Of Trees and Frost

By

Ragnorokrising

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Chapter Fifteen: The Eighth Member

Naruto instantly ran to the Hokage Tower and told Sarutobi. "DAMN IT! Now we need a new battle plan!" he stood up and looked at the huge piles of paper work. "I can barely get this shit done! Between organizing our forces and normal affairs, civilian paper work has started to pile up."

"This probably isn't a good time, but why don't you use Shadow Clones?" Sarutobi blinked repeatedly and smacked himself in the face. A few clones appeared and started to do the paper work.

"Naruto, we've recently found out something about Rock. They have a Jinchuuriki. He's been in the village the entire time as a spy."

"Who is it?"

"Now remember, we had no idea till a few hours ago." he explained.

"Who is it Old Man?"

"You couldn't know about him. He contains the six tailed Badger, the Raijuu. I've started to create an apprehension force but-"

"HIRUZEN SARUTOBI, TELL ME WHO IT IS NOW!" Sarutobi narrowed his eyes and reached inside his robe, pulling out a medallion with a village near the bottom and falling leaves going down to it.

"This is the medallion of a Kage, the Hokage, and it makes me your leader. You do not make demands." Naruto took a deep breath to calm down.

"I'm sorry Lord Hokage, I lost control. But I need to know who he is. My kind is scarce and we need to stick together."

"I'm sorry Naruto, but I don't think I should tell you." now Naruto's eyes narrowed.

"You've forced my hand Old Man. I didn't want to do this to you, but as the sole remaining member of the Senju clan in the Village, the founding clan of Konoha, as well as the Namikaze heir, I am giving you a choice. Either I get that information, or both clans leave the village." Sarutobi spluttered for a moment in his shock. He gave a small frown and put his hand on Naruto's shoulder.

"I'm sorry to tell you Naruto, but it's Iruka Umino." Naruto felt his heart shatter. Iruka, his favorite teacher and one of his precious people, if not the most precious of them all, had betrayed him. He had deceived him for information! "I know this must be hard for you Naruto, but I had to tell you." Naruto stumbled backwards into the chair and put his face in is hands.

"He never cared about me. It was all a rouse to deceive me."

"Now Naruto, I never said that. Iruka really does care about you." interrupted the Sandaime, his words lolling Naruto into comfort. Naruto stood up and sniffed.

"I'm gonna go talk to him." he opened the window and jumped out. Sarutobi closed the window and sighed. Naruto, as he always did, would most likely pull some huge pranks to relieve himself of his troubles. Sarutobi turned away from the window as several explosions of smoke and screams of civilians ran through the surrounding area. This was gonna be a lot of paper work.

(Ninja Academy)

Iruka finished the lesson as the door slid open. "Iruka, come with me." demanded Naruto, his face stone set and his aura radiating power and pain if he refused.

"Naruto, I'm in the middle of a lesson here." he gestured towards the student.

"Iruka, I'm not giving you a choice. We need to talk."

"No, I need to teach my students." he countered.

"It's about Rokubi no Raijuu." Iruka stared at him in panic mode before standing up from his desk.

"Class is dismissed for the rest of the afternoon. Tomorrow we will have a test on your shuriken and kunai training." the students shuffled out of the room. Naruto closed the door and put a Sound Proof Jutsu around the room. "So you know about me do you?" he reached for his kunai pouch.

"Don't, I could kill you easily." calmly said Naruto.

"I could call on the powers of Raijuu to destroy the village with a huge storm." the Chuunin countered.

"No, you couldn't." a Wood Clone suddenly sprouted from Naruto while running and jammed a palm into Iruka. Four pillars shot up from the ground and in a flash of gold, sealed of Iruka's demon from him.

"How did you do that?" Naruto snorted as if to say 'like I would tell you' and sat on the first row of desks.

"Eight, that's how many of us there are." said Naruto as while using a kunai to clean his finger nails. "We Jinchuuriki are the strongest ninja in our villages. Cloud has two, Konoha four, Sand one and Rock one. Yugito Nii, the Nibi container, Killer Bee, the Ushi-oni host, me, the Kyuubi cage, Deidara, burrow for the Kaku, Haku, the lake where the Hyoryu hides, Sasuke, the illusion hiding the Gobi no Houkou, Gaara Sabaku, the dune for the Shukaku,, and you, the cloud where Raijuu can hide for a little while. Our race is becoming extinct quickly." he hopped down off the desk. "Which is why I have a proposal."

"I won't leave or join Konoha. I was treated badly in Rock but it was always interesting." Iruka drew two kunai.

"No, neither of those. I won't even be here long either most likely. My proposition is simply this. On the slip of paper I'm about to give you is direction to my own village, Akatsukigakure. I'm going to try to move Konoha's clans there. Besides that, I also want all the Jinchuuriki and Bijuu to live there. I want you to stay until I leave and come with me, to live a life as one of the greatest warriors in history and to be my advisor." he walked towards the door and put an envelope on Iruka's desk. "Think about it." he said as he opened the door and left.

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A/N: The Training chapters come next. This is chapter though is important as well. With out Iruka the sequel will be screwed over.