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Chapter 4: Samsara Jinchuriki?

"Hime...I don't think this is such a good idea," spoke Jiraiya timidly to the blonde-haired woman angrily stomping her way out of the restaurant they were in.

"You should have told that to your brat before he called me a disappointment..." huffed Tsunade as she quickly made her way outside. "Lil brat doesn't even know who I am."

"I think he... no wait, I know he knows who you are," informed Jiraiya trying to halt Tsunade from going outside and meeting his most recent student. This was a fight she really didn't want to start. "You just don't know who he really is and that's why I worry. I don't even think I could beat-"

"Shut up Jiraiya. He's a kid. A stupid one at that who's about to learn a hard lesson," said Tsunade walking outside to see Naruto casually standing there waiting for her. "If you want to apologize, you can. Won't stop this beatdown."

"I wasn't out to fight you lady but you were wasting mine and Ero-sensei's time," said Naruto with narrowed blue eyes. "We have other options outside of you."

Tsunade was taken aback slightly by the look in Naruto's eyes. For some reason, it felt like his glare could paralyze her if she wasn't as strong as she is. Despite that line of thinking at first, Tsunade disregarded it completely and just smirked before holding up one finger.

"Heh, you're arrogant...not really my cup of tea. I'll probably only need one finger to beat someone like you," said Tsunade not seeing Jiraiya smack his face at such a thing. The irony of calling Naruto arrogant and then handicapping herself to a single finger flew right over the medic's head as she nodded. Tsunade made a come-hither motion with that finger as she looked at Naruto. "I think I will. Come and learn your lesson boy."

"Sensei..." said Naruto looking at Jiraiya.

"No."

"...Ero-sensei. She's asking for it. I won't even-"

"No...kid. She might be a pain sometimes, but she's still my teammate," said Jiraiya watching Naruto deflate.

There was no way in hell he was going to let Naruto use any of his freakishly powerful Rinnegan abilities. He'd witnessed Naruto sack several Oto Hideouts with no effort after the kid summoned him and told him about his Rinnegan. The kid dishearteningly stated he didn't even get to show the most dangerous aspect of his eyes before Hiruzen called them back because of the Akatsuki attack.

Tsunade, bless her soul, was dubbed 'the strongest woman' in the world but Jiraiya himself could see the rust on her. She would be no challenge to Naruto, even without his Rinnegan. So no, no Rinnegan for Naruto even though he'd probably bring it out anyway just to firmly show up his teammate.

"If you don't come to me kid, I'm coming to you. And that's the last thing you would want," said Tsunade smirk still on her face. Jiraiya shook his head again and put his hands over his face as Shizune looked at him with a curious gaze. Naruto was a newly promoted chunin, Tsunade was... Tsunade. Shizune saw no other outcome but her master's victory as did Tsunade who kept speaking. "If you let me start this fight, I promise it will be over in an instant-"

"-Yeah yeah." cut off Naruto now right in front of Tsunade.

The blonde woman was surprised at the speed and saw his fist headed straight for her chin. Holding on to her promise, Tsunade simply moved one finger in front of his fist stopping it easily. Naruto's eyebrow rose at the casual way she stopped his punch before nodding.

"Your chakra control is that fine-tuned you can augment your strength to absurd levels," spoke Naruto actually impressed at that. The dedication to one's chakra control to such a degree. He could see why she was so lauded just off that ability alone. "Still though..."

Five Narutos phased into existence getting Tsunade's eyes to widen. There was no hand seal, no poof of smoke, or any indication Naruto was using a jutsu. It felt like the clones just appeared before kicking the Sannin in the air. Tsunade cringed at the perfectly timed kicks that sent her a few dozen feet in the air.

"His chakra control...he can use that high level of a jutsu with no hand seal?!" thought Tsunade frantically shifting her body in the air to dodge the five clone Narutos who jumped to meet her. She landed as ten more Narutos spawned around her ready to continue. Tsunade wasn't allowing that because those kicks stung. "As if I'd let that happen again!"

Tsunade rose her finger before sharply dropping and thrusting it in the ground. The ground exploded in a spiderweb crack that upturned large pieces of earth that shook the Earth violently. The gaggle of Narutos around and the ones coming back down to land were dispelled at the rather vulgar display of power.

Tsunade looked up as dust clouded the area from her attack. The clone Narutos were gone as the original stood looking at her like he had been since the earlier shadow clones. Though Tsunade noticed that the dust in the air was blowing toward her gently. Naruto was using a low powered wind tunnel that practically outlined her.

"What is the point of this small breeze?" thought Tsunade unaffected by the small wind flowing through the area. All he did was clear the air of the dust and debris. Outside of that, he wasn't doing anything. "Wait, is his chest puffed out?"

"Katon: Goen (Fire Style: Great Flame)"

Naruto exhaled and expelled a blast of lava-hot fire. Thanks to the wind tunnel he'd created, Naruto's flames were concentrated and kept from spreading out like normal to avoid damaging the buildings lining the street they were on. He wasn't Tsunade, Naruto refused to do collateral damage when facing someone unless necessary.

"What the hell is this kid?" thought Tsunade ducking down and picking up a piece of Earth to protect herself. She began to sweat lightly at the heat flowing around the piece of Earth that shielded her. She felt like she was cooking in a furnace as she began to sweat from the heat. "Someone his age shouldn't be capable of ninjutsu like this."

"It's over..."

Tsunade's eyes widened and she turned behind her to see Naruto standing there even as his fire jutsu still blazed on. He was avoiding it thanks to the rock she put up as he had his arms folded. Tsunade was prepped to defend as best she could until she felt herself sink. Tsunade saw her legs, up to her knees, were firmly locked into the ground before a series of spears rose that stuck her torso in place awkwardly.

"As I said, there are other ways to help my teammates than you," said Naruto with the same cold eyes he had at the beginning. Arms still crossed, Naruto looked down upon the very gifted medic-nin. His eyes softened a bit as he spoke some more. "Ero-sensei said it, I know about you. It sucks that your lover and baby brother died fighting for Konoha. I can't understand the pain you went through..." continued Naruto as his eyes hardened again. "But someone else's lover, baby brother, father, mother, sister, et cetera died in the wake of your absence and forfeiture on life as a kunoichi. You could have possibly saved them and many more to keep someone else from the same heartbreak you feel. But you didn't and won't...that's why I said you're a disappointment. You could do so much where others can't and wish they could..."

Tsunade sat wide-eyed and forcibly stuck listening to the words of the Jinchuriki. He was 13 yet speaking like he'd lived a life full of strife. Heh, if only she knew that he actually had in a way.

Tsunade didn't know and even if she did, probably wouldn't care anyway. Her pain was unique to her and who was he to tell her how to go about dealing with it. And that was why she was a disappointment to this brat, really? Because she wouldn't fix every little boo-boo that befalls or befell someone from her grandfather's village? Give her a break.

"Oi! You damned whiskered brat," said Tsunade getting Naruto to raise an eyebrow. The earthly prison Naruto trapped her in began to crack slightly as the look on the sannin's face shifted to one of anger. "It's somehow my fault that Sarutobi didn't listen to me when I said we needed more medics? It's somehow my fault there is no one else in the entire world that can help your hurt friends beside me? Huh?! It's my fault I wasn't good enough to save my own family with my power and now when someone else faces my reality, I'm supposed to help them when no one was there to help me?"

Naruto watched the woman forcibly tear through his jutsu while she spoke and stand to look at him with furious brown eyes. Tsunade didn't wait long for an answer when she saw the same brutally cold eyes still looking at her. She kept her earlier promise despite her anger-fueled attack as she merely lead with her pointer finger. A pointer finger that could level a building it was brimming with so much chakra.

"Sadly, yes. You can't help you were endowed with such great power," spoke Naruto shifting his head just left of Tsunade's finger before his Rinnegan shifted on. A sharp and crisp left-right of chakra fueled fingers to the stomach dropped Tsunade to her knees, parallel with Naruto. "I believe those endowed with great power shouldn't run from moments where they can do good in this troublesome world." continued Naruto before lashing out with an elbow to Tsunade's temple. He stopped but an inch from leveling the legendary medic as her pigtails blew from the force gathered. The elbow wouldn't level a building but it would have certainly put Tsunade clearly through the building next to them. "I promise you I won't so that one day I can save someone's loved one someday. Because if everyone thought like you, no one would save anyone. You have to break the cycle to keep it from repeating...don't ya think. It's what I think."

"Heh, nice words kid..." thought Jiraiya with a smile as Shizune stood mouth wide at her master getting bested by a kid. "Finish strong there brat, you got her on the ropes."

Tsunade just stared forward, hand on her stomach, and didn't move for a few seconds after hearing that. The pain in her abdomen was all but forgotten as she listened to the words of the other blonde beside her. The tomoe in his Rinnegan began to orbit his pupil as Naruto smiled cheekily and rose both arms to the sky and balled both fists.

"For my dream is to become Hokage. And I'd gladly give my life if it meant saving someone's loved one or the entire village," spoke Naruto bringing his arms down and nodding to affirm it to himself. "This I promise, dattebayo."

And like that, Tsunade had two memories flash through her head. The first of her younger brother, Nawaki, and the second of her lover, Dan. The two very important people in her life who died too early that both shared Naruto's dream. She could see the two of them smiling at her and right between them stood Naruto. A tear fell down Tsunade's eye and not because of the powerful blows she took. Only due to the thoughts running through her head as Naruto kneeled next to her and tapped her stomach twice.

"Sorry about the last hits. They'll hurt a bit more since I hit two chakra gates and closed them," said Naruto reopening the two gates with pulses of chakra. "You should start to feel your chakra flow naturally once again."

Tsunade turned her teary eyes to Naruto to see rather daunting purple ones in place of his blue ones. Somehow, despite the emotionless appearance of the eyes, Naruto managed to shine some warmth through them as he matched the medic's gaze. Tsunade was physically rusty but mentally, she retained knowledge just as well as she did in her prime. She knew exactly what she was looking at.

"The...Rinnegan..." thought Tsunade staring at the mythological eyes with their nine tomoe each.

Naruto probably only showed her them to one, drive home his point about being endowed with great power and choosing to do the right thing with it like he just verbally promised. And two, to make her feel better about the loss she just took. She really needed the latter because losing to a fresh chunin would hurt her reputation and pride tremendously. She needed to train again because she wouldn't go for that next time.

So fascinated about the eyes, Tsunade nearly missed what was behind Naruto as her eyes widened.

"Naruto! Look out!"

"What! I was snuck up on?!" thought Naruto in a panic turning his eyes behind him to see a deadly volley of shuriken flying his way. Choosing to dodge with Tsunade, Naruto froze catching something very alarming thanks to his visual prowess. "There's shuriken in the shadows of these ones...no escape."

"Seiatsu (Subjugating Pressure)" spoke Naruto as a gravity wall formed around him and Tsunade that deflected the shuriken. Naruto quickly moved from behind Tsunade, who impressively managed to get him out of harm's way, before he looked up at the red eyes of the man behind the shuriken. "Uchiha Itachi..."

"Hello Naruto-kun..." spoke Itachi monotonously wondering how his shuriken were stopped. Itachi considered a wind jutsu of some sort before seeing the violet eyes of Naruto looking back at him. "Those eyes..."

"This is over," said Naruto teleporting behind Itachi. A phantasm of Naruto could be seen ghosting toward the Akatsuki member as Naruto's eyes widened in shock a bit too late. He didn't even notice that he was under a-"Genjutsu, that fast? I didn't even notice..."

The Itachi before Naruto dissolved in a flock of crows that got Naruto to look up amazed at the speed. He must have gotten him when they first met eyes for the second they did before Naruto teleported behind him. Then, he had the foresight to not pass go and collect $200 by hightailing it out of there immediately because Naruto couldn't feel him anymore. Snuck up on him and threw an inescapable volley of shuriken, ensnared him in a genjutsu, and managed to actually leave without Naruto being able to follow.

"He's good...really good," said Naruto with a small smile. "I'll be better prepared next time. The same as you Akatsuki will be I'm sure..."

(With Itachi)

"Itachi, what the hell happened?" questioned a rather large man that ran beside Itachi with blue skin. He had the same beady eyes of the hologram that spoke to Itachi less than a week ago. "You said you were going to start the attack and I'd come in later but then you changed your mind? Tsunade and Jiraiya couldn't have handled the both of us, I know that."

"You are right. We likely could best Tsunade-sama and Jiraiya-sama in battle."

"So why didn't we? Pipsqueak would have been easy pickings afterward."

"Naruto-kun is the sole reason we're fleeing Kisame," said Itachi saying pipsqueak's name unlike his partner, Kisame, as they continued their hasty retreat. Sensing his partner's next question, Itachi answered it before he could ask. "Naruto-kun's bijuu isn't the problem, he has the Rinnegan."

Kisame's eyes widened at that bit of information which quickly put him on board with Itachi's idea to leave. That ended the discussion right there. The Kyubi Jinchuriki somehow has the same eyes as the leader of Akatsuki? Heh, boy it was going to be fun sharing that with the gang.

"You think we could have taken him?" questioned Kisame after a moment

"Whether we could take him or not remains unknown," spoke Itachi still sprinting away. Naruto was still young and definitely not as strong as he could be given time to grow. Then was probably their best chance to beat Naruto in battle except for his current entourage. "Our main objective was to update our information on him, capture if possible. I didn't want to run the risk of facing two of the three Sannin and a Jinchuriki with the Rinnegan. Capturing him at that time didn't seem possible."

"Yeah, you're probably right," spoke Kisame before a shark-like grin crossed his face. "Just hope we can catch him alone soon. I've always wanted to really see what the eyes of the Sage of Six Paths could do."

"No...you don't."

The shark-man looked at the Uchiha for a brief moment and really thought about it. Itachi was someone he knew that if he faced, he'd likely not come out of the battle alive. And for Itachi to say that about someone else, really put it in perspective. It wasn't fear that he could feel come from Itachi, just respect. A healthy amount of respect.

"I should probably listen to the guy. He knows more about special eyes than I do..."

And with that thought, the two of them ran in silence until they could reach an area to contact their organization. Something troubling had occurred.

(One Day Later - With Naruto)

Walking along the path back to Konoha with Tsunade and Shizune in tow, Naruto and Jiraiya walked next to each other while a repeated 'thwap' could be heard. The cause of that 'thwap' being Jiraiya smacking Naruto across the head with a rolled up newspaper every few yards. Naruto had an angry look as his head rocked with each blow.

"What did I say..." questioned Jiraiya walking with his eyes closed

"No Rinnegan" answered Naruto walking beside the Sannin

"And what did you do..."

"Used Rinnegan"

THWAP

"And guess what happened..."

"Akatsuki saw it"

"And why is that bad..."

"They'll prepare"

THWAP

"What did I say..."

"No Rinnegan"

"And what did you do..."

"Used Rinnegan," said Naruto again before his Rinnegan came to life and he halted Jiraiya's next smack with his gravity powers. Turning his eyes to his sensei, the tomoe within them spun dangerously. "Hit me again and I'm ripping your soul out of your body and keeping it in the King of Hell until we get back home..."

"..." Jiraiya rose an eyebrow and opened his eyes at his student's threat. "You can't do that...can you?"

"Try to hit me again and find out."

Jiraiya kept looking at Naruto for several more steps before shrugging. Even though he believed Naruto could probably do something like that, he still felt the need to call the boy's bluff. Village destroying ninjutsu? Sure, Jiraiya had seen it. Ripping out souls? Pfft, no way the kid could do it until proven. And Jiraiya wanted proof. Thus, the newspaper descended and smacked the boy for the twentieth time in the past five minutes.

THWAP

"That's it!" shouted Naruto slapping a palm to Jiraiya before making good on his promise and ripping the man's soul out. The King of Hell rose beside the angry Jinchuriki before he casually tossed the soul inside its mouth. "Chikushodo (Animal Path)" said Naruto as a sealing array appeared underneath the falling husk that was Jiraiya's soulless body. A barely larger than human-sized turtle appeared that had the head of a lion was summoned that caught the man before continuing walking with Naruto. Naruto turned his Rinnegan off before turning to the other two walking with him. "So, what were we talking about before Ero-sensei did that... oh yeah, your pet pig's name is tonton huh?"

Naruto realized that Tsunade and Shizune had stopped walking only after he finished speaking. The two stood with very wide eyes as Naruto looked at them confused. Why did they stop? He couldn't feel anything around them that could cause such a thing.

"Did you...did you just..." started then stopped Tsunade twice, shakily pointing a finger at the turtle carrying Jiraiya which hadn't stopped walking toward Konoha.

"Hmm, maybe that was a bit overboard..." thought Naruto with a sigh. He thought maybe warning Jiraiya would make what he did less shocking but, he'd literally took a man's soul out. Couldn't just carry on a normal conversation after that. "Meifu no O (King of Hell)" the head of hell's king rose once more before it looked at the husk of Jiraiya and spit his soul back in his body. Jiraiya awoke with a jolt before the King of Hell descended again and Naruto sighed. "I shouldn't abuse my powers...I'm sorry."

Jiraiya was touching at his body, making sure he was actually alive, as he felt like he'd died for eternity but no time at all. It was a weird way to explain it but while he felt he'd been gone forever, he somehow also felt he hadn't left at all. Jiraiya turned his eyes first to the lion-turtle he was riding on, then to the two wide-eyed medics that had been walking with them since Tsunade's and Naruto's fight with the former agreeing to help, and lastly landed on his student who stared at him with a 'sorry' written on his face. Jiraiya coughed before standing and walking over to Naruto.

"Kid, you're amazing...you know that? Seriously, that's the craziest thing I've ever felt or seen," spoke Jiraiya earnestly standing in front of Naruto getting the chunin to beam at the compliment. The man smiled too before smacking him once more with his rolled up newspaper sending his young charge out of sight through a tree. "YOU EVER RIP MY SOUL OUT AGAIN I'LL KICK YOUR LITTLE ASS! YA HEAR ME BRAT!"

The moment Naruto was smacked out of sight, his summoning growled angrily before launching a blast of some red substance at the sannin. Jiraiya avoided the attack and looked to see that it was red clay. Weird but Jiraiya didn't care as his hair grew before wrapping up the weird turtle-lion hybrid. Crunching it, the animal snarled before dispelling as Jiraiya's hair returned to normal. Then the forest exploded.

"Stop hitting me!" shouted Naruto in a twenty-foot circumference of bare land having angrily used his gravity powers to clear a path. Naruto's tomoe were spinning dangerously as he looked at Jiraiya. "I've already beat two of you three, it was only a matter of time I faced the third Sannin."

"Bring it on ya brat! Rinnegan or not, you're still decades too young to beat me"

Tsunade and Shizune both stood out of harm's way as the student and teacher had a go at it. Jiraiya was losing clearly, Naruto was way too strong even in their half-hearted fight. But the elder man's will was strong as he continued getting in smacks atop Naruto's head with his newspaper any time he could. Each time he managed to do so, Naruto hit him with a different element. It was simply marveling what Naruto could do but in this pissing contest, it only served to bore Tsunade and Shizune.

"I'm not healing you if you're hurt too badly..." spoke Tsunade as Shizune nodded to confirm she felt the same way getting the two to look at them.

"Ha! You'll have to heal up like normal after this ass-whipping kid!" shouted Jiraiya, smacking Naruto in the head again during the lull in action to only get blasted away with a gravity attack.

"I was talking about you idiot..." said Tsunade watching Jiraiya jump back and resume his tussle with his student. A tussle that literally turned into Jiraiya grabbing the smaller boy and repeatedly smacking him in the head despite the taser shocks he was getting in return. "Should we just keep going to Konoha? This doesn't look like it'll end any time soon."

"Yes Tsunade-sama, we should get going. Hokage-sama's payment might be voided if the two we're supposed to help come to before we get there," replied Shizune shaking her head at the two fighting. "Only an hour out from Konoha too. Boys will be boys."

And with that, the two medics walked pass the scuffle and continued on their way to the leaf village. Once the two were out of sight, Jiraiya and Naruto's fight came to an end with Jiraiya, horribly singed and roughed up, holding up Naruto, sporting only a knot on the back of his head from the newspaper.

"Heh, seems like they forgot about the whole soul ripping thing..."

"Yeah, that's good at least. Would have sucked to explain," said Naruto getting set down by Jiraiya. "They'll still probably ask but I'd rather answer in Konoha and not still on this damn road. I miss my bed. More importantly, Kakashi-sensei and Sasuke really need their help."

"Agreed..." nodded Jiraiya before looking back at Naruto. "Any way you can send me back in that thing. No ass-whipping will come. I saw a war babe I beat and killed that was giving me the look and I'd like to see what that was about if you catch my drift."

"What?"

"Send me back to that hell thingy...I know you heard me."

"I did, I hoped you were just kidding," informed Naruto before seeing Jiraiya was dead serious. He was willingly wanting to go to Hell? Something was wrong with his sensei. "No, why would you want to go back there? It's basically purgatory..."

"I just told you why dumbass! War babe was giving me the loo~k" repeated Jiraiya getting Naruto to frown and shake his head no.

Jiraiya dropped his shoulders in defeat as Naruto continued walking. He wouldn't get to see the beauty once more. Such a shame as the Sannin looked at the newspaper in his hand and then to the knot on Naruto's head. A sly grin grew on the man's face as he cocked back once more.

THWAP

"That's it!"

And thus, Jiraiya was once again sent to 'Hell' by his young charge. This time, happily for the most part as Naruto grumbled lowly to himself and carried the soulless body of the sannin all the way back to Konoha.

"Wait...why am I walking"

And with that thought, Naruto vanished the short distance back home in an Ashura Senku.

(Unknown Location)

It was quiet. Much too quiet for as many people that stood in the same room with eccentric personalities. The Akatsuki had all assembled and thanks to Itachi's update, the organization was dead silent as they contemplated his information.

The Kyubi Jinchuriki had the Rinnegan. Already the most powerful of the Bijuu rested within the boy and now he had the eyes of the Sage of Six Paths. The leader of Akatsuki, Pain, stood in his hologram form like the rest of Akatsuki outside of two people with his own Rinnegan shining in the dim meeting place.

"THE FUCKING KYUBI HAS THE RINNEGAN! WHAT THE FUCK!"

Pain closed his eyes annoyed at the shout he knew was bound to happen. There had been about two minutes of silence since Itachi's announcement and one of them was bound to verbally shriek about the troubling news. For it was troubling news and one would be a fool not to think as such. But being the leader, one had to keep the flow going despite such obstacles.

"Hidan...calm down," spoke Pain opening his eyes to look at the man. Unlike him and the other 7 members, Hidan was actually there along with his partner, Kakazu. "It is something to worry about but luckily, we're able to worry about it rather than show up surprised to see it. Good job Itachi and Kisame" continued Pain before taking in a calming breath. "We will worry about the Kyubi later. I will be the one to face him when the time comes. You all steer clear of him from this point on."

Even as young as Naruto was, the Rinnegan is not something anyone not informed on the dojutsu should face. It was why Pain himself was so lauded. He knew that Naruto was easily as strong as he was at that age except added with the force of the Kyubi. That was a bit scary but Pain would handle it. It was his job to.

"For now though, we will begin to seal the Nanabi that Hidan and Kakazu recently captured."

The group all nodded their heads as they could see an unconscious girl lying on the floor between all of them. The first Jinchuriki they'd caught and it was finally time to start their journey in collecting them all. One down, eight to go. The ninth likely to be the hardest of all to capture.

(Konoha)

Seated casually smoking his pipe, Sarutobi Hirzuen sat handling document after document that required his attention. Being Hokage didn't just make him the leader of Konoha's shinobi, but really he was the overseer of all that sat within these walls. It was sometimes weird to think about but he was practically a benevolent dictator. The buck stopped at him as far as Konoha things were concerned. Because of that, most matters were brought to him directly.

"Hi, Naruto-kun."

Arriving in an instant, Naruto stood with his Rinnegan beaming at the old man seated before him.

"So you figured out how my teleportation works?"

"You did show it once before while I was looking, wasn't that hard to break down," said the Kage with a smile before putting down his pen to look at his favorite chunin at the moment. He rose an eyebrow though to see Jiraiya piggybacking the younger shinobi with his feet and shins touching the ground due to the height difference. The dead appearance of his student had Hiruzen a bit worried. "Jiraiya..."

"Oh right, stole his soul," said Naruto summoning the king of hell who returned Jiraiya's soul once more.

"Ah HA! What who? Where?" questioned Jiraiya hysterically before noticing where he was. Standing up off of Naruto, Jiraiya patted his head before looking at his teacher. "What's up sensei? Thanks for the ride by the way kid."

"Whatever..." said Naruto before looking at Hiruzen. Seeing the man's eyes wide, Naruto let out a sigh. "I'm not explaining this. You tell him what happened since you're the leader anyway. I'm still on my other mission," continued Naruto looking at Hiruzen. Hiruzen remembered what Naruto was doing before this whole Akatsuki/Search for Tsunade thing and nodded to confirm he was still technically allowed to continue. Naruto smiled before the tomoe in his Rinnegan spun slowly. "Chikushodo (Animal Path)"

Sealing array showed before a poof of smoke puffed into existence. The wonder of who/what Naruto summoned was solved even before the smoke dissipated.

"DAMN IT SHITHEAD! I WAS SLEEPING! STOP DOING THAT SHIT!"

"Ah, Tayuya...of course," said Jiraiya looking to see that was indeed who Naruto summoned. His mission was destroying Oto and who better than one of its shinobi to help. She greeted Jiraya with a 'hey again perverted dumbass' and gave Hiruzen a courteous head nod before verbally attacking Naruto once more. "Kid picked a pretty one at least but that mouth on her..."

Naruto was unfazed by the vulgar language and berating diction as he just smiled at the girl.

"I missed you too."

"I didn't miss you idiot. Don't you know I hate your short ass..."

"You don't mean that. If you did, you'd have taken out those earrings that allow me to summon you," said Naruto tapping Tayuya's shoulder getting her to growl before turning to Hiruzen. "Ero-sensei will fill you all in Jiji. I'm going to go finish what I started before they try to scatter too far." continued Naruto before looking at Tayuya's skimpy sleepwear. Oto girl was really hot but that wasn't really battle attire. "After my travel buddy gets dressed of course. Can't have her fighting and risk her-"

AHHHHH!

Naruto visibly cringed which alerted the three surrounding him as he held both of his ears. Tayuya was the first to ask him what was wrong.

"What the hell's bugging you?" questioned Tayuya before feeling the air freeze as Naruto drowned the area with killing intent. Tayuya froze when she saw the livid look in Naruto's Rinnegan. His tomoe were spinning out of sync as he took a calming breath that made the killing intent in the air disappear. Tayuya breathed out, not realizing she'd been holding her breath, before putting a hand to his shoulder. "The fuck was that...you gave me a fucking heart attack shithead."

"Chomei is in trouble..." said Naruto before taking another calming breath while building chakra. The three in the room wondered who Chomei was as Naruto clenched his fists. "I'll be back shortly."

"Wait, who's Chomei Naruto?" questioned Jiraiya getting the boy to look at him.

"The Nanabi" answered Naruto finding no reason not to inform them. Jiraiya's eyes widened at that admission along with Hiruzen and Tayuya. Naruto could feel the seven tails was in trouble. Well if the boy needed help then Jiraiya would- "She's far away. I can't teleport the both of us that length of a distance. I'll be fine though, don't worry."

With that said, Naruto took another breath before Jiraiya noticed three of his tomoe vanished from each eye.

"Ashura Senku," said Naruto appearing in a dark cave from the looks of it.

Gasps were heard as Naruto looked up to see holograms of men, a plant man, and a woman looking at him. He could see a girl levitating due to several ghastly chakra dragons that were forcibly removing her Bijuu.

"Chomei-chan, I'm here..." thought Naruto mentally seeing the seven-tailed Bijuu screaming in agony still. Naruto then turned to the only person that really mattered at the moment. The man with the same eyes as he. "I'm guessing you're the leader of Akatsuki."

"Kyubi...Jinchuriki. So you've come."

The two stared at each other for a moment and the tension in the air was thick. This wasn't about to be pretty.

And scene! I'll be back soon.

-Hamp