Chapter 18

It was a sunny day in otherwise ruined village. A pottery store, untouched in the sea of debris and cinder, became a reminder of how the village used to be before the invasion. A crimson stoneware stood proudly in the middle of the display, as much as how all of us held our heads high with the Will of Fire. Nothing could stop us stopped believing in the Will of Fire, even with the invasion from two village that nearly annihilated us.

"Kakashi, Yamato, Anko, Gai! Where are you?!" an enraged monkey landed on the pottery display, ruined its current purpose within an instant. At least he didn't smash the pretty stoneware.

"Maa, and he's supposed to be the more level-headed summon?" I said while the rest of us hiding from the enraged expy of Sun-Go-Kong. We could see Tobirama catched up with him in place for The Third, who was still disoriented from his...little ride before. First Hokage himself was busy with infrastructure job using his release, which could be faster had Enma did not chasing the second Wood User as well.

"Yosh! This is the first time I feel so dishonored, and I did not find problem with the mutant baby eradication program-"

"Be quiet, you idiot! I get what you're saying, but we're dealing with summons here! There's almost no way to punish them for being unreasonable prick!" my babe admonished my rival; her even more bountiful chest than usual reminded me that she did not even have the time to get to her apartment and grabbed some clothes and new seal. Just three hours after the invasion ended, this crazy monkey king approached me with intent for homicide, and I was the last one he assaulted.

"This is all your fault, sempai!" Yamato spatted out of nowhere. The sheer hypocrisy made me snapped;

"My fault? You're the one who escalated everything! That Hell in a Cell match was a failure, and you still made stuffs based on it! I even had no absolute idea on the moving stadium!"

"Why you-!" both of us ended up having to be held by our friends; good thing I was held by Anko, because I could smelled Gai's unwashed odor from this place.

How did we get into this position in the first place?

"Kakashi Hatake and Tobirama Senju. It's a honor to fight with you two," Kabuto said as he looked at the giant wave that about to wash him away. As expected from someone with his skill, he did not flinch, nor had to drag his shoes away from the scenery.

The four-eyed man truly lived up to his potential, holding me to a stalemate. Tobirama himself ended with even worse result, thanks to his unholy resurrection could not convey his real power. Said man just recovered from his missing limb, and judged from where he stood, he decided that he's only useful with his long-range jutsu in spite of his Flying Thunder God technique. And judged from the large amount of water he created from thin air, it could give Kabuto a little problem.

And then, one miracle happened.

By accident, the wrecking ball of doom spat Orochimaru away from Konoha. Said snake man screamed freedom so loudly my eardrums, which already hundred of yards away, almost shattered. It really said something about his previous situation considering his velocity would create more than snapped ribs on the landing.

"MASTER OROCHIMARU!" Kabuto screamed in horror, forgotten about the tidal wave that about to wipe him out. He ended up being taken by the wave itself, away from us who just got blessed by the greatest and most bizarre luck of all.

Oh, well. At least there would be someone to patch the snake up.

"What now?" Tobirama asked, noticing that the ANBU squad already served their role as surprise second wave attack. At this point the attack would be repealed sooner or later.

"Well we can help Naruto now if you want to-"

"Hey, Sensei!"

"Yo, Tobirama! We got the One-Tail and fixed its problems already!" Hashirama waved at us, my little bro's rested in his back.

"They're done already. This is a rather...underwhelming battle. Ever face something like this?"

"Well, I once had to face an A-rank missing nin, but his C-rank subordinate poisoned him the night before..." I recalled a mission that ended up on a similar anti-climax. Before Sandaime could tell his own story my hands reached toward a flying object, and managed to stop it before it could do any damage to me.. My eyes widened when they recognized the object was none other than the current Hokage himself.

"Hrrgh...haaaahhh..."

"Hokage-sama?" I asked. He answered it first by pushed me away like he just touched a pestilence itself.

'DON'T TOUCH ME, YOU FIEND! AND YAMATO, FIVE MONTHS OF D-RANK MISSIONS!"

"Where's the Sound Four, anyway?" Anko's questioning stopped my thought from running more wild.

"Probably teleported as soon as the stadium stopped," Yamato offered his logic, which's the most basic and acceptable answer.

"Well, speaking about the Sound Four...I think I got one of them good with the jutsu that took Orochimaru's leg, so for now it's Sound Three with one possible replacement since one of them's a twin," I informed them.

"Brilliant job, my rival! With Orochimaru's best bodyguard gone, he will have to be more careful and-"

"Quiet, you!" Anko shoved my rival to the ground as I noticed The Second, soon King Enma entered my line of sight. He was still as red as ever.

"Enma, I'm angry at them as well since I expect ninja to control themselves better, but they still did their obligation to this village. I would even say they saved the day due to their stunt."

"No! I want them dead! Mostly the masked one and his crazy, infrastructure-obsessed friend-but their heads will roll!"

"Enma, aren't you supposed to be the level-headed one here compared to Hiruzen?"

"NOTHING ABOUT GETTING THAT SNAKE PUKED ON ME'S SANE!" I had to hold my barf after hearing the words. Orochimaru was a disgusting being, and to get him spilled his lunch on you...

"Guys, we need to get Jiraiya-san to talk Enma out of it. The toads have both the combatants and political figure to both suppress and talked him down."

"Unfortunately we need time to track Jiraiya-san, and with Enma hounding on us, it won't be easy," Yamato gave his thought on it, and I didn't find myself to disagree with him.

"YOSH! I'LL DISTRACT HIM! DYNAMIC ENTRYYYYY!" Gai, no!

"THERE YOU ARE! YOU'RE NOT THE CORE OF THE PROBLEM, BUT YOU'RE THE BIG REASON WHY THE LAST HOUR'S EVEN WORSE!"

I wept uncontrollably; your sacrifice shall not be forgotten, my good friend...

"Iruka-sensei, you need to go to the rice county? I thought teachers are exempted from missions outside the village?"

"Yes, Naruto. A quarter of our ninjas are hospitalized, and twenty five of them killed in combat. We need everyone to fill the job, and until the soldiers from other parts of Land of Fire arrive, the medics and teachers have to replace them."

"Ah, that's a shame. I didn't know we suffered so much; I thought we did a good job with repelling the invaders..." Naruto looked down to his feet as he realized the war's result was worse than he thought. It refuelled his anger toward Kabuto and the snake man; as far as he understood it, they attacked just to spat on Konoha. They managed to build a powerful village, so it's not matter of economy. They even fooled the Sand Village and killed their leader.

"Naruto, the surprise factor's not on our side; most of the kills probably happened in the first thirty minutes because even with the intelligence from Jiraiya-sama, we still unable to pinpoint every planned attacks. But enough of that, let's talk about how you become the hero of the day by defeating the One-Tail instead. I want to know every details of the battle, and get even more proud of you than I already is."

The blonde Jinchuuriki lightened up after he heard the praise. "It was awesome! And it feels good to be able to help Gaara! Did you know that he had not just one monster, but two of them?"

"Two? So Gaara had more than just the One-Tail?" Iruka's already high interest skyrocketed after he heard the revelation.

"Yeah. So basically..."

"Hahaha! I'm free!" the demonic voice boasted. One horror was unleashed in Konoha, as its controller decided to do one thing he very rarely did: sleep. Ironically to satisfy his thirst and his duty in the invasion, the Jinchuuriki had to failed his own duty.

"Damn it! Now the real power of Ichibi's going to be unleashed. Brat, if we couldn't stop it quickly, Ichibi will get its own strength back and-"

"Um, what's going on here?" a second head popped out of the of the sand raccoon's rear buttock area, scarred everyone in the battle and probably some more unfortunate souls.

"Oh my god! Is it giving a birth?" Naruto yelled, which did not helped matter. Haku gagged in disgust, Uchiha Sasuke did the same, and their pink-haired teammate lost consciousness, the shock gave a final blow to her fatigued state.

"Damnit! You're not supposed to wake up!"

"Hey, I remember you! You're the one that get sucked together with me! That crazy priest, right?" the beast asked instead.

"That's right, and nothing you can do will stop me, you second head!"

The real Ichibi soon realized that the priest was right, for he was not in control of his own body. He sighed before he turned into the direction of the young ninjas. "Well this stink. Hey, I hate to look weak, but can you kids help me?"

"What the fuck? You're way too laidback! I know history have said you always murder people since beginning of time!" Temari pointed out.

"No offense, but you human often really sucks, okay? We both blinded by hate, we see each others as monster, and it took me the Jinchuuriki before this kid to see that it's wrong. Even then, the kind old man was still treated like garbage; how the hell am I supposed to not hate, or at least fear you? And when I consider trying to be nice to at least the next Jinchuuriki, this asshole hijacked me, and forced me into unconscious state!"

"You talked too much!" the priest forcibly sucked the beast back into his body. Ichibi could do nothing but beast trashed around with no success.

"It's...different..." the real Ichibi weakly muttered before he's assimilated fully.

"What does that means?"

"We're going with a different kind of Ichibi," Gamabunta answered to the blonde Genin. "My experience here won't do as good considering things. He may even have his own tricks to fight us," a strong wind that was sent into Gamabunta as the answer to that inquiry; the giant toad could see the forest being cut into half in the blink of an eye. "Dang it! I could sense so much chakra in that cutting wind! I need a freaking drink..."

"And with First Hokage helping us, things got much easier! I defeated Gaara, and I proved my worth as a ninja!" said Naruto. After a while it became clear that the boy just finished his story.

"Uh, that's good Naruto, but I wish I know more about how you defeated Gaara."

Naruto looked at his teacher with squinty eyes while scratching his own jaw. Paradoxically, he thought his teacher did not understand his ending. "Isn't it clear that with First Hokage's help, I defeated him?"

Iruka slapped both his palms into his temple. "Sometimes I forgot how your mind work. Naruto, I need to know more details, like what jutsu you used, how Hokage-sama helped you, and whether Gaara took his defeat well or not."

"Eh, that seems like a chore-"

"JUST DO IT!" the reluctance of him going big-head no jutsu on Naruto was defeated by the rare event the blonde decided to slack on something. The boy had to relent and worked on his brain to make a coherent story once more.

"GYAHAHAHA! I am inevitable!"

"Oh by Kami, his ego somehow surpassed the original Ichibi..."

"Man, I hope Kakashi-sensei can finish that traitor's butt soon. This priest have too many tricks with him," the blonde summoner grumbled.

Indeed, both were unable to land a significant blow to the oversized raccoon. With combination of Ichibi's defense and the priest's own jutsu, fighting the mutated tailed beast ended up being much harder than even it already was. The combination was too much, and they found themselves, ironically, more on defensive instead.

"Hey ho! Am I late to the party?" someone arrived, and he made a great surprise to all.

"Hashirama! How did you return from death?"

"Whoa! A kid using a toad this big?" as usual, the First Hokage ended up being distracted by something else.

"Yes sir! Uzumaki Naruto at your service here!"

"Uzumaki? My wife's an Uzumaki too! And there's no other way to explain how you have enough reserve to do this!" the undead Hokage cheerfully exclaimed before he noticed something off. "But I don't recall Uzumaki being blonde..."

"It could be explained by something as simply as the Uzumaki before him married someone with very strong hair genetics, and produced this idiot-"

"HEI!"

"But that's enough for now. The situation's different than the usual, Hashirama. That kid somehow had a priest hijacked his seal and took over the beast; his strength's amplified too, so the priest's own power is at least near S-class."

"Someone taking over a Tailed Beast's consciousness? Hmm...is Ichibi still on the hand of Sand Village?" Hashirama wondered.

"No change of the balance between village happened in recent years, as far as I know," said the toad chief for the inquiry.

"Duh. The Hokage's son is the one who controlled it," the blonde Jinchuuriki's lacks of respect to the First almost made him shed a tear, but he bounced back before he got overwhelmed to gave his explanations.

"That explains everything. They are not too good in sealing stuffs. Which means someone could easily tamper them without someone find it. Or even worse, did it under a facade of improving it."

"I guess Jiraiya's traveling school did little to educate people on this matter," grumbled Gamabunta, who already felt the journey was a fluke from the start. Or at least Hatake's fiasco in the Sand Village affected his time there.

"Uh, is it possible to kill a tailed beast? The priest keep bragged about how he's immortal now," Naruto asked.

"You'll never be able to kill it fully, but it's possible to subdue and disperse them temporarily if you're strong enough. I have done it myself before."

"First Hokage-sama, I know your legendary strength, and how you defeated the tailed beasts by yourself. With you on our side we will have no problem defeating this-"

"I'd like to take him myself, Hokage-sama." the Jinchuuriki interjected.

"WHAT? ARE YOU INSANE? THIS BEAST IS MORE POWERFUL THAN US ALREADY! ONLY HASHIRAMA WITH HIS WOOD RELEASE THAT EVEN HAVE A GREAT CHANCE AGAINST HIM!"

"Gama, he could be me. Without Iruka-sensei and Old Man Hokage, I would become just as hateful as him. If someone else but me defeated it, he won't understand that he can live without the fears; he can live without the pain of being so lonely."

"Good resolve, Naruto! I'll help you with the evil priest bit after you defeat it. The easiest way to defeat it, is by waking up Gaara and return Ichibi back to his consciousness."

"That's already our plan..." Gamabunta almost wanted to planted his palm into his forehead.

"Well with me, this plan will work much smoother!"

"And in case we're unable to defeat it, we count on you to pick up the slack, Hokage-sama"

"Actually, since Orochimaru failed to read the fine print which made me summoned at much weaker state, I don't know if I'm even as strong as Gamabunta," Hashirama admitted to Naruto.

"...Why am I even bothered? Kid, we'll just use the same previous plan. This time Hashirama will restrain the priest's chakra, so we can do it."

"Okay. Let's do it for Konoha and Gaara!"

It was easier said than done. While Hashirama Senju managed to restrain the chakra of the priest, his lucidity's still there.

When Naruto almost hit Gaara, the wall of sand once again protected the sand raccoon container, and a slight delayed reaction from him could've caused a leg separated by a sharp wind. The boy found his fall stopped by Gamakichi, who had his left leg by his hand

"HA! It turned out your dead Hokage's weak!" Priest Ichibi boasted, only to have his humanoid soul once again constricted by the Wood Release. "Curse you Hashirama Senju! Haven't you see your Mokuton's pointless?!"

"Hurry up! I'll hold him tighter this time!"

"Gamakichi, what are you waiting for? Throw the brat to my head!"

"H-here you go, dad!" the child used all his strength to throw his new friend up, and ended up having to return to Myouboku after wasted all his energy.

"Do not have to worry, chief! I have the perfect idea! Just follow me!"

"A stupid kid like you, and an idea? Hah! I'm going to laugh myself at the stupidity of it!"

"Oh yeah? Let's see you defend yourself against this, wicked priest! First Hokage! If you can't last for a long time, then just limit his power! It's okay if you can't turn off his priest power completely!" Naruto ordered as he ran into the top of the head of Gamabunta again, while Hashirama obliged.

"So, you think you can overpower my own raw power, huh? Whatever, I am ready with whatever you'll pull, brat," the priest smirked. Unfortunately, he did not deliver his boast, "Huh? A toad with very wide mouth?" he squinted after Gamabunta shapeshifted into a generic-looking giant toad, but with mouth that resembled a circular horn.

"TROMBONE TOAD NO JUTSU!" the priest's eyes widened just before the sound blasted through his eardrums, and soon he lost control over himself. Even the stoic ginger that contained him couldn't resist the glass-breaking noise.

"When Sasuke and Haku arrived at our location, instead of praising me, they berated me! Well Haku only said I could've used a better strategy, but Sasuke was really pissed off at me! And worst of all, when I defended myself, they said couldn't hear me, while they yelled at my face! Damn those hypocrites!"

"Uh, Naruto, I think they're angry precisely because your jutsu also affected them," Iruka tried to explain.

"What?"

"They almost became deaf from that attack too."

"Oh," the blonde Jinchuuriki then realized he might owned his friends some payments to audiologist in Konoha, "No wonder Gaara looked so dizzy."

"Oh yes, I still don't know if Gaara have repented or not."

"I think so. Thanks to Hokage-sama. He even taught us why Jinchuuriki exist," said Naruto before his tone became darker. "He also revealed a new mystery to me..."

"You guys okay?" Hashirama asked after Naruto finished his speech to Gaara.

"I cannot move. And Gaara, if you-"

"I-it's fine, I understood what you said, and I'll start with who used to close to me. I hope they'll forgive me."

"When I offered the rest of the tailed beasts," Hashirama suddenly started, "we agreed on one thing: the biju's there to act as a deterrent. They will only be fully unleashed when someone take it too far. It's what I thought as the final step of the unreasonable loss doctrine that me and my brother together wrote; when all sides have something that's able to flatten the whole region at instant, then at the very least, conflict will be kept at a smaller scale."

"W...why? Why must you created Jinchuuriki?" Gaara asked after they found the man behind concept of tailed beast container.

"That's right! D-do you know how lonely we are? Nobody want to be around me! I'm lonely for so many years, and I make friends despite of this monster inside me. A-and Kyuubi was relatively chill! How about Gaara, who had a more hateful tailed beast? How everyone else? What were you thinking, Hokage-sama?" Naruto lashed out.

"In my time, I see 6 year old kid's bodies floating in river every week from countless wars between clan. In Konoha, Suna, everywhere's the same. It got to the point that non-ninja regions actually progressed without even wanting us around, while we keep descended to the point we sometimes had to steal the mainland stuffs just to make through. I created the village to stop the madness, and everyone followed up. Everyone get what they wanted, and ninja clans finally able to do more than just preparing for war. But soon war broke off again, and I brokered a peace deal for the ongoing war by sending them the beasts that I captured. That's where they soon got an idea to seal the tailed beasts into people for their well-beings," Hashirama explained.

"That still doesn't explain why everyone must place the tailed beast inside people."

"People have been tinkering with bad power and jutsu way before that snake; my brother made some himself, including Edo Tensei," First Hokage admitted with a bitter feeling on his tongue.

"But does everyone need to know the identity of the Jinchuurikis?!" Naruto exploded.

"None of my citizen knew that my wife turned herself into a Jinchuuriki before you, young Uzumaki," the two young Jinchuuriki gasped, "That's the norm we all expected for the rest of the containers, for it was the best for their safety, and the least thing we could do to respect their sacrifice. But I see that sometimes after my death, everyone decided to spill the secret, before everybody ready to accept that the container's different than what they contain. And you kids suffered from it. If only they able to see you guys are still normal human beings..."

"People of Suna have a reason to hate me," Gaara suddenly spoke his experience."I have to stay awake every night, or else the Ichibi will take over. And slowly we became more irritable, more hateful. The containers of Ichibi are broken, and people are justified to fear us."

"Ah, the seal. That reminds me. Let me take a look, I learned a bit from my wife about the sealings," Hashirama said before Gaara showed the symbols around his abdomen area. "Hmm, yes. The seal's fine, but I always suspect Ichibi's mental ability is a tad stronger than the rest. I'll add this mental block seal, a warning seal in case Ichibi somehow able to break through-oh wait, I forgot about the priest."

"Here you go, sir!" an image of Ichibi suddenly popped out of the seal, with an elderly priest on his grasp

"Ichibi, you fool! Do you have no idea what power I can bring to you?!"

"I barely can tolerate humans; what do you think of someone who have hijacked me before?"

"Well, this is unprecedented. But I appreciate your help, Ichibi," Hashirama proceeded to rip apart the priest's soul with a seal and his Mokuton, and the

The unprecedented then happened: the leftover chakra from that priest ended up being absorbed by the sand demon, who let out a loud chortle.

"Now that nine-tailed bastard won't be able to claim more tails is better. See you later, Uzumaki," the tailed beast boasted before he returned to its container.

"...Okay, that was just scary. You need to make sure that Ichibi's not going on his rampage anymore."

"As long as he keeps to his words..." First Hokage could do nothing but continued the sealing attempt.

"First Hokage?"

"Yes?"

"There's actually a law in Konoha that forbid everyone to spill the secret of the Jinchuuriki. Was the law already there since a long time ago?"

"I don't think so, unless my brother instructed it. And considering that my wife's secret is circulated in my close circle only, making that law codified would be pointless," Shodaime answered, and that made Naruto's brain worked into high gear, which made it the first time it worked at such load at a non-battlefield capacity.

Then his three friends, one slumped like a lifeless girl on her crush's shoulder, approached them. Two of the other container's family also landed on the aftermath of the confrontation.

"So I'm not that bright, but I feel like something's off! Sensei, do you remember who tell everyone my status as Jinchuuriki?"

"Oh. I...I was your age when Kyuubi attacked, Naruto. I was just an orphaned boy who heard about it on the street. I don't think I know who spilled it first," Iruka answered, feeling that something should've clicked on his head.

"Then how's everyone ended up knowing about it? Wasn't that you and Anko were just kids? I also know people who are younger than you that still hate me! That kind of information's dangerous in the hand of random citizen, and kids like me, and somehow everyone know!"

"That's a great question, Naruto," Iruka admitted. "Almost 100% of the older generation know about it, even those who were just kids when Kyuubi was unleashed into the village. And if I recall correctly, Kyuubi was defeated after Yondaime isolated him in a barrier, and citizens were evacuated into safe places. The one who know about it first would be Hokage's close circles and Anbu that accompanied him. Second hand knowledge would be leaders of each clans who had to know every sensitive materials about the village. And Hokage-sama just explained to me last month that when Jinchuuriki dies before the beast sealed into an object or another person, the tailed beasts will just rematerialize in the future at a random place, so they definitely know that if they finished the Jinchuuriki, it won't do any good, and even open up possibility of other village snatched the Kyuubi in the future. So yes, I agree that it smells fishy."

"Someone was making sure that everyone know." Naruto exclaimed in horror after the puzzle solved. The boy then exploded: "GAAAH! I'M MAD AS HELL!"

"Naru, calm down-"

"I CAN'T! SOMEONE WAS RESPONSIBLE FOR MAKING MY LIFE MISERABLE! I COULD BE A JINCHUURIKI WITH ONLY FEW KNOW ABOUT IT! BUT NO! HE HAD TO MAKE SURE EVERYONE KNOW AND HATE ME BEFORE SANDAIME MAKE A LAW ABOUT IT!"

"Uh, did something happened here?"

"Kakashi-niisan!" Naruto glomped at his team leader. "I just found out that I could've lived as Jinchuuriki without so many people hating me, but someone had to spill the secret! Do you know who could do it?"

"Uh, I'm not really a sociable person, and I was even worse before. So sorry, I don't think I have any lead."

"Aww..."

"But I think I have an idea on who could do that," Naruto's face brightened from Kakashi's new information. "It should be people who thought they knew what to do better than the Kage, will do anything to do what they thought was right, and have virtually unlimited connections."

"Okay. Based on your suggestion, it could be Danzo the Grouch, Hyuuga elders, and Ino's mom. Okay, now I have a list of asses I need to kick!" Naruto's feet made several steps, but before he could truly get out of the apartment, Iruka twisted his ear.

"Are you crazy Naruto? You're going to assault an elder, whole council of great clan, and a civilian! And what the hell does Ino's mom have to do with this?"

"She's a gossip hen who once yelled at Jiji to force a Yamanaka-only discount..." Naruto cringed.

"Naruto, I think Konoha's current state require you to wait," the boy reluctantly relented. "After all, I'm also at a problem here. Hokage-sama's summon have been chasing me and my friends for that stadium fiasco."

"How am I supposed to help?"

"The toads will humble him," Kakashi explained.

"Oh yeah! I will call one of the toad to get here. Or at least the pervert Sannin."

"Thank you. Now Iruka, may I borrow Naruto for a while?"

"He's all yours."

"...You heard that, Gamakichi? Tell your wisest elders that King Enma's currently trying to murder four of Konoha's most elite ninja while jiji's being incapacitated, and someone needs to stop him! If they're busy, find Jiraiya the pervert sannin instead!"

"Sure, sure. And thanks for the snack too!" I'm pretty sure the toad will finish the snack first...

"Sensei! So while we wait for the toads and pervy sage, can we learn about something? Just take it as my price for helping you."

"Hmm, I don't know. The monkey could've detected me here..."

"Please?" Naruto, don't pull that-of course you'll pull that puppy eyes. And I couldn't resist! Oh, dear...

"Okay, Naruto. I think I'll teach you about a little more finesse. You can't keep relying on the surprise and nonsensical attacks."

"Well you told me I'm supposed to improve at what I'm good at, so is it the time for me to touch the stuffs I'm...not too amazing at?" haha, least you're able to suck your pride for a while.

"That's true, and perhaps it can accelerate the development of your shadow clone. So all you need, is to synchronize your stances with your clones," Naruto nodded vigorously, but it didn't took long before he looked lost. "What's the matter?"

"Eh, what kind of stances we're talking here?"

"Why don't we go with the academy basic first?"

"Okay! I think I still remember one or two of them," I sighed after the realization that this could take longer than expected...

"Naruto, your left foot's supposed to angled into 45 degrees. You look like you can barely hold your already wrong position too."

"I'm trying, nii-san! I'm-" Naruto never finished his words since he ended up stumbled into his own clone.

"I think we're going to improve you flexibility first. You need to do lots of stretching and all those gymnastics move," I talked before I gave him the book to guide him through it. As you could guess from a student who learn best from watching, he frowned.

"Sensei, this is a sexy aerobic book. Are you seriously want me to learn from it?"

"Oops, sorry. That was for Haku," I make sure that I reached the right book this time. "Now, as for the sexy one..."

"Nah, Haku's already too much of a pervert. I'm, uh, will hold it for a while. For his mind health, yeah!" oh Naruto, you little covertly pervert...

"KAKASHI! WHAT ARE YOU DOING HERE?" I was taken back by the screaming: it was Gai, still in Dynamic Spin Entry with Enma tailed on him.

"I have the same question for you, man..." I muttered before both lunging figure forced me to side-stepped.

And ouch! Where did that steel post that ended between Gai's thighs came from?

"Okay! Now that man's out, you're next, Hatake!"

"Now, Mr. Enma. Why don't we make a deal?" Copy-cat nin offered in desperation.

While Kakashi tried to held back Enma with his pathetic pleas, his eternal rival weakly bit his thumb to bring a helping hand for him. The summoned help arrived in shock, with Gai writhed on the ground as his first sight.

"Ningame...help my youthful rival..." Gai said before he passed out from the shock of his groin.

"Gai...even with your manhood obliterated, you still have your comrade in the mind first..." Ningame shed a big trail of tears before he charged himself into Enma. No lacks of knowledge regarding the unfolding event will make him dishonored the great display of friendship by his summoner!

The Monkey King just make a simple leap away from the tortoise, who now got its head stuck into the tree.

"There's no price for vacating a revenge, Hatake..."

"Well, um, how about...oh look! Anko's trying to distract you by ripping her fishnet and breast reducer seal!"

"WHERE?!" not even had the time to notice his blonde Genin took the bait as well, Kakashi went to run for his life. Enma soon went for him, his desire for revenge raised by tenfold.

"Come back here and face justice, you masked freak!"

"Sorry, but we, ninja, are not that noble."

"Hey ho! This is The Great Gallant and his two elder toads! I heard something about insane monkey trying to murder Konoha's elites?"

Naruto only pointed at the chase between Kakashi and Enma, an unconscious Gai, and a summon tortoise with its head smashed into one of the tree.

"Uh...I think you two need to go after Enma first. I have some business with Naruto here," the two elders toad decided to went with Jiraiya's plan. "So Naruto. Do you want to meet the final member of a Sannin?"

"That would be pretty cool, I guess. But what for?"

"Sarutobi-sensei's thinking about retirement after the invasion, temporarily or permanent. The choice needs to be one of the best and strongest ninja in Konoha. And since they didn't see Danzo anywhere during the battle, the trust for him to do the right thing have been questioned."

"Not to mention he could barely walk, right?" the boy quipped, not noticed his godfather did not even curved his lips from the joke. "Well that means the guys who can have it could be people like Hyuuga Hiashi, Asuma-sensei himself...wait, Kakashi-sensei could be a new Hokage!"

"That's right, but with how he was beaten soundly by Orochimaru, they made Kakashi as their last resort only. Their first choices are the truly strongest of Konoha; people with raw power and great skills, which means The Sannin, such as me!"

Naruto started to hyperventilate, and sweated buckets. "YOU, AS HOKAGE?! NOOO! IT'LL BE THE END OF THE WORLD AND PRIVACY FOR EVERYONE!"

"Hey, I'm not that bad, kid!" Jiraiya said as he punched the kid. "And besides, I don't think it's really my style. I have network to maintain, books to be made, and...world's beauty for my materials. Now let's go! I have a time limit before they decided by themselves. Fukusaku and Shima will explain where we're going."

"Okay! As long as you help me in my new training!"

"Wow. How did you know the monkey won't look after me on this place?"

"Father once told me that Enma dislikes the smell of jasmine. And this restaurant's famous for its tea."

"It's also near the sweet shop you like so much."

"Ha! You heard that, Uchiha? One of the best summon in the world, afraid of a flower!"

Everybody gasped. "ITACHI!"