Disclamer: Don't own Naruto
"Oh shit. Not good." He lifted his head up just in time to have the Hokage slam her foot down on his head, forcing it into the mud. She picked him up by the scruff of his neck, slamming him on to his knees, then wrapped her index finger under his mask then pulled it off his face. The Hokage grabbed his chin pushing his face so that she could see his face. "Noooo" he moaned weakly, but she forced his face up anyway. She was taken aback. This boy could not be any older than 22. He had dark brown hair that was in desperate need of a hair cut. His skin was lightly tanned but still mostly blemish free. He had no scars to speak of on his face, rare for a ninja. But his eyes were what drew the most attention. They were deep green, but most of all they were slightly rounded, like a Europeans.
"Interesting. This kid has a foreign parent. Very interesting. I'll have to ask him about it when we take him in." the Hokage thought.
She pressed his eyelids back to look into his pupil. By seeing his pupil she could determine whether any permenant brain damage had taken place. His pupils were almost completely constricted and his eyes were tinged red. He was high on drugs. The Hokage had often seen this in Ronin. Shinobi held themselves up to a code of honorable fighting, never using performance-enhancing drugs or any drugs, save the soldier pills, but those were only proteins. Ronin on the other hand were often caught using, steroids, opiates, and everything in between.
"You're coming with us ronin." The Hokage declared
The ronin coughed up a thin spray of blood before croaking out, "No way Leaf." By this time both Naruto and Uzuki Yuugao had arrived by the Hokage's side. Naruto had reverted back to his blue chakra, but still looked pretty angry and Uzuki Yuugao was visibly shaking with anger. The killer intent coming off her was almost overpowering. She spoke softly saying, "You're coming with us. Try to flee and I will kill you" leaning in closer she whispered, "and it won't be painless."
Ronin tried stubbling to his feet, but the Hokage whipped out a small clear patch, similar to the ones used to quite smoking. "Uh-oh," Ronin thought, "Trank-patch. That hits my veins, its over, fininite, thats all she wrote." He tried pulling his neck out of reach, but the Hokage's grip was like steel. She stuck the sticky end of the clear patch over Ronin's jugular vein. Seconds after contact it disintegrated, dissolving, and be absorbed into his vein. The affect was like being struck over the head with a hammer, a big one too. Powerful barbiturates sedated him, he couldn't even lift a finger. Chakra-blockers clogged his chakra points. Ronin moaned before passing out. Uzuki drew a kunai preparing to slit his throat.
"No Uzuki. He has information on Orochimaru's hideout. He's worked recon for the Akatsuki. He has information on them too." She pocketed the kunai, then kicked him in the head. He emitted a soft whimper. The Hokage lifted the youth up, unclipping his body armor, pulling it off his body. Beneath that he was wearing a wife-beater stained red with blood. However around his neck he had a pair of dog tags. Naruto pulled the dog tags off his neck, trying to read them. "Tsunade-baachan what language is this. It's not Japanese or English."
The Hokage took the tags from Naruto, staring at the language. It was Russian. It all snapped into place. The ronin's father must have been a Russian soldier. "Naruto I think a history lesson is in order."
"What! What does that have to do with getting back Sasuke or this ronin?"
"Back years ago, before you were born, before the Fourth had become Hokage, it was 1980. In the early 80s the Soviets tried taking over the ninja continuent. The first country, and last country, they tired to conquer was the Hidden Mist Village. His mother must have been a shinobi, and his father must have been Soviet soldier. Interesting."
"So what does this mean? Who cares?" Naruto interrupted. Uzuki hit him over the head. "Baka be quite while the Hokage-sama is speaking."
"Ow. watch it." Naruto yelled out.
"It MEANS that he never went to a ninja academy. It means that the reason he is not a shinobi is because he has foreign blood." As she said this she pulled his wife-beater and Naruto gasped. Ronin's back had long whip scars along his back. But the Hokage was more interested in tattoo on his shoulder blade. The tattoo was the kanjis for "ronin" were written in snakes, while water droplets rolled of the snake and mist swirled around the kanjis. "All right Naruto, lets bring him back to Konoha. I'm sure the ANBU would like to have a word with him." Naruto grunted in agreement. She hoisted his the limp youth onto her shoulder. Naruto picked up Ronin's dual katanas, body armor, and clothing accessories. The Hokage leaped off into the woods towards Konoha.
Naruto and the rest of the group chased after the Hokage. "Gaara... Sasuke. How could that boy work for such an evil man. How could he work for the Akatsuki." Naruto thought. Just thinking about Gaara and his pain made Naruto's blood boil. He his K-9s extended as more of his demon chakra seeped out. All he wanted to do now was just pound that boys head into the ground until he yelled out the Akatsuki's location.
