It had been three days since Naruto, Haku, and Zabuza had left Uzu and headed for the Hot Water Village. They moved quickly only stopping for the night or to rest shortly before continuing on their way. What time they did stop was used for some extra training with Naruto being taught by Zabuza to better wield his mother's blade, and Haku practicing with her new weapons with notes her mother left for her. As the trio neared the village, they landed and walked along the road hoping to not draw to much attention to them.

As the trio entered the village, Kurumi spoke to Naruto. "Ototo, I can feel Chomei's chakra, she seems to be on the opposite side of town."

"Thanks nee-chan." Naruto thanks Kurumi as he motioned for the others to follow. "Nee-chan said she can feel Chomei's chakra on the other side of town."

The three then started walking a bit faster hoping to find the girl and then be on their way. A few minutes later and Naruto stopped outside a small café and turned to look inside. "Kurumi says she is in here, wait here since we don't know how well she'll react to all of us at once. I'll be back out in a minute."

"Be careful Naruto-kun." Haku said getting a nod from the blond before he entered the café.

Zabuza stood there looking at his adoptive daughter with a small smile, not that it could be seen behind his bandages. "You like him don't you Haku?" Zabuza asked as he led Haku to a bench and sat down.

Haku turned to her father with a small blush on her face. "Of course, Naruto is a good friend from the short time we have known him."

Zabuza just chuckled lightly before speaking. "I know that but that isn't what I meant. You like him as more than a friend. I see the way you look at him Haku and the sudden addition of kun to his name."

Haku looked to the ground for a few minutes before speaking. "I honestly don't know dad. I have never felt like this before and I'm not sure what it is."

"Don't worry about it too much right now Haku, you will figure soon enough. There is one thing though, and it has to do with Naruto." Zabuza said getting Haku's full attention. "He is the last known living male of the Uzumaki clan and he wants to restart said clan. There is a chance that Naruto will need more than one wife in order to do that Haku. I'm not saying he will but if you decide you like Naruto, you need to be sure you can share him with someone else."

As Haku started to reply, Naruto busted through the glass of the café carrying a mint haired girl bridal style. Looking around for a second he saw Haku and Zabuza and ran toward them. "Run, now!"

-XXX-

Naruto entered the café and looked around the area sensing for chakra signatures. He noticed a girl setting in the back corner of the café. She had short, mint green hair with a small orange clip that matched her eye color. She had on a short, sleeveless white midriff shirt with fishnet armor underneath, long white armlets, and fishnet shorts with a short white apron skirt over it.

Naruto could feel her bijuu's chakra and walked back toward her. As he need Fu, she noticed him and become tense. Naruto noticed this and put his hands up showing he didn't mean to hurt her. "Hello Fu, my name is Naruto Uzumaki, jinchuriki of the kyuubi no kitsune."

Fu's eyes widen slightly, this was supposed to be the person Chomei had said would meet her here. "How do I know you're telling the truth?"

Naruto sat down across from the girl and held out his fist. After a few seconds, Fu bumped fists with Naruto and was pulled into her mind. When she opened her eyes, she was standing across from Naruto. What really caught her attention though was the large fox standing behind him. All of a sudden the fox began to shrink in size before a woman stood in the foxes place.

"My name is Kurumi, I am the nine tailed fox. It is a pleasure to meet you Fu." Kurumi said with a smile. Then out of nowhere, Kurumi was tackled into a hug by another woman.

The woman stood just under five and half feet tall and had long, flowing green hair that reached her waist and was a few shades darker than Fu's. She had a green kimono on along with brown sandals, she also had seven tails behind her.

"Hello Chomei." Kurumi said causing Fu to widen her eyes.

"Wait, your Chomei? Where's the large flying beetle?" Fu asked surprised.

"This is my human form Fu-chan, just like you saw Kurumi-nee change, so can I." Chomei explained.

"Listen Fu, we're to offer you a place to live, to call home. No one will look down at you or treat you differently just because you are a jinchuriki. What do you say?" Naruto asked with a smile.

"You promise no one will treat me differently?" Fu replied.

"I promise. Everyone back home knows about Kurumi and accept both of us. They will accept you too." Naruto replied causing Fu to smile and nod.

"Naruto we have a problem, there are people in the café headed toward you and Fu. We need to get out of here now, I can sense their negative emotions." Kurumi said as she quickly pushed everyone out of the shared mind scape.

As Naruto came back to his own mind, he looked up and saw the blank anbu masks. "What the hell is root doing here?"

"Your father's journals said to never trust Danzo. Maybe he sent them to Taki after Fu in order to have a jinchuriki and they followed her here. Either way, we need to get out of here and lead them away from the village. The four of you together should be able to deal with them, I sense four here and another four waiting outside." Replied the fox.

"We need you to come with us back to Konoha Naruto Uzumaki along with this young girl." Said one of the root members.

Naruto reached into his pouch and pulled out a smoke bomb before throwing it in front of the root ninja. He jumped out of his seat and picked Fu up bridal style before running for the exit. One of the root members from outside stepped in to see what was happening and blocked the door. So Naruto took the next best route and busted through the window.

He looked around for Zabuza and Haku and found them on a bench. He ran toward them as they stood and looked at him. "Run now!" Naruto shouted as he ran by them with them both on his heels.

"What the hell is going on kid?" Zabuza asked.

"Enemy ninja after me and Fu, get them away from the village and then take them out. I want at least one kept alive." Naruto said as he continued to run with Fu in his arms. No one noticed the slight look of jealousy on Haku's face as they all ran.

"About time something interesting happens, I was starting to get bored." Zabuza laughed.

-XXX-

Naruto and his group made it to a small clearing, where he placed Fu back on her feet and the four waited for the root ninja to arrive. A few seconds of waiting and the eight ninja arrived in front of them. The two groups just stared each other down for a few minutes. Not wanting to wait any longer, Zabuza sped through a set of hand seals.

"Water style: water dragon jutsu!" Zabuza yelled as a large dragon made of water came to life behind him. The root ninja barely had time to dodge as the dragon made contact with the ground right where they were standing.

As the root ninja scattered, the other four ninja split up as well each going after two of the root ninja. Two of the root ninja made the mistake of going toward a small stream that sat on the edge of the clearing. Zabuza smirked evilly as he followed after them before he shunshined onto the water in front of them.

"Fire style: fire ball jutsu!" the two ninja shouted as two large fire balls flew at Zabuza.

Zabuza just smirked as he made his own set of seals. "Water style: water wall." A wall of water surrounded Zabuza as the fire and water collided covering the area in steam. Zabuza created a water clone in the cover of the steam and had it make its way behind the root ninja.

As the steam cleared, the two ninja saw Zabuza still standing on the water. They began going through more hand signs before the clone appeared behind them. The clone sliced Kubikiribocho through one before kicking the other onto the water where Zabuza caught him in his water prison.

"You should have known better than to attack the demon of the hidden mist." Zabuza said with an evil smile as he tightened the water prison crushing the ninja inside.

-XXX-

Haku lead the two ninja following her away from the others where she wasted no time in dealing with both opponents using her demonic mirroring ice crystals to quickly end the both of them. The two that were following Fu managed to push her back toward Naruto where the two now stood back to back.

"Just come with us back to Konoha, we do not wish to harm either of you." One of the ninja said.

"Yeah right, that mummified bastard Danzo just wants to turn us into mindless drones like you fuckers. No thanks, we'll pass." Naruto replied.

"Then you leave us no choice but to use force." Another said as two of the root ninjas rushed in.

Naruto and Fu both made a few hand signs. "Shoton: crystal blades." Two curved blades of crystal formed from Naruto's forearms (Think crow claw from deadman wonderland). "Water style: water blade." A blade of water surrounded Fu's hand and arm up to her elbow.

The two root ninja pulled a kunai and continued their rush. The one in front of Naruto went to slash as his neck only to be blocked by Naruto's crystal blade. Naruto pushed the ninja back and made a set of hand signs. "Shoton: striking spear!" Naruto yelled as he slammed his hand on the ground causing spears of crystal to skewer the ninja from below.

The root ninja rushed Fu but instead of a kunai he drew a tanto. He was thinking that she wouldn't be that strong but found out he was wrong when she held him back with her own blade. All of a sudden, Fu quickly pulled a kunai from her pouch and drove into the man's neck.

With those two dead, there were only two ninja remaining. Next thing the root ninja knew, they were surrounded, Naruto and Fu in front of them and Zabuza and Haku behind them. "You have one chance to not end up like the others. Either leave now or you both will die."

"We will leave for now, but Danzo-sama will have one of you jinchuriki." One of the remaining ninjas said.

"Tell Danzo that the kyuubi and the nanabi will never be his. The next time someone from root comes after us, he dies by my hand." Naruto growled out. The two ninja went to leave until two screams of pain were heard from the root ninja.

In one swift motion, Zabuza had used Kubikiribocho to slice off one arm each before they left the area. Naruto looked at Zabuza with a raised eyebrow. "Really sensei?"

"Did you honestly think I was going to let those bastards get away unharmed? They just better be glad you wanted that message delivered or they wouldn't have walked out of here." Zabuza replied as he turned to the young mint haired girl. "So she is the jinchuriki for the nanabi huh?"

"Yeah, Fu this is Zabuza Momochi and Haku Yuki. Guys, this is our new teammate Fu." Naruto said with a quick introduction. "Let's go find somewhere to eat and discuss what to do next."

-XXX-

After finding a place to sit down and eat, Naruto had told Fu what they had planned on doing in order to help Yagura. To say that Fu was shocked was putting it lightly. "How are we even going to get near the Mizukage, let alone break him from this genjutsu?" Fu asked.

"I was planning on entering his mind like me and you did when we bumped fist. If we can get close enough to make some kind of contact, we should be able to break the genjutsu from the inside. I'm not really sure about how to get into Kiri though." Naruto said as he started to think about it.

"I may know someone who can help us with that. She is the leader of the rebellion against Yagura, her name is Mei Terumi. If we can find her rebellion camp, she may be able to get us close enough for you two to break Yagura of this genjutsu." Zabuza spoke up.

"Do you have any idea on how to find them tou-san?" Haku asked.

"They stay close enough to Kiri to keep an eye on Yagura's actions, but far enough away that they would have time to retreat if something would happen. If we head in the general direction of Kiri, we should be able to find them." Zabuza explained as the other three nodded.

"Alright, to Kiri it is then." Naruto said as Zabuza led the group on the journey to Kiri.

I know this chapter is kinda short and I am sorry for that. Next chapter will be longer, I promise. Can anyone tell me if Mei is part Uzumaki, I read somewhere she was but I want to confirm that before I write the next chapter?

Also for those that asked if Fu was getting a weapon, yes she is and it will be introduced next chapter hopefully. The idea for both Haku and Fu's weapons come from Lockdown00, so thank you for the ideas.

Anyway leave a review and I will see you all next time, peace.