Red Dawning of the New World.
Location: 1 hours travel time to Kirkagakure Proper.
Date: 3 Months since leaving the Southern Provinces.
Naruto moved along the main civilian paths in the tree lines. It made travel easier from the throngs of civilians racing away from the Mist capitol. After leaving the Southern Provinces, he had made his way along the coasts of the continent, each time he stopped; he had ended up in a strange situation. Once he played bodyguard to the now Princess of Spring, Snow Ninja had hunted her down in the Sea Country just beyond Konoha. She was a drunkard, and was barely saved in time to get her movie done. Problem was they had pissed in the maelstrom so to speak. Giving her a piece of mind and setting her straight afterwards. He hopped a charter boat to Snow, and assassinated Dotou, The leader of Snow at the time. Shortly thereafter the Last Princess Gale movie came out, unfortunately, he was in it during the fight scenes.
Returning to the Mainland, he disappeared in the Island chains. Naruto furiously worked to finish the conversion seals. He had made several discoveries in his Hiraishin studies and some of the pieces fell immediately into place, some required the design and testing of new conversion seals. The Hiraishin funneled chakra into a matter conversion seal. This converted matter to energy and transmitted it to a beacon point and reconverted it to matter. It was Basic Energy conversion. The process was taking chakra to convert the energy binding matter to an atomic form transmitting to a receptor and reconverting the energy to bind the matter. The key was the guides the converter's used. Because the seals had to be user specific, it was no wonder he couldn't get it to work before. He guessed his father wanted him to figure out those pertinent facts on his own.
From what he knew, chakra could be converted to medicinal chakra, so why couldn't it be configured to any form of energy he wanted, With that thought, he dove into the last of the seals and spotted the unique Kanji for electricity. So, he went to work on a lightening converter, seal drawn, placed it on the palm of his right hand, pushed chakra to that point and into the seal, the seal was drawn to expel the energy. The next thing he knew a bolt flew from his hand and blew big chunk of the cave he was in to bits. Then he picked up a kunai he had made in a small town earlier that day. He Placed a seal drawn exactly as he had read on it, Forced the same amount of chakra into it and it glowed, throwing it as hard as he could, he could sense the charged kunai, he did the described hand seal set, and next thing he knew he was standing next to the kunai.
That being done, the last of his goals was nearing conclusion. Taking the Suna Demonic barrier seals, he changed them to a funnel structure, With each one mounted, the linked a chakra conversion seal from the original matrix, then linked the output to a Storage seal that had a petcock function to it, He could at will apply blood to the seal to open or close the seal flow, if closed it went into storage. If open, his coils received a boost of chakra at a continuous flow. Naruto, determining that if he closed off all chakra from the fox to his system, he was screwed if he got seriously injured. With that in mind, he took the Uzamaki Chakra seals and linked them to 2 of the 5 matrix adjustments. He then linked storage seals to the Healing chakra conversion seals. This gave him an instant healing assembly that rivaled the effects of Kyuubi chakra.
The end effect was no more Kyuubi chakra in his system or available to him. He needed a failsafe, this was where he made a small deal with the Kyuubi, if unable to consciously release the seals, and a failsafe seal was in place. The fox could push chakra to in bypassing the storage assembly, and going straight into a combination Demonic to healing chakra seal. After all, if Naruto died, he died, and all it cost Naruto was letting the fox see, smell and hear combat. Naruto kept most of the Seals open to flow to his coils, Leaving 1 each normal and healing to storage.
Now after the 6 weeks it took to do the matrix changes, he was nearing the mist capitol. His intent was to peruse the records halls of the Ndiame and Sandaime Mizukage for references to His Mom's clan. He really hoped that Mist and his clan had been in good terms. The Yondaime Mizukage was a host; he also started this civil war. Based on his experience with the Konoha clans, he could sympathize with trying to keep their overblown self worth in check. The only bloodline user he had ever met that he respected was Itachi.
He entered the capitol and promptly went to the hall of records. 3 frustrating hours later, not a clue was found. It was late afternoon at this point, too late to get and audience, but early enough to get an appointment made to see the Mizukage tomorrow. He made his appointment and went off to find a hotel. He noticed he was followed, and kept calmly aware of the numbers and positions of his followers.
The next morning, a messenger knocked on his door from the Mizukage. Apparently his tail reported where he was staying. Taking the message, he noted he had time to clean up, place all his weapons in his seals ready for immediate usage, including the dozen Hiraishin Kunai he had made, each seal in quick reach of his wrists and forearms.
Escorted to the tower, he was escorted around the line of people waiting to see the Kage. Upon entering, a tall man Blondish, brown hair, fair skin features common in Mist on his face.
"Mizukage-sama, thank you for seeing me."
"What brings the only civilian of interest in the Bingo book to Mist? I hope not to help my enemies in the war are you?"
"Oh no, not even interested in the war, But I do sympathize with your plight. I've had experience with bloodline clans, few if any are worth their grief."
"Now that's interesting, you're not offended at the thought of wiping out your enemies?"
"No, my mother taught me to kill all who were in my way. Now while I refrain from excessive violence, I can see from my childhood experience that most definitely bloodline clans tend or over value their self-worth. I would fight and kill to protect those I care for. To me that's morally supportable. What others feel as morally supportable is none of my business as long as it doesn't interfere with my interests. "
"Excellent, how can I assist you with your goals?
"If you could Mizukage-same, Point me to where I could find some reference materials relating to my mother's family? "
"I can do that and more, Your Bingo book entry lists you as a civilian, would you be interested in a position in Mist?"
"Not Today Mizukage-sama, Mom wanted me to find something, so I'm looking around for now. I promise to not get involved in your business during my stay. "
With that, Naruto was escorted out the door, and over to the next building where Mist kept restricted access documents. On the walk over, he saw 2 men seated in a stand, wearing Black Cloaks with red clouds shouting greetings to a Tall man and short man dressed identically entering the stand. The huge rice hats blocking observation of their features.
"What the fuck are you guys doing here?
"Now, now, no public disturbances Hidan, You know Leader-sama has us posted in Mist on our own mission. Your sacrifices are safe from us, as is Kakuza's bounties."
"I saw your bounty enter the Kage tower Itachi, Your business not ours."
"Don't Mind Itachi, he's just nervous getting to see his old friend again" laughed the tall one.
"Making a move on your bounty soon Kakuza?" asked Itachi.
"Soon,"
"Fine, Naruto could use a good fight. No killing or permanent wounds, Leader-sama would be most angry."
Later that afternoon, back at the hotel, Naruto had just finished putting away the materials he had copied about his clan history. Sensing 2 other chakra signatures joining the two already in the hallway at each end, a knock came at the door. Sensing one that was unforgettable, and one he didn't know. He made 2 clones, positioning them for a quick switch or a wall break.
Answering the door, he looked at 2 men with large rice hats, cloaks black with Red Clouds.
"Naruto, come with us please." Lifting his rice hat to reveal Itachi, the dead emotion look he used when he was about to get in a fight.
"Itachi Uchiha, long time no see. You must be Kisame. I've learned so much about you recently."
"Naruto, please come with us. " Once again Itachi asked. This time Itachi winked.
'Did he just wink at me? What the fuck? Oh shit, he wants a test. Well, this is going to hurt. Wonder what his game is?'
"I'm sorry Itachi, I'm too tired to go out tonight and reminisce about old times. Tomorrow Perhaps?"
"Can I just cut his legs off? It would be easier."
The two at each end of the hallway had ran off scared shitless of the 3 men calmly discussing 1 going quietly to his death. They would go to the Mist Military headquarters and report 2 missing Nin in town and attempting a kidnapping of a verified civilian.
"Be quiet, Kisame, You cannot cut off his legs. Naruto Leader-sama wishes to see you."
"Sorry Itachi, but you know what Mom always said" Gave Itachi a wink, Switched with a clone instantly and ducked, Both clones immediately waved and went whispered, "Boom"
The resulting explosion blew them through the wall behind them and they landed on the occupied bed in the next room. They looked up, Stood up, dusted themselves off, Turned to the shocked couple and said, "We're sorry to interrupt your regularly scheduled sex. " and calmly walked out back to Naruto's room and peered outside the building where down the street Naruto was beating on Hidan who missed him unintentionally with his scythe.
They leapt down to the street, walking at a steady pace as Mist ANBU were circling, getting ready to Join the fray from above. Hidan was cursing Naruto, Naruto was beating on Hidan, Finally retrieving his scythe, Hidan made series of strikes and was driving Naruto backwards.
"Fuck me, what the hell is going on here? This stupid bastard is trying to kill me. Well fuck him." He thought as he was in the midst of several leaps and back flips to avoid the seriously painful looking weapon. 'Bastard must like blades, let's see if he likes mine.' And without a hand seal or vocalization the street was filled from building wall to building wall with Wind Blades bearing down on the Akatsuki member.
"Think Hidan can get up from that?" laughed Kisame as the pair was just in range to see the forming blades.
"It will certainly be a test of Hidan's faith won't it?"
The last words Hidan uttered were, "Well damn, this is going to hurt"
As the little bloody chunks of Hidan Exploded all over the street, Naruto turned to the pair arriving. Pulling sewer water up, he quickly formed the seals for several water dragons. The dragons were met 1 for 1, the splashes soaking both Naruto and the pair.
Kisame leapt forward, brandishing a downward stroke at Naruto which was blocked with a tri-prong Kunai. Rotating the weapons to dislodge from each other, a series of strikes were sent and parried by each man. As soon as a gap was about to appear, Itachi fired a fireball the almost got Kisame passing by. The water in the street was evaporating. Naruto dived to the side, noticing the now evaporating water and summoned the hidden mist jutsu.
'Now the odds are better' Thought Naruto. He summoned a dozen clones, intent on herding Kisame away from Itachi.
Closing the distance, he rushed to Itachi, challenging him hand to hand, each could track the other without vision, but the Mist ANBU could not see what was going on. Fists and kicks flying and tremendous speeds. Impacts on building walls rattling dishes inside. Naruto and Itachi now drew Kunai; However, Having done this against each other quite a few times, he maneuvered Naruto to a position where Naruto was in the aggressor position, Kunai at Itachi's throat. Smoothly he reached and inserted a note in Naruto's hand that was at his throat, Back-Flipping Naruto over him. Naruto landed hard intentionally. Sliding the note in his pocket as he was getting up, He yelled at the Mist ANBU, "Are you guys lazy or what? He watched as Itachi had leapt over him, and gathered Kisame to escape, lest the ANBU begin to wear them down. His task done, His face, covered with an evil sneer and he turned and left with Kisame.
With the Best of the Mist responding to 3 Akatsuki openly fighting near the tower, the Mizukage never saw what hit him, when a barrage of lightening Jutsu incapacitated him on the roof of the Tower where he was watching the 3 Akatsuki. Shunshining off. Kakuza was mentally counting the bounty that the warmongering Mizukage would draw from Cloud. Cloud's supply lines severely hampered as they were from the inability to ship and receive goods through the Mist's ports. They would pay most handsomely.