"Tokikage-sama, I have finished interrogating the spy," said a man wearing a bamboo outfit (picture Naraku's demon puppet outfit).

"I hate when you and Kimimaro address me as such," said Naruto glaring at the man.

"Forgive me Tokikage," said the man with a smirk beneath his mask.

"You know I remember when I first gave you that outfit, it gave your Kaa-san one hell of a heart attack. Now take that off Naraku-kun and tell me when you learned," said Naruto gesturing for Naraku to take a seat. Naraku took off his mask, but left the rest of the outfit on because it was comfortable.

"It turns out the spy was a cloud ninja in disguise and you will be interested by what we found out," said Naraku as he took a seat.

"I take it, the Raikage will be joining Orochimaru in the attack against Konoha during the Chuunin Exam correct?" said Naruto as he placed his hand on his chin.

"Yes, it seems since Gaara-kun isn't with sand, the snake went to find more allies in order to make up for the loss of a power that a crazed demon vessel could provide," replied Naraku.

"Yes I expected something like this, it seems that by changing one thing in the past everything was changed, and the future isn't as predictable as I thought it would be," said Naruto.

"The Hidden Village in Cloud isn't that much of a threat, Orochimaru would have been better off trying to get Stone to help him," said Naraku.

"Yes, but as you know I'm sure, Orochimaru wouldn't have been able to control anyone from Stone because their hate of the leaf is too great and they would have attacked him on sight," said Naruto.

"What will we do now with this new development?" asked Naraku curious.

"I will have to send the Sandaime a letter knowing that we will only have one genin team entering his exam. Yugito-chan will be in charge of the team while you will be my personal guard," said Naruto as he started to gather some papers together.

"You do realize by having me at your side your going to generate a lot of hate from the cloud, since they have sent an order to kill me on sight," said Naraku with a smirk.

"That is not my fault, for some reason you take great pleasure in hunting down their ANBU teams and eliminating them," said Naruto returning the smirk.

"Yeah, Kaa-san has been getting on my case about that lately," said Naraku sheepishly.

"Your Kaa-san doesn't like to see any of her children kill, but she has accepted it a long time ago that we are in a world where we must learn how to fight," said Naruto.

"I hear that in a few years you are going to announce this village as the next great shinobi village," said Naraku changing the subject.

"Seeing is how we have produced more S-class ninja in the past five years then any other village, I think that gives us a right to join the ranks of the other greater shinobi villages," said Naruto.

"That is only because are training regiment for academy students is much stricter, once we become a greater village we will have to lower the standards because won't be able to have much individual training like we do now," said Naraku.

"Yes I realize this, but I have come up with a few contingency plans when that happens so we will still produce the same level quality of shinobi. I won't make the same mistake as my home village and let a brief period of peace weaken us," said Naruto sternly.

"I understand tou-san," said Naraku.

"Tou-san, tou-san," yelled Aiko running into the room with Kimimaro behind her.

"Forgive me Naruto-sama, but she insisted on seeing you," said Kimimaro bowing. Naruto just waved it off before he picked up his daughter and sat her on his lap.

"What is it that you wanted my little princess?" asked Naruto as he tickled his daughter.

"Stop tou-san," laughed Aiko as she struggled to get free of his grip. Naruto continued for a few more seconds before he stopped tickling her and let her tell him why she wanted to see him so badly.

"Ok I'll stop, but you have to tell me why you ran away from Kimimaro-kun to come see me," said Naruto with a smile.

"I was wondering if I could go with you when you leave in a month," asked Aiko with a puppy dog look.

"Don't give me that look, you know it is completely up to your mother on whether you can come or not," said Naruto trying his best to ignore his cute daughter's look.

"Aww, but she kept saying it was too dangerous," pouted Aiko.

"It is too dangerous, your mother is completely correct," said Naruto nodding his head.

"I bet you the next S-ranked mission, that Aiko will get Kaa-san to let her go with us to Konoha," whispered Naraku to Kimimaro.

"It does not matter to me, either way I will not let any harm come to Kagome-sama or Aiko-sama," said Kimimaro impassively.

"Sometimes you take all the fun out of life," said Naraku putting an arm around Kimimaro. Kimimaro just turned to give Naraku and icy glare causing him to remove his arm sheepishly. Naraku didn't see it, but Kimimaro turned his head to hide the small smirk on his face. Kagome-sama was the only one that knew it, but he enjoyed frightening his siblings every now and then.

Break

"Raikage-sama why are we joining sides with Orochimaru? Surely, you do not expect him to keep his word," said an ANBU captain as he bowed before his Kage.

"Of course he won't keep his words, but with three villages attacking Konoha we stand a chance at severely weakening their forces. Plus, I want revenge against Higurashi Naruto, because of him I lost the chance at acquiring the Byakugan," said the Raikage.

"So we will kill the snake and sand once the invasion is over?" asked the ANBU captain finally understanding.

"Yes, and then we will be announced as the greatest of the shinobi villages," said the Raikage with a smirk.