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It had been already a day since Naruto left the village. Iruka, for the seventh time went to the Hokage to let out all his worries onto him. *knock knock knock knock* The Hokage looked up from his paperwork at the door. "Come in." Iruka stormed into the room, the Hokage sat straight and put his pen down. "Ah Iruka, should've known it was you." The Hokage said.
"Sir, why did you let that masked man take Naruto away with him?! Do you know what organization he is from? The Akatsuki! Who knows what he might be doing to Naruto right now. He might b-" The Hokage interupted him."Yes, I know who the Akatsuki are, Iruka." After a moment the Hokage got up and walked to the window, back turned to Iruka. "Naruto has had a rough life here in the village. It may have been the wrong choice or even the right choice. I don't mind if you hate me now Iruka, after the decision I made... to let Naruto go with that man." He turned around again to make eye contact with Iruka. "Maybe that's what Naruto needs. A break from the village, if it would mean for him to be happy, then I don't mind where he is. That's why I let him go Iruka, I want him to be happy. For his sake.. and his parents. I promised Minato and Kushina both, that Naruto would grow up to become a strong shinobi, and also happy." The Hokage took a deep breath and putg his hands behind his back, he walked to the window and looked at the overview of the village.
"But..." Iruka lowered his tone down. "There could have been other ways of making him happy... it's insane Sir, you could've waited for another chance to come, for Naruto to be happy." After a moment Iruka spoke up again. "What if they change him... for the worse." Iruka added cautiously.
The Hokage looked back at Iruka and narrowed his eyes in attentiveness. "With what you said before, if we had left him here with us, he would change even worse by himself overtime than what you believe how the Akatsuki would change him." After a moment, Iruka spoke again,"He'll become a missing-nin!" Iruka shouted in desperation than quickly lowered his tone "...sir." Iruka turned around and walked towards the door. The Hokage stayed in silence staring after him as he made his way to the door.
"As long as I'm Hokage, I promise you, I will in my best interest won't make that happen, Iruka." Iruka continued walking. Just when he was about to put his hand on the handle, the door opened and a Jonin and two Genin walk into the room. "Ah Kakashi, your team have retrieved the cat I presume? How did their first mission go? Especially with one less member." The Hokage walked back to his desk and lit a pipe. Iruka stared at Kakashi and the two Genin outside of the room. 'If Naruto was still here, he'd have gone on that mission, haha he'd have wanted to go on a harder mission.' Thinking of this, Iruka's smile was exchanged for a frown. He turned and walked out of the Hokage's office, hearing the light chatter of Sakura and Kakashi.
"Tobi, where are we going to train?" Naruto said boredly, "we've been walking for days! Couldn't we have used your telepathy jutsu thing?" They both continued to walk through the desert and finally passing Kumogakure. Tobi stopped walking and looked at Naruto behind him, struggling to keep up. "It's apart of your training, Naruto." Tobi said exasperated. "Everything we do is for training... take this for example. We are walking long distances why? We're building up your stamina."
For the rest of the journey to where ever Tobi planned on heading to, the two kept silent, with times Naruto asking where they're going to train.
"We are finally here. Turtle Island." Tobi finally said after stopping at a halt.
"Here? I can't see anything." Naruto said.
"Look up." Naruto looked up and saw a large island floating in the island. "That is Turtle Island. Naruto, you are going to train on this island. You will learn to control the tailed beast within you."
"And how do we do that?" Naruto replied.
"Follow me."
The two walked through the forest and defeated any animal that jumped on them for being intruders. "Why are these animals so large?" Naruto said shocked, observing all the giant animals they have come across. "This island is in the care of Kumogakure. They use this island for animal experiments. But those animals are not apart of your training, if that's what you're thinking..." The two finally stopped at a temple. "You will be training in there." Tobi pointed inside the temple, right at the back to a room. Naruto walked into the temple and sat down in the centre of the room. He closed his eyes and focused, making contact with the fox. "Oi fox!"
"Hm...?" The fox woke up from his sleep, curious to see what Naruto was wanting.
"Give me your chakra. Let me control you." Naruto stated straightforwardly.
"HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA NO. Shouldn't it be the other way you stinkin' brat!" The fox got angry and lunged right in front of Naruto and stared right down at Naruto.
"Guess I'll have to fight you." Naruto got into stance and posed a clone hand seal. "SHADOW CLONE JUTSU!" Hundreds of Naruto clones appeared surrounding the fox. At once, they all charged directly at the fox. With one sweep of a tail, the fox bursted all of the clones and threw Naruto metres away. Panting, Naruto got up and wiped the blood from his lip. "I won't give up. That is not my ninja way! SHADOW CLONE JUTSU!" Another 100 clones appeared around the fox, all in stance.
"You're only able to make this many clones because of me you brat! Give up!" Again, the fox swept a tail and bursted all the clones and threw Naruto again.
A few moments later Naruto walked out of the room and joined Tobi. "How did you go?" Tobi asked, already knowing the answer.
"Nope. Couldn't control him."
"It was expected." Tobi and Naruto both started walking out of the temple.
"Then why did you tell me to fight him if you knew I wouldn't be able to win?" Naruto turned to face Tobi, with a frown on his face.
"I wanted to see how much experience you have. And it turns out you don't."
"Hey! Take that back! I will get stronger! I will become Hokag-...e..." Naruto flinched and quickly turned his head away from Tobi.
"Hokage...? I thought you left the village... Naruto... why are you still holding onto those futile dreams. Let them go." They both walked out of the temple in silence. "We'll come back here when you've grown stronger." Tobi added.
"R-right." Naruto nodded despondently.
That is it for this chapter. I changed the format if you hadn't noticed. I have writers block so I have run out of ideas. please review leaving suggestions and ideas for upcoming chapters! It will help ALOT. LITERALLY. If you would like to keep this story going, please help me out! Please review, follow, fav etc etc.