The Trinity III
Disclaimer: I don't own Naruto
Following day
Naruto sighed as he signed off on another paper. It was just about day break and he was finally done signing all of the papers that needed to be signed. Snapping his fingers, he tried not to laugh as his secretary rushed in; coffee in hand and placed it in his out stretch hand. He thanked her before handing her his finished paperwork to be reviewed. He turned around and pressed deeper into his new chair, he knew he made the right decision, the old one was to soft, this one was just right. His window allowed him to view the waves splash onto the beach, and in the far distance the sun was starting to break the horizon giving the ocean a type of orange hue. He wasn't big on scenery but he loved to look at the ocean.
Zabuza walked into the office closely followed by Koyuki and Nanami. Not to say he wasn't tired but he was nervous, not only did they have the most influential individual in the whole shinobi nation coming in today, she didn't come alone. And their only ace was powerless, well that wasn't the word but a Naruto with no Sekai was a drastically weaker Naruto.
He sighed as he took his seat. It didn't take long for Tsunade to arrive followed by the Hyuga representative as customary, and her two body guards.
Tsunade frowned as she looked around the room. Not bad, they obviously believed in luxury. It wasn't a bad office and she couldn't help but thinking that having something like this in Konoha wouldn't be so bad, but then her mind reminded her that her office was blown to bits and she narrowed her eyes at Naruto or at least what she thought was Naruto the chair was too high and covered his body well. She noticed that they had designated seats so she took hers, which placed her across the table from Naruto. There was only one more seat available and it had the name Hyuga on it. Hinata took that seat. Minato chose to stand behind Hinata and Kakashi stood behind her. Maybe it was a sort of mind game, or Minato was seeing something she didn't, it didn't matter the meeting was about to begin, it was time to unravel Naruto intentions.
Said red head had made no moves to acknowledge them. Zabuza cursed before standing up and offering a small bow.
"My apologies, Naruto has had a long day. Let's not let him keep us waiting, our waiters would bring us drinks and things to eat as we await for the assigned meeting time." Tsunade nodded accepting the obvious cover up for Naruto childish antics.
"Thank you Zabuza-san." As promised the food was quickly laid out, and as customary Tsunade had to wait as her personal food taster went across the table tasting everything. It didn't take long before he gave the okay, and Tsunade dug in. Kakashi and Minato decided not to eat after all if the that guy missed anything it would be up to them to protect Tsunade at all cost, even if it meant being hungry for a couple of hours.
They ate in relative silence, Tsunade praised the chef and even asked for the plantation where they got their coffee beans from. It was a smoother yet, richer flavor then the one she was used to in Konoha. If this thing went right, she might have a new trading partner.
The food was picked up and taken away and not Naruto had still not made any efforts to turn around. Zabuza frowned once again as he tried to hide his embarrassment. The clock hit seven and Zabuza began to stand up but was stopped half way.
"I think you have covered for Uzumaki-san enough, why is he not facing me? Does he not consider me important after begging me to come and talk peace with him? Should I take this as a symbol of disrespect and proceed my militarization, and maybe we could talk a different lingo on the field?" Tsuande offered as she took another sip of her coffee. Zabuza froze, as much as he wanted to say something smart he knew that wouldn't be the smartest thing to do. Tsunade just threatened to go to war with them less then two minutes into the meeting, it was obvious what was in the front of her mind and what came second.
He took a seat, after all she was right. She was not his guest, he didn't invite her.
Hinata toyed with the idea of activating her Byakugan but with the way Nanami was staring at her it was obviously not the best choice. After a couple of minutes Koyuki grew tired of the waiting.
"Any reason why my fiancé is making us wait so long?" Hinata felt a knife cut into her heart but she kept a neutral expression, she took note of the diamond ring in the girls hand but continued to look at the unturned seat. Tsunade filed that off for later, that was interesting, she felt a little bad for Hinata but, hey it was life, not to mention the common thing to do; if your a man of Naruto stature was to have a powerful wife. An Hyuga wife wasn't bad but having the Damiyo of a whole country, now that was powerful. Naruto sighed before turning his seat around.
He placed his coffee mug down and looked at all the individuals in the room, easily noticing the man behind Hinata. He was good, he couldn't even recognize his chakra signature. He filed him off though, Konoha had a lot of secret operative's working under Minato as part of his speak program he was probably one too.
"I'm glad you found our food to be suitable." Tsunade narrowed her eyes.
"I'm sure you didn't drag me out here just to wine and dine me." Naruto glanced at her passively before setting his eyes on Hinata, said girl returned the stare with a small bow of the head. A customary salute. It was all business.
"Wine and dine? I'm sure that's an old fashion way of putting things." Tsunade ignored the jab.
"Enough with the small talk Uzumaki-san, please explain your recent actions." Naruto raised an eyebrow.
"Why should I offer an explanation? Especially to you? After all, the lands I chose to erase held no alliance with the land of fire, neighter did you have any form of connection with them. Right?" It was an obvious trap, Tsunade knew what Danzou was plotting but she let it fly as long as it was for the sake of Konoha, but he was right, they held no connections with both lands so making it obvious that they did would mean agreeing to be part of conspiracy, which will give Naruto the diplomatic edge. No way in hell would she let that happen.
"You are mistaken." Tsunade started, Naruto stood passively but didn't offer an outer response. Instead he opted to give her the floor.
"Both lands had no connection with the hidden leaves, but both fell under the protection of the land of fire. In fact both villages were used as a sort of common wealth, which doesn't mean much but as the guardians of the land of fire. We could take what you did as a direct threat to the safety of not only us, but the other common wealth villages that are scattered across the land. Most villages send out a warning to the other villages before they do something so radical, some would even call it inhumane, and I myself find it to be disgusting and a crime of war. You killed more civilians then anything else, is that what you want your village to stand for? A place that bullys the weak but does nothing when faced with direct attacks from other villages of equal or superior power?"
Zabuza frowned as he listened in. It was obvious this wasn't Tsunade first time in the hot seat, and she knew how to take pressure and multiply it and throw it right back. Not only that, she made several valid points, a village can't just do what it wants, it must first talk to the other villages and make sure that they do not feel threatened by their actions, it made things safer. There was rules, and as a new village they knew it was better to play by them. They only held two other villages for protection, while Tsunade had Suna and Mist and who knows how many other smaller nations to back her up. She already knew if it came to war the Trinity could not win, and she didn't come here to talk peace she came here to remind them. That's why she brought Kakashi, someone that could and has easily taken him out. And the other guy could probably wipe the floor with Nanami, and Tsunade herself was a sannin. Naruto was good but no way he could beat Tsunade or Kakashi. Then he remembered he was the only adult on his side, the others were all under six teen. He remained quiet though, he knew Naruto wasn't dense and clearly read between the lines multiple times.
"I see. So what village did Danzou reach out to? When he sent his men to attack all three of my villages?" That caught everyone off guard including Zabuza, he thought the attack was done by an outside force with zero connection to Konoha. Now he narrowed his eyes, so that's why Naruto chose to bomb Konoha. Wait, could the two villages he erased could they also have been working with Konoha? He smirked. He knew Naruto wouldn't come into this fight empty handed.
Tsunade kept her composure though but in the inside she was cursing Danzou for not covering up his tracks better. Then she thought it over, Danzou always covered his tracks, that meant that Naruto came across this information from an outside force. which means they had spies in there ranks. That just made things ten times more dangerous.
"No, I do not have spies in your ranks. If that's what you're thinking." Tsunade hid her shock but nodded.
"Then how did you come across this information? Accusing a diplomat, especially someone of Danzou stature is a big accusation. So tell me, what makes you think that?" Naruto nodded. Before pressing the button on his desk phone.
"Please bring up prisoner 161." Tsunade raised an eyebrow but was also sweating bullets, not only did he have a prisoner that could have ties to Konoha. It meant the prisoner talked which means Danzou seal was breached or he simply didn't have one. No, danzou always made sure everyone had one. Some say he even has one himself, for if he's captured.
The prisoner was dragged in by two guards. He looked fine and healthy, he didn't seem to have been tortured, in fact he walked in with out any restraints.
"Prisoner 161, please tell them what you know." The prisoner looked at Naruto there was nothing but hate in his stare, before Naruto raised an eyebrow and the man visibly tensed up before turning around.
Tsunade frowned, no type of torture on his body, no wounds, no mental deformities, no restraints but he's scared shitless of Naruto. What exactly did he saw, maybe he didn't do anything to him but he made him watch what he could do to others. He did say prisoner 161, but last time she heard, they said the trinity doesn't keep prisoners they die before they make it to the cell. So does that mean Naruto killed the other one hundred and sixty? She looked at the red head with a new face, this one held a little more contempt but it wasn't that noticeable, after all they were here to talk peace.
"Danzou hired us to attack the trinity about three months ago. He promised that once we killed off at least one of the leaders we will be given amunity of all our crimes and offered a small village in compensation. This village happened to be the land of dogs, that I heard was wiped out recently." Before Tsunade could ask him any other question the guys mouth began to foam before he kneeled over and died and the curse mark on his tongue appeared on his forehead.
If Tsunade wanted any more proof, she got it. That was definetly Danzou curse mark, but if it didn't activate until now it meant Naruto didn't know either if Danzou was a part of it. Which meant the guy was more scared of Naruto killing him then the curse mark.
"He was clearly delusional and suicidal. No way Konoha would allow Danzou to make any moves or promises like that. His mental state also has to be evaluated as he clearly committed suicide before our very eyes without any thought behind it. This disqualifies his eligibility, and I wish I could've placed him under psychological evaluation before the meeting was to take place. Only then would his confession be of any use or be valid."
Naruto nodded before signaling the guards to take the corpse away.
"I'm guessing you remember what I did for the lady sitting next to you during the chunin exam, correct?" Tsunade tensed. Who didn't hear about Naruto bringing a girl back to life, all the medics in the world were wondering how it was done. There was ways to do that but it usually came at the expense of someones life, but Naruto was alive and healthy and not only that he managed to finish the exam.
"I do. But what does that have to do with anything?" The next moment the same man walked back in. Tsunade and everyone in the room were left with their mouth open. The guy walked in this time alone, and easily made his way back to the place where he died.
"I guess you kept your promise, I'm free of the curse mark and I'm still alive." The man then proceeded to go through some handsigns before a small scroll appeared and tossed it to Naruto.
"There's all the information I got on the mission, with an official stamp and signature from Danzou himself. Am I free to go?" Everyone on the Konoha side of the table tensed. Naruto had control over life and death, with Hinata it was just a one time thing, but he was doing the same for a complete stranger just to prove a point. This meant not only is it not a big deal, he could and has been doing it for a while and has probably practiced it. The thought alone was disgusting and for a small instant Tsunade saw a shadow of Orochimaru standing right next to him.
Naruto read through the scroll before nodding his head. "You are free to go. Enjoy the rest of your life." The man smirked before walking out.
"Haku." Naruto said. Everyone was looking around before the girl appeared from out of nowhere. This surprised everyone, except for Tsunade who had already felt the other presence in the room.
"Yes, Naruto-sama."
"Kill him before he makes it out the village." Haku disappeared the next second.
"Why go through the struggle of reviving him if you were just going to kill him." Naruto finished reading the scroll before passing it to Kakashi to take it to Tsunade.
"I kill ninety nine percent of the people I revive, once I get the information I need from them. And those that I don't, well they were just lucky." He took a small glance at Hinata when he said this, the Hyuga girl didn't even blink.
"Thank you for your generosity Emperor-sama, on behalf of the Hyuga clan we thank you for what you did for us." Hinata finished picking her words wisely. She was not there for herself but for the whole clan. Which would explain why she avoided using the words, me, and I.
Naruto nodded before turning his head back to Tsunade who folded the scroll back up.
"Anything else you want to discuss?" Tsunade wanted to argue more but gave the scroll to Minato to store. Evidence like that was to be destroyed, and no she would not go after Danzou the old madman was a necessary evil.
"Now what?" Everyone in the room couldn't believe it. Tsunade has surrendered. Naruto nodded.
"Nothing. I will not hold you accountable for the actions of that man, but he will be chased down and killed like any other person that has crossed us. This information is confidential to the people inside of this room, this goes for you too Hyuga-san. Being a diplomat I know you must share this information, but that would not be the case in this situation. The less people know the better." Hinata frowned.
"I could not accept that request as that could threaten my claim to the Hyuga seat, if word does get out even by our hands or yours that I knew something like this and didn't share it with the current clan head, I could and would be disowned. So on the behalf of the Hyuga clan, I am sorry but that would not be a possibility." Tsunade folded her arms, there was nothing she could do about that. And Hinata was obviously not afraid of Naruto one bit.
Naruto stared at her for a second before talking.
"I'm sure you would like to be able to make it that far right?" Minato tensed up as he was ready for anything that was to come. Hinata frowned.
"Threatening a diplomat, how unproffesional of you. This could be looked at as a act of war. The same thing you begged us to come and discuss. And Konoha has the full support of the Hyuga clan and all of their resources. Including trade routes that we share with your village but we own. You could see how such a silly threat could be catastrophic to the survival of your so call Trinity. And trust me, I will tell the clan head everything that was discuss in here, including your threat. That way you would learn to think before you talk, I wonder how would you be able to feed everyone, or travel when everything that came so easy to you becomes blocked off." Now she was talking like a bitter ex girlfriend. Koyuki decided to open her mouth for the first time.
"As fun as that might sound, what my fiancé." She put extra emphasis on the word fiancé. " Was saying was, we do not care about the trade routes we have with you because we are you're biggest buyers, we spent millions of Ryos on youre routes, and make you millions more just in trades. During a war, the most important thing is not the size of the army but being able to keep them fighting. Which takes money, and if a war were to take place anything that involves losing money would not be so easily cut off. Not to mention breaching a contract would mean you pay us a healthy fine, something once again you're clan would not want or like to do as that would weaken Konoha war effort and strengthen ours. So no, you're trade routes are not going anywhere, we are still going to continue working together for many, many years and if it comes to war we would continue to work together with friendly smiles as is customary." Hinata frowned, she had a point. There was obvious palpable tension between the two.
Naruto didn't seem to care as he nodded.
"Yeah, like she said. Anyways, this is not a regular meeting this is a war meeting which means anything that could or would cause a war between us if we reach a peace accord would have to remain between us." Tsunade gave Hinata some time to rebuttal after all it was good practice and Naruto didn't seem to take any offense to what she said earlier.
"Konoha would never work with the enemy. And neighter would the Hyuga clan." Naruto looked over at Tsunade who sighed.
"Hinata keep it between us." Hinata raised an eyebrow but nodded. The Hyuga clan was not above the word of her Hokage. "For now." She nodded at the ending.
Tsunade eyed Naruto curiously. He had not made any threats to Konoha. Only to Danzou and to Hinata. But the second one was empty, as much as he tried to hide it she was old and she knew when a man was lying to a girl. Naruto had no intentions of hurting Hinata, but that wasn't the case for Koyuki and that's why she decided to step in. The fact still remained if Naruto couldn't do it another one of them will, and Naruto didn't look like he was going to do anything to stop them.
"So you have no plans to do what you did to the land of dogs to us? Then why bring us here. You could've easily wrote that in paper." Naruto sipped his coffee.
"No, I don't. In fact I have little intrest in the village hidden in the leaves. But don't get me wrong, if you cross me or betray me. I will annihilate it and every single person in it." The room fell silent, that was the first real threat made by Naruto. "You're army will mean nothing to me, the lives of your citizens will mean nothing to me, just like the lives of Uzu didn't mean nothing to the third. I am not here to be you're friend, or someone you could call up in times of need. The Trinity is not here to make friends, we are here to make family and the family is already made and we don't need no one else. But we also don't want more enemies then we could handle, and Kushina and Nami are still over there which means I could not cut off all ties with your village."
Tsunade smirked. So that's it. He's still trying to protect his mother and sister even when he's not there.
"Then talk Uzumaki, why are we here?" Everyone focused in on this, because even the people on his team didn't know.
"I want Konoha to demilitarize, and stop its snooping around." Tsunade nodded. Everyone sighed, war was avoided for now. Zabuza visibly relaxed, the last thing he wanted was a war or for enemy forces to destroy any builidings in his village especially when he was so close to seeing it finished.
"Second, I want to establish a direct connection between us. Someone you trust that could remain here. I could do the same and send someone to remain in Konoha. A type of diplomatic relationship. To avoid having us travel so far." Tsunade nodded. It wasn't a request that any other village didn't make.
"Before we move on from war talks and talk about what I really want to talk about, is there anything you want from us?" Tsunade raised an eyebrow. Now that was new, Tsunade had already accepted defeat, anything Naruto asked for would've been done if it was rational and within her power. Danzou messed up and she had to pay for it, if not Naruto could leak the information and have Konoha reputation tarnished and they would be marked as traitors. But she wasn't going to look a gift horse in the mouth.
"I want us to have an alliance where I could call on your men, and you could call on ours. Mostly for missions." Zabuza tensed up. So did Minato, that was bold and very dangerous move on Tsunade part. They already didn't like each other and having them work together was kind of pushing it. Naruto thought it over. Before looking over at Zabuza.
"Well technically I have no control over the men in any of the villages unless in times of war. That would be up to Zabuza, Koyuki and Nanami. After all I am not a one man show, I have kings and queens. My job is to make sure we stay united." Tsunade frowned, that just made things ten times harder. Koyuki immediatelty denied, they wondered why. Zabuza was next to decline the offer. Nanami also declined since her men were not meant for fighting.
Tsunade frowned, that wasn't the answer she was looking for.
"You could have access to me." Naruto said. Everyone looked at him like he grew a third head.
"What do you mean?" Tsunade asked.
"I will be more then willing to work along side any unit you want of me, at a price of course to be paid to any of my kingdoms. While I work under you, I will answer to you as if I am still a Konoha shinobi but once the mission is over, I will no longer be held accountable for what happens. Also this is limited to 3 times a year. I think that would be acceptable right?" Tsunade nodded her head, but it wasn't only a question for her. The others looked at each other, going a couple of days without Naruto while having him under cover even if its just three times a year, could help them figure out what to do with him, and who knows maybe he'll have something to do and not complain about being bored all the time.
"Deal." Naruto smirked reading through all of them. Tsunade nodded before Hinata raised her hand to speak. Naruto acknowledged her.
"I would like to volunteer as the diplomat that is to stay in Asgard." This caught everyone off guard. Of course it was up to Tsunade to decide but it was like a gift. She saw right through Hinata plan. Naruto knew they will reach out to him for the top most lucrative missions which means he will always know what they're up to. With Hinata always being in Asgard that means she gets a seat on their council which means she'll also always knows what they're up to and seeing as she has to report things back to her it'll be like having an open spy in their ranks. Not to mention Hinata was probably still madly in love with the Uzumaki.
"Accepted." Koyuki gave him a solid glare that means you better explain later. Tsunade also accepted the terms. Now it was time to convince Hiashi.
"Why did you drag us here Uzumaki?" Naruto nodded before taking out multiple giant folders from his under his desk and passing them around.
"These are the most dangerous individuals in the world." He said handing folders to everyone including the mask man and Kakashi. He also had seats brought in for them.
Deidera Home village: Iwagakure
Hidan Home village: Yugakure
Kisame Home village: Mist
Orochimaru former home village: Konohagakure
Itachi Uchiha home village: Konohagakure
Kakuzu home village: Takigakure
Konan home village: Amegakure
Sasori home village: Sunagakure
Tsunade frowned but didn't understand. "What about them?" Naruto nodded before taking a seat.
"I've been tracking there movement for awhile now." Everyone frowned.
"Why? Are you developing an Anbu?" Tsunade asked. Naruto smirked.
"Like if I'll tell you that." Tsunade didn't find that funny. "The reason was because I wanted to recruit them, but that wasn't possible since they all denied my request which makes them enemies and in turn, I want to take them all out."
Tsunade nodded. "Very honorable." Sarcasm. "But we're already working on taking out our missing nins." Naruto shook his head.
"Let me finish, the more I read up on them the more I noticed a patern, they weren't just walking around. They were walking around together, and they just weren't walking around they were doing missions." Tsunade frowned.
"Now that could be concerning, where did you get this information from."
"Again, why would I tell you that?" It was beginning to piss Tsunade off but she had to remember they had just became friends, the fact that he was even sharing this information with her was more then enough.
"Let me continue. They are all working together and about a year ago they all started wearing the same cloak, with red clouds on them." They all went through the folders and saw multiple photos of what he was talking about.
"Why would all these powerful missing nin be working together? What do they gain from it?" Kakashi asked. Tsunade thought it over.
"Maybe strength in numbers." Zabuza shook his head.
"No, missing nin know they can't be trusted. No way they'll just come together like that. Someone brought them together, and what ever they promised them is beneficial to them and catastrophic to the rest of us." Naruto nodded.
"I did some more research and the only thing I could find was that they were collecting a lot of money, and that they are specifically after one type of people." Minato frowned when he heard that.
"What type of people? Like people with Kekkei Genkai?" Nanami asked as she began to panic. Naruto shook his head.
"No, they have multiple people with that. They're after Jinchuriki." Everyone in the room went silent. That was threading in very dangerous waters. The first thing that came to mind was someone found a way to extract these monsters and know hows to place them into someone else. And if they were thinking about placing them in these already powerful humans..
"That can't be good." Zabuza said. Voicing everybody thoughts. Tsunade frowned, the first thing that came to mind was Nanami and Minato. That means Konoha was on their hit list. but now she understood why Naruto wanted to be a part of the most dangerous missions, because when they come after Nami she would call him up and it would be to fight these people, and it all came back to protecting the Uzumaki clan. She had to give it to the kid, he might not want to admit it and his hair might be red again but he's a carbon copy of his father.
Minato read the files over and frowned. He remembered Jiraiya looking into things like this. But now it was real, and it even had Naruto worried and he knew why. Tsunade did too and judging from the reaction from the people around him, they also knew. The only one that didn't know was probably Hinata but she was taking small glances at Naruto before looking at his stomach so its either she told him, or she saw it with her Byakugan. Either way it was bad.
"What's your plan?" Naruto shook his head.
"I have no plan, I don't know who the leader is, I don't know their goals, and I don't know when they're going to attack and where. That's why I brought it up to you, you have a bigger network then me." Tsuande nodded her head.
"I'll be sure to inform Jiraiya of what we learned today." Naruto nodded. He already knew who Jiraiya was training.
"So these three missions?" Naruto shook his head.
"Anything that has to do with Akatsuki I want a hand in it. I will also continue to send you information as I receive them and hopefully when I call for you're help in fighting them you answer." Tsunade nodded.
"Let's put this all on paper, and we'll move from there." Naruto nodded before passing her the already completed scroll. She tried to hide her smile but couldn't.
"You're a mini minato." Naruto didn't react to it. Instead opting to look at Hinata before making direct eye contact with the masked man.
Tsunade signed the paper, and Hinata co-signed it to show that she was actually present for the talks and they got up.
"I hope you enjoy your stay in the village, but I will have to ask you to send everyone that it not in this room back home. Including Sakura, Shikamaru and them who are snooping around the place I destroyed." Tsunade didn't bother asking how he knew, it was obvious Naruto was well informed and a well informed man was a man that got to live for a long time.
"So about those coffee beans?" Nanami finally talked.
"They come from my village and I will send you a messenger hawk with a price." Tsunade nodded and got up. They've been talking for the better park of 4 hours and it was just about noon.
"You will also pay for the rebuilding of my office." Naruto looked at Koyuki, who had the richest village. After all, his money was deposited into all of three villages account. He was technically broke.
Koyuki sighed.
"Send it to me." Before giving her fiancé a you owe me look.
Hinata opened her mouth. "I actually have another request, Emperor-sama." Naruto nodded.
"Would you consider taking on another wife? To further strengthen ties, after all the council could still veto your request and war could still be declared. This a sure way to get them to rethink anything, as they are old fashion and believe that a marriage bound is stronger then a piece of paper." Everyone in the room almost dropped dead. Even Minato was surprised at how forward Hinata was being. She was already granted permission to stay in Asgard. And now she asked for Naruto hand in marriage in front of his wife to be, and even if Naruto saids no they will still be spending a giant amount of time with each other.
Naruto had an impassive face on, but from the lack of a reply you could tell he didn't know how to handle the situation.
"You could think about it." With that Hinata and the Konoha crew left the office. Naruto was still stuck, before Koyuki smacked the living hell out of him and sent him flying into the wall.
"OUCH!" Naruto yelled as he rubbed his smoking cheek. "What the hell Koyuki!" Koyuki just huffed before sitting back down into her seat.
"You actually was thinking about it." Naruto stood quiet. He knew a trap when he heard one. He saids no, he'll be lying which means another slap. He tried to justify how it makes sense and he'll get slapped again, just for agreeing with her. Nope, he stood quiet. Went back to his seat and sipped on his coffee, cheek burning.
"Maybe we should push up our wedding date." He said offhandly. Koyuki smirked.
"Good answer. Now let's review what we talked about with Konoha I still don't trust them." Naruto sighed. Zabuza started laughing and so did Nanami. They all knew why she didn't trust them.
Itachi cursed as made his way out of bed, the pain in his chest was the worst. He had been stabbed in the chest before and it didn't hurt this bad. He wasn't one to complain but it was starting to annoy him. Not only was it physical pain it was also inner pain as every breath he took burned. The nurse explanation was that the lung transplant was a success and it would take some time before his body began to adjust to the new organs.
He took a couple of steps before giving up and slumping down on to the chair next to his bed. He heard the door open but didn't bother turning around. Only two people came to visit him, and one of them was crazy.
"How you're feeling champ?" Itachi sighed he was hoping it was the crazy one.
"My chest is still giving me problems." Karin frowned.
"What do you mean? I sent nurse to heal you of your chest pain yesterday. What did she come here to do?" Itachi narrowed his eyes, all she did was force feed him and talk to him about her life. Not that he wasn't interested it was just that he didn't find it appropriate. Especially when the hot soup she forced down his throat felt like acid when it passed his chest cavity. Karin shook her head before walking over to Itachi and placing her hand on his chest. It took awhile but after a second Itachi visibly relaxed.
"Better?" Itachi nodded. It still hurt but now it didn't hurt like before. He got up and noticed with every second that past he could feel his breathing get stronger and his body relaxing.
"That should do it. By the end of the day you should be free of all pain, and by tomorrow you will be dismissed and you could begin your duties for the trinity." Karin said smiling, Itachi looked at her impassively before laying back on his bed.
"Duties?" Karin nodded keeping her vibrant smile.
"YUP! Naruto has big plans for you Itachi-san. Why you think he placed me in charge of your health? I'm usually private and only reserved for him." Itachi nodded, so that's why she healed him so quickly. Obviously Naruto already needed him. He filed that off though, as he turned around and closed his eyes.
"I would like to get some sleep." Karin nodded before walking out the room.
Karin bumped into Nurse as she walked out. A little annoyed at having her senses temporarily distorted she pierced nurse with a glare.
"What gives, I told you to heal him yesterday for he could be ready by today! Now I got to hear Naruto mouth." Karin lectured. Nurse just smirked.
"I was going to heal him but then I remembered that today was my birthday and Itachi-kun owed me a date. One I plan on collecting today." Karin sighed as he looked at what she considered to be a sister. She wasn't joking she wasn't even wearing her work clothe. Blood red blouse, black tight biker jeans with 6 inch heals. Her hair was loose and loosely across her shoulders and back and her brown eyes glowed a little. She debated telling her not to bother Itachi, but since she was probably his only friend she decided to let her be.
"Just be easy on him. His duties begin tomorrow." Nurse smirked.
"I'll just heal what ever I break." Karin shrugged and walked off.
"It's your funeral." Nurse blushed.
"You think its-"
"Goodbye Nurse." Karin said as she pushed past the doors.
Nurse smile immediately left as the nervousness set in. Today was indeed her birthday, but she didn't get to tell Itachi yesterday. And unlike all the other guys in Asgard Itachi made no moves on her, he didn't even take her date proposal serious. She debated walking away and just letting him heal, but she sucked it up. No, she had to do this Itachi was different from the other guys. Not to mention he protected her more times then she could count, and even now after she betrayed him he still held no ill will for her. Before she thought he was doing it because she could heal him, and that's why she hesitated every chance she had to cure him. But now Karin already took care of it which meant, she no longer was of any use to him. And just like any other girl when she lost her use, she would be discarded.
Sucking it up, she pushed past the door. She was surprised to find an empty room. With the window open, thinking he might have escaped from the open window she rushed over to it. Looking around she sighed, maybe he heard her and ran away. Did he betray Naruto? The last thought scared her the most.
"Are you coming?" The voice caught her off guard, turning around she found Itachi walking out the bathroom. He was wearing black trousers tucked into into his black sandals, and his usual mesh shirt. He was wearing a facemask though, with shades. Judging by the open window, which lead right to the shopping district she didn't bother asking how he got any of that.
"Coming where?" Itachi shrugged.
"It's your birthday, and you're village. You tell me where you want me to go." Nurse smirked.
"Such a gentlemen you are, and I'm glad your covering your face I was actually worried." Itachi smirked.
"Worried we'll get caught by Konoha?" She shook her head.
"No worried, I might have to kill a bitch for looking at you to long." With that she grabbed Itachi arm and walked out the room. She couldn't hide the small blush from creeping across her cheek. Itachi didn't react, even though the pain shot up a little when she leaned on him. Instead he opted to deal with it and followed her lead. He wasn't dying anymore, so ignoring girls like he was before no longer made sense to him. But he still had a mission, he had to pay for his sins. But for now, he'll just see how things go.
"I was starting to think you decided to join Naruto." Kabuto said as Sasuke made his way towards him. They had made camp before they followed Itachi, it was agreed they will meet back there if anything were to go wrong.
Sasuke didn't bother replying instead reaching for his bag and taking a gulp of water. "I need to get stronger." Kaburto smirked.
"I'm sure trying to compare yourself to Uzumaki-san is a little unfair to yourself." Sasuke didn't care what the man said. Naruto was strong, he could feel it. The way he carried himself now, he didn't even have his guard up. He didn't think he was capable of hurting him in any form or way. He knew Naruto didn't trust him, so that meant he was relaxed. While he himself was tensed and was ready to dodge anything that came at him at any moment.
"Let's go." With that Sasuke dashed away. Kabuto smirked. Sasuke was missing the most important thing, it wasn't how powerful you were it was what you did with the power. Naruto wasn't that strong, he just knew what to do with the power. Using the power he had, and the connections he made he made himself an empire. Sasuke cut off all ties. Not knowing that will just weaken him.
Naruto easily avoided another knife as he glided to a complete halt, Koyuki next move caught him a little off guard since he was sure he memorized all of her moves. She was currently going through a couple of handsigns, nothing he wasn't familiar with it was a simple fire style jutsu. The question was who taught it to her, he's only been teaching her hand to hand combat that way she could stall anyone that tries to attack her until her back up came back. He didn't find a need for a damiyo to practice real shinobi arts, simply because he found it to be beneath her. He wasn't all that disappointed when an academy size fire ball raced at him, it was obviously not her physical nature as it looked rugged and the way it only scorched the ground and not burn it meant it was still weak. What she did next caught him off guard, while breathing the fire ball she through two Kunai on either side of the fire ball, which meant if he jumped left he will be hit, same for right, he debatd jumping up but that will leave him open as well. Then the real surprise was when a Kunai broke through the middle of the fireball. He sighed, there was no use.
He quickly activated his Sekai and immediately all the objects fell to the ground, and the fireball turned to nothing. He caught sight of his fiancée giving him a knowing smirk.
"I win." Naruto nodded. The rule was he wasn't allowed to use chakra at all, the rule didn't apply to her. Simply because Naruto thought she would be unable too. She took advantage of these rules, and used it against him.
"You did." Koyuki walked towards him before laying a small kiss on his lips.
"What did you think?" Naruto smirked, her saliva was still a little hot from the fire style earlier on today.
"I think you're becoming to good for your own good." Koyuki smirked.
"A strong man needs a stronger woman by his side." Naruto nodded.
"Spoken like a true Empress."
"So I've been promoted?" Naruto thought about it.
"I got to sleep on that." Koyuki smirked.
"I'll make sure to be the last thing on your mind before you close your eyes." Naruto nodded.
"Do you think that will be enough to convince me." Koyuki nodded several times.
"It's in the wife handbook."
"They have those now?"
"I just told you I read it in the handbook." Naruto laughed.
"Well hopefully you'll find the hudband one to match, because I'm pretty sure it has a very unique answer to that one." Koyuki smirked before hugging him and pulling him closer, making sure her assets were firmly pressed on his body.
"You sure?" Naruto smirked.
"I could be wrong." They both burst into laughter before Naruto got up.
"Well back to work." Koyuki nodded, it was about eight in the evening and Naruto had to return to the office.
"Meeting with Itachi." Naruto thought about it.
"I wasn't planning to but I might as well, theres nothing else for me to do."
"You mean besides all the paperwork you need to look over, from three villages?" Naruto nodded.
"Yeah, I'll squeeze him in during your section of the work." Koyuki smirked.
"You mess anything up and I'll be sure to send you extra paperwork." Naruto laughed.
"You wouldn't dare." Koyuki stood quiet, she knew what he meant. Anymore work sent his way would be swiftly returned to her, undone and ready to be added to the Naruto didn't want to do it pile.
"I'm leaving back home today." After almost a month in Asgard it was time for all the kings and queens to return home. Naruto paused for a second.
"Don't miss me to much." With that he disappeared from their training area. Koyuki smiled, it was a sad smile. She always hated leaving Naruto, but she also knew she had work to do, and as long as she remained here Naruto will just avoid doing his.
"Lady, your escorts are ready." Koyuki nodded to her guard.
"Let's go."
Office
Somehow Naruto wasn't surprised to find Itachi already waiting for him at his office. Said Uchiha also already had his sharingan on, and his face hidden behind his mask.
"Smart."
"Thank you." Naruto took his seat and browsed through all the papers on his desk, he didn't acknowledge Itachi simply because he didn't call for him, which meant Itachi would have to wait. And wait he did, for the next four hours Naruto spent his time signing and releasing papers, tearing some up in frustration, straight out ignoring some and throwing in the garbage the ones he mumbled garbage too. By the time Naruto had actually acknowledge Itachi it was well past midnight.
"What is the goal of the Akaktsuki."
"Capture all of the nine tail beast." Naruto nodded.
"And?" Itachi stayed silent.
"I see. Then why work for them?" Itachi shrugged.
"Konoha has three of them." Naruto nodded not at all surprised Itachi already knew about him.
"You were still planning to protect Konoha." Itachi shook his head.
"I have the sharingan, Konoha had the Kyuubi. I knew I would be placed on a team that will target them. Which means Konoha would pair the Kyuubi with the Sharingan which meant-"
"You get to beat up Sasuke every now and then." Itachi stood quiet. Naruto glanced around.
"Gen-jutsu would be useless against me." The next second the clock on the wall went from one in the morning to nine at night.
"I didn't know you were in a rush to talk to me, that you would think I would lose track of time."
"I just wanted to make sure you knew what you were doing." Itachi replied. Naruto nodded.
"A wise man." They both staired at each other for awhile before Naruto broke the silence.
"I want you to join my team." Itachi stared at him blankly. Naruto continued. "I might have leaked to the Akatsuki that you were captured." Itachi nodded, that means theres no way he's welcomed back over there.
"Why?" Naruto raised an eyebrow.
"Isn't it obvious?" Itachi continued to stare him down. "I need you for the same reason Konoha needed Sasuke. If the Kyuubi were to run loose, or any beast to be exact I need you to be here and take it back or surpress it. My sekai unlike my grandfathers doesn't allow me to do such things." Itachi narrowed his eyes.
"You already tried?" Naruto nodded.
"Twice, both times ended in complete failure and a giant piece of the world destroyed." Itachi nodded.
"Why not Sasuke I know he was here." Naruto shrugged.
"We don't exactly gel."
"Neither do we." Naruto nodded.
"Yeah but you're smart." Itachi easily caught on.
"What do you have to offer?" After all he was still a missing nin.
"You mean besides nurse?" Itachi didn't find it funny.
"Immunity." Itachi narrowed his eyes.
"Konoha."
"Taken cared of, we're pals now." Itachi sat back down. Naruto passed him a paper to look over. It was immunity for Itachi Uchiha.
"How." Naruto smirked.
"Let's just say Tsuande isn't as dumb as they said she was, plus she likes my coffee." Itachi nodded.
"So she's okay with this?" Naruto shook his head.
"You're not allowed any where near Konoha." Itachi frowned. "Yet." He found some hope in that. "You must first accept my proposal, and then after that you could walk any where we have alliance with like its your house. Konoha and the trinity are now technically allies. At your own risk of course, if I were you I'll let them sleep on it for a year or two." Itachi frowned.
"Sasuke?" Naruto shrugged.
"Still your problem, although I have a feeling you'll have to get through a couple of people before you could reach him directly." Itachi sighed. Naruto knew something he didn't, something he felt he would have to get use to. He wasn't welcomed back in the akatsuki, if he turned down Naruto he would be a wanted man everywhere, including by other wanted men. And now he had access to his former home, and a new one.
"What's in it for you?" Itachi asked. Naruto smirked.
"I need a partner." Naruto said. "I hate doing missions alone, and the missions they usually send me on are usually agaisnst foes to strong for the reg officers." Itachi nodded.
"You've been doing well so far." Naruto nodded.
"And I also need you to take on Karin as a wife, for the Uzumaki blood and Uchiha blood to be united, and you become the clan head and be in charge of my last village."
"ARE YOU FUCKING CRAZY!" Karin yelled as she paced back and forth in Naruto office. Naruto calmly sipped his coffee and read through a couple of papers.
"Yes." Karin groaned.
"You can't make me." Naruto nodded.
"Yes I could." Karin groaned even harder.
"You can't force me." Naruto looked at her questioningly. Karin gulped.
"You can't possibily be considering this." Naruto nodded.
"Carefully thought over, and slept on." Karin sighed before slamming her head against the wall.
"He's with Nurse though." Naruto nodded.
"Already talked to her." Karin raised an eyebrow.
"And?"
"She's going to kill you." Naruto said calmly. Karin paled.
"All you want is an Uzumaki and Uchiha baby, why not let us just do the tango and have the baby and that's it?" Karin asked. Naruto thought about it.
"You could do that, doesn't matter with me. The fact remains you will still have to get married, and you and him will give me a baby in the next year or two. And that's final. Itachi already agreed, so did Nurse, as long if its simply business that's it. How could nurse have a better understanding of how things work then you?" Karin sighed. Before sitting down.
"I love someone else." She said the last part offhandedly. Naruto frowned.
"Have you talked to this person?" Karin shook her head.
"He's to dumb to notice." Naruto nodded.
"Most guys are like that." Karin nodded.
"Tell me about it." Naruto ignored he jab.
"What's the big deal, haven't you done it before." Karin stood quiet. Naruto frowned.
"You will do it though right?" Karin nodded.
"I want to see what comes out of it as well. I just wished it didn't have to be like this, why not find another Uzumaki girl." Naruto shook his head.
"It has to be you." Karin frowned.
"Why because of my bloodline, you want to use it as well." Karin said grabbing her arm, her fingers tracing the last bite mark on her body, made by the person she loved the most, who seem to know everything except when it came to girls.
"No, because I want you to be the wife to the clan head of the new Uzumaki. The first one." Karin heard the longing in his voice and got angry.
"Then why not you and me have a kid, and see what comes out of it with the Sekai." Naruto frowned.
"Don't be silly Karin, the Sekai is not by blood it chooses you. The sharingan doesn't, every offspring has the potential to unlock it. And if what I know its true we might end up with a better eye." Karin caught on.
"The rinnegan?!" Karin yelled. "You're shopping away my virginity for the fucking Rinnegan!" Naruto cursed, he fucked up. He forgot she was smarter then the other guys and spent the most time with him.
"Yes."
"I'm not doing it." Naruto sighed.
"How about this." Karin listened. "If you find a way to have an Uzumaki kid with Itachi without him having to put anything in you, physical of course. Then by all means do it." Karin thought it over. Before sighing, there was no way.
"I hope your happy. Tell Itachi to be in my house tomorrow, I will have this kid before the year is over. But keep in mind, since you ordered it. This kid is yours, not ours." With that she left the office. Naruto frowned but went on with his own life and looked at his desk before phoning his receptionist.
"Yes, could you please tell Itachi he has a mission tonight. That's all you got to say."
Itachi arrived at the apartment and found the door already opened. He walked in and sat on the couch and waited. It took about thirty minutes for Karin to get out the shower and she walked right into the living room, took her towel off.
"Be gentle, and make sure you get it all in. You only have one shot at this." Itachi nodded.