Standing on top of the tree with Juuri on his back with her arms wrapped around him he looked toward where he could just make out the top of the cliff that had the Hokage stone faces. "Do you see that peak out there?"

"I do. Though just barely."

Laughing as he put a hand on hers on his chest he smiled. "That is home. That is the Leaf village. I can't wait to get back and show you around and see everyone."

Though she smiled, Juuri sighed. "I am happy for you Naruto."

Looking over at her as she laid her chin on his shoulder he laughed. "Don't give me that. Your first time there, you won't know anyone. But once I take you around to meet everyone, they will be friends for you too." Turning her so that he held her bridal style in his arms he winked at her as he jumped from the tree and landed on the ground. "And you will have family there too in me and Jiraiya. So don't get yourself all down about it okay?"

Nodding as he sat her down, Juuri smiled. She couldn't not smile when she was with him. "You always seem to know what to say to me Naruto. It always makes me feel better."

"Not a problem."

"Naruto! Juuri!"

Turning to look and see Jiraiya running toward them as he carried Naruto's bag, Naruto glared. "What happened?"

"Move!"

With a gasp, Juuri was once again in Naruto's arms as they raced through the tree limbs. "Papa what is going on?"

"To be blunt and to the point, I came across someone who happened to have a picture of the 'new' Lord of the Hidden Rain. And it looks just like a kid I knew a long time ago but it doesn't."

"What else?"

With a sigh as he glared straight ahead he lead the way toward the Leaf. "If it is who I think it is, I need to do some research into the Sage of the Six Paths before we do anything against the Akatsuki."

Glaring and all work mode, Naruto hardened his eyes. "Who do you think it is?"

Taking a deep breath and then looking down as they flew from branch to branch, at this rate they would make it by morning to the gate. "Well your father wasn't the only student I had before you. Back during the last Great Ninja War, in Land of Rain, The Village Hidden in the Rain was torn asunder. Hanzo of the salamander ruled over it. Right in the middle of three great nations, that became the battle ground of most fights. Fights that were not even their fights. Tsunade, Orochimaru and I were on our way home from fighting with Sanzo when out of nowhere these three kids showed up. They wanted us to train them. Orochimaru wanted to kill them, Tsunade didn't have an opinion other than going home. These kids lost everything because of the war. I couldn't just turn my back on them and agreed to teach them."

"Okay so was this guy one of them?"

Noddine he sighed. "To be frank, it is Yahiko. The leader of the three, but he has metal all in his face and he has the eyes of one of the other kids. Nagato."

"That is strange. What are you going to do about it? And what does that have to do with the Sage of the Sixth Paths?"

"You will find out when I do Naruto. Let's just leave it at that alright?"

"Okay."

X

It was near dawn as Izumo and Kotetsu sat down after relieving the night watchmen at the front gate. With a sigh Kotetsu crossed his arms. "I hate how our shift runs so screwed up. Who does it anyway?"

Nodding as he dropped his head on the table, Izumo sighed. "Lady Shizune does it actually. But with everything that Lady Hokage has her do I don't say too much about it. She already runs ragged for her."

"Yeah I hear ya on that one."

"Where is Tsunade!?"

Startled awake, Kotetsu and Izumo looked to see Jiraiya, Naruto and a girl fall out of nowhere. Shocked for a moment they just looked at each them. Izumo cleared his throat as he looked up at Jiraiya. "What was that?"

"Where is Tsunade?"

"Shizune is probably just dragging her into the office right now. Hey Jiraiya…." But Kotetsu glared as he leaned up and looked watched as they bounded across the rooftops. Then he gasped and his eyes went wide. "No way! This is horrible!"

"What?!"

Turning to Izumo he pointed after them with extra wide eyes. "I have to treat Naruto to Ichiraku Ramen in a few days, all you can eat!"

"What the hell are you talking about?" Izumo looked up at his partner and blinked. He had no clue what he was talking about.

Kotetsu sighed as he sat down and then let his face thump on the table. "Ibiki. I bet him an all you can eat Ramen treat for Naruto at Ichiraku Ramen when he got home that the girl was not Jiraiya's daughter."

Blinking then smiling as he saw the fearful blue eyes of the girl. So clear that is Jiraiya's daughter. "So you got to take Naruto out to eat at Ichiraku for an all you can eat meal right? You better take double than what you planned."

"Huh?"

"I got a feeling he is going to bring the girl." Izumo laughed as Kotetsu groaned as he rolled his head.

X

Looking up as the door flew open, Tsunade jumped when her amber eyes were looking into glaring black eyes of Jiraiya. "You damned fool! Don't scare me like that? Why are you here early what happened?"

Glaring he stood up. "The short or long of it?"

"Keep it simple."

"Remember Yahiko, Nagato and Konan?"

"I do. We got word a few years after you got back and were training the Fourth that they died. Why are you bringing them up all of the sudden anyway? What does that have to do with why you are here early?"

"We were just outside a small town a day from here. We had planned on staying in the woods tonight and getting home this evening. But someone was there that was from the Land of Rain. Hanzo is gone and they had a picture of the one who took over."

"You are talking in riddles again you pervert!"

Narrowing his eyes into hers as he crossed his arms, they were both standing tall now. "It was a picture of Yahiko Tsunade."

Gasping and her eyes go wide then she glared as she grabbed him by the clothes. "You rushed home over night and burst in here like someone was going to kill you to tell me that some brat from the Rain is still alive! Are you daft!?"

"He has the Rinnegan."

Stopping with wide eyes and a pale face she stepped back from him. "Wait wasn't it Nagato that had….."

"It was. And what is more not only have his eyes changed but so has his appearance. He has metal rods sticking out of his face everywhere. Ears, mouth, nose, lip, forehead. I don't know what is going on here, but I am going to need to get to the bottom of it. The Leaf still has the information on the Sage right?"

"We do. They are in the Hokage House that my grandfather and grandmother lived in."

Nodding he sighed. "Good I am going right there after this. But first. Now that is out of the way introductions. Tsunade my daughter. Juuri." He then turned a smile to his daughter who clung to Naruto. "Juuri this is my oldest friend and team mate. Hokage of the Village, Tsunade."

Turning her eyes to Naruto and the girl that was all but fused to his arm her eyes went wide. Gamakichi was right. She looked just like a female version of Jiraiya with blue markings and eyes. With a smile she sighed. "Hello Juuri and welcome to the Leaf."

"Hello Lady Hokage."

Looking down at Juuri then back to Tsunade and Jiraiya. "Okay I got two questions. The first one I don't care who answers it. But I want to know what the Rinnegan is and why you got so scared of it Grandma Tsunade."

With a sigh as she crossed her arms Tsunade closed her eyes. "The only three visual jutsus that you have ever saw were Ranmaru's, Sasuke's and those of the Hyuuga. The Rinnegan is legendary and had not been around until Nagato since the Sage of the Sixth Paths. It is said that he formed the foundation of the jutsu that lead to the birth of all ninja. It is more powerful than if you took the three know of and combined them all in one."

"Okay I stand corrected. Three questions. Pervy Sage, why do you have to do research on the Sage of the Six Paths before we do anything against the Akatsuki?"

Jerking her eyes around to him Tsunade took a step backwards. "You don't think?"

"He is in it. He had the robe on. Until we know of ways to counter that eye of his, if there is any. We can't act out of emotions against them."

With a sigh as he took a deep breath, Naruto shook his head side to side. "Since I got some extreme training to do, I can deal with that alright. But I already grilled Jiraiya on this one while we were gone. Grandma Tsunade."

"Naruto?"

"Who are my parents?"

"What?" Tsunade sighed as she dropped her head. "You were told all along that your parents were Makoto and Kotoko Uzumaki."

"He knows Tsunade. I took him to see Housuke."

Turning and then slapping him Tsunade glared. "You know why it was said that he could never know who his parents were! Did you forget who his mother was to be specific? Let alone his dad!"

Laughing Naruto sighed as he put a hand on the back of his head. "I aint mad. But since he wouldn't tell me and that reaction why wasn't I supposed to ever find out that the Fourth was my dad?"

With a sigh as she sat down and dropped her head, Tsunade slumped in the chair. "Your father was known as the Yellow Flash of the Leaf. He mastered teleportation jutsu. Just like Tenten, though with a certain seal, he could teleport himself and anything else he was touching. Simply having it on a Kunai he could just be standing somewhere, someone throw it and he would know it and could teleport to it no matter how far away they were. To see him on the battle field I am told the other villages told their ninja to run for their lives."

"My mom?"

"Because of her special chakra. She was a pure Uzumaki and she could use…"

"These?"

Looking up at him her eyes went extra wide to see him holding a sycle and chain in his hand made out of pure chakra. "Chakra chains! How the hell!?"

Laughing as he let them fade he stretched and yawned. "I will tell you later right now we are headed home. None of us have slept in over twenty four hours and I am exhausted."

"Alright. We had Jiraiya's old apartment cleaned up for her…."

"Not gonna happen Grandma." Naruto stopped at the door and sighed as he looked back. "We have been sleeping side by side in the same place for a year and nothing has happened. Lord knows with his wondering he does we had plenty of time. She doesn't know anyone and is staying with me. Later."

"Naruto!"

Holding his hand up Jiraiya sighed. "Leave it Tsunade. He isn't like that and you know it, even with two years of my influence. I got a feeling he is going to be changing his name and hers before long anyway. Just give him a few hours to sleep I doubt it will be that long."

Blinking as he left too Tsunade turned and looked out the window to see them going separate ways. Jiraiya toward her grandfather's house, and Naruto toward his one room apartment. With a smile she softened her look in her eyes as she watched them. She saw what he meant. "I wonder what Sakura is going to think about this one?"