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"Hmm…"- Tailed Beasts, Summonings, and Black Zetsu
"Hmm…"- Flashback/Memory

Chapter 37:
Day Three: The Calm before the Storm

Naruto could only smirk to himself as he jumped from rooftop to rooftop, the corpse of the recently murdered Hyuuga Hiashi over his shoulder.

'Man,' thought Naruto to himself, 'you would think that someone would have noticed me by now.'

"Hmm…what's this? Do you mean to tell me that you actually want to get caught?"

'Of course,' answered Naruto without hesitation. 'Weren't you listening to what I had said earlier?'

"….Maybe."

Naruto could only roll his eyes at Kurama's answer. 'Well if you're that curious, then just wait to see what's going to happen. It's more fun that way, don't you think?'

Kurama chuckled. "Indeed. Alright then. But you better hurry before I lose interest."

Naruto didn't respond to that, not that Kurama cared in any event. The tail beast just wanted to know what his container was planning to do to take any suspicion that could arise against Hinata disappear. Thinking of the Hyuuga girl made Kurama chuckled. She had guts, Kurama would give her that. Or maybe it was mental problems….?

In any case, for her to have killed her own father….and simply for Naruto as well! Well, Kurama had to give the girl some props. Not that it would matter in the end. The girl was simply a pawn for his container. A pawn that said blond didn't care about at all, except for the help that she would bring once the blond started to commence everything. And it wouldn't be for long either.

Kurama honestly couldn't wait any longer for the real fun to begin. Where everything would end once and for all. A sad thought in a way. But then the tailed beast could finally relax in peace along with the rest of his brothers. Well Kurama still had his doubts about Matatabi….either the cat was bipolar or….

Kurama honestly didn't know.

'Alright, this is just ridiculous!' mentally screamed Naruto with an annoyed look on his face as he stopped on top of a random rooftop.

'And Neji said that patrols were everywhere….'

"Not inside though. Either they're confident enough that no one could ever infiltrate as deep as you're in, or they're just plain stupid. I would go with the latter though….'

'Of course you would,' thought Naruto with another roll of his eyes as he walked towards the edge of the rooftop to gaze at the village that was currently under construction, Hiashi's body still on his shoulder. 'I must say though, they have rebuilt the village a lot faster than I thought.'

"Heh….that will just make it more fun to destroy it again…."

Naruto smirked slightly at that before turning serious. 'All in good time. But for right now,' thought Naruto as he glanced at the corpse that he was carrying at the moment, 'I have to get rid of this guy. And since apparently no one can notice me, then I'll just make it extremely obvious.'

Kurama raised an eyebrow, not that Naruto could see it. "Oh? And how do you plan on doing that?"

Naruto simply dropped Hiashi's body on the ground. 'You'll see…' responded Naruto as he activated his rinnegan.

"Tsunade-sama, you should get some rest. Don't forget that the summit is the day after tomorrow."

Tsunade scowled as she looked at her assistance, Shizune. First, she had wanted for Tsunade to do all of her work which she did. Well, not all of it, but still she did finish a lot of it. But now she wanted for her to stop? That made no sense.

"It's almost midnight already," continued Shizune with a worried look on her face. "It's not healthy to stay up this long like you are."

Ah, that explained it. Tsunade looked out the window that was behind her, just like her previous office had as well. And indeed, it was pure dark outside.

'Where did the time go?' thought Tsunade incredulously. To her, the day had only felt like a few hours. Maybe because she was too engrossed on her paperwork to actually notice the time moving.

"Alright," said Tsunade with a sigh as she stood up, making Shizune sigh herself but in relief. Good thing that her master had listened to her as quick as she had. Normally she would have gone on a racket. But it seemed that she was too tire for that.

'Tsunade-sama….' thought Shizune as she looked at her master worriedly. Shizune could understand why her master was tired. Tired of all these surprises that kept appearing out of nowhere. And they all started when Naruto had left Jiraiya. Truly marvelous how one event can change everything, reflected Shizune.

'It looks like the toads aren't coming today,' thought Tsunade as she organized the last of the papers on her desk before she left. And that was something that Tsunade did not like. At this point, any information on Naruto could be very helpful, why with all the mysteries that the blond was apparently surrounded with. Three years ago he was like an open book.

Well almost. Once she had gotten to know Naruto better, Tsunade knew that the blond had always been hiding behind that smile of his. Why? If Tsunade had to guess, it would be to hide all the real emotions that he had felt. Mainly all the hatred that he must have felt against the villagers. How much? Tsunade really didn't know. It had only been the people around him that had kept him from becoming someone dark. Mainly Iruka.

But that was in the past. Now….

Before Tsunade could continue her train of thought, she sensed an extremely familiar wave of chakra coming from somewhere nearby the Hyuuga compound.

'This chakra,' thought Tsunade as she walked up to one of the windows, her papers on the desk forgotten. 'It couldn't be…?'

"Tsunade-sama," said Shizune as she walk up to stand beside her, also having sensed the chakra. And how couldn't she? With the massive levels that were currently being released, anyone could sense it. But what was happening?

"Shizune," said Tsunade quietly, making said woman look at her, "get me a team of anbu as soon as possible. We need to get there….NOW!"

Shizune ran out of the office.

'Naruto….' thought Tsunade as she stared at the location from where the chakra waves were coming from.

"Oi, you're just wasting your chakra here."

'I know, but I have more than enough. Seems that my chakra levels have risen a lot from when the Rikudo Sennin shared his power with me.'

Kurama actually rose an eyebrow in surprise at that. "Seriously? How bigger can they get?" Now that was actually something that Kurama did not expect, not that anyone could blame him. Naruto's chakra levels had already been off the charts, and now apparently they had risen?

'The brat must have reserves close to that of a bijuu,' thought Kurama, although he found that thought to be exaggerating things. But even so, the brat was releasing chakra that would leave any shinobi on his knees by now, and he said that he still had 'more than enough.' Maybe he wasn't too far off….

Naruto stopped the release of his chakra as he looked at the ground to see Hiashi's dead body still laying there.

'Won't be long now,' thought Naruto as he walked up towards the corpse. With the amount of chakra that he had just released, anyone could tell where he was. And he was betting on that.

'Now to make it believable,' thought Naruto as he picked up the corpse.

"Tsunade-sama."

Tsunade glanced behind her to see a female purple haired anbu running behind her who was being followed by another four anbu members. "Cat," stated Tsunade before turning her head to look forward.

"What is this about, Tsunade-sama?" asked 'Cat.' She of course had felt the enormous chakra levels, but didn't know what to make of it. But the worse part of this was if perhaps someone hostile had actually gotten past through all of the patrols that were currently deployed. She of course had advised her Hokage to also place shinobi to patrol inside the village. But of course who had disagreed? The advisors and the civilian council. They had something about making the civilians uncomfortable.

Thinking about them made Cat shake her head. They were pretty much useless entities in government. Normally Tsunade would have just told them to go to hell, but it seemed that she didn't care anymore. And that was something that worried Cat greatly. If their own leader didn't care about the village, what would happen? Besides threats from outside the village, morons like the civilian council would destroy the village.

"We're almost there," stated Tsunade as she took to the rooftops as this area actually had finished buildings. Cat and the rest of the anbu followed behind her.

'Well, it seems that I have attracted quite the crowd,' thought Naruto as he felt the chakra from shinobi coming from all the directions.

'Well, to sell this,' thought Naruto as he threw Hiashi's body into a nearby building with great force. Said corpse smashed straight through the building.

That was the sight that Tsunade saw as she stood on a rooftop beside the one where Naruto stood, the anbu behind her.

And she wasn't the only one.

All active shinobi appeared all around the area wondering what was happening. And the sight before them was not the one that they had been expecting.

Naruto raised an eyebrow as he looked around. 'Ok,' he thought with a slight sweatdrop, 'maybe I went a little overboard….'

"You think?"

'Thanks for your support,' said Naruto sarcastically.

Kurama chuckled. "Don't mention it. That's why I'm here after all."

'Right…'

"Naruto!" said Tsunade as she stepped forward, a look of rage on her face having recognized Hiashi's unmoving body within the other building that Naruto threw. She had already assumed as to what had happened here. And that was that Naruto had attacked Hiashi who fought back which then resulted in all of the chakra being released earlier. Hiashi obviously closed one of Naruto's chakra points which then resulted in Naruto forcefully open it. And then Naruto preceded to kill Hiashi in which he succeeded. The only question was as to why Naruto had even attacked Hiashi in the first place. And that was what she was going to find out even if she had to beat the brat into a bloody mess. Well, she was going to do that anyways.

That and his appearance as well. What the hell had happened to him? She could tell that it was him because of the whiskers, but other than that, he looked like a completely different person.

Naruto raised another eyebrow. "Yes?" he said as if nothing wrong was happening.

Tsunade scowled when she took notice of his carefree attitude. "You will not get away!"

Naruto could only sigh. "Haven't you learn yet that you can't stop me? Our last encounter should have shown you that."

"That was only because you had backup!" retorted Tsunade. She was going to get all the answers she wanted dammit! "But now you're alone!"

Naruto chuckled at that. "You honestly believe that I'm alone? Have you forgotten what this village turned me into?" he said while pointing at his stomach.

Tsunade's eyes widened at that, as well as many other shinobi.

Naruto chuckled again. "I see you understand. Well I don't really consider this a curse really. In your idiocity, you have actually given me my greatest partner!"

'So he and Kyuubi are actually on good terms,' thought Tsunade worriedly. 'This confirms it….'

"Naruto!"

Naruto once again raised another eyebrow as Iruka stepped forward from one of the crowds of the gathered shinobi.

"Please! You need to stop this!" pleaded Iruka, also having recognized Naruto. But he would worry about his appearance later.

Naruto merely stared at the academy teacher for a few seconds, before he smirked. "Sorry. But it's too late for that. Words can't stop me. If you really want to put an end to all of this then," Naruto spread his arms outward, "then you'll have to kill me. That's the only way."

Iruka could stare at the person that he considered as his little brother in shock. "I-I…"

"DIE!"

Naruto merely stood there as one brave (or stupid) shinobi appeared before him with a kunai in his hand. "THIS IS FOR MY BROTHER THAT YOU KILLED!"

Before he could do anything else, he was pulled forward by an unknown force. Well to him it was unknown at least. Naruto held him by his throat as he looked at Iruka.

"You don't believe me, do you? Well let me show you," stated Naruto with his rinnegan activated. The shinobi being held screamed as Naruto pulled out his soul with a bored look on his face.

"That's it!" screamed Tsunade. "Everyone, capture him! NOW!"

Naruto let go of the shinobi's body as he looked at the incoming shinobi. Let's just say, there was a lot of them.

"Sorry," said Naruto, "but I don't have time to play with you." With that, he disappeared in a dark flash, leaving all of the Konoha shinobi to look around, confused.

Tsunade shook her fists. 'Naruto….'

Anko whistled from on top of a tree, having seen everything that had occurred. "Impressive," she stated.

Neji nodded his head from his spot beside her. "Yes. Although I don't think that it might be wise for us to just be out here in the open without trying to help."

Anko waved her hands. "Don't worry. Do you think that Tsunade will notice us with all of this going on? Not to mention the fact that with Naruto's chakra still in the air, she can't detect us."

"Right," responded Neji.

"I just hope that he didn't leave," continued Anko, talking about Naruto. "Watching all of that really turned me on."

Neji looked at Anko with a twitching eyebrow. "I really did not need to know that…."

Anko looked at him with a smirk. "What? You don't find me sexy?"

Neji turned away with a blush. "I'm not going to answer that."

Anko chuckled. 'It's so fun messing with him,' she thought.

"Having fun are we?"

Both Neji and Anko looked down to see Naruto leaning against the tree trunk, looking at them with an amused look of his face.

Before Neji could see how, Anko was right next to Naruto's side the next second, wrapping her arms around his neck.

"I'm flattered that you didn't forget about me," said Anko with a smile.

"Never," responded Naruto and then looked up towards Neji. "Get down here, will you?"

The next moment Neji was on the ground in front of them as well. "What is it?" he asked.

"I want you to tell Hinata what she will need to do," responded Naruto.

"Oi, it's not wise to stay in the open like this. No doubt that Tsunade will send search teams to look for you."

'I know,' replied Naruto.

"The Hyuuga no longer has a clan head," said Neji. "What do you-"

"I'm sure that you'll figure something out," interrupted Naruto with a slight smirk.

"Right," said Neji with a shake of his head.

"C'mon," whined Anko. "We have things to do."

Neji scowled as he turned to walk away. No way in hell that he was staying to watch any of this.

"I'll tell Anko what you two will need to do as well since you're not going to stay apparently," stated Naruto at Neji's retreating back.

Neji merely kept walking causing Naruto to chuckle.

"Let's do this," said Anko as both she and Naruto disappeared in a dark flash.

Mito sighed contently as she stood on the balcony of her temporary room in Kiri. It was a beautiful night alright. How she hoped for a time when she could just finally not worry about anything.

Having grown up during the era where war was a common occurrence, she understood the harsh reality of things. That sometimes people died for the stupidest of things. And all to just serve someone who didn't care about them at all.

'The idiocity of humans,' thought Mito as she looked up at the full moon. She was currently wearing a very loose scarlet nightgown.

An issue that was bothering her was that the poison that she had studied a few hours earlier. According to Yagura, the poison had been something that he had apparently used during the civil war in Kiri to kill people that had bloodlines. Well, Yagura didn't know how he had come up with it, just that he did. Meaning that Tobi was behind it which troubled her greatly.

A poison that can even affect an Uzumaki was a dangerous one.

'Just what was he planning?' thought Mito. Of course it could all just be a coincidence, but Mito didn't believe in coincidence. Another issue was as to how that bartender had even gotten hold of the poison in the first place.

'If only I could have asked him,' thought Mito with a sigh. Something told her that Obito knew. The only problem was that the bastard wouldn't tell her anything.

'Madara….just what is your true motive in all of this?' wondered Mito. 'Is this all just to take your revenge on Konoha?' That seemed sort of unlikely. This was all just too complex just for something as that.

A knock on the door snapped her out of her thoughts. Already knowing who it was, she said, "Come in."

Kushina, having her night wear concealed by a maroon robe, entered the room and gently closed the door behind her. "I take it that you want your answers now," said Kushina as she walked up towards Mito in the balcony and stopped to stand beside her.

"I really doubt that you have all the answers that I want," replied Mito.

Kushina sighed. "Yes, you're right. I don't even know everything about Tobi's appearance either."

It was Mito's turn to sigh. "I figured as much."

"All I know is that he was a part of Obito," began Kushina. "He was Obito's 'darkness' in a sense and that after Madara brought Obito back to life, he gained life."

"Obito died?" asked Mito with a curious look.

Kushina nodded. "Yes he did. He was crushed by a boulder trying to save an old teammate of his during the Third Shinobi War. Madara brought him back to life using the summoning jutsu to summon the Shinigami."

"But how can something like that happen?" questioned Mito. "No matter how strong a dark emotion is, it can't gain life."

'I don't know about that,' thought Kushina thinking about Naruto and Dark Naruto, although she could see that Mito did have a point. Even Dark Naruto couldn't gain a body of his own. If he wanted to be free, he would have to take over Naruto. So for Tobi to have had-

"And why didn't Madara just kill Tobi?" asked Mito, bringing Kushina out of her thoughts.

"Obito said something about him being curious about what had happened," responded Kushina.

'Madara….you…' thought Mito incredulously.

"Weird isn't it?" asked Kushina.

"It sure is," responded Mito. "But considering everything else going on, I shouldn't be too surprised."

Kushina didn't respond to that. "It's almost over isn't it?" she asked.

"I don't know," answered Mito. "But things will get hectic soon. That is certain."

Kushina merely closed her eyes.

"Where the hell have you been?"

"I was out getting some fresh air. I didn't know that I would be needed since Konoha is under construction. How was I to know that Naruto would attack?"

Tsunade sighed as she looked at Kabuto. To think that circumstances would actually make her team up with him of all people. Karma was a bitch.

It had been a few hours since Naruto's surprise appearance and killing of Hiashi. It was about four a.m. in the morning and Tsunade had not slept at all and she doubted that she would sleep tonight as well. And that was bad. The kage meeting was tomorrow after all.

"I'm surprise though," said Kabuto as he readjusted his glasses, "why would Naruto kill Hyuuga Hiashi of all people?"

"For the hell of it," answered Tsunade with a scowl. This was the last time that she let the advisors and the civilian council decide anything. She had just been to tired to try to argue with them, and she still was. But seeing what had happened because of it, she needed to step up.

"I have things to do," stated Kabuto as he made his way towards the door. "I'm sure that you'll want me to accompany you tomorrow, correct?"

"Yes," said Tsunade reluctantly. "Both you and Kakashi will be my 'bodyguards.' We will leave in a few hours though. So do whatever you need to get done as soon as possible."

'Not much time,' thought Kabuto as he walked out of the office. 'But it will do.'

Tsunade narrowed her eyes at the now closed door. She had been careless, not noticing Kabuto's disappearance. But she would be more careful now. And this just gave her another headache. In what position was she in where she couldn't even trust her supposed 'ally?'

Not in a very good one, that was for sure.

"So you're finally here."

"Hm."

Twitch.

"Now now Sasu-chan, don't use that kind of attitude on your mother. I have taught you better than that haven't I? Cause if I haven't, then I guess I'll just have to start now."

"….No Kaa-san."

A nod. "Good. Now come and give your sweet and caring mother a big hug!"

Sasuke's eyebrows twitched as Mikoto approached him with her arms stretched outwards, ready to give him a big hug.

Suigetsu was laughing in the background with Karin trying her best to hold hers in. But when Mikoto did hug Sasuke, she lost the battle.

'I'm not eight anymore!' thought Sasuke miserably but decided not to voice it. His mother was scary. That was something that he never forgot and probably never will.

The two Uchihas with both Karin and Suigetsu were currently inside the Raikage's office with said shinobi being in the village to overseeing his now prepared army and readying himself to head towards the Land of Iron.

Mikoto released her son from her hug, a smile on her face. "So…how are you doing Sasu-chan?"

'Could do without your hugs and nicknames,' thought Sasuke. "Are we ready yet to move on?" he asked instead. "I'm quite tired of just simply traveling from village to village."

Before Mikoto could respond, someone beat her to it.

"Now now Teme, everything in good time."

Sasuke scowled as both Obito and Naruto appeared inside the office thanks to Obito's teleportation jutsu.

"Oh?" said Mikoto in surprise. "What are you doing here?"

"Just to make sure that everything was finished," responded Naruto. Thankfully Obito had left one of white zetsu's clones in the village. After having getting 'acquainted' with Anko, he had contacted Obito through white zetsu and now they were here.

"Everything has been taken care of," replied Mikoto. "But where is Kushina?"

"In Kiri," answered Naruto. "They had things to do there." He then turned to look at Sasuke. "And don't worry. Things will get exciting now. No more traveling."

Sasuke smirked at that. "It's about time," said Sasuke.

Naruto smirked as well, but didn't say anything.

Mikoto crossed her arms. "And? A whole day is still left. What are we suppose to do?"

Naruto shrugged. "Relax? Use this time to get rested. It probably won't be happening again for awhile where you'll get to be so secure."

Obito sighed as he rubbed the back of his head. "Well, if you don't need me anymore, then I guess I'll go sightseeing."

The way that he said sightseeing made Mikoto's eyes twitch. With that, Obito walked out, Suigetsu following although said swordsman didn't say anything, not that anyone present cared.

"We need to talk," said Naruto to Mikoto, making said female Uchiha raise an eyebrow.

Seeing where this was going, Sasuke began to walk out as well. "Let's go," he simply said to Karin. The female redhead merely followed behind the Uchiha, not saying anything.

'I'll ask her about it later,' thought Sasuke glancing at his mother momentarily before walking out, Karin right behind him.

When the door closed, Mikoto asked, "What is it?"

Naruto activated his regular sharingan with the three tomoes. "These eyes….who did they belong to?"

Mikoto sighed at that. "Do you really want to know?" she asked back.

Naruto nodded. "Yes. Because," he closed his eyes and when they opened, his mangekyo was activated, "I don't want to go blind because of this."

"The Eternal," muttered Mikoto, understanding where the blond was going with this.

Naruto nodded again. "Exactly. So….whose were they?"

Mikoto sighed again before answering. "Well if you want to know, I have to explain something to you. I have a whole collection of sharingan eyes."

Now that made Naruto paid even more attention. That was something that he was also interested in.

"With the help of white zetsu, I managed to secure a lot of them after the Uchiha Massacre," she began to explain. "Of course there was also Tobi who collected some for his own use as well. But unlike him, the reason I collected them was because they are property of the Uchiha Clan, not Konoha. But there was one important eye that both Tobi and I could not get in time." Mikoto paused here before continuing.

"And that was Uchiha Shisui's eye."

"Uchiha Shisui?" repeated Naruto.

Mikoto nodded. "Yes. He possessed the mangekyo and in turn one of the strongest genjutsus in existence, if not the strongest. And the one that has it is Danzo."

Naruto scowled at that. "Why am I not surprised."

"I don't know what happened to the other eye though," said Mikoto with a thoughtful look on her face before shaking her head. "But the point is though that Danzo has a strong sharingan eye in his possession. That was what I was after before I heard that you had left Jiraiya on your training trip."

"I see…" muttered Naruto.

Mikoto then shrugged. "It doesn't matter now though. I'm sure that that bastard is going to show himself at the Kage Meeting and that's where I'll finally take that eye back."

"I understand so far," stated Naruto. "But you still haven't told me as to whom this eye belonged to."

This time Mikoto chuckled. "You'll probably not going to believe this, but those eyes belong to none other than Madara's father."

Naruto raised an eyebrow at that. "Seriously?" he asked.

Mikoto nodded. "Yes." 'To make him gain the eternal I'm going to need to give him Madara's brother's eyes just like Madara said I should,' thought Mikoto although she didn't quite understand as to why Madara had wanted that, just that black zetsu said that that were his orders. But still….why?

Naruto rubbed his chin in thought. 'Something tells me that Madara had something to do with that.'

"You think?"

Naruto ignored the bijuu. "I see….then how am I suppose to acquire the eternal then? I don't suppose that he had a relative that I could transplant with."

Mikoto was quiet, but her mind was thinking.

"Do you understand? Only when he asks for it, and only then, are you to give him Madara's other brother's eyes so that he may be able to attain the eternal."

"I don't get it. Why are you telling me this now? Why did Madara want any of this?"

"It's…important."

"You're not going to tell me, are you?"

"Hehehehe…you know me too well."

"Tch…can you at least tell me just why are you telling me this now?"

"He's with you now, isn't he? What good would this information be when he wasn't? Just do as Madara wanted and you'll be really glad of the things that will happen afterwards. I guarantee it."

'He better be right,' thought Mikoto.

"I have something that will get around that," stated Mikoto with a smirk.

"And that is?" asked Naruto.

Mikoto merely continued to smirk.

"So Tsunade-sama will be leaving soon."

"We need to figure out what to do too. It's obvious that Naruto is no longer the person that we thought that he was."

Neji merely stared at the discussion in front of him with an impassive look on his face. Currently the remainder of the rookies were discussing what they were going to about Naruto now that it was clearly obvious that he was not going to change. Something that made a certain pink haired kunoichi very sad.

Sakura had her head lowered, staring at the ground.

Neji honestly found that very amusing. Three years ago the pink haired girl wouldn't have given a single thought to Naruto, but then he leaves and she basically became obsessed over him.

'I wonder what she is going to think about when she knows that Sasuke is also in this,' thought Neji with a mental smirk. He then glanced at Hinata who looked pretty normal for someone that had just lost her father. But it seemed that she didn't care about putting appearances anymore.

The Hyuuga clan was also in a big mess at the moment. The elders still didn't know what to do without a clan head. Of course Neji would know what to do about that, but that would be for later.

"I suppose that no one has any objections?" asked Shikamaru with a serious look on his face while looking at Sakura.

And of course if anyone were to have any objections it would be her and perhaps Hinata, but with Naruto apparently killing her father, Shikamaru didn't suspect in her trying to object.

But Sakura didn't say anything though.

Seeing no objections, Shikamaru continued. "Then it's settled. Naruto is now hereby considered an enemy to all of us. We are not to try to talk to him anymore."

Tenten glanced at Sakura as well, but didn't say anything either.

"If that's over, then we have things to do at the moment," commented Neji as he looked at Hinata. "The Hyuuga clan currently has an important meeting that we must attend."

Shikamaru nodded, understanding. A new clan head was needed after all.

Both Neji and Hinata began to walk away. 'Idiots' thought Neji thinking of Shikamaru and the rest. 'If they think that they can actually stop him….'

"Are you going to be going with us as well?" asked Mei as she along with Yagura, Ao, and some swordsman named Chojuro stood in front of the village gates in Kiri.

Mito, along with Kushina and Fuka, nodded. "Yes. The Kage meeting…that's where the curtain will fall and the real beginning of this will start. So we need to be there."

Yagura glanced at both Utakata and Hotaru. "Are you sure that you want her to come along?" asked Yagura to Utakata.

Said jinchuriki shook his head. "She's not."

Hotaru looked down at that. She of course wanted to tag along because Utakata was going, but he didn't want her to come along because he said that it was 'too dangerous.' She could take care of herself!

"There's also something that I want to look into after this," said Mito but didn't elaborate.

"We better get moving then," said Mei, the Mizukage hat in hand.

"Things will get interested," commented Fuka with a smile.

Kushina also smiled but it didn't reach her eyes. She couldn't believe how much she missed her son. Maybe it had something to do with the circumstances as to how he was born that night. Her thinking that she would never be able to spend any time with him.

"Let's go then," said Mito, the others behind her. "To the Land of Iron!"

Danzo stood within his tent within his camp in the Land of Iron, the remainder of his faithful followers kneeling in front of him.

"Our time has arrived," declared Danzo he spoked to his Root anbu. "Before the Kage Meeting ends tomorrow, I shall not only be the Hokage, but also the leader of all the shinobi nations!"

All of the Root anbu merely listened to their leader intently, soaking up all of his words.

"No one will stand in our way. Our era will commence no matter what! No one, not even Uzumaki Naruto, will stand in our way!"

"HAI, DANZO-SAMA!"

Danzo could smile as he looked at his gathered force. Yes, he would succeed. He might of lost the scroll that he had been looking for, but he still possessed Shisui's eye.

With it, he could not lose. He would use it to take control of the meeting and make sure that he would be chosen as the new leader of all the shinobi nations.

And he would make it happen.

"So you guys really are back!"

Both Roshi and and Han glanced back down the street to see an Iwa kunoichi running up to them enthusiastically.

"Who are you….?" sake Roshi.

The young kunoichi pouted as she stopped in front of both the Iwa jinchuriki.

"How could you not remember me?" said the girl with playful tears on her eyes. "It's me! Kurotsuchi!"

Roshi's eyes widened. "No way!" he said and then smiled. "Well, would you look at yourself. You've grown, Kuro-chan!"

Kurotsuchi scowled at the nickname. "Don't call me that! I'm not a little girl anymore, you know!"

Roshi chuckled. "I see…sorry."

Kurotsuchi glanced at Han. "Still quite as ever, are you?"

"I suppose you could call it that," replied Han softly.

Kurotsuchi smiled at them. "But it's really great to see you two though! C'mon!" She linked her arms with both jinchuriki. "We need to catch up with each other while we can! The old man will no doubt take you two to the Kage Meeting so we need to hang out now!"

Roshi smiled softly at the young girl while Han's eyes merely soften a bit.

It was good be alive alright.

Yugito sighed as she laid on a bed within one of the many tents in the makeshift camp of the army Killer Bee had gone to talk to the Raikage about something that Yugito didn't really know what it was about.

But her mind was currently preoccupied on what was going to be happening soon. Funny that the first time that she had met Naruto she obviously had not expected for him to actually make something as big as this possible. That also seemed like a long time ago. But how long ago was it really? A couple of weeks or more? Yugito didn't know.

"Trouble kitten?"

'You have no idea,' replied Yugito.

Matatabi chuckled. "Don't worry. I'm sure that Naruto will definitely protect you!"

'You're still going on about that?' asked Yugito with a shake of her head. 'That's just never going to happen.'

"And that's because you're just simply too stubborn," retorted Matatabi.

'Call it what you will, but I'm not about to just give myself as easily as that. I'm better than that,' stated Yugito.

"I know, but trust me when I say that you will not regret it if you do."

'Just why are you that intent with me getting with him anyways?' questioned Yugito.

"Because he's the next chosen that's why! And that's the perfect mate for my jinchuriki!"

'Mate!?' thought Yugito incredulously before something else caught her attention. 'Wait, what do you mean by the 'chosen?'

Matatabi cursed quietly at that. 'Dammit. Shinigami-sama told me to not tell anyone about it yet. Damn my mouth!'

'Well?' said Yugito.

"...Just forget it. But you should still listen to my advice. You'll never regret it."

Yugito cut off her link with her bijuu, not wanting to listen to the bijuu any longer. But the temptation did still remain with her. How would it be...one night with Uzumaki Naruto?

'Maybe not too bad...'

"It's done."

Naruto touched his bandaged eyes. He could feel it indeed. The power oozing from them.

'So this is the eternal mangekyo…now I can use the sharingan without any worries.'

"It's still shocking that the Uchiha woman possesses eyes that are as old as from the Shinobi Clan War era. And from Madara's relatives as well."

'It makes no difference to me,' thought Naruto. 'Just as long as it works.'

"You'll need to let your body to get adjusted to them, so you'll have to stay in bed for now."

Of course Mikoto didn't think that it would take that long considering that the Kyuubi was sealed in Naruto. The bijuu would no doubt speed up the process.

Naruto sighed at that. "This will not be fun…" muttered Naruto. He was still energetic as ever if not more and staying in bed doing nothing to do with all of his energy was not going to be easy.

Mikoto chuckled as she pushed Naruto back into the bed and climbed on top of him. "Don't worry. I'm sure I can help you pass the time."

Naruto would have raised an eyebrow if he could but wasn't going to say no. So he placed his hand on both sides of Mikoto's shapely hips. "It would be appreciated."

Mikoto rolled her eyes. "Of course it would."

"So you're awake."

Fu shook her head as she stood up in a sitting position from the bed that she presumed that she had been sleeping on. Just what had happened? The last thing that she remembered was….

"Danzo!" she exclaimed as she looked around.

"Woah, calm down," said Obito as he walked up towards her form the wall that he had been leaning on. "You're safe right now."

"Obito," said Fu in relief. She then looked around, not recognizing the room. "Where am I?"

"You're in a safe house at the moment," answered Obito. "You sure have missed a lot of things."

"Where is Naruto?" asked Fu.

"In Kumo," answered Obito. "I was there too but then I got bored so I thought I could pay you a visit. Although I didn't expect for you to wake up."

Fu then got out of the bed showing that she was only wearing a common white hospital gown. "I need to go see him then."

Obito shook his head at that. "He's currently…busy," said Obito with a slight roll of his eyes.

"What am I suppose to do then?" asked Fu.

"Just get dressed," answered Obito as he made his way out of the door. "I'm sure that you must be hungry."

And true to his statement, Fu's stomach made it's presence known, making Fu blush in embarrassment.

Obito chuckled. "I'll get you something to eat. You'll need the strength for what's going to happen. I'll also fill you in as to everything that has happened."

"Thanks," said Fu as Obito walked out of the room, closing the door behind him.

"It's good to see you well."

Fu smiled as she heard Chomei's voice. 'Thanks Chomei.'

Chomei didn't respond.

Fu then walked up to one of the closets in the room where she presumed that her clothes would be in. But instead she found a different outfit. It consisted of brown boots, a one piece short sleeve brown outfit that ended as a mini skirt and covered her entire chest and stomach areas but exposed her upper back, brown fingerless gloves and gray stockings.

There was also a note attached to it. It read:

To Fu from Mito. I'm sure that you will enjoy this new change of wardrobe. No thanks are needed. Just simply enjoy.

'Who's Mito?' wondered Fu but shook her head. She didn't know how long she had been out, so it was obvious that she would have missed some things.

'I'll just worry about it later.'

She then proceeded to change into her new outfit.

Within one of the old laboratory in underground Konoha, Kabuto chuckled as he read the scroll that he had took from Uzu more carefully.

'Now I'll be able to summon those four after all….' thought Kabuto.

But he better hurry. He had to be ready for when Tsunade would leave towards the Land of Iron.

'Naruto-kun,' thought Kabuto. 'You are indeed powerful. But will you be able to handle the combine power from all of the combine forces of all the shinobi that I will summon?'

Kabuto honestly didn't think so. And once Naruto was out of the picture, Sasuke was his next target.

And then he would truly be closer to learning the secrets of the Rikudo Sennin.

Yo

Now I want to say something. Yes, I had already planned as to whom the sharingan eyes that Mikoto had implanted into Naruto belonged to and that I would make Madara have another OC brother besides Izuna to make Naruto have the eternal. It helped though that apparently the manga revealed Madara's father and that Madara apparently had TWO other brothers besides Izuna.

I just wanted to make that known. That being said, this makes another chapter finished and a very boring one in my opinion and I apologize for that but this is all to just set things up for the next chapter and the Kage Meeting.

So please bear with it. And that's it for me. Do tell me what you thought besides it being 'boring.'

Till next time.