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Chapter 5: Saving Gaara part 1

Naruto was pacing back and forth as Tsunade had just explained that Gaara was kidnapped by members of the Akatsuki with one being identified as Deidara. If it wasn't for all the training he went through he would have demanded that he be sent to save Gaara, so while he wasn't reacting rashly he was still pretty anxious. "Alright I've decided on a plan of action, though even I have to admit that it is very unusual." said Tsunade.

"What is your idea Hokage-sama?" asked Sakura.

"Naruto I know you literally just got back and just became Chunin but I'm putting you in charge of this mission to rescue the Kazekage. You know him better than any of us and I can practically see the determination to save him in your eyes." said Tsunade.

It was then that Naruto became more serious than anyone has seen become before, well except his girlfriends. "Thank you Hokage-sama." said Naruto.

"Don't thank me just yet as the mission hasn't started just yet and I can still assign someone else to lead this mission. First I want to hear the plan you have in mind in order to complete this mission with the best results possible." said Tsunade.

Naruto closed his eyes and thought hard on a plan, he needed it to be really good so as to prove to Tsunade that he could handle a leadership position and that her faith in him would not be misplaced. It was a full minute before Naruto opened his eyes. "From what I know the Akatsuki travel in pairs so there was at least two of them when Gaara was attacked and captured. With Gaara being the Kazekage he's no pushover so at least one of them was injured in some type of way while fighting him, but how much and if said injury impairs their fighting ability remains to be seen." said Naruto while pausing here to think a bit more.

Tsunade, Shizune, Sakura, and the hidden ANBU were actually a little impressed so far with what he was thinking but Tsunade wasn't too convinced yet.

"For this mission I'll be needing myself, Kakashi-sensei, Sakura, Annabeth, Thalia, and Clarisse. I'll also need another team entirely, maybe Team Guy if you can spare them." said Naruto.

This got Tsunade to raise an eyebrow. "Care to explain your decision?" asked Tsunade.

"I know Gaara the best so of course I should go, I'm not stupid enough to think that a bunch of Chunins can handle a mission like this so I'll need Jonins like Kakashi-sensei, Guy-sensei, and I can only guess out of everyone at least Neji has made Jonin by now, it's easy to tell Sakura has been trained by you so I know she's a great medic, Annabeth is good enough at medical jutsu to assist Sakura if need be and is a brilliant strategist, Thalia and Clarisse are front line assault experts, and Guy-sensei, Lee, and Tenten are all very offensive fighters from what I remember. I'm also using information from my own encounter with the Akatsuki to pick these teams because from what I can understand the pair that is chosen to go after a Jinchuriki have abilities that can counter the abilities of the Jinchuriki and their Bijuu." explained Naruto.

Tsunade thought over everything that Naruto said to her while staring him in the eyes, she had to admit that Naruto had made a fine choice in teams and with sound reasons. "Very well, you have your mission Naruto. I'll call for Kakashi and then you and your team can leave for Suna." said Tsunade.

"Thank you Hokage-sama." said Naruto.

"Hey how come we have to stay behind?" asked Silena with Bianca nodding.

"I need both of you here to establish the Uzumaki Namikaze Clan, answer some questions that I know Hokage-sama has, and maybe see the village a bit more." said Naruto.

Silena and Bianca knew what Naruto meant by seeing the village, Lady Styx had warned them about a man named Danzo and how he would most likely try to get his hands on them. Naruto was basically telling them to stay behind to make sure that evil man doesn't try anything since he would most likely see the six demigods as weapons. Plus they were the perfect team for something like this, Silena could get anyone to do what she wanted and distract anyone while Bianca's stealth was better than even Naruto's so she get anywhere and spy on anyone.

"Alright Naruto we'll stay behind, you just go and save your friend." said Bianca. Naruto nodded before turning back to Tsunade.

"Thank you once again Hokage-sama. Sakura once you have everything you may need, meet me at the front gate, we'll be leaving as soon as the whole team is ready." said Naruto before leaving out of the office with Annabeth, Thalia, and Clarisse following him.

It took 30 minutes before Kakashi and Sakura met with the demigods at the front gate. Tsunade had explained what was going on to him and he was greatly surprised not only by Tsunade's decision to let a newly appointed Chunin run this mission but also by the fact that Naruto had come up with such a good plan.

"Alright now I'm sure both of you know what the mission is and just how important it is. We are saving the Kage of an ally nation and we don't know how much time we have to do it. With this in mind there will be one speed, mine, and if you can't keep up then I hope you can catch up because I will not be slowing down unless it is important to the mission. Now let's go." said Naruto before taking off with everyone following him.

As they jumped through the trees Kakashi and Sakura couldn't help but glance at the girls. It worried them that these girls were coming along on such a dangerous mission not only because they've only known them for less than a day but Kakashi wasn't sure they fully understood what they were going up against. In the end it was Sakura that decided to bring it up now of all times in order to get a better understanding of the girls and the situation, she jumped up next to Annabeth since of the three girls she looked like the one that wouldn't out right attack you if you said the wrong thing. Funny since that's how she tended to act.

"Hey, Annabeth right?" asked Sakura.

"Yes that's my name, is there something I can help you with?" asked Annabeth.

"I just wanted to know if you're doing alright and are ready for this mission." said Sakura. Annabeth raised an eyebrow at this and was inwardly glad Sakura decided to talk to her about this instead of either Thalia or Clarisse as either of those two girls would have been offended and thought Sakura was questioning their skills.

"I'm fine and I can assure you that I and the others are more than ready for this mission. You need to remember that while you were trained by one of the best ninjas in your village, we were trained by Gods. And before you jump to conclusions, I'm not being arrogant as I'm sure that there are people that can beat us but when we work together we are damn near unstoppable." said Annabeth.

"DAMN RIGHT!" yelled Thalia and Clarisse as they could hear the conversation.

"Then why are we here?" asked Sakura.

"Because Naruto isn't an idiot. He knows that this is just as much of a test of his leadership skills as it is a rescue mission. Not to mention the higher ups will question Naruto's loyalty to the village." said Annabeth.

"Why would they question Naruto's loyalty, he's always had what's best for everyone in the front of his mind?" asked Sakura.

"Naruto has been out of the village for years training with someone that has no loyalty to the village. It's understandable that they would be worried about the possible ideals that may have been implanted into his mind." said Annabeth.

"Look alive everyone we got someone up ahead!" called out Naruto. As they got closer Naruto then recognized the four spiky ponytails that the person had. "Temari!" called out Naruto.

Said girl stopped when she heard someone call her name and turned to see Naruto. "Naruto, is that you!?" asked a surprised Temari with wide eyes.

"Yes it's me and while I would love to catch up with you I'm afraid we're in a hurry. Please come with us and Kakashi-sensei will explain the situation to you." said Naruto. While a bit confused about what was going on she still did as she was told and started jumping next to Kakashi. Once she was told the situation she was understandably worried and was happy Naruto was setting such a fast pace, though it also confused her that a Chunin was leading this mission but she wasn't going to complain.

Soon they made it to the desert where Naruto allowed Temari to take the lead since she knew the desert the best. With Temari leading the way it wasn't long before they made it to Suna, after getting into the village they went to the hospital where apparently Kankuro was being treated for poison though the doctors weren't having much luck. It took a moment but Naruto managed to convince the doctors to allow Sakura to treat Kankuro with Annabeth acting as her assistant.

Now we find Kakashi, Thalia, and Clarisse waiting in the hallway while Naruto was off examining Kankuro's destroyed puppets, his reason being that he wanted to check if Kankuro managed to get something useful in tracking the people that took Gaara. A few moments later Temari walked over to them.

"Hi, I'm Temari, we didn't get to introduce ourselves on the way here." said Temari.

"Hey Temari, I'm Thalia Grace, she's Clarisse La Rue, and the one helping Sakura is Annabeth Chase." said Thalia.

"It's nice to meet you, are you friends of Naruto's?" asked Temari. She had been to Konoha a number of times over the years and had never seen the girls there before.

"We're his girlfriends." said Clarisse bluntly.

This surprised the hell out of Temari, she'd admit that Naruto was a lot better looking now that he wasn't wearing so much orange but she didn't think he'd pull off having three girlfriends. "Before you saying anything there are five of us, two stayed in the village to take care of some things." said Thalia.

"HE HAS FIVE GIRLFRIENDS!" yelled Temari in shock. Temari then became embarrassed when the doctors and nurses glared at her for yelling.

"Yes he does, we decided amongst ourselves to share him since he couldn't pick between us and didn't want to hurt us. Plus with him being the last of his clan he would've had to take multiple wives anyway." said Thalia.

"Naruto is the last of a clan?" asked Temari.

"Yeah but I'll let him explain it later as right now we need to focus on saving your brother." said Thalia.

"We'll be able to do that once we know that Kankuro will be alright." said Naruto walking up to them.

"You found something?" asked Kakashi.

"Yes, in the hand of one of Kankuro's puppets I found a piece of fabric that has a scent on it that doesn't belong to either Kankuro or Gaara. I'll be using this scent to track them when we are done here." said Naruto.

"Since when can you track scents?" asked Temari.

"I'm a Jinchuriki, I've always had enhanced senses." said Naruto.

"I'm more surprised you don't want to go after them right now." said Kakashi.

"The Akatsuki are dangerous, I don't want to go up against them without a medic on the team. Now we just hope the girls don't take too long." said Naruto. Kakashi nodded at this and was impressed with Naruto's thought process.

IN KONOHA

Tsunade sat behind her desk with Shizune standing off to the side while Silena and Bianca sat in front of her going over the papers Naruto would need to sign in order to establish his clan.

"Hokage-sama, why does Naruto-kun need to sign these papers if his clan helped build this village and his father was the Hokage?" asked Bianca. Lady Styx had explained a lot about Naruto's clan and just how close it was to Konoha.

"While the Uzumaki Clan was indeed a big part in Konoha's creation it was never actually established as a Konoha Clan. Mito married my grandfather and therefore became a Senju and Kushina never went through the process of establishing the clan. Also while Minato was the Hokage he wasn't Hokage for very long and he also didn't go through the process of establishing a clan since he was an orphan, plus being Hokage doesn't automatically make you a clan." said Tsunade.

"I see, does that mean that the Uzumaki don't have a seat on the council?" asked Silena.

"They do but it was more of an honorary thing since no one ever sat in it." said Tsunade. Kushina could have but that woman hated politics with a passion so great everyone thought she would destroy the council chambers if she ever even stepped foot in there. Tsunade then sighed as she decided to get some information on these girls' parents. "So how about you two tell me something about your "Godly" parents." said Tsunade. It was clear she was still skeptical about believing that their parents were Gods.

"Well my dad has a bad reputation due to being the king of the Underworld. He has a bad temper but that's mostly because he's overworked with all the souls he has to manage and all the paperwork he has to deal with since people die everyday. Despite all of this I know he loves me as he did a lot to protect me and my brother while growing up, and when Lady Styx gave him the chance to help me control my shadow powers he came running." said Bianca.

"My mom loves all of her children and gives us all tips to look our best. The problem is that even I have to admit she isn't the best role model, while she loves making people fall in love and spreading love around she also loves drama and heartbreak. She'll purposely cause couples to have problems for her own entertainment and breaking a guys heart is almost like her favorite sport." said Silena with a sigh, she didn't like that side of her mom but the woman did love her and her siblings.

Silena then felt a large amount of killing intent directed at her from both Tsunade and Shizune. "I sure hope that you haven't inherited that trait from her, it would be a shame if I had to kill you for hurting my little brother simply so you could have some form of sick entertainment." said Tsunade.

Silena was sweating at Tsunade's words. "You have nothing to worry about Hokage-sama, I'm actually sort of the black sheep of my siblings. While they care a great deal about their appearance and tend to shy away from manual labor, I don't mind getting down and dirty with work and only really care about my appearance to a certain degree. I don't get too hung up on how I look unless Naruto is involved." said Silena.

Tsunade and Shizune continued to stare at Silena for a full minute without blinking, which freaked Silena out, before Tsunade hummed and went back to her paperwork. Shizune continued to stare before she had to leave in order to get Tsunade more paperwork, something Tsunade hated. Silena was just happy that her boyfriend's big sister figures weren't staring at her anymore.

Well everyone there you have chapter 5, I hope you like it. There have been some changes made to the story which I still haven't fully worked out but I'm sure you guys will love it. This chapter you've seen some of Naruto's leadership skills and in the next chapter you'll have more action as the group goes out to find Gaara and encounters Itachi.

Harem

Thalia, Annabeth, Clarisse, Bianca, Silena, Katie, Lou Ellen, Zoe, Koyuki, Kurotsuchi

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