Itachi Uchiha...what the hell are you doing here!" Tsunade demanded switching from a drunk stupor to one of alarm.
"I am not here to start conflict, lady hokage I am merely here concerning Naruto's disappearance." He said calmly not breaking his clam gaze.
"That's easy to guess Itachi, but that still doesn't say why your 'here'!" Tsunade said roughly getting up seemly ready to slam the Uchiha through as many walls as she could.
Though before she could Jiraya intervened. "Okay Tsunade hold it! Now before you continue considering mopping the floor with our stoic friend here, he has been spying on the Akatsuki for me for some time now and he has come across some information about Naruto's whereabouts." Jiraiya said trying to clam and stop Tsunade from killing Itachi not that she could.
"You have had Itachi Uchiha spying on the Akatsuki this entire time and you haven't told me?" Tsunade asked in a cold voice, with an underlying tone of wanting to kill Jiraiya.
Jiraiya felt Tsunade icy tone and was ready to run away when the time warranted it.
"Lady Hokage before we get to that I must ask for your permission to go find Naruto." Itachi asked.
This puzzled Tsunade. "Why would you need my permission?"
"Because I have a debt that I must repay to my sensei, and I don't feel it would be appropriate with the permission of the hokage, to help you find one of your own ninja."
"Eh?" Tsunade barely responded. "Fine then."
In the dragon realms
Naruto stood along with a water clone of Hamura, in front of Ryuujin as a mole tended to the gash on his side with Silverwing and Nagafen on each side of him.
"So aside from every single interception we've had here so far, I must thank Naruto Uzumaki, if you weren't here Galvarg might've done away with me."
"Now, Naruto you might want to get lord Hamura here to cure your aliment, before Silverwings little ice seal wears off and it kills you."
"Crap I nearly forgot about that!" Naruto muttered, looking at his arm where the ice still covered where Cynder had bit him.
"Hmm, you don't say?" Ryuujin said rather curtly, although the comment went right by Naruto, who already had Hamura, chipping away at the ice in his arm.
"Hmm, this seems to be quite a lethal toxin, I suspect if it wasn't for Kurama sealed in you, you'd be dead or far worse." Hamura muttered lowly, most in the room couldn't hear him aside from Nagafen whose ears perked up at that statement. "Okay Naruto stand still, this'll hurt a lot!" not giving Naruto any time to respond, Hamura already had a glob and water over Naruto's wound and had quickly extracted the poison, but to Naruto he didn't feel any pain at all.
"wait I thought you said that would hurt?" Naruto asked him, and Hamura simply looked at him sideways.
"Oh it will, your body just hasn't caught up yet, it should start hurting about right now!" as Hamura said that, Naruto keeled over in pain over his throbbing arm, only able to clinch his teeth and breath heavily trying to dull the pain.
"Even though your in pain at least the poisons gone!" Hamura said, looking at the poison he pulled out of Naruto, in the blob of water the poison took the form of a dragon skeleton and lunged at Hamura, failing though as it was trapped in the blob, but Hamura did jerk in surprise at it. "hmm a living poison? in all my years of living that's quite something I've never seen before!"
"Sadistic bastard," Naruto muttered, ignoring the pain and getting up onto his feet.
"Um lord Ryuujin, do you think I could get a specimen of that...whatever it is in that water sphere?" Silverwing asked from her perch.
"I don't really see why not?" Ryuujin said. "lord Hamura?" he asked.
"Hmm...sure I have little interest in it." Hamura responded as Silverwing quickly flew in front of the blob Hamura had suspended in his hand, and she froze it and quickly grasped it her claws and flew off.
"What an odd little thing, isn't she."
"She's can be a handful but she's the best alchemist and frontal scout that Esricith has." Ryuujin told Hamura, " anyway all distractions aside, my friend is here for your help." although Hamura didn't Naruto understood what he meant before he could ask. the throne room doors opened And a procession of adult dragons, clad in black and red armor, with a crest of a cheetah and a fire dragon, crossing blades. Signaling they were guards of one of Nagapurs' noble dragon kin. eight the middle of six adult dragons seemed to be a weak looking, bright red fire dragoness with deep soft purple eyes, and a gold underbelly.
"Ah, flare I'm glad you have arrived." Ryuujin greeted the noble Dragonkin.
"It's a pleasure as always prince Ryuujin!" The fire dragoness said warmly, stopping the middle of the throne room with her guards close beside her. "But I do wish you would've told me why you brought me here?" She said catching a glimpse of Naruto and the tall pale man with two horns sticking out of his head.
"I hope its not another attempted to cure my illness." flare said figuring out what Ryuujin wanted her here for.
Naruto could see Ryuujin lose his composure as he flinched and reeled back as he was found out. "But, Flare!"
"I will not hear it Ryuujin! we have been over this many times before what I have cannot be cured, and will never so if you'll excuse prince Ryuujin I will take my leave!" she said rather crass, cutting the meeting short and getting up and leaving a shut down Ryuujin and a semi empty throne room, with the throne doors soon closing behind her.
"At this point you really should've have known better my lord." Nagafen said.
"I suppose so, anyway Naruto, lord Hamura if you could leave me be for now." Ryuujin said rather quick before flying off through the throne room doors.
"Wait what just happened?" Naruto muttered. "did i miss somthing?"
"Not really it is normal around here." Nagafen said, moving over to Naruto and Hamura. "Here." Hagafen was holding out the small blue necklace, the necklace ignites had given him earlier in the week.
"Oh wait what?" Naruto shouted pulling at his necklace and only finding the granny's necklace around his neck. "Oops."
"I found it near the steps where you descended early today, I thought it might belonged to you and certainly smelled you on it." the panther said crinkling his nose.
"Thanks I guess." Naruto said as he took the necklace form Nagafen. "Uh do you know where the dragon Spyro is?" Naruto questioned remembering his mission.
"Spyro and Cynder are being held in a tavern in town," Nagafen said as he pulled out a small parchment and a pencil. The orange ninja watched as he scribed something down before handing it to him. "This is their location,"
Naruto took the paper. "Thanks..." He stood their not really sure if he should leave now or not. Hagafen nudged Naruto's shoulder. Looking up at the older ninja Naruto saw Hagafen motion towards a door, instructing him that it was alright to leave if he wished. Nodded back at him, Naruto took his leave.
Running out the door, Naruto found himself standing a room were a female guard was changing into her uniform, just as she started to undress. Both the female guard and Naruto remained motionless for a moment before she started to scream and attack him.
Screaming himself Naruto ran out the door he came out of, trying to find the nearest escape rout to escape the guard. While this commotions was going oh behind them, both Nagafen and Hamura snickered at the young ninja's plight.
After a lot of running around, Naruto finally managed to get away from the persistent female. He found himself in a dark alleyway just outside the palace. Slowly stepping out from the shadows, he doubled checked to see if the guard was anywhere to be found. Thankfully she wasn't.
Taking the piece of paper out, Naruto was just about to head off to find the two of them when suddenly he blacked out. Naruto woke up with a quickly realizing that he was in the White Isle.
"Naruto I have got some delightful news," Ignitus proclaimed as he walked up to the small ninja. Naruto stood up from the ground, his head pounding for some reason.
Rubbing the back of his head Naruto said "What is it?"
"I just found the location of the last Summoning scroll," Ignitus said rather solemnly.
Naruto's eyes went wide with excitement. "Really where is it?"
Ignitus motioned for Naruto to follow him, and brought him to the large crystal once again. It was then that an image of a large city showed up. Several buildings on the outskirts of the town were in ruins, while those closer to the center seemed to be in perfect shape.
"What is this place?" Naruto asked.
"This is the city of Royotia. This is the last known place of the summoning scroll. It was last held by the pervious king before his passing. Now the counsel holds it till the princess become older," Ignitus said as the image returned to normal.
"Well that is cool and all but why did you bring me here?" Naruto asked confused as to why he didn't just inform him through the crystal he gave him.
"Well you see Naruto, their is a slight problem that you needed to hear about. After the recent attack on Ryuujin, I dare not speak of this out in public." Ignitus said ominously. "Even to Ryuujin's guardsmen."
This gained Naruto's attention. "What is it?" he asked leaning forwards.
"I have reasons to suspect that the counsel has been slightly influenced by the same group of people that sent that wolf after king Ryuujin," Ignitus warned. "If this is true then it is possible that they have influence all over the realms," He said worriedly.
"So, it just means, that's the group we just need kick there ass right, so let's go do it!" Naruto said eagerly.
Ignitus held up a paw. "I'm afraid that you must wait for Spyro and Cynder to recover. If you are to fight the counsel then you will need their help as well,"
"Pfft, I'm not afraid of some old geezers," Naruto replied with a smug grin.
"Yes well, these old geezers, as you put them, are heavily guarded and they are still capable of defining themselves. Not only that but they have the whole area under their control. By attacking them, you will have the whole city to deal with," Ignitus warned.
Now Naruto saw the problem they had. Nodding his head Naruto said "Thank you Ignitus, I will see what I can do to help them as soon as I can," he finished bowing to Ignitus.
In the mist of bowing Naruto soon felt a fairly strong wing against his back and rain hitting the ground around him and his back.
"Wait what?" Naruto jumped surprised, looking around Naruto saw nothing more than empty streets and the rain and thunder above him, and right in front of him was a old tavern with two crackle torches in front of the door, "I hope this is where Spyro is and Ignitus just didn't send me somewhere random." Naruto muttered to himself, grabbing the handle of the door and letting himself in inside the tavern was rather bleak, only a few patrons sat around scattered a roaring fire in the corner, and a simple bartender wiping away at the counter.
"Ah, Naruto." Naruto looked over and saw Hunter with his arm in a sling and a bandage wrapped around his head covering his left eye.
"Geez hunter what the heck happened to you?!" Naruto asked about Hunters condition.
"lets just say the way we got here didn't really agree with me." Hunter said." anyway please follow me Spyro and Cynder would like to meet you." the cheetah asked naruto gustureing for him to follow.