Disclaimer: I do not own Naruto, nor am I affiliated in any way with it, other than being a fan. Those rights belong to Masashi Kishimoto. I do own the OC's and any techniques and weapons I add to the story.

A/N: Thanks for the reviews all of you, I got some positive feedback on the elemental Rasengans, and am looking forward myself to showing what I will be calling Elemental Style: Final Rasengan.

So now Naruto and Hinata will both go to the Elder Dimension for training until the beginning of the Shippuden arc, and Minato and Jiraiya will head for Myoboku to hopefully get strong enough to combat their enemies.

Chapter 34: Departures

Minato felt like banging his head against the table repeatedly. Xackary had returned with Borace from the Elder Dimension and informed the group that Naruto was to be given free reign to go there. That meant that the plan to get Hinata and Naruto betrothed was now needed to get both of them to safety. So Minato and Kushina were now in meeting with Hiashi and the Hyuuga elders. There was already quite a bit of resistance from the elder's side of things, but because Hiashi was not only the clan head, but Hinata's father, so the final say as to whether the contract would be signed or not was his. Both Hinata and Naruto had already agreed to it, so Hiashi had no issues with signing the betrothal contract. But the elders were now refusing to stop being a headache. One of them had just brought up another issue.

"I absolutely will not allow it!" Kushina shouted at the offender, slamming both of her hands onto the table. "If you think that you are going to put that abomination of a seal on my future daughter in law's forehead, you are sadly mistaken!"

"You have no idea what you are talking about, it is a necessity to protect our bloodline," one of the elders replied. "If you think we are going to let a Hyuuga be married outside of the clan without the Caged Bird Seal on her, you're the one who is sadly mistaken."

"You should fix that leaky sewer pipe you call a mouth," Kushina said to the elder scathingly. "And if that seal only protected your bloodline, I would have no issues with it, but you completely bastardized the version you were given by my clan, and now make the Cadet Branch into slaves. You all make me sick."

"Watch your tongue!" a rather old woman in the council demanded. "The Cadet Branch need to be kept in their place. They are the inferior members of our clan, and you have no say in these matters anyway. Hinata will be branded. That's final."

"It is not," Minato said.

"You may be Hokage, but this is a clan matter, you have no say in it," another elder glared at Minato.

"Actually, I do. While under normal circumstances, I do not have the authority to go against the matters of your clan, I am privileged with the right to have a say in what happens with my family, whether or not they are a part of someone else's clan. Since Hinata will become my daughter in law, I can say that she is not to have the seal placed on her."

"How dare you! If you think that we will allow you to-,"

"It's out of your hands," Minato said. "I can tell you that if you try to do a thing to put the seal on Hinata, despite my edict, I will come to make several arrests. And if that is not intimidating enough, I will bring Kushina along to assist me. AFTER I tell her where Naruto and I last hid her katana."

Somehow, the Hyuugas went even paler than before. They knew of Kushina's reputation for her ferocity, and the idea of her coming for their blood was not the most attractive one they could imagine. Unfortunately for Minato, they weren't the only ones who suddenly had reason to fear.

"So that's why I could never seem to find it when I wanted to use it on someone, and yet you both always seemed able to produce it whenever you felt I would actually need it?" Kushina asked, leaking enough killer intent to make Minato really fear for his life.

"Can we talk about this later please?" Minato asked rather desperately.

"Fine, but I will make both you and Naruto pay for it later."

"So if that is all, our business is concluded," Hiashi said to an anime tear weeping Minato. "Lord Yondaime, I will make sure that my daughter does not have the Caged Bird placed on her." The grumblings of the elders were ignored and Hiashi handed Minato the betrothal contract.

"Well that went well," Minato said a little proudly.

"Except that now you need to plan yours and Naruto's funerals," Kushina seethed, still upset about finding out why her katana had always seemed to be "misplaced."

"In our defenses, it likely saved a lot of lives, what we did."

…..

"What are you doing here, Chicken-Butt?" the six year old red head asked Sasuke as he arrived at Ichiraku's. She ignored the tick mark he got at the Chicken-Butt comment, and Naruto just chuckled.

"I am here to inform you that instead of going to the academy," Sasuke started. "I will be personally training you privately."

Akari frowned in confusion at this. "I thought you had to have the rank of jonin to take a personal apprentice?"

"I am one. And your parents have already approved the idea of me being your sensei."

"Cool! So what will you teach me first, Chicken-Butt sensei?" (A/N: Yes, I will be using your idea, guest 777, please get an account so you can pm me more ideas)

Naruto sprayed a mouthful of broth as he failed to contain his laughter that Akari used the honorific in addition to insulting Sasuke's hair. Sasuek gained a few more tick marks before his face took on a scary expression, as though an idea that he would like and someone else wouldn't had come to mind. "Six years old or, not, I will put her through training from hell for that," Sasuke thought with malicious glee."I am going to enjoy this."

"You're going to regret calling him Chicken-Butt sensei," Naruto warned his sweating sister as she took in Sasuke's expression.

…

"Don't you even think about hooking up with anyone else while you are gone, you hear me?" Tsunade said to Jiraiya, who was already wearing his pack and had come to visit his fiancé at the hospital before he and Minato left for Myoboku. "I didn't accept your proposal to hear about you cheating on me."

"What, you really don't have any faith in me?" Jiraiya asked in mock hurt, before he saw Tsunade's face. "Don't answer that. But seriously, there are not that many dating opportunities where my former student and I are going. Who do you expect me to go out with, Shima?" He shuddered at the thought of sharing dinner with the old toad, before Fukusaku killed him with that staff he used to use to torture, er, train him with.

"All the same, I do know your tendencies, so if I do find out you did something I wouldn't like, I will borrow a rusty pair of toenail clippers from the Inuzuka clan, place a Regeneration Seal on your nether regions, and castrate you over and over again."

Jiraiya sweat dropped at the horrifying threat, before he heard an accurate imitation of a whipping noise coming from the direction of the window. "Oh, like you're one to talk Minato," the perverted sage retorted as he turned to see his student sitting comfortably in the sill, his pack also on hand. Minato laughed while Tsunade shouted at him, something about no one ever using the door these days.

"Speaking of which, we had better make tracks," Minato said, suddenly looking nervous. "Kushina is after me right now. I let it slip during the meeting with the Hyuuga elders yesterday that Naruto and I have been hiding her katana from her all the time, and she is not happy about that. I was able to distract her from it until this morning, but she still wants to beat me into the ground. Luckily, I was able to ditch her, and she's probably still chasing my Shadow- oh crap, she just caught it, and now she knows that I am already planning on leaving the village."

"We'd better get going then eh?" Jiriaya laughed as there was an angry shout from a spot in the village a fair distance away.

"Run for it!" Minato shouted hysterically as his wife's shouting was getting closer at an alarming rate.

"This time, use the-," Tsunade was left unable to finish when both Jiraiya and Minato jumped out the window, and ran as fast as they could from the hospital. Two seconds later, a red blur ran through the streets of Konoha in their direction, shouting for their blood. Tsunade sighed, reached for her sake bottle and muttered, "I will never be able to break them of going in and out through windows. So help me, if Naruto ends up following their example-,"

"Hey, Baa-chan, just thought I'd drop by to say good-bye," Naruto said from the open window, and there was a cracking noise as the sake bottle in Tsunade's hands felt a bit of pressure, as much as she could exert on it without shattering it and wasting her precious elixir.

"NARUTO!"

…..

Itachi sat beside four Shadow Clones as he and they attacked the piles of paperwork. It was no wonder Minato had hated it so much, if it was not for Shadow Clones, it would quickly overwhelm someone. But now that the one weakness of the Bane of all Kages was known, Itachi was only mildly busy with it. He chuckled as he remembered Minato telling him that if he was faced with a choice of never using Shadow Clones again, or calling Kushina old and fat while she was sharpening a kunai, he would have a very tough choice.

There was a knock on the door, and Itachi said, "Enter."

Danzo entered the room, and his eyebrow rose as he took in the Shadow Clones. "So that is the blasted reason I was never able to pull anything on Minato for the past few years, if he used clones to actually read the paperwork through rather than skim it, I was unable to slip any subtle documents that would help me wrest some power from him unnoticed," Danzo thought with mild irritation. "You wished to see me, Hokage-sama?" Danzo asked the newly appointed village leader.

"Yes Danzo. It has come to my attention that you are still going with your ROOT program, despite the Yondaime's edict that you were to disband it." Thanks to Itachi's involvement with Danzo in the previous timeline, he knew enough about the war hawk's more secret projects, and was able to send ANBU to investigate discretely so he could gather enough evidence for them.

"I don't know what you are talking about."

"Save it," Itachi said and he tossed several files with the evidence to Danzo, who looked them over and seethed when he read enough to understand he would not be able to weasel his way out of this. "I will not bother to listen to your arguments as to why you do your unethical, underhanded schemes," Itachi stated as he took the files back. "I know full well that you have the villages best interests at heart, but the ends do NOT always justify the means Danzo. Period. That said, I want you to terminate all projects that were on those files, and I will have ANBU watching you to make sure you don't get the idea to start your projects back up. If you do anything to try to evade said ANBU, I will assume that you are trying to restart a project and consider it treason against the village, and place you under arrest. You will be penalized based on the extent of your actions. Am I clear?"

"Crystal," Danzo gritted his teeth in silent fury.

….

"Are you both ready to go?" Felix asked as Naruto finished packing with Hinata's help.

"Yep," Naruto said as he sealed his pack in a scroll. "Now let's hurry up and leave, before ma either catches dad and kills him, and comes to finish her payback, or by some miracle, Dad escapes her wrath, and she comes at me to take her frustration and start her revenge anyway."

Both Hinata and Felix chuckled before the latter shattered the air. "Shall we?" Naruto nodded and while Felix stood back, stepped into the rift. Immediately, Felix, felt a jolt of pain and quickly followed, and the pain passed. "Good to know it works the same way as your mother predicted," Felix said and the rift closed behind them once Hinata had stepped through, looking rather nervous about leaving the dimension she had been born in. they nodded to each other as they took in their grey and shifting surroundings.

"Is this the Elder Dimension?" Naruto asked, confused. "Gloomy place…"

"No, this is the place between dimensions," Felix replied. "To go to our destination, I need to open up another rift, and keep in mind which dimension and what place in it I want to come out at. Like this." The air broke again, and they stepped through, into a clearing in front of a large stone building ijn the general appearance of a medieval fortress . "Welcome to the Elder Dimension's Yoshoryuu clan compound."

A/N: It seems that there are some people who are unaware of the fact that they are allowed three votes for the popularity poll. I did this to keep all votes from going to Felix, because I felt that he would be almost unanimous in it. So if you only voted for him, you still have two more to see who runner-ups are!

As for when Naruto gets the Rinnegan, I will have it awaken during another run in with Drakmus, near the end of his and Hinata's stay in the Elder Dimension. I also wanted to address another idea I had. I definitely will not have Naruto control six corpses, but I do have an idea I think is original and will still have him make good use of the Six Paths ability. I intend to have him make seven chakra receiving earrings, wear one himself, and give the other six to his some of his loved ones. He will not actually control their movements unless it is to get them out of danger, it will mainly allow him to share one power with each of them, and also let him see what they see, and they will be able to view his line of sight as well. Their eyes will not have the appearance of the Rinnegan unless the abilities are actually active, and they will still have access to their own abilities. One of the better parts is that since Naruto does not have to control their movements, he won't have to use that much chakra for that use of the power.

So if you like the idea, please let me know via reviews, and give me ideas on who he would share his power with. I have already decided that if I put the idea to use, I will make Hinata the Animal Path, and Sasuke the Deva Path. Like I said of course, the idea is still on the table, so if there are reviewers who do not want to see this, they just have to let me know, and if there are enough valid concerns, I will scrap it.

So read, and review please!