New Beginnings. Part 2. Chapter 2.
New Beginnings Part 2. Chapter 2.
Naruto was waiting by the main gate. He wanted to get moving, but all of his team and Team 8 weren’t there yet. “Calm down brat.” Jiraiya said. Naruto was almost climbing the walls. (Which he could.) “Calm yourself kit. Your team will be here soon. I know how important Gaara is to you” Karuma sounded in his head. “I know. It is just that everything was going great for him. Becoming Kazekage, Getting engaged, even His and Ookami’s relationship was working out for the better.” Naruto said pacing back in forth. Gaara had become engaged to a girl from the Howling Wolf Village. It started out mostly political. They had, over time started to actually care for one another. The last letter he had gotten from the two had mentioned that. It had also helped that he saved her from some Kumo nins that had attacked her on the way back to Suna. Not that Ookami needed saving. The girl, when angry was the scariest thing Naruto had ever seen. And this was coming from a guy who had a demon sealed in his gut.
About that time Hinata and her team came running up. She saw how worked up Naruto was. She walked up to him. “Hey. You are going to wear yourself out at this rate.” She said stepping in front of him. “That is what I have been trying to tell him.” Jiraiya told her. He looked at his teacher and father figure and then back to Hinata. “I know. I just don’t want anything to happened to Gaara. Things are going so well for him, after the messed up life he had.” Gaara’s and Naruto’s life had been different. Sure there were people even to this day in the village that hated him for what he held. At least he didn’t have his own father cut him off from all support and then try to kill him. Naruto’s life was blessed compared to Gaara’s, but that was all changing. Well until this happened.
Tsunade and the rest of Team 7 landed by the gate. Along with Seto. “Master Seto? Are you coming with us?” Naruto asked. He just smiled and gave a little laugh. “Yes young one I am. There is someone I have been meaning to see in Suna and I may be able to help if there is a problem with the Kazekage’s seal. Not that I doubt your skills Naruto.” Seto may not look it, but he was just as capable as any ninja. He had made his home in Konoha, this is where his students lived. “Ok everyone is here? Good. Remember the mission is to go to Suna and help in anyway possible. Sakura will handle any medical needs with Hinata backing her up. The rest of you follow your Jounin Senseis orders. Is that understood?” She looked at her son. “Yes ma’am!” they all sounded out. She kept looking at her son because she knew that if any of them would go off half cocked it would be him. “I mean it Naruto.” She told him. ‘I know. I know. Lady Hokage.” He didn’t use her official title often, but when he did it meant that he understood that the orders were coming from his Hokage not his mother. Also Sakura and Hinata would keep him in line for the most part. “Good luck and come home in one piece.” With that they all quickly lept away.
“Are you sure they will be coming this way?” The Iwa nin asked his commander. “That is what our contact said. The son of the hated “ Yellow Flash” will be headed this way with his team for a mission to Suna.” The smile on the commander's face was almost half crazed. “But why do we have to work with those Kumo nin? We can take the Namikaze out and any other Konoha nin that are with him.” Another Iwa nin said. “Cause one of the team he is traveling with an unsealed Hyuga clan main house member. They are after her bloodline. Also heard one of the last Uchiha is on Namikaze’s team. His eyes could net us some fat coin.” Most Iwa Ninja hated the name Namikaze. After Minato Namikaze had pretty much destroyed an entire army of their ninja. He became the stuff of legends to all other nations and a buggy man to Iwa. About that time the signal was given that they were approaching. The ambush was set.
Naruto was speeding through the trees headed to Suna. His mind was not entirely on his surroundings. “DIE NAMIKAZE!” Came a crazed yell from above him, just as something the size of a man slammed into him and ran a sword through him. The crazed Iwa nin rode his body all the way to the ground. Then four more Iwa nin and five Kumo nin attacked. Two the Kumo nin singled out Hinata and the rest helped the Iwa nin take out the rest of the Konoha ninja.
With a cruel twist of the sword Naruto screamed out and then disappeared in a puff of smoke. The Iwa nin searched around for his prey only to become prey himself. A yellow flash and tri pronged kunai to the neck was all it took to stop the Iwa nin in his tracks. “Good thing I keep shadow clones patrolling when I am on mission or you would have killed me.” Naruto’s voice was more gruffer he was tapping into Kurmura’s power. His eyes became red and the whisker marks on his became more defined. The killing intent he was giving off was unreal. “Why are you attacking me and my team?!” The Iwa nin was frozen in place. He was about to lose all control and pass out when a sealing matrix made its way around his body and he then passed out. Naruto leaped away to help his team. Between Team 7 and Team 8 they made quick work of the others, all but the two that now had Hinata backed into a corner. “Hehe! Come on Hyuga, we got you between a rock and a hard place. We will take you and those eyes back to Kumo. Maybe we might have a little fun before we get there.” Said the Commander of the Kumo nin. About that time his team mate got a fist to his face and sent through a few trees. The Commander was slammed by his throat to a tree. He saw that the blond he thought was dead was now his attacker. Naruto’s hand was brought back, steel rending claws at the ready. “Naruto stop!” Sasuke had grabbed his arm and stopped him from finishing Hinata’s attacker. The beast was starting to overtake Naruto. Not that he was trying to escape he just wanted to do the same thing Naruto wanted to do, kill. “Seal the fools, I will send them to mom for Ibiki and Anko to play with.” With that he stalked off to calm down. Sakura went to check on Hinata. “You ok.” She asked the green glow of a medical scan jutsu going. “I’m fine. I need to check on Naruto.” She walked over to Naruto. He slammed a fist into a nearby tree. It broke in half and fell. “Feel better.” She asked. “No.” He answered. Kumara and he were still angry. He turned around and faced her. “I can’t lose you. When they threatened to take you away I…” She pressed her palm against his stomach and pushed soothing chakra into the seal to calm them. He slowly started to calm and return to normal. “You know you won’t. I will always be here for you.” He rested his forehead to hers. “Thank you. I love you.” He told her. “I love you to.”She answered.
They walked back to the others. They had the Kumo and Iwa ninja sealed and placed in a sealing scroll for transport to Tsunade. He quickly wrote out a note to her about what had happened, and summoned a toad to send the scrolls. The toad took them and it’s treats and left. “Kit. There is someone else out there. That four eyed snake.” Kurama told him. He glanced at Sasuke. He nodded and signaled Sakura and the others. “Come out Kabuto. We know you’re there.” Naruto yelled at what appeared to be no one. “Very good Naruto. I should have known between the beast inside you and your skill, I couldn’t hide from you.” He stepped out from behind a tree. He was dressed in what could be seen as Kage robes. “I must say you all have improved since the last time we saw each other. You passed my test.” He seemed to be smiling at them and didn’t seem friendly. “I suppose you sent those ninja to attack us.” Kakashi asked. “Yes I did.” He answered. Naruto and Kurama’s anger was starting to rise again. “Why have you delayed us?” Kurnia asked. “Why to test Sasuke and Naruto of course. I wanted to know how far they have come. For I blame them the most of all for what happened to my Master.” Kabuto told them with a calm that made them uneasy. “The Snake Bastard died at the hand of the Third. Everyone knows that.” Kiba growled. At this time Shino was ordering his insects to come around behind the target, he also knew that Naruto and Kiba weren’t going to hold back much longer. “Enough of this! We have a mission to complete. Get out of our way Kabuto!” Naruto throw a tri-pronged kunai at Kabuto and disappeared in a flash of yellow light and appeared in front of him catching it and slamming a fist into the face of his target. Kabuto flew into a tree and then Shino and Kiba acted. “Hidden Beetle Sphere!” His insects quickly surrounded Kabuto and started draining him of chakra. Hinata’s Byakugan was now active, watching the chakra being drained from Kabuto. Then she started to notice something. Is chakra was not normal. “Shino release him, His chakra seems strange, like a shadow clone or something.” Shino looked over at his teammate and nodded and released him. A body fell to the ground. Sakura walked over to it and examined it. “This is a corpse?! It was made to looks like Kabuto.” She told them. Kakashi thought he had heard of jutsu that would allow the caster to use a corpse like a shadow clone. Kiba walked over to the body. “That’s weird, it’s scent has changed. Like the first one was masking the second.” “Must be a jutsu of some kind. Hey there is a book here.” Sakura pulls it out of the bodies robes and starts to look through it. “This is info on the Akatsuki. A list of their members and a work up on each one.” She walked over to Kakashi and handed it to him. The other Jounin gather around to look. “Hmm. Weird way to send us a message, but we can sort this out later.” Kakashi said. With that they sealed the body and the book away and headed to Suna.
Lady Tsunade Senju, Fifth Fire Shadow of the Village Hidden in the Leaves. Was walking through the lower level of the Torture and Interrogation Department, or T & I for short. She was in the middle of a meeting when her son’s messenger toad appeared on her desk with two scrolls. One was a message about what the other scroll held. She quickly excused herself and came here. She turned the corner and almost ran into Anko. “Lady Tsunade!” She said startled. “What can I do for you?” It wasn’t odd to see the Hokage down here, but as far as Anko knew there was no prisoners that needed her attention. Tsunade tossed her a scroll. She looked at it and knew what was inside. A crazy smile appeared on her face. “I see my favorite blonde has sent me something to play with.” She looked at the scroll as if contained the greatest secret in the whole world and only she could open it. Well one of about five people at anyrate. “There are about ten Iwa and Kumo ninja in there. They were foolish enough to attack Team Seven and Eight on their way to Suna for a mission.” Anko looked at the Hokage. “Don’t worry they got the worst end of it imagine. I need to know why they attacked them and what they were after.” Anko turned and started walking back the way she came. “Hey Ibiki! I got a special order from the Hokage. It should cut your boredom.”
They quickly had the prisoners unsealed and in separate holding cells. The commander of the Iwa nin was visiting with Anko and Ibiki with Tsunade and now Jiraiya waiting by the door. “So let me see if get this straight.” Ibiki’s gruff voice sounding in the chamber. “You attacked our teams cause of info you got that said the last Namikaze and an unsealed Hyuga were heading to Suna. You realize the Namikaze family has been dead for at least fifteen years right?” Iwa nin just looked up at Ibiki. “I know what I saw! He had blonde hair and blue eyes like that bastard did that destroyed our men back in the third world war! And when I get out of here I am going to take another crack at him!” Iwa nin must had had a personnel score to settle with Minato. “There is just one problem with your theory.” Tsunade started to speak. “The blonde in question is my son, and his surname is Senju not Namikaze. And considering how you came to be here you are lucky to be alive.” What she spoke was the truth, legally anyway. When she adopted Naruto his surname was changed. His full given name was Naruto Uzumaki-Senju. He was her heir and now one of the last two of the Senju clan. Of course that would change when he married, and started a family of his own. And the best bet was Hinata would be his wife. “That is not possible!” The Iwa nin started to yell and trash about. “I saw him use that jutsu. The kunia!” Tsunade had heard enough. “Finish questioning them, then get Inoichi to wipe their memories of what they did and anything to do with my son. I want the report in hand before I send them back to their Kage.” With that her and Jiraiya left. As they exited the bunker that was the T & I, They ran into Hiashi. “Lady Tsunade. I have something I wish to discuss with you.” He handed her a scroll. She looked at it and could believe what this might have meant.
Team Seven and Eight had stopped after finding Temari. They told her about what had happened and she quickly joined them. Their sensei had stopped the teams to let them rest and recharge. Naruto had sent Shadow Clones out to scout and set barrier tags. Needless to say anyone that tried to attack them would be in for a very rude awakening right before they died a painful death. He was currently setting away from the others medateing. It was one of the techniques that he had learned during his Sage training. Anyone who could sense chakra in anyway could feel the weight of the nature chakra he was pulling in. It was about that time that time his team decided to see if he was ok. “Guys I am fine.” He told them not even turning around or opening his eyes. “So can even sneak up on you with that going huh?” Sasuke said. “Going to make pranking him back kind of hard.” Sakura added. “Hinata is worried about you.” Haku added. “Ya dickless. If you can’t make her happy, I might give it a try.” Sai tossed in. Naruto just smiled. “Go ahead and try. You will really be dickless after she is done with you.” Naruto knew that a few guys had tried to take Hinata away from him over the years. And let just say it wasn’t pretty. “Ok, ok. I will join you guys.” He got up and grabbed his scroll. As they walked back a yelp could be heard as Sai grabbed his head. “Dang! Ug….” was all he got out before a sinbon found the nerve custer that controlled his mouth. Haku looked at the others. “What? It was that or Sakura kill him.” he said.
Back in Konoha.
“Man, I was hoping to get some training in with Big Bro Naruto before he left for another mission.” Konohamaru complained to his friends. He and Moegi, Udon, and Hanabi were at one of the training grounds. Konohamaru was practicing his bo staff with Hanabi. Like Hinata, Hanabi had learned the bo staff. It was doubtful that she would have the same affinities as her older sister had. The Gentle Fist style of fighting was easier for her to learn then it had been Hinata, which meant she more than likely she had an Earth Affinity. “You just want to learn more seals to do your pranks with.” Moegi told him. She was practicing with kunai. She wanted to learn medical ninjutsu like Sakura had. Udon was setting reading a scroll Naruto had lent him. It was on advanced sealing. Unlike Konohamaru, Udon had picked up the basics quickly. “I could help you with the sealing stuff Kono.” Udon told him. Almost all of these four were being train by someone in the Konoha 14. It was an honor to be trained by one of them let alone multiple of them. The younger generations did hold the same prejudices that the older generations had toward Naruto and anyone that supported him.
In the Hokage tower. “So the Kumo Nin that attacked Team Seven and Eight, were after Hinata’s Byakugan and the Iwa Nin wanted to kill Naruto because of his father?” Hiashi asked. “Pretty much it. They are in Ibiki and Anko tender mercy's right now.” Jiraiya said. “I am surprised given how much Naruto cares for my daughter the Kumo Nin aren’t dead.” Hiashi added. “Oh trust me I seen their injuries. One of them had their face nearly caved in by the looks of it. They didn’t get off lightly.’ Tsunade told him. She didn’t too think her son would kill that quickly without thinking things through. “So let’s get back to this scroll.” Tsunade said. Hiashi looked at Jiraiya then back to Tsunade. “The Elders, my Father and grandfather are putting out the word that Hinata is looking for a husband. Part of this is to try to get to me to stop my plans to remove the Cage Bird seal from use in the clan. I have seen first hand the damage it has done. Neji’s hated of me and my family and the wedge it drove between me and my brother. Also I would be remiss in duties as a husband and father to make sure Hinata is happy. I can not think of anyone I would rather see her with. He is strong and skilled, also connected at three major clans in this village.” Tsunade looked at Jiraiya who was kind of smiling and just shrugged. “Ok. I will run this by Naruto when he gets back.”
The two Konoha teams had entred the gates of Suna and were met by Baki and two chunin. “Quickly this way!” Baki had waved them toward the hospital. “What is Kankuro’s condition.” asked Sakura. “He is as stable as we can make him. Our best poison expert is with him now.” This peeked Seto’s interest as they ran. If there was a poison Chiyo couldn’t cure, then maybe the young nin was out of options. Then again Sakura was trained by Tsunade herself so. As they reached the room where Kankuro was being treated, a cry of pain was heard. The poison must have been the cause as it was running its course. Sakura rounded the corner into the room. “Please let me through, I might be able to help.” At a blond haired womens nod they allowed her through. She began her work. After a few few minutes she knew what needed to be done but she didn’t have what she needed with her and hoped they would. Quickly giving orders for what was needed she began her work. It would not cure the poison but it would remove enough of it to slow down the effects and give them time to come up with an antidote. Chiyo back away a bit to give the young med nin room. “Quite something isn’t she Chiyo.” said a voice that she hadn’t heard in years. She turned around to see standing behind a blond Konoha Nin was Seto Uzumaki. The Seal Master that left her standing at the shine all those years ago. “Seto Uzumaki you have a lot of nerve coming back here!” Chiyo yelled as she charged past Naruto to get at the aged Seal Master. Naruto tried his best, but the old woman out maneuvered him. Quickly stepping in front of Seto was Hinata with her Byakugan blazing to protect her teacher. Chiyo stopped. “Still hiding after all these years, hey Seto. You left at the shrine! We were to be married and you ran!” Chiyo spit at him. “I had to Chiyo, Uzu was under attack and I was recalled. I never got the chance to inform you before I left.” Seto told her. “You could have left word with someone! They could have told me!” She said. Anger and betrayal in her voice. Her brother walked beside her. “We have other concerns than worries about past pain. They are here to help let them.” He told her. She backed away and went back to helping anyway she could. Naruto relaxed for a moment before a blond young women walked up to him her arm in a sling and the last bit of a burn mark on her otherwise beautiful face. “Hey Foxy.” The greeting had none of the usual life to it ever her eyes looked dead. “They took him.. And I couldn’t stop them.” She lowered her head into his chest and she started to cry. He put his arms around her and held her. “Hey! What the hell!!...” Kiba was moving forward when Hinata stopped him. The look he gave her was like he was asking if she was cool with it. And the look he got back confirmed that she was. “She is Lady Ookami of the Howling Wolf Village and the betrothed to Gaara, the Kazekage of the Hidden Sand.” She informed them.