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Chapter 5: The Sand Village

Naruto remembered that his father had not told him where to go first. After a while, Naruto came up with an answer.

"The sand village." Naruto pulled out one out of his four fake identities. "The lucky fake ID is... Menma. having no last name will give me trouble in the village if I want to buy any weaponry." Naruto sighed. Naruto continued to run to Sunagakure.

Night

Naruto was now very tired, he had been running non stop for hours only to make it near the border. He decided to make a camp and rest for a while. He has to be at the village early next morning. Naruto collected sticks and a couple of rocks, soon, he had a campfire which he was now using to make himself warm. Naruto took the free time he had to dye his hair black. Once he was done he pulled out his favourite book, Kenjustu techniques he read til he drifted off to sleep.

Next Day

Naruto woke up and rubbed his eyes, he felt refreshed. He got up and packed everything, he then started his journey through the scorching desert of Sunagakure. Time passed and Naruto was on the verge of collapsing, he was disappointed because he was only 3 hours in and was already feeling very tired. To top it off he was walking the whole way, indeed, he was very far from the Hidden Sand.

Couple of minutes later

Naruto felt very light headed, he drank all his water and didn't have any food left. Naruto knew that he is doomed, after all this day was much hotter than any other day in the Land of Wind. Naruto was also wearing his casual clothing. He couldn't walk or run properly, however, this clothing was necessary since he couldn't get through borders if he came in as a ninja. amAll the running he did yesterday made him exhausted because of the minimum flexibility his clothes allowed him. Naruto collapsed from exhaustion, he was still conscious but just very tired.

"Is it going to be like this for every village?" Naruto sighed deeply and rested on the sand. He couldn't handle it, Naruto fell asleep. The last thing he felt was the very soft touch of wind blowing on his cheek. Naruto woke up again, he felt helpless, he crawled and crawled, but he kept collapsing. Naruto collapsed for the 100th time and dug his face into the sand.

"Why can't I do this?!" Naruto shouted.

"Do what?" Naruto flinched in surprise, his body felt too heavy that it couldn't leave the floor. Naruto sighed and accepted defeat. "Don't worry kid, I won't hurt you. Where are you heading?" Naruto ignored his question and asked his own.

"Who are you?"

"My name is Jiraiya. Now tell me where you are going."

"Hiking." Naruto lied. "I was disowned and decided to run away." Jiraiya gave a 'what the hell' look.

"Really? So you're 5 years old, disowned and you're enjoying the view of the sand, wow, seems very realistic." Jiraiya said sarcastically.

"It's the truth, I'm 7 by the way."

"Of course it is, I also really don't care about what age you are." Jiraiya replied. Naruto sighed in defeat

"Take me with you, please."

"But ofcourse! I can't let a young kid melt in the desert." The man then carried Naruto on his back and noticed the Katana hanging out his bag. "What is that for kid?" Naruto gave him a confused look. "The katana that's hanging out from your bag."

"Oh, this? I'm going to trade it for something." The man shook his head, giving up on trying to get proper answers from the little kid. The man walked to the sand village with Naruto on his back.

Time Skip

Jiraiya arrived at the Hidden Sand Village gates with Naruto on his back.

"ID." The gate guard demanded. Jiraiya gave his ID, the guard took a quick look and nodded, he then realised that there was a kid who was on the man's back. "Who is the boy?"

"I found him in the desert alone, he was on the verge of dying."

"He still needs ID." Naruto pulled his ID out of his pocket and handed it to to the guard. The guard looked at the ID and read out some details.

"Menma with no last name, Sand Village citizen, weird because I've never seen you here before." The guard shrugged and opened the gates letting Jiraiya and Naruto into the village.

"I'll put you in a hotel and pay all your expenses for a week. This is probably the last thing I can do for you." Jiraiya said.

"What is your name again?" Naruto asked weakly.

"Jiraiya." Naruto realised who's back he was really on. One of the legendary sannin, Jiraiya the toad sage.

"The...Legendary-."

"Just call me Jiraiya, young boy. I'm going to head to the Kazekage mansion and then back to the Hidden Leaf right after. Sadly, you're going to be alone again, but you do seem strong. I see some of me in you, trust me, you will pull through. Now kid, before I go, what is your name?"

"Naruto." Jiraiya's eyes went wide in shock.

"Your parents must've read my novel." Naruto gave him a confused look. Jiraiya walked a couple of more steps til he reached the hotel and put Naruto down. Jiraiya pulled a book out of his pocket and gave it to Naruto. "Here you go, read this." Naruto took a quick glance at it, the cover seemed plain and boring.

"What is it about?"

"That is for you to find out, Naruto." With that, Jiraiya walked off waving goodbye. Naruto went in the hotel and checked in. He went into his room and collapsed on the bed, there was still sunlight. Naruto decided to take a nap to freshen up for his mission at night.

Night

Naruto woke up from his nap and put his ANBU gear on. Thanks to the Hokage, Naruto knew exactly when and where the meetings are, the meetings take place once a month at the Kazekage mansion and today just happens to be that day. Naruto jumped out of the window and headed towards the Kazekage mansion. After a while, Naruto was standing on the branch of a tree that was close by to his destination. Naruto circled the mansion multiple times and drew a map of it. Naruto then hopped on the roof of the mansion and avoided the guards that were stationed there. Naruto creeped in very quietly but quickly. Once he came to the room he saw many guards outside. There is no way he could take out even one of them, these people are at least Jonin level, Naruto knew that he was not Jonin level or even close to it. Naruto reduced his chakra signature to the bare minimum. He couldn't come up with any plan, the only way is a transformation, or his sharingan... Naruto closed his eyes and focused his chakra. Naruto opened his eyes gently and a 3 tomoe sharingan appeared. Naruto walked towards the guards.

"I'm going to have to stop you there young fella." One of the six Jonin said. Naruto didn't say a word and kept walking.

"Hmm, do you want to fight us?" All the Jonin chuckled.

"Not exactly." Naruto looked each one of them in the eye and put them under his genjutsu. The Jonin fell helpless, Naruto couldn't beat them but he could definitely place them in a genjutsu for a while. Naruto transformed into an exact copy of one of the Jonin and went inside the meeting room.

The Kazekage, his advisor and the officials sat at the round table. The Kazekage turned to face Naruto who was transformed to one of the Kazekage's special Jonin who's name was Daiki. (Naruto has now transformed into Daiki.)

"All clear Daiki?" Daiki nodded his head in response. "Good, let's start then. Everyone is aware of Jiraiya the toad sage entering the Sand Village today, yes?" Everyone nodded their heads in response. "Good, I just want to let you people know that I signed an alliance with the Leaf due to Jiraiya convincing me to do so, besides, who doesn't want the strongest village by their side." The officials all nodded in response accepting their leader's decision.

"Any other matter we need to discuss?" The room went dead silent. The Kazekage then thought of something. "The gate guard said that somebody was with Jiraiya."

"Who?"

"His name is Menma. I want your opinions on what I should do with him, he's a little kid."

"I suggest we put him in the academy, have you checked for any bloodlines because we lack that a lot."

"Good idea. Well I guess that's it for the meeting. I'll see you next month in the same spot." Naruto kinda panicked because the bodies were left outside, he was amazed that nobody found them yet. When no one was paying attention, Naruto made a clone of Daiki, the clone stayed with the Kazekage. Naruto transformed back to himself and had managed to move the bodies in time. After that he left instantly.

Meanwhile in Konoha

The pinkette laid on her bed thinking about a lot of things, but one thing kept popping up most. "I wonder where Naruto is." She sighed deeply.

"Maybe he got scared away by your forehead."

"Shut up Ino, I'm not in the mood."

"Well I am." They kept arguing until Hinata finally spoke up.

"Guys, if we're going to have a sleepover we shouldn't argue." Ino and Sakura both looked at Hinata.

"Wow Hinata, you didn't stutter once that whole sentence!"

"Yeah, that's a real accomplishment!" Sakura chimed in.

"T-Thank you." After that there was a silence. Sakura broke it.

"Everyone here misses Naruto, the sad thing is we're all 6. No one takes us seriously."

"Why would you expect them to? We're children." Ino replied.

"The real question is, where is he?"

The Hokage office

Jiraiya has just arrived at the Hokage office, he was greeted by his son giving him a warm hug. Then it got serious and Minato started asking some questions.

"So dad, how did it go?"

"Wonderful, he signed it. We now have an alliance with the sand village."

"Good, anything else?"

"I found a kid in the middle of the desert, he was heading to the sand village."

"Ahhh, that must be Naruto."

"Yes. My story got really popular, there are so many Narutos in this world now."

"Anyways, how is he?"

"Wait wait wait. Did you send him?"

"Uhh, yes?"

"Son... he was dying. Would you send Nawaki to a place like that?"

"If it was in the favour of the village I would but only if I know that he will survive."

"You know that Naruto will survive huh? Don't do that again, I kinda figured he was a ninja but I couldn't believe that a kage would send a 7 year old out on field missions."

"Age doesn't measure strength, it measures experience, experience at a young age will guide him to be the strongest, stronger than me and you. Naruto is that person. I wish that he was my son."

"Hmph, anyways, I'm heading home."

"Bye."

"Goodbye."

Minato went and sat back at his desk and started writing a letter to Naruto. He started thinking about what Jiraiya said. Minato finally came to his conclusion. Minato is going to cancel Naruto's mission.

Dear Naruto,

I hope you're doing just fine at the sand villiage, if you're not, don't worry your business there is over, once you receive this letter . I want you to come right back to the Hidden Leaf, you are too young for this and I've realised the mistake I made the day I sent you. I am very worried about your health and safety.

Love, Minato

I gotta end it there, so guys Jiraiya Senju confirmed. Also I want to clarify why I sent Naruto on an intelligence collection mission. I did this because I want Naruto to become a teenager so I can do more stuff with the story. That's basically it. I also want to thank you guys for the awesome support, this story won't be boring for long, trust me, there is a war coming and I need Naruto to be old enough to fight in it.