Chapter 7:

Naruto was reading in silent, looking over the pages of Icha Icha Paradise. He had to admit, although he hadn't found any jutsu yet, the book was interesting. He blinked, shaking his head vigorously. 'Kakashi and Jiriaya really have left their mark on me.' he thought. He kept reading, searching for any hidden jutsu. He then looked at two 'e's near each other. "Hmm?" he muttered softly. One was slightly, just barely larger than the other. He excitedly flipped through some more pages, seeing more and more letters larger than others. He grinned. 'It may take a while, but I'm going to find out the jutsu in here!" he said. He then started reading more vigorously than even before.

---With Kakashi---

Kakashi was making a few last minute adjustments when he heard a knock on the door. "Come in." he said. Sakura, Shikamaru, Kiba, Ino, Gai, and Anko stepped into the room. Anko licked a kunai, smiling.

"What's this about an SS ranked mission?" she asked, staring at Kakashi. Kakashi sighed.

"You all know Naruto is the new Hokage, I presume?" he said. The chunin nodded, but the adults froze.

"Yosh! Naruto truely has youth and love burning in him!" Gai cried out. Anko shrugged.

"Never thought that brat would be good for much." she said coolly. Kakashi nodded.

"He has been kidnapped by Akatsuki, and so I need all of you." he said. All of them except Sakura and Ino's jaws dropped. Then, Kiba started shaking his head.

"Ok...so we have to go and get Naruto, who has been captured by the Akatsuki, who managed to beat up our village with one member!" Kiba yelled. Kakashi nodded.

"That's the idea." he said. Kiba groaned. "Alright, now get all of your equipment together, as it might be a long trip." Kakashi said. The shinobi simultaniously nodded, and went to their houses.

---With Hinata---

Hinata was looking at a picture of Naruto, sobbing away inside of the Hyuuga manor. Many Hyuugas attempted to comfort her, but they all walked away with at least 32 tenkutsu sealed away. "Lady Hinata? You have a visitor." a branch member said quietly. She sniffed.

"Send him in, please." she said. Kiba stepped in, looking around the room. Hinata glared up at him.

"If you're here to ask me out again, the answer is no." she said coldly. Kiba shook his head.

"Pack your things. You're coming on a mission." he said. Hinata snarled.

"Why should I!" she yelled, tears still on her face.

"It's to rescue Naruto, Hinata." Kiba said gently. Hinata blinked.

"He's alive?" she breathed. Kiba nodded.

"For now. It's an SS ranked mission, so we need all the help we can get...and that includes you, Hinata-chan." he said, smiling with badly disguised sadness. Hinata swallowed, then nodded.

"A-alright. I'll get packed." she said softly. Kiba nodded, then walked out. Hinata stood up, then grabbed some bandages, medicine, soldier pills, and a few extra weapons. Then, she saw a medicinal cream jar in the corner, the kind she made. She hesitated, then grabbed it. Better safe than sorry.

---Later, when all Ninjas had packed---

The shinobi were standing, waiting, when Kakashi showed up. Sakura smiled. "Only two minutes late, that's a new record, Kakashi." she said sarcastically. Kakashi ignored her, walking in front of the aligned shinobi, Then, he turned to Hinata, startled.

"When did you get here?" he said in surprise. Hinata smiled.

"Well, about twenty minutes before you did." she said 's showing eye narrowed.

"Well, let's get started." he said, walking out to the village gate. The others followed him silently, being unnoticed by the villagers. Kiba was riding on Akamaru.

"One of you want a ride?" he said, but in a friendly way, not a flirting one. The girls exchanged glances, then shook their heads. Kiba groaned inwardly. "Naruto manages to get three girls that lke him, and I can barely be friends with them." he muttered. The kunoichi giggled slightly.

---Many days later, with the group of ninjas---

Anko was walking behind Kakashi wearilly. She reached her arms out onto his back, collapsed on him, and fell asleep. Kakashi looked back at her, bemused, but kept walking.

"Yosh! What a youthful way of training by adding extra weight while walking! Ah, my eternal rival-" Gai started.

Anko put a kunai to his neck. "Don't finish that sentence." Gai backed away, swallowing. Shikamaru sighed.

"How troublesome." he said. Ino looked at him, grinning.

"You're just depressed because Temari isn't here, Shikamaru." she said teasingly. Shikamaru blushed, then turned away. Ino smirked. "I knew it. You miss her long blonde hair, her intelligence,her annoying way of talking-"

"Shut up, Ino." Shikamaru said, turning to look at the clouds. "She in a Suna shinobi, and a useful companion, and nothing more." he said. Ino grinned behind his back. Kakashi pointed in the distance.

"Look. It's the Akatsuki hideout." he said dully. Kiba grinned.

"Alright! Let's go in there and kick some ass!" he crowed. Kakashi looked at him.

"And weren't you the one that was afraid of going on this mission?" he said. Kiba's pride seemed to deflate a bit.

---With Naruto---

Naruto was hungry and irritable, but a small bit of happiness was still there. He smiled. 'Those new jutsu are awesome! Too bad I can't test them.' he thought. Then, he heard a small click, and a voice yell,

"Yo! Naruto!" a voice called out. Naruto swallowed.

'That sounds like Kiba..." he thought. Then, a mask appeared in front of him, and he yelped. The man put a hand over his mouth.

"Tobi was a good boy, so he didn't rat you out!" he said cheerfully. Naruto sweatdropped. Who was that weirdo?

Then, Tobi took off his mask. "Ah, Kyubi-san. How nice to see you." he said, sharingan blazing. Naruto swallowed, and they entered his mindscape.

---Naruto's mindscape---

The fox was coldly staring at Naruto, his seal seeming to be half peeled away. The kyubi snarled. "Why the hell are you here, imbicile?" the fox said. Then, Madara stepped up, looking into the kitsune's eyes. The Kyubi swallowed, then screamed,

"You!" Madara smiled.

"Yes, me." he said coolly, looking into the Kyubi's eyes. Naruto turned to look at Madara.

"Who are you?" he said. Madara smiled.

"The only one the Kyubi feared-Madara Uchiha, master of the Eternal Mangekyou sharingan." he said, a dark tone to his voice. Naruto laughed.

"Wow...you''re scared off a human, fox!" Naruto laughed.

"That man is immortal, you moron!" the Kyubi snarled. Naruto swallowed.

"What?" Naruto said. He turned to Madara. "And I have to face you...crap..." he said. Madara shrugged.

"Well, I'm looking for a painless way to remove it, so you might not have to die. I don't want to waste such an interesting life." Madara said coolly. He smiled. "Now, shouldn't we go back to the real world?"

---Real World---

Naruto snapped into consciousness, panting. Tobi...no, Madara, was gone. He groaned, then looked out of a hole in the wall.

He gasped. Kakashi was facing Zetsu, Gai with Kiba and Shikamaru were facing Kisame, and Ino and Sakura were facing Konan. Anko was barely holding off Pain with Hinata, and Pain seemed to not even be trying. He groaned, then used a rasengan of the wall, breaking it. He stumbled out of the dust wearily, then ran towards the battle. Kakashi was the first to notice him, and he hurriedly parried a kunai from Zetsu. Naruto ran up, throwing some shadow clones at Zetsu, which strapped onto him. Zetsu looked alarmed, then frowned. "What the hell are you doing boy?" he hissed, chucking the clones off of himself. Pain noticed that quickly.

"Shinra Tensei." he said coldly, hitting the real Naruto. Then, the 'real' Narut exploded in smoke. Pain blinked, and Naruto quickly slammed a rasengan into him. Naruto smiled.

"Got past the five second interval." he said, smiling.

"Bansho Tenin." Pain replied, dragging Naruto towards him and stabbing him with a chakra disruption blade. He leaned in towards Naruto. "Last time, you were lucky. Now, I'm going to flay you to withing an inch of your life. Naruto grinned, then kicked him away and activated sage mode.

"Hinata! Anko! Help the others!" Naruto yelled, his eyes outlined in crimson. The two kunoichi nodded, then leapt towards the others.

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"Raikiri!" Kakashi yelled, stabbing Zetsu. Zetsu chuckled.

"Nice Try, but we are entirely different entitys. To kill me, you must first kill me. And to kill me, you must first kill me." Kakashi swallowed, then smiled.

"Raikiri Mori."(Lightning Blade Lance, I think. I got it from some crappy japanese to english dictionary) he said as Zetsu leapt out of the reach of his Raikiri. Blades of electricity shot at Zetsu quickly, and he grimaced, landing on a wall. He then went into the wall, waiting for Kakashi to lose where he was. Kakashi didn't. He ran at Zetsu and stabbed him with two Raikiris.

"Damn." Zetsu said, falling on the ground, dead.

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"How unyouthful to fight!"

"Shut up, you gay spandex wearer!"

The two shinobi were clashing furiously. "Water shark missile!" Kisame growled, firing a blast of water at Gai, who shrugged it off.

"Oh, I guess my youth destroyed your jutsu!" Gai proclaimed.

"Or your gayness." Kisame muttered. Then, Gai opened another gate, making it two open. Kisame grinned. "Now, you're going to put up a proper fight."

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Sakura growled. Konan smiled. "There is no need for violence. Soon, god shall make peace." she said softly. Ino snarled.

"More like Pain will make fear!" she snapped.

"What is the difference?" Konan said softly. Then, she exploded into paper again. Sakura smiled.

"How about paper against paper?" she said, throwing some kunai with exploding tags into the air. Konan flew away instantly, and Ino pinned down one piece of her with a kunai.

"One down." she said. "And a million more to go." she continued.

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Pain was holding down Naruto, showing no pity in his violet eyes. Naruto smiled, then nodded his head forward violently. Pain's eyes widened, and he was hit with a frog kata blast. Naruto then was thrown back with yet another Shinra Tensei.

"You are weak, jinchuriki. You have no idea was pain is. The cause of your six-tailed transformation is alive, and so are the rest of your friends. You cannot comprehend pain." Pain said coldly.

---In Naruto's mind---

'He's right...' Naruto thought sadly. Then, a hand from behind the cage reached toward him.

"Join me...activate all of my tails, and destroy the Akatsuki" the fox said. Naruto growled, then nodded, extending a hand.

Then, it was blocked. Naruto turned to see who did that, then looked in awe at Minato's spirit. Minato looked at Naruto.

"You sure have grown, son." he said. Naruto stared at him in awe, then started blabbering.

"You-yo-you-you're alive!" Naruto exclaimed. Minato shook his head.

"No, in my seal, I made it so if you ever went eight tails or higher, my spirit would appear." he said. The fox chuckled.

"Ah, Minato Namikaze. Perhaps the only mortal I ever had even a tiny bit of respect for." he said. Minato nodded.

"It's good to see you too, Kyubi-sama." he said coolly. Then, his hand glowed. Naruto looked at him.

"Dad? What are you doing?" Naruto questioned. Minato smiled.

"Fixing the seal. Hopefully, it will last another twelve years, at least." he said coolly. Naruto gaped.

"But dad! I've never seen you before! Can't we at least talk?" he pleaded. Minato sighed, then nodded, deactivating the seal forming on his hand. He sat down.

"Well? What do you want to talk about?" he said. Naruto grinned.

"Well, first, my Rasenshuriken. I did it! I completed your jutsu, dad!" Naruto blurted. Minato smiled, ruffling Naruto's hair.

"You sure did. And you inherited my fashion sense, I see." Naruto smiled, then his grin widened.

"And my mom! And ero-sennin! And grandma Tsunade! How are they?" he asked. Minato sighed with regret.

"I really wish I could say they are fine, and stuff, but...Naruto...they're in heaven, and I'm stuck in the shinigami's stomach."he said with a depressed tone. "But, the third, second, and first are doing well." he said, brightening a little. Naruto grinned.

"Hey, dad, did you leave me any cool jutsu or something?" he asked happily. Minato groaned.

"You know the multiple shadow clone jutsu, rasengan, and Sage Mode, which Jiriaya never taught me, and you're still unhappy?" he asked. Naruto nodded. Minato sighed, but in a happy way. "Check my...no, sorry, your office, when you beat Pain." he said. Then, he charged up the seal again, ran towards the cage, and slammed his fist into it. The cage then glowed golden and blue, and Minato started fading away.

"Wait! Dad! How will I beat Pain!" Naruto yelled. Minato smiled.

"Use your imagination." he said, fading into smoke. Naruto ran up to him, almostt as if to grab him, but he was already gone.

---Real World---

Naruto woke up, and fell into a waking nightmare. Hinata, Anko, and Kiba were barely holding off Konan. Sakura, Ino, and Shikamaru seemed to be trying to only delay Kisame in desperation, and Gai and Kakashi were being dominated by Pain, even with one body. Then, Hinata did something unexpected. She leapt atop of Akamaru, and used her Gentle Step:Twin Lion Fists. They battered Konan, and she winced, then Kiba and Akamaru used Fang over Fang. Naruto grinned, then raised a fist in the air in acknowledgement. Then, he saw Shikamaru hold down Kisame, and Ino use an interesting combination of Mind Transfer techniques to do an odd dance, with Sakura's superhuman strength, to hit Kisame into submission. Then, Naruto had an idea. He quickly ran to Shikamaru when Pain was distracted, and explained the plan...

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"Your resistance is useless." Pain said. "You cannot beat a god."

Kakashi growled, shooting many fire jutsus at him, while Gai activated three gates and tried to hit Pain. Pain's eyes narrowed, and his mouth curled into a contemptous sneer. "Shinra Tensei!" he barked, sending the two jonin flying. Then, his eyes widened. Naruto, with Sage Mode blazing, was holding a gigantic shuriken over his head. But it was different from before. Now, it was violently spiraling, and was dark blue and black instead of nearly invisible. The chakra from it was astounding. Naruto grinned, and he opened his mouth to talk.-

"Fuuton! Rasen-shadow!"

Yay! Another chapter done at last. I based the talk with Minato from the latest manga. And expect the next chapter to have some extremely unexpected things in it.