Shibuki sighed as he looked at the massive amount of paperwork in front of him. "Why is it that every year more and more kids want to become a Shinobi?" The teen asked out loud as he looked at the paper in front of him. He then heard a knock on his door and smiled. "Come in," The teen said as he was looking at the door. When he did he saw a male with a giant scar in the shape of an X on his face come into the room.

"Shibuki I have some things that I would like to discuss with you," He said looking at the male in front of him.

"Alright, but aren't you supposed to be teaching the students down at the Shinobi academy?" Shibuki asked looking at him with a rather concerned look.

"No not today Satsuki is taking them on a field trip to show them the hero's water," The male said looking at the teen in front of him.

"Alright well then what is it that you want to talk about?" Shibuki asked looking at the male in front of him.

"Well, it's a few different things actually," The male said looking at Shibuki.

"Okay well, what are they?" Shibuki asked just slightly annoyed with his counterpart not answering him.

"Well most of them are about Naruto," The male said as he grew just a little bit nervous.

"What about Naruto?" Shibuki asked looking at him.

"Well, first off there's that attack from three months ago. It's obvious that they had no other intention other than capturing Naruto. Now I and a few of the other Shinobi have been talking and we think we might know why that is," The male said as he pulled out a some papers he had put inside his coat. They hadn't fallen out of his coat on the way to the tree because he had used his chakra to make them stick to the surface of his jacket. "Take a look at these," He said as he placed the papers down in front of the teen.

Shibuki nodded and picked up the papers. Most of them were nothing more than information about students at the Shinobi academy. However, he then came across the file of Naruto and the file of Fuu both of which had a red circle around them more specifically their chakra levels. Shibuki noticed that there were some boxes that weren't shaded and one that was.

The one's that weren't shaded read very low level, low level, mid level, intermediate level, and high level. The one box that was shaded in however read very high level. However upon closer investigation Shibuki noticed that Naruto's name also had a red circle around it. "Please explain," Shibuki said looking at the male in front of him.

"Well I'm not sure how familiar you are with chakra but kids around Naruto's and Fuu's age usually have low-level chakra sometimes mid-level if they belong to a clan. So these two having a very high level of chakra is unusual to say the least," The male said looking at him.

"I see so is this a mistake or is there some sort of explanation for this?" Shibuki asked now genuinely interested in what the male in front of him had to say.

"Well the explanation for Fuu having a high level of chakra is simple it's because she's a jinchuuriki. Jinchuuriki naturally have high levels of chakra because of the bijuu that is sealed inside of them. So once you find out that Fuu is a bijuu it really isn't that strange for her to have a high level of chakra seeing as how the bijuu are creatures that are made out of pure chakra," The male said looking at the teen in front of him.

"Alright, so what's Naruto's excuse?" The teen asked looking at the ninja in front of him. When he asked this the male sighed.

"Well that took a bit of digging for me to figure out but I think I have the reason as to why his chakra level is so high," The male said looking at Shibuki.

"Then please enlighten me," The younger of the two said.

"Well, it has to do with his last name Uzumaki." The male said looking at the teen in front of him. When he saw that his leader had a confused look on his face he sighed and decided to explain. "That's right I had forgotten you weren't there. Well, when your father ran the village we would receive a visit from a clan. They would come here to relax, buy a few souvenirs then leave. This clan was known as the Uzumaki clan." The male said looking at him.

"I . . . see so this Uzumaki clan is where Naruto is supposed to be right now?" The teen asked.

"No sir they suffered a major blow some years back and all of them were presumed to be dead. Seems like we may have the only Uzumaki left." The elder male said looking at the teen figure in front of him.

"I see so what makes you think his clan has to do with any of this?" Shibuki asked leaning forward slightly.

"Well, the last group that came through here allowed us to conduct some basic tests on one of their younger members. Believe it or not, she was actually around Naruto's age when we conducted these tests on her." The male said looking at his leader.

"Her?" Shibuki asked with a brow raised looking at the male in front of him.

"Yes sir, it was a young woman named Kushina Uzumaki. She had a chakra level that is equal to Naruto's. Since this is really all we have to go on I came to the conculsion that Uzumaki's have a naturally high level of chakra as to whether this is true or not can't be confirmed." The male said looking at him.

"I see speaking of Naruto how is he adjusting?" Shibuki asked looking at the male in front of him.

"I'm not sure no shinobi will take the mission, the main reason being who he's living with. However, it doesn't seem to be good. Some of the villagers have figured out that Naruto and Fuu live together and are now transferring some of their hatred over to him. Then on the same level, he seems to be adjusting rather well." The male said looking at him.

"That's good to hear how are they doing when it comes to food supplies and clothing as well as the other basic essentials?" Shibuki asked looking at the older figure in front of him.

"They're doing just fine in that department. Since most of the store owners won't sell food to Fuu because she's a jinchuurki she takes the money that we give her and gives it to Naruto. He then takes the money and buys everything that they need to live for the next month. I'm a little surprised that he actually gets food that healthy instead of just buying a bunch of junk food." The male said looking down at the smaller figure in front of him.

"Well, he did come here alone and stated that his parents had no role in his life. So maybe it's not so strange to think that he learned how to cook for himself." Shibuki said looking at him.

"I see that is also very strange. I can only imagine that the ones that attempted to kidnap Naruto have either already kidnapped his parents or that he took it a step further and actually killed his parents knowing that obtaining him would be a much easier task than obtaining a full grown adult." The elderly man said brushing some hair out of his way.

"Yes, that seems to make sense. Speaking of which how close are the three of them to cracking?" The teen asked looking at him. When he asked this the male sighed and looked at him.

"Not any closer than we were three months ago and as this morning, we only have one prisoner left." The male said looking at the teen in front of him.

"What do you mean there's only one left?" Shibuki asked looking at him.

"Well, we know how you can be about these type of matters so we tried to avoid giving you the information until we were finished with them. We know that you aren't the type that would approve of our more effective methods so we were going to wait until as long as possible to tell you about the interrogation." The male explained looking at Shibuki?

"I see well what became of the other two?" Shibuki asked looking at the elderly man in front of him.

"Well we started off with all the usual treatments and no signs of anything really were shown. They each showed no signs of fear or regret, hell they didn't even show signs of feeling any pain when we jabbed super heated kunai into their sides. As a result, we ended up accidentally killing one of them." The male said looking at the teen in front of him.

"I see well that's rather disturbing. So what happened to the other?" Shibuki said looking at the male in front of him.

"Well, we found out something rather interesting last night. The remaining two ninja have a powerful genjutsu placed on them. So to be sure our reports were correct we did several tests on the deceased body and it also had the same genjutsu placed on it. When we found this out we spent all night debating on whether or not to release the genjutsu placed on one of the surviving men." The elder male said looking at Shibuki.

"So I'm assuming that you all came to the conculsion that you should release him," Shibuki said looking at the male.

"That correct however when we managed to get the genjutsu undone something unexpected happened. The man's heart just completely stopped working and it exploded inside his chest. I've never seen a genjutsu that had that type of effect on someone before. Meaning that wherever they came from they saw this situation and prepared in advance." The male said looking at Shibuki who was still sitting in his chair.

"So we basically have a zombie in the torture department that you don't know what to do with," Shibuki said looking at him.

"That is correct sir and as much as I know you hate having to make decisions like this I'm going to have to ask you to make one of those choices. I need you to decide what we do with him whether we kill him or keep him locked up. We need a decision as soon as possible." The male said looking at Shibuki.

When he said this the teen tensed up and was quite for a moment. 'He's right I do hate having to make choices like this. Deciding whether someone lives or dies something about making that call just doesn't feel right.' Shibuki thought to himself.

"Sir we need a decision," the male said looking at Shibuki. After a few more moments of silence passed Shibuki finally spoke.

"Put him to death by lethal injection," Shibuki said looking at him. When the male heard this he nodded and walked out of the room. After he had left Shibuki let out a sigh and continued to do his paperwork. 'All things considered, I feel like I made the right choice. Letting him go is clearly not an option and if we release the genjutsu he'll die anyway so, at least, this way he won't feel any pain.' Shibuki thought to himself as he looked at the paperwork.

In Konoha

The elderly man who watched over the village looked down at his desk. He had just finished the last proportion of paperwork that he had to do before the day was over. He sighed feeling relieved knowing that he had finished much earlier today than he had in a long time.

However, his relaxed feeling soon came to an end as he heard someone knock on his door. "Come in," he said as he straightened himself. However, the visitor he received was not one he had expected to receive or at least not one he had expected to see anytime soon.

The figure that emerged was none other than one of his former students. He had long white spiky hair and an aged face as well as a giant scroll on his back. "Hello Hiruzen," the male said as he entered the room.

"Oh well hello Jiraiya I see that father time has been most kind to you." The elder of the two said as he looked at his former student.

"Yeah he has and I can see that he has done the same for you," the white-haired toad sage said as he looked around the room.

"Is something wrong?" Hiruzen asked looking at the elderly male in front of him.

"No I'm just fine," the toad sage said as he approached his former teacher. He then pulled out a notepad and a pencil. "So I was thinking it's been a while since we had done some student-teacher bonding so I thought tonight we'd go out and catch up. What do you say?" Jiraiya said as he wrote on the paper when he was done he passed the note to Hiruzen.

The old man looked at it for a second before he picked it up and read the contents of the note. "Your office is bugged it's not safe to speak here. Let's move to a new safer location. I have some news that isn't for the ears of our listener." When Hiruzen saw this his eyes widened slightly and he looked at Jiraiya a little surprised.

"Yes, I would love to go out for drinks tonight. Well anyone else be attending this event with us?" Hiruzen said looking at Jiraiya.

"Yes although it's just Kakashi," the white haired male said looking at the elder figure in front of him.

"Really why's that?" Hiruzen asked looking at his student. When he did Jiraiya turned the piece of paper over and began to write once again.

"He's an old friend of mine. We met one day at a book signing and he brought a copy of icha paradise for me to sign." Jiraiya said looking at him. However what he wrote on the piece of paper was entirely different. "He's encountered the enemy we are going to discuss. It was years ago, but I believe that he may still have valuable information that we need."

Hiruzen nodded at this and then said, "alright sounds good so where should we meet up?" The elder man asked looking at the younger male in front of him.

"Let's meet up at your house," Jiraiya said looking at him but once again wrote down something different. "We're going to meet at my house at seven, I already checked both your house and Kakashi's house and both of them are bugged as well. My house is the only one that hasn't been infected yet,"

"Alright well, it's decided what time should we meet up?" Hiruzen asked looking at him.

"We'll meet up at eight," Jiraiya said and once again the note held something different. "We'll meet up in an hour then again at eight that way it looks like we really did go out to talk and catch up," Hiruzen nodded at this and Jiraiya smiled.

"Alright sounds good I'll see you then," Hiruzen said looking at the white haired male figure in front of him. He then watched as the toad sage walked out of the room. 'So I have some people that are using the information they have obtained from me for their own personal gain? Well, that certainly would explain a few things, however, this is also very disturbing at the same time. I've come here and to my house every day and it's unsettling to know that someone has been in both of them without my permission.' The elderly man thought as he looked around.

He then moved a massive amount of chakra to his eyes so he could locate the seals that had been placed in his room. He saw five pieces of paper placed in different locations in the room. One the ceiling, one beside the door, one on a wooden part of the window frame, one on the floor, one on the wooden chair, and the final one was right beside the pile of paperwork he had just finished. When he saw this he just sat there quietly trying to think of some way he could remove all of the tags from the room.

However in his little fantasy he lost track of time and when he once again looked at the clock he saw that it was close to the time that he was supposed to meet Jiraiya. So he calmly got up and walked out of the room. When he did he took a left and went into the bathroom once he was in there he let out a sigh and used the Shunshin to get to the house undetected.

Jiraiya was little surprised to see his room fill up with smoke however his confusion soon passed as he saw the elderly figure he had come to respect in the middle of it. "Ah using the shunshin to get here that way no one knows your missing smart move. Then again what else would I expect from the very man who trained me," The white-haired toad sage said looking at the elderly male figure in front of him?

Hiruzen smiled when he heard this and looked at the younger figure in front of him. The two's thoughts then came to an end when they heard a knock on the door however before either one of them could say anything. The masked figure known throughout Konoha as the copy ninja walked into the room. "Yo, what's up?" Kakashi asked looking at the two males.

"Ah good now that you're here we can officially get started," Jiraiya said looking at the two male figures in front of him. When he said this the two of them nodded and took seat opposite of each other while Jiraiya was in the middle and off to the side.

"So what is it the Kakashi may or may not know about?" Hiruzen asked looking at his former student.

"First things first, Hiruzen how long do you think this has been going on?" Jiraiya asked looking at the elderly man.

When he asked this the great ninja didn't know how to respond and simply shrugged his shoulders before responding "A few years maybe," When the other two heard this they sighed and looked at the elderly man.

"I wish I could tell you that was the case however the reality of the situation is not what we would like to believe," Jiraiya said looking at the male figure to his right.

"Indeed, as Jiraiya said this has been going on much longer than just a few years, in fact, this conspiracy has been going on for close to twenty years," Kakashi said looking at the male in front of him.

"I . . . see. Well, that is some rather alarming news," Hiruzen said as he put his head down for a moment trying to process the new found information. After he had thought about it, he sighed and looked at the two men. "Well, what all do we know?" Hiruzen asked looking at the two men.

"Well as you know Danzo has his own version of the Anbu called the ROOT agents," Jiraiya said looking at the eldest man in the room.

"Yes of course," Hiruzen said looking at the two of them.

"To put it simply these agents are not normal. Sure they seem normal enough and to an extent they are normal. Years ago they used to be normal humans that just undergone extreme training so that they were loyal to Danzo. However as the years passed and as Danzo grew more and more paranoid he had some of his researchers start working on a new genjutsu one that doesn't just affect the mind," Jiraiya said looking at him to which the elderly man's eyes grew wide with surprise.

"One that doesn't just affect the mind? How is that possible?" Hiruzen asked looking at the two males in front of him.

"We don't know yet, but we do know that in order to perform the technique two different people must be present during this a genjutsu master and a fuinjutsu master must be the ones to perform the genjutsu which is why it is so hard to detect in the first place," Jiraiya said looking at Hiruzen.

"I see so Danzo intends to harm Konoka?" Hiruzen asked looking at the two of them.

"It's hard to tell what his real motives are at the moment however I am sure of one thing. He doesn't plan to harm Konoha or at least not directly he's not satisfied with his position on the civilian council and wants to be Hokage," Jiraiya said looking at him.

"I see why would he want to be Hokage? Surely he could obtain the same results that he wanted just by taking it with brute force." Hiruzen said looking at the males in front of him.

"After some time thinking about I believe I have figured out why he is acting in secret instead of acting on impulse," Kakashi said looking at the two elderly males in front of him. After a moment of silence, the copycat ninja finally spoke. "If he were to take what he wanted by brute force it would lead to several people fleeing. Some of the people that leave may end up in other ninja villages. If this happens then they will without a doubt think that he is planning to do the same to their villages if he was willing to do it to his own." Kakashi said looking at them.

"And if they found out about this it would lead to another village or perhaps even several villages teaming up against Konoha to destroy him," Hiruzen said as he finally understood where Kakashi was going.

"Indeed, which needless to sat would make the past twenty years of planning pointless," Kakashi said looking at the male figures in front of him.

"Yes that makes sense however that still doesn't explain why he wants to become Hokage," Hiruzen said looking at the two of them.

"That matter has a very simple answer my friend it's because the Hokage holds all the power," Jiraiya said looking at him. "The Hokage can manipulate certain factors to work out in his favor. The Hokage is the only one that can both make and terminate laws as they see fit. However this is usually looked down upon because the civilian council usually add their input," Jiraiya said looking at him.

"Yes however the Hokage also has the ability to choose who is on the civilian council and who is to be rejected so if Danzo were to become Hokage," Kakashi said looking at the elderly figure waiting for him to see where he was going.

"He'd be able to make the civilian council members that have allied themselves with him or even worse he could make the civilian council people that he has placed under this new genjutsu he has developed," Hiruzen said looking at them.

"Exactly so you can see why at the moment you'll have to stay on your toes," Jiraiya said looking at his former teacher.

"Yes and I appreciate you telling me this," Hiruzen said looking at them. When he said this he got up and was about to Shunshin away however before he did Jiraiya looked at him.

"Hiruzen before you go I just want you to know that no matter what you think at the moment the civilian council are by no means your friends," Jiraiya said before the old man disappeared from the room. When he left the room the silver haired male looked at the toad sage.

"Why didn't you tell him that Naruto is still alive?" The male asked looking at the white haired male.

"As much as it pains me to say this leaving this village was probably the best thing Naruto could have done," Jiraiya said looking at Kakashi.

"Oh, and why's that?" Kakashi asked looking at Jiraiya.

"Naruto left this village for a reason. While I'm not sure about the details from what I gather from his last day here was just horrible. Now here's a question for you Kakashi. If every day of his life was half as bad as that day was why on Earth would I tell Hiruzen? What good would it do Naruto? If I told Hiruzen he'd just send more men out and bring him back to the village he'd bring him back to a life that he hated. Why on Earth would I want to sentence my godson to that kind of fate?" Jiraiya asked looking at the silver-haired figure in front of him.

After a few moments of silence, Kakashi sighed in defeat and looked at the male in front of him. "You're right it wouldn't do him any good," Kakashi said looking at him. The silver haired male then got up and walked towards the door but before he left he looked at the male that was still in the room. "Then, at least, tell him when you think he can handle it. After all, he unlike most of this village did care for Naruto. He cared a lot more than anyone else did so even if you don't tell him now I believe he still needs to know the truth." Kakashi said as he opened the door and walked out into the streets of Konoha.

Left alone to himself the white haired male sighed and began to think to himself. 'I guess it's true if nothing else he doesn't have to learn the truth now, but he still deserves to know. I guess I can tell him when the time comes. When he like me understands that leaving this place was the best thing he could have done. It's almost kind of sad really if he had just had one friend one person to take some of the weight that he had been carrying around with off his shoulders he might not have left.' Jiraiya thought as he looked at the ceiling. 'I wonder what he's doing now?' Jiraiya asked in his head before he let out a long sigh.

With Naruto and Fuu

The two were standing in the hallway with two books in each hand. Their arms were perfectly extended and the two were starting to feel just a little sore. Why were they doing this? Because it was a punishment. Fuu had asked a question in class and seeing as how she was a jinchuuriki and a rather hated one in this particular village she was sent outside.

Naruto being the young boy he is tried to stand up for his newfound friend and when he did he was also ordered to stand outside the classroom. "Stupid teacher this doesn't even make any sense why is he having us do this?" Naruto asked aloud in a slightly annoyed tone.

"It's fine Naruto it's because I asked a question that I shouldn't have asked. It's my fault we're in this mess," Fuu said looking down at the ground.

When Naruto heard this he gritted his teeth and looked at her. 'How can she say this is her fault? It's not her fault it's that stupid teachers fault. I thought she had a good question I didn't get what he was talking about either. They're treating her like . . . . . like they treated me,' Naruto then found himself slightly depressed as he looked at Fuu.

Naruto then walked over to Fuu and took the books from her hands and placed them on top of his own. "N-Naruto what are you doing?" Fuu asked looking at him.

"What's it look like? I'm going to carry your books for you," Naruto stated as he took her books and walked back over to his spot.

"Naruto you don't have to do that I can-" Fuu didn't get the chance to finish her sentence as Naruto interrupted her.

"Fuu it's fine here's the way I see things. You don't deserve to be out here. You asked a question and I talked back to the teacher I do deserve to be out here. It wouldn't be fair for you to get punished for something you didn't do," Naruto said looking at her. Fuu once again looked as if she was going to say something, however, Naruto once again cut her off. "Look Fuu I don't know how this village has been treating you and I don't care. As long as I'm around I'm going to try and make your life easier," Naruto said looking at her.

Fuu then looked at Naruto a little surprised before she nodded with a smile. "Thanks, Naruto," the green haired female said as she just sat there and watched him hold the books. 'He's so much nicer and more understanding than the others are. I wonder why that is? I guess it really doesn't matter and Naruto just as you're going to make my life easier I'll try my best to make yours easier as well,' Fuu thought as she looked at the blonde in front of her.