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Kushina was speaking with Jiraiya. It was about an hour now and she was pissed about Tsunade and her behavior toward his son. She couldn't understand why that old hag had done something like this. But no matter what she was happy that Naruto made his way out of situation and grown up. There was some funny moments, actually she was like a little girl when she heard about Naruto wanting to develop a new shinobi country and was over reactive when she heard about Naruto's female friends and that he would have a harem. Well, no mother wants her child to be shared but there was nothings that she could do. She well known that he was the last Namikaze and he needed to marry more than one girl to save their heritage. Suddenly there was a knock on the door.

"enter." Said Kushina

"h..h.. hello, k…k…kaasan"

"come here Naruto. Let me look at you. Let me have you in my arms. Let me smell you. Oh kami it's a long time I dreamed about it."

Jiraiya couldn't help but he had a smile on his face. When he saw that Naruto jumped to his mom and both of them were crying, he left the room giving mother and son some private moment.

Sakura was on her shift in hospital. She was sad, not only the job in hospital under Ino made her crazy, to make things worse she didn't see her Sasuke kun for some days now. Actually he was not seen after her meeting with him in Tsunade's office. Her thoughts was cut by a booming voice.

'oh kami, not him, please not him.'

"HELLO SAKURA CHAN. WHAT A NICE YOUTHFUL BEAUTY. YOU SHOULD SEE YOUR YOUTHFUL FACE IN MIRROR WHEN YOU HAVE THOSE MEDIC CLOTHS."

"hello Lee. Can I help you?" said Sakura turning around. Suddenly she froze seeing Lee in a new outfit more terrible than that damn spandex. He looked like a foreigner cowboys. Instead of gun he had kunai holster.

"SAKURA CHAN WILL YOU GO ON DATE WITH ME?"

"NANI?"

"I KNOW THAT YOU LOVED SASUKE SAN IN THE PAST BUT, I THINK YOU SHOULD FORGET HIM. IT'S NOT LIKE HE WILL COME BACK TO VILLAGE AFTER ALL. WELL, WHY DON'T YOU AGREE WITH ME? WHY DON'T YOU APRECIATE MY LOVE?"

"for kami, what do you know about Sasuke and me? And to answer your question, I can't have relationship with a loud mouth beats like you. Now go out and let me concentrate on my job."

"BUT"

"OUT"

Ino was on her father's flower shop when a chunnin came in and informed her that Tsunade wanted her immediately. She shunshined to her office. When she entered she saw Asuma there with a fuming Tsunade.

"Tsunade sama you wanted to see me?"

"oh Ino. Well, I asked Asuma to go to his clan's compound and bring me some secret scrolls, but it seems we were late again."

"what do you mean sensei?"

"Ino, there was a secret place in my clan's compound and there were several scrolls about mate seals there but when I entered the place last day, the place was absolutely empty. The only scroll I found is the one I gave Hokage sama. I don't know what happened to other scrolls."

"I see. Now, what is this scroll Tsunade sama?"

"here, take a look, it seems to be part of the thing Orochimaru used to develop his course seal, actually, it's not the original scroll I was looking for, it is written by Orochimaru and in not completed so I think there must be another copy or another half of the scroll somewhere in Orochimaru's hands."

"what should we do? Would you send someone to look after his records sensei?"

"yes. Asuma you are dismissed. SHIZUNE"

"yes Hokage sama" said Shizune entering the room as Asuma exited it.

"bring Kakashi, Yamato and Sasuke"

"hai"

"Ino, take the scroll and read it, look for any possibility to understand what he was doing."

"hai"

Sasuke, jumping from tree to tree looked behind where two junnin were following her to one of Snake's hide outs.

'why? What does she planed? What is the use of course seal detail now? And why Kakashi and Yamato? It's not like that we'll encounter any attack after his death. Well at least not in these hide outs. The only place I should be aware is near the north where Karin takes care of the hide out. Well, I'll think about the problem when we were there. After all having two junnin with special abilities only help me.'

"hey Sasuke, how much longer?" asked one eye junnin.

"about an hour."

Suigetsu was bored. He lost counting the days he lived in this big water pistol. He hoped that someone will come and free him after bastard's death but now after year or so he gave up hope. He looked at the wall in front of him dreaming about the forest behind it.

Karin pissed off, again there was rampage in the cells. The news of Orochimaru's death reached this place about a year but there were no evidence. So, she didn't left the place in hope that she would see the sannin again to ask a favor. But what now? She knew that Orochimaru visited this hide out every 3 months. So she should see him about three times by now something that didn't happen. Maybe the rumors were real and snake sannin was dead. Should she leave the hide out? But what is Sasuke wanted to visit this place? She heard about him living in one of Orochimaru's hide outs and rumors said that he was the most handsome guy and had the Sharingan. She would hunt him to bear his child and nothing could change that.

Itachi was amazed by the amount of information he gathered in Konoha but, still there were some missing parts. It seemed that there was a gossip queen in the village working in a flower shop belonged to Yamanaka clan. He remembered the shop he used to by flowers for Rin. It was long ago but he hoped that the place was the same. So he started walking in a street towards the flower shop. He had masked his chakra and lowered it up to a gennin level and used a powerful genjutsu so he knew that he was safe from anbu eyes.

Ino was amazed by the genius job of the snake bastard. He was genius indeed. A devil genius. She remembered every part of the scroll the bitch gave her. But there were lots of missing parts. She could not figure what was the usage for the bitch. It was the most important thing she wanted to know. Her train of thoughts were cut by little bell from the door indicating that someone entered the shop.

"hello can I help you?"

"oh yes. I want some flowers and I don't know what should I pick."

'hmm, he has a gennin level chakra but it must be masked very carefully. A guy in his age should have at least junnin level chakra. And why he has genjutsu around him?'

"sir I think it's not good to enter people's place with a genjutsu on yourself."

"hmm, what do you mean?"

"and please don't think that you can fool me with lowering your chakra to a junnin level. Now will you introduce yourself or should I inform anbu"

"you think you have enough time to inform them little girl? Well, I won't hurt you but I won't tell you who am I. fair enough ha?"

"fair?"

"well, I'm here to gather some information about Uzumaki Naruto and Uchiha Sasuke."

"and why should I tell you?"

"because if I want I can force you."

"you seem to have high self confidence."

"don't force me to go farther than just talking. You are a nice girl and I don't want to harm you."

"like hell you can"

"well, let's just see what will you do with a little knowledge of my chakra level. How about Kage level ha?"

"you are joking"

But suddenly Ino froze with killing intent and understood that this person was not joke at all.

"wh..wh..who are you?"

"hmm, let's say a friend of Sandaime and maybe a future friend of Uzumaki."

"I don't trust you. Not until you say your identity."

"you should not know my identity if you want to live"

"heh"

"well, I hope you can keep secrets or else you are as good as dead."

With that Itachi dropped the henge.

"an Uchiha?"

"exactly."

"but I thought that they were all dead. The only remaining are Sasuke and…"

"and?"

"oh kami."

"you see. Now will you co-operate or not?"

"what so you want to do with Naruto kun?"

"nothing at all. As I said I can be a future friend with him."

"but you are in Akatsuki."

"you remember I told you I was friend of Sandaime? Let's say that I have a roll in Akatsuki given by him."

"a spy?"

"you can call it"

"but I know that Tsunade didn't know about this"

"I don't give damn mind to that alcoholic old hag of sannin. My loyalty belongs to another sannin."

"Orochimaru?"

"I hate snakes."

"and you love toads?"

"you bet."

"well, I can't be sure until I have information about it. If I had a summon contract I would ask Jiraiya sama immediately"

"let me guess, you don't have one?"

"that's the problem."

"let me see, we can deal with each other. I give you my clan's summon contract and you sign it. Then you tell me about Naruto kun and we'll start from there, how is it?"

'I can sign summon contract? But won't they be his summons after all?'

"and how should I know that they won't lie to me?"

"summon's loyalty belongs to summoner not anything else. In other words if you summon one animal and ask him to kill me he will try. And I can summon him later and ask him to kill you and he will try again. Not that he would be happy about the situation but if you give him good reason he will be loyal to the summoner no matter what."

"I see. Now which contract you have?"

"raven. They are good summons in attack and defense manner and you can use them to fly. I think they are as good as toads for gathering information too"

"and how can I sign the contract?"

With that said, Itachi made some hand signs and summoned a raven that had a scroll in his mouth. Itachi took the scroll and introduced Ino to sign it in blood and showed her needed hand signs.

Ino summoned an adult raven at her first try she was amazed and asked him to go after Jiraiya the toad summoner and give him the letter she wrote.

Minutes after that a toad popped and gave her another letter.

"pervert told me that he is amazed that you can summon now but he asked if he can speak with red eye guy later in private?" said the orange toad

"what is your name?"

"Gamakichi. By the way boss told me to say you that he missed all of you and soon you will be with him if everything goes as he planned."

"Gamakichi tell Jiraiya sama that I will speak with him if I know where I can find him and Naruto. Tell him that there are lots of important things he should be informed."

"hai. Ja na"

With that said the toad poofed away and Ino opened the scroll and smiled seeing her love's hand writing. The letter was simple.

"ero-sannin says that you can trust him."

"well?"

"we can't speak here. Meet me at training area 44 at sun down."

"ok. See you then."

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A/N : thanks everyone for reviews. you help so much for planning later chapters so keep reviews going on.

demon of the mist : remember that Gai don't know about Sasuke's secret so he is nut gay, and Lee, well, he is just jelous about love !

Trinity Fenton-Phantom and Angry trainee : I think you forgot something, this is not the real Naruto story, I think you restricted yourselves to main characteristics in Kishimoto's story. well, remember that it's a fanfic and in this world, i'm the developer of the story, so, did i mentioned anything about the rinnegan and it's relation with sage of six paths? if not then you can think that he didn't have it in my story. it's simple, really, as simple as that. :D