" Otouto…" Tsunade said softly and Naruto looked up at her, " Do you know why Hinata can understand Akamaru?"

Naruto looked at Tsunade then over to Hinata and back to Tsunade, " She can understand him too? That's great I thought I was going nuts and…" Naruto spoke

" Too? You mean you can understand him?" Tenten interrupted

" Of course Naruto-sama could understand the Inu, he can understand any animals he has the Kyubi's chakra." Usuakari said, " Any of use with more than four tails can understand all living creatures."

" So how can Hinata?" Sasuke asked

" I don't know. Unless…" Usuakari said

" Usuakari?" Yuuzyou asked

" Naruto-sama have you ever had to heal the girl?" Usuakari asked

" Hai, but what does that have to do with anything?" Naruto asked confused

" Hinata when did you get hurt?" Shino asked

" The day Sasuke woke up and was brought to Oba-chan's house a little bit more of the absorption took place. Hinata-chan tried to stop me, but her arms got burned in the process." Naruto said moving over and sitting on the steps of his father's house

The girl gasped at this, " But I would have know." Sakura said

" I hid it." Hinata said to her, " Tsunade-sensei wanted to check them after you two left, but I was more worried about Naruto-kun."

She followed Naruto and sat next to him on the step.

" When I woke up I saw Hinata-chan's arms and knew it was my fault. I used a Kitsune Healing Jutsu to heal her burns." Naruto said

" Naruto do you know what the Jutsu was called?" Choji asked

Naruto shook his head, " Iie, I just knew it'd heal her wounds."

" Naruto-sama I think I know the Jutsu you used we have no name for it is as old as time itself, but we use it for healing." Usuakari said

" Oh Ok, so it helped Hinata-chan." Naruto said still not understanding

" Naruto-sama it uses our own chakra and merged with the injured to help them heal faster." Usuakari explained better

" IT DOES WHAT!" Naruto shouted

He jumped up and tried to run off again, but was caught by Hinata's hand this time, which stopped him

" Naruto-kun stop and look at me." Hinata said, but Naruto just shook his head, " LOOK AT ME!"

Naruto continued to shake his head to her request. Hinata finally took Naruto and turned him around to face her. Naruto refused to look at her in the eyes. Hinata took her hand and put it on his cheek. Finally Naruto looked at her in the eyes, Hinata could see how upset he really was because of this.

" Oh Naruto-kun it isn't your fault, you didn't know this would happen, so why beat yourself up because of it." Hinata said

" But Hinata-ch…" Naruto started

But Naruto couldn't speak anything else as Hinata engulfed Naruto's lips in a very passionate kiss. Naruto's eyes grew wide from Hinata's boldness. A single tear came down his face as he slowly closed his eyes and brought Hinata into a hug. Kiba whistled at the twos actions receiving a smack upside the head from Sakura.

" Be quiet you're ruining the moment." Sakura said as all the girls glared at Kiba angrily

Jiraiya had managed to pull out a notebook and was taking down notes. When Tsunade saw this she grabbed the notebook and ripped it to shreds, which resulted in a crying Jiraiya.

" This is why I say women are mendokuse." Shikamaru whispered to Sasuke

Sasuke was smart enough not to agree with Shikamaru as Ino pummeled him into the ground. Naruto hearing the commotion opened his eyes seeing Ino beating the crap out of Shikamaru. He started to laugh still kissing Hinata. Hinata stopped the kiss to look over at what Naruto was laughing about. Without Hinata's lips on his Naruto was now free to laugh loudly along with Hinata giggling at the sight too.

" Well I'm glad you find this amusing, but will someone GET HER OFF OF ME!" Shikamaru said

Choji tapped her on the shoulder and handed her a bag of chips. She took them and opened it up and started eating them sharing with Choji.

" Thanks Choji." Shikamaru said finally being able to stand up without getting hit

" No problem, just be glad I was caring her brand today." Choji said munching on a chip

" What are you talking about? You carry that brand everyday." Shikamaru said

" Wait, Ino like potato chips?" Naruto asked

" Yeah so?" Ino asked as she stuffed another chip into her mouth

Naruto put his hand up defensively, " Nothing, nothing as all."

Hinata giggled at this and Naruto looked down at her his smile vanishing.

" Hinata-chan I'm really sorry about this, if I had known." Naruto said upset

Hinata placed her hand on his cheek again and he placed his hand on top of hers, " But you didn't Naruto-kun, so stop beating yourself up about what can't be undone. Besides I think it'll be fun to talk to Akamaru and other animals." Hinata said smiling

" Alright if we settled everything now. Otouto why don't you ask them since they're all gathered together?" Tsunade asked

" Huh? Oh right, well tomorrow we're going to announce about my 'new look' so to speak and I was wondering... I mean if you guys don't mind... Well… wouldyoucomeupwithme?" Naruto asked

" NARUTO-KUN WE'D BE MORE THAN HAPPY TO." Lee said

" Yeah, we're in." Kiba and Akamaru said and Shino nodded in agreement

" We'll come." Tenten said with Neji nodding beside of her

" It'll be mendokuse, but as long as I don't have to say anything I'll go." Shikamaru said

He was then hit on the head by Ino's fist, " Itai, mendokuse woman."

" We're all in Naruto, even if I have to get Temari to drag his sorry ass there." Ino said

" Oh that's right Gaara and them are at Oba-chan's house. I guess when we go home I'll need to ask them." Naruto said

That left only Sasuke and Sakura, Naruto looked at them worried that they'd say no; after all he had kept the information about Kyubi to himself for almost 16 years. So he could understand if they were mad at him about it.

" I don't know what's with the face dope. You don't even need to ask us. We're teammates after all." Sasuke said

" Hai." Sakura said

Naruto smiled at them happily, " Great." He then yawned

" Come on Otouto I think you're still drained from everything that happened three days ago. Let's go home and I'll tell you about the house and anything else you want to know too." Tsunade said

Naruto turned to the foxes, " Usuakari, since this is Otou-san's you and the clan can stay here as long as you wish, just be careful if you venture out of the Gen-jutsu field. I you have to it'd probably be best if you did it in groups." Naruto said

" Hai Naruto-sama Arigatou." Usuakari said

Naruto nodded and started to follow everyone back into the forest to head home. Yuuzyou watched Naruto walk away longing to go with him. He looked up a Usuakari, Usuakari looked down at the kit understanding what he wanted, but wouldn't allow him without Naruto's say.

" Yuuzyou you coming?" Naruto asked still walking away

" HAI!" Yuuzyou said and ran to Naruto

He jumped on his shoulder and laid himself down around his neck.


Once back in the village the group went back to what they were doing before the 'Find Naruto' incident had occurred. Naruto and Hinata headed back to Tsunade's home, while Sakura followed Sasuke back to the Uchiha Estates. As the group got to the Tsunade's house Shizune came out from inside.

" Naruto-kun you have visitors outback. I told them to wait out back since I am heading off to work. " Shizune said

" Why are they out back?" Naruto asked confused

" Well they were out front, but since they're too big to fit into the house I told them to wait outback." Shizune replied

Naruto knew at once who they were and ran to the backyard. Sitting back there was two rather messed up looking toads. Gamatatsu looked the worse out of the two as his armor was pretty banged up and he had some areas where the metal was completely gone. Gamakichi on the other hand just hand had a couple of scratches and bruises, but he'd be ok. Naruto rushed over to the two.

" Whoa they're huge!" Yuuzyou said at the toads' size

" I thought I told you two not to fight, just to find him." Naruto said angrily looking the two over

" Yeah we tried to, but it didn't go that way." Gamakichi replied

As the others got to the back Hinata saw how hurt they were and rushed over to the toad's side. Her palms already glowing blue. She went over to Gamatatsu first and fixed, what she could tell was a broken leg and healed the gashes left by what looked like a very wide sword. She then went to Gamakichi and healed his cuts and bruises.

" So you going to tell me what happened now?" Naruto asked, as the two looked themselves over

" We did what you told us to Naruto, we found Itachi to the north. He's actually still in Hi no Kuni, but we have a problem." Gamakichi said

" Problem? What kind of problem?" Tsunade asked

" He's gathering an army of what we could figure to be rough and missing ninjas from other villages including Konoha. He's training them and he's training them good." Gamakichi said

" So is that who attacked you?" Hinata asked

" Iie, the thing at attacked us was a summon." Gamatatsu said

" A summon? What kind of summon could inflict wound on you like that?" Hinata asked

" Oh he got the worst of it because he was protecting me instead of running like he should of, baka." Gamakichi said

Naruto hit the toad on the head for that, " Itai, Naruto." Gamakichi spoke rubbing the spot Naruto hit

" I don't care, he's you Otouto and he loves you so don't call him a baka for trying to protect you." Naruto said

Gamatatsu smiled at Naruto, " It's alright Naruto, it's my job and anyway I know he doesn't mean it. Half the time I act like a baka anyways." Gamatatsu said smiling

" Gamatatsu do you know what kind of summon it was?" Naruto asked

" Iie, the trees blocked our view to see what it was, but it was big and mean. I also think it might have been Itachi's too." Gamatatsu said

" What makes you thing that?" Jiraiya asked

" We heard the thing speak to Itachi and than heard Itachi's voice telling it to destroy the trees. We got out of there as fast as we could." Gamakichi said

" I remember a scroll a couple of days ago saying something about a forest in upper Hi totally destroyed, but I though nothing of it at the time." Tsunade said

" Well it was Itachi's summons and whatever he's getting ready for it isn't good." Gamakichi said

" Alright guys thanks, go back and tell boss I might need him and the others pretty soon." Naruto said and threw the two some candy again

" See ya Naruto." The two toads said and vanished into smoke

" So what now?" Hinata asked

Naruto handed Yuuzyou off to Tsunade as he moved to the backyard

" Go find him. I'm going to pay him back for hurting those two." Naruto said angrily

" Wait Otouto, first off we don't know where he is now and second you can't go running off without telling Sasuke. You know he needs to know." Tsunade said

" Alright first I'll go find Aniki and then we'll go find Itachi and kill him." Naruto said determined and jumped on the roof to go find Sasuke

" I swear he still as thick-skulled as ever." Tsunade said

" Hai, but Sasuke will stop him. Once Naruto tell him everything he'll know to wait until they know where Itachi is exactly and then he'll move." Jiraiya said

" He's right Tsunade-sensei. I'll go after him just in case though." Hinata said and left the same was Naruto had

" I need a drink Come on kit I'm sure you're hungry I think there is some leftover meat in the fridge for you to have." Tsunade said and walked into the house

Yuuzyou got excited at the mention of food. He hadn't eaten for a while.

" I'll join you." Jiraiya said following her


As Sasuke and Sakura were walking back to the Uchiha Estate a thought occurred to Sakura.

" Sasuke-kun." Sakura said

" Huh?" Sasuke responded

" What will you do once you find him?" Sakura asked

" Itachi? Kill him probably. He doesn't deserve to live after what he's done to everyone." Sasuke said

" Is it really worth it?" Sakura asked

" Sakura he killed my entire clan and has tried numerous times to kidnap and or kill Naruto. If that's not a good enough excuse to kill him I don't know what is." Sasuke said angrily

" But hasn't he been trying to get you to kill him from the start?" Sakura asked

" Nani?" Sasuke asked

" I think that's the reason he's done all this to you from the start. He wants to be kill." Sakura said

" Then I'll grant his request and kill him." Sasuke said

" Demo…" Sakura said

" Iie Sakura, I don't care if he has been trying from the beginning he didn't have to kill our entire clan to have someone kill him. If that's his idiotic plan then I'll have to grant his wish. He's done too much to allow him to live any longer. I know I'd said I could wait to find him, but that didn't mean I wouldn't kill him when I found him." Sasuke said

Sakura sighed knowing Sasuke mind was set on this task and she wouldn't be able to change it.

I swear him and Naruto are so similar sometimes. Sakura thought

At that moment someone landed near them. Both turned to see Naruto running up to the two rather agitated.

" Naruto, what's wrong?" Sakura asked seeing the look in his eyes

" They found him Sasuke." Naruto said

Sasuke eyes grew wide knowing who Naruto was talking about, " Where?" Sasuke asked as Naruto skidded to a stop

" Up north here in Hi no Kuni. They beat Gamatatsu up pretty badly and Gamakichi was hurt too. WE NEED TO GO NOW!" Naruto said

" Naruto where is he?" Sakura asked

I'm not letting these two go off without me again. Sakura thought

Just then Hinata landed panting because how fast Naruto had traveled.

I pretty sure Naruto-kun was using Shushin No Jutsu because that was way too fast for any normal ninja to go. Hinata thought

" Naruto-kun you heard what Tsunade-sensei said. They didn't know where they went off to." Hinata replied finally catching her breath

" What is this they stuff? I'm just interested in Itachi." Sasuke asked

" Well apparently he's got a little army of some sort." Naruto said

" Army? How could he get an army?" Sakura asked

" Well from what Gamakichi and Gamatatsu told us he's gathered rouge and missing ninjas and he's training them." Hinata said

" HE'S DOING WHAT!" Sasuke said angry

" Exactly and they think we shouldn't go after him." Naruto said

" Iie, that's not it Naruto-kun it's that we don't know where he is right now." Hinata said

" But they might still be up there and if we go now we..." Naruto said

" Iie." Sasuke said

" Sasuke?" Naruto asked

" Naruto if we don't know where he is it'll be useless to go out and find him. He's hard to pinpoint unless you know where he is at this exact moment." Sasuke said

" Demo Sasuke?" Naruto said

" Iie, Naruto it's too soon. I have a feeling he'll show up sooner or later and when he does Konoha will be ready and waiting for him." Sasuke said and with that he started walking away

Naruto looked at Sasuke's retreating figure surprised he wouldn't go off with him to search of Itachi.

" You know he's right Naruto. If we don't know where Itachi is right now it's useless to go after him. We'll find him and when we do Sasuke-kun will kill him." Sakura said

Naruto nodded seeing that he was outnumber on this one. Sakura then turned and ran to catch up with Sasuke and Naruto turned to face Hinata.

" Guess I got carried away again?" Naruto asked

" You could say that. But you wouldn't be Naruto-kun if you didn't." Hinata said smiling

Naruto looked up at her and smiled; " Yep you're right Hinata-chan, so how about I take you home?" Naruto said

" Actually I like to go back with you and find out about your Otou-san's house." Hinata said

Naruto looked surprise, " Oh yeah, I forgot about that." Naruto said

Hinata giggled at his comment and Naruto smiled at her. The two headed back to Tsunade's to find out about the house that had belonged to Arashi.


As they returned home Jiraiya was outside waiting for Naruto to return.

" Hey Ero-sennin what's up?" Naruto asked seeing the look on Jiraiya's face

Jiraiya went over and picked Naruto up by the back of his shirt and threw him overtop of his shoulder.

" ERO-SENNIN YOU PUT ME DOWN! WHAT DID I DO THIS TIME?" Naruto shouted

Hinata was shocked by Jiraiya's actions and just followed the two. As they got to the backyard Tsunade with a napping Yuuzyou in her lap and Shizune were back there sitting on some chairs on the porch.

" ERO-SENNIN WHAT DID I DO? COME ON WHAT DID I DO?" Naruto asked as Jiraiya dropped him on the ground, " ITAI, OI ERO-SENNIN I'M HUMAN NOT SOME PRACTICE DUMMY!"

" Urusai we're going to spar." Jiraiya said walking away from Naruto

" Now? Can't we do this another day? I wanted to know about Otou-san's house." Naruto said

" IIE, I missed my research time today because of you and I'm in trouble with Tsunade because I told her this wasn't the first time you've run off." Jiraiya said angrily

" So, it wasn't my fault you said that and beside I had a good reason to run off the last time." Naruto said

" No you didn't that was as stupid as the one you just pulled on all of us." Jiraiya said

" You were scared of me and I know it Ero-sennin." Naruto said

" Tsunade-sensei, what are they talking about?" Hinata asked

" Just listen and you'll find out. Remember when he said earlier about this wasn't the first time Naruto had run away?" Tsunade said and Hinata nodded remember him saying that, " Well that's what they're talking about."

Hinata turned back to the two arguing in the middle of the backyard. Jiraiya had taken a fighting stance, while Naruto remained sitting on the ground.

" Get up Gaki we're going to spar." Jiraiya said

" Iie, it's not my fault I ran away that time." Naruto said upset he thought that

He knows why I ran away that day and blames me for it. Naruto thought

As Naruto was in thought Jiraiya decided to make Naruto spar with him, "DORYUUDAN"

With that a dragon's head came out of the ground and started shooting mud balls in Naruto direction. When Naruto saw what was coming his eyes grew wide.

Shimatta. Naruto thought as he jumped up and back flipped to avoid the mud balls

" ARE YOU TRYING TO KILL ME ERO-SENNIN?" Naruto screamed

" Either you spar or get the shit beat out of you your choice Gaki." Jiraiya said

Damn him. Naruto thought

" Fine but don't blame me if you wind up in the hospital Ero-sennin." Naruto said

" I won't." Jiraiya replied

Naruto finally got into a fighting stance, but this looked similar to the stance Kiba too when he was getting ready to do Gatsuuga.

" His stance it's almost like Kiba-kun's." Hinata said

Since Gaki uses Arashi's moves I need to watch his speed. I'll have to slow him down. Jiraiya thought

" YOMINUMA" Jiraiya said

With that the ground between Naruto and him turned into a mucky swamp. Naruto smirked knowing he'd use this technique.

" You'll have to do better than that Ero-sennin." Naruto said

He rushed forward crossing the swap like it was normal ground. Jiraiya was surprised that he was able to run over the swamp and not get stuck. He moved back a little before Naruto reached him.

" HARIZIZOU" Jiraiya said as his hair grew and surrounded his body

As Naruto came forward Jiraiya felt like there was something wrong. Naruto pulled a kunai out from his pouch continuing to run. Then Jiraiya heard a noise and his eyes grew wide as his body was pulled into the ground.

" SHINJUU ZANSHUU NO JUTSU." Naruto said now above ground and smiling as his buried sensei

Jiraiya was struggling to get out, but couldn't move.

" Come on Ero-sennin give it up. You're trapped. Now tell me the truth about that day and I'll help you out." Naruto said

" Iie." Jiraiya said and with that he was gone and replaced by a statue of a frog

Chikusyou, he used Kawarimi on me. Naruto thought

Just then a fist hit him in his back and caused him to go flying across the backyard. Before he could get up a foot was on his chest. As Naruto looked up Jiraiya stood above him dirty and still angry. Naruto tried to push his foot off, but it was no used.

" Gaki give up." Jiraiya said

" Iie, I know you were afraid that day, so why won't you admit it. You were scared and you didn't even try to help me." Naruto said angry

" Gaki listen I wasn't scared." Jiraiya said

" Don't lie I saw the look in your eyes Ero-sennin. I might not be as smart as my Otou-san, but I can tell how a person feels by looking in their eyes. YOU WERE SCARED! HELL I EVEN HURT YOU!" Naruto said

Naruto wouldn't shut up and it was starting to get on Jiraiya's never, " ALRIGHT, Alright I was scared, but no because you were able to pull out more of Kyubi's chakra." Jiraiya said moving his foot from Naruto chest and reaching his hand down to help the boy up

" Huh?" Naruto asked confused

" I was scared I'd lose you Naruto. That Kyubi would take over like the Shukaku has tried to do with Gaara and we'd lose the Naruto everyone loves and him be replaced by a blood thirty thing." Jiraiya said

" But Kyubi…" Naruto said angrily

" I know, I know he wasn't always like that, but you hadn't befriended him yet Gaki and he could of taken over you and killed everything in his sight including trying to destroy Konoha again." Jiraiya said

" You had that little faith in me? You thought I let him win without a fight? I thought you knew me better?" Naruto said

" Gaki that's not it. There's only so much pain a human can take and if Kyubi was able to increase that then…" Jiraiya said

" I WOULDN'T OF LET THAT HAPPEN. I'd have killed myself before I'd have let him hurt anyone and you should have known that. I know I attacked you and I'm sorry for that, but I had to go to make sure I didn't hurt you more or any thing else until I could control that power." Naruto said

" So Naruto-kun started summoning more of Kyubi's power and lost control?" Hinata asked

" Hai, when they first left Jiraiya wanted to see how much of Kyubi's power Otouto could use. As it turns out it was more that Jiraiya thought. Naruto summoned so much of it for a couple of minutes he kind of lost it and started destroying the area they were in and attacked Jiraiya. When Naruto regained control he was extremely upset as what he had done to Jiraiya that he ran off into the woods. Jiraiya said he returned the next day and apologized to him, but he believed Jiraiya was afraid of him after that." Tsunade explained

" But he didn't act like that when he has been with Jiraiya." Hinata said

" Jiraiya said after a while Naruto-kun returned to his loud, annoying self, but he would have moments when he could tell Naruto-kun was still upset about the incident." Shizune said

" By the way Shizune did you get everything taken care of for tomorrow?" Tsunade asked

" Hai, I told every ninja and they were to tell the news to the others." Shizune said

" And the time?" Tsunade asked

" Tomorrow at 9 a.m." Shizune said

Tsunade raised an eyebrow to the time, " Any reason you chose 9 a.m.?"

Shizune shrugged, " For the news I thought it was appropriate."

Tsunade just shook her head, I swear sometimes she can be as crafty as me, but she did learn from the best.

Looking back on the field the women could see Naruto helping Jiraiya back to the porch.

" What did you do now baka?" Tsunade asked

" Think I twisted my ankle." Jiraiya responded

Tsunade started to chuckle that the quick spar the two had hurt Jiraiya. Jiraiya heard her and grew angry.

" Shut Up! You have no room to laugh Tsunade." Jiraiya said and Tsunade looked at him questioningly, " You're as old as me, so you have no room to laugh."

" Even if I'm as old as you I still look good and can take care of myself." Tsunade replied

" Yeah only because…" Jiraiya started, but was stopped by Naruto

" You know as much as I'd love to see Oba-chan kick you ass for what you're about to say it's starting to get dark and I'm going to head out and take Hinata-chan home." Naruto said sitting Jiraiya in one of the chairs on the porch as Shizune went over and started healing Jiraiya's ankle.

" But Naruto-kun what about your Otou-san's house?" Hinata asked

" Oh yeah, Oba-chan tell me about the house." Naruto said looking at Tsunade

" Well there is not a lot to tell. That house was more of a vacation spot for Arashi than his personal house. He mostly stayed here except when he took off time. Then he'd go there." Tsunade said

" What about the Gen-jutsu?" Naruto questioned

" Sarutobi and Arashi put up the Gen-jutsu field when Raimei became pregnant with you. He had her stay there up till a couple of days before the Kyubi attack. He loved Konoha and it's people, but he loved the outdoor, so much more. He also wasn't one for sitting still for to long. Remind you of someone?" Tsunade said

" Yeah." Naruto said smiling

" Listen Otouto, I'll understand if you want to go and live there I have no problem in it. I just…" Tsunade said

" What are you talking about? I just found out I still have family and I kind of like how Otou-san used the house. I think I'll just use it when I need to relax, since it's so peaceful out there and the Kitsune Clan can stay there as long as they want." Naruto said, " Since I know about the house I'm taking Hinata-chan home now. I'll be back in a couple of minutes."

With that Hinata and Naruto left leaving Yuuzyou in Tsunade care. Once the two were gone Tsunade went to Naruto's room and placed the kit in his pillow.


Hi no Kuni – Fire Nation

Doryuudan – Earth Dragon Missiles

Shimatta – Shit

Yominuma – Hell Swamp

Harizizou – Needle Guardian

Shinjuu Zanshuu no Jutsu – Inner Decapitation Technique