Gaara's vision was blurred, all he could see was Naruto's face smiling at him. Gaara then took notice of his surroundings, his eyes opened in shock when he saw the clearing was filled with Suna ninja.
"Everyone came to save you," Naruto said with a large smile.
Matsuri appeared from the crowd running towards her sensei "Gaara-sensei!" she yelled in glee before glomping the red head.
"M-Matsuri… C-Cant breath," Gaara struggled out.
Matsuri realized she was suffocating her sensei, with a small blush she released the Kazekage who took large breaths of air.
A Suna ninja began to cry "thank Kami, I was afraid Lord Gaara may have really died," he said between sobs, one ninja smack his friends head "why are you crying, Lord Gaara would never have left us!" he declared though happiness shown through his eyes at having his leader be safe.
Temari appeared also glomping her younger brother "you had us all worried," she said while she cried happily.
Kankuro slowly approached them with a broad grin "Temari we just got him back, don't go sending him off to the dead again."
Temari loosened her grip on Gaara which allowed him to breath but she didn't stop hugging him.
A bunch of Suna fangirls ran towards Gaara one whacked Naruto in the face sending the orange Genin flying, Naruto looked with a dead pan as the two fangirls were gushing over Gaara.
"Eh don't worry, girls always go for the cool elite type, all though girls do go for the elite puppeteers," Kankuro said to the Genin.
Raido grinned "says the guy in make-up?"
Kankuro's eye twitched "IT'S WARPAINT!" he yelled.
Raido shrugged "still the same thing, though don't underestimate a fan girl in a rage," Raido shuddered "I've seen that before, I would have probably been glomped to death by fangirls if Yugito-chan didn't scare them away."
Raido then realized something, he quickly ran to the rescue team, he shouldered them aside to find lady Chiyo laying against Sakura. "Is she…?" he couldn't finish the sentence.
Sakura only nodded, Raido lowered his head in sadness for the death of the stubborn crabby old lady.
Raido kneeled by Chiyo's body, "Rest in peace," he murmured sadly as tears trailed down his cheek.
Naruto had seen Raido run towards Chiyo, he didn't realize what was going on since he couldn't hear Raido. He immediately started to tell Kankuro how lady Chiyo brought Gaara back and how exhausted she was.
Everyone grew silent as the heard this, "She used that jutsu?" Kankuro asked, Naruto looked at him in confusion "that was a reanimation jutsu. Lady Chiyo is dead."
Naruto's eyes widened he quickly looked at Chiyo's body and how Raido and Sakura looked they were in mourning.
Raido sensed someone coming near him, looking up he saw Chiyo's brother Ebizo.
"She looks like she's sleeping," Ebizo said softly as he looked at his sisters body and thought back of all the times Chiyo would play dead.
Gaara slowly started to stand up with difficulty, a suna ninja rushed to his aid but he pushed him away. He managed to stand up though he was slightly unsteady he spoke as he looked at the scene of the grieving Raido, Sakura, and Ebizo, "everyone pray for Granny Chiyo," he closed his eyes which was followed by everyone in the clearing as the parted and mourned for the stubborn old woman who had given her life for another.
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The two rescue teams, along with the Suna ninja made their way towards the gates of the Sand Village. Granny Chiyo's body was being carried by Raido, when others had offered to carry the woman's body to let him get a rest, he stubbornly refused.
As they entered the village the civilians and remaining shinobi cheered at the arrival of their Kazekage, if they were surprised to see three Kumo ninja with them they didn't say anything.
Gaara was now seated back in his Kazekage chair, his sensei and siblings on either side of them.
Team Kakashi, Team Guy, and Team Darui stood in front of them.
Kakashi was telling Gaara that they would have to return to the leaf village. They could understand as Kakashi was quite exhausted as he need Guy to help support him.
Gaara turned his eyes to the Kumo shinobi, "I never got to ask this due to certain circumstance but why were you three there when I was brought back to life?"
"Lord Kazekage we were ordered by Boss to come to your aid when we heard of your capture, I apologize we did not make it in time to stop you from dying." Darui said.
Gaara raised a single eyebrow "why would Raikage-dono send his shinobi to help someone not even allied with his nation?"
Raido stepped forward "Lord Gaara, I hope you should know along with everyone here that Kumo wants to save all the Jinchuuriki we can."
"Why would you guys do that?" Kankuro asked.
Raido sighed "It'd take to long to explain so i'll just cut it down. My name is Yotsuki Raido."
While none of the Konoha save Sakura knew the name, along with Kankuro, Baki's single eye widened and his jaw opened, something very rare for the conserved man.
"Of course…" he muttered.
Naruto looked at him in confusion "ehh ne ne Baki-san why is that such a big deal?"
"He's the son of the Yondaime Raikage and the grandson of the Third Raikage," Temari said, making everyone who didn't know gasp in shock and looked quickly at Raido and berated themselves for not seeing the resemblance. Raido could practically feel the glare Neji was sending him.
"Which also means he is the nephew of Killer Bee of the Eight Tails," Kakashi said.
Naruto's eyes widened at the word 'Eight Tails' "Y-You mean he's a-"
"-Yes Lord Killer Bee is a Jinchuuriki just like you, inside him is the Eight-Tails," C said.
" 'Lord'?" Sakura asked as she thought that Jinchuuriki were despised so hearing one be called 'Lord' was quite new.
"My uncle is one of the greatest men to ever walk this earth. He suffered the same fate of the Jinchuuriki when his bjuu was sealed inside him," Raido said "but! My uncle never stopped smiling and being happy, he didn't care about all the hate, unlike other Jinchuurki's Bee was offered to not be a Jinchuuriki but he knew that to be a Jinchuuriki would help my father, so despite knowing what happened to Jinchuuriki he accepted. Uncle Bee was despised but he never stopped smiling and doing his cool rhymes, he knew he wasn't alone, he had my father to help protect him, his dream was to have everyone accept him." Naruto thought to his dream to be Hokage which would have the villagers accept him "and one day he did it." Raido smiled "my uncle did what no Jinchuuriki had done before…"
"What did he do?" Naruto asked.
"He became a perfect Jinchuuriki."
Tenten raised an eyebrow "a perfect Jinchuuriki?" she asked about the unfamiliar term.
C spoke "there is a difference between a Jinchuuriki like Naruto and a Jinchuuriki like Yugito-sama and Killer Bee-sama. Unlike this boy who loses control after gaining a single tail of chakra…. They have complete control of their Bjuu's chakra," he said making everyone gasp in amazement.
"It's so great…. That they can completely transform into their bjuu without losing control or being injured."
Naruto gapped at the men "Y-You can be able to do that! H-How?"
Raido shook his head "Its a closely guarded secret, few people know of it. Its not my place to tell you, you would have to ask either Yugito-chan or Uncle Bee."
Naruto looked disappointed but he still couldn't believe that such a thing could be achieved, he needed to know one thing "so they are loved?"
Raido nodded "yes, our people adore Uncle Bee and Yugito-chan, they think of them as their Guardians, some people call them the Two Guardians of the Cloud. Yugito had a little of a tough childhood from a few people who didn't think she could control Nibi, but she always had me and others, and after she became a perfect Jinchuuriki too, those doubts were forgotten."
Naruto and Gaara couldn't help but smile, happy that some of their fellow Jinchuuriki had found happiness.
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The rescue teams along with Gaara and the others stood at Granny Chiyo's tomb giving their final respects. Raido looked at the gravestone with a heavy heart, he liked the woman, despite being cranky and really stubborn, she had been a good comrade.
Slowly the group lessened until it was only Ebizo, Sakura, and Raido left at the gravestone. Raido put his hand gently on the gravestone before he did a final prayer, the two headed back towards their groups. Naruto tried and failed to say goodbye to Gaara but managed to get a handshake from the former Jinchuuriki.
The Kumo and Konoha groups left into the desert, they would be splitting up soon.
After traveling for a couple hours it was time for the two groups to split up.
Kakashi eye smiled at the Kumo ninja "take care now," he said cheerfully.
Darui chuckled "you too."
Raido noticed Neji glaring at him "what?"
"It was your father who ordered the death of my father!" Neji yelled.
Raido closed his eyes, so this was Hizashi Hyuga's son. "I'm sorry."
"You- Your what?"
"I said I'm sorry, I don't know what I would do if I lost my father, i'd be bitter too. But its not good to cling to the past, you won't notice your in the present. Life is unexpected and I know both our countries wish the whole conflict had been avoided but it doesn't matter now, what matters is right now and how you can shape the path for a better future.. If you wish to hate me, then hate me. But don't blindly judge people who are from the same country because of the actions of the Head Ninja, one man and one mistake shouldn't make you distrust people. That just spells disaster." Raido turned away "see you later pinky," he said with wave at Sakura before running towards his country with his comrades by his side.
Neji was still trying to understand what Raido meant, "what does he mean?" he asked as the Kumo trio disappeared in the horizon.
"That young man is quite youthful, don't you agree my eternal rival?" Guy said happily.
"Eh you say something Guy?"
As Raido, C, and Darui were running towards home they head a yell of "DAMN YOU KAKASHI!"
Raido looked behind him "what the? Should we go see whats up?"
C shook his head "keep going."
"B-But what if something is happening."
"Keep going Raido," Darui said.
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Back in the Village Hidden in the Leaves, Tsunade was in a council meeting. Team Kakashi had returned with a successful mission, and also news of Kumo shinobi being lead by the Clouds most powerful shinobi and the son of the Yondaime Raikage.
"I assume you know why I summoned you here?"
Choza was the first to reply "I'm guessing it has to do with Team Kakashi's mission to rescue the Kazekage?"
Tsunade nodded "the Kazekage is alive despite no longer having the Shukaku inside of him, we have confirmed deaths of Sasori of the red sands and the assumed death of Deidara."
A fat civilian member spoke "I'm assuming that it was your student who killed Sasori?"
Tsunade shook her head, "no Konoha or Suna ninja defeated Sasori," instantly getting everyone's attention.
"Before Team Kakashi engaged the enemy, an unlikely ally appeared." Tsunade took a deep breath "three Kumo shinobi appeared, being lead by Darui of the black lightning, one of the strongest shinobi Kumo has to offer and the right hand man of the Raikage, C of the Cloud, and Yotsiki Raido, the son of the Fourth Raikage."
Voices immediately started shouting "impossible! Why did they not attack those Kumo bastards! We could have captured them and killed the son to spite the Raikage for the hyuga incident,"
"SHUT IT!" Tsunade yelled.
"I'm ashamed of you, because of their help we managed to save Gaara, it was Raido himself who single-handily defeated Sasori… I've been thinking, I want to issue a treaty with Kumohakure for an alliance until the Akatsuki threat is over."
Immediately chaos, "never! Impossible! Why should we ally ourselves with those savages!"
"Why should we ally ourselves with those people? These are the monsters who tried to kidnap my daughter and killed my brother! I will not allow this!" Hiashi said coldly whereas the civilians roared in approval while the shinobi side thought of the treaty.
"Besides what does Kumo have that we don't?" A fat woman screeched.
"They have two Jinchuuriki," a voice spoke camly. Everyone turned their heads to see Danzo entering the room.
"Danzo," Tsunade said with a scowl.
"Or to be correct, two perfect Jinchuuriki according to Kakashi's report," Danzo stated.
The shinobi side gasped silently, Inochi stood up "you mean to tell us that Kumo has another perfect Jinchuuriki?" he asked in disbelief.
"Indeed, it seems that 8-tails Jinchuuriki has managed to teach the Nibi Jinchuurki, Nii Yugito everything he knows."
"Wait whats a perfect Jinchuuriki?" a civilian asked.
"Killer Bee is the host of the eight-tails and unlike any other Jinchuuriki, including our own. He managed to do the impossible. He got complete control of his bjuu's chakra, so much that he can transform into the Hachibi with ease," Koharu said.
Gasps came from the civilian side as they realized what that meant "T-They wouldn't attack us!" a civilian stuttered out "they may have the Nibi and Hachibi but we have the Kyuubi, surely they wouldn't attack us because we-"
"- have a Jinchuurki with no control what so ever over his bjuu's chakra, the boy even lost control during the mission. While Kumo has the full might of the Hachibi and Nibi at their power. I suggest we do the alliance, but when they least expect it we will kidnap the girl as she contains a lesser bjuu and make her teach the boy to have full control of the Kyuubi before killing her and extract the Nibi from her before putting it in one of our shinobi. With the power of the nine-tails in our hands, we could conquest the entire continent and bring all the nations under Konoha's flag." Danzo said with a gleam in his one visible eye.
Tsunade glared at the cripple "Danzo! We will do no such thing! We will not stoop to kidnapping their Jinchuurki, to do so is an act of war! And then the entire Kumo military along with the Hachibi will be banging down on our doors, and according to Kakashi, Yugito Nii is a very powerful kunoichi even without her bjuu along with the fact that Yotsuki Raido is always with her outside the village, usually with their sensei Darui or Lord Killer Bee himself, we could find ourselves fighting three S-Rank ninja, two who can transform into their bjuu and the other with the chakra levels of a bjuu. We would be walking into our own graves. The only way is cooperation, if this works than three of the five shinobi nations are hunting the Akatusuki, not to mention the fact that Naruto may be able to learn how to control the Kyuubi's chakra from them."
Danzo snorted "hmph you honestly think Kumo will give one of their nations greatest secrets to us? Your a bigger fool than I thought."
Tsunada glared at the man, wanting nothing more to strangle the old war hawk "this big fool is your Hokage Danzo… I will be sending a messenger bird to the Raikage with a petition for Suna, konoha, and Kumo to be in an alliance until the threat of Akatsuki is over."
There were still murmurs of disagreements on the civilian side, but the shinobi save Hiashi agreed "where will the meeting take place Tsunada-Sama?" Inoichi asked.
"At Kumogakure."
"What! Tsunada this is foolish, to go straight into our enemies village with barely any protection!" Homura protested.
"They aren't our enemies, and I will be bringing guards. This actually works out since I have to send a messenger bird to the Raikage anyway to ask permission for Team Kakashi to go to Tenchi bridge to meet the spy and learn the whereabouts of Orochimaru and Uchiha Sasuke."
Immediately the murmurs of disagreement faded from the civilians, now murmurs of excitement were heard. The civilians dearly want the last 'loyal' Uchiha to return from his 'imprisonment' of Orochimaru, if this was what they had to do for him to return they would do it.
"Who will be going with you as guards?" Koharu asked.
Tsunade gained a thoughtful look on her face "It's not certain but I am thinking of the Rookie 12, Jiraiya and Shikaku will be my advisors, seeing as Kakashi is bed-ridden at the moment." Hiashi looked like he was about to protest "Hiashi, I doubt Kumo would be foolish enough to try and kidnap your daughter or nephew, the Hyuga incident was a disaster for them, I doubt they would be keen to repeat the same mistakes."
Danzo stepped forward "Tsunade I would like to volunteer myself to help your protection," he said calmly as everyone stared at the man in shock.
"Why would you offer this Danzo? You haven't been on a mission for years," Tsunade said with narrowed eyes.
Danzo met her gaze calmly "I may have not been on a mission for awhile but my skills have not dulled, remember you are going to the very heart of Kaminari no Kumi, you will need more than those ninja. Not to mention while Shikaku is a brilliant advisor and strategist, whilst Jiraiya is a powerful shinobi but he is foolish and childish, but I have more experience. I was an advisor for your sensei for many decades."
Tsunade growled slightly, she knew what he was doing. It was obvious he didn't want to come for her protection, no doubt he had a different agenda. But he played his cards perfectly, she knew she had to take him, or there would be annoying backlash from the elders and the civilians.
"…. Fine"
Danzo's small yet noticeable smirk reminded Tsunade of Orochimaru, whatever was going to happen she knew one thing, she had a bad feeling about this.
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"Finally we're home!" Raido said happily as they slowly approached the large iron gates of Kumogakure. Whatever tension the group seemed to still have went away as the trio saw their home, like people say, there's no place like home.
The trio approached the gatehouse that held the two guards Shisen and Nokugiri, both men were asleep.
"Oi wake up!"
The two men jerked and fell out of their chairs "H-Hey! Who said tha-! Oh hello Raido-sama," Shisen said with an embarrassed smile.
Raido grinned "how are Kumo's eternal gate guards doing?"
Beside Shisen, Nokugiri sighed "I swear, you accidentally lose track of your fathers next shipment of protein shakes and bars and your punishment is guard duty until he says stop, now its turned into eternal guard duty!" the two had anime tears running down their eyes "he's probably still laughing at us, watching as we do nothing but sit in those damn chairs doing nothing!"
Raido shook his head "yeah I bet that sucks, maybe dad just forgot?"
Shisen looked at Nokugiri "Do you think that's why?" he asked shocked.
Raido and his comrades left the eternal gate guards bickering if the Raikage was still punishing them or had simply forgotten that they were still guarding the gates under his orders.
Raido and the others let out tired but happy smiles as they saw their home for the first time in several weeks. Kumogakure was quite simply, amazing. There were few buildings, instead many of the residents of Kumogakure had carved their homes and shops into the very mountains themselves. Everywhere you could see, were countless mountains, if you looked at the village from the outside, you couldn't even see the village or even most of the mountains, they were obstructed by clouds, hence the name. The only visible part was the mountain tips.
And in the middle of the village was the Raikage's tower. An entire mountain itself, it was a large blue dome with the Kanji for lightning at the top.
As the trio headed towards the tower many civilians and shinobi bowed as Raido, C, and Darui walked passed them. Raido sighed "do they always have to do that?" he asked Darui.
His sensei merely shrugged "you are the son of our Raikage Raido, not to mention you have gained the respect of many for your bravery, strength, and your loyalty to your comrades. Many people look up to you, maybe even a role model."
Raido scratched the back of his head in embarrassment, he didn't really think he was a role model, despite the fact many people do see him as this. He was strong, brave, was incredibly loyal to his comrades and wasn't afraid to risk his life for others.
The group soon headed up the tower until they were in the lobby of the Raikage's office. Sitting at the desk, working as diligently as ever was his fathers assistant Mabui.
"Ohayo Mabui!" Raido greeted with his normal smile.
"Hello Raido-sama," Mabui greeted formally still not looking up from her work.
Raido sweat dropped "oi oi I told you not to call me that," he grumbled out.
A small smile appeared on Mabui's face as she looked up from her work "I don't understand what you mean Raido-sama, you are the son of A-sama, Raido-sama. Not to mention Killer Bee-sama's nephew Raido-sama."
Raido's eye twitched "ok now I know you did that on purpose," a small sly grin appeared on Raido's face "and since when you call uncle Killer Bee-sama, I remember you calling him Bee-kun when you guys went out to that little shop a couple weeks ago, right before you guys started making out in an ally," he said wriggling his eyebrows.
Mabui often prided herself on her ability to take any situation was calmness, but that seemed to have been thrown out the window as her entire face turned red "W-What, wait a minute how did you find out about that?" she then glared at the grinning boy with a piercing glare that made the boy gulp "you followed us didn't you!" she accused the boy.
"Uhmm... no?"
Mabui gained a small smirk "You know maybe I should go find Bee-kun and ask him to tell Yugito all your embarrassing stories when you were a child, I bet she'd love to hear those, especially when those rhymes are in such great detail."
Raido looked at her in horror "Y-You wouldn't!"
"Try me."
Raido seemed to deflate "ok ok."
Darui and C watched this going on in amusement, this always happened between the two, Raido and Mabui would always tease each other with some sort of black mail, Mabui was usually the winner. It had been going on ever since Raido was a kid and he came to the tower after school to see his dad, if his dad was in a meeting he would just talk with Mabui if she had done her work. It was one of the few times you would see Mabui joking and teasing and well actually showing emotion, unless of course you were a certain dark-skinned rapper..
"Bye Oba-chan (Auntie)," Raido said with a grin as he walked towards his fathers office and missed the annoyed look on Mabui's face, a rare thing to see.
Darui knocked on the Raikage's door when they heard A say "enter," they all entered the office.
A's face immediately brightened when he saw his son and friends come without any injuries, "I take it your mission was a success?" he then turned towards Mabui who had appeared after Raido's team "get my brother and Yugito." she nodded her head before sending orders to find the two Jinchuuriki.
Raido nodded "Hai father, we met up with a border patrol of Suna ninja who told us where they had taken Lord Kazekage, from there we met up with two squads of Konoha ninja, one of them containing the kyuubi's Jinchuuriki."
A's face narrowed his eyes in thought "describe the boy, what were his skill levels and his control of his bjuu?" He was a leader and to know a different Jinchuuriki's skill level and control of their beast was something everyone would want to know, especially if the Jinchuuriki was the container for the nine tails.
"I did not get much of a chance to see his skill level or control, from what I have seen the boy is quite brash and quite a little idiotic. I had to stop him from attacking the two Akatsuki members on his own," Raido said.
Darui stepped forward "I along with C went with Naruto and Hatake Kakashi after the member Deidara, from what I've seen the boy does have a great skill in ninjutsu. Being able to create many shadow clones, though I assume this is due to his chakra levels. Like Raido said the boy is quite hot-headed and would try to enter the fight with no plan or strategy. And as for the boy's control, from what I could see. He has absolutely no control of his host's chakra."
A raised an eyebrow "you mean to tell me that Konoha hasn't even tried to have the boy gain control of his bjuu's chakra?" he asked in shock of why they wouldn't try and have the boy have full control, then they'd have the entire power of the nine-tails at their calling.
"I assume that they have tried, judging that Kakashi-san had a specially made seal that cuts of a Jinchuuriki's link to his bjuu stopping the beast from influencing him," C said.
"The boy completely lost it when he realized the Kazekage was dead, he went into a three-tailed chakra cloak and probably would have gone into a fourth had his sensei not interfered." Darui said.
A nodded his head "hmm no doubt that the Nibi and Hachibi were telling the truth on the hatred and power of the Kyuubi's chakra and the Kyuubi itself," he said thinking back Bee and Yugito told him what their bjuu had said about their more powerful kin.
Raido continued his story of his battle against Sasori, Darui and C told A what happened during their brief skirmish with Deidara before the man blew himself up.
"I see… Well at least now we have a confirmed member of the Akatsuki dead and not to worry about, though I do have a suspicion that Deidara survived." A said.
The door opened to reveal Bee and Yugito, Yugito looked like she wanted nothing more to hug the life out of Raido but she knew she had to be professional during the debriefing. A told them what had happened during the mission. Both were happy that a member was gone for good. Mabui also entered the room before standing by his father's side as an assistant would do.
Yugito noticed Raido looking at her in concealed worry and fear, if she hadn't known him so well she wouldn't have been able to see it "what's wrong Raido-kun?"
"…There's more. When Sasori was dying he told me he was going to give me a reward for defeating him. He told me of two Akatsuki members… the ones assigned to capture Yugito-chan."
Everyone tensed at this, Yugito looked at her lover in shock "what did he say?" she asked wanting to know who it was who was to capture him.
Raido closed his eyes "his exact words were 'The one you love is the Nibi Jinchuuriki, correct?" he looked at Yugito "Its an odd thing, a Jinchuuriki with someone who loves them… I guess you should know… about the two men assigned to capture her," he shook his head as he thought of Sasori's last words to him.
"Who are they Raido?" A asked his son.
"If your girlfriend fights them alone, no matter how good she is, she will fail." "I then started asking who they were, he just said 'Hidan and Kakazu, don't underestimate them. They can't die."
Everyone looked alarmed at this, "… Did Sasori say anything else?"
Raido shook his head "no… no he didn't say anything else."
Yugito walked over to the young man, she grasped his hand in hers "don't worry Raido-kun.."
Raido held her hand tightly. A turned his head sharply toward Mabui "go to our archives, find everything on these two Akatsuki members," he barked out. Mabui nodded her head before quickly leaving to find any important information on the two.
A sighed "Very well, from now on Yugito, Bee. You are not allowed to leave this village unless with others, Raido has to be with you. Bee this is serious don't try and escape I don't want to lose you."
Bee nodded his head "don't worry bro I know when to act smart, I understand the facts, don't worry the Killer Bee knows when to have some tact."
A sighed slightly at his brothers rap while Raido and Yugito smiled, the tension faded. "Alright you guys get out of here," the group nodded, all rather eager to just relax.
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Yugito was watching Raido out of the corner of her eye as he walked besides her as they entered one of their favorite training areas, he was joking around with her but she could easily see that Sasori's last words were still on his mind.
They were on her mind too, after all what would you do when you find out that the two assigned to capture and rip Nibi out of her apparently can't die and no matter how good she was she'd still fail. Not exactly comforting words.
"Don't worry Kitten, we won't get caught so easily, especially with that amazing hunk of a ninja always with you," Nibi said from within the seal.
Yugito sighed 'oh joy and just when I thought things wouldn't get even more annoying,' she replied back to the two-tailed bjuu.
Yugito received an image of a hurt Nibi "Aw kitten, don't be so mean! I'm just saying you totally scored with Raido, I mean come on. He's smart, handsome, incredibly strong, has a need to protect his friends, he is completely over-protective of you in a cute way, and not to mention he is amazing in bed-"
'NIBI!' Yugito screamed in her head, her face instantly turning bright red.
Nibi started laughing "Whaaat? We both know its true, like when he does that thing with-"
"Shut up, shut up, shut up, shut up, shut up, SHUT UP!' Yugito yelled in her mind. 'Gah this is even worse than back when we just became Chunin and you kept telling me to jump Raido-kun when we went on our first solo mission together!'
"Hey come one, he like'd you, you like'd him. I was just trying to help giving you a little nudge."
'Telling me to pretty much rape my best friend is not a little nudge!'
"I never said rape, I just told you to push him to the ground and start making out with him, which will of course lead to… things, so I never said that… Okay I may have suggested it a little bit but come on, you guys need some action!" Nibi reasoned.
'We were 13! Thats way to young for such things, gah why couldn't I have Gyūki sealed inside me,' Yugito complained as she said the Hachibi's real name.
"But my brother is such a bore! He's always so serious, I get bored just when I talk to him, imagine having him inside your head all the time. Always telling you to be cautious and wary, booooring." Nibi said with a grin.
Yugito was about to respond when a hand waved in from of her face, blinking she realized that it was Raido who was looking at her with a small grin "Matatabi teasing you again?" he asked with a small chuckle as he said Nibi's real name. He was one of the few people who actually knew of the two bjuu's real names, Matatabi had actually told Raido herself during one of the times he had gone into Yugito's minds cape to talk to the perverted cat.
Yugito blush returned "she's being annoying again," she said while Matatabi just said "You know you love me."
Raido laughed "I don't get it, you and her have the best team work, its as good as uncle and Gyūki's yet outside of fights or training you guys always bicker or tease each other," he shook his head in confusion "I'll never understand women."
Yugito ignored her bjuu's comment of "aww why don't you go and help him understand, by making out!" "you try having a perverted cat telling you to jump you whenever we're with each other."
Raido grinned and wrapped his arm around Yugito's smaller frame, "I don't see anything wrong with that," he whispered in her ear as Yugito smiled and looked at her boyfriend with a warm smile "no, no I guess thats not so bad," they both leaned their heads forward. Before their lips could touch they both heard a familiar voice.
"You guys can't do that in public!" a familiar yell came from across the training field making Raido and Yugito jump at the noise. They looked towards where the sound had come from and saw three people enter the area and headed towards them.
The person who had yelled was walking in front of her two companions, she was beautiful with fiery red hair and piercing gold eyes with dark-skin like Raido. Beside her was a gorgeous woman that would make even the greatest closet pervert die from blood lose if they saw her. She was fair-skinned and had short golden blonde hair that framed her heart-shaped face, what would certainly make men like Jiraiya of the Sanin have a nose bleed were her large breasts that probably only match the Hokage. Bright blue eyes that held a certain coolness to them were inspecting the clearing for any dangers. The one male was dark-skinned like the red head, he had spiky white hair, large brown eyes that always seemed to look thoughtful and a lollipop was in his mouth as always.
The blonde girl sighed "Karui," she drawled towards her female team mate "must you yell, they are a couple and kissing is a normal thing for couples, its not cool to interrupt something."
Karui glared at the blonde, with her finger pointing accusingly at the beautiful blonde "Shut up Samui! You were the one who suggested we find Raido so we can find out what happened with his fight with Akatsuki!"
The male slowly backed away from his two female team mates and decided to go besides Raido incase a fight broke out where he could easily hide behind the larger and muscular teen, all the while muttering "ah man ah man, Karui's angry and that'll make Samui annoyed. What if Karui attacks her and Samui has to defend herself, then since I'm their team mate I'll have to break it up. But then I'll probably be killed trying to stop them, I don't want to die!"
Raido laughed "still as cautious as ever Omoi," he said with a grin as he looked at his friend.
Yugito sighed as she saw Karui angrily arguing with Samui while Samui would calmly state something that only angered the red-head even more. "Enough, come on guys can't you go one day without arguing?"
This seemed to bring everyone's attention back, with a small blush of embarrassment Karui stepped away from the slightly annoyed Samui she then turned her attention towards Raido. "Well?" she asked the teen.
Raido raised an eyebrow "What?"
"Aren't you going to tell us your fight with Akatsuki!" Karui yelled at the boy, Samui sighed "while I find it annoying I have to agree, its not cool to not tell your friends about your fight against the people who want to kill Yugito and Bee-sensei."
Omoi suddenly had a horrified look on his face, "Oh man, guys… What if that isn't Raido," everyone turned towards him in confusion "what if an Akatsuki member has the ability to gain the look and chakra signature as his victim, what if Raido's really dead and this guy is an Akatsuki member sent to spy on the village and will slowly wrest control of the village from A-sama before sending Yugito and Bee-sensei on a solo mission where they'll both find themselves surrounded by Akatsuki members. Despite their efforts there are too many of them and they are captured and killed before the leader of the Akatsuki kills everyone he sees and no one can stop him. It'll be all our fault because we had a chance to defeat him before any of that happened."
Everyone save Samui had a large sweat drop. Even then Samui's eye twitched slightly in annoyance. "Omoi…." Karui muttered before punching the overcautious boy in the face "that is the stupidest thing i've ever heard coming from you, and trust me i've heard really stupid things from you."
Raido chuckled as he saw Omoi picking himself up from the ground "Don't worry Omoi I'm not an undercover Akatsuki member."
Yugito merely sighed, these things always seemed to happen to her, "Omoi I think I would notice if it wasn't Raido-kun and was an imposter, Nibi and I could easily tell the difference between Raido-kun's chakra signature and a fake."
"Guys what if Yugito is an imposter and- Omph!" Karui merely whacked the boy on the top of the head.
"Okay before Omoi goes off on another one of his rambles I guess I should tell you what happened," Raido said quickly as he didn't want Omoi to continue to ramble and get punched by Karui, that girl had an arm, he wondered why he hadn't gotten a concussion yet.
This gained Team Samui's attention, for the next hour Raido told the trio on what happened. At the end of it Omoi looked at the boy in shock "Damn you fought against Sasori of the Red Sand and won?"
Samui looked at the boy with an annoyed look "of course he won, he's been taught by Darui-sempai along with A-sama, to think he didn't stand a chance against an S-Rank ninja is not cool."
Karui looked impressed "still to defeat such a powerful enemy, Hah! Those Akatsuki bastards have no chance!" she said happily.
"Those bastards never had a chance Karui," Raido said with a grin where everyone agreed.
"Still it'd be nice to go on a mission with you two, its not cool to be stuck trying to stop your team mates from bickering everyday," Samui said with a small sigh.
Karui looked at the busty blonde with a hurt look in her eye "Samui! Its not my fault Omoi-baka keeps doing his stupid rambles!"
Omoi just got out another lollipop from his pocket, he handed two to Yugito and Raido who put them in their mouths as they watched Karui fight again with Samui, while Samui stayed storic and only pointed out reasonable facts cooly, which just made Karui madder.
Raido wondered how his uncle had managed to make a team out of the trio as each had such different personalities, but he knew his uncle was capable of the impossible.
Raido and Yugito said their goodbye's to Team Samui and started to head back towards the village. Now that there was nothing left to distract him, Raido kept sneaking glances at Yugito, Sasori's last words ringing in his head.
Yugito stopped abruptly, Raido stopped and looked at the blonde in confusion, "stop it,' Yugito said crossly.
At Raido's confused look she continued on "stop worrying about me! I'm not going to be taken, I won't let them."
"I know but still… I'm still worried."
"Raido look at me," Raido slowly looked into Yugito's beautiful eyes "I'm not going to die, Raido-kun you keep thinking that is has to be you who has to fight Akatsuki, your forgetting about me and Bee, we're going to help, we not only want to save ourselves but the people around us who are willing to give their lives for us… I'm not some weak little girl, I'm a kunoichi of Kumogakure and a Jinchuuriki."
Raido sighed "I know but," Yugito hugged him tightly which he returned, his head resting on top of hers, "but I'm scared," he whispered, he never said he was scared of anything but he was scared to lose Yugito "I don't want to lose you, if I messed up or I wasn't fast enough and you were taken I'd…" he chocked back a small sob "I don't know what i'd ever do, i'd never forgive myself."
"But you won't lose me! I'll never let them take me from you, I'll fight with everything I have, i'm not a fangirl Raido I can take care of myself, just stop worrying, Uncle won't let me or Bee outside of the village without protection. Remember back when we were Genin, and we ran into that rouge jonin and how alone we probably wouldn't have stood a chance, remember how good we worked together that we managed to kill him before he could kill us? Our teamwork is one of the best in Kumo, no one, not even Akatsuki can beat us if we're together."
Raido smiled "you always do know the right thing to say to calm me down," he said with a small smile.
Yugito smiled back "of course, I've always been with you since we were pretty much toddlers, Bee pretty much adopted me when my parents died, and let me tell you, living with you and your family where you decide its easier to just break through a wall instead of using a door you learn how to calm people down pretty fast."
Raido laughed "I guess thats true."
Yugito kissed Raido softly, she then grabbed Raido's hand and started to drag him, "come on Raido-kun lets get some training in."
Raido chuckled and allowed himself to be dragged by the Nibi Jinchūriki, all of his worries gone.
Over head a messenger hawk flew towards the Raikage tower, a scroll in a pouch on it's back with the symbol of Konoha.
