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title: Where The Sea Meets The Land

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Wave Nation

In a remote part of the nation of the wave, we see Naruto with a boat fisherman's boat loaded with food and some clothes, supplies enough to last him for about a month, as the wind picked up, he knew this was his time to get away to his mother's homeland. His face had a stoic expression when he boarded the boat but inside he was excited to visit his mother's homeland, Uzushiogakure, or the village hidden in the whirlpool, the homeland of the Uzumaki Clan. As he was riding the boat he thought to his decision of leaving. Did he regret it? A little bit. Was it necessary? Hell yeah, he didn't want to be a mindless drone for an old shady advisor dude, his thought process then shifted to that eventful evening that changed everything to him, his goals, his identity everything.

Flashback: Five Days Before – Evening

As Naruto was leaving his parent's house, he caught a glimpse of the three advisors (or according to him three old coots). He knew these old coots were scheming something, so he decided to follow them. While following them he felt some chakra entering him but he did not ask the Kyuubi to dispel the genjutsu because he knew that it might alert them so he trailed them knowing it might be a trap but he still went to eavesdrop and then he saw them enter a hut, as they entered it he took to the side of the roof, where he could not be seen yet he could listen to their whole conversation. Once they started talking, he put chakra to his ears and started listening to them.

"What is it Danzo? Why call us here?" A female voice he identified as Koharu asked Danzo as they sat in the hut.

"Yeah Danzo, why summon us here?" Another male voice which Naruto identified as the other advisor Homura also asked Danzo.

"Settle down, I am explaining everything to you two." Danzo as he recognized told the both of them.

"Okay, then explain to us," Koharu told Danzo.

"I just wanted to continue our conversation that we were having in the hospital," Danzo told both of them.

"Okay, where do you want to start with?" Homura asked.

"You said you wanted the jinchuuriki in ROOT. How are you going to pull that off?" Koharu asked him, knowing where they left their conversation off.

"Straight to the point Koharu, so like you Koharu so like you," Danzo said a bit mirthfully.

"Explain your plan Danzo, right now," Koharu said seriously.

"Okay, okay, I will tell you." Danzo said, "I have thought that we banish him from the village and then let the ROOT ambush him."

"And you think the Shinobi Council and Hokage will happily banish him," Homura said sarcastically.

"No they would not, but what if the whole civilian council, some minor clans, and the Daimyo support the decision," Danzo said menacingly.

"What?!" "How?!" Both of them were shocked.

"I have had a hunch about the hunting squad failing to bring the Uchiha back to the village, so I had a backup plan. During the peacetime Konoha has become weak, so we need our jinchuuriki at his strongest." Danzo started "Most of the civilians have disdain for him along with some of the minor clans, so they would be up for the motion but not the rest of the shinobi clans who know the boy's real identity. But as for the Daimyo, he is uninformed about the situation so a little persuasion by his advisors did the job. And this is what we have here!" Danzo said showing a letter to the rest two.

"Is that?" Koharu enquired

"Yes, a letter with the Fire Daimyo's stamp saying that he is in support of the Motion." Danzo smirked and then continued, "If Tsunade still opposes the motion, she will lose the trust of the masses and of the daimyo also will almost result in her eviction from the office and I get chosen as the next one but if she lets it pass which is the obvious option for her, we get the jinchuuriki. So it is a win-win situation in our favor." Danzo finished with satisfaction.

"So when are you going to present it?" Homura asked Danzo

"Tomorrow, a council meeting motion will be raised by a civilian council member, to not get caught by the shinobi side that I was involved in it somehow. I called a secret meeting his morning to set the motion straight, kept you two out so they think that someone from the other side is supporting them." Danzo said.

As the planning was going out Naruto's stomach was dropping further, hearing their plan he had one thing in mind, "Whatever the hell happens I am not going to be their puppet." So as he was leaving he accidentally stepped on some dried leaves, "Shit!" He mentally exclaimed and made a run for it.

The same sound was also heard by the others so Danzo's private ANBU or ROOT as they called themselves from what Naruto gathered immediately went in the direction of the sound and they found something.

It was a cat, or specifically a cat with a ribbon tied on his ear, Tora the daimyo's wife's cat When they found it, they reported to their master, "Danzo-sama, we found this cat there."

"It's fine, go and make sure nobody else is here."

"Hai Danzo-sama!"

As this was going on Naruto was still on the run hoping they did not find him yet, not knowing that the cat which was a menace for every genin in the village just saved his life. As he was going again a foreign chakra entered his body. This time he was on the run so he did not shy away from asking Kyuubi to help him. "Hey Foxy!" he mentally yelled waking up the beast.

"What is it brat?!" The Kyuubi also mentally yelled.

"Quick genjutsu release please." Naruto mentally pleaded to the Kyuubi.

"Fine" With that Kyuubi pulsed the required chakra in his body dispelling the genjutsu, And Naruto saw what was like a hidden property, he quickly entered the property to not get caught by ROOT not seeing the seal on the house door. Once entered he quickly closed the door to not get caught.

Meanwhile, the pulse was also felt by Danzo's group, "Let's get out quickly before a team comes to catch the cat and also release it far from here to not make any suspicion." Danzo quickly orders bringing an end to their meeting.

"I will meet you again in the council chambers." He said, while the others nodded their head in agreement leaving the place via the route Naruto took while escaping them and also passed the same property but they did not stop, which saved Naruto.

As Naruto caught his breath, he took his time to look around the property, and he saw a very familiar symbol a symbol of the Senju clan. "Holy Shit! I am in some senju's house" He mentally thought. As he explored a little bit more he came around a portrait that drained all the color from his body. It was a portrait of the two Senju brothers, Hashirama and Tobirama Senju, but there was an unfamiliar redhead there too.

"Okay, shit, I broke into the shodaime's house fuck! But who is that redhead" Naruto thought, and then he mentally heard a growling sound from Kyuubi.

"Hey, you know her?" He asked.

"Idiot, that's Mito Uzumaki, my first jailor, and the biggest bitch!" He swiftly ignore the bitch part, but then he started thinking while sitting on a chair, "Okay I have a problem, Danzo is going to have me banished and turned into his mindless drone which I do not want, what can I do, think Naruto think." He mentally ranted.

"Why not run away from the village?"The answer came from the least expected place.

"Then where or better yet why the hell are you helping me?" He continued his rant.

"Look brat I don't want to be controlled by some old crook and love myself" Naruto took the argument in thought about it and considered it too.

"Okay let's go with your plan but where should we go?"

"We will think about it on the way"

"Okay" With that he took out his large sealing scroll and made several shadow clones, "Boys, ransack the house find every useful scroll, and take it and pack it." He commanded and started his part too.

As they were ransacking the house he found an old map of the continents and there was Uzushiogakure marked on it. "Hey Kyuubi what and where is this Uzushiogakure." Naruto enquired.

"It was the home of the Uzumakis" The Kyuubi simply replied while Naruto nodded.

"I think we know where we escaping to next." Naruto mentally said finalizing the escaping location.

"Uzushiogakure, so how will you go there?" Kyuubi asked interested.

"Uzushiogakure, it is beyond Wave, so we can take a boat from there and go to Uzu," Naruto explained to the Fox.

"Ok, so when are you escaping?" Kyuubi asked.

"Tonight, midnight, let's cause a blast in the hospital room and then escape while the chaos will be happening. Then go to wave." Naruto said. Then he continued by saying, "I also need some money to bustcase out of here." Then he created two shadow clones and ordered them, "Steal some money from the bank, quick and quietly." Both the clones nodded and went away.

"Hey Kyuubi," Naruto called the beast mentally.

"What is it brat?" Kyuubi asked Naruto.

"Want to make another deal?" He asked the fox, who raised an eyebrow.

"What Deal?" Kyuubi asked curiously.

"Like you said you were controlled by a rouge Uchiha, right?" Naruto asked knowing that he was threading on a small line.

"Yes," Kyuubi growled and said.

"So that means that you would recognize him if we ever cross paths with him?" He asked the fox again.

"Yes brat, I will kill him if we cross paths with him. Trust me." Kyuubi growled.

"Ok then how about this, you show me what happened that night and you dig through some of the original Madara's memories, give me some jutsus and training, and hunt him down and kill that son of a bitch, what do you say?" Naruto proposed the deal to Kyuubi.

Kyuubi hummed in thought about the deal, he had not much to lose and had much to gain from it. His jinchuuriki will be the strongest of them all and he would get his revenge from that person of that accursed clan so he decides to take the deal.

"Okay brat, I will take your deal, come to the mindscape we will further talk here," Kyuubi told Naruto.

"Okay," He mentally said and nodded. He then finds a nearby chair and sits and then concentrates, after some time he opens his eyes to his mindscape. "Hello Kyuubi," He said stoically.

"Brat" Kyuubi replied.

"So are you in accord with the deal?" He asked the giant fox.

"I thought about it brat, and would like to say yes but I also want that once prepared you would start hunting him," Kyuubi stated.

"Deal," Naruto said without any delay. This shocked Kyuubi. But was a welcomed shock, he thought that Naruto would consider it very well but such a quick response shocked him.

"Hoh! Okay fine!" Kyuubi said haughtily, then he continued, "So, what do you want first? The Night or Training?" Kyuubi asked giving Naruto the options.

"Show me what happened that night, then once we escape from Konoha to Uzushio, you help me with the training and then we hunt that son of a bitch and kill him in cold blood," Naruto said to the Fox and finished in a gradually angered voice.

"Fine brat, see the water below you, there you will see it." The Kyuubi stated as the water started changing color.

Flashback 10th October

The water changed to the scenery of a cave where Kushina was giving birth with Biwako her mid-wife during the process, while Minato was maintaining the seal ensuring the Kyuubi never escaped its prison as the process was in continuation nobody noticed a hood coming from outside.

"Hey, you state your business here!" One of the ANBU exclaimed, just to be killed by the man, the other ANBU swung his sword through the person just to find it phasing through him. "What the ack!" before he could do anything he was also killed. By this time the delivery was complete, with Naruto wrapped in a towel sleeping in his crib, Kushina completely drained and the seal being a bit weak.

Suddenly, the masked man appeared behind Biwako killing her and then killed all the guards, then reappeared near the crib picking Naruto up, "Yondaime Hokage give me the Jinchuuriki or this child dies." As Minato was forced to compel with the masked man, he threw Naruto in the air prompting Minato to catch him leaving Kushina defenseless, while Minato who caught Naruto saw the paper bomb behind his son's back immediately ripped it off and teleported giving the masked man enough time to do the same thing with Kushina whom he teleported to a ritual site where he ripped out the nine tails from her leaving her more exhausted.

After Minato teleported Naruto out he then teleported Kushina in but when he moved he saw giant smoke clouds then the Kyuubi no Kitsune in his glory came out, and the masked man transformed his visible eye from onyx to a Sharingan making it obvious that he was an Uchiha. "Kyuubi from now you will obey my command." Trapping it into his illusion as senseless destruction began, to counter the massive beast my shinobi including the third hokage came, while Minato chased the man.

A while later he reappeared when the Kyuubi aimed his bijuudama at the hokage mountain, he used Hiraishin: Dorai to counter the attack successfully overcoming it.

"Minato what will we do now? We can seal it back to Kushina, now what?" Hiruzen asked, while Minato closed his eyes, "I will make Naruto the new jinchuuriki." This statement caused Hiruzen's eyes to widen. "Are you serious?!"

"Dead serious."

"Okay set up the ritual while I distract it." Suddenly golden chain popped up restricting the beast. "I will also help, now go!" came from a nearly exhausted Kushina who glared at her husband when he tried to protest.

"Okay."

As he picked Naruto up and got him ready for the ritual, drew the eight-tetragram seal, it was a bit late so he thought of another idea, which by looking at his face Hiruzen also caught it, "Minato if you are thinking, what I am thinking then don't do it." Hiruzen warned

Minato replied by saying, "It's too late I have no choice."

"Then let me do it! I am old so my sacrifice would be miniscule!"

"The village would require a more experienced kage than a young one and I am the Yondaime Hokage. It is my duty and an order to you to not interfere!" He said a left without hearing Sandaime's next argument as he summoned Gamabuta who proceeded to stab the Kyuubi in place while Minato on top of the toad performed the reaper death seal.

The Kyuubi somehow got wind of his new jinchuuriki and as a last-ditch effort tried to kill Naruto which did not happen as out of sheer willpower both Minato and Kushina stood in the path of the beast's nail and got impaled by it instead of their son. As Hiruzen approached Naruto he saw Minato motioning to say something, "Sandaime as my last wish, I want Naruto to be seen as a protector and as a hero by the people of this village." With that, the Yondaime Hokage breathes his last breath.

Flashback over

Once he saw all that, he had nothing but rage inside of him, rage towards the idiotic citizens not fulfilling his father's last wish, rage towards his father for being an idiot. You had an old Hokage, past his prime willing to sacrifice himself versus a young Hokage, in his prime, can much better. His idiot father chose himself instead of Sandaime. And finally, rage at that masked bastard, that son of bitch who killed his parents, made his life a living hell. In his mind one thing was going on, if he crossed paths with that nonce he would kill him in cold blood.

After calming down for a bit, he left the mindscape without taking to without talking to Kyuubi. After coming back he finds out that his shadow clone had come back from his errand. "Boss here is two hundred thousand ryo in this scroll. And a few more storage scrolls." The shadow clone said while handing him all the scrolls. "Was everything done quietly?" He asked.

"No one would suspect you at all."

" Good " With that he dispelled the clone while thinking, "Tonight I escape out of here. Sorry, baa-chan but some things are done out of necessity and this one is, I am not going his (Danzo's) Puppet and would not be banished, nuh uh! " With t,hat he left the house. When he stepped outside he saw it was almost evening, "Shit, time sure goes by." He thought. As he left the property he sneaked his way back into the hospital room.

This is where something odd happened. He got some memories, memories that were not his but were in this very room, it was of Jiraiya, he told him that they will be going on a training trip next week or something like that, along with other bullshit about forgetting to pursue Sasuke, which ly agreed upon. It was Sasuke who shoved a fucking Chidori throuthe gh chest and lung so yeah, next time he was going to return the same favor not caring a bit if he died. Then he forced himself out of those thoughts and discreetly created 3 shadow clones to satisfy a certain curiosity.

"You two go far from here a play any game and dispel yourselves also do not get caught, and you get me enough paper bombs to blast this room only." He ordered his shadow clones.

"Yes Boss!" Three of them said and left on their respective tasks, while Naruto only waited for their return, after some time he again saw some memories of him playing rock paper scissors with his clone while one won, the other lost and he found out both their experiences and thought process.

"Holy shit! This will be so much help in learning I could learn and cover a lot of things with it." He thought. Just then his third clone came with the required paper bombs to blast his room. "Boss here is the paper bombs as you asked" and after handing it to Naruto he dispelled. Again Naruto could feel all the experience the clone went through but another thing he felt was like his chakra control went up a notch, with all the wall walking and water walking he did. This came as a bonus to him which means he can do his chakra control training much better. "Whoever made this jutsu was a genius."

Now all that he needed was to get out of here, first, he placed the paper bombs in such a way that only his room would be blown off. He did not need excessive damage and for sure no collateral damage. With all set and done he just waited for the night to come.

That night while everyone was sleeping, there was a blast in the hospital epicenter of a patient's room, specifically patient Naruto Uzumaki's room. As the chaos ensured, nobody ever saw a single person sneaking out in a hood with a storage scroll in hand, the person was a male child, age 13, had blonde hair and blue eyes, and the person escaping was none other than Naruto Uzumaki. The same Naruto Uzumaki whose hospital room was burned. The same Naruto Uzumaki, son of Minato Namikaze and Kushina Uzumaki.

Naruto then made a run for a wave-like he never did before, not knowing what was happening in the village, as he was on the road he first used a transformation jutsu to look like a civilian and used multiple shadow clones with transformation to make them look like a group of civilians, as he was walking, he thought he could read some things on sealing so that he could feel a bit closer to his family, his clan, his mother. As he picked up the scroll he started reading it finding more and more engrossed in sealing.

He found out a lot about sealing, along with some with personal notes from Mito Uzumaki, during the three-day route to wave, It turned out he took sealing like fish to water, it was so natural that on the third day, he could make a paper bomb, adjust its impact, make a storage scroll and a waterproof seal. As he reached the wave he was shocked, to say the least, but was also moved to tears to see the amount of respect, to name a bridge after him 'The Great Naruto Bridge' but he knew this was not his destination so he again created some clones, gave them some money to go and get some supplies while he went and checked in in a hotel.

While in the hotel he made another shadow clone and dispelled it to give the mental command of where he is, he produced another shadow clone and they started experimenting with seals, they first used it on a clone to see if they could use a waterproof storage scroll on a person or not, once it was successful they did it on Naruto and made a storage scroll on his left chest so he could carry the big scroll there in case something happened and the scroll drowned.

Once his clones came back with everything he went exploring wave and went in front of two graves, one had a sword embedded in it. It was Zabuza Momochi and Haku Yuki's grave he took the sword, paid his respect, and went back to his hotel. Once everything was packed and ready with the essential scroll on his left chest, he went to sleep knowing tomorrow he would leave for Uzushio.

Meanwhile, when he was paying his visits, he did not notice a person following him. "He would like to know that the jinchuuriki is here." The person thought as he took out a paper wrote something and let a hawk take it.

As the sun came out the next morning, Naruto quickly checked out of the hotel and went to the dockyard where he bought the boat.

Meanwhile A Day Before Naruto's Departure From Wave Nation

Chaos is the synonym for total madness, which was what the situation in Konohagakure four days ago, as there was a blast in the hospital, the damage control was good, with a few being injured while fatality being just, one person who was very precious to the Hokage. Tsunade was devastated when she heard about the attack and immediately did two things, first postponed the council meeting and second, she called back Jiraiya.

The council meeting went without many hiccups if you can call it, that much. One big decision was that Sasuke Uchiha was now a B-rank missing ninja with dead or alive on bingo books. A decision surprisingly brought up by Danzo of all people.

Right now, she was sitting in the office waiting for Jiraiya to come to her office, along with her were the three advisors and Kakashi. As Jiraiya entered through the window with his usual boisterous personality, seeing the serious mood, he quickly changed and became serious. "You called me hime?" Jiraiya asked.

"Yes, Jiraiya," Tsunade said in a monotone voice. Even though the voice was monotonic, Jiraiya could hear the despair in it, this scared him so he asked, "What happened?"

This caused Tsunade to get sadder, which scared Jiraiya more, "Three days ago due to a blast in the Hospital, Genin Naruto Uzumaki is dead." She said with her voice cracking a bit in the end. Jiraiya's stomach dropped immediately. He without thinking anything went through some hand seals 'Boar-Dog-Bird-Monkey-Ram' Summoning Jutsu, and he summoned a small toad, "Gama immediately get me the summoning scroll." The little toad nodded its head and after a few seconds came back with the scroll. Jiraya opened the scroll and looked at it and took a sigh of relief.

"Tsu-hime that was the worst prank I have ever seen." Jiraiya said in a content and chiding voice, now this surprised Tsunade, "What do you mean Jiraiya?" Tsunade said with a little hope in her voice.

"I mean look at the scroll" he showed the scroll "Look at Naruto and Minato's name Naruto's name is in red and Minato's name is in Black, as Minato is now dead his name changed into black, while Naruto and mine name are in red showing that we are alive. Okay, now what happened why you are all here?" He asked as Tsunade and Kakashi took a sigh of relief.

"The thing is that Three days ago, there was a blast in his hospital room, from them, we proceeded to think that he was dead." Tsunade began, "Now that I am here and he is not here you believe that he has gone rogue." Jiraiya finished. To which she nodded. Suddenly Danzo spoke up, "I certainly believe that that he has gone rogue." To which Jiraiya retorted

"And how would you know that?" To which Danzo just showed a scroll.

'Danzo-sama I just saw the Jinchuuriki here in the wave nation, he fits the exact description of having blond hair, blue eyes, three whiskers-like marks on each cheek, and a height of 5 feet give or take.'

Then he continued, "I had a sneaking suspicion that this was not an attack so I alerted my spies, one spy from Wave today gave me this via a hawk." Hearing Danzo Tsunade, Jiraiya, and Kakashi's stomach dropped. "But why would he defect?" question came from Kakashi.

"Does it matter?" Koharu countered

"Yes, it does" Surprisingly the answer came from Danzo, "Orochimaru gave the Uchiha brat the curse mark, and with his hunger for power, he became a flight risk and then defected but Uzumaki had no such drive to leave the village if my memory serves correctly he was fiercely loyal to the village and with Jiraiya training him he could have a much stronger jinchuuriki than his mother was."

Jiraiya nodded ignoring the last part. "So what do we do?" Tsunade asked.

"Well, let me do something," Jiraiya said as he summoned two old toads. These two were Fukasaku and Shima, otherwise known as Pa and Ma Toad.

"Jiraiya-boy, why have you brought us to Hokage's office," Shima questioned. "Over a decade of no visits or calls, and you suddenly decided to bring us here?"

"It's not exactly the Hokage's office that I summoned you both, ma," he replied respectfully.

He may proclaim himself a Toad Sage, but if one were to get technical, Jiraiya had yet to truly become a Sage. As such, he regarded the two before him with complete respect.

"Then what is the reason, boyo?" Fukasaku inquired with a raised brow. "You appear...stressed. What troubles you?"

"Well, I need you to reverse summon my student Naruto," Jiraiya asked them.

"Oh! Naruto-boy, I remember him, wasn't he the tadpole Bunta-boy and Kichi-boy were talking about? Ma" Fukasaku said to which Shima nodded and asked, "So why do you want to reverse summon him?"

"Nothing we are just testing something so that's why." Jiraiya lied to speed up the process. "Ok," Both the toads said and started "Gakyu Kuchiyose no Jutsu" but nothing happened. "Huh that's odd most of the time it works," Fukasaku stated, and Jiraiya while stoic started worrying about the matter. "Pa let's try with sage mode" Shima advised as they began to gather sage energy and then again said "Gakyu Kuchiyose no Jutsu" This also nothing happened.

"Jiraiya-boy what is this? Why aren't we able the reverse summon him?" Fukasaku asked

"Well, Pa I was testing a seal so that one cannot reverse summon or summon anything on the battlefield, and looks like it worked." Jiraiya again came up with a lie which both the elder caught but did not pry knowing their summoner would tell them later. "OK, so we will take our leave now." With that, both of them left and five seconds later the toad which brought the scroll again appeared there and leaned into Jiraiya's ears and said something, and left while Jiraiya's face got paler.

"What happened Jiraiya-sama?" Kakashi enquired. Jiraiya moved his head towards Tsunade and dropped the bomb, "As of today Naruto Uzumaki has officially deserted the village."

The reactions were immediate Tsunade and Kakashi looked disheartened, Homura and Koharu looked shocked while Danzo was emotionless. "Now what will we do Hokage-sama?" Homura asked.

Meanwhile with Naruto

As he was coming back from the grave he suddenly felt as if his soul was leaving his body and then suddenly the kyuubi's chakra flowing in him caused him agonising pain and he soon fell on the ground holding for his dear life. Then he heard in his mind as the Kyuubi shouted, "Brat! Quickly let my chakra flow through you!" and he did as he was told and he suddenly felt that sensation again this time it was more powerful.

"What the fuck was that?!" Naruto shouted in his mind.

"That was the toads, trying to reverse summon you." The fox replied.

"Shit! I completely forgot about the summons!" Naruto exclaimed in his mind thinking about this blunder. Then he remembered which toad was it, that kept the summoning scroll, he quickly summoned that toad, "Hello sir, I needed your help." The toad croaked, "I need my name to be wiped out of the summoning scroll." The toad croaked in surprise, "I deserted my village so I would like my name to be removed." The toad croaked angrily and then removed his name.

At the same time in Konohagakure

"Now what will we do Hokage-sama?" Homura asked.

"We have to bring him back," Koharu said.

"But how?" Homura asked.

"How about sending his classmates?" Kakashi suggested.

"And have the same result as the Uchiha's." retorted Danzo.

"I agree with Danzo here, the genins would not be able to apprehend Naruto," Jiraiya said.

"Then what do we do?" Tsunade asked.

"We send some Jounins and ANBUs to counter the jinchuuriki," Danzo suggested to which Jiraiya nodded.

"What if they fail?" Kakashi asked.

"Then we put him in the bingo book." Tsunade said but the protest came surprisingly from Danzo, "Don't do that we already lost the Uchiha, if other villages know that we don't have a Jinchuuriki many villages can invade us."

"I agree with Danzo on this, then give me six months to a year and then silently release his name in the bingo books," Jiraiya said to which Tsunade nodded her head, "Okay we will do that. Kakashi prepares a team and leaves in an hour."

"Hai Tsunade-sama" Kakashi left

"Jiraiya you can accompany the group too," Koharu suggested. "Yeah, I will do that." Jiraiya agreed to the suggestion and left the room.

"We will take our leave now Hokage-sama." The advisors bowed down and left.

As they left three of them hid in an alley and discussed.

"Now what will we do Danzo? Jinchuuriki is gone!" Homura exclaimed.

"I know that is why I sent my team of ROOT agents first to capture him, which is why I asked for six months to a year, as she will forget about the bingo book and we will have him," Danzo said and Koharu nodded as they left.

Present Time

Naruto sighed dismissing all the thoughts about him deserting, as now he wanted to live the way he wanted, not to be the happy-go-lucky punch bag or the dobe or someone's puppet. From now on he is Naruto Uzumaki Namikaze and has only one thought in mind, to see the ruins of the once great Uzushiogakure.

Meanwhile, miles above in Devanagari, a person one could say as a teenager with raven hair with a blue tint was looking at the blond with his green eyes, "Your choices interest me Naruto Uzumaki, your choices interest me."

As Naruto sat on his boat he started rowing it with a bit of chakra for strength, "Ok let's see according to the map I will have to head straight for two days and then follow the Polaris star as it faces my right side then continue the journey till I see two whirlpools together, heh interesting for sure." With that, he left the dockyard of the wave nation to Uzushiogakure not to look back at all.

Six hours later a team of five ANBU's with blank masks entered the Wave Nation and went straight into a shop there the receptionist saw them and motioned them to go to the backside. As they reached there, they handed the person a note and some cash, "The boy you are looking for is in the hotel near the docks, it is a small hotel not easy to miss, he is staying in room number 5." The ANBU's nodded and left.

When they reached the hotel the others waited outside in case the jinchuuriki tried to escape, while two of them transformed into locals to enter the hotel, "Excuse me miss we are looking for a room in the hotel, preferably if the room number is 5." The receptionist nodded to check not suspecting them at all since in her workplace she had seen a lot of weird superstitions. "Ah, sir you would be in luck as the room was just emptied 6 hours ago!" She said, "Oh thank you, please wait we will pick up our baggage." As she was about to nod she suddenly felt dizzy and fell as the ROOT cast a genjutsu, making her forget about this interaction.

"Spread out and give a message to Danzo-sama that the jinchuuriki has a six-hour head start and find clues about his location." The leader said to his team as they nodded and did what they were told.

6 hours later another team arrived, trying to retrieve their wayward jinchuuriki, the team consisted of Jiraiya of the Sannin, Asuma Sarutobi – one of the twelve guardian shinobi, Kakashi of the Sharingan eye, Kurenai Yuhi – Genjutsu mistress, Raido, Genma and Iwashi Tatami – the fourth Hokage's bodyguards and famous for the Flying Raijin Formation technique, a getaway technique they would require in case things go south.

"Okay I have met my informants here, and they have said that he is not here." Jiraiya started, "That means he has come here in a disguise preferably a henge to not get caught."

"How sure are we with his intel, for all it's worth maybe he did not come here," Asuma argued, questioning Danzo's intel, which most of his peers agreed upon, that man was known for his shady dealing and the constant get away from persecution.

"As much as I want to agree with you Asuma, we have to put our faith in his intel on this matter other than that, my informant also sensed some corrosive chakra, which could be of nine tails only," Jiraiya said.

"So how do we start the search Jiraya-sama?" Genma asked.

"Make teams of three, one genjutsu specialist in each, so Raidō, you along with Asuma and Kurenai are one team, and Kakashi you are with the rest and I will go alone, and if you come across any ROOT ANBU report to me," Jiraiya ordered. "Hai!" with that they all spread out.

"Hey Kakashi, you well?" Iwashi asked attempting to break Kakashi from his depressive state.

"Yeah as well as I could be, I feel like I let down Minato sensei again," Kakashi said.

"Look, you could not have seen this coming, hell I also have not. When I saw the kid in the finals I would have not thought of him deserting after all he did and beat Shukaku." Genma stated, "On the other hand the Uchiha kid, saw it from miles away, he was a flight risk from the start."

"Yeah, I should have not taught him the Chidori." Kakashi reminisced about his mistake "Where did I go wrong."

"Look all of us have a lapse of judgment from time to time. All we can do is learn from it and try to not repeat it, so buck up, because we have to find him." Iwashi said.

"Yeah, we have to." Genma also said.

While they were also doing their part Jiraiya was also in deep thought, figuring out why Naruto left, "Why? Why would he do that? I mean for the Uchiha it was very obvious, but for Naruto not. What compelled him to do that? What would it be?" Hoping the worst had not yet happened, he took out a piece of paper wrote something gave it to a crow that flew away as he went into a dango shop waiting for his man.

A few minutes later he saw all the customers of the shop dissolve into a crow, alerting him that he was in a genjutsu. "So you have asked for me Jiraiya-sama?" A man with long black hair done in a low ponytail wearing a black robe with red clouds on it asked, "Itachi Uchiha" This was the only thing Jiraiya said, revealing the man to be Itachi Uchiha, the clan killer, one of the most prodigious shinobi who was instated in the ANBU black ops at the age of twelve and supposedly had gone insane and killed his clan.

"So what do I owe the pleasure Jiraiya-sama?" Itachi asked in a monotone voice.

"Has Akatsuki started collecting the bijuus?" Jiraiya asked.

"No, we are still collecting funds and are right now testing their capabilities. The tests have been done for four to nine tails excluding the eight tails." Itachi stated.

"So who will be coming after Naruto?" Jiraiya asked again.

"It would be both me and Kisame or Leader-sama himself, prepare Naruto-Kun well," Itachi said

"Thank you, Itachi"

"My pleasure Jiraya-sama" With that he left dispelling the genjutsu, while Jiraiya exhaled a sigh of relief, knowing that Naruto was not in the enemy's hands.

While the search was going on Naruto was on the boat chilling and reading about the history of Uzushiogakure, it turns out it was quite the fascinating city before its destruction, he first went through Mito Uzumaki's dairy and learned about the early years of both Konoha and Uzu. He scoffed at the Hashirama Senju's statement, "Well so much for creating a haven for children to not kill each other, well the elders sure help in it." Then he found three scrolls with the names – Hashirama Senju, Tobirama Senju, and Mito Uzumaki written on them, but thought nothing of it and kept it away, to find his mother's dairy.

In that, he learned about the later years of the land and then its destruction by the three great villages of Kumo, Kiri, and Iwa. Then he found out about how she was chosen to become the Jinchuuriki of nine tails.

Meanwhile, the Jounin group was unsuccessful with their search and regrouped, "Anything?" Jiraiya asked. But only got nothing in answer, then he took a deep breath and said, "Okay no problem, we report this mission as a failure."

As they reached Konohagakure Jiraiya turned around and said, "You lot go and rest I will give the mission report." They all nodded and left in different directions as went towards Hokage tower to find Tsunade alone sitting behind the desk looking worried. As she saw Jiraiya coming in she signalled her ANBUs to go outside. "Did you find him?" Jiraiya cringed at hope in Tsunade's voice then lowered his head indicating the failure of the mission.

"Now what? Jiraiya. Now what?" Tsunade asked.

"Give me six months to a year then decide, the good thing is Akatsuki has not found him yet," Jiraiya reassured her. In a rare moment of vulnerability, Tsunade let her defenses crumble down which Jiraiya noticed, and hugged her without any perverted intentions.

"I can't lose him Jiraiya, I can't lose him like them, I can't lose our grandson Jiraiya!" She broke down. Suddenly they heard sheets of paper falling and looked to find Shizune standing there with her mouth gaping. Jiraiya closed his eyes knowing the cat was out of the bag. "How much did you hear?" He asked

"Enough to know that he was our grandson," Shizune said.

"Look what I am going to say is not what many people know except for a few." Jiraiya started, "During the second war, after one of our battles, Tsunade and I were completely drunk and the next morning we found ourselves naked in bed with each other. Weeks later we found out that she was pregnant, at that time only Sensei knew about it not even Orochimaru. Once she gave birth we decided to leave him in an orphanage at that time to not raise any suspicion, you know what could have happened if the word got out that two of the Sannins had kids." Shizune nodded knowing the severity of the situation. "Then we decided to give him my mother's maiden name 'Namikaze'."

Shizune's eyes widened a lot when she heard about it, "You mean to say that Minato Namikaze is-" "-our son" Jiraiya finished, "That means-" "he is also the son of the fourth hokage." He again finished. Then Tsunade spoke up, "After all the things that happened in the second war, I left the village essentially abandoning it and him, and went with you. Jiraiya stuck around and became his Jounin sensei, her from sensei's letters about how good he was as a shinobi. I only felt pride and guilt, pride as a mother, and guilt of not raising him. When he became Jounin we thought it would be a good time to tell him about everything."

From there Jiraiya continued. "I don't know if you remember but for a day or two she came here. We thought he would be shouting and wanting nothing to be done with us, it also happened but it came from Kushina's side, while Minato accepted our reasoning. That day we knew that he was in good hands. Then came the Hokage inauguration."

"Between those times letters were exchanged between us." Tsunade spoke up, "During the inauguration, I was completely against it knowing the past but Minato still wanted to get the hat, wanted to prove me wrong." She continued in melancholy, "In one letter he said he was going to get married I stopped everything I did and came here, it was one of the most joyous moments of my life, made me consider that I could live with them and wanted to come back but the feeling was not that much strong" Shizune could see her master crumbling down, "When I heard I was going to be a grandmother I never felt much happier in life, they wanted me to live with them." Then her mood suddenly darkened, "Then came 10th of October, I received another letter, thought that they would say it was a safe delivery, but the letter said that all of them died it broke my heart and I thought to never come back to this accursed village. So when two months ago a blonde with blue eyes came into the tavern, imagine my surprise that my grandson was alive so I confronted Jiraiya."

Jiraiya then spoke up, "She confronted me and showed me the letter, honestly I was surprised and angry at sensei too, but after seeing it well I found out the seal was duplicated"

Tsunade then growled, "Turns out, some bastard son of a bitch gave me this fake letter to think that he was dead, so when I heard about Naruto I made up my mind to come back to the village to fulfill my promise to my son and now he is also gone." She felt another person hugging her and saw it was Shizune then she completely broke down.

As the night rolled up, Naruto rested in his boat sleeping not knowing his life was about to change in a way that he would not expect.

Morning rolled up and Tsunade woke up in her office, looked around to remember that last evening what happened. She saw Jiraya sleeping on one couch while Shizune was on the other. After she woke up Jiraiya also woke up and said "You fine?" she nodded "Should I wake her up" He said.

"No let her sleep she earned it." She said. He nodded then turned around to say, "I will go out today to try to look for him, you tell the other Jounins that Naruto left with me." She nodded knowing what he was telling.

"I will do that you please find him." She pleaded.

"Do no worry I will" He reassured her and left the office, after that, she woke Shizune up, and she called for the Jounin senseis and detailed the information to keep quiet about this incident and tell their students if they wanted to know, then Naruto had gone on a training trip with Jiraiya, they understood and were ok with it.

During that time, while at the sea, Naruto was going through some of Madara's memories just in flashes to get an overview then he found something that came as a big blow. It was a memory of Hashirama, Tobirama, and Madara, or more like Madara was eavesdropping on the brothers, it told him one thing important, you cannot be acknowledged if you become the Hokage you have to be acknowledged for it at first by the masses. And well his popularity was something that was not good, not really after the recent stunt too.

This made him a bit downtrodden for the day that he was chasing an impossible dream and thought to do nothing for the day as the evening rolled up he finished his dinner and went to call it a day and let the waves carry him.

During that time in West Bengal, India

Dhriti Ghosh Agarwal, a widowed grandmother, lived in Digha in her marriage house raising her granddaughter Shrishti Ghosh, her husband late Shankar Ghosh was a lieutenant general in the Indian Army, so she saw a lot of incidents that happened in the course of history, whether it being meeting Subhas Chandra Bose and the formation of the Indian National army or the day of 14 August 1947 when India finally gain their independence. Then there were also the several wars that India fought against Pakistan and China or having lunch with Brigadier General Sam Manik Shah. She was also called the 'Army Lady' because, unlike other homemakers, she had the most involvement in her husband's army duties, so much so that she knew a lot about the army and its discipline. So much so that in the 1971 Bangladesh Liberation War, during the later days of the war, her husband was killed. While her son cried a lot, she did not cry at all. When asked she said, 'Why should I cry when my husband died doing what he liked, crying right now means that he died a meaningless death, but my husband laid down his life to our mother nation, I am and will always be proud of him. Jai Hind!'

Given the 21 rifle salute to her husband's body, she had pride in her eyes, but sadness when she saw her son, for her ,son it was bitterness of losing her father, and bitterness towards the Indian Army, these caused tension between her and her son, she missed her son's wedding and her granddaughter's birth, it was one year ago that she found about her granddaughter, when she found out that her son died in a terrorist attack and her granddaughter was alive so she took care of her.

Dhriti was a wholehearted devotee of Shiva the deity of the Hindu Pantheon, most people thought that divine intervention was just superstition, but she knew there were truths to it, so tonight in her dreams when she saw a large shadow she knew that she was getting a divine intervention. "Dhriti, my foremost devotee, you shall help me in an endeavor, you shall save the life of a boy whose hair shines brighter than the sun, his eyes deeper than the sea, who shall be called the god slayer, who shall bring true justice, guide him protect him, my daughter. Find him where the sea meets the land." She suddenly woke up and knew she had to go, it was the Digha beach.

Same Time in the Sea

Naruto was sleeping when the boat was rocked with storms, so when he woke up it tides were high he tried to control the boat but the control was very hard, the fog was high and there were thunderstorms Also suddenly he found a shadow looming over him and then he suddenly heard in his mind "LOOK OUT!"


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