What if Naruto had a hidden power that came to be when he fought Mizuki, a bloodline he never knew of? Then he would be known as the Kaze no Arashi, the Wind Storm!

Disclaimer: I don't own Naruto. Those rights belong to Masashi Kishimoto.

Kaze no Arashi

Chapter 35:

The Gathering: The Time Gone By.

A Year Later

A fairly tall youth with a conical hat and cerulean eyes smirked at the note in his hand from his perverted teacher as he crumpled it up and tossed it into the air. He looked up slightly with his eyes to see the wind become fangs and tear the paper into unreadable shreds as he put his hands inside his pockets and began to move forward slowly, taking in the sun and the blue sky overhead.

"That perverted hermit…," the young man chuckled as the sun showed the whisker marks that barely peaked from his hat. He sighed as he rose from the ground with the wind, floating as he gliding toward the village quite the ways away. "I just hope he isn't… Who am I kidding? He's always getting in trouble, drinking and being entranced by women without thinking…" He sighed again. "Sometimes, I wonder why I'm still his student…"

The young blonde raced on the wind, going toward a small village in the distance.

-XXX

Onoki of Both Scales was sitting at his desk, thinking about what had happened in the year that had passed. While the rogue Chishio Ketsu was pronounced dead, so was Bushido Takeshi on that day a year ago. Since then, Bushido Kisuke and his teammates had become highly regarded chunin that worked with just each other. Kisuke particularly gained Onoki's interest with him becoming a model shinobi, a skilled leader out of his teammates that knew when to draw back or move forward. He was quite intelligent, but so were his other teammates.

Washimura was great in his calm personality and intelligence. While in some situations Kisuke wouldn't be able to keep his cool, Washimura could. It was this that allowed the team to still be able to focus, stay level-headed, and come up with a plan together that could help them complete their mission. Washimura was also very proficient in Earth Release jutsu and his eagle summons, using them wisely in with his plans and strategies on a mission.

Hikari had also grown into an amazing kunoichi with skills in Earth Release jutsu and genjutsu. She was definitely useful when they had to steal a document or bypass someone to get access to a guarded area. It obviously made missions easier to assassinate targets or retrieve documents and secrets.

Onoki smiled at his thoughts. They had become stronger over the years, just like their other shinobi. The shinobi Onoki mainly worried about were the jinchuriki of his village, Roshi and Han. Roshi lived on the outskirts of Iwagakure in order to live in seclusion and gained the ability to control the Four-Tailed Monkey's powers. Han, however, never really talked to anyone, hating life and growing frustrated with why he was alive at all. It worried the Tsuchikage that Han would just give himself up to the Akatsuki without caring at all.

Onoki sighed as he looked at the blue sky outside his tower. The one thing that excited him was that Uzumaki Naruto and Jiraiya of the Sannin were going to come to the village soon with Naurto having learned how to control most of the Nine Tails' power. From what Jiraiya had messaged him, Naruto could control the same chains as his mother, but not nearly as well in the aspect of controlling and chaining tailed beasts. The chains would work for a long while, but after a few hours of training, the fox would eventually be able to break the chains and go toward breaking through the seal.

It made Onoki wonder why Naruto's chains were so weaker than Kushina's. Though, from the sound of the report, Naruto was a Gama Sennin with abilities that surpassed Jiraiya and had many other tricks up his sleeve such as Wind Release techniques and some variations on the Rasengan. Onoki smiled at seeing the skills of the son of Namikaze Minato and Uzumaki Kushina. He was already surprised at the chunin's skills in the Chunin Exams.

Onoki chuckled. He just couldn't wait…

XXX

"Do you really have to be like this everywhere we go, Perverted Hermit…?" The blond shinobi sighed as he looked at a very tall man with long, flowing white hair that went into a ponytail.

The man smirked lecherously at the other shinobi. "You should know by now how I act… After all, you have been traveling with me for almost a year and a half… right, Naruto-kun?"

Naruto scowled at his sensei's actions and sighed. "Let's get going to Iwagakure, shall we?"

Jiraiya whined, obviously drunk. "But Naruto-kun, I'm the leader…"

Naruto sighed, rubbing his forehead with his fingers. This is going to be a long trip…

XXX

"I've been hearing about the Gama Sennin Jiraiya and his disciple heading toward Iwagakure." A Takigakure shinobi spoke by the waterfall that leads to their village.

"So," another Takigakure shinobi barked back, "what does it matter to us, eh?"

"You dumbass!" The first Takigakure shinobi bopped his partner on his head, his brown eyes narrowed in anger of his partner's stupidity. "This means that those two will possibly pass through here, wanting to cross through Takigakure to reach Iwagakure! That means that someone has to report this to Shibuki. After all, I've been hearing that it is this Uzumaki Naruto that's the apprentice of Jiraiya, one of the genin that helped Shibuki out with Hatake Kakashi, allowed us to be allies with Konohagakure later on."

"I'll do it, Tanaka-san!" The Takigakure shinobi that was called an idiot spoke as he saluted to the brown haired shinobi and raced through the waterfall to their slightly timid leader.

Tanaka sighed as he looked at the sky. "At least I don't have to deal with his idiocy for a while… Some peace and quiet…"

XXX

A mysterious man with orange spikey hair and piercings on his body looked at a kunoichi with short blue hair as they both wore black cloaks, decorated with red clouds. Outside of where they were standing, rain fell from dark grey skies like tears from eyes.

"I'm going to use Magic Lantern Body Technique to communicate with our other members about what is planned, Konan."

She looked back at him. "And are we going to sort out who is going after the first few jinchuriki out of the groups?"

"Deidara and Sasori will go after the jinchuriki of the Shukaku since Sasori is from Sunagakure. We'll give the Nibi's host to the immortals and the Three-Tails' jinchuriki shouldn't be hard with him controlling it. Other than that, I'm sure Uchiha Itachi can deal with the Kyubi when time comes for it and Kakuzu can deal with the Seven-Tails later as well. As we go on, we'll change as we see fit. Let's just get this meeting started."

Konan nodded as the man communicated with the other members, ready to use the Magic Lantern Body Technique, ready to set things in motion.

XXX

"Shibuki-san!" Shibuki looked up to see one of the shinobi of his small village, bowed before him. "It seems that the Sannin, Jiraiya, and his apprentice, Uzumaki Naruto, are coming toward our village to get to Iwagakure, one of Konohagakure's new found allies over the years since the late Third Hokage was taken by Orochimaru's invasion."

"Naruto, eh?" Shibuki said, rising from his seat in his office and heading toward the shinobi that was under his command. He smiled at the memories of what the boy and his team did to help the village prosper and helped gain him a little more backbone, even if he was still a little timid still. "Go back to the waterfall outside the village and await their arrival. I'll come shortly afterward."

"Yes, sir," the shinobi saluted and went back the way he came as Shibuki smiled, got ready, and went the same way his shinobi did, toward the waterfall, toward Naruto.

XXX

"I wonder what is going on with Leader-san to call us together like this, eh, Itachi?" Kisame asked his partner with a fierce grin that resembled the smile of a shark.

Itachi merely stood there, silently waiting for more of the Akatsuki to appear as holograms. First to come were Sasori and Deidara with Deidara glaring at the calm Uchiha and Sasori sighing in frustration over his young partner and his actions.

"Deidara, do you really have to go picking fights with Itachi…?" Sasori's deep voice spoke out, knowing Deidara was going to glare at Itachi for what he did to him right before becoming a member of the Akatsuki.

Kisame's grin grew wider. "Ah, he's still sore over what happened backed then?"

Deidara huffed and moved his glare toward Kisame. "You know, you would look a lot better when you exploded into a bunch of shark bits, hmmm? After all, art is an explosion!"

Sasori sighed, irritated obviously. "Do you really have to keep on saying that line, Deidara…?"

"Hmm," Deidara stopped his glare and looked at Sasori with a puzzled look, "did you say something, Master Sasori?"

Sasori sighed once again, "Never mind…" He looked to see Hidan and Kakuzu appear in hologram form and shortly after, Konan and Pain appeared as holograms as well. "So, everyone's here…"

"Why did you have to call us back, Leader-san? I was about to get a lead on a great bounty!" Kakuzu said, his voice showing that he was a little pissed.

Hidan looked a little pissed as well, "Shut your fucking mouth up, Kakuzu! I hate all these bounties that you want! They're almost all 'Wanted: Alive!' I need to make sacrifices for Jashin-sama!"

"Everyone shut up…" Pain's cool voice came through the cave-like area. "I have information I would like to share with you."

"Like what," Hidan barked at the leader.

"How in the next few months, we'll prepare to depart as our teams to retrieve the first few jinchuriki to start our plan of world domination…" Pain looked at Sasori and Deidara. "You guys will be targeting the soon-to-be Kazekage, Gaara of the Desert."

Deidara seemed slightly pleased. "Hmmm, I've heard many things about that jinchuriki… Hopefully, his art will give me entertainment."

Sasori was just silent.

"Hidan and Kakuzu, once Shukaku is put into the Gedo Mezo, you'll depart for the host of the Nibi, Nii Yugito in Kumogakure. Three-Tails will be decided upon shortly afterward while it looks like Four-Tails will be your responsibility, Kisame…"

Kisame merely grinned. "Alright…"

"The other tails will be decided upon as we move ahead in our plan. Other than that, I believe that most likely, you," the hologram of the leader of Akatsuki looked at Itachi, "Itachi, will have the pleasure of capturing the Nine-Tails jinchuriki…, Uzumaki Naruto..."

Deidara drew a little interest at hearing this. "What is this jinchuriki like, Itachi? I've heard that he is being trained by one of the Sannin, Jiraiya, like your brother Sasuke is being trained by the snake Sannin, Orochimaru. He must be quite powerful, hmmm."

Itachi merely looked at Deidara, "He is the type to head in face first, not care about the consequences, especially if it's one of his precious people. That's at least what I've seen from him when I met him for the first time."

"Hmmm," Deidara said, "sounds like an interesting shinobi… I would like to see him in action at some point…"

"Let's focus on our own target, Deidara…" Sasori said as his hologram form disappear.

Deidara sneered, "Fine…," and his form disappeared.

Hidan and Kakuzu went on their way, disappearing.

Kisame grinned at their leader and disappeared while Itachi merely stayed emotionless, his from slowly vanishing. Pain stood still as Konan vanished. He, then, put his hand out and clenched it into a hard fist. "Eventually, the world will know… Pain…"

He, then, suddenly faded, leaving nothing but a statue at the hideout; its hands were up, reaching for the heavens, wanting everything within its grasp.