Within Fire country
3rd P.O.V
Deep inside one of the many forests of the fire country, where a large number of bodies of bandits and shinobi alike all of them were either cut in half or missing a limb or two some were hanging by trees but they all have one thing in common is that all of them were dead. They were all killed in different ways: broken necks, body cut in half, slit throats or via various sword type looking slashes. These bodies consisted of missing-nins and many groups of bandits that came here to collect the massive bounty of the head of their target. They came here with the intent of killing him but instead they were the ones who got killed.
The killer of these missing-nins and bandits were fighting some of the remaining members of their groups. The killer was a young man whose height suggested that he was in his late teens, probably around 18 to 19. He stood about 188 cm in height and had a tan skin with no sign of baby fat whatsoever only a clean bulk. His hair was short spiky and red in colour, but his face was hidden by a black mask which has dragon markings on it. The clothing he wore consisted of a long black hooded cloak, and white line going over his sleeves, wrists and waist down to the edge of the cloak. At the back of his cloak in the centre of it was a symbol of a red whirpool. Underneath the cloak was a long sleeve black shirt. His hands were covered by fingerless black gloves with white metal bracers covering his forearms. He wore black shinobi pants and black shinobi sandals. In the young man's hands were two katanas, in his right hand was a standard sized and shaped katana with a black blade that has a jaw like pattern that is green in colour engraved on both sides and in his left hand was a tri-colour steel blade with black on the back, blue in the middle and silver polished cutting on edges. The blood on the blades can easily be spotted with it every time the young man slashes someone.
As he slashed another two men down, the leader of the missing-nins decided to use ninjutsu on him. The leader quickly formed the hand seals and shouted, "Fire style 🔥: Flame dragon jutsu!!" And unleashed a large fire dragon straight towards the redhead. The leader smirked along with the rest thinking now the redhead is done but the said young man just slashed the jutsu in half to the horror of all of the remaining members.
The redhead then charged forward a blinding speed and in a second behind he was every remaining missing-nins. They remained standing for a moment before all of their heads rolled on the field with their bodies dropping as well. The redhead then looked at the remaining bandits who were obviously shaking in fear but some of them still wanted to kill him, so they all charged forward intending to gang up on him but the redhead merely deflected their pathetic attacks and killed all of them one by one. With all of them dead the masked redhead cleaned the blood off on his katanas before sheathing them and collecting all his kunai's and shuriken's that he used and also anything valuable from the corpses around him before sealing them in the storage scroll. But just a turn around he paused for a second before thrusting his hand forward catching a bug or to be more precisely a kikaichu, a unique insect used by a clan the readhead was familiar with. He subtly looked back and noticed the presence of two people a little distance away from him. He thought about confronting them head on but decided against it as he has more pressing matters to worry about. He looked back at the kikaichu and with a simple movement crushed it. Before he released its remains from his hand and then he disappeared from the area via wind shushin.
Neji Hyuuga and Shinobi aburame, the two were jōnin of Konohagakure, were staying perfectly still behind the trees they were using as cover. While shino was upset and angry that one of his bugs was killed, neji calmed him down telling him to think logically. Since, Neji knew that he and shino were not a match for the black masked redhead who was able to take many Jōnin and Chūnin level missing-nins with ease without even breaking a sweat. Furthermore, shino's kikaichu didn't die in vain, it fulfilled its task because while the redhead was focusing on that bug, shino had sent another one at the man and it had acquired the man's chakra confirming his and Neji's suspicion of whom the masked man was. Even after five years and drastic changes in redhead his chakra signature remained the same and that confirmed the identity of the masked man for both of them, that he was indeed the Naruto Uzumaki.
If you asked both of them honestly, Both of them hadn't even thought about finding Naruto in the first place. Both of them were given a task by the Godaime Hokage to go to the fire daimiyo's palace to deliver a message. The mission was a success and both of them were returning back to Konoha. That's when both of them sensed several chakra signatures a mile away, so they went to investigate. When they reached the location they spotted multiple missing-nins and bandits trying to take on a masked shinobi, with several of missing-nins being Jōnin and Chūnin level as well as genin level. The genin level signatures had disappeared slowly along with many Jōnin and Chūnin level signatures as well. With one of them being a kage level or even greater level a chakra signature. Neji and shino then send the scroll that fire daimiyo has given to Konoha with the help of shino's kikaichu. And when neji with his byakugan and Shino with his kikaichu indeed got the confirmation of who it was: The large chakra signature belonged to Naruto Uzumaki a former genin of Konoha who was banished five years ago from the village.
After making sure that Naruto was gone, Neji and shino immediately headed back to report about this to Hokage, that their suspicion was indeed correct that Naruto was still alive and that he was heading towards the wind country, most likely to sunagakure. Shino asked neji if he should send more of his kikaichu to track Naruto but the Hyuuga told him not to. The reason is because neji knew that Naruto would detect them in an instant. Thus both of them agreed to inform the Hokage about this right away.
Within Wind Country, Sunagakure
Within the centre of sunagakure was the kazekage's tower, the Godaime Kazekage, Gaara no Sabaku was in his office. He was meditating right now while normally, the young Kage would be doing the cursed work of all the Kages the paper work. However today there was less paperwork to do, so after he finished doing them he got a lot of free time, so he decided to do meditation.
Gaara then heard someone knocking on the door of his office. Though he knew who it was, he gave the permission to enter and stand up from his position to greet his best friend, the one and only Naruto Uzumaki. "How are you doing, my friend?" While he hugged his best friend.
Naruto for his part just smirked and returned the hug to his friend and said, "I am doing fine, gaara. How are you doing today though I see no paperwork in your."
To which gaara just let out a sigh of relief before answering, "I finished the paperwork because there was less paperwork today." Naruto just nodded his head and asked his friend how temari and Kankuro are doing to which gaara replied that both of them are doing fine. Then Naruto congratulated him, "By the way congratulations my dear friend for getting married to two beautiful women."
Gaara just smiled and thanked Naruto, you see that gaara had gotten married to two of his admirers who were Matsuri and Yukata both of them confessed to him at same time and gaara, was for the second time in his life was stunned that someone wanted to marry him and its not one but two girl who confessed to him. To which he of course accepted because he himself has developed feelings for them as well.
"Well, Matsuri and Yukata are both doing well and currently both of them are at home with temari." Gaara said though he knew that Naruto is here for a different reason. "So what happened that caused you to come to suna without any prior notice?" He questioned as both of them sat down on his desk with him sitting on kazekage's seat and Naruto sitting in front of him.
Naruto sighed, "Well I came here to inform you about the akatsuki," as soon as that left his mouth Gaara immediately became serious as he knew about the organisation that his father the fourth Kazekage had hired in the past. Also because this organisation has plans related to the Biju.
"What about them?" Gaara asked in a serious voice.
Naruto is equally serious, and answered, "From what I was able to get is that they would be making their move soon on the jinchuriki's so I came here to give you a warning in advance." He also gave gaara the information about the members of the organisation since he was able to discover who they were through the help of Yujin.
Gaara said nothing at first ashe contemplated the information he got, "I see. Thank you my friend for this information. But why don't you stay here since the akatsuki is going to look for you and I can say that you are under Kazekage's protection and didn't other nations and villages offer you to take asylum there as well." He asked his friend.
Naruto just shook his head, "You know gaara I can't because if I took asylum here in suna or any other nation, Konoha will not doubt going to come banging on all your doors beside there is already one in the council of Konoha who wanted me under his control since I was a child. Also I can't stay because Suna will be getting some visitors." He told gaara who looked at him.
"You were seen by Konoha nin." Gaara stated not questioned as he deduced that from what Naruto said.
Naruto nodded, "Yeah and I have no doubt they are going to report it to Hokage who is definitely going to send a team to take me back to the village for my 'safety'." He said disdainfully.
Gaara just nodded and two friends started to talk more about how to deal with the akatsuki.
Within Konoha, Hokage office
Tsunade Senju the Godaime Hokage listened to the report of Neji and Shino finished their reports. When both of them arrived in Konoha and asked to meet her immediately for an important matter. At first she thought that her bad luck had kicked in again only to find it wasn't as when neji and shino told her that they found Naruto. It was as if the luck was finally on her side depending on if they could convince Naruto to come back to the village. Tsunade dismissed both Neji and shino and thought back to how this whole mess has started.
The mess began when Uchiha Sasuke, the lone Survivor of the Uchiha clan massacre beside his brother Itachi being the perpetrator behind said massacre, decided to betray the village. The reason: To join the rouge-nin Orochimaru the greatest traitor of Konoha to get the power to kill his brother Itachi. He left the village in the night with the four elite guards of Orochimaru.
In response to this Tsunade Senju the Godaime Hokage, prepared a retrieval team which consisted of genin Uzumaki Naruto, Chūnin Nara Shikamaru, genin Kiba Inuzuka, genin Choji Akimichi and genin Neji Hyuuga sent them to bring Uchiha Sasuke back to the village at all cost. With Shikamaru acting as a leader due to him being newly appointed Chūnin with Naruto being the second in command.
The mission was a success though two of the members were critically injured on the brink of death but they lived because of tireless work of Herself, Shizune and several other Konoha medic nin. The team was able to kill all four of Orochimaru's elite guards with the help from the suna siblings along with the fifth member kaguya Kimimaro who succumbed to his disease and died in battle against Lee and Gaara. Naruto himself faced Sasuke and defeated him and brought him back to the village though he himself was injured. But little did anyone know that this would be the last that Naruto will be in the village.
You see when Yondaime Hokage sealed the kyuubi inside a infant who was Naruto and since his birth and becoming the Jinchuriki of kyuubi, Naruto Uzumaki has been hated by majority of Konoha with civilians and shinobi's alike and sometimes he was beaten too. The one responsible for the beatings and other sorts of horrible things were the civilian council. This group consisted of wealthy merchants and other influential people who were more interested in their own gain rather than the village, one such interest was making Naruto's life miserable. They were also the ones who put Uchiha Sasuke on a pedestal to get on his good side and to get his clan's wealth. When they see the one they held in high regard beaten by the one they despised, it gives them the opportunity to get rid of the demon brat permanently. So they carefully planned and put some documents deceitly in the paperwork of Godaime Hokage and tricked her into signing it.
To explain more deeply and precisely, when Tsunade was busy focusing on healing the other members of the retrieval team, two of them who were most critically injured were Choji Akimichi and Neji Hyuuga. After the surgery was over and she returned back to her office to calm her nerves she drank some sake before she started signing the papers and in fact she was so tired and busy (also drunk) she didn't read what she signed one day because she was more focused on the health of the retrieval team. When she signed the documents set by the civilian council with the help of Danzo Shimura, they got the approval of banishing Naruto until he was told to come back. Danzo also made the civilian council to get the approval to seal Naruto's chakra, cancelled any summoning contract he has and banned Naruto from ever entering Konoha. Danzo also helped the civilian council because he wanted Naruto to be his weapon against his enemies and control him once he was outside of the village.
Before she noticed anything strange in the documents the deed was done and the next a team of ANBU went, all of them assumed that the orders were approved by Hokage and Shinobi council. They went to the hospital inside Naruto's room and told him of his banishment. This news truly broke Naruto and caused him to go into despair as his entire life shattered before him in an instant. The ANBU then shifted Naruto to the ward where the prisoner was taken for their injuries to heal. No one came to visit Naruto as his female teammate blamed Naruto for hurting her Sasuke-kun and his favourite playing sensei were more concerned about the Uchiha than him. The rest of his friends were unaware of his banishment.
Tsunade found out about it when Jiraiya appeared in her office with a very rage filled face the next day. He told her that gamabunta told him that Naruto's contract was cancelled and when Jiraiya investigated as to what happened and when he found out he immediately come to her yelling at her for not looking at what she signed and when he showed her the documents she went into full rage as well and called the ANBU team that were responsible for carrying out orders on the documents.
From what Tsunade learned from the ANBU team or former ANBU, that Naruto had managed to sneak out of the village before they could place any other seal on him beside the seal that cancelled his contract with the toads. After that Naruto disappeared from the face of the map and even Jiraiya's spy network couldn't find him. And since his contract cancelled and as he didn't meet the elder toads who can reverse summon they couldn't even reverse summon him to Konoha. After that Tsunade went ballistic at the ANBU and at those who tricked her into banishing someone she came to see as a son. Tsunade had to deal with an angry fire daimiyo who came to the village demanding as to why the other nations who made alliances with fire country and Konoha had taken it back and refused to do trade with them. The nations and villages consisted of Wind country, Spring Country, Tea country and Wave country, Sunagakure, Takigakure and Yukigakure. All of them demanded as to why Naruto was banished for doing his job over a traitorus boy who didn't care about the village in the first place and after they found out about how Naruto lived in Konoha abused and scorned, they went blastic on Konoha not at all pleased to know how their hero was treated in his own home during his childhood. They all cancelled every alliance they have with the leaf and fire country beside Wind country who cannot cancel their alliance with Konoha due to them still recovering from the invasion. Needless to say they had made it very clear that Konoha shinobi should they enter in their country without permission, it will have very serious consequences.
Then their was the problem with the organisation named akatsuki who from what Jiraiya managed to get on them is that they have plans for the Biju. Tsunade knew that anything related to Biju cannot be good especially if the said Organisation is a criminal organisation. And to see that they have members like Itachi Uchiha and Kisame Hoshigaki in their ranks not to mention that Orochimaru was also the part of this group showed that this group is not the one to be taken lightly. Tsunade was sure that they need to take care of this group and also find Naruto is more important. So for the past five years since that horrible day she ordered Jiraiya to keep his spy network to look for Naruto but all attempts were fruitless, as Jiraiya's spy network couldn't even find a trace of Naruto anywhere. But now they have hope to find Naruto and convince him to come back to the village.
Once the door of her office shut and Shizune entered, Tsunade took a deep breath before saying, "What do you think, Jiraiya?"
Behind her, sitting on the window was the toad safe Jiraiya. He was frowning a little while he was in deep thought, "Well Neji and Shino seemed pretty sure that this person was Naruto, as both Hyuuga's and Aburame's are never wrong when it came to identify a person." Jiraiya said feeling a little relief that after no news about his godson for five years. He was finally found and he was alive as well, then he added, "Though I got to admit it is a good move for him to wear a mask to hide his face so no one can know who he was. But the description of his mask rings a bell but I can't remember where I have heard about it." Jiraiya said.
Shizune then looked at Tsunade and asked, "What should we do, Tsunade-sama?" While her pet ton-ton also made noise as if asking the same thing.
Tsunade thought for a moment and sighed, "Neji and Shino said that he was going towards the wind country. So he was most likely going to suna since Gaara is the kazekage and both of them are good friends." She said before pulling out a scroll. "We will send a team to see if Naruto is there in suna and hopefully convince him to come back to the village for his safety."
Tsunade told Shizune to bring team 7 in her office and once she leaves to bring them, the two sannin were left alone inside the office, "You know right that chances of him coming back to the village are slim to none." Jiraiya said looking at her grimly.
Tsunade sighed, since she knew what he was saying was true. "I know Jiraiya but what choice do we have, if akatsuki finds out that Naruto is in suna they will attack at sand village twice as hard to capture him because gaara is also one of their target. Also you know as well as I do that Danzo wouldn't let Naruto roam around free on his own and definitely send his root to capture him." The Hokage then leaned back in her chair, "We just hope that Naruto agreed to comeback to the village and if he agrees to come back then I will announce his heritage to the village to make his life easier. Minato's and Kushina's enemies can go to hell." She finished.
"Why did you decide to send team 7 to suna?" Jiraiya asked.
"Well for one that they are his old team and one of them is his crush. So they can convince him to come back to the village willingly." Tsunade replied before asking, "But from the tone of yours you don't think that they will be able to convince him?"
"While I would agree with you on this kind of things but you should know that what concerns this particular team is a different matter all together." Jiraiya said. "Kakashi focused more on Sasuke then he did on Naruto and Sakura. Not to mention he practically and literally made Naruto fend for himself during the chūnin exams and Kakashi himself trained Sasuke, as for his female teammate Tsunade I don't need to remind you that she always belittle and insults, Naruto and hit him from petty to no reason when he was just trying to be nice to her. I even heard that she blamed Naruto for everything that happened to Sasuke before he left the village five years ago, Sasuke sure you managed to change his way of thinking when you told him the truth behind the massacre but that happened after Sasuke has shoved two chidori's in Naruto's chest and lastly the new member of their team Sai whom I know you have noticed his presence screams ROOT all over his body." Jiraiya finished.
Tsunade sighed and dropped her head in annoyance, since she knew what her former teammate saying was true. "I know Jiraiya what you mean but we don't have any other teams at this moment as they went on do their own missions assigned to them and team 7 is the only team available. By the time they will return Naruto most likely would have left so we got no choice but to send team 7. And now that you mentioned Sai will definitely report this to Danzo due the seal on his tongue." She finished.
"I am looking into that seal but I have to say it is an incrediblely hard seal to crack." Jiraiya said since he never saw a seal that tough in his entire life.
"And when Danzo learned of this he will definitely be going to bring this up in the next council meeting and will more than likely going to force for Naruto's return to the village or in worse case he and those two old bastards beside him will try to put Naruto in the bingo book as a Missing nin. Also some of the members of the rookie 12 saw Naruto as a fox himself due civilians breaking the law Sandaime about telling Naruto's secret to younger generation." Tsunade finished.
When naruto was banished from the leaf. The civilians broke Sandaime's law about not telling the younger generation about naruto's secret and told them them about it. Due to which they were all divided in half. Some people saw Naruto as Naruto and not the fox while the other stupid people believed Naruto to be the fox dividing the younger generation in two. And it caused a massive rift between the Konoha 12 as it caused massive issues with them.
On one side were people who didn't believe a single crap that the former civilian council members said and saw Naruto for who he was, not for what he held. In the Konoha twelve were who didn't believe Naruto was the demon fox. The first was Shikamaru the lazy genius connected all the dots and came to the conclusion that Naruto wasn't the demon fox that everyone in the called him to be. The second was Choji due him being best friends with Shikamaru and knowing that he would rarely be wrong in judging someone, also he and Naruto were friends during their childhood. The third was Neji who owed Naruto for breaking him out of his fate obsessed mind and helping him, he refused to believe that Naruto can be evil. The next person was tenten who like her boyfriend neji didn't see Naruto as a demon, in fact she was greatful to Naruto for helping neji. Then there was Rock Lee who shouted that Naruto was truly youthful for carrying such a burden and that villagers were unyouthful for his treatment in the past. The next people were Shino aburame and his female teammate Hinata Hyuuga. The former was like Shikamaru, he figured it out quickly and found it stupid and illogical to hate naruto for something that he obviously wasn't. The latter hinata outright refuse to believe that her crush Naruto was kyuubi since she knew that Naruto was positive and caring person who always wanted to help people.
The last person was a surprise to everyone, since it was Uchiha Sasuke who didn't believe Naruto was a demon. After he was fully healed and discharged from the hospital and after he have have long private talk with Tsunade and Jiraiya. Both of whom told him about the truth behind the Uchiha massacre which Jiraiya learned from his sensei and Tsunade from her sensei's private general in which everything was written including the truth behind the Uchiha massacre. Also telling him about what happened to those who got the curse mark on them, Jiraiya showed him the results of what happened and he absolutely hated what he saw and vowed to never use it's power ever again. But after they told him about the truth behind the massacre and that his brother was innocent all along made Sasuke feel immense regret for even thinking about killing his big brother who loved him this much. He also regreted his actions that caused Naruto's banishment and he hope to one day ask for forgiveness from his best friend.
Sadly the other side however believed Naruto was the fox and thus, hated him for it. Until some of them come to their senses and how stupid they were being. The Konoha 12 members which hated Naruto were Sakura, Ino and Kiba. Sakura and Ino were far worse as both of them were Sasuke's fangirls and thus hated Naruto heck they bullied him during his childhood always mocking him for being the deadlast and for him being a orphan. And Kiba hated Naruto for having the power to attract people towards him which kiba saw only an alpha should possess and thought that Naruto wasn't worthy of it. He hated Naruto. That caused a rift between the teams of konoha 12 and their sensei's. However all of that changed when Sakura, Ino and Kiba were given harsh scolding by their parents, sensei and teammates. Sakura was especially harsh where Sasuke yelled at her for siding with him when he was about to do something so stupid as to go to Orochimaru and Tsunade also slapped her in the face telling her that she doesn't want someone like her as her student. Ino was scolded by Shikamaru, Asuma and Inoichi, when ino said something bad about Naruto in front of Shikamaru he lost it and slapped her across the face and told her to never talk to him because if she cannot differentiate between a scroll and a kunai, then she is undeserving of becoming a Kunoichi. Kiba was literally beaten to a bloody pulp by His mother Tsume, his sister Hana and His sensei Kurenai.
"For now let's just pray and hope that Kakashi can convince Naruto to come back to the village without using force as an option." Tsunade said in a quiet tone but Jiraiya heard her and knew that it was not going to be easy for them to bring Naruto back but he also hoped that just maybe Naruto would come back to konoha.
(A/N: Seriously no one in Naruto fanfic talks about Sakura and Ino bullying Naruto during his childhood and then there are some blindfans of theirs who say that Sakura has changed and some shit. FOR!!GOD SAKE!!FANS!! THINK BEFORE YOU SAY THAT SAKURA ONLY CHANGED IN BORUTO SHE WAS A BITCH UNTIL THE END OF THE NARUTO THE LAST MOVIE REMEMBER THE SECNE WHERE NARUTO ONLY TEASED HER A LITTLE ABOUT SASUKE AND SHE STRAIGHT UP PUNCHED HIM IN THE ABDOMEN WITH FULL STRENGTH. YOU PEOPLE HAVE ACCEPT THAT SAKURA WAS THE MOST USELESS CHARACTER THROUGHOUT THE ENTIRE SERIES. ALSO LET'S NOT FORGET THAT SHE IS A TYPE OF PERSON WHO BELITTLE AND INSULTS SOMEONE TO MAKE HERSELF FEEL BETTER SHE BASICALLY DID THAT WITH NARUTO!! ALSO LET'S NOT FORGET ABOUT KAKASHI THAT HALF EYE BASTARD DIDN'T TEACH NARUTO SHIT AND HAD THE BALLS TO SAY THAT JIRAIYA SHOULDN'T HAVE TEACHED NARUTO THE RASENGAN!! HA!! BLOODY HYPOCRITE YOU TAUGHT A MENTALLY UNSTABLE CHILD CHIDORI WHO USED THAT AS A TARGET PRACTICE ON YOUR OTHER STUDENT!! Oh well let's get back to the storyline.)
Hidden Location, Inside the Cave
Deep within a dark cave, there were astral images of nine people all of them standing in a circle. One of them, had purple eyes with a circle-like pattern in it, spoke up. "It appears zetsu has located the kyuubi Jinchuriki." He turned towards the said man who had an appearance of white and black with a Venus fly tray attached to his body.
Zetsu took that as a cue for him to say, "It turns out the kyuubi Jinchuriki is kuroi ryuu (Black Dragon) that wandering nin who we were hearing about who made a name for himself in these past five years." White half said. "He was heading towards the wind country, mostly towards sunagakure since he and Kazekage are best friends." Black half finished.
"So two of our targets are in the same place. This could be a great opportunity for us to capture both Ichibi and Kyuubi Jinchuriki at the same time." Kisame said from his position beside Itachi.
"We shouldn't rush because both of them are Jinchuriki's and are going to prove to be a challenge." Kakuzu said, "Especially if the kyuubi Jinchuriki is really Kuroi ryuu then he is definitely an S-rank shinobi if his bingo book profile is anything to go by."
"You are correct Kakuzu but it's more likely that he won't stay in suna for too long and from what zetsu find out the Jinchuriki was seen by two konoha shinobi one being a Hyuuga and other being a Aburame who most likely put two and two together that he is the kyuubi Jinchuriki and will definitely reported it to the Hokage by now. Means the Hokage will send a team to retrieve him from Sunagakure." Pain the leader of Akatsuki stated.
"Perhaps We should keep an eye on him." Itachi Uchiha the man who massacred his entire clan said from his spot, "While it is the first sighting we have of him in five years, we don't have any idea about his abilities and what he is capable of, and if he really this Kuroi Ryuu then he will prove to be a challenge."
Pain nodded in agreement though he was confident that he could take on the Kyuubi Jinchuriki by himself. "Agreed besides we need to seal the kyuubi last anyway in the Gedo mazo. Zetsu, what is the status of the other Jinchuriki's?"
"As you all know, Ichibi Jinchuriki is in the Sunagakure all the time since he is the Kazekage. The Nibi Jinchuriki hasn't left kumo for some time but since she takes missions she will leave the village soon. The three tails are resting in the same lake it has been resting in for the past three years. The four tails Jinchuriki is roaming around the earth country but Iwa wants to get him back in the village so they might send a team to bring him back. The five tails Jinchuriki is back in Iwa, he is somewhere in the mountains near the village doing his training. The six tails Jinchuriki is back in kiri after the civil war ended with the new Mizukage Mei Terumi giving him and his companions a full pardon. The seven tails Jinchuriki is in the village and it seems that she has gained the control of five tails out of seven from her tailed beast and she can fly as well. The eight tails Jinchuriki is in kumo doing his training in the mountains which is located near the kumo. And lastly kyuubi Jinchuriki who we just discussed." Zetsu finished.
Pain nodded, "I see." And looked at the akatsuki members. "We will be focusing more on capturing Sanbi and Yonbi first. Sasori and Deidara you two will be going to capture Sanbi." Both the puppet user and Iwa bomber nodded, pain then looked at Itachi and Kisame."Itachi Kisame you two will be going to capture Yonbi Jinchuriki since he has lava kekei genkai which is boosted by his tailed beast, so Kisame you will be going to capture him since you are water user and have ability to absorb chakra from your opponents and Itachi can disable him with his sharingan if he doesn't back down." Both the Uchiha and Member of Seven swordsmen of the mist nodded as well. "Hidan and Kakuzu you two will go and capture Nibi with hidan capturing Nibi Jinchuriki and Kakuzu you will be going to collect some funds that we need. "Both the zombie duo nodded as well with hidan having a maniacal smile on his face.
Pain then continued, "We will ignore the Six tails Jinchuriki as it is unlikely that he will leave kiri for a mission since they are recovering from the civil war and the eight Jinchuriki whose brother the Raikage didn't let him leave the village. The seven tails Jinchuriki is assigned Kakuzu which he will go after he collects the funds and hidan after captured the two tails Jinchuriki will go with him. Zetsu you will continue keeping an eye on the Kyuubi Jinchuriki, so we can get a good grasp of his abilities. Dismissed." Pain finished with everyone eventually ending the meeting.
Four days later, In wind country with Team 7
The reformed team 7, consisting of one jōnin and three chūnins, had been recently entered into the wind country about a day before and after they camped in a cave to rest and avoid the nighttime sandstorm. The team 7 has two sets of mission from the Hokage. The first being an official mission that they have to deliver to the Kazekage from Hokage discussing the trade agreements between the two villages for goods as the villages and nations that broke their treaty with Konoha has made treaties with the Suna for the trade agreements and also because the Kazekage was friends with their hero. The second unofficial order was to check if Naruto was in the Sunagakure and convince him to come back to konoha for his safety against the Akatsuki with force being the last option if he disagree and resist.
Also tsunade wanted them to leave the village as soon as possible due to temari no Sabaku being present in the village, as she didn't want her to get the wind of what they were doing and alert her brother and Naruto in advance. So she had temari's boyfriend Shikamaru accompanying her to keep her focus elsewhere.
Back with the team 7, tsunade had sent them because she could only trust them to convince Naruto because they were his former team. But as Jiraiya said before force might or will be the only option considering the history Naruto have with this team. Kakashi Hatake, the jōnin sensei of team 7 was ashamed of himself for failing as a sensei and failing to keep his vow he made to Obito and failing to protect his sensei's legacy. That caused him lose a great amount of respect from his colleagues and his leader. For the last five years Kakashi has been doing everything in his abilities to make amends for his failures, especially to his former student Naruto, who he hoped that he can correct his mistakes today.
The second member was Sasuke Uchiha the original member of the team 7 was hoping for redemption and forgiveness on his part that got Naruto banished from the village. Though he still desired to be the one to bring Itachi to justice and he also wanted to know Itachi's side of story.
The third member was Sakura Haruno one of the original member of the team 7 was also their on the mission. While originally she despised Naruto for hurting her Sasuke-kun, that thinking changed when sasuke yelled at her telling her how stupid she was and not to mention that she was punched through the wall by tsunade and strangled by her after she find out just how pathetic and shallow her reasons for hurting Naruto were.
The fourth member of the team 7 was a new addition to the team and his name was Sai. If you asked him he really didn't have anything to say about considering he didn't met the blond when he was in the village. Also Sai has his own mission to given to him by his true master Danzo Shimura who ordered Sai to bring Naruto Uzumaki back to the village. So he could place a loyalty seal on him ensuring his loyalty to konoha and himself.
Back to the present the team was continuing to walk across the desert when Sai suddenly spoke up, "Kakashi-sensei, I can sense my ink rats and birds returning."
The other three members stopped in their tracks waiting for Sai's ink creatures to return and when they come back, "What did they say?" Kakashi asked.
"They said that the person who matches the description of which Neji-san and Shino-san gave is near the borders of fire country." Sai told the three of them.
Kakashi lone visible eye widened for a brief moment before returning to normal lazy look. "How far away are we from his location?" He quickly asked.
"We are about six miles away from his location, near the clusters of rocks and forest. If we hurry up we might catch up to him in about 45 minutes." Sai answered.
"Okay, listen all three of you we are going to intercept Naruto near the forest and cluster of rocks. Also I will talk to him first so no one will interfere when I am try to convince him with force only being last resort should the talking fail." Kakashi emphasizes the convincing and forceful part looking directly at Sakura who looked down in shame.
As they towards the location where they meet Naruto. "You know chances of him coming back to the village is slim to none, if not zero at all." Sasuke said to Kakashi.
Kakashi for his part didn't say anything as just nodded his head since he knew Naruto will most likely won't listen to them. "It doesn't matter if he wants to come back to the village or not, Sasuke-san. We have to retrieve him on the orders of Hokage-sama and should he resist we are authorised to use force." Sai said to which he got an annoyed grunt from the Uchiha and a solem look from Kakashi and Sakura since all three of them knew it was true.
With Naruto, borders of Fire country
Naruto Uzumaki could be seen walking through the clusters of rocks and forest clearing when he suddenly stopped in his tracks, "Kurama do you.." Naruto said to his partner sealed inside of him.
"Yes, I sense it too, kit." The nine tailed fox said who opened one of his eyes. "Several of them heading straight to our location and three of them are familiar somehow, but the fourth one is unknown.". Kurama finished.
"I know it must be those konoha shinobi who tsunade has sent after me. But who would she send after me the chakra signatures are a bit familiar." Naruto said before his eyes widened in Realisation before they quickly narrowed in anger followed by a growl from Naruto, kurama also figured out who was coming after them and chuckled maliciously.
"Looks like it is going to be a reunion between the old teammates." Kurama said a bit maliciously.
"And it will be a reunion they will never forget." Naruto said icily as he do some hand signs, "Summoning Jutsu!!" He said and smoke appeared before it disappeared revealing a blue dragon that came up to his waist, she has green eyes with slits and two large blue wings on her back.
"Why have you summoned me, Naruto-sama?" The blue dragon asked politely.
"Ah, kuina-san I want you take this Ninjato and take it towards the north side eof the country and place it there." Naruto greeted the blue dragon before handing her the Ninjato.
"It will be done, Naruto-sama." Kuina the blue dragon said took off to the north with the Ninjato in her mouth.
"Now let's prepare a welcome for my dear old lazy ass Sensei, brooder of an Uchiha and the Useless bitch of Haruno." Naruto said to himself as his eyes took on a hard look as he reached the clusters of rocks he sensed several chakra signatures nearby. Naruto immediately vanished from his spot and appeared on top of a rock and looked down at his previous position as four people surrounded it, he wishes he didn't have to see those three ever again, though the fourth member was the one did not recognised.
All four of them looked up to see where he was standing. Kakashi then snapped out of his shock and took a good look at his former student. Naruto now had red spiky hair that Uzumaki clan was well known for instead of his father's yellow hair which he inherited. Then Kakashi snapped out of his stupor state and gave Narutohis signature eye-smile. "Yo Naruto, How have you been?"
Naruto for his part just looked at Kakashi unimpressed indicated by his lack of reaction. "Well Hatake I was doing fine until you came to breach my peace with your presence." He said sarcastically, his voice clearly indicating he didn't want to be near them.
'He didn't even call me Kakashi just Hatake but I know I had that one coming.' Kakashi thought a little hurt before he regained his posture and started speaking, "Naruto we've been sent by on the orders of Hokage-" he was cut off by Naruto in the middle o his sentence.
"I am telling you this first and last time, Hatake. I have no intentions of ever coming back to that hell of a village that you call home." Naruto said in a dead serious voice. "I was banished from the leaf and I am telling you I am more happy outside of that village and I won't go back to that place in any case."
"If you refuse to comeback with us willingly we are authorised to use force." Sai said in an emotionless tone.
Naruto looked at Sai for a brief moment before turning back to look at Kakashi. "So I guess he is my replacement." He asked and Kakashi nodded, "I see. Well good luck buddy since you are in the team of a hypocrite, a brooder and a useless thing. So I wish the best of luck to survive it." He said sincerely to Sai who was looking at him in confusion and not noticed the hurtful look on the faces of the ones Naruto referred to.
This time Sasuke regained his posture and spoke up, "Look Naruto I know you won't like us but we came here on the orders of hokage. She told us there's a-" Naruto cut off Sasuke's sentence.
"There's a group of S-rank missing nins who are after me and likes of me for our Biju's, blah, blah." Naruto said in a very bored tone. "I already know all about that and I have been prepared to take them on. So you can go back to that village and tell your lady Hokage that I don't need safety from her village of all people." He finished.
"Naruto please be reasonable you can't possibly believe that you can take on them by yourself. Tsunade-sama wants to apologise to you for what she did and she wants to protect-" Sakura stopped in mid sentence and flinched and also took a step back in fear. when she noticed Naruto glaring at her in disgust all the while directing his Little bit of killing intent at her.
"I really don't want to hear anything from your filthy mouth, Haruno. Especially when there are other more capable people talking then a useless person like you should be quiet and act like a pathetic fangirl you are and follow that emo like a yandere, after all that's all you are even good at." Naruto told venomously that caused her flinch the hardest and look down in shame while she clenched her fists and gritted her teeth all the while trying to stop tears from falling down from her eyes as Naruto's words felt like someone is stabbing her in the heart repeatedly.
Naruto then looked back at the three males and said, "Now you know my answer so get lost and leave me alone or I'll use more dangerous and extreme methods."
Kakashi closed his eyes and sighed before pulling up his headband to reveal his Sharingan, "I guess that are only option was to use force to bring back to the village." He said getting into a fighting stance.
"What makes you so sure that you can force me for anything?" Naruto questioned before he vanished from his spot and reappeared in front of the team 7, shocking them with his speed alone. However they failed to react in time and raised both of his hands in front of them and shouted, "Wind style🍃: Majestic Wind Wave!!" And fired a powerful wave of wind at them from his palms, which resulted in team 7 getting blasted backwards from the powerful wind blast and sent them a great distance away. Kakashi recoverd first and backfliped in mid air and landed on the ground. Sasuke and Sai were sent skidding across the field but Sakura was in the centre of the attack this was hit dead on centre and sent flying at the nearby rock and she crashed into it causing a small crater to be formed.
"Well.. that was interesting to say the least though now we know he is a wind element." Kakashi said as he tried to regain his breathing. Despite him landing perfectly the wind was still knocked out of him.
Sasuke then commented, "Yeah we find out he is a wind user but that also means our lightning techniques won't work against him as well." Sasuke took out his chakra blade. "Add to the fact that we don't even know what he is truly capable off." He added.
"What makes you think you can talk infront of me?" Naruto asked smirking at them as he clenched his fists and reeled his right fist back and shouted, "Explosive Fist: Dynamic Impact 💥" Punching the ground beneath him and causing it to erupt into explosion that rocked the entire field. All of the team 7 jumped away but were still caught by the explosion which basically sent them flying across the field injured.
Kakashi then got up from where he crash landed and his eyes widened in disbelief at the destruction in front of him caused by that technique. 'What the hell was that technique?!' he thought to himself in alarm.
While Naruto was looking around to find the members of team 7, he suddenly felt someone rushing at him from behind, he turns around and saw Sakura running at him with her fist prepared to punch him hard enough to knock him out but Naruto just smirked and release at chakra pulse that cancelled her chakra enhanced punch, he noticed the shocked looked on her face, "Even after training under tsunade you are still as useless as you were before Haruno." He said mockingly before he punched her with his own chakra enhanced punch in the abdomen causing her to spit out blood and kneeling over due to the immense pain.
Then suddenly, Naruto's senses warned him and the redhead saw Kakashi upon him with a chakra suppression seal in his hand. Not even fazed by it, he simply raised in hands in bow like stance and shouted, "Wind style 🍃: Wind arrow!!" And wind arrow formed in his hands and he launched it at Kakashi and the jutsu pierced him right in the shoulder causing Kakashi to dropp the seal from his hands and Naruto threw Sakura right at Kakashi not giving him a chance and he sent both of them flying towards a giant rock causing them to crash in it.
Before Naruto could relax a little, he saw shadow over him. He looked up to see Sai on his ink bird over his head. And then Sai sent several small ink birds at Naruto with explosive attached to them. But Naruto didn't even look shocked and pulled his green sword out channeled wind chakra into it and shouted,"Wind Style 🍃: Cleave!!" He released a massive wind attack upwards sending a powerful wind slash at Sai which destroyed the small ink birds along with the explosive attached to them and also cutting Sai's ink bird in half causing Sai to jump away from the ink bird which got slashed in two.
Sasuke took advantage of Naruto's focus on Sai and charged towards him. He activated his Sharingan and sending lightning into his chakra blade. His plan was to touch Naruto with it and send a pulse of lightning in Naruto's system to paralyze him. Sakura also regained her senses charged forward as well with Kakashi regaining his bearings as well.
But Naruto caught them by surprise and shot red chakra chains out of his hands and wrapped them around Sasuke, Sakura and Sai with all three of them caught Naruto started swinging them around with Sasuke strike down on ground hard and collided both Sakura and Sai to each other and sent them flying towards the ground.
After Naruto retract his chains back he started to look for Kakashi and saw him leaping at Naruto with ninjato in his hands with lightning chakra infused in it, Naruto brought up his white metal bracers and completely blocked the sword strike. "Wind style 🍃: Vaccum Bullet!!" Naruto shouted and a wind Bullet hit Kakashi in the same place where Naruto had hit him with his wind arrow causing Kakashi to flinch due to the pain and Naruto took advantage of Kakashi's distraction and held him by the arm and threw him right at Sakura who charged towards Naruto. Sakura didn't saw Kakashi thrown towards her in time which caused both of the to be crash in a nearby tree.
Just then Naruto heard, "Chidori senbon!!" Sasuke shouted sending thousands of lightning needles straight towards him. Naruto acted quickly, "Yin release☯️: Bloody impact!!" He shouted and slammed his feets on the ground generating a red dome which not only cancelled Sasuke's attack but also caused a giant crater to form around him due to the destructive force behind the attack.
Before Naruto could look around several of the ink lions jumped at him. Acting quickly Naruto pulled his other sword out as well and slashed two of the ink lions in half. But there were several of ink lions so Naruto prepared himself to finish all of them.
Back with Kakashi and Sakura who pulled themselves out of the crater and Sakura after healing her injuries started to run a diagnostics on him and heal him as the best as she could right now. But both of them went wide when they Naruto's attack that created a giant crater. "This is going far worse than I could have imagined." Kakashi muttered to himself wincing due to the injury he suffered in his shoulder.
"I cannot believe just how much strong Naruto became, when he was in Konoha five years ago, he wasn't this strong." Sakura said to her sensei who nodded his head. "And what are those chains they were really tough, I couldn't even them no matter how much I tried." Sakura added.
"Yeah those chains are really strong..." Kakashi murmured sadly remembering a certain female redhead who was also able to use those chains as well.
"Kakashi-san, Sasuke-san had just barely dodged an attack which caused that giant crater to form. I have sent my ink clone to check on him while I'm distracting Naruto with my ink lions." Sai said without looking at them. "But I wouldn't be able to keep this up and my attacks aren't doing anything and he doesn't even looking tired." Sai added before sending more ink lions at Naruto.
"Naruto won't tire out from something like that. We need to find a way to restrict his movements and then I can place a chakra suppression seal on him." Kakashi said, before he went deep in thought.
Both of his students looked at him curiously, he explained to them. "So far from what I have seen from Naruto he isn't trying to kill us which means he doesn't want to be put into konoha's bingo book because at the start of our interaction with him showed us that he didn't want anything to do with us." He explained the last part sadly.
"Do you think he has been stalling for time Kakashi-sensei? Maybe he has some sort of escape plan." Sakura suggested while she healed Sai's injuries after he sent one more batch of ink lions to attack Naruto. The redhead didn't even look exhausted as he continued to fight off Sai's ink lions and a recovered Sasuke Uchiha in a sword battle.
"That's the most likely option, which means we have to subdue him know before he execute his escape plan. We might won't get another chance after this in a long while." Kakashi said as he got up and charged forward with Sakura and Sai behind him.
Back with Naruto he has destroyed last of Sai's ink lions and kicked Sasuke away from himself. But he was immediately attacked by Sakura and Sai who tried to distract him so Kakashi could get behind Naruto and chop him on the neck to knock him out. But Naruto expertedly dodged it and kicked Kakashi in the back sending him forward where Sakura and Sai caught him.
"Chidori stream!!!" Sasuke attacked Naruto with his lightning technique. Naruto tried to move out of the way of the attack but felt his legs weren't moving he looked down to see several ink snakes restricting his moments. 'Tch, I guess I have no choice but to use it.' he thought before forming a hand seal, "Wood style 🪵: wood dome jutsu!!"
A wood dome formed around Naruto completely covering him from Sasuke's attack and causing all four Konoha shinobi to go into the state of shock and disbelief that Naruto possessed konoha's shodai Hokage's kekei genkai.
Then Naruto felt that his ninjato has been placed so he took the wood dome down and saw four shell shocked shinobi, he smirked, "Well I have to say you have become strong Sasuke this little reunion of our just showed me that but I am afraid that I have to get going. So bye bye!!" Naruto said and he vanished from his spot leaving the four shinobi in their shocked state behind.
'Was that hiraishin that Naruto just used now?' Kakashi questioned himself in shock as he looked at the spot where Naruto was standing. Before he looked at three of his students. Sakura was healing her injuries which she got from Naruto's attack. Sai looked slightly, chakra exhausted, kakashi's shoulder was in a bad shape but it could have been worse if he didn't have his flak jacket on him which prevented Naruto's wind jutsus from completely piercing his shoulder and Sasuke only has several graze mark on him but otherwise he looked okay.
"Anyone didn't get Seriously injured, right?" Kakashi asked his students.
"I'm fine but I have slight chakra exhaustion." Sai said as he didn't bring any chakra pills with him.
"My wound aren't that bad but I won't be able to move properly for some time." Sasuke said as he sat down on a tree log to catch his breath. "Whatever that technique Naruto used was far more destructive than anything I have ever seen."
"I don't think we will be able to continue this mission in the state we are in right now." Sakura told her sensei. "And whatever technique Naruto used just now must have taken him far away from here." She added.
"You are right about that Sakura." Kakashi said because of he guessed corrected then Naruto just used Something similar to hiraishin jutsu.
"Before we catch up to him. Naruto looked like he was heading towards north through the fire country." Sasuke said as when he saw Naruto, he looked to be heading towards the north.
"He won't stay in fire country for too long. Since he now knows that Konoha is going come after him." Kakashi said as he pulled out a scroll and began write a message for Hokage. Since he with their wounds and due to being low on chakra it would take them few days to reach Konoha. "Sasuke you said that Naruto was most likely going towards the north direction right?" He asked his student who nodded his head. "So he must be going towards the spring country since he's good friends with Koyuki-sama." He finished writing and did the hand seals, "Summoning Jutsu!" He said which was followed by a small puff of smoke appeared a small puppy Pakkun.
"Yo!" Pakkun greeted before he got a good look at everyone. "Kakashi! What the hell happened to you guys?" He asked in alarm.
"We had a confrontation with Naruto." Kakashi said to his ninken.
"Oh! Didn't Tsunade tell you to talk with him first?" Pakkun asked.
"We tried to but he didn't listen to us. So we have no option but to use force to try and subdue him." Kakashi answered before giving pakkun the scroll which he had written. "Pakkun take this scroll to Tsunade-sama. It had everything on what happened with Naruto and which way he might went. This scroll is to be seen by ONLY Hokage-sama. Is that clear?" He ordered.
"Okay!" Pakkun answered as he took the scroll in his mouth and immediately ran in the direction of Konoha.
Kakashi then looked at his team, "We will walking towards Konoha with lesiure pace as not to exhaust ourselves. But we also try to reach Konoha in time before Akatsuki tries to capture Naruto." Kakashi said.
Sasuke just grunted, "I personally don't think that they will be able harm him."
Kakashi quickly rebuffed Sasuke's comment, "We were trying to subdue him without causing unnecessary harm to him. The akatsuki won't care in what condition he was captured as long as he was alive."
With that all of them began to head towards Konoha none of them noticed at plant like man has watched their entire battle with the Kyuubi Jinchuriki.
"The Kyuubi Jinchuriki has become really strong isn't it. That's correct not to mention that he is able to use shodaime Hokage's wood release. Leader-sama must know about this development." Zetsu said as he sunk back into the ground.
TO BE CONTINUED...