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Chapter 8
It had been about two months since Naruto met all the Akatsuki members. Naruto's punishment ended up only lasting a week instead of how long Pein had been planning it to be, since he knew Naruto was curious by nature, he was trying to work around it a little.
He now allowed Naruto to go down and visit his subordinates, but only if Konan, himself, or Sasori was keeping an eye on him. It had surprised him to find out that his son and Sasori actually got along pretty well, he figured it was because Naruto actually listened to what Sasori had to say.
Pein had been a little upset when he found out that Sasori had began teaching Naruto how to use and make poisons when his son went to see him. He wasn't going to stop Sasori though, it would be useful for Naruto in the future, and it made Naruto happy.
There was only one of his subordinates Pein was very unwilling to let Naruto talk with though, Hidan. The reason for this is because Hidan thought it would be fun to teach his four year old some new vulgar vocabulary.
Pein was not amused to say the least, and when his son asked him what the words meant, he had nearly flipped out. It taken awhile, but Pein manged to get Naruto to understand that those words were wrong and he was not to say them. After that Pein had made a visit to Hidan. He had dismantled Hidan and locked him in a closet for a couple of days as punishment.
Deidara was the nicest to his son other than Sasori. Deidara liked talking and showing off his art to Naruto, who always watched what Deidara's art could do amazed.
Kisame and Kakuzu however didn't really bother with Naruto much. Kisame would talk, joke around with Naruto, and tease him a bit but other than that he didn't say much to him. Kakuzu just mostly tolerated Naruto. Zetsu was the same as Kakuzu, since he was usually on missions and was never around.
Konan and Naruto had been getting a lot closer too. He now called her mom, which made Konan over joyed. Konan had started teaching Naruto origami to help him have more patience, which was going better than Konan and Pein had expected.
Today however Naruto was with him since Pein had sent all the members out on missions. The search party the Hokage had sent out for Naruto had finally ended, so now Pein could get things done again.
He had already finished the paperwork, and wouldn't have anything for awhile since it would take his subordinates a couple of weeks to finish their missions, so he took Naruto out of the base for his training today.
Naruto's training was very simple since he was so young. Pein was mostly making him do chakera control exercises, it would benefit Naruto when they actually got to the real training.
" Daddy, I think I finally got it!" Naruto shouted to his father. Pein looked over at Naruto, he watched as Naruto slowly walked up the tree. Pein was impressed that he was doing so well, they had only been working on this exercise for a week.
" Good work," Pein praised, " Now try and make it to the top of the tree."
" Alright daddy." Naruto said, then concentrated on getting to the top of the tree.
Pein couldn't help but be amused at being called daddy. Naruto had gotten into a habit of calling him that, but Pein didn't mind. His subordinates also found it funny to see their intimidating leader being called daddy.
After a few tries Naruto had finally made it to the top of the tree, and was currently sitting on one of the branches.
" Well done, now come down." Pein called up to Naruto.
Naruto looked down below him and clung tighter to the tree trunk, he had never made it this high up the tree before. " O-ok." Naruto replied down to his father, mentally cursing himself for stuttering.
Pein raised an eyebrow up at his son when Naruto wasn't moving to get down from the tree. He got up from his spot on the ground, and walked over to the tree so he could get a better look at his son. He could see Naruto shaking a bit.
" Naruto are you afraid to come down?" Pein asked looking up at Naruto.
" A little." Naruto answered after a moment. He was trying to calm himself down but it wasn't working.
" Do you want me to come up and get you, or do want to try and come down by yourself? Pein questioned his son. " I'll stay right here if you want to try on your own."
" I'll try doing it myself." Naruto answered, he felt better now that his dad was at the bottom of the tree encase he fell. He then began to attempt to get down from the branch. Naruto made it a quarter of the way down, when his foot slipped.
Pein braced himself to catch his son when he saw Naruto's foot slip. Naruto fell into his arms with a yelp of shock, and after a moment rapped his arms around Pein's neck, burying his face into his chest.
Pein put his arm under Naruto's hips to hold him up, and used his other to stroke his now trembling son's hair comfortingly.
" Naruto its ok now." Pein said softly to his son. After a couple of minutes Naruto released his grip on Pein's neck, and looked up at his father.
" Sorry." Naruto apologized softly to his father, wiping the tears of his cheeks.
" Don't be sorry, you did very well today." Pein told him, then placed a kiss on his son's forehead. " I think thats enough training for today."
He situated Naruto in his arms so that he was carrying him bridal style. Naruto leaned his head against him, and snuggled closer.
" Ready to go home?" Pein asked, looking down at Naruto. He began heading back towards the base before his son could answer.
" Ya." Naruto replied tiredly, even though the training wasn't much he still got pretty tired by the end of it.
" Stay awake, I want you to eat something before you sleep." Pein ordered, shaking Naruto a little to keep him awake. Naruto pouted a little, but did as he was told.
Once they arrived back, Pein headed to his office to drop Naruto off before getting their food. When he got to his office he opened the door, and saw someone by his desk that he wasn't expecting to for a while.
Madara had come back to the Akatsuki base to discuss some plans he had, only to find no one was in the base.
' I know he didn't go to one of the other bases, so where is he.' Madara pondered, frowning. He went to Pein and Konan's rooms to see if he somehow missed them, but neither of them were there. He decided to check the Jinchuuriki's room to see if maybe if by some miracle Pein was in there.
He opened the door to the boy's room, and walked in. He looked around, the room now looked more like a small child's room. There were a few toys scattered about, and the bookshelf had some children's picture books, and other things children have.
Madara knew that Pein saw the boy as his son, which was foolish in his opinion. To Madara, getting attached to a jinchuuriki was one of the most stupid things Pein could do since they would start capturing the bijuu in a few years.
What Pein didn't know was that Madara had been researching possible ways that would allow Madara to get passed the Yondaime's seal and extract the Kyuubi from the boy.
' When it comes time to extract the Kyuubi from the boy, Pein will be to weak to do it because of his attachment to the child.' Madara thought to himself in disgust. ' I'll just have to take the boy without him knowing when the time comes.'
With one last glance around the child's room he made his way to Pein's office to wait for him or Konan to return. Approximately three hours later Madara finally sensed Pein's chakera signature, and the jinchuuriki's, heading towards him.
He watched as Pein opened the door and look at him in surprise. He noticed that Pein stiffened, and hold the boy in his arms more protectively.
" Afraid I might hurt him?" Madara smirked letting Pein know that he saw him become protective of the boy.
Pein narrowed his at Madara, and activated his rinnegan. He now held Naruto in one arm so he could defend his son if needed.
Naruto, who could sense that his father was upset at the scary man in front of them, got as close to Pein as he could, and gripped Pein's cloak. Naruto began to shake a little when the smirking man turned his gaze to him. Naruto noticed his eyes were red with what looked like symbols to him.
When Pein noticed Madara look a his son's face, he quickly pushed Naruto's face into his chest so Madara couldn't use his mangekyou sharigan on him.
"Don't you dare use your sharigan on him!" Pein growled at Madara.
" I wasn't going to." Madara replied still smirking. " Now relax I'm not going to hurt the boy."
Pein walked over to his desk while keeping an eye on Madara, he sat down in his chair, and held Naruto close to him.
" What do you want Madara?" Pein asked, eyes still narrowed. " You said you wouldn't be back until another month."
" There are a couple of my plans that I made recently that I want to discuss with you. Mainly the ones on the bijuu extraction." Madara replied, he smirked when he saw the child look at him in surprise.
' So Pein hasn't told him of our plans yet.' Madara thought to himself.
" I see you haven't told the child of our plans yet." Madara stated voicing his thoughts. " If you want I'll expl-"
" Enough." Pein said interrupting Madara. " We'll discuss this later, for now let me feed him, and put him down for a nap."
" Very well, I'll be back in two hours so be in here by then." Madara informed, then stood up and left.
" Is the real reason you brought me here so you could take the Kyuubi out of me?" Naruto questioned Pein sadly, looking up at him.
The look on Naruto's face made Pein's heart break, he sighed thinking of how to explain. " When I went to find you, it was to check your seal to see if it would be possible to extract the Kyuubi from you, but like I thought, it wasn't possible." Pein told Naruto, stoking his son's hair. " However the reason I brought you here was not for that, it was to help you."
" I wasn't lying to you when I said you would be safe and cared for." Pein said while pulling Naruto into a hug, " And your my son so I would never do anything like that to you, or let anyone else either."
Naruto sighed in relief, and relaxed against his dad. He was afraid for a moment that Pein had lied about everything and was going to kill him in the end.
" I'm going to go get our food now." Pein informed Naruto after a few minutes, and got up from the chair and set Naruto into it. " Do not leave this room. Its not safe for you to be alone with Madara about." Pein said before walking out of the room.
He shut the door, and placed a jutsu onto the room that would only allow him to go through. After that he left to get their lunch.
After eating Pein took Naruto up to his room so he could take a nap. The boy was almost asleep by the time Pein had gotten there.
" Who is the man from earlier?" Naruto asked sleepily as Pein tucked him into bed. Pein picked up Naruto's favorite stuffed animal that he liked to sleep with and handed it to him before answering his question.
" I'll tell you later when your fully awake." Pein answered, then placed a kiss onto his forehead.
" Fine." Naruto pouted as he cuddled with the stuffed toy rabbit, but the pout didn't last long as his eyes began to close and quickly fell asleep.
Pein turned off the light once Naruto was completely asleep and quietly walked out of the room, shutting the door behind him. He locked the door and performed the same jutsu from earlier onto his son's room. He didn't want Madara trying anything.
Once he was done, he headed down to his office, where Madara awaited.
-Author's Note: I hope you guys like the chapter, I like it better than the last one. Alright now for my oc, her name is Rai Kouno, she has grey eyes, brown hair that goes a little past her shoulders ( the style of it looks kinda like Mikoto's), and is about 5'3. I'm still working on her personality though so when I have that done I'll tell you guys but I wanted you to know what she at least looked like. What I'm planning for how Naruto meets her is, Naruto goes to tea house after finishing a mission and meets her and becomes friends with her. I may change it since it wont happen for a long time in the story. Now I have a question for you guys, how do you want Naruto to meet the people from Kohoha ( I mean his friends in the canon)? Also do you want Naruto to befriend Gaara? Well thats all, I'll update on Friday.
