Chapter 3

"Fool, do you really think you can keep me locked up? Do you really believe this seal will stop me? You are about as stupid as you are weak. I will break this "double seal" and there is nothing you can do about it. I'm a part of you and I always will be." The kyuubi smiled.

Naruto looked the cage containing the fox and he was speechless. He hasn't talked to this demon in almost 3 years and now suddenly out of nowhere it returns. Why is it back? I'm talking to this damn fox again. I guess the seal didn't mention me not being able to at least communicate with it. Still can this seal really hold up? Naruto wondered and worried about what was going to happen to him if the fox broke the seal. He then woke up realizing this was all just in his head.

Naruto heard a knock on his door and he slowly walked to it and opened the door to find Chizu and Akira standing there. "We have another mission and were to report to the hokage's office immediately." Akira seemed hasty so Naruto knew this was important.

We just got back though yesterday, she's already sending us out again, and I mean I know we didn't fight anyone but it wasn't a nice trip. Naruto quickly let these thoughts stir in a couple of seconds while getting dressed and headed out the door with his two teammates. "I'm hoping we actually get to do more than finding someone." Naruto laughed nervously trying to break the dead silence between his comrades. They finally showed up to see Jiraiya and Tsunade looking dead at them.

"Again Kakashi is late no surprise though, anyways were going to give you a B-class mission that may turn into an S-class if not done properly." Tsunade waited a couple of seconds until Kakashi showed up and continued. "As you may or may not know, there is a very deadly criminal named Kiyoshi, he escaped from the village of the stars jail and was headed in our direction, the one who gave us this mission also added that if captured successfully will help us with our search for Orochimaru. Even though we have maps of his location this man will tell us how to infiltrate and give us details of the building itself, he too knows about both spots. So as you can guess your job will to capture this man and bring him to us, be warned though he was a gang leader so chances are he has bodyguards. He himself is an A-class ninja. Good luck now be gone." Tsunade turned her chair around and waited for them to leave. Jiraiya waited for them to leave because he knew she wanted something from him. "Jiraiya I want you to assist them, Kakashi is strong but fear this will need your help, Kakashi knows of this but he doesn't want Naruto knowing because he fears he will listen to you and not himself, and he is there sensei." Jiraiya nodded his head because he understood but still had one question.

"I taught Naruto about watching his back so I know he will notice someone's presence, so I mean he is going to know." Jiraiya had a strong look on his face because he loved making Tsunade feel like an ass.

"They're going to be told someone is helping them, just not that it's you, so right back at you." Tsunade smiled because she knew she got him now, a little game they both liked to play with each other. Jiraiya walked out without saying a word.

"So someone is going to follow us in case of an ambush? What they think we can't handle it?" Chizu started to get frustrated and both Naruto and Akira backed off letting Kakashi handle it. He said nothing to the girl and she started shooting her mouth more because she knew he was ignoring her.

"Chizu if you don't start being quiet they're going to find us and kill us." Kakashi kept on walking after he said this because he didn't want to waste time for nonsense like this. Kakashi stopped, there is no way we found them this fast but there is a strong sense of a decent sized group, where only two hours out of Konoha. Kiyoshi wouldn't be this stupid though from what I heard to almost walk on the doorsteps of Konoha. I must find out though. "Akira your in charge I have to go check on something, stay put and don't move." Kakashi quickly darted off.

He treats us like kids. Akira got a little angry but he didn't let his emotions get in the way of his orders. "All right, let's just move out of the road then and wait for him to come back." Akira started to wonder what he was going to do if Kakashi didn't come back if the ninja they had following them was going to help him and his comrades or the copy ninja. Even thought these thoughts were turning inside his head he remained calm, in a matter of minutes Kakashi returned.

"No trouble, just someone else sorry to worry you guys, let's keep moving." Kakashi and his team started to make there way near the star village when again he felt a group moving. He turned because Naruto too had stopped. Does Naruto sense it too? By that look on his face there's no doubting it but I don't know maybe he just is being stupid. Still he did train with Jiraiya. "Naruto, you sense that too?" Kakashi watched as Naruto's head moved in agreement. "Let's go check this situation out. Standard formation let's move." Kakashi made a hand gesture to Jiraiya and Jiraiya nodded moving in the same direction.

"Kakashi the ninja that is following us, he is strong, very strong, who is he?" Naruto asked while keeping up with his sensei. Naruto could tell by the way Kakashi was acting that he didn't want him to know. Naruto accepted this and fell back with Chizu and Akira. Kakashi stopped and put his hand up letting them know to yield. "It's them, see them there's, one, two, three, four, five, six. Six of them and it seems Kiyoshi is in the middle being protected." Kakashi whispered to his team and the four of them fell back a little to make a plan. "Naruto I want you to use shadow clone and attack from the rear, Akira I want you to use any illusionary technique and strike from the left and Chizu use a multi fire jutsu to attack from the right will I attack straight up front, give me the signal when you all are in position." As soon as he said those words and showed them the signal they darted to their positions. Naruto was first to put his hand up Akira second and Chizu third. They moved at such speed, and Naruto didn't even ruin it for us. Kakashi grabbed a kunai and the ambush begun.

"SHADOW CLONE JUTSU!" Naruto appeared from the back with 7 clones while the real one hid in the tree's waiting for the time to attack Kiyoshi. The 3 guards in the back spotted this and turned to meet the clones. One of the guards struck one of the clones down but got kicked in the back of the head by another one; he quickly picked himself up only to get knocked out cold by the real Naruto with what looked like a very big stick. The second guard noticed this and started to run at the real Naruto before being stopped by words that scared him shitless.

"FIRE TECHNIQUE: FIRE BULLET JUTSU!" Chizu finished the hand seals and fired what seemed to be 8 fire bullets from the right while Naruto was still attacking from the rear with his clones. She struck both guards from the right down but realized that Kiyoshi stopped this jutsu with a counter water technique.

"Illusion technique: Dark shadow." Akira whispered this and watched as the two guards helplessly wondered around in the shadow cloud only to be struck by Akira's quick fists. He then turned to help Naruto with the final two guards in the back before realizing that Kiyoshi had struck down Chizu. Akira turned to see Chizu with a cut on her mid section and he saw Kiyoshi's kunai being pulled from the girl's stomach. Akira also noticed that Kakashi was nowhere to be found. Before he could help Chizu he saw Kakashi fly from a tree and striking down the guard from the front.

"I hope this aren't your best guards Kiyoshi." Kakashi sat there taunting the criminal. Naruto finally finished up his last guard before joining Akira and Kakashi. "Your outnumbered and outmatched, make this easy for me and surrender." Kakashi held on to his kunai hoping that the A-criminal would comply but he didn't.

"Your going to need all the help you can get, trust me." Kiyoshi jumped back so fast that Kakashi could barely see it. Kiyoshi made hand seals and uttered the words "Wind technique: trip wire jutsu." Kakashi was the only one who made this out and before he could warn his two students' they were both on the ground. Kakashi flew right at Kiyoshi and the two exchanged in a quick kunai fight before Kiyoshi swung his left leg around and kicked Kakashi right in the mouth. Kakashi landed on a tree and tried to protect himself from what was coming next. Kiyoshi knew he couldn't let up on the copy ninja and went full force on Kakashi after he landed punishing him with jabs and hooks straight to the face.

"He's way to fast, I can't keep up with his fists." Akira got up and looked at Chizu who started to just rise herself. He then glanced at Naruto who was nowhere to be found. Akira went straight after Kiyoshi and tried to catch Kiyoshi with a right hook but Kiyoshi dodged it and counter attacked with an uppercut to the jaw. The punch sent a shiver down Akira's spine as he flew back and fell to the ground. He hits like a tank, where's Naruto and this ninja that was supposed to follow us? Akira then started to lose consensus.

Kakashi quickly bounced up and lifted his forehead protector revealing the sharingan.

He seems to be a lot tougher than most A-class ninja's, I underestimated this man and it cost me, but there is no way I'm going to lose to him now. Kakashi now launched himself at Kiyoshi and they both engaged in a hand-to-hand battle. His Taijutsu seems to be equal to Gai's, and that's not good for me, if I continue this he will murder me. Kakashi backed away but Kiyoshi still kept on flying at him.

"FIRE TECHNIQUE: FIRE CONTROL JUTSU!" A small circle of red appeared around Chizu's feet. She moved her hand in a similar motion to Gaara's and raised a little wall of fire in front of her; in a matter of seconds she had a fire shield around her. She made some motions with her hands and the fire was chasing Kiyoshi, Kiyoshi tried to get close to Chizu but the fire kept on chasing him not allowing him to stay put or attack. Kakashi then too started to attack Kiyoshi and together kept Kiyoshi bouncing around. Damn, I can only do this for so long, right now I can only do this for 30 minutes and that's with full chakra, I can't do this much longer, he has to stop him. Chizu started to then chase him with two "fire missiles". Kiyoshi jumped high into the air and put his hands into a position then again uttered the words, "Water shield." The two missiles collided with the shield creating a lot of steam and Kiyoshi landed safely on the ground before Naruto came from his right with a rasengan.

"RASENGUN!" Naruto flew from the woods and directly at Kiyoshi. The rasengan connected and Kiyoshi was in the air spinning in a circle. Chizu quickly stopped her fire control and moved over to aid Akira. "I bet you guys were getting worried huh?" Naruto added this with a smirk but the smirk quickly disappeared when he saw Akira's condition. Jiraiya then came from his hiding spot to assist the wounded man and he noticed Akira's cut as well.

"Kakashi take your team back to Konoha immediately, I will take care of this criminal." Jiraiya grabbed Kiyoshi by his head and held him up to a tree. "Now I'm going to take you back to your village so I can learn a little about my old friend's new house." Jiraiya then started to walk away with Kiyoshi right behind him, and the two disappeared into the direction of the star village.

"Come on Naruto move faster, Akira's condition is getting worse." Kakashi yelled at the boy because Naruto had Chizu on his back while Kakashi had Akira. "Naruto don't you ever abandon your teammates like that again, you hear me. You better hope that these two just come out with cuts and bruises, or I will hurt you myself." Kakashi added angrily.

I bet if this was still our old team and Sasuke did this it wouldn't be a big deal, god Kakashi if it wasn't for me you would probably be dead, or Jiraiya would have had to save your ass. Trying to pull it off like I didn't know it was him either, trying to hide because of your own ego reasons. Naruto didn't really know why he didn't tell him and he didn't care but he was getting pissed because he felt that he did nothing wrong. They arrived at the hospital and they both waited anxiously to see the results of Akira, as Chizu was fine and just needed stitches.

"Well your comrade is fine, honestly we believe it was stress related for the reason he passed out, probably worried about something, and in a battle situation, many things but nothing serious you can see him now." The nurse quickly hurried away and the 3 of them walked into his room.

"How you doing man?" Naruto asked nicely avoiding the glare Kakashi was given him. Akira nodded and apologized to the team and when he heard the reason the nurse gave him, agreed and apologized again. "You should get some rest man, I'll see you tomorrow." Naruto added and walked out the door, he then started to head to Tsunade's office after walking Chizu home apologizing to her for leaving them in the dust, she accepted it and walked in her house and Naruto realized maybe she wasn't as bad as he thought she was. When he neared the office he heard Kakashi and Jiraiya arguing.

"I don't care if he won if for us what if something serious happened to Akira?" Kakashi had a strong tone.

"Well I wouldn't be talking I saw the fight you didn't enter until Chizu got hurt! Besides if it wasn't for him you probably would be in the bed right next to Akira!" Jiraiya started to yell which was surprising considering how calm he usually is. "The fact is we got the information and nobody got hurt." Jiraiya then moved back into his usual corner where he stands.

"What exactly did you teach him Jiraiya how to be a bad teammate?" Kakashi almost wish he didn't say that, as he knew Jiraiya could kill him in a heartbeat. The door slammed open before Kakashi could apologize. Naruto stood there with his right arm sleeve up and he removed the band and set it in his weapon pouch. Before Kakashi could get a guard up Naruto flew at the jounin and punched him in the jaw and you could hear the jaw shatter and there was no doubt Naruto broke it. Tsunade's jaw dropped as she saw how much power that punch had.

"Don't you ever disrespect this old pervert like that ever again you hear me you fucking asshole, you wouldn't be saying shit if it was your little bitch Sasuke would you! Naruto grabbed Kakashi by the vest and threw him against the wall and winded up for another punch before Jiraiya grabbed the teenager and threw him against the wall.

"Calm down Naruto, Tsunade I'll take care of this little runt while you heal Kakashi." Jiraiya grabbed Naruto and dragged him to his house. "Naruto, your going to be in big trouble for that, I know what he said was cruel but you can't go punching your superior like that." Jiraiya had never yelled like this before at Naruto and he watched as a tear slid down Naruto's face. "But, that was one hell of a hook." Jiraiya flashed a smile showing the boy that he forgave him, and Naruto quickly tried to dry his eyes. "Now, as for the information I got, me and you will discuss it tomorrow personally, no one else. Honestly I don't think you will be able to go anywhere anytime soon anyways. Go get some sleep you crazy bastard." Jiraiya watched as Naruto dashed into his house and close the door. He started to walk back to Tsunade's office to see how Kakashi's face was doing. I never thought even with the bands he would hit this hard, still though I increased his punching power not his speed so, I'm going to have to see how much that increased too. Jiraiya laughed as he replayed that image in his head, and how he too almost punched Kakashi himself if Naruto hadn't done it. I can't wait to see her face. He slowly walked to Tsunade's office. "So how is Kakashi doing?" Jiraiya asked slyly.

"Well Naruto broke his jaw so Kakashi will be out for at least 4 days, I healed most of it but the swelling is the reason he has to wait. Jiraiya you said stronger but, this much? Not to say I'm proud that he hit Kakashi but he did hit hard. So, ready to discuss this information you got?" Tsunade settled in her chair as the two discussed the information all through the night.

"Orochimaru sir, Kiyoshi has been recaptured. It's safe to say they will be here shortly, now that they have the information." The man replied hastily as he didn't want Orochimaru to kill him.

"Don't worry, Sasuke will greet them there and show them what real power is. I'm so glad he killed Kabuto to show me how strong he really is. Don't worry Kabuto probably could have handled this, so Sasuke will defiantly be able to." Orochimaru laughed as the messenger quickly ran out of the room. "You will soon see what had become of your best friend, Naruto." Orochimaru smiled at the thought of Jiraiya hanging over Naruto's dead body. He also smiled because this fantasy could become a reality.