Chapter 3
I'm back, miss me? No! Awe now I'm hurt oh well so let's skip the chit chat today and get to the actual story.
Song of the day: Shatter Me – Lindsey Stirling Feat Lzzy Hale.
I don't own Naruto if I did well Sasuke would be dead….nah kidding just brutally maimed.
Naruto was starting to get a little impatient standing around waiting when one of his best friends was in jeopardy. Looking to where his sensei was leaning against a wall he whines out "Sensei any idea what could be taking them so long?"
The two had been sitting at the gate for a good 15 minutes so far and he knows that it only took 10 to get to and from his parents house to retrieve his mothers katana.
"Kid calm down, your acting like your old self again, do you want me to call Ma?" Jiraya asks with a threatening undertone.
Naruto's eyes go wide for a moment "No Jiraya-sensei I mean no disrespect" Naruto says quickly adding a bow to show his seriousness.
Jiraya smiles, he would never summon Ma or Pa for anything this stupid….otherwise he would be the one on the other end Ma's rolling pin or Pa's mighty stick. Shaking at the thought he looks towards Naruto. "Yea yea just calm down I know you want to help your friend but rushing head first is never a good idea. I could have sworn I shoved that into your head" Jiraya says to the boy.
Naruto just nods "you did Sensei but alas I chose to…..forget some things." Naruto says with a smirk.
Jiraya just shakes his head at this, the boys Uzumaki blood will always end up getting the best of him it seems no matter how much he tries to change it.
As Jiraya was turning his head away from Naruto four people jumped down and landed next to the two. Naruto took notice of the eternal gate guards first.
Looking away from them he looks over too where the other presences have landed and then his blue eyes turn a dark shade one people could describe as Navy blue.
"What are you two doing here" he says turning back towards the gate getting ready to take off.
"Ma ma Naruto is that how you treat your old sensei?" Kakashi says looking up from his book.
"You are Right Kakashi I would treat a sensei with better respect and I have, ask master Jiraya if you don't believe me" Naruto says looking over at his master before taking off.
"What the hell the dobe didn't even say hi to me" Sakura whines out.
Jiraya looks at the girl "is that really all you have to say?" he asks before taking off into the trees.
Izumo and Kotetsu follow after the two of them knowing that there was no point staying with Kakashi and Sakura.
Kakashi looks over at Sakura "I guess lady Tsunade was right, he has changed" he says
Sakura nods "Yea but I don't know if I like it or not." She tells him before following after the group.
Halfway to Suna
Naruto and team were currently on route to the village hidden in the sand until crows started to squawk all around them. Naruto's ears perked up at this "Sensei do you think?" Naruto asks.
Jiraya looks over at him "it very well could be but I don't feel his chakra signature." Jiraya tells him
"Jiraya-sama if I may what are you two talking about" Sakura asks.
Jiraya turns his head towards the girl "listen and listen good I'm only going to tell you this once these crows that are around us aren't normal they are a type of summons that can control genjutus" Jiraya starts.
"From what the toads have gathered is the only person to have signed this contract has been Itachi Uchiha" Naruto finishes.
Sakura looks at him with wide eyes "Uchiha"
Kakashi starts to raise his head band to get his sharingan ready.
Kotetsu and Izumo arm themselves, each with a sword that looks like a shuriken blade. The only difference is Kotetsu was currently holding a chain attached to his.
Naruto stops and drops down to the ground in a rather odd clearing. Looking around he feels that something isn't right "you two can come out now" he says.
As soon as he said it two figures walk out of the woods. The first was the one they all have been talking about Itachi Uchiha brother of Sasuke Uchiha, Traitor of the leaf village.
The other one is Kisame Hoshigaki currently the two of them didn't know much about him, other than he killed his old sensei when he betrayed his village and that his sword could seemingly eat chakra.
Naruto stared at the two never looking Itachi directly in his eyes.
"Sensei what do you advise?" Naruto asks.
Jiraya looks at the two "you may use that but nothing more kid I don't have enough sealing tags to waste on this fight" Jiraya told him.
Naruto smiles "yes sensei" and with that Naruto was gone in a seemingly flash.
Kotetsu, Izumo and Kakashi all act like they had seen a ghost with the way it looked. Sakura still couldn't get over the fact that it was Sasuke's brother.
Naruto reappeared behind the two his hand out "Rasengan" he shouts trying to shove it into the back of Kisame with no avail.
Kisame using his sword quickly absorbs the chakra. "Hehe boy I would have thought that fighting me once already would have given you an idea that chakra based attacks don't work….samehada will just eat it right up" he says
Naruto grunts skidding back "fine I guess that won't work then" looking towards Jiraya "Sensei the only way to beat him is with Taijutsu or Kenjutsu" Naruto yells back to Jiraya, who was currently taking the steps to enter sage mode.
"You are not at his level with Kenjutsu yet kid so that is out of the option." Jiraya says. During this time his eyes take a bar like look to them while the red marks on his face grow. His nose oddly enough grows and starts to grow wart like things on it. His hand take on the shape of almost like webbed toad hands.
"Shit I only got a couple of seconds" Jiraya after his transformation is complete. Running through the hand signs as quickly as possible thanks to the boost his senjutsu chakra gave, he summons two small toads.
"Ma, Pa! We've got someone me and Naruto won't be able to take on our own do you two think you could lend a hand?" Jiraya asks the two smaller toads.
The light green toad with purple markings speaks first "Jiraya boy you know were always happy to help"
"Thanks Ma" and with that both toads jump up onto his shoulders. Looking behind himself, he yells to the four others with them "Hey I know you wanna see what kind of skills Naruto and I have picked up over these last few years but we are facing two s-ranked missing-nin it would be nice with a little help!" Jiraya tells them.
Kakashi only nods and draws a kunai. Sakura just stands there dumbfounded at Itachi. Izumo and Kotetsu just act lost.
Naruto breaks away from Kisame to run up to the two of them "ok guys I know this seems tuff" he says looking back behind him make sure his next statement comes out right. "How's this protect Sakura for now we will talk when this over." He tells them, looking over at his old sensei Naruto yells to him "Yo Hakate want to join me in this dance? Sensei will be fine he has Ma and Pa to help him out. They prevent him from getting trapped in genjutus so he is currently the best person to fight Itachi." Naruto tells him.
Kakashi looks at him like he is hearing things but quickly shakes himself of it when he see's Naruto charge at Kisame.
Deciding he would just get in the way he sits back and protects Sakura along with Izumo and Kotetsu.
Naruto shakes his head when he sees how his old teacher is acting. Deciding to push it off till later he continues his charge at Kisame putting his hand in a familiar cross shape ten other Narutos appear around him. Deciding to start his plan Naruto has his clones spread out and surrounds Kisame. Once they all were in position Naruto releases all of them. The puff of smoke that happens when a single shadow clone is released is increased tenfold nearly blinding Kisame.
Naruto takes this chance to swing at the giant shark man only to be blocked by Kisame with his sword. Naruto jumps back and thinks it over.
"Sensei" he yells drawing both Jiraya's and Kakashi's attention over towards him "I know you said not to use IT but I believe I'm going to need to."
Jiraya sighs and turns to Ma and Pa who were still on his shoulders, they give him a reassuring nod. "Fine kid take him out."
Naruto smirks and turns towards Kisame. Naruto's eyes were blood red with a black line down them, he smiles at the shark man. "This…this is my new power Kisame. This is something Jiraya sensei and I have been working on for some time now." He says.
Naruto again charges the shark man, bringing a fist back. Charging it with pure Bijuu energy he slams it into the side of the shark mans sword, knocking it out of his hands.
Kisame stands there in complete and utter shock at what had happened. "Boy how did that work?" he asks.
Naruto smirks "oh how did I knock that living sword out of your hand? Simple your sword may be able to handle regular chakra but Bijuu chakra is different. It is more potent, more deadly" Naruto says
Kisame just looks at the boy with a curious expression before getting hit in the side of the head sending him sailing into a nearby tree. Charging more Bijuu chakra Naruto goes after the downed Kisame to finish the job. When he enters the section of woods that the shark man went into was seemingly clear of said man. Naruto through hate filled eyes looks around and only see's a single man with a Suna headband on.
Filling away this information he takes off from the woods and heads back towards the clearing where everyone was currently.
Back in the Clearing
Jiraya was holding his own with Itachi, of course this was with the help of sage mode, Ma and Pa.
"Itachi why are you doing this? What are the Akatsuki's goals?" Jiraya asks.
Itachi stares at him not speaking once. Jiraya can't shake the feeling he is getting from the boy knowing that he is trying to place some form of genjutus on him but thanks to Ma and Pa he is being protected from it currently. "Itachi tell me why? I know of the mission you were assigned" Jiraya all but pleads.
Kakashi was confused by this, Itachi was assigned a mission? What kind of mission and why would master Jiraya know about it?
Than Kakashi got an idea one that might help redeem him in Naruto's eyes. Switching with a log on the other side of the currently distracted Itachi he gets ready. Pushing as much chakra to his hand that he can he summons up a chidori.
Running straight at the man with it before he had a chance to counter, he runs the attack through his chest effectively ending his life.
Jiraya sees this and grows instantly mad. Jiraya had been fighting genjutus from this man for over five minutes when his sage mode may have ended at any of this time. Sighing and shaking it off for now he looks on his shoulders to Ma first than to Pa.
"Thank you for the help Ma, Pa" he says before they jumped off and the markings on Jiraya fade.
"You better be more grateful Jiraya-boy regulating that much Nature Chakra in you isn't an easy job." Pa tells him.
"Yes Jiraya-chan Pas right. Also your gonna have to come back to the mountain to finish your sage training, I mean you look completely ridiculous when you use it and look like the way you did." Ma semi scolds him.
"Yes Jiraya-boy mom is right you know if we weren't here to help regulate the chakra for you, you would end up turning into a giant toad statue." Pa finishes the scolding session.
Jiraya after that was on the ground crunched over his knees drawing circles in the dirt "maa you two are being mean." He whines.
The rest of the group that was currently in the clearing was watching this with a sweat drop. The group was brought back to their sense when Kakashi started to talk "Um guys I don't think this is Itachi" he says
Jiraya looks at him "why do you say that?"
Kakashi removes the Akatsuki cloak from the man to show some random man.
Jiraya walks over to inspect the body. He was about to take a good look when he hears a rustling in the tree's assuming the worst he prepares to fight whatever and he means whatever comes out of there.
A moment later the noise and Naruto steps out of the woods, he was still channeling the Bijuu chakra just in case. "Sensei is it safe to cut the connection I can feel the rage starting to take over" Naruto tells him.
Jiraya looks at Naruto with a bit of pride "yes Naruto you can cut it now." Jiraya says with a warming smile. Naruto breaths a heavy sigh and the red drains from his eyes and is replaced with his normal blue.
Kakashi just stares in awe at his old student "Naruto that was I don't know when did you learned to control the nine tails chakra? Was it when you were master Jiraya?"
Naruto snorted at him and turned back towards Jiraya "Shall we continue sensei?" he asks
Jiraya nods and the two take to the tree's leaving the four others behind.
Kakashi looks down at the ground a bit sad his sensei's son is treating him this way. Kotetsu and Izumo just look at each other and nod before taking to the trees to, leaving Kakashi to deal with a still awe-struck Sakura.
One day later
The envoy from Konoha had finally arrived in Suna. It had taken longer than Naruto or Jiraya had wanted but they had to wait up for Kakashi and Sakura which set this behind a couple of hours. Walking up to the entrance to the city they are approached by two Jonin from the village.
"HALT WHO ARE YOU" one of the Jonin yelled.
Naruto rolls his eyes at the way the man is acting "who are we, your village is the ones that sent a request for us to show up here" Naruto says.
The Jonin looks at him and then it hits him "you're the Konoha envoy we asked for to retrieve our Kazekage" he says.
Naruto nods.
"Thank Kami you…" he counts how many had shown up "six are here we had suffered some bad injuries when the Akatsukis attack." He tells them.
Sakura's eyes light up a bit hearing this "I think I can help with that, I was trained by our Hokage who if you don't know is the legendary Tsunade Senju Master Medic" Sakura boosts.
Naruto just rolls his eyes again "that might be best, you obviously are useless in battle." He tells her.
Sakura looks down at the ground sad. The Suna Nin never noticed her look instead choose to grab onto her arm "That's perfect. Lord Kankuro was poisoned and we don't know what kind of poison it is" he tells her. Sakura nods her head "ok lead the way" with that the two take off.
The other Jonin who had been quiet speaks up next "now I will take you…." Naruto was fed up with them delaying him from saving his friend "NO, which way did the Akatsuki take Gaara?" Naruto asks
The Jonin looks at him "I'm sorry Konoha Nin but I'm not at privy to tell you that information"
"And why is that? You guys are the ones that send us to find Gaara" Naruto say his rage starting to get the better of him.
The Jonin started to feel the K.I. Naruto was unintentionally making.
"Konoha-san" The Jonin started with but Naruto interrupted him.
"Ok first cut the Konoha nin or san shit it is starting to piss me off its Naruto. Second you're going to tell me which direction that the Akatsuki took Gaara in and your gonna tell me now" he growls the last part out.
The Jonin couldn't take any more the pressure and start to faultier under the K.I. Naruto was giving off "Naruto-san I already said."
That was it for Naruto he grabbed the man by the collar of his vest and lifted him into the air. Naruto's eyes had become blood red again with the slit running down them. "Listen and listen well! You are going to tell me which way Gaara was taken and you're going to tell me now!" Naruto demanded.
The Jonin finally cave after that "east….that took him in the western direction." He says
Narutos eyes instantly went back to blue when he heard this, smiling he sets the man back down. "Thanks" he says dusting the man's vest off after he put him back down "that wasn't so hard now was it?" Naruto asks a bit sarcastically.
Izumo, Kotetsu and Kakashi were all left in awe at Naruto. They were all wondering the same thing, what had happened to the orange loving, hyper active kid he use to be.
Naruto turned from the gate "Sensei if you want to report in you may but I'm going after Gaara." Naruto tells him "oh and Izumo and Kotetsu you two are with me." Naruto tells them.
They nod and salute him. At that the three take off towards the east….back towards the land of fire.
END
So what did you all think? I think it turned out well….but I will let all of you be the ones to decide that.