CHAPTER 9
"Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly."-Robert Kennedy
-Flashback-
Naruto and the group were once more getting ready to leave and head out again to search for the rest of the jinchuriki. A small group of people had gathered to say goodbye to Naruto and his group. Naruto walked up to the first person he had to say goodbye to, he met him shortly after he and Yagura started to bond more.
"Chojuro you are a very kind person but you need to work on your confidence and practice with the hiramekarei until you're really good with it ok" Naruto said. Chojuro just nodded not trusting his voice.
Naruto now turned to the other jinchuriki he met in Kiri he was a few years older than him. "Utakata my brother I know you still don't like Saiken but it would be a good idea to talk to him and also I hope we meet again soon" Naruto said.
Naruto turned to one of the two people who were really important to him that he met in Kiri. "Mei-neechan it was fun to meet you and I hope that you keep piling on the paperwork for Yagura-nisan" at that Mei smirked and Yagura looked down in hate at the word paperwork. Naruto now leaned in close to whisper in her ear "Mei-neechan I know you like Yagura-nisan so try and show him it just might lead somewhere" Mei looked slightly shocked that he knew she liked Yagura but then again it didn't really surprise her.
Naruto now turned to the last person "Yagura-nisan I had fun while here in Kiri and I want you to know that I want you to come to my chunin exams in a few years" Naruto said. Yagura slightly smirked "like I would miss you kicking everybody's but ya right" Yagura said. Naruto nodded and then turned away and walked up to his family.
They turned and walked towards the gate but not before Naruto waved to everyone one last time. Now that they were out of Kiri Naruto turned to Jiraiya once again "so ero-jiji where are headed?" Naruto asked.
Jiraiya huffed slightly at his nickname sure he was a pervert and wrote pervy books but it's not like he does any of that unless it's with Tsunade, seriously the kid sees him and Tsunade kissing and he suddenly gets the nickname ero-jiji.
"well Naruto-kun my spies have told me where the other five jinchuriki are, there are two in kumo one in taki and two in iwa going to taki shouldn't be a problem since they are our allies and kumo shouldn't be a problem either since the only thing that konoha doesn't like about them is the hyuga incident, but going to iwa will be a problem" Jiraiya said.
Naruto nodded in understanding "I guess we should head to taki then since their allies" Naruto said. Jiraiya nodded his head at that logic he then turned to Naruto and smirked "you do know that's about a two week journey right?" Jiraiya asked with a hidden smirk.
When Naruto and Sasuke heard this they complained about such long travel making Jiraiya chuckle at their antics while Tsunade and Shizune just rolled their eyes at Naruto Sasuke and Jiraiyas antics.
The journey to taki passed by rather fast but was uneventful for Narutos group. After a week of travel they encountered some bandits, but other than that there were no accidents on their way to taki.
Naruto and company had traveled for the two weeks jiraiya said they would need to when Jiraiya stopped "what's wrong ero-jiji?" Naruto asked.
"well we are here Naruto I just stopped because we need to check for anyone else since no one is supposed to see where the entrance is" Jiraiya said, he then motioned for everyone to follow him as he walked right through the waterfall in front of him.
Doing as he did Naruto and Sasuke approached the waterfall before they shrugged and walked through where Jiraiya had, when they were through the waterfall on the other side they saw jiraiya waiting for them along with a few taki ninja who were standing next to Jiraiya.
"What's going on ero-jiji and who are these people?" Naruto asked. "we have just passed through the entrance to taki and these people are a few ninja from taki Naruto-kun they were here when I came through I explained why we are here so they are taking us to the leader of taki for our meeting" Jiraiya said, but when Naruto looked at Jiraiya he knew that Jiraiya had only told a half truth he could tell that he only told the ninja they were meeting the leader nothing of the jinchuriki.
Naruto nodded his head in understanding and when the whole group was through the waterfall the taki ninja walked them to meet their leader.
The walk through the village was uneventful, as they reached a large building they walked in to see a man who looked like a civilian but they could tell he was the village leader. "What do I owe this great pleasure of meeting two sannin" the man said with a smile on his face.
Jiraiya stepped forward "I wish for this conversation to only be between the three of us may everyone else leave" Jiraiya said. The man nodded and waved everyone off, Jiraiya then turned to Naruto Sasuke and Shizune "go look around just don't get in any trouble" Jiraiya said.
They nodded in understanding and walked out of the office, Shizune went to go find a hot spring and Naruto and Sasuke walked off into the forest to have a spar. As the boys reached an empty clearing they turned to each other and smirked.
"So what should we practice first?" Sasuke asked. Naruto seemed to think for a bit before he turned to Sasuke and replied "I think we should start with you first, practicing with Gaara and Chojuro really help your sharingan develop but I don't think it is ready for high speeds yet so let's practice getting your sharingan to react to high speeds, but we should work on your speed to because even if you can see it doesn't mean you can react to it" Sasuke nodded in understanding.
Naruto then walked forward and had Sasuke stick his arm out and he then drew something on him in ink and then Sasuke slouched slightly. "Ok were ready now" Naruto said. As the boys were getting ready a set of orange eyes watched them.
Naruto and Sasuke once more stood apart from one another Naruto got into his taijutsu stance and Sasuke did the same after turning on his fully developed sharingan. Neither moved for a bit before naruto acted first and threw a kunai at Sasuke who saw it coming but was slowed down so he slightly moved to the side but then got kicked right in the face by naruto.
Sasuke stood up slowly and looked around at naruto before he charged this time Sasuke got right next to Naruto and started a taijutsu fight, Sasuke and naruto were dodging and blocking each other's attacks but a few got through here and there. When the two separated they each had a few scuffs cuts and bruises but were otherwise fine.
"I think it's time we get a little serious wouldn't you agree Sasuke?" Naruto said. Sasuke smirked "I think your right Naruto let's get a little serious" Sasuke said. Naruto and sasuke then both started going through handsigns faster then two ten year olds should have been able to.
Then at the same time the both shouted "fire style: fire dragon bullet" they started shooting the multiple fire bullets at the others fire bullets creating multiple small explosions. The explosions lasted at bit longer before the both ended the jutsu and jumped back.
"Your fire style is still impressive Sasuke" Naruto said. "And for someone who doesn't have an affinity for fire you're not bad Naruto" Sasuke said.
They both looked at each other before smirking and going through handsigns again. "Fire style: fireball jutsu" Sasuke said shooting a huge fireball out of his mouth. Naruto smirked when he ended his seals and water started to swirl around him materializing out of thin air before it circled around him and the fireball hit the water " water style : water wall" Naruto said.
The set of orange eyes widened to huge proportions 'that man just pulled water out of the air only the second hokage was ever able to do that who is this man' the person thought to themselves.
Naruto and Sasuke smirked at each other "well that takes care of nin and taijutsu so what's next Sasuke?" Naruto asked. "Well I would say genjutsu but we both know that's pointless against each other so how about we greet our guest" Sasuke said,
"I was starting to wonder when you would notice them maybe you skills are rusty Sasuke" Naruto said. Sasuke scoffed " I was just waiting to see if they would show themselves I knew they were here the whole time" Sasuke said.
Naruto and Sasuke then both looked to where the figure was hiding before Naruto spoke up "well are you going to introduce yourself?" Naruto asked.
The person jumped into the clearing showing it to be a girl who looked about twelve with mint green hair with an orange hair clip and orange eyes that was wearing a short sleeveless white midriff shirt with mess armor underneath long white armlets and mesh shorts with a white skirt over it and her taki headband was on her right arm.
The figure glared a bit at the two before talking "you two are trespassing in Takigakure state your names and how you got here" she said with as much authority as she could but on the inside she was sweating. 'my bugs say they both have huge chakra pools and from the high level jutsu they know how to use it but this blond one his chakra levels dwarf kages and he pulled water out of the air even with Chomei I don't think I could beat these two she thought to herself.
"Well normally the other person gives their name first but I will be nice since we are guest so my name is Sasuke Uchiha" Sasuke said. The persons eyes widened a little everyone had heard about how a bunch of ninja attacked the Uchiha clan but she assumed all the Uchiha stayed in Konoha to be safe.
Naruto then stepped forward "I am Naruto Namikaze so who are you miss seven?" Naruto said. Now the girl's eyes were the size of plates she was about to turn and run before Naruto spoke again.
"I am mister nine I don't mean you any harm I simply wish to know your name" Naruto said. Then when the girl turned around she had noticed that Naruto now had tails and ears 'he-he's a jinchuriki, I guess I should talk to him then' the girl thought.
She slowly turned around and walked next to Naruto "um hi then I guess, my name is Fu" Fu said. Naruto nodded and called his ears and tails back "nice to meet you Fu-san it is always nice to meet my fellow siblings" Naruto said.
Fu looked wide eyed again "you have met others" she practically shouted. Naruto nodded his head "Sasuke place your hand on my shoulder Fu-san please put your hand on my forehead" Naruto said. Fu looked at him strangely before doing as he asked if she couldn't trust a fellow jinchuriki then who could she trust.
Once Fu's hand touched Naruto's head she Naruto and Sasuke appeared in a large white space Naruto and Sasuke were on top of Kurama's head and she was on top of Chomei's "Naruto-san where are we?" Fu asked. "Just a minute Fu-san you shall see soon" Naruto said.
In suna Gaara was sparing with his dad when he suddenly stopped moving so Kaito moved next to him "Gaara is something wrong" Kaito asked. "Father please go and get neechan and nisan" Gaara said. Kaito nodded before he left and shortly returned with Temari and Kankuro "Gaara-kun what's wrong?" Temari asked fearing something was wrong.
"Naruto is calling put your hands on me" Gaara said everyone was slightly surprised but said nothing and did as Gaara asked and placed their hands on him then they saw white.
In Kiri a similar situation was occurring Yagura was doing paperwork when he felt it is was almost like a pull in the back of his head, he stopped what he was doing and called to Mei who quickly ran in "what is it Yagura-kun?" Mei asked. "go and get Chojuro please Utakata will be here soon" Yagura said. Mei wanted to question what was going on but knew better and left the office to go find Chojuro, when she returned with Chojuro Utakata was already their like Yagura said, but before she could ask a question Yagura spoke up.
"Chojuro please put your hand on Utakata's forehead and Mei-chan please place your hand on my forehead and please no questions you will understand soon" Yagura said. Mei and Chojuro did as asked and then they to saw white.
Fu was about to ask Naruto what was going on when others started to appear the first was the one tailed Shukaku with four people on his head, the next was the six tailed slug Saiken with two people on its head and the last to appear was the three tailed turtle Isobu with two people on its head.
Before anyone could say anything Naruto spoke up "hello everyone I have called you all here because I am in taki and met another jinchuriki but I also called you here for us all to meet each other I might know all of you but none of you have meet the others yet" Naruto said.
Naruto then scratched Kurama's ear indicating he wanted down. Kurama understood and lowered his head so naruto and Sasuke could step down. The other bijuu slowly followed Kurama's example and let their riders down off their heads.
Once everyone was gathered in the middle of the bijuu circle Naruto spoke again "Gaara could you and your family introduce yourselves first please" Naruto said. Gaara nodded and spoke up.
"I am Gaara from suna youngest son of the fourth Kazekage and jinchuriki of Shukaku" Gaara said. Everyone nodded storing the information away for later, the next to step forward was Temari. "I am Temari from suna eldest daughter of the fourth Kazekage" Temari said then Kankuro stepped forward.
"I am Kankuro from suna middle son of the fourth Kazekage" Kankuro said then the last to step forward was Kaito. "I am Kaito from suna proud father of these three and the fourth Kazekage" Kaito said and everyone again nodded remembering the important information.
Next to step forward was Utakata "I am Utakata from Kiri and the jinchuriki of Saiken" Utakata said. Next was Chojuro who looked a little nervous "I am Cho-Chojuro from Kiri and in training to be one of the se-seven ninja swordsmen of the m-mist" Chojuro said.
Then Yagura stepped forward "I am Yagura from Kiri jinchuriki of Isobu and the fourth Mizukage" Yagura said. The last to step forward was Mei "I am Mei Terumi from Kiri and Yagura-kuns teammate secretary and girlfriend" Mei said with a slight blush at mentioning being Yaguras girlfriend.
Naruto now stepped forward with a slight chuckle "so who said something first huh you Mei-neechan or was it Yagura-nisan?" Naruto asked. Mei blushed slightly again but talked anyway "well Yagura was doing paperwork again like always and I slipped a fake document in that said he would be my boyfriend if he signed it and it kind of went from their" Mei said. Naruto chuckled a bit at the cleverness behind that one and then stepped forward "as you all know I am Naruto Namikaze from konoha and I am the son of the fourth hokage and his wife and the jinchuriki of Kurama" Naruto said.
then Sasuke stepped forward "I am Sasuke Uchiha youngest son of the Uchiha clan head and my mother Mikoto and younger brother to Itachi and Shisui Uchiha" Sasuke said. After that everyone turned to fu who looked between shocked and happy.
Fu had never met so many people at once let alone people who were kind not only were four of them fellow jinchuriki but the rest didn't even care that the others were jinchuriki to Fu this was like a dream she didn't want to wake up from because everyone was nice to her. With her mind reassured and a smile on her face Fu introduced herself.
"I am Fu from taki and jinchuriki of Chomei" Fu said. Everyone smiled and greeted Fu. After everyone had been introduced they all started talking about their life experiences and their unique abilities, all the while the bijuu were smiling before Kurama smirked.
"he really might just be the one don't you think" Kurama said. The other bijuu nodded at that "we wouldn't have melded our chakra with his if we didn't think that Kurama" Saiken said he then turned to Chomei. "what about you Chomei you have been really quiet you think he could be the one to don't you?" Saiken asked.
Chomei nodded slightly "even if I didn't he has the support of three bijuu which is quite an accomplishment though that does make me wonder why haven't you melded your chakra with him Kurama especially since he's your host?" Chomei asked.
Kurama smirked slightly " I want to wait until he is ready and has melded with the others before I test him through combat to see if he has what it takes to have the support of the nine bijuu" Kurama said.
The others nodded at that and had to agree with that when their riders came back to them so they all lowered their heads again to let them on, once all the people were back on the bijuu them can on Naruto spoke again.
"it was nice to see everyone again and we will meet like this again when either one of us wishes to talk or when I meet another jinchuriki" Naruto said. Everyone nodded at that and then their image started to slowly fade.
When Fu opened her eyes she noticed it was still bright out, knowing they had talked for at least a few hours when they met the other jinchuriki so she turned to Naruto to ask why it was still bright. "so Naruto-san why is it still bright here?"Fu asked.
"the mindscape we were in is a special one that only jinchuriki bijuu and those touching them can enter no matter how much time passes in their only a second will have passed out here" Naruto said. Fu was slightly surprised about that, with that kind of ability you could go to the mindscape and be there for what would be the time equal of a month and you could plan a war or a really elaborate battle strategy and when you open your eyes no time in the real world would have passed.
Before Fu could say anything else Jiraiya Tsunade and the leader of taki where their next to her Naruto and Sasuke. "Well I see you met Fu and you didn't destroy the training field so that's good" Jiraiya said.