A/N: Ok… it's apparently been over a year since I updated this and I am really really sorry. A lot of my reason had to do with my muse deciding it didn't wish to cooperate with me, but I'll be honest and tell you a large part of it was me being lazy… once more, I'm sorry and I promise to update more often from now on. Those of you following Rise of Team Demon, that will be updated within a few days followed by 'Love is an Explosion' after that… I'm not sure. I'll be deleting rebirth and redoing it and I need to re-do a few chapters of 'Will of the Sacrificed' because it was pointed out to me that I made several mistakes I need to fix. 'Alchemist Jinchuriki' will likely be updated soonish as I have the most inspiration for it and after most if not all my fics have been updated, I plan to release a Naruto/PJO x-over. Now that my rambling is over… please enjoy the chapter.

The next morning, Yugito awoke and stretched out on the bed, yawning slightly. Looking down, she noticed Naruto sprawled out on the bed still asleep, his mouth wide open as he snored softly. Smiling a bit, she nudged her friend a few times, trying to awaken him. "Naruto-kun. Time to wake up."

The male blonde muttered something unintelligible in his sleep before rolling over and resuming his snoring.

With a sigh, Yugito decided she needed to change tactics. If he was anything like Kirabi then nothing short of an earthquake would rouse him before he desired it. "Naruto-kun..." She whispered in his ear. "free all you can eat ramen..."

That did the trick. With a loud whoop, the whisker-marked blonde jumped from the bed, his eyes darting all around the room searching for the aforementioned food before realizing after a few moments that there was indeed no ramen to be found. Turning his attention to his best friend, he shot her a halfhearted glare. "That was cold, Yugi-chan." He pouted.

Yugito giggled a bit at her friend's expression. "Sorry, Naru-kun, but I had to get you up somehow. If we don't get a move on we'll be late for the team meeting." She explained calmly. "Would you have preferred that I throw a bucket of cold water on you instead?"

Naruto shuddered at the thought of being drenched by a bucket of ice cold water. "No. I'm good." He replied, stretching a bit before heading into the kitchen to start breakfast. "Go ahead and get your shower first, Yugi-chan. I'll have breakfast ready by the time you're done and then I'll take mine."

Nodding a thanks to her fellow blonde, Yugito did just that. After emerging from her shower she quickly proceeded to demolish the breakfast her fellow blonde had prepared while he showered before the duo proceeded to head to the training ground to meet up with their teammates and sensei. A few miles from their home they stopped, sensing three powerful chakra signatures all of which were unknown to them, but at the same time felt familiar. It took them a few moments before they realized exactly what made the signatures so familiar; they belonged to other jinchuriki. Silently creating a Kage Bunshin each, the clones set off to the Hokage Tower while Yugito and Naruto resumed their trek and arrived at the training ground within a few minutes, hopping into a nearby tree upon their arrival so as to avoid their so-called teammates and await Kakashi.

Kakashi groaned for what felt like the hundredth time since he began his 'test'. It had started off so well too. The Uchiha and the fangirl were easily dispatched of but Naruto and Yugito had hidden well in the forest using a combination of his Kage Bunshin and her Rai Bunshin to buy more time for themselves as they planned how to take him down as was obvious by the assault they were now bringing to bear against him. Naruto had obviously practiced with his Kage Bunshin alot since he had learned the technique. His timing and synchronization with them was near perfect and with Yugito backing him up with her Raiton jutsu and even a few Katon ninjutsu, the cycloptic Jounin was having a rather rough time of it without revealing his sharingan.

The mental link the two shared only made things that much more difficult for him as both knew what the other was going to do before they even did it! Did the Hokage seriously expect him to fight all out against two genin? With a heavy sigh, Kakashi realized that if he did not go all out and use his sharingan, there was a good chance he would lose this fight and his reputation would be forever tainted by the loss. Leaping back just in time to avoid a Raiton: Gian from Yugito and a chakra enhanced kick from Naruto he lifted his Hitai-ite to reveal his implanted sharingan. "No more mister nice Jounin." He spoke in a sadistic sort of voice.

Just as he was about to attack, both genin froze in their tracks and glanced into the forest behind their sensei.

"Erm, Sensei? You may want to look out behind you." Naruto spoke causing the masked Jounin to laugh until he felt a fist collide with his head sending him into blissful unconsciousness.

Naruto sighed and glanced at Yugito. "Well, we did warn him." He said before turning his attention back to the primary cause of Kakashi's current state. In front of him and behind where Kakashi had been when he was still conscious stood two girls about his and Yugito's age. The first had tan skin, short cut mint green hair, and bright orange eyes without pupils. Tied around her forearm was a slashed headband marking her as a missing nin from Takigakure. The second girl had fair skin with brown eyes and strawberry blonde hair that reached down to her neck. She too wore a slashed headband but it wasn't a symbol either genin were familiar with. Both girls gave Naruto and Yugito a friendly smile. "You two alright?" The green haired girl asked.

"We're fine." Yugito responded neutrally. "May I ask who you two are, why you're here being that you're obviously nuke-nin, and why you knocked out or sensei?" She asked, pretending she did not note the third signature still in the woods, though closer than it had been.

This time it was the blonde who spoke. "My name is Amaru." She said before nodding at the green haired girl. "She's Fu. We're here looking for a new home... the places we used to live are less than friendly. As for the cyclops, we didn't know he was your sensei. We figured he was attacking you because of..." she paused, looking uncertain before gesturing to Naruto and Yugito's stomachs, obviously indicating their seals causing them both to nod in understanding. "He took it easy on those other two but against you two his chakra spiked indicating he was fighting at a higher level."

"Well me and Yugito have a mental link thanks to our guests." Naruto explained, not lowering his guard but still managing to sound friendly. I'm Naruto by the way." He then tilted his head slightly as if listening to something far away. "Ah. Now that's interesting. Fu holds the Nanabi and you Amaru hold the Reibi... and your friend hiding in the woods has Sanbi."

At the mention of the third member of their party both girls stiffened. Almost as if his words had summoned her, a black haired girl with chocolate brown eyes came running from the forest and upon reaching the group latched onto Fu's leg, she was a small child and appeared to be no older than seven and her entire body was shaking, likely with fear.

"A child?" Yugito asked, her biju chakra flaring with her anger. She absolutely hated that children were used as jinchuriki. Why not simply release the biju and let them do as they wish? It wasn't like they were violent by nature... not counting the Ichibi who was slowly being driven mad by an insane priest sealed with him. It was when humans started to try and control or destroy them that they began wreaking havoc across the Elemental Nations. With a heavy sigh, the Nibi jinchuriki knelt down to the girl's level. "It's alright, little one. We won't hurt you."

The dark haired girl looked up at Fu who nodded before she smiled slightly at Yugito. Opening her mouth to reply, she quickly shut it when Raiton chakra began arcing around her small body, causing her to fall to the ground crying and clutching at her neck which only seemed to intensify the chakra. Almost immediately, Fu had the girl in her arms and held her tightly against her own body, trying to calm her down.

"What the hell is that?!" Naruto growled. It looked like something was stopping the girl from talking by shocking her each time she tried!

"It's a type of shock collar," Amaru explained. "its job is or at least was to prevent Haku-chan from making any sort of noise when she was beaten by the people back in Kiri. It also seals a good deal of her chakra, keeping her at the minimum needed to survive so she can't fight back and her injuries don't heal as quickly."

Yugito released a cat-like hiss at Amaru's explanation. If there was one thing that ticked her off more than others it was people who abused children. Turning to Naruto she gave him a significant look which he quickly understood to mean that they were going to help Haku.

"I gotcha, Yugi-chan," The whiskered blonde replied. "I'll run and see if the Ero-Sennin is around. If not I'll see if I can get the Old Man to help." That said, he turned and ran off back towards the village proper.

Turning back to Fu and Amaru, Yugito queried about why the three of them were traveling together and how they had wound up in Konoha.

Fu explained that neither she nor Amaru were treated with any sort of respect in their former villages and while things for them were not nearly as bad as they had been for Haku both had decided to strike out on their own and find a new place to call home. Fu and Amaru had met each other just outside the Kirigakure borders and had decided to travel together for mutual protection. Not long after that they ran across Haku who was being abused by the villagers and rescued her. They hid out in Kiri for a few weeks so they could heal Haku and give them a chance to figure out their next destination. They had overheard the villagers laughing about Haku's treatment and from the discussion they managed to work out what the collar she wore did which led them to the reason the poor child would not talk. It took a while to gain the child's trust but they quickly left after they did, heading towards the only other village any member of their group was familiar with; Konoha. Since Takigakure and Konohagakure were allies it made sense that they might be able to find a new home there. Fu had also overheard that the village had two jinchuriki; another reason to visit. Even if they couldn't find a new home there, there was a chance that if the jinchuriki of Konoha were treated poorly that they might gain some new traveling companions before heading off to Sunagakure which was the next closest village.

With a sigh, he headed off to the one place he knew the pervert to be, the hot springs. When he arrived, he was greeted with the sound of a perverted giggle. Knowing the man as well as he did, he would not listen while he was doing his 'research' so the blonde decided to put an end to it. Performing the henge, he took the form of a young girl about seven or so and entered the hot springs. He was pleased to see several Jounin and even a few ANBU relaxing in the spring. With an evil mental grin, Naruto spoke in his 'innocent' voice. "Ano, Nee-chans?" The voice of a 'little girl' had gotten the attention of the women and now all their attention was on 'her'. "There's a creepy man outside hiding behind the fence," 'She' informed them. This news immediately caused all of the women to stand up and rush from the springs to get away from the pervert they now knew was spying on them. Within moments, loud girly screams of pain were heard as the Toad Sennin Jiraiya was beaten to a pulp by the women he had been spying on.

Once the women had exacted their justice upon the Sannin and returned to their baths, Naruto leapt down from the tree he had taken refuge in when the beating began and proceeded to nudge Jiraiya in the ribs with his foot. "Quit lying around, Ero-Sennin." The blonde growled, getting more frustrated than he already was when the man did not respond. "Either get up now, or I'll call the women back for round two. I'll also get Yugi-chan involved, and you KNOW how she reacts to your… research."

No sooner than the sentence left Naruto's mouth, Jiraiya was back on his feet, glaring slightly at the blonde nin. "Can't you ever let me do my research in peace, gaki?"

Naruto glared right back at the elder man. "I could, but then you'd never learn not to peep on women. Your bad habits aside, I need your help with something." He said, become totally serious.

Jiraiya almost came back at his part-time student with a sarcastic comment until he noted the serious look in his eyes. Quickly becoming as serious as his student, he asked, "What do you need?"

Naruto quickly relayed the situation to Jiraiya being sure to include all Yugito had managed to learn from the girls and informed him of via their mental link. Upon learning of the slave seal on the collar, the Sennin flew into a rage and began ranting about the stupidity of people and their misuse of seals for a few minutes before calming down and requesting Naruto take him to where the girls were waiting.

Learning from his godson the training ground where the events had taken place, the Toad Sennin clapped a hand on Naruto's shoulder and performed a shunshin and appeared on the training ground startling Fu, Amaru, and Haku, all of whom took several steps back at the sight of Konoha's famous (and infamous) Toad Sennin. "It's alright," Yugito spoke to the girls. "Jiraiya-sama may be a world class pervert, " Here she shot a glare at the white haired man, daring him to contradict her. Said pervert wisely kept his mouth shut, knowing full well that this was not the time to be perverted. "however, he is also a seals master, which is what we need. We need him to check the seals holding back Reibi, Sanbi, and Nanabi, as well as remove the seal and remove that collar from Haku."

"Me and Yugi-chan will be right here to keep him in line and make sure he doesn't do anything perverted," Naruto added his own thoughts.

Fu and Amaru shared a brief glance before sighing and relenting to allow Jiraiya to check their seals. The two elder girls would go first to ensure he behaved before they allowed him to work on Haku.

"Right, first things first then ladies, please lift up your shirts," Jiraiya began, "just enough so I can examine the seals." He clarified quickly.

The girls once more shared a glance before obliging with the request and lifted their shirts to reveal the seals which kept the biju at bay within them. Jiraiya squatted down and placed a hand upon Fu's seal first, with Nanabi being the most powerful of the three new biju he decided it would be best to ensure its seal was strong enough first. He spent several long minutes moving his hand over the seal, poking and prodding at it and murmuring to himself before declaring it 'suitable for now' and he moved on to Amaru's seal, examining it carefully. "Amaru-san, have you been having any difficulty with your chakra lately?" He asked, not looking up from the seal.

Thinking for a moment, the girl replied in the positive before querying the reason behind Jiraiya's question.

"There are some additions to your original seal that are more recent and don't do anything except hinder your chakra control and weaken your seal slightly in the process." Came her answer before Jiraiya produced a small brush and ink from a storage seal and he quickly began working to correct the problem. Several more minutes later, he finished his modifications and went through a series of handseals which caused her seal to glow momentarily before it died down. "There," he said, nodding in approval at his work, "I've removed the additions to your seal and made a few modifications that will strengthen it past what it originally was. This is of course, only a temporary solution. Seals containing biju are tricky things and must not be taken lightly. I'll need more time to make a permanent fix for it." He explained, shooting Fu a glance too, telling her with the look that he would improve her seal as well. "Shirts down now ladies, I'm finished with you both for now."

Both girls, now having experienced Jiraiya's professional side allowed him to proceed to move to begin to examine Haku when a loud girly scream pierced the forest startling the four newcomers and causing Naruto and Yugito to begin laughing. When asked what was so funny, they explained the bell test they had been going through and how their sensei had trapped the Uchiha in a head-hunter jutsu and knocked out the Haruno with a D ranked genjutsu. Since Naruto and Yugito still had clones in the area incase either teammate or sensei tried to interfere, they would be made aware. Apparently, the Haruno had finally awakened from her genjutsu induced fainting spell and found the Uchiha buried up to his head. This of course, caused her to scream and pass out once more. The news caused Amaru and Fu to join in the laughter, highly amused at the pathetic kunoichi wannabe while Jiraiya muttered about the poor quality of kunoichi nowadays as he made quick work of the seal on Haku's collar before slicing it off with a kunai and moved on to her biju seal which he declared 'passable' but would need work just like the other two.

As soon as Jiraiya had finished his work, Haku leapt into Fu's arms and began crying happily, finally able to voice her sorrows and happiness now that she was free of the collar.

Taking a deep breath, Jiraiya ran a hand through his spiked hair. "Now that we've got that business taken care of, we need to go see sensei about getting you three a home in the village." He spoke kindly. "Naruto and Yugito, I want you to come with us and help convince sensei that this is for the best. He usually listens to me, but I've yet to see him not give in when you two ask something of him.

Nodding, both blondes placed a hand on Amaru's shoulder and shunshined away to the Hokage Tower followed moments later by Jiraiya with Fu and Haku.

Only seconds after the group left, Kakashi woke and quickly leapt to his feet, ready for a fight but upon looking around and seeing nobody, he was left wondering just what he had missed.