Hello and welcome back to my story "Why?"

Summary: Akatsuki is gone, Orochimaru is dead, Uchiha Sasuke has returned, and the Shinobi Nations are at a standing truce. Everyone is happy right? Well that is the idea, but for one it couldn't be any worse. Will start out as Hurt/comfort but will progress more into an adventure and maybe some humor. Rating high T low M, though might turn high M or MA.

As of right now for who ever has a problem can leave now.... I was just granted blessing and permission from Astronomical Apparatus11 so please dont give me anymore problems.

Speech

"Yo" Normal

'Yo' Thought

"Yo" normal Demon

'Yo' Thought Demon

Yo without quotes are Jutsu

(1)...(2): Are A.N. located at the end of the chapter

Disclaimer: "I do not own Naruto!"

Chapter 2

"No Naruto you have a good argument and your right I was just a bit shaken at how you said it, Though answer me this, when do you plan on leaving?" Tsunade asked.

"Really if I can I would leave right after this conversation is over with." Naruto said.

"Why so soon?" Tsunade asked as her expression changed to one of confusion.

"I don't want to see anyone now. Truthfully I just want to disappear as if I was never here. But if they do start asking questions just say I went on a mission don't need to say where or for how long just a mission. Now if that doesn't work come up with a rank like an S or SS class mission then they will shut up." Naruto said as he got off his seat and grabbed his bag.

Tsunade just nodded at his response already coming up with her own plans to avoid confrontations. "Alright Naruto you got your wish, but hold your horses I got to send something out first, and before you say anything it is for your benefit and the second thing is a scroll I want to give you." She then got up and walked to her desk, reached inside a draw and pulled out a scroll that Naruto instantly recognized as a blood seal.

"While you're on the road, I want you to read that scroll. It has some things that I think you would want to know and learn about. Also one other thing keep an eye out for a carrier hawk within a week at most I will have a new title for you… and the reason for this is because you handed over your Leaf Hitae. So now you're by my standards a traveling Sannin with no village affiliation. Though I always had this idea that when I was traveling that I could get some pass that allows me to me let's say an ambassador to the Shinobi Nations and smaller towns, villages, and cities, job being going from nation to nation helping out agreements, like trade routes, treaties, and other government issues." She said as she handed him the scroll. "There is only one catch that I interlaced in the note I sent the Daimyo and that is if your home village that being Konoha is at war or under attack you must return and fight for us. Shizune in my office now!" Yelled Tsunade over the intercom.

The next moment said person burst through the door as if expecting something to jump out and attack. Though seeing only Tsunade and Naruto she walked over and with a short bow, "Yes Tsunade-sama you summoned me?"

"Hai, I got a message here that need to be delivered to the Fire Daimyo ASAP. And before you get the any ideas it is nothing bad, it's just a request letter I just want to get this off my back." explained Tsunade to her sectary.

With a nod Shizune rushed past Naruto, seemingly not even realizing he was there and took off to the village's bird nests (1) to get a hawk to send the message out.

Naruto during this exchange just sat in amazement, this was better than he expected and actually liked the idea. "Thank you very much baa-chan, how can I repay you?" asked the young sage.

"Well for one you can stop calling me baa-chan I'm not that old. Oh and there is finally one more thing need to give you." She reaches in to her desk once again and pulling out another scroll, "This scroll contains books and other scrolls on customs and how they operate in other countries, I'm giving you this is because if you do get the job you don't want to look like an idiot when you're doing your job." replied the busty blonde, in which Naruto nodded in thanks. After the two talked for a quick moment or so, Naruto picked up his bag to leave the office and head to out. But as he was about to bid Tsunade farewell, the door knocked.

"Come in." Tsunade said. As soon as the door opened, Naruto cursed himself for not leaving earlier, 'No I had to stick around and continue to talk... today is just not my day.'

"You called Hokage-Sa- Naruto? What are you doing here? And what's with the bag and scrolls." Sakura and Sasuke soon entered the room along with Sai.

Before Naruto could answer, Tsunade interjected. "Naruto is being sent on a long term mission. You may go now Naruto. Good luck and my Kami look over you." She said. Naruto quietly whispered a 'thank you' to Tsunade and waved goodbye to the three as he quickly and swiftly flew out the window.

"Where is he going Tsunade-sama?" Sakura asked.

"That Sakura… is something I can't tell you." Tsunade said as she sat down and pulled out a glass and a bottle of sake. From the looks on the Sasuke and Sakura's faces, told her they won't it down this easily.

In a matter of seconds from leaving the Hokage's office Naruto arrived at the main gate. He walked up to the check station where two nameless Chuunin were watching. Well actually one was sleeping and the other drawing not even paying attention to their surroundings. Naruto just walked up and stood there for a second, then another, and another till he was thoroughly annoyed. "Ahem!"

The one Chuunin that was drawing looked up and at first thought nothing of it till he noticed the billowing trench coat, he drew his eyes up a bit more to look at the man and almost fell backwards. That is when he hit his partner and shot up to attention. "N-Na-Naruto-sa-sama pleasure to see you this afternoon what can we do for you?" asked the startled Chuunin by now his partner was no different standing at attention waiting for orders.

"I'm heading out for a while so if you would so kindly open the gates please?" asked Naruto in his most polite tone he could muster, after being thorough annoyed by the two in front of him.

"Hai, open the gates!" The one Chuunin shouted.

Once the gates where open Naruto turned to the two, "Thank you and have a pleasant afternoon you two."

"Thank you Naruto-sama and have a safe travel." Spoke the second Chuunin.

With that Naruto turned to leave out the gates. This would be his last time seeing them for a long, long time.

Tsunade was in her office when she just saw the gates close once more and knew Naruto was gone. It saddens her a bit to knowing her adopted grandson was going to be gone, but she could only guess what he must be going through with being here.

With Naruto

As soon as Naruto was about half a mile away from the gates, he pumped a generous amount of charka in to his feet and shot off with his current speed he could probably traverse the distance between Konoha and wave in a quarter of the time (2) it took them when they did the actual mission all those years ago. But opted to slow down after getting a good twenty five, thirty miles away from the village and decided to take a leisure walking pace till he stopped for the night.

When he woke the next moring, he was a bit surprised, he almost half expected the whole other day to be a dream, but low and behold, it wasn't, and it was sealed when he went into his bag and found the blood seal scroll and the scroll of village, and village government operation. At first he was intrigued about the blood seal scroll but pulled himself away saying it was too soon for him. But when he remembered he then grabbed the other scroll and opened it up, there in front of him laid six kanji, which he only assumed was for the five elemental nations, and the last one said General/Common he first looked at the at the one labeled fire, and when he summoned the contents in the kanji, he was thoroughly shocked, What laid in front of him was not only a book about customs and operations, they had maps, books, scrolls, which contained layout of lands, villages towns. It contained information about demographics; it gave detail information on VIPs in a nation. Naruto set the items down and leaned back, 'What the hell this information is the gold mind for assassins and war, what the hell are they planning giving it to me for?'

Though Naruto found a small note in there addressed to no one so he just opened it in side was a small note.

Just incase negations go bad you know who to avoid and how to escape.

Shodai Hokage

Naruto was sitting there shocked surprised. 'I guess this was information for war times, and I guess without noticing they just kept updating it as time progressed, since they have all information about leader is Tsunade baa-chan, Also I'm listed as the number one man to say away from during an invasion or escaping, interesting. I guess they are using information given by Ero-Sannin's and my spy network to make this all possible. '

With that in find he made twenty Kage Bunshin and each grabbed a piece of work and started reading a few were also sent out to be forward guards. This was some sensitive stuff he was holding.

As he kept up his pace he started planning out what his travels will entail, he already had some ideas but since he had as long as he liked, he planned on adding some stops. He first thought of just stopping in with his spy network getting updates, and meeting up with friends, but with the situation he had an opportunity not many get, because of the possibility of this ambassador position and the new information at his finger tips, plus the shinobi nations are at a truce and technically he is not an official Leaf Shinobi he will see what women are around the world and maybe get one for himself.

Naruto while grinning the only question was, "Where to go first?"

With taking his leisure time it took me another day and a half before nearing the wave country border and thought, 'What the hell, why not drop in and say hi then I can also read that scroll baa-chan gave me.' he thought as he took off crossing the border and traveled about another half a mile before coming up to the imposing view of the Great Naruto Bridge. He smiled when he saw the bridge remembering back to the times when everything was a bit simpler though it also brought up the ever haunting phrase "Is he even cut out to be a ninja?"

Naruto walked up towards the bridge and admired the work noting that it seemed to have gone through some renovations since that day six years ago. Though nothing big just a polish job here and there, Naruto continued to walk across nodding to people that passed him. Most of the time he actually got casual nods and smiles, but also received double takes from the village people noticing the resemblance between the statue in town and him.

Once Naruto finally crossed the bridge he arrived in the town and was surprised at what he saw, gone was the behind the times town and it seemed so new updated version, Since the down fall of Gato the village prospered as a shipping hub, brining money in and jobs to the town's people. On top of since a year or so after the liberation of the wave Konoha was not requested for assistance and Naruto finally found out why. As he walked he saw Samurai posted ever thirty, forty meters between each other holding a sector and at government buildings, schools, and a new hospital that was built over the time there were at least five posted around the buildings and if you were trained you could see ninjas hiding in the shadows. Naruto assumed that the Daimyo of the country hired them to be the lands full time defenders. He wouldn't be surprised if they have their own academy one of these days.

Naruto finally came upon the building he was looking for. The town's inn, when he walked up he looked at the building, it was neither big nor small, though it did look pretty new. Even though Naruto is a complicating ninja, one thing about him is that he likes the simple things so the inn was perfect for him.

When he entered the building he looked around (if you ever been in a holiday inn express or something of that price range just a little less fancy nothing like Caesar's palace). Naruto walked up to the desk and without looking up the desk manager just starting asking questions, "Hello welcome to Wave Inn how can we help you today?

"Well just coming in to get a room for the next couple days if possible." stated Naruto.

"Oh course sir it's been quiet and we got plenty of room, I just need your name and how many days." said the woman at the desk.

"Hai, Hai, well name on the room will be Uzumaki Naruto and will want a room for let's say next week."

"Well Uzumaki-san we have your room on the second floor number 225. Here yo…" After the entire conversation she finally looked up to see the man in front of her was shocked still. Her mind finally rebooted and remembered his name.

Naruto himself was getting a bit unnerved at the situation at hand, "Yes ma'am is there something wrong?"

The woman behind the counter shook her head with a small blush, "No, no sorry Uzumaki-san, just didn't expect to meet the hero of this town here in my inn. Oh yeah here you go sir. " with that she handed Naruto his keys.

Naruto just smiled, "I must say that since that fateful day I just surprised at all the innovations here."

"Yes well you didn't expect us to stay in the dark now that we have a working port now did you?"

Naruto just chuckled, "Of course not, that is the last thing I would expect, just surprised how quickly it came to be."

The woman just nodded in understanding, "well that is all thanks to our Daimyo he got his inspiration from you actually, your idea of hard work and getting things done pushed us to secure ourselves as you might have seen as you were walking around with all the samurai around."

"Yes I actually saw that, and I'm curious who is the Daimyo because I didn't have much contact with the people here beside Tazuna, his daughter Tsunami and her son Inari."

It was the woman's turn to chuckle, "well Uzumaki-san you have your answer already. Tazuna-sama has lead our town on this road of prosperity. Ah yes, almost forgot, we actually have an order if you are sighted in town we are suppose to inform him immediately, says something about wanting to meet you again and giving you a tour."

Naruto just nodded, "Well that's good to hear since I meant to come here to meet him and his family so I guess this will make it easier… Well its getting a little late and I want to grab some food before I turn in for the evening. You wouldn't be able to point me in the direction of a ramen stand?"

The woman nodded and gave him directions to the best one in town and with that bid him a good evening before Naruto took off to his room.

Author Notes from story:

(1) Really don't know what they call it.

(2) With his sage, demonic chakra, and stamina, he could make it in less than a day.

Well that is the end of the second chapter of Why?. Comments and constructive criticism always welcomed. Hope you enjoyed it. Next chapter he will receive the letter from the Daimyo meet up who ever doesn't gets secondary position, that's only if I can make it work. Also the poll will be between Mei (5th Mizukage) and Tamari. You can vote them to be separate or together it's in your hands. Voting will be done by end of next chapter.

Well as they say

Ja ne.