Still don't own Naruto
Chapter 29: Plans
Naruto slowly awoke to see several people standing around him, his eyes seemed glazed over and he found it hard to focus on anything for a couple of seconds before the world came back into view.
Then it hit Naruto like a ton of bricks, or as far as Naruto was concerned an angry Raikage. 'I lost, I cant leave with Yugi-chan, but I cant let her stay here its not safe, what am I going to do' he thought as the memory of getting chopped in the back of the neck by A with his armor at full power hurting him more than any wound he may have pick up during the fight.
Then Naruto registered the voices and people that were around him. He felt two soft hands holding one of his, to Naruto this was a not difficult at all, it was Yugito. The two people standing above him well one was a medic he could tell by the red cross on his vest but the other he couldn't see well, he was standing to the back of the room, the only thing Naruto could tell for sure was that he was big.
"How is he I hope I didn't do any permanent damage, Tsunade-dono would be highly upset if I caused serious injury to her ninja in a spar, albeit a serious one" A said.
"What do you mean a spar, you said it was a fight and I had to win or Yugi-chan would have to stay here" Naruto said shocking the others in the room. Naruto, having had enough of the blurry vision and headache opted to use senjutsu to bring him back to alertness.
"Ho-how are you awake..." the Medic stammered in shock, A too was taken aback by this Naruto had been hit by him with his lightening armor at full power nobody had ever woken up from a hit from that in under a day, but Naruto had awoken in just a few hours.
"Well I heal fast, and then senjutsu heals me even faster" Naruto said flatly, he had yet to take his eyes off A who seemed to have gotten over his shock and began chuckling
"Ah the fight, well I think you will find Namikaze-san, that I said you needed to impress me, not beat me" A said brightly both Naruto and Yugito looked up at this hope suddenly filling there faces. "In truth I was going to let her go anyway, but you had upset me, I asked for a Spar when you first arrived and you never came to collect" A said, Naruto was literally beaming now his smile was so wide.
"Than's A, your not a bad man after all" Naruto grinned "But why didn't you just ask for one before we left why did you need to threaten me with not being able to save Yugi-chan from the counsel" Naruto asked.
A thought about that for a moment before he gave a deep chuckle "well lets see I wanted to fight you at your best and the best way to do that was to give you something to fight for, and you did remarkably well I must say, if Yugito-chan was not in danger or I was not threatening your relationship with her do you think you would have figured out a way to combat my armor, and I would appreciate if you kept that technique to yourself" A said finishing with a small glare.
"Oh don't worry about that, to be able to use it you need to be able to coat Fuuton chakra with Senjutsu and extend it out from the body, only people who can use it are me and Jiraiya sensei" Naruto said deciding he could now no longer call the elder toad sage erosennin after what he and Yugito had been doing. "So everything you said was to just make me fight better, uh thanks I guess, but what about what you said about us being in a relationship" Naruto said, in truth he would love to have the Raikage's blessing but if not he wouldn't care as long as they were together.
"Now why would I have an issue with someone who genuinely care's about Yugito-chan, she has had it tough all her life and she doesn't need me making it worse, who knows maybe down the line we will have a political marriage to celebrate" A said with a smile.
At this point Yugito lost it, overcome with joy at not only being allowed to go with Naruto but had the Raikage's blessing as well. She could not stop herself from hugging A and crying multiple thank you's as loud as she could.
"Ok, now I want you two to stay in Kumo for a few more days while I fix up the paper work for Yugito to be transferred as a permanent envoy in Konoha, there wont be any problems with getting Tsunade to sign that will there" A asked
"Nope there's no way Baa-chan wouldn't sign, there good friends" Naruto said confidently, he had discovered there unusual friendship in several of the letters Yugito had sent him that had request's from Tsunade, this had been what prompted him to start writing to Tsunade as well, he had been banned from telling the Hokage what he was doing in the event the wrong people found out more than they needed to know. This didn't deter Naruto and he had begun writing her small messages, like asking how the village was doing and how she was.
A just shook his head at this, the fact Naruto would call Tsunade Senju, Baa-chan was unbelievable but at the same time so was almost everything about the young sage. "very well, but you two don't go getting married or having children just yet I cant take the paperwork as it is and a inter village marriage is a lot of paperwork" the Raikage said as Naruto and Yugito both gave a full blown blush, after enjoying the jinchuuriki's embarrassment for a while A left dragging the doctor out of the room with him, said doctor seemed to be fascinated with Naruto, and had been poking and prodding him the entire time they talked.
Naruto and Yugito didn't say anything they just looked at each other before Yugito ran over to the bed and jumped on top of him pulling Naruto into a hug and light kiss. "I cant believe he is letting me go, I thought for sure he would say I have to stay because I hold Nibi" Yugito said after the quick embrace, she was still laying on the hospital bed that Naruto was in but no longer right on top of him.
"So we have a couple of day's before we leave is there anything you want to do, would you like me to help you pack" the Kyuubi jinchuuriki asked
"Um well I want to say goodbye to Bee and his team, even though they have been massively over stepping there boundary's with you" She said before mumbling something not at all nice about Samui and Karui. "Then there is Dauri and Shee they were always nice to me, apart from that there is A but we will have to see him when we leave. As for help no, I don't think you will be helping me, your going to be doing it all" she said teasing him at the end.
"Aw come on Yugi-chan there is way to much of it, cant you help a little" Naruto fake whined before giving her a light peck on the lips.
"I suppose I could help, but I'm not as good with seal's as you, I mean what I can seal in 20 you can do in 1" she said stealing another kiss before getting off the bed.
"Well I guess I cant stay here all day" Naruto said getting out of his bed and getting dressed before walking with Yugito out into the afternoon sun.
(Sealing Cave)
The giant form of Sanbi was slowly fading from view as the remaining members of the Akatsuki stood around focusing there chakra on the sealing.
"Damn it! Why is this taking so long, this bijuu doesn't even have a seal" Kisame said angrily.
"there are three less of us now, we may have the ring for Sasori which we gave to Tobi, but Kakuzu's body was retrieved by a team of Kumo ninja and Hidan, well he is nothing but particle's waiting for what energy he has gathered via that seal of his to fade before he dies, along with Orochimaru still in possession of his. We are down three rings that are needed for the sealing" Itachi said.
"Well why isn't Zetsu here helping, he already located our targets in Iwa, so where is he now" Kisame asked
"I sent him to go to Kumo to check on the Nibi and Kyuubi to make sure they haven't moved, although it would be unwise to move on kyuubi right now we cant have him escaping us and disappearing again" Pein said.
It was at this moment that the plant like figure of Zetsu appeared. "we bring news leader-sama" black Zetsu said.
"What is it Zetsu, and now you are hear you can help with the sealing" Pein said
"The Kyuubi jinchuuriki and the Raikage had a Spar, and boy it was a good one, that Namikaze is one tough character, the Raikage needed to use his Lightening Armor at full power to win" Zetsu said
"So not only has he defeated and killed three members of our group, he was able to hold his own, well for the most part against the main reason why we cant target Hachibi until its safe and he goes to his valley he uses to train. This kid is a real pest" Kisame said
"Indeed, we will wait until we have captured all of the others then then we will target the Kyuubi together, Zetsu any other information we should know about?" Pein said
"No leader-sama, we left Kumo right after the fight" Zetsu said.
The rest of the sealing went smoothly and the member's of the Akatsuki faded from the cave soon after Sanbi was sealed and a new eye opened on the statue.
(Konoha Later that Day)
Tsunade was sitting at her desk happy in the knowledge she had just finished her paperwork for the day, she was soon interupted by Shizune. The dark haired medic and assistant came running in with a small stack of papers. 'why does the paperwork never end' Tsunade thought as she had to suppress the urge to use one of her few fire jutsu to burn the paper's in her assistant's arm.
"Tsunade-sama, urgent forms from Kumo for you to look over" Shizune said
"Kumo?... … oh fuck me, this just has Naruto written all over it, you better hand me the forms so I can see what he did" Tsunade sighed, she had a feeling something like this would happen as soon as Tenzo had returned with Asuma.
Reading the paper her eye's had been growing wider and wider, before a small smile crossed her face. 'My my Naruto what have you been doing, I wonder if they even know what is in this agreement, guess I will just have to wait and see' "Shizune, return this as soon as you can, this is only a first stage arrangement and needs to be ironed out" Tsunade said making several notes on the bottom of the page before adding her signature and handing it to her student and friend.
"Uh Tsunade-sama, was it something to do with Naruto-kun" Shizune asked.
"Indirectly yes, it seems he has convinced Yugito-chan to become a permanent envoy working with Konoha teams, we still have to work out what missions I can send her on as he only made it clear she was to be on the gaki's team for missions outside the village, there was also other proposals dealing with the Akatsuki and other issues but nothing all that important" Tsunade said happily.
Shizune gave a small nod seemingly satisfied with Tsunade's answer and left to return the forms to the Raikage via the same Kumo eagle that had delivered them.
(Elsewhere in Konoha)
Jiraiya was currently sitting with Kakashi in a small cafe, the pair were mostly talking about the perverted sannin's books and his last novel based on his latest pupil, moving on from the fictional version there conversation finally settled on Naruto.
"When I worked with him at Tenshi Bridge I couldn't help but think that he looks just like his father" Kakashi said with a eye smile.
"Yeah, they are just the same, in more ways than just looks though, when Naruto is serious or working on his seals he analyzes everything just like Minato, but when he is just relaxing hes so much like his mother its scary, the same smile and round face" Jiraiya said.
"I'm going to have to get to know him better once he gets back maybe help him learn a new jutsu, I know he has a large supply of Fuuton jutsu, but what's his second element" the copy ninja questioned.
"Don't know to tell the truth we haven't tested it, we just worked on mastering Sage mode, Fuinjutsu, Taijutsu, and Fuuton, we also spent a small amount of time working on Kyuubi's chakra but we did not have much success, he can use up to three tails but his anger gets to him to easily when he's using it and it does not take long to set him off" Jiraiya said giving Kakashi a basic run down on Naruto's training.
"Still he is quite impressive he had Orochimaru on the rope's, he even shattered Kusenagi" Kakashi said "How is that even possible that blade is supposed to be unbreakable"
"I don't know" Jiraiya admitted "How did it happen, if you can tell me I might have a theory"
"I only arrived at the end of the fight, but when I got there Naruto was pinned to the ground and holding the sword away from his chest with both hands, after a few moments he let go with one of his hands and smashed it straight through the sword like it was nothing" Kakashi said still finding it hard to believe that Naruto had once again done the unthinkable.
"hmm that is weird, the only thing I can think of is he charged the sword with Senjutsu to make it brittle the same way people who fail to control it turn into frogs and then to stone, if the same principle is used the sword of Kusenagi which is chakra conductive, he may have used it to channel his senjutsu overloading it making it brittle and able to break" the old hermit theorized.
"Well he always was unpredictable, even back in the academy would have been great to have him as a full time student" Kakashi sighed and gave Jiraiya a small glare knowing he had been the reason his request for Naruto in his genin team was declined.
"Why don't you teach him his second element, kami knows the kid could use some variety in his jutsu despite how versatile he is with it" Jiraiya said offering the copy cat the chance to work with his sensei's son
"Thanks Jiraiya-sama I would like that, think I might get a spar out of him as well, I'm without a doubt sure he has surpassed me already but I would still like to know for sure where I stand against him" Kakashi said with another eye smile. "So I am curious as his godfather has he received any marriage proposals yes since he has been unveiled as Minato sensei's son"
"Gah don't even talk to me about it, every semi noble civilian family in the land of fire has sent me letters, even some from Suna, I wouldn't even consider accepting any of them, although some of the photo's they sent were good for research" Jiraiya said finishing with a lecherous grin and producing a handful of small photo's most of them of lady's in lingerie in provocative pose's
Jiraiya and Kakashi sat there for the next few hours admiring and silently wondering why any woman in Konoha would send these sorts of pictures to the guardian of Naruto, especially when it was commonly known that Jiraiya was a self proclaimed super pervert.
(Kumo That Night)
Yugito awoke in confusion, her favorite pillow had been replaced with an ordinary pillow, and he was nowhere to be found in her now half empty apartment. 'where have you gone Naru-kun' she thought as she lazily put on a night gown and have a small look around the block.
Yugito didn't get far before she felt a large but familiar chakra spike. 'that was Naru-kun's chakra signature, what is he doing at a training ground this late at night' she thought as she ran off in the direction of her lover's chakra.
Arriving at the training ground Yugito saw hundreds of Naruto clones all focusing on various skills while what must have been the real Naruto was struggling to do stand.
"So this is his secret" came a voice from behind the shocked Yugito.
Spinning around she came face to face with the Raikage. "A-sama, what are you doing here" she asked
"A large chakra spike of that level in my village this late at night, I'm not the only one who is here" A said directing Yugito's attention to several Anbu and Jonnin standing around just watching his training.
"I see, but why is he having so much trouble just moving around" Yugito asked
"His loss to me today must have gotten to him, and he is now upped his weights to greater levels, even to the extent that he can hardly stand" A said looking down at the young Konoha ninja "The clones confuse me though what is the point of them"
"I know A-sama, its the shadow clone's special ability, and the reason it is a guarded technique of Konoha, the Kagebushin no jutsu allows for a experience gained by the clone to be learned by the user" she informed the Raikage who went wide eyed at this "Naruto is the only person who can use this type of training because the clones gather fatigue as well and that transfers to the user, if they were to receive all that information and fatigue without something to help in processing it like Kyuubi he would surely die" she said.
"The kid is a genius, he could effectively train for effectively a year in one day if he used enough, but judging by the way he is the only one training his body they don't help muscle mass" A said knowingly.
They sat and watched for a while longer until Naruto seemed to lessen his weights and dispelling his clones.
Naruto sat gathering sage mode not wanting to use his seals. Standing up in sage mode he created two cloned and began gathering chakra in his hand.
"What's he doing?" A asked looking intently at the boy in the clearing
A large bell screech rung out as a large form of a jutsu nobody that was observing had ever seen. "What is that... So much power" Yugito said in awe looking at the spiraling ball of wind chakra with four blades extending from the side's. There shock didn't end there when "he threw it" A yelled in shock, if Naruto didn't know they were there before he sure would have now.
Naruto's Rasenshuriken flew forward slamming into a large boulder before expanding, when the immense show of power died down there was no longer a boulder but a crater, everything in the blast zone had been vaporized "You know it's really hard to pretend your not watching if you are yelling out like that" Naruto said in a calm manner.
A, seeing this jutsu had been more than intrigued and arrived in the clearing next to the blond. "That, jutsu what was it" A asked, it was not an order just a curious question from someone who respected powerful jutsu, and that was the strongest he had seen, ever, it even trumped Kumo's treasured Kirin.
"That was one of the completed form's of the rasengan, I call it the Fuuton: Rasenshuriken" Naruto said calmly he was not surprised by the arival of the Raikage.
"Why did you not use this during our Duel" A asked.
"Well other than the obvious ones of me not being able to hit you with it or even form it properly with your speed. If I missed I would have hit the crowd and I didn't want to kill anybody, I don't like killing when I can avoid it, its the same reason I didn't use any of Kyuubi's chakra that raises my speed quite a bit you know" Naruto said with a small smile
"Hmm maybe but you are still far to early to challenge me" A joked
"Just you wait old man, I will become strong and fast enough to beat you soon enough" Naruto said with a smile "I better get back to my hotel room"
"Don't you mean Yugito-chan's" A said knowingly
"That obvious huh" Naruto said with a sweat drop.
"Well that and the fact she was out in a dressing gown looking for you before she came here, I saw her on my way over" A said
"She's still up on the hill watching, I better go don't want to make her more mad than she already is" the blond said before slowly walking in the direction Yugito was currently in.
Arriving next to Yugito the Konoha ninja could tell she was not amused. "Uh hi Yugi-chan, nice night isn't it"
"Don't give me that, why are you out here this late at night training" She said, giving Naruto a small glare
"Well I realized I still need to be much stronger than I am now if I'm going to be able to protect all the people who are precious to me, getting beaten so badly today showed me there was still so much I could still do to become stronger, and if I lost you because I was too weak I couldn't live with myself" Naruto said honestly.
Despite the fact that everything turned out alright in the end Naruto was depressed that the Raikage had been able to defeat him with no trouble at all once he went to full power.
"Hey don't feel to bad Naru-kun, I have never seen anybody fight with A-sama like that before except for Bee and he has full control over his Bijuu" Yugito said, hopeful that Naruto would feel better about his loss if she put it into perspective.
"I guess so but that doesn't mean I will stop trying to improve and beat him eventually" Naruto said determined to win the next time the two had a spar.
"I'm sure you will, but no more training in the middle of the night, your required to be my pillow during those hour's and it is non negotiable" Yugito said
"alright, we better get some sleep anyway, we have to finish your packing tomorrow so we can leave first thing the day after" Naruto said and wrapped his arm around his girlfriend before disappearing in a small tornado shunshin.
(Two Day's Later)
Naruto and Yugito were walking with the Raikage towards the gates of Kumo, Yugito had said her goodbye's the day before, she left Naruto to seal the remaining belongings that she was taking with her into his scrolls.
When they got to the gate they found Bee and his team there waiting for them. Bee was the first one to break the silence in his usual flamboyant manner. "See ya Yo-gi-to go show Konoha how we roll" causing A to smack his brother upside his head.
"Uh yeah, thanks Kirabi... I'll do my best" she said trying to avoid jumping for joy at the fact she would not have to put up with the constant rapping soon.
Samui then came up and gave a hug to her friend "Make sure you send us letters while your gone, I would hate to think you forgot about us"
"Not a chance Samui-chan, I could never forget about you, but right now its just not safe for me to be here" Yugito said returning the hug.
"Pfft maybe, but you wouldn't even consider leaving if it wasn't for your boyfriend over there" Samui said before playfully teasing Yugito about some of the things she would do to Naruto, aggravating the Nibi jinchuuriki.
They said some final farewells and slowly began heading off down the road to Konoha walking hand in hand.
End Chapter!
Not one of my best, I can admit that one.