Naruto:Making Of A Hokage

Prelude to Destruction

Like he had thought, traveling via a toad was anything but comfortable. It wasn't like it was cramped inside or anything, to be honest it was quite accommodating, but just the fact that he was inside of a large toad kept him from being comfortable. He had thought that he would just be summoned to where Fu was but it turned out that it couldn't be done unless she had signed the Toad contract, that's why the messenger Toads summoned themselves to her and not the other way around.

Thankfully, it wasn't long before the Toad's massive mouth opened to reveal the edge of a lake with tall mountains looming over it. Naruto did not waste time in stepping out of the summon which nodded at him before disappearing in a cloud of smoke. Naruto took in a deep breath, taking in the crisp night air gladly after having been deprived of it for several moments.

"You weren't kidding when you said that a Toad would take you here."

"Unfortunately I wasn't," he smiled in response at the voice and turned to meet an amused looking Fu leaning against a nearby tree. "Did you wait long?"

"Not really," she shrugged nonchalantly. "How are things on your end?"

He shook his head in response, "Not too bad I guess. I just moved to a new place, turns out I've saved up a lot of money from the missions I took back when I was training."

"Really?" Fu asked, more than a little surprised that someone like Naruto actually had money saved up. "We really should have asked you for money back when we needed it..." she mused silently before shaking her head and moving to more serious manners, "In any case, whey did you want to meet with me before you could see the others?"

"I want to know what you think of them first. You've spent time with them, tell me what their strengths are since I won't be here long enough to find out myself."

"Well, Utakata can be offensive but he's more of a defensive type of guy. He uses some weird bubbles to attack or defend, they're really weird..." Fu trailed off with a hand on her chin in a thinking position, "As for Yugito, well, she's fast. I thought I was fast before but moving side by side with her makes me look slow. Let's see... What else...? Oh! She can also grow freaking claws. Freaking claws, Naruto!"

Said ninja had a look of awe on his face, "That's freaking cool."

"Right?!"

Naruto chuckled before clearing his throat, "Anyway, we should probably get back to business." His expression grew serious, mirrored by Fu who knew this would be important. "Now that the Akatsuki saw you guys together things will get more dangerous. They'll start looking for us in groups rather than pairs now."

"What's so bad about that? We can hold our own against them. You're just being paranoid."

"We can never be too careful when it comes to them," he responded with a grim expression, "Just think about it. You've seen first hand what they can do, now imagine more than one attacking you at the same time. That's not all though, how strong do you think their leader, someone that is able to have several powerful shinobi work together, is. If they get serious and send their strongest members then I'm sure none of us will stand a chance."

Fu nodded in acceptance. Naruto had a really good point and she hadn't forgotten her fight with Deidara either, if there were people stronger than him attacking them at the same time then their chances at surviving were slim.

"What are we supposed to do then?" Fu asked, "Stop trying to find the others."

"Not exactly," he answered, "I'll tell you all about it once we're with the others, they should hear this."