Sorry I'm a little later on updating, just had a lot of other stuff to do. Deathmvp, the thought of giving Fu some kind of armor crossed my mind but I didn't really like the idea of her being a petite girl and having some kind of hardened skin, idk lol.

Disclaimer- I don't own anything having to do with Naruto and anything else is complete coincidence.

Chapter 8

"Taju Kage Bunshin no Jutsu!" shouted Naruto creating about fifty clones that charged at the approaching Neko container. 'There's no way that I can beat her in taijutsu, I'll also have to be careful with my wind jutsu against her fire' he thought trying to come up with a plan.

"You forgot you taught me that too Naruto! Taju Kage Bunshin no Jutsu!" she yelled back matching Naruto's clone's numbers with her own as they began to decimate Naruto's army.

Naruto's face paled, 'Oh shit! Not good!'

Yugito smirked as she began to overwhelm Naruto's clones with the speed of her own. 'The look on his face was priceless'

'Alright I'll have to risk it' thought Naruto as a couple of his clones fell back to stand next to him while he started going through some hand seals.

Catching this Yugito also immediately flashed through some seals of her own. 'I know he only can use wind'

"Fuuton: Bakuha!" Naruto breathed out as a huge gust of wind blew across the field starting to destroy some of the clones.

At nearly the same time Yugito finished her seals, "Katon: Karyu Endan!" an enormous wave of fire shot out of Yugito's mouth colliding with Naruto's wind jutsu amplifying it as it grew stronger and destroyed the rest of the clones and continued to where Naruto was standing.

Two of Naruto's clones threw one of the Naruto's up in the air over the attack.

'Not getting away that easy Naruto!' she said in her head as she quickly went through another set of hand seals.

"Katon: Hosenka no jutsu!" dozens of fiery balls shot out in a spread at the air born Naruto. 'Gotcha!' smirked Yugito triumphantly but was immediately replaced by surprise as the Naruto she hit turned into a cloud of smoke. 'that one was a decoy!?' She turned her head to see a second Naruto a few feet from her with a swirling chakra ball in his hand.

"Rasengan!" he shouted as he shoved it forward at Yugito but she did a back flip latching her hands on Naruto's and continued her flip and shoved her foot into Naruto's back using her momentum to throw him backwards as she hit the ground.

Yugito quickly moved in to finish it but was caught off guard as Naruto raised his hand out at her and within a second, a powerful gust of wind shot out blasting Yugito back a few yards but still managed to elegantly land on her feet.

'Darn, I almost had him there'

"Looks like I underestimated those lightning reflexes of yours hehe" joked Naruto as he got up.

Yugito smirked, "So is this the best you got mr Akatsuki killer?" she taunted.

"Nah, if I used what I did against them just now, you would have died. So you see, I'm limited here" he said smirking back at her.

Yugito pouted, "Don't worry about me, I can handle myself Naruto"

"I can't Yugito, that jutsu is on an entirely different level" he said in low voice, he didn't want to hold back with her and offend her but he can't use that jutsu.

"If you're not going to take me seriously than there's no point in us fighting! I'm not some helpless little girl that needs to be babied!" she said angrily then started to walk away.

"I'm not trying to baby you! You have to understand that the jutsu I'm talking about is way too dangerous to be used like that!" he shouted due to the distance she was putting between them.

She looked back angrily and upset, "I'm not weak, I've been through too much in life to be weak, you're not the only one who has a burden and wants to prove themselves, I thought you understood me…" she then ran off.

Fu looked back at Naruto understandingly and got up to go after Yugito.

Naruto just collapsed to the ground with his head hanging, "I didn't mean it like that…"

Eventually Fu found Yugito sitting on a dock hugging her legs looking at the water.

Fu slowly walked up next to her and sat down as well.

"I'm sure Naruto didn't mean to hurt you by that, he's not that type of person" started Fu.

"I-I just don't want any special treatment… My village hated me, I was just a weapon to them, and now that I'm away from that I want to be me, Nii Yugito… I want to prove to everyone that I'm strong, especially Naruto… He saved me, and I can't thank him enough for it, but I don't want him to think he has to always protect me, I want to show him that I am strong too and that I can fight alongside him…" replied Yugito quietly.

Fu placed a comforting hand on Yugito's shoulders, "And I'm sure Naruto would understand that if you confronted him about it, I can tell he cares about you a lot, he doesn't mean any harm by it. Also while you were walking away I saw the look on his face, he does understand, as jinchuuriki we've all been down that road, he knows better than anyone about what you're going through"

Yugito looked over a Fu, "T-Then why did he do it if he knew?" she asked as her eyes started to get wet.

Fu smiled, "His jutsu may actually be that powerful Yugito, you said he beat two Akatsuki, he had to have something crazy up his sleeve in order to do that. Why don't we head back to him and ask him if we could see it for ourselves"

"Ok…" she said quietly.

Fu patted Yugito's back, "And if his jutsu is really not that impressive then we can both beat him up for it" she said laughing a little to cheer Yugito up.

Yugito smiled, "Ya… I'll definitely kick his ass…" she whispered.

Once they returned they saw Naruto lying down stretched out on the grass.

"Hey Naruto we're back!" shouted Fu as they walked up to him.

Naruto sat up looking at Yugito, "Yugito, I'm sorry I didn't want t-"

"It's alright Naruto…" she responded cutting him off. He really did look down, like he was beating himself up inside for doing that.

"The jutsu is just extremely dangerous…" he said.

Yugito then smirked, "That's why we want to see it, cause if it's not as powerful as you say it is" she said walking over to him and leaning her head down to his ear, "Your dead…" she whispered and pulled back causing Naruto to get extremely nervous.

"I-I s-swear it is!" he said stuttering.

"Then show us" she said smirking evilly at him.

"Alright…" he responded standing up. "I'll show you guys the entire thing"

He faced them and held out his hand, palm up and formed Rasengan.

The two girls watched intently.

"This is called Rasengan, it's an A-rank jutsu developed by the Fourth Hokage" he said looking at it.

"Konoha's Yellow Flash??" asked Yugito surprised that it was such a famous ninja's jutsu.

Naruto nodded.

"That's the thing you tried to hit me with in our spar" pointed out Yugito looking at it.

"Yea, it's a jutsu created by spinning chakra around in every direction at high speeds, it's the highest level of form manipulation a person can achieve" he said then turned around and slammed it into the ground. The girls watched amazed as it seemingly drilled into the ground leaving a decent size crater.

"Wow that's stronger than it looks, good thing you didn't get me with that…" said Yugito looking at the damage.

"As you can see, this jutsu is strong by itself but very hard to control, it took the Fourth Hokage four years to develop and learn the jutsu, and took the Sannin Jiraiya one year to learn after it was created" explained Naruto.

"No wonder it's so strong, how long did it take you?" asked Fu.

"I learned how to use it in a week" stated Naruto proudly.

"WHAT!?" shouted both Fu and Yugito looking at him like he was crazy.

"How could you learn it that fast when it took those two famous ninja's years?" asked Fu.

"He probably used Kage Bunshin to do it" replied Yugito.

"No I didn't, I learned this before I knew how to use Kage Bunshin's like I do now" corrected Naruto.

"That's incredible Naruto" complimented Yugito.

"But, Rasengan was an incomplete jutsu" he said.

"I-It's not complete? H-How? It's so strong already?" asked Yugito shocked that there was more to this jutsu.

"The Fourth originally intended to combine Rasengan with his nature manipulation, but after years of trying he was unable to do so"

Yugito stared at him, "D-Don't tell me you…"

Naruto smirked, "As I said, Rasengan alone is an A-rank jutsu, nobody knew what rank jutsu it would be if it was completed, or if it was even possible in the first place" he dragged out enjoying the looks on both girls.

"So you completed it?" asked Fu.

"Yea, and that was how I killed Kakuzu and why I couldn't use it in our spar… But I'll show it to you so you can see for yourself" he said as he created a shadow clone and formed Rasengan.

"Now this is what happens when I add my nature manipulation" he then started adding wind chakra into the Rasengan as blades started to form around it and the wind started to pick up around them all the while a screeching sound was being emitted from the jutsu.

"I-Incredible…" whispered Yugito as Naruto held the finished jutsu above his head.

Naruto looked back at Yugito with a smile, "I'd use this on myself before I would ever think of hitting you with it" he said as he turned back around and threw the jutsu.

'He can throw that thing!?' both girls screamed in their heads.

The jutsu collided with a tree causing an enormous explosion followed by a shockwave almost knocking the girls over by surprise.

Fu was the first to respond, "T-That's insane…"

Yugito was speechless.

Naruto turned around to face Yugito and put a hand on her shoulder, "You see why I couldn't use that now? I could never use something so damaging on such a pretty face" he said smiling.

Yugito turned beat red, "W-Wha…"

Before she could finish with her stuttering a Waterfall ninja shunshined next to them.

"Naruto-san, Shibuki-sama would like to talk to you in his office" he said as Naruto looked at him and nodded then the ninja shunshined off again.

Naruto turned back to the girls, "I'll catch you two later!" he said as he ran towards the tree.

Fu looked over at Yugito and giggled.

"Shut up!" retorted Yugito snapping back into reality by Fu's giggles.

"Come on lets head back to the village" replied Fu smiling as she began walking back towards town with Yugito who reluctantly stepped in pace with the teasing girl.

Naruto soon arrived at Shibuki's office and entered. "Hey Shibuki you need me?"

Shibuki looked up hearing the voice of the boy he sent for. "Hey Naruto, I just wanted to talk to you about Akatsuki and see if we can exchange information on them" informed the Waterfall leader.

"Sure, what about them?" asked Naruto. He didn't like the subject of Akatsuki for obvious reasons but he knew it was also very important to learn what he could about them.

"Well let's start with which members we know. Even though we are pretty good at gathering information, Akatsuki is incredibly difficult. I know of only four members, Sasori, Deidara, Hidan and Kakuzu who was from our own village" explained Shibuki.

At the mention of Hidan and Kakuzu Naruto's eyes lit up. "Kakuzu is dead and I'm not sure about Hidan, kind of lost his head" he said chuckling a little remembering he kicked his head somewhere into the forest back in Lightning country.

"They're dead? How?" asked Shibuki immediately, this was new.

"Well to sum it up they made a deal with the Cloud to get Yugito out of the village so they could capture her witch they did but I was able to track them down. I cut off Hidan's head and kicked it deep into a forest but I'm not sure if he's really dead yet. Then I fought and killed Kakuzu"

"I'm impressed Naruto" said Shibuki smiling, "Kakuzu was very strong, but it's good to here they lost someone as valuable as him"

"What about the other two you mentioned?" questioned Naruto, he heard a little bit about Sasori from Ero-sennin but didn't know the other one.

"Sasori's from the sand and specializes in puppet's, He's also incredibly strong. Deidara is from the Rock and supposedly uses long ranged explosives, also a very strong one"

Naruto nodded, "They all are extremely strong, the two that I know of that you didn't include are Uchiha Itachi, he has an advanced Sharingan and specializes in genjutsu. My sensei said he's probably the top genjutsu user in the world right now, just looking into his eyes can just about kill you. His partner is Hoshigake Kisame, he's one of the seven shinobi swordsmen from the Mist, I haven't seen him really fight but I heard he's incredibly strong physically and can use high level Water jutsu's"

"As always two more deadly members. Also from what I know, however which way they are extracting the Biju, they have to wait before they can seal the stronger ones in like Fu and yourself. So I'd say your safe for a short while but you have Yugito with you and she's the Two tails, so they are going to be making moves on the two of you a lot."

"Yea, I didn't know they had to wait for the stronger Biju but I figured we would be a prime target since if they came after us they would be getting two instead of one." Explained Naruto, he knew they were going to be in a tough situation together especially without Ero-sennin around.

"Whenever you leave just be careful, also there's another reason I called for you" he said with a smile.

"Eh? What is it?" asked Naruto.

"I'm sure you noticed the activity in the village has been picking up over the week"

Naruto nodded, he did notice, it was getting a little difficult trafficking through the village.

"Well that's because tomorrow is our annual Moonlight festival, every year around this time the moon is full but gets a bit brighter than usual. It's a pretty serene view with the light reflecting off the lake. But anyways its tomorrow, you and Yugito should stay for it and relax a bit before you leave" said Shibuki, Fu also made sure he told Naruto this, that girl was up to something.

"Sure, I guess we can stay for the festival then leave the next morning, I'm sure Yugito wouldn't mind either" replied Naruto.

"Also I'm sure you don't have anything to wear for it so I'll lend you something for it tomorrow. It's a shinobi festival, we don't dress too formerly but more like in upscale shinobi clothing. You'll see what I mean tomorrow, anyways I'll catch up with you later Naruto"

"Ok thanks Shibuki!" Naruto waved and excused himself to go find his two jinchuuriki friends.

Back in Konoha

'Time to get killed' thought Jiraiya as jumped into the Hokage's office through the window shocking Tsunade and Shizune.

"J-Jiraiya!? What are you doing back here already?" questioned Tsunade still shocked and confused, he shouldn't be back for nearly another year.

"Umm you see… I kind of ran into a slight dilemma…" said Jiraiya slowly.

Tsunade glared at him, "What do you mean by dilemma? Where's Naruto?"

"That's the dilemma… I have no clue where he is…" Yup he was going to die, any second now…

"WHAT!? YOU LOST HIM!? HOW THE HELL DID YOU MANAGE THAT!?" screamed Tsunade standing up and slamming her fists down onto her desk breaking it.

"I'm pretty sure he's fine though!"

"Explain! Right now! Everything!" demanded Tsunade, how dare he lose the boy she thought of as a son.

"I left him in the Hidden Cloud cause they had some information on Akatsuki that I needed to scout out, turned out the information was fake and that the Cloud's council was paid off by Akatsuki to get their Two tailed container out of the village and to get me away from it." Jiraiya noticed Tsunade's glare was getting ever more intense as he continued especially with the mention of Akatsuki… "B-But when I got back it turned out Naruto found out somehow and went on his own to stop the Two tailed jinchuuriki…"

"YOU MEAN HE WALKED KNOWINGLY RIGHT INTO AKATSUKI!? THAT BAKA DOES HE N-"

"He survived though, I found evidence of the fight but a few days later after searching I arrived in Nahato in River country and a local had spotted Naruto there so he did manage to get out of Akatsuki's hands" explained Jiraiya.

Tsunade sighed, the gaki was still obviously in danger but at least he managed to escape them initially. "So he ran off on his own, escaped Akatsuki, then runs all the way to River country?"

"Yea… Raikage said that the Two tailed container was hated in the Cloud and if Naruto managed to save it that most likely they would leave the country to stop hunter-nins from tracking them. He left River country by the time I got there but I don't know where he went…"

"Damn that gaki, I know he felt compelled to save the other Jinchuuriki but now what does he plan on doing…" said Tsunade, she was still pissed off that Jiraiya lost him but also knew Naruto and that he would in fact recklessly run off to save someone like that.

Just then a small messenger frog jumped into the window and up to Jiraiya. He picked up the scroll that was on the frog's back and read it, his eyes going wide.

Tsunade noticed this, "Well what does it say?"

"It says Naruto had summoned Gamakichi near the Hidden Waterfall village about a week ago. He used him to try to find the location of the village" explained Jiraiya.

"Well what are you doing!? Stop standing around here and get over there!" demanded Tsunade shouting at her old teammate.

"R-Right, send a messenger bird their immediately as well! Later!" said Jiraiya disappearing in a puff of smoke.

Tsunade looked over at Shizune, "Have a message sent out to the Waterfall and inform them that if Naruto is there that he should remain inside the village so he can meet up with Jiraiya again!"

"Ok!" she responded and ran out of the room.

Tsunade leaned back in her chair and pulled out some sake from her drawer, 'Even outside of the village that baka gives me a headache… just stay safe brat…'

Back in the Waterfall

"So what are your and Naruto's plans after you leave here?" asked Fu as she and Yugito walked through the town chatting.

"No idea, I think we are just winging it. He got split up from his sensei when he saved me so he's just traveling around training and trying to keep a low profile for obvious reasons" replied Yugito.

"You're going to go back to the Leaf with him?"

"Yea, Raikage let me go from the village so I'm allowed to join another if I want. But I think it's still a while until we are going to head there"

They entered a small teashop and sat at a table to rest.

Fu glanced over at Yugito who looked to be thinking about something, "That's pretty romantic, you and your savior traveling the world together alone while fighting against a secret organization…" Fu got the desired affect when Yugito blushed.

"It's not like that…" retorted Yugito.

"So you're not attracted to Naruto at all?" asked Fu innocently.

"W-Wha? No! he's a baka!" quickly shot back Yugito embarrassed.

Fu smirked, "Oh? He's a pretty handsome baka who saved your life and is caring for you, do I need to also mention what he said to you a few minutes ago hmm?" she teased.

Yugito blushed more and kept silent. I couldn't like him, I know I feel different around him than others but it couldn't be that. It's only because he's helping me so much and was the first person my age to actually be friends with me…

"You should see yourself blushing Yugito" joked Fu causing Yugito to give a quick glare at her. "Well I don't want to push you but if you do feel something for him you should let him know, you two would be good for each other"

"He's just a good friend to me that's it" responded Yugito but she wasn't sure if that was the truth.

"Anyways there's a festival tomorrow night that we have each year called the Moonlight festival. Shibuki is talking to Naruto about it, you both should stay for it"

"Sure that sounds like fun"

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When I was thinking of the messenger toad dilemma I remembered the one Jiraiya got in the beginning of shippuden that informed him that Gaara was captured. It was just some random frog and it didn't get summoned or anything so it must of ran from somewhere. In this case, Myobokuzan. Since the frog did run instead of being summoned, that means it would have to find its target which also in this case, they didn't know where Naruto was to send one to him.

Also I may be changing a bit of the way things are going to happen in the future. I originally planned for Naruto to be on a 3 year trip instead of 2 and a half but I may make it 2 and a half or a little less possibly depending on what I do. I also originally wanted the NaruYugi relationship to develop when they got back. But now that I'm writing it I don't like that idea, I feel as if in this situation, if they were to at some point get together, that they would start feeling things for each other a lot sooner than the time when I have them return. I still don't want to rush it but they are going to start getting closer in the next couple chapters or so.

Again as for my second story, I keep getting too many damned idea's in my head. I started writing a second story, for all I know the first chapter of it may come out within hours of this one. I'm treating it as a side story and winging it. I think my writing style changes for it, I've made what I written so far goofy and I'm going to try to cause a ton of drama in it. As for the type of story, dundundun, it's going to be NarutoxKurenai. I may get flamed for that saying it can't be done or is stupid w.e idc, Kurenai is hot and I find it a very interesting pairing to read about. Don't believe me then read Hot for a Teacher.