'It's been a while since they last 'employed' me. As much as I hate to admit it, I'm surprised. Did I go too far murdering Gobi?'

As soon as he finished that thought, he felt the pull signifying a summon again. He put his hand on the wall and was popped out on the other side. When his eyes adjusted to the light he looked around and was surprised to not see the human in Kage robes standing there. Instead, there was a different old man, one with bandages over one of his arms, and over the left side of his head. Behind him stood 7 men, dressed in black. The bandaged man cleared his throat.

"Hello there, Kyuubi. My name is Danzo, leader of ROOT."

Kyuubi shrugged.

"I don't care who you are. Why am I here and what do you need me for? Do you serve Konoha still or am I under control of some other insignificant village?"

"I still serve Konoha. I summoned you because I need you to do a job for me."

The Kyuubi smiles.

"I was expecting to be summoned earlier, I was anxious to get out and kill something."

"You're in luck, I want you to travel to Suna, find out whether they have a Jinchuuriki or not and if they do, slay it."

Kyuubi nods.

"You will be travelling along with the ROOT agents behind me, you are not a threat to Konohagakure, there is no need to seal you on the journey."

Kyuubi narrowed his eyes.

'This human dares call me not a threat? I will show him exactly how dangerous I am, how dangerous it is to underestimate a Bijuu."

"Yes, sir."

Danzo nodded his head at the Kyuubi, the ROOT agents formed a V shaped pattern with the Fox in the middle.

"Head out, gentlemen. Good luck."

Immediately they dart off. Soon, they've left the village very far behind. The Fox begins to analyse his environment.

'Not yet, not here. There are too many trees around. They can too easily flee. If the landscape has stayed the same we should be entering a desert fairly soon. They can't run from me there. I will slaughter every single one of them. I'll show that human. "Not a threat." Hmph.'

After a little while, they reached the desert. A sickening grin came over his face, his blood thirst becoming incredibly difficult to hide from the ROOT shinobi. They cross the border into the desert. As soon as the treeline disappears from sight, 4 tails sprout from his back. His hosts skin rips off of his body, his blood combining with his chakra cloak and forming a protective shell. The ROOT agents look over at Kyuubi.

"Stand down, Fox."

"Go fuck yourselves."

Three chakra claws emerge from his cloak, piercing straight through two of the ROOT operatives, their blood staining the desert sand. The last claw was dodged by another one of the ROOT agents, who landed on the ground, formed some hand seals and slammed his fists on the ground. The sand below the Kyuubi beginning to raise up and surround him. Immediately he leaps at the ROOT operative, ramming his claws through his heart and throat.

The 3 other ROOT members jump backwards. Two of them forming hand seals and spitting out beams of water, crossing them. The third operative began forming hand seals. Out of the two water beams a giant dragon formed, roaring in anger as it dived at the Kyuubi.

'Interesting strategy.'

The Kyuubi leapt to the side, the ROOT agents temporarily losing sight of him until he appears right in front of them, swatting one of his attackers away with a normal claw, piercing another one with a tail made out of chakra. The remaining one catches his flying comrade, dashing in the direction of the forest. The Kyuubi, having anticipated this course of action smiles cruelly. Two more tails sprout from his back, an exoskeleton growin on his small figure. He opened his mouth, black energy gathering in front of it in the form of a ball. He pointed his snout in the direction of the rapidly fleeing figure he speaks a single word.

"Bijuudama."

The black ball of energy flew in their direction, the ROOT agent looking back, his eyes widening in fear before it hit him in the back. He completely disintegrated along with the person that he carried.

"Dead."

The Kyuubi turned around, looking towards Suna.

'They spoke of a Jinchuuriki. I think I can sense Shukaku.'

He began dashing towards Suna.

Five hours ago, Konoha.

Sarutobi sits at his desk in his office, suddenly the door bursts open. A Weasel masked ANBU runs in.

"Lord Hokage, Danzo has sent the Kyuubi towards Suna."

SNAP. The pipe breaks in half, Sarutobi jumped up.

"Weasel. Gather as many ANBU as you can. I'm going to pay a visit to Danzo."

The ANBU disappeared in a swirl of leaves.

'Let's pay my old comrade a visit.'

He too disappeared in a swirl of leaves. Appearing in a dark room in front of Danzo, who is seated at a desk writing something on a piece of paper. Danzo sits up straight, seeing his old friend appear in the room.

"How did you get here, Sarutobi? I kept this place secret from everyone."

"That isn't important, Danzo. I need to know how and when you sent the Kyuubi to Suna."

Danzo chuckled, ignoring Sarutobi's question.

"He's going to cut Suna's military strength in half."

"How?"

"I've heard rumours of Suna possessing a Jinchuuriki of their own. I've sent the Kyuubi and six ROOT operatives to hunt him down and slay him."

Sarutobi's eyes widened.

"You sent SIX men?"

Danzo nodded.

"The Fox isn't a threat, he wouldn't dare rebel and risk getting locked in that seal forever."

Sarutobi slammed his hands on the desk.

"You fool! A few years mean absolutely nothing to him! He's millennia old! He'll murder them all! He knows that we will need him as a weapon eventually. You have just sent a bunch of your men to their deaths and you have endangered the entire land of Fire."

Danzo's hands begin to shake.

"I am personally going to fix your fuck-up, Danzo. But you WILL close down your organization and start acting under my orders. You are causing more problems than you are fixing."

With that, Sarutobi disappeared in a swirl of leaves, leaving behind a shocked Danzo.

'I'm getting close to the other Jinchuuriki now. I can sense him.'

Kyuubi is forced to stop as right in front of him the Kage that summoned him appears. Behind him a legion of the masked warriors.

"Hello, Kyuubi. I'm going to have to ask you to get back into the seal."

'I cannot defeat that many ANBU and the old man. They'll seal me before I can kill them all, and they might find a way to keep me in there even when this body dies. I need to play along for now.'

"Very well. I cannot fight you. Not with that many men at your command. I will be sealed before I ever slay all of you. Bring the seal to me, Kage."

Sarutobi held out his hand, one of the ANBU behind him placing the scroll in it. Sarutobi looked at it quickly, making sure that nothing was out of order and walked towards the Kyuubi, speaking in a soft tone so that only they could hear it.

"Thank you for giving me an excuse to shut down Danzo's organisation. He has been a thorn in my side for longer than I care to admit. I am forced to seal you now to keep up pretences in front of my ANBU, but you have my word that I will release you one day. You will taste blood again, Demon Fox."

The Kyuubi's eyes widened at this admission as Sarutobi held up the entrance to his seal. The Kyuubi slowly reigned in his chakra, the tails retracting one by one until eventually there were none left. Kyuubi gave the Hokage a meaningful look, and placed his hand on the scroll. Slowly he began being sucked inside.

"We will meet again, Fox."

And with that, he was back in the darkness.

A/N:

This is a slightly shorter chapter. This one wasn't originally planned but it seemed wrong to do a time skip to the Chunin exams. I needed something in between that. So yeah, look forward to the next chapter I guess.

Thanks for reading, and feel free to leave any comments/criticism!