Disclaimer: I do not own Naruto and any reference to any other thing owned by someone else.

Claimer: The OCs are mine. If any are sue-ish, well…they're still my sues.

Warning #1: Characters may sometimes be OOC. You have been warned.

Lost

Chapter 18

There was movent in the trees, shadows moved above the a platoon of traveling soldiers. The only light that illuminated the darkness in which the platoon travelled were the lights from the moon and stars. The land was called Yami no Kuni afterall, the Land of Darkness. This land was shrouded in perpetual darkness, or more precisely perpetual night.

Several night prior to this night, something had occurred that prompted the Juudaime Tsukiyomi, Rosuto Karasu to send out his soldiers into the countryside, and to the his land's borders.

Karasu had received word from a messanger of Rosuto Younen that said that Rosuto no Kuni was going to open its borders soon.

Rosuto no Kuni was one of the lands that was hidden from the rest of the world, for reasons unknown to the majority of the continent, Yami no Kuni being another one. These hidden lands tended to keep in contact with one another for some reason, the reason for Yami no Kuni to do such was that the daimyou was a member of one of the branch families of the Juushu clan.

Karasu expected there to be some hostility shown towards them due to their sudden emergence in the world, but that was really to be expected, people do fear that which they cannot explain or understand, the unkown was something that could easily be feared.

Once Rosuto no Kuni made itself known to the world, Yami no Kuni would follow. That would be the only time that Karasu would send out ambassadors to the other lands, as well as go out into the rest of the world himself and seek out his lost brother, Rosuto Mikio.

Yami no Kuni was a land consierably smaller than Rosuto no Kuni, it was roughly the size of Tsuchi no Kuni, and was divided into eight provinces, each province being ruled by one of the Okugi Eight. The Okugi Eight being the former retainers of the Shinobi Lord, turned Daimyou. These former retainers were now samurai and shinobi lords in their own rights, they each had a clan of their own now.

Karasu didn't really know what the reaction the rest of the world would give his country, but whatever it would be, good or bad, he would be prepared for it. If it was war, then he would give the other nations a chance to even step foot into his land. If it was peace, he would send out his ambassadors. But if it was indifference, he would send out people that would make those others recognize their presence.

Yami no Kuni was just one of the lands or groups of people that were being informed of the unveiling of Rosuto no Kuni. Rosuto Younen was spreading the word. Those people that knew of Naruto's little legend, were now being told, in whispers that he was returning. The rumor mill of the whole continent was being churned and milked for all it was worth. From port to port, from village to village, from city to city, the existence of Rosuto no Kuni was being made known. "Travellers" brought stories about the country and its mysteries and wonders. Word was spreading, and fast. With only two weeks left before the emergence of such a big country, it was amazing how the company was able to make its owner's presence known.

Rosuto Younen had made sure that the Hidden Villages were told stories about the military might of Rosuto no Kuni. There were stories that told of the country being the birth place of many myths and legends.

Rokudou no Sennin was a man born two thousand years before the birth of Rosuto no Kuni, but the stories told of a man or being that rivalled the famed Sennin, someone who held more powers than the founder of the shinobi world as it was known today.

Such news prompted many into halting plans, and stalling actions, in favor of knowing more about this potential friend or foe.

The Akatsuki did not start their plan of collecting all the bijuu, a plan which should have commenced, but due to the news and the curiosity that it brought about, became more important to ruling the world or destroying it.

Orochimaru had a spy network of his own, with himself the only one who truly knew how to make it move shake and work. Uchiha Sasuke let the serpent live, Orochimaru seemed to still possess a purpose. For some reason the serpent's body had healed to the point that he didn't need Sasuke's body. After a swift battle with the sharingan, he opted not to take the sharingan for himself, deeming the eyes of that demonic clan to be too much for him. Orochimaru's attempt to snatch Sasuke's body for his own failed. Staying alive was one of the things that Sasuke got out of the power struggle, the other thing was that he had gotten the Mangenkyo Sharingan in the bargain, eyes that Orochimaru feared obtaining due to the knowledge that the users eventually became blind, ie Itachi.

Danzo, the leader of Ne and elder or advisor of the Hokage, was forced into halting all his plans of somehow gaining the position of Hokage and ruling the leaf with an iron fist due to the arising presence of such an unknown power. Konoha was without its jinchuuriki and Danzo did not feel all that confident that Konoha could survive a war with the new power without its jinchuuriki. Little did he know that the Kyuubi Jinchuuriki no longer existed. All that was left was thousand plus year old warrior, that went by the name Rosuto Juushu.

Rosuto Younen also made sure that the people of the known lands of Elemental remembered the stories of their myths and legends. Such stories like the one about Tsuchi's and Mizu's Kaibyaku no Sankami. They also made sure to somehow make Tsunade aware of the naming of Konoha, and her title.

Rosuto Younen employees made their way to the mists of Kiri no Kami and unraveled the seals that kept mists in place. Rosuto Younen was known to the people that lived in the village hidden by the mists, whose time flowed differently from the rest of the world. The unraveling of the seals allowed time to syncronize with the rest of the world. Due to the new freedom that they possed, for the first week they trickled out of their haven, those that had gone to Kiri, had found one that was surprised that they still existed, and were quite welcoming to them. The kunoichi of Kiri no Kuni were ecstatic to learn that the mizukage was also a kunoichi.

Rosuto Younen made it a point that all the news and rumors they spread connected everything to Rosuto no Kuni, and more specifically Rosuto Juushu.

When it came to be that there was only one week left before Rosuto no Kuni revealed its presence to the world, Rosuto Younen started working overtime. Introducing products into the market that were from the emerging country.

The world was experiencing a sense of chaos. But that was just the world. More important than the world was a group of five people. The group was made up of four men and one woman. This group of people were about a week away from Konoha, when their crisis truly began.

There was only that one week before Rosuto no Kuni emerged, there was also only that week left before Jiraiya believed he would meet his end.

One week remained before the super pervert would have to face the music. One week remained for the master to be reunited with the student. One week remained before Jiraiya would have to choose between his wife or his Hokage. Yes, Jiraiya was in a pickle. He didn't know it, but his wife was a week away from giving birth. As one life enters the world, another is supposedly supposed to leave it.

With seven days remaining the group of five could not afford to be bogged down by any adventures. Jiraiya and company had to work overtime to find Naruto and fast, since Mikio knew that the key to his missing memories were in Konoha the group did not need to worry about him.

Hi no Kuni was more or less the only place that the group had not yet searched for Naruto, so on the way the group made it a point to search even under every rock for the young genin. Pathetic really, Uzumaki Naruto was essentially almost immortal, but was still ranked as a genin in Konoha. The good thing was that he wasn't going by Naruto anymore, but as Juushu, his son used his old name.

Whenever the group encountered a group of things that tried to eat them, attack them, kidnap them, maim them, transport them, the group did everything in their power to make short work of these adventures. Its amazing what people can do when under a lot of pressure.

When the dragon king made another appearance and tried to pester Ikkaku, he was greeted not by a hello or a go away, but by a spell that paralyzed his from snout to tail and imprisoned him and his entire family in some underwater cave in the sea surrounding Yuki no Kuni, it took the Shiki Fukujin seven days to remove the spell holding the dragons.

When Inari made his appearance and tried to cause a little chaos, he was greeted by a boot to the head courtesy of Jiraiya who had entered Sage Mode and had powered up his arm with nature chakra and thrown a boot that appeared from out of nowhere at the kami. The result was that Inari was just struck dumb that he had been hit by a boot to the head, and just left like that, he wore the boot like a hat for the rest of the week. Contemplating how the hell that had happened.

Mikio wasn't bothered by anything at all, except maybe the seemingly random popcorns that were pelted at his head from out of nowhere.

Chang'e did not experience any hardship, the only hardship that she experienced was that without any prior training she was delegated to being the one to prepare all their meals while they were on the move. Rabbits would appear before her by the score, and they would also commit sepuku infront of her so that she may make use of them. It was sick, strange, and convenient all at the same time. A hare on the moon used some form of kugutsu no jutsu to make his lucky cousins on earth do as they did.

Unlike the rest of the group, Haru was plagued by the most problems, these problems being brought about by his affiliation with Rosuto no Kuni, one moment he was searching for Naruto, the next he was with his wife helping in the preparation for Rosuto no Kuni to emerge into the world.

The group worked tirelessly into the night, the only one that got enough sleep was the woman of the group, the men pushed themselves to their limits in the search for Jiraiya's salvation.

With three day remaining, while searching for his student near a calmly flowing river, the Gama Sennin was struck dumb by a vision of beauty made flesh that was bathing not far from his position. He decided not to make his presence known, since such a sight was a rarity, and he was experiencing some slight withdrawal from not seening his wife for so long. If only he had remembered to bring his notebook with him he would have a new book published, printed, and sold by the end of the day. But perhaps not having his notebook on him was the thing that saved him from his potentially early grave.

Once the first perverted giggle escaped his lips, Jiraiya knew the jig was up, this was because a foot met his face in a spectacular flying kick, followed by a shout of "Dynamic Entry!"

Jiraiya expected to see a green jumpsuit wearing Maito Gai or Rock Lee, but what or who he saw entirely different. The sight he saw was just as creepy, if not worse.

There was a group of people wearing sunglasses infront of him, one of them was the woman that he had been spying on earlier. Two of the men stepped closer to the super pervert, while the other people turned around, as if not wanting to witness the horror that was about to take place.

One of the people that had stepped closer to Jiraiya looked to be wearing a bright orange tracksuit, the other was wearing a blindingly pink tracksuit, these two men were not wearing such suit before stepping forward, how they were suddenly in them Jiraiya did not care to know.

What Jiraiya witnessed afterward would forever be burned into his mod for all of eternity, not even Kyonshi would be able to rid him of such a memory.

"This Pervert is so UNYOUTHFUL!" the orange one shouted.

"His FLAMES of YOUTH do not BURN as BRIGHTLY as they should!" the pink one shouted.

The other people were clutching their ears in an attempt in blocking out the shouting, for some reason it appareared to be working. But Jiraiya was unable to try it seeing as he was unable to look away from the sight before his eyes. It was as if several higher powers were holding him in place and making sure he was scarred mentally for life.

"Ryuu-jii-sama! Your FLAMES OF YOUTH BURN EVEN BRIGHTER THAN THE SUN MOON AND STARS TO HAVE NOTICED THE EMBERS OF YOUTH THAT THIS PERVERT POSSESSES!" the one in pink shouted all the while pointing at Jiraiya.

"YOU AS WELL, KAZUO-KUN! YOUR BURNING FLAMES OF YOUTHFUL YOUTH BLAZE AND BURN WITH MORE POWER AND YOUTH THAN THE UNYOUTHFUL OLD PERSON BEFORE OUR EYES!" the orange one shouted.

"WHAT SHOULD WE DO RYUU-JII-SAMA?! WE MUCH REKINDLE HIS FLAMES OF YOUTHFUL YOUTH!" the pink one asked.

"YOUR BURNING FLAMES OF YOUTHFUL YOUTH ARE SO REFERSHING!" the ornage one shouted, then smiled blindingly at his pink partner.

"RYUU-JII-SAMA!"

"KAZUO-KUN!"

"RYUU-JII-SAMA!"

"KAZUO-KUN!"

"RYUU-JII-SAMA!"

"KAZUO-KUN!"

While shouting the name of the other the two men grabbed each other and hugged the hug of youth. Behind them what looked like a sunrise appeared out of nowhere. It was truly a blinding sight. Instead of the colors associated with Maito Gai and Rock Lee, this one had blinding orange and pink in it. But that was the extent of any description that could be made of it.

Once the two men stopped hugging, their suits vanished to reveal their usual garbs.

One of the women in of the group approached the now comatose form lying on the ground with drool coming out of his mouth, she picked up a nearby stick and started poking the downed super pervert with it.

"Kaa-san, I don't think he'll wake up from just that," one of the other women of he group said to the woman who was poking the super pervert.

"Oi! Asahi! Go look for the other three!" the man known as Kazuo said.

"Hai, hai, hai," Asahi Haru said, and walked away in search of his other group of friends and comrades.

Haru found Ikkaku, Mikio, and Chang'e sitting around what once was a campfire, the three were eating lunch, while also waiting for Haru and Jiraiya to join them.

"Haru, where've you been man? An' where's Ero-Sennin?" Ikkaku asked after spotting Haru.

"Eh, Ero-sennin a bit aways away, he was peeking on Tsukiko-sama," Haru said.

"Tsukiko...?" Ikkaku said, "As in...that Tsukiko?"

"Yep, the very same Tsukiko you are thinking about."

"Who is this Tsukiko you two are talking about?" Mikio asked.

"Ikkaku-kun, who is Tsukiko?" Chang'e also asked.

"Eh...Rosuto Tsukiko, formerly Tokage Tskukiko. She is the wife of Rosuto Juushu," Ikkaku answered.

"What is she doing out here Haru? And how did you come to be with her?" Mikio asked.

"Eheh...Sorry guys...I've been married to Megumi-chan for awhile now, and have been going here and there...and uh...the Rosuto group is heading for Konoha..." Haru answered his friend.

"So...what now?" Mikio asked.

"Well, I was ordered to come fetch you guys," Haru said, "But I wouldn't mind having my fill o' the food for a bit."

So the three men and one woman finished the food, packing up the food for Jiraiya that they would give him once they were reunited with him.

Once Haru brought the three to the Rosuto group where Jiraiya was no longer in a coma, but sitting on the ground with his mouth open and gaping like that of a goldfish's.

"So...now what?" Haru asked while annoucing his presence.

"Well, we got time...three days to go before we get to do a Konoha meet and greet," one of the other men in the group said.

"Personally I'd like to go snake hunting...but danggit! Juushu-sama said 'go to konoha, wait for me there'. The hell man!" one of the men excalimed.

"Uh...excuse me," Mikio said while raising his hand like an academy student.

"Yes, Mikio-san, what is it?" Tsukiko said.

"Why are you going to Konoha?"

"My husband apparently has some unfinished business there."

"Oh...why'd you people do whatever you did to Ero-sennin?"

"He deserved it!" the group collectively shouted causing Mikio to fly back a foot or three.

"Ok, ok."

"So guys...when do we get to it?" another of the group asked.

"Get to what?" Haru asked.

"Going! Konoha awaits!"

"Err...could you guys introduce yourselves...?" Jiraiya asked.

"Oh, right, manners and all that...I'll start I guess...I'm Rosuto Tsukiko," Tsukiko said.

"I'm her daughter, Tokage Yoshiko, married, my hubby is no longer around though..." Yoshiko said, she being a nearly mirror image of her mother, nearly, but not that close.

"I am the same dragon rider that sent you tumbling through time, the name's Kuraku Yuji."

"My descendant is married to Haru, I am Shokon Yahiko, and I must say, your spy network was eas to infiltrate."

"Giman Ryuu! I wanna see how good your Hokage really is in the field of medicine!"

"You already know me, Jiraiya-san, I'm Giman Kazuo, head of the Giman clan."

"Jiraiya-kun, I hope you didn't forget me, I'm Asahi Megumi, still the head of he Shokon clan."

"You're the one who's closet we got stuck in!" Jiraiya shouted in realization.

"Yep!"

"I'm next. I am Genri Tamotsu, I'll say this, those Nara aren't as troublesome as many believe them to be."

"What do you mean?" Jiraiya asked.

"We got a few Nara scattered around the Tenshi province," Tamotsu answered.

"The name's Musha Toru, and don't you forget it! My sister is the girl that looks like me!"

"Yo! I'm Emiko! I'm Toru's sis in case ya didn't know, that dude over there," she pointed at one of the still unintroduced men, "is the love of my life, haha!"

"I'll be last..." Emiko's husband said.

"Alright, my turn then," said a middle aged man, "I am known as Tabou Tama, commander of the Nairan Army. Nice to finally meet you Jiraiya-sama, your record of the history of Nairan was masterfully written."

"Thank you..." Jiraiya said.

"Suna would bow before me if they only knew who I be," another of the men said.

"Who are you?" Mikio asked.

"I'm glad you asked Mikio-san, I am Hyakume Tsuneo, and artist as well as a Kugutsu master! I am the first student of Chikamatsu Monzaemon!"

"No shit!" Jiraiya and Mikio shouted at exactly the same time.

"Yep, and proud of it!" Tsuneo then struck a pose, and smiled with a blinding smile.

"To sum up who have introduced themselves so far...we have Tsukiko, Yoshiko, Yahiko, Megumi, Kazuo, Ryuu, Tamotsu, Yuji, Toru, Emiko, Tama, and Tsuneo," said a young man who looked to still be in his early twenties, "Then I shall add myself to the list. I am Noufu Kira, don't be fooled by my looks, I am older than this."

"My turn I guess," a beautiful black haird girl said, "I am Ichida Naruko, daughter of Rosuto Juushu, wife of Ishida Mori."

"Lastly, I am Rosuto Naruto, husband of Emiko, son of Rosuto Juushu. And no, I am not Namikaze Uzumaki Naruto."

"H-how did you know about that?" Jiraiya asked.

"One of my godsons informed me that you were looking for a Naruto, and well I am the only one in the whole of Rosuto no Kuni that is named Naruto. Otou-sama said that the name is very special."

"Damn right its special! Thats the name of my student!"

"Still missing student."

"Still student!"

"Missing!"

"Still"

"Missing!"

"SHADDAP! SHOULD WE USE THE SUPER BUSHY BROW GENJUTSU ON THE TWO OF YOU?!" Naruko asked.

"NO! ANYTHING BUT THAT!" both men shouted at the exact same time.

"Good, now lets get a move on. Don't want to be late now do we?" Naruko rhetorically asked.

"and they call me sadistic," Naruto mumbled.

The combined group them made their way to Konoha, all of them with different purposes and reasons for going.

Somewhere else on the continent there was one man sitting ontop of a very high wall. He was just sitting there watching the horizon waiting for he time for his departure.

Rosuto Juushu was sitting on the the wall that surrounded his country, he was watching the rest of the world via charka pumped in his eyes to give him a sharper vision as well as the ability to see farther than normal. He was watching the rest of the world while eating popcorn.

He was also busy psyching himself up for his nearing encounter with his past and present. It would be quite fun he supposed. He had done so much in his long life. But there was still so much more things to do, one of them was getting Sasuke to go back to Konoha. Promises had to be kept afterall. He didn't need to become Hokage anymore, he had already achieved his dream after all, and then some.

Sitting on his wall he waited for the last second before he would jump of the wall and move to Konoha. There were a bunch of people with him on the wall, most of them being soldiers. Not that anyone would be dumb enough to attack Rosuto no Kuni and its seemingly impossibly high wall.

Nearly three days ago his generals, wife, and two of his children had met up with his other sensei's group. Today, was the day that Rosuto Juushu would return to Konoha, not as the Naruto that Konoha knew, but as Rosuto Juushu.

"Three...two...one..." Juushu counted the seconds down, and before he even said the word zero he jumped off the wall. The people around and near him immediately moved to the wall just to see their beloved leader vanish into the wind.

In a fortress in another dimension world, Kyonshi and his posse watched Juushu go. Their popcorn supply had finally run out, thus leaving them to eat pizza upon pizza.

Me thinks that me might be one card short of a full deck. So read and review, if you didn't like it don't even bother leaving a review.

To all those dudes and dudettes that like my fic: don't worry the ending is still very very far away.