanted to seclude yourself in the forest, I will endeavour to find you a forest where you will be able to have some peace and we'll make a home for you like I did for Kurama" Naruto replied.
Kokuo gave a slight nod.
Turning Naruto addressed Shukaku "Shukaku did you want to go back to the hidden sand village? I'm sure that Gaara will be happy to have you back, should you have enough strength to return during his lifetime."
"I suppose I should. I'm pretty sure I know what you're planning to do or at least attempting to do." Shukaku stated pointedly.
"Oh?"
"You want each hidden village to have a single Biju. Kurama would go to Konohagakure, Gyuki would remain with kumogakure. You'd want Son to go back to his village and Kokuo to go somewhere within their territory, finally you'd do the same with the rest of us." Shukaku accused.
Kurama let out a low, deep growl giving the Tanuki Biju a warning about his actions while they were in his home, so to speak.
"Kurama that's enough." Naruto told the fox.
"Humph" Kurama grunted.
Naruto addressed Shukaku again "You're almost right."
This came as a shock to the other Biju, other than Kurama who already knew what was going to happen.
"I plan on attempting to get one Biju per village, in order to have a stable balance amongst the village's strength. But I won't force you to appear where you don't want to, I don't even think that I will be alive when most of you do anyway.
"Besides the Biju that accept to have hosts within the hidden villages I will attempt to find homes for the others where they want to live. If that means that Kurama shares part of the forest with Kokuo then he will have to deal with it." Naruto pointed out.
Kurama reacted to this by shooting up from resting on his hands "That water-horse will not be staying anywhere near me! This forest is my territory and will not be shared with another!"
Naruto didn't even turn around to look at Kurama. He just formed a half ram hand seal and restrained Kurama with the Adamantine Sealing Chains. Ensuring that they wrapped tightly around his mouth.
Acting as though nothing had happened Naruto continued talking.
"But I will be attempting to place you somewhere that will keep the villages that you were previously appointed to happy, though if there is nowhere within that territory that you wish to live then I will keep searching for a suitable place. That is my plan Shukaku. Any complaints?"
The collective Biju, other than Kurama, who was restrained, and Shukaku, looked from Naruto and Shukaku and back, doing this several times to make sure that they were seeing correctly.
Shukaku, the most brash and violent of all the Biju was being spoken too as though he was a child and Naruto was the parent explaining why they couldn't have dessert before dinner.
They were stunned. Waiting for Shukaku to attack Naruto.
Surprising them all still, Shukaku didn't attack Naruto but smiled instead.
Naruto did his best to remain calm when talking to the one tails but he was put off by the murderous look in his eye and the unnerving smile that appeared on his face.
"Pfft…hahahaha!" Shukaku burst out laughing. "I gotta admire the pair that you have kid! No one has talked down to me with like that since that priest Bunpuku. Heheh!"
This time everyone was stunned Shukaku had never spoken about his first host as he just did. Whenever one of the other Biju asked the furthest that they got was Shukaku telling them "He was a no good old man that locked himself away and didn't let me have any fun"
This was the first time that he had mentioned anything along the lines of respecting him.
"You can tell Gaara that I'll be strong enough to appear near the village within a decade or two. It'll be sooner than all the others mostly because that place is saturated with my sand and chakra, so he better have a good host ready!" Shukaku told him as he, awkwardly, ruffled Naruto's hair as though he was his wild uncle.
"Sure thing Shukaku, I'll let him know when I see him next. He might have a son or daughter that'll be your host, ya' know keep you in the family." Naruto grinned.
Saiken spoke first, after looking at the scene before all the Biju "Either being without a host in so long has made Shukaku crazy or we're all witnessing a miracle or Genjutsu."
Chomei gave off a shrill whistle of approval "Lucky me hasn't been effected by any Genjutsu, so this is real."
Shukaku glared at the other Biju "Stop acting like such weaklings, the boy had the balls to speak to me like an equal and didn't have a shred of fear in his voice so he's earnt my respect. Something that I have rarely given to anyone."
Once Naruto shook most of the sand out of his hair he looked at the other Biju "Is there anyone else that's happy to take another host when they reappear in the world? We still need one for the hidden mist and stone."
Son stepped forward. "I'll take a host from the stone, tell whoever leads the stone that I demand that they erect a place that I will be able to pass on the knowledge that Roshi collected when he was alive."
A touch of sadness made itself known when Son mentioned his former host.
"He had great respect for us, all of us, even though he only hosted me Roshi cared about us and collected all sorts of knowledge that could be of use to other Jinchuriki in the future."
Naruto nodded, he could understand where Son Goku was coming from. He had a partner that matched with him very well. Naruto barely had a chance to know who Roshi was as a person before he died and was resurrected to fight during the war but from what he had learnt, Roshi had been an honourable man.
He had left the village and went in search of knowledge about the Biju instead of seeking power and wanting to get stronger physically he went in search of a way to strengthen the minds of everyone. That was someone Naruto could respect as much as Son did.
"I will make sure that they build something special for you and that the knowledge that it collects is shared throughout the nations so Roshi will be remembered for his work and dedication."
Son Goku gave Naruto a very deep bow, his head nearly touching the ground.
"I thank you Naruto, it is more than I could hope for. I hope that my host will be someone like you and Roshi that will seek knowledge and strength for others more than for themselves."
Naruto turned to look at Isobu while Son raised his head.
Saying nothing Isobu turned his head away from Naruto. Silently giving his answer about having another host.
Saiken, on the other hand seemed to be thinking about something.
"Something on your mind Saiken?" Matatabi asked.
"Just thinking about whether I ask for something for the village to do for me or not, is all." Saiken stated.
"Would you like me to get Utakata removed from the list of missing-nin?" Naruto suggested "Or did you want them to do something specifically for you or your next host?"
This seemed to give Saiken an idea.
Moving down to look at Naruto closely Saiken simply said "Clear Utakata please and ask that they have someone who likes bubbles when I take a host. Utakata would always blow bubbles and we would watch the light dance within them, I will miss those days."
There was a moment's silence as the Biju that lost hosts thought back to their favourite moments with their hosts.
Naruto had been in a meditative state for more than a day before he finally opened his eyes.
Looking around him he saw that Capt. Yamato had used his [Wood Release: Four-Pillar House Technique] to make a small room around him.
'Capt. Yamato didn't move me at all' Naruto noticed when he stood.
He had been sitting on the hard ground that he had sat down on when he started the Biju meeting. Brushing the dirty and dust of his orange pants and long black shirt that he was now accustomed to wearing.
After he was satisfied that all the dust and dirt was brushed off Naruto used his chakra to sense who was around.
He found two people in a room off to his left so he started walking towards them.
After the war Naruto had spent some time training with Iruka-sensei and various ANBU that Kakashi-sensei, currently the Hokage, had appointed to help watch and keep watch on/for Naruto because of the amount of chakra that he had.
Assimilating the eight different types of chakra that the Biju gifted him hadn't affected him during the war but there have been some times since when he had been training that his chakra had surged and caused massive damage to the areas that Naruto had been training. Specifically when he had been testing out his new Biju chakra Rasenshuriken.
Naruto had found that there were several advantages that the carious additions of chakra types could bring.
Using Shukaku's chakra; the target hit was immobilized by the rasengan, and the target attracted metal when they were hit with a Rasenshuriken mixed with Shukaku's chakra.
Using Matatabi's chakra; the rasengan was more of a fireball that could grow or shrink depending on the amount of Matatabi's chakra he used. The Rasenshuriken was more of a spinning blade of fire when used and set anything it cut through alight, but when the middle touch something it the ball exploded out sending the blades of fire out in different directions.
{When he used this variation he was swarmed with ANBU and Jonin who thought that there was an attack on the village, he had also been scolded by Kakashi, Iruka, Sakura and Granny Tsunade respectively}
Using Isobu's chakra; the rasengan lacked the normal amount of physical damage that it normally had as it was more like a rapidly spinning ball of water, he concluded that there wasn't much combat use for this version. When he used the Rasenshuriken version the blades were longer and wider than the normal version and when it exploded the pressure within the water was strong enough to uproot a massive tree that he had been more than 10 meters away from the center of the Rasenshuriken.
Using Son; Naruto didn't need to attempt the Rasenshuriken when he saw what the regular rasengan gave him. The rasengan looked as though it was made of molten rock with lava visibly spinning underneath, the rocks were barely held in place with the amount of pressure. The Jutsu also started to give of toxic volcanic gas, which Naruto realised was dangerous when he was rushed to the Leaf hospital with sever lung poisoning that hadn't been seen in the village for some time.
(It took Naruto more than a fortnight to fully recover even with his rapid healing factor)
When he was able to train once more he now had a squad of ANBU who had a mix of healing and barrier Justus that they were able to use in order to mitigate the damage that Naruto was intent on causing, along with the ANBU Sakura had received some time off from the hospital and her training to come and watch Naruto, even though she had been requested to do so by Kakashi.
"So what have you been doing out here Naruto?" Sakura asked when she and Naruto arrived at his training area.
Naruto looked at Sakura with a cheeky smile.
"I have been using the Chakra of the Biju, other than the kyuubi, and mixing it with my Rasengan and Rasenshuriken. I've been keeping a list of what they can all do, so that way I can use them during other battles effectively." He explained.
Sakura was shocked. Naruto had changed so much since the war and it seemed as though he was leaving her behind even more so now. Ever since he had convinced Sasuke to return to the village and he had left shortly after to travel around the nations, she had realized even more so that she was lacking in both ability and resourcefulness when it came to being their teammate, even though they hadn't been a team since Sasuke had left for Orochimaru's camp.
"Can I see the list?" She asked, wanting to be of some help at least to her teammate.
"Sure" Naruto replied as he dug through his pockets to find the list. Finding it he took a quick glance at it then handed it to Sakura.
She skimmed through the list and he could see that she was amazed by reading what he had written down.
"Naruto this is amazing! From one Jutsu you have made a variety of new abilities and each one is strong enough to do amazing things." Sakura smiled then pointed to the rasengan that he had labelled as 'unfit for combat' "What does this mean? How can it be unfit?"
Naruto smiled softly "Because that's where I use the chakra of the three tails, and it doesn't have that much power in it. Plus I couldn't think of any way to use it in battle."
Sakura nodded slightly, the gears in her mind turning rapidly until she had an idea.
"What if the only reason that it doesn't have potential is because you're using it in a forest and not near water?" She thought aloud.
Naruto, who had been looking around for something to use as a target for his next rasengan experiment spun around and looked at Sakura "What do you mean?"
Sighing Sakura handed the list back to Naruto, who slipped it into his pocket. "I'm saying that the reason that you think its weak is because you're not using it near its element. It's a water based Rasengan, correct?"
Naruto nodded, but still didn't understand the point she was trying to make.
Groaning Sakura clapped Naruto around the head "I'm saying you need to try it around its element. Water! We need to use it near a lake or river."
Naruto's eyes widened in shock, he had never considered that there would be conditions where they Biju Rasengan and Rasenshuriken would be stronger or weaker. Then again he never put much thought into the different types of battlefields that he would be fighting in.
"We need to find somewhere out of the way, without people or other ninja and a lot of water." He grinned. As he said that an ANBU appeared. The pair turned to greet the ANBU.
"The Hokage has authorised the use of the 40th training grounds for your use, he anticipated that you would need a new location since you have nearly damaged the environment so the grounds need to be closed until the damage is repaired, Naruto-kun." The ANBU said in a monotone voice.
Naruto grimaced when the ANBU mentioned the damage he had caused.
Sakura looked at Naruto and noticed his expression. "Naruto, just how much damage have you been doing to the training grounds?" her voice ripe with seething anger.
Naruto let out a small shriek as he could see the Chakra gathering around Sakura's fist. Without giving Sakura a chance to attack him he quickly used the flying thunder god technique that he had been learning to get away.
Once he felt safe Naruto gave a silent prayer of thanks to his father, Namikaze Minato, also known as the Yondaime Hokage, for telling him about the hidden stash that he had placed inside the Hokage monument when he was inaugurated, and for what he had been placing there when he found out that his wife Kushina, was pregnant. He had filled a small room with all sorts of scrolls and tools, mostly filled to teach Naruto or his descendants some of the various Jutsu that he had learnt and designed throughout his life.
Naruto had learnt the basics of the Flying thunder god technique and had been able to design his own mark for the Jutsu to work with. His design was different from the basic design that Minato used, which looked like a line of characters, and Senju Tobirama's, which looked like it could be similar to a paper bomb's design.
Naruto had calculated, with the help of Nara Shikimaru, Sai and Capt. Yamato, how to make it look like his clan symbol, The Uzumaki clan's swirl, or whirlpool as Naruto had taken to calling it. Although his design looked like his clan's symbol Naruto had to make some differences to it.
Instead of it having one swirl that stopped before reaching the line; Naruto had his mark moving in deeper towards the center. It looked slightly different and went subtly unnoticed unless someone actually looked at it, so it was easy to overlook.
"That was close" Kurama chuckled from within Naruto.
"No kidding, Kurama" Naruto replied, choosing to speak aloud since people knew that Naruto was able to talk to the Kyuubi no Kitsune, that was inside him. Even though he did get strange looks at times.
"Ever thought that you should just find somewhere else to train, away from the village." The fox said.
Naruto smirked "I didn't know you cared so much about the village Kurama."
"Hmph" was the only reply he got.
Naruto started leaping through the trees towards training ground 40 as the ANBU had told him. Although Dog had told him that Kakashi had authorised him the use of it, he knew that he was actually being told that he needs to change training grounds.
He arrived at the training grounds before Sakura or Dog, so he thought that he'd take a look around since he hadn't been to training ground 40 before. He didn't know that there was an actual training ground 40.
Surprisingly there was an abundance of nature chakra within the training ground, Naruto rationalised that there could possibly be more nature chakra here than what he could sense when he was training with the toads up in Mount Myoboku. Naruto leaped into the trees and tried to find the tallest tree around so he could observe the whole training ground.
Finding the tallest tree that he could Naruto saw that there was a very good reason he could sense an abundance of nature chakra within training ground 40. Growing along the borders of the 40th training ground were trees that he had been told, by both Jiraya and the great toad sage, were known as Trees of the Wood sage. Recognizing the trees, and with the knowledge he had gained during the war, Naruto rationalised that the trees were most likely connected to the first Hokage Senju Hashirama, Granny Tsunade's grandfather.
"It's been a while since I've seen those trees." Kurama said, snapping Naruto out of his thoughts.
"You're talkative today Kurama, what gives?" Naruto mentally asked.
He could feel the Biju shrug "Must be something I ate."
"You don't eat." Naruto countered "Do you?"
Kurama went silent.
Recognising the fact that Kurama was done talking to him, Naruto made his way to the nearest Wood sage tree. As he got closer he could feel the nature chakra flow into his body similar to the way it did when he meditated to enter his toad sage form but for some reason he could feel that this nature chakra was of a purer form than what he was used to and it confused him further.
Landing in front of the tree Naruto marvelled at the size of it. The trunk was wider than the Hokage's office building, it was easily several hundred feet high with roots thicker than Naruto's body peeking above the soil. Moving closer to the tree a sensation of warmth spread over him.
It was calming, like walking into a heated room after walking through cold winds. The smell of pine and oak filled the air around him. It was calming and peaceful something that Naruto had missed with his constant training.
He loved training, the hard work and dedication that it took to learn new skills driving him onward to improve himself, since the war Naruto had slowly stopped using shadow clones to further his training. Even though his use of clones decreased his ability to learn and adapt new Ninjutsu and Taijutsu, along with different fighting styles, was still shockingly fast. Although Naruto did favour his self-made fighting style more, preferring to fight recklessly and with excessive amounts of force.
As Naruto got closer to the tree he could feel his senses expanding like they did when he activated sage mode, but he could tell that he was currently not using any sage mode abilities. When Naruto placed a hand on the tree his perception of the world changed. Instead of seeing everything in a wide area and sensing everything that happened further out from that. Naruto was now experiencing everything that the tree could, he felt the energy from the sun flowing through the tree and himself by extension, he could feel the flow of chakra around him, the flow of energy that was within the earth.
It was such an experience that Naruto didn't know what or how to explain everything that he was experiencing. His sight, smell, taste, hearing and touch linked with the tree and everything that the tree was linked to. He was able to hear everything, see more, and feel nature itself hear the faintest of sounds, like the heartbeat of a baby bird still inside its egg.
He saw Sakura and Dog as they entered the training ground. He reached out with his empowered senses trying to touch them but Dog quickly moved, pulling Sakura away from Naruto's senses.
He watched as Sakura panicked.
"What did you do that for?" she fumed as dog was looking around.
"Forgive me Sakura-kun, but there was an unusual sensation reaching out for us. I couldn't determine where it originated from just that it was closing in on us." Dog explained.
Shooting to her feet Sakura looked around.
"Is it still there?" She asked.
Dog nodded "it is, but at the same time it isn't."
Looking at the ANBU Sakura asked "What do you mean?"
"It's like it belongs here, among the trees and nature but at the same time there is a foreign will moving it. It's unnatural."
Hearing this Naruto realized something that Dog hadn't actually realized she meant. Naruto was actively changing the natural environment around him while connecting with the tree. He pulled his expanded senses back, focussing them back inside his body. When his senses returned Naruto opened his eyes and took his hand off the tree.
"I'm sorry for interfering with the nature that you protect." He offered a prayer of respect to the tree.
A warm wind blew circling around him. He took that as the tree's way of saying he was forgiven.
Naruto leaped away from the tree heading to where he saw Dog and Sakura before. He arrived a just before Sakura and Dog started making their way to where they thought Naruto was waiting for them.
"Hey!" Naruto called out as he jumped from the trees landing close to where the two women were standing, kunai at the ready.
"You can put the weapons away, you two."
Sakura looked at Naruto before doing as he said. Dog just looked at him.
"There was a strange energy here before that was reaching out for us, did you sense anything Naruto-kun?" the ANBU asked.
Naruto grinned sheepishly "Sorry about that, the strange energy was me using nature chakra. I was trying to connect with you and didn't mean to come of all dangerous and stuff Dattebayo"
The ANBU nodded and stashed her Kunai.
"I would recommend that you don't attempt to do so in the future." Dog scolded him.
Sakura was confused as to how Naruto did anything like it. She was unable to sense the change in chakra or Nature chakra around her, even when she used Lady Tsunade's Mitotic Regeneration, she could barely sense anything close to what Naruto described when he talked about using nature chakra, and apparently he was using that to try and communicate with her and Dog but she sensed him and took it as a threat.
Naruto opened the door and stepped onto the wooden floor inside Capt. Yamato's wooden house, he left his shoes on and muttered a quiet "Ojamashimasu" as he closed the door behind him, the phrase translating to 'Pardon me for intruding', he walked towards the area where he sensed the two people.
Sliding open a door Naruto spotted Sakura and Ino, they were both going over some scrolls that he assumed had something to do with medical Ninjutsu.
"Hey Sakura, Ino. What's going on?" He said sliding the door closed.
Sakura raised a finger and kept reading but Ino looked up.
"Hey Naruto, how'd everything go?" She asked.
"As good as you'd think dealing with seven of the largest and most spiteful chakra monsters in all of existence." He groaned as he sat on a rolled up futon.
"What are you two doing here?"
Ino held up a sealed scroll and tossed it to him. "It's a report from Sunagakure."
Naruto broke the seal on the scroll and started reading through it as Ino continued to talk.
"They have been having issues with a strange disease that's been causing issues, they asked for help from Lady Tsunade and we've been going over the reports that've been copied while we looked after you."
Suddenly losing interest Naruto rolled the scroll back up and gave it back to Ino.
"Sounds boring." He concluded.
Sakura glared at him from behind the scroll. "If it's so boring then go and deliver your report to the Hokage."
Without a word Naruto used the flying thunder god technique to appear outside the Hokage's office. He received a strange look from the receptionist before she just nodded at Naruto and the door opened for Naruto to speak to Kakashi.
Hatake Kakashi, the Rokudaime Hokage, sat in his office looking over paperwork that seemed to never end. He has been stuck in his office for more than a week. There wasn't even time for him to visit his former rival Maito Guy in the Village's hospital where he was undergoing analysis to see if there was a way for him to walk again.
"I hope guy's alright" Kakashi sighed as he signed another mind numbing request that someone needed.
The door to his office opened and he lazily looked up, fearing that it was his assistant bringing him more paperwork to fill out.
"Oh! Naruto!" He grinned under his mask, something he refused to remove even after becoming Hokage.
"Hey Kakashi Sensei!" Naruto grinned as he walked into the office.
Sighing Kakashi put down the papers he was looking through. "I'm not your Sensei anymore Naruto, I haven't been for some time."
Naruto shook his head, he always had great respect for his sensei's, even though he didn't always show it.
"You know what they say Kakashi sensei. Once a Sensei, always a Sensei." Naruto smiled.
Chuckling Kakashi accepted Naruto's unusual logic.
"Can I assume that you and the Biju have come to some kind of agreement as to where they will be staying when they appear in the world again?"
Nodding Naruto sat down in one of the two chairs that Kakashi had placed in his office.
"The Ichibi will be returning to Suna, he said that he'll appear in a decade or two. It seems that we were right. Since the ten tails appeared they were weakened considerably, delaying how long it will be before they can resurface in the world." Naruto reported.
Kakashi nodded. "Will any of the other Biju be taking hosts?"
"Yeah, there will be one for each village. Suna will have the Ichibi, Kumo will keep the hachibi. Both the Yonbi and the Rokubi are willing to take hosts but they both have conditions for the villages to do otherwise they won't take a host." Naruto said.
Kakashi sighed. "Things are going to get complicated aren't they?"
Naruto shrugged.
"Most of the nations are still trying to recover from the war. Suna had issues long before the war and now things have gotten worse. Gaara's having a hard time keeping people from starting a civil war and having him replaced."
This was a first for Naruto "I thought that people liked Gaara as the Kazekage, he's got the respect and admiration of his shinobi with everything that has happened during the war, even their Daimyo has been working on repairing the relationship with the village. How can things be going so wrong over there?"
Kakashi looked at Naruto, he knew the respect and, for lack of a better phrase, brotherly love that he had for Gaara. He knew that Naruto was already planning how he could help Sunagakure, but this was something all leaders had to deal with and hopefully, in time, things will start to improve for Gaara and Sunagakure.
"Let's forget about Gaara for now, you can send him a message tomorrow. For now we need to talk about what's going to happen with the Biju. Iwa want both of their Biju to go back to them, Kumo want the same." Kakashi told him.
"What about Kiri?" Naruto asked.
Being on a somewhat good relationship with the mizukage and kirigakure had a slight benefit for the various kage.
"The Mizukage wants both of the Biju that were originally theirs back, but she says that just one will be acceptable since the Sanbi spent it's time roaming around on its own." Kakashi said.
"So they only want the Rokubi back?" Naruto asked.
"Pretty much." Kakashi agreed.
Naruto thought for a moment "Well the Rokubi wants Utakata to be removed from their missing-nin list and be remembered as a loyal member of Kirigakure, and someone that loves bubbles as his new host."
Kakashi raised an eyebrow at that last bit of information.
"Bubbles?"
Naruto nodded. "Apparently Utakata's bubbles weren't a Kekkei Genkai but just his preferred way of using Jutsu."
"What about the Yonbi?" Kakashi asked.
Naruto smiled softly, something that Kakashi hadn't seen for a while on Naruto's face.
"He just wanted so share the information that Roshi, his Jinchuriki had collected over his life. I can understand where why he wanted that."
"As can I Naruto." Kakashi said.
"He also said that they were to build a library in Iwagakure for his knowledge to be stored and shared, I thought it was a good idea so I think that you should suggest something like a shared information system across the different villages so that the collected knowledge can be shared around." Naruto told his sensei.
Kakashi was taken back.
This is the first time that Naruto had said something that can make such a large benefit for all people, not just shinobi of the different villages. If the villages did something like that then all sorts of information could be shared and collected for years to come.
"That's a wonderful idea Naruto. Even some of Tsunade's healing techniques and cures could be shared around benefiting everyone."
Naruto grinned.
"It was the Yonbi's idea."