(Four years after Naruto's banishment)

Naruto slowly cracked his eyes open feeling the now familiar weight on his chest. He looked down at the girl peacefully sleeping on him. Her head on his chest and her mint green hair almost in his face.

It had been six months since Naruto had returned had returned from his sage training with the Uzumaki clan. The second he entered the base with Hirashin Fuu had jumped him and pulled him into a hug and didn't let go for the rest of the day. Even when they went to bed they didn't want to leave each other's embrace. After that night they continued sleeping with each other together.

While on the island their relationship had continued to develop and now when they looked back they both realized that when they confessed their "love" to each other that they weren't in love and it had only been a crush. They just didn't know what the difference was back then. However, it ended up working out as the feelings for each other had continued to grow in the over the last two and a half years and now they were now truly in love.

They had both grown a lot in since they had arrived at Ko island. They had each grown a few inches and height and in hair length. Naruto's hair was still a spiky mess, with some of the longer parts now reaching down to his shoulders. Fuu's hair was less of a mess than it used to be and now went a few inches past her shoulders.

As Naruto was thinking on all that he and Fuu had done while on the island a knock came from the door. A voice then called out "My summons have spotted the Akatsuki and they are starting to make their move."

Komei had revealed to them how he was able to gather intelligence. He had two summoning contracts the rat contract and the cat contract. The rats were masters of getting into places and overhearing secret conversations. It was an added bonus that no one thought anything of a random rat off in the corner. The cats were faster and better for tracking. Also, there were a few larger cats that were capable of helping in combat.

Fuu who was asleep when komei knocked cracked open her eyes. Then she sleepily asked, "What did he want?"

Naruto replied, "The Akatsuki are starting to make their move."

Fuu jumped out of bed in a panic to get dressed into her combat clothes. Naruto got out of bed and wrapped his arms around her and pulled her back into his chest.

"Fuu it's ok, I am right here and we are going to take care of this," Naruto said to help calm down Fuu. She took a deep breath and nodded.

They got dressed ready for combat and headed to the kitchen. Komei had just finished cooking breakfast and was sitting out three plates full of food. They all started eating as Komei started to explain the situation.

"Two of the Akatsuki teams are currently active. Sasori and Deidara are in the Land of lightning going after Yugito Nii. Hidan and Kakuzu are in the Land of Fire hunting Utakata. Neither will make contact for two or three days as they are trying to stay low key. I'll go after Hidan and Kakuzu while you two head to the Land of Lightning and go after Sasori and Deidara. I'll have my summons find you and help you find Yugito or the Akatsuki." Komei said between bites.

Looking up Komei then asked, "Could you teleport me to the Land of woods it will make my trip shorter?" Naruto nodded.

After they were done eating they finished they were done they got together. Fuu and Komei put a hand on Naruto's shoulder and then they were gone without a trace.

Naruto no longer needed to wait in between jumps to using the hiraishin as he had spent a good part of the last six months perfecting his use of the Jutsu.

(Land of Fire)

Komei had just crossed the border into the Land of fire and was walking along a path planning how he was going to find the Akatsuki pair. He was brought out of his thoughts when a cat came across his path. The cat was carrying a rat in its mouth and placed it down in front of him.

The Rat then said "The zombie brothers attacked the fire temple and captured one of the monks named Chiriku. I heard this from the Hokage when she deployed a few of her ninja to try and find them."

Komei then thought 'Well there goes my theory of them staying low key. At least it will make finding them easier.' Komei then nodded and grabbed a few treats he always had on him in case his summons came with information. He gave them to them before watching them go back into the brush.

Komei pulled a scroll out of his backpack and unsealing the contents revealing a number of maps. He looked through them before and pulling one out of the stack and looking at it for a minute.

Running his finger over the map and then stopped. 'This is probably the bounty office they are going to go to. It's closest to the Fire Temple and if I remember correctly Kakuzu has used it before.'

Komei resealed the maps and then jumped up into the trees speeding off.

(Land of Fire)

Komei was heading towards the bounty office that he believed Kakuzu most likely to use. The office was hidden in the bathroom of a rest stop on an old trade route.

As Komei was approaching he felt a chakra start to be thrown around. 'It seems the Leaf got here before me. Better keep my distance and observe for a bit.'

Komei stealthily approached the fight. Once he got close he took in the scene. There was four Leaf Ninja fighting it looked like one jonin and three chunin. The Jonin was engaged in close range against Hidan. The chunin were hanging back, with one that looked like he was from the Nara clan directing the combat.

Kakuzu was hanging back and not participating in the fighting. 'Hidan probably got cocky and wanted to do this fight all by himself. Now should I intervene or stay out of this?'

Komei saw Hidan go for another attack and he knew that the leaf Jonin was going to be hit. Komei knew full well what would happen if someone fighting Hidan got even a little scratch.

Komei made his decision on intervention in that moment.

Asuma lifted his trench knives into to block the three bladed scythe from hitting him. He braced himself to block them and he looked over to his student Shikamaru to see if he had come up with a plan yet. But he didn't see his students usual thinking face. Shikamaru was currently wide-eyed and staring not Asuma, but right next to him. That's when he realized that his knives didn't block anything.

Asuma looked over and saw that man holding the shaft of the scythe with one hand stopping it from hitting Asuma. In the other, he held a Katana.

Asuma recognized the man for an old bingo book, as Komei Hagoromo a Ninja from the Mist.

Hidan was the first to speak after Komei stopped the scythe. "Hey, it's you. You fucking traitor. Lord Jashin is going to love me after all the sacrifices I gave him today."

Komei then said in a bored tone "Shut up Hidan. No one cares about your fake god."

Asuma jumped back to giving him some space. He didn't know that much about the newcomer, but Hidan called him a traitor. This likely meant that he had been involved with the Akatsuki for some time.

Hidan face turned from one of mild annoyance to one of pure rage. He pulled out his retractable spear and charged at Komei. As he charged he shouted "I have tried out your insults to Lord Jashin. NOW YOU D..."

Hidan was cut off when Komei decapitated Hidan with a lightning fast slash from his katana. Komei then uses the scythe to block the spear.

As this was happening Shikamaru was analyzing the newcomer. 'This guy seems to have been part of the Akatsuki, but no longer is. Also, the way that Asuma is keeping his distance from him. Asuma must know at least something about him.'

While the Konoha ninja was watching Komei made a move to grab Hidan's head, but a hand burst from the ground and grabbed Hidan's head. The hand pulled the head back underground. Quickly Komei unsealed his sword Sewing Needle and stabbed it through Hidan's body into the ground to prevent Kakuzu from taking it to reattaching Hidan's head.

Komei then looked over to Kakuzu and saw that his hand getting Hidan's head was still on the ground. Komei then unsealed a Kunai from a seal on his wrist and throw it as Kakuzu. As soon as it left his hand he channeled magnetic Charaka to into two lines parallel beside the Kunia. The magnetic fields moved the kunai forward accelerating it past the speed of sound.

It was faster than the blink of an eye the kunai impacted Kakuzu in the heart and blasted through him and continued by hitting the building and removing a corner of it.

Because Kakuzu was busy getting Hidan's head he didn't have enough time to harden his skin and protect himself.

A Leaf chunin with bandage running over the bridge of his nose said "Wow he killed those two so quickly." in an Awed voice.

Komei quickly cut off Hidan's hand that had the Akatsuki ring on it. He then sealed into a scroll that also contained his own ring.

The spot where Komei's kunai hit was covered by a large dust cloud. Out of that dust came a voice "You know Komei I never liked you and your bounty is going to be the best thing you did for the Akatsuki, but before that, I will need your heart for taking one of mine." Said Kakuzu dashing out of the dust cloud going right towards Komei.

Komei quickly went through a string of hand signs then slammed his hands into the ground and said "Magnet style: electric shield". Out of the ground, thin tendrils of earth formed a mess dome around komei.

The lightning spear hit the dome it didn't blast away instead it was absorbed and directed into the ground.

After the strike, the dome receded back into the ground and Komei stood up. As this happened the dust cleared to show Kakuzu stood with standing with 3 black figures behind him. All three had ANBU style masks, but all had a different color and design. There was a yellow, blue, and red one. Also next to Kakuzu was a black puddle with a broken light blue mask. In Kakuzu's left hand was the head of Hidan.

Hidan then said "Hey you fucking heathen give me my body back. Then I going to kill you for insulting Lord Jashin."

Kakuzu then said, "Hidan shut up he's just trying to get you pissed off so you do stupid things like charge at him so he can cut your head off."

"Goddamit ..." Hidan would have continued, but Kakuzu squeezed on his head to shut Hidan up.

Kakuzu then pulled out a bag and placed Hidan's head in it and attached it to his waist. He then said "Hidan stay quiet, so I can get your body back. I don't want to wait for it to regrow." Hidan mumbled something incoherent from the bag.

Komei then said, "One of you leaf chunin seal this body into a scroll to keep it away from him." Komei then pulled out Sewing Needle out of Hidan's body and place it back on his back. He then took a few steps forward towards Kakuzu.

Izumo and Kotetsu ran over and to seal Hidan's body into a scroll while Shikamaru went over to Asuma.

Shikamaru then asked Asuma "Who is that guy?"

Asuma responded "His name is Komei Hagoromo according to our intel he was one of the leaders of the mist rebellion during their civil war. But after the death of the fourth Mizukage and the end of the civil war, he just disappeared. I guess he got tangled up with the Akatsuki."

"So he was probably a member of the rebellion, but then why isn't he in the Bingo book. He left his village while it was rebuilding and joined the Akatsuki. Something isn't adding up. What should we do." Shikamaru said.

Asuma then said "Well you know the saying 'the enemy of my enemy is my friend'. For now, we work with him, but after we will have to proceed with caution. For now, we provide support." They moved forward to a better spot to provide support.

Kakuzu ran through some and signs and said, "Fire style: searing migraine" and "Wind style: pressure damage" the red mask opened it's mouth and sent out a powerful stream of fire while the blue mask spewed out a massive ball of wind.

Komei ran through some hand signs and slammed his hands into the ground and said "Earth style: mobile core". Suddenly a round piece of earth sunk into the ground. All of the Leaf ninja and Komei were able to avoid the massive fire attack that Kakuzu launched.

However part of the attack came down the whole that Komei made. He ran through some signs and shouted "Water style: water wall". Komei then spit out a wall of water that fought against the fire and eventually won.

The water pushed the fire out of the whole releasing a large about of steam that clouded the area.

At the bottom of the hole, Komei made another sign and whispered "Hidden mist jutsu".

Kakuzu saw the water wall beat out his fire attack and decided to hold back and see what Komei's next move would be. After a few seconds, he realized 'This steam is too cold and too thick to come from just a fire jutsu hitting a water jutsu. He must be using the hidden mist Jutsu and I need to blow it away now.'

Kakuzu made a sign and said "Wind style: great breakthrough". The blue masked creature opened its mouth, but before it fired a Kakuzu heard a buzzing sound from behind him so he hardened his skin.

However, the thing that was coming for him still pierced through him. As it did the blue mask fired and blew away the mist. When it was blown away it revealed komei stabbing his heart with a lightning-enhanced sewing needle. It also revealed that Komei had cut off the bag that held Hidan's head and was now holding it in his off hand.

Komei quickly pulled out sewing needle and body flickered to the Leaf shinobi.

Hidan put two and two together and figured that he was not with Kakuzu anymore. He then said, "Hey wait what's going on where's Kakuzu?"

Komei decided he had enough with listening to Hidan pulled out a Kunai and shoved it in Hidan's lower jaw clamping his mouth shut. Komei then said, "I am tired of your annoying shit Hidan."

Komei then handed the bag to Izumo and said, "Be careful he bites."

Izumo cautiously took the bag and Komei turned back to Kakuzu who was standing back up after the yellow mask entered his body.

Kotetsu then said, "I thought you had him with that last attack."

Komei then said "To beat Kakuzu you need to kill him five times. He steals hearts from those he beats and so long as he has one he is still alive. The hearts can also act independently of him. Those two creatures each have a heart so to beat him we need to eliminate them all."

Kakuzu then thought to himself 'This isn't good they have Hidan and I am down two hearts. Plus there is another team of Leaf shinobi that will get here any second. The odds aren't good I need to get out of here.'

Back with the Leaf shinobi and Komei Asuma asked, "So what's the plan?"

Komei then said "You four spread out and make sure he can't escape I have a plan. Stay wide. I'll cover your movements with smoke."

Komei pulled out two smoke bombs and throw them down. Without a better plan, the Leaf shinobi followed Komei's lead and spread out.

In the smoke, komei made four mud clones and pulled out eight explosive tags.

These were no ordinary tags and Naruto had made them and they were a special design to be ten times more powerful than normal tags. Komei quickly places two on each clone. The clones then used "Earth Style: Hidden Mole Jutsu" to go underground and tunnel towards Kakuzu.

Kakuzu though 'I am not going to wait for my own death. I'll escape by using another fire wind combo to tie up Komei. Then escape, by pushing getting past one of the two weaker chunin. I just need to make sure I avoid the Nara, so he can't use his shadow possession on me. Then I'll escape for the Land of Rain.'

However, Komei had other plans and before Kakuzu could act Komei attacked.

From the smoke cloud, Komei shouted "Lightning style: Lightning Dragon" and a lightning dragon rushed toward Kakuzu.

Kakuzu reacted by and said "Wind style: pressure damage". The blue mask shot a ball of wind at the lightning dragon. The wind attack hit the lightning one causing an explosion.

Kakuzu then thought 'what's he up to? He wouldn't have just thrown a jutsu at me to have it just be canceled out. '

It didn't take Kakuzu long to learn what Komei had planned. As soon as Kakuzu finished his thought he saw four clones of komei pop out of the ground lunging for him. Kakuzu started to jump out from the four Komei's, but before he got far a massive explosion happened. Despite hardening himself and his hearts the explosion was still strong enough to destroy the wind mask and damage himself and the fire mask.

Kakuzu was on his last legs he had not recovered from the fight at the fire temple where he had to use a lot of chakra do to the sheer number of monks at the Temple. It was compounded because of Hidan while effective took quite a while to kill and Kakuzu was impatient and used a lot of chakra killing monks instead of letting Hidan do the work. He had assumed he would only have to evade a team or two from the leaf not fight an S-rank that knew most of his secrets like Komei.

Once the dust cleared from the explosion it revealed Komei not holding the sword he normally used, sewing needle, but holding the Kiba blades, and that a second team of Leaf ninja had arrived.

That was when Kakuzu knew it was over for him. He was surrounded with at least three A-rank and one S-rank ninja with five others mostly in the B-rank range. Despite them keeping a quarter mile radius from him he knew there was no opening for him to escape.

Komei had the blades planted into the ground and was channeling a massive amount of Lightning chakra into the sky. He then shouted "Lightning style: Lightning Gate."

Massive bolts of lightning came down from the sky all aimed at Kakuzu. The attack killed the fire mask and left Kakuzu near death in a crater.

Lightning Gate was normally a wide area attack, however, Komei concentrated the attack in a small spot. After the attack, Kakuzu could barely move do to the amount of lighting chakra that had gone through his body.

Komei started to walk over to the crater where Kakuzu lay. Komei was channeling a lightning chakra into one of the Kiba blades he jumped down into the crater and stabbed Kakuzu through the heart killing him once and for all. Komei then took the ring off of Kakuzu's hand and put it in the scroll that contained the other Akatsuki rings and put the Kiba blades into wrist seals that Naruto had made for him.

Komei jumped out of the crater only to meet two leaf Jonin both of which he recognized. One was Kakashi a famous leaf jonin and Asuma the Jonin he saved earlier and who was next to him in a bingo book.

Asuma then said "From what that Akatsuki member said you were once a member of the Akatsuki. Would you please come with us back to the leaf as we have some questions we would like you to answer."

Komei gave a small confident smile and said, "I'd love to, but I have some stuff I need to, so not this time."

Kakashi then said, "I am going to have to insist that you come."

'A third team just got here. Total 3 A-rank, 8 B-rank, 1-C rank. While I could take them I'd rather not.' Komei thought to himself sizing up the situation. He then in a more forceful tone said, "As I said I have things I need to do, so I will have to decline."

Kakashi didn't say anything and suddenly moved. Asuma quickly followed moved to capture Komei.

However, Komei was too fast and quickly ran throw some hand signs and shouted "Lightning style: depth charge." Komei was surrounded in lightning and shot it at the two leaf Jonin. Kakashi used his own skill with Lightning to channel the attack into the ground canceling it out. Komei used this to jump back and get some space. He then pulled out Sewing Needle and pointed it straight up and made a half ram sign with his open hand.

Kakashi who had pulled up his headband to show his sharingan instantly saw what Komei was doing. Kakashi then shouted, "Mongi formation he's making mist."

The three leaf teams quickly moved jumped into a position that best prevented them from getting hit from behind. After a minute nothing happened and Kakashi looked to the leaf kunoichi standing next to him. She was a member of the Hyuga clan and he quietly said, "Hinata find him."

She quietly activated her Byakugan and a few seconds later she said, "He isn't here."

Once she said that the mist started to burn off and soon there was none left.

Asuma then said, "Where did he go."

The Hinata who still had her Byakugan active said "There's a whole over there." and pointed to a spot near where Komei had been standing when he started making mist.

Kakashi then said "Everyone stays information. Asuma with me."

Asuma and Kakashi went up to the whole and they inspected it. Asuma said, "It seems that he left."

Kakashi nodded and was about to say something, but both Jonin heard a hissing sound and quickly jumped back. Moments later there was an explosion at the entrance of the tunnel.

Sakura shouted, "What happened?"

Kakashi replied, "He booby trapped his escape tunnel." Kakashi sniffed the air and continued "The explosive also released something that is making it impossible to track his scent."

Riado then asked, "Now what?"

Kakashi turned to Riado and Asuma said "We are still mission effective, so we will continue by searching for Komei. But Asuma your take your team back to the Leaf with the dead Akatsuki members." Everyone nodded and then all three teams moved out.

(Elsewhere)

Komei climbed out of the ground and shook off some dirt and said, "Good thing that escape worked dealing with them could have been a lot of work." Before going off towards the Land of lightning.

(Hokage's office)

Tsunade was sitting in her office waiting for any update with operation Tora which was a mission to hunt down and kill or capture the Akatsuki members that had attacked the fire temple.

It had been a long four years since Naruto left and a lot had happened. She had finally gotten rid of the council which was a legacy from the thirds second reign as Hokage. As well she convinced the two elders, Koharu and Homura, to retire with Jiraiya and Shikaku Nara taking their place.

She was now truly Hokage with no one able to dictate what she could do, well so long as it didn't go against what the Daimyo had decreed. Which was why she was still unable to lift the banishment order on Naruto. 'Hopefully, the old coot dies. His son is too lazy to deal with shinobi affairs and getting him to undo the banishment will be easy.' Tsunade thought to herself.

Just as she was thinking that Shizune opened the door and said, "Team Asuma has returned."

Tsunade sat up and said, "Send then in."

Team Asuma came in and Tsunade told them to report. Asuma told about going to the fire temple, then to the bounty office, and about the fight with Hidan and Kakuzu.

Asuma then got to the part with Komei. "A shinobi stopped Hidan's scythe from hitting me. He was Komei Hagoromo."

Tsunade was surprised as it had been awhile since she had heard that name. She said, "Are you sure it was him." She asked. According to what she knew of him, he was supposed one of the most powerful shinobi in the mist.

Asuma nodded and Tsunade asked, "Do you know why he joined the fight?"

Shikamaru responded this time "The Akatsuki member Hidan called him a traitor and Kakuzu seemed like he knew Komei as well. So he was a member of the Akatsuki but is now fighting against them."

Asuma then continued "He then fought and defeated the two Akatsuki members." He then described the fight the fight between Komei, Hidan, and Kakuzu.

'He fought two Akatsuki members and defeated them himself. Impressive.' Tsunade thought before asking "Where is he now and where are the dead Akatsuki members?"

Asuma slightly nervously replied "We asked him to come back be he declined and we tried to capture him, but he quickly escaped. The dead Akatsuki members are in these scrolls. Well, expect for Hidan's head as Izumo has it in a bag."

Tsunade gave a confused look and was about to ask when Shikamaru spoke up anticipating her question. "Hidan is immortal and we don't really know how, but his head was cut off and he is still alive."

Tsunade had a slightly confused and disgusted look cross her as Izumo pulled out the bag and handed it to Tsunade along with the two scrolls. The bag started moving and making noises like a muffled person trying to yell. She then said to Shizune "Take the head to Ibiki and see what he can do with it. Then start the autopsy of the Akatsuki members."

Shizune took the scrolls and bag making sure to hold it at arm's length and quickly left Tsunade's office.

Asuma then continued "Teams Kakashi and Riado are currently trying to follow Komei."

Tsunade nodded and said, "Dismissed."

Team Asuma left and Tsunade turned to the window and said, "You know you don't have to eavesdrop you can just come in like a normal person."

Jiraiya then hopped through the window with a goofy smile on his face and said, "Since when was I normal?"

Tsunade sighed and said, "I assume you are going after Komei?"

Jiraiya nodded and said "Yes, if what the Nara said is true then he was a member of the Akatsuki he must have a lot of intel on them. Since it seems that he is fighting them he might be willing to hand over info easily."

Tsunade then said, "Hopefully he was just busy or didn't want to come into the village."

Jiraiya nodded and said, "Who knows maybe he has some info on Naruto."

A small smile came across Tsunade's face and she happily said "Maybe" in a quiet voice.

Jiraiya jumped out the window and headed off to find Komei.

End chapter

(A/N)

Thanks to my Beta Dawn watch for making this better.

Sorry, this chapter wasn't out sooner. It will likely won't be till may when the next one comes out.

It's been four years since the Sasuke retrieval mission, so I have added an extra year onto the time skip that cannon had, just because I felt that I was shoving a lot of training into a very small amount of time. I felt if I did the normal three years it wouldn't seem right.

I didn't go into detail about all of Naruto's skills. I felt would have been rather boring and rambly to go into depth, but worry not next chapter he will be fighting and a lot of his skills he gained will come out then. Also, the same thing will happen with Fuu.

I hope that I didn't make Kakuzu too weak I made it so that he wasn't at full power, but still, I feel like I undersold him for what he was in cannon. I kind of meant to make Hidan weak as if you are smart and know how his blood magic works then he isn't that hard of an opponent.

I would really like some feedback about the fighting scene. I don't know if it was good or not.

There is an explanation for why Komei has the Kiba blades it just didn't fit well into the chapter. I'll make sure to bring it up soonish.

Dawn watch: Kind of my bad for taking so long to get to this issues kept coming up.

OC Jutsu:

"Magnet style: electric shield" basically makes a faraday cage around the caster. It can block A-rank or lower long range Lightning ninjutsu. It won't block S-rank jutsu like "Kirin" or short range like Chidori.

"Lightning style: Lightning Dragon" It's a dragon. Made of lightning. A-rank. Not complicated.