Naruto: Variations

I don't own Naruto or its characters, but I do own my oc's but if you want to use one, just ask

Chapter 37: The day before the conference

Asuma looked out of the massive window which set in the back of his own office. As he looked down at the village below him, he could picture where every one of the visitors from the conference would stay at. He knew that they would each bring their own security and support, which mean the room need for each group would be rather large. As he looked down, he could only wonder what type of shinobi these grand leaders would bring with them. Turning to look at the list of people arriving, he noted that of all of the villages, except for the rain village and sound village agreed to come to the meeting. Then he noticed that each village had at least 6 names under the name of the villages leader, who would be coming to the village as well. It was a logistical nightmare to handle. Still, the merchants where far more then happy to have to chance to earn a good bit of money.

He would have to also find others to represent his village as well. This choice was his and his alone, the council had decided this fact only a few days before. He still knew that his choices where limited to some degree. He of course would have Jiraya, and Tsunade represent the leaf, but where known worldwide for their skills, as well as Kakashi. He also had to select the Sarutobi heir, Naruto to show up as well and show the future of the village. Asuma thought about this for a second, the idea of showing off the future of Konoha, would be interesting. He could show the world, that Konoha was the future, and that their young shinobi where the best. He deiced to go with the heirs of the important clans, Ino, Shikamaru, Choji, Hinata, Sasuke, Shino, and Kiba. He also knew by choices these youngster, he would end up with the others as well. To finish up the group, Asuma picked several of the other top jounin in the village like Anko, Gai, and Iruka. As he finished his list, he sent a messenger to find as many of the group as possible and have them meet him in his office. Asuma leaned back in his chair and waited for everyone to show up so that he could inform them of the situation that was at hand.

The messenger first went right to the hospitial where he knew he could find Lady Tsunade and Shizune . Walking up to her office, and knocking, and looking though the window, he noticed that Ino and Sakura where both working hard on something while being instructed by the two older women. He quickly handed the messages to the three recipients who where in the room. Next, the messenger was able to find Anko, and a nervous looking Iruka eating at ramen. After developing the messages to the two of them, he quickly found Shikamaru, and Choji nearby. The rest of the messages where pretty easy to hand out, as most of the shinobi where in their normal places. The only four messages he had yet to deliver where to Naruto, Jiraya, Kakashi, and Yamato. In point the 4 most important people he had to deliver the message to.

Naruto pushed had pushed his body for the last two weeks, and he was pretty low on energy. He had just pulled off his new jutsu, and was pretty happy with the success of the two weeks of effort. Naruto still knew that he was far from being at Kakashi, Yamato, or Jiraya's level. Yet he just hoped that he was strong enough to make a difference in the fight which was to come, one which Naruto felt would be far more important then any he had been in to this point, even the Gaara fight.

"Naruto how are you holding up," Jiraya asked looking at him with a proud look on his face.

"Great, sensei, thanks for the help," Naruto said with a smile, Jiraya had shown up pretty much from the start of the two weeks of training, and had done more to help him master his new jutsu then anyone else, not to say they were not important.

"Hmm..why don't we all get some ramen, you have earned it, this time," Kakashi said looking at the others who were all tired from training Naruto.

"No arguments here," Yamato said standing up.

Yamato looked over at his student, and smiled, he was strong, maybe stronger then both him and Kakashi. It he was not at this point, it was only a mater of time before he would be, and their help in training him would be pointless. Still till, that date, he would do what he could to help his old student.

On the way to the last training area, the messenger walked into the four people he was looking for, and each of them just look like they had been though a serious fight.

"Alright, I was sent by the Hokage, to give you this message, you are to report and see him as soon as possible."

Asuma looked at the group of people who had all arrived, they were just waiting on the last group of people to show up at his office, which of course included Kakashi, and Naruto. Looking at those who had already arrived, he could tell that they were getting annoyed at how late the four where.

"Hmm…I except this from Kakashi sensei, Naruto, and maybe even Jiraya, but now Yamato Sensei, great, figures things would work out like this," Ino said shaking here head.

"Well sorry, I was hungry," Naruto said walking though one of the open windows, followed by the others.

"My fault on this one, Hokage, Naruto just finished his training," Yamato volunteered.

"Fine, it is ok," Asuma said unworried about them being late, "Now, let us get to the reason you're here. The villages have decided to have a grand conference about the problems plaguing all of us. Each group will bring its best shinobi to represent their villages. I picked each of you as the finest example of our village, you will be excepted to participate fully in the actives of the conference and show the others why Konoha is the finest of all of the villages. I have assigned each of you different groups to villages to work with. I am sure you will get to know each other well over the next couple of weeks. Remember you will be the face of our village to these villages, and they will remember Konoha based on your actions. You are dismissed, your assignments are listed in the hall. Naruto please stay here a second."

"Yes, Hokage," Naruto said waiting for all the others to leave.

"Naruto, you will be around me for most of this conference, also, I am sure that their will be more pressure on you. As my son, the other villages will want to get to know you well, and will see you has the future of the village," Asuma said in a serious tone.

"That is fine, I am going to be the next Hokage after all, it is only to be excepted," Naruto said before laughing at himself, causing Asuma also to laugh, "I sure I can handle it, don't worry pops. I think Kurenai and Makoto would love to see you. Join us for dinner."

A/N: Next chapter begins the crazyness with all of the different villages and their shinobi, I am working on shinobi for each villages, but there are a lot of villages without shinobi that are known. It may take a bit, if you have any ideas, or liked this chapter, please leave a line in a review, it is always extremely helpful to get reviews. Thanks for reading the story.