(Jiraiya)

I couldn't believe it. Haven't been able to believe it for a while. Minato was alive, Kushina was alive, and Madara was still alive. I've believed all along that they were dead! They were all on the same team, my team, when they were younger and it had been an amazing time teaching them, and an honor to teach the best Uchiha student.

Kushina Uzumaki had somehow survived the night that the Nine Tails attacked the village and she, along with Minato, sealed the fox inside Naruto. Kushina had been a strong headed student but she had always known when to listen to orders. She's never caused trouble for me, which is amazing since she's an Uzumaki and her son Naruto.

Minato Namikaze had been the one who sealed the fox into Naruto in the first place. I find it even more amazing he survived. He took the fox head on. Even if he did use help from Gamabunta. Or at least I think he did. Minato was the student who gave me the most trouble when he was on the team with Madara and Kushina, but I would call him mischievous. Nothing major.

Madara Uchiha… I have no idea what happened to him during that fateful night. He was either fighting with them or he'd already left the village. I think he'd staid to fight the fox off from the village and then left. Then came the whole Uchiha coup de etat thing. The Uchihas had been blamed for the Nine Tails, which in my opinion is a stupid idea. No one is in charge of the Nine Tails. It's not like you can just go up to him and tell him to attack a village, he'll laugh at you.

I admit that at first I didn't want anything to do with Naruto because he reminded me of the fact that my whole team was 'dead'. In fact I tried everything I could think of to get rid of him but he just kept coming back for more. So I halfheartedly trained him. Naruto proved he was ready to work and train hard for me so I decided to hell with the fact that he reminded me of his father. I'd train him anyway. Even if the reason he wanted training from me was so he could stop Orochimaru from using Sasuke.

Yet here we are again… chasing after Sasuke, however the whole of the Akatsuki was on this mission. Orochimaru was bound to lose to them. Especially Hidan. From what I could tell from Minato, Hidan can't die and thus is always very useful on missions and Kakuzu, Hidan's partner, was also impossible to kill. All of these men were S rank criminals, hard to catch, and hard to beat. Taking them all on at once… nearly impossible. Even Madara was on this case. I know I trained him, but I wouldn't want to have to fight him.

I was fine with being on the Akatsuki, only because that way I now had my favorite student and my whole team. I'd been kidding when I told Minato that I wouldn't train Naruto anymore. I would train Naruto probably more than I've been doing. And sleeping less. Admittedly I'd used sleeping as a form of evading Naruto because Naruto looks almost exactly like his father. The only difference is the hair in front of Minato's ear. It was longer than Naruto's.

(Naruto)

"Dad, what are we going to do if it starts raining? We'll lose Sasuke's trail." Dad shook his head.

"We have something better than a nose to track Sasuke. We have Zetzu."

"How does Zetzu help?" Dad smirked.

"It's his clan ability Naruto. I can't tell you what it is because I don't want you to be paranoid." I frowned.

"Then I guess I have no choice but to trust Zetzu."

"Zetzu won't let you down Naruto." He said, smiling at me.