Fire country- in a small village, close to Tanzaku Town.
3rd POV
It had been three days since she, Menma, and Jiraiya had been sent to go to look for Tsunade Senju. While they were on their journey, Jiraiya had started to teach them the Rasengan, the Jutsu of their father, both she and Menma were in the second step, but she could say that she was close to completing the second stage.
The reason why they were looking for Tsunade?, it's because the two hidden villages of the sound and sand invaded Konoha right in the middle of the finals of the Chunin exams. But the latter had been manipulated.
Orochimaru had the intention to kill Minato, so he disguised as Rasa, the Fourth Kazekage, after having killed the original and left the body as vultures food in the desert. He later fought Minato with the aid of the resurrected Shodaime and Nidaime Hokages with the use of the Edo Tensei. Sadly for him, Minato survived thanks to the fact that the Shodaime and Nidaime weren't fighting at their full power, and acting like puppets without consciousness, they weren't strategically attacking, but they did compensate by the sheer power of their Jutsu and the vast amount of chakra.
Because of the invasion, Konoha had lost a great number in both military strength and civilians, not to mention all the injured people.
In the actual time, Natsuki was reading a scroll of Jutsus for her affinities of wind and water, just then a knock could be heard at the door of their room, sighing she stands up from her own bed and started to walk to the door, but stopped before passing her brother's bed.
Now that she's thinking about it, she remembered having seeing Menma giving the keys to their room to Jiraiya after walking inside of it, so it can't be Jiraiya. A strange feeling starts to spread in her gut before she starts to focus on her sensory capabilities, only to gasp after having sense one great signature of chakra while the other was of a monstrous amount of chakra, it has to be the largest that she had ever sensed besides that of her mother, and even then this one was larger than her.
Turning around, she starts walking up to Menma and shaking his shoulder abruptly to wake him up.
A now-waked Menma was looking to Natsuki confused, and just as he was about to question her, he could hear other knocks on the door.
He was shaken out of his tiredness and confusion by a slightly agitated and nervous Natsuki who spoke in a low tone.
" Hurry up and pick everything, there is someone at the door who could be an enemy ninja, we have to get out of here and find Ero-Sennin!"
Now, fully awake by his frantic Sister's words, he gets up and starts to pick everything that was theirs.
Then, he and Natsuki were at either side of the door with their backs against the wall, he was about to ask his sister what was the plan until an Explosive clone appeared right in front of the door.
Natsuki, turning to look at Menma, saw his eyes widening in realization about her action, nodding at him. This wasn't going to be easy, she had a feeling that this was a really dangerous situation, she could already tell that today will be, in Shikamaru's words, troublesome.
On the other side of the door meanwhile.
We can see two figures wearing black cloaks with red clouds adorning on, with the collar of the cape covering the faces, while also wearing a conical straw hat with cloth strips covering, even more, their faces and two jingle bells.
One of these figures had what it looked like a large weapon strapped in white bandages on his back, he had blue-grey skin, small white eyes, sharp teeth, and three marks under his eyes, this person was Kisame Hoshigaki, missing-nin of Kiri, a former member of the Seven Swordsmen of the mist and the monster of the hidden mist.
Next to him, was a man who was a little shorter than him in terms of height, he had long, pronounced tear-troughs on his face. He had jet-black hair that was pulled back in a low ponytail and his face was framed with center-parted bangs that extended to his chin. Behind the cloth strips of his hat, two blood-red eyes could be seen, the Sharingan. This man was Itachi Uchiha, the traitor of the Uchiha clan.
Their mission was to confront the two Kyubi Jinchūrikis and see how strong were they, he was looking forward to this, it might be because he was curious about the abilities of Naruto's siblings. Yes, he still has trouble knowing that they are siblings, he still remembers five days before this mission, the revelation that had made Zetsu in their meeting.
Flashback-
The Akatsuki members were in a cave, on top of the Gēdo Māzō fingers, in form of holograms.
They're were discussing the location and abilities of the Nibi, Nanabi, and Rokubi Jinchūrikis, along with the number of their funds and how much they still need before starting the hunting, which is the job of Naruto.
That was until Zetsu Interrupted and said something out of the blue that took the attention of everybody, and off guard.
" Now that we're talking about the abilities of the Jinchūrikis along with their level of strength, Naruto-...why don't you tell us about the abilities of your siblings in Konoha." This, of course, shocked every member of Akatsuki, except for Pain and Konan, but it was clear that they were paying attention to this statement.
The cave was so silent that one could hear the sounds of the forest outside. After seeing what war could do at an early age at the end of the Third shinobi war, and being trained in early years and his time in Anbu, Itachi was very skilled in hiding his emotions and put a cold and indifferent face, he, along with Pain and Naruto, were known as the coldest and indifferent members out of all Akatsuki.
But even this, couldn't help him to not widen his eyes and let his mouth wide open like a fish thanks to the astonishment, and he wasn't the only one, almost everybody else was in the same state.
Naruto, on the other hand, was angry at Zetsu for letting this information out like nothing, he couldn't deny that his skill in espionage and information gathering was amazing. But there was one problem, and that is, that he's really, but really was a pain in the ass when he wants to, he could almost say that he was just as annoying as Hidan...no, forget that, there is nobody who is more annoying than Hidan, but he was close in terms of annoyance.
But of course, he didn't let any of his thoughts and emotions show in his eyes and the little that could be seen on his face.
" Zetsu, you should be careful, if you play too much with fire, you could get burned or...worst." Naruto threat. On the other hand, hearing Naruto's words, Zetsu only sent him a grin of amusement.
" Wait a minute!, you are the son of the Yondaime Hokage!? Why did you even leave the village,!Hm! So? are you going to tell us or not money sucker?" Shout a surprised and prying Deidara.
His only answer was a deadly glare from Naruto. Naruto hates that nickname, it's one of the nicknames that had given him Deidara, if he has a problem with his enjoyment of money, he can go and fuck himself.
" That is none of your business Brat, and for your question Zetsu-"
At this, Zetsu look at Naruto with curiosity, along with everybody else's..."- from what I know, they both have low Chunin level taijutsu, ninjutsu is the basic one of academic students, along with Kage Bunshin but it is something that will change as they're being taught by Jiraya the toad sage. Low and medium level of water, wind, and fire Jutsus, no Genjutsu, and Natsuki can use Kenjutsu of low Chunin level. That's all I know."
At this everyone was thinking about the abilities of the Kyubi Jinchūrikis, but Zetsu has something else to add.
"And how do you know this information, for what I know, you don't have spies inside of Konoha, for that, one has to look at the right location, people-... and archives of their shinobis, especially if we talking about the Hokage children. "
At this, Naruto who was already irritated about Zetsu narrowed his eyes at him, he responded in a notable irked voice.
" I have one, and she's good and will not be on the list of suspects for being a spy in Konoha, not only for her position in Konoha but also because nobody will be suspicious of her."
"And who would that be for you to actually be sure that she will not be caught, especially coming from you? I doubt I have ever heard you complimenting someone before."
Kisame asked with a curious tone, with the final comment accompanied with his signature shark grin.
" That is for me to know, and for you to not." Was the simple reply of Naruto. Then, Naruto turns to Zetsu and sends him a deadly glare along with his killer intent, something that the others were able to feel.
" Next time that you look into my affairs again, you better hope that you don't end up in a room with me present, I might not be able to control my temper and it might end up in a messy and painful ending for you, do you understand Zetsu?" Spoke a cold and indifferent Naruto.
Zetsu, for a long time, was scared for his life, and he was reminded of the day that he had recruited Naruto into their ranks.
The other Akatsuki members, while not surprised by Naruto's temper, As it was well known Naruto's violent nature most often than not, end with someone's death. And that is not mentioning his sadistic character.
They were surprised by the fact that Naruto just threatened to kill one of their members in front of them and with their leader present as the final touch.
Some were sending nervous looks at Pain to see if he was going to interfere, but they were surprised as he keeps quiet while looking at Naruto with a thoughtful expression.
After this, everyone ignored the tense air around Naruto and continue discussing their plans.
But Itachi was confused about one thing, if Naruto was the son of the Hokage, that means his mother is Kushina Uzumaki, so why did Zetsu mention her one time being in possible trouble, he could easily remember the eyes of Naruto, his eyes showing only coldness and indifference. But he could tell that was only a mask because he was able to see even if only for a second, a slight worry for the redhead woman, he could tell that she was and still is important to him. This information could be of good use in the right hands, especially in Pain or Madara...but that doesn't mean that he will share it, he might need help from Naruto in the future after all, and this information could be of good use.
Now that is interesting, he was curious about what the future had for them.
End flashback-
He was brought out of his thoughts, by the daughter of the Yondaime Hokage, Natsuki, opening the door and sending them a confused and nervous look.
He starts to say. " Natsuki-Chan, you and your brother are going to come with us." This was said with a cold voice and both of them could see how she started to get afraid.
But they then start to get confused for the wide smirk that had appeared on her face, Kisame was about to just knock her out, until her body began to light up with white light.
At this, both Itachi and Kisame eyes widen from surprise until BOOM!
A medium-size explosion occurred, smoke reign the hallways of the Hotel while other customers and workers felt the building shaking and trembling from the said explosion, luckily they were on the last floor and nobody was there beside them.
Four shadows jump out of the smoke, both Menma and Natsuki were at the end of the hallway, while both Akatsuki members were on the other side, both didn't suffer damage, their cloaks only are slightly burned here and there, and both had lost their hats.
" I didn't expect that, but now there is no way for you both to escape. Kisame, take them down but don't kill them, we need at least one of them alive, we should also hurry up, we don't know how long the genjutsu would distract the toad sage." Spoke Itachi, while not taking his eyes off the two Jinchūrikis in front of him.
At this, Kisame shows a bloodthirsty shark grin, just as he was about to take the handle of Samehada on his back, the blonde girl starts to talk.
".. So both of you are part from Akatsuki if the cloaks are anything to go by, Ero-Sennin told us about your organization." she said with a serious tone.
" Oh? Someone did her homework." Kisame said with a mocking tone on his words.
Narrowing her eyes at him, Natsuki replied.
" Why are you doing this?, hunting the Jinchūrikis for then killing them by extracting their tailed beasts and creating chaos in the Elemental Nations? Is it for power? greed? fun? revenge or perhaps for just bringing destruction?" Was the questions of the only blonde-haired person in the hallway in a serious and slightly angry voice.
To this, Kisame raises one of his eyebrows in surprise before bursting into laughter.
Something that Menma wasn't happy about, getting mad about the fish-like face, he starts to run at him at his maximum speed with an incomplete and not full power Rasengan in his right hand, which was deep red thanks to the Kyuubi chakra that he was inserting within.
Ignoring his sister's shouts of him to stop, he appeared right in Kisame face, and was about to clash his Rasengan against his chest, but, Kisame wasn't an S-rank Ninja for nothing, and in a rapid movement, he moves the upper part of his body to his left, and quicker then what Menma could have seen, Kisame took a hold of his stretch right arm directly on the wrist.
Kisame, Seeing the startled look which then turned to one of horror, could only grin, and with a violent movement of his hand, a loud CRACK! could be heard, along with the scream of pain from Menma who was on his knees, with the other hand holding his broken wrist in the hold of Kisame.
But Kisame Hasn't finished yet, and with the same hand that he broke the boy's wrist, he took a hold of his throat and with force, crash the kid's back against one of the walls of the hallway.
And all of this happens in just four seconds. Natsuki was mad that her brother had just rushed toward the enemy like an idiot, for not being able to control his emotions, and for that, he was now in trouble.
'Tch! fantastic! What can I do now? I can't take down either Itachi or his partner! the only thing I can do is stall them and wait for Ero-Sennin.'
But seeing that her brother was trying to free himself from the Akatsuki hold, she shouts with a voice full of worry.
"Menma!, don't move you just wasting strength and your broken wrist is going to get more damaged!"
At this, Menma stops thrashing around against the wall, so he just sent a glare filled with fury at Kisame.
And you will be asking yourself what was Kisame doing now? Well, that's easy. Kisame was grinning like a madman, it was then that he decided to have some fun with the brats.
"Hahaha...I'm disappointed, both of you are the children of the fourth Hokage, Jinchūrikis of the Kyuubi no Yōko, the strongest out of all the nine Tailed beasts and this is all you can do, both of you are weak, hahaha, Naruto is far stronger than me, if you can't land a finger on me, what can you do against him?"
Were the harsh and cruel words of Kisame, Who's grin was so big that it almost split his face in two.
Both Natsuki and Menma froze at the mention of their lost older brother, both were shocked by the words of Kisame, their brother wouldn't join a group of criminals, right?
Both could remember every single story that their mother had shared about their older brother, and just seeing the heartbroken expression of their mother, both knew that their mother's only desire was to reunite with her older son.
Narrowing her eyes on the blue-grey-skinned man, Natsuki spoke in a barely restrained enraged, and troubled voice.
" You lying, our brother won't join such criminals as you! Where is he! How do you even know our brother, tell me!"
Kisame knew he hit the jackpot by the reaction of the brats, and with a grin that reached his ears, he stated.
" Ha!, I can't tell you where is he, but how do I know him? hahaha..that's easy, he is a member of Akatsuki, not only that but also the most ruthless and sadistic with an obsession over money more than what I call healthy."
Both Menma and Natsuki were shocked, to say the least, their brother was part of an organization that is hunting them for their tailed beast, a criminal organization made of S-Class shinobis, who are bloodthirsty, maniacs, sadistic, murders, and crazy people. They felt like their world was shaken out of its foundation, they were confused and not sure how to feel.
" Kisame enough of games, take the child, and let's leave, we don't necessarily need both of them, only one." Hearing his partner, Kisame nodded and was about to take a step back.
When two kunai enforced with wind chakra, giving them more speed and penetration power were thrown at him, one right at his forearm, the same arm that he was holding Menma's throat with, and the other at his face, he didn't have another choice than to retract his arm from the hold on the kid throat and jumped back at Itachi side.
The kunai incrusted against the wall, and right at where Kisame was just a couple of seconds ago, there was Jiraya with a serious face while holding Menma on his left shoulder.
" Ero-Sannin! Where were you!" Shout an angry and relief Menma. While Natsuki sighed in relief.
" I was busy, it was then that I felt an explosion coming from this direction, and the fact that I also felt some of Natsuki chakra did help a little."
Was the simple answer of Jiraiya while a small grin grew on his face.
While the Konoha shinobis were talking, Itachi had only one thought that could describe the situation he and his partner were in with the arrival of the Sannin.
'Shit!..' it looks like poor Itachi is going to have a tough day.
Land of Waves -
We can see two figures in black cloaks with red clouds on, walking until they stop at the bridge connecting with the land of fire to the island where the land of Waves is located.
At the right side of the bridge, was a wall of cement, where a plate of gold was situated. The figures keep walking closer until the lowest of the two figures start to read what was inscribed on the plate out loud.
" A bridge in honor for the heroes who have brought hope and freed our land from a tyrant in our darkest time, welcome to The Great Menma and Natsuki bridge... huh, what piece of shit, who thought that those brats will be considered as heroes huh Naruto ?" Was the words of a bored Hidan, who turned to look at his companion.
Naruto, having heard Hidan reading out loud the plate and his question, just gave him a 'Hn' and start to walk on the bridge with Hidan at his side.
"Hey, you Bastard! About if you tell me what the fuck are we doing in a place like this, you still didn't tell me what are we here for?" Was the question of a mad Hidan.
Naruto has told him that their next stop was the Land of Waves just after having collected the recompense from some shinobis of Kumo, but didn't tell him why.
Naruto, on the other hand, just let out a tired sigh, he had already lost count of how many times did Hidan ask the same question.
" Fine! we're here because I'm looking for the grave of Zabuza, for what I have heard, he is buried somewhere in a cliff." Was the answer of an irritated Naruto.
" Finally! Was that too hard to say? Noo! But why are we looking for the mummy grave? Are you going to pay your respect or something like that ?"Asked a curious Hidan.
Hearing Hidan's question, Naruto ignores his first comment and then states.
"That, and because I'm looking for his sword, Kūbikiribōchō".
" Why? also don't you already have that Chokuto of yours?" Asked a confused Hidan, he, of course, knew the story of Kūbikiribōchō for being one of the seventh swords of the mist.
" Yes, but my Chokuto it's not perfect, and with the abilities of Kūbikiribōchō, I will not need another sword. Also, Zabuza was my sensei at one time and he made me promise that if he died, I would hold his sword, and if I find somebody who could prove to be worthy to wield the sword, I could decide to give it to that person. Now let's hurry up."
And with that, they keep walking until they arrived at the Village, it wasn't hard to look for the grave of Zabuza, after asking some of the locals for the location of the grave, it wasn't until almost one hour later that Naruto and Hidan were standing right in front of the grave of Zabuza and Haku.
Hidan sent a questioning look at Naruto and ask.
" How are you going to travel with that sword-" at this, he pointed at the Zanbato incrusted in the grave of Zabuza "- without a sheath for that, and isn't it going to annoy you with those masks of yours on your back?"
At this Naruto sent him a look that clearly said 'are you that stupid?'.
Shaking his head, he replies while taking a hold of Kūbi by her handle with his right hand, ( Note: from here I will call Kūbikiribōchō as Kūbi, it's better this way for the name being too long to write)
" I don't need to, I just seal her in a storage seal I have on my wrist just under my marks of the Jiongu if necessary." When he said this and took Kūbi out of the grave and held her up in the air, he took note that the sword was broken with the half part of the sword missing, and the edge of the sword being blunt and with some missing parts.
Hidan seeing the state of the sword exploded, laughing his ass off.
" Hahaha.. that sword looks like shit hahaha." Was the only sentence he could say before exploding again in laughter.
Naruto getting irritated by Hidan's laugh, turn around to face him, but it was then a thought crossed his mind, and with a big sadistic grin on his hidden face, and with a tight grip on the handle of Kūbi with his right hand, he slashes with what it remained of the edge from the sword at Hidan right's arm, separating it from the shoulder, and swing the sword again at his stomach section. His reward? Some screams of pain from Hidan, along with some vulgar words.
While Hidan was cursing him and screaming while reaching for his limb while holding his open stomach with his remaining arm, Naruto watched as Kūbi started repairing itself, recovering the sharp edge, and missing parts of the sword, and all thanks to Kūbi absorbing the blood of Hidan.
When Hidan paid more attention, he saw that the sword had repaired itself and that all the blood that was on it, wasn't there anymore. It was then, that he remembered the ability of this sword, and then he understood the reason for Naruto cutting him, but he was also sure that he enjoyed making him scream in pain..oh he's going to get him back for this, that Bastard.
" Now that you stop screaming like a woman, we can go." Said Naruto while lazily holding Kūbi on His shoulder, while before the remaining of the sword wasn't longer than the length of Naruto's arm, it was now in its full size. Kubikiribōchō is a large broadsword, as tall as a full-grown man, which in the case of Naruto, was perfect thanks to his height and brutal force, shaped like a butcher knife. The blade itself has two cutouts, a circle close to the top and a semi-circular one nearer to the handle, the former of which is aptly fitting the sword's purpose of decapitation. Its extremely long handle is also detachable to further aid transportation and then reattached when required for combat.
In general, with Naruto with Kūbikiribōchō on his shoulder, it appears that he will easily be the terror of his enemies. After having reattached the arm of Hidan thanks to the threads inside of his body, Naruto seals Kūbi in the storage seal on his right wrist, above the tattoos of the Jiongu.
But now, he didn't know what to do with the Chokuto on his hand, looking at Hidan, who was looking at him curiously, he threw the sword at him, who catches it with ease, while also sending a questionable look at him.
Knowing what he was thinking, he answered while turning around to walk away. " You can have it, if I were you, I would seal it in a storage scroll In case you lose that scythe of yours."
At this Hidan was surprised but after thinking about it a little bit, he nodded and seals it in a storage scroll hidden inside of his cloak pockets.
Looking at his partner, he asks while following his teammate. " Now what?" At his partner's question, Naruto kept walking for some seconds in silence before answering. "We need more funds, the Tsuchikage requested our help for a job that he has for us." At this Hidan nodded, and they start to make their way out of the Land of Waves and to the land of earth.
