Chapter 3: Information and Confrontation

Within Konoha, Anbu training grounds

We see the konoha 12 with their sensei except Kurenai who was taking care of her daughter. With Yugao, Anko, Yamato and Jiraiya also present there at the ANBU training ground. Normally the anbu training grounds were only assigned to the anbu as they were strictly prohibited to be known by the genins, Chūnins and Jōnins and especially not let civilians know about these areas.

"Okay, first I assume that you all know why we all are present here?" Jiraiya asked and got nods from the people gathered around him, he then continued, "Alright let's get to the main point of this meeting. As you all have been informed by your sensei's, our mission is to retrieve Naruto Uzumaki, the former genin of Konoha and The current Kyuubi Jinchuriki. We will start preparing for this mission today. Until we get the solid info of his location. Also I have brought this to help us get the understanding of what Naruto is capable of." He finished and took out a bingo book copy from the recent update in it with a Bookmark on a page.

"Why the bingo book?" Sakura asked.

"Wait! Don't tell me that idiot is in the bingo book?!" Kiba exclaimed in shock, as he found the idea of Naruto being in the bingo book is impossible despite what team 7 told him and the rest of what they heard from their sensei. Kiba's pride refused to believe that Naruto had gotten that strong.

(A/N: The reader and writer just looks at kiba with a 'Oh you will know just how strong he has gotten. Just you wait.' look while having gleeful or sadistic smiles on their face.)

"I'm very serious here, Kiba. Naruto has done many incredible things during the span of the past five years that earned him the place in the top 10 of the bingo book. However Naruto has kept his identity secret and he is going by the name of Kuroi Ryuu. The page with the Book mark is his profile." Jiraiya said and tossed the bingo book to Shikamaru, who was closest to everyone where they could read the profile. The Jōnins had already read the page about Naruto's profile and when the younger generation read it too, they had the same reaction on their face as them: Utterly shocked and Stunned.

Name: Kuroi Ryuu (Black Dragon) (Real name Unknown)

Age: Estimate between 18 to 19

Gender: Male

Origin: Unknown (Possibly from Konoha)

Shinobi rank: Wandering-nin

Caliber Rank: S

Known allias: The Kuroi Ryuu and The Orange flash

Clan affiliation: Uzumaki Clan

Known Elements: Wind (🍃), Water (🌊), Lighting(⚡), Fire (🔥), Earth(⛰️) and Wood element (🪵).

Skill List: Taijutsu: 5

Ninjutsu: 5

Genjustu: 3

Intelligence: 5

Strength: 5

Speed: 5

Hand seals: 5

Weapons: Multiple Ninjato's with no guard, and weilds two unique swords. A green metal standard katana with jaw like pattern on the upper side of the sword and A dark blue metal with tri-colour appearance to it.

Physical description: Stands about 6'1 and weighs around 209 pounds. The face is not visible due the mask which has a dragon like pattern on it but has short spiky red hair. Wears a long black hooded cloak with white lines going over his wrists, waist and sleeves to the end of his cloak. At the back of his cloak is a red whirlpool.

Special abilities: He is highly skilled in Ninjutsu, Taijutsu, Kenjutsu and Fuinjutsu. He also can use a space-time ninjutsu similar to that of Konoha's Yellow flash. He also can use the infamous kekei genkai of the Shodai Hokage of konoha the wood release.

Known family members: Unknown (Possibly from Senju and Uzumaki clan)

Additional information: Helped Kiri rebels in ending the civil war, killed the Yondaime Mizukage Yagura who was the Jinchuriki of Three tails. Also defeated the Two tails Jinchuriki of Kumogakure along with darui of the Black lightning. He also defeated The five tails Jinchuriki of Iwagakure along with kurotsucki the granddaughter of Third Tsuchikage and he also killed gari of the explosion corps of Iwagakure. He also killed Hiruko the missing-nin from Konohagakure.

Advice: Genin and Chūnin level shinobi flee on sight. Jōnin and Kage level shinobi approach with caution.

Bounty:

80 million ryo: Dead or alive: Iwagakure.

85 million ryo: Dead or alive: Kumogakure.

"Holy fucking shit.." Choji Akimichi murmured which was the shared thought of the rest of konoha 12.

Asuma then added, "We also have additional information about Naruto having helped several other countries and villages over the span of Five Years such as Bird country, Moon country, Demon country, Vegetable country, Getsugakure and Hoshigakure."

"I know many of you are having a hard time believing this but it's the truth that this is Naruto's alias since both of them have the same fighting style, same swords and also the wood release kekei genkai." Jiraiya said.

"If I may Jiraiya-sama." Shinobi said, "But after we have heard of how Naruto lived his life in konoha and combined with the information we heard regarding his current level of power as well as his relationships with various countries, is it really wise for us to bring him back. To me it is illogical and suicidal for all of us and konoha itself. Because as you said Naruto has become this strong then we will not be able to bring him back to the village easily. Also if we somehow did bring him back I don't think the various countries and villages he helped were going to take it well for their hero to be forced back into the village that hated him since his birth." Shinobi finished.

"Come on shino you said it like the idiot would refuse to come back to the village." Kiba scoffed.

"I believe that is what I just said," shino said a little irritated at his teammates idiotic behaviour. "Did you forget what Sasuke, Sakura and Sai told us that Naruto made it clear to them he won't come back to the village which was like hell for him since his childhood. So no I don't think that Naruto will come back to konoha under any circumstances."

"Shino brings up many good points." Jiraiya said and everyone looked at him."I know that Naruto would hate or despise us. But Tsunade and I have already taken that into consideration but there are several other variations that we have to look at. One of them is this group called Akatsuki. All of its members are S-rank missing nins. Four of their members who we know about are Kisame Hoshigaki the monster of the mist, Itachi Uchiha of the Sharingan, Sasori of the red sand and Deidara Mad bomber of Iwa. Also my former teammate Orochimaru was also the part of this group which just shows just how powerful this group is and their goals are related to Jinchuriki's. They are going after people like Naruto and Gaara who have a Biju sealed inside of them."

Neji then commented, "So they are targeting Naruto and people like him to collect all nine tailed beasts which are sealed inside of them."

"Yes which made it more necessary for us to bring Naruto back to konoha." Jiraiya said. "We also needed to bring Naruto back not just to protect him from Akatsuki but also because if the other villages namely Iwa and kumo got the wind of the nine tails Jinchuriki roaming around freely then they will definitely send their shinobi to capture him to increase their village's strength. Not to mention that Naruto had a high enough bounty on his head to set a person for life. So we have to bring Naruto back to konoha for his own safety."

"I'm sorry to say this Jiraiya-sama. But it sounds more like we have to get Naruto back to konoha to make sure that kyuubi didn't get anyone else's hands first." Tenten said as she understood that what jiraiya was telling them was that they have to maintain the Power Balance between the villages.

"I understand what you all are thinking that this is about maintaining the power Balance between the villages. And I know none of you like that either, hell I didn't like this either. But we have to do this while making the long run decision. This Mission is classified between everyone here, the only other people who know about this mission are Tsunade-hime and Shinobi council. Any leakage of this mission will be met with extremely harsh punishment." Jiraiya said the last part all the while leaking killer intent to get his point across everyone.

Everyone nodded before Ino decided to change the subject, "Jiraiya-sama in the book and what we heard from Sasuke, Sakura and Sai is it true that Naruto has Shodai's bloodline the wood release."

Before jiraiya could answer someone else did it for him, "That is true, Ino." Everyone looked to see Tsunade walking up to them.

"How do you know that it is true Tsunade-sama?" Ino asked.

"I know because after all Naruto and I are family due to both of us being the blood relatives of our clan." Tsunade answered.

"Clan? Are you saying Naruto is part of a clan?" Shikamaru asked.

Tsunade nodded, "How many of you read about the Uzumaki clan during your academy days from the Library?"

"No we didn't. But they must have been unimportant if no one in the academy mentioned anything about them." Kiba said but immediately flinched almost sh*t in his pants because of the killer intent and death glare that Tsunade sent his way.

"For your kind information kiba Inuzuka! The Uzumaki clan were blood relatives of the Senju clan but also the ones who helped in building the Konoha! My grandmother, Mito Uzumaki was also an Uzumaki and she was married to my grandfather Hashirama Senju! So I am also an Uzumaki!" Tsunade yelled glaring at him which caused kiba to quack in his boots with him taking a few more steps back. "The red whirpool symbols on the back of your Chūnin and Jōnin vests are their clan symbol and we wear it to honor them. And the reason why you didn't hear about them is because of the elders and the civilian council refusing to let you and especially Naruto know that he belongs to a clan." She finished.

Total silence fell around everyone as the Konoha 12 members couldn't believe that the elders and civilian council went as far as to make Naruto ignorant of his own clan's existence.

"The Uzumaki clan lived in the now abandoned Whirpool country that is surrounded by whirpools. The clan members of the Uzumaki clan were famous for their red hair, their long lives, their talent in fuinjutsu, incredible stamina and solid shape chakra manipulation which only few could perform." Tsunade said. "They were destroyed during the end of the second shinobi world war by the combined forces of Iwa, Kumo and several other small villages because they saw the Uzumaki clan as a threat due them having the power to rival the Five major villages."

"Wait Tsunade-sama you said Naruto is an Uzumaki but he was born in Konoha. So if Naruto is part of the Uzumaki clan then how come he was born in Konoha?" Sakura questioned.

Tsunade and Jiraiya looked at each other before deciding to tell them of Naruto's heritage. "You see Sakura before the uzushio fell. There was one Uzumaki who sent to Konoha to become the second Jinchuriki of kyuubi with the first being my grandmother. But the Uzumaki that was sent to Konoha was none other than Naruto's mother Kushina Uzumaki."

"Wait if Naruto's mom was an Uzumaki and being the second Jinchuriki of kyuubi, then what happened to her?" Lee asked.

"Let me tell you one thing that only an Uzumaki can hold the kyuubi because if someone else becomes it's Jinchuriki then they would immediately die from the high amount of chakra it possessed. So for one to become a Jinchuriki of kyuubi he or she must have a high amount of chakra from a young age. And Uzumaki's are the only ones who have had an incredible amount of chakra since their childhood. So that's why only Uzumaki can hold the kyuubi." Jiraiya told them. Before he and Tsunade began to tell them everything about Naruto and who his parents were.

While this was happening none of them noticed a shadow behind one of the rocks hearing their entire conversation before it disappeared to do its task given to him by his master.

Underground Konoha, ROOT Base

As Yujin entered the base silenty and undetected by everyone inside in it. He immediately began to look for the documents and information that he came to take.

Yujin then came across the archives room filled with many documents he then looked around to see if any root shinobi was here and to his slight surprise he found only three root nin present in the room and there were only two security cameras in the room.

'I have expected more from Danzo in the security method. For him to only assign three shinobi to guard the archives room is pretty careless of him.' Yujin thought, 'But then again he must have never thought that someone would find this base of his.'

Yujin then placed seals on two security cameras that would cause it to only record it as everything in the archives room was normal. He then silently and stealthily took all the needed documents from the shelves that Naruto-sama told him to take.

After he was done taking every document that he needed. Yujin then went on to do the second part of his task which was to know what Danzo was planning right now. He then came across a room in which Danzo was ordering some of his root shinobi.

"I am giving you this task, fuu. You will prepare a team to capture the kyuubi Jinchuriki. If Sai and the others failed to bring him back this time around then I have ordered Sai to discreetly place a locating seal on the Jinchuriki so we can locate him and capture him." Danzo ordered his root shinobi whose name was Fuu Yamanaka.

"Hai Danzo-sama! I shall go now to start preparing for this mission." Fuu said and Danzo nodded and then fuu went away leaving Danzo alone in his office.

"Soon the kyuubi Jinchuriki will be in my control and then I will use him to crush Tsunade and take her place as Hokage." Danzo said to himself, not even sensing Yujin who was listening to all of this and narrowed his eyes at the crippled bastard. Yujin was tempted to just kill him and all of his roots but that would ruin naruto-sama's plans which will help him in uniting all the five great villages. With that thought Yujin went away to report this to his Uzumaki clan head.

With Naruto in spring country

We could see Naruto was playing with his daughter kazumi and koyuki was also with them enjoying their family time together as both she and Naruto were finally spending their time together as the only time she could remember when all three of them spent time together the last time which was two months ago when Naruto came to spring country to check if they were okay.

"You know, Naruto I always hoped for that one day. I will have a loving husband and a lovely child and I am happy that I got all of this thanks to you." Koyuki said looking at Naruto who was looking at her with their daughter was resting in his arms.

Naruto smiled at koyuki before kissing her forehead, "No I should be thanking you koyuki because of you and other women in my life that I finally able to have a family to call my own. In which I have a loving wife and cute little daughters which you and Mei gave me. So yes I am really thankful to you that you give me this happiness in my life." He said to koyuki whose smile got even brighter by hearing those words from her husband.

"Speaking of which, How's Mizukage-sama doing aren't you going to meet her and Mai-chan?" Koyuki asked.

Naruto nodded his head, "Yes I am going to water country after some time since it's been three months since I have met both of them. Though Mei is going to be very angry at me for not visiting her and Mai soon." He said as he imagined mei threatening to melt him with lava with koyuki chuckling at that. "Though I know how to make it up to her." He said in a way which caused koyuki to blush hard as she knew how he was going to make it up to mei. After all he did the same for her during the last Six days at night in their bedroom.

Before she could say anything, Yujin appeared before them coming up from the ground.

"Naruto-sama I have completed the task you had given to me." Yujin said as Naruto give kazumi to koyuki who then went inside the castle towards her room.

"Tell me Yujin what have find out?" Naruto asked seriously once koyuki and kazumi were gone.

"Hai! Naruto-sama. Just like you predicted Konoha is going to send another retrieval team to capture you." Yujin said.

Naruto sighed as he had hoped that after his confrontation with Kakashi and team 7 where he made it clear that he in any circumstances wasn't going to return to Konoha but it seems that was a wishful thinking but oh well, "Yujin, who is Hokage going to send this time?" He asked.

Yujin answered, "She is going to send team 7,8,9 and 10 along with Kakashi Hatake, Asuma Sarutobi, Might Guy, Iruka Umino, a man named Yamato, Anko Mitarashi, Yugao Uzuki and Jiraiya of the sannin."

Naruto just nodded his head as he knew why Tsunade was sending all of them after him. Iruka because she was probably thinking that he can convince Naruto to comeback. Kakashi, Asuma and Guy so all three of them could over power him in taijutsu and ninjutsu. Anko so she can use some poison or other sedatives to knock him out instantly. Yugao because she is a kenjutsu master and Tsunade must have thought that she can match him in kenjutsu. Yamato now that guy is one he needs to be on guard all the time because he is someone in Konoha who can use wood release due the experimentation done on him by Orochimaru. Jiraiya because Tsunade must be sure that if he can put shodai's necklace on him which would stop him from using Kurama's chakra and then Yamato would use his wood release and capture him with his wood jutsu that Hashirama used to calm the Biju down when he first collected them. Then his prevert for a Godfather will put a suppression seal on him to knock him out.

"Thank you for the telling me this Yujin-san." Naruto thanked Yujin which he got a nod in return before Yujin handed him the files that he told Naruto steal from Danzo's root archives.

Naruto then checked all of the files and what he found disgusted him. What Naruto saw in the files was the dealing that Danzo had with Orochimaru even after he turned traitor also every other mission and schemes he did behind Sandaime's and Tsunade's back. But what truly enraged him was that this bastard was the one who provoked Iwa into starting the third shinobi world war. Not only that he also shook hands with Hanzo and tricked him so he could kill the akatsuki leader yahiko and nagato to obtain the rinnegan but the plan backfired and when yahiko commited suicide in front of nagato who then went in the fit of rage killed many of Danzo's and Hanzo's man and that was how pain was born. Danzo fled the scene and erased every trace of his involvement in destroying the akatsuki. If that is not enough this bastard pushed Itachi Uchiha into killing his own clan. He also was the one who made many shinobi and civilian in Konoha believe that Uchiha's were somehow involved into the kyuubi attack on Konoha and thus provoked the clan into doing a coup d'etat and then he had the gall to order Itachi to massacre his own clan and parents and Itachi did it on one condition to spare his little brother Sasuke and Sandaime agreed to it but the catch here was that Sandaime wanted to only kill those who wanted to rebel against the village and wanted to spare the innocent ones but Danzo didn't see it that way he wanted to kill everyone in the clan except Sasuke. So Danzo secretly ordered Itachi to do it.

Naruto controlled his anger the best he could after reading the files and kept an emotionless face to not let anyone know what he was feeling but if someone looked into his eyes they could see anger and hatred burning in them. He couldn't believe that Danzo went this far and Sandaime was even a bigger fool for not killing him the instant when Danzo literally committed a treason against Hokage and village by trying to assassinate the Sandaime. If that is not enough this bastard was involved in Uzushio's destruction and the list goes on such as Danzo having a hand in Nawaki and Dan's death as well. Naruto was literally starting to think just how big of a fool hiruzen was he was Kami no shinobi for kami's sake!! How could he let this slide and didn't do anything about it!! Sure Naruto knew the Sarutobi was old and tired but that didn't mean he didn't have authority to do something about this instead of doing the right thing he simply sit in the back let other push him around and let others take advantage of his old state and biggest to take advantage of this was none other than Danzo who took Sarutobi's lack of will to do things as his advantage. Heck!! The third tsuchikage Ohnoki was older than Sarutobi was but he didn't let anyone take advantage of him!! If he didn't want that bastard for his plans alive. Naruto was sure that he would have teared him apart right at this moment.

"I have to say this kit even though I didn't know that Danzo very well but I never imagined he had it in him to go against everything his sensei tobirama Senju stood for. Danzo literally worshipped him during his childhood days from what I could hear from the conversation between Hashirama, Mito and Tobirama." Kurama said inside Naruto's head as he too was equally disgusted by the actions of Danzo.

"You are right, Kurama. He has taken Second Hokage's teaching to the extreme and because of Tobirama's misplaced trust in Uchiha clan it passed down to Danzo and made him wants to kill the entire clan when he got the chance." Naruto said to his friend.

Naruto took a deep breath to suppress any negative emotions and looked at Yujin, "Yujin-san, I want you to keep a close eye on Danzo and if he leaves Konoha then you will immediately inform me about it!" He ordered Yujin.

"Hai Naruto-sama!" Yujin replied.

Before anymore things could be discussed between them. They sensed koyuki coming towards in their direction and Naruto then handed the documents back to yujin and turned around to meet his wife who just came here after putting Kazumi to sleep in her bedroom.

Naruto smiled at his wife, "Koyuki-chan, did kazumi-chan go to sleep?" He asked.

Koyuki nodded, "Yes Naruto-kun, but she was asking if you were coming to tell her a story to help her sleep like you always do whenever you are here." She answered smilling.

Naruto chuckled at that since even though he did not stay for too long in the country but still whenever he stayed he made sure to tell kazumi many stories which his daughter really liked and asked him to tell her more stories. "I see. I will tell her one during the night." He said smilling and koyuki also nodded.

Before any other words could be said Naruto suddenly felt the seal on his hands glow indicating that the emergency seal he gave to Gaara, Temari and Kankuro had been activated. He told them to channel chakra in it when they needed to send a signal to him when they needed help or any other important issues. Naruto then looked at koyuki's face as she saw the seal on his palm glowing red. Koyuki knew what exactly that seal meant after all Naruto had given her the same seal should she needs any help and summon him immediately.

"It seems we have to halt our conversation for a little while Naruto-kun." Koyuki said.

Naruto nodded, "I know that Koyuki-chan and the signal is coming from the seal that I have to gaara, temari and Kankuro should they need my help in anything." He said and koyuki nodded.

"So how long will you be gone?" Koyuki asked a bit saddened that he had to leave so soon.

"I don't know Koyuki-chan but I promise you this that I will definitely be back." Naruto said.

Koyuki nodded, "I hold you on that promise, Naruto-kun." She told him.

Naruto smirked at her, "Don't worry Koyuki-chan. You know very well that Naruto Uzumaki never breaks his promise." He said and kisses her on the forehead to show that he meant those words. "Also tell kazumi to be a good girl while I am gone." He said.

"I will definitely tell her that Naruto-kun." Koyuki said smiling.

Naruto then looked at Yujin, "Yujin-san, I am heading towards suna for a bit. Take care of Koyuki and Kazumi for me while I am gone." He said.

Yujin bowed his head, "Hai Naruto-sama." He promised his master respectfully.

Naruto then nodded before looking at Koyuki once againto given her a smile which made her smile back at him. Before he was gone in an orange flash with the help of his own version of hiraishin.

Three Days Later (POV-??)

We could see nine figures standing at the finger tips of a demonic statue which has its mouth opened as it absorbed shukaku from gaara who was in the air as the tailed beasts chakra inside his body was getting absorbed through his body inside the gedo mazo.

Now you would be wondering how Gaara got into this situation. You see the akatsuki has ordered two of its members to go to suna and capture gaara to extract the one tailed beast. Sasori and Deidara were the ones who pain assigned to capture the one tails Jinchuriki with the help of the spy that sasori had inside Sunagakure. They infiltrated the village with Sasori assigned to look out for any shinobi that will come after them. Deidara on the other hand was the one that was assigned to capture Gaara. Both of them attacked suna with Deidara himself going to fight the kazekage. But gaara proved to be a strong opponent also because they were fighting in his element which given Gaara a severe advantage over didara who was having a hard time fighting him. But then Deidara decided to distract gaara by sending several bombs on the civilian and gaara have no choice but to protect them as their kazekage. But that distraction was enough for Deidara who sent many of his clay bombs at gaara who was able to shield himself from most of them but unfortunately for him Deidara sent some small bombs in his sand which he then detonated and immediately neutralise gaara. After that he and sasori took gaara with them and immediately went towards the location that was given to them by pain but they soon found out that Kankuro has followed after them but sasori easily defeated him and poisoned him at same time. With that out of the way both Sasori and Deidara immediately went towards the location in full speed and started the extraction process of one tails and Now to the Present...

"Few I never knew it would take this much time to seal the one tails." Deidara said.

"Yeah I have to agree it is a little tiring to do this." Kisame said through his astral image as he was slightly tired but with samehada it was gone away in an instant.

Before anyone could say anything a orange flash appeared inside the cave and when it faded it showed Naruto inside the cave with him catching gaara in his arms as the extraction of one tails is completed.

All nine figures stared at Naruto and some thought how the hell did he get inside the cave with a barrier protecting it and zetsu and pain thought how they didn't sense him coming in their direction.

As for Naruto he was absolutely pissed as when he arrived in suna to see that gaara had been taken and Kankuro was poisoned as well. If Kankuro was not treated sooner he will die but thankfully Naruto had also learned how to use the healing chakra and he has been practicing it to perfection but with his knowledge he was able to save Kankuro. After curing Kankuro of poison he immediately went towards the direction of where akatsuki had taken gaara when Kankuro after regaining consciusness told him to go in which direction.

Naruto then immediately created a shadow clone and told him to teleport himself to sunagakure and before he handed gaara over to his clone he placed a chakra storage seal on gaara which have enough chakra inside of it to keep him in state where they will have a chance to save his life.

Pain who saw this and immediately realised what Naruto was about to do and immediately he ordered, "Sasori! Deidara! Stop the kyuubi Jinchuriki from taking the body!"

However before both Sasori and Deidara could move it was already too late as Naruto's clone teleported itself out of the cave and immediately head towards suna.

After that was done. Naruto looked at every member of akatsuki memorising their faces and he also noted that 'tobi' wasn't there with them but Naruto figured that he must be controlling the akatsuki organisation from the shadows and will only show his face when absolutely necessary.

Pain then looked at Naruto, "The kyuubi Jinchuriki we finally meet at last." He said and their was silence for a moment as pain was trying to analyse boys chakra capacity through the help of his rinnegan and what he found stunned him as he saw just how much chakra do Naruto have inside of him.

"And you must be the leader of these minions of yours?" Naruto asked pain who didn't say anything.

"Oi! How dare you call me a minion?! I swear you are so fucking lucky boy that I am not here otherwise I would have fucking killed you!" Hidan exclaimed in anger.

"Am I talking to you? No right then shut up and don't interrupt when the adults are talking." Naruto said while hidan went on to rant curses after curses but Naruto didn't pay him any attention which only caused hidan to be more angry and it didn't help that kakuzu was laughing at hidan getting insulted by the kyuubi Jinchuriki.

"Deidara! Sasori! you two capture him right now as you have the chance!" Pain suddenly ordered them as he didn't want to waste the opportunity to capture Naruto but also he wanted to know what he was capable of.

"Heh! It looks like I am going to take your target down Itachi." Deidara said to the Uchiha in an attempt to get a reaction out of him but was irked that Itachi didn't even bat him an eye.

"What makes you think you can capture me?" Naruto asked from behind Deidara who was shocked like the others as they didn't even see him move but before he could jump away from the Naruto. He was punched so hard in the back that he was literally sent flying upwards and through the ceiling of the cave literally was sent out of it. Naruto also did the same thing with Sasori and broke the puppet he was hiding inside and also throw him out of the same hole that was created because of Deidara.

Naruto also went outside to finish both of them and gave a brief glance at the pain who saw it and narrowed his eyes at Naruto as well.

Outside Deidara was groaning in pain as he got up from his position where he crashed through a tree before he got his bearings together and saw sasori in the same area just a few distance away from him but he noticed that sasori's puppet bodies tail is destroyed.

"You okay Deidara?" Sasori asked his partner.

"Yeah, just a little bit of pain from the crash landing that just happened with me un!" Deidara said.

But before any other words could be said both of them noticed the sky darkened and looked up and Naruto diving towards them with both of his swords in his hands. But both of them dodged in time and looked to where Naruto landed and saw that the trees behind their previous position were cut in half.

"You two are pretty fast." Naruto commented after he stood up and looked at both Deidara and Sasori. "I intended to take you both out quickly but I guess that was wishful thinking on my part."

Sasori was just looking at Naruto wondering how powerful he was but he decided to confirm his suspicion first, "So it is true that you the Kyuubi Jinchuriki is also the Kuroi Ryuu (Black Dragon)."

Naruto looked at the puppeteer for a moment before answering, "Yes I am the Kuroi Ryuu but I also must say it is an honor to meet you Sasori of the red sand."

Deidara who was annoyed, "I don't care if you are Kuroi Ryuu or something. The only thing I know is that you are going to pay for hitting me in the cave and captured by us, un!" He declared with a hint of anger and arrogance in his voice.

"We will see who will be the one to go down." Naruto simply replied before he appeared in front of Deidara, "Wind step!!" Startled by this Deidara didn't have time to Dodge the attack, "Wind style: Air cannon fist!!🍃👊" Naruto shouted and struck Deidara with his fist and the impact from Naruto's wind enhanced fist sent Deidara several feet back with him crashing through many trees.

'He's fast,' Sasori thought as Naruto turned around and also used the same move on sasori but he was fast enough to get out of the way and Naruto's fist connected with the tree that was behind sasori and it was destroyed to smithereens, 'Not just fast but he is strong as well. I have to be careful not to get hit by it.' He thought again and opened his mouth and sent several senbons at Naruto.

Naruto who was this clasped his hands together, "Wood style (🪵): Wood wall Jutsu!" He said a wood wall was created in front of him shielding him from all the senbons and he performed a sushin and appeared behind sasori with a rasengan in his right hand, "Rasengan (🌐)!!" He shouted and slammed the rasengan in sasori's puppet body and destroyed it immediately as it exploded into metal and wood pieces.

Naruto then looked at the real sasori who was standing in middle of his destroyed puppet body and he spit out some blood from his mouth, "I see. So that's how you are able to protect yourself from close range attacks. You created a Armor type puppet to cover you body and get rid of puppeteer's most glaring weakness of close range combats. I must say I am impressed you are really worthy of being called 'Sasori of the red sand.' " Naruto said.

"I am honoured to recieve such praise from the hero known as Black dragon." Sasori said, "I see your skills myself in this confrontation of ours and I must say that I'm very impressed. You would be great puppet once we extract the kyuubi from you." He finished and took of his cloak to reveal his still young face, and unruly red hair.

'He looks younger but how from what I know from elder chiyo he must be around his thirty by now. But he looks like hasn't aged a single day.' Naruto thought, "Thanks for the praise and offer but I would only take the praise not the offer and from the look of your partners face he didn't looked like he would let you keep that offer." He said gesturing upwards at Deidara who was riding one of his clay birds and he was bruised due the attack Naruto hit him with in the face. Deidara was beyond angry heck he was absolutely livid and was glaring at Naruto with enough anger to somehow make him combust. He clenched both of his fists and looked ready to blast Naruto with his strongest explosion 💥.

"Stay out of this fight, Deidara. You are in no condition to fight given the state you are in." Sasori warned the Iwa bomber as he took his special puppet scroll out of his cloak.

"Shut up! This bastard is going to pay for hitting me! I will show him just how powerful my art is and it will the last thing he will ever see, Un!" Deidara said in absolute anger and opened his palm to reveal two of his clay bird bombs.

"Fine, just don't get in the way of my art." Sasori told him and opened the scroll in his hand to reveal a puppet. The puppet's appearance was unique as it had black spiky hair and yellow eyes and it was taller then sasori.

'That puppet looks very familiar where have I seen it...' Naruto thought to himself as he looked at the puppet carefully and then his eyes widened upon realisation. He recalled elder chiyo telling him about sasori who liked to create unique kinds of puppet and now he recognised the puppet as he has seen who this man was in the council meeting room of Sunagakure, "It's the third kazekage.." Naruto murmured to himself in shock but quickly hid it as he stared at the strongest Kazekage and shinobi in sunagakure's history. He couldn't believe that Sandaime kazekage was reduced to a mere puppet. He couldn't believe that sasori used people's corpse to make his puppets.

"I see that you know about it. Grandma Chiyo must have told you about my habit of creating unique puppets." Sasori said as he saw the look of shock and realisation on Naruto's face before he hid it and maintained a poker face. It amused him to see that look on Naruto's face even if it was only for a moment.

Naruto didn't say anything and dodged the one clay bird that Deidara sent his way as the clay bird made contact on the ground and caused a massive explosion 💥 where he was standing mere moments ago. Naruto then saw Deidara sent his second clay bird at him but instead of dodging it he took out his second katana and channeled water chakra 💦 in it and slashed the clay bird in half and also caused it to not explode due to the water slash 🌊 completely cancelled it. Naruto then created four shadow clones to keep sasori busy while he dealt with Deidara.

That angered Deidara more but he hid it well and remained calm, 'I am low on clay right now so I can't use and waste it recklessly besides I am at a advantage here as long as I remain in the sky, I'm safe. It's not like he will be come here and attack me.' Deidara thought to himself smirking.

But Naruto just had to bust his bubble of overconfidence, "Wind style 🍃: Divine wind Armor!! (Kamikaze no Yoroi!)" He shouted and channeled the wind chakra in his body and flew straight towards Deidara.

The Iwa-bomber who saw this was stunned to the core. To him the technique that Naruto was using was similar to The Third tsuchikage Ohnoki and The Yondaime Raikage. Deidara was in so much shock that he didn't notice Naruto closing on him and only snapped out of it when Naruto shouted, "Yin release ☯️: Red Beam!!" As he created a blood red chakra beam from his hand and shot it towards Deidara's clay bird like beam. Just as the attack closed in on him, Deidara jumped backwards from his clay just as the beam made contact with it. When it did the beam caused a massive explosion 💥, Deidara got caught in it and was sent flying several distance away.

Naruto watched as the smoking body of Deidara fell to the ground several distance away. Naruto couldn't tell if the Deidara was dead or not but he knew that with wounds Deidara has suffered just by his hand would put him out of commission for a while. He then focused on sasori again and saw that sasori took out his last clone by the iron sand attack from the puppet of Sandaime kazekage. 'It looks like even after turning the body into a puppet it could still use its kekei genkai.' Naruto thought, 'I can try to take him on in close quarter combat and prevent him from using his iron sand techniques. But it will be risky since I'm sure that melee weapons on the puppet will be coated in poison but thanks to Kurama and he will burn every poison from my immune system.'

Kurama snorted inside the seal, "Please brat as if some mere poison will do anything to you as long as I am here you don't have to worry about anyone giving you poison and sedatives.' he said to Naruto with a smirk.

"Okay thanks Kurama. Now then let's finish this!" Naruto said and using his Armor he fired himself directly at sasori and raised his fist, he shouted, "Explosion fist (💥): thunder impact!!" But sasori got out of the way in time but he was shocked when the fist made contact with the ground he was just standing on. As the fist made contact with the ground it literally destroyed the entire field with debris flying around due to the huge impact Naruto's attack caused, Naruto grunted as he got up, 'He dodged it. I was planning to finish him off for good with this attack but it looks like he still has some fight in him.' Naruto thought as the dust settled and he looked at sasori who was standing several feet away from him.

Sasori though was a little winded himself as he barely got away from that attack and thought to himself, 'That was dangerous. If I hadn't dodged that attack then I would have definitely died from it. I will have to be more on guard.' he then said, "I must say that was one powerful attack. But don't think that will be enough to defeat me." Sasori said to Naruto who narrowed his eyes at him, "Here let me show you my art! Iron sand drizzle!!" As he used his puppet and shot several iron bullets at Naruto.

Naruto whose eyes widened as he saw this and immediately performed hand seals and shouted, "Wood style (🪵): Wood block jutsu!!" As he created a wood block and used it to block the iron bullets that sasori fired at him. As the attack was blocked naruto then shot his chakra chains forward at sasori who created a doem of iron sand around him to protect himself from the chains after Naruto retracted the chains sasori also took the dome down.

Sasori thought to himself, 'That's the chakra chain technique of the Uzumaki clan which can only be used by very few members of the clan. It confirms that he is from the Uzumaki clan. He'll be a great puppet when this battle will over.' he then used the puppets right arm as he several blades come out of it and formed a claw.

Naruto noticed this and saw the blades were coated with poison. 'So he will you poison now. Well it's not like it's going to make a difference.' he thought and ready himself.

"You did very well in dodging that attack. But let's see if you can dodge this! Iron sand spears strike!" Sasori exclaimed and created several of the iron spears in the air ready to shot them at Naruto.

'He must be thinking of using them as distraction to cause me to focus on them and he will probably use that as a chance to posion me.' Naruto thought as he take out his green sword and held it in his right hand.

Sasori saw Naruto taking out the green sword and launched all of his iron sand spears at Naruto. But Naruto wasn't a leat bit intimidated as he readied himself. Then just as the iron spears neared him Naruto channeled wind chakra in his sword and cut the first sand spear from the middle, shocking sasori greatly. But he didn't stop there and used his arms to surround Naruto with the rest of the iron sand spear and launched them from all directions. But what happened next almost made his eyes bulge out from their sockets as Naruto with his insane amount of speed immediately countered all of the spears and sliced them apart.

"H-How?" Sasori said in shock showing it on his face.

Naruto just smirked at him, "I thought you would have noticed that both of my swords were created from the chakra metal which helps the weapon wielder into channeling their nature chakra in it. Fujin is the sword made by Namikaze clan. But you don't need to know more than that after all you will be dead when this battle is over." Naruto said mockingly to Sasori.

Sasori gritted his teeth at the mocking tone Naruto said it to him, "Don't get cocky brat!" Sasori yelled at Naruto and launched puppet of Sandaime at him but Naruto wasn't even look worried in fact he looked quiet bored as he dodged all of it attacks. Naruto then decided that enough is enough and gathered fire chakra in both of his hands and merged both of them together creating a fire arrow.

"Fire style (🔥): Flame arrow (🏹)!!" Naruto shouted as he launched the attack forward. When the flame arrow made contact with the puppet, a massive amount of flame was unleashed that not only completely obliterated the puppet's body but also sent it towards sasori who wasn't able to react in time and was hit dead on centre by the flame arrow and puppet causing a massive explosion to go off which destroyed the clearing and formed a crater where sasori was standing.

"Let's check first if that bastard is dead or not," Naruto mumbled to himself as went to look at sasori to see if he was dead or not. As he reached the crater he looked inside and saw sasori's body which almost burned but still he was alive and some of his body was still not burned and his left arm severed as well. This surprised Naruto as he couldn't believe that Sasori was still alive, "Hmm, looks like that bastard was no joke." As he went inside the crater to finish sasori as he landed inside the crater he noticed several puppets lying around and all of them were almost destroyed. 'He must have taken them out to block the fire arrow.'

With Sasori who was barely clinging to life saw Naruto coming towards him with his sword ready in his hands to kill him, "Before you kill me I have something to give you." He managed to choke out just as Naruto reached his body.

"Oh, and what would that be?" Naruto asked.

"Take this scroll and give it to that boy with the black cat suit." Sasori said as he took out two scrolls from the secret seal he kept them in and handed them over to Naruto. "It contains all of my knowledge and research that I have done over the years."

Naruto took both scrolls in his hands and said, "Any last words." He asked the akatsuki member.

"No I have no last words to say." Sasori said and Naruto nodded as he stabbed sasori in the place where his heart was ending the life of 'Sasori of the red sand'.

"Tch that took you long time to finish them off." Kurama said as he snorted, "You could have killed him in an instant if you have used my chakra."

"I didn't have any need to use your chakra at the moment, Kurama." Naruto told his partner in his head, "Beside you know that I will be using your chakra against the leader of the akatsuki, as he is the real deal."

Kurama just grunted in agreement, "True but you could have defeated both those akatsuki idiots much faster then you did just know." He said.

"Again there was no need to use your chakra. Beside this way I can surprise the akatsuki members that proved too much for me and should I need to use your chakra against them." Naruto said.

"Fair point." Kurama said shrugging, "So what are you going to do now? Head back to your vixen and kit in spring country or your other two vixen and kits."

"Not yet and Stop calling Mei-chan, Shizuka-chan and koyuki-chan vixens." Naruto deadpan at his partner who just laughed at him. Naruto just shook his head at his partner's antics, "Besides I need to check if my clone reached Suna safely or not. And also give this scrolls to Kankuro he might be able to use them well." Naruto replied and picked up sasori's body and after securing it. He immediately turned around and went inthe direction of sunagakure.

Once Naruto was out of site, zetsu rose from the ground and surveyed the damage Naruto's attack did to the area. "Well that was one hell of an attack?" The white half said.

"Indeed and Not just that attack the entire fight was one hell of a fight. The kyuubi Jinchuriki didn't even look tired from his fight with Sasori. Sasori was over his head and it cost him big time. Not to mention it looked like kyuubi Jinchuriki was hardly having any difficulty fighting them." The black half said as both of them then went forward to take the ring out of sasori's left hand and threw it to the side without a care in the world.

"At least we are able to collect sasori's ring. I am surprised that it hasn't been destroyed from that last attack from the kyuubi Jinchuriki." The white half commented, "So what now?" He asked.

"Now we go and check if Deidara is alive or not. If he is alive then it is good but if he is dead then we will just take his ring with us." The black half replied before the merged being then went to search for the bomber specialist of akatsuki.

With Naruto

Naruto after reaching suna first went to check on his friend where he was greeted by the sight of his friend standing with his siblings and both of his wives in the middle of the crowd but all of them were silent instead of cheering for their kazekage's return.

"Gaara" he called out to his friend and everyone looked at him and made a way for him to went towards his friend. As Naruto was walking towards gaara he noticed chiyo laying on the ground.

Immediately Naruto was by her side and looked at her and checked her condition. Gaara just let him look at elder chiyo before Naruto asked gaara, "How did this happened to her?" He questioned in a heavy voice.

It was temari who answered, "Naruto, elder chiyo used a forbidden jutsu to save gaara's life as when your clone brought him back to suna he was on the verge of death. So in order to save his life she gave up her own life."

"I see." Were the only words Naruto could say as no other words could come out of his mouth.

After that gaara told everyone to prepare for the funeral for the elder chiyo and when the ceremony was done. He and Naruto went to his house to talk to each other.

"So, How are you feeling my friend?" Naruto asked breaking the silence.

Gaara who sat opposite of him with both of his wife sitting by his side. "I am feeling fine, for almost a dead person." He remarked jokingly at which Naruto and Kankuro snorted before they chuckled at his remark and Matsuri, Yukata and temari scolded him for saying that.

"You shouldn't say that gaara-kun." Matsuri said in a scolding manner.

"Yeah you just avoided death and you are already talking like this." Yukata also said in a scolding manner.

Temari then looked at both Naruto and Kankuro with an irritated expression, "Can't you two stop chuckling at that stupid remark." She told them to which both of them quieted down if only a little.

Naruto then turned serious, "Jokes aside, gaara tell me is shukaku still sealed inside you." He asked his friend seriously.

Gaara shook his head, "No I can't feel his presence." He replied to his friend.

"I see." That was all Naruto can say.

Gaara then asked, "Naruto, how many tailed beasts are now captured by akatsuki?"

Naruto looked at his friend, "I know from what I found out from the help of Yujin-san is that they have two, four, five and now one tails in their grasp." He answered causing all of them to go in silence.

Temari then asked, "That means only three, Six, Seven, Eight and Nine tails remain out of their grasp, right?"

Naruto nodded his head, "Yeah and I know that akatsuki will soon try to capture them as well." He answered.

"Did you know the location of other jinchuriki's?" Kankuro questioned.

Naruto nodded his head, "I do. The three tails is out in the wild but I don't know where. And all three other jinchuriki's beside me are in their respective villages. But don't worry I have already given both six and seven my ninjato and seals to activate them should they need my help."

Gaara nodded his head, the asked his friend, "Are you going go back to spring country?"

"Yes and after that I will go to water country to check on Mei and Mai since it's been three months since I have seen them." Naruto told his friend who just nodded.

"You know it still baffles me to this day that you managed to not only take Godaime mizukage but also Spring Daimiyo and Nadeshiko princess as your wife's but also have child with them." Kankuro remarked to this day he just couldn't figure out how Naruto was able to get three beautiful and hot wives like those three.

Naruto just shrugged his shoulders, "I am baffled myself as to how I managed to do that." He said before smirking, "Maybe it was because of me being the number one most unpredictable ninja." He joked and that made everyone in the room laugh as that was the most true statement as they talked about something else to lighten the mood.

Two days later, Within Konoha, in an restaurant

The Konoha 12 members, minus sai were sitting in a restaurant which was owned by Akimichi clan. They would normally be gathered around here to do some happy and friendly chat. But right now all of them were in one serious from silence. It had been five days since Tsunade and Jiraiya had told them about naruto's parents and they all had sworn to keep it a secret from the rest of Konoha. The consequence of failing to keep the secret is death, no matter the status you have in Konoha. Needless to say that bit of information and other things left all of them in a state of shock and stunned.

"You know I still can't believe that Naruto is the son of Yondaime." Kiba said as he was still stunned by the revelation from five days ago.

"If you look at the picture of Yondaime and Naruto closely the you will easily see the resemblance between both of them." Choji said he took a bit of his stake.

"And if you think about it. It actually makes sense why the fourth chose Naruto to seal the kyuubi inside of him." Shikamaru commented, "Having someone become Jinchuriki who is related to the leader of the village also ensure theor loyalty. And from what Jiraiya-sama told us, the fourth wasn't the man who would have asked any other parents to give their children up to become Jinchuriki."

"But it didn't help Naruto-kun one bit because he was scorned and abused by the same village his father put hiz hopes in them treating him well." Hinata said in an angry tone, "I don't know what the fourth was thinking when he asked for that wish of his. Some genius he was."

"Hinata! How can you say that about Yondaime Hokage he was the hero of the village." Ino gasped out.

"And why the hell I cannot say that?!" Hinata yelled though only high enough so only others around her listened, "The fourth with some delusion asked naruto-kun to be seen as a hero. When he should have known that after the attack on the village by the same kyuubi he sealed inside his son would be looked at with scorn and hatred. He should have known that reaction of the village would be the opposite of what he hoped for. The third was even a bigger fool for announcing Naruto's status as the Jinchuriki of kyuubi and if that is not enough he didn't even tell Naruto-kun why he was hated and who was his parents. But he didn't, he died without telling naruto-kun anything about his parents. And let's not forget about Jiraiya-sama and Kakashi-sensei both of them were closely related to fourth they could have done something to help Naruto-kun but they didn't instead both of them acted like nothing is wrong. But we should have expected that this would have happened after all Jiraiya-sama is a worthless pervert and Kakashi-sensei is enable to put aside his past guilt. They could have helped Naruto-kun. But no they didn't and when they appeared in his life one absolutely didn't do anything to help him despite being his jōnin sensei and the one who is supposed to be his Godfather didn't do anything to help as well just act like everything was okay. Personally I say we should leave Naruto-kun alone. If he is happy outside of the village then so let him be." Hinata finished the last part sadly as she wanted her love to be happy and safe.

"I know what you mean hinata. But we have to bring him back to the village." Tenten said, "It is for his own safety from the akatsuki and other villages that might hunt him down for the kyuubi."

(A/N: At that statement everyone from readers to writer looked at Naruto's fight with Sasori and Deidara before laughing like a maniacs. Like hell you guys can even make him sweat without resorting to full scale attacks!!)

"I agree we especially cannot allow those unyouthful akatsuki members to capture naruto-kun." Lee said, "And I am sure once we bring him back and Tsunade-sama apologize. He will understand our reasoning."

"Sorry to bust your bubble Lee but Naruto won't see it that way, not one bit and neither will Gaara not the other friends and allies Naruto have seen it that way." Sasuke replied, "If anything they will only see Konoha trying to get their weapon back. Face it everyone the jinchuriki's get the bad end of the deal no matter how you look at it and no matter who they are related to." Sasuke finished.

"What do you mean, Sasuke-kun?" Sakura asked.

"What I mean Sakura is that no matter who the jinchuriki's are related to they will always be hated by their villages and people in it. Take example from our own. People in Konoha hated Naruto and due to that hatred they couldn't tell who Naruto's parents were. Why because they chose not to see it. They only wanted someone to went their anger on and due to Naruto's status as Jinchuriki he was made an target by the entirety of Konoha except a very few." Sasuke said as he let out a sigh.

"I agree with you, Sasuke-san." Shino said, "And logically speaking I'm not sure we will be able to succeed in this mission. Especially after hearing Naruto defeated both Sasori of the red sand and Deidara the mad bomber of Iwa. Both of them S-rank shinobi and members of akatsuki, our chance of defeating him are very slim. And if we consider him having mastery over kyuubi's chakra and mokuton then theirs absolutely no way for us to defeat him. Which only left us with an option of convincing him to comeback to the village."

"I'm actually very surprised that there are no rumours of information that Naruto killed sasori and defeated Deidara (since his body was not found) or Naruto's allias as Kuroi Ryuu in the village." Sakura commented.

"From what I heard from Asuma-sensei. Both Hokage-sama and Jiraiya-sama are working very hard to make sure no one in the Konoha finds out about naruto's identity or that he is alive since the reaction from the populace of Konoha would anything but nice. So far the only people who knows are the team members created by Hokage to retrieve Naruto and the shinobi council members. The civilian council members though are kept in the dark about this because even though there are now new members in it they still have some old members who hated Naruto." Neji replied to Sakura's comment.

"They will only tell them when we have informed Hokage that we have convinced or retrieve Naruto to come back to the village." Sasuke added.

The group then fell silent for a moment as they all thought about their mission which will be started the moment when Jiraiya got the solid lock on Naruto's location. They then started to talk about how to convince Naruto or strategies plan should the negotiation fail.

TO BE CONTINUED...

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