8 - Troublesome Meetings

With the Civilian Council now looking for new members, Fu and Karin settling into a new compound for their growing clan, most of the past week for Naruto was slowly drawing to a close. From revealing his true status as a Jonin, to Sakura obtaining the Star Sapphire ring and both using their rings to bring down two strong members of the Akatsuki, safe to say the whisker marked blonde had an eventful week. With Tsunade giving him a subtle hint that Sasuke had joined Jiraiya's spy network which meant his godbrother was now a part of the Hidden Leaf again at least in a minor way. But there were at least five members of the Akatsuki left to deal with. So there was no rest for the Green Lantern until the most prominent evil was taken care of. In his world he felt there was no such thing as intent you were evil or not which is why he changed one word in the Green Lantern oath, instead of saying 'let' he said 'for' as most of the those that fell into darkness was already worshipping evil as such there was no intent to worship it, hence the one word was changed, the GL ring agreed. Your certain about the leader, he is an Uzumaki?

Yes, former student of Jiraiya Gallant brainwashed by known Green Lantern target Obito Uchiha, will need Uzumaki Doctrine to pacify him and his female companion. Warning unknown if Uzumaki Doctrine will work against Rinnegan Puppets, recommendation approach real Nagato Uzumaki. The GL ring had no real emotional inflections like the SS ring, it was more like a really small computer absorbing information and storing it for later use which is why Naruto had dirt on every Hidden Village in the Elemental Nations things to ensure that regardless of his friendship with Shibuki the Hidden Waterfall village would not get Fu back. He even knew how to destroy the statue the Akatsuki used to extract the Biju from their Jinchuuriki.

So I basically got to find a way to get close to my uncle, invoke the Uzumaki Doctrine, and not get killed in the process, sounds easy enough. Naruto chuckled mentally while if the GL ring could it would have sweatdropped. The whisker marked blonde was currently waiting by the village gates for Sakura before they headed out to meet with Jiraiya. After their rather emotional get together on top of his father's head the two had spent much of the time sealing their bond of love, careful to keep their rings off. Neither wanted to invoke an energy field that was so similar to Obito's crazy moon eye, it was scary both rings had agreed readily with them. This crystal energy field that would surround the planet to protect it from outside sources also manipulated those inside the field to only feel love and the strong will never to harm another, this had drawbacks as eventually the people would even stop harming animals for food or harvesting crops, eventually the world would die of starvation. However to keep their relationship going and still provide the SS ring with its mandate to unite with a Green Lantern, when the time was right they would to head to the moon set up a cottage made up energy constructs and do the deed with nothing on the rock the pink field would have nothing to maintain and would drop after a certain amount of time.

Naruto blushed slightly at this line of thought, but it was necessary the SS ring had a set time before it started pushing Sakura to have sex with him; this was put off marginally by Sakura's inner persona which absorbed all of rings feelings of jealously and sexual tension. Of course having Inner Sakura pushed passed her limits to much and both personas would merge briefly, this brought about a new complication and one they were both thinking about. Sakura had come up with a mental colored levels to help Inner Sakura determine how much of the Love energy she was absorbing, blue was fine, green was okay, yellow meant caution, and orange was the cut-off point, if the ring love energy ever started dipping into red Inner Sakura was going to be borderline psychotic and the energy would become too much for both. Right now the love energy was on blue as the SS ring had spent a majority of its power trying to keep Sakura sane when Naruto's confession on what he did during Sakura's childhood had nearly broken her.

Yawning the whisker marked blonde turned hearing a faint cry, he saw a small procession of Sand shinobi walking toward the gate, led by Shikamaru and Temari, "Yo, Shika how was your time in the roaring heat of the desert?"

"Troublesome," Shikamaru stated with a dry smile. "So what are you doing here Naruto?"

The whisker marked blonde shrugged, "Sakura-chan and I have to meet with Pervy-sage in Tanzaku Town, following a lead on the Akatsuki leader. What's with the parade?"

"The Kage summit is in a few months, Gaara wants to stay here since its much closer the Summit tower," Temari explained.

Naruto nodded smiling slightly, "How is Gaara any side effects from coming back from the dead?"

Shikamaru sighed, "Only that without the One-tail inside him he's getting a lot of much needed sleep, I actually envy him."

Naruto chuckled, "You'd envy anybody that can get more sleep than you," this prompted Temari to laugh.

"You nailed little boy pretty well," Temari stated. "He spent most time in the Hidden sand either trying to sleep or looking up at the sky hoping to catch a view clouds.

"Troublesome blondes," Shikamaru stated blushing slightly when Temari lightly patted his cheek.

"Face facts, little boy most of the people you hang around with have blonde hair," Temari states. "Which makes it really funny because aside from your teammate, Naruto-kun here, the Hokage, and me there's only a handful that actually have blonde hair."

"That's even more troublesome," Shikamaru stated.

Naruto simply shook his head as Gaara slowly approached, "Hey Gaara, looking rested. How are you feeling?"

"I'm doing well," Gaara stated in his quiet monotone voice.

"Naruto!" both the red-haired Kazekage and the whisker marked blonde turned to see Sakura and Karin approaching them. Karin had been given Chunin status after passing a few written tests and fought two chunin her age; she had been assigned to meet with Shikamaru and the Sand shinobi when they reached the gates. She had been delayed getting to said gates as she ran into the rosette haired and they got to talking. Most of what they talked about was Sakura's blossoming relationship with Naruto. Both had realize a few minutes into their conversation that they needed to be at the gates, one to meet and greet the Kazekage and the other to head out on a mission.

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"How's my girls!?" Naruto asked rather loudly this in turned earn him and double hammer shot to the back of his head, causing him to crash to the ground in a heap, both girls blushing. "Yep, I deserved that," the whisker marked blonde groaned slowly getting to his feet ignoring the two still blushing girls, a confused looking Gaara, a laughing Temari, and Shikamaru making a loud sigh. "Sorry Sakura-chan, Karin-chan."

Sakura shook her head reminding herself this was the person that she wanted to be with for the rest of her life. She froze with that line of thought, rest of my life that's practically asking for marriage.

That's not practically asking for marriage, that's screaming it, came the SS ring's reply making the rosette girl's heart rate jump.

Karin notice the sudden flux in Sakura's chakra but ignored it, even in the week that she's known her cousin she found his ability to produce strong emotions in others to be uncanny, especially in his girlfriend. "Looks like I lost a bet with Ino, you actually got here in a week lazy ass."

"Troublesome, figures you and Ino would become friends just to make my life more troublesome," Shikamaru responded. "Temari will probably join you to make my life completely troublesome."

"Aw, little boy how'd you guess," Temari mock pouted patting his head, "so Naruto who's red?"

"Yeah haven't actually introduced her," Naruto chuckled sheepishly. "Temari, Gaara this is Karin Uzumaki she's my cousin, her mom and my mom were sisters."

Temari made a formal bow while Gaara nodded to the red head, "Nice to know Naruto has found more family, he deserves it," Gaara stated.

The whisker marked blonde blushed, "Thanks Gaara, well Sakura-chan and I have a mission to get to."

"Where's the rest of your team?" Temari asked and heard Shikamaru groaned. "What?"

"Troublesome I forgot, Naruto was made Jonin," the lazy Nara explained.

Temari actually smiled, "you mean he's higher in rank than you little boy."

"The only ones in our age group that have made Jonin would be Neji and Naruto, so yes Naruto out ranks me, as troublesome as it is," Shikamaru states.

Naruto let loose a sly grin, "Isn't your girlfriend a Jonin, Shikamaru?"

Before the lazy Nara could figure what Naruto meant the whisker marked took Sakura's hand and ran out the gates. His brain finished processing the implications behind Naruto's words which led to only one conclusion, Naruto mentioned a jonin that happened to be a girl, none of the usual suspects were present like Kurenai, Anko, Shizune, hence they were ruled out, the only girls that had been were Sakura who was Naruto's girlfriend so she was ruled out, which left two Karin, Naruto's cousin but only ranked chunin ruling her out, Temari ranked Jonin previously implicated by Naruto as Shikamaru's girlfriend, conclusion Temari was the only viable individual and therefore required a reaction, "She is not my girlfriend!"

"He can't hear you," Karin stated her voice laced with mirth. "But I got to ask lazy ass, who was he talking about?"

Shikamaru suddenly felt the urge to go home and insult his mother just so she would lay into him her frying pan and knock him out, but at this point since Temari would have to go with him; his mother would probably leave things in the fan user's hands. "Troublesome blondes and red-heads."

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Sakura just shook her head watching her boyfriend's eyes dance with glee at catching Shikamaru completely flat footed. Goes to show even a 200 IQ genius can't beat Naruto-kun's unpredictability, can't out think someone who can make plans at the last second. Which made Naruto's grades in the academy even more implausible if he could out smart geniuses like Shikamaru, Kakashi, Kabuto, Orochimaru, and Sasuke it made the rosette wonder about Naruto's IQ. When we get back to village I'm going to sit him down get him to take an IQ test, ask Asuma-sensei how he got someone as lazy as Shikamaru to take it. Naruto-kun is just too good with his last second plans and those outrageously elaborate pranks he pulled during the academy. There is no way he should have been dead last, regardless of all the tampering from those ass hole teachers. Sakura grumbled as the two came to a stop in a clearing, "Why are we stopping?"

Naruto smirked, "Time to suit up Sakura-chan, want to see you're hot bod in that violet and black Star Sapphire outfit."

Sakura blushed a bit before kissing him on the cheek; she walked out into the middle of the clearing and held her right arm aloft. "For Hearts long lost and full of Fright, For those alone in blackest night, Accept our Ring and join our fight, Love conquers all with Violet Light!" gone was Sakura Haruno and replaced with Star Sapphire who gaze on the object of her love and affection with violet eyes. "Your turn Naruto-kun."

Naruto nodded holding his right hand aloft, "In Brightest day, In blackest night, No evil shall escape my sight, For those that worship Evils might, Beware my power, Green Lantern's Light!" Green Lantern smirked turning to Star Sapphire. "We got a pervert to meet up with and an Uncle to un-brainwash. "

Star Sapphire smiled coyly, "Believe it."

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Jiraiya had given his last instructions to the Uchiha before sending him off to complete his mission. He felt a new sense of determination in the young teen with a new direction; he doubted he'll ever see the teen again. He'll disappear and the only time I'll get anything from him will be the occasional encoded messages, for someone who's from such a prominent clan he's good at covering his tracks. Plus by sending him across the sea to investigate strange happenings there he can disappear even more. With the Akatsuki threat coming to a close it was time to investigate other problems that might occur, both within the Elemental Nations and outside, the little incident with the stone of Gelei involving a foreign enemies and technologies was not to be overlooked. Granted the new leader of that group became friends with Naruto, but the boy pointed out there have been just as many wars overseas as there had been in the Elemental Nations if not more. Plus there may actually be more Uzumaki clan members out in the world and not just in the Elemental Nations. I hope that is the case, can't stand the idea of the brat, Tsunade, or Karin being the only blood related Uzumaki members left in the world. Be especially hard on Karin and Naruto being the only two that can provide clan heirs. As such Sasuke had two assignments find and locate anything that might be threat to the Elemental Nations as a whole and locate any leads on the possibility that the Uzumaki clan had manage to scatter before the destruction of their home village.

"Yo Pervy-sage!" Green Lantern states from above as he and Star Sapphire land next to the musing toad sannin.

Jiraiya jumped looking at the two trying real hard not to go pervert seeing Sakura's state of dress, "No matter how many times you do that brat, I'll never get use to it."

"What fly, glow green, or make you jump out of your skin?" Green Lantern asked in amusement.

"Call me Pervy-sage, I hate that," Jiraiya stated to cover up his annoyance at his godson being right about how well he was at erasing his presence sometimes.

"Stop peeping at women and I'll stop calling you Pervy-sage we've gone over this dozens of times, Pervy-sage," the GL ring wielder stated dragging out Pervy-sage becoming equally annoyed.

"And I'll say again what I've said before, never!" the toad sannin said childishly.

Star Sapphire shook her head, "You two are such children."

"He started it," Jiraiya pouted while Green Lantern started laughing.

Star Sapphire giggled, "Well if you're a good boy mommy will promise to buy her perverted little man a lollipop."

"Cherry," the toad sannin asked hopefully enjoying his little role reversal with the rosette haired girl and his godson, it was refreshing and reminded him of his times with Sarutobi-sensei, Tsunade, and Orochimaru before things slowly went to shit. It also reminded him of all the times he was with his own team of genin Minato, Mikoto, and Chojsu. "Okay, enough of this," he sighed getting down to business. "I got a message from a spy in the Hidden Rain village, that the current leader is the Akatsuki leader, he goes by the name of Pein. Not much is known outside of that aside from the fact everyone in that village claims he's a god among men."

Green Lantern shook his head, "he's not Pervy-sage," gesturing to his ring. "Ring-o here tells me he's your former apprentice Nagato, that he was brainwashed by the orange masked hypocrite, and he's a member of the Uzumaki clan."

"You're sure?" Jiraiya asked before getting an annoyed looked then shaking his head, "who am I kidding that ring has info my spies would kill to get," he sighs rubbing his chin with a frown. "Nagato, tell me is there another red head with him or a blue haired woman?"

"The other red-head is with him however he was killed a while ago by Hanzo the Salamander and our own Danzo's Root. Nagato turned his friend into a Rinnegan path, as for the blue haired woman yep she's with him too," Green Lantern replied.

Jiraiya winced sadly, "Whoever this hypocrite is must have played on Nagato's desire for peace and twisted it."

"Naruto and I can deprogram him if we can get close to him, just need Naruto to invoke the Uzumaki Doctrine," Star Sapphire stated.

"Nagato is not going to let us just walk up to him," Jiraiya states.

Green Lantern smiled slyly, "If he's gotten as arrogant as I think he is, then that's exactly what he'll do."

"Oh yeah and how will we do that?" Jiraiya asked looking confused.

"Simple I'm going to give myself up," Green Lantern shrugged.

Author's Note: Rewrite for this chapter is done, it still irks me that Kishimoto only tells us that Nagato being an Uzumaki after he's dead, which is really sad. This makes me wonder if Kishimoto had a rough life growing up if he constantly throws up barriers or plot twists that prevents Naruto from ever having the one thing outside of being Hokage he desires which is to have a family. I mean Naruto has one girl that is scary similar to his mother and if the next part to Naruto is the final push in giving him the Hokage seat we all better see some resolutions. The war ended Obito and Madara defeated, but I'm not sure on the resurrected Orochimaru and Kabuto comments on that would be appreciated.