"She was taken as a kid by Kusa and is one of their shinobi. I want to prove she's Uzumaki."
"So I can defect," said Karin.
"Defect? What's that?" asked Naruto.
"Quit Kusa and join Konoha. If she is Uzumaki that won't be an issue. If we'd known she was in Kusa before, we'd have gone to war over it. They have no fucking business touching an Uzumaki, let alone pressing one into their shinobi corps," fumed Jiraiya. Gone was the jovial older pervert and in his place stood a very angry and dangerous shinobi. "Come on, we're going to the hospital first then to see the old man. If she's Uzumaki like you say then Kusa will have fucking hell to pay and you can be damn sure I'll be collecting more than just a pound of flesh from those fuckers."
Naruto and Karin were both sweating nervously, the killing intent Jiraiya was emitting was beyond intense, beyond terrifying.
"Move, now," ordered Jiraiya, leaping out the window.
Naruto and Karin were very quickly on his heals for fear of making him even the slightest bit angry.
With Jiraiya in the lead, the trip to the hospital was fast and the time at the hospital was faster than anything Naruto had ever experienced. They walked in, Jiraiya accosted an iryonin and dragged them all to a lab room where Jiraiya ordered him to run the blood tests in a hurry. Less than 20 minutes later they were standing in front of the Hokage's desk while Jiraiya raged and the old man listened silently, the pulsing vain in the old man's neck the only sign that he was just as furious as Jiraiya.
"I see," said the old man. He opened a drawer and pulled out a forehead protector which he tossed to Karin. "You're now a Konoha shinobi, Naruto will help you with your registration later. I suggest you stick close to him for the next few days." He then looked toward a corner of the room before stating, "Horse, I want every single Kusagakure shinobi expelled from the village immediately, if they resist, deadly force is authorized."
Naruto and Karin could stare wide eyed. It was so extreme.
"I want to assure you Karin, if we had known that Kusa abducted you we'd have rained down hell on them to ensure you were brought home."
"Home?"
"Konoha was always the closest of allies with the Uzumaki clan. It is our greatest shame that we failed to assist them when Uzushiogakure was destroyed. So yes, this is now your home as it always should have been."
Karin nodded, a few tears in her eyes threatening to spill over.
"Now then, we'll sort out your living arrangements in a few days once we know you're safe and secure here, for now you stay with Naruto. Even then, it might take a month or two before you can leave the village on missions though. We have to make certain that Kusa knows you're off limits."
"I'll handle it personally after the exams," offered Jiraiya.
"No, I'll have a team of ANBU handle it. You are going to spend some time with Naruto-kun. You're his godfather and you're going to start acting like it."
Naruto gasped. "Godfather? What are you talking about?"
"Shit," cursed Jiraiya. "Look, kid, I was going to talk to you about it eventually."
"You're my godfather? But . . . where have you been?"
"Keeping you safe," he answered. It was lame but no less true.
"What do you mean?" demanded Naruto, starting to feel anger bubbling up inside him.
"Do you know what you are in the world of shinobi?"
"A jinchuuriki, so what?"
"To the rest of the shinobi world it means you're a weapon. And given who your parents were it means you're an extremely dangerous weapon that no country wants aimed in their general direction."
Naruto frowned, he understood what Jiraiya said but that still didn't explain why he wasn't around.
"I was busy making sure that those countries that feared what you might become either didn't find out you existed or find out who you were. Now, the village didn't help us much in that regards but at the very least I was able to keep most of the details about you obscured. So while villages know you exist, they don't know jack else." Jiraiya explained, not trying to placate Naruto but laying it out in cold hard facts. "In addition to keeping you safe, I also spend a great deal of my time stopping larger threats to the village as a whole."
"But you couldn't visit or nothing?" Naruto wasn't as angry as he thought he would be. Jiraiya was doing important work, a big part of which was keeping him safe from a distance.
"No, I couldn't, if anyone ever saw us together it would put you in a shit ton of danger that even I wouldn't have been able to prevent."
"So what's changed?"
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