Still don't own Naruto
Chapter 59: Hunting Bee.
Naruto and Fukusaku made there way over to the Hokage tower after Yugito woke up. Jumping through the window they found Tsunade passed out at her desk.
"Guess she didn't get any sleep last night either" Naruto said fondly.
"Do ya think we should wake her up" Fukusaku asked.
"Um no, I think I would prefer to live" said Naruto. The last thing he wanted was to confront an angry Tsunade this early in the morning.
"Then what do we do? Leave and come back later?" Fukusaku suggested.
"No, considering the time her daily paperwork should arrive in a few minutes Shizune will wake her up for us" Naruto said and he took a seat and waited.
Fukusaku shrugged and just took the seat next to Naruto and waited. Sure enough five minutes later Shizune came in with a large stack of papers followed by Tonton.
"Good morning Shizune Nee-chan" Naruto said when she entered.
"Oh Naruto-kun, your here early" she said as she placed the stack of paper's on Tsunade's desk and removed the empty bottle of sake from the busty Hokage's hand before shaking her awake.
Tsunade slowly stirred. "Damn it Shizune if you woke me up just for paperwork I'm going to make sure your working triple shift's at the hospital for a month" she snapped. Standing up to make herself look more imposing.
"I'm sorry Tsunade-sama but Naruto-kun and Fukusaku-sama are here to see you" Shizune said grabbing Tonton off the floor.
Naruto then made his presence known by giving Tsunade a hug. "Thank you for saving him" Naruto whispered not breaking the hug.
After a short moment she returned the hug in a motherly fashion before giving Naruto a kiss on the forehead. "No. Your the one who saved him. I should be thanking you" she said as a smile crossed her face.
"I don't mean to interrupt, but we came here for a reason Naruto-chan" Fukusaku said.
"Oh right. Baa-chan, I have some information on Pein" Naruto said releasing Tsunade from the hug and earning a bump on the head for calling Tsunade, Baa-chan yet again. "Ow, you would think that after awhile you would get used to me calling you that" he whined rubbing the small bump forming on his head.
"What information do you have. We will need any advantage we can get if we want to be able to defeat Pein.
"Well I know that each separate body has one primary ability, that is a gift from the main body which can use them all. At least that is my theory" Naruto said trying to make it sound like he didn't know too much from his small encounter with Pein.
"So one body that controls all six. That doesn't need to be around to fight. If the puppet's were able to defeat Jiraiya so heavily how strong must the real body be" Tsunade said.
Naruto then went on to tell Tsunade a summary of Prin's path's ability's being careful not to give away too much so that what he said would no longer be believable.
"I see and do you have any idea who the person is?" Tsunade asked.
"No, we will need to wait for Jiraiya sensei to wake up" Naruto lied.
"Given what Jiraiya-chan had told me. From the start he thought it was his former pupil Nagato, but we need Jiraiya-chan to be sure" Fukusaku said playing along.
"well, I don't know when he will be up, that senjutsu speed's up the healing but he should still be out for at least a day" Tsunade said.
"Oh ok. Uh do you know where Kakashi sensei is? I need his help to find out what I am doing wrong with the Hirashin. He saw my dad use it, so he might know something" Naruto said.
"Uh Kakashi... Shizune where is Kakashi?" Tsunade asked.
"Um Tsunade-sama, you sent Kakashi, Gai, and Tenzo to Uzu to find Naruto-kun a couple of day's ago" Shizune said.
(Meanwhile in Uzu)
"Do you have Naruto's scent yet" Kakashi asked his small pug dog.
"Yeah I just got hold of it it's leading into the center of the village" Pakun said.
"Well let's go then the sooner we find Naruto the sooner we can get out of this ghost town" Kakashi said.
"Yosh, then it shall be a challenge. I will extend my lead over you my eternal rival buy finding the youthful Naruto before you do" Gai said.
'Of all the people to bring on this mission why did it have to be him. I just hope Kakashi sempai doesn't make it worse... Again!' Tenzo thought.
"Huh, you say something Gai" Kakashi said taking his one good eye out of his book.
'Why? Kakashi sempai, how could you. Will this nightmare never end!' Tenzo wept internally. It had not been a good couple of day's for Tenzo. It was common knowledge in Konoha that while Kakashi and Gai were the strongest partnership in the village outside of the sannin and maybe the original Ino-shika-cho. The downside however, was for anyone partnering with them. Gai would constantly challenge Kakashi to compete in almost anything, and Kakashi would pretend he didn't here. In small doses this was bearable. But every fifteen minutes for two and a half day's not so much. The highlight of the trip had been when Gai challenged Kakashi to see who could fall asleep fastest and Kakashi pretended to already be sleeping sending Gai on a five minute long rant about how he would fall asleep faster than Kakashi the next night or he would run around Konoha blindfolded and with his leg's tied together.
"Ah curse you and your hip attitude, Kakashi. Just you watch I will find Naruto-kun faster than your summons" Gai said before he ran off searching every house that was remotely still intact on not completely overgrown by the forest that surrounded them.
"Great, now we are going to have to find him once we find Naruto" Tenzo sighed.
"Could be worse" Kakashi proposed sticking his nose out of his book as Pakun followed Naruto's scent.
"How could it" Tenzo replied.
"He could still be here talking about flame's of youth" the one eyed man said.
(Konoha)
"Uh I think we should send them a message to tell them Naruto back here and they are to return home" Tsunade said.
"Yes I sent one late last night, after we finished Jiraiya-sama's surgery" Shizune said with a small smile.
"Well that's good, they could be walking around the island for day's, just looking for me" Naruto said. he couldn't help but laugh at the thought.
"Well we need them back here, there is no telling when they will come looking for you now. If you know there secret they will want you out of the way to make sure as few people know it as possible" Tsunade said.
"I know, but I'm not ready to face him yet. I need a place out of the way that I can train. That's why once sensei is out of the hospital I'm going with Fukusaku sensei to Myobokuzan to train" Naruto told the Hokage.
"What? But we need you here, what if Pein attacks?" Tsunade asked.
"We will leave a messenger toad. Should something go wrong he can reverse summon Naruto-chan, and several battle toad's to Konoha. That way Naruto-chan can save his energy and wont have to summon us himself" Fukusaku said.
"Alright I guess that sound's acceptable. Are you going to take anyone with you?" she asked.
"Yugi-chan for sure. If Pein dose come to Konoha I am not leaving her here by herself. And Jiraiya sensei, he may not be able to train himself for a few week's but I still need him to train me. And he will know more about Pein's fighting style than I do" Naruto answered.
"I guess that would be alright. But not until after Jiraiya get's out of the hospital of course. Knowing him that wont take to long, he hate's hospital's more than a town with no bar or hot spring's" Tsunade said with an affectionate smile.
(Land of Lightening)
Sasuke's group who had been keeping of the road's so as not to be seen in an area that was full of patrolling ninja arrived at the top of a small cliff. Just below them was a small shack that looked like a guard house with a large fence that by the look of many signs strapped to it was charged with Raiton chakra.
"This area is closed off for a reason. The jinchuuriki must be around here somewhere. Karin I need to know how many people are in the area" Sasuke said activating his sharingan to check for traps.
"There are two guard's in the shack. I can also sense other scouting team's in the area but they are a good distance away at the moment" Karin said.
"Good, this will be the perfect place to get our answer's, but we will have to deal with the other team's if this is indeed where the jinchuuriki is we will need to get them out of the way first" Sasuke said.
"Gah finally we get some action. I haven't had a fight since Kisame" Suigetsu said.
"That wasn't a fight. All that happened was you got your ass handed to you" Karin yelled in response.
"Quiet, they will hear us if you yell like that" Sasuke whispered in a authoritative tone.
Below them the door to the guard shack opened and two Kumo chunin wandered out. "Did you hear that? It sounded like people talking" one of the guard's said loudly.
The other looked around for awhile then replied. "I don't see anything, must have been you're imagination"
"I guess so, but I could have sworn I heard a woman yell" the first guard to speak said scratching the back of his head in confusion.
"Chidori esio" Sasuke whispered from his hiding place.
A long lightening spear shot down from the cliff's above the pair of guards pinning one to the ground. The other made to retaliate but found himself face to face with a angry Jugo who picked him up and sent him sailing into the fence electrocuted and paralyzed. But still very much alive.
"Well that was easy" said Suigetsu jumping down after Sasuke. Kubikiribocho resting across both of his shoulders as he walked over to Sasuke who still had the lightening spear in the Kumo chunin pinning him to the ground.
"Tell me where the jinchuuriki is" Sasuke said his sharingan began to spin.
"Fuck you, I would never give up Bee-sama's location. Go find that Nibi slut who ran off to Konoha" the man yelled before spitting in Sasuke's face.
'How dare he disrespect me like that!' "Oh don't worry I have plan's for Konoha. But first I need to deal with the host of the Hachibi. Now tell me where he is Now!" Sasuke ordered and his eyes morphed to from the interlocking oval's of his Mangekyo Sharingan.
The chunin on the ground wriggled under his gaze trying to fight the pressure that was building, it was like Sasuke was inside his head trying to pull it apart looking for the answer's himself. "Gah fine. He's inside this valley but it would be foolish to attempt to take him on. Bee-sama is the second strongest shinobi in Kumo" he said unable to help himself.
Sasuke's Mangekyo Sharingan faded back to it's standard form and Sasuke smirked. "Thank you. But you spat in the face of an Uchiha, you should always respect your better's" Sasuke said while smirking.
The poor man didn't have time to reply as Sasuke moved the Chidori Esio to remove the Kumo chunin's head, his eyes still wide from the shock, and mouth agape in a silent scream as it left his body.
His partner who could still not move well watched on in complete fear as his comrade's head rolled over to him.
"Let's go" said Sasuke, his voice was as calm and at ease as it would have been had he not just brutally murdered a helpless captive.
"What about this guy" Suigetsu asked pointing to the paralyzed man who couldn't take his eyes off the decapitated head laying before him.
"Leave him alive, but tie him up. He wont be able to move for hour's but we need him out of the way for a couple of day's. Keeping him alive, will send a warning to Kumo, not to mess with an Uchiha" Sasuke said. The Uchiha paused for a minute as if in deep thought. "Come on we need to hunt down and kill the other groups that are watching the jinchuuriki. I want him captured by tomorrow" Sasuke said tossing some ninja wire to Suigetsu.
(Uzu)
Kakashi and Tenzo came to the large Uzumaki compound and paused taking in the sheer grandeur and power the building seemed to posses despite the fact it had been burned and had multiple point's of structural damage most likely caused by jutsu as the ground's themselves seemed to be perfectly well kept.
"He has to be in there" Pakun said sniffing the air looking to see if his scent traveled away.
"Well lead the way, we don't have all day. If this take's too long Tsunade-sama will blow a fuse" Kakashi said looking around the yard for any signs of movement or traps.
Pakun led the two Konoha ninja into the house and sniffing around found the last direction the scent headed in. the room was unremarkable, completely empty and had no windows to allow outside light in.
"The scent stop's here" the small dog said standing in the center of the room.
"How is that possible" Kakashi asked.
"I don't know I'm a dog, I can't make any more sense out of this than you can" Pakun said.
"Maybe there is a genjutsu that is hiding something?" Kakashi guessed raising his head band up to reveal his sharingan.
Both the copy ninja's eyes widened as his eyes were able to see through the illusion that was protecting the wall's, but not well. He could make out that there were word's written on the walls but he could not make out what they were. "Kai" he yelled in an attempt to release the jutsu allowing him to see properly but nothing happened.
'What type of genjutsu is this. To still be active after so long and immune to the sharingan' Kakashi thought as he walked up to the wall squinting to try and make out the word's.
"Um, Kakashi sempai, have you found something?" Tenzo questioned.
"There is a genjutsu here but it cant be broken and the sharingan can't see though it well. My guess would be seeing as it is in the Uzumaki clan home that you would need Uzumaki blood to see though it. It might have some clue as to where Naruto is but I cant make out anything" Kakashi said.
Then the part time cyclops had an idea. 'If I can't break the genjutsu I will just have to make my eyes stronger' he thought activating his Mangekyo Sharingan.
The wall's that had previously been blurred and unreadable slowly came into focus. Now being able to see what was written Kakashi came to the realization as to what the genjutsu protected. "It's a family tree" Kakashi informed the Mokuton user.
"Why would they protect something like that so heavily" Tenzo asked.
"I don't know but I just found Naruto's name. It must be able to trace the Uzumaki blood somehow. That would make this dangerous for any enemy of the Uzumaki clan to get a hold of" Kakashi said.
"Is, there any, switch or secret passage" Tenzo asked.
"No it doesn't look like it. All I see are more names" Kakashi sighed.
Tenzo created a chair with his Mokuton and sat sighing in defeat. "What do we do now".
As if in answer to his question a large hawk flew into the room and landed on Kakashi's shoulder sticking out a leg for him to collect the message it carried.
Kakashi. Naruto has returned to Konoha. We need you back immediately. Jiraiya has been injured and we need your team back in case the Akatsuki try to take advantage of Jiraiya's injury to attack.
"Well I found Naruto" Kakashi said.
"You did? What did the message say, where's Naruto?" Tenzo queried.
"At Konoha" Kakashi replied with a sweat drop.
Tenzo broke. He had just spent the better part of three day's listening to Gai and Kakashi go on and on with there infuriating ritual of challenges. "Kami we came here for nothing, man this sucks. We should probably should go find Gai" he cried out.
(Konoha)
Naruto had just left the hospital after checking on Jiraiya and he was heading to a training ground with Yugito and Fukusaku. Shima had returned to Myobokuzan after she informed Naruto that Jiraiya should be awake by tomorrow night. Sooner if he comes to the hospital every couple of hours and top's up Jiraiya's senjutsu.
"So Naruto-chan what do you want to work on first" Fukusaku asked.
"I need to improve my nature manipulation and control. The Rinnegan allows for near perfect chakra control. He doesn't need hand sign's to do all but the most powerful jutsu. I still need hand seal's to almost anything but the Rasengan and Hirashin" Naruto admitted.
"Well we better get to work then. You know the drill create your clones and make them split up. One hundred get to work cutting boulders with Fuuton chakra. While another hundred begin floating water. We are going to work on your Hirashin and maybe some sparing" Fukusaku said.
Naruto got to work and created his clones and sent them to work before taking out several of his Kunai. "So, my main problem is I cant seem to activate my kunai from long distances. It is also taking me awhile to re materialize, it should be instant but it takes me almost a second" Naruto said.
"You just need practice. First let's just see how quickly you can move from kunai to kunai. You said the activation last's thirty second's. So throw thirty five kunai at the same time and try to travel to each one before the thirty second's is up" Fukusaku ordered.
Naruto created thirty five more clones and gave each of them a kunai making them spread out leaving one standing beside him.
"And go!" Fukusaku yelled causing all of the clones to thrown there kunai in different directions in a large circle.
Naruto acted quickly and the moment he felt the pull from the first kunai and took off flashing around the clearing. He made it to kunai twenty nine before he felt the pull fade.
"Ok Naruto-chan, I want ya to continue this exercise until ya can get all of the way around then increase the amount of kunai. Ya should speed up. Ya will also need to work on you're reactions. You're father was so fast because he had the reaction time to instantly arrive and disappear without thinking" Fukusaku informed the blond.
"Ok sound's like a plan. How many do you think would be a good number to aim for?" Naruto asked the elder toad.
"I don't know to tell you the truth. Minato-chan never summoned us in a fight, Ma and I only met him a couple of times, with Jiraiya-chan. We will just have to wait until he can help" sighed Fukusaku.
Naruto returned to his training in an attempt to speed himself up, meanwhile elsewhere in the village Tsunade was just finishing up giving a summary of what they had found out about Pein to the village elder's and Danzo.
"And that's all we know about his abilities. His identity is still unknown but we believe Jiriaya knows his true identity. We just need him to wake up from the coma he is in. according to Shima-sama the toad elder he should wake by tomorrow some time" The hokage informed the elder's.
"If he is in a coma, how did he escape this Pein?" Homura queried.
"Naruto arrived at the last second and pulled him out" Tsunade said. She did not think the elder's needed to know Naruto had completed the Hirashin. They gave her enough grief about the boy already.
"You let our jinchuuriki face up against the leader of the Akatsuki. That is foolish beyond belief, we need to keep the boy in Konoha safe not sending him into danger" Koharu said disapprovingly
"I didn't send him there, he sort of just appeared. And why would I keep one of the strongest shinobi this village has to offer, out of the action when he is needed?" Tsunade said.
"He is a weapon, and should be treated as such. He may be strong, but with too much free will, he has become nothing more than a delinquent that goes where he like's" Danzo said flatly.
"He is no more of a weapon than any of my ninja. He is a Ninja of this village, and a fine one at that. I will not restrict his movement when that freedom you seem to hate that he has saved Jiraiya's life and brought us valuable information in regards to Pein" The busty hokage snapped in reply.
Danzo showed no reaction at all and just stood there leaning on his cane. 'She is weak. Too weak to rule this village. The gaki need's to be controlled, not sent out to run around as he pleases. My time will come to rule this village like it should be' Danzo thought before turning and leaving the room while Homura and Koharu still argued there case for protecting Naruto by restricting his movement to the village.
(Land of Lightening)
Sasuke slowly removed his hand from a Kumo genin's chest and looked out over the valley. "How many more group's are there watching the valley?" he asked Karin.
"I can sense at least three more. It seems that Kumo is really protective of this guy" Karin said.
"Well that's a shame. I was just getting in the zone of the whole silent killing thing. I can see why Zabuza liked it so much" said Suigetsu his bloody cleaver resting on his shoulder.
"We will rest for now. Tonight we will take care of the remaining squad's and move on the jinchuuriki in the morning" Sasuke said.
The others nodded in agreement and the set off to find a area to set up a discreet camp for them to rest before nightfall.
'After tomorrow all I will have to do is deliver the jinchuuriki to Madara then I can go annihilate Konoha. It will be there punishment for the death of my clan and brother' Sasuke thought with a vicious smile that rather than make him look happy only accentuated the almost mental instability he possessed.
End Chapter.
Bit of a nothing chapter really, just used it to separate Jiraiya's fight and Sasuke's.
Till next time.