A/N: I do not own Naruto, though I wish I did its sooooo awesome. Second, I'd like to thank all those who reviewed my last chapter and hope you like this one as well.

The Storms Arrival

Naruto sped across the forest at genin speed, not paying attention to his surroundings otherwise he would have seen the tanto sword coming for his chest, only years of being beaten and the honing of his danger sense that saved him from being impaled by the tanto of a white masked wearing shinobi.

"Uzumaki we were sent to eliminate you, so please feel free to stay where you are." said the shinobi emotionlessly.

"Like hell I'll lay down like a coward, NO I'm gonna fight till I can't fight anymore. So you can go back to Konoha and tell Danzo..." at this the three other members of the hit squad tightened their grips on their pulled kunai, "Yah that's right I know all about you and Danzo's little private army of Root. The old man told me about him and goings on a few years back. So come on enough talk, BRING IT!" Naruto yelled the last part as he took out a couple of kunai himself.

"Very well." Said the Root shinobi leader, but what happened next no one but Naruto could explain, because it was over in a blink of the eye. First the three subordinate ninja threw a couple of kunai each in distraction so that the leader get in close and finish him off. What they weren't expecting was for Naruto to disappear in a bright flash of yellow. Then to have many tripronged kunai descend from the treetops, and with another few flashes of yellow all four Root ninja were dispatched with ease.

"Hn, that'll teach you to attack second Yellow Flash. (This is just a temporary name Naruto gave himself; it is not what everyone else will call him) Good riddance, Root should've been disbanded the first time Danzo was told to do so by Jiji." Naruto said with disgust in his voice.

CLAP!CLAP!CLAP!

"That was most impressive my young friend," a voice came out of nowhere, then "you must tell me how you did that." The voice said, but this time it was right into Naruto's ear and before he could do anything he knew nothing but darkness.

With Jiraiya

Jiraiya was currently walking through Tanzaku Town searching for his hard to find teammate Tsunade Senju, but his mind was elsewhere worrying about his godson Naruto. 'I hope your ok gaki, Kushina and Minato will never forgive me if anything else happens to you' he thought as he entered a small bar.

"JIRAIYA!" screamed Tsunade as he looked up and saw his well endowed teammate and her apprentice Shizune sitting at a table near the back. "What the hell are you doing here; I hope it's not to see me because I am not going back." She continued.

"I have orders from the new Hokage; you're to return with me to Konoha. If not you are to labelled a missing nin and have hunter squads out to get Tsunade-hime." Jiraiya said dishearten, not anywhere near his more jubilant self, and Tsunade picked it up right away.

"What's going on Jiraiya?" she asked.

"The Truth, the truth is that Danzo has become the new Hokage and the first order of business was to banish the one shinobi who was possibly keeping that place together, Naruto Uzumaki, our Godson Tsunade." He told her.

"W w what d do y you mean GODSON! Jiraiya I was told that he perished during child birth when the Kyuubi attacked thirteen years ago, now you're telling me that my Godson is alive and that gigantic shit stain decided that he's to be banished!" Tsunade exclaimed, but got even more pissed off at Jiraiya's confused look.

"Who told you that Naruto was dead? Sarutobi-sensei sent out an ANBU with a note saying Naruto was the new Jinchuriki of the Kyuubi no Kitsune. It said to come back and look after him, seeing as I had my spy network to look after I couldn't take him, we just assumed that you were still grieving over Dan-san's death." Jiraiya stated. At this Tsunade took on a thinking pose.

"Well come to think of it, from what I can remember the shinobi who delivered the message did seem a little strange. Instead of the normal mask of an animal he had a white mask with the word NE etched into the forehead." She recounted.

"Fuck, those are Danzo's Root operatives. No Naruto is very much alive but our oh so wise council decided to vote for him to be exiled, and on top of that, if I know Danzo he probably sent a squad of his Root shinobi to either capture or eliminate him." Jiraiya said with a little apprehension.

"Over my dead body, tell Danzo that I needed to take care of something before returning and that on the way home I might have to stop off and see my godson and that it might take a while. I do have a lot of debt to take care of." Tsunade smirked. "Shizune we're leaving, Jiraiya which way was he headed?" she asked the Toad Sage.

"According to my contact; they saw a blond traveler matching his description heading for the Land of Waves. His path was cutting real close to the border with the Land of Water, who at the moment is in the middle of a civil war, so watch out for Nuke nins." Jiraiya said to the retreating form of Tsunade's she waved a hand in acknowledgment. Jiraiya then turned to leave and then giggled perversely as he thought, 'might as well get some research in before I have to get back.' With that he headed off in the direction of the nearest hot spring.

With Naruto

"Ugh, what hit me," Naruto said to the empty room. He sat up gingerly as his head swam from the blow he took. As he looked around he noticed that besides the fact that the room was small there weren't many things in said room meaning that this was probably a temporary hideout of some sorts. All of a sudden he tensed as he heard the door open and a nin walked in and sat down on the chair by the bed. Naruto noticed that he was about thirty years old, black hair, blue eyes, and a scar that ran from just under the left eye down to his chin. His clothing consisted of Black and White camo pants with shinobi sandals and a dark blue ANBU style shirt, as well as, in Naruto's opinion, a really cool looking cloak. It was dark blue reaching down to his ankles and had cool white waves circling the bottom. What got Naruto's attention though was the shirt mask that he wore, it was very similar to the one Kakashi-sensei wore, and he also noticed the Kiri headband, meaning that this nin was from the Hidden Water Village.

"I see that you're finally awake, that's good cause I got a proposition for you gaki." The Kirin in said.

"You know it's impolite not to tell someone their before one gives propositions and such, but what is even more rude is TO KIDNAP SOMEONE!" Naruto started calmly then got progressively louder until he yelled the last three words.

"Very well, my name is Arashi Motoki." The now named Arashi said. At the mention of his full name Naruto's mouth hit the floor.

"You're the Crimson Moon, one of the Seven Swordsman of the Mist. Well fuck me I'm boned." At this exclamation Arashi chuckled.

"No gaki you're not boned as you so eloquently put it, no my proposition is that I'll train you in exchange I want your help when I go back help the rebels defeat the Yondaime Mizukage, Yagura, and possibly join Kiri afterwards. I saw what you can do gaki and I was impressed, I've been looking for an apprentice and with that technique of yours and a sword, well let's just say that shinobi everywhere will fear you. So what do you say?" Naruto took a long time to answer as he weighed his options, finally he turned to Arashi.

"I accept Motoki-sensei." Naruto bowed.

"Good, just so you know I won't go easy on yah gaki." Arashi said.

"I don't expect you to sensei, and by the way my name is Naruto, Naruto Uzumaki Namikze." This time it was Arashi's jaw that dropped.

"Seriously kid, you're his son," at Naruto's nod, Arashi just shook his head, "Konoha lost a real asset, man are they dumb. Well get some rest gaki cause tomorrow the tor... I mean the training begins." Cackled Arashi he got up and left Naruto to get some rest.

Somewhere in Kusa

"Kukukuku, Kabuto I think it's time to collect my next host. Please have the Sound Four bring me Sasuke-kun will you." Orochimaru said.

"Of course Orochimaru, I live to serve." Said Kabuto, he turned and left to retrieve Kidimaru, leader of the Sound Four.

"Yes soon Sasuke-kun, I'll have those lovely eyes of yours and finally I'll be able to finally reach my dream. Kukukukuku." Orochimaru cackled evilly.

Next Day

"Wake up gaki time for your training session." Arashi walked into Naruto's room only to find it empty. "Where could he be?" he wondered until he hears a loud battle cry coming from outside. Leaving the temporary hideout, Arashi came across a strange sight, a sea of orange clad Naruto's duking it out with each other. So he decided that instead of just interrupting he'd would observe and see what Naruto was capable of. So he just leaned up against a nearby tree and watched his new student train himself. Looking around the clearing he noticed that Naruto had split up his Shadow Clones into groups and it seemed that each group had a specific task to do. One group was doing chakra control exercises, by running up and down the numerous trees in the clearing, another group seemed to be reading from a scroll out of the way of the rest the rest of the groups, a third was practising what he assumed was the Hiraishin, and the last group was in a pitched battle with the original. When the last of the clones was defeated Arashi called out to him.

"Impressive gaki, but I want you to come over here and we'll find out what your Nature affinities are."

"Yes sensei." Naruto replied. Walking over to him Arashi pulled out some slips of white coloured paper. As Naruto sat down Arashi started to explain what the chakra paper did.

"Ok, listen up Naruto, this is chakra paper," getting a nod he continued, "When a shinobi pumps chakra into it, it will tell you what nature affinity you have. There are five chakra natures; they are Fire, Earth, Water, Lightning, and Wind. Now what I want you to do is pump a little chakra it this paper and we'll see one of five things happen, if it splits in half then you'll have Wind nature, if it turns to ash then you'll have Fire nature, if it crumbles to dust then you'll have Earth nature, if it crumples then you'll have Lightning nature, and finally if it gets soaking wet then you'll have Water nature. So here." Arashi explained then handed Naruto a piece of chakra paper.

"Ok, here we go." Naruto said as he concentrated on pumping some chakra into the little piece of paper. All of a sudden the paper split in two, Naruto smiled at this, and then it did something that both of them became surprised at, one side got really soggy and the other crumpled right up. Both Naruto and Arashi were completely speechless.

"Well what do you know; you got yourself a possible Kekkei Genki there gaki. You said that your last name was Uzumaki right kid?" Arashi asked dumbfounded.

"Yah, that's right." Naruto said wide eyed.

"Well I know that there used to be an Uzumaki Clan that resided in Uzushiogakure, but it splintered up after Uzu was annihilated by Iwa forces in the last Shinobi War. Hunh, you could possibly have the old Uzumaki Royal Family Bloodline, I think it had something to do with Storms or some such. We'll have to go to the ruins to see if there was anything left behind." Arashi explained to his shocked apprentice. Unable to contain his excitement anymore, Naruto jumped up and exclaimed.

"SWEET, I came from a clan that is so awesome. We will find something for sure !"

"I'm sure we will Naruto, I'm sure we will." Arashi laughed, and then thought to himself. 'With this energy and exuberant attitude he will make a fine shinobi for Kiri one day.' Coming out of his thoughts he turned to Naruto and stated. "Alright bloodline aside I think it's time for some extreme training, don't you?" He said with a glint in his eye.

"Y yes sensei." Naruto gulped, and with that started the three year training of the one who will one day be known as 'The Shi Furasshu or The Flash of Death.

There you go, chapter 2 of The Storms Arrival. I hope you all like it. I do apologize to you that it took so long but I like to write my stories out on paper before transferring them to the computer. So please read and review, but no flames please.