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(Unknown location)

In a dark cave holograms of figures started to appear. Once nine had appeared the leader said "I want a report on the locations of all the tailed beasts especially the four that have not been found. Deidara is there an update on the one tails?"

Deidara responded "Yes, he has been made Kazekage which means that he will be in the village more, but this shouldn't be an issue as my man Sasori has a spy in the village that is in charge of the village's defenses. Slipping past them should be easy."

The leader nodded "Sasori is there an update on the two tails."

Sasori shook his head and said, "No there is no update and we are still tracking her."

The leader nodded again "Has anyone found out anything about the three tails."

The shark man spoke up "While investigating a rumor on the nine tails Samehada got a sent on it and we tracked it to an isolated lake in the Land of Hot Water."

The leader nodded happily that one of the unfound beasts was located. "Kisame do you have any updates on the four tails?"

"We found him in the southern part of the Land of Earth but he was able to get away before we could do anything. From what we heard, he likes the mountainous and isolated parts of the south and east of the land of earth." Kisame responded.

The leader only said "Kakuzu any updates on the five tails?"

"No we have no updates and to save time I'll update everyone on the next few targets. The six tails is currently in the land of woods with a once powerful clan working as an instructor to the heir to the clan. We currently have him being tailed. The seven tails has been banished from the hidden waterfall. Apparently the nine tails came and informed the village head of us and the village banished her. My source believes that she is currently with the nine tails, but they were able to leave before a tail could be placed on them."

The leader was not happy about this while the six tails had been found the seven was now off the radar and the nine tails as well. If they were together that could cause issues for the team that went after them. "Itachi do you have an update on the eight tails?"

Itachi simply said "No."

"Has anyone heard anything about Komei?" The leader asked.

Kisame then said, "I heard a few rumors that he passed through the Land of Hot water and then into the Land of Lighting, but no actionable information."

The leader angry that they had taken two steps forward and one step back in finding the tailed beasts said "You are all dismissed we cannot have any more mistakes."

(Hidden Rain)

The leader of the Akatsuki opened his eyes and looked over the city that he ruled. Behind him, a swirl appeared in the air. Out of that swirl appeared a man and once his full body had appeared he said "We are having more problems than we should be having with this. Trusting Komei was not a good idea."

"He was like many of the others we recruited an S-Rank Ninja that abandoned their Village. His skills in information collecting are on para with Jiraiya of the Sannin and his kekkei genkai makes him a formidable opponent. Even the Sharingan can't track his attacks." The body with spiky orange hair said.

"That may be true, but now he is running around with our secrets. He is at least keeping his head down, but I doubt he is going to do that forever. If he is left alive for too long, he could stop our plan for peace." The man said.

The body with orange spiky hair look back at the man who had appeared out of nowhere. The man was wearing a basic black jumpsuit that was lightly armored. He was wearing an orange swirl mask with one eye hole.

The body then said, "What should we do about him?"

"It may come to the point where you need to intervene and fight him. For now, the zombie brothers have located their targets, so send them to hunt him down. Kakuzu is one of the few in the Akatsuki with the resources and knowledge to find him and Hidan won't mind hunting a powerful opponent." The orange masked man said.

"I'll tell them their new assignment." The body said looking back over the rain. The masked man turned back into a swirl and disappeared.

(Land of rice patties)

Jiraiya had just met with the Fuma clan and was currently writing a message to Tsunade. The message was telling her about the situation and that she should send help.

However, one thing was still bothering him and that was that he had overheard a few girls talking about a boy they had seen recently. He didn't make out everything but he knew that they thought the boy was cute, had spiky blond hair and that he had saved one of the girls in the group. But the detail that really had him thinking was that he heard one say Menma Uzumaki.

'It must have been Naruto who came here and he must have headed to the waterfall to forward the Fuma clans letter to the Leaf. He must have gone to the Whirlpool because if he thought that Menma was a good alias he must have been far off the grid and that's why I haven't been able to find him. Well at least he got a bit better it was only dumb luck I found out about him and he used a third party to move the message and keep his hands clean of anything that happened. So should I investigate the waterfall or the Whirlpool?' Jiraiya thought on it for a minute. 'I should check out the waterfall first if I am quick he still might be there. If I don't get any leads I can always go to the Whirlpool.'

He finished the message and summoned a messenger toad. The toad took it and was off to give it to Tsunade. Then the toad sage got up and headed in the direction of the waterfall. 'I should be able to get there by noon tomorrow.' Jiraiya said to himself.

(Land of earth)

Two days after leaving the Waterfall Naruto and Fuu made it into the Land of Earth. They had stopped at the first town they had come across and bought some maps of the Land of Earth.

They had just found a clearing Naruto pulled his hood down and his mask off. He didn't particularly like to wear them but people who looked like him, more specifically his dad, commonly would find more trouble in the Land of earth. They sat down and pulled out the maps they had gotten earlier that day. They started to plan out how they were going to cross the Land of earth.

They chose a path that was along the southern border of the country and then go through the center of the Land of Mountains. This would put them far away from civilization so there was less chance of Naruto getting recognized. Hopefully, they would not run into any ninja on that route to avoid any commotion.

After they had finished planning Fuu fell back into the grass and let out an exacerbated sigh. Naruto looked down at her and playfully said, "What, are you tired already?"

Fuu pouted and looked away and said, "No, it's just going to be a long and annoying journey and just because you can't show your face in this country."

"Well, think about it this way. You are going to be the only girl in the Land of Earth to see my beautiful face." Naruto said jokingly while flashing a foxy grin.

Fuu looked away to hide her blush and said "Whatever."

(Hidden Waterfall Village)

Jiraiya was getting close to the hidden waterfall when four Ninja from the village appeared. He had not been trying to hide in fact he wanted to be found. Since he was going to be on a diplomatic mission he felt that sneaking around was not for the best.

The leader said, "State your business for being here."

Jiraiya replied "I am here on a diplomatic mission from the Leaf. I am here to see Lord Shibuki."

The leader said, "Of course Lord Jiraiya we will lead you to the village now."

They quickly got to the village once they enter the four waterfall ninja went back to their patrol and left Jiraiya to get to Shibuki himself.

Once Jiraiya was on his own he summoned a dozen toads and said "I need you guys to look around the village and try and find Naruto or any information on where he is. I'll summon you again tonight. If you find him trail him and stay out of sight." The toads nodded and went off on their assignment.

Jiraiya then went to the center island. He didn't have to wait long for Shibuki to call him into his office.

"So what does the leaf want?" Shibuki said in a flat tone.

Jiraiya internally sighed he knew that the waterfall was one of the villages that were not happy with what happened to Naruto. The waterfall didn't do anything as couldn't afford to cause an international incident over Naruto's banishment but they had been a bit less cooperative in the past year.

"I came here to talk to you about the Akatsuki," Jiraiya said.

Shibuki sighed replied "We have already heard about the Akatsuki. The council came to the decision to have our Jinchuuriki banished. She left several days ago. I don't know where she went."

Jiraiya's eyes widened and he shouted "You as good has handed her over to the Akatsuki. Do you have any idea what kind of problems that could cause?"

Shibuki glared and Jiraiya "The matter was out of my hands. Anyway, I sent her to a friend that can keep her safe. As to who I can't tell you. I promised him I would tell no one."

Jiraiya sighed "Well if she is being looked after then that's about as much as I can ask for. Unless there is anything else I need to send a report back to the Hokage."

Shibuki shook his head and said, "That is all."

Jiraiya left his office and went and got a hotel room. Later that night Jiraiya summoned his toads he had sent scouting earlier. Once they appeared he said, "Did you guys find anything."

One said, "Naruto was definitely here but he left a few days ago."

Another said "I heard a group of girls talking. They didn't seem too happy because Naruto was spending a lot of time with a different girl named Fuu. The group didn't seem to like Fuu."

None of the others had seen or heard anything different.

'Fuu is this villages Jinchuuriki, so Naruto must be this friend that Shibuki was talking about. He and Fuu must be traveling together. They are the same age.' Jiraiya started to giggle as perverted thoughts started to enter his mind.

After he got over those thoughts he went back to thinking about finding Naruto. 'Well, either way, I don't know where they are going after leaving here. They must be stuck on one side of the continent. They could go west to the land of wind as Gaara would protect them now that he is Kazekage. He could have also gone east back to the Whirlpool.'

The toads not getting any orders decided to leave as Jiraiya continued to think. 'Well there are two options east or west since I still have to meet with the other villages that have Jinchuuriki I'll go east to the cloud and mist to warn them I'll check the Whirlpool on the way to the Mist. That would be the most off the radar place. After the Mist, I'll go to the cloud.' Jiraiya continued to plan out his trip to find Naruto and warn the rest of the villages about the Akatsuki. After he completed his plan he sent a message to Tsunade about what he was going to do and what he had found.

(Hokage's office)

Tsunade was doing some paperwork when a toad hopped in through the window. Tsunade recognized it as one of Jiraiya's messenger toads. It held out a scroll and Tsunade took it. She then reached into her desk and pulled out a piece of candy and gave it to the toad. Who said "Thanks" before disappearing in a puff of smoke.

'Jiraiya already sent a message two days ago about the Fuma clan. I don't think he could have got to the whirlpool by now. I wonder what this is about.' With that thought Tsunade opened the scroll and started to read.

While investigating the Fuma clan I heard a rumor of a boy with spiky blond hair possibly named Menma Uzumaki saving one of their members. Based on that I think this Menma kid is Naruto. Ya, I would have face palmed if I wasn't in the middle of their compound. If I find him, I am going to have to explain that changing his name from one ramen topping to another isn't a good alias. So I went to the waterfall to see if I could find him as it seems he used them as a middle man to send the letter. He had been in the waterfall, but he had already left by the time I got there.

Tsunade smiled at this it meant that Naruto was definitely not trying to hurt the leaf. In fact, he was helping it by providing information on one of the leaf's biggest enemies. She believed that Naruto would not hurt the leaf, but this got rid of all doubts she had. She continued to read.

While I was in the Waterfall I told Shibuki about the Akatsuki. He then informed me that there Jinchuuriki, Fuu, had been banished out of fear the Akatsuki would attack the village. Although he told me that she was not by herself. All he would tell me is that she left with a 'Friend'. I also heard some rumors that Naruto and Fuu spent some time together and the Naruto left at the same time as Fuu. Based on all of this I believe that our little brat got a Jinchuuriki girlfriend and is now somewhere in the elemental Nations. It almost gives me ideas for my next book.

Tsunade just looked at the last part blankly for a few minutes. 'Naruto you really know how to get in the middle of stuff.' With that thought Tsunade continued to read.

If Naruto wants to disappear again I feel that he will go back to the whirlpool, so I am going to go there and check it out. After that, I am going to the Mist and cloud to warn them about the Akatsuki. If I don't find Naruto, I'll come back to the leaf. If I am right and Fuu is with him then I will take her along with me as well, and we can see what we can do for her.

Tsunade thought 'I don't know how much we can do for Fuu, but she needs to be kept out of the Akatsuki's hands.' She then smiled as this was the first time that she had any news on Naruto since he left.

(Land of whirlpools)

Jiraiya had just stepped onto the coast of the Land of Whirlpools it had been about seven days since Naruto left the waterfall. 'Well, I don't see much but not like I expected to. Even if Naruto could detect me here it would be awhile before he could react to me being here. I would guess that he would stay in the capital at the center it would have the most space and shelter out of everywhere on this island. But I'll summon some scout toads to look around the island.' That that he ran through some hand signs and summon a dozen small toads.

"I want you guys to look around this island and see if there is any human activity if you find Naruto message me at once." The toads nodded and went looking.

Jiraiya started to walk to the capital of the island. Once got there he started to look around. It was clear that someone had been doing heavy training with fresh burn marks and craters. Many of the craters looked like they were made by rasengan training. Jiraiya also found that a lot of trees seemed to have the leafs stripped off them but had started to grow back.

'Well based on the rasengan craters it seems that Naruto was here, but the newest of these is at least a few weeks old so he either hasn't been here or hasn't been training here for a little bit. Based on the nearly leafless trees he must have been doing the leaf cutting exercise which would mean he has a wind affinity.' Jiraiya thought.

'I'll stay here for a few days just in case he is hiding or not here at the moment. If he is hiding eventually he will come out, but if he is just not here then I'll just have to wait for him to come back or move on.

Jiraiya then went and explored the Uzumaki clan compound. 'Good thing some idiot left that window open if they hadn't it would have been impossible to get into the main hall.'

Jiraiya looked around the main hall of the Uzumaki clan. Jiraiya noticed that there was a clear pathway that looked like it was used a lot but didn't look like anyone had used it in a week or so. Jiraiya followed the trail and found out that it led to the front entrance of a room with a very complicated seal that Jiraiya could not figure out. It had a blood activation part at the center and the rest seemed to be a storage and projection seal, but he could not understand more than 90% of the seal. 'I bet if I had a year and a nice library on sealing I could figure this out. I wonder what would happen if I tried to activate the seal. I have a little Uzumaki blood in me from my great grandfather.'

Jiraiya bit his thumb and activated the seal. It glowed blue for a second and then a voice could be heard "You are not an Uzumaki you may not enter the Vault please leave."

Jiraiya looked around for a bit but saw no one 'I wonder if that is part of the projection seal I saw earlier. And it called this place the Vault. I remember how Kushina went back here when she was a chunin for two years and learned sealing she said she learned it in a place called the vault but couldn't say more as it was an Uzumaki clan secret.' Jiraiya thought.

'Naruto must have come here and learned sealing. He must have also been training in other parts of the shinobi arts based on the mess he left. I wonder how far he has progressed it's only been a year and a half but with his reserves and determination, he could pull off a lot. Either way, I'll set up camp and stay for three days if I see nothing by then he likely didn't come back here after leaving the waterfall. If not here, then probably he went to the sand. I should leave something here in case Naruto returns so that he will know that I am looking for him. I'll leave a note near the Vault if he comes back he will definitely go there so he will see it.'

Jiraiya spent the next three days in the Whirlpool to see if Naruto would show up once they were over and there was no sign of him he left and started his journey to the Mist.

Before Jiraiya left he sat down a pulled out a piece of paper and started to write.

Naruto

I am leaving this here so that if you ever find it you will know that I am looking for you. I know that you know who your parents were and you likely know that I am your godfather. I know I wasn't there for you when you were young but please let me be here for you now.

Both I and Tsunade know that you have taken you father's library and that's fine. It's probably good that you did if the council found out they would have made the biggest shit storm ever, probably bigger then when your mom and Tsunade caught me peeping at a hot spring. But it's not like they could stop you as it was your inheritance and you had every right to take it.

After the Akatsuki came looking for you in the village I decided that I was going to take you on a training trip being your godfather I always wanted to take you on one. Once you were banished I was still planning on taking you on the trip I was going to meet you a couple miles from the village, but I guess that you left a bit early and I missed you.

I understand if you don't want to see me again since I did leave you out to hang for the first 12 years of your life and I don't have a good excuse for it so I am not even going to try and justify it. It was wrong of me to not even check up on you. Either way, if you are willing to forgive me we can still do that training trip, but if you don't then I would still just like to see you and make sure you are safe. I would like to do my job as your godfather at least a little bit, so your mom doesn't give me eternal suffering in the next life. I also want to keep you safe from the Akatsuki I failed you a lot and I don't want to fail you more.

The seal on this page will let you contact me if you activate it I will know that you want to see me and I will be able to find you.

Jiraiya

PS Tsunade misses you too and wants to see you again.

After Jiraiya finished writing the letter he went back into the Uzumaki compound and stuck it on to the door that led to the Vault.

(Land of Earth)

It had been about a week since Naruto and Fuu had left the waterfall. They had made good progress but it was slow because of the terrain. They hadn't seen any sign any other person, but they expected that based on the route they were taking.

"This seems like a good place to set up camp for the night," Naruto said. Fuu simply nodded she was too tired to say anything, while she was an experienced shinobi she had never traveled over rough terrain for a week straight. Naruto was doing better but not by much he was also exhausted. On the trip, he learned there was a difference between training hard all the time and traveling hard constantly.

After they had set down their gear and started to set up camp both tensed and turned quickly when they heard "Hay you like to share a campfire with another traveler?" The voice came from a short older looking man with red hair tied back in a ponytail that also came down on his face to form a goatee. He wore a purple shirt and matching pants with brown armor on his chest and sides. He wore a crown shaped head peace with the Hidden Stone symbol in the middle over his forehead.

He then started to walk forward and said, "By the way my name is Roshi." Naruto looked at him for a minute and studying him to see if he meant them any harm. Once satisfied that he was not an immediate threat he replied "Sure." Naruto pulled his mask down to reveal his face but left his hood up to hide his hair.

Fuu was still tense about letting a stranger into their camp but didn't say anything. 'I'll have to keep an eye on him. He definitely wants something besides to sharing a camp spot for the night, anyone in this area is here to make sure that they are not found.'

All three pulled out storage scrolls that held various things for setting up a camp. Naruto quickly went and gathered enough firewood for a fire. He set up a fire and pulled out a fire starter when Roshi said, "Don't worry I got it." Roshi then bent over and placed his hand over the firewood and a second later it was ablaze.

'He must have used fire chakra to start the fire.' Naruto thought to himself.

Roshi then pulled out a large pot and said, "If you would like I could cook us all a stew for dinner."

Fuu was very apprehensive about letting a complete stranger cook for them, but Naruto was less hesitant and said, "Thanks that would be nice."

While Roshi went to go filled the pot in a nearby stream Fuu leaned over to Naruto and said "Are you sure we can trust him. He is a complete stranger."

Naruto replied "He is a complete stranger, but there seems to be something familiar about him and I can't sense any killing intent off him so I don't think he is here to hurt us. I can tell he wants something from us, but I don't know what it is. Let's just make camp with him and figure out what it is." Fuu was not happy about it, but if Naruto was willing to risk trusting him then she would go along for now.

Roshi returned and pulled out the need ingredients and started to make the stew. Soon it was done and Roshi served both Naruto and Fuu a bowl. Once everyone was finished eating. Roshi said, "So what are two Jinchuuriki doing out here in the middle of nowhere?" Both Naruto and Fuu tensed and were about to run as far and as fast as they could.

However, Roshi spoke before they could move and said, "Don't worry you are in good company." After saying that he rolled up his sleeve to reveal a complex seal on his upper arm. Naruto being versed in seals realized it was the type of seal that would hold a tailed beast in a person.

Fuu was still tense but didn't move. Naruto relaxed a little, but he kept his guard up. He said, "So you are also a Jinchuuriki?"

"Yes I am the Jinchuuriki of the four tails but he likes to go by his full name Son Goku. From what he tells me you are the Jinchuuriki of the nine and your girlfriend is the Jinchuuriki of the seven." Roshi responded.

Both Naruto and Fuu blushed looking away at Roshi saying that they were a couple and because they looked away they didn't notice the other mirroring their actions. Roshi smiled to himself at how they acted when he brought up them being a couple, but neither openly denied it.

Naruto regained his composure first and said, "Wait so your tailed beast told you about us?"

"Yes tailed beasts have a way of detecting each other over long distances and when close they can telepathically communicate. Me and Son have been together for over 50 years while I would not say we are friends he will tell me things from time to time and answer most of my questions. Also when he senses that there is a Jinchuuriki near he tells me." Roshi responded.

"But anyway, you didn't answer my question of what you to are doing here?" Roshi asked a second time.

Naruto responded "We are using a roundabout way to the Land of Wind. Both of us were banished from our village, and the leader of the Akatsuki operates out of the rain."

"Akatsuki who are they?" Roshi asked.

At this point, both Naruto and Fuu had relaxed realizing there was no immediate danger. "The Akatsuki are a group of nine S-rank missing ninja that are trying to collect all of the tailed beasts. I don't know why but there is no way it can be good."

Roshi thought for a minute and said, "I'll have to go tell Onoki about this if they are after Jinchuuriki then Han will be in danger and I don't want to see him get hurt."

"Han is the other Jinchuuriki of the Stone?" Naruto asked.

Roshi Nodded and said "I'll have to go and find him. Maybe I can talk Onoki into helping."

"That would be good. I don't want the Akatsuki to get any of the Jinchuuriki." Naruto replied.

The three continued to talk until they went to bed. The next day all three of them got up early as they all had long journeys.

(Land of Mountains)

Naruto and Fuu were looking for a place to set up camp. As they were running Naruto looked up at the sky and noticed that there were clouds gathering. 'This isn't good this area is prone to flooding when a heavy rain storm comes.' Naruto thought.

Naruto looked to Fuu who was also looking up at the sky and he said, "It looks like it's going to start raining soon. We need to find a cave or at least some high ground so we can stay dry." Fuu nodded and they quickened their pace and started to look for somewhere they could stay.

As they were running Naruto felt a drop of water fall onto his face and he looked up. 'Shit it's starting sooner than I thought it would. We need to get to some cover fast.'

Naruto looked to Fuu who had also noticed that it was starting to rain. Both knew that they had to find shelter quickly, so they quickened there pace and were getting desperate to find anything that they could use as cover.

Within ten minutes of the rain starting they were already both completely soaked. Naruto finally spotted a cave that they could take shelter in. The only problem with it was that they would have to cross a few streams that were moving quickly and growing in size.

They both realized that waiting would only make things worse so they started to cross the streams by using chakra enhanced jumping over the streams. The waters were too unstable and fast for them to try and water walk across.

On the last jump, Naruto noticed that the ground was a more slippery than the other places where he had jumped. As he was landing on the far side of the stream he looked back to make sure Fuu was coming across. A look of horror came across Naruto's face when he saw Fuu. Her foot had slipped and she launched only half way across the river. She had also hit the water head first disorienting her.

Naruto started to run along the stream as fast as he could to not get to far from Fuu. Once he was close he went through some hand signs. 'I hope this works.' Naruto said to himself and then he said "Water style: water dragon Jutsu."

A small water dragon came out of the water and hit Fuu and pushed her onto the bank of the stream. Naruto quickly ran over to her and checked her for any injuries. There were a few cuts and scrapes but none that deep. They would be healed in an hour or less.

The most worrying thing to Naruto was that she was unconscious, but there was no blood coming from her head. Naruto picked her up bridal style and ran over to the cave. Thankfully it was dry and sloped up a bit so water wouldn't run into it.

Naruto laid Fuu on the cave floor and took off Fuu's traveling cloak and jacket as they were completely soaked. He hesitated when it came to her white two-piece that she normally wore they were wet but Naruto was a bit too embarrassed to take them off. He unsealed a towel from a scroll in his backpack and dried Fuu off.

Once she was dry Naruto pull out a blank sealing tag, ink, and a brush. He made a seal and then activated it. It was a heat seal so it started to radiate a lot of heat and warm up the cave. Heat seals could be used as a replacement for a fire when it was too wet for a normal fire or there was no fire wood.

While the seal did warm up the cave it was still quite cold being open to the outside. Naruto looked at and saw that Fuu was shivering lightly. He then leaned over and touched her skin to see if she felt cold. When his fingers reached her skin he felt that it was icy cold Naruto freaked out for a second before he reminded himself that she had only been pulled out of water five minutes ago. 'Calm down Naruto you can't expect her to be warm now but you still need to warm her up.' Naruto commanded himself.

Naruto started to look through the storage compartment on Fuu's bug cylinder to get her sleeping bag out. Naruto cursed under his breath when he saw that the compartment had opened and all of her storage scrolls had fallen out. 'Well, now what? I need to warm up Fuu. The heat seal won't last all night and it will be too cold to sleep without a sleeping bag.'

Naruto sighed as he saw his only option and it was going to be awkward when they woke up. Naruto pulled out his sleeping bag and put Fuu in it. Naruto then dried himself off and got on a dry set of clothes. Naruto then pulled Fuu and his sleeping bag over to the wall of the cave. He then climbed into the sleeping bag with Fuu so that he was leaning up against the wall of the cave and Fuu was leaning into his chest. He also wrapped his arms around her to keep them close. It was a bit tight but it was better than being cold and wet.

Once they were settled Naruto looked down at Fuu and saw that she was nuzzling into his chest. Naruto smiled as he thought Fuu looked cute. After all of the activity of the day and not getting much sleep going through the rough mountain terrain he fell asleep.

(The next morning)

Fuu slowly woke up she didn't remember what happened her head hurt and whatever she was laying on was very comfortable. She didn't know what she was laying on but it was warm and just the right combination of soft and firm. After a little bit her head started to clear and she realized that it was making a low and rhythmic thumping sound and it was also slowly rising up and down.

Fuu then remembered what was happening earlier. First, that it was raining and that she and Naruto were crossing streams to get to a cave. Then that she had slipped and fallen into the stream.

Once she realized she fell into the stream she opened her eyes and tried to get up, but something was holding her down. She saw that she was in the same sleeping bag as Naruto and that his arms were wrapped around her.

Naruto woke up when he felt Fuu suddenly move. Thinking that something was wrong he said, "What's wrong?"

Fuu then started to blush and stuttered out "What… Sleeping bag, you? … River?"

Naruto then unzipped the sleeping bag and got out and sat next to Fuu. Fuu was a bit disappointed because as the embarrassment had gone down she realized that laying on Naruto was really comfortable, but she didn't let it show.

Fuu was going to get out of the sleeping bag but Naruto said "No you should stay and rest up you fell into the river. When you fell all of you scrolls fell into the river and washed away."

Fuu looked down and said "Sorry."

Naruto pulled her into a hug and said "Don't worry about it. The rain stopped, so we can leave if you are feeling good. There's a town not too far off our path and we can go there and get you some new gear."

Fuu nodded into Naruto's chest. They both got out of the hug and Fuu said "I am feeling Ok, so let's leave." She just wanted to get moving to get the thoughts of her laying on Naruto out of her head.

Naruto nodded and they started to pack up and get moving.

After leaving the cave they went to a small town and got Fuu enough gear to get to the Sand, where she could get better gear. Once they were done they left heading for the Sand.

End chapter

(N/A)

Well I hope that last bit came out well because I have no idea if it did. Also I will have more of their own individual thoughts on what they did just next chapter.

Some people (one person) have suggest I use the Rōmaji versions of name of places which is very common in fanfiction. I tried and I just couldn't. My brain refused to work with me on this one so I decided to just stay with English. It's probably just a minor complaint any way.

Also I have stopped using honorifics. I know I only used them like five times total, but it just wasn't working so I am no longer using them.