Guest, your advice is really helpful, I appreciate. I see what you mean by a lot of talking and no description, but frankly I'd say the Mouse of Konoha has way too much description.
Sakura will not break out of her fangirliness until she sees the real world. Sakura was still fangirly right before Sasuke's defection in the manga. The only things that actually got Sakura to become more serious about kunoichi love was Sasuke actually leaving the village and Tsunade beating the hell out of her while she was her apprentice. Now imagine her with Sasuke and without Tsunade.
Chapter 6: The Red Clouds
Itachi and Kisame were somewhat annoyed on their way to Uzu no kuni, it was so damn far away! They were in Ame at the moment meaning it would take at least 5 days to reach the border of Uzu no kuni. Today was a bright, sunny, cheery day and Kisame absolutely hated it! He felt more at home with the rainy weather back in Mizu no kuni. It was a pity for him that he didn't know that Uzumaki technique to make it rain since it was rumored Uzumaki could change weather.
Itachi was calm and cool, but inside he was wondering what made his foolish little brother wander off once again. Was it power? Was it revenge? Little did he know his brother was currently a baby with no memories of the massacre. He knew Uzumaki Naruto was the Uzukage, but he questioned himself how? How in the world did that Uzumaki become insanely strong in eight years? He was drowning himself imn various questions until Kisame snapped him out of it.
"Itachi, the Kyuubi jinchuriki supposedly grew a lot stronger, gaining the SS rank. This'll be way harder then last time, try to use that damn eye thing as soon as you can when you see him. "Kisame spoke
"I know that Kisame, do not complain like you did last time, we must take the detour so we don't go through so many borders, We're heading south to Kawa no kuni (The River Country and taking a boat, our journey there at this speed will take 1 and a half days to get to the port, we'll sneak on a boat using genjutsu heading to Cha no kuni, taking 3 days, and then take another boat going to the border of Uzu no kuni." Itachi explained
"Why can't we go through Hi no kuni?" Kisame asked, somewhat frowning, because his Samehada wouldn't be able to feed on chakra in Itachi's route.
"My chakra reserves are not as big as yours Kisame, I do not want to exhaust them before reaching Uzu no kuni, even though we will be resting, there is a possibility of encountering leaf nin which I may have to exhaust chakra for." Itachi stated
"Aww man that sucks" Kisame whined, his shark like teeth going into a deep frown. (Imagine Kisame whining with his shark teeth going into a frown.)
They continued walking until they found traces of a footprint on the ground, it was a sandal. From what Itachi could deduce it was a kunoichi, since the sandal style was that of a kunoichi's. from what Kisame could tell, the woman was in a hurry since some of her footprints were slanted in a way making it seem like she was running. Kisame wanted to follow the footprints, but Itachi told him to stop getting distracted by random things.
There also seemed to be another pair of footprints from a male shinobi, he was running almost as fast as the woman in the same direction, but they were neglected by the two Akatsuki members.
-In the academy, Uzushiogakure-
First years started class in September, the current month. The starting time foe school was 8:30am, this helped people like slackers get up early and outgrow their laziness.
For first years the last period was off because the academy didn't want to put so much stress so most first years left at 1:45pm. The students learned things such as strategies, sneaking, the basics of the creations and designs of swords, kunai etc, Uzushio's history, and the history of other villages, famous men such as the Yondaime Hokage, and the situation of the ninja villages, etc. There were four types of people in the academy, samurai who leaned towards sword techniques, assassins who trained in the deadly art of assassination, civilians who were not sure what to do, but knew they were becoming ninja, assassins, or samurai, and ninja who focused on ninjutsu, genjutsu and taijutsu. Some families especially samurai and assassins wanted the academy to specifically train their children in their arts from day one, thos students went to special classes after the academy day ended, since learning the basic academy stuff was made mandatory.
Today Naruto decided to visit the academy, in his eyes it was full of young people who were happy to be in Uzushiogakure, and looked forward to becoming the next generation, their smiles brought him a felling of inner peace.
A few of them just stared at him, some of them yelled out about how cool he was, some even yelled that they wanted to be Uzukage in the future. Naruto smiled, none of them actually knew that being a kage was a tough job, and you had to constantly battle the unending army of paperwork. There was peace in Uzu, only a few attacks were made, most of them from bandits, so most of the time the ninja, assassins, and samurai were going to foreign places, except for D rank missions. However most senseis went to C ranks after a week so D rank missions weren't taken much. And not many people were lazy so not many D ranks were given. Naruto had people who cared about him here; his past pains in Konoha were history.
Naruto eyes suddenly wandered to a lonely boy, about 4 years old playing on a swing by himself. This wasn't a common sight in Uzushiogakure. Naruto made sure that all the orphans had proper treatment and made sure that they all had friends, he encouraged friendly contact with orphans. Just as he was about to go to the orphan and ask what the matter was he stopped for a second, and noticed that the boy was just like his old self in Konoha, lonely, playing on a wooden swing with no one to push him. A woman approached him before Naruto could and she was kind to him, she pushed him on the swing. When she approached Naruto with the cute little child holding her hand like she was his mom
"Uzukage-sama, may I adopt this cute little child?" The woman asked
"Of course, I simply have to fill out some paperwork." Naruto replied, this is what made the people of Uzushio better than Konoha, they were generally kind, and they didn't throw around hate for stupid reason such as having no faith in the Yondaime's fuinjutsu. Naruto never hated his dad; it was the villagers he hated. His dad simply put his faith in the wrong people. (Harry Potter line) As for Sarutobi, Naruto simply thought that the old man was a weak kage as he was getting old. He was a kind old man nonetheless.
Inside the academy
Ichiru Takada was currently announcing the genin teams; of course samurai that were Aonisaibushi level and assassins that were Apprentice level would also be there.
Assassins typically wore flexible clothing that would allow them much faster than any other low level protector of the village. All of the low level graduates had to know tree climbing and water walking to graduate, they also knew at least some low level elemental jutsu, and had a lot more than leaf standard academy taijutsu to help them since there was more than one taijutsu teacher per class, at leat three people with jonin level taijutsu helped people find their suited taijutsu style. There were about 15 teachers for elemental ninjutsu, they would teach all classes of of each year. There were just more teachers so elemental ninjutsu could be more than once a week. Naruto followed the tradition of assigning genin teams, but since there were samurai and assassins the teams would simply be called low level teams. Assassins were not arrogant and thought that their people should only practice their ways, they would acquire any advantage they could so assigning a jonin and not a skilled assassin was no problem to them. While a lot of samurai focused mostly on kenjutsu, they had no problems learning other forms of offense and defense as it would help them cover their weak points. The ninja had no problems getting a high level assassin or samurai as their sensei since Naruto made it so that whoever wanted to become a sensei had to qualify for at least high chuunin level genjutsu, jonin level ninjutsu, and jonin level taijutsu.
"Team 1 Watanabe Ayama, Yamagata Kyou, and Saito Isamu, your team leader will be Suzuki Katsumi."
"Team 2…"
"Team 3…"
When all 84 graduates were placed into teams Ichiru started panting heavily, 28 leaders and 84 protectors this year. Ninja were called protectors of the village rather than ninja because of the samurai and assassins among them. There were no dead lasts and rookies of the year, because people were good at different things. When using examples of the leaf villages team 7, Sakura was good at chakra control, and would have been good with her mind had she never swooned over Sasuke, but weak at anything physical. Sasuke was good at chakra control and had decent chakra reserves, but his arrogance, pride, and attitude hindered him. Naruto was previously weak at chakra control, since he had enormous reserves, but the slave driver Tsunade, and his clones helped him with that, he had been weak at genjutsu before, but as his chakra control improved he also learned genjutsu, although he would hardly ever use them. He was always strong in reserves,
ninjutsu, and stamina. His taijutsu was really sucky before though.
-With Itachi and Kisame 3 days later Tea Country-
Itachi and Kisame were passing by the tea country in order to get to the other side of it, so they could get on a boat that would take them to Uzu no kuni. Itachi would place a genjutsu on the boatman so he would see their ticket when it actually wasn't there.
What they saw while passing by the tea country entertained them. There was a statue of Uzumaki Naruto there; put by the Wasabi family for making them win the Todoriko Shrine Race. Since the time where Uzumaki Naruto won the race there was never another race since the Wagarashi family had broken the rules of the race and weren't allowed to race again, since hiring a ninja for assassination wasn't allowed. Ninja were only supposed to be used to get the racer to their destination quicker. There used to be three statues, but two were demolished once the people of the tea country heard what happened to Naruto. As planned the two set off to Uzu no kuni at nightfall on the fifth day, the genjutsu plan was successful and the duration of the boat ride was 1 day since boats that came from Uzu no kuni and went to the tea country were faster than normal boats.
1 day later
"Kisame, we are to collect information on the Uzukage and his village, our only main problem is entering Uzu no kuni and entering Uzushiogakure, also if the Uzukage detects us we must run, as Pein-sama says that he's the only one able to take on Uzumaki Naruto. You must focus on the mission." Itachi told Kisame
"ESTIMATED TIME OF ARRIVAL, 15 MINUTES" The computer generated voice announced to all the passengers. Some civilians took their suitcases and got ready to leave the boat.
"I get it Itachi, you told me this 5 times already." Kisame said in an annoyed tone, Itachi had been doing this ever since he failed to capture the Shukaku since it got away since he decided to have some fun with one of his guards, while Itachi was taking out another one of his guards. The guards were dead and the container knew he was no match for the Akatsuki so he used sand to distract Itachi, and then made a cannon out of sand and blasted himself far far away, so Itachi and Kisame couldn't capture him.
-On the way back from Mizu no kuni, on a boat headed to Shimo no kuni-
"Damn that redheaded piece of shit, she denies us an alliance, because she's already got a better one!" Kiba cursed out loud, annoying the more calm people in the group such as Shino became a bit annoyed and felt the urge to say shut the hell up.
Well we did demand way too much from the war ravaged people of Kirigakure, so it was a possibility that she denied us. Shino thought
Sakura still had that seal tag, because no one wanted to listen to her constant bitching throughout the boat ride. She still struggled and tried to talk making angry faces which caused everyone to laugh except Shino, since the only time he ever laughed was a mission where an enemy used laughing gas to make him laugh. The only one who knew of this was Kiba, but he was forbidden to talk about this by the bug user and was threatened to have bugs coming out of his nose, ears, mouth and bottom if the incident ever got out. That kept Kiba's mouth shut.
Danzo-sama will not be pleased of our mission failure; he likely had plans for Kiri, although he will be interested to know Kirigakure had an alliance with Uzushiogakure.
"I'm interested in this Uzukage guy, when did he start making a name for himself again?" Asuma asked his wife
"About 5 years ago, he became kage of the developing village called Uzushiogakure. He saved the rest of the Yuki clan from bloodline purges at that time, and started to become famous. When Raikage-sama went back on the rules of the alliance and tried to steal a bloodline Uzukage-sama went berserk and wiped out his army in Uzu no kuni. 4 years ago he saved the Tsuchikage's life accidently by killing some powerful ninja that were after him. The same year the Kazekage was kidnapped he killed the ones who kidnapped the Kazekage. Likely the Akatsuki, but since Jiraiya isn't sending Konoha information, we don't know who they are or where they are. There were also rumors that he saved Nii Yugito, Kumo's jinchuriki for unknown reasons. He also helped the high priestess and protected her bloodline by defeating a demon known as Moryo. 3 years ago Uzu's borders expanded exponentially and other kage's recognized it as a great nation. We don't know anything else currently except that he helped the rebels somehow." Kurenai finished talking about all the accomplishments of the Uzukage known to Konoha.
"About Tsunade and Jiraiya, who knows where they went, no word from them at all in 8 years, and I thought that even after taking Naruto away they'd keep contact, and Jiraiya would feed us info." Asuma spoke normally
"Geez, if you troublesome people paid attention to how Tsunade-sama acted you would notice that the only thing keeping her in the village was Naruto. She cared for him like a mother figure, Jiraiya-sama cared for him like a father figure almost, so taking away Naruto was like driving a knife through their skulls. The night Naruto was banished I saw Tsunade-sama drink herself to a stupor like she did with Dan and Nawaki, that was a sure fire sign she was going to leave the village. She also blamed the village for her losses, and Naruto's banishment so she obviously wouldn't keep contact." Shikamaru explained
"Wasn't calling the two traitors –sama illegal by Danzo-sama?" Ino asked, but she was ignored.
"Shikamaru, if you knew this much, why didn't you inform any of the higher ups?" Asuma questioned
"Even more troublesome questions, do you really think that would've stopped her?" Shikamaru asked
"Well then the ANBU would've arrived earlier and they would have at least stood a chance against her and could've kept her in the village." Asuma pointed out
"In that situation since there was also Shizune-san, and Jiraiya-san, the chance of an ANBU team stopping them would be 1.5%. Shino stated
Asuma settled down hearing Shino, and stopped dwelling on the past.
-Uzushiogakure, Uzukage's office-
"I got Danzo's message, we're supposed to meet him in Konoha, not anywhere neutral. And I have accepted. " Naruto told three people currently standing in the office, looking straight at him.
"What?! That's bullshit! You know he's waiting for a chance to assassinate you or use Shisui's Kotoamatsuki on you, why the hell would you except?!" Tsunade bursted out angrily, she would never let Kushina's son get corrupted by Danzo forever, she owed it to Kushina, Minato, and Naruto.
"I suspect Nara Shikaku already thinks I might be the Uzukage, so I'll have to tell him that Uzumaki Naruto is with me, not is me." Naruto replied to the outburst
"Fine kid, I'm with you all the way on your thoughts. Danzo won't be able to use Kotoamatsuki on you, and if he does the Kyuubi should snap you out of it, I don't think he would like being Danzo's puppet.
"Well Kyuubi, I'm counting on you to snap me out of it if that happens." Naruto looked at the seal on his stomach.
Naruto's mindscape
"You-you just entrusted your life to me human." The Kyuubi stammered out in surprise, in all his centuries he had never encountered a human that would entrust his life to a bijuu. This one was definitely different.
"The world must be ending, the great and terrible Kyuubi just stammered!" Naruto resisted the urge to roll on the sewer floor laughing.
"Shut up! You're still as insolent as ever!" The Kyuubi roared menacingly, his red eyes glowing in fury.
"Well the great and powerful Kyuubi did stammer." Naruto pointed out and then no longer able to contain his laughter, he fell to the sewer floor laughing.
"I'll admit human that you are different from the other humans, normal humans would cower at the sight of me, but you are the only human in my whole life that has ever laughed at me. So human I'll tell you my name and all the other bijuu's names, I'll only say them once so you better remember mine at least, or I'll tear you to shreds!" The Kyuubi threatened in a dark, intimidating, menacing tone that would have scared the crap out of most people and cause them to piss themselves, but Naruto wasn't intimidated at all, he got interested.
"So what's your actual name Kyuubi?" Naruto asked impatiently waiting to hear the name.
"Rikudo-Sennin gave each of us tailed beasts names, First there's the stupid, pathetic, weak tanuki called Shukaku who only had one tail, but still insisted that he was stronger than me and contacted me saying he was stronger and would beat you my container during your battle with that Gaara kid, then there's that annoying hellcat Matatabi with two tails who's container is that blonde with a braid, then there's that lazy overgrown turtle Isobu who's container you just defeated a few days back. After that is the stupid old monkey who actually insisted on saying that he would tell a human his name, Son Goku. Then there's the whale shark horse Kokuo, I never really hated him that much. After Kokuo is that annoying filthy, disgusting slug, Saiken. I didn't really hate the seven tailed Chomei, I just didn't care about her, but that Octopus bull, Gyuki is going to pay for calling me an arrogant good for nothing fox. And finally I am Kurama, remember that well human brat." The Kyuubi said
"I see, so you actually do have a name, old great geezer sage gave it to you." Naruto thought about the information he just found out about.
"You've spaced out for a full five minutes insolent brat." Kurama informed him
"Damn, I better get out of the old sewer." Naruto forced himself out of his mindscape, and back to the world.
In the Uzukage's office
"Damn it Naruto what the hell, you suddenly space out for this long!" Tsunade shook a certain someone who had been staring into space for the past 5 minutes.
"I'm back!" Naruto stopped staring into to space and got up from his chair, he approached the three in his office.
"Why don't you guess what I just found out?" Naruto told his sensei and the two Sannin.
If Naruto was staring into space and found something out it has to be about the Kyuubi, but what? was the thought all three people had in their head
"I found out his name!" Naruto announced causing everyone in the room to raise an eyebrow, as they didn't think the Kyuubi had a name.
"He has a name?" Jiraiya asked Naruto, unsure, since Kushina never told him the name if Kyuubi had a name so Jiraiya had his doubts. But then again Kushina had a worse relationship with the Kyuubi than Naruto did.
"Yup, the old furball's name is Kurama." Naruto answered the old toad
"Eh, well usually a name is given by the parent so does that mean the Kyuubi had a parent?" Jiraiya questioned Naruto further
"Nope, it was technically the Sage of six paths who created him and named him, but he wsn't really born." Naruto explained, relieving Jiraiya of his confusion.
"So you're in touch with the fat old fox again." Tsunade stated, she commonly called the Kyuubi a fat old fox, and whenever that happened Naruto could hear growls coming from the seal.
"Anyway back to work, that was all I wanted to tell you guys." Naruto sat down to do the important bundle of paperwork that he had on his desk. He had enough shadow clones roaming around the Hokage tower looking for information on Uchiha Shisui for hope of countering Kotoamatsuki. His plan A was actually being able to counter Kotoamatsuki by adding something to the seal, his plan B was using a chakra residue stored in a seal for the talks so Kotoamatsuki wouldn't affect it since it can't affect something without a mind. Or he could simply talk through someone via seals. Plan C in case Plan B failed and Danzo found out about the chakra residue was using Hiraishin and using Kawarimi on a council member and accusing Danzo of using genjutsu when Danzo used Kotoamatsuki on him. He had to make sure that it was one of the useless council members like Kizashi if it came down to that. His clones were all using a triple layer
henge as civilian workers.
-Kumogakure, Raikage's office 9:30pm-
Konoha will soon get what was coming for them, they did stupid things like banishing their jinchuriki and keeping that over emotional Uchiha traitor. They failed to make their jinchuriki loyal to the village and made their jinchuriki resent them. Now they'll finally fall this year. Danzo can't have enough funds to keep his village going for more than a few months, he's probably desperate for an alliance. None of his enemies will ally with him, Kiri turned down his alliance, meaning none of the great villages are going to ally except maybe Uzu. If Uzu moves in then there'll be a problem. The Raikage thought in his head. A knock was heard on the Raikage's abnormally large door.
"Come in" He commanded
"Reporting from A rank mission, our mission to gather information was successful, we managed to find out that the Hokage has asked for talks to commence between Uzushio and Konoha." A woman in her mid twenties reported, she had blonde hair tied in a long braid, the braid extended all the way to her eyes, which were dark obsidian colored. It was extremely hard to tell where the pupil was.
"And… what did the Uzukage reply?" The Raikage asked
"He said that he would come, but if anything displeases him, or he finds the terms are stupid he'd leave." The woman replied, she was aware of the Uzukage's power having fought him 5 years ago during the alliance break up. She was defeated easily despite having used the chakra of the two tails. She also knew about the appearance of her savior, because her bijuu told her that she was saved by an unknown man who had a constantly changing chakra signature, who defeated Hidan and Kakuzu. She admired her savior and hoped she would meet him/her someday.
"I see" The Raikage put his elbow on his desk and held the side of his neck.
That doesn't matter, The Uzukage doesn't have any reason to join him.
"Yugito, the chuunin exams are coming up, they'll be held in Konoha. Even during the war the villages will call for a ceasefire and go to the chuunin exams. But I will not do Orochimaru's stunt. I simply want you to take these talented genin, and beat the Konoha brats fair and square. Consider this a long term A rank mission. There is a little over a month, I've sent Bee, their sensei away for a while, and I think that they'll benefit from learning from you since Bee isn't exactly great in some of the ways you are. He may have better control over a bijuu then you, but the only other things he's good at is kenjutsu and taijutsu. You simply have to act like a jonin operative." The Raikage ordered the woman who's name was Nii Yugito.
"Hai Raikage-sama I will teach them so they can be ready." Yugito said in affirmative
"Good, their names are Karui, Omoi, and Samui, you'll begin tomorrow. You may leave now." The Raikage said, Yugito bowed and left to go to sleep.
-Uzushiogakure, 12:00am-
Naruto took a walk in his village, Uzushiogakure had plenty of grass now, it wasn't just a dirty stone ruin like before. Luckily his ancestors were smart, and masters of fuinjutsu so they hid their secrets in the whirlpool. The symbol of Uzushiogakure used to be blue
at the time of the Shodaime, but the symbol changed to red during the first shinobi world war. He looked up at the sky, a full moon, he could hear several wolves howling in the distance. He went to his favorite spot in the south west of the city. You could see the sunrise and sunset best from there, it was a beautiful green hilltop that literally glowed orange in the sunrise. No one knew it was his favorite spot since he only visited the place at sunrise or sunset. He used many complicated seals to store the Hiraishin seal into the hill. The seals were so complicated that unless you had 'the key' you would never know how to undo the seal. The key was a code that only Jiraiya, Tsunade, Kazuki, and he knew. Of course there was still the blood seal on it which meant only Naruto could read it.
Konoha is going to host the chuunin exams in a month, that means we will show them who's the best kage and has the best shinobi right Kurama?
"Yeah, yeah kit who cares?" Kurama groaned
"I care, I need to show Konoha that their kunoichi and shinobi are a load of crap without emotions. If they don't have emotions they can't get motivated or determined, nor will they care about saving comrades in danger, only the mission effectively lowering their manpower. Emotionless people don't have precious people so they can never be truly strong."
"So? I'm a damn demon and I don't have precious people yet I can obliterate everything." Kurama declared
"I guess" Naruto thought not knowing what to think about that.
"Listen kit, I will not tolerate a container weaker than any other containers, I have 9 tails so I'm the strongest bijuu and should have the strongest container." Kurama stated arrogantly
"Sheesh Kurama, you're starting to sound like Sasuke 'I have the Sharingan so I'm undefeatable, elite.'" Naruto tried to imitate Sasuke's voice going through his head, but failed miserably.
"Listen kit, if you want to live, do not compare me to a vile Uchiha ever again! Or I'll personally end your pitiful existence." Kurama roared
"Oh shut up, the next time you even have a chance of getting out of this cage is when I die, and when that happens my existence will be ended so you won't get a chance." Naruto spoke
"Hmph" Kurama growled and went to the inner depts of his sewer to sleep.
-Konohagakure, 12:00am-
Hyuuga Hinata was on top of the Yondaime's head, there were only five heads on the monument, the 1st, 2nd, 3rd, 4th, and 6th Hokage's heads. She was thinking about her clan, a bunch of main branch members tried to rebel, some even challenged her to a fight, but since those members were arrogant in their techniques they failed to beat her. She had replaced the elders with younger more reasonable people with support from Inuzuka Tsume who was tired of the behavior of the elders, Yamanaka Inoichi for the same reason as Tsume, and Aburame Shibi, because he thought it was illogical to leave the Hyuuga clan to people over 80. The branch members were content with the situation as they were no longer slaves and had the same rights as the main branch. The main branch members were not content, especially the older ones since they now had to learn how to cook from branch members. It angered them to see a branch member better than them in any way.
The same thing happened with Neji, the elders demanded him removed from the ninja program since he was better than the man branch, but Hiashi argued saying that was wasted potential and proposed removing the branch seal from Neji using Jiraiya, but they said once a branch member, always a branch member.
Now that she thought about it there was close to no chance of having the branch seal removed since the elders couldn't remove it themselves since they forgot how to do it and no branch member in the history of the Hyuuga clan actually had their branch seal removed.
"Hinata-san what are you doing here so late in the night?" A familiar voice, Shino's rung through her brain and snapped her outside her thinking trance.
"S-Shino-kun, I'm just thinking about my clan." Hinata's voice responded shakily, turning around to see the bug user staring at the moon.
"I was thinking about how oddly my bugs act around the Hokage, they don't act logical, like something's bothering them." Shino replied
"Hinata-san, you should go to sleep. It is not logical to stay up late right now as it will hamper mission effectiveness, Konoha is going through troubled times, if we can't pull through Konoha will fall against its old enemy." Shino stated
"Shino-kun inside Konoha there is plenty of darkness, the new Hokage Danzo doesn't let anyone from the younger generation have emotions, this weakens the bonds inside Konoha, he's also a dark kage, not above sending people to suicide missions like Kurenai-sensei. The Hyuga clan's main branch is full of arrogance which could be my clan's downfall, I must figure out how to purge the arrogance from my clan and remove the curse seal." Hinata told Shino
"I see Hinata-san, forgive me for bothering you Hinata-san, I will take my leave." Shino left, leaving Hinata to think.
-Orochimaru's lair-
"Tell me Kabuto what's the average lifespan of an Uzumaki?" Orochimaru asked his lackey who was currently picking up some gross thing that looked like the remnants of someone's rotten skin.
"From our tests we managed to find out that the average lifespan of an Uzumaki is over a century." Kabuto answered the question successfully, now dipping the rotten skin in an odd yellowish substance causing the skin to burn up from the inside.
"Orochimaru-sama your poison is a success, now all I have to do is dip into pesaraisine (made up name of a purplish substance) and you can use it with your snakes." Kabuto announced
"Excellent Kabuto, now come look at this." Orochimaru showed Kabuto a couple of bottles with a bunch of disgusting shit inside. Each of these bottles were labeled differently.
Sandaime Raikage
Uchiha Madara
Senju Hashirama
Senju Tobirama
Sarutobi Hiruzen
Namikaze Minato
Uzumaki Kushina
Nidaime Mizukage
Nidaime Tsuchikage
Sandaime Tsuchikage
10 S and SS rank shinobi/kunoichi were in his possession, no one stood a chance, not even the Akatsuki. Of course Orochimaru couldn't control all of them at once, he could control a maximum of 4 people.
-Uzushiogakure, the next day 8:00am-
Naruto was currently looking over the Uzumaki clan information. Something caught his eye, it was about a bloodline of theirs, they could create anything they wanted out of pure chakra, blades, swords, chains, locks, scythes, anything! He personally thought it was amazing and wondered whether he had the bloodline or not. But he knew the bloodline only appeared in certain members so there was no point dwelling on the subject. It was decided that he and Danzo would meet after the chuunin exams so there was still a full month. Sasuke had been doing well with his new family, he seemed to be a very happy little baby, happy with his new life, and Naruto wouldn't take him away from it, the Konoha council could do shit, but Naruto was well in his right to ignore them.
Suna council meeting in a week, Konoha council meeting in 2 months.
Naruto knew all about his uninvited visitors, but he would do nothing about it currently, he would wait till they came snooping around Uzushiogakure.
Flashback
Itachi and Kisame got off the boat, they came across the boarder, a guard was currently checking all the tickets. He was in the genjutsu Itachi and Kisame put them in so the two managed to pass by. Most of the border had cameras and knockout gas, but the heavily guarded entrances where civilians passed through were free of knockout gas. However sensors alerted the guards to people who thought they could pass by genjutsu. There was always at least one heavily skilled genjutsu user.
The two Akatsuki members didn't know of the sensor technology and were caught by the sensors. Itachi wanted to prevent this since he knew that if he used the Mangeyko Sharingan 2 more times it would lead to total blindness.
The guards were on to them, so they ran into Uzu, and since Kisame had enough stamina to last the night and day giving Itachi chakra as well, they managed to outrun the ones tailing them.
End Flashback
He would meet them very soon.
[A/N I could be an evil bastard and end it there, but I'm not gonna]
-Hakai town, 30 miles from Uzushiogakure's gates-
In a restaurant
"Itachi, want some sake?" Kisame held out the bottle to Itachi who was drinking some water. They were sharing a 2 person table at an outside restaurant, Kisame was rather annoyed that Itachi was using perfect table manners, while he was spilling sake, inflating his face, stuffing his mouth, and having hardly any table manners whatsoever. So Kisame decided to get Itachi's side of the table dirty so he 'accidently' spilled some sake at his side.
"That wasn't very nice Kisame." Itachi glared at Kisame as much as he could while staying emotionless.
"Ah come on Itachi why are you so boring?" Kisame pouted, he hadn't had any fun, not even killing anyone during the mission.
"Kisame, stick to the mission. If you came here to have fun then you joined the wrong organization." Itachi spoke to him seriously, his eyes at the same level as Kisame's eyes.
"You're right I better retire and just go around as a missing nin killing everybody, that sounds so damn fun!" Kisame grinned in excitement to his future life
"We must go, I feel fully functional again." Itachi got up and started to leave, this restaurant was the kind of restaurant where you pay as soon as you get your meal.
Kisame started to move as well, Itachi thanked Kami that his partner wasn't drunk and began to head out towards Uzushiogakure, since a ninja moves much faster than a civilian Itachi estimated that it would take only a single hour to reach Uzushiogakure, well more like where the previous Uzushiogakure was.
"Kisame, I have something to tell you." Itachi said every word slowly, since he would reveal something extremely important.
"Huh, what is it Itachi?" Kisame asked
"I'm nearing blindness." Itachi informed his teammate seriously and in a low tone.
"Oh crap, that means in case we do get spotted we can't use your Mangekou Sharinegon, damn those eyes!" Kisame cursed, but Itachi remained emotionless. It enraged Kisame that Itachi could remain emotionless for so long, he could only do it for a few hours and then he felt like blurting out all his emotions. The two were racing through the ocean of trees that Naruto planted when he was twelve using seeds of trees that grew extremely fast. The sky was a grayish color, and the clouds were black. A storm was coming for them in more ways than one.
-1 hour later Outer walls of Uzushiogakure-
A large moat surrounded the city as if it was a castle, Kisame stood at the edge of the moat. Getting into the city worked like getting into a castle except there was no drawbridge. The drawbridge was a glass platform that came out of a seal on the other side if you had been authorized to enter, or had an identification seal. Instead you had to have an identification seal or be 'authorized' to enter. People couldn't get across the moat via water walking, because the whirlpools would rip them apart. Making any kind of bridge was also impossible since protective seals were there that would swallow anything with unauthorized entry. If you jumped across you would meet the same fate. For this reason there were warning signs saying that unauthorized entry would be met with lethal force. Of course there were also rails, because of the civilians. Getting your hands on an identification seal wasn't easy as well, because it was invisible and it never ever showed up on the body, if you somehow managed to carve the seal off someone the seal would crawl back to that someone. It could also send out a distress signal, in case the person was captured or meeting someone who he couldn't take on without backup. The distress signal would be received via an electronic device in the Uzukage's office.
The two Akatsuki were there wondering what to do since they knew they couldn't cross the moat since they knew the whirlpools would shred them into many pieces and their remains would never be found. Even if you threw someone into the village they would be swallowed by a vortex since that was the barrier of the village hidden in the swirling tides. To deactivate the barrier without an identification seal you had to be someone that was almost as good as Jiraiya with seals.
Someone was waiting for them, a blonde with the kage hat, his ocean blue eyes were covered by the shadow, lightning struck by him and the heavy rainfall started.
Kisame was enjoying it, but Itachi gave out a faint groan, he knew he couldn't use his Katon jutsu in this fight, and there was no running from the fight.
Damn it, he's been expecting us, I suppose we were foolish continuing the mission on schedule when we got discovered. Itachi gave a low faint sigh and began to speak
"Uzumaki Naruto, jinchuriki of the Kyuubi come quietly or we will have to use needless force to bring you with us."
The blonde said nothing for a moment, but then 2 words came out of his mouth.
"Request denied" He drew his sword and began to walk to the two Akatsuki members slowly.
"Guess this is where we fight him Itachi." Kisame drew out the Samehada which was shaking uncontrollably.
"This is the second time the Samehada is yearning for your chakra, but this time the Samehada will taste it!" Kisame ran and threw an unorthodox slash at Naruto's chest, Naruto stabbed his own sword into Kisame's Samehada, he felt a chakra drain.
Damn thing is draining my chakra, I wonder, can that thing handle Senjutsu chakra, Ero-Sennin told me that it's really dangerous.
Naruto closed his eyes while the hideous sword began eating his hands, if that thing had eyes they would widen. Both of them knew something was wrong when the Samehada stopped sucking at their foes hand and fell to the floor. Naruto stopped gathering chakra, and moved on to Kisame, but Itachi was in the way calculating the direction he would move with his Sharingan. The former leaf shinobi intercepted Naruto with his kunai and crossed blades with Naruto's sword, the kunai was instantly obliterated and Itachi hands had burns on them when Naruto charged some ration chakra through the sword. Itachi didn't halt though since he was trained to feel the pain those burns gave him, he began doing handseals along with Kisame.
Suiton: Suigadan (Water Release: Water Fang Bullet) A drilling water blast came from in front of Itachi and charged towards Naruto, but there was a smirk on the blonde jinchuriki's face before he held his blade right in front of the incoming blast. The two S class shinobi watched as it was absorbed before their very eyes. Kisame was ready to perform his jutsu.
Suiton: Goshokuzame (Water Release: Five feeding sharks) Five Sharks came into existence and smashed against Naruto's sword, they were absorbed with no difficulty.
"Kisame that was foolish, we had already discovered his sword could absorb Suiton techniques, you wasted chakra pointlessly." Itachi reprimanded
They're not serious yet. Naruto thought as he stared at his opponents. Itachi began speeding towards Naruto evading his sword, and delivered a clean blow to his side. he used some genjutsu with his Sharingan to make Naruto believe he was delivering a kick to his ribs instead of a punch to the face, Naruto couldn't sense him quickly enough so he flew backwards, sword still in hand.
"No shinobi is invincible." Itachi stated rushing towards Naruto, Kisame just stood there still not helping since unlike Itachi he didn't know what to do, but stay alert. Before Itachi could reach Naruto smoke surrounded the blonde and he was gone.
"Underground huh" Kisame disappeared underground with the Samehada fully unwrapped using the Samehada over ground using one of his doton jutsu 'Subterranean Voyage'. Itachi examined that he left a seal on the ground, but as he wasn't a seal master he had no idea what it was, but he knew to be wary of it. Kisame surfaced overground with the blonde in his hands beginning to choke him, but the blonde poofed into smoke.
Shadow clone! The two Akatsuki members turned around just to see a barrage of kunai, unusual kunai neither had seen since the Kyuubi attack.
These are… Itachi's eyes widened, when he saw what must have been at least twenty clones coming out of the seal .
Hiraishin no Tatsumaki (Flying Thunder God Tornado) The clones turned into blurs while hundreds of cuts appeared on Kisame in about 10 seconds, and he oassed out from blood loss, since they were deep cuts. Itachi realized that he was next and only had one choice, he was near the edge of the kunai field with only about 10 Hiraishin kunais surrounding him. He saw 15 Narutos coming at his normal speed, his eyes changed into pinwheels and blood started trickling down his cheek.
Amaterasu (God of Sun) Everything was obliterated, and scorching, the clones were screeching in pain until every last one dissipated, Itachi began walking over Kisame, who paseed out, when suddenly he heard a small whisper
"Behind you" And with a quick chop to the neck everything went black.
Done with my chapter, I said it would take a week per chapter but it's becoming more like a month. This chapter is about 7.44k words in total.
As for the people who think Naruto is too powerful, I'll say one thing, I'm happy that the winner of the poll results won't really increase his power at all!
Bloodline: 26
Chakra Cloak: 25
Nothing: 9
I've already revealed which bloodline in this chapter anyway.
That's all!