8 I don’t want to be a weapon.

Naruto and Anko are currently walking up a massive mountain, though unlike a civilian climber who would be clothed in climbing gear they simply walked up the high incline with their hands in their pockets.

Ninja can walk on walls so scaling a mountain is the equivalent of walking on a rocky foot path. The altitude they were at also wasn't affecting them much at all. Their respective gear was sealed away inside some hidden tattoos on their forearms courtesy of Naruto's fuinjutsu training.

They left the hidden leaf two years ago and have travelled around the world honing their skills. Though they never travelled to the south west countries they still find themselves well travelled.

The hidden leaf was not pleased with their disappearance. Naruto's Anbu detail registered a poof in his apartment and Anko's supervisor watched her poof in the middle of a dango sale. The villagers caught wind of the demons disappearance and celebrated whilst the shinobi forced panicked.

The third Hokage was furious and immediately pointed the finger at his three old teammates assuming they stole him and started indoctrinating him into their respective organisations. ROOT, BARK, SAP and so on.

A small scale political war took place for four months until sightings of a boy and a teenager resembling a stripper in a trench coat were found by Jiraiya's spy network. Hiruzen dispatched anbu hunter teams and Jiraiya to find the boy which was heard by his council who did the same.

Fortunately they couldn't keep up with them, jiriaya frequently checked a mapping of their appearances. He scratches his mane of hair and said to the many toads he had assisting his search "it's like the brat is a master of evasion, clearly this is the work of a genius!". His thoughts were shared by the majority of the shinobi chasing after them.

In reality the duo didn't know people were chasing them and just travelled to places they thought interesting or useful to their respective training. After the first year since they left a bingo book entry was released by the elders of Konoha.

Naruto Uzumaki B rank target. Potential jinchuriki

Anko Mitarashi. B rank target. Missing nin, Orochimaru disciple.

No one knew how strong the duo were so just assigned a high chunin level bounty. All that accomplished was giving the duo training dummies and free equipment along with updated information. They never left survivors so their info couldn't be updated. Every six months their bounty was bumped up a couple of grand to motivate hunters so search for them.

Back with the duo scaling the mountain, Anko turned to Naruto "alright foxy, tell me what we know about Kumo."

With a sigh Naruto removes a small notebook from his pants. "Kumo located in the land of lightning. Currently headed by Unruly A as the yondaime raikage. His partner is Killer B a perfect jinchuriki of the 8 tails.

The population of Kumo is reliant on lightning style and kenjutsu along with some bastardised Uzumaki seal work. Most of their shinobi force is either blonde and white skinned or dark skinned.

Much like konoha, Kumo is accepting of bloodlines.... for the most part. Famed for their breeding programs which are seen as rape schemes to make kekkei genkai soldiers.

In actuality the village has a fair breeding program for bloodline users. Unique bloodlines are required to either impregnate three partners or birth upto two children depending on health conditions in exchange for all their needs being met and a permanent residence in the village.

Kumo uses this program to selectively breed genkai and attempt to mix them and make kekkei mora or higher. Results of said program are unknown but according to the data gathered in the land of hot springs they follow the program to the letter.

In terms of corruption Kumo has no civilian issues like Konoha, no blood supremacists, no cults, no drug control issues, no discrimination towards origins barr those with a high Kumo kill count who transfer, no economical issues and no sign of human experimentation.

They do however heavily invest in chakra technology and fuinjutsu research. The only bad egg is named T and he tried to sleep with female bloodline users only for A to make him into a eunuch."

Naruto concludes his notes about Kumo which made Anko raise a brow. "Really? A perverted councillor is the worst you could find?"

Naruto just shrugged "they do have a music thing going on. Basically your genre defines your social grouping. Killer B was into rap so the majority of the village started liking rap. The other jinchuriki Yugito Nii loves jazz so people who idolise a strong female kunoichi started liking jazz. The raikage himself likes rock and roll alongside action flicks so the hot blooded males follow his preference. So things revolve into gang wars based on music preferences."

Anko just sweated at that before she huffed and spoke out "well it's human nature to fight, guess they fight over music. Seems like a paradise for people like you and me."

"That's probably what their marketing department was aiming for Anko."

She chuffed "what's their enlistment policy?"

"Meet the raikage, do a psych evaluation and a unique abilities test. A personality test? Ah that's the music thing to decide where you will be housed. Hmmm introduction into the breeding program should medical tests prove fruitful? A rank assignment and then the raikage places us on a team for observation."

"Oh? Is that all~" Anko said sarcastically. She's not openly fond of being prodded with needles again. Naruto just chuckled.

"Look on the bright side, you are a summoner and poisons expert so your a shoo-in for a job not to mention you don't have to join the breeding g program."

Anko just hummed while Naruto continued "I on the other hand would be the first jinchuriki to turn up for transfer. Not to mention being an uzumaki which means I've got fuinjutsu or kenjutsu potential, both of which they heavily value. My lightning style jutsu that I've developed should also net me a spot as a ninjitsu and taijutsu expert. So I'll probably have to donate sperm for my country~"

Anko bristled af that "wait so you get to have dark skinned hunnies to yourself? Is that why we came here foxy?" She asked in a dark tone. I felt sweat trickle down my back, she may have found my erotic literature that I bought. It had dark skinned beauties in it.... they reminded me of yoruichi from bleach so I couldn't resist. She's been on my case about it since she found them and burned them.

I looked at her "of course not! Kumo is the safest village I could join. Killer B could tutor me in controlling the fox and the raikage would definitely want to know about my Godspeed. Everything I need to develop is here. Plus they let groups stick together meaning we won't be separated. It was either this or try and make our way to the land of fantasies and lakes so we could disappear. We both know how hard that would be."

Anko simmered down after my explanation before pointing at me "if I catch one chocolate babe snaking her way into your pants without me present I'm castrating you!" Before she walked forward at a brisker pace swaying her hips to entice my attention.

Without her present?!?!? I thought to myself as we continued to walk through the cloud vapour. After what felt like hours we finally emerged onto to see several wooden structures carved into the mountains surrounding us.

At the highest peak was a golden office suspended with massive wires. I assume that's where the raikage or the daimyo is staying. *bzzt*.

A spark noice sounded before we were surrounded by Kumo Jonin. Some pointed swords whilst other held a hand sign. One spoke up "identify yourselves and your purpose here."

Anko looked at me so I spoke up "I'm Naruto Uzumaki and shes Anko Mitarashi. We're Konoha defectors looking to join Kumo."

"Reason for defection?" Asked a lazy looking black dude.

I pulled up my shirt and flared my chakra making the ninja tense. A complicated fuin mark appeared on my abs. "I'm the nine tails jinchuriki and I don't want to be made into a human weapon!"

I shouted loudly making my voice carry through the mountain tops. The ninja looked at each other, some whispers even sounded out "holy shit a jinchuriki actually came." "B-sama was right!" "An uzumaki and the snake mistress?" "We should take them to the kage now!"

A cacophony of murmurs sounded out before the lazy dude spoke up again. "Aight! Come with me to see the boss! Names Darui and I'm probs gonna be your supervisor. Welcome to Kumogakure."

Ohhhhh he looks different than the anime version. Then again it's real life not 2D so what was I expecting.

"Nice to meet you Darui! My names is Naruto. I'm gonna be the Highkage one day! Smoke it!" I said which made several of the ninja burst out laughing before we were escorted into the village.