"Halt!" Naruto and Jiraiya stopped as one of the Volt shinobi stepped in front of them, "Foreign ninja are not allowed in without a passport!"
Jiraiya stuck a hand in his vest and pulled out two small red books, "we've got our passports right here."
As the man looked over the passports Naruto studied the Volt officer's outfit. Volt was Kumo's version of the Anbu that Konoha was so famous for, they were typically assigned into three branches of the military. Assassination, Combat and Warfare (C&W) and the last one torture and interrogation (I&T), much like the Anbu of Konoha. Their attire was also very similar to the Anbu with the difference being in the colors of their vest which was white rather than black.
The Volt officer nodded, "Very well these look to be in order. Try not to cause any trouble and enjoy your stay here in Kumo."
Jiraiya nodded and the two of them passed through the gates and made their way into the village, Naruto used the time they were walking to look around and study Kumo's layout. Like all of the hidden village's Kumo had not strayed far from the original design that all of the great shinobi nations possess, which were created during the founding of the hidden villages during the First Great War. However unlike Konoha, Kumo had not demilitarized themselves like many of the others had after the Third War. This was evidenced as Naruto looked around at most of the people who were milling about; it was easy to tell that aside from the children nearly 75% of Kumo's population were ninja from the way they walked; their walks being far more graceful then civilians. It was also the only place where Naruto had seen people with such dark skin.
Kumo had a large history of attempting to seek an edge over other hidden villages, during the Second and First Shinobi Wars Kumo had attempted kidnapping several people who possessed special abilities. Naruto knew that after the third War Hinata had an attempted kidnapping on her, which resulted in the death of Hizashi Hyuuga the clan heads brother. Fortunately after that debacle the third Raikage had lost much of his power as people became dissatisfied with his rule, this led to the fourth Raikage, A taking the man's place. He did not know much about the Raikage, except that he apparently had no interest in bloodlines and respected strength; at least that was what he heard from Jiraiya's spy network.
They made their way into a large stone tower, which was situated in the middle of the village. Naruto could easily recognize it as the Raikage tower from its similar appearance to the Hokage tower in Konoha, except it was made of stone and concrete. Walking inside Naruto followed Jiraiya to the top floor where the man stopped in front of a desk, the woman who was sitting at the desk looked up at the white haired Sennin.
"Can I help you?" she asked.
Jiraiya grinned, "Yes I believe we have an appointment with the Raikage."
"Name?"
"Jiraiya."
The woman looked through her note book as she searched for the name, eventually finding it. Nodding to him she went over to the door and knocked on it, "Raikage-Sama, Jiraiya is here!"
"Send him in!"
The woman opened the door as Jiraiya and Naruto walked in, though not before the Toad Sennin tossed the young woman a wink which said woman ignored as she went back to her desk. Naruto took a look around the room and noticed it was pretty bland, there was not much around that really caught his interest aside from the few posters with weights on them.
"Ah! Jiraiya-Sama I have been expecting you!"
Naruto turned his attention to see a rather large man getting up from behind the desk with what looked like a dumb bell in his hand, which was promptly dropped causing several cracks to appear in the stone floor. A was a very large, muscular man with slicked back white hair and a small mustache. He was wearing his Kage hat and robe without a shirt underneath allowing others to see his hulk like physic, each wrist had a gold bracelet with protrusions sticking out of them. It was easy for Naruto to tell that the man was a taijutsu specialist, one who most likely used his large frame to smash up and overpower his enemies.
… and this is Naruto."
Naruto blinked as he turned his attention to the conversation that had apparently been taking place, he looked at the Raikage with unflinching blue eyes as the man studied him. For just a moment the Raikage could have sworn it was another spiky haired blond who was looking at him with those same eyes, there had only ever been one man who had the look Naruto had. The resemblance is uncanny as well, I wonder if… he shook the thoughts away.
After a few moments A grinned, "it's nice to meet you kid!"
The Raikage stuck out his hand which Naruto took without hesitation, Naruto soon found out that the man had a very firm grip. Deciding he was not one to be out done Naruto used his own strength which he had taken to enhancing along with his speed, he squeezed the Raikage's hand hard enough to let the man know he also had a great deal of physical prowess even if it did not show. "A pleasure to meet you as well Raikage-Dono," Naruto said with a feral grin.
"Haha," the Raikage laughed as he felt the kids grip, which was far stronger then he had expected it to be. "I like you kid, you've got a firm grip! That shows your strong!"
Naruto grinned, "I've always been told I have more brawns then brains, besides who needs to think when you can just smash enemy shinobi right through a wall. Action and power are what Shinobi respect the most."
The Raikage chuckled as he went behind his desk and pulled out a small box, "you know what, your exactly right! I like you and because of that I'm going to give you these…" he held out a box of… protein bars?
Naruto blinked as he looked at the box of protein bars unsure of what to do, he looked up at the Raikage to see the man looking expectantly and realized this was most likely the man's way of showing respect. "Thank you Raikage-Dono," Naruto replied as he took the box, "these will help increase my physical performance and training greatly."
"Hah! It's no problem kid," the Raikage said before turning to Jiraiya. "I have a hotel for the two of you already prepared," he handed Jiraiya a letter with directions to the hotel.
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