Hey guys I am annoyed to say that pretty darn soon I will be sending out my old computer yet again to get repairs. I mean it is so dumb that the thing keeps breaking…nothing but trouble. Still sadly I think its components are better than my new ones. Still you all don't need to worry about this. For I have luckily figured out how to have my word on this computer as well. Now seeing as I think I have been talking WAY too much about non-story related stuff I will shut up fast and get to stuff that matters.

Though just to let you know I will be using the character Fu and her village in a different way than it is told on the wiki. For while I like the idea of her being a lot like Naruto she will be mistreated by the village she is in (like a lot of other stories do) with only the leader helping her due to his obvious reason. That is the only change I will be making from the wiki. Oh and one last thing before I start for those of you who think Fu will be in the harem….I don't know. I mean I sort of want to but I also sort of want to use the perfect Fu/Shino as well because he only has two girls (Fu included) that can be an option and both will need about the same amount of work. Now on with the show really.

Chapter 32

Jiraiya and Naruto were still traveling via tree hopping while still following the main road after Jiraiya somehow made a miraculous recovery after being beat up by the girls he angered. "Hey gaki we should be to our next spot within a few days depending on how fast we go now." Jiraiya called back to Naruto with a grin on his face while said blond growled at him. For Jiraiya made it Naruto's goal to catch Jiraiya before they took a break and so far he has had no luck. In fact whenever he tried to speed up to catch the toad sannin his 'prey' seemed to speed up just enough to keep Naruto a good distance behind him.

"Damn old man why the hell does he somehow have regenerative abilities at a level that is close to mine. I mean if he was still hurting this would have been a piece of cake…still I will NOT lose this bet!" Naruto thought determined as he continued to glare at the back of his teacher. Course what he didn't know was that instead of using the bet only as a way to get what he wants; he also is using it to train Naruto even while they don't have the time for a full training session. For making Naruto catch up to him at a continuously faster pace would not only make Naruto faster but also possibly push his chakra levels to increase depending on how much extra energy he needed to use to keep up with Jiraiya. After all while Jiraiya was getting old he still was a ninja who was still kage level. Even with all of Naruto's skill he had no chance of catching Jiraiya for as long as Jiraiya decided to tease Naruto. A game that lasted all the way until they reached their next training zone

~Front gate of Takigakure~

"Ok gaki welcome to our next stop. Takigakure which happens to be home to quite the variety of wonders." Jiraiya told him happily.

"Umm, it is just a waterfall…" Naruto told him thinking the old man has lost it.

"He, and here I thought you actually would have something pushed through to that tiny thing you call a brain…" Jiraiya mumbled out then ignored Naruto yelling out his annoyance with the insult to continue. "Look underneath the underneath." He told him then watched as Naruto tried to look at the waterfall in a new way. For the first thing Naruto did was simply try to flare his chakra to see if it was just an elaborate genjutsu; a tactic which obviously failed making Jiraiya chuckle. "Nice try but it is a little simpler than that." Jiraiya added before walking on the water into the waterfall leaving Naruto alone. A fact that of course made Naruto race after him soon after to see what happened only to be stunned when he hit the other end. For when he made it he saw a beautifully crafted village that seemed to be built in a way that let the trees be mixed with it perfectly giving it a peaceful feeling.

"Woah." Naruto mouthed out shocked by this before looking over to his teacher who was smiling at him.

"Now I let me repeat myself. Welcome to Takigakure." Jiraiya told him while waving a hand at the village. "Anyway you can sightsee later right now we need to go see their leader. After all don't want the guards who were nice enough to let us pass think we are doing something were not." Jiraiya added in quickly pushing Naruto further into the village while at the same time his clones released the genjutsu they placed on the guards that were outside. After all no village no matter how small would let ninja in without at least questioning why they were there. Something Jiraiya didn't want to deal with so just used his kage level stealth to stop them from noticing a thing. Still he wanted to at least meet with their leader seeing as if they were now caught without at least doing that it would be taken as an act of aggression…something he would rather not deal with.

So, soon enough they both found where the leader was and calmly walked up to the receptionist that was present in the decent sized building.

"Hello we would like to meet with the leader of this fine village." Jiraiya told the young man who was sitting at the desk.

"O-ok do you have an appointment?" the man asked clearly intimidated seeing as he knew of Jiraiya the sannin.

"No, but I am sure he can make time for us if you just ask…I promise we won't take up too much of his time." JIraiya told the guy who quickly seemed to accept this just as a reason to get away from the man that to the rest of the world was one of the most dangerous ninja.

"I-I will ask Shibuki-sama…please wait here for a moment." The man told them before running off through the large doors behind him.

"Oy, what the hell did you do to make that guy practically pee his pants at the sight of you?" Naruto asked Jiraiya who just looked at him seriously.

"That Naruto is what happens when you get a reputation…and mine just happens to make people outside of Konoha nervous and make most of our enemies terrified." Jiraiya told him remembering all the times where he was able to avoid a fight with the random ninja he met just because they fled from him as soon as they recognized him.

"Wow." Naruto mumbled out for once actually looking at Jiraiya in a new light…not that he would ever stop calling him his rightfully given nickname. Course they had to stop talking seeing as the man re-entered the room and slowly walked up to them.

"Shibuki-sama said he would see you. Please head through these doors." The man told them then pointed at the doors he just came back in through.

"Thank you." Jiraiya told him simply and did just that with Naruto walking behind him. Course he chose to ignore the fact that when he walked past the man the guy completely tensed up in fear. Instead he simply looked at Shibuki who watched them enter his office.

"So, what can I do for you Lord Jiraiya?" Shibuki asked the sage to break the ice.

"Oh, you are the leader here? I would have never expected it to be someone so young. You must be pretty special to be able to do that." Jiraiya praised the man in front of him trying to calm the tense air that was in the office.

"…Yes well it was determined that I would be the best suited for the position and I have been trying to do what is best for my people ever since. Now I will ask again; Lord Jiraiya why have you snuck into my village today?" Shibuki asked clearly wanting to get to serious business.

"Well you see I was wanting to spend a while here training my apprentice here in the area surrounding here. I just wanted to get your permission before we began." Jiraiya told him.

"…that is all?" Shibuki asked only to get a nod from the old man. "Well then what would we gain from letting you use our grounds?"

"Well as you know I am someone who has knowledge on a lot of things around our small world…so, how about I let you hear some of this information in exchange for being here for a while. I promise what I say will be well worth your time." Jiraiya told him.

"And what information would this be?" Shibuki asked now clearly interested.

"Now, now I won't be telling you a thing till you let us train here for a bit…now let's work out a deal." Jiraiya told him simply before looking over to Naruto. "You know the drill gaki go find us a hotel to stay in for the night while we work this out." Jiraiya ordered Naruto who left while grumbling about bossy old men the whole way out of the room. "Sorry gaki but I am saving training you in politics and spying much later on…for now I just can't have any chance of you messing up something I need to work." Jiraiya thought before giving Shibuki his full concentration yet again while unsealing a small scroll. "Now let's get down to business." He told the younger man simply.

~Naruto; In the village~

"This is really happening to me too damn much" Naruto complained mentally as he yet again got a room in a hotel and then simply had nothing to do but wander around the town while Jiraiya did his own thing. Still he tried to make the most of it by trying to see what the village has to offer for both sights and use. After all when Jiraiya started to train him here he wanted to at least find some spots not too far from the village to use. Training sessions that he was now close to even forcing himself to beg for; seeing as he had more than a week of him literally having nothing to be able to burn off his energy with. For besides the short fight he had and the run to this village he really wasn't able to truly get a work out. Though for now he would just have to suck it up and examine his surroundings.

The village itself besides the beauty of its surroundings seemed rather normal with all of the buildings built in the same style that Konoha used and seemingly the same material. Though what interested Naruto the most was the fact that most of the shops seemed to have a strange sign dangling somewhere in plain sight of the road. The sign seemed strange to Naruto seeing as it depicted a beetle with a red circle and with a line going through the middle of it. "Huh, wonder why these signs are so popular. I mean it is not like bugs can actually read….either way I gotta tell Shino about this place later on, I bet I will get to finally see him show some emotions, when he learns that his precious bugs make him not allowed in these shops." Naruto thought with a quick chuckle. Soon enough though he was brought back to his current location when he heard a nearby door quickly open up. A deed that was done by a strange figure that was completely covered in a cloak even while it carried a small sack on its back. Now of course this quickly drew in Naruto's curiosity which grew even more when he saw the person suddenly decide to run off towards the outer edge of the village. "Well now I got something to keep me interested for a while….a hunt to figure out the mysterious person. Hopefully I will even get a fight out of it seeing as it looked like a robber." Naruto thought happily before chasing after the figure before he completely lost sight of the person.

"Che, idiotic nigen" a dark voice growled out within Naruto's head as it watched Naruto run after the figure that had demonic chakra within it…"Still this will be interesting for me" the kyuubi added after a few moments chuckling as he began imagining what Naruto would be doing when he found out about the demonic chakra. The Kyuubi then got comfortable as he saw Naruto quickly catching up to the figure that stopped in a field a bit away from the village.

"Hey stop! I want to talk to you!" Naruto yelled out while leaping off of the branch he just tree hopped to.

"…what do you want human?" the figure asked in a voice that clearly was both feminine and on edge.

"Woah, I just want some information. No need to try and attack me." Naruto told the women with is hands raised in front of himself. An action that seemed to get her to lower her defense a bit but still clearly was worried about him seeing as they refused to complete drop their guard.

"No one ever comes looking for me for anything other than trying to get their damn revenge for something that I didn't do. So, excuse me if I don't believe you….now you must be new in this town so let's just pretend this never happened before you learn what the rest of these humans know." She growled out at him.

"Jeez she is so defensive, I wonder what the hell happened to get her this way….though for some reason she does seem familiar kinda…" Naruto thought as he continued to simply watch over the girl in front of him. Not surprisingly this made her seem to bring back her defenses as if she was preparing for an attack. Though what did surprise him was the fact that he could hear buzzing coming from all around them and soon began to see a bunch of random insects flying around in more erratic paths around them. "Huh, these bugs are going nuts for some reason..." Naruto thought confused before having a quick flash back to the signs he saw in the village and then to what she just said. "Wait a minute didn't she say that the village is taking revenge on her, the weird 'human' thing, and I swear I read somewhere that one of the tailed beasts was a bug like thing….is she just like me!?" Naruto thought shocked not being able to hide the fact that his eyes widened when he realized the possibility of this.

"Jinchuriki" Naruto mumbled out softly while still in shock causing the girl in front of him to completely tense up and look close to even attacking him at any moment. A fact that Naruto quickly tried to fix. "Oy, no need to get prepped for a fight; I was just surprised. I mean it isn't every day were you meet someone with the same problem seeing as there are only nine of us." Naruto quickly told her shaking his hands in front of him trying to show that he wasn't going to harm her.

"Y-you are one as well?" she asked suprized herself. "He is someone like me…No! He must just be trying to trick me and then hurt me like all the others. I can't trust him or else-" the girl began arguing with herself before getting cut off.

"He is telling the truth Fu, I can feel demonic chakra coming off of him." A voice in her confirmed.

"Lucky seven…well if you are saying it is the truth then I guess I will give him a slight chance." Fu decided but still kept her guard just in case he still ended up attacking her.

"…Very well we can talk for a bit…come with me." She told him finally then watched as he whipped some sweat that to her seemed to be only a figment of his imagination off his head.

"Ok thanks" Naruto told her happily. "Few for a second there I thought that I would have a fight to deal with…though it may have been a good way to see where I am at…" Naruto thought as he began walking behind her as she brought him further into the forested area but soon shook his head and went back to real life. "So, I'm Naruto, Uzumaki Naruto." Naruto told her with a big smile.

"…I am Fu." She told him simply clearly not wanting to talk too much with him.

"Well nice to meet you Fu. I am glad to see that I met another person like me…even if it seems that people are dicks around her to our type as well." Naruto told her trying to break the ice but ended up glaring a bit remembering the cruddy childhood he had himself.

"…yes the humans are terrible but there are a few good ones." Fu agreed with him before remembering the few people she actually liked somewhat in the village.

*Flash Back (warning has 'dark' moment in it. If you don't want to read skip to end of flashback)*

A younger Fu was dressed in dirty and torn clothes was scavenging around her village for anything that could be of use to her. For just a little while ago her 'village' had the bright idea to put the 'no monster allowed' sign on their buildings and even pushed for it to be a law. Now sadly enough even though their leader tried to help her a bit he was over ruled by their councils vote. Thus she could no longer enter any of the buildings that had the sign hung upon them. Sadly enough that ended up being most of the buildings around the village especially apartment buildings, hotels, and shops. This is what left her in her current position, for apartment that she was given ended up forcing her out after putting the sign up leaving her to live off the streets with even less than she had before. In fact right now she was living in an alley that was able to protect her slightly from the elements but also was close enough to the shopping area so she could quickly grab anything she needed if possible. Speaking of which she couldn't help but groan slightly as her stomach growled out demanding food. Lucky for her she saw one store that for some reason didn't have the sign up so she figuring it would probably be her only chance to get some food she quickly entered the store.

When she entered the store she saw that it seemed to be just a regular civilian supply store. In fact it was filled with a random assortment of goods from food to clothing but not much suited for ninja. A fact that at the moment she didn't care about but instead quickly ran towards the food and grabbed some bread, meat, and cheese while trying to restrain herself from eating it right then and there. After all if this store let her get stuff she needed she didn't want to wreck her chances for later meals. Due to this she quickly brought the products to the counter and steeled her nerves before looking to see if the clerk would actually let her buy stuff. Sadly when she got to the desk there was no one there and even after ringing the small bell they had on the desk no one showed up. Though thanks to her enhanced hearing she was able to hear that there at least was people here which made her hope they would come quick to see if she could get something into her ravenous stomach today.

"-No I told you I don't want to do this yet." She heard a feminine voice call out from one of the rooms behind the counter.

"Oh, come on you know we have been dating for a while. It is time for us to try something new." A more masculine voice was heard soon after.

"No! I am not ready for this…please Philip understand this." The female responded.

"Che, by this time Mai and me were much farther than this." Philip seemed to tell the girl with anger in the tone.

"Well unlike her I am not a whore and won't take my relationship that fast. I promised Ma and Pa I wouldn't." The girl told him causing a growl to be heard.

"She is not a whore she is just a good girlfriend. Like you should be!" Philip was heard clearly annoyed.

"Well my answer is still no and if you don't like it then I guess we are through!" the girl answered and Fu heard a dark chuckle come from the guy.

"Fine if you want to be done we are…but I didn't work so hard not to at least get a taste of what your smoking body has to offer." He told her and then Fu heard something that sounded like two people moving and seemingly fighting in some way. "Stop struggling. You know you stand no chance after all I am a ninja here and you are just a civilian." Philip told the girl after the fighting seemed to lessen.

"No! Please don't do this! Y-y-you won't get away with this!" the girl told Philip clearly terrified.

"Hehe, that is where you are wrong. I know you're parents are heavy sleepers so they won't be able to hear a thing seeing as you were kind enough to let them have some time to relax after bringing in a new shipment. Plus no one that could possibly hear us will pay any attention to it and even then it is hard to think it will happen with all the sounds coming from the shoppers around us." Philip told the girl he was talking to.

"I-I will make sure that you don't get away with this!" the girl's voice was heard clearly terrified and then she head Philip chuckle darkly again.

"Well it is too bad that after a simple jutsu you won't be able to remember a thing about this…if you are lucky. After all I might just take the lazy route and have you go 'missing'. Now let's get started." Fu heard before hearing the girl obviously begin to struggle again.

Now at this point Fu had a pretty good idea to what was going on and was unsure what she truly should do. For really with the way she was treated she didn't owe any good deeds to anyone in the village. But on the other hand the headband she just recently received was given to her in faith that she would support her village and protect all who were inside. After a while she finally made up her mind and decided to just this one time help someone in the hopes that the village would stop being so mean to her. And with that she quickly placed her food on the counter and moved towards where she heard the struggling. After finding the room she quickly opened the door and saw just what she expected.

For a man who seemed to be in his late teens or early twenties was holding a girl who was about the same age firmly onto the ground and was well on his way to get ready to rape her while she clearly was crying and begging for him to stop. A sight that actually made Fu angry seeing as she just like any other girl refused to believe that anyone would deserve this and that this man was truly trash. Sadly this anger led to her pulling on to some of the demonic chakra in her body that she has yet to get some control off and make it visible in the real world.

A chakra spike that the man felt and quickly turned around to see Fu standing there. "Well, well, well looks like our cute little demon has found us…she isn't much but while I am at it I might as well make sure she knows her place as well." The man mumbled to himself before quickly making a clone that held his current victim and turned towards Fu with a dark look on his face. A look that Fu knew all too well and quickly had flashbacks to all of the times the other members of the village attacked her for what she couldn't control. Though the fact that this man not only wanted to hurt her but to also take what was precious to all girls from her was the breaking point for Fu.

So, unknowingly letting the demonic chakra control her she quickly drew out a bit more of the chakra but still not enough to alarm any of the ninjas that could be around the area. Still it was more than enough to make her little more than a beast that was ready to defend itself as it let its basic instincts take hold. A fact that made it to when Philip grabbed on to one of her wrists with his dark intention clear she quickly coated her other hand with chakra and swung it his chest with as much force as she could. Something that normally would only cause maybe a few broken bones to anyone who was hit. Course in her case the chakra used was nearly all demonic which made it a bit more deadly seeing as it was corrosive to humans. A fact that showed itself as she hit him seeing as it not only launched him back first in the wall behind him but also left a second degree burn where it hit him.

"Ah! You damn monster!" Philip growled out looking at the burnt that was visible through the hole in his shirt. Course he didn't get too long to do so because she quickly jumped at him and hit him again but this time due to having no way to either but launched away from the hit or to escape he had no choice but to scream out in agony as the chakra burnt through his tissue quickly and soon enough pierced completely through him. A wound that caused him to bleed out rather quickly but able to feel the immense pain until the light finally faded form his eyes. After her attacker was dealt with Fu was able to calm down enough to take back control of her actions and looked in horror at the fact that her hand was stuck in a dead ninja's chest. So she quickly pulled her hand out of his chest and held it in front of her completely shocked that she just killed someone for the first time in her life. Thankfully she wasn't able to fully go into shock on begin to get disgusted because a sound next to her quickly brought her back to reality.

"T-thank you so much." The women that now was pretty much naked but free told her shocking Fu. For this is the first time someone who had to know who she was had thanked her for anything. "How can I ever repay you?...wait I know…" the women told Fu before quickly heading away leaving the girl to stew in the fact that she killed and not only that someone that she was supposed to work with. A thought that made her steal her thoughts for now and try and figure out a way to hide this fact before the village hates her even more. Sadly for her she could only think of one way…and that was to not only hide the body but to silence the girl who was a witness as well.

"I-it is ok. I have to do this…if I don't sh-she will tell someone and get the village to hurt me more." Fu mumbled out before shakily pulling out a kunai and trying to bring herself to actually kill yet again. Course at this point the girl came back into the room with a few towels a sealing scroll and a bag of food that reminded her of her extreme hunger.

"H-here we keep a few of these scrolls on hand just in case a ninja decides to buy stuff from us…I know you need to hide this and I promise I won't tell a soul…after all you did this just to save me. Oh, and here have some food on the house. I saw the stuff on the counter so food is what you must be after right now right?" the girl told Fu shocking her. For not only was this girl saying she would protect her instead of hurt her but was now holding something that she desperately needed. Two fact that made her put away the weapon before the girl could see it and decide to just this once trust a human after all it was bribing her with the food that her stomach was making her want to grab form the girls hand and dig into right then and there. She did though somehow manage to stop herself from going for the food and instead reached for the towels and scroll while ignoring the way the girl still slightly tensed in fear. Fu then sealed the body away and began scrubbing at the floor with the towels to try and soak up most of the blood. Though much to her surprise the girl she save actually grabbed a towel herself and began to help even though her face looked to be just as green as Fu's currently was. Still after a few moments they were able to hide most of the signs of the murder taking place and walked towards the front of the store.

"…so, thanks again for the help. Oh and please, valued customer if you need anything else please come again." The girl told her seeming to decide to act like Fu was just a normal customer to hide the horror that just took place.

"Y-you are welcome and t-thanks" Fu told the girl not used to using friendly words like these still. But this didn't make her stop for too long before she quickly left and went towards the forest as fast as she could. She then buried the scroll in a place she thought that no one would ever look before beginning to scarf down the food as fast as she could seeing as for once she would be full

*Flash Back End*

After that incident Fu actually was able to get a few more friends in the Masaki family. For even though the parents and two siblings never knew what happened between Fu and their daughter they still followed their daughter/sister's wishes and gave Fu a chance. A chance that let her win them over and begin to treat her as almost a distant family member. In fact as soon as the family learned she didn't have a home they quickly got enough supplies to build her the treehouse she currently lived in, and even though they didn't know it; they were one of the key reasons Fu actually was able to keep her sanity throughout the years. They also were the reason she wore a large cloak seeing as while she made sure to get everything she could from the store she wanted to make sure she didn't ruin their business just by being allowed there. Also, thankfully the incident and 'MIA' ninja was never brought up too much by anyone seeing as he wasn't a good enough ninja for any of the others to actually miss him. Though she did make sure to dig up her scroll after learning how to control bugs from her now friend that was sealed in her. Said bugs made quick work of eating away the paper the scroll was made of taking away any chance that she could ever be linked to the murder even if no one really cared.

Still she had to stop herself from daydreaming about her precious people for too long seeing as she had an unknown so close to her and they were also now at her home.

"Here we are. Now come let's talk." Fu told Naruto before jumping up to her small home with the blond following. They then got as comfortable as they could before they finally began their conversation.

"So, my first question is what the hell do those signs that are on so many of the buildings in town." Naruto asked and watched as she goes from being neutral to clearly being a bit upset and even angry.

"Those signs are for me. For seeing as they all know I have lucky seven sealed in me they forced a rule to have it so that any building with that sign on them I can't go in." She told him.

"What! That is bull shit. How did they ever push a ridiculous rule like that? I mean for me they just overcharged me for crappy stuff but really they let those assholes stop you from even entering completely." Naruto asked just as annoyed with the village as she way.

"They did simply because the council took a lot of the control from our last leader. In fact poor Shibuki-nii is way too close to being just a figurehead now." Fu admitted remembering how hard Shibuki tried to change the village he would be just shot down before he could get anywhere. In fact they were super close to even forcing her to be banished.

"That just isn't right..." Naruto mumbled. "Still at least you were able to get yourself set up away from them." Naruto told her trying to be optimistic.

"Yeah…thankfully my precious people were able to help me set up my own little sanctuary away from the humans." Fu told him completely agreeing.

"Why do you call them humans anyways. Just because we are jinchuriki doesn't mean we aren't human."

"I guess...but I would rather not associate myself with people like that."

"Yeah I understand that but just because some people show the world that the real monsters aren't demons doesn't mean they are all bad. So, lumping all of them in with bastards like that is ALMOST as bad as them just assuming we all are just the demons we have in us."

"…I guess" Fu mumbled out clearly at least thinking about what he said which is all he could ask for. They then talked about other things just to lighten the mood a bit before talking about the last thing on his mind. In fact after a while he actually was already feeling like he was friends with the girl who was treated just as bad if not worse than he was.

"So…do you know of a group called the Akatsuki?" Naruto asked deciding to not beat around the bush anymore.

"Akatsuki?"

"It is a group of S-class ninja that work in pairs of two and wear black cloaks with red clouds on them. They also are hunting….for us." Naruto told her finally dropping the bombshell of news and watched as she went from confused to a bit afraid for good reason.
"Why?" was all she could ask.

"To be honest I don't know. But I figure you should know so you can get yourself ready for if you ever need to defend yourself from them." Naruto told her. They then tried to bring their conversation back to more enjoyable topics now that she had fair warning. A goal that they eventually succeeded in doing so for the most part and just slowly got to know each other as they grew their new friendship. Though eventually Naruto sensed Jiraiya flash some of his chakra out which for them was a message meaning he wanted to see Naruto for some reason. A fact that actually upset him a bit because he was enjoying himself with his newest friend still his desire to train soon outweighed his temptation to stay and quickly said goodbye to Fu and launched towards Jiraiya's location as fast as he could

_In the village; With Jiraiya_

"Hey Ero-sennin how'd it go?" Naruto asked the old man happily.

"Well gaki I got stuff all sorted out. Now if you did like I told you to do then we can finally get your training started back up finally." Jiraiya told him and smiled at the boy how was jumping for joy in front of him. They then went out to one of the training areas around the village and before Jiraiya turned back to Naruto now holding out a small piece of paper.

"Huh what is this?" Naruto asked confused.

"Well even though I taught you a bit about elemental jutsu I still haven't actually checked to see what affinities you actually have." Jiraiya told him and then handed him the piece of paper. "You see when you pump some chakra into this piece of paper we will learn your affinities or in other words we are testing to see what elements you are better at since birth. If it crumples you have lighting, if it turns soggy you have water, if it turns into dues you are earth, if it burns you are fire, and if it gets cut up you have wind. Now most ninja usually only have one affinity and if they are lucky two…so what are you waiting for pump some chakra into it already." Jiraiya told him and watched as Naruto did just that. In fact they both watched Naruto's paper as it reacted to his chakra but were both quite surprised by what happened. For Naruto's paper first cut straight in half with one side getting cut up and the other getting completely soggy except for one corner where it surprisingly had a small flame on it.

"Huh, so you seem to have a high affinity to both wind and water with a very slight affinity to fire for some reason…now for the fire my only guess is that the Kyuubi's chakra gave you that seeing as I have never seen someone have only a small reaction with one of these papers." Jiraiya explained actually not completely sure himself if this theory was right. Course there was no way he would ever have Naruto even think of trying to ask the beast itself to see if it could lend some information. After all even though it probably has knowledge of most things since the elemental nations formed no one would ever trust it seeing as it more than likely would be corrupted by the demons view of the world and 'lowly' humans.

(AN Now I put this in because I am pretty sure I haven't done a chakra paper scene yet. If I did then oh well my stupid mistake won't hurt much…I just was thinking of what to have his affinities being for a bit and finally wanted to show it (and no I wouldn't just go the "just have them all" route))

"Wow so I have two types to figure out then?" Naruto asked excited to have more jutsu to learn.

"Heh, yeah you do." Jiraiya told the happy boy before making two clones himself. "Now make two hundred clones and have half go with each of my clones. One of them will take you to a nearby pond so you can work on the first step of water nature and the other will teach you how to use your wind nature." Jiraiya told him then watched as all the clones left leaving just Naruto and Jiraiya in the field.

"What about us?" Naruto asked confused on to sew Jiraiya's smirk grow vicious.

"You Naruto are going to train while they work on that. After all what is the point of having all that powerful jutsu knowledge with nothing to back it up with in close range." Jiraiya explain.

: Clone group 1, Wind :

"Okay clones today we will be working to continue your training in wind. Now we already have you finished with cutting a leaf but now we are upping the level to a whole new level." Jiraiya told the group before finding several trees that have already fallen down but still weren't too rotted out. "Now you know the drill. Find a spot and start trying to cut it just using your chakra…and no for now I don't care what method you use for now." Jiraiya told them then watched as the clones got to work on the logs in various ways.

: Clone group 2, Water :

"Okay clones all of you are going to get your feet wet so to speak." Jiraiya told them with a small chuckle while ignoring the groans the clones let out. "Now we will be finding a body of water and I want you to work on drawing out a small orb of water from it." Jiraiya told him then looked at all of the clones who were looking at him in surprise. "What?"

"Well the boss already did that step accidentally while he was playing with some of the stuff in his scrolls one day." One of the many clones explained surprising Jiraiya a bit.

"Then I guess I will have to see just how well you guys do then and we can move to the next step…changing the direction of a river… or in your case a waterfall." Jiraiya told them with a smile knowing that they were going to be cursing him when they realized just how hard this challenge would be. After all he expects his students to not only be good but be the best of the best.

: Real Naruto and Jiraiya :

After sending the clones out Naruto was soon making up for lost times by doing several exercises that were surely going to leave Naruto completely sore for the next few days if he didn't have the ability to recover in only a few hours. And even though Naruto constantly was groaning as he felt his muscles burn but still forced himself through it because he knew he had to get as strong as possible. So, with this stuck in his mind he forced himself to complete each task until finally he was allowed a small break. Sadly in this break he was stuck thinking about training and couldn't help but grow curious if he could combine his bloodline with some of his jutsu. So, finally having enough he created yet another group of clones and sent them off to find out what could be done while he followed Jiraiya's torture training. A fact that made Jiraiya chuckle as he ate the small meal he bought from a restaurant in the village.

"He really is your kid Minato and Kushina…I mean he finally gets a break and just like Minato gets some sort of idea stuck in his head and has to give it a shot. Meanwhile like Kushina where he finally gets a break from a training session that would exhaust most chunnin and some jonnin but yet still decide to get some more training in on the side. Now I hope he will be destined for doing just as great things as you both have done." Jiraiya thought happily letting his thoughts wander to his late student and said student's wife. Though he was also aware of the fact that they were being watched from the foliage a ways away from them but due to not really giving out any secrets he simply left whoever it is to whatever they wanted.

: In the foliage :

After her talk with Naruto she grew to somewhat like the blond who she now felt to be a friend. So, instead of doing any of her normal hobbies she decided to instead figure out just what he was up to that required him to randomly leave her home in such a rush. Course she didn't expect to see such a big name in the ninja world like Lord Jiraiya of the leaf to be with Naruto but that just made her grow more curious. So, seeing as he seemingly either didn't notice her or didn't care that she was there simply got comfortable and watched as Naruto trained or in her mind was dragged through the mud by Jiraiya.

And this is how the weeks past into months for their group. Each day Naruto would train for several hours doing whatever Jiraiya thought he needed to work on while also sending out around three hundred clones to work on both his elements but also on creating a few jutsu for himself. Naruto would then spend some time with Fu simply getting either getting to know the girl some more or doing either random things for fun or even some light training. All in all making their time in the village both painful and enjoyable for the blond. Sadly after spending around three months in the peaceful village Jiraiya finally told him it was getting close to time for them to move on. A fact that Naruto tried to push off a little bit but for some reason Jiraiya was adamant that they needed to go extremely soon but refused to tell Naruto why.

= Several hundred yards from Takigakure =

"Oy, why do we need to do this again?" A random ninja complained as they walked towards the village.

"Like I told you before we have to bring in some girl from this village to the leader so we can become a member of the Akatsuki." Another member of their group explained. For the four of them found themselves lucky enough to find one of the hidden bases for the mysterious group called the Akatsuki. Thankfully there was only two members in said base even if one of them was a crazy guy that nearly tried to instantly kill them. Luckily the hunchback member stopped said man and gave them a proposition they couldn't refuse. For he said that if they brought them the girl in a photo he gave them and brought her to them; then he would let them become members of the Akatsuki. Something that for the four A rank missing ninja was a dream coming true. In fact they were even give pure black cloaks to prove that it was a serious opportunity for them. So, they quickly went towards the village their seemingly random target was in to try to cash in on their golden opportunity.

Soon it became night and under the shroud of darkness they reached the village and quickly snuck through the gate with only minor delays thanks to one unlucky guard who found them but was quickly silenced. "Okay let's get this search started." Their unofficial leader whispered out and with that they began their search for their target.

= Hidden in the trees above the village=

"Hey you do remember that we can't do shit about who the leader picks to be in this fucken group right?" Hidan asked looking down at all the people his partner refused to let him sacrifice to his lord.

"Yes, but those fools are an easy way for us to test our demon's skills. Plus if they do manage to defeat her and bring the girl in you can do whatever you want with them…as long as they can no longer tell anyone about what they 'found out about us." Kakuzu told his partner who smiled evilly.

"Finally I get to fucken sacrifice someone to Lord Jashin." Hidan told him happily while holding on to his scythe looking forward to sacrificing someone.

_ With Jiraiya _

Jiraiya was calmly sitting on the roof of the hotel Naruto got for them watching the four ninja sneak into the village while most of the village slept. Now this put him on edge even more for he got a recent message from one of the toads who helped keep his spies in contact with him saying that the Akatsuki was coming towards this village soon. Something that troubled him seeing as he did end up meeting and started to like the jinchuriki that they surely were after. Sadly he couldn't help her too much seeing as they could begin to wonder how he got his intel so all he could do was get Naruto out of the way so they don't even think about going after him as well. Now of course he feels bad about not helping but this is the ninja world which was a tough place to live. So, he would get over his feelings and instead make sure he keeps his promise to his deceased student.

"Sorry Fu but on the bright side it seems like these guys might be either not even associated with the akatsuki or maybe just some poor saps that they somehow managed to get to do their dirty work." Jiraiya thought before going back into the hotel to get some rest after making sure his security seals were set up just in case. After all he had no reason to go after these people seeing as they were already on shaky grounds of peace with sneaking in to train here. He didn't want to start a commotion and damage the village seeing as that would easily put him on the bad side of the civilians which he was aware of being the real leaders of this place.

+Next Morning+

As soon as Naruto woke up he quickly got cleaned up and dressed before running out of the hotel to go spend the last bit of time he could with Fu before they had to leave. Course what he missed was the fact that Jiraiya woke up annoyed that Naruto disappeared into the village before he could stop him. After all he didn't want to take a chance on Naruto being targeted as well as Fu. Though now at least it seems he has no choice but to help Fu if those ninja were after her. Seeing as he was sure that she was the one Naruto was rushing off to see. So, he quickly got ready himself and geared up for both leaving the village and for the fight that he felt was coming really soon.

With Naruto he quickly reached Fu's home and jumped in to find the girl already awake and peacefully reading a book. That was of course until she heard him land on her wood floors and looked up from her book.

"Hey Fu just wanted to see ya one last time before I have to head on." Naruto told her clearly a bit upset about leaving.

"Oh, so you do have to leave now?" Fu asked really disappointed seeing as they became close friends which was something that she was severely lacking in the village. Still for some reason that didn't seem to make her as upset as normal when she was around her blond friend but now that he had to leave she was terrified of going back to being pretty much utterly alone.

"Yeah sadly Ero-sennin wants to go sometime today. But later on you have to come see Konoha and I will introduce you to everyone. I am sure you would love it there." Naruto told her wanting to try and keep her happy.

"I would like that…but when would you even be back to your home?" Fu asked knowing he still had a lot of his trip left. After all he told her that he was still in the first year of his training so that meant he had at least two whole years before he went anywhere near his village.

"…Yeah but still we gotta have you see it." Naruto told her realizing that two years was still a long time to not see each other. Now feeling kind of awkward he couldn't help but rub the back of his head while nervously chuckling a bit. "Anyways how about we go for one last walk through the woods?" Naruto asked trying to get away from his mistake.

"Heh, sure" she agreed laughing a bit at the stupidity Naruto showed every now and then. And with that they began to randomly wander around the forest simply enjoying the beauty of the nature around them while Fu played with some of the bugs that always congregated around where she was in the forest. Sadly one of these bugs were the reason their happy moment was ruined yet again. For through several quick buzzes that she understood due to her biju she learned of something that both upset her and clearly made her angry.

"Watch out Naruto we apparently have company and by the way the bugs see them; it ain't the friendly kind." Fu warned Naruto and quickly grabbed a kunai from her weapon pouch with Naruto doing the same next to her. She then silently thanked the fact that she was a bit away from the village so they hopefully would not be effected. Course that is all she could think of before four group men in black cloaks appeared before them.

"Well looks like we finally found her boys." One of the men told his group happily causing her to tense.

"What do you want with me?" Fu asked clearly annoyed.

"We want to capture you missy. For a certain friend of ours has made the price on your head something we could never refuse…to become a member of the Akatsuki!" The man told her causing both her and Naruto to tense. After all they knew what these people being affiliated with said group meant even if they seemingly had no clue. With that in mind they quickly prepared for the fight that they now knew was unavoidable while the men clearly were extremely confident in their ability to win seeing as they didn't seem worried about facing them. Too bad they didn't seem to know just what they were dealing with.

Meanwhile Jiraiya finally caught up to Naruto and simply decide to watch now that he was too late to stop this from happening. After all seeing as Naruto now couldn't escape he might as well see how the kid does in a real fight instead of just going after him. Plus, now that he was closer, he could easily tell that these four ninjas were just low A rank at best meaning the two jinchuriki would tear through them if they used their biju's chakra…but hopefully by now Naruto would be able to do pretty good against them without relying on that. After all while he wants to weaponize the biju in him that doesn't mean he wants Naruto to be stuck constantly using one trick even if it was basically an overpowered weapon even against the strongest people. "Come on Naruto show me that all this training we have been doing is worth something." Jiraiya thought as he got comfortable enough to watch but ready to jump in and take out the enemy if he was ever needed.

Hey guys first merry Christmas. As a present this year from me I have decided to up my chapter length from 5k to as close to 10k as I can get it (But still wanted to make it so the fight seen is in the next chapter because right now I am running out of time and I don't want to rush a fight seen even if it may not be all that good). After all what kind of writer would I be if I didn't do something for my readers.

Also, I would like to thank MIKE202303 who made my day a bit brighter recently just through a kind PM. It is always appreciated to see/read.

Finally for the story the flashback for Fu was done more to give her some background information and I apologize if it seemed out of place but I actually think it didn't come out too bad even if it was a bit darker than even I was expecting. Anyways as I said before I am not sure where her 'place' will be. After all she could easily fit with Shino seeing as she has the equivalent of a god level bug in her and can control almost any bug extremely well. Though she also could go with Naruto or maybe even someone else. Basically I will think about it. Plus I am still not sure about Shino I mean I could put him with two girls or even put him as a gay character which I have actually seen done really well and am a bit tempted to give it a shot even if I will NOT do a gay sex scene…I just can't force myself to do it. Not because I have anything against gay people but because I just don't want to think about what they do in private. Anyways Merry Christmas again and Ja Ne.