Returning to Konoha!

{Valley of Hell, Land of Hot Springs}

{12:35 PM, 1st July 78 Yrs}

"Yeah, Orochimaru killed him on his way to Konoha. He was disguised as your Kage at the final stage of the chunin exams." Hiroshi spoke as he looked down at the seal and picked it up.

Hiroshi put the seal away, Naruto shouted, "How did you do that again?" Hiroshi flashed the Hiraishin seal engraved on his right arm.

"Fuinjutsu squirt," Hiroshi looked at the Sand trio once again, all of them were silent he wanted to speak more but then decided against it.

"Come on, it's time to get you back to Konoha the area and fighting should have cleared by now," Hiroshi spoke to Naruto who nodded and walked up to Hiroshi.

"Wait what about fixing Gaara's seal?" Kankuro asked, Temari looked like she was still thinking about everything and Gaara was brooding about something.

"Do you think I could just paint on his seal without some experiments and a lot of trial runs, that's a Bijuu dude, if I make a mistake we would have the Ichibi chasing after our asses." Hiroshi ridiculed as he grabbed onto Naruto's shoulders, "You guys take a rest, there is a tent behind me that has some basic supplies..."

Hiroshi focused on the seal on top of Fourth Hokage's head and both Naruto and him vanished from the Valley of Hell.

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Hiroshi looked around, there was no one there so he stepped up and looked towards the Konoha stadium. There was no purple box that he could see so that meant Sarutobi should be dead, Naruto also hurried beside him and looked down at the village. There were several, fires all around Konoha, and Naruto was about to hop off so Hiroshi had to stop him before he left.

"Wait don't tell anyone about the Uzumaki clan," Hiroshi spoke which froze Naruto mid-leap.

"Why not?" Naruto asked, he tilted his head puzzled thinking about any reason for not reporting everything that happened to Kakashi Sensei or anyone else.

"I'm trying to find more survivors of the Uzumaki clan around the world, so just don't mention the Uzumaki clan you can talk abou-" Hiroshi paused and dodged backward.

He jumped a couple more times to increase the distance between himself and Kakashi to give himself a better chance.

"Hatake Kakashi, the copy ninja..." Hiroshi greeted.

Kakashi looked at the unknown assailant before turning back to Naruto, after making sure that Naruto was okay for now he focused all his attention on Hiroshi.

"Ma Ma, you seem to have me at a disadvantage." Kakashi leaned lazily but seeing that his headband was tilted upwards Hiroshi knew Kakashi was extremely serious right now.

Hiroshi molded some chakra and pushed it into the Hiraishin seal on his arms, he selected one of the seals on his hidden base and then focused on his conversation with Kakashi.

"I'm just a no-name wandering shinobi, Jun Fujimura at your service." Hiroshi bowed lightly in jest. Naruto was getting anxious that Hiroshi and Kakashi would fight so he interrupted, "Kakashi sensei, Jun is fine he helped me a lot!"

Kakashi ignored Naruto and asked, "It seems like Naruto-kun has taken a shine to you 'Jun-san', you won't happen to know where Gaara is do you."

Hiroshi shrugged, "Maybe you should focus more on Naruto, he will tell you where Gaara-san and his siblings are."

Kakashi narrowed his eyes, the playfulness in his eyes vanished as he leaned forward and pulled a kunai from his pouch. Kakashi did not feel any danger coming from Hiroshi and that's what was bugging him off, Hiroshi's posture was relaxed like he didn't care that he was basically in the middle of an enemy village. In his experience, there are only two kinds of people who can be this relaxed in front of him, either he was an idiot who was not afraid of danger or he was so sure of his strength that he was sure he could escape even from the centre of Konoha.

A rampage of steps later, Pakun finally arrived along with him were Guy and Asuma. The bearded Jounin was smoking a cigarette and Guy looked unusually serious.

'Alright now I have to leave, I can't risk this anymore with Guy being here.' Hiroshi thought as he glanced at the bowl-cut guy with shiny hair and green spandex.

"Naruto, we'll meet again soon," Hiroshi spoke as he saluted, Guy rushed towards him instantly and attacked Hiroshi with a roundhouse kick.

"Konoha Semp-" Guy stopped as his kick just passed through thin air, Hiroshi had vanished leaving behind three dazed jounins. Kakashi looked at the familiar way Hiroshi had just now disappeared into thin air, when he was younger he had seen this jutsu countless times.

Relying on his experience he walked to the place where Hiroshi was standing just now on the uneven ground an innocent kanji was engraved onto the floor. Kakshi went through a few hand seals and spit out a small chunk of fireball at the fuinjutsu seal.

"Kakashi what happened?" Asuma asked.

"Naruto where did he take you and Gaara?" Kakashi asked.

"Ummm..." Naruto thought back to the cave and spoke, "We were in some sort of cave, the water was red and there was a lot of steam in the surroundings. I remember Jun was talking to Temari about how we were in the Land of Hot Spring."

'Sure enough' Kakashi thought as a picture of his sensei appeared in his mind.

"Kakashi?" Asuma asked, "Was that the real deal?"

"Yeah" Kakashi replied, his thoughts muddled as he looked at Naruto and asked, "Why did he kidnap all of you did he speak anything about that."

Naruto nodded and spoke, "He said that Gaara's father was killed by someone called Orochimaru and that he had sneaked into the village using his disguise, and that if Konoha managed to capture Gaara and others then Suna would have to pay a lot more for establishing another peace treaty which would break Suna's economy leading to another war in 3-5 years."

The amount of information and the scale of this incident was a little too much for Kakashi and the other to handle, in the absence of Hokage-sama only the shinobi council could handle a matter this serious. Kakashi grabbed Naruto and rushed back toward the Hokage tower...

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