Chapter 6: The Kages Departure
Konohagakure gates
Many people where gathered to see Naruto off. Naruto was wearing his Kage outfit, and had a huge sealing scroll on his back. Except from the small details, like the kanji on his back for «Oil», and his orange tshirt, he was a spitting image of the Yondaime.
Hatake Kakashi and Nara Shikaku, his personal bodyguards was wearing the white travel robes, and it was a good choice, as it seemed that it was going to rain in the near future. Also, the Iron Country was a very cold place, so if they didnt have enough clothes to wear, they wold most be in no condition to fight if anything happened before they reached their destination.
Out of the people gathered in the crowd, were the council members, the Konoha 11 with their senseis, and a whole lot of civilians. The villagers where calling him to do his best, and that they believed in him. The Konoha 11 was smilling, wishing him to have a safe trip and to come back safely.
Hinata: «Come back alive Naruto! If you dont, I will personally find a way to raise you from the dead just so I can beat you up!»
Naruto let out a nervous laugh.
Naruto: «D-Dont worry Hinata, I promiss to come back safe and sound...»
After receiving alot of «Good luck's» and «Do your best!'s», Naruto kissed his girlfriend and took off with Kakashi and Shikaku.
Sunagakure gates
It was basicly the same scene you found in Suna. Gaara was dressed in his Kage robes and hat, and his village had gathered at the gates to see him off. He had chosen his siblings, Sabaku no Kankuro and Temari as his bodyguards.
The villagers were telling his siblings to take good care of their Kazekage, and that they needed to be careful on their journey. A few of the village children ran up to him and asked if he would be gone for a long time. At this sight, Kankuro and Temari smiled over how much Gaara had changed, when Gaara knelt down to the children and told them that he would only be gone for a few days, so they didnt need to worry for him.
After receiving a hug from his new girlfriend, his former student, Matsuri, he took off into the desert with some siblings.
«Naruto... Im looking forward to see you now that you have achieved your dream...» Gaara thought as they got further and further away from their home.
Iwagakure
In the hidden Rock village, the villagers had gathered to see their Tsuchikage, Oonoki, off. There where alot of shouts, telling their Kage to show the other Kages what he got, and telling his bodyguards, Kurozuchi and Akazuchi, a dark haired kunoichi with pupil-less pink eyes, and a large man with dark eyes and hair that spikes out at the back from underneath his forehead-protector which he wore like a bandanna, to take good care of him.
Oonoki: «Tssh.. Its a pain going to a meeting at my age...You youngsters dont know what its like when ur hips is like a virtual timebomb!»
Kurozuchi: «How about retiring than, gramps? You cant rely on your former glory forever...»
Akazuchi knew it was gonna be a long journey, so he suggested that he could carry their Kages luggage for him, as Kuruzuchi was a huge man who would have no problems with carrying a few extra bags.
Oonoki: «Dont touch, Akazuchi, I dont need your help!»
After that, it turned into a comical scene, where the Tsuchikage tried to put on his backback, which immediatly gave him pains in his back and hips, followed by Akazuchi picking Ooniki up and placing him on his back, before they departed with their Kage having an embarressed look on his face.
Kirigakure, village centre
Outside their Hokage building, the council and whole lot of ninjas where gathered to see their new Mizukage off. The village elder was handing over the Kage hat to their Kage, Mei Terumi.
Mei Terumi was wearing a blue ninja-dress with fishnet stockings, and her long hair falling down her back. She was a real sight for any male, and if Jiraya was still alive, he would have fainted from having a massive nosebleed due to her gorgeous looks.
Random Kiri ninja: «Take care of the Mizukage, and make sure that nothing goes wrong.»
«I know», One of her bodyguards, Ao, a man with short hair, standard Kiri ninja robe and an eyepatch topped with some seal-tags hanging from his ears answered.
Mei: «Sir, I swear on my name as Mizukage, that I will fulfill my duty.»
That followed by the village elder adressing a young ninja called Chojiro, a man with googles, ear-protectors, and a Kiri-styled sweater topped with his forehead-protector on his chest, to protect the Mizukage, as it was his duty as one of the Seven Swordsmen of the Mist.
Chojiro: «I... I think I... will do fine... probably..»
Chojiro was a very shy person, without much confidence in his abilities. But he was one of the seven Swordsmen, a title the ensured his descent kenjutsu capabilities, so he sure was a strong ninja. He just needed to believe in himself.
His elder ninja, Ao, never took any likes of Chojiro's shy and unconfident behavior, so when he tried to give some rude marks about him beeing to pampered, as the Mizukage ensured Chojiros abilities were more than satisfying, and he got mis-interputated from the Mizukage as saying «You need a man» to her, he quickly got shut up when Mei leaned onto him and whispered in his ear:
«Shut up, or I'll kill you.»
So the group took off to the Iron country, Mei as allways smiling her beatiful smiling her beatiful smile, Chojiro looking abit more confident after his Mizukages comforting words, and Ao. Looking pale white and with an expression that looks more like a person who just shit himself.
Kumogakure, Raikage's office
In the office, was only the Raikages secretary. She was banging her head against the desk, as she needed to replace the window that the Raikage broke on his departure by jumping through it. Again. The Raikage sure was giving him a headache.
She didnt even get to say goodbye to him, as he had taken off once he got the news that the other Kages had agreed to attend to his summit, and his bodyguards, Darui and C, had to just run after him immediatly to have any chance of catching up to him. The Raikage was really serious about this.
He wanted revenge for his brother.
Fire country, forest.
Naruto was currently walking steadily through the forest with his bodyguards at his sides. They had been walking for a couple of hours at a slow pace, as they still had alot of time untill the Kage summit, when Kakashi got a worried look on his face.
Kakashi: «Naruto...»
Naruto: «Dont worry, I have sensed them a long time ago. Let me deal with this, there is something i want to try out.»
Kakashi: «Very well Hokage-sama, if you insist. I will only interfere if you find it necessary than.»
Shikaku: «I finally get a chance to see you fight from up close, I have no problems with this.»
Naruto than activated his Rinnegan, and instead of reaching for his special Kunai as he used to, he instead just stood still and waited for their enemies to reveal them selves.
Suddenly they where surrounded by around 30 ninjas wearing some kind of Demon masks. As they were about to jump against them, a series of yellow flashes appeared all around them, and they all fell to the ground, unconsious.
Kakashi: «You did the Hirashin without the kunai? How the hell is that possible?
Naruto: «Well, the kunai has allways been just some kind of guiding to tell me where I will appear, as to consentrate on where to go at that speed is impossible for a normal human brain. However, with the Rinnegan, I can slow time within my mind, and pinpoint exactly where I want to appear once I enter the space-rift. This makes me able to use the Hirashin just as with the kunai, however without needing to actually use them. This will give me a major advantage in battles in the future.»
Kakashi: «Yea...I can see that...» He said, as he sweatdropped..
Naruto: «Kakashi, summon two of your nin-dogs, send one of them towards Konoha to inform the Anbu what has occured here, so they can collect the attackers to interrogate them, and leave one here to stand guard in case they wake up. I hardly think they will though, as I stuck senbons in one of the chakra-pathways on everyone of them that controls their sleep centre. But I dont like to take any chances.»
Kakashi complied by summonin his personal summon, a pug called Pakkun, and a huge white pitbull that was to stand guard to their attackers.
Then they continued their trip towards the Iron country.
Same time, Fire-country border.
Uchiha Sasuke and his team Taka; Suigetsu Hōzuki a water ninja freed from captive from Orochimaru, Karin, one of Orochimarus former lab-technicians, and Juugo, the very man the cursed seal had come from, were leaping through the trees towards Konoha. Sasuke was to attack the village to kill their Hokage and village elders to avenge the loss of his brother and clan.
They had been going at a high pace for a while, when suddenly, Uchiha Madara appeared in front of him.
Suigetsu: «Oh shit! Bad timing»
Sasuke: «How did you know where I was?»
Madara: «Dont underestimate me. Its within my powers.»
Sasuke: «What do you want with me now? Taka is no longer part of Akatsuki, we have no further use for you.»
Madara: «I said I would kill you if you betrayed Akatsuki, and you broke your promiss to me.»
Sasuke: «What are you talking about?»
Madara: «The eight-taled beast.»
Karin: «But we found the eight tailed beast and brought him to you!»
Madara than explained how they had been fooled by Killer Bee, the Jinchuuriki of the Hachini, by him replasing himself by a beast-clone made from one of the tails of his inner beast to escape them.
However Madara didnt care about his messup anymore, as he had a new order for him. To go attack the Kage Summit.
Sasuke: «Why would I want to go there?»
Madara: «The new Hokage, your former Naruto is there. Dont you want a chance to test your abilities? He is currently stronger than you Sasuke, thats the only way he could have defeated Pain so utterly (And caused Pain to turn his back on me..). Only by fighting him will you be able to develope the next level of the Mangekyo Sharingan: The Susanoo.»
Sasuke, beeing obsessed with power, didnt let this chance go by, as he would need as much power as possible to crush the leaf utterly and exact his revenge on Konoha.
Also, he saw this as a chance to finish what he started 3 years ago, and kill Naruto.
So they changed course, and took off to the Iron country.
CUT!
Another chapter done, Im sorry if you think this was a little boring, but it needed to be done in order to set up for the Kage summit. I had a hard time figuring out how I would integrate the parts that isnt cannon in this chapter, and I hope I managed to do it in a satisfactory way.
Anyways, hope you liked it. Please review
