A/N: Did you know that 186 episodes of Naruto is filler? That's certainly quite a lot of filler. Well, it's not like I'll be using all the episodes of canon either. Just the ones that are relevant to this story. Also, everybody here looks like what they were in Part II, just for sake of convinience. I'd also like to apologize that since I'm using a laptop, I don't know how to put those little lines above o's and u's.
It's been 2.5 years since Naruto has been kicked out of Konoha, and at first it looked like it was the end of Naruto Uzumaki from back then. But as it would turn out, with the help of Kurama, Naruto would get a family that were just like him; jinchurikis. First he found Gaara, whom was able to control sand, and housed the tailed beast, Shukaku. Following that were Gaara's siblings; Kankuro the puppetier, and Temari who specializes in wind type jutsu. Other jinchuriki that were recruited were Roshi and Han Zenpoe, ninja from the land of earth who have Son Goku and Kokuo respectively, Fu Dainana from the waterfall village who had Chomei, Yugito Nii from the land of lightning, and Utakata from the land of water, housing Saiken, with his normal accomplise, Hotaru. Sadly, there were a couple of jinchuriki that they couldn't bring along. Killer B from the same land as Yugito Nii, who was sworn into protecting his hidden village for all time, and the Forth Mizukage, Yagura Karatachi, whom had too bad of a reputation to be personally associated with them. But even with that, he still managed to unite all of the tailed beasts, and even managed to form his own unofficial hidden village where his clan formerly lived before they were destroyed, naming the area Kemonogakure, with Yugito elected as its Dokage. Now, with the years passing, he's ready for a surprise he's been training for.
It was becoming sunset, and the entire gang was enjoying some cooked dinner over the outdoor firepits, cooking various dinners for some of those who didn't want the same dinner. In one group was Gaara, Kankuro, Temari, Fu and Naruto preparing to eat some ramen, while the other consisted of Yugito, Roshi, Han, Utakata, Hotaru and Jiraiya preparing to eat chunks of meat from both the wilderness and from the mainland stores. Temari, Kankuro, Utakata and Hotaru were always the ones to get supplies when they needed them, seeing that three normal ninja and one Jinchuriki were enough. Over the past 2.5 years they've also trained under Jiraiya-sensei as even though some of them were jonin level in skill and power, learning from a sannin never hurt. While their own special skills got better by only their own training, their bodies and overall ninja skills have increased to incredible heights they never would've done on their own.
"Wow, this is delicious ramen, Temari! I'd say you've mastered the art almost to the same expertise as Icharaku's!" Naruto complimented. Temari smiled to her little brother.
"Why thank you. That's real kind of you to say."
Yeah! This is some of the best cooking I've eaten living here. You sure are becoming a master of the culinary arts." Fu added gleefully. Temari's smile grew bigger looking at whom she considered a fellow sister.
"Yes. Quite delectable."Gaara simply said in congrats.
Over by the grown up fire, they were talking about something that they've been talking about for a small while.
"How much longer will it be Jiraiya? You said 2.5 years ago that the Akatsuki and Orochimaru could attack. That's almost any day now. This may be a secluded island but that means that we won't have any reinforcements to back us up if we're ambushed."Yugito the Dokage questioned. Jiraiya wasn't breaking a sweat over it.
"Hey, don't sweat about it. With the time we had, not being distracted by anything, the younglings should be as strong and capable as your typical jonin, if not have mastered chunin capabilities, and us adults are now skilled enough to give a Kage a run for their money individually. Not to mention there's 11 of us here now. If they want to ambush us, they'd have to bring their whole ranks to the place. Sure, there's a chance they'll find us eventually, but that's what we've been preparing for the past 2.5 years now. Don't worry too much."
"But we don't know anything about these Akatsuki aside from the fact they're all S-rank jonin. And one of them is an Uchiha." Hotaru pointed out.
"That's why a friend of mine has been teaching me how to deal with that, teaching it to you all to face that threat. Everything is going to go fine." Jiraiya reassured.
"You had better be sure Jiraiya. I don't want to think about what will happen if even one of us is killed." Yugito said worried.
"If necessary, us adults will lay down our lives so that the teenagers will escape. We can't let them disrupt the potential of this generation." Han spoke, tilting his head down so that they didn't read his expression.
"Right." Utakata agreed before turning to his closest ally. "Hotaru, should the circumstance come, you need to retreat with the others. You wouldn't be able to hold against them." This shocked the kunoichi.
"What?! No Utakata-sensei! You are my master! I just can't leave you!"
"You've come far, but you're on par with the teenagers at best without the use of their tailed beasts. I don't want you needlessly sacrificing yourself when there's four jinchuriki and a sannin willing to lay down their lives for them. You need to be there for them. As your master, I order you to follow my instructions. Am I clear, Hotaru?" Utakata sternly ordered. Hotaru started to cry. Even though he has accepted her as his pupil, he still rarely executed his authority as a master. Utakata only did so when a situation called for it, and now was one of those times for him. Not knowing what to decide, she ran away with tears streaming down her face into the custom made Kage estate they made for everybody here. Everybody from the teens firepit looked to see her run off to the estate, wondering what happened.
"I'll bring her dinner." Yugito sighed as she gathered some food and followed Hotaru.
"Real smooth, Utakata." Jiraiya called out.
"I wonder if Utakata said something mean again." Fu asked.
"Likely. She pretty much only cries because of him." Naruto reasoned.
"Fu, why don't you follow me? Might be time for one of our girl chats." Temari suggested as she set her dinner bowl down.
"Sure, no problem." The young kunoichi said as she grew two insectoid wings. She looked back to Naruto and Gaara. "Don't you two go anywhere. This won't take long." She winked almost seductively at them before flying off passing by Temari as she got up and left. Looking at Gaara before shrugging, he got up and walked to the adults.
"Hey, what happened here? What made her cry this time?"
"Oh, don't worry about it, Naruto. Just Utakata being an idiot again." Jiraiya brushed off. Utakata looked at him insulted. "Just go and train some more or go to bed or what. Us adults were talking about stuff you don't need to hear yet." Naruto looked at Jiraiya suspiciously, whom returned the look right back. After about a minute of staring off, he looked off elsewhere.
"Whatever. I'm sure Yugito or Hotaru could tell me when things calm down." He called over to the other guys. " Hey Gaara, Kankuro! Let's go do something!" He charged off, leaving the two to follow him with barely any expression or interest, since they had nothing better to do after eating their dinner.
"You can't keep this up forever. The day will come when we're attacked, and treating it like it's no big deal will not make things easier." Roshi said.
"Yeah, and not to mention that no master wants their pupil to die. Even though you trained all of us, Naruto is truly your student, so I'd imagine you absolutely don't want him captured or killed, along with the rest of us." Utakata argued.
"Let the kids have their fun." Jiraiya defended. "Training morale will go down if we're all brooding about when we'll get ambushed. It's more important to take the value of each day then spend every moment worrying. Naruto knows he's going to fight the Akatsuki at some point, but he still enjoys himself. Could you imagine spending 3 years training dreading for one day? That's no way to live." The sannin sighed as he took one last drink of sake. "Well, I'm going to see what Naruto and those other two are going to be doing." He got up and left, leaving the three contemplative men alone.
A/N: So, what do you think of the first chapter? Leave a review. Also, I have a question. Since I don't have the skill to create this huge battle royal where all the jinchuriki fights the Akatsuki all at once, it's just going to be treated as a one on one thing. Except for Hidan and Kakuzu. So, with that stated, which jinchuriki do you want fighting each Akatsuki one on one? Or two on two with Hidan and Kakuzu. Could be canon or a new combo, just whatever you think is most fitting or the coolest in theory. Leave reviews, and be sure to read my other stories and leave reviews on those if you hadn't. Sayonara.