Author: Nothing much has happened, though tis disappointed in reviews. Even if it is my fault...

Anidragon77: Both yes and no, you'll just have to continue to read to find out...

XD, thanks for reviewing.

Razzy the player: Golems, I love them so much, they're so great in disgaea two...

Seriously, thanks for reviewing, though I think with everything I've put in this story...It might not have been that hard to figure out.

disclaimer: I do not own anything...yeah, you already know this...

Enjoy the fic.

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Things begin to move forward, the clock is set.

The woman walked towards them, a grin slowly forming on her face. Naruto, who seemed a little too confident to Shikamaru, was just returning her grin. He wondered, if after everything he ( supposedly) happened to him, that Naruto had completely snapped. This, would defiantly screw them over, considering all the advantages that the enemy had against them. Shikamaru could only assume a fighting position and hope for the best...which was surprisingly optimistic for him. Yeah, he had been hanging around these people to long, a nice cloud session after this would fix this problem.

To his surprise, he didn't have to lift a finger. No, for some reason the woman just grabbed her head all of a sudden and fell towards the ground, screaming in pain. Shikamaru looked over at Naruto, who was shaking his head slowly at the sight. Walking over, Naruto preformed a few seals and whispered something, a few feathers falling on the woman. A second later, she was on the ground out cold.

" You know, you didn't have to make it that hard on her..." Naruto stated, looking towards the side. A man walked out of a part of the forest, his black cloak flowing a bit in the breeze that blew by all of a sudden. The man looked down at the woman, his sharingan in full power.

" It was...necessary."

" Itachi-sensei, please re-frame from giving people permanent nightmares that will convert her mentally back to a four year old." Naruto replied, looking down at the female.. Crouching, he picked up the woman and tossed her onto his shoulder.

" Actually, I'll be needing that woman, Naruto." Itachi stated, Naruto showing a confused expression that quickly changed when he finally pieced things together.

" She's a Mythical, isn't she?" Naruto asked, Itachi nodding in confirmation. " So, what project is she from?"

" Gorgon..."

" And Irvine?"

" Hercules...speaking of which." Itachi went over towards one fo the trees, picking up something and putting out into plain view. " I'm guessing you'll want this back?" Itachi asked, tossing Irvine over towards Naruto. Naruto looked down at Irvine to see he sleeping soundly. He sighed, turning his attention back over towards Itachi.

" You want something, don't you?" Naruto replied, Itachi taking a scroll out and tossing it over to him. Naruto catching it with ease. " This it?"

" That's it, make sure it gets to her as soon as possible." Itachi stated, thinking about something and looking over at Naruto. More specifically, the woman he was now carrying. " On second thought, I Think I may take the woman too..."

Naruto just stared at him with a blank expression. " Right, well the answer is no. I have no clue what you may do to this girl, you may try to molester her or something..." Itachi's expression now showed the same blank one that Naruto had earlier.

"..."

"...It was a joke, Itachi."

" You joke failed." Itachi stated, looking glancing back over at the woman. " I would usually fight you over this, but I don't have the time. I'll just tell them I killed her by accident...or something"

" Itachi-sensei...you never have 'accidents'."

" Thus the reason why I included 'or something'." Itachi replied, turning his back towards Naruto and walking towards the woods. " Just make sure that the scroll gets to her." With that, Itachi jumped into the tree's and headed towards were ever he needed to be. You're probably wondering why Itachi wasn't being blown straight to hell by jumping on the trees and touching the leafs right? Well, there's many explanations as to why that's possible, the most popular probably being that he's too 'skilled' to be caught by a simple trap. Naruto watched his sensei fly head towards his next check point, looking down at Irvine and picking him up when Itachi was out of site.

" You coming Shikamaru?" Naruto asked, Shikamaru snapping too when he realized that someone hadn't forgotten about him. I mean, they went through the entire conversation without him even speaking once. Shikamaru just kinda expected that with Naruto's personality, that he would have forgotten about him.

" Yeah sure..." Shikamaru stated, as Naruto nodded and headed towards Konoha. Shikamaru started walking in that direction as well. Stopping when Naruto suddenly stopped and turned around to face him.

" You carry Irvine..."

Yeah, that defiantly sucked, in Shikamaru's opinion anyway.

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It had been around an hour since the 'fight' with the woman, apparently the others having gone back to the village ahead of time. More like being summoned back by the Sixth since Naruto had already sent a bird to tell them that they had retrieved Irvine. Yeah, it was going to be a pain in the ass for Naruto gets back. Fortunately, he shoved Irvine off onto Shikamaru, who was most likely going to get ravaged as the others try to get Irvine from him. Ten to one, he was probably going to throw the body at the people, but then again he was probably too lazy to do even that.

Naruto felt thewoman stir, her body shifting as she finally awoken. Another reason why he didn't want to carry Irvine, who knows what the fuck this woman would do once she woke up. Better to have them at a distance then anything else. Things were about to get entertaining for him, now if only Irvine would wake up as well...

" Have a nice nap?"Naruto asked, the woman's head slowly lifting upwards. She seemed to be looking at around for something, but considering that she wore a blind fold he really didn't know what she was doing. She 'looked' over at Shikamaru, or more importantly what he was carrying on his shoulder.

" I'm guessing that one of the Akatsuki showed up, correct?"

" Well, yes and no, one did show up, but he let you go." Naruto stated, the woman stirring a bit at the confirmation that the Akatsuki had been there. " Mind if I ask what you planed to do with Irvine, or is that too personal?" The woman stirred even more, Shikamaru raising an eyebrow at her.

" I-It's none of your business.." the woman heard Shikamaru snicker, apparently holding his urge to laugh. Naruto chucked, balancing the woman on his shoulder and tightening his grip." Also, why can't I move my limbs?"

"Isn't obvious?" Naruto stated, looking over his shoulder slightly at her. " We paralyzed most of your body so that you wouldn't give us too much trouble. Well actually, I paralyzed your body, he just watched. Another great thing about having spiders in your system, various chemicals for your use at a moments noticed."

" What's wrong with you?" Shikamaru asked, seeing the woman shake constantly.

" You used, bugs, to paralyze me..."

"Well, it was convenient and you brought it on yourself...and if you don't settle down I'll have them paralyze you again." Naruto stated, the woman instantly stopping her attempts at getting free. Naruto wondered how long he would have to put up with this, realizing something a few moments later. " By the way, what's your name?" The woman stayed quite, thinking of wether or not to give it out.

" Let me be carried by that guy and I'll tell you." The woman stated, eyeing Irvine. Naruto, knowing full well what she was after, full heartedly agreed.

" Deal, now, your name?"

"...It's Ruby..."

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" Why do I have to carry both of them again?" Shikamaru asked, following Naruto towards the village. He honestly wondered how he ended up in this situation, maybe it was because he tried to take the easy route out of fighting the golems. Yeah, next time, he would be the person to 'sacrifice' himself so that he didn't need to put up with this bullshit.

Speaking of bullshit...

" Well, she did asked to be carried by you after all..." Naruto stated, looking over his shoulder at Shikamaru. " Look how happy she is..." The woman hacked something up and spat it at him, Naruto blocking it with a small log he found near him. It managed to block the spit, but as soon as the spit hit it, the log began to dissolve. In few seconds, the entire log was pretty much gone, Naruto raising an eyebrow at Ruby

" Damn, what the hell did you eat?" Naruto asked, the woman preparing to hack up something else until she felt something crawl on her skin. " Yeah, If you haven't noticed until now, I left a few of my 'family members' on you just in case. I would advise you to behave or else they be crawling everywhere on you."

" Your one perverted bastard, you know that?"

" Actually, those are female spiders, so it's nothing too big." Naruto stated, some what amused at how the female was starting to get pissed. Shikamaru, on the other hand, was not finding they're little argument funny at all. He did, however freeze, when he felt the other person he was carrying stir. Naruto looking at Shikamaru questionably.

" What is it?" Naruto asked, Shikamaru moving his head towards Irvine. Naruto tilted his head towards the side in confusion, looking over at Irvine to see him moving slightly. " Oh, at a time like this..." Naruto walked over towards Shikamaru, taking Irvine off his shoulder and carrying him towards the nearest tree.

" Wait, is he-."

" Shush, quite you." Naruto ordered, placing Irvine on the ground and laying him back towards the tree, sitting up right. Yeah, he was about to wake up, but what to tell him when he see's them. They'd have to tell him the truth about how he became a freakishly powerful monster that seemingly has enough strength to take on the weaker tailed demons and now he's become a bargaining chip in political matters.

Most likely for arranged marriages, considering that those that are considered as strong as the tailed demons are known for they're...stamina. Yeah, it disturbed Naruto whenever he thought about how other nations would form treaties in exchange for boy toy's, but that's how it went with about half of the treaties made now a days. He then thought about letting Shikamaru explain the details, that idea worked.

" Where...am I?" Irvine asked, his eyes slowly opening to see Naruto and Shikamaru, the later carrying someone. " What happened?"

" That, my friend, I leave Shikamaru to tell you." Naruto stated, Shikamaru glaring intensly at Naruto's back.

" You can't be serious."

"Oh, but I am, you see I have a few things I need to take care of and now that Irvine's conscious, I don't need to focus on this anymore...so if you'll excuse me." With that, Naruto jumped into the tree's, picking up the pace to get to Konoha as fast as possible. Leaving Shikamaru to deal with Irvine's confusion and Ruby's bitching/ apparent acid abilities.

Yeah, Naruto almost felt bad for him, really...

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Naruto ran through the trees as fast as possible, focusing chakra into his legs and making great leaps to increase his distance. Yeah, this, to be honest, was going to screw them over so much. The Mythical were apparently still being made even after he attacked they're major factories a couple months ago. With how strong most of them were, there was no way in hell they were going to stand a chance. That's, of course, if 'they' manage to tame the Mythical. They have they're own ideas and dreams, and with they're power they could accomplish them. This was going to be...troublesome in the future.

Flipping and landing on one of the trees, Naruto focused as much chakra as he could into his legs and made on final leap into the village, flying past most of the wreckage and groups of people. Landing in the streets, he caught a few people off guard, stalling for a second and running towards the hokage tower. It took him a minute or two, but he was able to reach it. Looking towards the top of the tower, Naruto focused chakra into his legs once more and jumped to the very top of the tower. Taking a moment to breath, he looked over at the person the new Hokage, seeing her stare off into space.

" Did you manage to retrieve Irvine?" Tsunade asked, not even turning to face Naruto.

" Yes, we were able to retrieve him and the woman that took him." Naruto stated, Tsunade continuing to stare out into the village, or what was left of it anyway. Slowly, she turned towards him, her face showing that she was in no mood for games.

" So tell me Naruto, what did you have planned for konoha? "

" What I have planned for all the villages, to combine as a united front against 'them'." Naruto stated, Tsunade narrowing her eyes at him.

" But do you think you can accomplish it?" Tsunade asked, her worried expression seemingly dropping when she saw Naruto's famous grin.

" We won't know until we try, right?"

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Author: Welp, here it is, please read and review.