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Political Alliances
Chapter 39: Plans for the Future It had been a couple of weeks since the mission to try and retrieve Sasuke Uchiha, and Tsunade was in her office trying to get through her work for the day. So far it had been a very busy time for the village, having to rebuild from the damage not to mention trying to cover the losses they suffered from Orochimaru’s plot to destroy the village took time. They had lost several ninja in his invasion and having her top genin teams out of commission wasn’t helpful either. The only current top genin team still around was Asuma’s team. Even that was only sometimes, given that Shikamaru was a chunin she had to assign him duties while Asuma had to go on his own missions that only a jonin could do. She sighed as she looked at a document that was an update of her forces. At least she hadn’t lost anyone in that last major mission. Still with the loss of Sasuke it meant that this village no longer held an Uchiha clan. That actually hurt the village’s reputation and she knew that a few people would look elsewhere. It was amazing what simple name recognition did for simply getting job offers from various people looking for ninja to hire. Still it wasn’t too much, not like the village would go under from it but given their current state, they couldn’t afford any more major embarrassments. Tsunade really wished she could just take a break for the day but it was like every time she thought it, something major came up. “Working hard I take it,” Jiraiya’s sudden voice made her jump in her chair turning around to glare at him. “Use the damn door not my window,” She scolded him as he sat in her open window without a care in the world. “I don’t got time for any of your funny business Jiraiya, I got a lot of work today so if this is about that movement from the women to get you banned from a fifty foot radius of the hot springs I can’t help you.” “No I got-wait what was that?” Jiraiya suddenly did a double take on that bit she said. “What movement, what did I do to them?” Tsunade glared at him like he should know why the women were getting tired of dealing with him. “Oh right...well anyway,” Jiraiya figured he should lay low for a bit and stay away from there until the women calmed down. “At any rate I came here to talk about Naruto. You know that group I’ve been tracking? Well I’ve been hearing things about them, they seem to be moving and they seem to have an interest in the jinchuriki.” Now Tsunade was more focused on what he was saying. “You mean they might be after them, including Naruto?” Jiraiya nodded his head, “Yeah I want to keep an eye on them but also I wanted to talk to you about Naruto. While investigating this group I also thought that it would be interesting to see about training Naruto during that time. From what I can figure out I might have a few years to train him before they start to fully mobilize.” Tsunade sighed, “You’re not the only one who’s come to me about ideas for Naruto actually.” She looked at the time from a clock on one of the walls. “And he should be here any moment now, so why don’t you stick around for this.” “What do you mean someone else has their eye on Naruto?” Jiraiya didn’t like the sound of that. There was a knock on the door as Tsunade told whoever it was to enter. When Danzo walked in, Jiraiya immediately didn’t like where this was going. He had never trusted or even liked Danzo, even if he had been an old teammate of their sensei, the man was the exact opposite of the Third and his teachings. He had a few ideas of what he wanted but he would have to hear what the bandaged man had to say first. “Tsunade, I thought this meeting was just between us.” Danzo asked seeing Jiraiya there. “As it turns out he has his own idea about Naruto, so I thought it best to talk about this all together while you were here.” Tsunade sat back in her chair. “Jiraiya just informed me that he wants to take Naruto on a training trip outside of the village.” “Oh, for how long?” Danzo asked listening carefully to this. “Over two years, by then my intelligence says that’s when they’ll start to move fully. So I got just over two years to get the boy ready for them.” Jiraiya told Danzo crossing his arms almost daring him to speak out against his idea. Danzo seemed to consider this for a moment, “If things were different it might be a good idea, as things are, I don’t think Naruto should leave.” “Why do you say that?” Jiraiya narrowed his eyes, wondering what the old man was planning. “Have you forgotten that he’s a symbol for our alliance?” Danzo reminded him. “We can’t have him just disappear for over two years, especially not after the Uchiha defection. The public image of our village to other nations and clients isn’t as strong as it was before the failed invasion. They see us as strong as we survived such a thing, but you know that we lost a few key personnel. We’re trying to seem strong enough to prevent any other nation from attacking a wounded enemy.” “You also have to consider that there is a Suna delegation coming next month to talk about the mutual alliance as well as the possibility of joint missions and patrols of our borders.” Danzo looked to Tsunade now to address her directly. “Naruto will be expected to at least be seen with Temari during this time to help ensure that we’re holding up our end of the deal in good faith.” Tsunade leaned forward as she started to think long and hard about this. Naruto could use the extra training but the damn political and economic situation was making it harder for Naruto to leave for that long a period. Plus without him Team 7 would be down to two genin only, there would be no way to have Team 7 going on missions. Which wouldn’t be fair to Sakura or Temari plus if Suna thought she was holding Temari back it could get ugly for her, as she knew there were still some sore feelings of a few powerful people in Suna. There were hard feelings from the generation from before the Third Shinobi War still in Suna and something like that would be too good to drum up support to break the alliance. Sakura was training to be a medic so if it was just her, well Tsunade could have worked something out. Damn she wanted a drink badly at this moment. “Look, I don’t care about politics, never did really. One of the reasons I didn’t want the job of Hokage.” Jiraiya spoke up. “But Naruto has a lot of potential and I can’t stay here the entire time to train him. Plus we were already infiltrated once already by Itachi Uchiha and his partner.” “The same ones that you defeated,” Danzo said back to him. “So if you stayed wouldn’t you be able to protect the boy, or are you saying that you can’t guarantee success again if they show up?” Jiraiya knew he was being baited but for what he wasn’t sure, he hated politics, especially since he was no good with this kind of stuff. Danzo however was a master at this kind of thing so he kept his mouth shut while he tried to think of a way around it. Danzo didn’t give him any time, “Well if you feel that the boy needs training so much and to be protected. I think I should train the boy then, ANBU can also be placed t guard him. In fact I think we should think about Temari as well. She has a lot of potential and what if they go after her to get at him?” Jiraiya hadn’t considered that, most people who were joined with a demon beast either had no real family, weren’t close to their family or those that were close, usually could take care of themselves. If he did get Naruto he might have to take the girl as well, which he doubted they would let him do. Taking both of them off the grid for two years, even he could see how bad politically that could be. “I think we should let Naruto choose,” Tsunade told both men. “You both make points so we’ll have Naruto and Temari come here and ask them what they want.” Jiraiya and Danzo looked at each other before nodding to Tsunade. -Konoha Streets- “Guys is this really necessary?” Tenten asked again. She was surrounded by her teammates which wasn’t normally a bad thing. She had just finally gotten out of the hospital and her team was here to see her off. Not that she really needed it, she did get a full clean bill of health after all. Although Lee and Gai were just being a bit too enthused about her recovery. “But Tenten, you were in there for so long,” Lee said to the girl. “You must not get rusty in your skills.” “I was in there for so long because I got impaled by a large indestructible arrow,” Tenten told him getting slightly impatient. “They told me two or more inches and my spine would have been severed and I might have ended up without the use of my legs permanently.” Although with chakra medicine many injuries could be healed, tissue could be made to regrow in some cases and even some nerves. But a severed spine was something that even the legendary skills of Tsunade might not have been able to help with. The thought of not being a ninja anymore, let alone confined to a wheelchair or crutches for life was scary to her. “You just got out of recovery yourself Lee,” Tenten shot back at him. “Yes and I have been training every day to ensure that I make up for any lost time. I need to become much stronger if I want to go further as a ninja.” Lee proclaimed. “That’s the spirit Lee,” Gai smiled at his young protégé. “Never give up and push yourself beyond your limits. That’s how I got to where I am today and I know you all can achieve great things.” “You were also told to keep it easy by the Hokage,” Neji told Lee as he put his own opinion in. “You don’t want to reinjure yourself and go back into the hospital. Plus I don’t think she would take too kindly to you ending up back there after your operation.” “But how am I supposed to get stronger?” Lee asked his friend and sometimes rival. “I still haven’t completed my goals in life in beating you, Naruto-kun or being a strong ninja in only taijutsu.” “You still have years left in you Lee,” Tenten sighed. “You have plenty of time and besides I’m still sore in the stomach so I can’t train. I’m not going to make this any worse and I was told not to train for two weeks, no missions above D rank either.” Although Tenten would agree to that, she still felt a bit bored. D ranked missions were okay, well, for the most part. But with no real action or training she felt like she might go nuts with boredom. It would be a slow two weeks. She stopped seeing a weapons store, she had lost some of her weapons and she had gotten combat pay for the last mission as it was for the village. Her hands itched to take a look at them all and maybe find a few new weapons for herself. Some said she had a compulsion with weapons but she just really liked them. They called to her and she could master any weapon in her hands easily. The downside was just how expensive it cost to get them all and replenish her supplies when she used them up. “You know, why don’t you go on ahead, I want to look in here for some supplies.” Tenten said to her team. Maybe she could at least get some peace and quiet with Lee and Gai not around. Neji was always quiet so she didn’t mind his presence. Plus he had been a little off lately; she swore that he was looking at her when he thought she wasn’t looking. Almost like he was considering or thinking about something. “But as your team we should stick together and look after you.” Gai told her. “Since you’re not up to training and were told to take it easy and if you insist on that, then we should help you out as a team.” Tenten sighed knowing that if they stuck around her for two whole weeks that would drive her nuts first. She loved her team but she still needed some quiet time now and then. Lee and Gai would get bored easy with nothing to do and would start to find things to pass the time. That was a dangerous combination no matter what happened. Neji cleared his throat, “We don’t all need to be here. Since you both are so dead set on training why don’t you both train together. I can look after Tenten by myself. This way Lee can get in his training, even if he was told to take it easy, and we’re still making sure that Tenten is taking it easy as well.” Gai seemed to be thinking this over, it would allow them to maximize their time and Lee was just so eager to learn more. Not only that but a part of him wanted to see where Lee was after the operation and find out just what the boy’s limits were. He was told by Tsunade that Lee was never to use the Lotus moves again, so he had to figure out a way around that. “That is a most excellent idea Neji!” Lee was nearly jumping at the chance to go train with Gai one-on-one. “Well if you think so, then maybe we can do it that way,” Gai said coming to a decision. “So you look after Tenten and I look after Lee then.” Tenten wasn’t sure what happened but eventually Lee and their sensei went off to train leaving her with Neji. “You know I can walk home and shop by myself you know.” She told him when they entered the shop. “I know but you seemed to want some space from those two, plus if you end up buying some of the heavier weapons you still might need some help. You said yourself that you’re still a little sore.” Tenten thought about it, she hadn’t thought about what she would buy; sometimes she got something on impulse. So if she needed some help it might be nice to have an extra pair of hands. Plus Neji wasn’t going to be as disruptive as the other two thankfully. So she went to look around, she found a few replacements and even a couple new weapons for herself. Turns out that Neji had been right, she ended up with two bags of weapons and when she tried to lift both, her stomach seemed to take offence. So she carried one bag and Neji the other as he walked her home for the day. It was a nice day out and Neji was nice and quiet company for the moment as well. “Tenten,” Neji said suddenly nearly making the girl jump in surprise. “There’s something that I’ve been wondering about. Tenten blinked, she knew that there had been something on his mind lately. “Okay what is it?” “What did you mean that you were glad it was me there with you when you lose consciousness?” It took her a moment to remember saying that to him; she had been wounded and thought that she might have been dying. In fact she had hoped earlier that had just been a dream she had. She blushed as she tried to think of something to say. Truth was, in that moment she had been glad that Neji had been there holding her. It had felt so good to have been in his arms, maybe more so than she should have been. She had spent her time recovering remembering that moment and the emotions linked to it. She remembered coming to the conclusion that she might actually like him. That wasn’t a bad thing really he was really good looking, mature, and serious about his career plus he treated her like any other ninja, not as just a girl. She hated being treated weaker because of her sex. But he was on her team and that might complicate things, okay sure, Temari and Naruto seemed to make it work at least. But they actually cared for each other surely Neji didn’t see her as anything than just a teammate. “Well...it’s just that...” Tenten cursed herself, all that time she should have came up with something to say if he ever asked, but she never considered he would. Neji could see her blushing and she had never really stammered like this before. He had been thinking long and hard the past two weeks. About what she had said and he was unsure how he felt, for as long as he remembered he had been angry with the world, mainly with the main branch. But with that gone, he had other goals in his life now. He never thought about girls or relationships but lately he had started. Maybe a near death experience with Tenten had opened his eyes to something he hadn’t seen before. “If you’re not comfortable saying anything you don’t need to,” He told her. He wasn’t sure if either of them were ready to admit what they might feel. Or even knew what they were feeling exactly. But there was one thing that he felt that he needed to say to her. “Just so you know...I would have no one else by my side than you.” Tenten’s eyes widened a bit as the blush increased a bit. She then smiled at him, “I...I feel the same way.” He gave a small smile to her and a nod as they walked on together. Both feeling things neither of them had experience in their short lives, but it was a nice warm feeling for them. Tenten wasn’t sure if this was a good sign but she felt nicer after hearing that from him. Their hands brushed against each other making both blush slightly at the contact. Tenten felt her heart beating faster as she wondered what would happen if she took a chance. Eventually she decided to try to take a chance, if anything, nearly dying made her think just how much life meant. She had been ready to die and when she woke up in the hospital knowing everyone else had pulled through made her feel so happy. So in the spirit of this, she decided that the next time they’re hands were close she took his hand in hers. She blushed bright red while not looking at him; she could see him look at her sharply most likely surprised by it. But he didn’t let go, she smiled at that, Neji wasn’t really the kind of guy that actions spoke more than words sometimes. The fact he didn’t try to pull away spoke volumes to her. Neji was surprised but he did hold it gently in his hand, her hand seemed so slim and smooth in his hand. It felt like it kind of fit for some reason as well. He wasn’t sure why he held on but he did anyway. Maybe it was the first step in something new, or maybe this would be the only time. He wasn’t sure but he was enjoying the moment, so he didn’t bother thinking about tomorrow, only about today. -Tsunade’s Office- Temari and Naruto got up to Tsunade’s door, Naruto was about to just walk in before being stopped by Temari. She knocked first and waited for Tsunade’s response, she made a mental note to help Naruto with his patience and protocol at some point. When they heard Tsunade’s voice calling them in they walked in. There sitting at her desk was Tsunade and also Jiraiya and Danzo both standing on either side of her. She could already feel the emotions in the room and something was going on. “Hey what’s going on here?” Naruto asked looking around. Although even he could tell something was up he wasn’t sure why the bandaged guy was here. He remembered him from his wedding, Danzo something he thought. The guy was always wrapped up, making him wonder what was under the bandages. Maybe he was really messed up or something, like burns or scars all over his body. He was a bit curious to find out but a few mental images of an old man in burn scars quickly put that idea away. Temari was a bit weary of what was going on, she didn’t like the feel of the room. “I have something important to talk to you both about,” Tsunade said leaning forward on her desk. “It involved your future for the next few years.” “What are you getting at Baa-chan?” Naruto asked her. “Basically Jiraiya got some intelligence on this group Akatsuki,” Tsunade went into the whole explanation of why they were here. She told them exactly what Jiraiya told her about the group and that they were after people like Naruto. This didn’t make the two young ninja feel any better knowing there was a group made up of some of the most powerful rogue ninja. One was being Itachi Uchiha himself whose name was infamous in their village. Then they got to what the meeting was really about, the choice they would make. Jiraiya offered to train Naruto while wondering the lands for over two years, gathering what information he could while training Naruto. Danzo gave his side of things and told how he would be able to train both of them and ensure their safety. Each side had their merits and failings. “So these are our only choices?” Temari asked when they were done filling them in on everything. She didn’t like the choices they were presented with. Naruto didn’t like them much either, he felt he was forced into yet another situation, although to be fair the last one did work out well for himself. “Look why can’t I take Temari-chan with me?” “Well I would be willing but I don’t know much about wind style jutsus that I could teach her to be honest,” Jiraiya admitted to them. “I’m sure there is still plenty I could teach you both, things I bet you never thought of before. There is more to being a ninja after all then just ninjutsu, taijutsu and genjutsu. There are tons of tricks and skills I can teach, plus with taijutsu I can teach you both in that as well.” Naruto lit up at the thought of training with the old man again, sure he was very unorthodox but he did get results. Temari wasn’t as impressed. “If I do go along you realize you won’t be slacking off like you usually do.” She told Jiraiya. “What do you mean by that?” The Sannin said slightly offended by what she said to him. “I mean no more of your ‘research’, you’ll be working non-stop for all this time.” Temari said seriously. She had heard the stories that Naruto told her about his training with him. She didn’t like the way this guy taught. “You won’t just show us something then take off for a few days letting us try and figure it out. If you train us it will be done properly.” She crossed her arms daring him to say anything against it. “I want Naruto to have the best training and I’m going to make sure of it. If I find out just once that you went off for ‘research’, drinking, or going to those hostess bars or anything like that. I’m taking Naruto straight back here while you’re gone.” Jiraiya paled at the thought of pure work for so long, he couldn’t remember the last time he worked so hard for so long a period. Plus he really did need to do work on finding more information on the Akatsuki too. Plus he knew that the girl was deadly serious. “I don’t suppose we could work something out?” He hoped. “Depends,” She said evenly. “Are you going to throw us off any cliffs?” “You told her about that?” Jiraiya comically yelled at Naruto. “You never told me not to say thing about that! Plus you did do that to me!” Naruto shouted back. “You did what to Naruto!?” Tsunade barked out glaring daggers at her old team member as he shrunk back fearing a blow to the face if she got any reach on him. “Then perhaps it would be better for them to stay in the village,” Danzo said calmly liking where this was going. If he could get them to train under him it would give him time to mould and shape the two of them. They were key people for the future of the village and would make for great allies if he could slowly convince them of his way of thinking. Both Temari and Naruto didn’t feel all too comfortable with that idea either. This went back and forth for an hour, someone would come up with an idea, and someone else would try and point out the flaws in it. It seemed like they couldn’t agree on anything that is until a compromise was finally reached by Tsunade. “Look seeing that Naruto will be needed for the village at certain times, plus his ninja career can’t be put on hold the entire time, at least not with this marriage, and he needs to train under you for certain reasons. “ Tsunade knew that Jiraiya planned to train Naruto in the use of the Kyuubi, that hadn’t came out but she knew that it would be dangerous to try that in the village. Plus there were other things that the man could teach Naruto. “So here’s the proposal,” Tsunade looked at everyone in the room. “Jiraiya will take Naruto but only for certain times when he’s in the area. He’ll train Naruto for a month or two at a time, and he can continue to do missions for Team 7 as well. This way he will still be seen in the village but not knowing where he is and for how long will make it harder to track him.” “He’ll have the security of the village while here and Jiraiya can keep him hidden for the training.” She could see that no one really liked this idea. Jiraiya had his heart set on a full two years but this was better than nothing. And he knew it would force him to cram as much in as possible. Temari wouldn’t like not going with him but she would still be needed here, plus with both of them suddenly gone it would make a few in Suna nervous. She could continue to train and do missions the entire time without interruption. Although she would miss Naruto when he was gone. Danzo was the least happy, but he could at least try to get them to consider either some training or help from him while they were here. It would be a lot harder but thankfully his plans for the future of this village didn’t hinge on them. Naruto, well he liked and hated it, he liked that he would learn a lot from Jiraiya but hated leaving Temari behind. With things finally decided everyone broke off the day, Tsunade slumped in her chair when everyone was gone. She pulled a drawer out to take some sake, she really needed a drink after all of that. Later that day both Naruto and Temari were sitting on the couch of their living room, both resting against each other and holding hands. Neither of them was sure what to say, but they had come to a decision that would affect their future for the next few years. Temari was the first to speak up. “I’m going to miss you when you’re gone with that man for a month or more.” She sighed. Naruto nodded, “Yeah same here. It’s strange, I’ve lived alone most of my life but since we started living together, well, I got really used to it and actually like it. It’s going to be weird when I wake up and you’re not there or seeing you at breakfast, training together and stuff.” “Well with luck you’ll be back for the next chunin exams, I hear Suna is holding it so we can see my brothers while we’re there.” Temari offered. “Oh yeah that will be great!” Naruto had never really been to Suna himself so he was looking forward to it. He had heard the stories and seen some pictures but other than that he wanted look around it and see how the village was different. “It will be nice to see Gaara and Make-up guy too.” Temari rolled her eyes, “You know you’ll have to call him by name soon, he is you’re brother-in-law.” “Yeah I know but I thought family is supposed to tease each other?” He honestly asked. “I guess...” She honestly didn’t know as her family was anything but normal. She had never really been the teasing type as she was the oldest and with Gaara, well you didn’t tease Gaara, at least not back then. Still, she didn’t like the fact that she wouldn’t see him for so long but it was better than not seeing him for over two years. That would drive her mad with worry knowing there were those after him. “Well we got a month before that happens, so what do you say we make the most of it?” “Oh yeah, I think I can get one of those wind jutsus down by then!” Naruto’s face lit up at that. Temari sweat dropped, she should have known that training was the first thing on his mind. Well second thing, she bed ramen wouldn’t be too far behind. “Oh man I better made sure I eat ramen from Ichiraku on the day I leave, maybe if I ask nicely they’ll let me take some to go too.” Temari couldn’t help but laugh, she had only known him only a little bit and she knew him pretty well. He just looked at her confused wondering what she found so funny. He hated being left out of the joke. Temari quickly got control of herself as she thought how she would miss him even more at this point. He could make her have fun and laugh like no one else, even when it wasn’t on purpose. “How about another idea?” Temari asked him. “Like what?” Naruto thought about it. Temari wrapped her arms around him as she pulled him close as she kissed him Naruto quickly got the idea as he kissed her back. He liked how soft her lips were when they kissed and the taste as well. He kept meaning to find out how she got her lips to taste like peaches. If only she could taste like ramen then it would be perfect but this was still great. If he was going to leave in a month then he really needed to make some time for himself and Temari. Kissing her made him aware of just how much he was going to miss her and being able to do things like this with his wife. Chapter 40: Epilogue Well the final chapter is up next, can’t believe I’ve been at this story for so long but it’s time to say goodbye. I left the story open ended for a reason and a few plots set in motion from previous chapters as well. 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