Another chapter and again not in my intended schedule of writing, whatever. Anyway slight spoiler, in this chapter Naruto goes on the three year trip and while the story won't skip three years it will skip some months. Naruto is gone so now all other jinchuuriki and Akatsuki can shine.

Enjoy

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In a dark corridor, faintly illuminated by the torches on the wall were two figures slowly walking. One of them, the slightly bigger one was actually walking a bit slowler. He was horrified of what he saw.

The mission of Kidnapping the Uchiha was a success but at some losses. Tayuya was gone and the other two changed. Only Jirobo and Kimimaro were the only ones who got out unchanged.

Fearfully Jirobo looked over his shoulder. He could still hear Kidomaru's inhuman screams of agony as his body twisted and turned. Kabuto claimed that the jinchuuriki chakra and the curse mark were fighting each other inside the spider boys body. Apparently the curse mark will learn to adapt and change to contain and control the bit of the chakra from the three tailed beast.

Whatever was happening to him it was not human and whatever will come out of this will never be human again.

Jirobo collided into kimimaro who suddenly stopped walking. He looked past the bone user only to see someone running towards them. It was one of the prisoners and he had the purest look of terror in his eyes.

The prisoner dropped to the floor and looked at his ankle wich was grabbed by a bloody hand. Then another hand grabbed him and another and another and another.

The prisoner tried to fight but the more he struggled the more arms came from the shadows until the source of them came closer. It was Sakon but he had changed. The death of his twin brother twisted his mind and made him mentally unstable. He believed that his brother is on the verge of death and that he constantly needed more body parts to live. He devoured many people already and that effected his body drastically.

He was nothing more then a mountain of limbs with his dead brothers head dangling right beside him. He still had his ability to fuse with other people and taking control of them to maintain control over all those limbs this new body had. However since he was eating these people, killing them, taking there many body parts and having the corps of his brother in his body made him rot from the inside. Whenever a limb is unable to serve him anymore he simply drops them out of his body, except for Ukon's body. the corpse would stay in his body, rotting and infesting the rest.

Jirobo watched in horror has the prisoner was devoured by his former teammate. He was practically melting into his Sakon's body and he wasn't sure at what point the prisoner actually died. Was it when his body and organs were reused to build this Goliath of meat or are his and the other victims consciousness still inside that monster.

The mass of limbs slowly turned around and continued walking while seemingly having a conversation with the dangling head of his dead twin brother. Kimimaro continued to walk again. "Maybe now they will be more useful to our lord Orochimaru."

Meanwhile Jirobo was only praying that his death will not be at the hands of Sakon. Another Inhuman scream from Kidomaru made the last normal member of the sound four jump and quickly followed his Leader.

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Naruto slowly gained conciseness again after the fight with Sasuke. He noticed a white ceiling and after slowly moving around he knew that we was in a bed with soft covers. This must be a hospital.

"Naruto?" A voice softly said. He turned his head slightly and a Fuu sitting next to his bed. The smile that she gave him took all the uncertainty away in a instance.

The seven jinchuuriki of the seven taild beast gently ran her hand through his blond hair. "You made me worry you know."

Someone behind her moved closer to see Naruto. It was Garra who had a most uncommon look of relief on his face. He didn't speak but he didn't need to for Naruto to know that everything is now ok.

"You should have seen him, Garra was practically walking up and down the room while you were unconscious." Fuu said with a chuckle.

"No I wasn't, I had just...sand in my shoes." Garra said slightly defensive. This earned a laughter from both Naruto and Fuu.

"Are the others ok?" Naruto asked.

This time Garra answered. "Yes everyone is safe but Yagura's injuries were quite severe. He won't be able to travel for a while."

That was also the moment Naruto noticed two other people in the room. Three other people in the room. One was Nagato, the other one was Itachi and the last one was the legendary Sannin Jirayia.

He noticed that Itachi wasn't wearing his Akatsuki cloak anymore and that all three of them had stern expressions. Nagato stepped forward. "Alright kids, I'm sorry to have to make this short but we need to talkt to Naruto now. could you prepare the things."

The two jinchuuriki nodded before leaving the room. Fuu looked back At Naruto one more time before leaving. Naruto look confused at the other three people in the room. "What's going on?"

Nagato sat down next to Naruto's bed. "Can you remember what happened at the end of your mission?"

"I knocked myself and Sasuke out so that Lee could carry us back to the village. That did happen, right? Sasuke is back." Naruto answered. Itachi Looked at the floor.

Nagato decided to explain. "Sadly one of the enemies showed up and challenged Lee to a fight. It apparently was a someone with the ability to Manipulate his bones. Lee didn't want to risk his and your live so he decided to retreat after a while of fighting."

Naruto looked at Itachi completely distort. "I'm sorry Itachi, i didn't manage to keep my promise."

The Uchiha put his hand on the jinchuuriki. "You don't have to apologize Naruto. I should apologize for being so selfish, to ask you to risk your live for something that I'm at fault for."

Naruto wanted to say something but the Sannin spoke first. "We know of Orochimaru planes for Sasuke but it will take three years before he can start. During these years I will investigate Orochimaru's location and I want you to accompany me Naruto."

the blond boy looked confused at the other people in the room. "What is going on? Why me? I mean I would gladly help you find Sasuke if it's possible but I'm not a fool, I know that any of the Akatsuki members are stronger then me."

Nagato glanced over to Itachi for a moment. "We happen to be stuck in a certain situation at the moment. It will be hard for us to conduct search Operations or even train you for a uncertain amount of time. Jiraya didn't just train me and Konan when we were jung but also the forth Hokage."

"I will definitely go if it means to save Sasuke and keep my promise to Itachi. When do we go." Naruto answered without hesitation.

The Sannin laughed. "I knew you would say that. I'm happy to tell you that we will go today, your friends are preparing your stuff."

Before Naruto could even react the old man grabbed him and carried him out of the hospital. His wounds were minor at this point but it all happened so fast that he couldn't truly comprehend what was happening.

It felt like only a couple of seconds were wasted before Naruto was standing at the hidden leaf gate with his backpack. Also there were, Fuu, Garra, Konan, Nagato, Kakuzu and Hidan. "What just happened? How did I get here so fast?"

Konan approached him. "Jiraya was always very intense if he's exited about something. I hope that's one of the only traits you learn from him."

Naruto expected this as her way of saying goodbye to him but he was still uncertain how fast this was. His attention was brought back when Hidan stood before him.

The immortal however didn't seem like his old self. He crouched down to be on eye level with Naruto, his expression was most unnatural for him. "Listen Naruto, i heard that you used the blood possession jutsu I taught you against Sasuke. I just wanted to say that you shouldn't use that jutsu anymore."

"Why not? Why teach it to me in the first place?" Naruto asked confused.

"Ok listen, I thought it would be cool to have another follower of my religion but I know that the blood possession was made to sacrifice oneself. I don't want you to throw your life away just like that." Hidan said somewhat embarrassed.

The nine tailed jinchuuriki only smiled. "Ok, but one day I will find a way to use that jutsu safely."

"Thats my little troublemaker." Hidan said with a smile as he hugged the boy. The immortal felt good.

With that done Naruto turned around to Kakuzu who only stood there with his arms crossed. "Don't get yourself killed."

Naruto nodded but suddenly remembered something. He went through his backpack and pulled out the kunai of his father. "Kakuzu, I wanted to ask you this sooner but could you figure out how this weapon works? Kakashi gave it to me and said it belonged to my father but I have no idea how it works."

Kakuzu took the weapon and inspected it. "What makes you think that I can figure out how it works?"

The blond boy shrugged. "If a student dose not know how something works he should go to his teacher and ask for help. Let's be honest, Hidan would've only stabbed himself with it."

"We just had a fucking moment you prick!"

Kakuzu chuckled and patted Naruto on the head. "I'm going to miss you kid."

Naruto was ready to start his journey but was stopped by the sight of Kaguya holding Jiraya up by his throat. "...And if there is so mich as a scratch on Naruto they will never be able to find all of your pieces."

Naruto figured that this would mean it will take a while for him to leave. Kaguya had to threaten the Sannin just a little bit more. This time Fuu tapped him on the shoulder.

She looked kind of shy, which was mostly strange for here. "I'm sorry that not everyone is currently here to say goodbye but I'm sure they would. I mean Yugito is still unconscious while Bee is watching her, Yagura is in bad shape, Han wants to wait for choji to wake up. And..."

The blond boy interrupted her. "This isn't a goodbye Fuu. You all are my family and I will definitely comeback to you."

The seven tailed jinchuuriki seemed to blush a bit. "Then take this as good luck wishes from everyone."

With that she leaned in and kissed him on the cheek. It took a moment for both of them to realize but it seemed that not even Fuu was really prepared to do that. Both jinchuuriki blushed heavily before she suddenly grew wings to fly away.

Naruto looked over to Garra who was just as confused as he was. "I'm uhhhh, I'm just going to give you a handshake."

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After there farewells have ben said to Naruto the group left the gate to return at the provisional home of the Akatsuki. They didn't want to say this to Naruto but things did look bleak.

Now they would be forced to leave the village but at the same time they decided to exit the shadows. Ever since the Akatsuki entered the village, what felt like a eternity, they announced themselves to the world.

Even though the villages promised to leave them alone, people like Danzo will always try to hunt them. Now, even the smallest of street rat or bandit crew might be bold enough to attack them on order to get there hands on the jinchuuriki. It will be a constant fight outside a major village and it will take a eternity to return to hiding from the world again.

As they entered the house again most of the Akatsuki were packing there thinkings already. Garra, Fuu, Kaguya, Hidan and Konan went to there rooms to pack there stuff.

Itachi, Nagato and Kakuzu however went to the living room with the large table and meet with Sasori and Roshi. On the table were several pieces of papers and books scattered around.

The puppet master looked up from a book he was reading. He pointed at Itachi's tattoo. "Kaguya was right, there is something strange with that tattoo and I figured it out."

"Good, the sooner we figure out what Danzo is using against him the better." Kakuzu answered while sitting down with the others.

Roshi just looked at Itachi. "I still don't get it, why isn't he trusting us? We are like a family."

Sasori look Itachi directly into his eyes. "What color is Danzo's hair?"

Itachi look for a moment and wanted to say it, but he knew he couldn't. The moment he opened his mouth his mind was foggy and his eyes lost focus for a moment.

Nagato realized the problem. "A curse mark that stops Itachi from talking anything Danzo related."

"Probably every member of Danzo's little group has that and knowing him, that seal won't be going for anywhere." Sasori answered.

Roshi look around. "What do we do now? Should we get Utakata to remove the seal just like with Neji?"

Kakuzu shook his head. "No, the Hyuga clan made the seal to imprison there clan members. A special operations group would probably use something useful in a case of interrogations. Probably a quick way out if someone tried to remove it."

The Akatsuki leader crossed his arms. "Utakata might be able to remove seals but probably not that efficient to avoid Itachi's death. Any other options Sasori? Do you have any spies that could know something?"

The puppet master leaned back into his chair. "Not really. I know of only one master of seals, Orochimaru. Sadly the spy I ordered to serve him hasn't answered in a while."

Kakuzu raised a eyebrow. "How close is your spy to him."

"Very close. She is a member of the sound four." Sasori answered with a little bit of pride in his voice.

Roshi's ears peeked up a bit. "Do you mean Tayuya?"

Nagato looked at Roshi. "You meet her?"

"Yes, we fought during the mission but then everything went hazy. I don't know what happened but I believe a bunch of people came and... she screamed... that's all I can remember." The jinchuuriki answered.

Sasori started to rub his wooden chin. "That is very Strange. You were brought back by a ANBU group together with the others but there was no Tayuya...did Orochimaru figure out she was working with me and gave her away? No. Even if he figured it out he'd want her dead."

Sasori continued to mumbles himself while pulling several pieces of paper and quickly reading them through. "There is no mention of her in the mission report. The only reason for her to disappear would be if Danzo wanted her."

"Dose she have anything that makes her unique? Something that makes her unusual that Danzo might want?" Nagato asked curiously.

Itachi blinked once. "How did you even get that? The mission report was given to the Hokage yesterday, it should still be on her desk."

Sasori shrugged while ignoring Itachi. "The only thing uncommon about her is her personality and her family name. Uzumaki."

Kakuzu suddenly jumped up from his chair. "WHAT!? She is a Uzumaki?!"

Nagato and everyone els looked at Kakuzu. "What is wrong with you? Uzumaki is just a uncommon name."

Kakuzu turned to Nagato. "Don't tell me you don't know that it's not just a uncommon name, it's a nearly extinct clan. You and Naruto are part of it, of that I'm very sure. If she has red hair and Danzo has her then we are in a lot of trouble."

"She has beautiful long red hair." Roshi answered.

The bounty hunter slumped down in his chair. "We are going to have so much trouble in a couple of years."

"Ok Kakuzu, calm down and explain." Sasori said in a calm voice.

Kakuzu took a deep breath. "When the village was made by the first Hokage, several clans joined under his banner. Uchiha, Hyuga and several more. One of these was the very elusive Uzumaki clan, very old and masters of sealing jutsus. They had commonly read hair and a unnatural amount of chakra, plus at a certain point in there life they started to age slower to the point were most turned over hundred years old. Sadly they were so secretive that nobody even knew were there clan was in the village, some didn't believed they even existed. sadly that also meant that nobody noticed how they slowly died since they didn't want any outsiders to know about there secrets. In the end they all vanished, nobody knows if they were killed or just went away. The legend of the Uzumaki is almost dead, only a hand full of people know about the Uzumaki. I only know about it because I lived during that time period."

The four tailed jinchuuriki looked nervously at the Akatsuki members. "What dose that mean? What are they going to do to her."

Sasori let out a sigh. "If she is lucky, he will experiment on her for the rest of her days. If she isn't lucky, she will be forced to give birth to child after child. The life of a Uzumaki breeding incubator."

"But how do we even know if she is a Uzumaki? I mean you said that Naruto and myself are part of that clan and yet Naruto doesn't have any red hair. Maybe even Roshi or Sasori could be Uzumaki since they have red hair." Nagato said while trying to calm the situation down.

Kakuzu turned to his leader in anger. "Come on we both know that you and Naruto have an incredible amount of chakra. Naruto is certainly Uzumaki heritage and you could even be a full blooded Uzumaki. Just because Roshi and Sasori have red hair doesn't make them Uzumaki."

The three Akatsuki members were continuing to fight among each other about the problems that could come from Danzo having a Uzumaki, the steps of what they should do and even questioning the possibility that she may not be a Uzumaki. Roshi however noticed that Itachi was quietly leaving.

Roshi knew that Itachi was doing something that he had to do alone, otherwise he would have said something.

But maybe he couldn't say something.

Roshi immediately got up from his chair and rushed after Itachi. The other three Akatsuki members didn't even know that they were gone.

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In the street ally on the hidden leave village the Uchiha from the Akatsuki was slowly walking. His hand traced along the wall that he was familiar with.

During his time working under Danzo he visited many different hideouts inside the village. Every single one of those belonged to Danzo and some of those are so secretive that not even the Hokage knows about them.

Itachi's destination was exactly one of those places. A underground prison that was specifically made for potential intel gathering and experimentation on rare blood types. If the Uzumaki was anywhere right now it would be there.

It takes about one day to confirm what kind of clan someone belongs to, that day has already passed. If she truly is a Uzumaki then they will move her today to another hideout.

The Uchiha knew he was about to challenge Danzo and his underlings but if he doesn't act now that girl would face a fate worse then death. Plus now since everyone believes that Itachi isn't part of the Akatsuki none of them will be punished if he fails.

Itachi rounded a corner and waited for a moment. He noticed someone was following him. The moment that someone came close to the corner he grabbed him and slammed him Into the wall. To his surprise it was the four tailed jinchuuriki. "what are you doing? Why are you following me?"

As Itachi let go of Roshi the young boy pointed a finger at him. "You were just about to go alone and attempted to save Tayuya didn't you?"

Itachi's pack of ability to talk about anything Danzo related was answer enough for Roshi. "You might not understand it Itachi but it is my fault she is in there and I will be dammed if I let anything happen to her."

The Uchiha was grinding his teeth. "Fine, stay close and do exactly what I'm doing."

The pair continued along the ally until they came to a small little door. It appeared to be some sort of little shop. Itachi gestured that Roshi should go inside and the jinchuuriki obeyed.

Roshi entered the shop that appeared to be a Very small clothing shop with some cheep ninja equipment. There was only one other person in this room, a young looking man with glasses. He greeted Roshi with a smile. "Hello costumer, how can I help you."

The jinchuuriki was confused. "Yes, I'm searching for something actually."

The clerk smiled. "I'm sure I can oblige. There are many things here that-"

In that moment a body fell from the ceiling. It was a ANBU operative with a slit throat. The clerk looked up only to see Itachi falling on him and plunging a kunai into right through his glasses.

Itachi got up and walked behind the counter. He searched for a moment until he pulled a lever and a trap door in the floor opened. Itachi simply continued onward while Roshi followed and tried to avoid the still twitching corpses.

The corridor was small and narrow as the pair continued. It was also very dark, it took a while for Roshi to get used to the darkness. They passed some empty cells but then they heard something, someone was cursing and Roshi immediately recognized that voice.

He immediately wanted to rush to her aid but Itachi stopped him. The Uchiha shot him a glare and crouched down, the jinchuuriki followed him by also sneaking.

It didn't take long until they came to the end of the corridor. They were a little bit out of reach but there was a large heavy iron door with a guards positioned right outside. The door open and another guard exited the cell. There were only muffled screams before the door closed.

Itachi simply stood up and walked towards the two guards. The first guard saw Itachi red shining eyes in the darkness and immediately grabbed his weapon. "It's Itachi!"

He immediately charged directly at him and stabbed him right in the heart, only to realize that he just stabbed the other guardsmen. He looked to the side and saw Itachi right next to him before the Uchiha stabbed him into his throat.

As the two guards fell dead to the ground the jinchuuriki immediately opened the cell door and entered. Unlike the corridor there was absolutely no light in this room, just the smell of blood and somebody trying to speak with muffled voice. "Tayuya?"

He only heard a muffled reply but it was enough for Roshi to know where she is. He slowly moved closer to her until he could touch her. She winched in pain and Roshi could not see why or why she didn't speak. "Don't worry Tayuya, is me Roshi. I'm going to get you out of here I promise."

He gently moved closer until he managed to pick her up with both Arms. He noticed that she was slightly trying to get away so he tried to make it as comfortable as possible for her. As he exited the cell he saw why she was wriggling so much. She was completely nude.

Her mouth was stuffed with a pice of cloth and her hands tied together with shackles. What was truly horrible for Roshi however was the reason why she wasn't able to fight Roshi holding her. Her legs were broken and her body was covered in bruises.

Roshi could only stare her directly into her eyes. It was clear that she was both, very embarrassed and completely enraged. Before he could speak Itachi already threw a large pice of cloth over her that he got from one of the other cells. He quickly removed the cloth in her mouth. "We work together with Sasori and we have no time to be embarrassed or overreactive now."

Itachi started to backtrack as Roshi followed as he glanced to Tayuya. He knew this wasn't the time but he was holding a pretty naked girl him his arm. "Sorry about this Tayuya."

"Keep your hands there and I won't bite your head off shithead." Tayuya answered back. The jinchuuriki noticed that even though she attempted to act strong that she was scared.

It didn't take long until they reached the exit and left the hideout that was disguised as little shop. Now they stood against a greater challenge.

Before them were at least fifty ANBU members and they were lead by non other then Danzo himself. Itachi pulled out a kunai and his Sharingan shine bright red.

Roshi wanted to fight but he noticed that Tayuya was pulling herself closer to the jinchuuriki, he could feel her shaking with fear. He knew in that moment that there would be no way that these guys would lay there hands on Tayuya.

Danzo took one step closer. "I believe that you have my prisoner."

The old man smiled as he saw how Itachi was ready to fight. He removed the bandages on his left eye and revealing a Sharingan himself.

"Now that I think about it, you're eyes would suit me much more then Shisui's."