Kurenai and Anko quickly erased the distance between Gai, Asuma and themselves as they took the moment of distraction and each kicked the two men across their faces. Gai was sent into a burning building and Asuma was kicked into an adjacent building to Gai. Kurenai and Anko smiled at each other before giving each other a wink and waited for their opponents to arrive.
No less than five minutes did Gai appear first from the building rooftop and gave a grin before wiping the blood from his chin. He had never been kicked so hard in his life. He wasn't sure how strong Tsunade's punches or kicks were, but if they were anything like this then it was something to be feared.
Gai jumped off of the roof of the building and landed on the ground before smiling at the two women.
"That was a nice kick. It's too bad that I have to kill such a youthful opponent," Gai said and Anko had to give a reply by smiling and raising an eyebrow.
"Hmm did you say something?" Anko asked making Gai's enormous eyebrows twitch. Gai stuck his finger and her and gritted his teeth.
"Damn you and your hip attitude. Your just like Kakashi, but even talk. Let's have our youth explode!" Gai yelled and ran at Anko. Anko cracked her knuckles and charged at Gai all the while feeling the bloodlust rush through her veins. Gai and Anko collided and the impact cause a small crater to appear beneath them. Anko had to smile from the contact, not once was she able to match Gai in power, but now was a different story. Anko and Gai continued their struggle while their chakras flared at each other. Anko, then, shifted her stance and managed to bring her foot around to kick Gai's side, but the jonin saw it coming and immediately jumped into the air dodging Anko's kick however, he wasn't done as he brought his own leg to Anko's face. Anko quickly stopped the kick with her right hand and before either could counter, Anko backed up slightly and massaged her neck in a smile.
"Alright Gai, I'll keep this strictly taijutsu. It'll be more fun that way," Anko said softly and tightened her fist. Gai narrowed his eyes at her before ducking his head and widened his eyes when he saw Anko behind him with a right kick aimed at his skull along with a demonic smile.
"I-I didn't even see her move," Gai said to himself, but Anko quickly made her next maneuver and began to spin her body in the air. The result was her slamming her left foot into Gai's face. Kurenai clapped at Anko's fight and was still standing next to the building that Asuma was supposed to be in. She knew he was still in there, probably thinking of a way to fight her, but she was all the more content to wait.
Anko chuckled at her hit, but it only spurred Gai on and he did something that she wouldn't have thought that he'd do so early in a fight. Gai sighed and removed his weights sending them to the ground with a giant crash. Anko suddenly felt a rush of excitement hit her knowing this would be a good fight. It was all amazing to her that she felt like a snake. Waiting for the moment to strike the opponent, keeping them thinking that they could get away, waiting for the perfect time to end it all. It thrilled the Snake Mistress so much. Gai instantly disappeared from view and before Anko could tell what happened, she was slammed in the stomach by Gai making her gasp from the hit, but it wasn't done as Gai took his other fist and made it connect to Anko's jaw making the Snake Mistress hanyou fly a couple of feet before backflipping and landing on the ground in a slide. She looked up, but Gai was gone and before long she grabbed a punch from Gai shocking the jonin until she huffed.
"Not bad Gai. That was good, now let me see if I can't do better," Anko stated and slammed Gai in the stomach. Gai widened his eyes at the hit and felt back to the ground making Anko chuckle, but it turned into an amused grin when she saw a tree log in it's place.
"Gai! You gonna hide from me?" Anko asked while the fires raged around Konoha. She and Kurenai knew that they would have to leave soon, but it felt so good to be fighting people who wouldn't bite the dust in one hit. Suddenly the flames intensified in front of Anko and the jonin hanyou had to raise an eyebrow before seeing Gai inside the flames with his right fist back and his left palm open. It was aimed at Anko and the snake woman smirked. Gai's chakra intensified making the fires swirl around ever area except on him.
"Hi no Hōkō( Roar of the Fire)," Gai yelled out as he extended his fist sending a spiraling blaze of chakra towards Anko. To Anko, the fire looked like a spiraling tunnel headed for her, which it was, but she could think about that later. Anko acted fast and quickly dodged the spiraling fire, but when she did Anko gasped when she saw Gai under her. Gai kicked Anko into the air with his foot and quickly disappeared from under her. Anko had seen this technique multiple times and it made her tingle that Gai was trying it on her. She always wanted to be in one, but Gai told her it was dangerous so she let it go, but now it was very much different. She was gonna experience it for the first time. Gai appeared underneath Anko and his quickly grabbed her arms and held on tight.
"It ends now. Goodbye," Gai said to Anko as they both spiraled into the ground.
"Omote Renge(Primary Lotus)," Gai yelled out as he slammed Anko's head into the ground. Kurenai widened her eyes at the sight, but her shock was interrupted when she head the sound of knives hitting each other. The Genjutsu Mistress gave a small smirk before turning around to the building. Asuma soon emerged for the destroyed establishment with his trench knives and apparently he was smoking a cigarette in his mouth which made Kurenai sigh. Some things about people never change.
"Well lady, you have a mean left kick I'll give you that. If I didn't block that kick it might have dislocated my jaw," Asuma said with a groan. Kurenai gave an innocent smile and simply shrugged her shoulders at his comment.
"Or I just held back enough to not dislocate your jaw," Kurenai returned making Asuma narrow his eyes at her. The bearded jonin sighed before covering his entire trench knives in fuuton chakra. Kurenai, in turn, took out a kunai and shifted into a demon taijutsu stance she remembered Naruto teaching her during some of their free time. Naruto told her that the demon taijutsu stance was about being fierce and vicious in your strikes, similarly to the Inuzuka stance, but this form left no mercy to be desired at all. Kurenai dropped to all fours and her canines started to show in her teeth while her claws sharpened and her chakra grew a bit darker. Asuma nearly choked on the KI that Kurenai was exuding and almost allowed the cigarette to fall from his mouth. Kurenai chuckled at Asuma's expense, but the bearded jonin didn't back down and with his fuuton chakra powered trench knives he turned back to the flaming building behind him and he stuck his trench knives inside. Suddenly and instantly, the trench knives were coated in a massive fire taking the shape of the very weapons themselves.
"Alright then. I'll show you why Konoha is the strongest of the Five Nations," Asuma said to Kurenai. Kurenai smirked and itched her claws in anticipation.
"Then show me Asuma-san," Kurenai said before the two disappeared from view.
While Kurenai and Anko were having their fights, Shizune and Tsunade were having their own. Tsunade was huffing from the mock fight and she had to curse that Shizune didn't even look winded in the least. Tsunade then had to thank Kami that she was on their side.
"Come on Godaime-sama. You said you'd show me your power," Shizune said to her. Tsunade's eyebrow twitched at Shizune's cheekiness in their fight, but with all the Anbu watching them, she knew Shizune had point.
"Alright then, you asked for it," Tsunade said moving through some handsigns. Shizune recognized them completely from all the years she had been with Tsunade in the past future and she knew to keep up this fight in front of everyone, Tsunade wouldn't hold her punch anymore. Well even if she didn't it wouldn't really do much.
"Infūin: Kai( Reserve Seal: Release)," Tsunade said as strange purplish markings appeared across her face. Tsunade suddenly overflowed with chakra and it made Shizune slightly chuckle. The brunette decided to get serious and unhenged her fox ears. Everyone felt the chakra increase from Shizune and the two women smiled.
"Right here Godaime-sama," Shizune said pointing at her chest. Tsunade raised an eyebrow, but she got the idea and smirked. With a simple twist of her foot, Tsunade disappeared from view, shocking all the anbu present, however Shizune was able to follow her movement and she was graced with a strong hit to her stomach courtesy of Tsunade and her fist. Shizune was sent spiraling into a building and the crash made a loud noise for everyone. Soon an anbu appeared next to Tsunade deciding to express some concerns.
"Godaime-sama, we have to hurry. The village is in disarray right now. What should we do?" The anbu asked her. Tsunade turned her gaze to see the village fires getting bigger and it didn't worry her since the place would officially burn in two years, but it just wasn't meant to be right now. Tsunade turned back to the anbu and narrowed her eyes.
"Then what are you doing over here? I can handle myself just fine Hawk. Now stop the fires. I'll take care of the intruder," Tsunade told them. Everyone hesitated with her orders before Tsunade slammed the ground with her fist in mock anger.
"This is an order from your Hokage! Get going!" Tsunade yelled and all the anbu immediately obeyed then shushined out of sight wishing their Godaime good luck. Tsunade felt all their presences leave and immediately Shizune appeared from the rubble while cleaning some of the dust from her clothes.
"Wow you really can be scary when you want Tsunade-san," Shizune told her. Tsunade brushed her hand through her hair and chuckled.
"I suppose, so then where are Kushina, Minato, and Fu?" The Hokage asked the hanyou. Shizune allowed her eyes to lock in on the three mentioned people, but it was hard with all the screaming and yelling, but it felt good. Real good nonetheless. Suddenly she picked up on them, apparently fu decided to raid all the shops for their weapons since good kunai and materials are so hard to come by these days. Well they really aren't, but Konoha won't be needing them in two years so why not grab some things?
"So what are they doing?" Tsunade asked. Shizune chuckled and turned to Tsunade with a look of humor on her face.
"Well apparently, they decided that Konoha has no need for supplies and weapons so their raiding the places," Shizune said and Tsunade had to chuckle at that. Tsunade knew she was going to have mountains of paperwork for all of this, but she honestly didn't mind since Naruto told her the way to do it faster.
"Well that's bad for Konoha. I'll be lucky if we don't get attacked while you, Naruto, Jiraiya, and Yuugao are gone," Tsunade said. Shizune chuckled with a nod, but then Tsunade turned to her with a look of confusion.
"Just curiosity, why are you taking Jiraiya and Yuugao-san with you?" Tsunade asked. Shizune raised an eyebrow and then turned to look at the moon. It seemed magnificent amidst all the fires. It had sort of a weird feeling, but Shizune turned back to Tsunade.
"Well we need those two. I'm sure Naruto-kun wants them, especially Yuugao, but He might have another reason. We'd have asked you to give us all a two year training trip, but then that would be kind of suspicious," Shizune said before Tsunade smiled.
"It's gonna be destroyed in two years as soon as you guys get back right?" Tsunade asked them. Shizune nodded wondering what Tsunade had in mind.
"Well I can have the Namikaze family leave. I'll say it's for a diplomatic mission to Oto. You said Yagura was still over there, so why don't you guys go? I'll handle everything here," Tsunade opted. Shizune raised an eyebrow at Tsunade and then chuckled.
"Well I guess that's the new plan then," Shizune said before the two women shunshined out of sight, preferable to go home like they planned.
Naruto had taken Konan to his house and he already spotted Zabuza, Haku and Kin in the room. Zabuza was about to put on his jonin vest while Kin and Haku were gonna put on their chunin vests. The best way to avoid detection is to blend in with the background or in this case the burning village and it's shinobi.
"Well I take it you guys had fun?" Naruto asked them. All three nodded and Konan had to think that they way they smiled was rather creepy looking, but she kept up her stoic face and didn't say anything. Everyone then saw Konan and turned to Naruto for a sort of explanation to the purple haired woman next to him.
"Naruto-kun who's that?" Kin asked him. Naruto chuckled and allowed Konan to take a seat on the couch. Konan did well not to make any sudden moves since she was their prisoner.
"This is Konan, she a member of Akatsuki who's trying to capture all the bijuu although it's a hollow dream now so nothing to really worry about. So she's our temporary recruit," Naruto told them. Everyone looked at him incredulously before sighing.
"So she willingly wants to help us?" Haku asked. Naruto smirked, but shook his head and Haku raised an eyebrow before everyone gave him a blank stare.
"You threatened her didn't you?" Zabuza asked him. Naruto swayed his head left and right slightly before sheepishly chuckling and rubbing the back of his head. Everyone sweatdropped, but then Naruto suddenly got a gleam in his eyes and everyone shivered slightly. The blonde then clapped his hands like he was calling for a butler.
"Zabuza, take Konan to a place so she may get comfortable. Chop chop," Naruto said causing Haku and Kin to laugh at an irate Zabuza. The Demon of the Mist grew a tick mark on his head and gritted his teeth.
"Why do I have to do it? Why are you even ordering me around here?" Zabuza asked unsheathing his sword. Naruto chuckled and took a few steps back before Zabuza started to chase the blonde around the room. It astounded Konan that despite the situation happening in their village at this very moment Naruto, Zabuza, Haku and Kin were all laughing like it was a regular day.
"Why are they laughing? Aren't they concerned for their village at all?" Konan thought to herself. Zabuza, eventually stopped chasing Naruto and huffed his annoyance at him.
"It was a joke Zabuza. Man, you need to lighten up. Take some vacation time or something," Naruto suggested. Zabuza continued to huff, but slowly calmed down and soon the five in the room were graced with another's presence.
"Ahh Naruto-kun, you and the others are back. And with an extra guest," Mikoto said with a warm smile. Naruto nodded and introduced the still silent Konan to Mikoto and vice versa. Naruto explained the situation to Mikoto and told her to take Konan to a vacant room which was apparently the last one available. Naruto sighed as he and the others would have to build more things. Soon the door opened and revealed Fu, Minato and Kushina with about three scrolls each.
"Hey guys guess what. We...took...everything," Fu said unsealing the scrolls allowing plenty of weapons to fall to the floor. Zabuza and Kin gasped at the many weapons, but Haku's eyes gleamed making everyone sweatdrop at the ice user.
"So what did Kaa-san and Tou-san get?" Naruto asked them. Minato smirked and unsealed plenty of food supplies which consequently the majority of it was cup ramen and other things. The Yondaime suddenly saw everyone lick their lips while looking at the ramen and he just confirmed something in his mind.
"Yep, they all have a thing for ramen. I wonder if it's a hanyou thing," Minato thought, but ignored it.
"Alright we'll deal with this later. Now has anyone seen-," Naruto paused when the door opened to reveal Tsunade, Shizune, Hana, Kiba, and Tsume walk through the door.
"Well that was fun. I think most of the people know we're gone, but Kurenai and Anko are still out there. I think I smelled Gai and Asuma with them. Their probably fighting right now," Tsume reasoned. Naruto sighed with a small chuckle before rubbing the bridge between his eyes.
"I guess they still wanted to have some fun," Shizune mentioned. Everyone nodded and Naruto was about to walk to the door, but Tsunade and Shizune stopped him.
"Hey Naruto, we were thinking about the two years we would leave Konoha and Tsunade said she would make it so that the entire family could leave," Shizune told him. Naruto's hand stopped on the doorknob in front of him and he looked down for a second.
"Well I'm sure that has it's benefits I'd rather keep the intel from Konoha from the inside. It's not like they can do anything against us, but I'd rather keep them close. Besides that, I'm sure we can squeeze a few more allies our out of this village. And besides that, I wanted to get the people who I want alive out of that village before it's destruction and for that I need most of you guys to stay here," Naruto told them. Everyone seemed to understand his reasoning and simply nodded while the blonde left to go get his two troublesome ladies. The blonde rushed into the trees and disappeared out of sight completely.
After Naruto left, Zabuza along with Haku and Kin decided to go out also and 'help' their village teammates with the unknown 'threat'. The three disappeared from view and saw that most of the fires were being put out by those with suiton chakra and suiton techniques. Some katon techniques were used to counter act the other fires and others uses doton techniques to stamp the fire out. Zabuza and Haku took over with suiton and Kin took with doton. Some of the chunin and jonin stopped the three working hard to put out the fires and it actually made some of them work harder to put them out, but that's not what the three were thinking.
"Man all that work, all that carnage...gone. I can't believe I have to wait two years to do this again," Zabuza thought while making a water dragon slam into raging buildings thus destroying the fires.
"Well that was fun, I can't wait for the other two years," Kin said as she crushed the burning building under a doton technique.
"I wonder how strong I'll get in the future. Maybe I can take out more people that this time. I can't wait for those two years. It's gonna be good. So goooood," Haku grinned with a small demonic smile that made some of the jonin shiver, but they put that aside since their was work to be done. The fires still raged in some areas and people avoided one particular place. One, because it was the most intense and second, the instantly they tried to go, they were hit by the foulest chakra they could ever feel. It was sickening.
Asuma and Kurenai continued to battle with each other. Asuma had to praise the woman's tenacity as he figured she could be a jinchuuriki with the stamina she had. Kurenai on the other hand couldn't say much for Asuma's skills. For normal shinobi, they were more than above average. They were excellent in some areas, but for someone like her well...they were kinda sad. Kurenai could tell Asuma was exhausted. His flaming knives had lost their flames long ago and he had yet to really give her an injury. Asuma was slightly bleeding on the right side of his face. His right arm was broken and he was limping. It wasn't going good for him at all. He saw that Anko had survived Gai's primary lotus and she ended up fighting the surprised spandex jonin. Anko had already proved to Gai that she was quite the deadly taijutsu expert. It also helped that Gai had no idea who he was fighting, you would think that the purple hair would have given Anko away, but it didn't not that she was complaining in the least. Gai had been forced to go into the third gate of the eight gates and he felt he was only evenly matched up to Anko. Anko however, saw that he was trying and it thrilled the snake mistress that Gai thought he was actually keeping up with her.
The fighting was intense and heavy, but the two jonin of Konoha tried their best to bring their enemy down. Gai rammed a fist at Anko's face, but it didn't connect as Anko grabbed his arm and threw him over her body. Gai huffed in exhaustion at his fruitless efforts. He truly found himself a 'youthful' opponent. Anko suddenly shivered from Gai's thought, but then Gai had enough. He had to help out in other places. He had to end this now.
"I don't know who you are, but you have no way of beating me now," Gai said as he charged his chakra. Anko raised an eyebrow before widening her eyes to see Gai's skin get redder and the muscles of his body began to strain and show veins. Anko licked her lips and unhenged her eyes showing them to be slits. Gai had used the Gate of Opening, Healing and Life. Now it was time to go further.
"Gate of Pain: Release! Gate of Limit: Release!" Gai's features changed drastically. Anko felt the power increase and it astounded her greatly. He was at least near Orochimaru's level now, but she knew he was nowhere near done. Gai's skin grew more red, his chakra overflowed and green chakra swirled around him.
"Gate of View: Release! And lastly to end it all! Gate of Wonder: Release!" Gai yelled out and the ground started to shake from the pressure. Anko could tell Gai was always interesting, but this was even better than interesting. Gai was the mere image of a chakra house. He was seemed to be sweating blue sweat which evaporated from his body in mere seconds. Anko was actually pushed back for a few seconds by the immense chakra. It was felt by nearly everyone in Konoha. Kurenai and Asuma being the closest besides Anko also stopped their fight to slightly watch the fight unfold.
"You realize it's over right? Your friend is finished and so are the rest of your partners," Asuma told Kurenai. The Genjutsu Mistress gave a small smirk which wasn't missed by Asuma who raised an eyebrow in confusion and wondered if Gai could back up the bearded jonin's claim.
Gai had finished his charge at turned his gaze to Anko. Anko smirked at his new form, but faster than she could or would expect she was sent flying into the air and saw Gai where she stood.
"Hmm, that's a good speed boost. As expected of our Green Beast," Anko thought to herself before backflipping in the air, but in an instant Gai disappeared from view on the ground and slammed Anko in the back with his foot and sent her spiraling into the ground beneath them. The ground made a loud crash and Asuma gave a small smirk. Gai was more than ready for Anko to appear again and when he saw her shadow in the smoke he quickly vanished again and punched her into another building. Anko had to smile. She never felt so good. The feeling of fighting. The thrill of it all. The demonic blood inside her telling her to go all out with Gai and leave him as a pile of bones in her frenzy. Because of Gai, Anko's hair wasn't in a pineapple shape anymore as the hair came down just past her shoulders.
Gai awaited Anko's return if she dared and began to feel the effects of the Gates rush in on him, but now wasn't the time to think about the pain, but the opponent in front of him. Suddenly, Gai was graced with a strong chakra spike. Asuma felt it also and so did Kurenai.
"She's finally gotten serious, though I doubt there's a need to," Kurenai thought with a grin before turning back to Asuma.
"Well that's all for tonight then. See you later," Kurenai said blowing a kiss to Asuma. Before he knew what she meant, Asuma was slammed in the back of the neck by Kurenai's kage bunshin and fell unconscious to the ground. Kurenai smirked at Asuma's unconscious form and continued to watch the fight between Anko and Gai.
Gai was treated to a demonic chakra. It was far from human and it was even more foul than he ever felt. Gai however, didn't back down and Anko came out with a grin. Every feature on her was out in the open. Her ears were out, her eyes were slitted, her claws were sharpened, her canines were in full view. Her tail was out and swaying around.
"W-What are you?" Gai asked her. Anko grinned at his question and chakra leaked from her body and Anko gave him a death glare exuding her KI nearly making the jonin fall to his feet.
"I'm just your average hanyou. Now then, I believe we were just getting started," Anko said and Gai quickly stood to his feet. Gai vanished fast and tried to hit Anko, but he was in for a shock went Anko smirked and grabbed his fist.
"You gotta be faster than that," Anko said slamming her fist into Gai's stomach. Gai coughed and winced from the pain since he had never been hit while using this form before. Anko, then squeezed Gai's hand making it hurt even more. Gai brought his foot around to meet Anko's face, but it was met with her other hand as a block. Both locked eyes for a second and in that second they vanished and the booming sounds of shockwaves filled the air. Kurenai felt like she was watching fireworks before she was interrupted from her watch.
"You girls having fun," Naruto said appearing beside her. Kurenai stood to her feet and smiled.
"Well it was fun to fight then, but I think Anko's just having her fun right now," Kurenai said following their movements with her fox eyes. Naruto sighed and rubbed the back of his head.
"She always was the fiery type," Naruto chuckled making Kurenai nod.
"Not that you don't like that right Naruto-kuuuun?" Kurenai cooed. Naruto grinned and shook his head and continued with watching the fight for a bit longer before interrupting.
Anko and Gai continued their taijutsu match and were already causing chaos. No matter who struck, even if they missed, they were causing damage to the surrounding area. Both suddenly appeared across from each other and Gai was at his limit. He had overused the Gates longer than he wanted and his chakra was low. Anko seemed to be breathing slightly, but she could still keep going if she wanted. The chakra started to leave Gai's body and his skin returned to normal. His muscles were strained and his body was in pain, a lot of it too. Gai dropped to the ground in exhaustion and Anko sighed.
"Well, you lasted longer than I thought you would anyway," Anko said henging her fox features keeping her power under wraps. Anko looked at the unconscious Gai and smiled.
"It was fun Gai. Maybe I'll fight you again in two years. If your not one of us, then I hope you fight till you have nothing to lose," Anko said vanishing from the field. Both jonin of Konoha were left on the ground completely exhausted due to their fight. Anko reappeared in the tree with Kurenai as she wiped the sweat from her brow.
"Had fun?" Naruto asked her. Anko chuckled with an embarrassed grin, but nodded and Naruto simply smiled as he patted her back.
"Well that was what today was for ladies. Now then let's go. We have a long day ahead of us for the next few days," Naruto told them. Kurenai and Anko nodded and the three shunshined out of sight.
In Kumo, Yugito had told Raikage about her meeting with Naruto and she stressed that the blonde hanyou needed to see him. It irked Raikage that the son of Minato and Kushina was alive, but even more so that he'd want to meet with him, but what did the stubborn kage have to lose? There wasn't that many people stronger than him and there definitely wasn't that many people who were faster than him so he decided to meet with Naruto.
"Yugito, send an messenger bird to the Hokage. Tell her I'd like to meet with Naruto Uzumaki-Namikaze," Raikage told her. Yugito nodded and left to prepare a hawk to go to Konoha. A sighed and slumped into his chair.
"If it's not one thing, it's another. I wonder what he wants anyway," A said before turning back to his paperwork which he so wanted to destroy with a quick flash of lightning, but resisted the attempt.
Meanwhile, Yugito strapped message to a bird and sent it off towards Konoha.
"I wonder if their doing in Konoha. I barely had the time to hang out with the guy at all," Yugito said to herself, but her tenant decided to input her own opinion.
"Are you kidding? You haven't stopped talking about him since we met him. Not that I'm complaining, I mean did you see him? He like a Kami on earth. I'd love a go at him if I weren't in this seal. HEY! If he's the Yondaime's kid then he should be able to get me out of here right?" Nibi asked in an excited tone. Yugito chuckled knowing she was about to rain on Nibi's parade even if it was a joke.
"And what makes you think I'll let him do that?" Yugito asked making Nibi fault in her cage. The female blonde was then treated to some crying and Nibi talking about containers and them being unfair to their Bijuu. Yugito had to chuckle at Nibi's expense and wiped a tear from her eyes.
"Sorry Nibi, I couldn't resist. I won't promise, but I'll ask him when he arrives," Yugito answered effectively making Nibi jump up and down in her cage.
"I knew my Kitten was a nice. I'm gonna give that Namikaze the ride of his natural or rather unnatural life," Nibi said and Yugito had to sweatdrop at her Bijuu.
"I change my mind now!" Yugito yelled making Nibi scream at her bijuu. This argument went on for a while until they both disappeared.
It had been one week since the attack on Konoha and needless to say, Naruto and his family had accomplished their goal. They really caused some mass hysteria and most people were too scared to leave their own houses for a few days. Tsunade had put the shinobi into overdrive to find the people responsible. She didn't forget that this could be an 'inside' job and had everyone examined by Ibiki and Inoichi. Naruto and his family checked out since everyone claimed to have been with another person and the alibi was airtight. The occasional person did come up and opened a store to help people with food and everything, but construction was really coming down and people were really working to put things back in order since the destruction. Tenten and the other genin had asked Naruto, Haku, Kin, and Kiba what had happened in the village, but all they said was that it was a pretty bad invasion by an unknown force.
Multiple memorial services were held for the shinobi and civilians who died in the invasion with the death count going over a thousand. Tsunade told the families how sorry she was and she would do everything in her power to catch the people responsible. Incidentally, Gai and Asuma were put in the hospital for an extended period due to the fighting and if not for Tsunade, they really would have been dead.
Jiraiya and Yuugao had returned from their respective assignments and were shocked that Konoha had been attacked. They saw all the burned buildings and the countless amounts of people working on restoring the place. Yuugao had heard of Kakashi's death and it truth be told, she was rather indifferent to it. She did fell partially sad because Kakashi was her senpai and her captain. However, she felt impartial because Kakashi had trained the stuck-up Uchiha and bent over backwards for anything the council told him. That wasn't the mark of a true anbu, not at all.
In the village, some stores had been raided by 'someone' and most people were broke and were working hard to restore the places and their homes. Jiraiya asked Tsunade what was up, but she did her best act and said she didn't know. She had been buried ten feet under paperwork and thanked Kami that Naruto told her the secret to it. Hearing Naruto's name, Jiraiya went to check up on his godson and the household. He remembered the news about Akatsuki and he planned to take Naruto with him.
Naruto and the others however were making plans of their own. Tsunade had told Naruto about the note from Kumo and he thanked her for it. The blonde read the note and made it apparent to meet with Raikage as soon as possible. It also turned out that since the invasion, Ayame and Teuchi had been visiting Naruto's house a lot more since their place was destroyed in the fire which caused Naruto and Shizune to glare at some of their faces who said that they didn't do it. However, it was gone and both the Father and daughter were planning on renovating, but with the repairs of everything, it wouldn't be done for a while so Naruto allowed the two to stay in his house. Naruto, with the help of his family and his kage bunshins, was able to make another compound, albeit the same height as his own part of the compound, he made it virtually the same as his for others. Ayame and Teuchi took up residence there and needless to say, when the two had the required ingredients it was like a Ramen Night at the Namikaze compound.
Not much else was a problem, not even Konan. The purple haired woman had been mostly quiet for the first few days since she didn't have much to talk about, but Naruto, Shizune, and the rest of the family actually got her to talk even if it was for a bit. She generally didn't say much, but she had told Naruto that he was the most perplexing man she had ever met. Naruto didn't know whether to take that for an insult or compliment, but he chose the compliment. When Jiraiya had told Naruto about Akatsuki, Naruto and Shizune packed their things for their trip and Tsunade requested that Yuugao go with them as a sort of downtime for the anbu. Yuugao wanted to relent that she didn't need any down time, but one look from Tsunade and the female anbu sighed and nodded. She knew it was useless, but she could have tried she guessed. Everyone else was left in the village to train and do other things. Naruto left Kushina and Zabuza in charge of everything while they were gone and the two accepted. Naruto had wanted to go and see how Yagura was doing with Oto which the Sanbi jinchuuriki claimed was doing very well. It was even better than when Orochimaru was there.
"Alright you guys we're leaving," Naruto told them. Everyone nodded and came to see them off. Shizune put her scrolls away and Yuugao was still in her anbu attire, but it was a bit cooler.
"Well Naruto let's go. Time waits for no one," Jiraiya said to him. Naruto chuckled with a nod along with Shizune and Yuugao.
"Oh and Jiraiya," Kushina called out.
"Yes?" He answered.
"If my sochi comes back a pervert...I'll kill you," Kushina said knowing it was a bit late to be saying that, but she felt the need to scare Jiraiya and scare him she did as the sannin cowered behind Naruto's shoulder, but nodded. Soon the four walked off from the village and it didn't take long before they reached a hill. Naruto looked back at Konoha and gave a demonic smile while unhenging his red, slitted eyes.
"Live for these two years Konoha. They are the last time you will EVER see the light of day again," Naruto said before turning back to the road and disappearing. Kushina at the others returned to the village and began their own fun.
"Alright time to scout people. We've got two years so let's get to it," Anko said with her fist pumped. Everyone chuckled, but nodded and shunshined out of sight. Konoha's countdown is starting and it's final day of reckoning will soon start. The death of everything that breathes within Konoha's walls. In two years, it burns to the ground.