Konoha
Hokage Tower
Naruto and Jiraya entered inside the Hokage office. Tsunade is waiting for them. She is not alone. Shikaku, Iruka and shizune is with her. When she looks at Naruto who enters inside her office with Jiraya.
"You have grown up Naruto. Jiraya why are looking so happy about it?" Tsunade said to Jiraya and Naruto. Naruto grown up quite a lot. But the look on Jiraya face is like he is about to do something mischievous or maybe his research mode is on.
"Tsunade this two years were horrible. I couldn't do my research work because of Naruto. He will interrupt my research work all the time. If he is not available then his shadow clone are following me to ask questions about the training. That is not all, he shouts whenever I am near to my research place. When he started to learn genjutsu he practically made me a dummy when I was sleeping. He made me look at those nightmare of gay men and bearded woman. I found out about it after one year. Someone needs to tell him to hold back in taijitsu spar. He also took your gambling habit and bankrupted a casino. When I left him for Mt. myoboku for the training you have to scold me for leaving him alone. But from today I am free for the clutches of Naruto. Hehehhehhehee," Jiraya said to Tsunade. All of his frustrations suddenly vanished with his words. But Tsunade is eyebrows are twitching in anger.
"What do you mean he picked my gambling habit? He couldn't lose a lot of money to bankrupt them," Tsunade said to Jiraya. Shizune is trying to keep her calm.
"I never said he lost, this damn gaki won every bet. If he get unleashed on every casino. Only God can save them," Jiraya said to them. He has a calm face now.
"That was a fun time with Pervy sage. I am looking forward to continue it if I found you near the ladies bathhouse. Konoha ladies are more cruel than other village ladies. I am thinking how they will beat you when you are caught," Naruto said to Jiraya to scare him. The toad sanin looked at him as if saying bring it on. It became a competition between them if Jiraya can run faster or get caught because of Naruto in past two years.
"How was your training in the past two years? You have completed 60 C rank mission alone. I am impressed," Tsunade said to Naruto. As a hokage she is more impressed because Naruto finished 60 C rank mission in the shortest time without any assistance.
"Fruitful for me. I learned a lot during this two years," Naruto said to her without giving any details. Tsunade is looking at his katanas behind his back but didn't ask him about it.
"You can go and take the rest. Konohamaru would have cleaned your apartment by now. You can leave now," Tsunade said to Naruto. She doesn't want to make him stay after a long journey.
"Thanks lady Hokage. I will come later when you will have a mission for me," Naruto said to Tsunade and left soon afterwards. Tsunade was glad that he didn't called her 'Baa- chan'. But didn't think much about it.
"So Jiraya, what did you teach him? Explain in detail so I can understand his full potential. What about his tailed beast chakra training? You send me many reports but your reports are little confusing for us," Tsunade asked Jiraya. The toad sanin became serious this time.
"At first I thought the tailed beast form will take a lot of time. Maybe a year and half. But he has a tremendous control over the beast chakra. We finished that training in first three months. He never gone berserk which I found very odd. According to him he can only control upto six tails without losing control but according to me he can control till the full form of kyuubi. For some reason the chakra of the fox couldn't consume his sanity. He was just playing around with that chakra. So I decided to focus on his other training after that," Jiraya said to them. He is surprised by that incident but never asked Naruto about it.
"But the jinchuriki are tend to go berserk when they got more chakra tails. Even the Hachibi jinchuriki go through a difficult time when he went through the process. It is impossible without having a great bond with the tailed beast unless you made it fully submit to you which is quite impossible," Shikaku said to them. He collected a long list of data on jinchuriki if Naruto or any other jinchuriki goes berserk. He is happy to know Naruto will never go berserk according to his calculation.
"Jiraya sama, what about his other training?" Iruka asked Jiraya. He wants to know about his former student progress.
"He progressed quite a lot in my opinion. He learned a lot of elemental jutsus and many techniques to become a elite spy. He became a master in kenjutsu and fuinjutsu in such a short time. Taijutsu is at an anbu level because he made his taijutsu more tricky to understand for others. More surprisingly he can do many expert level genjutsu with ease. But he has a long way to become an expert in that field. He also learned Barrier jutsus. Other than that he kept his training a secret from me. He trained many things in absence. He somehow became a sage without going to Mt. myoboku. And learned the Frog kata from the toads in 2 months. That all he learned according to my knowledge," Jiraya said to them. He also gave Tsunade a written report on the two years training. He is proud of Naruto for learning a lot of things in his presence.
"That's quite a lot of training for Naruto. The sage part is surprising for me. I thought you are exaggerating in your reports," Tsunade said to Jiraya. She is quite happy with the report.
"Can I go now? My research is calling for me," Jiraya said to Tsunade. He is getting impatient to take a peek.
"You are dismissed Jiraya," Tsunade said to him with a smile. She found it quite hilarious that Naruto didn't allow him to take a peek on bath house during his training. Jiraya left the Hokage office through the window.
"Now any information about Akatsuki, Shikaku," Tsunade asked the Nara clan leader.
They started to discuss about the rising threat of Akatsuki.
Amegakure
Unknown location
Above the gedo statue the projections of Akatsuki members appeared. Nine of them are present for the meeting.
"We are going to finally make a move against the tailed beast and jinchurikis. We will start with the one tail. Sasori and Deidara will go to sand village to capture the Jinchuriki of One tailed beast. All of you will be ready for the extraction process, it will take a lot of time," Pain's projection said to others. His rennigan is shining at that time.
"So I am going back to sand village. It will be interesting for sure," Sasori said to them. He is going to enjoy his puppet show for sure.
"I don't mind till I show the art of explosion. Sasori keep your puppets in some distance so they don't come under my explosion," Deidara said to sasori jokingly. Sasori didn't react to his words but kept a mental note to keep his puppets far away from his explosion.
"What we do about Orochimaru? He is hiding like a snake. Should I go and recover the ring," Hidan said to them. He has mad smile on his face on the mere thought of giving a living sacrifice of orochimaru to Lord jashin.
"Let him hide for now. We will deal with him when the time is right for us. We cannot put dangers to our plan when it is in final phase. We have a lot of time to deal with that traitor snake. He will not interrupt our plan," Pain said to them. He knows orochimaru quite well to ignore him for the time being.
"The nine tailed jinchuriki came back from his hiding recently. And surprisingly he became a chunin during that time. He can sense me whenever I am near to his location. He killed almost 200 clones of mine who were near him during his missions. But he never told Jiraya or anyone else about it till now. His actions lead to one conclusion that he is plotting something big which no one knows except him," Zetsu said to them. He was not happy with how he couldn't spy on Naruto. How does he know whenever he is near to him.
"The nine tailed jinchuriki came back to konoha. Why do you think he is plotting something? How can he sense you? Even expert level sensory ninja are unable to detect you," Konan said to zetsu. She knows what zetsu is capable of with his spy techniques.
"The nine tail jinchuriki is quite problematic. What do you know about him zetsu?Any actions which is not known by anyone else," Pain asked zetsu. He knows it is not good for him to go after Naruto as a fellow uzumaki but his goal demands it. At least he will let him live for few more years and capture his Biju at the very end.
"The first time he killed my clone was when he was sending a large group of shadow clone as a disguise in commoners to somewhere. But one of his clone sensed my clone and killed him immediately. Next time when his clone caught me during my infiltration in konoha. Somehow it was the clone of Naruto uzumaki who spread the news of him being the son of fourth hokage. He knew all this time about his parents," Zetsu said to them. He knows Naruto uzumaki is dangerous due to his secretive nature.
"That is a surprise that he knew about parents. This information is heavily guarded from him. Especially Danzo made sure that people of konoha hate him and commoners may never know about his parentage. It is a low blow for Danzo. But who can give him such information. Jiraya will never give him such information. Or did he knew this information all this time. As far as I know he is quite a loudmouth about everything. Or maybe he fooled everyone in konoha. That is a big mystery," Itachi said to them. He thought many times and came to one conclusion that Naruto figured it out himself.
"You are taking a lot of interest in this subject," Kakazu said to Itachi. He never saw Itachi interested in anything.
"He is quite an unpredictable person from the young age. He used to make anbu run for their money when he started to prank the whole village. He once pranked Anbu Black ops in their headquarters and get away with it. He created his own sexy jutsu from the young age when he started learning how jutsu works. It was quite unhonourable jutsu but he did created his own jutsu. This kind of ninjas are very dangerous if you ignore them for few moments they will defeat you. We doesn't know what he learnt during this two years," Itachi said to them. He has seen Naruto when he was small boy and kept his eye over him under the orders of third hokage. He knows what kind of person is Naruto. And when he gets serious about something it leads to something major event. He has seen his eyes full of determination.
"Then we have heavily underestimated him till now. We will keep it in our mind when we hunt him down. Anything you want to add zetsu," Pain said while thinking about the young uzumaki. He made a mental note to be more careful with that boy.
"He went to the ruins of uzushiogakure to search for something. For keeping an eye on orochimaru I kept some of my clones on that area to see if the snake sanin will try to collect something from the ruins. But for my surprise kyuubi jinchuriki came to the ruins with a small toad. His clones killed my clones. I send another clone to that area after he left. My clones found a hidden vault of uzumaki clan which was heavily guarded by blood fuinjutsu which was recently become empty. He took many relics from uzumaki clans with the demon masks. Now he has the full knowledge of uzumaki clan in his disposal. No one knows what kind of jutsu and fuinjutsu or knowledge contained there in that vault," Zetsu said to them. He never knew about the true knowledge of uzumaki clan.
"What is so great about uzumaki clan that you are afraid of their jutsu and knowledge?" Deidara said to Zetsu. Hidan, Pain , Itachi and Kakuzu looked at him as if looking at an idiot.
"As the oldest member of Akatsuki I knew many things about uzumaki clan. Everything we knew about fuinjutsu is invented by them. If the other four great ninja village didn't attack them together they stood no chance against a small village. No one will tell you, but it was a massacre on both sides. A small village killed ten times of their numbers from the great villages. It was so hilarious and no one knows about it during the current time. If we had one sealing expert from uzumaki village with us. We would have finished our final phase in few months. Tail beast are like small beasts for them. I can underestimate a senju or an Uchiha for once but I will never underestimate an uzumaki," Kakazu said to them. He knows a lot about uzumaki clan. His village has few dealing with them so he knew about them from his young age.
"That's enough for today Deidara. Prepare for your journey with Sasori. I want you to capture One tailed beast," Pain said to them. He didn't react when he heard about uzumaki clan. But when he heard about the hidden vault has something which came in the possession of Naruto. He knew he has to be careful of Naruto uzumaki.
Soon the projections of them disappeared from that place. But the shadow around the ground of gedo statue suddenly formed a smile on its face. A shadow demon summoned by Naruto found his way inside the Akatsuki a few months ago. And now it is under the gedo statue, listening to every plan of Akatsuki. The shadow demon contacted his master about this meeting. Unknown to Akatsuki member a spy is among them.