NARUTO:The sealed shinobi.

"Kit." Kyuubi's voice cut through the silence, "Fix the female in a moment, inform someone of the situation for the time being. I will not be captured due to your negligence."

Naruto frowned but nodded as he bit his thumb and made the necessary hand-seals, "Kuchiyose no Jutsu (Summoning Jutsu)."

XxX

(Kumogakure no Sato – Sunrise)

Daybreak was beginning to show itself in the mountaintop village of Kumogakure no Sato and one could find one of the most legendary ninja of his time, Jiraiya of the Sannin, the fierce toad sennin, asleep with his entire body lain askew on his futon. As he slumbered through the sunrise a faint pull in the back of his mind stirred him from his forty winks.

He sat up out of instinct and bit his thumb before making a small set of hand-seals before mumbling out his technique, "Kuchiyose no Jutsu (Summoning Jutsu)…" –And falling backwards onto his futon once more to remain in the land of the quiescent.

A human sized orange toad with a blue vest appeared in the room, looking around only to see the source of his summoning out cold, "Jiraiya wake up!" He shouted, not even getting a twitch of a toe from the man, "Seriously, get up already! Naruto's in it deep right now and he needs some help!"

Jiraiya heard Naruto's name and sat up, still dazed and confused, "Wha-? Naruto huh? What about the gaki, what's the matter?" He rubbed his eyes and noticed the huge toad in his room, "Gamakichi what's going on? Did I summon you?" His response was a stream of water from Gamakichi's mouth to his face, "What the hell!"

"Are you awake?" The young toad asked impatiently, "Good! Now listen up, Naruto-nii is trapped outside of Kumo with the Nibi jinchuuriki who is injured. Two Akatsuki guys were here to take her and nii-chan got her out of there before they could take her. Get up and I'll be able to lead you back to where he summoned me!"

Jiraiya's face turned serious throughout his explanation of the situation and at the mention of Akatsuki, "Let me get dressed and we'll get out of here."

XxX

(With Naruto and Yugito)

Naruto had done all that he was able to for Yugito. He had bandaged as much of her body as he could while allowing her to maintain her modesty, as well as her hands. She still needed a medic-nin for those because from the damage she had taken he could swear that her hands would have had nerve damage.

For the past hour after fixing Yugito up he had been going through his weapons and ninja tools for when Hidan and Kakuzu found them again. When they attacked he would be ready and he had a plan to even the playing field, but he would have to be fast and accurate for it to work, he would only have one shot to make his move and once they knew what he was going for they would never let him pull it off.

A change in Yugito's breathing pattern alerted him to her regaining consciousness, "Welcome back Yugi-chan." Naruto said with a smile, "We almost lost you there for a moment."

Yugito's eyes opened and slowly widened once she heard Naruto's voice, "Naruto-kun? What about the two Akatsuki guys, did you beat them?" Naruto laughed humorlessly, "I wish it was going to be that easy. All I could do was get you out of there and run away. They messed you up… it looked bad, there was blood everywhere."

Yugito smirked, "Would you believe me if I said that most of it wasn't mine?" She painfully tried to sit up only for Naruto to gently push her back down, "Naruto-kun!"

Naruto gave her a stern look as he took his hand off of her, "You're staying down. You're not me, you don't get over injuries in a flash. You still need actual medical treatment, all I did was patch you together enough to keep you in one piece."

Yugito pulled herself up and sat next to him against the wall, "I'm a jounin and I'm older than you. You're not in any position to tell me to do anything."

Naruto simply stared at her dryly before poking her in the side, smirking when he got a yelp of pain out of her, "What were you saying? I could hold you down with a Kage Bunshin the way you are. You'd be next to useless in a battle." Yugito glared at him, getting him to roll his eyes, "The entire point of me showing up in the first place was to keep you from being caught. If you get right back up and fight them again then this was for nothing."

Yugito's eyes softened, "One of them can't die. All of the blood that you said you saw, most of it was his. You were right, they are monsters. The one guy couldn't die and the other…" She rubbed her bruised cheek, "I've never been hit so hard in my entire life. They took me on when I was using the Nibi's full power."

"And that was your mistake." Naruto said to her, "I went three tails when I fought Hidan and Kakuzu the first time because it worked on somebody else I had fought. But you aren't going to brute force these guys, you have to stop fighting like the demon that you carry and start fighting like the ninja that you're supposed to be. When a group of people dedicate themselves to capturing demons you have to believe that they're prepared to handle way more demonic power than you can pump through your body."

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Naruto grinned at her, "Fight like an elite shinobi; with control, skill, and finesse. I'm not going to bully these guys, and I'm going to get hurt to win." A chuckle came from him, "That's if I win at all. But who cares? You fought, you lost, if I lose then it won't really matter because we'll both be dead, right?"

Yugito sweatdropped, "That's um… That's really dark Naruto-kun."

Naruto shrugged, "Battlefield humor Yugi-chan. All battlefield humor is dark by nature." She pouted and leaned against Naruto's shoulder, "I'm still fighting though. You won't beat them alone. Two jinchuuriki are better than one, and I said I was going to protect you didn't I?"

Naruto shook his head amusedly, "And where's the chivalry there? Well if you're dead set on fighting get as much rest as you can, because they'll find us sooner rather than later and I want you able to at least throw a kunai straight."

Yugito shut her eyes and wrapped her arms around herself, "Just don't hold me back Naruto-kun. I don't want to have to save your ass during the fight."

"Like I saved yours?" He quipped as he found his own eyes slowly closing.

"Kiss my ass…" Yugito mumbled.

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