Ok, chapter 12 is now updated :).
Am writing chapter 15 now, got a few plot twists ready for the next few chapters, so be prepared :P
For now enjoy this chapter :).

Previous chapter:
Naruto had warned and given Tsunade a choice, surrender Konoha or expect war with the Akatsuki.
Sasuke had demanded answers, fighting with the blond he wanted to get them. The fight was over before it started as Naruto swiftly immobilized Sasuke.

Chapter 12
The Mask falls off

Konoha:

Naruto had decided to just go to his old home, knowing he would never get a room in a hotel or anywhere else.
When he arrived there he saw that nothing had changed. Expect that on his door was a message:
'Demon Child is finally gone'

Naruto grinned while he opened the door and walked in to his old house.
He didn't mind that name anymore. His whole past had been like hell, but now he was capable to show them hell.

He wouldn't back down, even if he would end up facing his former friends.
Of course that was the last thing he wanted, so he hoped that Tsunade was going to make the right choice.

He sat down on his bed, the crow was still on his shoulder. Both were tired. It had been a pretty hectic day. He smiled at the crow and patted the head. Itachi glared at the blond for it and Naruto knew it.

"Let's get some sleep, 'Tachi." Naruto said, still amused by the reaction of the elder.
The crow went of his shoulder as it landed on his desk, next to the bed.
"Agreed. Tomorrow will be another day. Do you think that the Hokage would make the right decision?"

"Honestly?" Naruto thought as he closed his eyes, then opened them again.
"I have no idea." He said, while he thought about it.

Tsunade was clever, but giving up Konoha. Somehow Naruto thought she wouldn't be able too.
But if she was clever enough to see the threat, then she would surely make sure that the people of Konoha would not be harmed in any way. Of that Naruto was sure.

Naruto closed his eyes, he knew it was better to not fall asleep completely, but he could get some rest nonetheless.

If they would even for one second think he was vulnerable, they would try to take him out. Especially after that fight with Sasuke.
Itachi felt the same, as the crow was still watching. But Itachi had pulled back to the hideout himself.

The crow would warn him if something would happen, so he decided to rest a bit too.

Naruto opened his eyes, as he felt a familiar presence closing in on his house. He begin to sat up and looked at the crow, noticing that Itachi had pulled back to rest too.
Well he deserved to rest too, besides he could handle it himself. Naruto stood up and gave one quick pat on the head of the crow, while the crow made a small noise back.

Naruto knew it had alarmed the raven. Because the eyes changed a bit. Naruto smiled.
"We got company."
"Ah, I will be here then." Itachi's voice answered him in his head.

Naruto gave a small nod as he walked to his front door, knowing who was waiting there.
"It certainly been some time, Naruto."
Naruto smiled at those words. "It has been indeed, Ero-sennin." He replied while watching him.

"Come in." Naruto invited him as he walked back into the house. Jiraiya followed him and closed the front door behind him. When they were in the small living room, Jiraiya looked at his former student.
His student who had been declared dead, but was still standing here, in front of him.

"Care to explain what exactly happened?" Jiraiya asked, not wanting to waste time.
"Well, maybe. Depends if you will tell it to other people or keep it to yourself."

Jiraiya looked around for one sec, feeling as he was being watched. Then he noticed the crow. He had heard from the people in town and of course from Tsunade about the crow of Itachi, which seemed to accompany him.

"If you want me to keep it a secret then I might keep it a secret." Jiraiya said as he watched the blond again.
"You know I said goodbye to you 3 years back Ero-sennin. " Naruto stated.

"Yeah, and I thought you would have died in that time."
Naruto chuckled. "I would have. But they didn't have the power to extract the kyuubi yet."

"I see. So instead of extracting it, they are using you now."
Naruto didn't reply. It was a statement. But Naruto felt no truth in that statement.

"What kind of way do they control you?"
Naruto grinned. "They don't control me. This was completely mine decision, Jiraiya."

Jiraiya narrowed his eyes at his student.
"So you did join them willingly?"
"Yes, but of course you already knew that, didn't you?" Naruto said while he smiled.

Jiraiya snorted. Yeah he had known, he had talked to Tsunade, who had said she didn't understand Naruto anymore. So now he was gonna try to understand him and he was failing.
This person in front of him was different. Kakashi had warned him. His speed had been inhuman. And besides that, he was defiantly giving of bad vibes indeed.

Everything in this room screamed danger. Jiraiya had never felt like this with his student.
"Naruto." Jiraiya began. Naruto looked at him in wonder a bit. Jiraiya could see amusement in his blue eyes. "Are you capable to control the kyuubi?"

Naruto knew that question would come, but he had expected Tsunade to ask it. Instead she had sent Jiraiya to find out about it.

"What if I can control it? Would you label me dangerous and try to kill me?" Naruto remarked.
"Would you label me the same name as that which was writing on my door?"

Jiraiya's eyes widened. He was ignoring the question, not giving a direct answer. He was playing a game. And Jiraiya felt if he couldn't counter these words he would lose this game and not get any information.

Instead he wondered if he should just be honest. It had hurt him when he found out that Naruto had gone willingly to his own death, but now. He was hurt because Naruto was going to betray them all.
Jiraiya had listened to Tsunade as she had explained the situation. It was a dangerous situation indeed.

Jiraiya felt that Naruto had the power to kill them all. And that was exactly what was dangerous about him now.
"We might have to label you an missing nin and a S-Class nin, since it seems like you joined the Akatsuki." Was the reply he gave to Naruto, after thinking it through.

Naruto saw the hurt in his sensei's eyes. Naruto smiled. "Good answer. Do you think I would mind being labelled like that?"

The question took Jiraiya aback. Would he mind? Jiraiya eyed him careful.
Then he answered for what seemed like the truth now. "No, you wouldn't mind."

Itachi looked at both of them. Jiraiya knew his student quite well. Or did know his student quite well.
Naruto walked towards him and stopped in front of him.
They were almost the same length now, Jiraiya noticed. Naruto had grown. He had grown a lot.

Jiraiya didn't back down, Naruto had been his student. He would never hurt him or attack him, would he? Somehow Jiraiya wasn't so sure.

"You aren't scared, Ero-sennin?" Naruto asked softly.
"No. you were a student of mine, Naruto. I wouldn't be a good sensei if I was scared of one of my pupils, would I?" Jiraiya said with a smile.
"Ah, true." Naruto said while he returned that smile. Then he turned around and was going to sit down on one of the chairs.

Jiraiya followed that example, as he eyed the crow. The crow followed them and landed on Naruto's shoulder now.

Naruto smiled at this and looked back at his sensei. "Do you have the information you wanted? Or do you still have some questions?" Naruto asked.

Jiraiya eyed him while he said: " You never fully explained what happened. Last time I had seen you and the Uchiha were close. And I understand they didn't have the strength to extract the kyuubi and so you joined them. But what about the decision you gave Tsunade. What is the deal with that Naruto?"

Naruto smiled. "It's a fair deal. The people of Konoha will life if she surrenders the city. The Akatsuki will then rule Konoha."
"And what do they want with Konoha?" Jiraiya asked.

Naruto didn't reply. As he kept silent Jiraiya knew he wouldn't get an answer on that question.
"If Tsunade decide to not surrender Konoha, they will take Konoha with force right? At least you threatened with that."

"That's right." Naruto said.
Jiraiya glared at him. This wasn't Naruto anymore. Nothing of the boy they had known was left in him.

"You aren't Naruto." Jiraiya stated.
Naruto started laughing, not knowing that his sensei would say something like that.

The crow went of his shoulder as he started laughing. He couldn't get grip on the blonde's shoulder anymore. So it simply landed on the table before him.

Jiraiya looked at his student as he finally stopped laughing.
"That was quite a statement. But I wonder, do you remember how I was back then?"

"Yes. We would not forget you so easily."
"Of course not, because I made a fool of himself, just to get the attention." Naruto remarked.
Jiraiya looked at the crow, remembering Itachi's words: "You don't know the real Naruto." Itachi noticed that he was looking at the crow and somehow knew what the sannin was thinking about.

Jiraiya looked up at the blond. Itachi had been right indeed. He felt like this person before him, this was the real blond.

"People would be amazed by how much you can hide behind a mask, wouldn't they. Naruto?"
Naruto smiled, Jiraiya finally seemed to understand.
"Yeah, they would be amazed."

Jiraiya smiled, while he looked at the table in front of him.
"You haven't changed. You just don't wear that mask anymore…"
With that Jiraiya stood up and was going to leave.

"Ero-sennin." Jiraiya stopped as Naruto had called his name, turning around looking at the blond. Not expecting to see what he saw. He felt fear boiling in his body. His survival instinct kicking in, telling him to run or die here. But he felt he was stuck, not capable of running away and feeling if he was going to run, he wouldn't survive either way.

The question which was never answered in this conversation was now answered.
Jiraiya looked at those blood red eyes. They needed to be blue, but they were red. The pupils were still visible, but everything else was blazing red.

Naruto smirked at the reaction of his sensei.
"This answers your previous question." Then the red disappeared, leaving behind deep blue eyes. Eyes which seemed so familiar and yet now he didn't know them anymore. No, he had never known them.

Jiraiya's face softened, as he tried to relax himself. He knew Naruto wouldn't kill him, but still those vibes he was sending off. He briefly closed his eyes and turned his head around so he was facing the front door, knowing he was completely vulnerable now.

He walked to the door and turned around when he was at the front door.
"It was nice talking to you again, Jiraiya-sensei." Naruto said with a smile.
Jiraiya's eyes went a bit wide. He hadn't felt Naruto move, but he was closer to him then he had been.

"Same here. Naruto. I finally feel like I got to know you a bit better." He stated the truth.
Naruto looked at him, knowing what his sensei meant. He gave a small nod, after that Jiraiya left.
Leaving behind the blond and the crow.

Naruto turned around to look at the place where the crow was still sitting, on the table.
"With this turn of events, Tsunade might make the right choice." Naruto said as he walked towards the crow and crunched before the table so they were at the same eye level.

Jiraiya had heard Naruto's words and felt something inside him die. He had let Naruto go in the past, because Naruto didn't wish to be saved. But he never expected the blond to live.
And certainly didn't expect him to join the Akatsuki. But of course he had looked happy with the elder Uchiha in the past.

While he never looked happy in his whole life here in Konoha. He just acted. It was an act and they all had believed that act.
Jiraiya walked to the Hokage Tower, knowing he needed to talk to Tsunade about this.

Tsunade had asked him to talk to Naruto of course. To find out more about what had happened. And he had gotten the answer he needed.
Naruto did let him know, he wouldn't back down to hurt the villagers. He had seen and felt it, in those red eyes.

Deep down inside. Jiraiya wondered if he hadn't let Naruto leave 3 years back. Would things be different now. Naruto would have lived in Konoha. But against his own will…
The result might have been that the ANBU would have considered him dangerous, because he had been in close contact with Itachi Uchiha. They would have put him away, somewhere where nobody would reach him, him and the demon inside him.

Jiraiya stopped and looked at the empty streets. Some people were still out there, but it seemed like there were only ninja's around now. everyone was scared since Naruto had returned.
Then he saw Iruka. he was walking towards him, when Iruka noticed him, he smiled. A sad smile, but a smile nonetheless.

"You have been to Naruto, right?" Iruka asked when he was close to Jiraiya.
"Yes. And I would advice you to stay away, Iruka."
Iruka looked towards the road which would lead to Naruto's home.
"I will keep it in mind." With that Iruka walked past him, ignoring the other.
Jiraiya followed his movements and saw he went the other way. But somehow Jiraiya knew he still might visit Naruto, despite his warning.

Jiraiya looked towards the Hokage Tower and the Hokage stone heads behind it.
He did feel failure. He felt like he could have stopped this from happening.

But… Back then. He had chosen that decision, because Naruto seemed to want it. He didn't want to be saved...
He had no idea, no one knew that the Akatsuki didn't have the power to extract the kyuubi. If he had known it then, he would have stopped Naruto from leaving and joining that dangerous organisation.
He surely would have stopped him. Cause now, they had a really dangerous enemy in their midst. And he had created it.

No… he hadn't. the people of Konoha had. Everyone who despised him, everyone who treated that young boy like shit. It was their fault. Jiraiya started walking again, knowing he better not let Tsunade wait.

A war with the Akatsuki would surely destroy Konoha. It seemed like they had no option left. They would not be able to fight Naruto. Not this Naruto, this Naruto who seemed to have control of the most terrible and feared tailed beast of all, the kyuubi.

He walked into the Hokage Tower. And to the office of Tsunade. Tsunade looked up as she heard him enter the room. When she saw his eyes, she felt defeated. It was like he had information, information that could destroy them.

He smiled as he saw the shocked face of Tsunade. Of course he couldn't hide what he had found out. The fear might be visible in his eyes.

"You bring bad news, Jiraiya…" She stated softly as she sighed.
Earlier that day Kakashi had wanted to talk to her about Naruto. He said Naruto was dangerous, he had defeated Sasuke in one swift hit. His speed couldn't be followed, not even with the sharingan. Kakashi had given also the warning that Naruto had given him.
He had said that no one wanted to fight him, it was a threating statement, but a warning nonetheless.

"I am afraid so, Tsunade…" Jiraiya answered, while he closed the door behind him.

End of chapter 12 :)
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