The Kinkaku unit

Minato was jumping through the trees until something caught his eye. He stopped and jumped to the ground out of curiosity. Bright red pieces of string were on the path. "This red hair. . ." he picked it up.

"You wanna be Hokage right? You can start by saving our nakama. You can do it."

Minato remembered what his leader and close friend told him. He squeezed the hair in his fist. "Hang in there Kushina!" he thought and jumped off.

"Ngh!" Kyo landed on the ground and jumped back again to create some distance. He reached into his pouch.

Kayoko was also fighting she moved her head to the side so her opponent's fist hit the tree behind her. She put one foot on the tree and pushed off of it as she extended her free foot and smacked her opponent away.

Kyo took out wire strings and about four ninjas came for him. He dodged their attacks and tied them to a tree. He also stuck two paper bombs on it. The ninjas started to panic. Kyo and Kayoko jumped out of the blast radius.

"Stay dead." Kyo thought.

"Yeah, this is what you get when you try to mess in Konoha!" Kayoko thought.

! She saw a wave of shurikens flying at her. She made the ram, tiger, snake, dog, rat, ox, horse, rabbit, tiger, boar, and snake seals in that order. "Doton: Renga no jutsu!" (Earth style barrier!). The shurikens landed in the wall in front of her. "Wait for me, Kyo!" she said in her mind.

Kyo was encountered by another group. One of them took out a sword that had lightning chakra flowing through the blade. "What?" Kyo thought.

The shinobi took his chakra infused sword and slashed it. Kyo took out a kunai but it was sliced through. The sword cut him in the upper arm and the lightning chakra electrocuted him. The other ninjas also impaled him. "Ah!" he coughed out blood. "Shimatta!" he thought and fell down bleeding.

The ninjas were about to kill him when Nojirama got in front of him. He had the tiger seal.

! Kyo's eyes widened.

"Suiton: Teppodama!" (Water style: Gunshot!) water blasted out from his mouth and wiped them out.

Kayoko ran to them. "Kyo!" she came and stood above him.

"Sorry, I was a little too late." Nojirama said.

"He's gonna die at this rate." Kayoko thought.

"Kayoko, go help Minato." Kyo told her and her eyes started wavering.

"Dame! You're our teammate and I'm your leader! I'm not leaving you here to die!" she said.

"You have no choice." he coughed out blood. "I never thought I'd be the first to get knocked out of the game." he said weakly.

Kayoko turned to Nojirama. "You said you knew medical ninjutsu right? Now would be a good time to use it!" she said.

Nojirama panicked a little. "Yeah, well. . ." he put his finger on his face. "That was kind of a lieeeee. . ." he confessed.

Kayoko raised her fist and Nojirama shut his eyes ready for a punch. But she didn't hit him she just gritted her teeth and sat beside Kyo. She put her hands on his torso and green chakra emitted from her hands.

Nojirama's eyes widened. She was healing him with the Mystic Palm jutsu. Kyo's wounds started healing.

"That's. . ." Nojirama said and Kayoko was done healing him. Kyo sat up and Kayoko held her hand out.

"You're fine. I'm sure of it." Kayoko said and helped him up.

"Omae. . ." Nojirama was still in shock.

Kayoko faced him, "We have to lend Minato support. Iku ze!" she said.

"Right!" Kyo and Nojirama nodded their heads and they vanished using the body flicker jutsu. They started jumping through the trees.

"So why'd you come? You don't happen to know about Kushina do you?" Kayoko asked him while on move.

"Well, I saw a certain chunin brat break into someone's home by smashing the window. I also overheard the problem and got ready. Before I got here I told the Sandaime too." Nojirama said.

"Souka." Kyo said.

"You guys should fall back. You're not ready for this kind of stuff, it's out of your league." Nojirama said. "Just leave it to the Anbu-"

He got kicked in the gut and they all stopped. "Just what. . . What do you think we're risking our lives for!?" Kayoko exclaimed. "Our comrade was taken and we can't wait for help. And you're telling us we have to sit and suck on our thumbs!?" she was angry. "You have no idea what's it's like to be on a team do you!?"

"Oi." Nojirama told her.

"Kayoko's right, we care about one of our own. That's how Konoha shinobi are. Or maybe it's just us." Kyo said. He and Kayoko jumped ahead.

"Matte." Nojirama said and they all stopped.

"What now!? Are you wasting our time just to be lame again!?" Kayoko asked.

"Our enemies, they're Kumogakure's Kinkaku unit." he said.

"Kinkaku unit?" Kayoko repeated.

"Yeah remember when we learned about the Nidaime Hokage's death?" Kyo said. "It was to teach us how a great shinobi dies." he said.

"Nidaime Hokage. . . Death. . ." Kayoko started to think harder and remembered in a shock.

"That's right your comrade was kidnapped by the same guys who killed our previous Hokage." Nojirama said.

"Hang on dude, that was way back when. Those can't be the same guys!" Kayoko said.

"You're right they could be stronger and better!" Nojirama said seriously.

"The Kinkaku unit, how do we go against that?" Kyo asked.

"Exactly, do you really think you three kids and me are gonna stand a chance against the guys who killed the Hokage?" Nojirama asked them.

"Heck yeah." Kayoko said without hesitation. "I know we're gonna get Kushina back and kick these suckers out with their behinds on fire too." she said confidently.

"Oi, gaki. Did you-"

"I heard you. But we're saving Kushina our bond alone is stronger than Kumo's troupe." she told him. "And just look around, the night, the trees, the shadows. It's like a ninja's playground!" she said.

Kyo had his back against the tree and had his head turned to look out for enemies. "Well I found Minato." he said. Minato was holding Kushina on a tree, they were in front of the moon.

! "More enemies are coming!" Kayoko said.

"For real!?" Nojirama exclaimed. "Konoha's not that far so I guess we can use the night to our advantage and fight them off." he said.

"Yeah!" Kyo and Kayoko said in unison. While Minato was holding Kushina another Shinobi came out with his sword.

"Shimatta!" Minato thought. Then Nojirama jumped out of the dark and kicked him down.

Cue Emergence of talents

Nojirama got in front of them and deflected all the shurikens that flew at them. "You guys got to get off this tree you're attracting too much attention!" he said.

"Hai!" Minato said and Kushina flinched and held onto him as he jumped down from branch to branch.

When he got to the ground he gently put Kushina down, "There were a lot more enemies than I thought." Minato said in his mind.

Then they were surrounded, some of them were wounded but Minato couldn't fight them off while protecting Kushina on his own. "Tch!" he gritted his teeth.

Then his teammates jumped down beside him. "You guys. . ." Minato said.

"You know the form guys." Kayoko said and they got in the Manji formation.

"Minna. . ." Kushina saw Team Jiraiya get in a defense form around her. They were all ready for an attack. "Why?" she asked tired and weak.

"Didn't Minato tell ya!? You're one of us!" Kayoko told her friend. The team all had confident smiles.