A day later after the Akatsuki attacked, the team moved out. Turns out the Jyiria found a really good place to rest which was near to Tanzuka quarters, and it turns out that it was cheep too but despite having the chance, Kurama still chose to stay in a room with his hyperactive, loving, blonde brother. After his secret was revealed, the two had gotten even more closer than before and became inseparable.
Kurama and Naruto were waling side by side as they looked around to admire the scenery, trees so big and full of life. The Uzumaki's weren't the only pair of brothers to get close though, Itachi and Sasuke's bond was also getting stronger by the minute.
As they got closer they eventually got tired and decided to set up camp in the forest. As they had just finished setting up camp, Naruto and Kurama saw Jyiria sneak away from the camp sight with a weird grin on his face.
"What was that all about?" Naruto asked he he sweat-dropped, Kurama shrugged and a light-bulb light up atop his head as he turned to his brother and asked "Wanna go check out what he's doing? Probably his research on stuff but let's get see what his research is all about...cause i'm curious"
"Yeah sure! Lemme go get Sasuke!" Naruto said as he hurried off to find his Uchiha friend. Naruto found Sasuke tossing rocket across the water to see if it would reach the opposite shore.
"Hey Sasuke!" Naruto called out as he saw Sasuke look back. "Oh, hey Naruto, what's going on?" He asked as he threw another stone across the water, this time it reached the opposite shore and Sasuke smiled in victory.
"Nah, nothing much. So, Kurama and I were going to see what Jyiria sensei's 'research' is all about, you wanna come along?" he asked and Sasuke raised an eyebrow in thought "Hmm...well, ok i guess. I mean, our mother's are pretty discreet when they say his 'research' is pretty taboo. But hey, i'm board of skipping rocks so I'm in!". Sasuke said as he exclaimed at the last part with his arms wide open with a smile.
The trio then set out to find the toad sage, they scoured the entire forest until they came up a small town nearby and Kurama pointed out "Hey look, there he is!". Sasuke and Naruto found the Sage on the roof of what seemed to be a sort of spa by the looks of it.
They approached it until Sasuke halted them "Wait a minute...this is no Spa, it's a bath house...FOR WOMEN!" he exclaimed in surprise as he wondered what on Kami's earth was he doing here?!.
"But, what's he doing here?" Kurama asked as he raised an eyebrow in question. "Ooh! Maybe he found Tsunade in there and he's watching her so when she comes out, he'll get her to come back with us! I mean, why else would he be at a bath house that's for women only!".
"Yeah! Urgh, why didn't we think of that earlier!" Kurama and Sasuke exclaim as they face palm for missing what they though was obvious.
Meanwhile within the mindscapes of Naruto and Kurama, the Kyuubi in the both of them were laughing hysterically at the failed attempt to notice the obvious. They were so innocent it was funny.
"OH!HAHAHAHAHA! 'WATCHING TSUNADE' HE SAID! GAHAHAHAHAHA!" howled the Kyuubi part in Naruto. " HAHAHAHA! OH...OH I CAN'T! I JUST CAN'T TAKE ANY MORE OF THIS! AHAHAHAHAHAHA!" Laughed the Kyuubi part that lay in Kurama.
"Oh Kami! Imagine if Kushina found out about this!" Chuckled Naruto's Kyuubi, which then gave the Kurama Kyuubi an idea. "Yo, how's about we tell on them...it'll be funny to see how Kushina reacts!"
The Kyuubi in Naruto gasped playfully as he grinned evilly, he then proceeded to contact the Kyuubi remnant that was sealed within Kushina and told him everything, who in turns relayed the info back to Kushina...
Back with Itachi who was looking around for Sasuke, Naruto and Kurama but he couldn't find them anywhere so he went to Shisui to ask him as Naruto may have gone to him to get more tips of the Flying raijin Jutsu, and then he'd stop by Kagami to see if Sasuke and Kurama were there.
However, when he reached Shisui he saw him training alone with Naruto no where to be found. Shisui sensed Itachi nearby and stopped as he turned and smiled at his friend "Oh hey Itachi!".
"Hey em...Shisui? you didn't happen to see where my little brother, Naruto and Kurama are do you?" Itachi asked and Shisui shook his head as he placed his held his chin with his thumb as he thought "Maybe they're with my dad, they'll want to know all the cool stories he'll have to share about the war and other stuff. I'll come with you too, just wait a minute k?"
Itachi nodded and as soon as Shisui had finished packing his gear up, he followed Itachi to Kagami who was by himself. And when they asked him he said he didn't know, but there was a small town up ahead so they must've gone there withe Jyiria or something like that as he heard that Jyiria was going there for 'Research'.
An uneasy light-bulb light above Itachi's head as he gulped "Oh kami...". Shisui looked at Itachi and thought the same thing as his eyes widened "We HAVE to find them...or else Kushina and your mom are going to have our heads on a silver platter!" Shisui exclaimed as he panicked, because if there was one thing he feared in this entire world it was an angry Kushina and Mikito combo.
The two elder Uchiha raced towards the town and found the trio in exactly the same spot they feared they would be, but the sigh of relief was that they weren't looking inside the bathhouse, but rather, they were watching Jyiria who was up on the roof staring down onto the scene below.
Shisui and Itachi appeared in front of the trio and obstructed their view, the duo had put on wide smiles with their eyes shut and their hands behind them as they said "Oh there you guys are...".
"Oh hey guys, what's up?" Sasuke asked and Shisui opened his eyes, the smile still present "What are you guys doing here? We've been looking all over for you" he asked and Naruto
"Oh we're just helping Jyiria out" Kurama answered and Itachi flinched ever so slightly as his world darkened around him, he kept the smile but at the back of his mind and Shisui's mind they both imagined a pitch black figure of Kushina with her red all flying all over the place with her dreaded yellow eyes and her kami forbidden frying pan of doom, which in Itachi's point of view, when used by Kushina was more deadly than the swords used the the seven ninja swordsmen of the hidden mist.
Itachi gulped as blue/black lines hung from his head as he asked "W...with what exactly? And did he ask you to come along?". His left eye was practically twitching at this point.
"Hmm? Oh no he didn't ask us to come along, we got curious as to what he was doing so we figured that he was watching Tsunade in there to keep an eye on her stuff".
'Kami damn! These kids are so innocent it's laughable, i can bet that when they find out what they just said a few years from now...it's going to be an epic face-palm moment' Shisui thought as he tried to stop himself from laughing.
Itachi fared no batter and was close to breaking point, when he spotted a ramen shop up ahead and diverted everyone's attention to that stall "Let's go grab a bite to eat ok? Ok! let's get going now, go go go go go!".
Itachi and Shisui basically dragged the trio to the shop whilst thinking at the back of their mind 'If Kushina EVER found out...we...are...dead".
Meanwhile with Minato, Fugaku and Jyiria's shadow clone
"So...he's come back eh? Well this can't be good" Fugaku sighed, his tone just showed how serious this was. "This man, went toe to toe with me, and almost had me if it weren't for the flying raijin jutsu i managed to pull during the last few seconds" Minato explained as the seriousness in the room deepened by a megaton.
"I'll double the patrols on the streets tonight and every night until Naruto returns with Tsunade, and then, we can think of a more concrete solution for this problem that is Madara Uchiha...though, i'm still in doubt that he is who he claims to be" Fugaku replied as he crossed his arms.
"Also, Minato, you look very tired as you've been working all nighters lately so maybe when Tsunade returns to the village...we could make her the fifth Hokage as that would take some tension off your shoulders.
"That would need the councils approval...but i'm in favour of it, Minato, you need to rest man seriously...with running the village and Hinata and Danzo and then this? Nah man, you need rest in peace" Jyiria continued. But then the door behind them flew off the hinges as a familiar and scary voice came though "The only one who's resting in peace here is you...and I'll make sure that it'll be as painful as possible DATTEBANE"
The three men shivered as Kushina stormed in the office, her hair was all over the place and she had her frying pan with her. "K...Kushina? What's going on? Wait...why do you have that cursed thing with you?" Jyiria asked as he pointed to the frying pan as he started to shake in fear.
She stayed silent so Minato called out to here "Kushina dear?" when that didn't work a shaking Fugaku who was practically wetting himself called out to her "Kushina?".
She calmly replied "The Kyuubi fragment in me told me that Naruto, Kurama and Sasuke followed Jyiria on his...'research'.
"WHAT?!" shouted the men in the room, Fugaku and Minato looked at the clone and exclaimed "WHAT HAVE YOU DONE?!". "Nothing! I just got here about three hours ago remember?"
"That doesn't matter...you're still you...AND YOU ARE DEAD!" Kushina exclaimed as she then glared at Minato and Fugaku who flinched "You are going to doing something to teach them a lesson on not wandering off when they get back aren't you?"
The three men gulped and Fugaku rose from his seat and Minato did the same "Uh..." was all Fugaku and Minato could say. "RIGHT?!" She shouted as the atmosphere in the room darkened.
"See...thing is, RUN!" Minato exclaimed as he grabbed Fugaku and the Jyiria clone and teleported out of the tower. Kushina's mood only darkened as she crackled evilly "Run...run while you can...I will find you, Minato, Fugaku, Jyiria...and when i do...YOU ARE ALL DEAD DATTEBANE!".
A/N: Hello there everyone! I hope you enjoyed this chapter and please do leave a comment. So, here's the thing...I've been reading through all the comments lately and I thought i'l address some of the many comments i get.
Other fanfic authors do this so i thought that i'd do it as well.
So, there's a review from a Guest, this was the one on CH 50. And you said that you'd like to see more Naruto and Kurama page time, and this is me trying to do that while also trying to link it to the main arc. So yeah, if you're the same guy that said that then...hoped you enjoyed this because there's more to come in the future!
And speaking of non-cannon stroylines, i have had a really good idea at the back of my mind that I wanted to share with you all. So, I was thinking about making my own story arc called 'Konoha's finest: broken' (I know the name needs work so send me ideas for the name).
This arc is going to be dark, with death, heartbreak but a hell load of action and with Danzo being the main villain here (He's been a side villain up-till now). This Arc takes place a month after Pain's attack on the leaf, or maybe sooner if you want it to be sooner (So yeah tell me when u want it or else i set it after Pain's attack).
If any of you would want to know more about this, then please PM me saying ur curious. Also, maybe you guys could PM me the ideas or if not, then just leave them down below when you finish writing your review.
Next up, Thor94, no Sasuke is not aware of his Mangekyou yet nor will he ever be for sometime as Shisui hasn't even told Fugaku and Mikito or hell even Itachi doesn't know about it. He will soon though, probably by the time i start making everyone go their long training.
So yeah...oh and Reversus12, i'm glad that you enjoy my story and I will try to brush up on that.
Now i know that i should've done these comment reviews a LONG time ago but i was busy with Uni stuff. But i'm doing it now cause you guys are the best!
So yeah...like i said, PM me on those things that i mentioned and don't forget to leave your reviews down below and I'll see you next time!
