"Hey, Sempai, did you feel that?" Tobi asked.

After Sasori's untimely demise, he was promoted to being a formal member of the Akatsuki, where he was then paired with Deidara and two were traveling, looking for the Three Tailed Demon since that had been their latest assignment from their leader.

"Of course I felt that!" Deidara yelled. What idiot could not feel Kyuubi's chakra being released just a moment ago?

Rushing to the spot where they felt the Kyuubi's chakra coming from, the two members of the Akatsuki arrived at the lake where they happened to come across Guren's subordinates.

The three remain members of Guren's team foolishly attempted to stop Deidara and Tobi from going out on the lake. A huge explosion later and the two Akatsuki members continued on the lake, leaving the charred remains of Guren's team scattered across large crater that were later washed away during the resulting wave from a 360 degrees tidal wave technique the three tailed demon unleashed from the center of the lake carried him away while Deidara and Tobi escaped getting wet with one of Deidara's clay birds at the last second.

Flying through the fog and to the center of the lake, they saw the three tail turtle running towards like it was running away from something only to be stopped dead in it tracks.

Swooping down, the two found that the legendary demon was being stopped by a girl that had a fox-like charka aura surrounding her body.

"What this chick doing with Kyuubi's chakra? Only the blond brat is supposed to have it," Deidara asked himself out loud.

"That is Naruto," Tobi said in manner that was complete out of character from him, catching his partner's attention.

"Mind repeating that again? Unless I'm hearing things, you sounded like a different person just now," the blond missing nin from Iwagukure asked.

"I said that is Naruto, Senpai. He just using a really good Henge," Tobi told him.

Meanwhile on the lake's surface, Naruto was holding the one of the tails of the giant turtle he had been looking for. Yukimaru was only someone he was interested in because he had chakra similar to Three Tails, but now that he had the three tails, he did not need to worry about him anymore. Not to say that he did not care about the kid and how Orochimaru was using him, but right now, Sakura was his number propriety. This demon had information he wanted to know in helping Sakura. First, he needed to get him out his mindless state he was in from being overrun by his own power before he was even able to tell him what he wanted.

Just when he was about to go for the knock out blow with his opponent, he noticed something familiar. Something that made him very angry at the same time. On a bird seemly made of clay was Deidara. While he was pretty pissed off at the clay user at the moment, all of his anger was directed towards the person sitting behind him; the one with the orange mask covering his face. This rage he was feeling he guessed was from Kyuubi as he never seen this person before but it seemed the nine tails had. With a quick swipe of his charka tail which grew to the size twenty times it was originally, he swiped it at them with lighting speed, knocking them into the distance.

Then he went about bringing the still trying to escape three tail back to him and drove a giant Yoko Rasengan (Demon Fox Rasengan) straight into the gut of gigantic turtle, knocking it out cold. After that he performed a number of hand seals, he jumped over to the demon head and slammed his hands against it, leaving a seal that caused the demon to be covered in a puff of smoke. When the smoke vanished, what was left behind was, strangely enough, a twelve year old body with light green hair and scar over his left eye (the one that always seen closed).

"Idiot, it's amazing you lasted this long in the mindless state," Naruto sighed as he threw the boy over his shoulder and began heading back to where Sakura was since he needed to get out here. That orange masked guy was trouble. He did not know how since he did not have time to search through Kyuubi's memories (now his own thanks to their merger) to find out, but only a few humans made Kyuubi hold that much angry towards them and that guy was one of them.