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 38:

The Meeting: The Red Clouds Begin To Move!

Uzumaki Naruto had his signature grin on his face as he went into the office of the leader of Takigakure, Shibuki. Shibuki looked at Naruto with a light smile, his long dark brown hair hanging down his back, his bangs reaching for his eyebrows as his ink black eyes brightened a bit at seeing the young Konohagakure shinobi. After all, he had not seen the young teen since the mission his team took to help out his village. The leader rose up from his seat, still smiling at the Uzumaki as he walked around his desk and extended his hand toward Naruto.

"Hey there, Naruto," Shibuki looked at the still grinning Naruto, noticing that the chunin had become taller since he last saw him. "I see you're getting taller now." He laughed as Naruto chuckled. "Nice to see ya, kid."

"Nice to see ya too, Shibuki-san," Naruto smiled at the leader as the leader smiled back and looked over to see Jiraiya.

"So, this is the famous Jiraiya of the Sannin," Shibuki asked, looking slightly shocked that one of the Sannin would be in his office, in this village. After all, Takigakure wasn't really a popular place to visit with its weak and low shinobi force and not appealing location compared to many other shinobi villages. Plus, not that many people knew about Takigakure other than shinobi from other villagers, travelers, and other very rare, occasional people that find out about the village. Shibuki went over to Jiraiya, who was leaning against a wall in the office, and extended his hand with a smile in greeting to the old toad sage. "Hey there, Jiraiya-sama."

Jiraiya looked at Shibuki for a second before a light smile went upon his face and his hand clasped Shibuki's. "It seems that you're more of a leader than Naruto described to me before we got here. He described you as shy and timid yet able to lead when there comes a time to. You don't seem shy at all to me."

Shibuki took his hand as it went to the back of his head and scratched it; embarrassment was all over his face as he looked at the sennin. "Well, I did try to actually get over my nervousness and timid nature and I'm still a little timid, but definitely not near as much as I used to be."

Jiraiya smiled at Shibuki. "That's great!"

"Yeah, it really is." Shibuki smiled lightly, rubbing the back of his head until he suddenly remembered something. "Oh, are you guys going to be staying? I know you have to go to Iwagakure, but could you at least stay here for a bit? A few days, maybe? Some of the academy students and shinobi would love to see you, Jiraiya-san, and you, Naruto."

Naruto's eyes widened in shock, his finger pointed at himself. "Me…?"

Shibuki smiled at Naruto, knowing of Naruto's situation with the Kyuubi. After all, one of his very own shinobi was the prison for the Seven-Tails just like Naruto was the prison for the Nine-Tails. "Yes, you. You and your teammates and sensei helped this village out so they regard you guys as heroes. Plus, my village houses a jinchuriki of our own."

"Seven-Tails, huh?" Jiraiya muttered under his breath. "What is the host of the Seven-Tails like?"

Shibuki sighed, knowing of the mint-haired girl's personality and attitude for the village and the villagers. "The host of the Seven-Tailed Horned Beetle is a kunoichi of this village named Fu. As for her family members, I don't know anything about them, just that the mother died in childbirth and the father died helping seal the tailed beast into his daughter. As she grew up, she, of course, noticed the villagers' ignorant actions of harm and names upon her. The glares, the stares, the pointing fingers, the angry faces, the frowning faces, the disgusted faces, the mocking laughter… of the villagers affected her greatly. It was too much to bear for a girl that young, the burden of a beast inside you, the burden of saving the village yet you are mocked by the very village you protected…"

Shibuki chuckled sadly, tears falling from his eyes like light rain from hovering clouds. "Bitter irony, isn't it… That irony is also on you as well, Uzumaki Naruto?"

"Not as much as it used to be, but yeah, I definitely understand the feeling. So, what did she do because of the village? From the sound of your voice and the tears coming out of your eyes, something bad must have happened."

Shibuki wiped the tears that were about to fall and looked at Naruto with a saddening frown. "Fu had finally found a friend in one of her classmates from the academy when it was near time for graduation. They looked inseparable whenever I saw them together, but it seems it was all just a trick… a game that the academy kids thought would be the best and fun. The first friend that Fu had broken her down right at the peak of their friendship, only to show her true self…" Shiibuki clenched his hand tight, the skin near his hand starting to turn white like a ghost looking to haunt someone. "Fu broke down for the first time, with almost the whole class laughing at her, pointing at her, mocking her, singing names at her in a cheery voice, even though they were some of the darkest names to her. 'Monster, monster!' 'The demon, the demon!' The became almost like battle cries against her, sucking her will to survive out…

"Eventually they stopped, leaving her alone to cry, leaving her time to think of something. That something was her so-called realization to what she was, to what she was to the world and how she felt about the world that surrounded her…"

"So, what did she come to…?" Jiraiya asked, still knowing as well as the frowning, almost crying Naruto, who was looking like he was about to break down in anger and sadness of what this village did to her… just like what Konohagakure did to him. But this girl, from the sound of it, wasn't as strong as Naruto was, in terms of determination and drive. He didn't think she would come to Gaara's realization though; she didn't seem like one to think she had to kill them all to feel alive and accepted.

"Fu began to become a shell, not showing any life or at least not much to anybody. She just came to think that humans were the demons. She began to despise them, so much that I'm shocked she hadn't killed a member of the village yet. After all, she was neglected for the most part, and when she was acknowledged as a friend, she found out that person wasn't one, merely someone to make her life even more miserable. That's how she is…" Shibuki turned away from Naruto and Jiraiya, looking out of the glass at the village he kept hidden and protected and sighed at its people's ignorance of what Fu really was.

"Thanks for allowing us to stay here, Shibuki-san." Naruto bowed as he had a serious face on. "I'm going to head out and look around the village a bit." Maybe I'll find this Fu girl while looking around the village… I wonder if she'll know if I'm a jinchuriki immediately…

"Alright, Naruto, go on ahead!" Jiraiya said with a smile as Naruto opened the door and went out to close it, not knowing that Fu already knew of his appearance in the village. He just kept walking until he went into the sun, outside of the tower.

XXX

"Hmmm, I'm getting quite tired of seeing this plain, flat area of sand, Master Sasori. It most certainly isn't art at all." The blond-haired Deidara said, the wind blowing his cloak that had the design of red clouds on it. "Though I am surprised that Leader-sama said that we were prepared earlier than expected, hmmm."

"Way earlier than expected, Deidara…" the puppet master spoke in a deep voice, looked up at the former Iwa shinobi, now a rogue. "We got it done thanks to Leader-sama and ourselves doing nothing but preparing the statue and getting other things out of the way. We're ahead of schedule for sure."

"Hmmm," Deidara said, looking around as they approached where the Suna shinobi were guarding the village that they called home. His thumb and index finger gripped the zipper on the pouch on the former Iwa ninja's right side. He put his hand into the pouch, the hand on his palm opening and eating some clay. "Let's start this with a bang, hmmm."

Sasori merely looked at the Suna shinobi, starting to look in their direction, trying to see them clearly from the sand blowing in the wind. "Just don't keep me waiting, Deidara…"

Deidara merely smiled, a giant bird of clay appeared as Deidara jumped on it and took off his hat, throwing it into the sand. "Once you beat those guards, you can watch my art in action. It'll be a… explosion!" Deidara smiled at Sasori before taking off, heading off to Sunagakure in cover of the sand and wind, not being seen at all.

Sasori sighed as the shinobi of the Village Hidden in the Sand appeared around him. "Looks like I'll have to finish this quickly… Just make sure you don't get too carried away, Deidara…"

XXX

Pain looked at Amegakure from his perch like a watchful hawk taking care of its nest. Deidara and Sasori should be getting the Ichibi soon. He arose, turned, and headed inside the tower that used to be used by Hanzo of the Salamander years ago. He looked at his hand and clenched it. The plan has finally begun to come into motion…

Pain stopped the rain that fell upon his village as he felt no intruders at all. The world shall know pain… I'll make sure it knows and learns how to correct its mistakes… For I am a God!

Clouds began to open up as a bean of sunlight shined upon Pain as he walked away from it slowly, leaving it to just shine on the floor.

XXX

Fu waited from the shade of the trees for that blond boy to walk out of the tower that the leader of Takigakure stayed. She just had this feeling that she could relate to him, that he was a jinchuriki from the whisker marks and the look in his cerulean eyes reminded her of her own eyes having that look sometimes as she looked at him from the side, not having to deal with his hid front side because of his conical hat he wore that looked to be made of straw. Once the young man came out, Fu narrowed her orange eyes, trying to look at his appearance more and see what he was wearing from the cover of the trees.

The young man had his headband on his forehead, but she couldn't read it as the plate wasn't facing her. Some of the headband flew in the breeze as it was the two strands left after tying it to his forehead, poking from his hat. A green Chunin vest covered his chest along with a long sleeve black shirt he wore underneath it. The pants he wore matched the color of his shirt, black as coal. Blond bangs hung down his forehead, showing her that he had spikey, blond hair and below the bangs laid two cerulean pools, though Fu could only see one from her side.

Suddenly, the shinobi looked over in her direction, causing her to 'eep' and move back a bit in the forest. Looking at him again from the cover of the trees, she saw the face of a handsome teen donned with whisker marks and two cerulean pools. She also noticed the symbol on his forehead protector that confirmed his village: Konohagakure, the Village Hidden in the Leaves.

Fu had heard of this shinobi village quite often, hearing that it was among one of the greatest ninja villages in the shinobi world. She had heard tales of its many strong shinobi. The Copycat Shinobi Hatake Kakashi, the rogue Uchiha Itachi, the Sannin Jiraiya, Tsunade, and Orochimaru, the famed Ino-Shika-Cho team, the taijutsu expert Might Guy, the Kami of Shinobi, the Third Hokage, and lastly, the Yellow Flash of Konoha, the Fourth Hokage, Namikaze Minato. Those were the main ones she could remember off the top of her head.

She moved backward as the shinobi approached her, approaching the trees. Her heart began to beat faster, wondering if he knew she was there. Her question was answered when the blond stood in front of the trees, letting her notice the scroll he carried on his back for the first time, to which she face palmed for not seeing it there earlier.

"I know you are in this wooded area…" The blond spoke, making Fu let out a very quiet gasp that the Konohagakure shinobi never heard. "I just want to speak to you… That is all…"

This shocked Fu, even though it gave her a chance to get to know this person that felt like her, at least by her eyes in her opinion. He just had this look to him in his eyes and his whiskers that made her think jinchuriki right off the bat. She decided she couldn't hide from this shinobi as he appeared to be a skilled one, even though she had some doubts about him; after all he was a stranger. She sighed and headed out of the trees that surrounded her, ready to confront this mysterious ninja before her.

AN: I know not much happened overall, but I've been busy lately with school work and family stuff and I thought this would be a good stopping place. I see if I can get the next chapter up as fast as possible. I may actually have it up by the end of the weekend, but I'll definitely have it up in three days - a weeks time. Thanks for the support as always! You can always tell me your thoughts by reviewing the chapter and I'll definitely have the story pick up pace here soon.